Stumptown is giving away 3 pairs of tickets to the Edward Sharpe & The Magnetic Zeros Rose Festival show on May 25th at Tom McCall Waterfront Park. Show up at the Division Cafe at 2 today and they are yours!

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Position:

Overview: Stumptown is looking for help in our production and Cold Brew departments. The ideal candidate will work very closely with the wholesale team and the office in a fast-paced environment to ensure that orders are being fulfilled in a timely manner while maintaining high quality standards. This is an hourly position based on skills and prior experience.

This applicant will create positive and lasting relationships with our accounts.

Primary responsibilities will include, but are not limited to the following:

• Be responsible for all aspects of customer orders and fulfillment.
• Pack roasted coffee and deliver to wholesale customers and retail cafes.
• Handle green coffee and help with general coffee production and flow on the floor.
• Help Cold Brew and production coordinate daily orders, including emergencies and last minute needs.
• Act as the face of Stumptown and deliver all resources which Stumptown offers to its customers.
• Remain involved in ongoing trainings, focusing on palate development and retention of information to refine how we disseminate this info to the customer.
• Follow systems and protocols for the daily operation of cold brew (live inventory, growler return tracking, etc).
• Work closely with the roasting department on how Cold Brew batches are cut, assist with updating and maintaining the data for batch sheets, as well as setting and keeping the pace for the day.
• Assist Cold Brew and production management in overseeing facility upkeep. Understand the ins and outs of regular equipment maintenance and overall cleanliness, and what the Stumptown expectations for cleanliness are.
• Generally represent Stumptown in the field.

Experience sought:

• Demonstrated passion and enthusiasm for coffee.
• Strong customer service approach is a must.
• A concentrated attention to detail.
• Ability to manage and prioritize daily and weekly tasks.
• Willingness to forego ego and work with other departments to achieve common goals.
• Flexible schedule and availability.
• Be an independent worker and take initiative.

Compensation:

• Hourly pay.
• Health benefits after three full months of employment.
• Performance based reviews consistent with All Stumptown schedule.

Please email resume and cover letter to jamesa@stumptowncoffee.com by May 24.

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Smith’s connection to Stumptown reaches far beyond the Portland connection — our green coffee buyer Darrin Daniel got to know him in the late 80′s at Naropa University under the tutelage of Allen Ginsberg,  when he helped to look after an ailing Smith over a fateful winter break. Darrin writes of his first entry into his living quarters on campus:

“Entering his place was like no other experience I have ever known. One was not to touch certain books or sit in places that were not designated by Smith himself. His fridge contained road kill and other undesirable mold cakes. There was cat shit throughout the entire bathroom floor and tub. We came by periodically to help clean and stock Harry up on things like baby food (which he could only stomach when he first arrived in ’88). After a few visits, Smith’s apartment had become the stopover before or after a class. Along with the carnival-like feel his apartment took on, Harry had slowly amassed a group of us who went in to hang out, assist with errands and basically spend time talking.

Our time together culminated in a couple of interesting projects… The last project was his allowing me to use four of his drawings for my first chapbook of poems, Methane Cocktail. He was drawing border art all the time and had really done some beautiful pen and ink works. I used one for the cover and three other pieces. I was a little shocked but also excited that he would allow me to use his work, considering his obsessive nature about his books and other projects. After giving a copy to Ginsberg, Allen seemed perplexed and asked, “Harry let you use his work?” Soon after the lecture, Allen made his way over to Harry’s place—book in hand. Either Allen wanted to have Harry sign it or ask what the hell he was doing giving his work away to Naropa writing students for free.”

Darrin later went on to publish Harry Smith: Fragments of a Northwest Life and Think of the Self-Speaking: Harry Smith — Selected Interviews. Several events this week celebrate the Oregon-born legend, starting with the Harry Smith Seance at Hollywood Theatre on Thursday, May 16 at 7 p.m., where Darrin will speak along with Rani Singh, director of the Harry Smith Archives at the Getty Institute, and writer-director of the the documentary The Old, Weird America: Harry Smith’s Anthology of American Folk Music. Sheldon Renan, who wrote about Harry in his groundbreaking work An Introduction to the American Underground Film will also speak.

Also, this week don’t miss The Harry Smith Free For All at The Cleaners at the Ace Hotel, a series of short, interactive presentations about Smith’s life and work, including a screening of Kaveh Askari’s new experimental documentary about Harry’s years in Bellingham.

Read Darrin’s full article “Hypnotist Collector: The Alchemy of Harry Smith” here.

“The world is far more fulsome if you imagine it to be full of churches that can fill your mind and your heart. One goes to mass; one says the rosary. One goes to help those who most need it. One consumes those things–liquid or smoke or powder–that allow one to walk among the world calm and receptive. One sits–as I have–in cinemas, happy and stoned, and allows images to invade the mind and push its contours farther and farther back. That used to be a fine way to spend an afternoon. Harry Smith, Maya Deren, Kenneth Anger, Stan Brakhage. Smoke in the air, candy wrappers on the floor, Anais Nin in the lobby, proclaiming genius in the Village. Churches everywhere.” Tennessee Williams to James Grissom, 1982

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Jesse Marvin (whose cutie pie wife, coincidentally, shares the same name) takes us on an up and up, funky fantastic, R&B voyage with this mix. Jesse can often be found wandering around our HQ, taking care of business, telling really good stories, moving pallets of green beans, ordering supplies for our warehouse, and being generally amazing. He thinks he probably has an official title, but if it’s up to him, he prefers “Trail Boss.”

Jesse is an Oregon native, who “grew up chopping wood, smoking meat, dirt bikin’, break dancing, and slapping fives. There was an awful lot of neon and fireworks in those days, just the thought makes my hair stand on end! My hours after work are spent running the stink off my four-year-old, squeezing my Sweetie, and lots of good old fashioned shits and giggles.”

Thanks Boss.

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Huge congratulations to our friends who won James Beard Awards last night! We’re so very happy for you.

BAKING AND DESSERT BOOK AWARD 

Flour Water Salt Yeast: The Fundamentals of Artisan Bread and Pizza by Ken Forkish (Ten Speed Press)

RESTAURANT AND CHEF AWARDS

Best Chef: Great Lakes
Stephanie Izard, Girl & the Goat (Chicago, IL)

Best Chef: Northwest
Gabriel Rucker, Le Pigeon (Portland, OR)

Best Chef: West
Christopher Kostow, The Restaurant at Meadowood (St. Helena, CA)

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A shiny little trailer serving Stumptown coffee and sweet bites in the heart of SFs Design District.

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Jonathan Sielaff, our Portland Coffee Educator, put together this lovely and chilled out mix to keep us calm and carrying on. Aside from being a pro-palate espresso maestro, he’s also an amazing musician, and all around rad Renaissance dude. He and his wife Heather comb the Northwest wilderness unearthing scents for OLO Fragrance, and his experimental electro-acoustic duo Golden Retriever is finishing up a new album for Thrill Jockey — they also have a recording project with Ilyas Ahmed in the works. Jonathan had a very global upbringing (read all about his life and times in China and the Cook Islands in this profile we wrote on him earlier this year.) His most recent international exploits involve Portland farmers’ markets and diving headlong into Sicilian and Basque cooking.

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On view at Belmont May 1st – June 4th
Reception is 4-6pm Sunday, April 12th

Laura is a process focussed artist and sculptor. The works are started by chance; a spill, a peel, a roll of coins. Nails are then placed surrounding the stain, peel or coins, creating a boarder. The edge of the plywood is then outlined by nails. Next string is worked back and forth between the two borders. The concept of the work is exploring different ways to move from one moment to the next – as well as looking for the beauty in chance.

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Ingenuity Gap
Art at Belmont May 2013 appeared first on Stumptown Coffee Roasters.

On view at Division May 2nd – June 3rd
Reception is 4-6pm Sunday, May 19th

Trish Grantham’s work starts with wood frames that she covers in vintage paper. The paper is very important knowing how each page will react with different paint colors and resin. Layering the different styles of old paper and book pages in just the right way adds the perfect background to start painting.

Trish loves to spend time in the library going through the picture files and wildlife books getting ready to start new work. She doesn’t start with a sketch or a full idea, but simply starts with one character then begins to build from there. Watching the story unfold as if she is working from an old fable telling it as she goes. Trish always looks forward to the end result, seeing the narrative for the first time.

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A Sympathetic Sea
art at Division May 2013 appeared first on Stumptown Coffee Roasters.