For our community of musicians, theatre performers, authors, painters, sculptors and many others, the indefinite cancellation of public events means a …

• May 29, 2020

The homepage of the venerable Clinton Street Theater website is kept up-to-date, showing a current list of the latest streaming films. When you stream…

• May 29, 2020

Mosaic String Academy has a simmering summer-full of private music lessons planned. This just came in from Mosaic’s owner, Kate O’Brien: “Mosaic Strin…

• May 29, 2020

The 33rd Literary Arts’ Annual Oregon Book Awards ceremony Monday, June 22 will not be held at Portland Center Stage at The Armory as it usually is, bu…

• May 29, 2020

Matt Meighan has traveled the world singing. He has taught his Songwriting as Truth-Telling workshop for many years and has helped many fine songs be b…

• May 29, 2020

The Artslandia Happy Hour premiered March 18 and has been bridging the social distance between artists and arts patrons ever since. It offers artists a…

• May 29, 2020

The only day-camp of its kind in the greater Northwest now moves its expertise to a virtual format welcoming kids age 6-16 to join teachers and profess…

• May 29, 2020

Music Together of Portland offers online classes for families with children ages up to age five. Students experience a high-quality music and movement …

• May 29, 2020

Things are a bit different at Music Millennium now that they’re reopening June 1. Here’s how in store shopping will work: Now open from 10 am-7 pm Mon…

• May 29, 2020

Artichoke Music, Portland’s beloved acoustic music listening room, is weathering the corona storm by relying on the community spirit that has been at i…

• May 29, 2020

Portland’s Metropolitan Youth Symphony (MYS) is focusing on performances, rehearsals and educational programming online to provide its students and com…

• May 29, 2020

From Portland painter Carol Basch: “I wake up, have an espresso, and take a photo of my fig tree from the front window. I have been doing this every da…

• May 29, 2020

The Alberta Rose Theatre’s Portland Music Stream presents live concerts in your home. The third season is underway, and it’s a fine way to see and hear…

• May 29, 2020

Two days before her death, Jenny Elliot tells her 50-year-old son Phillip that, being half Irish, he should be more careful about his drinking. Phillip…

• May 29, 2020

Need a way to relax while spending time at home? Sound and visual artist and experimental filmmaker Curt Stump has created a new 54 minute film called …

• May 29, 2020

Portland musician and songwriter Anna Fritz has played on many recording projects – her own, Portland Cello Project, The Decemberists, Blue Cranes an…

• May 29, 2020

Sidestreet Arts presents Garden of Hope, their June show, presented online and in their gallery windows. For the entire month, Sidestreet member and ce…

• May 29, 2020

For our community of touring musicians, theatre performers, authors, painters, sculptors and so many others, the indefinite cancellation of public even…

• May 2, 2020

Portland artist Jolyn Fry is offering classes online in May and June through Radius Community Art Studio. Join her Tuesday nights, 6:30 pm for interme…

• May 2, 2020

Each year, the full moon in May (the Buddhist month of Baishakh) brings Buddha’s Birthday, and this year is his 2564th! It’s good to know there’s a sta…

• May 2, 2020

For the month of May, Sidestreet Arts features two artists in multimedia and metal: Amy Ruedinger and encaustic artist Sidestreet member, Michele Sab…

• May 2, 2020

Portland songwriter Anna Tivel wants to email you a newly-made Stayhomepoem every week along with a link to a new weekly song to listen to. “In trying…

• May 2, 2020

Artichoke Music has 10 teachers offering more two than dozen diverse online music classes including: singing, guitar, violin, harp, harmonica, ukulele,…

• May 2, 2020

Dojo is a Japanese word used to describe “a place of the way” in martial arts. The Quality Folk Dojo, created by Kate Power and Steve Einhorn, is a wee…

• May 2, 2020

Greetings from the temporarily shuttered Laurelthirst Pub! We want to let you know that we miss you all. We’re holding high hopes for reopening to ser…

• May 2, 2020

The Portland Music Stream presents live-streamed concerts by national and local talents. In its second season underway now, it’s a way to see, hear and…

• May 2, 2020

Cool Art House is a new online art gallery designed as a destination for art collectors, newbie to pro, on the lookout for new, emerging artists. The …

• May 2, 2020

Books with Pictures is keeping Portland in comic books with free personal shopping, free local delivery and in-store pickups. For a fee, they’ll ship p…

• May 2, 2020

From Lani Jo Leigh, Clinton Street Theater’s owner: “Although closed, the Clinton Street Theater (CST) is more than a building with an auditorium with…

• May 2, 2020

With the mass cancellation of live theater events everywhere, performers of all ages have lost long-awaited performance opportunities. Confident Voice…

• May 2, 2020

Tavé Fascé Drake is the lead singer of Gerle Haggard, the “all girl, all Merle” tribute band. In another identity, she has a podcast called Peace, Love…

• May 2, 2020

FACE THE MUSIC! A live, City Commissioner Candidate Forum is Sunday, May 3, 1-4 pm, hosted by MusicPortland. Four out of five seats on Portland’s City …

• May 2, 2020

From Music Millennium’s owner, Terry Currier: “COVID-19 has forced us to make necessary changes in business. We are for now only open for curbside ser…

• May 2, 2020

For our community of touring musicians, theatre performers, authors, painters, sculptors and so many others, the indefinite cancellation of public even…

• March 28, 2020

Con todo Corazón, the title of Milagro’s current season, means “with all our heart.” That’s the spirit and dedication with which we create live perform…

• March 28, 2020

Portland Storytellers Guild’s decision to move their monthly showcase to the Clinton Street Theater in 2017 proved fortuitous, connecting the area’s ol…

• March 28, 2020

Oregon Koto-Kai, the Japanese harp society of Oregon, meets together regularly in SE Portland and performs live. They made a tough decision cancelling …

• March 28, 2020

Alberta Rose Theatre and Portland musicians are bringing live entertainment to your living rooms in this time of isolation and distancing via the new P…

• March 28, 2020

Sidestreet Arts, 140 SE 28th Ave., is a little gallery with a whole lot of heart in the ivy-covered building with a Gary Hirsch BotJoy mural. Formerly …

• March 28, 2020

From PWNW founding director Linda Austin: For close to 20 years now, Performance Works NorthWest (PWNW) has thrived as a site for transformative experi…

• March 28, 2020

This message came in from the one and only Michael Hurley, the grandfather of Freak- Folk music. Like everything else these days, his monthly shows at …

• March 28, 2020

We hope this message finds you safe and well. We at the Clinton Street Theater have come to the difficult conclusion that we must close our doors at th…

• March 28, 2020

The band began on a Friday evening in August, 1996 at Tony DeMicola’s Key Largo Club in Old Town. We were filling in for our friends, Duo Glide, who we…

• March 28, 2020

I will wait here in the fields to see how well the rain brings on the grass. In the labor of the fields longer than a man’s life I am at home. Don…

• March 28, 2020

Artslandia is launching a series of programs across their online platforms to offer arts-centered content to elevate artistry, lift spirits, and promot…

• March 28, 2020

It’s been quite a roller coaster ride for the past 51 years, but thanks to the music fans in Portland, Music Millennium is still here. In 1989, as the…

• March 28, 2020

After years of performer training that taught how to get in to character, but not how to get out, Caitlin Lushington and Jordan Mackey (above) founded …

• March 28, 2020

Portland Creative Laureate Subashini Ganesan, has teamed up with Oregon’s Poet Laureate Kim Stafford, to create an emergency relief fund to for local f…

• March 28, 2020

Radius is a creative community offering workshops, studios, a gallery and a retail shop. We are artists, makers, friends and weirdos who welcome the co…

• March 28, 2020

Artist and Craftsman Supply, 3393 SE 21st Ave., is more than a place to pick up paint. They are a community resource for artists and can talk you throu…

• March 28, 2020

Confident Voice Studio and Portland Musical Theater Company have joined forces to offer online classes, workshops and private lessons for kids and adul…

• March 28, 2020

Many events are being cancelled and we are updating this site as we are notified of cancellations. We encourage you to check with individual venues bef…

• March 13, 2020

BARDO AND DELICATE FISH are two dance pieces presented March 5, 6 and 7 at Shaking The Tree Theatre, 823 SE Grant St. each night at 7:30 pm. Bardo is “…

• March 1, 2020

By Nancy Tannler Portland author Lani Jo Leigh tells a poignant story of young love, motherhood and how much the times have changed in the last 50 y…

• March 1, 2020

In their fourth decade as a duo, Robin & Linda Williams have performed the music they love for many people in so many places. This month, the road …

• March 1, 2020

3/7/2020 UPDATE: MMM is being RESCHEDULED until later in the year due to to Coronavirus concerns. March Music Moderne, an annual music fest force of…

• March 1, 2020

Watching Mary Flower play guitar can save your whole week in times like these. Her fingerpicking and lap-slide energize the room with an inventive, dex…

• March 1, 2020

Sidestreet Arts features fiber artist Karen Thurman and Her Whimsical Felt Objects for March. Her sculptures and hanging mobiles are other-worldly, ful…

• March 1, 2020

Howard Alder, Pam Maben, Holly Robison and Penny Walters are at this month’s weavers at the Portland Storytellers Guild showcase Saturday, March 7 at C…

• February 29, 2020

Kendall Concerts’ Music Under the Dome is OMSI’s monthly planetarium music series combining live performance with stunning spacial visual adventures fo…

• February 29, 2020

The ever informative and entertaining writer, historian and activist Rebecca Solnit appears live in a conversation about her life and new book Wednesda…

• February 29, 2020

Cathy Fink & Marcy Marxer are in a rare concert this month at Artichoke Music, 2007 SE Powell Blvd. Think superb harmonies and instrumental virtuos…

• February 29, 2020

Blood Brothers returns to triangle theatre, March 5-28. The story by Willy Russell is a rags to riches tragedy of our times.  A woman with many chil…

• February 29, 2020

The Buckman Art Show and Sell celebrates its third decade this year and its annual festivities continue to delight. Someone told us it’s all happening …

• February 29, 2020

LOVE, p:EAR, a new collection of photographs by Sean May is at p:ear gallery, 338 NW 6th Ave. May is one of the city’s rising artists and his new colle…

• February 2, 2020

OREGON MUSIC HALL OF FAME COLLEGE SCHOLARSHIP applications are available and the deadline is March 1, 2020. Each applicant should be a student studying…

• February 2, 2020

THE WORLD OF KOTO WITH MASUMI TIMSON Saturday February 8, 1-3 pm. Koto Master Timson presents a lecture on traditional Japanese Koto music, followed by…

• February 2, 2020

THE JOURNAL OF BEN UCHIDA: CITIZEN 13559, a play written by Naomi Iizuka is presented by Oregon Children’s Theatre February 29-March 22 at the Winnings…

• February 2, 2020

HIDDEN RIVER SONGWRITING CAMP REGISTRATION – Four days of songwriting, music and nature on the shore of Willapa Bay near Long Beach, Washington July 22…

• February 2, 2020

HARRY POTTER AND THE GOBLET OF FIRE is presented live in concert conducted by Justin Freer. Fight a dragon, swim with merpeople, and find out who put H…

• February 2, 2020

MASTER IRISH FIDDLER, KEVIN BURKE, will be at Artichoke Music Saturday, February 8 at 11:30 am to sign his new book The Solo Albums and to play tunes f…

• February 2, 2020

Jet Black Pearl the wild accordion diva, brings her loops and energetic songs to the Corkscrew Wine Bar, 1665 SE Bybee Blvd, on Monday, February 17 at …

• February 2, 2020

Bliss (or Emily Post is Dead!) a new play by Jami Brandli, is new at Defunkt Theatre. The story asks us to imagine the formidable and much heralded wom…

• February 2, 2020

Her Crooked Heart, a Minneapolis quartet, make a Portland stop with their debut disc, To Love To Leave To Live.  The album is a song cycle, of narra…

• February 2, 2020

Imago Theatre presents Jerry Mouawad’s new play, Special K, mashing up playwright Luigi Pirandello’s reality puzzles with vaudeville, tragedy and time-…

• February 2, 2020

Eugene artist Christopher St. John’s one-man show, SHINE, opens at Sidestreet Arts in February, featuring not only his whimsical ceramic creatures, but…

• February 2, 2020

The Magic Fish, a new puppet show by Leaven Dream Puppets, follows a boy who does not answer his mom’s call and his adventures, bring him home wiser.  …

• February 2, 2020

Don Julin and Tim Connell are presenting a unique twin mandolin musical experience live at Artichoke Music. Mixing jazz, fiddle tunes, Brazilian and or…

• February 2, 2020

The Broken Planetarium and Resonate Choral Arts are teaming up to present an all female choir musical of star-crossed lovers on either side of the Berl…

• February 2, 2020

The 2020 PDX Jazz Festival returns with a bang Wednesday, February 19-Sunday, March 1 and this year’s list of artists is impressive. It’s the 17th year…

• February 2, 2020

How to Really, Really? Really! Love a Woman is Eleanor O’Brien’s solo show; part storytelling, part stand-up, part TED Talk, part Vagina Monologue and …

• February 2, 2020

Sam Reider and the Human Hands perform live for Portland FolkMusic Society’s February concert at the Reedwood Friends Church.  A jazz pianist by tra…

• February 2, 2020

Written by Canadian-Chilean playwright Marilo Nuñez and inspired by true events, Milagro Theatre’s Huinca tells the tale of Manuel Huillipan of the Chi…

• December 28, 2019

Music Millennium hosts a book signing and reading for This Old Building: The Closing Of  Winterland, a photo book By Jarid Scott Johnson Saturday, Janu…

• December 28, 2019

A full time folk artist for almost 50 years, Tom May has shared stages with Gordon Lightfoot, Joni Mitchell, Alabama, Willie Nelson and many others. …

• December 28, 2019

It’s the theme of the January Portland Storytellers Guild show, affirming the challenge of trying something new, even if it means a perilous chance int…

• December 28, 2019

The Mount Tabor Park 2020 Calendar with photographs by Andrew Haliburton, celebrates the beauty of this beloved park and its historic structures. For m…

• December 28, 2019

What is a Zine anyway? Why, it’s a small-circulation self-published work of original texts and images. Writer Sarah Mirk is in the midst of making a zi…

• December 28, 2019

New nature studies by Jolyn Fry and Lunar Molar are shown at the Radius Annex Gallery this month. Fry is a painter. Molar is a ceramicist. The picture …

• December 28, 2019

The Ford Gallery’s new show, Deep Down, invites viewers to dip into the playful exploration of the emotional, mythical, morbid and psychedelic waters o…

• December 28, 2019

Triangle productions! opens 2020 with the lighthearted Life According to Morty and Ruth. The comedy stars Wendy Westerwelle, Jay Randall Horenstein and…

• December 28, 2019

A group show of Pacific Northwest Printmakers, curated by Gail Owen. Diverse print mediums including intaglio, mezzotint, linoleum relief, woodblock, s…

• December 28, 2019

Tennessee-based O’Connor Lee, the Americana duo of Forrest O’Connor and Kate Lee, open the 2019 PFS concert season.  The duo have earned national re…

• December 28, 2019

Portland’s annual folk music fundraiser is Saturday, Feb. 1 at Alberta Rose Theatre, 3000 NE Alberta St., 7 pm. The show benefits JOIN, an organization…

• December 28, 2019

Big Thief’s remarkable and idiosyncratic guitarist plays the Doug Fir Lounge, 830 E. Burnside St. Thursday, Jan. 16. Meek’s songs are peculiar short st…

• December 28, 2019

The seven week workshop takes place Wednesdays Jan 8-Feb 19 in N. Portland and Tuesdays Jan 7-Feb 18 at Artichoke Music in SE. Write songs and explore …

• December 28, 2019

The music night is devoted to guitarist Keith Rowe’s 1981-82 graphic score “Pollock #82.” Duos will present their own different takes on the piece, whi…

• December 28, 2019

Presented by Oregon Children’s Theatre by Ernie Nolan and directed by Jessica Wallenfels, it is the tale of a young boy and his dog who encounter a qua…

• December 28, 2019

The teen improv comedy troupe is back for another round of spontaneous performances. Directed by Blake Wales, a member of the group as a teen. He’s now…

• December 28, 2019

This community sing-along and casual, group-singing opportunity is for everyone wanting more music expression in their life. Sunday, January 19, 2-4 pm…

• December 27, 2019