Arts & Entertainment

Learn the art of raga in this series of singing lessons with one of India’s outstanding classical vocalists, Ustad Mashkoor Ali Khan. Group Lessons: Friday June 12th, 7-8pm  &  Sun-Wed June […]

On Friday, June 19, 2015, Eugene’s Low Tide Drifters will bring their unique style of “underdog folk music” to Artichoke Music’s Friday Night Coffeehouse, followed by a house-concert performance on

Did you know that your body is home to trillions and trillions of bacteria, viruses, fungi, and other microbes? Zoo In You is a brand-new 2,000 square foot bilingual (English

Reed College Kaul Auditorium, Sunday, June 7 • 1:00 p.m. 3203 SE Woodstock Blvd. Free event parking in any of Reed’s three lots on campus. Portland Parks & Recreation (PP&R)’s

June 26  • 7:30 pm • 5441 SE Belmont A Spring Music Evening at Mt. Tabor Presbyterian Church, proceeds to benefit our blossoming music program. Tickets can be purchased in advance

The Denizen Yotam Zohar presents the Under­ground Series at Milepost 5. The opening reception is Open­ing Recep­tion, Fri­day, June 5th, 6 pm to 10 pm 850 NE 81st Ave. In autumn

By J. Michael Kearsey The Willamette Stone is a point of intersection where the Willamette Meridian and the Willamette Baseline meet. Located in Portland’s West Hills, the Stone was set

Third Rail Repertory Theatre presents the American Premiere of STATIC by Dan Rebellato at Imago Theatre, 17 SE 8th Wednesdays through Saturdays at 7:30 pm, Sundays at 2 pm. You

Cygnet Productions presents selections from literature around the theme of identity.  The once-in-a-blue moon event is scheduled for Saturday, June 13 at 7:30 pm at Tabor Bread, 5051 SE Hawthorne

By Paula Manley The 10th Mt Tabor Art Walk is Saturday and Sunday, May 16 – 17. This juried art show and sale features 40 talented neighborhood artists at 25

from the Times Square: Cathedral & Choir,  is part of Myron Filene’s show. He’s the May artist at 12×16 Gallery, 8235 SE 13th Ave. No. 5. Filene presents portfolios of

Artichoke Music, 3130 SE Hawthorne Blvd. features many live music offerings each month along with a full schedule of music classes during the day. The concert space in the back

David Tiller and Enion Pelta-Tiller are the musical creative couple behind the Lyons, Colorado band Taarka. They perform in concert Wednesday, May 6 at The Goodfoot, 2845 SE Stark St.

Commissioned by the Oregon Shakespeare Festival in 2010 and acclaimed nationwide, American Night: The Ballad of Juan José, directed by Elizabeth Huffman, follows a Mexican ex-policeman feverishly preparing to take

A bona fide Do Not Miss evening of acoustic music. It’s your chance to spend an up-close intimate evening with legendary bluegrass songwritin’ picker Peter Rowan, Friday May 8 at

The Incredibly Short Film Festival is a digital festival of looping animated GIF’s (graphic interchage format). Curated and commissioned from around the world, the fest will showcase and celebrate the

As a four year old, Jaime Leopold moved with his family to what is now in the middle of Portland’s I-405 interchange (what used to be SW 13th and Mill).

The inaugural concert of the Harrison Hill Chamber Players is Saturday, May 23 at 7:30 pm at St. David of Wales Episcopal Church, 2800 SE Harrison St. The evening program

A unique evening of unamplified acoustic performance by five of Portland’s roots music groups, all playing au naturel without a PA.  Even better: it’s taking place in one of Portland’s

Portland Peace Choir’s annual concert is Saturday, May 16 at Unity of Portland, 4525 SE Stark St. The concert begins at 7 pm and is a free, family-friendly event. The

Triangle Productions’ last show of the season is entitled Storefront Revue: The Babes are BACK! – a delightful look at a successful Portland theatre from another age, the Storefront Actors

Guitar whiz David Torn appears in concert on May 16, at Holocene. 1001 SE Morrison St. It’s his first Portland performance since 1986 when he last appeared with saxophonist Jan

The premiere of this new play by DC Copeland runs May 8 – June 20 at the Back Door Theater, 4321 SE Hawthorne Blvd. A trio of woven tales of

DOUBLE ALL-DAY SHAPENOTE SINGING is Saturday and Sunday, May 2 – 3, 9:30 am to 3:30 pm at The Little Church, 5138 NE 23rd Ave. Sing Early American shape-note music.

Tears of Joy Theatre’s new puppet play pairs folktales from Mexico and Argentina for a new show, When Animals Were People and The Lazy Bee. To the right are Tortuga

Sing Portland! is a non-audition community choir with over a hundred members. Music is taught by ear, through call and response and weekly rehearsals are offered all over town. New

A new book, a history of SE Belmont St.’s Horse Brass Pub has recently been published and it’s appropriately titled The Brass. The pub is a bit of England where

Minnesota’s Claudia Schmidt has been writing wry, intelligent and very entertaining songs for nearly four decades. A powerhouse in concert, an evening of Schmidt is filled with a quirky amalgamation

is coming up again on Saturday April 18, the annual celebration of the stores that persevere and continue to make recordings of life-changing music available and special, all the while

Healing the Healthcare Blues is the fourth annual Inner City Blues Festival. Northwest blues stars return for a night of music to benefit the work of the state-wide coalition Health

Clinton Street Theatre celebrates April with  a vast assortment of informative films to ponder and enjoy. See cstpdx.com for more. • OCCUPY THE FARM – Wednesday and Thursday April 2,

Triangle Productions’ last show of the season is entitled Storefront Revue: The Babes are BACK! The backstory: In 1967, Portland State University sponsored a full-time Equity theatre; the American Theatre

Banjo instrumentalist extrordinaire and legendary musician/author Dick Weissman returns from the wilds of Denver to play a special Spring concert at Café Artichoke, 3130 SE Hawthorne Blvd., Saturday, April 18,

the April show at 12×16 Gallery features Winter Solstice on the Moon by Raymond Keller along with works by Lee Ann Slawson, Richard E. Enger and Carol Basch. First Friday

is virtually equivalent to a Las Vegas night of entertainment. They’re bringing Liberace back from the dead, his live music director, Liza (with a J), gambling and special guests. It

New York guitarist with more than fifty albums on his own label since the late 1970s. He appears live in a solo concert Friday April 10 at Yale Union, 800

is a workshop about “listening to your chakras via voices of the animals who show up in each one during a series of guided visualizations”. There’s two Saturdays of workshops,

a play by Madeleine George, continues through March 21 at Back Door Theater, 4319 SE Hawthorne Blvd. (entrance through Common Grounds) presented by Defunkt. Brodie, a Doctor of Linguistics in

is a series of absurd one act parodies by Christopher Durang skewering well-known plays by Tennessee Williams, Sam Shepard and others. Durang twists up American classics and culture in this

1050 SE Clinton St., put out a public call to writers and directors to submit ideas for the company’s next great show. Four Pilots were chosen and will premiere over

– Imago Theatre’s adaptation of Beauty and the Beast is in production but has been postponed to open later than planned in December 2015. The play incorporates puppetry (“120 little

by The Ensemble, is Sunday, March 22 at Saint Stephen’s Catholic Church, 1112 SE 41st Ave. at 4 pm. The concert consists of a cycle of 20 Italian spiritual madrigals

with Michael Stirling, Saturday, March 21 from 8 – 10 pm. An offering of Indian classical music with Michael Stirling, vocalist and disciple of Pandit Pran Nath and student of

Recent paintings from Alan Rose’s Wiseguy Narratives are on the walls of the Eastbank Commerce Center, 1001 SE Water Ave. for the month of March. Rose’s images of ordinary people

This is Spreading Feathers, fashioned from acrylic, oil pastel, charcoal, graphite, paper and wax on wood-board from Jenny Siegel’s new show Sowing Seeds at 12×16 Gallery, 8235 SE 13th Ave.

The Young Professionals Company at Oregon’s Children Theatre present columbinus, a play directed by Lava Alapai, opening April 10 at the YP Studio Theater, 1939 NE Sandy Blvd. Sparked by

Eugene musical ensemble Mood Area 52 performs a new soundtrack to Buster Keaton’s astonishing comedy Our Hospitality live at The Hollywood Theater, 4122 NE Sandy Blvd. Thursday, March 26. Our

The Northwest Film Center is screening Sean and Christof Whiteman’s experimental, shot-in-SE Portland film Childhood Machine March 5 at 7 pm at the Portland  Art Museum, 1219 SW Park Ave.

Music Millennium continues to make it happen live for Portland this month scheduling an upclose and personal Meet and Greet with Funkadelic founder George Clinton, March 18 at 4 pm

Over 140 artists and craftspersons come together again to benefit Buckman Arts Focus Elementary School for the Silver 25th Anniversary year of the Art Show and Sell Saturday and Sunday

The Northwest Classical Theatre Company and Cygnet Productions have collaborated for the first time for the Portland premiere of Mary Stuart. The play runs through March 29 at Shoebox Theatre,

Annalisa Tornfelt is a Portland musician whose violin, guitar and beautiful Swedish Nyckelharpa are a part of the sound of the city. Best known as the singer and fiddle player

Tunnel Six, are Canadian-American musical storytellers. Their new compositions share this year’s theme of journeys :: spaces :: stories in concert at Michelle’s Pianos, 600 SE Stark St. Tuesday March

This mask was created by Betsy Soifer and is part of the 12th Annual SE Area ARTWalk, a free art walking tour held Saturday and Sunday, February 28 – March 1

Everyone knows Dr. Ruth Westheimer from her career as a pioneering radio and television sex therapist. Few know the incredible journey that her life has been. She’s even been a

Oregon Museum of Science and Industry presents “Mazes” beginning February 7. Get lost and get your hands on brain-bending science in this exhibit with 13 interactive mazes to bring you

Born is Portland songwriter Ara Lee’s just-released 5 song CD. Lee’s roots in the old hymnal spirituals of her youth in Appalachia are obvious and engaging, and her performance energy

Zen Shorts, is a collaboration between Portland’s Tears of Joy Theatre and Los Angeles’ Rogue Artists Ensemble based on the Caldecott Honor book by Jon J. Muth, It is presented

Opción Múltiple is a premeiere of a new 21st century comedy from Milagro Theatre. The story is set in contemporary Mexico City where Diana, the heroine, is a modern single woman

Doogan Holler and a stellar three songwriter song-pull in the round are highlights of this month’s Artichoke music calendar. Doogan Holler is a quintet featuring songs by Richey Bellinger, Kelly

Celebrate Fat Tuesday with a night of film, music and southern food, Tuesday, February 17 at 7 pm as Clinton Street Theatre kicks off an evening of living it up.

Portland artist Carye Bye’s creative endeavors manifest in three mediums. She’s assembled a collection representing her three lives and is revealing them to the world to see all at one

Portland’s NW International Film Festival moves SE with the addition of the Moreland Theater, 6712 SE Milwaukie Ave., and a couple others close by: the Roseway Theater, 7229 NE Sandy

features comics of all kinds. This is from Sandra Gibbons’ series, Tender Buttons: Comics Illustrating Gertrude Stein in MP5’s Lofts Gallery. Gibbons started illustrating Stein’s Tender Buttons in 2011 with

BENEFIT PIANO CONCERT – Pianist Greg Lief performs Beethoven, Chopin and Debussy and ragtime compositions by Scott Joplin, Saturday, February 7 at 7 pm in the Classic Pianos Recital Hall,

By J. Michael Kearsey   So much of the popular NBC weekly television drama, Grimm, is set in SE Portland, it seems you might run into one of those ‘Wesen’

The Creative Music Guild’s Confluence Visiting Artist Series presents French bassist, vocalist and composer Joëlle Léandre Friday, February 13 at Redeemer Lutheran Church, 5431 NE 20th Ave. The program includes

For nearly half a century, Tom Paxton has been a thoughtful voice addressing issues of injustice and inhumanity, laying bare the absurdities of modern culture and celebrating the tenderest bonds

Portland‘s Fertile Ground City-Wide Festival of New Work returns for a sixth year with actors, dancers, designers, producers, artists, writers, performers and dance, clowns, visual art, film and premieres of

The ARCO-PDX Winter Concert is Saturday, January 17 at Refuge PDX, 116 SE Yamhill St beginning at 8 pm. Warm your winter with fiery sounds from Vivaldi and Portland’s Kenji

Oregon Children’s Theatre’s Young Professionals presents Impulse! Improvisational Comedy Troupe, January 22 – February 7, Fridays and Saturdays at 7 pm in their studio at 1939 NE Sandy Blvd. Back

The 27th annual Winterfolk Benefit Concert for Sisters of the Road is Saturday, January 31 at the Aladdin Theater, 3017 SE Milwaukie Ave., and this year’s headliner is autoharp master

Liminal is a theatre group like no other. This year they want to save Christmas. From itself. And what a present they’re bestowing. Jeff Marchant, Leo Daedalus and Carla Grant

Red Yarn (aka Andy Furgeson) is a family performer with a new musical puppet film called The Deep Woods. The 23 minute film has a hometown premiere Saturday December 6,

Brothers of the Baladi, the internationally-minded Oregon group fusing rock music with Arabic, Persian, Turkish and Armenian music, celebrate the 15th anniversary of their best-selling holiday record, A Time of

hosts its annual Holiday Sale Friday Dec. 5, from 6-9 pm and Saturday Dec. 6, 1-4 pm under the bridge at 322 SE Morrison St. (at MLK Blvd.) There’ll be

Miracle Theatre invites the whole family to enjoy the 10th annual of Posada Milagro, Sunday, December 14, 1 – 5 pm at El Centro Milagro, 537 SE Stark St. This

Oregon Hall of Fame Inductee Mark Bosnian presents his 18th annual Home For The Holidays Concert and Sing-Along on Saturday, December 13, 7 pm at TaborSpace, 5441 SE Belmont St.

is a new series of assemblage by Shelly Caldwell (“From My Visit” pictured) and Robyn Williams up through December 28. Caldwell shares her impulse to know while cherishing the unknowable

Portland Cello Project has been presenting annual Winter shows for nearly ten years and the 2014 edition is  December 5 and 6 at the Aladdin Theatre, 3017 SE Milwaukie Ave.

Songwriter Alexa Wiley has performed for many good causes and effects in the Northwest for years. Now she’s released a new recording named for her new ensemble, Alexa Wiley &

HOLIDAY ART WORKSHOPS – Artist Laura Bender leads workshops making Batik cloth hangings with colorful fabric dyes and star patterns from folded colored papers to hang in the window. Both

This wall platter titled Reflection was made by SE Portland artist Babette Harvey. Her work is featured in several shows this month including the Audubon Wild Arts Festival, November 22

Oregon Koto-Kai (OKK) performs their third anniversary concert, Saturday, November 8 at Epworth United Methodist Church, 1333 SE 28th Ave. Doors open at 6:30 pm and the concert begins at

…a new juried exhibition of book art focusing on religion and spirituality at 23 Sandy Gallery at 623 NE 23rd Ave. Featured works “take a stand or cross the line

Sidestreet Gallery’s annual exhibition of  handcrafted ornaments includes flying robots like this one, slumped glass, paper mache, and painted wood and more. Sidestreet’s Holiday Show runs November 7 to December

Guitarist Jamie Stillway tours the world playing guitar. A Portland artist since the early aughts, she’ll take the stage at Café Artichoke’s intimate listening room debuting a new trio, Saturday,