Bella!
triangle productions! new live presentation is Bella!, written by Harvey Fierstein, presented onstage November 26-December 11. The action takes place in September 1976. Bella Abzug hides out in the bathroom …
triangle productions! new live presentation is Bella!, written by Harvey Fierstein, presented onstage November 26-December 11. The action takes place in September 1976. Bella Abzug hides out in the bathroom …
Vertical Pool presents the World Premiere of a new Antero Alli film, The Alchemy of Sulphur, screening one night only, Sunday November 7, 7:30 pm at the Clinton Street Theater, …
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Cowboy Junkies return to Portland to perform at Revolution Hall, 1300 SE Stark St. in an evening concert, Sunday, November 21, 8 pm. The band is doing its first tour …
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Artichoke Music is presenting live shows again and that is mighty good news. This month’s highlights include Saturday, November 6 – Brian Odell, 8 pm; Sunday, November 7 – John …
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Alberta Rose Theatre’s November schedule offers plenty of big shows LIVE. Here are but a few of the month’s highlights. • Wednesday 11/3, 8 pm: Led Kaapana, Slack Key Guitar …
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Anita Reuther and Ha Austin are November’s featured artists at Sidestreet Arts, 140 SE 28th Ave. The show runs November 3-28. Reuther reflects her lifelong love of the Pacific Northwest …
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The Creative Music Guild’s 2021 concert series in SE Portland features local composer/improviser and instigator Caspar Sonnet’s new series, Discordance, this month featuring master percussionist Tatsuya Nakatani. Also on the …
Noah Matteucci’s random (8), the new exhibit at Agenda Gallery, 4505 SE Belmont St., runs from November 13-December 12. The show is an installation of woodblock prints combining digital technology …
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Imago Theatre does it again as Conor McPherson’s version of The Birds takes one of Hitchcock’s most iconic films and transforms it into a chilling onstage chamber drama. The four …
The Driveway Concert Series has morphed into a new form due to the weather. The Lincoln Street Concerts are a first Saturday fete, held inside and hosted by Lincoln Street …
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In Mulieribus (Latin for “among women”), a seasoned, female vocal ensemble dedicated to strengthening community through the art of music, specializes in works written before 1750 and champions new repertoire …
In Mulieribus Celebrates Pauline Garcia-Viardot Read More
The 5th Portland Dance Film Festival takes place October 15-24 at The Clinton Street Theater, 2522 SE Clinton St. The Fest is a multi-day event and a hybrid of online …
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The Harvest is in at Sidestreet Arts, 140 SE 28th Ave., with a new show of work featuring Rabun Thompson’s teapots, planters, vases, mugs, platters and totems. A potter for …
Rabun Thompson’s Pottery at Sidestreet Read More
The Alberta Rose Theatre’s live performance schedule is full again this month and there are many special don’t-miss nights of splendid music and entertainment. Here are a few highlights. • …
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Creative Music Guild’s (CMG) Annual Improvisation Summit takes place at several venues around town October 12-17, including three in SE. CMG has livestream options too. Here’s a partial schedule: • …
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Chamber Music Northwest opens their new season of eight live concerts Sunday, October 10, 4 pm at The Old Church, 1422 SW 11th Ave., with Cello + Piano with Zlatomir Fung …
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Avery Hill’s ukulele classes for all levels of experience are taught live via Zoom, or email, for self-paced students. • Beyond Beginner Ukulele – For those with basic chords and …
Books With Pictures, 1401 SE Division St., celebrates All of the Marvels, a new major work by local author Douglas Wolk. Wolk read all 27,000 Marvel superhero comic books (so …
Imago Theatre presents a new, original chamber work of music, Satie’s Journey, resurrecting the spirit of the legendary Velvet Gentleman, Erik Satie, presented live and streaming afterwards online and on-demand …
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Performance Works NW, 4625 SE 67th Ave., presents 3 miles of possible, a durational solo by PWNW director Linda Austin “exploring poetic and practical associations of ‘the possible’ in a …
Stephanie Schneiderman has released a new solo album titled Crossfire. It’s her ninth record and maiden voyage as self-producer. The mash up of introspective folk and trip hop pop tunes …
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PEEP into positivity with The Reformers as they embark on another unique adventure this Halloween season. The Reformers, a company of artists on the outskirts of contemporary theater present original, …
White Lies She Told Me, Paintings by Sadé DuBoise is a new exhibit at Pushdot Studio, 2505 SE 11th Ave., Suite 104 in the Ford Building. Her work is on …
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Portland Columbia Symphony’s new season features the second of three virtual concerts, William Walton’s Façade An Entertainment, Saturday, October 16, 7:30 pm. The ticklingly clever, rhythmic poetry of Dame Edith …
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The Architectural Heritage Center, 701 SE Grand Ave., is featuring the work of the Portland Indigenous Marketplace, a nonprofit supporting indigenous artists and entrepreneurs while promoting public education through cultural …
Portland Indigenous Marketplace Works on Display Read More
2021 OMHOF Induction Ceremony features performances by Todd Snider, Lifesavas, Renato Caranto with Louis Pain Trio and more Saturday, October 9, 7 pm at the Aladdin Theater, 3017 SE Milwaukie …
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The Oregon-based non-profit organization supports individuals serving prison sentences through arts, dialogue and facilitating personal and institutional transformation and growth, offers music and arts programs in Oregon state prisons. They …
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Gallery 114, 1100 NW Glisan, presents Zig Zag, a show of paintings by Joanie Krug, sculpture by Sue Friesz and paintings by Kay Danley through Saturday, October 2. The Artist …
Outside the Frame (OTF) points the cameras towards young Black Lives Matter musicians and the result is a new music video, Animal Control, featuring young rappers, Mic Crenshaw and the …
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A Benefit for the Oregon Music Hall of Fame’s Music In The Schools & Scholarship Program takes place Sunday September 26, 6 pm at the Aladdin Theater, 3017 SE Milwaukie …
The Kingsmen and Friends Toast Mike Mitchell Read More
September at Sidestreet Arts, 140 SE 28th Ave., features the work of Kathleen Mistry and Emily Pratt. Both have unique relationships with metal and the gallery is filled with their …
Heavy Metal Art with Mistry and Pratt Read More
Kickstand Comedy presents the final Comedy in the Park of the summer, Friday, September 10, at Laurelhurst Park and hosted by Seth Allen and Tory Ward. It features comedians Dan …
The Alberta Rose Theatre resumes live performance this month and their September line up is filled with music highlights, theatrical hijinks and the return of Live Wire. • Friday, Saturday, …
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Oregon Children Theatre’s virtual gala, With a Little Help From Our Friends streams free September 18. Co-hosted by Portland drag performer extraordinaire, Bolivia Carmichaels, and featuring local luminaries Shoshana Bean, …
SE cartoonist, and artist-wünderkind, Bridgett Spicer is the force behind Auntie Beeswax, a new weekly comic strip featured in Willamette Week. Spicer’s Sunnyside neighborhood is the main inspiration: “in the …
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Songwriting as Truth-Telling offers three new classes: two different groups Tuesdays, September 7-October 12, 4-6 pm and 7-9 pm; Wednesdays, September 8-October 13, 6-8 pm. Taught by songwriter Matt Meighan, …
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Books with Pictures and Captured Beer Bus partner for a classic grade school-style Book Fair for grown-ups, Saturday, September 11, from 6-9 pm in the food truck pod at 113 …
The Architectural Heritage Center presents Portland Indigenous Marketplace at 701 SE Grand Ave. as a showcase of indigenous arts, crafts and goods on view in the AHC main gallery beginning …
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PDXJAZZ presents Pat Metheny and his new group, SIDE-EYE, live in concert at Revolution Hall, 1300 SE Stark St. Tuesday September 21, 8 pm. Metheny remains inventive, curious and unpredictable …
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Much has come to light in the last decade regarding Portland’s treatment of its Black community when displacement and planned gentrification in the city’s Black neighborhoods are considered. Now, a …
Cygnet Radio Hour’s new production, The Wild Party, by Joseph Moncure March premieres this month and it’s a jazz-age, book-length narrative poem bursting with passionate rhythms and excess. Characters of …
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Music Together (MT) offers both in-person and online classes this fall with a variety of types and locations. MT’s classes offer a safe environment following CDC, state and county recommendations …
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Artichoke Music is bringing back live music safely in September. Like other venues, they require a full vaccination to enter, or a negative COVID test within 48 hours for anyone …
Cascadia Composers presents Crossing Paths – New Music of Healing and Renewal, Sunday, September 26, 5 pm at Leach Botanical Garden, 6704 SE 122nd Ave. Gate opens at 4 pm …
Portland Columbia Symphony’s Pops in the Park, is Saturday, September 25, 4 pm (Rain date: Sunday, September 26, 4 pm) at Grant Park (NE 33rd Ave. and US Grant Pl.) …
triangle productions! presents its first show of the new season, In The Body Of The World, written by Eve Ensler, author of The Vagina Monologues. Live indoor theatre continues with …
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August at Sidestreet Arts features new ceramics from Chayo Wilson and Mark Dunst’s acrylic paintings, August 4-29 at 140 SE 28th Ave. Wilson calls her series Rising Up, her response …
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A beloved pillar of Oregon music passed away unexpectedly early in July, just days after he celebrated his 60th birthday. Drummer, teacher, radio host, bandleader and an essential and conscientious …
Carlton Jackson Passing Read More
Performance Works NW presents Mo’s Playtime, by Maura Campbell-Balkits, Friday, Saturday, August 13-14, 8 pm at 4625 SE 67th Ave. The show is a 15-minute work-in-progress with a 15-minute discussion. …
Anita Lee and the Handsome Three play a free happy hour show as live music resumes at the Laurelthirst Pub, 2958 NE Glisan St, Thursday, August 5, 6-8 pm. Songwritin’ …
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This August, the Dog Days of summer roll in with Sunday Parkways events in and around the city. At El Centro Milagro, Sundays are highlighted by Latino performing groups and …
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Portland’s Cygnet Radio Hour’s new production of Brian Friel’s Faith Healer is an audio take on an emotionally potent play. Friel is considered one of Ireland’s greatest playwrights and this …
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Artichoke Music, 2007 SE Powell Blvd., is hosting live music shows at 50 percent capacity until further notice. Advance tickets and reserved seating advised. • Saturday, August 21, 8 pm, …
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Montavilla Jazz Festival (MJF) is a two-day festival showcasing the best in Portland jazz. MJF supports and strengthens local culture by highlighting emerging and established artists from Portland’s vibrant jazz …
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Agenda Gallery’s August show title is appropriate as Americans emerge from the confinement of quarantine and wonder if they will have to return there again. Outside Dog features Joe Horner’s …
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Robbie McClaran’s The Great River of the West is the new show at Pushdot Studio – August 6-October 1 with an opening reception, Friday, September 10, 6-8 pm. McClaran is …
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The Northwest Film Center’s Cinema Unbound offers outdoor films from the rooftop of the Lloyd Center through September 30. Doors open at 8 pm and films begin at dusk. Food …
BOOKS WITH PICTURES, 1401 SE Division St. hosts Free Comic Book Day (FCBD), Saturday, August 14, 10 am-8 pm and costumes are encouraged. There are comic books for all ages …
Going Out Short Takes August 2021 Read More
Performance Works NorthWest (PWNW) Alembic Artists’ present in-person performances before a masked, limited audience every weekend this month beginning July 9. July 9-10, 8 pm: Maura Campbell-Balkits, Mo’s Playtime – …
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Summertime is here and Cascadia Composers (CC) present their final streaming concert of the season, In Good Hands, Saturday, July 17, 2 pm. This annual concert celebrates student performers from …
triangle productions! 32nd season is about to begin. Considered one of the oldest LGBTQ-identified theatres in the US and one of the oldest theatres in Oregon, they have not raised …
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Marisa Green: Samsara/Samara is the new exhibit at AGENDA, 4505 SE Belmont St. through July 25. Suspended and floating in space, Green’s tiny ‘helicopters’ re-imagined in cut paper entice the …
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Record Store Day was first conceived in 2007 at a gathering of independent record store owners and employees to celebrate and spread the word about the unique culture surrounding nearly …
Record Store Day Drops 2 Read More
Utopias, dystopias, days of future past… July is Sci-Fi month at Clinton Street Theater. After this last year and a half, their programming is charging full speed ahead. The beloved …
Laurelthirst Public House reopens Tuesday, July 6 and live music returns to the stage Thursday, July 8, with Lewi Longmire and the Left Coast Roasters at 6 pm. This just …
Laurelthirst Reopens Read More
The Architectural Heritage Center (AHC) has opened a companion piece and walking tour to its latest exhibit, South Portland and the Long Shadow of Urban Renewal. The long, narrow South …
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Oregon Children’s Theatre’s new Intergenerational Queer Audio Project: Message to Ourselves is their first-ever audio play released as a podcast. The podcast includes stories, reflections, poems and songs from 17 …
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Milagro Theatre’s new Season 38, Renaissance en Verso, is a creative exploration of a demoralizing year in darkness and our subsequent humanity renewed. While emerging from the pandemic, Milagro sees …
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Sidestreet Arts presents Processing, Pausing, and Perspective, the July exhibit featuring the work of Amy Fields and Beth Kerschen. Fields starts with a lump of raw clay; Kerschen starts with …
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Artichoke Music is back with live events. All shows are at 50 percent capacity until further notice. Advance tickets and reserved seating advised for all live shows. Sidewalk seating is …
Artichoke Concerts Go Live Read More
The Lot at Zidell Yards, 3030 S. Moody Ave., is a new venue with a full stage, large format LED screen, sound system, and on-site food and beverages. They are …
The Lot at Zidell Yards July Music and Movies Read More
Folk singer and songwriter Tom May finally gets to have his book release celebration live and in person after cancelling it twice last year. May is the long time, producer/host …
Tom May Book Reading/Concert at Horse Brass Read More
Chamber Music Northwest (CMNW) hosts their in-person and online 51st annual Summer Festival this month featuring four weeks showcasing performances by renowned artists. There are 17 live, limited seating, concerts …
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Ruth Ross’ new show, Self/Conscious and guest Kathryn Cellerini Moore’s Matter Splatter Spectrum Scatter is up on the walls at Gallery 114, 1100 NW Glisan St., through July 31. Ross’ …
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Portland’s own innovative bassist, four time Grammy-winning jazz and R&B musician extrordinaire, Esperanza Spalding, has launched a GoFundMe to build the Prismid Sanctuary here in the city where she grew …
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Milagro Theatre is in search of passionate, bike-loving extras for their project in-development, La Bici. The episodic video play brings together ideas of bike safety and how it relates to …
Extras Needed for Milagro’s La Bici Read More
Portland artist Connie Cohen painted these three views of Amaryllis. She writes, “I had a love affair with these Amaryllis that bloomed in my bay windows every year. I like …
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Live indoor theatre returns this month as triangle productions! presents High Dive by Leslie Ayvazian, a one-act play with no intermission. The comic play portrays a small, pivotal moment in …
Summer’s nearly here and the time is right for dancing in the streets. There’s a new season of the Driveway Jazz series to celebrate and it looks like a good …
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Portland Storytellers Guild (PSG) present a performance by its own Eric Foxman called Yes, It Really Happened!, Saturday, June 5, 5 pm as a benefit to support PSG storytellers. Foxman’s …
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The Northwest Film Center’s (NWFC) new Co:Laboratory offers online and in-person classes in media arts. Saturday, June 5, 1 pm; Capturing an Oneiric State: Dreams and Film – Critics and …
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James Clem is June’s featured musician on the Artichoke Music livestream of the Cascade Blues Association Monthly Meeting, Wednesday, June 2, 7 pm on the Artichoke Facebook page. With over …
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Music Together offers new outdoor classes for summer. After more than a year of exclusively online classes, they are taking Music Together outside again. Classes in SE are at Sellwood …
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Kathy Brock and Alicia Justus have long been friends and now they’ve decided to pair up for June’s featured show at Sidestreet Arts named, appropriately, A Collaboration Between Friends. The …
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See and hear a real, honest to goodness, in person album release party live at StrumPDX Guitars, 1415 SE Stark St., Sunday, June 6, 3 pm. Tickets are $15. TWANS …
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SE Portland residents Tavé Fascé Drake and Nikki Jardin have developed an online and print publication for those experiencing dementia, brain trauma, other cognitive impairment and their extended communities. The …
Mirador Magazine for the Cognitive Impaired Read More
The Waterfront Blues Festival returns July 2-5, to a new location, less than a mile upriver, at The Lot at Zidell Yards. The 2021 Festival is an in person, distanced …
New Venue for Waterfront Blues Festival and Summer Events Read More
Memories Of My Mother + Recent Works By Jennifer Brommer opens at Pushdot Studio, 2505 SE 11th Ave.#104 (in the Ford Building), Friday, June 4, 6-8 pm with limited number …
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The Architectural Heritage Center, 701 SE Grand Ave., has reopened its exhibit galleries to the public. Their new exhibit, South Portland and the Long Shadow of Urban Renewal, examines the …
AHC Reopens With New Exhibit Read More
3 Leg Torso and Lakewood Center for the Arts present a new film, M is for Mischief, a warm-hearted musical comedy premiering Mother’s Day, Sunday, May 9, 7 pm. Filmed …
Milagro hosts a virtual reading of the play City Without Altar by Jasminne Mendez. The performance is a collaboration with Teatro Luna West (Los Angeles), UrbanTheatre Company (Chicago) and fellow …
Metropolitan Youth Symphony’s (MYS) season finale is Saturday, May 29, 7 pm, and features world premieres by award-winning composer Giancarlo Castro D’Addona’s Portland Beauty, performed by the Symphony Orchestra and …
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The Cascade Blues Association in partnership with Artichoke Music presents Oregon Music Hall of Fame’s Louis “King Louie” Pain on Hammond B-3 organ with Muddy Award Hall of Fame saxophonist, …
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PWNW’s May Happy Hour is Thursday, May 20, 5 pm with duo collaborations by artists Wendy Hambidge + Jorge Samuel Faria, and Rachel Kessler + Matt Fielder. ASL interpretation by …
May art at Sidestreet Arts is for the birds with the carved books of Melody Bush and the painted feathered denizens of Jackie McIntyre. Both find aviary inspiration and flowering …
Chamber Music Northwest’s season finale presents classical guitarist Jason Vieaux, Saturday, May 15 at 7 pm. Vieaux is highly regarded for his versatility, lyricism and virtuosity. A passionate advocate of …
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Portland Lesbian Choir (PLC) presents its Spring concert, A Roof and a Bed, Saturday, June 5, 7:30 pm via their channel, youTube.com/PortlandLesbianChoir. The concert’s music is presented to amplify the …
Folk musicians Annie Patterson and Peter Blood, creators of the popular Rise Up Singing and Rise Up Again songbooks, have created a “tour” of virtual singalong benefit concerts. Repairing the …
Repairing the Breach: Songs for the Journey Read More
Time for real radio! Imago Theatre and KBOO Community Radio present an original radio theater drama, The Strange Case of Nick M., Monday, May 3, 10 pm via the KBOO …
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These Truths – Gallery 114’s juried show for May has artists from across the country presenting work prompted by the idea that truth can be interpreted to mean something different …
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