Humbird At Strum
Minneapolis based indie folk artists Humbird fly into Portland, celebrating the release of their sophomore album, Still Life. The tour goes through 10 states, landing here Saturday, March 26 in
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Sharing the SALT
SALT – A story of the land and landscape is a new show of photos by Sandra Marill Chandler, up on the walls of Pushdot Studio through March 31. The
Raising Hazel & Spring Cleaning Sale
Raising Hazel perform in concert, Saturday, March 5 at Artichoke Music, 2007 SE Powell Blvd. It’s an 8 pm live in-person show simulcast on Artichoke’s YouTube and Facebook channels. Tickets
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Robots Don’t Tell Jokes
Robots Don’t Tell Jokes is the third album of fun songs for families by children’s songwriter, Kelli Welli. Welli (aka Kelli Caldwell) performs for kids and has released two award-winning
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Short Takes March 2022
Music Millennium’s In-Store Series returns to 3158 E. Burnside St. this month featuring: Friday, March 11, 6 pm, Portland Punk Band Glacier Veins, in performance and signing their new album,
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Robin and Linda Williams Concert
Beloved folk duo Robin and Linda Williams return to the Rose City for a Portland FolkSong concert Saturday, February 19. This year finds them performing as a duo again. Michigan
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Fertile Ground Fest Streams On
The 13th Fertile Ground Festival of New Works, continues through Sunday, February 6. FG22 features in-person and online programming. Here’s two of many on-demand suggestions: Dorothy’s Dictionary by EM Lewis
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Live Music at Laurelthirst Pub
The Laurelthirst Pub is back doing what it does best, presenting live music nightly, often free and always good. This came straight from the Thirst’s mouth: “We shut down for
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Winterfolk, Carsie Blanton Peter Rowan & Mother Hips
Alberta Rose Theatre, 3000 NE Alberta St., presents live performance in music, spoken word and acrobatics each month. There’s plenty good evenings a-coming too! A few of February’s highlights: • Saturday,
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Blue Cranes: Voices
Portland jazz ensemble Blue Cranes have released their fifth album, Voices. The ensemble has a live show as a part of the 2022 PDX Jazz Fest, Saturday, February 26, 6
122nd
Portland’s Talilo Marfil is a Filipino-American hip-hop recording artist and two-time RACC Grant Award Winner. His latest video single, 122nd, was made with a sense of urgency after a year
Hearts and Flowers
February’s returning daylight brings Sidestreet Arts’ annual Hearts and Flowers Group Show in the gallery at 140 SE 28th Ave. Artists Phyllis Flury, Anna Magruder, John Opie, Gail Owen and
CMNW Double Concert Live and Streaming
Chamber Music Northwest (CMNW) presents a double header of concerts this month at The Old Church, 1422 SW 11th Ave. Built in 1882, it is the oldest Portland church still
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Reel Movies at Clinton Street Theater
Clinton Street Theater is open for in-person screenings and their calendar is full and brimming over with art house and foreign films, many you may not see anywhere else. The
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Tribute: Betty White
TidalWave Comics’ Tribute: Betty White celebrates the extraordinary life of the actor, writer, wit and humanitarian who was a celebrated Hollywood presence for seven-plus decades. It includes her renowned love of
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Afternoon Shows at Artichoke
Artichoke Community Music, 2007 SE Powell Blvd., adds Sunday afternoon shows to their February series, a great idea in these days of early darkness. • Sunday, February 6, A Fine
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The Print Matrix
Sidestreet Arts’ January group show is The Print Matrix and the artists’ mediums and visions are many and varied. The show runs January 7-30 at 140 SE 28th Ave. Rosie
Bakersfield Mist
triangle productions! begins the year with Bakersfield Mist, a comedy written by Stephen Sacks and based on a true story. The play runs January 27-February 12. Maude (Helen Raptis) is a
PJCE Winter Concerts
Portland Jazz Composers Ensemble’s (PJCE) winter season opens Saturday, January 8 with a concert featuring a quintet from the Young Jazz Composers Program. The concert starts at 7:30 pm at
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Old Soul Roots and Lunatics
Alberta Rose Theatre’s January has live music, spoken word and acrobatics in store. Full vaccination and masks required for entry for all shows. Two highlights from this month: • Wednesday,
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A New Year at Artichoke
Artichoke Community Music kicks off the new year with live music on their stage in the store at 2007 SE Powell Blvd. First Friday Blues with Lloyd Jones, January 7,
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The Entire City
The Entire City is a new hour-long, biweekly podcast featuring co-hosts Alexander Hogan and Steve Ellerhoff who discuss a different pair of short stories each time. Connections between the tales
Milagro’s Duende de Lorca
Milagro’s new stage presentation, Duende de Lorca, follows the early life of Surrealist poet Federico García Lorca. At age 27, as a struggling artist living with his parents, his puppet
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Incantation
Join ArcoPDX, the Amplified Repertory Chamber Orchestra of Portland, for a new program called Incantation; two intimate evenings of music by 21st century composers in two Portland venues. The concerts
Movie Madness Releases Book
Movie Madness: 30 Years Behind the Counter at Portland’s Iconic Video Store is a book collection of interviews, photographs and more; a loving look at the history of Movie Madness.
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Peace, Love & Soup
Peace, Love & Soup radio show/podcast celebrates its 20th show, In the Time of Covid, Batch 1: Anamnesis (the recollection or remembrance of the past; a reminiscence). A collection of
Cappella Records Grammy Nomination
Cappella Records, Portland record label of the vocal ensemble, Cappella Romana, has announced its Grammy nomination for the Best Choral Performance on Sheehan: Liturgy of Saint John Chrysostom, conducted by
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PDX Jazz Fest Tickets on Sale Now
The 19th annual JazzFest is February 17-26 with 30+ events at multiple venues headlined by Grammy award winners Ron Carter, Robert Glasper, Gary Bartz, Diane Schuur, Brad Mehldau, and Flor
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Very Merry Cash and Carry
Sidestreet Arts presents their annual Very Merry Cash and Carry art and gift show and the gallery is filled with one-of-a-kind offerings created by more than 50 local Pacific Northwest
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Recuerdos
Recuerdos is a new show of work by Ivan Salcido at Pushdot Studio through January 28. Salcido is a Portland artist who makes sculptures, paintings and installations. Originally from El
The Shining City
Imago Theatre presents Conor McPherson’s The Shining City, a suspenseful tale of the inner demons that trouble the play’s characters. A former priest, a widowed philanderer, and a jilted mother
Alberta Rose Year End Shows
Alberta Rose Theatre’s December schedule is LIVE and the tradition continues with: • 12/1-12/11, 8 pm: A White Album Xmas – The annual holiday circus tribute to The Beatles with
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Stark Street Studio Holiday Show
Stark Street Studio Holiday Show and Sale continues through December 24 at 2809 SE Stark St. It features 10 ceramic artists and a variety of fine, handcrafted artwork including dinnerware,
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Withering Looks: An Entertaining Evening with the Bronte Sisters
Imagine yourself in the front room of the Brontë Parsonage in Haworth where hostesses Audrey and Olivia lead you through the lives and letters of Charlotte Brontë (author of Jane
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Music Together Winter Classes
Music Together brings music into families’ lives that is essential to helping children thrive during these challenging times. Music-making builds connections and helps us express emotions, naturally relieving stress and
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Artichoke’s Holiday Happenings
Artichoke Music hosts holiday happenings this month including their Warm Winter Night celebration, Saturday, December 18 with an Open House from 4-6:30 pm with the evening’s music beginning at 7
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Portland Folkmusic Society Concerts
Portland Folkmusic Society 2022 concerts begin again in January at Reedwood Friends Church, 2901 SE Steele St. on the 3rd Saturday each month featuring: January 15 – John Reischman &
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PDX JazzFest Tickets on Sale
The 19th annual JazzFest is February 17-26 with 30+ events at multiple venues and Grammy award winners Ron Carter, Robert Glasper, Gary Bartz, Diane Schuur, Brad Mehldau, and Flor De
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Stark Street Studio Holiday Show
Stark Street Studio at 2809 SE Stark St. is the oldest ceramic studio in Portland, open for 38 years and counting! The 10 artists working in clay there invite you
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Trust the Song Workshop
Register for the next Songwriting as Truth-Telling, a six-week online class series taught by songwriter Matt Meighan, Wednesdays 6-8 pm, November 10-December 15. The class supports each writer in finding
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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
The Alchemy of Sulphur
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 Ride Into Revolution Hall
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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Live Music at Artichoke Returns
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 Extravaganza!
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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November at Sidestreet Arts
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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Discordance
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
random (8) at Agenda
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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The Birds
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
Lincoln Street Concerts
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 Celebrates Pauline Garcia-Viardot
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
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Portland Dance Film Festival
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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Rabun Thompson’s Pottery at Sidestreet
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
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A Big October at Alberta Rose
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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CMG’s Improvisation Summit 2021
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 Season Opener
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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Learn Ukulele
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
All of the Marvels
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
Satie’s Journey at Imago
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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3 miles of possible
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’s City Serenade
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
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,
Pushdot Studio Exhibit
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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Façade An Entertainment
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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Portland Indigenous Marketplace Works on Display
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
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OMHOF Induction Ceremony
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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Open Hearts Open Mind
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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Zig Zag
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
Black Lives Matter and Oregon Symphony’s “Animal Control”
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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The Kingsmen and Friends Toast Mike Mitchell
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
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Heavy Metal Art with Mistry and Pratt
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
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Kickstand Comedy
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
Alberta Rose Resumes Live Music and Performance
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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OCT Virtual Gala
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,
New Neighborhood Comic By SE Artist
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
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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Adult Book Fair
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
Portland Indigenous Marketplace
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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SIDE-EYE with Pat Metheny
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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Our Fires
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
The Wild Party – A 1926 Audio Play
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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Experience The Joy of Family Music
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
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
Crossing Paths
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
Pops in the Park
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.)
In The Body Of The World
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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Sidestreet’s August: Wilson and Dunst
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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Carlton Jackson Passing
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
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Mo’s Playtime
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 & Handsome Three Live at Laurelthirst
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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Summer Events At El Centro Milagro
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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Cygnet Radio’s “Faith Healer”
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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Jack Williams In Concert and Artichoke’s Summer’s End Fest
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 2021
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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Joe Horner – Outside Dog
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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The Great River of the West
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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Cinema Unbound
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
Going Out Short Takes August 2021
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
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PWNW Alembic Artists Go Live
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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Cascadia Composers
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