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November 2018
ANNUAL HOLIDAY CRAFT DIY FESTIVAL
Annual Holiday Craft Diy Festival – Sunday, December 2 at Tabor Heights Methodist Church, 6161 SE Stark St. There will be a chili lunch upstairs at 12:30 pm, then downstairs to make some holiday crafts.Crafts include candles, swags, tree ornaments and other gifts. All materials provided and experienced craft teachers available. This is a community affair for all ages and it is free. For more information church@taborheightschurch.org.
Find out more »February 2019
Defunkt’s Tragedy: A Tragedy
This just in: the sun has set over neighborhoods, government buildings and American backyards everywhere. A news team is on the way. Their report: someone left the lawn sprinklers on; someone’s horse is on the loose; a seashell is lying in the grass; dogs run by. The Governor appeals for calm. Everyone doesn’t know if the sun, once down, will ever rise again, but there is a witness, and the witness will speak. A crack team of journalists is on…
Find out more »PDX JAZZ FEST 2019
The 2019 Portland Jazz Fest returns again with another astounding lineup and events all around this town. With headliners The Vanguard Jazz orchestra, Pharoah Sanders, Patrice Rushen, Freddy Cole, Kendra Shank, and Steve Turre and the Eulipion All Stars saluting Rahsaan Roland Kirk, and the wealth of Portland legends and innovators Mel Brown, Ron Steen, Dan Balmer, Bobby Torres, Mary Kadderly, Blue Cranes, Trio Subtonic and so many more, this four day jazz feast has plenty to hear and see,…
Find out more »Migration by painter, muralist and longtime SE resident, Christa Grimm
is part of a show of her recent works at the Melody Event Center, 615 SE Alder St. through February 28. Grimm explores the allegory of geese in flight and the migration of people across lands. After living in SE Portland most of her life, Grimm moved to the Oregon Coast for “the great privilege of being surrounded by more wildlife than people, so I am able to engage myself in the rhythms of nature.” Her paintings are inspired by…
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Milagro’s La Segua
The North American premiere of Alberto Cañas Escalante’s La Segua has original music by Carlos Escalante Macaya and is presented February 7 to March 2 at Milagro Theatre, 525 SE Stark St. In the city of Cartago in colonial Costa Rica, a beautiful woman, Encarnación Sancho, is haunted by the spectre of La Segua, who appeared to her former suitor, driving him mad. Blaming herself, Encarnación resists a new relationship, with a fortune-seeking adventurer. The legend of La Segua is…
Find out more »Tragedy: A Tragedy, by Will Eno at Defunkt Theatre
This just in: the sun has set over neighborhoods, government buildings and American backyards everywhere. A news team is on the way. Their report: someone left the lawn sprinklers on; someone’s horse is on the loose; a seashell is lying in the grass; dogs run by. The Governor appeals for calm. Everyone doesn’t know if the sun, once down, will ever rise again, but there is a witness, and the witness will speak. A crack team of journalists is on…
Find out more »VIKING PANCAKE BREAKFAST FEBRUARY 10
VIKING PANCAKE BREAKFAST FEBRUARY 10 – Enjoy the best breakfast in town and start the day with all-you-can-eat Viking pancakes, scrambled eggs, sausage links, fresh fruit, strawberry compote, lingonberries, orange juice and coffee or tea served in the Bergen Dining Room at Norse Hall, 111 NE 11th Ave. 8:30 am - 12:30 pm. Adults $8, Children ages 5-12 $4, Children under age 5 are free. Parking is free.
Find out more »Powell’s on Hawthorne – David Biespiel Feb. 18
David Biespiel in Conversation With April Baer David Biespiel’s Republic Café (University of Washington) is a meditation on love during a time of violence, and a tally of what appears and disappears in every moment. Mindful of epigenetic experience as our bodies become living vessels for history’s tragedies, Biespiel praises not only the essentialness of our human memory, but also the sanctity of our flawed, human forgetting. Republic Café details the experience of lovers in Portland, Oregon, on the eve and days…
Find out more »PARATHEATRE: RITUAL WITHOUT DOGMA
– An evening talk with Antero Alli, author/director, at PerformanceWorks Northwest, 4625 SE 67th Ave. (near Foster), Tuesday, February 19 at 7 pm. Alli, author of Towards an Archeology of the Soul, and artistic director of ParaTheatrical ReSearch PDX, will discuss the principles and methods of a ritual technology he’s developed, inspired by Jerzy Grotowski’s Paratheatre. The work combines physical theatre, dance, vocalization and standing meditation to access vital currents in the body towards spontaneous expression as presence, gesture, action,…
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