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January 2020
Songwriting as Truth-Telling
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 ways of listening to help draw out intention rather than impose the listener’s. Enrollment limited to 10 at Artichoke; eight in North Portland. SONG FORMS FOR SONGWRITERS is seven weeks, Tuesdays Jan. 7-Feb 18 at Artichoke. Increase the variety of songs you write and experiment with song forms in folk, blues, country and…
Find out more »Open to Your Creative Nature
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 above is “Oaks Bottom” by Jolyn Fry. “Surrendering to my artistic process grants me the kindest perspective of myself and the life that moves around me,” Fry said. “I have no beginning or start when I paint. Each stroke is an opportunity for me to let go. My small ideas of the…
Find out more »Young Professionals Company Present Impulse
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 Acting Academy Associate at Oregon Children’s Theatre. A one-time, late-night show is added, for teens and adults. Fridays and Saturdays, Jan. 17-Feb. 2, at 7:30 pm, Sundays at 2 pm (Thursday, Jan. 30 at 7:30 pm) and an After Hours show Saturday, Jan. 25 at 9:30 pm at the Young Professionals Studio Theater,…
Find out more »Dragons Love Tacos
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 quartet of dancing dragons. Each one has its own unique style and personality, but they are all hungry. A dance-filled journey into the field of Dragonology; equal parts ridiculous and delicious, Jan. 18-Feb. 16, Saturdays at 2 pm and 5 pm, Sundays at 11 am and 2 pm at Newmark Theatre, 1111 SW…
Find out more »Rose and Swing Go “Deep Down”
The Ford Gallery’s new show, Deep Down, invites viewers to dip into the playful exploration of the emotional, mythical, morbid and psychedelic waters of the subconscious. The show features works from Ila Rose and Lindsay Swing (aka Honey and Sass). Rose’s work is colorful, dark, complex, layered, luscious and surreal. She plays with symbols which emerge from research and subconscious exploration and strives to use her privilege, to be a voice for social injustices as well as an advocate for…
Find out more »Groundwater 101 Educational Workshop
Did you know that Portland’s secondary drinking water source is groundwater from wells along the south shore of the Columbia River? Join the Portland Water Bureau and the Columbia Slough Watershed Council for Groundwater 101 – a free, educational workshop 8:45 am - 1 pm Saturday, January 25 at McKinstry Company, 16790 N.E. Mason St. Learn groundwater basics including local geology and hydrology, the role groundwater plays in our drinking water system and what we can do to protect this…
Find out more »Ascension Catholic Church Annual Crab Feed
Ascension Catholic Church will be holding their Annual Crab Feed Saturday, January 25, 6:30 pm at 743 SE 76th Ave. Tickets, which include crab, salad, breadsticks and dessert, are currently on sale. Beer, wine and soda will be available for purchase at the event. Contact 503.256.3897 for more information.
Find out more »Pigs on the Wing – A Tribute to Pink Floyd
Portland-based Pink Floyd tribute band Pigs on the Wing announced the band's 2019-2020 production, 'Animals' – a 2 set Pink Floyd concert experience featuring a full performance of Pink Floyd's 1977 album Animals - and full second set highlighting the very best of Pink Floyd's Roger Waters-era catalog. Tracing its roots to a one-off performance in Portland in 2006, Pigs on the Wing has steadily developed a reputation for delivering a high quality, high energy take on Pink Floyd's music…
Find out more »Life According to Morty and Ruth
Triangle productions! opens 2020 with the lighthearted Life According to Morty and Ruth. The comedy stars Wendy Westerwelle, Jay Randall Horenstein and Alex Fox. In the story, Ruth is late, as always, but tonight the show has already begun as she rushes into the theatre. Morty went to find parking and he too will be entering the theatre late. Ruth can’t find her seat, and apologetically interrupts the actor on stage. Within minutes, she takes over the show, and that’s…
Find out more »Listening to Silence
New Expressive Works presents a performance inspired by artistic director Subashini Ganesan’s long-time meditation on the ancient Rg Vedic poem 10.129 (Nasadiya) and various writings about silence by two authors - Rainer Maria Rilke and Jiddu Krishnamurti. The duet is a collaborative relationship of construction, de-construction, and re-construction of the Bharathanatyam vocabulary and rhythm, to explore the undefinable realms of silence. This piece is an invitation for audiences to consider the many subtleties of what silence is and can be. Especially…
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