Portland Center Stage at the Armory Nassim Portland Oregon
March 2020
City of Hillsboro Walters Cultural Arts Center Tony Furtado Hillsboro Oregon
Portland Baroque Orchestra livestream March 2020.

Covideo

Is it real, or is it covideo? Forced to shut down concerts, music groups turn to livestreaming.

Solidarity through song

Voices from the front: Anton Belov brings a community of singers together through Facebook Karaoke.

The Show Must Go On(line)!

COVID-19 and Portland dance: spaces close, shows are delayed, classes shift online, financial crises loom.

The Unknown Exhibition

Curator Lucy Cotter’s show at CCAC was poignant before the pandemic. Now it is even more urgent.

White Bird on the brink

The rest of its season canceled by the health crisis, the venerable dance presenter faces acute money woes.

Photo: IATSE Local 28 Schnitz Crew. Courtesy of Charles Noble.

MusicWatch Weekly: The Apocalypse will be livestreamed

First of all, how are you? Eating enough? Staying inside and entertained? Called your friends and/or family lately? Good. Let’s start by collectively admitting that we’re Not Doing Alright. It’s been a busy two weeks since last we spoke, dear reader: schools

Photo First: Social distancing

We know. It’s tough. But some Portlanders have been practicing it a long time. A look at states of solitude.

Celebrating mundane interiors

Patrick Collier considers the appeal of the everyday still life scenes captured in Leslie Hickey’s photographs on view at Holding Contemporary

Judging by the cover

Marlon Mullen’s bright paintings are inspired by book and magazine covers but in a category all their own

Eine Kleine Strassemusik

Photo First: A Little Street Music (or, remembering Portland as it so recently was).

DramaWatch: Your no-show of shows

“The show must go on…unless it shouldn’t.” What’s up and what’s off in theater amid COVID-19.

Open Wide

A shipwreck brought musician Emily Lau to Portland. It didn’t happen in Oregon but off the Italian coast, where in 2012 the cruise ship Costa Concordia ran aground, capsized and killed 32 people. Lau was on her honeymoon, and though she and

The political prints of John Buck

The retrospective at the Hallie Ford Museum of Art doesn’t broadcast political intent but the implications of the artists prints are anything but subtle.

At PCS, a season for all sorts.

From “Hair” to “Hedwig,” a broad range of stories populates Portland Center Stage’s 2020-’21 season.

MusicWatch Weekly: Stay home!

Bad news, everyone! No, it’s not quite the end of the world. But, yes, shows are being canceled.

Fertile Ground 3: Herstories

A very fertile festival: How to Really, Really? Really! Love a Woman, and other vulvagyric herstories.

Roselit Bone

MusicWatch Monthly: American mestizaje

Defining “American”: Caroline Shaw, nyckelharpa and hardanger fiddle, Carnatic voice & violin, harps & drums, American gothick.

Striking a reckoning with death

Jess Evans and Lyra Butler-Denman’s “Delicate Fish/BARDO” takes a tender look at grief, pain, and death.

Bonnie Bronson 2024 Fellow Wendy Red Star Reed College Reception Kaul Auditorium Foyer Portland Oregon
Kalakendra Indian Classical Instrumental Music First Congregational Church Portland Oregon
Portland Center Stage at the Armory Nassim Portland Oregon
City of Hillsboro Walters Cultural Arts Center Tony Furtado Hillsboro Oregon
Maryhill Museum of Art Goldendale Washington
Portland State University College of the Arts
Portland Chamber Orchestra A Feast of Beethoven Kaul Auditorium Reed College Portland Oregon
PassinArt Theatre and Portland Playhouse present Yohen Brunish Theatre Portland Oregon
Golden Road Arts Grey Raven Gallery Near the Reser Beaverton Oregon
Triangle Productions presents Eleanor starring Margie Boule Portland Oregon
Pacific Maritime Heritage Center Prosperity of the Sea Lincoln County Historical Society Newport Oregon Coast
Newport Performance and Visual Arts Centers Newport Oregon Coast
Portland Art Museum Virtual Sneakers to Cutting Edge Kicks Portland Oregon
Portland Area Theatre Alliance Fertile Ground Portland Oregon
Northwest Dance Project Sarah Slipper Newmark Theatre Portland Oregon
High Desert Museum Sasquatch Central Oregon
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