Other readings this month feature Portland poet Carlos Reyes, Ken Jennings of “Jeopardy!” fame, and photographer Jamie Beck’s exploration of Provence.
Festivals large and small with Resonance Ensemble, Makrokosmos Project, New Music Gathering, Chamber Music Northwest, Brittfest, and more.
Oregon choirs end their first full season in three years with Bach, Ešenvalds, Nancy Ives, Stacey Philipps, Judy Rose, and so much more.
This year’s symposium, in collaboration with the Oregon Bach Festival, features guest artists from Seoul as well as Japanese shakuhachi, Balinese gamelan, and western classical ensemble.
Also this week: Northwest Children’s Theater screens family-friendly films at The Judy; plus, “Repo Man,” “Time Bandits,” “The Doom Generation,” and “Wild at Heart.”
Jamuna Chiarini takes a deep dive into Indian dance this month with a look at a performance of the epic “Ganga to Kaveri,” plus productions from NW Dance Project, Oregon Ballet Theatre, Danielle Ross, and more.
Remembering an artistic life well and truly lived: The Northwest artist died in October of 2022; his memorial service is June 11 at the World Forestry Center.
Also: Japanese American Museum’s new leader, springtime for taxes (and donations), sprucing up the libraries.
June’s art offerings explore the phenomena of memory in a variety of media including paint, performance, and piñata paper.
Talking Early and Modern music with the versatile prima soprano.
Ruth Ross and others carry on a centuries-old tradition of depicting the realities and reflections of cancer and other diseases in their art.
Ernie Lijoi’s new musical, about the day the nuclear bomb DOESN’T drop, takes the spotlight at Fuse’s OUTwright Festival.
The premiere of a fresh Kabuki adaptation of a 1685 Japanese puppet play is Laurence Kominz’ swan song. Plus “Afropolitical Movement,” openings, closings.
Peniel Joseph tells an Oregon Historical Society audience about the nation’s three phases of Reconstruction and the continuing quest for racial equity.
Julia Louis-Dreyfus stars as a struggling author in Nicole Holofcener’s dramedy about a couple’s marital crisis.
In the latest installment of ArtsWatch’s Gender Deconstruction series, game designer and self-described “science communicator” Olive Marion Gabriel Joseph Wick Perry talks passion projects, day jobs, and making it all work.
The vocal ensemble and youth orchestra performed women-centered works by Kareem Roustom and Jessica Meyer.
Retiring Portland Institute for Contemporary Art executive director Victoria Frey and her successor, Reuben Roqueñi, discuss the venerable avant-garde arts institution’s coming transformation.
The Portland company presented a refreshingly inventive birdsong-themed outdoor program at Leach Botanical Garden.
The Portland-based ensemble performs Philip Glass’ science-fiction music drama under the Spruce Goose as the finale to its season exploring the human mind.
As the Tony Awards approach, Misha Berson takes a long deep look at the shows that are getting Broadway back on its feet.
In a new podcast, Dmae Lo Roberts talks with two key figures in the festival remembering the Vanport Flood of 1948 and its continuing cultural effect.
For decades, Gary Harvey built fences and secretly made art in Wasco County. A first-ever showing of his work is also an art center’s fresh start.
Endurance, warmth and strength in Amy Herzog’s play; clawing the walls at Shaking the Tree; the casting controversy; is “who wrote Shakespeare” the wrong question?
The eighth annual Vanport Mosaic Festival, remembering the flood and its legacy, begins. Also: Schnitzer Hall gets too hot to handle; Carlos Kalmar is investigated.
The story of Sacajawea glowed in a new, Indigenous-centered Opera Theater Oregon production.
The latest films from directors Andrea Pallaoro and Emanuele Crialese recast the traditional family melodrama into incisive portrayals of the trans experience.
A neighborhood print studio highlights the social aspect of printmaking and provides members 24-hour access to a variety of presses, some more than 100 years old.
Eugene Ballet enlists an array of artists to bring a beloved underwater fairytale to life.
The Newbery-winning author and illustrator of “Where the Mountain Meets the Moon” talks in a podcast about creating tales for kids who don’t see themselves in most books.
Oregon Children’s Theatre’s “Where the Mountain Meets the Moon” spins a visually sumptuous fantasy from Chinese folklore.
The retrospective “Bonnie Lucas 1978-2023” is the first show in ILY2’s new Pearl gallery space. Hannah Krafcik considers the coded meanings of the bejeweled and bedecked compositions.
Newport’s Pacific Maritime Heritage Center hosts the traveling exhibition “The Curious World of Seaweed,” which explores the importance of seaweed and kelp to ocean health.
Remembrance of things not so very past: As Portland crawls back from the crises of the past three years, K.B. Dixon’s urban portraits capture the everyday beauty of the city that was.
Two Robert Shaws (Roberts Shaw?) are at the center of this month’s crossword puzzle. One was an actor, known for his roles in films such as ‘Jaws’ and ‘The Sting’; the other was a conductor, famous for his pristine interpretations of great choral works.
Premieres from E.M. Lewis and Carol Triffle top the theater week. Plus: Trying to break down the breakdown at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival.
After a tumultuous few years, a recent self-curated show in her new home gave this venerable, multitalented artist a sense of agency and renewal.
Conductor Deanna Tham, curator Gabriel Kahane, and a mixed-up mashup of modern and classical orchestral music at The Reser.
Also screening this week: ‘A Nightmare on Elm Street,’ Jane Arden’s ‘The Other Side of Underneath,’ a double feature of ‘Ator: The Fighting Eagle’ and ‘Dead Heat,’ and all nine ‘Fast & Furious’ films.
The pianist-composer and his touring bandmates performed an early set of new and recent tunes.
A colorful rendition of Lewis Carroll’s ‘Through the Looking Glass’ and ‘Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland’ brings illusion to the Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall.
Leslie Peterson Sapp’s vivid collage-paintings reflecting the moods of Film Noir echo a long creative history of borrowing and revising in music and art.
Finding beauty in the movement of the possible; visiting the art museum amid construction; a costuming apprenticeship; a Buttigieg in the house.
Since 1986, the all-volunteer gallery has worked to exchange ideas and opportunities for artists in all mediums and cultures.
The possibilities and dangers of artificial intelligence dominate headlines. Hito Steyerl’s 2019 work, now on view at PAM, probes AI’s capacities in art and narrative.
The artistic director of the embattled Oregon Shakespeare Festival departs as the company is in the midst of an emergency fund drive to keep its season going.
A nonbinary child and their parent discuss identity formation, harmful stereotypes, and trans joy.
At Profile, a gathering of contemporary voices. Plus: Clowning around at Milagro, Corrib’s gritty solo show, last days for “Come From Away,” Portland Playhouse’s new season and more.
In which the Merry Month promises premieres, percussions, a plethora of Bandcamp Friday pickings, and plenty more.
In a busy week focused on European films, indie features and revivals, a probing Romanian movie about globalization and bias tops the bill.
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