The month’s literary readings range from ghostly howls to journeys with an imaginary dog, a novitiate nun in the flower power ’60s, poetry, memoirs, discovering new places, and more.
From a seasonal “BloodyVox” and dancing murder mystery to White Bird’s season opener, jingle dancing, and OBT’s “Hansel and Gretel,” the month’s dance scene is filled with stories.
The late Oregon artist’s work is on view at the High Desert Museum in Bend and the Karin Clarke Gallery in Eugene this fall as well as at the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York City.
The Portland author of five books, including “The Man Who Fell in Love With the Moon,” wrote about race, sexual identity, and making a family of choice.
This month’s opening of the 250-seat theater makes the Newberg cultural hub one of the largest in the state, as well as an example of the “everything-for-everyone” center that thrives in smaller Oregon cities.
The composer and steel pan player discusses his new cello concerto, to be performed in October by Jeffrey Zeigler and OSO; recent recordings with Ian Rosenbaum and Imani Winds; his roots as a second-generation Japanese-American; and the drive to keep moving forward.
Vanport Mosaic’s week-long journey beginning Sept. 28 into the sturdy multi-ethnic roots of Old Town is part of a national Cultural Week of Action on Race and Democracy.
Francis Ford Coppola’s first studio film in more than two decades is an underdeveloped vanity project, albeit an entertaining and visually splendid one.
A half-concert half-album review of the Oregon composer’s work.
Poul Ruders and Paul Bentley’s setting of the Margaret Atwood classic, running at SFO through Oct. 1, offered many disturbing moments and little peace.
Nothing comes from nothing; a historical look at the art of the “steal”: The court’s Warhol decision and the myth of the original.
Listening forward to choral seasons which “educate, enrich, honor, confront, and uplift.”
“Always … Patsy Cline,” a musical about the friendship between the legendary country singer and her biggest fan, is still delighting packed Oregon audiences the fourth time around.
The Portland author will read from the novel Oct. 3 at Annie Bloom’s Books in an appearance with Stevan Allred.
The premiere of Blossom Johnson’s “Diné Nishłį (I Am A Sacred Being) or, A Boarding School Play” gets the new theater company off and running in its quest to tell Native stories onstage.
Dmae Lo Roberts talks in her new podcast with artists Chisao Hata and Roberta Wong about “memory activism” and Old Town’s deep Chinese, Japanese, and other cultural and ethnic roots.
A “PaintOut” tradition with friends, begun by artist Nelson Sandgren in 1978 and carried forward by his son Erik, gets a lively retrospective at Oregon State University’s Giustina Gallery.
A summer project adds seven works of art to a downtown alley between Davis and Evans streets.
The Portland-born film festival will feature 27 films over three evenings of diverse screenings at PAM CUT’s Tomorrow Theater.
The Hillsboro theater’s dynamic artistic director brings an inclusive vision that embraces new work, community engagement, educational initiatives — and maybe a new campus.
Online bidding starts Monday for work by two dozen artists, including a Lee Kersh ukulele, culminating in a Sept. 28 event in Newport.
The city’s downtown uses arts to boost economy and livability – but work remains to be done, arts advocates say.
The historian and author of “Democracy Awakening” kicks off the new Mark O. Hatfield lecture series, tracing the nation’s current ideological split to reactions against FDR’s re-election in 1936.
The renamed orchestra accented diverse American music in their inaugural concert.
Three new movies put women actors front and center. Also this week: 1964’s “Nothing but a Man,” new Portland-made features, and “Burden of Dreams” restored in 4K.
Director Jeanette Harrison’s new Native Theater Project, in an innovative partnership with Hillsboro’s Bag & Baggage Productions, debuts with Blossom Johnson’s “Diné Nishłį (I Am A Sacred Being) or, A Boarding School Play.”
Executive director Andrew Proctor leads the way through a new Central Eastside office, bookstore, café, and event space scheduled to open in November.
The good NWO–started this year by Lisa Neher, Lindsey Rae Johnson, and Kimberly Osberg–brought music by Neher, Osberg, Dianne Davies, and more to the gothy Portland bar in August.
The 26-by-62-foot work along U.S. 101 brings to 10 the murals designed to bring artwork to life in rural locations around the state.
Tender and turbulent, often fruitful, sometimes frightful: this September crossword puzzle celebrates some of the most famous partnerships in the arts.
The author, musician, actor, as well as artist, has been sketching since he was inspired by “Terry and the Pirates” as a child.
Returning to the towns and forest devastated in 2020’s wildfires, writer and photographer Dee Moore discovers new growth, rebuilt communities, and continuing evidence of the disaster.
This constellation of music/video art and related events is co-presented by PICA and PNCA for the Time-Based Art Festival. The exhibition at PNCA incorporates collaborative authorship and explores ideas of making and unmaking.
The Supreme Court’s Andy Warhol decision and the myth of the original. Part 1: The new law of creation.
The 1859 novel by the journalist and women’s suffrage activist has its flaws but is valuable for its portrayal of the never-stop work of women who came across the Oregon Trail.
Halloween creeps into September with three new horror flicks of varying quality. Also this week: the documentary “Join or Die,” plus pre-Code women screenwriters on the Criterion Channel.
The composer and artistic director discusses the roots and reasons of the new music organization’s organically audacious upcoming season.
Staged as part of the return of PICA’s Time-Based Art festival, Whitehead’s impressive opera explores embodied and emotional experiences around incarceration.
Other authors scheduled to appear at the Nov. 2 event include Robert Samuels, R.O. Kwon, Rachel Kushner, Willy Vlautin, Carson Ellis, and many, many more.
Every singer in Oregon gets back to work, with music ranging from local to ancient.
Four Portland women in their 20s talk about how they’ve built their own creative businesses, from a popular card game to size-inclusive clothing to beadwork to online comedy.
Margie Boulé takes the stage at triangle productions!, reprising her role as the legendary Texas Democrat in a play that offers abundant laughs, a sliver of hope, and a reminder to vote.
Jazzy clarinet concerto and a tribute to Celilo Falls closed out this year’s festival on the Oregon Coast.
At Milagro’s world-premiere political farce and Clackamas Rep’s solo show about loss and lovely things, the audience becomes an eager part of the action. Plus: a month of clowning at CoHo.
The mural tells the story of the community that has grown up around the Northeast Portland center run by the Immigrant and Refugee Community Organization.
As the city’s vaunted theater scene navigates some major shifts, a lively fall lineup ranges from a ribald political farce to a trip to the Taj Mahal, the NW premiere of 2024’s Pulitzer-winning play, a “Jubilee,” a “Funny Girl” and more.
The artist-run, Portland-based record label gives Oregon musicians the vehicle to share their diverse sounds worldwide.
The gallery, in an industrial park, is a sprawling nexus of beautiful, high-end art, savvy entrepreneurship, state-of-the-art technology, and light industry.
A thriller from French-Canadian director Pascal Plante hits theaters this week alongside a supernatural comedy from New Zealand and some choice streaming picks.
Drama, comedy, and music take center stage at Gallery Theater, Linfield University, Struts & Frets Theatre Company, Gather Repertory, and Pentacle Theatre.
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