Fertile Ground Festival takes a break
May 22, 2022
Portland’s annual festival of new works, which reinvented itself during the pandemic, will take a “strategic hiatus” in 2023 to reinvent again.
Portland’s annual festival of new works, which reinvented itself during the pandemic, will take a “strategic hiatus” in 2023 to reinvent again.
The widely loved Foote, who retired to Mexico after years of helping Oregon Children’s Theatre rise to national prominence, was 69.
From housing crises to race in Portland, the Mosaic’s seventh annual festival remembering the Vanport Flood of 1948 brings the past into the present.
Brunish gets his 12th nomination as a producer, for the Broadway revival of “Company.” Beaverton High grad Bean is honored for “Mr. Saturday Night.”
Portland’s 1917 performance hall can’t withstand a major quake. What’s next: Expensive upgrades or more expensive replacement of the hall?
As arguments rage over returning the elk to its downtown home with its full fountain, City Commissioners Carmen Rubio and Dan Ryan push for full restoration.
A month to focus on Asian American culture, Betty LaDuke in Grants Pass and Lillian Pitt in Newport, PassinArt and Center Stage party down, legislators join the Cultural Trust.
A big step toward a new home for the university’s School of Art + Design. “Merry Wives” sing out. In Salem, Putin on parade. Voices for Ukraine. A tribute to Lady Day. A memorial for Una Loughran. Wayne Brady in the house. Brunish takes on London.
Five women singer-songwriters sing out Sunday in a benefit concert for Ukraine, and 10 pianists put on a show to aid a children’s music program.
A Columbia Gorge haiku challenge. An interim leader for Portland Baroque Orchestra. Damien Geter and the Oregon Symphony go bicoastal. Classical jams. Oregon Fringe Festival.
The Portland stage star, 78, took classic turns in plays by Eugene O’Neill, Arthur Miller, Edward Albee, Noel Coward, and G.B. Shaw.
A longtime shaper of the Oregon art scene, Kelly was known for his large-scale stainless steel and Cor-Ten sculptures, which combined abstract and geometric elements.
Stage notes: A conservatory throws a musical-theater gala, mystery theater and Lea Salonga at the Reser, the slap heard ’round the world.
The choreographer, arts advocate, and former Creative Laureate of Portland moves on to the state arts stage.
On the 65th anniversary of the flooding of Celilo Falls by The Dalles Dam, the River People gather to remember, revisit, and look ahead.
Trayshun Holmes-Gournaris of the Oregon School for the Deaf wins the Poetry Out Loud state title; new at the art museum; downtown art space trashed.
The Portland gallerist expresses “deep regret and apology” for comparing vaccine mandates to religious persecution.
Grants in honor of the late Ross McKeen; 45th Parallel benefit concerts for Ukraine refugees; Sabina Haque’s silhouettes at Waterstone.
How does the arts world respond to Putin’s invasion of Ukraine? Memories of a time in Russia suggest a war nurtured in fields of beauty and danger.
A Tuesday ribbon-cutting sets the stage for art and performance at the new, $55 million Patricia Reser Center for the Arts.
