ArtsWatch Weekly: November roars in like a lion
November 4, 2021
A new month stirs up a storm of cultural activity, from a big book fest to galleries to stage, screen, and sound.
A new month stirs up a storm of cultural activity, from a big book fest to galleries to stage, screen, and sound.
Beyond the haunts, here come “Tosca” & other sounds, book fests, movies & nostalgia, more.
A redesign of the ArtsWatch site brings many more options to the home page. Plus a reawakening performance scene, contemporary Japanese prints, and more.
Longtime Portland sculptor Michihiro Kosuge, philanthropist and friend to artists Debi Coleman, and youth music leader Ian Mouser have died. In their productive lives they helped make Portland a better place.
Fall awakening: Suddenly Oregon’s cultural scene is bustling with art exhibits, theater, music, movies & dance.
What the world needs now is nostalgia, sweet nostalgia. A Neil Simon comedy rises to the task.
A record-setting round of awards will help fund projects by 140 cultural organizations across Oregon.
Wake up. Put on your game face. Ready or not, theater doors are open and a strange revival’s under way.
ArtsWatch Weekly: The doors swing open on live shows, PDX/NYC Tony connection, monthly guides & more.
A new collection of short stories finds loss, love, desperation and humor in the lives of people on the edge.
ArtsWatch Weekly: A building boom for the arts, cryptocurrency & art, Black operas, Latin film fest, aiding Yulia.
ArtsWatch Weekly: Whole lotta talent goin’ on; TBA takes the spotlight; license plates & movie picks & more.
Oregon unveils a new license plate with 127 cultural symbols and an interactive key to decode the design.
ArtsWatch Weekly: Remembering an extraordinary dance after 9/11; Beaverton rising; can’t stop the music.
ArtsWatch Weekly: Remembering an iconic Portland cultural figure and a TV star; Art in the Pearl & more.
ArtsWatch Weekly: As Covid ebbs and flows, arts & culture find fresh form – and Oregon stories arrive in a rush.
ArtsWatch Weekly: In praise of the beloved actor and teacher, dead at 67. Plus: Healing art, stage & screen, more.
ArtsWatch Weekly: The ballet company reshuffles its season, dropping three Nicolo Fonte pieces.
Friends of the beloved Portland arts figure, who died in March, will gather on Thursday at The Armory.
ArtsWatch Weekly: As Covid concerns grow again, the arts world moves half-speed ahead. But it IS moving.
ArtsWatch Weekly: A musical trip in a funhouse mirror, talking about “Lorelei,” creative laureates & more.
ArtsWatch Weekly: An enduring friendship; new opera leader; Ursula K. Le Guin’s stamp of approval; more.
ArtsWatch Weekly: Performances all over; a presidential son and the art market; a hoop star’s big art gift.
ArtsWatch Weekly: A dive into the state’s art history; farewell to Carlton Jackson; guts, glory & opera; more
ArtsWatch Weekly: Chamber Music Northwest enters the concert hall, shakeup at OBT, summer of soul.
ArtsWatch Weekly: Beating the heat, ‘Frida’ at last, Creative Laureate x 2, hip-hop dynamo & more.
ArtsWatch Weekly: Billionaires & struggling artists; the way we look at things; Metallica & the symphony.
A company of elite musicians closes its festival of outdoor concerts on a high note – and in the rain.
Pianist Cary Lewis has a “critical heart incident” in mid-concert, and undergoes emergency surgery.
As the festival enters the home stretch, the brasses come out to play and the tango music does an encore.
ArtsWatch Weekly: Photographic tales of Black Portland; picturing Pride; symphony’s new chief; more.
The festival soars past its halfway point with a pair of shows – and violist Charles Noble’s in the middle of the mix.
Saturday concerts draw the committed and curious with brass in the park and woodwinds in Beaverton.
An open-air concert lifts spirits with the sounds of Brahms and Strauss and contemporary percussionist Andy Akiho.
The series of free outdoor concerts spotlights Black and contemporary woman composers, and tango, too.
ArtsWatch Weekly: Oregon laureate has projects for the money. Plus: Classical Up Close, theater, egg art, more.
In a free outdoor show, classical bassist Colin Corner and friends have young fans dancing in a parking lot.
As the world opens up, a group of elite Oregon musicians kicks off a series of intimate outdoor concerts.
ArtsWatch Weekly: A festival to remember, theater heats up, All Classical leaps forward, Chachalu steps up.
ArtsWatch Weekly: We’re emerging, but into what? The culture, and the arts world, consider the possibilities.
ArtsWatch Weekly: As Oregon begins to open up, live performances get ready to join the crowd, indoors & out.
ArtsWatch Weekly: Storm Large and 3 Leg Torso make a movie, Chamber Music NW goes live, the Joy of words.
ArtsWatch Weekly: Oscars, Oregon Book Awards, operatic triumph, strange tales and a stranger firing.
Broadway Rose streams “The Last Five Years,” Center Stage gets a James Baldwin mural, Bard endures Plague.
ArtsWatch Weekly: Portland Oscar nod; Dawson Carr’s big day; dance dive; laureate speaks; big BRAVO.
Former Oregon Ballet Theatre star Gavin Larsen’s “Being a Ballerina”: a memoir to sweep you off your feet.
ArtsWatch Weekly: Photography gets (beyond) real, art museum reshuffles, Ashland’s indie film fest.
ArtsWatch Weekly: Ready or not, things are opening. Plus Lillian Pitt & Friends, opera breaks out, poetry time.
ArtsWatch Weekly: Remembering Beverly Cleary, Larry McMurtry, and composer Stephen Scott; revolutions & the way things change.
ArtsWatch Weekly: Amid a time of violence in America, art that remembers its roots and looks beyond.
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