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Photographer K.B. Dixon takes a tour of Portland’s neighborhoods and discovers an impromptu people’s garden of inflatable statues celebrating the holiday season.
Photographer K.B. Dixon takes a tour of Portland’s neighborhoods and discovers an impromptu people’s garden of inflatable statues celebrating the holiday season.
Suggestions range from Brian Doyle’s “Mink River” and a collection of speeches by former Gov. Barbara Roberts to picture books and poetry.
The Oregon jazz guitarist discusses his background, his love for Pat Metheny and for education, and his new album on Portland Jazz Composers Ensemble Records.
Breathe in, breathe out: Yes, there’ll probably be disasters. But Portland therapist, astrologist, and Pushcart-nominated poet Dr. Mindy Netifee also says the “whole end of the year could be very sweet.”
Get in the holiday spirit with a festive crossword puzzle for the whole family.
Since arriving in town in 2016, Grant has made his mark in an array of roles on stage and film. Now he’s Portland Playhouse’s producing director, and director of this year’s hit “A Christmas Carol.”
Every year, the holiday classic provides aspiring young dancers from the Willamette Valley to Alaska with their first experience of the world of professional ballet.
Webb’s colleagues remember him as a passionate and creative supporter of the arts.
From heavy chunks of wet clay the Portland artist creates sculptures that dazzle on the surface as they dive more deeply into memories, experiences, and conflicting meanings.
Director Isabel McTighe and creator/star Elsa Dougherty make sure nothing bad will ever happen. Plus: Portland Revels’ “Emerald Odyssey,” openings, last chances.
Following jazz around Oregon, from Jack London Revue to Jo Bar & Rotisserie and beyond.
Part Two of choreographer Amy Leona Havin’s “Precious Cargo” adds more dance to its poignant look at shifting landscapes, memory, and the urgency of life.
Emma Stone and Mark Ruffalo give superb performances in the new film by Yorogs Lanthimos, plus the latest from Aki Kaurismäki and Portland filmmaker Irene Taylor.
Through personal interviews, intergenerational research, and visual art, the Rogue Valley native is leading the Latinx community of Southern Oregon on a journey to challenge cultural stereotypes and change society.
The Portland dance company continues their 20th anniversary season with a winter showcase of new works by five Portland-based women choreographers, including Carla Mann and Andrea Parson.
The paintings and drawings in the artist’s solo exhibition at Adams and Ollman use humor as a vehicle for incisive social reflection. Drawing on social media feeds, they feature everything from human caterpillars to zebra surrogates.
Creating the special condensed version of the holiday classic, which will premiere on December 19, is part of Artistic Director Dani Rowe’s vision for making classical dance more welcoming to a broader audience.
The evergreen seasonal oratorio received a stellar complete performance from choir, soloists, and period instruments at First Baptist Church.
The Portland actor and friends are staging a one-night performance of a modern adaptation of Homer’s classic Greek tale before taking it back on the road – including to prisons.
Seattle’s theater companies are hoping a sleigh full of holiday shows will bring in audiences and help overcome a slow bounceback from the pandemic and a soaring cost of living.
After a lifetime of working with clay, “Fired Up” will showcase the artist’s last works in the medium. The show is at White Lotus Gallery in Eugene through December 30th.
Cast and crew from Portland State’s School of Music & Theater gave the staged premiere of Meier and Lewis’ opera with style.
Imago’s playful costumed critters return for a welcome holiday run, this time with some zebras joining the menagerie. Plus Fuse’s “Great White,” Bridgetown’s “Orphan Boy,” a national look at OSF’s leadership switch, last chances & more.
Doom metal in Eugene, orchestras young and old, all the Strauss you can handle, Beethoven’s Glorious Ninth, New Year’s Eve parties, a burlesque extravaganza, and more.
The Patricia Valian Reser Center for the Creative Arts will provide science, technology, engineering, and math students the opportunity to receive a unique understanding of the world through the arts.
Community organizer Nik Portela embraced The Dalles as their home, tipping the rural town’s local culture toward more LGBTQIA2S+ acceptance.
This week at the movies: Bradley Cooper is Leonard Bernstein, Ottessa Moshfegh’s debut novel comes to the silver screen, plus documentaries, the return of Hayao Miyazaki, and a few holiday favorites.
Review: In Kate Hamill’s toothsome update “Dracula: A Feminist Revenge Fantasy, Really” at Portland Center Stage, the tables are deliciously turned.
The year ends with holiday opportunities to shop local, view art, hear music, or see a play.
Ajai Tripathi’s new play “Great White Gets Off,” seeded during the pandemic, looks at racial and power dynamics and the way they play into a romantic relationship.
The Grammy-nominated quartet’s “¡Viva la Música!” program November 30 (part of their CMNW residency) made the most of the group’s Latin roots, featuring music by Paquito D’Rivera and Astor Piazzolla alongside Ravel, Gershwin, and Shaw.
Margles, the longtime executive director of the Oregon Jewish Museum and Center for Holocaust Education, retires after 24 years of inspired leadership.
December’s Visual Arts listings include a 7-foot print, suspended knots, and elephants. The end of the year may be upon us but there is still plenty to see before we bid farewell to 2023.
The weekly McMinnville gathering, like others around the state, draws participants who say they are both energized and calmed by the practice. “The primitive nature of the drum in the story of humanity,” says one drummer.
What’s in that famous smile? Algorithmically, some computer scientists say, you can break it down to percentages of emotion. But, really, now: Does that make sense?
Through annual residencies in local schools, Salem native Caitlin Lynch and fellow artists give music students firsthand experience of how professional musicians collaborate to create a performance.
Settle into winter with a holiday book fair, a new cookbook from a Northwest Jewish kitchen, an author appearance by Henry Winkler, and a solstice story time.
The much anticipated finale of PICA’s “Time-Released” programming is the work of Andrew Tay and Stephen Thompson. The performance engages with representations of Asian identity with a sense of play, recognition and, ultimately, reclamation.
Portland Center Stage sinks its teeth into a “Dracula” with feminist flair. Plus: It’s open (holiday) season with a musical “Wonderful Life,” a visit to Whoville, a comic Christmas tea.
Carols old and new, Gospels and Winterfests, Bach and Menotti, and more.
Akiho’s “Sculptures” and Spalding’s collaboration with Fred Hersch received multiple nominations, Tham has been selected for an international conductor competition, and Cotik has unveiled a prototype of his new interdisciplinary media project.
Punk, metal, jazz, and the Oregon School of Composition–just in time for the last Fee Free Friday of 2023.
The films of underground pioneers George and Mike Kuchar will be shown as part of the Clinton Street Theater’s Kuchar Festival December 4-9.
Dmae Lo Roberts talks in her new podcast with Jerry Foster, leader of the Black theater company PassinArt, about staging Langston Hughes’ gospel musical version of the Nativity story.
For 10 years, Nick Prueher and Joe Pickett have presented curated selections from lost or discarded VHS tapes to sold-out crowds. They share their latest highlights this weekend at the Hollywood Theatre.
The five-time Oregon Book Award winner exhibits his critical literary skills and extensive research in a sweeping biography of the “Lonesome Dove” author.
Four “Messiahs,” choirs and harps, Northwest composers, and more.
The Pulitzer-winning opera by Rhiannon Giddens & Michael Abels makes its way across the country.
Two years after the death of founder Ian Mouser, MVM continues to provide education and opportunities for young musicians.
More nuts than you can crack a whip at, classical Indian dance, contemporary premieres, the return of “ZooZoo,” five women choreographers at NW Dance Project – and even a “NOT-Cracker.”
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