Keller Auditorium’s future: Three options, one choice
The 3,000-seat Keller needs replacing. What’s the best choice: a new building at PSU, a new hall at a revamped Lloyd Center, or a full-scale renovation where it is now?
The 3,000-seat Keller needs replacing. What’s the best choice: a new building at PSU, a new hall at a revamped Lloyd Center, or a full-scale renovation where it is now?
Test your knowledge of the great composer with a new crossword puzzle by Daryl Browne.
Jazz, string quartet, rock violin and more set the rhythm for the new festival in a music-happy town. Next up, March 20: Peter Eldridge of New York Voices.
A $300 million gift of more than 200 artworks jump-starts the Seattle University Museum of Art. Plus: Maryhill Museum season begins, Asian American writers, Andrew Proctor returns, jazz at Milagro, Billie Holiday tribute night.
K.B. Dixon takes a camera tour through the McMinnville museum, from the Spruce Goose to the world’s fastest jet to replicas of the Spirit of St. Louis and Apollo Lunar Rover & more.
The busy cultural hub celebrates its 20th anniversary with a day-long party this Saturday, March 16
Octavio Solis’s contemporary spin on “Don Quixote” reimagines the wise man/mad man hero in a tale that tumbles brightly and searingly across the Mexican/Texan border.
The new center, whose name means “butterfly,” seeks to create a “microscopic utopia” for artists who are often dispossessed.
Kristen Stewart and Katy O’Brian star in a stylish neo-noir, plus the feature film debut of writer-director-star Julio Torres of HBO’s “Los Espookys.”
The 2024 session improves on a dismal ’23 session for the arts, with allocations for several large organizations, less for smaller ones, and an unwelcome surprise for the High Desert Museum.
“Las Vegas Ikebana” celebrates five decades of friendship between Maren Hassinger and Senga Nengudi. On view are individual works, collaborations, and ephemera that reveal the richness of their creative intertwining.
This year’s festival of “Black American Music” featured hot touring artists and returning Oregonians alongside up-and-coming new locals.
Recent productions “North” and Red Door Project’s “The Evolve Experience” highlight the Beaverton arts center’s socially responsive programming.
At Art in the Cave in Vancouver, Ruth Ross and other artists stitch and weave tales that open up many questions.
The installation by Christina Harkness and Shanna Smith Suttner opens March 22 at the Willamette Heritage Center in Salem, before returning to Lincoln City in August.
Entries are open for May’s “Rising from the Trashes” event, which includes an art gallery, fashion show, and storytelling – all spotlighting trash.
The Dutch-born American artist’s retrospective at the Salem museum showcases neon not as a gaudy symbol of advertising but as a key element of art for art’s sake.
Sure, there will still be books, but get ready for big changes in the libraries emerging from 2020’s $387 million bond.
On March 14, tours and an open house will celebrate the 37th anniversary of the hotel that lifelong friends Goody Cable and Sally Ford took from flophouse to world famous.
MYS performed world premieres of music by Nancy Ives and Charles Martin alongside Beethoven and Lalo.
PYP geared up for their upcoming East Coast tour with a thrilling concert featuring music by Amy Beach, Jessie Montgomery, and Jeff Scott.
The exquisite enamel artist and traveler to Bali and beyond in pursuit of her art created a legacy of storytelling and beauty.
Presented at the 2024 Portland Jazz Festival, SKC’s latest world premiere promised to transcend artistic boundaries with innovations that take dance and sound in a new dimension, though delivered a more puzzling traditional concert dance experience.
A busy week onstage also brings “The How and the Why,” a youth devised show from Hand2Mouth, Eleanor Roosevelt, holdovers including “Sanctuary City,” plus “Spear” and other last chances.
The Portland theater company’s Youth Devising Residency program teaches young people stage skills and more. The show they created, “What Brings You Here?,” is at PSU March 7-9.
The famed jazz pianist partnered with the choral ensemble and Portland poet/activist A. Mimi Sei to create “From the Book of Sankofa”; the former Linfield Music Department Chair returns to Oregon for the live premiere of her “Cycles of Eternity,” recorded in 2019.
Speaking to a Hatfield Lecture Series audience about her book “Oath and Honor,” the former congresswoman talks about Putin, China, Israel/Hamas, Trump’s “Big Lie” and more.
Plus: “Accidental Texan,” “Cabrini,” and “Kung Fu Panda 4.”
After its biggest and most successful year yet, the wine country film festival looks toward a bright and expansive future.
SO co-produced the revival of the 1986 Anthony Davis opera, revised and re-premiered in 2022 by Detroit Opera.
The performance space by the railroad tracks in North Portland and the Butoh-inspired company Water in the Desert whisper their farewell to the Portland scene.
The exhibition “Strange Weather” at the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art at the University of Oregon brings together a diverse roster of artists and perspectives.
The recently-released album captures the quartet playing standards and film songs in Portland and Vancouver just before the recording of their ground-shaking classic “Time Out.”
In its enrapturing show, ‘I Didn’t Come to Stay,’ this acclaimed tap and live music company celebrated the depth and virtuosity of tap’s Afro-diasporic roots.
For March, Jason N. Le introduces a variety of exhibitions that, from different vantage points, consider how humans make sense of our world. The options range from monsters to machines to meteorites.
Seven of Portland’s local dancers come together for an evening of solos, duets, trios, quartets, and quintets that reflect love and camaraderie.
Other literary events this month include readings by nine writers at the Pacific Maritime Heritage Center in Newport and a celebration of small presses.
The traveling exhibition, created by the Maxville Heritage Interpretive Center, reminds viewers of the multiracial history of Oregon’s timber towns.
Percussion concerts with 45th Parallel and Third Angle; goth and punk and whathaveyou at Mississippi Studios; CMNW’s mini-festival of piano trios; neurologist Larry Sherman with Portland Chamber Orchestra; Christopher Brown Quartet plays “Blackstar.”
The Orthodox choral ensemble and Gospel choir joined their voices for February’s “Black Voices in Orthodox Music: How Sweet the Sound.” Recent albums released by Oregon choirs feature music by Melissa Dunphy, Renée Favand-See, Naomi LaViolette, Morten Lauridsen, Stacey Philipps, Undine Smith Moore, Joel Thompson, and more.
Timothée Chalamet rides a sandworm in the sequel to 2021’s “Dune,” and a 2022 documentary portrait of Alexei Navalny gets a theatrical release after his death.
Bobby Bermea: Promising writer and recent high school grad Evan McCreary gets a weekend of readings at IFCC with talent and a little help from his older friends.
Students had a say in picking the artists whose work is featured in the artistically complex and politically engaged exhibition, which runs through March 16 at the McMinnville university.
What would happen if we turned grandiosity into a joke? Building big, artist Erik Geschke sculpts himself into the possibilities.
The Oregon playwright’s contemporary twist on Cervantes’ classic tale has tilted at a few shifting windmills of its own on its long journey to Portland Center Stage.
As the Oregon dance card fills up for a busy month of movement, a performance space goes away and another springs to life.
The quirky museum includes what may be the largest glass fishing float collection in the Northwest and an exhibit about a 1930s celebration of redheads.
As Central Library reopens in downtown Portland, The Library Foundation takes on new leadership. Plus: A new leader for the Parks Foundation; talking Nevelson and Neel at PNCA.
The Pulitzer-winning composer and Portland singer-songwriter’s new “electronic cinematic pop duo” Ringdown prepares for festival season with a concert in Northeast Portland; MYS performs two more Oregon composers and also Beethoven.
The 65-year-old Grants Pass library has not kept pace with the city’s growth; funds from the Cow Creek Band and a bill before the Legislature would help pay to replace it.
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