Join the independent producers that represent the heart and soul of Oregon’s world-class wine industry as they take over an entire city block in Portland’s Pearl District neighborhood during the first weekend in May. The Portland Indie Wine Festival is not only an opportunity to meet the next generation of winemakers from emerging cellars from all across the state, the PIWF also provides a forum to explore topics relevant to winemaking today.
$60 for a one day ticket (Saturday OR Sunday) $100 for a two day ticket (both Saturday and Sunday.
On-going, by appointment
Cost: $2 per student
Email education@MuseumofContemporaryCraft.org or call 503.223.2654 x120.
CraftKids asks students to explore the interplay between form and function in craft through carefully looking at the Museum’s collection and temporary exhibitions. Through a 60-minute session, students are introduced to craft by
considering the role it plays in their daily lives. Tours are inquiry- and discussion-based, guiding students as they learn to look at objects in new and meaningful ways. Thematic tours focus on materials, process, identity in craft, positive and negative space, and more.
Reservations are required a minimum of two weeks in advance. Please provide the requested date and time, contact name, contact information, as well as the number and grade level of students.
Admission is free
March-October 8:30-2
November-December 9:30-2
A collection of four urban green markets April through December, serving up to 22,000 shoppers per week. We provide a direct connection to over 250 vendors with deep roots in Oregon and Washington, including farms, nurseries, bakeries, meat and seafood providers, cheese makers, specialty foods producers. The markets offer a vibrant gathering place where friends meet and shop A resource for learning about food, agriculture and nutrition A showplace for Northwest agriculture.
The insiders view of Portland. This award-winning walk clarifies why Portland is regularly recognized as one of the best places to live. You’ll be smiling and laughing as you hear about early and modern Portland as you experience an enlightened city rich with artwork, parks, bridges, fountains, countless coffee shops, brewpubs, and friendly people. Find out how this area grew from "stumptown" to a modern yet livable city.
The works of local photographers inspired by Oregon architectural subjects will be the focus of the Pittock Mansion’s spring exhibit. Photographers will submit their best choices of significant sites that represent the last 150 years of Oregon architecture. Dramatic imagery will allow visitors to discover some well-known and not-so-well-known structures throughout the state. Structures created and preserved for beauty, utility or ingenuity will be selected for the juried exhibit of more than 30 works, which will hang in the historic Mansion’s 23 rooms.
$7 for adults, $6 for seniors, $4 for children 6-18, free for Pittock Mansion members
The Cinco de Mayo Fiesta is a four-day celebration that attracts 300,000 people to Waterfront Park each year. The Fiesta brings to Portland and all Oregonians the beautiful colors, cuisine, arts, music and folklore of Mexico and specifically, Guadalajara, Portland’s sister city.
Members: FREE Nonmembers: $16 for adults and $12 for children/seniors.
Da Vinci: The Genius brings to life da Vinci’s amazing contributions to the worlds of art and science. See on display oversized reproductions of his most famous art and full-scale displays of his machine inventions including a glider, parachute, helicopter, tank, and more. Discover 25 startling revelations about the Mona Lisa in the Secrets of Mona Lisa gallery.
Saturdays 10 - 5pm
Sundays 11 - 4:30pm
Admission is free
Stroll down row upon row of local handcrafted items and homemade foods. The Portland Saturday Market—open Sundays too—is the nation’s largest open-air crafts market. Talk directly to the artists and learn about their creative styles and products.
Portlands Cheers to Belgian Beers started two years ago to help introduce Oregonians to the breadth of style and flavors of beers brewed in Belgium. The first year had 10 brewers pouring 10 beers at the Rock Bottom Brewery on April 10th, 2007.
In 2008, 18 Brewers made 20 different beers for an event held on April 5th, 2008 at Roots Organic Brewing Co. in Portland.
Portlands Cheers to Belgian Beers is much like your standard beer festival, but all the beers are brewed by Oregon breweries in a Belgian inspired manner. In the past two years, all of the breweries were from the Portland Metropolitan area. New for 2009, the Festival will be open to all Oregon Brewers Guild Members
Admission is Free
MOZART Overture to The Marriage of Figaro • HAYDN Symphony No. 60 “Il Distratto” • BEETHOVEN Overture to Fidelio • GRIEG Suite No. 2 from Peer Gynt • LUTOSLAWSKI Concerto for Orchestra.
“I gave ‘em a sword. and they stuck it in, and they twisted it with relish. And I guess if I had been in their position, I’d have done the same thing.” - Richard Nixon
Can a lightweight, has-been talk show host lead the most infamous political figure of his time to publicly acknowledge his guilt? That is the central question raised in Peter Morgan’s delicious drama about a series of televised interviews that former president Richard Nixon granted British journalist David Frost in 1977.
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Between the dawn of Faerie and the Dominion of Men, this unlikely hero’s journey is full of magic and mystery! Travel there and back again with Bilbo Baggins and Gandalf the Grey in this epic adventure to reclaim a stolen treasure from a fearsome dragon.
Tues-Sun 11-6
Thurs 11-8
Admission is free
Museum of Contemporary Craft presents Mandy Greer & Darrell Morris - Museum of Contemporary Craft
Museum of Contemporary Craft proudly presents two large-scale exhibitions merging tradition and concept: Mandy Greer: Dare alla Luce, a room-sized installation, and the nearly life-sized embroidery works of Darrel Morris: The Large Works 1999-2008.
Museum of Contemporary Craft features for the first time the 17 ceramic vessels granted to the Museum by internationally recognized artist Toshiko Takaezu. Former faculty member at Princeton University, Takaezu is widely considered the first person to close – or nearly close – a ceramic vessel. She combines technical mastery with spontaneous painterly glazes that have influenced decades of ceramists worldwide.
Tues-Sun 11-6
Thurs 11-8
Admission is free
Experience some of the most sumptuous paintings ever made when the Portland Art Museum and Musée des Beaux-Arts, Tours, bring La volupté du goût: French Painting in the Age of Madame de Pompadour to Portland for its exclusive U.S. presentation.
Adults $10 Seniors/Students $9 Children 17 and younger free
If you want a bone-chilling good time, then you've come to the right place! Unexplained mysteries, ghostly adventures and spooky stories fill our “Beyond Bizarre” evening tour. If you like the paranormal, weird, or wacky, let us guide you on a dark evening. Believer or not - people of all faiths and backgrounds, including skeptics, are welcomed.
7pm & 10pm
Interactive murder mystery dinner theatre. They came from back East by wagon and ship, then fate brought them together at a Mayor's Ball in the early 1850s. But darker currents run through this frontier settlement, and when a mysterious man with more than one story is murdered, fingers of accusation point in every direction, even toward the legendary Dr. John McLoughlin. It takes the perseverance of Marshal Joe Meek to sort the guilty from the innocent and bring justice to the Oregon Territory.
Over 170 vendors of all types of plants and garden art. Mini-classes offered.
In Focus: National Geographic Greatest Portraits is an exhibition consisting of 56 striking color and black-and-white portraits. From fascinating archival images of tribal leaders, fishermen and American workers, to riveting modern pictures of refugees, city dwellers and urban laborers, In Focus takes visitors around the globe and through the heights and depths of human emotion.
Photograph courtesy of Steve McCurry, 1985 & National Geographic
An exhibition created by National Geographic and the Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History, In Focus: National Geographic Greatest Portraits is organized for travel by the Smithsonian Institution for Traveling Exhibition Service.
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