Taking place on the first Thursday evening of each month, First Thursday offers a chance to view new work in area galleries while enjoying free appetizers and wine and other beverages. Exhibiting artists are often on hand to answer questions about their work.
The First Thursday website includes information on participating galleries located in the Pearl District. For more information on other participating galleries visit the Downtown Art Gallery Association
LOCATION: Portland area, OR
HOURS: Most galleries are open from 6-9 p.m. Check individual websites for times.
ADMISSION/TICKETS: Free
May 22 - June 7
Waterfront Village
Our NEW Opening Day (May 22)
Remembrance (May 22 – May 25)
Presented by TriWest Healthcare Alliance
Revelry (May 28 – May 31)
Roses (June 3 – June 7)
May 22
Fireworks Spectacular
May 30
Starlight Run
May 30
Portland General Electric/SOLV Starlight Parade
June 3
Fred Meyer Junior Parade
June 3 - 7
Fleet Week
June 4 - 5
Lloyd Center/Portland Rose Society 121st Annual Spring Rose Show
June 5
BandFest
June 6
Queen's Coronation Presented By Pacific Power
June 6
Regence Grand Floral Walk
June 6
KeyBank Grand Floral Parade
June 6
"From One Rose" Motion Picture Screening
June 6 - 7
Grand Floral Parade Float Viewing
June 6 - 7
Portland Rose Festival Dragon Boat Race
June 12 - 14
Rose Cup Races presented by Temp-Control Mechanical Corp.
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.
Thursday nights, year round except November 27, December 25, 2008 and January 1, 2009
13 & older, drop-in fee $5. Contact Sam Keator 503.691.2078
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
Once upon a time, a Baker and his Wife journey into the woods on a quest to lift a witch's curse. On the way they cross paths with Little Red Riding Hood, Rapunzel, Cinderella, and a menagerie of other fairy tale characters to reveal what happens after "happily ever after."
Single ticket prices range from $26 -30 dollars
Neil Simon's comedic tribute to vaudeville centers around the feuding legendary act known as Lewis and Clark. Having not spoken to one another for 11 years (since Al Lewis walked out on Willie Clark after a successful 43 year career), the two are now being asked to reunite and perform their most famous sketch for a TV special on the history of comedy.
Prices ranges from $12 (student previews) to $28 (adult Friday/Saturday evenings.
“If you can’t get a man to propose to you, you might as well be dead.” - “Little Edie” Bouvier Beale
Fresh from Broadway where it was nominated for ten Tony Awards in 2007, this new musical from Doug Wright (I Am My Own Wife) tells the hilarious and heartbreaking story of two indomitable women, Edith Bouvier Beale and her adult daughter “Little Edie,” the eccentric aunt and cousin of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis. Once among the brightest names on the social register, these two women became East Hampton’s most notorious recluses, living in a dilapidated 28-room mansion with their 52 cats.
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
Once upon a time, a baker and his wife journey into the woods on a quest to lift a witch's curse. On the way, they cross paths with Little Red Riding Hood, Rapunzel, Cinderella and a menagerie of other fairy tale characters to reveal what happens after "happily ever after." Stephen Sondheim's Tony Award-winning score weaves a magical spell. To charge your order by phone, call 503-635-3901. Box office hours are 9 a.m.-5 p.m. weekdays and 10 a.m.-4 Saturdays.
Performances are Thurs-Sat at 8 p.m. Sundays at 7 p.m. and some Sunday matinees at 2 p.m.
Every Monday
11:30 a.m. to 2:00 p.m.
Every Thursday
11:30 a.m. to 2:00 p.m.
Every Sunday
2:00 p.m. to 4:00 p.m
Portland Orchids and Bamboo Chinese Ensemble
Free, with order of tea service and Garden admission
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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