#portland-dance

#portland-dance

Orange Goose Coffee, a Hawaiian and Korean-inspired cafe, started as a pop-up in April 2024 and evolved into a permanent operation by March 2026.

Vienna Teng blends genres like chamber folk, jazz, and electro-pop while homaging her heroes, including Paul Simon and Tori Amos.

The Festival features over 100 free performances from May to November in Downtown San Francisco, showcasing the rich cultures and creativity of the Bay Area.

Tom Prochaska distinguished himself in many mediums: He was a masterful printmaker, an intuitive painter, a builder of papier-mâché figures, a creator of fused glass panels, and graphite-on-paper drawings.

Duboce ParkJam is a free event sponsored by Friends of Duboce Park, encouraging attendees to bring blankets, chairs, and picnics for an enjoyable afternoon of music.

"I love the range in this booth, from large-scale ceramic totems to more intimate neon paintings. I'm always impressed by the artists Freeburg represents and the clarity of her program's mission."

ArtsLink is envisioned as an essential community resource that aims to increase visibility, spur audience engagement, and strengthen the local arts and culture ecosystem.

In 2025, Dmae Lo Roberts embarked on a statewide storytelling experience focusing on personal stories from both artists and community members. These stories are a form of living oral history.

Rowe and Garen Scribner's libretto takes its liberties, setting the action in a world where everything is green and an evil princess has ruled that nothing be eaten but peas.

A band called Ad Nauseam is dead set on keeping grunge alive in Portland, but no local venue will return their calls to play a show. Like the most iconic grunge acts, Ad Nauseam has deep PNW roots. They deliver sludgy, whining guitar licks and haunting, sandpapery vocals. They've even got an angsty tune called "Scab Pimple" for goodness sake. So why can't they land a gig? Well, it might be because all four band members are between the ages of 10 and 16.

With most of us, 90 minutes of reminiscing wouldn't make for scintillating theater. Gert Boyle, as played by Wendy Westerwelle, is the exception to that rule. The late Gert came to fame when she took the reins of Columbia Sportswear after her husband's death in 1970 and also became the "One Tough Mother," with gray hair and glasses, of its comedic '80s and '90s ad campaigns. In one, she put her son, Tim, through a carwash to test the durability of a coat.