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Friday, Sept. 14
Time-Based Art
Time-Based Art
[ARTS] Portland's annual contemporary arts festival continues. Catch up on what you've missed so far with our TBA Diaries, or check out what you can still see at the festival's website.
XOXO Festival
[FESTIVAL] The first-year "disruptive creativity" festival is already earning whispers of "the new SXSW" from the digerati. Free events include an indie video-game arcade curated by Kickstarter-funded gaming site Venus Patrol; a music show with independent, Internet-famous bands and artists like the Kleptones and Julia Nunes; screenings of crowd-funded films including Indie Game: The Movie and Star Wars Uncut: The Directorâs Cut; and a two-day street market with local creators, artists and food. Read more here. XOXO Festival runs Thursday-Sunday, Sept. 13-16, at various venues. For full schedule, see xoxofest.com/fringe.
Dangerous Desires: Film
Noir Classics Series: The Prowler
The Prowler
The Hunted
Nobody Lives
Forever
NW Film Centerâs
Whitsell Auditorium. 7 pm Friday,
Sept. 14. Dangerous Desires: Film
Noir Classics continues through
Sunday, Sept. 30. See nwfilm.org
for full schedule.
Nude Beach, Divers
Slabtown, 1033 NW 16th Ave. $5. 21 .
Saturday, Sept. 15
Mexican Independence Festival
Mexican Independence Festival
[FIESTA] Celebrate Mexico and other Latin American countries' independence from Spain with dancing, live mariachi bands, food, vendors and a performance of the revolutionary cry for independence, El Grito de Independencia. Pioneer Courthouse Square, 701 SW 6th Ave. 11 am-11 pm. Free. All ages.
Northwest's Largest Paella Dinner
[FOOD] Chef Greg Higgins (of the eponymous Higgins restaurant) is cooking the largest paella in the Northwest. The paella pan will be more than five feet in diameter and serve 330 people. There will also be wine, tapas, desserts from Baker and Spice bakery and live music. Itâs $100 a plate, but money goes to Hillsdale Main Street and Neighborhood House. Hillsdale Business District, 6309 SW Capitol Hwy. 6-9 pm. $100. Tickets here.
Cascadia Composers
[MUSIC] With help from expert singers like Nancy Wood and Mel Downie Robinson, various pianists and string players, some of Oregonâs top composersâTomas Svoboda, David Bernstein, Jeff Winslow, Paul Safar and moreâoffer new works, including a string quartet by Michael Hsu that draws on New Order-style synthpop dance rhythms and other rock and pop influences. In addition, there will be a piece by Lewis & Clark College professor Michael Johanson based on Joseph Conradâs novel Under Western Eyes. BRETT CAMPBELL. Colonial Heights Presbyterian Church, 2828 SE Stephens St. 8 pm. $5-$20.
Saved by the Bell Trivia
A Steady Rain/The Detectiveâs Wife
[THEATER] Both A Steady Rain and The Detectiveâs Wife, presented by Hellfire Productions, take place on stormy nights. At least thatâs what the thundery sound effects suggestâthe exact context of each play remains uncertain. Squally darkness fits these two gritty cop dramas by Keith Huff, stuffed as they are with intrigue, conspiracy and corruption. But itâs almost too fitting, as is much else in these two neat and tidy plays... Read the full write-up. REBECCA JACOBSON. Shoe Box Theater, 2110 SE 10th Ave., 757-6836. 7:30 pm Thursdays-Sundays, 4 pm Sundays. Through Oct. 7. $20 for each individual play or $35 for both.
Northwest's Largest Paella Dinner
[FOOD] Chef Greg Higgins (of the eponymous Higgins restaurant) is cooking the largest paella in the Northwest. The paella pan will be more than five feet in diameter and serve 330 people. There will also be wine, tapas, desserts from Baker and Spice bakery and live music. Itâs $100 a plate, but money goes to Hillsdale Main Street and Neighborhood House. Hillsdale Business District, 6309 SW Capitol Hwy. 6-9 pm. $100. Tickets here.
Cascadia Composers
[MUSIC] With help from expert singers like Nancy Wood and Mel Downie Robinson, various pianists and string players, some of Oregonâs top composersâTomas Svoboda, David Bernstein, Jeff Winslow, Paul Safar and moreâoffer new works, including a string quartet by Michael Hsu that draws on New Order-style synthpop dance rhythms and other rock and pop influences. In addition, there will be a piece by Lewis & Clark College professor Michael Johanson based on Joseph Conradâs novel Under Western Eyes. BRETT CAMPBELL. Colonial Heights Presbyterian Church, 2828 SE Stephens St. 8 pm. $5-$20.
Far Away
[THEATER] Far Away is a brief but suggestive play: From the first scene's mysterious shrieks to the full-blown war described in the third (to reveal much more would spoil the production), it leaves the audience puzzling out the dystopian details. But Far Away is no transparent allegory for a single political or social issueâit's too ambiguous and too fantastical for that. Sharp moments of surrealistic and grotesque comedy add to the play's complexity, and to its appeal. Director Samantha Van Der Merwe confidently steers the tension between fantasy and reality, all the way through to the productions atypicalâbut not unsatisfyingâconclusion. REBECCA JACOBSON. Shaking the Tree Studio, 1407 SE Stark St. 7 pm Thursdays-Sundays. $20-$25.
Portland Serbian Festival
[FESTIVAL] Portland's Serbian community celebrates with food like barbecue, roast meats, cevapi, baklava and palacinke, and live music and dancing. Serbian Orthodox Church, 11447 SE 27th Ave. Sept. 15 11 am-10 pm, Sept. 16 11 am-6 pm. Free.
Sunday, Sept. 16
Laurie Anderson
[PERFORMANCE ART] The queen of performance art returns to the Time-Based Art Festival for Dirtday!, the third and final installment of her trilogy of solo storytelling works. Donât expect the kind of electrifying multimedia concert that vaulted the New York violinist-storyteller-composer-artist to levels of fame beyond the niche of the artsy in crowd in the 1980s and â90s. Anderson instead offers low-key, trenchant to ironic to wry musings on life, politics, history, Darwin and even her late canine, accompanied by atmospheric incidental electronic music and delivered in her trademark warm, soothing, occasionally arch voice and that of her alter ego, Fenway Bergamot. BRETT CAMPBELL. Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall, 1037 SW Broadway. 7:30 pm. $15-$75. pica.org/TBA.
[THEATER] Far Away is a brief but suggestive play: From the first scene's mysterious shrieks to the full-blown war described in the third (to reveal much more would spoil the production), it leaves the audience puzzling out the dystopian details. But Far Away is no transparent allegory for a single political or social issueâit's too ambiguous and too fantastical for that. Sharp moments of surrealistic and grotesque comedy add to the play's complexity, and to its appeal. Director Samantha Van Der Merwe confidently steers the tension between fantasy and reality, all the way through to the productions atypicalâbut not unsatisfyingâconclusion. REBECCA JACOBSON. Shaking the Tree Studio, 1407 SE Stark St. 7 pm Thursdays-Sundays. $20-$25.
Portland Serbian Festival
[FESTIVAL] Portland's Serbian community celebrates with food like barbecue, roast meats, cevapi, baklava and palacinke, and live music and dancing. Serbian Orthodox Church, 11447 SE 27th Ave. Sept. 15 11 am-10 pm, Sept. 16 11 am-6 pm. Free.
Sunday, Sept. 16
Laurie Anderson
[PERFORMANCE ART] The queen of performance art returns to the Time-Based Art Festival for Dirtday!, the third and final installment of her trilogy of solo storytelling works. Donât expect the kind of electrifying multimedia concert that vaulted the New York violinist-storyteller-composer-artist to levels of fame beyond the niche of the artsy in crowd in the 1980s and â90s. Anderson instead offers low-key, trenchant to ironic to wry musings on life, politics, history, Darwin and even her late canine, accompanied by atmospheric incidental electronic music and delivered in her trademark warm, soothing, occasionally arch voice and that of her alter ego, Fenway Bergamot. BRETT CAMPBELL. Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall, 1037 SW Broadway. 7:30 pm. $15-$75. pica.org/TBA.
Saved by the Bell Trivia
[TRIVIA] If the teacher pops a test / I know I'm in a mess / And my dog ate all my homework last night / Riding low in my chair / She won't know that I'm there / If I can hand it in tomorrow, it'll be all right. East Burn, 1800 E Burnside St. 6 pm. Free. 21 .
A Steady Rain/The Detectiveâs Wife
[THEATER] Both A Steady Rain and The Detectiveâs Wife, presented by Hellfire Productions, take place on stormy nights. At least thatâs what the thundery sound effects suggestâthe exact context of each play remains uncertain. Squally darkness fits these two gritty cop dramas by Keith Huff, stuffed as they are with intrigue, conspiracy and corruption. But itâs almost too fitting, as is much else in these two neat and tidy plays... Read the full write-up. REBECCA JACOBSON. Shoe Box Theater, 2110 SE 10th Ave., 757-6836. 7:30 pm Thursdays-Sundays, 4 pm Sundays. Through Oct. 7. $20 for each individual play or $35 for both.
WWeek 2015