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THUNOV 5
10:00 AM – 7:00 PM
FilmMuseumsGalleriesPoetryAuthor TalksLive Podcasts & RadioVarietyStand-UpHip-HopCultural HeritageTalks & LecturesTours

Free First Thursday with Live Wire Radio

Overview Portland Art Museum invites the community to join a Free First Thursday event, offering free admission to the museum for all, plus a Live Wire event as part of the Literary Arts Portland Book Festival. Visitors can take in the afternoon gallery pop-ups, the evening show, or both! Free First Thursday + Museum pop-ups 4:30 – 6 p.m. — 4:30-6:00pm — Free, pre-show, pop-up performances will take place throughout the Museum’s galleries. Performers are poet and rapper Dessa, bestselling...
SATNOV 7
7:30 PM ¡ Doors 6:30 PM
💰 $35+Live Podcasts & RadioVarietyStand-UpTalks & LecturesMusicAuthor Talks

Live Wire with Luke Burbank

Live Wire Radio is an independently produced radio show that artfully blends unpredictable conversation, live music, and original comedy featuring all types of cultural talent and creative minds, from emerging artists to established acts. Join...
FRINOV 13
7:00 PM ¡ Doors 6:00 PM
💰 $54+Talks & LecturesStand-Up

Don Lemon & DL Hughley: DL + DL 'Anything Goes'

What do you get when Don Lemon, award-winning journalist, and DL Hughley, one of the original Kings of Comedy, and highly recognized stand-up comedians come together for a night of conversation?

Expect the unexpected from these two brilliant minds doing their public service while taking you on a journey exploring topics spanning everything from social issues, race, pop-culture and current events. Nothing is off limits!

What do you get when Don Lemon, award-winning journalist, and DL Hughley, one of the original Kings of Comedy, and highly recognized stand-up comedians come together for a night of conversation? Expect the unexpected from these two brilliant minds doing their public service while taking you on a journey exploring topics spanning everything from social issues, race, pop-culture and current events. Nothing is off limits!

Multi-day events

SUNNOV 22
7:30 PM – 9:30 PM
💰 $10+Stand-UpImprovVarietyLGBTQ+Talks & LecturesCultural Heritage

Be Gay Do Crime: LGBT Storytelling

Cited by The Portland Mercury as "One of the funniest (and most educational) comedy shows in town": Comedy, queer history, and dangerously delightful shenanigans collide at Be Gay Do Crime. July features a Know Your Rights presentation by...
FRINOV 6
6:00 PM – 7:30 PM
Town HallsTalks & Lectures

Rental Ripoff Town Hall events: District 1 with Candace Avalos and Jamie Dunphy

Portland, OR
Public event for renters to discuss housing conditions, affordability, landlord accountability, and what needs to change to better protect Portlanders in their homes. Location details for each event to be announced soon. District 2: Wednesday,...
SATNOV 7
6:00 PM
MusicTalks & LecturesWomen & Non-BinaryVarietyStand-Up

Aspire

Warren Community FellowshipMap
An uplifting evening designed for women brings together humor, teaching, personal stories, and live music at Warren Community Fellowship. Three featured guests share the stage: author and speaker Barb Roose, comedian Michelle Miller, and singer...
THUNOV 5
7:00 PM – 9:30 PM · Doors 6:30 PM
💰 $15+MuseumsPoetryAuthor TalksLive Podcasts & RadioVarietyStand-UpHip-HopTalks & Lectures

Live Wire x Portland Art Museum: Dessa, Mac Barnett, Ed Park, and Mx. Dahlia Belle

Live Wire joins forces with the Portland Art Museum for an afternoon of roving performances ahead of an evening recording of the program. The event coincides with PAM’s monthly Free First Thursday and the Portland Book Festival’s expanded...
THUNOV 12
10:00 AM – 12:00 PM
Talks & LecturesArts & Media

Mindy Seu

Join us for our first Matthias Kemeny Design Lecture Series event in the new Art Building as we welcome Mindy Seu, our first speaker of the season.

Mindy Seu (b. 1991, California) is an artist and technologist based in Los Angeles and New York City whose practice focuses on technology-driven performance and publication. A SEXUAL HISTORY OF THE INTERNET (2025) follows her first book CYBERFEMINISM INDEX (2023), a pseudo-encyclopedia that gathers three decades of online activism and net art, which Rhizome commissioned, premiered at the New Museum, and was awarded a Graham Foundation Grant. Mindy is currently teaching as an Associate Professor at the University of California, Los Angeles, in the Department of Design Media Arts.

Instagram: @mindyseu

The Matthias Kemeny Design Lecture Series is coordinated and managed by students in our A+D Projects class. This series brings internationally celebrated design professionals annually to Portland to give a lecture for the benefit of the students and faculty in the Graphic Design program and the broader design community. This series is free and open to the public and highlights a wide range of design practices in an attempt to facilitate a community-wide dialogue about design and related fields. The Matthias D. Kemeny Charitable Fund of the Oregon Jewish Community Foundation has made the series possible.

Organized by Portland State University Graphic Design

THUNOV 5
5:30 PM – 6:30 PM
Talks & LecturesPoetryAuthor Talks

HYBRID: Brian Doyle Celebration and Book Release

Join Mary Miller Doyle and friends for a presentation of Wonder Is a Lovely Place to Be: 365 Days of Wit, Wisdom, and Irrepressible Imagination by Brian Doyle and Mary Miller Doyle. Drawing from both beloved and previously unpublished Brian Doyle...
SATNOV 7
11:45 AM – 12:45 PM
Author TalksTalks & Lectures

Second Chances: Deesha Philyaw & Rainbow Rowell

Deesha Philyaw joins Rainbow Rowell for a discussion on the perils of perception and the allure of a second chance. Both authors deliver humorous and rich stories of women faced with crumbling reputations and the opportunity to find freedom in...

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