Performing Arts❯Variety

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...

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...

Free! Weekly OPEN MIC for all ages and all formats. Youth musicians are encouraged to attend! Musicians, vocalists, comedians, poetry, spoken word, full bands, storytellers, and more! Join us for the B-Side Records & Vintage Open Mic at 6:30pm on...

Halls C, D, E — The Oddities & Curiosities Expo is the largest internationally traveling oddities and subculture event in the world. A space showcasing hand selected vendors, artists and small businesses with all things weird. You'll find items such as taxidermy, preserved specimens, original artwork, horror and Halloween inspired pieces, antiques, handcrafted oddities, creepy clothing, odd jewelry, animal skulls

Gather your War Boys, roll out your Tank (Girl), and set sail for Dryland this Thanksgiving weekend with "Water and Power: A Night Carnival of Climate Apocalypse". Shake off your turkey-induced lethargy and slake your hunger for performance...

Set sail to Maybeland this holiday season with Cinnamon Bear and friends aboard the Portland Spirit! Since 2005, this beloved holiday tradition has delighted families with loads of festive fun on the Willamette River. The whole family will enjoy...

Our bodies may be sick. Our lives are not over. Our stories deserve to be seen. SICK: A Year in Our Bodies is a fundraising showcase centering Portland-area sex workers living with chronic illness and disability—and the ways we have learned to survive in a world that wasn’t built in our favor. For many disabled and chronically ill people, traditional employment demands something our bodies cannot always promise: the same energy every day, rigid schedules, eight-hour shifts, limited rest, and the ability to simply push through. Sex work can offer something different—the ability to build work around our bodies instead of constantly punishing our bodies to fit the expectations of work. We are dancers. Performers. Artists. Providers. Mothers. Hustlers. Creators. Disabled people. Chronically ill people. Survivors. This night brings our community together for performances, vendors, entertainment, and unapologetic visibility while raising funds for Rose and Pistolita to create SICK: A Year in Our Bodies—a calendar featuring 12 iconic Portland-area sex workers living with chronic conditions. Each month will put a real body and a real story behind invisible illness. Not as tragedy. Not as inspiration porn. Not as bodies to pity. As bodies that adapted. Bodies that worked. Bodies that survived. Bodies that are still fucking here. This project is about what survival actually looks like when your body refuses to cooperate with the rules of an able-bodied world. It is about the ingenuity of people who found another way when conventional systems failed them. And it is about refusing the shame that so often surrounds both disability and sex work. We are taking the bodies society tells us to hide—and putting them on the fucking calendar. Twelve workers. Twelve bodies. Twelve stories of adaptation, resistance, sexuality, illness, labor and survival. Come celebrate the people who learned how to make a living on their own terms. Come support chronically ill and disabled sex workers telling their own stories. Sick people are strong people. Disabled bodies are worthy bodies. Sex workers are workers. And survival deserves to be seen.

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...