Alberta Rose Theatre

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Winterfolk 2027 is proud to present Craig Carothers, $35/advance/ $45 at the door. Craig Carothers lived in Portland before it was hip and moved to Nashville before it was ready for prime time. He’s always been a little ahead of the curve and an old school kind of cool. His music is heartbreakingly beautiful and scathingly funny, delivered with a lively deadpan smile and a voice that’s downright swoony. With SPECIAL GUESTS: Deft, heart-on-their sleeves performing songwriters Kristen Grainger & Dan Wetzel of True North. Winterfolk founder, River City Folk radio show host, and celebrated folk artist Tom May Multi-instrumentalist duo The Horsenecks (Gabrielle Macrae and Barry Southern) – Old Time tunes with powerful modern sensibilities. Soul-stirring singer-songwriter, recording artist, audio engineer and multi-instrumentalist Clara Baker. Winterfolk wouldn‘t be Winterfolk without the luminous poetry of Kim Stafford, Oregon Poet Laureate Emeritus. Want to add a donation to your ticket price? You can do it at checkout. Every dollar raised at the door goes to Transition Projects.

Together, Oregon and Washington reveal over 300 million years of Earth’s history. Our rocks record a tumultuous continent of ever shifting coastlines, rising and falling volcanoes, and dramatic swings in climate. Amid these rocks we see a fragile planet hit by several profound extinction events, including Earth’s largest. However, we also see a resilient planet as witnessed in the Pacific Northwest’s incredible fossil record. Indeed, life finds a way.To write her second guidebook, A Rockhound’s Guide to Oregon & Washington, author Alison Jean Cole drove over 16,000 zig-zagging miles to uncover the the best of our geologies underfoot. She’ll share several of her favorite rock and fossil hunting locations, including:

The opportunities to find unusual and beautiful rocks abound. Join Cole on an exploration of the PNW’s most unusual geologies and rock collecting sites. Alison Jean Cole is an author, artist, advocate, and outfitter guide. Her work all centers around the geological world, whether writing books, guiding rockhounding expeditions, cutting stones, or doing advocacy work to protect our public lands. Follow her on Instagram @alisonjeancole.

Join us for a conversation about trust, faith, and beauty with Christian Wiman. In his poems and essays, Wiman explores religious and secular belief, hope and despair, sickness and memory. In all that he writes and does, Wiman asks what we can count on or believe in as we aim to live lives full of meaning and connection.

The conversation will take place at the Alberta Rose Theatre in Portland (3000 SE Alberta St.) at 7:00 p.m. on Tuesday, April 6, 2027. The event is part of our 2026–27 Consider This series, What Do We Trust?

Christian Wiman is the author, editor, or translator of fourteen books, including Zero at the Bone: Fifty Entries Against Despair, Hammer is the Prayer: Selected Poems, My Bright Abyss: Meditation of a Modern Believer, and Stolen Air: Selected Poems of Osip Mandelstam. Currently a professor at Yale Divinity School, Wiman has taught at Stanford University, Northwestern University, and Lynchburg College. From 2003 until 2013 he was the editor of Poetry magazine, the premiere magazine for poetry in the English-speaking world. For the magazine’s centennial year, Wiman edited, with Don Share, The Open Door: One Hundred Poems, One Hundred Years of Poetry Magazine. He has written for the New Yorker, Harper’s, the New York Times Book Review, the Atlantic, and numerous other publications. He is a former Guggenheim Fellow and holds two honorary doctorates. His particular interests include modern poetry, the language of faith, “accidental” theology (that is, theology conducted by unexpected means), and what it means to be a Christian intellectual in a secular culture. Raised in West Texas, he now lives in New Haven, Connecticut.

Tickets are $15 at albertarosetheatre.com.

To ensure that everyone who wants to attend is able to, a limited number of tickets are available for free. Use this form to request a free ticket.

Can't make it in person? Tune in from anywhere! The conversation will be streamed live, for free, on our YouTube channel, and will remain available for viewing after the program.

Mobility access: The Alberta Rose Theatre is a wheelchair-accessible venue. Anyone who uses a wheelchair or other mobility device can reserve an accessible seat at the venue by emailing [email protected] in advance of the event. Accessible bathrooms are to the right of the theater entrance.

Parking: Free parking is available in the neighborhood around the theater. Parking spaces often fill up quickly. There is one disabled person parking space less than one block away on NE 30th Ave., in front of Emmanuel Church of God in Christ United, but the space does not have a curb cut or ramp. The closest disabled person parking space with curb cuts is four blocks west, at the southwest corner of Northeast 26th Avenue and Northeast Alberta Street. A map of disabled person parking spaces is available from the Portland Bureau of Transportation.

Public transit: The TriMet Line 72 bus stops in front of the theater. Lines 70 and 17 have stops within four blocks of the venue.

Food and drink: Beverages and limited food are available for purchase and may be consumed anywhere in the theater during the event. Outside food and beverages are not permitted.

Lighting: The venue has appropriate overhead lighting before and after the conversation. During the conversation, lights are dimmed with staged lighting facing the stage. Lights in the lobby/bar remain on during the program. The auditorium does not have floor lighting in the aisles.

Sound: There will be music at a moderate volume before and after the event.

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If you need accommodations to participate in this event, please email [email protected] by September 15.

Consider This is made possible by funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH), the Oregon Cultural Trust.

Minors ok when accompanied by a parent or guardian

Amoebas have a LOT more to teach us than what we remember from high school science. Come hear surprising stories of how amoebas:

Author Nik Money explains how white blood cells and metastatic cancer cells behave like amoebas, curing and causing a range of illnesses, and how research using artificial amoebas has profound implications for AI, robotics, and bioengineering.

From its graceful movements to its astounding problem-solving skills, the amoeba is the perfect guide to the business of being alive on Earth.

Nicholas Money is a mycologist and professor at Miami University in Oxford, Ohio. Get 15% off the book and your ticket when you buy them together!