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THUNOV 5
10:00 AM – 7:00 PM
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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...
THUNOV 5
7:00 PM – 9:30 PM · Doors 6:30 PM
💰 $15+MuseumsReadingsPoetryAuthor 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...
SATNOV 7
10:00 AM – 6:00 PM
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Portland Book Festival at PAM
BOOK FEST IS SOLD OUT. For more than a decade, Portland Art Museum has been proud to partner with Literary Arts and serve as a home base for the Portland Book Festival, bringing thousands of writers, readers, and book lovers downtown for one of the city’s biggest literary celebrations. Festival activity fills the PAM campus and Cultural District throughout the day, making it an especially lively time to visit. How does PAM ticketing work on Portland Book Festival Day? With regular Museum...
SATNOV 7
12:00 PM
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Crescendo - Portland Book Festival
Anthea Kreston presents a reading from her new memoir Crescendo: Chronicles of an Adventurous Violinist in the Prints & Drawings gallery (Level 0, Room 007) of the Portland Art Museum. This will be followed by a book signing at The Shop at PAM. Literary Arts is pleased to present Portland Book Festival, the largest book festival in the Pacific Northwest returns in collaboration with some of Portland’s most influential voices in arts and culture. Literature, music, visual art, and culinary experiences collide for a multi-day celebration centered around books, storytelling, and the many ways stories bring us together. Link to Crescendo: https://a.co/d/0aDxp6EO
SUNNOV 8
2:00 PM – 3:30 PM
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Mary Oliver: Saved by the Beauty of the World (2026)
Mary Oliver: Saved by the Beauty of the World (2026) Directed by Sasha Waters Freyer. 1hr 31min. Not Rated. If poetry had a pop icon, Mary Oliver would be it. Best-selling poet and Pulitzer Prize-winner, lover of dogs and long walks in the woods, queer and out but intensely private—Oliver’s poems inspire liberals and conservatives, atheists and believers, naturalists and urbanites. She was America’s unlikely, contemporary mystic, stalking the ponds and forests of Cape Cod for nearly fifty...