Art Music Film/Theater Community Wed, Nov. 16 The Art of Traditional Hebrew Scribing The Eastside Jewish Commons 7 p.m. $500 Learn the basics of Hebrew scribing in this weekly…
Find it at 5th: Mysterious Object at Noon
This week at Portland State’s 5th Avenue Cinema—Portland’s only student-run theater—our film curators have chosen to screen an experimental documentary by Apichatpong Weerasethakul titled Mysterious Object at Noon. The…
Wyrd War gallery presents the marginalized art of William Mortensen
Both consciously and subconsciously, humans tend to shy away from the unknown. To address our discomfort at its existence, we often arbitrarily assign meaning and ignore the things that continually…
Events Calendar November 9-15, 2022
Art Music Film/Theater Community Wed, Nov. 9 Portland Bridge Bottle & Bottega 6 p.m. $47 Learn how to paint a Portland bridge with instruction from an artist Mother Mother…
Find it at 5th: In the Mirror of Maya Deren
This weekend at Portland State’s 5th Avenue Cinema—Portland’s only student-run theater—PSU students and the general public can catch a screening of In the Mirror of Maya Deren, a documentary about…
The Haus of Luna returns better than ever
Imagine a house straight out of a dreamscape. It’s seemingly commonplace and yet vaguely uncanny. The clocks are indiscernible, the mirrors are windows and familiar photographs appear distorted. The closer…
Find it at 5th: Decasia
This week at Portland State’s 5th Avenue Cinema—Portland’s only student-run theater—our film curators have chosen to screen an experimental film titled Decasia. The 2002 movie is a combination of…
The BookFest and Beyond
Last year, Literary Arts welcomed over 3,000 people to its annual Portland BookFest (PFB). With events split between virtual panels and live discussions, the local nonprofit found its footing in…
Events Calendar Nov. 2–8
Art Music Film/Theater Community Wed, Nov. 2 Celebration of the Chrysanthemum Lan Su Chinese Garden 10 a.m. $11+ The history of the chrysanthemum is honored through presentations on Chinese…
Die Plage Mural by Harley Gaber. Courtesy of Oregon Jewish Museum and Center for Holocaust Education
Harley Gaber’s Die Plage showcases for the first time in 20 years
Post-World War II, the United States has made a point to educate its citizenry about the egregious violence that was the Holocaust. First-hand accounts of Nazi brutality appear in the…
Find it at 5th: Raw
This weekend at Portland State’s 5th Avenue Cinema—Portland’s only student-run theater—our film curators have chosen to screen Raw, a modern French horror movie. Raw is a film from 2016…