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2015–2016 • VOLUME 5

OREGON BALLET THEATRE’S XUAN CHENG

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ORIGIN STORIES

How do arts organizations begin?

Sometimes with one brilliant vision and sometimes from a random series of events.

A few local luminaries share their starting-out stories.

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PORTLANDIA TURNS 30

Portlandia—the statue, not the show—turns 30 this year! Relive her epic journey down the river and up the streets of Portland to her current perch.

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Hey, Portlanders. It’s okay to get fancy for a show! Use our primer to help button up.

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A New Scene: Eugene

IN EVERY ISSUE 10 From the Publisher 13 From the Ambassadors 17 Contributors 74 From the Desk of 136 Venues 146 #Artslandia

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Collage created by artist Whitney Nye with both found and made paper from her own collection. The imagery of the 5, which celebrates Artslandia’s fifth issue, represents Portland and Nye’s nostalgia for the town that is rapidly changing before our eyes. The background image is Nye’s Galaxy Guys ©2009.

BodyVox....................................................... 80 Classical Ballet Academy............................82 Jefferson Dancers....................................... 84 MOXIE Contemporary Ballet.................. 86 NW Dance Project..................................... 88 Northwest Dance Theatre......................... 89 Oregon Ballet Theatre................................ 90 The Portland Ballet......................................92 White Bird.....................................................95

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45th Parallel................................................... 39 Cappella Romana........................................ 40 fEARnoMUSIC........................................... 42 Friends of Chamber Music......................... 43 The Julians.....................................................44 Metropolitan Youth Symphony.................. 45 Oregon Symphony......................................46 Pacific Youth Choir...................................... 47 PHAME........................................................48 Portland Baroque Orchestra..................... 50 Portland Columbia Symphony Orch......... 52 Portland Gay Men’s Chorus....................... 54 PDX Jazz....................................................... 56 Portland Opera............................................ 58 Portland Piano International....................... 59 Portland Revels........................................... 60 Portland Symphonic Girlchoir..................... 61 Portland Youth Philharmonic...................... 62 Resonance Ensemble.................................. 63 Third Angle New Music...............................64 Walters Cultural Arts Center..................... 67

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Artists Repertory Theatre......................... 104 Bag&Baggage..............................................106 Boom Arts...................................................108 Broadway in Portland..................................109 Broadway Rose Theatre Company........... 110 CoHo Productions.......................................111 Imago Theatre............................................. 112 Lakewood Theatre Company..................... 113 Literary Arts................................................. 114 Milagro......................................................... 115 Northwest Film Center.............................. 116 Northwest Children’s Theater................... 118 Oregon Children's Theatre........................120 Oregon Shakespeare Festival.................... 122 Portland Center Stage............................... 124 Portland Playhouse..................................... 126 Portland Story Theater............................... 128 Post5 Theatre..............................................130 Profile Theatre............................................. 131 Stumptown Stages...................................... 132 triangle productions!................................... 134

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FROM THE PUBLISHER t the top of Mount Tabor, stands an impressive statue of Harvey W. Scott—a publisher, an editor, and an innovator, 1838-1910, as the plaque on the statue suggests. As an influential Portland newspaperman, he was by most accounts on the wrong side of history on many social issues. Yet the grand bronze monument stares daily at cyclists, hikers, and picnickers from his lofty perch. If they stopped and inquired, as I did when I first encountered this fellow publisher, they might learn that this anti-women’s-rights leader was the brother of Abigail Scott Duniway, Portland’s most celebrated suffragette, who was also the editor of an opposing newspaper of the time. They might also learn that this obscure statue was sculpted by Gutzon Borglum. Borglum would frequently journey from South Dakota to Portland to work on this statue while on break from construction of his most famous sculpture, Mount Rushmore.

THIS IS WHAT I LOVE ABOUT PUBLIC ART. It isn’t the finished piece that inspires me, but more the history and the journey of that piece. The real beauty is in that discovery.

But it’s not all history: public art can also project into the future. In the 2015–2016 issue of Artslandia, we transform this city’s public art into the performance stage. We’ve asked performing arts groups to identify a public art piece or iconic Portland space that represents their organization’s mission or their upcoming season. The result is a gallery of compelling photos taken all over the city that highlight the best characteristic of Portland—the ART—both performance and visual. Thank you to the arts groups who embraced this concept for inspiring me with these amazing photos of art complementing art! Thank you to NashCO Photography for their brilliant talent and tireless effort to get that perfect shot.

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This issue also celebrates anniversaries and origins. We celebrate our fifth anniversary as Portland’s performing arts magazine. We celebrate the 40th anniversary of Oregon’s Percent for Art legislation and all of the public art acquired because of its passage in 1975. We celebrate visionaries who shaped the cultural landscape of Portland’s performing arts scene. Thank you to Jeremy Okai Davis for his vibrant paintings of these engaging personalities. Finally, we celebrate the 30th birthday of Portland’s most iconic statue, Portlandia, reviving the fascinating story of her arrival to our city.

For Portlanders, public art is so ubiquitous it often goes unnoticed. We walk by amazing works of art each and every busy day. We bustle by, too busy to notice that sculpture, that fountain, or that carving. For me, this Performing Arts Annual has been a wonderful opportunity to take a closer look at the art and the history of the art around this amazing city, and to connect that public art to our cherished performing arts.

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World War II A World at War, A State Transformed

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CONGRATULATIONS ARTSLANDIA! Five years strong and running full tilt—which proves arts and culture are central to Portland’s very identity. This issue [of Artslandia’s Performing Arts Annual] is fat! The arts are growing, and this chunk you’re holding in your hands is a testament to that.

It’s fair to say that Portland is defined by the ideas that course through the veins of its people at any given moment—ideas that drive and reflect what’s arguably the most interesting city in America. Call it the “pioneer spirit” if you must, but there’s a DIY mentality in Portland that empowers all of us to create the stuff of dreams.

Art, beer, shoes, fashion, music, dance, sports, literature, medicine, food, hi-tech, lo-fi, startup, merger, spinoff, and on and on. We’re a city that goes to sleep at night and wakes up somehow different the next day, every day. Portlanders are not only interesting...we’re interested, as well.

We’re eager to know what we’re doing, how we’re doing. We all have something at stake in this big experiment we’re living.

Portland is a city of tradition and origins. When we started BodyVox 18 years ago, we knew there was already a rich history of dance in town. Yet we also knew that what we were doing hadn’t been done before and that it could be done, here, in this place. We sensed there would be an audience; there would be interest; we could create community and be a part of something.

We started with a revolutionary Carmina Burana complete with a six-foot boa constrictor,

a bucket of red apples, drunken monks, and the cycle of life, death, and rebirth: the Garden of Eden personified. The motifs were familiar, yet fresh.

All art is public at one point or another. One chilly December day, we made a movie in the central Oregon desert under four aerial cranes that swooped in a mechanical ballet high above the desert floor. Later, a friend told us she watched the whole event from her kitchen a mile away, blasting Copland’s Appalachian Spring. We’ve danced in the Zoo, the Arboretum, the Museum, Rose Garden, Starlight Parade, Vigor, PNCA, RACC, PGE, Nike…you name it. In Portland, we have a special place in our hearts for public art.

It probably started in the ‘70s with Bud Clark’s famous “Expose Yourself to Art” poster. Today, art springs up in public places unannounced, and it’s not mellow. It’s more often a challenge, a throwdown, a bar to jump over. We take art on its own terms, and if we don’t like the terms, we change them. No apologies. Even the story of our sculpture Portlandia is still an unfinished saga...

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In Portland, BodyVox found fertile ground: We could share our art and be a feather in the wings of the beautiful bird that Portland has become.

For 18 years, we’ve seen that the only limitation is imagination. If you can dream it, see it, feel it, you can do it. Here. In this place.

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I N T HE B EG I N N I NG . . .

Before the curtain ever rose, before the music filled the air, before a fully formed arts group emerged from clouds of ether and stacks of paper... there was a need, a niche, a vision, or a calling. Somebody sat up in bed and said, “You know what this community could use?” or “You know what kind of art I want to make?” or even just, “You know what would be fun?”

Or perhaps a Big Bang flash, a spontaneous event, unleashed a slew of bright luminaries into a field of expanding scope and span.

Gradually, a pattern emerges, a slow alignment of stars, until a lifetime of experiences finally forms a complete constellation.

The dreamers and visionaries at the center of our cultural life have lessons to teach us and stories to share. Ask them, and they’ll light right up! Listen carefully, and they’ll connect some far-flung dots.

BY A.L. ADAMS. PAINTINGS BY JEREMY OKAI DAVIS. There's more to the story! Visit www.artslandia.com to read full interviews.

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OREGON BALLET THEATRE

1989

James Canfield, founder and artistic director 1989–2003 James Canfield says he’s a visual person.

His arm is tattooed with an outline of each state he’s lived in, and as he talks about Oregon Ballet Theatre’s beginnings, he writes out the parties who participated on a freehand chart. Names of presenters, directors, dance companies, and corporate sponsors play across the page as he explains their various—and somewhat volatile— roles. It’s complicated.

Before Oregon Ballet Theatre’s time, says Canfield, there were two ballet companies in Portland: Pacific Ballet Theatre (PBT) and Ballet Oregon. Pacific Ballet had ties to Portland General Electric and put on The Nutcracker each year. Ballet Oregon had Union Pacific in its corner, had innovated a Ballet to Basketball educational series, and used the services of presenters Celebrity Attractions, who booked for the Civic Auditorium (now Keller) at the time. As he describes it, the two companies had a “Hatfield and McCoy” rivalry.

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JAMES CANFIELD, CONTINUED

Canfield’s role in the showdown began when he and dance partner Patricia Miller, both from New York’s Joffrey Ballet, were invited by a New York contact to come perform in Portland.

PBT presented them, and Celebrity Attractions—who repped Ballet Oregon—wasn't pleased; they’d called dibs on Joffrey acts.

“As you can see,” says Canfield,“I was controversial from the moment I got here.

I didn’t pick a side, but a side was picked for me.”

In 1985, Canfield joined PBT, but Portland’s days of double ballet companies were numbered. The Meyer Memorial Trust and others were pushing for a merger. “There weren’t two opera companies; there weren’t two symphonies; but there were these two ballet companies.

Basically, we got to a point where the commissioners shut their doors and said, ‘Come back to us when there’s one ballet company!’ And the city was right.”

PORTLAND FESTIVAL SYMPHONY

& METROPOLITAN YOUTH SYMPHONY Lajos Balogh, founder and conductor for MYS through 2012, PFS to present

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"WE GOT TO A POINT WHERE THE COMMISSIONERS SHUT THEIR DOORS AND SAID, ‘COME BACK TO US WHEN THERE’S ONE BALLET COMPANY!’ AND THE CITY WAS RIGHT." In 1989, a committee formed to consolidate the two groups into Oregon Ballet Theatre (OBT), divvying up the plum roles between both sides. Canfield emerged as artistic director, while Ballet Oregon's A.D. Dennis Spaight stayed on as associate A.D./resident choreographer. The new company moved into a former Masonic Temple in the South Park Blocks.

Under Canfield’s leadership and now under one roof, OBT began to flourish. They staged edgy new works like Revenge Letters, a collaboration with Portland rock band Carmina Piranha; reinvented classics like Romeo & Juliet; and took ballet to the streets—literally— by starting OBT Exposed, an ongoing outdoor summer ballet showcase. OBT’s education program even won a million-dollar grant from the city. Shortly thereafter in 2003, Canfield’s path diverged from OBT in a series of events that are still debated—but for his own part, he’s made peace. “It became bigger than me, and that’s it.”

Christopher Stowell succeeded Canfield, and now, as OBT turns 25, Artistic Director Kevin Irving is at the helm. Canfield, now artistic director of Nevada Ballet Theatre, looks forward to remounting his Romeo & Juliet with OBT this year, adding that he’s glad to see how Portland’s dance community has grown. .

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What if playing in the symphony was as popular as playing soccer? It’s a scenario Lajos Balogh—who’s done plenty of both— likes to imagine. Apparel companies would design new uniforms and sponsor groups.

The youth would be encouraged to play.

America would catch Europe’s fervor. There’d be energy. Profit. Careers!

“My vision and wish would be to have national and international youth orchestra festivals every two years.”

Balogh, a charismatic Hungarian who came to Oregon in 1967, has made it his mission ever since to expand Portland’s orchestral opportunities and bring symphony within reach of children and the public. When he founded Metropolitan Youth Symphony (MYS) in 1974, Portland Youth Philharmonic (PYP)—the oldest youth symphony in the nation—already had a 50-year head start. “While PYP offered fine opportunities for the most aspiring music students,” Balogh explains, “there was no outlet for many beginner students hungry for orchestra music.”

Sensing the same hunger in the general public, Balogh later started Portland Festival Symphony and began conducting summer orchestra concerts in Portland’s parks, which he’s continued for 34 summers and counting.

By the ‘90s, after “years of trying to convince the board,” Balogh was able to get MYS touring the world. “In 1990 we visited Mozart, Beethoven, and Strauss [historical] sites in Salzburg and Vienna, playing their music where they composed it. The tour inspired the parents so much that we continued our musical journeys: Germany, Japan, Italy, British Isles, Scandinavia, St. Petersburg, Czech Republic, Italy, China, and Poland.”

Balogh retired from Metropolitan Youth Symphony in 2012, and now divides his time between the Marylhurst Youth Symphony and the Portland Festival Symphony. Though he’s brought many of his musical dreams to life, one lingers: “My vision and wish would be to have national and international youth orchestra festivals every two years.” .

IMAGO THEATRE “Even if you’re standing still, there’s something moving inside you to make you alive.” This is the kind of metaphysical insight Carol Triffle and Jerry Mouawad were exploring when they met as students of mask and movement.

Late ‘70s Portland was a hotbed for an otherwiserare breed of thespian Triffle calls “mask maniacs.” TheatrElan—a movement school incorporating ballet, mime, and mask-making—had churned 30-odd devotees through a training program, then spirited out of town, leaving a void. “No one else was doing anything like it in the U.S.,” notes Mouawad. “In Europe, yes.”

Mouawad and Triffle met in TheatrElan’s ballet class in 1979, and soon after, they had a second chance meeting in New York. “I was standing in line for a play in Central Park,” says Triffle, “and Jerry walked by!”

From the jump, this freak reunion progressed swiftly into a partnership. Mouawad and Triffle began crafting 5–10 minute short-form vignettes using masks, and Mouawad and some fellow Elan grads gravitated into working with Tears

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If I preconceive a vision, the vision will change in the process."

Jerry Mouawad and Carol Triffle, founders and artistic directors 1982–present

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of Joy, a local puppet theater company. Around 1980, Tears of Joy added a touring “Masque Co.” that put Mouawad and friends on the road.

Mouawad stayed on the road as Triffle traveled to Paris for further training under movement master Jacques Lecoq.

Triffle admits The Masque Co. was messy: “They were making routines up in gas stations,” she confesses. By 1982, Tears of Joy handed Masque Co. off to Triffle and Mouawad, who continued touring the route Tears of Joy had booked. They re-dubbed the project “Imago,” meaning “image” and “mature insect.”

By ‘89, both creators sought a break from Frogz’ now-popular antics with leapfrog and penguin suits. They let it hop along its merry touring circuit without them as they searched for a local base. In 1992, they secured the Imago Theatre building on the central eastside. They began to stage classics and adaptations from Pinter to Sartre, and developed new original works—from Triffle’s edgy “anti-theater” pieces, to Mouawad’s “operas without words,” to Big Little Things, another Frogz sequel of sorts.

Ever since they met, Triffle and Mouawad had been developing a set of pet vignettes in which they imitated various objects and creatures: frogs, lizards, orbs, and slinkies. As they broke away from Tears of Joy, they threw themselves into refining these performances into a silly-yetsuspenseful show.

“By 1985, ‘Frogz’ was touring half the country; in ‘86 we began touring internationally, and a New York Times rave put us in the national limelight,” Mouawad explains. Frogz follow-up ZooZoo reached Broadway. It grew from three people to five and started making decent money.

Now that Frogz has retired at 35 years old, it seems Imago is both moving and standing still.

ZooZoo continues to tour, an eastside arts district has bloomed around the theater, and Triffle and Mouawad continue to trade off directing shows that suit their ever-evolving muse. Says Mouawad, “Life to me has never been a+b=c. If I preconceive a vision, the vision will change in the process.” .

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Quite a thrill.”

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A community theater was tanking, and its children's program, though funded, was about to go out with the bathwater. Who would save the baby?

Sondra Pearlman, a Master of Public Administration from Portland State University, found herself between gigs in the late ‘80s after years of working for nonprofits. She’d spent 1980–85 with family counseling charity The Morrison Center, and before that she’d worked for the fire

department. Ever since moving to Portland in 1975, she and her theater technician husband had longed to see more plays in town, but settled instead for subscriptions to Seattle Rep and regular train trips north. To their chagrin, in 1988 they learned that Portland Civic Theatre (PCT), one of the few local playhouses, was approaching bankruptcy. Its last gasp was a successful grant to save its youth program, but then what?

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The seed of a big idea drifted in from Milwaukee, Wisconsin, and Pearlman decided to try to plant it in Portland. Wisconsin’s Great American Children’s Theatre (GATC) was basically selling in bulk—staging professional plays in huge venues for a low per-ticket price. GACT’s then-Artistic Director Teri Mitze, a contact of Pearlman’s, approached her with a plan for Portland: They’d bring one big Wisconsin show to Portland each year, and Pearlman would produce one other show in-house. They’d advertise by direct-mailing show posters to Oregon teachers’ addresses they got straight from the state Department of Education records. Pearlman pitched the plan to a desperate PCT, and they said yes and put her in charge.

What had worked in Milwaukee also flourished in Portland. Soon the Keller (then called the Civic Auditorium) was filling 3,000 seats per show! From Longview, Salem, the coast, and the Gorge, students were bussed in to see plays.“We’d have students coming in from places like Troutdale, and their teachers would say, ‘My kids have never been downtown.’”

In 1990, the company was renamed Oregon Children’s Theatre, and gradually expanded over the years from a staff of three to the current 25. From two shows a year, OCT ramped up to a full season of plays, plus a bevy of educational programs. But as the company added variety to its repertoire and more shows to its season, it made sense to move from the grand, gigantic Keller into smaller venues like Portland’5’s Newmark and Winningstad Theatre.

Pearlman retired in 2004, leaving her role as artistic director to longtime colleague Stan Foote. Though she regularly takes her grandkids to OCT shows and admits that intimate staging helps kids focus, she still misses the rush of a really big room. “I loved just standing in the theater and watching 3,000 kids react, laugh, clap...It was quite a thrill! Quite a thrill.” .

“The very best of anything is often quite expensive.”

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Founded 1971 by Sergiu Luca. David Shifrin, artistic director, chairman, performer 1978–present

Did you know Brahms only wrote four symphonies? It’s a point David Shifrin likes to bring up when he sings the praises of Chamber Music Northwest (CMNW). Like most of the great classical composers, Brahms penned dozens more pieces for chamber groups than for large orchestras—so if you want to play Brahms (or many others), using fewer instruments actually gives you more options.

Shifrin, a Yale music professor, has been summering in Portland since the ‘70s, and was appointed artistic director of CMNW in 1978, taking over the chair from founder Sergiu Luca.

He’s always thought chamber music suited the city: “Portland is a manageable city,” he says—and chamber concerts are manageable shows. He also knows Portlanders have high standards for what they consume, and that “The very best of anything is often quite expensive.” Hence, he reasons, bringing world-class musicians to Portland in small groups makes all kinds of sense; financial, logistical, and aesthetic. Or at least it has so far.

Shifrin admits that Portland’s sudden, rapid growth is pushing the city to the edge of “manageable” scale—but no matter; over its amazing 45-year run, CMNW has proven its ability to adapt. The list of academic partners over the years reads like a game of musical chairs: Starting at PSU, they added Reed and Lewis & Clark in the mid-‘70s. In ‘78, they vacated PSU for Reed during a Lincoln Hall renovation, then split their time between both in ‘83–‘84. From ‘85–2012, they were at Reed and Catlin Gabel, and in ‘96–‘97, they vacated Reed for its renovation of Kaul Auditorium and performed exclusively at Catlin Gabel. In 2013, they left Catlin Gabel for Reed and PSU. Phew.

Academic affiliates may come and go, and the city may grow, but CMNW knows classical music is forever. And the smaller the orchestra, the more you can do! .

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PORTLAND’5 How do you tie a cluster of Portland theaters together as one?

In 1987, high wire artist Philipe Petit tried it, walking a “symbolic” tightrope between two theater roofs to herald the grand opening of the Portland Center for the Performing Arts (PCPA). As 20,000 Portlanders marveled at a newly-built multitheater complex and the freshly remodeled Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall next door (formerly the Paramount Theatre), an eclectic mix of other performers also did their thing: Ballroom dancers swirled through the streets, Taiko drummers solemnly pounded rhythms, a doo-wop group broke into sweet harmonies.

For the public, this was a big beginning, but arts administrators like Jane Jarrett had already put in many years’ work tying up loose ends.

PCPA, now Portland’5, is a powerful partnership between the city of Portland and five major performing arts venues: Keller Auditorium, Winningstad Theatre, Newmark Theatre, Brunish Theatre, and Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall. Portland’5 now brings more than 1,000 performances to those stages each year. But obviously, that took a lot of doing.

In the ‘70s, Portland’s existing theater buildings were struggling. The longstanding but languishing Paramount was almost replaced by a parking garage until citizens rallied to declare it a historic landmark. By 1980, the city launched a $19 million general obligation bond campaign to swing the conversation the other way—from demolition to expansion.

Needing someone to sell the plan for a performing arts center to voters, the city asked: Could they borrow Oregon Symphony’s marketing director? The Symphony (which would later claim the Schnitzer as its home base) sent Jane Jarrett right over to

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Jane Jarrett, PR & Development Director 1981–1991

serve as the bond’s public information officer until the measure passed.

Once it did, the Performing Arts Center Committee (PACC) lured Jarrett into a longer-term position.

For the next six years, Jarrett would handle PR, plus a laundry list of other vital tasks that readied the arts center to open its doors. She remembers “recruiting and managing volunteers, fundraising, selling those lovely little Portland sign lapel pins, preparing major grant applications, and supporting the volunteer team connecting Portland’s philanthropic families to the project.” Those families’ names, by the way, may sound familiar: Schnitzer. Winningstad.

Brunish. Newmark. And Keller.

As the theaters were being bankrolled, the arts groups that would eventually use them were starting to call dibs. Jarrett worked with Civic Auditorium manager Pat Harrington and the Metropolitan Arts Commission (now the Regional Arts & Culture Council) to decide which companies would have priority use of which venues. Talk about a tightrope walk!

Almost 30 years after the Portland’5 venues opened to a city eager to fill them, Jarrett—now executive director at Architecture Foundation of Oregon—remains passionate about their value. “They nurtured a pent-up hunger for performing arts in Portland,” she says. “I hope they have the support they need going forward.” .

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Harold Gray, founder and artistic director 1978–2004 In 1977, Harold Gray left Illinois State University, “a great school with too many soybean and corn fields surrounding it,” and moved to Portland, “where all sorts of magical things can happen.”

The first one already had: Gray’s chamber group, The Florestan Trio, had won Portland State University’s first artists-in-residence post. With cohorts Carol Sindell (on violin) and Hamilton Cheifetz (on cello), Gray joined the PSU faculty, though he continued to think of the trio as his “real job” until retiring in 2004. Thrilled with his professorship and residency, Gray had been entertaining one more dream since his time in Illinois: to put on a series of piano concerts featuring other pro pianists besides himself.

“The logistics in central Illinois just didn’t work,” he sighs. But in Portland, sandwiched between Seattle and San Francisco, luring big talents into town for a pit stop seemed possible.

Gray got to it, planning a set of concerts dubbed The Portland State University Piano Series. “Very original, yes?” he jokes. But it was. At the time, few if any series in the U.S. featured only pianists. Now, Gray wryly notes, there are at least several. “Despite what the critics say, classical music is still alive for a while!”

The series rose as smoothly as a wellpaced arpeggio, buoyed by Friends of Chamber Music maven Nina Lowry from 1978–1981, then Pat Zagelow through to 2009. “There’ve only been a few people involved,” he notes, “all amazing talents and committed piano lovers!” The year 2005 saw a crescendo when the series outgrew Lincoln Hall and moved into the Newmark, split off from PSU, took the name Portland Piano International (PPI), and transformed into a nonprofit. Having confidently passed the baton to current director Arnaldo Cohen in 2012, Gray now reflects on the slow growth as a blessing. “It took a few years to build a sizable following,” he admits, but “PPI has made Portland ‘a piano town.’” .

”Despite what the critics say, classical music is still alive for a while!”

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JEFFERSON DANCERS 1976

Mary Folberg, founder and artistic director 1976-1993

You could say the Jefferson Dancers started out as Jets and Sharks.

Dancing corps roles to a live medley of West Side Story in their high school gym, the Jefferson High School dance students of 1976 shone so brightly that their teachers, Mary Folberg and Lowell Smith, were inspired. “The audience loved it!” says Folberg. “We got a lot of feedback that ‘You should take this seriously and form a company!’” Folberg agreed.

She’d already worked to get these students dancing at all; now it was time for the next level.

Folberg had moved to Portland in 1968 after teaching dance and English in Oakland, and had found—to her dismay—a lack of dance curriculum at Jefferson and other Oregon schools. Jefferson, meanwhile, had bigger problems: Already locked in a tug-of-war between Portland Public Schools and the NAACP over racial integration, Jefferson’s 25-percentBlack student body took news of Martin Luther King Jr.’s 1968 assassination so hard that the district threatened to close the school completely, citing “racial tensions.”

As the threat blew over, Folberg got the OK to introduce dance, but the program wasn’t embraced right away. “People said, ‘You’re teaching what?'” she recalls. No one who grew up in Oregon had seen dance offered in schools, except for maybe square dance in a PE class or something.”

Six years on, the aforementioned Jets and Sharks destroyed all doubt, and adding an elite pre-professional company proved easier than starting Jefferson’s dance program in the first place. Throughout the ‘80s, Jefferson Dancers grew in reach and legitimacy, staffing up to a dozen instructors and 15 musicians, touring, and enjoying increasing critical acclaim.

While many Jefferson Dancers went on to professional companies or university-level training, one special student that Folberg remembers well would carry the troupe into the future: “Steve Gonzales [now Jefferson Dancers’ artistic director] was one of my students while I was there. He saw a performance we did at Franklin High School. He came up to me afterward just beaming and said, ‘I want to do this!’”

Tripped up a bit in the ‘90s by federal cuts to the National Endowment for the Arts, the company had to make up the loss with donor support and ticket sales—which thankfully, says Folberg, they were able to do. The Jefferson Dancer Foundation, formed in 2013, now facilitates donations. “The most amazing thing about Jefferson Dancers is that they’re still there after 40 years!” Folberg exclaims. “I’m so grateful that kids continue to have that opportunity.” .

“People said, ‘You’re teaching what? No one who grew up in Oregon had seen dance offered in schools.”

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WHITE BIRD DANCE

Walter Jaffe and Paul King, founders 1997–present

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White Bird Linen. White Bird Chocolate. The name “White Bird” could work for anything, reasoned Walter Jaffe and Paul King. An homage to their cockatoo, Barney, the brand gave the two tastemakers wiggle room in case their risky new obsession—bringing world-class dance companies from other cities to Portland— didn’t work out.

In 1986, when the couple first planned their move from New York, Jaffe (a publishing industry pro) and King (a pastry chef ) dreamed of doing “something with food” But as they settled into Portland, 1) they noticed “there was already a lot happening with food,” and 2) they heard that Paul Taylor Dance Company, which they’d known and patronized back in New York, was coming to town for the Western Region Booking Conference.

They met up with Taylor's general manager, who introduced them to others in his industry—mostly agents and company managers.

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“We didn’t want to take from the community; we wanted to give back.”

Then, as Jaffe puts it, he “popped the question”: Would they present Paul Taylor Dance in Portland?

The couple decided to go for it. They put on Taylor’s show, and 1,400 people came.

Turns out, Portland was eager to see world-class dance. The orphaned audience of Portland State University’s lapsed dance series had been seeking somewhere else to go, and Jaffe and King’s fellow transplants from larger cities hungered for dance (beyond ballet) that met their cultivated tastes.

White Bird also discovered a life-saving loophole called “Wednesday.” On the only day of the week that union musicians demanded off, the Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall was available for dance shows—and to White Bird’s delight, audiences seemed to relish midweek entertainment.

Initially, White Bird planned six shows per season, but by 2001, they revved up to 12. The same year, they revived the PSU Dance Series. Once in 1999 and again in 2010, they even brought Baryshnikov to town!

Jaffe and King had initially started White Bird as an LLC rather than a nonprofit because, as King puts it, “We didn’t want to take from the community; we wanted to give back.” That civic impulse evolved as they transitioned to 501(c)(3). During the recession, they dreamed of opening a brick-and-mortar dance center in the heart of downtown, “integrating dance into the community.” The location fell through, and the couple kept working from home—but White Bird redoubled their efforts to dispatch dancers directly into community outreach. The companies White Bird presents regularly visit Portland Public Schools and youth lockdown facilities; they offer movement workshops and talks to the public; one even choreographed a line dance for 164 community members to perform in Pioneer Courthouse Square.

Dance is a medium that can rise to a high standard of excellence, but if you ask White Bird, it’s also a daily necessity. Like linen. Or chocolate. .

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abor Day Weekend may seem like an ideal time to get out of town, but Art In The Pearl offers Portlanders a reason to stay in town, while also giving Portland visitors a place to converge and celebrate the end of summer with art. The Art In The Pearl Fine Arts and Craft Festival proudly celebrates its 20th year in 2016.

This distinctly artist-run event has long been a favorite in Portland. It’s Portland’s largest outdoor art fair, drawing over 100,000 people every year to its beautiful location under a canopy of trees in the historic North Park Blocks of the Pearl District. Strolling among the rows of freestanding kiosks, visitors can meet artists and purchase original artwork. It’s an enjoyable art shopping experience for the veteran art collector, and for the newcomers and families, as well.

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Art In The Pearl’s 130 juried artists are chosen from across the U.S. and Canada, and they display a wide array of works in a broad spectrum of styles. Visitors are encouraged to chat with these artists about their inspiration and process. In this unique environment, the arts are complemented by the natural beauty of the outdoors, as well as access to amazing food, music, and hands-on art education in a bustling urban setting. The location of the festival, combined with the first-rate artistic talent, allows festival visitors an authentic connection to the world of artists.

Art In The Pearl was organized in 1996 by 15 artists whose mission was “to build an interactive environment between the artists and the community.” The first Art In The Pearl opened August 30, 1996 to an enthusiastic response from art lovers and the broader community alike.

Designed as a nonprofit organization and run entirely by a volunteer board of artists, Art In The Pearl keeps sponsorship amounts relatively small, spread out over a large number of donors. Our focus is promoting the arts and artists, and bringing their work directly to the public. Our quality control standards are stringent, only original work is permitted, and there’s no admission fee.

Now in its 20th year, Art In The Pearl remains a grassroots movement, run by a volunteer board of 20 artists who believe in the importance of the arts in Portland. The show continues to be supported by donors who value the arts more than personal recognition. Our focus is still on building a bridge between artist and community.

In addition to artists’ booths, the show offers art education, art demonstrations, and performance art. Art In The Pearl is particularly committed to providing arts education to anyone attending the festival.

In our Demonstration Area, professional artists and craftspeople demonstrate, explain, and discuss their creative processes as if they were working in their own studios or classrooms. In our Education Pavilion, we offer user-friendly art and craft projects for kids and adults, directed by experienced artists and art educators. On our Songwriters Stage, we feature local musicians playing original music.

While the size of the festival and the number of invited artists has remained the same through the years, the board has explored ways to inspire newcomers to the field of arts and crafts. Seeing professional artists displaying and selling their work to the public can be an inspiration to young people interested in a career in the arts. The ability, for instance, to walk into our festival and see a professional artist making a mug from a lump of clay and then purchase a finished vessel, provides a glimpse into the pathway toward becoming a successful artist.

To further facilitate new career artists, the board has also initiated an emerging artist program, accepting two promising “new” artists with minimal show experience into the show each year and mentoring them into the world of selling their artwork. By making this first step accessible, Art In The Pearl hopes to encourage young people to see making and selling art as a viable career. The Education Pavilion area also collaborates with local organizations that work with at-risk youth and adolescents, offering them a pathway to self-expression through art.

The popularity, prestige, and sophistication of this show is recognized by its recurring annual visitors, locals, and collectors, but also by participating artists. More than 950 artists apply for the coveted 130 booths each year. Art In The Pearl’s success is due to its reputation an art-friendly festival for the community and showing artists: organized by artists, for artists, attracting the foremost artists in America and Canada.

Visitors will agree, honoring the end of summer with this outdoor festival will leave you brimming with inspiration, education, and joy. It’s a festival this city can truly be proud of—purely Portland. .

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DVORAK AND THE BOSTON SIX 45th Parallel boasts some of the finest and most exciting musicians in the Pacific Northwest. Led by founder and Artistic Director Greg Ewer, 45th Parallel has been lauded by The Oregonian for offering “chamber music with liberal doses of the unexpected,” and by Portland Mercury as having “a knack for putting together magically eclectic programs.” Critics agree; 45th Parallel is changing the way Portlanders think about chamber music!

The seventh season opens in October with Oregon Symphony Concertmaster Sarah Kwak,

principal cellist Nancy Ives, and violinist Greg Ewer performing two of the most exuberant and transcendent pieces in literature—Beethoven’s String Quartet Opus 59 No. 1 and Mendelssohn’s String Quintet in A Major. In November, composer-inresidence Kenji Bunch explores music that was banned for political, religious, or other cultural reasons. Special guest cellist Jeffrey Zeigler, formerly with the Kronos Quartet, performs the world premiere of Bunch’s Hambone for Solo Cello and Dmitri Shostakovich’s haunting Piano Trio No. 2.

Acclaimed Portland multi-instrumentalist Bobak Salehi will also perform traditional Persian music as part of this eclectic program of Forbidden Music.

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CAPPELLA ROMANA

For these divine choristers of CAPPELLA ROMANA, the gothic arches beneath the St. Johns Bridge evoke the ceiling of an ancient cathedral, echoing with sacred song.

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A CAPPELLA. BEAUTIFUL. DYNAMIC. INNOVATIVE. TRANSCENDENT.

Cappella Romana FOUNDED BY ARTISTIC DIRECTOR ALEXANDER LINGAS, 1991 Like the Gothic arches rising above Portland’s Cathedral Park, the voices of Cappella Romana soar to the heavens: creating peak musical experiences that will immerse you in a “sound world of unique beauty” (Gramophone).

Cappella Romana is “the region’s leading professional chamber choir,” (Oregon ArtsWatch) led by founder and Artistic Director Alexander Lingas. Experience both ancient and modern music you won’t hear anywhere else, vocal music from East and West to give you a glimpse of the transcendent. Saturday evening and Sunday matinee performances take place at Portland’s splendid St. Mary’s Cathedral and at the historic Trinity Episcopal Cathedral.

Cappella Romana opens its 24 annual series in September with the most celebrated musical work

TOP: Artistic Director, Alexander Lingas. BOTTOM: The ensemble. Photos by www.toriavaphotography.com. OPPOSITE: Photo by NashCO Photography.

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from Eastern Orthodoxy, Rachmaninoff ’s incomparable All-Night Vigil (the “Vespers”). The Oregonian described Cappella Romana’s 2012 presentation as filled with “rapturous, sensuous beauty” and one of the “choir’s finest moments.” Written in 1915 just prior to the Bolshevik Revolution, the Vigil marks its 100th birthday this year. Get your tickets early, as these performances are bound to sell out as they did in 2012. (Note: The All-Night Vigil will not last all night, but about two hours!)

In November, celebrate Cappella Romana’s 22nd CD release with live concerts of “Cyprus: Between Greek East and Latin West.” Hear ecstatic music from late medieval Cyprus in both Byzantine and Western styles, including ars subtilior (“subtle art”) music composed for the royal court of Cyprus (c. 1308–1432), featuring virtuoso singer Stelios Kontakiotis from Tinos, Greece.

On New Year’s weekend, hear mystical chanting for the Feast of Epiphany. The first all-chant program ever given by Cappella Romana (to sold-out audiences in 2001) features medieval Byzantine chant in Greek from Hagia Sophia and Palestine, and selections in Latin of old Roman chant sung directly from 11th-century notation.

Following its critically acclaimed recording release, called “simply beautiful” by The New York Times and winning the Editor’s Choice award from Gramophone, Maximilian Steinberg’s Passion Week is our featured work in February. This extraordinarily beautiful and romantic setting of ancient Russian chants is the last major sacred work to be composed in Russia following the imposition of communism.

Cappella Romana’s season closes in May with thrilling music by the Greek Orthodox composer Michael Adamis and Scottish Catholic Sir James MacMillan, who share a rare devotion to ancient chant: Byzantine for Adamis and Gregorian for MacMillan.

Colorful sonorities and intricate structures give the music of each an unmistakably mystical quality.

Join Cappella Romana on a journey of transcendent discovery.

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TICKETS $22–$59

CAPPELLA ROMANA

RACHMANINOFF

All-Night Vigil (“Vespers”)

September 12, 2015

VENUE: St. Mary’s Cathedral TIME:

7:30pm

September 13, 2015 VENUE: St. Mary’s Cathedral TIME: 2:30pm

CYPRUS

Greek East and Latin West

November 14, 2015 VENUE: Trinity Episcopal Cathedral TIME: 7:30pm

November 15, 2015 VENUE: St. Mary’s Cathedral TIME: 2:30pm

EPIPHANY

Medieval Byzantine and old Roman chant

January 2, 2016 VENUE: Trinity Episcopal Cathedral TIME: 7:30pm

January 3, 2016 VENUE: St. Mary’s Cathedral TIME: 2:30pm

PASSION WEEK Maximilian Steinberg

February 13, 2016 VENUE: Trinity Episcopal Cathedral TIME: 7:30pm

February 14, 2016 VENUE: St. Mary’s Cathedral TIME: 2:30pm

NEW MYSTICS From East and West

May 14, 2016 VENUE: Trinity Episcopal Cathedral TIME: 7:30pm

May 15, 2016 VENUE: St. Mary’s Cathedral TIME: 2:30pm

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MUSIC

ADVENTUROUS. INNOVATIVE. INSPIRING. LOCAL. EXPERT.

fEARnoMUSIC FOUNDED BY DR. JOEL BLUESTONE & JEFFREY PANYE, 1992

DAVID SCHIFF 70 TH BIRTHDAY CELEBRATION September 20, 2015

Kaul Auditorium, Reed College 7:30pm

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AN ALL-AGES HALLOWEEN EXTRAVAGANZA October 31, 2015

Mississippi Studios 1:30pm

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LOCALLY SOURCED SOUNDS Including the annual Call-For-Scores winner

January 22, 2016 The Old Church 7:30pm

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SOMEWHERE I HAVE NEVER TRAVELED The Music of Bonnie Miksch CD Release

Join fEARnoMUSIC for our upcoming 2015–16 season—a year of celebration! We begin in September with a 70th birthday celebration of the music of David Schiff, longtime Portland-based composer and Reed College mentor, whose work spans a remarkable range of complex modernism, authentic jazz, and heartfelt spirituality—at times, all within the same piece of music.

February 12, 2016 Lincoln Hall, PSU 7:30pm

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FEARNOMUSIC PRESENTS:

COREY DARGEL AND CORNELIUS DUFALLO

May 1, 2016 VENUE:

In October, we celebrate Halloween with our concert New Music In Disguise, featuring George Crumb’s classic Voice of the Whale, as well as a guest appearance by the ghost of Elvis!

Alberta Rose Theatre

TIME: 7:30pm

“At fEARnoMUSIC, our mission is to explore and perform great music of the 20th and 21st centuries by commissioning new works; building and developing relationships with world class composers; maintaining a special interest in performing works by Oregon and Pacific Northwest composers; and offering performances of the highest artistic quality.”

–ARTISTIC DIRECTOR KENJI BUNCH

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Come join us and celebrate the new, the unusual, and the unknown!

In January, we celebrate our local bounty of both the audible and edible with our second annual Locally Sourced Sounds event that brings together Oregon composers, including the Call for Scores winner, with local craft food and beverage purveyors.

TOP & BOTTOM: Photos by Linderman Photography.

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human condition with an evening of utterly original songwriting and performance by the groundbreaking duo of vocalist-composer Corey Dargel and violinist-composer Cornelius Dufallo, as they lead us on a witty, soulful, and bittersweet adventure in Dargel’s post-classical song cycle Every Day Is The Same Day.

In April, we celebrate the future by showcasing the talent and potential of Oregon’s newest composers with our Young Composers Project, directed by fEARnoMUSIC co-founder Jeff Payne.

And finally, we celebrate love, heartache, and the many other quirks of the

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TICKETS $10–$30

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@FEARNOMUSIC

MUSIC

LIVE. INTIMATE. INSPIRED.

Friends of Chamber Music

CLASSIC SERIES All performances in the Classic Series are on Monday and Tuesday evenings at 7:30pm in Lincoln Hall at Portland State University.

FOUNDED BY REX ARRAGON, 1939

THE MONTROSE TRIO October 5 & 6, 2015 CALDER QUARTET November 30 & December 1, 2015 PACIFICA QUARTET January 11 & 12, 2016 TAKÁCS QUARTET March 14 & 15, 2016 JUPITER QUARTET April 4 & 5, 2016

BEETHOVEN: :BARTÓK FESTIVAL JERUSALEM QUARTET January 21–26, 2016 VENUE: Lincoln Hall, PSU

NOT SO CLASSIC SERIES SHANGHAI QUARTET & WU MAN, PIPA October 16, 2015

TOP: The Dalí Quartet. Photo by Vanessa Briceno-Sherzer. BOTTOM: Takács Quartet. Photo by John Green.

VENUE: Kaul Auditorium, Reed College TIME: 7:30pm

Founded in 1939, Friends of Chamber Music (FOCM) is the oldest continuously running chamber music organization in Oregon and the sixth oldest in the country. In 2013, Chamber Music America awarded FOCM their CMAcclaim Award, a national award that recognizes organizations that have had a significant impact on their local community.

Friends of Chamber Music’s 2015–16 season, which runs from October through April, includes a stellar lineup of artists who exemplify the high artistic standard FOCM has established through-

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out its history. The season includes four Not So Classic Series concerts, three Vocal Arts Series concerts, 10 Classic Series concerts and a weeklong Beethoven: :Bartók Festival featuring the Jerusalem Quartet performing all six Bartók quartets and all six Op. 18 Beethoven quartets. Other highlights of the year include return visits by some Portland audience favorites, such as the Takács Quartet, the Pacifica Quartet, Chanticleer, the Calder Quartet, the Shanghai Quartet with pipa player Wu Man, and Anonymous 4 in one of the last concerts of the group’s final tour. FOCM will also present several exciting ensembles in their Portland debuts: The Montrose Trio composed of violinist Martin Beaver and cellist Clive Greensmith, both formerly of the Tokyo Quartet, along with pianist Jon Kimura Parker; the Dalí Quartet, in a program titled Classical roots, Latin Soul; violinist Rachel Barton Pine and cellist Mike Block; a vocal recital by mezzo-soprano Michelle DeYoung; the dynamic Jupiter Quartet; and the Harlem Quartet’s all-jazz program, famous for “bringing a new attitude to classical music,” according to The New York Times.

TICKETS $30–$47

FRIENDS OF CHAMBER MUSIC

DALÍ QUARTET November 19, 2015 VENUE: The Old Church TIME: 7:30pm

RACHEL BARTON PINE & MIKE BLOCK February 12, 2016 VENUE: The Old Church TIME: 7:30pm

HARLEM QUARTET April 14, 2016 VENUE: Alberta Rose Theatre TIME: 7:30pm

VOCAL ARTS SERIES ANONYMOUS 4 October 17, 2015 VENUE: Kaul Auditorium, Reed College TIME: 7:30pm

CHANTICLEER December 8, 2015 VENUE: St. Mary’s Cathedral TIME: 8:00pm

MICHELLE DEYOUNG, MEZZO-SOPRANO March 6, 2016 VENUE: Lincoln Hall, PSU TIME: 3:00pm

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GENRE-DEFYING. PROVOCATIVE. CRAZYSEXYCOOL. COURAGEOUS. SASS-ICAL.

The Julians FOUNDED BY LIZ BACON, KRISTEN BUHLER, MARIA KARLIN & VAKARÈ PETROLIÜNAITÉ, 2010

PERFORMANCES October 9, 2015 VENUE: TIME:

The Jade Lounge

6:00pm

November 13, 2015 VENUE: TIME:

The Jade Lounge

6:00pm

DECEMBER HOLIDAY SHOW

Check www.thejuliansmusic.com for more details

For future showtimes, visit www.thejuliansmusic.com.

–OREGON ARTSWATCH

“They are classical. They are folk. They are indie.

They are jazz. They are pop.

They are most certainly spectacular.” –ARTSLANDIA

Lassus, Cat Stevens, and Björk, oh my! The Julians are four of Portland’s finest classically trained female vocalists working together to explore, challenge, embrace, and sing the living daylights out of music that they love. Praised by Willamette Week for their “characteristically pristine siren vocals,” The Julians formed in 2010 with the intention of creating genre-defying programs that seamlessly meld classical, pop, jazz, and indie music. They have performed their original arrangements in a variety of Portland venues including Alberta Rose Theatre, Someday Lounge, Splendorporium, Jade

“[SASS-ICAL POP] Provocative local indieclassical female vocal quartet The Julians— featuring four of the city’s finest classical singers— specializes in cheerfully demolishing the alleged barriers between pop and classical, past and present, sexy and serious.”

Lounge; in numerous concert series including those of Oregon State, Portland State University, First Presbyterian Church Celebration Works, Boones Ferry, and Salem Hayloft; and PICA’s Time-Based Art Festival with New York-based composer, Nick Hallett.

In 2014, The Julians had their own Sing-Off moment, taking second place in the annual Pacific Northwest Regional Harmony Sweepstakes A Cappella Festival in Olympia, Washington. They collaborate frequently with local artists, including 45th Parallel, and are featured on Bryan Free’s 2011 album, Red Queen. The Julians comprise professional singers about town: Artistic Director Kristen Buhler, Liz Bacon, Maria Karlin, and Vakarè Petroliünaitè. In addition to public concerts added regularly throughout the year, The Julians are also available to create thoughtful programs for private events.

Brett Campbell of Willamette Week describes a night with this “irrepressible lady vocal quartet” quite simply: “you won’t find a fresher, more varied program on any local stage.” A night with The Julians will truly be one to remember.

–WILLAMETTE WEEK

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THE JULIANS FAN PAGE

@THE_JULIANS

TOP: Photo by Jon Stuber. BOTTOM: Photo by Sara Wright.

“…the group sounded completely natural in a startling range of repertoire.

They’re one of the most refreshing breezes to blow through Portland’s alt classical scene.”

MUSIC

INCLUSIVE. CHALLENGING. INSPIRING. COLLABORATIVE. FUN.

Metropolitan Youth Symphony FOUNDED BY LAJOS BALOGH, 1974

NOVEMBER CONCERT Tchaikovsky, 1812 Overture Elgar, Enigma Variations

November 15, 2015 Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall 7:30pm

VENUE: TIME:

MARCH CONCERT

Moncayo, Huapango Chavez, Sinfonia India Copland, Appalachian Spring

March 13, 2016 Newmark Theatre 7:30pm

VENUE: TIME:

JUNE CONCERT

Berlioz, Symphonie Fantastique Concerto Competition Winner

June 4, 2016 Newmark Theatre 7:30pm

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Metropolitan Youth Symphony (MYS) is a music education nonprofit serving more than 460 students in the Portland/Vancouver metro area.

We pride ourselves on providing a top-notch musical education, a strong community, and an inspiring environment for young musicians to grow.

Our students come from a diverse range of geographic, socioeconomic, and cultural backgrounds.

And, through MYS, they form tight-knit bonds of friendship, united by the camaraderie that comes from playing music together.

MYS welcomes students at all levels, from beginning to advanced, with 12 ensembles including orchestra, band, jazz, and chamber groups. Auditions are held in January, June, and August, and

are open to any student with at least one year of musical experience. Tuition assistance is available, because we believe that all students deserve access to a quality music education.

In addition to Saturday rehearsals, MYS students enjoy performance opportunities throughout the season at venues including the Newmark Theatre and Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall. Each season brings numerous exciting collaborations with professional musicians, while our innovative use of technology enables our students to work with amazing artists from around the country. MYS musicians also have the chance to participate in school outreach tours, bringing music performance to underserved schools in Oregon and southwest Washington.

TOP & BOTTOM: Photos by Sheepscot Creative.

We’re thrilled to celebrate our 42nd season under the leadership of Interim Music Director William White, who recently completed a four-year tenure as assistant conductor of the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra and music director of the Cincinnati Symphony Youth Orchestra. Mr. White comes uniquely qualified to build on the creative programming and musical excellence established by outgoing Music Director Andres Lopera.

For details on upcoming auditions or to learn how you can support MYS, visit our website at www.playmys.org.

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TEL. 503.239.4566

TICKETS $10–$37

PLAY WITH MYS! Register at www.playmys.org. Audition in August for the 2015–16 season, in January to join for the winter/spring terms, and in June for the 2016–17 season.

“The Metropolitan Youth Symphony is on a tear…

Lopera is the ultra-cool, just barely older cousin who leaped into their midst with the promise of wild fun and maybe a little trouble. His direction of Tchaikovsky was full of intensity and passion from the opening measures, with driving tempos and muscular bowings creating an improbably rich, intense sound from such a young ensemble.” –JAMES MCQUILLEN, THE OREGONIAN, MARCH 2014

“Who says symphony orchestras can’t have fun?”

–DAVID STABLER, THE OREGONIAN, 2013

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BROAD-RANGING. BREATHTAKING. BRILLIANT. BRACING. BIG-HEARTED.

CLASSICAL HIGHLIGHTS PABLO VILLEGAS

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September 12, 2015

BEETHOVEN’S EROICA

FOUNDED AS THE PORTLAND SYMPHONY SOCIETY, 1896

October 10–12, 2015

LANG LANG

October 15, 2015

TCHAIKOVSKY’S SYMPHONY NO. 5 October 24–26, 2015

YO-YO MA

December 9, 2015

CHOPIN’S PIANO CONCERTO NO. 1 January 23–25, 2016

JOSHUA BELL

February 20–22, 2016

OHLSSON PLAYS BRAHMS May 14–16, 2016

MAHLER’S SYMPHONY NO. 3 May 21–23, 2016

HOLIDAY FAVORITES HOLIDAY POPS

November 28–29, 2015

JOHNNY MATHIS HOLIDAY SPECIAL December 8, 2015

ODE TO JOY: NEW YEAR’S CELEBRATION December 29–30, 2015

POKÉMON: SYMPHONIC EVOLUTIONS September 17, 2015

THE MUSIC OF PINK FLOYD September 19, 2015

SARA EVANS

November 12, 2015

GREGORY ALAN ISAKOV January 14, 2016

THE TENORS

February 14, 2016

IGUDESMAN & JOO: BIG NIGHTMARE MUSIC March 6, 2016

All performances held at Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall.

“The orchestra continues to thrive under Carlos Kalmar...”

–THE NEW YORK TIMES

“I subscribe to the Oregon Symphony because without it I might miss something wonderful.”

–OREGON SYMPHONY SUBSCRIBER

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Music Director Carlos Kalmar and the Oregon Symphony orchestra have been knocking it out of the park over the last few years. The New Yorker described their 2011 Carnegie Hall debut as “one of the most gripping events of the current season,” while The New York Times has kept its eye on the orchestra ever since, calling it an “impressive ensemble.” Meanwhile, audiences here have been taking note, setting record attendance levels season after season.

guest artists ranging from Yo-Yo Ma and Joshua Bell to Gregory Alan Isakov and The Tenors; and eclectic programs such as Pokémon: Symphonic Evolutions and The Music of Pink Floyd.

“We try to reach as many people as possible,” Kalmar says. “We’ve learned over time to stretch in many, many directions.”

TOP: Photo by NashCO Photography. BOTTOM: Yo-Yo Ma. Photo by Todd Rosenberg.

FOR EVERY TASTE

The 2015–16 season promises to be another big one, spanning a remarkable variety of repertoire and genres, with Classical, Pops, and Kids Concerts, plus an exciting lineup of Special Concerts that feature superstars of all varieties, from classical to country to comedy. New this year is the “Popcorn Package”—four films (The Nightmare Before Christmas, Home Alone, Star Trek Into Darkness, and Back to the Future) projected in high definition and accompanied live by the Oregon Symphony performing the soundtracks.

The season opens Sept. 9, 2015 with the National Circus and Acrobats of the People’s Republic of China and continues through May 23, 2016 with Mahler’s monumental Third Symphony. In between, audiences will enjoy classical highlights like Holst’s The Planets and Handel’s Messiah;

TICKETS $23 & UP KIDS SHOWS $10 & UP

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MUSIC

ENGAGING. INSPIRATIONAL. SUBLIME. TRANSCENDENT. TRANSFORMATIONAL.

Pacific Youth Choir FOUNDED BY MIA HALL MILLER, 2003

MUSIC WITH FRIENDS

With Guest Conductor Rollo Dilworth

October 18, 2015 Trinity Episcopal Cathedral 7:00pm

VENUE: TIME:

CANDLELIGHT CAROL December 20, 2015

Trinity Episcopal Cathedral 2:00pm & 5:00pm

VENUE: TIME:

SONGS OF SPRING Mother’s Day celebration

May 8, 2016 Trinity Episcopal Cathedral 2:00pm

VENUE: TIME:

Inspirational. Engaging. Transformational!

TOP: Photo by Samantha Schmiedescamp. BOTTOM: Photo by Elizabeth Caswell.

The Oregon Symphony’s choir of choice, Pacific Youth Choir (PYC) inspires high quality musicianship by providing serious musical training for its singers. The choir draws young people in kindergarten through twelfth grade from more than 20 cities. Acceptance is by audition, and standards of musicianship and performance readiness are high.

As an age-graduated choir, PYC guides singers through several years of progressively more stimulating demands and training. The choir programs choral repertoire that challenge its singers at each

level in terms of discipline, technique, and artistry. Through music, singers are inspired to pursue excellence, to engage with their communities, and to recognize the importance of working together.

Thomas Lauderdale, the lead singer of Pink Martini who regularly invites PYC to sing with the band, told David Stabler for an Oregonian article: “I don’t imagine there’s another organization in the country where the leader is totally game for any adventure. They have this very mature sound, it’s joyous. They learned Carol of the Bells in one afternoon. They learned Arabic for Auld Lang Syne in one hour.” PYC singers “have been a lifesaver for several of our albums.”

Current collaborations in our 2015–2016 season include the Oregon Symphony orchestra’s Holiday Pops on November 29, Star Trek Into Darkness on February 13, and Mahler’s Symphony No. 3 on May 21 and 23, plus three additional Sunday Kids Concerts; Metropolitan Youth Symphony’s 1812 Overture on November 15; and Choral Arts Ensemble, with composer Ola Gjeilo on October 9.

“Pacific Youth Choir expects the seemingly impossible from young people and they rise up to meet those expectations. The intensity is inspiring. The choir’s gifted blend of grit and humor speaks to the young men and women in it’s charge. Thank you PYC for creating such an enriching environment, for believing that young people can do hard things, and for providing role models to our youth, as they are making choices as to how they want to live their lives.”

–HEIDI WETZLER, PYC PARENT

“PYC introduced me to the life of a musician. PYC taught me to cross the line from singing to performing art. I loved my time with the Pacific Youth Choir, and no matter where I go I will always feel their magic in my heart.” –JOSH HUDSON, PYC ALUM

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TICKETS $12–$30

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PHAME

It almost looks like Musical Director Matthew Gailey and members of the PHAME community blew the roof off of their favorite eastside sculpture with sheer enthusiasm and joy.

Inversion +/Lead Pencil Studio, 2012

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INCLUSIVE. ENGAGING. JOYFUL. SURPRISING. REAL.

PHAME FOUNDED BY FAMILIES AND ARTISTS/PERFORMERS EXPERIENCING DISABILITIES, 1984 We believe art is a fundamental right.

We believe our community is stronger, better, more interesting, and more equitable when artists and performers with developmental disabilities are integrated into the fabric of our stages and concert halls, galleries, and audiences.

TOP: Bye Bye Birdie, 2013. Photo by Ivan Arredondo. BOTTOM: Drumming Circle. Photo by Sarah Law Photography. OPPOSITE: Photo by NashCO Photography.

PHAME offers lifelong arts learning, performance, and community engagement for artists and performers with developmental disabilities. We work with musicians, writers, actors, dancers, composers, and artists who happen to be affected by Down syndrome, Autism Spectrum Disorder, Williams syndrome, Cerebral Palsy, and other developmental or intellectual disabilities.

This year at PHAME, we’re celebrating 31 years of incredible community impact in a big way: We’ve commissioned our first ever world premiere play with music, Up The Fall.

Written by acclaimed Oregon playwright Debbie

Lamedman and featuring songs by singersongwriter Laura Gibson, Up the Fall is a fantastical new play with music, following a cast of mythical characters as they endeavor to restore order and progress in a realm taken over by the vengeful Graeae Sisters. Their journey takes us from present day Portland, Oregon, to a mythical world where the moon cannot shine, stories cannot be collected, and waterfalls cannot flow.

Characters like Ratatoskr, a skittish messenger squirrel, a wise spider, a swaggering jaguar, a hopeful carp, and a determined young woman named Diana struggle to move past obstacles to achieve their hopes and dreams. The core of their struggle is beautifully captured in the play’s title, which references an ancient myth in which an ordinary carp is compelled to swim up a waterfall, jump a magical gate, and transform into an extraordinary dragon. With beautiful folk music influenced songs by composer Laura Gibson, Up the Fall plays six performances only at the Morrison Stage at Artists Repertory Theatre this August 22–29, 2015.

Our Get PHAMEous! community arts open house series, running in December of 2015 and March and June of 2016, is the perfect opportunity to connect with the artists and performers of PHAME. These free community arts open houses feature performances, open rehearsals, staged readings, and lots of opportunities to interact and learn from the artists and performers of PHAME. All of these program offerings are led by Interim Program Director Matthew Gailey, an exceptional musician and educator recognized for his commitment to community and his powerful, soulful voice. Matthew is joined by Executive Director Stephen Marc Beaudoin in leading PHAME to new creative and community heights, working closely with over 100 artists and performers of PHAME, and a long and growing roster of community artistic collaborators.

Come see Up The Fall, join us for our Holiday Concert at The Grotto, or connect at close range at our Get PHAMEous! community arts open houses.

UP THE FALL

August 22–29, 2015 VENUE: Morrison Stage, Artists Rep Theatre TIME: 7:00pm & 2:00pm

HOLIDAY CONCERT December 2015 VENUE: The Grotto TIME: TBA

GET PHAMEOUS!

Community Arts Open House

December 2015, March & June, 2016 VENUE: Grace Memorial

Episcopal Church TBA

TIME:

“One of Portland’s best arts organizations” –PORTLAND MERCURY

“By presenting PHAME artists on stage as equals with professional musicians like Pink Martini, Storm Large and the Portland Cello Project, and with actors like Amy Beth Frankel and Isaac Lamb, PHAME breaks down the wall of artistic isolation often experienced by the performers with developmental disabilities, and creates a safe space for integration to happen naturally” –OREGON ARTSWATCH

We’re PHAME. Creating art. Inspiring connections.

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TICKETS $10–$50

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PORTLAND BAROQUE ORCHESTRA

Artistic Director Monica Huggett of PORTLAND BAROQUE ORCHESTRA celebrates the perennial beauty of classical music among our region’s heartiest perennial blossoms.

Season after season, the best mainstays bloom with new life.

Crystal Springs Rhododendron Garden, 1950

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MUSIC

GREAT MUSIC. PERIOD.

Portland Baroque Orchestra FOUNDED BY A MUSICIANS COLLECTIVE, 1984

BAROQUE ORCHESTRA

Monica Huggett, Artistic Director

HIGH BAROQUE WINDS October 16 & 17, 2015

VENUE: First Baptist Church TIME: 7:30pm

An experience with Portland Baroque Orchestra (PBO) draws you into the sound world of a distant past in the present moment. Call it a kind of time travel. At the time this music was composed, performers had different instruments than we have today, played them differently, and made music in a variety of contexts that might be different from our own.

October 18, 2015

VENUE: Kaul Auditorium, Reed College TIME: 3:00pm

BLAZING STRINGS November 20, 2015

VENUE: First Baptist Church TIME: 7:30pm

November 22, 2015

VENUE: Kaul Auditorium, Reed College TIME: 3:00pm

This music explores every shade of human emotion, from unspeakable grief to passionate love to inexplicable joy, and every emotion in between, whether felt just today or centuries ago.

HANDEL’S MESSIAH December 11–13, 2015

VENUE: First Baptist Church TIME: F, Sat 7:30pm; Sun 4:00pm

But is music ever really old if it only exists in the present moment? You be the judge.

TOP: Photo by Leah Nash. BOTTOM: www.hiroshiiwaya.com. OPPOSITE: Photo by NashCO Photography.

PORTL AND

PRAETORIUS CHRISTMAS VESPERS

Join us for a whole series of present moments—period performances of great music from the distant past in the present moment: Great music. Period.

December 17, 2015

The great music we feature this season is primarily by J.S. Bach: the six Brandenburg Concertos, which stand as the pinnacle of orchestral composition in the Baroque era. We are thrilled to present all six Brandenburg Concertos as the thread that ties together all the themes of this year’s season.

February 19 & 20, 2016

VENUE: Trinity Episcopal Cathedral TIME: 7:30pm

BACH & SON

VENUE: First Baptist Church TIME: 7:30pm

February 21, 2016

VENUE: Kaul Auditorium, Reed College TIME: 3:00pm

Completed around 1721, they were not widely performed and were lost until their discovery in the Brandenburg archives in 1849. Bach’s achievement cannot be underestimated for his skill in writing for instruments in daring combinations.

You won’t want to miss a single performance, from No. 1 and its menagerie of wind instruments— including wild solos for hunting horns and oboes to No. 2 with its daredevil solo for valveless trumpet—the most virtuosic music ever written for that instrument.

No. 3 for strings alone is paired with Italian concertos that reveal Bach’s taste for Italian style, and No. 4 features electric guitar-style virtuosity for violins and two recorders: an homage to Vivaldi. No. 5 is very likely the first concerto to appear with a spectacular solo for keyboard, the predecessor to the modern piano concerto. Finally, No. 6 spares the violin but offers cellos, violas, and violas da gamba (already old-fashioned in Bach’s time), creating an old school combination well-suited to music of the generation before Bach.

Join PBO for a full season of Brandenburgs!

THE OLD SCHOOL March 12, 2016

VENUE: First Baptist Church TIME: 7:30pm

March 13, 2016

VENUE: Kaul Auditorium, Reed College TIME: 3:00pm

VIVALDI’S SPELL May 6 & 7, 2016

VENUE: First Baptist Church TIME: 7:30pm

May 8, 2016

VENUE: Kaul Auditorium, Reed College TIME: 3:00pm

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TICKETS $22–$79

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PORTLAND COLUMBIA SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA

Musical Director and Conductor Steven Byess with members of the PORTLAND COLUMBIA SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA visit Pittock Mansion to symbolize timeless style, good taste, and connection between the past and the present.

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MUSIC

ACCESSIBLE. AUTHENTIC. MOVING. VIBRANT. UNCOMPLICATED.

Portland Columbia Symphony Orchestra Steven Byess, Music Director

FOUNDED BY JERRY LEUDDERS, 1982 Sometimes slyly called “Portland’s other symphony orchestra,” Portland Columbia Symphony Orchestra (PCSO) brings together musicians and audiences in friendly, affordable, and accessible concert experiences.

TOP: Music Director, Steven Byess. Photo by Hunter Lea. BOTTOM: Photo by Josh Romberg. OPPOSITE: Photo by NashCO Photography.

One of the reasons the PCSO is special is the orchestra’s commitment to blending familiar classics with unusual gems. “Creative programming is one of the most exciting and rewarding aspects of being the artistic leader of the PCSO,” states Music Director Steven Byess. “There is an enormous array of wonderful music outside of the standard repertoire, and the PCSO is dedicated to presenting these gems to our very enthusiastic audiences throughout northwest Oregon.”

“Our 2015–16 season is titled PCSO 360° because of our mission to present comprehensive programming that includes great performances of symphonic music, as well as collaborations with the region’s most outstanding arts organizations that includes performances of dance, vocal, educational, film, and pops programs,” says Byess.

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The PCSO employs the finest musicians in the region, and the orchestra is dedicated to presenting dynamic local and regional soloists, in addition to internationally recognized and awarded soloists.

The 2015–16 season includes four subscription concerts, an interactive family holiday concert, and a film series. Friday night subscription concerts are held in downtown Portland, and Sundays at 3 matinees are held in East Multnomah County.

The season launches in September with an allTchaikovsky program, featuring pianist Susan DeWitt Smith playing the mighty Piano Concerto No. 1.

In October, the popular family holiday concert Symphonic Safari Goes Halloween features handson arts booths, an instrument petting zoo, and a safari right through the live orchestra.

In November’s Cascadia Composer, the orchestra salutes a local contemporary master and Oregon’s greatest living composer, Tomas Svoboda, performing his new Clarinet Concerto.

In March, the orchestra embarks on a ferocious urban American adventure with Fire and Blood, Michael Daugherty’s musical fresco for violin and orchestra, inspired by the extraordinary Detroit Industry murals by Mexican modernist painter Diego Rivera. To soothe that agitation with the tonic of tradition, the orchestra performs Mozart’s elegant Coronation Mass with the Chancel Choir of the First United Methodist Church of Portland.

TCHAIKOVSKY SPECTACULAR

Featuring Susan DeWitt Smith, piano

September 25, 2015 Lewis & Clark College 7:30pm

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September 27, 2015 Mt. Hood Community College 3:00pm

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SYMPHONIC SAFARI GOES HALLOWEEN

Featuring Tears of Joy Puppet Theatre and Portland Symphonic Girlchoir

October 25, 2015 Parkrose High School 3:00pm

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CASCADIA COMPOSER: TOMAS SVOBODA

Featuring Michael Anderson, clarinet

November 20, 2015 First United Methodist Church 7:30pm

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November 22, 2015 Reynolds High School 3:00pm

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FIRE & BLOOD

Featuring Ida Kavafian, violin and the First United Methodist Church Chancel Choir

The orchestra’s 34th season closes with American Innovations, featuring the Oregon premiere of Dreamtime Ancestors by American composer Christopher Theofanidis in collaboration with New Music for America and Gershwin’s groundbreaking Piano Concerto in F.

March 18, 2016

Going beyond the concert hall, PCSO will host a series of film screenings at the historic Hollywood Theatre. The classic Charlie Chaplin film City Lights plays in February, with the score performed live by the orchestra.

AMERICAN INNOVATIONS

Experience Oregon’s best-kept musical secret: a terrific orchestra with deep community ties, pushing 300 years of symphonic music through its full range of motion!

May 1, 2016

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First United Methodist Church 7:30pm

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March 20, 2016 Mt. Hood Community College 3:00pm

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Featuring Sara Davis Buechner, piano

April 29, 2016 First United Methodist Church 7:30pm

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Mt. Hood Community College 3:00pm

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PORTLAND GAY MEN’S CHORUS

These regal voices of PORTLAND GAY MEN’S CHORUS can’t resist this sculpture. Looking like it toppled off Lady Liberty to land at our feet, this larger-than-life crown is fit for a king...or a queen!

Little Prince Ilan Averbuch, 1995

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MUSIC

AFFIRMING. ECLECTIC. INSPIRATIONAL. FABULOUS. DIVERSE.

Portland Gay Men’s Chorus FOUNDED BY GARY COLEMAN & STEVE FULMER, 1980 The Portland Gay Men’s Chorus (PGMC) begins its 36th season with a return of their biennial fall matinee, featuring soloists and an ensemble led by Associate Conductor Mary McCarty. Listen in awe as these masterful singers and instrumentalists present works of beauty and elegance from across the classical canon. This season, the Portland Gay Men’s Chorus welcomes the Portland Boychoir, under the direction of former PGMC Conductor David York, as special guest performers in The Classical Concert.

TOP: Celebrate the Journey, 2015. BOTTOM: A Holiday Celebration, 2014. Photo by Bill Barry. OPPOSITE: Photo by NashCO Photography.

Then in December, PGMC’s tradition of hit holiday concerts continues with another edition of The Most Wonderful Season. The Newmark Theatre will be filled with the 150 voices of the Chorus backed by a signature brass sound powerful enough to shake the rafters. Join in the revelry of a production packed with seasonal favorites and new

classics that celebrate Christmas, Hanukkah, Kwanzaa, the winter solstice, and of course a happy New Year!

THE CLASSICAL CONCERT

In February 2016, brilliant vocalists from the Chorus will put their spin on number one hits from the Billboard charts in the third annual PGMC solo concert, The Hits, at The Old Church. This intimate event will showcase the immense talent and depth of the Portland Gay Men’s Chorus.

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To be called a “diva” is to be ranked among the most accomplished female vocalists of all time. This exclusive list includes greats such as Maria Callas, Aretha Franklin, and Barbra Streisand. Closing out its 36th season, the Portland Gay Men’s Chorus welcomes three of its own divas—Dru Rutledge, Jennifer Gill, and Susannah Mars—back to the stage for an unforgettable Pride concert: The Divas. These supremely talented women of Portland join the Chorus in an unforgettable production filled with singing, dancing, and nothing but the best music from the divas catalogue.

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PGMC’s 36th season: A season that has it all.

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Kaul Auditorium, Reed College 3:00pm

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Following soon after, renowned Portland musician Dave Fleschner and acclaimed blues singer Earl Thomas along with featured PGMC soloists Billy Mixer and Jimmy Wilcox join the Chorus for a blues cabaret. Built on a foundation of core blues elements and drawing on rock, pop, and Broadway influences, Mr. Fleschner’s all-new compositions will showcase a new side of the Portland Gay Men’s Chorus. The Blues: from Backwoods to Broadway will also feature guest performers from United by Music, a nonprofit which offers opportunities for musically talented adults with intellectual disabilities.

The chorus will finish the season with an appearance at the International GALA Festival in Denver in July 2016. As one of the oldest and most respected gay choruses, PGMC will have a prominent spot at the festival and will perform A Brighter Day, an original work commissioned and performed by the chorus last year as part of their 35th anniversary celebration.

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October 25, 2015

TICKETS $15–$48

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THE HITS

February 21, 2016 VENUE:

The Old Church

TIME: 3:00pm

THE BLUES: FROM BACKWOODS TO BROADWAY March 19 & 20, 2016 TIME:

Kaul Auditorium, Reed College Sat 8:00pm; Sun 3:00pm

THE DIVAS

June 18, 2016 Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall 7:00pm

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“A wonderful source of encouragement for LGBT young people. I’ll repeat here what I first said over thirty years ago, in the very early days of the Chorus—I never feel so proud of being gay as when I hear the Chorus sing!” –EDWARD “Greatly, creative and sprightly innovative group.

If you have not yet heard them, you will soon wish that you had.” –BILL

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MUSIC

DIVERSE. IMPROVISATIONAL. HISTORIC. EDUCATIONAL. UNIVERSAL.

PDX JAZZ TERENCE BLANCHARD E-COLLECTIVE September 1, 2015

FOUNDED BY BILL ROYSTON & TRAVEL PORTLAND, 2004

VENUE: Jimmy Mak’s

With Reinhardt Meltz, Damian Erskine, Dan Balmer. Celebrating McCann’s 80th birthday and John Coltrane’s 89th birthday.

September 23, 2015 VENUE: Jimmy Mak’s

ALLAN HARRIS WITH THE MEL BROWN QUARTET The John Coltrane Songbook

September 30, 2015 VENUE: Jimmy Mak’s

SOMI October 9, 2015 VENUE: Alberta Abbey

WAYNE SHORTER QUARTET

Featuring Brian Blade, Danilo Perez, and John Pattitucci

October 13, 2015 VENUE: Revolution Hall

PEDRITO MARTINEZ QUARTET October 23, 2015 VENUE: Jimmy Mak’s

ANTONIO SANCHEZ MIGRATION October 30, 2015 VENUE: Jimmy Mak’s

ANAT COHEN QUARTET November 11, 2015 VENUE: Jimmy Mak’s

Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. once wrote “And now, Jazz is exported to the world. For in a particular struggle of the Negro in America, there is something akin to the universal struggle of modern man.

Everybody has the Blues. Everybody longs for meaning. Everybody needs to clap hands and be happy. Everybody longs for faith. In music, especially this broad category called Jazz, there is a stepping stone towards all these.” King’s final remarks during the 1964 Berlin Jazz Festival sum it up beautifully. PDX Jazz is proud to present this

BRAD MEHLDAU TRIO November 14, 2015 VENUE: Aladdin Theatre

FROM PDX TO BIRMINGHAM The Spirit of John Coltrane: A Love Supreme Anniversary Celebration

December 9, 2015 VENUE: Alberta Abbey

2016 PDX JAZZ FESTIVAL 100+ Events, a dozen venues

February 18–28, 2016

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true American art form with thrilling local, national, and international talent. Mark your calendars for the 2016 PDX Jazz Fest, February 18–28.

But, until then, our 2015 fall line-up will not disappoint. We begin in September with New Orleans trumpeter, Terence Blanchard. October brings acclaimed East-African singer/songwriter Somi, making her return visit to Portland after a successful and jaw-dropping performance on the 2015 Festival. Antonio Sanchez, composer of the film Birdman, will visit the Rose City as well as emerging Cuban-Conguero Pedrito Martinez.

Sure to be the Portland jazz highlight of the year is NEA Jazz Master Wayne Shorter—no more needs to be said. As we move into the holiday season, multigenre spanning pianist Brad Mehldau makes a long awaited appearance in Portland. We also look forward to Anat Cohen, sister of Avishai who was here in the spring. If that’s not enough, three tributes to John Coltrane will transcend his spirit featuring Les McCann, Devin Phillips, and Allan Harris with the Mel Brown Quartet. There’s a reason why Portland was called Jumptown; PDX Jazz strives to live up to the name.

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TOP: Matt Tabor (piano), Dylan Sundstrom (bass), Devin Phillips (saxophone), Kamasi Washington (saxophone), Chris Brown (drums). BOTTOM: Cindy Blackman Santana. Photos by Bob Prokop.

JAVON JACKSON BAND WITH GUEST LES MCCANN

MUSIC

INSPIRED. TRANSFORMATIVE. PASSIONATE. QUALITY. BOLD.

Portland Opera THE MAGIC FLUTE

FOUNDED IN 1964

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

May 6, 8, 12 & 14, 2016 Keller Auditorium Th, F, Sat 7:30 pm; Sun 2:00pm VENUE: TIME:

SWEENEY TODD Stephen Sondheim

June 3, 5, 7, 9 & 11, 2016 VENUE: Keller Auditorium TIME: T, Th, F, Sat 7:30pm; Sun 2:00pm

EUGENE ONEGIN

Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

July 8, 10, 14, 15, 17, 23 & 26, 2016 VENUE: Newmark Theatre TIME: T, Th, F, Sat 7:30pm; Sun 2:00pm

THE ITALIAN GIRL IN ALGIERS Gioacchino Rossini

Join Portland Opera on a trailblazing journey: its first ever festival season.

VENUE: Newmark Theatre TIME: W, Th, F, Sat 7:30pm;

Sun 2:00pm “Part of what makes exceptional opera so rewarding is its near-unbearable catharsis. To live through stories that engage primal emotions such as lust and jealousy, embodied by voices so powerful that they fill large halls without microphones, is an experience that spits you out feeling oddly cleansed.”

Portland Opera’s 2016 season spans the months of May, June, and July, offering new productions of operas by Tchaikovsky and Rossini, as well as works by Mozart and Sondheim in internationally acclaimed designs. The Magic Flute is both a fairytale adventure and a profound exploration of love and the human spirit, animated by Mozart’s most radiant music and Maurice Sendak’s scenery and costumes. Sweeney Todd’s return to Victorian England is driven by the twin passions of love and

revenge, which Stephen Sondheim fused into a story of cinematic sweep and music of operatic brilliance.

The quest for love in Eugene Onegin is a case of the right place but the wrong time, as the mutual attraction between Tatyana and Onegin never quite synchronizes, with heartbreaking results. In Rossini’s Italian Girl in Algiers, the plucky Isabella journeys across the Mediterranean to rescue her husband-to-be, setting off a cannonade of comedic fireworks, vocally and visually. Eugene Onegin and The Italian Girl in Algiers will both feature new scenery and costumes created especially for Portland audiences.

The celebrated Portland Opera Street Fair returns in 2016 with a weekend doubleheader July 22 and 23. Family friendly outdoor activities and performances will take place on the plaza outside the Newmark Theatre, followed by simulcasts of The Italian Girl Friday and Eugene Onegin Saturday. Look forward to a vibrant program of festival events, including performances in collaboration with other arts organizations, a much-expanded film series, lectures and panel discussions, and more.

–RICHARD SPEER, WILLAMETTE WEEK

“George Manahan led an exceptionally tight performance—no mean feat in this opera—with strong contributions all around the pit. Christopher Mattaliano’s stage direction kept the action as lively as the music.”

–JAMES MCQUILLEN, THE OREGONIAN

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OPERATIC VISUALS

TOP & BOTTOM: The Magic Flute, Houston Grand Opera, 2004. Photos by Brian Mitchell.

July 22, 24, 27, 29 & 31; August 4 & 6, 2016

MUSIC

INTIMATE. INTENSE. CONTEMPORARY. ENERGETIC. SEARCHING.

Portland Piano International FOUNDED BY HAROLD GRAY, 1978

ALEXANDER MELNIKOV PORTLAND DEBUT Schubert, Shostakovich

September 26, 2015 Shostakovich

September 27, 2015

LISE DE LA SALLE

PORTLAND DEBUT Beethoven, Ravel, Debussy, Brahms, Ravel

October 24, 2015 Bach, Bach/Busoni, Brahms, Schumann

October 25, 2015

CHARLIE ALBRIGHT PORTLAND DEBUT Janácek, Beethoven, Chopin, Bach, Schubert

December 5, 2015 Mozart, Chopin, Menotti, Mussorgsky

TOP: Nareh Arghamanyan. Photo by Julia Wesely. BOTTOM: Murray Perahia. Photo by Felix Broede.

December 6, 2015 For nearly four decades, Portland Piano International has defined excellence in piano performance—from dynamic young artists to accomplished masters. Our 2015–2016 season will continue that tradition. Four Portland debuts are combined with two established artists, one of them Murray Perahia. Considered one of the greatest American pianists, Perahia will close the season at Schnitzer Concert Hall on April 10, 2016.

to the superb acoustics and sightlines of Lincoln Hall and challenged each artist to play two completely different programs—nearly three hours of music over two days!

Artistic Director Arnaldo Cohen, a piano virtuoso of international renown, has brought new energy and initiatives. He returned the recital series

Now, we are expanding our outreach with the Rising Stars Program, the Commissioning Project, and the Tholen Fellows Project. Rising Stars are exceptional young pianists from around the world, performing free informal concerts and engaging audiences not only in Portland but also in Eugene, Bend, Astoria, and elsewhere. The Commissioning Project engages 12 Oregon composers to create solo pianos pieces to be premiered by the Rising Stars. To reinvigorate their teaching skills, the Tholen Fellows are a cadre of piano teachers from rural Oregon who will receive one-on-one coaching four times a year from Van Cliburn Gold Medalist Stanislav Ioudenitch and Busoni Competition Winner, Alexander Shtarkman.

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Starting in 2014, Arnaldo moved the Summer Festival to Lewis & Clark College. With artists, experts, and participants in residence for the entire Festival, teaching, learning, and camaraderie develop easily and naturally.

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PORTLAND PIANO INTERNATIONAL

NAREH ARGHAMANYAN

Bach, Delalian, Pärt, Babjanyan/ Arghamanyan, Komitas/Andriasyan, Komitas/Arghamanyan, Ekmalian/ Arghamanyan, Stravinsky/Agosti

January 16, 2016 Schumann, Brahms, Medtner, Rachmaninov, Rachmaninov/Wild, Gershwin/Wild, Balakirev

January 17, 2016

JOSEPH MOOG PORTLAND DEBUT Bach, Brahms, Liszt

March 12, 2016 Tchaikovsky, Debussy, Godowsky

March 13, 2016

MURRAY PERAHIA April 10, 2016 VENUE: TIME:

Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall

2:00pm

Unless otherwise noted, recitals are held at Lincoln Hall, PSU at 4:00pm.

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MAGICAL. MUSICAL. UPLIFTING. SEASONAL. CULTURAL.

Portland Revels AUTUMN EQUINOX PUB SING

FOUNDED BY RICHARD LEWIS, 1994

September 20, 2015

VENUE: See website for location TIME: 6:30pm

HARVEST HOOTENANNY October 3, 2015

VENUE: See website for location TIME: 1:00pm–5:00pm

IRISH COUNTRY DANCE + SALON November 2015

VENUE: See website for location

THE CHRISTMAS REVELS: CELTIC CROSSING An Irish Celebration of the Winter Solstice

December 17–22, 2015 VENUE: St. Mary’s Academy

Darkness into Light

January 30–31, 2016

VENUE: St. Michael and All Angels

Episcopal Church

“Count on the Portland Revels to give us a little history, a bunch of singing and playing and some silliness, all tied up with acting from some of Portland’s top thespians”

Portland Revels celebrates the seasons through song, dance, story, and ritual to create community across generations and cultures. Join us in bringing tradition to life!

Founded in 1994, Portland Revels has grown from a small group of performers presenting a “sampler” show of songs and dances in December to a full-fledged producer of year-round events.

Join us in September for our Autumn Equinox Pub Sing. Grab a pint and sing along to ditties,

–OREGONLIVE

“This annual tradition with friends and family is one of the most important and meaningful parts of our holiday season. In midst of all the hustle and bustle and materialism, it is a heartwarming reminder of what’s important.”

–2014 PATRON REVIEW

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chanties, and ballads about the autumn season. In October, we’ll have our second annual Harvest Hootenanny—a joyful afternoon of music and community, featuring our delightful and delicious apple pie auction! And in January, our women’s vocal ensemble, ViVoce, will be performing a concert of traditional folks songs from around the world.

In December, we present The Christmas Revels, a favorite tradition for audiences of all ages, rated one of Portland’s top family holiday experiences since 1995. This year’s production takes place on a late 19th century immigrant sailing ship on its way from Ireland to America. Passengers keep their spirits up through a long cold journey with song, dance, and storytelling, with the help of a poet on board who reminds passengers to look back to Ireland with fondness, but look forward to America with hope. Join us for a participatory journey, with professional actors, stunning choral and solo music performances, exuberant dance, and awardwinning costumes. The Christmas Revels is the perfect holiday tradition for everyone in the family. The show is produced and directed by Bruce A. Hostetler, with music direction by Robert Lockwood and Betsy Branch, and featuring Maldon Meehan and Kevin Carr.

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TOP & BOTTOM: The Christmas Revels, 2014. Photos by David Kinder.

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INCLUSIVE. COLLABORATIVE. INNOVATIVE. VIBRANT. GLOBAL.

Portland Symphonic Girlchoir FOUNDED BY ROBERTA Q. JACKSON, 1989

Years Strong

SYMPHONIC SAFARI GOES HALLOWEEN With the Portland Columbia Symphony Orchestra

October 25, 2015 Parkrose High School 4:00pm

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JINGLE BEAR FAMILY CONCERT December 5, 2015

Zion Lutheran Church 3:00pm

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HOLIDAY CONCERT December 19, 2015

Zion Lutheran Church 3:00pm

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SPRING GALA CONCERT March 12, 2016 Winner of the 2015 Chorus America/ASCAP Award for Adventurous Programming, the Portland Symphonic Girlchoir continues to distinguish itself with its innovative programming, distinctive coconductor leadership, and exhilarating performances. Recognized as one of the finest children’s choral ensembles in North America, Girlchoir of-

fers an unparalleled program of choral music education. Under the unique leadership of Coconductors Roberta Jackson and Debra Burgess, young artists from over 110 schools in the Portland metro area and southwest Washington are inspired to strive for personal and artistic excellence in a collaborative setting.

Our challenging, eclectic programming of diverse repertoire and commitment to commissioning new works by distinguished composers sets us apart in the Portland music community and beyond. With this dedicated group of young artists, we are creating the choral community of the future while giving girls and young women a distinct voice in the community today.

TOP: Photo by Christine Hoyt. BOTTOM: Photos by Something Blue.

Girlchoir’s mission of touring brings our music to a global audience and is a special part of the Girlchoir experience. Past tours have taken us to many destinations such as Carnegie Hall, Los Angeles, San Antonio, New Orleans, Hawaii, and internationally to Great Britain, Germany, Italy, Australia, China, and to Portugal/Spain in July 2015.

Over 2,500 young women, in collaboration with Co-conductors Jackson and Burgess, have come together as a community to create the distinct voice that is the Portland Symphonic Girlchoir. Girlchoir welcomes girls and young women, ages 5–18, who love to sing! Girlchoir… We sing. We laugh.

We love each other, and we make amazing music every week, every concert, every year, and all our lives!

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Zion Lutheran Church 2:00pm

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MUSIC IN THE MAKING CONCERT

Dr. Janet Galvan, Ithaca College, conductor-in-residence

April 17, 2016 Zion Lutheran Church 4:00pm

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SHOWCASE CONCERT May 14, 2016

VENUE: Zion Lutheran Church TIME:

2:00pm

“The Girlchoir is remarkable.

The Portland Symphonic Girlchoir is an important organization and it is a privilege to be associated with you.” –DR. DOREEN RAO, PHD,

CONDUCTOR, MASTER TEACHER, AUTHOR, EDITOR

“Girlchoir has been a part of my life for so long that it’s hard to imagine my life without it. Girlchoir has given me the skills I need to be a great musician and person and for that I am forever grateful.”

–2013 ALUM

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FEARLESS. ADVENTUROUS. EXCELLENT.

Portland Youth Philharmonic FOUNDED BY MARY DODGE, 1924

FALL CONCERT MASON BATES: Warehouse Medicine from “The B-Sides” for orchestra and electronica SERGE PROKOFIEV: Piano Concerto No. 1 JEAN SIBELIUS: Symphony No. 1

November 14, 2015 Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall 7:30pm

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CONCERT-AT-CHRISTMAS GIOACCHINO ROSSINI: L’Italiana in Algeri OTTORINO RESPIGHI: Fountains of Rome

December 26, 2015 VENUE: Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall

7:30pm

WINTER CONCERT MARION BAUER: Sun Splendor SERGEI RACHMANINOFF: Symphony No. 3

March 5, 2016 Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall 7:30pm

VENUE: TIME:

SPRING CONCERT

The Portland Youth Philharmonic (PYP) has been delighting and amazing audiences in Portland for 90 years, achieving a wide and enviable reputation for excellence under the direction of only five permanent conductors. Generations of musicians who have filled its ranks have embraced the considerable challenge of being a member of PYP. Their hard work is rewarded with performances that are defining experiences in their young lives.

ANATOL LIADOV: Eight Russian Folk Songs ZOLTÁN KODÁLY: Variations on a Hungarian Folk Song “The Peacock”

May 1, 2016 Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall 4:00pm

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The friendships and memories created by this bonding experience last a lifetime. PYP audiences experience the results of a rigorous rehearsal process, culminating in some of the most vibrant and refined music-making to be heard anywhere.

The 92nd season features works by Sibelius, Prokofiev, Respighi, Rossini, Rachmaninoff, Kodály, and Mason Bates. Camerata PYP will continue its adventurous programming with a wide spectrum of American compositions, including local composer and PYP alumnus Kenji Bunch, and will close its two-concert season with Spring from Vivaldi’s The Four Seasons.

PYP performances are enlivened by the spirit and authentic enthusiasm of its young performers. Musical Director David Hattner guides audiences through familiar and unfamiliar compositions through spoken commentary. These are concerts of and about great music are suitable for audiences ages 8 and up.

“PYP is a great orchestra, and it’s worth your attention even if you have no personal connection to it.” –THE OREGONIAN “One of Portland’s greatest and oldest arts institutions is forever young.” –THE OREGONIAN

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TOP & BOTTOM: Photos by Pete Stone.

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MUSIC

INSPIRING. PASSIONATE. CREATIVE. ADVENTUROUS. POWERFUL.

Resonance Ensemble FOUNDED BY KATHERINE FITZGIBBON, 2009

DANCE OF DEATH

Distler Totentanz Liszt Totentanz, with guest pianist

October 30–31, 2015

DIRTY, STUPID MUSIC

Cabaret music from all eras, often dirty but far from stupid “You know that I have composed cafe-concert music.

I gave this sort of music up long ago.

That was no field for me to be working in.

It is more stupid and dirty than anything.”

–Erik Satie

February 13–14, 2016

REMEMBERING CHARLESTON WITH ELLINGTON

Resonance performs Duke Ellington’s Sacred Concerts and other Ellington repertoire, with the Chuck Israels Jazz Orchestra.

Proceeds to benefit the Black United Fund.

The outstanding professional vocal ensemble Resonance Ensemble creates unusual concerts known for engaging and inspiring listeners. Their adventurous repertoire ranges from the zany (as in 2013’s The Big Oh, which was about exactly what you’d think) to the powerful (as in 2015’s War and Peace that included wild a cappella works by Poulenc and Schoenberg).

TOP & BOTTOM: Photos by Rachel Hadiashar.

Oregon ArtsWatch called Resonance singers “a Corvette of a choir, able to do almost anything,” and Willamette Week dubbed them “one of the Northwest’s finest choirs.” Their collaborative spirit makes them a truly Portland ensemble, meld-

ing their talents with visual artists, the Oregon poet laureate, and many other musical groups.

The 2015–16 season will be no exception. Resonance begins with a must-see Halloween event, Dance of Death, which features Hugo Distler’s Totentanz. The work combines short a cappella movements about death with dialogues between the figure of Death and various townspeople played

by Portland notables.

On Valentine’s Day weekend, Resonance will perform their latest installment of Dirty, Stupid Music. Resonance’s first installment last season drew sellout crowds to its irreverent, feisty look at cabaret with veteran performers Joe Theissen, Liz Bacon, Stephen Marc Beaudoin, Beth Madsen Bradford, Vakarè Petroliünaitè, and the wonderful pianist David Saffert.

In May, Resonance joins forces with the Chuck Israels Jazz Orchestra to perform the Duke Ellington Sacred Concerts in remembrance of the victims of the Charleston shooting. These concerts will benefit the Black United Fund.

May 21–22, 2016 Please visit www.resonancechoral.org for more information.

“Resonating deeply, in multiple ways, with soaring feelings, seriously: the programmatic ideas are very creative, the musical selections are refreshing and apt, the singers are extraordinary, and the director is superlatively skilled, with outstanding musical sensibility.”

–AUDIENCE MEMBER, BOB CYMBALA “Concerts are never hit-ormiss but rather a discovery of what type of amazing it’s going to be.” –AUDIENCE MEMBER, HEATHER HOLLAND

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TICKETS $5–$22

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THIRD ANGLE NEW MUSIC

From this modern streetcar stop, THIRD ANGLE NEW MUSIC strikes out to explore new territory, venturing fearlessly into landscapes—and soundscapes— full of vibrancy and surprise.

Streetcar Stop for Portland Jorge Pardo, 2013

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ARTSLANDIA 2015–2016

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DYNAMIC. EXTRAORDINARY. COLLABORATIVE. INNOVATIVE. UNEXPECTED.

Third Angle New Music FOUNDED BY JUDITH BOKOR, 1985

TOP: Frozen Music: City Dance, 2009. Photo by Alicia J. Rose. BOTTOM: Reich-analia, 2012. Photo by Tom Emerson. OPPOSITE: Photo by NashCO Photography.

The music of our time creates a soundtrack to contemporary life, existing at the intersection of musical forms from jazz and classical to rock and electronica. For more than 30 years, Third Angle has played outside the lines of the expected with the creation of dynamic musical performances and multidisciplinary collaborations that defy the boundaries of the traditional concert hall and reflect the spirit and vitality of our community.

Fresh off our successful 30th anniversary year and acclaimed NYC debut at the prestigious Bang on a Can Marathon, Third Angle has raised the bar once again for our 2015–16 season. Our expanded programming is back by popular demand, including seven performances that truly offer something for everyone.

The intimate Studio Series returns to Zoomtopia, featuring the hottest star in contemporary music, 2012 MacArthur Fellow and flutist Claire Chase; a journey through music and spoken word with renowned poets Matthew and Michael Dickman, and a tribute to the cool that is the Dutch new music scene. These approachable onehour shows are to concerts what happy hour is to date night: a casual way to unwind into your weekend.

In the first of our larger-scale concerts, Third Angle takes over Finnish architect Alvar Aalto’s architectural masterpiece, the Mount Angel Abbey Library, transforming the space into an interactive musical exploration filled with music by modern Finnish composers and the voices of the visionaries who brought this library to life. Cappella Romana joins us in creating this oncein-a-lifetime multimedia experience.

Finally, we pull out all the stops January 30 to present an 80th birthday tribute to Steve Reich, often called the world’s greatest living composer, featuring the musical innovators of So Percussion with our mighty Third Angle players. The program includes the Portland premiere of Reich’s Sextet and his iconic masterpiece Drumming.

Once again, Third Angle crafts experiences that are mind-altering by design.

In a roguish season filled with performances created to work in harmony or dissonance with their environment, a wildly divergent repertoire, and multidisciplinary collaborations that redefine the genre, you never know quite what will happen next.

Third Angle New Music is anything but ordinary.

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FROZEN MUSIC: LIGHT AND MUSIC IN AALTO’S LIBRARY October 3 & 4, 2015

Mount Angel Abbey Library 1:00pm

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HEARING VOICES 4.0

November 13 & 14, 2015 CLAIRE CHASE

February 18 & 19, 2016 RADIO HAPPENINGS: CAGE AND FELDMAN IN CONVERSATION, IN WORDS AND MUSIC

March 10 & 11, 2016 THE MIND OF EVAN

April 21 & 22, 2016 GOING DUTCH

May 12 & 13, 2016

“Of the classical new music presenters in Portland, Third Angle New Music has been the most focused on bringing audiences the big world...”

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October 16, 2015

NAOMI WACHIRA October 23, 2015

THE BARN OWLS

November 13, 2015

AN EVENING WITH KATE DAVIS November 20, 2015

PATRICK BALL: LEGENDS OF THE CELTIC HARP December 11, 2015

OREGON MANDOLIN ORCHESTRA TOP: Shook Twins at the Walters. BOTTOM: Pianist Thomas Lauderdale to open Walters Concert Series in September. Photo by Autumn-de-Wilde.

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February 12, 2016 The Glenn & Viola Walters Cultural Arts Center is a ground-breaking home for creativity and culture providing expanded opportunities for the entire metro area community, including increased access to exceptional performing and fine arts experiences. Recently celebrating its 10 year anniversary, the Walters is one of the area’s hidden gems in regional cultural entertainment. The

Walters Concert Series highlights a diverse range of beloved artists in its 200 seat theater recognized for its architectural beauty and excellent acoustics.

Thomas Lauderdale of Pink Martini will kick off the 2015–16 season with two special, solo classical piano performances on September 25 and 26, followed by an exciting lineup of local, regional, and national artists. Whether it’s classical, folk, bluegrass, americana, opera, or modern dance, audiences can expect a memorable performance experience.

Located in the heart of historic downtown Hillsboro, the Walters is part of the Cultural Arts Division of the City of Hillsboro’s Parks and Recreation Department. In addition to its concert series and gallery season, the Walters hosts a variety of cultural events as part of its Tuesday Happenings: First Tuesday gallery receptions, open-mic poetry nights, and a spoken word series.

The Walters also offers arts education opportunities for all ages in fine and performing arts in its studios and classrooms. Year after year, the Walters is a vibrant testament to the positive and enriching role that the arts play in our communities and is a thriving example of Hillsboro’s commitment to arts and culture.

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ACOUSTIC GUITAR SUMMIT March 4, 2016

DELGANI STRING QUARTET March 11, 2016

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OREGON MANDOLIN ORCHESTRA April 22, 2016

TONY FURTADO May 6, 2016

COLLEEN RANEY May 20, 2016

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Photos courtesy of RACC. Published with the permission of Raymond Kaskey.

Clutching a bouquet of roses and daisies, Portlandia receives a champagne christening by community leaders at the dedication, Oct. 8, 1985.

PORT LANDIA TURNS

30 It’s Sunday morning, Oct. 6, 1985, and Her Majesty Portlandia, our Queen of Commerce, all 36 feet of her, has all but shut down the city. Roads are closed, bridges must be drawn, and trees have been cut back for clearance. It’s a happy spectacle, a day of the people, however haphazard and unofficial. The three-year wait for the sculpture’s arrival is finally over, and you’re either intentionally avoiding the scene or you’re funneling toward the commotion amid cheering and camaraderie with everyone else.

by Matt Stangel Two days from now, on a “chilly but sunny Tuesday morning” as the papers will describe it, the official unveiling of Raymond Kaskey’s Portlandia sculpture will take place in an invitation only ceremony, but today she completes her journey from Maryland to Gunderson Marine, where she was assembled, and up the Willamette River by barge to take her perch atop the Portland Building’s previously empty second story platform.

Nine months from now, novelist and new journalist Tom Wolfe will write about this morning in the July 14, 1986, edition of Newsweek: “I looked, I blinked, I looked again, I blinked some more, I rubbed my eyes...Great Godalmighty...A gigantic woman, made of hammered copper, glorious, goddesslike, gleaming in the sun, her hair pulled back, a Greek toga draped from her shoulder, her immense right arm reaching down, down, down toward the multitudes.”

But on this October morning, Mayor Bud Clark boisterously paddles a canoe up the Willamette in lederhosen, “his King of Diamonds beard visible from the shore,” as Wolfe observed—though it was the previous mayor, Frank Ivancie, who’d worked so hard to sell Portlandia to those who needed convincing.

In 10 years, they’ll say her westward gaze is in the wrong direction, that the east holds Portland’s commercial future. Just before the turn of the century, they’ll try to move her to the river, ostensibly forgetting her roots as an architectural statement altogether, and they’ll be beaten back. Ten years after that, her name will be borrowed for the title of a TV show.

But now, in 1985, MAX lines are under construction, and as yet there’s no Moda Center blotting out the eastern city, no Oregon Convention Center spires caught between sheets of cloud. Now, the big news is a glinting figure strapped unnaturally to a boat, plodding slowly upriver, and 10,000 Portlanders collecting for a view of the giant woman who stepped out of the city seal with the color of a new penny to kneel above the masses in an affixed neoclassical position. 

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“I felt six-and-a-quarter tons lighter,” says artist and architect Raymond Kaskey from his Maryland home, recalling that Sunday morning in 1985 when Portlandia was finally hoisted to the pedestal that architect Michael Graves had designed for her. The weeks, months, and years leading up to the monument’s big moment had been anything but smooth for Kaskey.

After beating out hundreds of entrants in 1982’s national call for a sculpture to accompany Graves’ new Portland Building—the competition hosted by Portland’s Metropolitan Arts Commission (now known as Regional Arts & Culture Council), the sculpture funded by the One Percent for the Arts program—Kaskey was awarded a $198,000 commission to create what would be the largest copper repoussé (hammered copper) sculpture in the country, next to the Statue of Liberty.

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Photos courtesy of RACC. Published with the permission of Raymond Kaskey.

TOP LEFT TO BOTTOM RIGHT: Portlandia’s journey to Portland began in Kaskey’s studio in Washington, D.C. Once complete, she was shipped in pieces and reassembled on Swan Island, barged down the Willamette River, craned onto a flatbed, paraded through downtown, and hoisted to her current perch at SW 5th Avenue & SW Main Street.

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With check in hand, the 40-year-old Carnegie Mellon and Yale-trained architect and sculptor embarked on his first major commission—a commission, says Kaskey, from which he built a career. He estimated an 18-month timeline for the job, and went back to Maryland to get to work around Christmas of 1982.

“My mentor and guru, a fella named Ken Bloomer who’s a sculptor and architect, suggested I do it in hammered copper because he’d done a lot of hammered brass sculpture,” explains Kaskey. “He said if I came up to his studio, he’d show me how to do it, and I [learned the repoussé techniques] in a weekend,” says Kaskey.

Before landing the Portlandia commission, he’d never attempted a figure in hammered copper.

It was a risky move on Kaskey’s part—one that would never fly by today’s public art standards—and it didn’t pay off, at least not in the short run. By month 18, Kaskey wasn’t done sculpting. Portlandia was in pieces, and he was running out of money.

“I had to come to Portland and explain to the city council why I wasn’t going to get it done on time or on budget,” says Kaskey, “and of course it was written up in The Oregonian, and Charles Hall read that and decided he’d make it his cause...bringing Portlandia to Portland.”

When speaking of schizophrenia, Huxtable was referring to the shift from Bauhaus-inspired, modernist design trends to post-modernist elaboration, noting how previous practitioners of utilitarian architecture were now scrambling toward new ideas—ideas of adornment and historical allusion—for which Graves was at the forefront. She called the Portland Building the “post-modernist building of the year” and Graves the “it” architect of a burgeoning movement.

In 1982, reporter Kathie Durbin wrote of the public support for Graves’ Portland Building and the centrality of Portlandia within its design: “Attention focused on the free-flowing garlands, the tiny windows, the fanciful rooftop pavilions—but most of all, it focused on Portlandia, a female figure based on Lady Commerce, the woman on the Portland city seal, seemingly in flight, bearing a shaft of wheat in one hand, a trident in the other.”

This is to say, part of what sold the public on Graves’ then radical new building was Portlandia, which acted as the complex’s decadent, neoclassical middle finger to minimalist design trends—no more flat skyscrapers, no more acreages of mirrored glass framed in steel lines. We will not bore you, she declared.

“I looked, I blinked, I looked again, I blinked some more, I rubbed my eyes...Great Godalmighty...A gigantic woman, made of hammered copper, glorious, goddesslike, gleaming in the sun, her hair pulled back, a Greek toga draped from her shoulder, her immense right arm reaching down, down, down toward the multitudes.” –Journalist Tom Wolfe Charles B. Hall, who in the early 1980s was launching a public relations and marketing firm, remembers it differently. “I heard something on the radio about Kaskey’s problem,” recalls Hall, whereupon he decided to put his skills as a marketer to use. Hall reverse engineered the completion and delivery of Portlandia in his head, and then hatched a plan to raise funds and wrangle donated services to make the sculpture a reality. Under Hall’s stewardship, the Portlandia to Portland Committee was born.

With a private sector funding injection of $100,000, as well as inkind donations of services for the transportation and West Coast assembly of Portlandia, Kaskey was back on track. 

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In her penultimate year at The New York Times, mother of modern American architectural criticism Ada Louise Huxtable called 1981 “the year in which schizophrenia took over.” Her statement opened an article about Michael Graves’ Portland Building, the text set next to a black and white photograph of the model Graves had presented to Portland for his winning bid.

It was the first big achievement of post-modern architecture, and with Graves’ Portland Building firmly at the tip of the spear, Portlandia was the bejeweling star of light captured on its piercing point. Furthermore, Portlandia and the Portland Building served as facets of the same statement. The oversized deco keystone and the bleeding robot eyes of the building’s west face were intended as the backdrop to a contrasting, classical figure, Portlandia.

Portlandia, symbolizing commerce and strength—symbolizing the city as it has persisted over time—was an ornament that pushed the mind toward the past, while Graves’ blocky clay-hued pinks and reflective strips of windows pulled the viewer toward the present. The combination of architectural and artistic allusions relied on one another to achieve the intended, contrasting visual and historical relationship. The alchemy of eras surpassed the contemporary and entered the visionary.

But it didn’t take long for people to forget.

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Magnificent PORTLANDIA QUICK FACTS about our “Copper Goddess”

SIZE: 38 feet tall (from

tip of her outstretched finger to tip of her trident) If she stood up she would be 50 feet tall. She is a third of the size of the Statue of Liberty, weighing 6 1/2 tons.

TRIDENT: Represents

Portland’s navigational and commercial heritage.

ARTIST: Raymond Kaskey, from Washington, D.C., completed her in three years. She is based on the female figure from the Portland City Seal who represents commerce.

He modeled her face after his wife.

STATS: She is the second largest hammered copper sculpture in the nation (NY’s Lady Liberty being the first).

WHAT IS SHE MADE OUT OF? Hammered

cooper into a fiber-glass mold, known as repoussé.

UPKEEP: Unlike the

patina-green Statue of Liberty, Portlandia has retained her original bronze color due to an occasional waxing and her nonexposure to salt water.

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By the time 1995 rolled around, Portlandia’s initial significance had been eroded by time, a sense of entitlement to take liberties with her legacy was in the air, and Lady Commerce’s westward gaze—symbolically toward Asia and Portland’s long-standing commercial relationships with the continent past the Pacific—was in the crosshairs.

On the occasion of Portlandia’s 10th birthday, The Oregonian’s James Mayer wrote an account of the decade following the sculpture’s installation: “Most of Portland’s physical changes have taken place on the east side, metaphorically as well as literally, behind ‘Portlandia’s’ back. To name a few: The Convention Center, light rail, a revitalized Broadway area, remodeled Lloyd Center, the Rose Garden arena, new government offices.” In the same article, Mayer quoted an eastside planning consultant, Peter Fry: “The trouble is, Portlandia is facing the wrong direction...She can’t see what’s different.”

The following years brought a public debate about the possible relocation of Portlandia to a neveractualized pedestal on the waterfront, and then things went relatively quiet...

In a 2003 issue of The Oregonian, D.K. Row reported on an installation by an artist named Amos Latteier that was being hosted in the Portland Building’s lobby. The interactive project, “Be Portlandia,” waded in the uninventive end of the relational aesthetics pool: take up a trident and get your picture taken as a photo booth cutout of the iconic Portlandia. Any and all were invited to pose, many passersby participated, and when the project was complete, it fizzled to a blip in the archives.

“Let’s just say the degree of difficulty in doing something like that doesn’t sound very high, the bar is set kind of low, in my opinion,” comments Kaskey by phone, delivering his opinion of “Be Portlandia” in a verbal eyeroll that acknowledges the dehistoricization of his monument and its moment—a moment when rules were broken with strength and vision.

Lazy though it might have been, Latteier’s “Be Portlandia” presented itself as an example of the contemporary reculturization of not just Portlandia as a symbol of the city, but of the city itself. 

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“I’ve only seen the first season,” says Kaskey of the alternative sketch-comedy television show, Portlandia. Kaskey holds the copyright to the image of Portlandia, presiding over the use of his sculpture’s visage in movies and on beer bottles and the like, and he doesn’t have anything qualitative to say about the Independent Film Channel TV show that bears his sculpture’s name. The question at hand: what does Portlandia mean nowadays?

Now that the word has warped and shifted in significance over time, what does it say as a symbol of Portland, Oregon?

It’s unclear if Kaskey or anyone else has the answer, but it seems fair to assume that the vast majority of people will think of artisanal knots and absurd cultural extremes when they hear the erstwhile magic word. Hyperbolic instances of hipsters mocking hipsters will come to mind before defiant architectural statements or regal, classical imagery.

Like Amos Latteier’s “Be Portlandia,” the TV show acts to reculturize the word. And like the sculpture, both projects attempt to capture the defining characteristics of Portland and its citizens. But what they don’t do is ask for permission; they don’t seek to know how we’d like to be characterized.

“I’m realizing now [that the creation of the Portlandia sculpture] was like the first example of crowdfunding, only nobody had heard of that term,” quips Kaskey. Not only was his design selected by way of public vote, but when Kaskey ran out of resources to finish the sculpture, it was the people of Portland who came to save the day, giving freely their time, money, and labor to ensure that the symbol they selected for the city would come to life and persist for years to come.

So maybe Portlandia isn’t so much a symbol of strength or commerce or port city values, but rather, of teamwork. Of people coming together to say, this is how we wish to be known. In Kaskey’s Portlandia, there’s something of the willful identity, of the freedom to choose how we express ourselves collectively. And there’s no forum quite like it today.

There may never be another…

Then again, history that’s forgotten often repeats itself, and in the case of Portlandia that may not be a bad thing. Another collective symbol of Portland, one created today with the guidance of the people, could be a spectacle beyond anything we’ve yet dared to imagine. .

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LIKE OUR COVER ART? WANT TO SEE WHERE IT COMES FROM? SO DID WE. Artslandia visited Whitney Nye in her Northwest Portland studio in the Carton Service building, a spacious room flooded with natural light where she showed us an array of creations, from sculpture studies smaller than a breadbox to massive paintings and collages. An avid recycler, Nye not only uses secondhand materials in much of her work—she also re-uses her own art supplies! Discarded puzzle pieces and dress pattern scraps have found their way into her abstract compositions, as have flattened paint tubes and strips of masking tape from her prior projects.

Nye is a graduate of University of Oregon and a fixture at Laura Russo Gallery, and her pieces have been shown at PDX, Disjecta, and the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art.

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POWER. BEAUTY. artistic directors jamey hampton + ashley roland

BodyVox

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December 3–19, 2015 artistic directors Center jamey hampton + ashley roland BodyVox Dance 2:00pm & 7:30pm

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CONTACT DANCE FILM FESTIVAL January 7–10, 2016

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SKINNER/KIRK DANCE ENSEMBLE February 11–20, 2016

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Led by Emmy Award-winning choreographers Jamey Hampton and Ashley Roland, BodyVox is a world-renowned touring dance company that makes its home in a century-old carriage house located in Portland’s Pearl District.

DANCE CLASSES Beginning-Level Classes Professional-Level Classes Kids, Toddlers, Teens, Adults

MOVE YOUR BODY/ FIND YOUR VOX The BodyVox Dance Center, Portland’s center for dance education, creativity, and performance is located on the streetcar line in the Pearl District. In addition to serving as the home to Portland’s world-renowned dance company, the BodyVox Dance Center offers dance classes for all ages and abilities.

Taught by an exceptional roster of professional dancers and teaching artists, BodyVox provides instruction in ballet, jazz, hip-hop, contemporary, yoga, fitness, and stretching.

BodyVox will let chance rule the dance with the December opener of their 2015–16 season, The Spin. Twenty dances will be rehearsed, prepped, and ready to spring into action, with only the outcome of a live, interactive game show to determine which dance comes next. Join this wild adventure where we find risk is the first step to invention.

In January, BodyVox and the Northwest Film Center present the first Contact Dance Film Festival, with plans to hold this event annually. Featuring multiple programs, the festival will explore the best of this synthesis of art forms offered by filmmakers and choreographers from around the world.

In February, BodyVox presents the skinner/kirk DANCE ENSEMBLE and their exceptional company of dancers in a new program set to live music.

In March, BodyVox embarks on an unprecedented approach to dance-making with the Pearl Dive Project. Eight creatives, who have never danced, will be handed the choreography keys to BodyVox’s high-octane company of dancers. What will happen when artists and innovators immerse themselves in a craft they’ve never considered?

Finally, in July 2016, BodyVox and Chamber Music Northwest tackle the Bard with Death and Delight, a double bill that includes Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet and A Midsummer Night’s Dream. The sensational pianist Melvin Chen will provide live music. Season tickets start at $75.

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Elena Yraguen, Abigail Robertson & Katherine Dean of CLASSICAL BALLET ACADEMY enjoy swanning around this glassy pond at Westmoreland Park, a few leaps and pirouettes from their neighborhood studio.

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BALLETIC. ARTISTIC. CONTEMPORARY. NURTURING. PROFESSIONAL.

Classical Ballet Academy FOUNDED BY SARAH RIGLES, 2003

THE NUTCRACKER

TOP: Naomi Rux in Swan Lake, 2015. Photo by Anna Rigles. BOTTOM: Fiona Staczek in YAGP, 2014. Photo by Visual Arts Masters. OPPOSITE: Photo by NashCO Photography.

December 18–20, 2015 Located in the heart of Sellwood, Classical Ballet Academy (CBA) has been training and inspiring exceptional dancers for more than 11 years. It is not your average neighborhood ballet school. The school attracts dancers from all over the Portland area, all of them drawn by CBA’s excellent offerings: outstanding faculty, diverse dance training and styles, professional performance and competition opportunities, and a commitment to nurturing dancers of all backgrounds and experience levels. After extensive remodeling, CBA’s facility houses three professional dance studios to accommodate its more than 350 students. Many of CBA’s dancers participate in elite dance competitions such as Youth America Grand Prix and New York City Dance Alliance, where they gain wider exposure to ballet company directors from around the world and frequently land scholarships to prestigious summer dance programs such as Ballet West in Utah and The Bolshoi Ballet in Russia.

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MORE INFORMATION Prospective students (or their families) should contact Classical Ballet Academy for more information about any of its excellent programs.

Dance enthusiasts in the Portland area have likely come to know CBA through its impressive full-length productions, offered twice a year, and its annual charity dance event. In December, the studio stages the traditional Nutcracker and Cracked, which is a wry “contemporary” version of the holiday classic. Both productions feature original choreography, elaborate costumes and sets, and superb dancing, and are held in Portland State University’s beautiful Lincoln Hall. Though entirely student performed, the series offers spectacular artistry and entertainment and gives every other holiday show in town a run for its money.

In early spring, CBA puts on Dance Collaborations, an annual fundraising show that benefits different charity causes and features cutting-edge

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Director and founder Sarah Rigles summarizes Classical Ballet Academy’s unique qualities in this way: “I think it’s rare to find a ballet school that’s both compassionate and welcoming to all dancers but also intense, professional, and elite. The dancers at CBA work very, very hard, but we all support one another. I think the combination of high expectations and kindness is a big factor in CBA’s success.”

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contemporary and modern choreography as well as classical repertoire.

In May, CBA stages ambitious full-length story ballets and exciting contemporary shows. Productions from past seasons include Swan Lake, Cinderella, Sleeping Beauty, Don Quixote, and Coppélia.

In May 2016, you won’t want to miss Classical Ballet Academy’s full-length productions of A Midsummer Night’s Dream and The Villains, both performed by CBA’s gifted pre-professional students. Join the growing number of dance aficionados who have discovered that CBA productions are never amateurish but instead offer breathtaking dance, exciting choreography, and a glimpse of the dancers who will command the professional stages of the future.

TICKETS $12–$25

CLASSICAL BALLET ACADEMY

Children’s Program—Creative Movement through Ballet 4 (ages 3–12): begins with an introduction to movement and dance; transitions to ballet foundations and training; includes performance opportunities.

Open Teen/Adult Program (ages 13 and up): ballet training for those who are interested in the joy of dance but are not pursuing a dance career; some performance opportunities.

Pre-professional Ballet, Contemporary, Modern, and Jazz Program (ages 9–22): training for serious, dance-careeroriented students; extensive performance and competition/audition opportunities.

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JEFFERSON DANCERS

The lines of this iconic fountain complement the contemporary moves of JEFFERSON DANCERS. This dance company and the sculpture were both established in Portland in the ‘70s.

Frank Beach Memorial Fountain Lee Kelly, 1975

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ELITE. PRE-PROFESSIONAL. ENERGETIC. YOUTHFUL. TALENTED.

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TOP & BOTTOM: Spring Concert, 2015 at Portland’5 Newmark Theatre. Photos by Blaine Truitt Covert. OPPOSITE: From left, Alison Wall, Samantha Beatty, Keessha Driscoll, and Lillian Larson. Photo by NashCO Photography.

FOUNDED BY MARY FOLBERG, 1976 This year, the Jefferson Dancers celebrate their 40th anniversary as Portland’s elite pre-professional dance company comprised entirely of full-time students of Jefferson High School. The JDs (as they are affectionately called) are the longest-running dance company in Portland. Starting in 1976, this multi-ethnic program has been a magnet for the region’s most advanced dance students who come for top-level training that has prepared generations of their predecessors for a career in dance—many of whom continue to be leaders in the dance world.

Former Jefferson Dancers have gone on to study at New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts, Juilliard, SUNY Purchase, University of North Carolina School of the Arts, CALArts, The Philadelphia High School for Creative and Performing

Arts, The Ailey School, Cornish College of the Arts, and many more. Graduates continue to perform all over the world with professional dance companies including MOMIX, Merce Cunningham, Spectrum Dance Theater, Luna Negra Dance Theater, and Batsheva Dance Company in Israel.

They are also currently performing in several Broadway productions, including Guys and Dolls, Movin’ Out, and Chicago.

The Jefferson Dancers are unique in that alumni return often to choreograph pieces for the current company. Many have returned as faculty or staff for the program. Most notably, current Artistic Director Steve Gonzales was himself originally a Jefferson Dancer under the program’s founder, Mary Folberg. An important narrative for the 2015–16 season is the theme of reunion, celebrated by returning alumni from each of the company’s past four decades who will contribute in many ways.

The Fall Gala is typically a great opportunity to help support the dancers and get a sneak peek at the company, but this year’s event in November will be a particularly exciting evening for dance, with many surprise appearances by former Jefferson Dancers. Check out www.jeffersondancers.org for updates on events.

Unlike most dance companies, the Jefferson Dancers pride themselves on their diversity and perform works in many dance styles. The company repertoire includes over 200 works of modern, tap, ballet, jazz, African, ethnic, hip-hop, aerial, and musical theater dance. Performances are throughout the year in many settings, but if you choose only one show this year, be sure to mark your calendars for the 40th anniversary Spring Concert at the Newmark Theatre, April 27–30, 2016. It is sure to be chock-full of passionate performance and poignant tributes to an incredibly longlived and well-loved Portland dance company.

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TICKETS $18–$28

JEFFERSON DANCERS

FALL GALA

Check out www.jeffersondancers.org for event updates.

WINTER DANCE RECITAL Presented by the Jefferson High School Dance Program

January 21, 2016 Jefferson High School 7:00pm

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SPRING CONCERT THE 40 TH REUNION April 27–30, 2016 VENUE: Newmark Theatre TIME: 2:00pm & 7:30pm

SPRING DANCE RECITAL Presented by the Jefferson High School Dance Program

June 2, 2016 Jefferson High School 7:00pm

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ABOUT THE PROGRAM Our mission is to provide students with the opportunity to study in a professional environment that encourages creativity, commitment, and achievement. The development of the whole student through artistic expression, technique, discipline, cultural awareness, and community involvement provides a basis for success in all aspects of life as well as a foundation for further study in the arts.

“Reinvigorated by Gonzales, a former Jefferson Dancer himself...exciting dancers and a wide variety of forms and moves by some of the best choreographers in the world.”

–BARRY JOHNSON, THE OREGONIAN

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MOXIE CONTEMPORARY BALLET

MOXIE CONTEMPORARY BALLET sees a kindred spirit in this steel sculpture. A symbol of balance and harmony, it evokes both self and other, both human and nature, both space and sound.

Friendship Circle Lee Kelly, 1990

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INSPIRE. EDUCATE. SUPPORT. CULTIVATE. INNOVATE.

MOXIE Contemporary Ballet

An innovative, collaborative, and daring repertoire that is sure to change the way people see ballet.

FOUNDED BY MARSHALL & GINA CANDLAND, 2013 Be Inspired. Be You! MOXIE is the only professional contemporary ballet school and company in the Pacific Northwest.

Gina Candland, visionary co-founder and artistic director, is the recipient of the Baryshnikov Award for Excellence in Dance Performance.

BOTTOM: Dancer Emily Schultz. Photo by Lindsay Hille. OPPOSITE: Photo by NashCO Photography.

Located in SW Portland, the company and school have built the largest professional dance space in Portland, spanning a spacious 9,000 square feet.

Their Summer 2015 Intensive brought over 150 dancers from around the world to train with an elite summer guest faculty including former dancer with Alonzo King’s LINES Ballet and Nederlands Dans Theater’s Drew Jacoby, Complexions Contemporary Ballet company dancer Doug Baum, and former Complexions company dancer Jourdan Epstein, renowned choreographer Emery LeCrone, and others, including Katherine Scherman, Marie Zvosec, and MOXIE company dancer Briley Neugebauer.

The mission of MOXIE Contemporary Ballet (MCB) is to bring classical athleticism fused with innovative and artistically fashion-forward repertoire to audiences around the world by supporting dancers and setting a new standard for healthy body types in ballet. As a pioneer, MCB is the place where dancers are inspired and educated, and where both performance and the visual arts are supported and cultivated.

OCTOBER SKY October 2015

MCB trains and seeks dancers of all shapes and sizes! In a positive environment, we teach our dancers how to work with their own bodies to become individually unique, technically proficient, athletic, and artistically daring performing artists.

MCB provides educational workshops on building a positive body image, injury prevention, health, and nutrition. Our dance community supports dancers of all shapes and sizes, helping them to find their purpose and potential as a dancer. MCB believes in portraying real bodies in ballet; dancers are never Photoshopped or made to look thinner.

The 2015–16 season, performed on the stages of Portland’5, will thrill and delight with an innovative, collaborative, and daring repertoire that is sure to change the way people see ballet. The season, which begins in October, comprises original works by Candland and emerging guest choreographers Jourdan Epstein and Emery LeCrone.

In December, the second annual production of Noel brings together dazzling feats of aerial strength coupled with MCB’s unique classical athleticism.

Choreographed by Candland, Noel will feature groundbreaking innovation in a melding of circus, ballet, and fashion. This enchanting evening tells the story of a young girl’s mischief, taking its audience on a mesmerizing flight of the imagination.

In February, MOXIE will look to the enormous talent in Portland as they draw together fellow artists and companies in a collaborative, Valentine’s Day-inspired performance event.

With celebration, MCB invites its audience to a sneak peek at the first act only of the world premiere of an entirely original production choreographed by Candland.

Set in the lushness of springtime, the production will give a creatively inspired nod to Portlanders. The premiere of the fulllength show will take place in spring of 2017.

MOXIE Contemporary Ballet is proud to be member of the artistic community of the Portland metro area, collaborating with local fairs and festivals to bring their unique style of contemporary ballet directly to community and residents through outdoor performances, such as the Rose Festival and Bite of Oregon on the waterfront.

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Newmark Theatre

NOEL

Choreographed by Candland, Noel will feature groundbreaking innovation in a melding of circus, ballet, and fashion. This enchanting evening tells the story of a young girls mischief, taking its audience on a mesmerizing flight of the imagination.

December 2015 VENUE:

Newmark Theatre

ÊTRE AIMÉ

MOXIE will look to the enormous talent in Portland as they draw together fellow artists and companies in a collaborative, Valentine’s Day-inspired performance event.

February 2016 VENUE:

Newmark Theatre

TBA

The Act I preview and world premiere of an entirely original contemporary ballet choreographed

by Artistic Director, Gina Candland.

Set in the lushness of spring, the production will give a creatively inspired nod to Portlanders.

May 2016 VENUE:

Newmark Theatre

“MOXIE is dancing for social change.” –WILLAMETTE WEEK

“MOXIE is teaching dancer’s to love and take care of their bodies and that is a worthy cause that deserves recognition.”

–CHRISTINE MATTHEWS

“Dancers are asked to be athletic, self-driven, and open-minded. You are given the tools to thrive and the rest is up to you!”

–AMANDA COLEMAN

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TICKETS $15–$47

MOXIE CONTEMPORARY BALLET

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DANCE

N W DANCE

VISIONARY. FEARLESS. ORIGINAL. DARING. KICK-ASS.

NW Dance Project

PROJECT

FOUNDED BY SARAH SLIPPER & SCOTT LEWIS, 2004

ARTISTIC DIRECTOR

SA R A H S L IPP E R

NEW NOW WOW!

October 22–24, 2015 Lincoln Hall, PSU 7:30pm

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IN GOOD COMPANY December 17–18, 2015 Revolution Hall 7:30pm

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LOUDER THAN WORDS March 17–19, 2016

Newmark Theatre 7:30pm

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SUMMER SPLENDORS June 9–11, 2016

Lincoln Hall, PSU 7:30pm

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CREATIVE CENTER CLASSES NW Dance Project’s beautiful new Creative Center, located at 211 NE 10th Avenue in the bustling Central Eastside district, offers a multitude of classes and workshops for adults and youth from the absolute beginner to advanced professional, taught by professional instructors and dance mentors with years of teaching experience. Beginning classes are a fun way to get fit while gaining dance experience. For more experienced dancers, classes are more technical, advanced, and challenging.

NW Dance Project’s year-round youth training programs and special dance camps offer exceptional training for dancers 4 to 18 years old and are always a lot of fun!

“...an essential part of the city’s arts scene.”

–THE OREGONIAN

“...some of the best dancers you will ever see.”

–CALGARY HERALD

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With over 175 works created and premiered in Portland, international awards including winner of the 2011 Sadler’s Well Global Dance Contest and three winners of the Princess Grace Award, accolades and standing ovations from audiences near and far, NW Dance Project is Portland’s world class contemporary dance company.

Founded in 2004 by acclaimed dancer, mentor, and choreographer Sarah Slipper, NW Dance Project is dedicated to the creation and performance of inspired, all-original contemporary dance works. Portland audiences experience their stunning new works first in four unique shows per year!

NW Dance Project ends their exciting 2015–16 season with their ode to the season of light and warmth with Summer Splendors, a special show featuring a world premiere from Sarah Slipper; their sixth original work from Carla Mann; and a new creation from their 2014 Pretty Creatives International Choreographic Competition winner, Lesley Telford.

Don’t miss the Portland company that is “moving dance forward” and has grabbed the attention and earned the acclaim of the contemporary dance world.

For NW Dance Project’s October season opener, NEW NOW WOW!, the company is commissioning new works from fast-rising choreographers Jirí Pokorný and Felix Landerer, and featuring the return of the stunning Mother Tongue from Ihsan Rustem, their new resident choreographer. Then, they turn the choreographic duties over to their talented company dancers for the annual “hip-unholiday-show,” In Good Company, at Revolution Hall. Returning to the Newmark stage in the spring, the company will perform Sarah Slipper’s gripping Airys, Alex Soares’ electrifying Trace in Loss, as well their fourth world premiere work from Ihsan Rustem at Louder Than Words.

TEL. 503.828.8285

TICKETS $15–$60

NORTHWEST DANCE PROJECT

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TOP: Dancers Ching Ching Wong and Viktor Usov. BOTTOM: Dancer Franco Nieto. Photos by Blaine Truitt Covert.

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DANCE

MOVING. VIBRANT. AWE-INSPIRING. ENTHRALLING. PASSIONATE.

Northwest Dance Theatre FOUNDED BY JUNE TAYLOR-DIXON, 1988

A NUTCRACKER TEA December 12–20, 2015

The Performing Arts Center, PCC Sylvania TIME: 2:00pm & 7:00pm VENUE:

PETER AND THE WOLF AND OTHER WORKS April 16–17, 2016

The Performing Arts Center, PCC Sylvania TIME: 2:00pm & 7:00pm VENUE:

ABOUT THE ARTISTIC DIRECTORS

Northwest Dance Theatre (NWDT) is a youth ballet company dedicated to bringing preprofessional dance productions to the community and providing aspiring young dancers the opportunity to grow as artists and performers. Founded in 1988 by June Taylor-Dixon, NWDT has given hundreds of dancers, ages 12 to 19, the chance to take their art and talent to the public, while nurturing their performing qualities. Many have gone on

to lead successful professional dance and artrelated careers. Firmly grounded in classical technique, NWDT’s repertoire has grown over the years to comprise various classical ballets and innovative contemporary and modern works by both local and internationally acclaimed choreographers.

Committed to serving the community, NWDT strives to make dance accessible for all with affordable ticket prices. Additionally, NWDT brings the joy of dance to community members who have little to no access to the arts by providing educational outreach programs during the performance season at public libraries, schools, and retirement homes throughout the greater metropolitan area.

TOP & BOTTOM: Photos by James McGrew.

NWDT is thrilled to begin its 27th season under the artistic direction of Taylor-Dixon and Gretta Murray-Marchek with its family friendly adaptation of the holiday story ballet classic, A Nutcracker Tea, this December. In April, the company will perform its mixed bill program, Peter and the Wolf and Other Works, featuring the perfect balance of classical and contemporary works for all ages to enjoy. Join Northwest Dance Theatre this 2015–2016 season and experience the excitement and passion these talented young dancers bring to the stage.

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TEL. 503.925.3898

TICKETS $10–$30

NORTHWEST DANCE THEATRE

June Taylor-Dixon and Gretta MurrayMarchek share a strong foundation in the Royal Academy of Dance method. Born in England, Taylor-Dixon danced professionally throughout Europe, ending her dance career with the Wiesbaden Stadtsopera Company.

Taylor-Dixon founded June Taylor’s School of Dance in 1984 and Northwest Dance Theatre in 1988. Gretta Murray-Marchek was born in New Zealand and has performed with Pacific Northwest Ballet, Oregon Ballet Theatre, Burklyn Ballet Theatre, and Louisville Ballet.

She joined NWDT’s artistic staff in 2003.

Both have set and choreographed numerous innovative works for NWDT. To learn more about NWDT’s performances, auditions, and master class workshops, please visit www.nwdt.org.

“There is something very special about a younger, amateur-aged group of dancers performing so close to a professional level.”

–NWDT PATRON

“It is soul-soothing and invigorating to be immersed in such beauty.”

–NWDT PATRON

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OREGON BALLET THEATRE

The dancers of OREGON BALLET THEATRE, with Artistic Director Kevin Irving, let this yellow steel ribbon encompass their multifaceted aesthetic— beautiful, yet sharp; colorful, yet strong; flashy, but with space for contemplation. And like the company’s new home, it’s right on the banks of the Willamette!

Rational Exuberance Ivan McLean, 2009

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TOP: Never Stop Falling (In Love). From left, Katherine Monogue, Eva Burton, Chauncey Parsons (in air!). BOTTOM: George Balanchine’s Agon. From left, Martina Chavez and Brian Simcoe. Photos by Blaine Truitt Covert. OPPOSITE: Photo by NashCO Photography.

HIGH-VOLTAGE. BRILLIANT. FRESH. BEAUTIFUL. MOVING.

Oregon Ballet Theatre AMORE ITALIANO

Sub Rosa, World Premiere James Kudelka, Carlos Gesualdo

FOUNDED BY JAMES CANFIELD & DENNIS SPAIGHT, 1989 If there is one unifying theme to Oregon Ballet Theatre’s 2015–16 season, it is that the future includes and embraces the past. Our pasts, like our own shadows, are with us wherever we go, and Oregon Ballet Theatre explores the beauty in both the light we cast and the shadows created by that light.

Oregon Ballet Theatre begins its 26th season with a high-spirited double bill that revels in the culture and music of Italy. Audience favorite James Kudelka (Almost Mozart) returns to Portland to choreograph a new work based on the beautiful music of late Italian Renaissance composer Carlo Gesualdo. Next, August Bournonville’s Napoli; known for its exceptional male solos, delivers a joyful, sunny spectacle evoking the exuberance of southern Italy and culminating with a delirious

tarantella! Since we like to include a dash of local color in everything we do, Portland violinist Aaron Meyer and his six-piece band will open the evening with a few selections of Italian classics.

In December, get set for a trip beyond your imagination as larger-than-life toy soldiers wage battle against an evil Mouse King, snowflakes dance, and the Sugar Plum Fairy welcomes us to the Land of Sweets. Oregon Ballet Theatre returns to the beloved tradition of George Balanchine’s The Nutcracker. Don’t miss the chance to make this confection a part of your holiday season!

Next, in the dark of February, hearts will be charged by the brutal power of a love that knows no bounds, a love that inspires a poetry that transcends even death...Oregon Ballet Theatre proudly returns James Canfield’s Romeo & Juliet to the Keller Auditorium for the first time in more than 15 years. Prepare to be swept away as OBT takes you on an unforgettable emotional journey intensified by what may be the most sublime music ever written for a ballet.

Finally, Oregon Ballet Theatre explores a personal corollary to the intertwining of past and future, juxtaposing youth and age in order to challenge our appreciation of beauty, of the bodies we live in, and of the world we share: Beautiful Decay. This full-evening work in two parts is exciting and haunting in equal measure.

Choreographer Nicolo Fonte brings an extraordinary production that balances the daring athleticism and technical prowess, for which he is so well-known, with the stark reality that with age comes a more fragile state that resonates nonetheless with the power and beauty of distant youth. Guest artists and Portland contemporary dance icons Susan Banyas and Gregg Bielemeier join the artists of Oregon Ballet Theatre, embodying Fonte’s theme that we carry all of our ages inside ourselves at all times.

Oregon Ballet Theatre’s 26th season will delight, entertain, and thrill you. It will pull at your heartstrings. It will make you smile. It will shake up your expectations of an evening at the ballet and maybe, just maybe, give you a new perspective on the world around you. We hope you will join us for this wonderful season of discoveries.

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TICKETS $31 & UP

OREGON BALLET THEATRE

Napoli Act III, OBT Premiere August Bournonville, Holger Simon Paulli

October 10–17, 2015 Keller Auditorium Th–Sat 7:30pm; Sun 2:00pm

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GEORGE BALANCHINE’S THE NUTCRACKER

George Balanchine, Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky. Featuring the OBT orchestra for select performances.

December 12–26, 2015 Keller Auditorium Th–Sat 7:30pm; Sat, Sun 2:00pm; Th 12/23 12:00pm VENUE: TIME:

ROMEO AND JULIET

MAJOR REVIVAL James Canfield, Sergei Prokofiev.

Featuring the OBT orchestra for all performances.

February 27–March 5, 2016 VENUE: Keller Auditorium TIME:

Th–Sat 7:30pm; Sat, Sun 2:00pm

BEAUTIFUL DECAY

OBT PREMIERE Nicolo Fonte, Antonio Vivaldi, Max Richter, Olafur Arnalds.

With special guest artists Susan Banyas and Gregg Bielemeier.

April 14–23, 2016 Newmark Theatre Th–Sat 7:30pm; Sat, Sun 2:00pm

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“OBT is clearly reaching out, taking steps to appeal to a wider audience, and taking the risks necessary to make itself relevant in the turbid waters of cultural criticism…It also shows the audience that ballet can productively straddle the line between tradition and the more personal visions that sometimes challenge it.

Here’s to 25 more years!”

–RENE BERMUDEZ, PORTLAND MONTHLY

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THE PORTLAND BALLET

Lincoln Hall’s classical revival architecture, complete with marble and columns, is a work of art. Co-artistic Directors, Nancy Davis and Anne Mueller with the dancers of THE PORTLAND BALLET call this work of art home base for performing and collaborating with the PSU Symphony.

Lincoln Hall Morris H. Whitehouse, 1911

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INNOVATIVE. CLASSICAL. INSPIRING. CHALLENGING. COMMITTED.

The Portland Ballet THANKSGIVING WEEKEND

FOUNDED BY JIM LANE & NANCY DAVIS, 2001 The Portland Ballet (TPB) is well known for its annual Thanksgiving Weekend production.

Audiences appreciate TPB at Thanksgiving for its artistry, its professional experience at affordable prices, its early start to a busy season…and its Nutcracker alternative!

The Thanksgiving Weekend production, with original staging, costumes, sets, and live music by the PSU Orchestra, embodies a standard of excellence that’s at play every day in The Portland Ballet studios. TPB’s superb faculty, all with careerlong experience at leading ballet companies across the world, nurture young dancers in the Russian School. TPB dancers are trained with professional intent, and they thrive with the enrichment and expectation that brings.

This November, The Portland Ballet reprises John Clifford’s Firebird, with music by Stravinsky, and dances the world premiere of Anne Mueller’s Day by Day set to Mozart’s String Quartet No. 22 in B Flat Major.

With Portland State University Orchestra, Ken Selden Conducting

Among the qualities that distinguish TPB is its family feeling. Husband and wife co-founders Nancy Davis and Jim Lane trained at George Balanchine’s School of American Ballet and danced with leading American companies before joining John Clifford’s Los Angeles Ballet. Their daughter Lauren Lane, principal dancer with the St. Louis Ballet, trained at TPB. There are many family connections among the faculty and students, including parents and children, siblings and cousins.

The atmosphere in the studio is focused but nurturing—filled with the joy of achievement.

TPB faculty includes leading contemporary dance choreographers Gregg Bielemeier and Josie Moseley. Davis and Lane continually expose their students to master teachers such as Jacques d’Amboise, Evelyn Cisneros, Jorge Esquivel, Alonzo King, Alison Roper, Christopher Stowell, and Marianna Tcherkassky. The company’s repertoire includes classic and contemporary ballets by Ashton, Ballard, Bournonville, Caniparoli, Clifford, Dolin, Fokine, McIntyre, Moseley, Mueller, Perrot, Petipa, Spaight, and Tess. At its 2015 Spring Concert, TPB debuted the eighth ballet to be granted by the George Balanchine Trust, the iconic Tchaikovsky Pas de Deux.

TOP & BOTTOM: Photos by Blaine Truitt Covert. OPPOSITE: Photo by NashCO Photography.

Former Oregon Ballet Theatre principal dancer and 2012–13 Interim Artistic Director, Anne Mueller joined TPB as co-artistic director in August 2015. The immediate effect of her extensive performing, teaching, and management experience is the establishment of a pre-professional division and a year-round performance schedule.

Launching in fall 2015, TPB’s Career Track will train advanced dancers in a daily, intensive, and professionally-minded practice. Training will be honed through public performance throughout the metro area. Having completed TPB’s Career Track, dancers will be well-poised to join leading companies where TPB alumni have danced to the delight of audiences everywhere, such as Pacific Northwest Ballet, Pittsburgh Ballet Theatre, Nevada Dance Theatre, Grand Rapids Ballet, Sacramento Ballet, Oregon Ballet Theatre, Houston Ballet, Alvin Ailey, St. Louis Ballet, Ballet West, Eugene Ballet, and many others.

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TEL. 503.452.8448

TICKETS $5–$35

THE PORTLAND BALLET

DAY BY DAY Mozart/Mueller (World Premiere) FIREBIRD Stravinsky/Clifford

November 27–29, 2015 Lincoln Hall, PSU 1:00pm & 4:00pm

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SPRING CONCERT MERCURY HALF-LIFE (excerpts) Queen/McIntyre VALSE-FANTAISIE Glinka/Balanchine TBA Gregg Bielemeier RAYMONDA PAS DE DIX Glazunov/Petipa

May 6 & 7, 2016 VENUE: TIME:

Lincoln Hall, PSU

7:00pm

STUDIO COMPANY DEBUT

PROGRAM TBA June 10–12, 2016

The Portland Ballet Studio Theater 7:30pm

VENUE: TIME:

“Fast-paced choreography, clearly and musically executed…a pleasure to watch.” –MARTHA ULLMAN WEST, THE OREGONIAN, NOVEMBER 2011

“The instruction is always first rate, and it is nice now to have a facility that matches the ballet education. I couldn’t be happier with the decision to move my daughter to TPB three years ago. It really feels like home for her.”

–SHARLA, TPB PARENT

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VIBRANT. SPINE-TINGLING. PASSIONATE. MESMERIZING. GRIPPING.

White Bird FOUNDED BY WALTER JAFFE AND PAUL KING, 1997

MOMIX

OCTOBER 8–10, 2015 VENUE: Newmark Theatre TIME: Th–Sat 7:30pm;

Sat 2:00pm

TWYLA THARP

OCTOBER 14, 2015

VENUE: Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall TIME: 7:30pm

L-E-V

OCTOBER 15–17, 2015 VENUE: Lincoln Hall, PSU TIME: 8:00pm

BALLET BC

NOVEMBER 18, 2015

VENUE: Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall TIME: 7:30pm

SOLEDAD BARRIO & NOCHE FLAMENCA DECEMBER 3–5, 2015

TOP: MOMIX. Photo by Max Pucciariello. BOTTOM: TIMBER!. Photo by Nicolas Descoteaux.

VENUE: Newmark Theatre TIME: 7:30pm

Discover a world of dance as White Bird celebrates its 18th season with great women choreographers, dazzling companies from Cuba, Spain, and Brazil, and astounding acrobatic lumberjacks!

ment, passion, and artistry. Grupo Corpo one of White Bird’s most popular companies, reflects the amazing diversity, rich colors, and vibrant music of Brazil.

Founded in 1997 by Paul King and Walter Jaffe, White Bird is dedicated to bringing the world’s best contemporary dance to Portland audiences.

San Francisco’s acclaimed ODC/Dance makes its Portland debut with work by three outstanding women choreographers, and White Bird’s first Cuban company Malpaso Dance Company brings a thrilling program enhanced by the live music of Arturo O’Farrill’s Afro-Latin Jazz Ensemble.

White Bird opens its season with the spellbinding dancer-illusionists of MOMIX and their brand new show Alchemia, followed by a breathtaking new program by the legendary Twyla Tharp, worldfamous for her dances for Hollywood, Broadway, ballet, and modern dance.

Canada’s Ballet BC showcases dynamic move-

Spain’s Soledad Barrio & Noche Flamenca will perform dance and music that is enthralling and deeply emotional. From Quebec, home to world famous circus companies, comes Cirque Alfonse and TIMBER!, a jaw-dropping spectacle of agility and strength by acrobatic lumberjacks, accompanied by French Canadian musicians.

White Bird’s adventurous Uncaged Series features groundbreaking Israeli choreographer Sharon Eyal’s L-E-V, French-Algerian, all-male Compagnie Hervé Koubi, awardwinning Kyle Abraham, blending hip-hop with modern dance, and world-acclaimed Crystal Pite with her company Kidd Pivot in a gripping new dance/theatre work in collaboration with Vancouver, British Columbia’s Electric Company Theatre.

WEB WHITEBIRD.ORG

TEL. 503.245.1600

TICKETS $25 & UP

WHITE BIRD

@WHITEBIRDDANCE

COMPAGNIE HERVÉ KOUBI JANUARY 28 –30, 2016 VENUE: Lincoln Hall, PSU TIME: 8:00pm

KYLE ABRAHAM

MARCH 10 –12, 2016

VENUE: Newmark Theatre TIME: 8:00pm

GRUPO CORPO MARCH 30, 2016

VENUE: Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall TIME: 7:30pm

KIDD PIVOT

MARCH 31–APRIL 2, 2016 VENUE: Newmark Theatre TIME: 8:00pm

ODC/DANCE

APRIL 7–9, 2016

VENUE: Newmark Theatre TIME: 7:30pm

TIMBER!

APRIL 19 –20, 2016

VENUE: Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall TIME: 7:30pm

MALPASO DANCE COMPANY

MAY 4, 2016

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Off work early? Just this once. You're almost ready to go see a show, pending one final question: what to wear? Artslandia is not the only organization to notice that Portlanders tend to dress down for performances. The rumor around town is that arts organizations are considering a "dress up night" once a week, allowing those who are fashionably inclined to let their finery shine. Artslandia wondered what that might look like, so we asked the city's finest clothiers and performers to put together looks for different types of shows.

Some of their choices perfectly fit the bill, while others irreverently change the game.

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STREETWISE AND SUBTLE.

Look, man, you don’t want to torture the metaphor. Make them work for it.

Be unabashed and unvarnished and real, then make them come to you.

Dressing for contemporary theater should strike a fine balance. You want to dress with respect and take the play seriously—on the other hand, an open collar signifies an open mind.

Put some work and thought into your style, but stay approachable and open to surprises.

SHOP THIS LOOK! Mario's, an elite outfitter in Portland and Seattle, asked Portland senior men’s buyer Simon Chan to put together a casually elegant look for Gilberto Martin del Campo, a prominent (and very tall!) local figure in Portland's Latino and contemporary theater scenes. Stretch plays a major role here, giving his wool-blend sport coat and maroon jeans a close but unforced fit. Patterns in the shirt and pocket square add enough texture to skip a tie, while the steel watch and suede sneakers send intentionally mixed messages of business and pleasure.

VISIT MARIO’S

833 SW Broadway or at Bridgeport Village www.marios.com 503.227.3477 ON GILBERTO: Boglioli stretch wool sport coat (from $1595), "3 X 1" maroon stretch denim jeans ($245), Prada cotton shirt ($610), Isaia pocket square ($125), Lanvin suede shoe ($495), Torino leather belt ($95), Packouz Jewelers, Carl F. Bucherer "Patravi" stainless steel watch ($11,200).

MODEL Gilberto Martin del Campo, actor YOU MAY HAVE SEEN GILBERTO IN The Liar at Artists Rep.

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MODEL Merideth Kaye Clark, Broadway actor YOU MAY HAVE SEEN MERIDETH IN Joni Mitchell’s Blue at Portland Center Stage or in the first national tour of Wicked as Elphaba.

PERSONALITY PLUS!

On Broadway of all places, it’s okay to go big! It’s okay to get loud, to make an entrance, to make a scene, to be seen across a crowded room! You can choose colors that’ll knock ‘em dead like jewel tones and tropical hues—and if you’ve got some kicking gams, go ahead and flaunt ‘em with a short hem and a barely-there strappy heel.

If you eschew sequins or beads in favor of a fashionable solid, add some razzle-dazzle with sparkling accessories.

SHOP THIS LOOK! FlairWalk, a popular Pearl District boutique, took this assignment in stride! FlairWalk owner and stylist Sara Weinstein plays up Broadway actor Merideth's considerable pizazz in a fuchsia hue that's super-hot right now (available seasonally in different colors).

This silk crepe dress with a skosh of stretch hangs beautifully on the figure, while fluttering butterfly sleeves add sheer drama to every gesture. A white gold and diamond earring and ring set from Packouz Jewelers and the stylist's own gold-tone heels help the outfit shine from head to toe.

VISIT FL AIRWALK

402 NW 12th Avenue www.flairwalk.com 503.222.7750 ON MERIDETH: 92% silk stretch crepe dress with bateau neck and butterfly sleeve ($350), Packouz Jewelers Collection 18k white gold earrings and ring with princess, round, and baguette cut diamonds; earrings, 4.97carats ($15,900); ring, 2.79 carats ($9,900), stylist's own shoes.

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RELAX, AND EXPRESS YOURSELF!

Lovers of classical and symphonic music have a struggle: convincing new audiences that it’s not a stuffy space!

In that spirit, dare to wear something comfortable—even something sexy and fitted—into the hallowed halls of an orchestra concert. Avoid colors so loud they drown out the music and stick to subdued shades, but feel free to embellish your outfit with an eclectic mix of casual accessories, be they as minimal as Philip Glass or as Bohemian as Antonín Dvorák.

SHOP THIS LOOK! Folly designer, Sarah Bibb, who curates her store selection to be half Portlandmade, gave classical pianist Maria Garcia this casually elegant look for stepping back from the piano bench and taking a theater seat. A chic, simple cotton-spandex dress gets a brass necklace and earrings, a rose gold and garnet ring, and a tasseled silk scarf as points of interest, while a black patent leather tote with distressed brown edges signals down-to-earth sophistication and links jewelry to shoes.

VISIT FOLLY

1005 NW 16th Avenue www.follypdx.com 503.954.1334 ON MARIA: Velvet by Graham & Spencer cotton/ spandex body-con “Thyme” dress ($130), Hanawear quartz and oxidized brass necklace ($42) and brass color drop earrings ($24), Michael Barin 18k rose gold ring with oval garnet and diamond halo, from Packouz Jewelers ($10,220), Fredd & Basha Reece lace tote leather purse ($260), Johnny Was botanical tassel silk scarf ($92), stylist’s own shoes.

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MODEL Maria Garcia, classical pianist YOU MAY HAVE SEEN MARIA PERFORMING WITH Third Angle New Music Ensemble or XX Digitus Piano Duo.

OLD SCHOOL, LOOSE, AND IN-THE-POCKET.

MODEL Chris Brown, Saxist/Drummer YOU MAY HAVE SEEN CHRIS PLAYING WITH 234th Army Band, collaborating with Esperanza Spalding.

Jazz is a world where what’s retro feels perpetually fresh. Jazz records, jazz voices, and jazz tunes never go out of style, they just pick up a little more crackle over time.

A look that’s academic, that once felt preppy but now takes special finesse to compile, honors jazz’s post-post-post-graduate studies in musical boundary-pushing and performative chops. Try something tailored yet relaxed, in essential, versatile wardrobe hues—but don’t leave home without a pop of color.

SHOP THIS LOOK! The Haberdashery, a men’s designer consignment shop, is run

by Todd Everett Kinner, a tireless— but never tieless—devotee of all things dapper. Todd was delighted to cull through his shop’s collection of individually-available pieces and pull together this unique look for multiinstrumentalist and jazz tastemaker Chris Brown. Muted variations of the basic shades blue, brown, and black anchor this look in tradition, accented by a coral tie and funky patterned pocket square from Todd’s own line of accessories, Everett K. VISIT THE HABERDASHERY

744 NW 12th Avenue www.thehaberdasherypdx.com www.everettk.com 503.764.9243 ON CHRIS: Isaia 2 button fitted tan wool/cotton/ cashmere blazer ($350), Brooksfield slim fit spread collar 100% cotton blue striped dress shirt ($35), Ted Baker Classic 100% wool navy blue suiting vest ($65), Todd Snyder slim fit 100% wool blue dress pants ($65), Cole Haan “Double Monk” brown leather strap loafer ($125), Everett K. handmade coral red chambray diamond point self-tie bow tie ($99) and navy blue limited edition pocket square ($39), Packouz Jewelers Tudor “Heritage Advisor” stainless steel watch with black leather strap (Price upon request), model’s own glasses.

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ETHEREAL CHIC.

Man, woman, or child, everyone who attends the ballet has an inner ballerina. Indulge that spirit in clothes that flow, scarfy layers that waft, windswept-seeming sheers that play with light and shadow. No need for the body-baring, eye-grabbing attire that often shines onstage— instead choose something calmer, maintaining your graceful mystique at close range. Accessorize lightly.

Bring a small bag, if at all, and slip into a simple shoe.

SHOP THIS LOOK! Mercantile Portland jumped at the chance to give ballet dancer Candace Bouchard a softly stunning look for the lobby. A Halston chiffon ombre cocktail dress and black leather booties cast a near-spectral silhouette, the lucite, crushed glass, and pearl clutch catches the light and holds onto a few necessities. In the earrings and bracelet provided by Packouz Jewelers, more yellow gold offsets the wintry tones of the dress, while raw cut diamonds provide a surreal icy sparkle.

VISIT MERCANTILE PORTL AND

729 SW Alder Street www.mercantileportland.com 503.223.6649

ON CANDACE: Halston Heritage chiffon ombre dress ($445), Ashlyn’d acrylic crush glass clutch ($418), Marchez Vous black leather booties from Zelda's Shoe Bar ($420), Michael Barin earrings and bracelet with 18k yellow gold and raw cut diamonds; earrings, 9.33 carats diamonds ($9,460); bracelet, 97 carats of diamonds ($69,650).

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MODEL Candace Bouchard, dancer, Oregon Ballet Theatre YOU MAY HAVE SEEN CANDACE IN OBT’s Rubies, The Nutcracker, and more.

SHARP LINES, HARD SOLES.

Modern dance is full of flux and flow—so dancers’ clothes tend to flutter and stretch, with lots of bare skin and soft shoes or sock-feet. But when you go to a modern dance show, you’re not there to dance, so it’s okay to button up a little. As a savvy patron not trying to imitate the dancers, you can skip the drawstrings and sandals and instead stand out in sharp relief in a crisply tailored ensemble and the kind of dapper hard-soled shoes so verboten on a dance floor. After all, as any choreographer will tell you, a good modern dance performance is pieced together as crisply as a well-sewn suit, with a firm underlying structure, straight lines, and strength.

SHOP THIS LOOK! Duchess Clothier, Portland’s premier custom suit boutique, asked “showroom overlord” and self-described “smiler-by-day, singer-by-night” Jimmy Wilcox to outfit dancer Franco Nieto for a rare offstage cameo. Starting with an unimpeachable slim-fit charcoal gray wool/cashmere suit and French silk suspenders, Jimmy lightens the look with a multicolor striped twill shirt, an indigo cotton tie, and the dancer’s own cowboy boots. The watch, a Tudor Heritage Chrono Blue, brings the color scheme full circle.

VISIT DUCHESS

2505 SE 11th Avenue, Suite 102 www.duchessclothier.com 503.281.6648 ON FRANCO: Duchess “The 8½” custom trousers ($295), Duchess custom twill shirt ($225), Duchess custom cotton tie ($110), Duchess pocket square ($25), Scully suspenders ($40), Packouz Jewelers Tudor watch, (Price upon request), model’s own shoes and ring.

MODEL Franco Nieto, dancer, Northwest Dance Project YOU MAY HAVE SEEN FRANCO IN Northwest Dance Project’s Summer Splendors, NEW NOW WOW!, and more.

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ARTISTS REPERTORY THEATRE

ARTISTS REPERTORY THEATRE sees a lot of vibrancy in this colorful mural. Like Artists Rep’s 2015–16 season, it’s bold, captivating, and an open invitation to engage in artistic conversations.

INSTRUMENTS PROVIDED BY RHYTHM TRADERS

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INTIMATE. PROVOCATIVE. ENGAGING. PROFESSIONAL. ENTERTAINING.

Artists Repertory Theatre FOUNDED BY REBECCA ADAMS, PETER WALDRON, JOE CRONIN, AMY FOWKES, DAVID GOMES & VANA O’BRIEN, 1982 Have you heard? The party is at Artists Rep! Just a stone’s throw from downtown, sitting on an entire city block, is a big red building bustling with art-making, art-makers, and art-movers and shakers.

Within our building, creative expression soars, connections happen. Be a part of it!

From Artists Rep’s eight-play season and inventive public programming, to a new craft beer taproom with a curated selection for each show, to over a hundred arts-related activities from our companies in residence, to the Geezer Gallery’s rotating visual art installations, along with the hum of resident artists engaging with the community, Artists Rep’s ArtsHub is THE place for the Portland

community to connect and express the joy of our artistic endeavors.

Artists Rep has made a name for itself in Portland by producing intimate, provocative, professional stage plays that have challenged and entertained audiences for over three decades. When you step through the door, you’ve found a place to stay for a while. You come a little early to the show, grab a craft beer, check out the art exhibit in the lobby, mingle, and chat. You step into the theater, sitting on the edge of your seat never more than six rows from the stage, leaning forward and fully invested in what unfurls before you. After the show, you head to the lobby taproom, hang out, and talk about what you just experienced before you head out…already planning your next visit!

TOP: The Liar by David Ives. BOTTOM: Exiles by Carlos Lacámara. Photos by Owen Carey. OPPOSITE: Photo by NashCo Photography.

For our 2015–16 season, we offer you a thrillingly diverse variety of theatrical experiences that we know will keep the conversations flowing. Our long history of world premiere work will hit its peak in October as we produce the grand scale, irresistible musical sensation Cuba Libre—with an ensemble of 22 actors, dancers, and musicians, this one is so large it will be at the Winningstad Theatre. The delightfully varied show lineup shifts from Cuba Libre to moving family dramas like The Miracle Worker and Mothers and Sons, the darkly comic contemporary plays We Are Proud to Present and Broomstick, the modern-day individual struggles in The Understudy and Grand Concourse, and the epic allegorical comedy The Skin of Our Teeth. These selections give our audiences a must-see season of Broadway and off-Broadway hits, award-winning new works, and always-relevant American classics.

“Artists Rep is an exciting place to come, take in some theater and be part of a community,” says Dámaso Rodriguez, artistic director. “With our next season of spectacularly bold and theatrically diverse plays, I hope both season theatregoers and new patrons see titles that intrigue them to come see what makes Artists Rep such a remarkable place to experience theater in Portland.”

Stop by and join the party!

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TICKETS $25–$55

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THE UNDERSTUDY

September 8–October 4, 2015 Alder Stage, Artists Rep Theatre W–Sat 7:30pm; Sun 2:00 & 7:30pm

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CUBA LIBRE

October 3–November 8, 2015 Winningstad Theatre W–Sat 7:30pm; Sun 2:00 & 7:30pm

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BROOMSTICK

October 27–November 22, 2015 Morrison Stage, Artists Rep Theatre W–Sat 7:30pm; Sun 2:00 & 7:30pm

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THE MIRACLE WORKER

December 8, 2015–January 3, 2016 Alder Stage, Artists Rep Theatre W–Sat 7:30pm; Sun 2:00 & 7:30pm

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MOTHERS & SONS

February 9–March 6, 2016 Alder Stage, Artists Rep Theatre W–Sat 7:30pm; Sun 2:00 & 7:30pm

VENUE: TIME:

WE ARE PROUD TO PRESENT A Presentation about the Herero of Namibia, formerly known as South West Africa, from the German Sudwestafrika, between the years 1884–1915

March 8–April 3, 2016 Morrison Stage, Artists Rep Theatre W–Sat 7:30pm; Sun 2:00 & 7:30pm

VENUE: TIME:

GRAND CONCOURSE May 3–29, 2016

Morrison Stage, Artists Rep Theatre W–Sat 7:30pm; Sun 2:00 & 7:30pm

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THE SKIN OF OUR TEETH May 17–June 12, 2016

VENUE: Alder Stage, Artists Rep Theatre TIME:

W–Sat 7:30pm; Sun 2:00 & 7:30pm

Tuesday 7:30pm is a Pay-What-You-Can First Preview for every show.

ASL Interpreted 2:00pm matinee performance on final Saturday of every show. Open captioned 7:30pm performance on third Sunday of every show.

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In or out of the fountain, Scott Palmer and the resident artists of BAG&BAGGAGE often make a splash at Hillsboro Civic Center. It’s where they stage their summer Shakespeare shows, and it’s also a cultural hub of the community they love.

Hillsboro Civic Center, LRS Architects, 2005

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QUIRKY. INQUISITIVE. SHAMELESS. FEARLESS.

Bag&Baggage FOUNDED BY SCOTT PALMER, 2005 Bag&Baggage (B&B) has been confounding conventional wisdom for years, challenging the region’s perception of “suburban theater.” We throw down, people! Hard and fast. Every time.

TOP: Six Gentlepersons Of Verona. BOTTOM: Our Country’s Good. Photos by Casey Campbell Photography. OPPOSITE: Photo by NashCO Photography.

Our 2015–2016 season boasts six remarkable plays, including four adaptations of the best and most admired works of literature in Western culture. It’s a season of novel stagings! We start outdoors at Hillsboro’s Civic Center with the North American premiere of one of Artistic Director Scott Palmer’s most celebrated and controversial Shakespearean adaptations, Richard III. Our production places a perfectly formed Richard in the midst of a cast of historical characters whose own failings and flaws render their bodies as twisted as the spine of Shakespeare’s great villain.

In September, we present the West Coast premiere of the off-Broadway smash The Best of Everything. Based on the controversial 1958 novel

written by Rona Jaffe and adapted by playwright Julie Kramer, The Best of Everything tells the stories of ambitious secretaries living in New York City in the 1950s. With this play by a female playwright, based on a novel by a woman from the 1950s, The Best of Everything continues Bag&Baggage’s commitment to exploring the lives, stories, and artistry of strong women writers and performers.

RICHARD III

The October 2015 Halloween show is a terrifying psychological thriller that inspired a Hitchcock masterpiece—Patrick Hamilton’s Rope. In Hamilton’s taut, edgy masterpiece, two graduate students decide to murder a fellow student “just for the fun of the thing,” and then invite the victim’s friends and family to a dinner party where the corpse is hidden inside a wooden chest.

By Rona Jaffe, adapted by Julie Kramer

In December, we present our final production of the 1940s-style radio show farce, A KBNB Kristmas Karol. The golden age of radio is coming to an end, and so, too, are the careers of the stars of the fictional KBNB Radio Classics program. On Christmas Eve, the stars gather for their final broadcast only to have the show thrown (yet again) into chaos by a German postmodern sound designer, the sudden appearance of a long-lost sister, and a powerhungry television studio executive.

Spring 2016 sees one of the most innovative adaptations in recent memory: Orson Welles’ Moby Dick, Rehearsed. In Welles’ triumphant treatment of the Melville classic, a Shakespearean company is rehearsing King Lear when the director hands out copies of Moby Dick. The actors then transform the rehearsal space into the ship hunting the great white whale. We are the first company in history to get permission from the Welles’ estate to cast a woman in the lead role of Ahab!

The 2015–2016 season comes to a close in May in true B&B style with one of the most endearing, enduring novels in English literature: Jane Austen’s Emma. A beautiful and charming adaptation by Michael Fry, Jane Austen’s Emma contains all of the quirky charm and wonderful eccentricities of Austen’s cherished characters.

By William Shakespeare, adapted by Scott Palmer

July 22–August 1, 2015 VENUE: Tom Hughes Civic Center Plaza TIME: 7:30pm (outdoors)

THE BEST OF EVERYTHING September 10–27, 2015 VENUE: The Venetian Theatre TIME: Th–Sat 7:30pm; Sun 2:00pm

ROPE

By Patrick Hamilton

October 8–November 1, 2015 VENUE: The Venetian Theatre TIME: Th–Sat 7:30pm; Sun 2:00pm

A KBNB KRISTMAS KAROL

By Scott Palmer, based on A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens

November 27–December 23, 2015 VENUE: The Venetian Theatre TIME: Th–Sat 7:30pm; Sun 2:00pm

Additional performances on December 21, 22 & 23 7:30pm

MOBY DICK, REHEARSED

By Herman Melville, adapted by Orson Welles

March 3–20, 2016

VENUE: The Venetian Theatre TIME: Th–Sat 7:30pm; Sun 2:00pm

JANE AUSTEN’S EMMA

By Michael Fry

May 5–29, 2016 VENUE: The Venetian Theatre TIME: Th–Sat 7:30pm; Sun 2:00pm

“Innovation, daring, and craftsmanship to match any Portland theatre.”

–PORTLAND MONTHLY

A season of novel stagings. Provocative.

Compelling. Daring. Bag&Baggage Productions.

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GLOBAL. SURPRISING. PROVOCATIVE. ADVENTUROUS. RELEVANT.

Boom Arts FOUNDED BY RUTH WIKLER-LUKER, 2012 FALL 2015: US

ASKING FOR IT

Created and performed by Adrienne Truscott (NYC)

October 15–24, 2015 VENUE:

The Headwaters Theatre

TIME: Doors 7:30pm; Show 8:30pm Contains nudity

A KADDISH FOR BERNIE MADOFF

Created and performed

by Alicia Jo Rabins (PDX)

December 4 & 5, 2015 Disjecta 7:30pm

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SPRING 2016: INTERNATIONAL

Text by Marco Martinelli/ Teatro dell’Albe (Ravenna, Italy) Featuring the Al-Andalus Ensemble (PDX, Spain, Morocco)

January 24, 2016 Alberta Rose Theatre 4:00pm

VENUE: TIME:

FREE OUTGOING

By Anupama Chandrasekhar (Chennai, India), directed

by Snehal Desai (LA)

March 4–6, 2016

Ready for a global adventure?

Boom Arts is Portland’s source for thoughtprovoking theater and performance from around the world. Popping up in theaters and surprising spaces across the city, Boom Arts brings you innovative performances from dynamic voices in contemporary world theater. As Portland Monthly writes, “There’s only one arts organization in town producing this sort of multifaceted, immersive, and intellectually captivating theater.”

Lincoln Hall Studio Theater, PSU 7:30pm

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TEATROSOLO/ LONETHEATER

Text and direction by Matías Umpierrez (Buenos Aires, Argentina)

Opens April 30, 2016 VENUE: TIME:

Five Portland locations (TBA)

Varies

“Savvy and provocative… always intriguing” –OREGON ARTSWATCH

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TICKETS $20 & UP

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Boom Arts’ 2015–2016 season opens with Adrienne Truscott’s internationally acclaimed performance art/comedy hour Asking For It, a hilarious and provocative roast of the rape jokes currently popular among many mainstream male comedians, performed with “firecracker wit, sophistication and luminous humanity” (The Guardian, U.K.). Fancy an alternative to Ebenezer Scrooge? In December, we’re bringing back Alicia Jo Rabins’s 2014 local hit A Kaddish For Bernie Madoff, “probably the best experimental song cycle about financial corruption ever created” (Willamette Week). Our global journey revs up in January with Noise In The Waters, a singular evening of gorgeous world music and timely Italian theater about African migrants’ journey across the Mediterranean, featuring Portland’s acclaimed Al-Andalus Ensemble. In March, we bring you Free Outgoing, a taut, incisive contemporary play from India never before seen in the U.S., about adolescence in the age of the Internet. Our season concludes in May with a unique opportunity to choose your own theatrical adventure: discover how the site-specific, one-on-one plays of Matías Umpierrez’ TeatroSOLO/LONEtheater (Argentina) illuminate and transform your experience of Portland through vibrant international theater.

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TOP: Adrienne Truscott. Photo courtesy of the artist. BOTTOM: TeatroSOLO, Sao Paolo. Photo courtesy of the artist.

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THEATER

INSPIRATIONAL. HEARTPOUNDING. MAGICAL. CLASSIC. SPECTACULAR.

TOP: Patrice Covington as Martha Reeves (center) and Cast, MOTOWN THE MUSICAL First National Tour. ©Joan Marcus, 2014. BOTTOM: Original company, North American tour of NEWSIES. ©Disney. Photo by Deen van Meer.

U.S. Bank Broadway in Portland

PIPPIN

September 22–27, 2015

42ND STREET

October 27–November 1, 2015

RIVERDANCE

November 20–22, 2015

Disney’s BEAUTY AND THE BEAST December 1–6, 2015

THE BOOK OF MORMON January 12–24, 2016

THE WIZARD OF OZ March 8–13, 2016

Disney’s NEWSIES

April 19–24, 2016

ANNIE

May 17–22, 2016 Get ready, ‘cause here comes the 2015–16 U.S. Bank Broadway in Portland season! As always, there is truly something for everyone. From classic revivals, to energetic new musicals direct from Broadway, to comedies and family favorites.

This season’s can’t miss shows include a coming of age story that incorporates the dance styles of Fosse with extraordinary acrobatics in Pippin.

Then, the story of a young woman’s dream of

making it on the Great White Way in the tapdancing extravaganza that is 42nd Street. Next spring, take a journey down the yellow brick road with Dorothy, Toto, and their friends as they go in search of The Wizard of OZ. Next up, you won’t want to miss the high-energy explosion of song and dance in Disney’s Newsies. Then, the world’s favorite orphan, Annie, is back in time-honored form. Finally, experience the story behind the music in the record-breaking smash hit Motown the Musical!

Plus, enjoy encore engagements of audience favorites with this year’s Season Options. Celebrate the 20th anniversary tour of Riverdance. Kick off your holiday season in December with the smash hit musical Disney’s Beauty and the Beast. After two record-breaking, sold-out runs, The Book of Mormon returns.

Finally, the season wraps up with the return of the world’s number one musical, the nine-time Tony Award-winning Best Musical, Disney’s The Lion King.

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MOTOWN THE MUSICAL June 14–19, 2016

Disney’s THE LION KING

August 10–September 4, 2016

All performances held at the Keller Auditorium.

Please check individual shows for specifi c performance schedules.

The U.S. Bank Broadway in Portland series is a partnership between Broadway Across America and Portland Opera Presents.

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THEATER

LUMINOUS. UPLIFTING. AMBITIOUS. POLISHED. APPROACHABLE.

2015: SEASON OF BRIGHT BEGINNINGS

Broadway Rose Theatre Company

OKLAHOMA! August 6–23, 2015 VENUE: Deb Fennell Auditorium

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TIME: Th–Sat 7:30pm;

Sat, Sun 2:00pm

ADRIFT IN MACAO September 24–October 25, 2015 VENUE: New Stage TIME: Th–Sat 7:30pm; Sat, Sun 2:00pm

A TAFFETA CHRISTMAS November 25–December 20, 2015 VENUE: New Stage TIME: Th–Sat 7:30pm; Sat, Sun 2:00pm

2016: 25TH ANNIVERSARY SEASON

THE 25 TH ANNUAL PUTNAM COUNTY SPELLING BEE January 28–February 28, 2016 VENUE: New Stage TIME: Th–Sat 7:30pm; Sat, Sun 2:00pm

VENUE: New Stage

We’re seeing silver! Broadway Rose is proud to celebrate its 25th anniversary season beginning in January 2016.

TIME: Th–Sat 7:30pm;

Sat, Sun 2:00pm

WEST SIDE STORY June 30–July 24, 2016 VENUE: Deb Fennell Auditorium TIME: Th–Sat 7:30pm; Sat, Sun 2:00pm

A FUNNY THING HAPPENED ON THE WAY TO THE FORUM August 4–21, 2016

Our 2016 season features two contemporary comedies, a new romantic fable, a hysterical farce, a charmingly offbeat holiday revue, and one of the most enduring love stories of all time. We begin the year with a motley array of competitive tweens who learn that winning isn’t everything (The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee) and then

VENUE: Deb Fennell Auditorium

Broadway Rose Theatre Company produces six mainstage musicals, two children’s shows, and a teen workshop production each year, earning a reputation for artistic excellence in a supportive environment.

Children, teens, and young adults experience theater up close through our educational camps and renowned technical internship program. Productions play at two venues: winter, spring, and fall performances are at the Broadway Rose New Stage while summer productions appear at the spacious Deb Fennell Auditorium—both just minutes from downtown Portland.

TIME: Th–Sat 7:30pm; Sat, Sun 2:00pm

FLY BY NIGHT September 22–October 23, 2016 VENUE: New Stage TIME: Th–Sat 7:30pm; Sat, Sun 2:00pm

A VERY MERRY PDX-MAS November 23–December 18, 2016 VENUE: New Stage TIME: Th–Sat 7:30pm; Sat, Sun 2:00pm

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visit the Minnesota women who keep their community humming (Church Basement Ladies). Summer at Deb Fennell Auditorium opens with the driving heat and exhilarating passion of lovers caught between colliding cultures (West Side Story), followed by the bawdy revels of the ancient Roman slave Pseudolus as he tries to win his freedom (A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum). We’ll return to the New Stage in September with a darkly comic rock-fable about discovering hope when light is fleeting (Fly By Night) and close out the year with a perennial holiday favorite (A Very Merry PDX-MAS).

TICKETS $20–$48

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TOP: Grease, 2015. BOTTOM: Founders Sharon Maroney and Dan Murphy. Photos by Craig Mitchelldyer.

CHURCH BASEMENT LADIES April 14–May 15, 2016

THEATER

COLLABORATIVE. HOMEGROWN. INNOVATIVE. VISCERAL. INSPIRED.

CoHo Productions

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REMME’S RUN

Co-produced by Wayne Harrel

October 16–November 8, 2015 VENUE: CoHo Theatre TIME: Th–Sat 7:30pm; Sun 2:00pm

THE YELLOW WALLPAPER

Co-produced by Sue Mach and Grace Carter

January 15–February 7, 2016

VENUE: CoHo Theatre TIME: Th–Sat 7:30pm; Sun 2:00pm

THE FEW

Co-produced by Brandon Woolley and Val Landrum, written by Samuel D. Hunter

March 25–April 17, 2016

VENUE: CoHo Theatre TIME: Th–Sat 7:30pm; Sun 2:00pm

TOP: Grounded. Photo by Owen Carey. BOTTOM: The Snowstorm. Photo by Rachelle Hacmac.

Pioneers of artist-led co-production as a model of creating theatre, CoHo’s main season is curated from production proposals by visionary local theatre professionals. The artistic vision is democratic, driven by what Portland’s theater artists most want to create and share with you right now.

Our blackbox space in the NW Slabtown neighborhood is home to new plays, world-premieres, iconic classics, contemporary fables, fringe-

festival favorites, solo shows, multimedia experiments, masks, clowns, live music, innovative design, and anything our ambitious theater artists dare to imagine.

We begin our 20th season with Remme’s Run, a high-tech, Wild West multimedia performance based on the true story of frontiersman Louis Remme who raced on horseback from Sacramento to Portland in six days to rescue his life’s savings from a bank gone bust in 1855. This anticipated premiere is a daring, diverse, interactive adventure ride.

Next, an expressionistic installation performance of The Yellow Wallpaper by Sue Mach, adapted from the American short story. Charlotte is confined to a single bedroom for three months in 1890 as a “rest cure” for her nervous depression. We descend to her inner landscape, following the “mad” journey through constraint to creativity, transformation, and freedom.

The Few is a compact, compassionate play by MacArthur genius Samuel D. Hunter about a Y2Kera grassroots newspaper running personal ads for lonely long-haul truckers. It sharply navigates the struggle to keep hope alive, the search for human connection, and the barriers and detours on the way there.

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TICKETS $17.50–$28

COHOPRODUCTIONS

“CoHo, the little theater in Northwest Portland with strong neighborhood roots...is full of locally grown, nourished, acted and directed plays” –OREGON ARTSWATCH

“Audience members who hunger for emotionally stirring, imaginative theater experiences will be joyously fulfilled by this magical and moving theatrical production...which may not be conventional but is evocative, complex, and intricately shaped.”

–THE OREGONIAN, ON THE SNOWSTORM

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CREATIVE. EXCITING. DEFYING CLASSIFICATION. INNOVATIVE. GROUND BREAKING.

Imago Theatre FOUNDED BY CAROL TRIFFLE & JERRY MOUAWAD, 1979

ZOOZOO

THE FINAL RUN! ZooZoo has been described as Cirque du Soleilevoking acrobatics mixed with Mummenschanz-like mime, set in a unique, yet accessible, Frenchinfluenced avant-garde playground.

ZooZoo is penguins playing musical chairs, a cat trapped in a giant paper bag, hippos with insomnia, anteaters as waiters, and a madcap revue of illusion, comedy, and fun that has inspired audiences worldwide.

December 11, 2015– January 4, 2016 VENUE:

Imago Theatre

PLUS TWO NEW CREATIONS OPENING THIS SEASON BY THE CREATORS OF IMAGO:

CAROL TRIFFLE will create an original show TBA in June 2016.

STAY TUNED FOR

LA BELLE

THE LOST ART OF THE AUTOMATON

Imago’s highly anticipated adaptation of Beauty and the Beast is still in the works.

Recommended for ages 6 and up.

December 2016

Founded in 1979 by Carol Triffle and Jerry Mouawad, Imago Theatre has toured its original productions internationally for over two decades.

Imago’s signature works have appeared thrice at the acclaimed New Victory Theatre on Broadway in New York: FROGZ (2000, 2002) and ZooZoo (2010). Critics worldwide have hailed Imago for its range of original work, and the universal nature of Imago’s world has won both critical and audience acclaim in tours across Asia, Europe, Canada, and the U.S. The company was awarded the New York Dance Film Award and “Best Touring Production”

by Independent Reviewers of New England.

“delightful...just watch!”

–THE NEW YORK TIMES

“Funny!...creative and exciting, nano-second to nano-second!” –BARRY

Imago will present the final performances of ZooZoo for Portland audiences in December.

ZooZoo is penguins playing musical chairs, a cat trapped in a giant paper bag, hippos with insomnia, anteaters as waiters, and a madcap revue of illusion, comedy, and fun that has inspired audiences worldwide.

JOHNSON, OREGON ARTSWATCH

“Weirdly brilliant!”

–THE OREGONIAN

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Working out of a large 18,000-square-foot theater laboratory in Portland, Oregon, Imago’s ensemble of actors, dancers, designers, fabricators, and musicians become alchemists seeking fresh perspectives of performance. The company has been honored for mask theater pieces that have appealed to a wide age range, as well as for innovative works that push the boundaries of form, design, and story. Imago Theatre’s methodology is based on the teachings of Jacques Lecoq (1921–1999), with whom Ms. Triffle studied extensively, completing his exclusive pedagogical program. Drawing inspiration from Lecoq, Imago Theatre aims to place form and design at the forefront of theater creation and infuses each production with an idiosyncratic physical energy. Its shows have been described as Cirque du Soleil-evoking acrobatics mixed with Mummenschanz-like mime, set in a unique, yet accessible, French-influenced, avantgarde playground.

TEL. 503.231.9581

TICKETS TICKETSWEST 503.224.8499; $17.50–$34.50

IMAGOTHEATRE

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TOP: ZooZoo. BOTTOM: Cats. Photos courtesy of Imago Theatre.

JERRY MOUAWAD will direct a show TBA in February 2016.

THEATER

INSPIRING. INNOVATIVE. EVER-CHANGING. IMAGINATIVE. SIGNIFICANT.

Lakewood Theatre Company

UNNECESSARY FARCE Directed by Michael Snider

July 10–August 16, 2015

FOUNDED BY THE OSWEGO PLAYERS, 1952

VENUE: Lakewood Center for the Arts, Headlee Mainstage TIME: Th–Sat 7:30pm; Sun 2:00pm & 7:00pm

ANYTHING GOES

Directed by Joe Theissen

September 11–October 18, 2015 VENUE: Lakewood Center for the Arts, Headlee Mainstage TIME: Th–Sat 7:30pm; Sun 2:00pm & 7:00pm

PRESENT LAUGHTER Directed by Don Alder

November 6–December 13, 2015 VENUE: Lakewood Center for the Arts, Headlee Mainstage TIME: Th–Sat 7:30pm; Sun 2:00pm & 7:00pm

GOLDEN BOY

Directed by Vladimir Ilnitzky

January 8–February 14, 2016 VENUE: Lakewood Center for the Arts, Headlee Mainstage TIME: Th–Sat 7:30pm; Sun 2:00pm & 7:00pm

TOP: Young Frankenstein. BOTTOM: Seven Wonders Of Ballyknock. Photos by Triumph Photography.

Welcome to our 63rd season!

This year we begin the season on the Headlee Mainstage with the Portland area premiere of Unnecessary Farce and move into the classic Cole Porter musical, Anything Goes. We are excited to present the world premiere of Ron House’s Bullshot Crummond: The Evil Eye of Jabar and The Invisible Bride of Death. Other shows include Present Laughter, Golden Boy, and the popular musical Man of La Mancha. This venue features 220 seats,

none further than 35 feet from the action, plus a thrust proscenium stage with traps and fly lofts.

Our popular Side Door Stage features the Lost Treasures Collection, a series of obscure and rarely performed musicals presented in concert/cabaret. Picture Portland’s foremost performers presenting some of the most beautiful, comedic, and witty songs of musical theater. This year’s theme, Passport to Romance, focuses on travel and love.

Lakewood Theatre Company, founded in 1952, is the oldest continuously operating theater company in the Portland metropolitan area and the largest arts provider in Clackamas County. The facility has two theaters, an art gallery, an arts preschool, dance studios, and gathering rooms. The theater hosts over 200 nights of performances a year, including a variety of plays and musicals, as well as periodic youth productions. Lakewood also organizes, creates, and produces the three-day arts education event, Lake Oswego Festival of the Arts.

Come join us at Lakewood where everyone is welcome, always!

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TEL. 503.635.3901

TICKETS $20–$37

LAKEWOOD CENTER FOR THE ARTS

BULLSHOT CRUMMOND:

IN THE EVIL EYE OF JABAR AND THE INVISIBLE BRIDE OF DEATH Directed by Alan Shearman

March 4–April 10, 2016 VENUE: Lakewood Center for the Arts, Headlee Mainstage TIME: Th–Sat 7:30pm; Sun 2:00pm & 7:00pm

MAN OF LA MANCHA Directed by Greg Tamblyn

April 29–June 12, 2016 VENUE: Lakewood Center for the Arts, Headlee Mainstage TIME: Th–Sat 7:30pm; Sun 2:00pm & 7:00pm

LOST TREASURES COLLECTION DO I HEAR A WALTZ?

October 23–24, 2015 JAMAICA

February 19–20, 2016 SAIL AWAY

April 15–16, 2016 Side Door Stage F, Sat 7:00pm; Sat 2:00pm

VENUE: TIME:

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ENGAGING. CULTURAL. THOUGHT-PROVOKING. DIVERSE. INCLUSIVE.

Literary Arts

PORTLAND ARTS & LECTURES SUBSCRIPTION SERIES VENUE:

Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall

FOUNDED IN 1984

TIME: 7:30pm

JANE SMILEY

October 5, 2015

ANTHONY DOERR November 19, 2015

ADAM GOPNIK

January 21, 2016

CLAUDIA RANKINE February 25, 2016

MOHSIN HAMID April 28, 2016 EVENTS

THE NATION LIVE! October 13, 2015

VENUE: Newmark Theatre TIME: 7:30pm

November 7, 2015

VENUE: Portland Art Museum TIME: All day event starting at 10:00am

THE MOTH MAINSTAGE December 14, 2015

Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall TIME: 7:30pm VENUE:

OREGON BOOK AWARDS CEREMONY April 11, 2016

Gerding Theater 7:30pm

VENUE: TIME:

VERSELANDIA! POETRY SLAM April 18, 2016

Newmark Theatre 7:00pm

VENUE: TIME:

The Archive Project Delve Readers Seminars Writing Workshops Visit www.literary-arts.org for details.

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Each year we host the country’s largest literary lecture series, Portland Arts & Lectures, which brings the world’s most celebrated writers to our community. This year, Wordstock: Portland’s Book Festival relaunches as a Literary Arts program on November 7 at the Portland Art Museum. We also host guided discussion groups around great works of literature through a program named Delve.

these classes are taught by local writers, visiting authors, and publishing professionals.

Through our Writers in the Schools program, our organization hires professional writers to teach semester-long creative writing workshops in Portland’s public high schools. Each year, high school students compete at a citywide youth poetry slam cleverly dubbed Verselandia!

In addition, we host free @LiteraryArts events at our community center in downtown Portland.

Rebroadcasts of our events can be heard on OPB Radio or at www.literary-arts.org.

The Oregon Book Awards & Fellowships program supports, promotes, and celebrates Oregon’s writers and independent publishers. In addition to financial support, the program produces the Oregon Book Awards Author Tour, which connects writers and readers throughout Oregon with readings, classroom visits, and workshops.

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Where do Pulitzer Prize-winning authors, teen poetry slam champions, local literary legends, and passionate readers gather in Portland? Literary Arts. Since 1984, our mission has been to engage readers, support writers, and inspire the next generation with great literature.

TOP & BOTTOM: Photos courtesy of Literary Arts.

WORDSTOCK: PORTLAND’S BOOK FESTIVAL

We offer writing workshops at the Literary Arts community space. Focused on specific writing goals,

TEL. 503.227.2583

TICKETS $10–$65

LITERARYARTS

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THEATER

AUTHENTIC. PROVOCATIVE. VIBRANT. BOLD. IRREVERENT.

Milagro FOUNDED BY DAÑEL MALÁN & JOSÉ EDUARDO GONZÁLEZ, 1985 LA LUNA NUEVA

Multicultural Festival

September 17–26, 2015 VENUE: Milagro Theatre TIME: Various times

DÍA DE MUERTOS: LA MUERTE BAILA

Bilingual, World Premiere

October 15–November 8, 2015 VENUE: Milagro Theatre TIME:

Th–Sat 7:30pm; Sun 2:00pm

BROKEN PROMISES

Bilingual, World Premiere

January 14–23, 2016 VENUE: Milagro Theatre TIME:

Th–Sat 7:30pm; Sun 2:00pm

CONTIGO PAN Y CEBOLLA

Spanish with surtitles in English, NW Premiere

February 11–March 5, 2016 VENUE: Milagro Theatre

TOP: ¡O Romeo! BOTTOM: American Night: The Ballad of Juan José. Photos by Russell J. Young.

TIME:

Join us for a daring expedition into uncharted territory! Milagro’s 32nd season is filled with new works that cross cultural boundaries to explore the heart and mind of our deepest human experience.

Ever fun, passionate, and thought-provoking, Milagro is your home for the finest Latino arts and culture experiences in the Pacific Northwest!

authoritatively; as imaginative artists, we embrace the colorful and vivacious, the provocative and playful.

See the world with us; see it at Milagro!

INTO THE BEAUTIFUL NORTH

English, World Premiere

April 28–May 28, 2016 VENUE: Milagro Theatre TIME:

For more than 30 years, Milagro has been the mecca for artists and audiences seeking authentic Latino cultural experiences, which are unique in the region and connect them with the universal magic of the arts. Immerse yourself in the richness of Latino traditions, culture, sights, and sounds without leaving the state and from the comfort of our intimate theater!

Th–Sat 7:30pm; Sun 2:00pm

Th–Sat 7:30pm; Sun 2:00pm

COMMUNITY EVENTS

POSADA MILAGRO

Our free Christmas celebration

December 13, 2015

MUJERES

A bilingual night to celebrate International Women’s Day

We value creativity and diversity; we welcome the risk of experimentation while respecting tradition; we empower our artists to think creatively and act collaboratively; we are often irreverent but never irrelevant. We entertain our audiences; we give them pause to think, feel, and imagine; and, through the cultural lens of latinidad, we reflect the full spectrum of humanity. As a proud community leaders and thinkers, we speak boldly and

March 4, 2016

“Milagro Theater is like home, a place where I always meet with good friends; see good plays and good art. I arrive always full of expectations and I leave the place full of many good feelings and ideas” –MARIA LEE LOPEZ, MILAGRO PATRON

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TEL. 503.236.7253

TICKETS $25 & UP

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AMBITIOUS. ACADEMIC. KNOWLEDGEABLE. INVITING. OPEN.

Northwest Film Center

VISIONARIES: ARTISTS ON FILM October 2015 VENUE:

Whitsell Auditorium

FOUNDED BY BOB SUMMERS & BROOKE JACOBSON, 1971

VOICES IN ACTION: HUMAN RIGHTS ON FILM October 2015 VENUE:

Whitsell Auditorium

NEW SCANDINAVIAN CINEMA October–November, 2015 VENUE:

Whitsell Auditorium

42ND NORTHWEST FILMMAKERS’ FESTIVAL November 2015 VENUE:

Whitsell Auditorium

JAPANESE CURRENTS December 2015 VENUE:

Whitsell Auditorium

CONTACT: DANCE ON FILM Presented with BodyVox

January 2016 Whitsell Auditorium

33RD REEL MUSIC FESTIVAL January 2016 VENUE:

Whitsell Auditorium

FROM BOMBAY TO BOLLYWOOD: 50 YEARS OF INDIAN CINEMA January–March, 2016 VENUE:

Whitsell Auditorium

39 TH PORTLAND INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL

Established in 1971, the Northwest Film Center has been challenging audiences with the art of the moving picture for over four decades. Its multitiered mission provides Portland with a robust year-round film exhibition program (including several high profile film festivals), educational opportunities for studying film at the Film Center’s School of Film, outreach and teen engagement programs, and a wide variety of filmmaker services. The Center places particular emphasis on fostering a local culture that embraces and supports filmmakers practicing within the Northwest region,

February 2016

Various theaters across Portland

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TOP DOWN ROOFTOP CINEMA July–August, 2016 VENUE: Hotel deLuxe

ONGOING NORTHWEST TRACKING, FILMS FROM PACIFIC NW MAKERS SERIES See www.nwfilm.org for additional details and other ongoing Northwest Film Center programming.

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TEL. 503.221.1156

Each February, the Northwest Film Center produces the Portland International Film Festival (PIFF), Oregon’s largest annual film event, drawing audiences exceeding 40,000 to the Portland metro area. As the Festival enters its 39th year, PIFF will present the best that contemporary world cinema has to offer, premiering over 140 films across Portland.

In November, the Center celebrates the regional scene with the 42nd Northwest Filmmakers’ Festival, showcasing short and feature length films from Alaska, British Columbia, Idaho, Montana, Oregon, and Washington.

Additional 2015–2016 festivals and series include the 33rd Reel Music Festival, embracing documentaries and performance-based films fueled by the language and meter of music; the annual survey of Nipponese cinema, Japanese Currents; and Top Down: Rooftop Cinema, the popular, outdoor summer film series, entering its 12th year in 2016.

No matter your interests, there’s something on tap for you at the Northwest Film Center, be it classes, films, or special events.

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moving audiences to consider the distinctive flavors being cooked up in their own backyards.

TICKETS $6–$12

NWFILMCENTER

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TOP: Top Down: Rooftop Cinema. Photo by RL Potograpiya. BOTTOM: Oregon Shorts, PIFF 38. Photo by Garret Downen.

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NORTHWEST CHILDREN’S THEATER’S season will be turned upside down by the hijinks of the White Rabbit and Mad Hatter.

Don’t be late for the tea party.

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CURIOUSER AND CURIOUSER. INNOVATIVE. DAZZLING. ADVENTUROUS. DELIGHTFUL.

NW Children’s Theater FOUNDED BY JUDY KAFOURY, CAROLYN NEWSOM & DIANE CARLSEN, 1993 Northwest Children’s Theater and School (NWCT) is excited to announce a season filled with music, magic, and one very misunderstood ogre.

Building on last season’s record-breaking success, the 2015–16 season of plays promises to delight families with stories of familiar friends, fantastical adventure, and the return of two of NWCT’s most popular original productions.

The Sun Serpent Long ago, when I was a boy, I survived the great end. The Sun Serpent is an ancient story told through an innovative mix of language, masks, and digital media. When the arrival of Cortes’ fleet shatters the world ruled by the Aztecs, two brothers must embark on a journey that explores myth, conflict, and the bond of brotherhood itself.

Elephant & Piggie’s “We are in a Play!”

Elephant and Piggie are in a play...that is so cool!

Perfect for first-time theatergoers, this upbeat musical explores the world of “bestus friends” Gerald the Elephant and Piggie the Pig. Together, they tackle friendship’s big questions: What happens when two friends want to play with one toy? And will anyone say “banana”?

Shrek the Musical Let your freak flag fly! How is an ogre like an onion?

Do donkeys and dragons make good friends? Do you know the muffin man? Discover the answers to these questions and more as Shrek, Fiona, and company bumble, blunder, and belch their way from one twisted fairytale to another in this rowdy re-telling of the beloved animated film.

TOP: The Little Mermaid. BOTTOM: Mary Poppins. Photos by David Kinder. OPPOSITE: Photo by NashCO Photography.

Alice in Wonderland Everybody here is mad! Tumble down the rabbit hole as Alice’s adventures through Wonderland are transformed into a spectacular jazz odyssey! This original NWCT adaptation is filled with classic characters from the Mad Hatter to the Queen of Hearts and a beautiful original score inspired by jazz greats from Davis to Monk.

Snow White Who’s afraid of a poison apple? When a jealous queen’s rule is threatened by the “fairest of them all,” Snow White must set out to unite the seven spirits and liberate a kingdom. This fastpaced NWCT original reimagines the classic fairytale as an epic, anime-inspired adventure.

Brimming with action, humor, and bow-staff enhanced sibling rivalry this is an empowering fable for the whole family.

A Children’s Theater Company and a Children’s Theater School

TEL. 503.222.4480

TICKETS $17–$23

NORTHWESTCHILDRENSTHEATER

September 26–October 25, 2015 VENUE:

Northwest Children’s Theater

TIME: 10:00am & 1:00pm

THE SUN SERPENT October 3–24, 2015

Northwest Children’s Theater 7:00pm

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SHREK THE MUSICAL

December 5, 2015–January 3, 2016 Northwest Children’s Theater 12:00pm & 4:30pm

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ALICE IN WONDERLAND

January 30–February 28, 2016 Northwest Children’s Theater 12:00pm & 4:00pm

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SNOW WHITE

April 23–May 22, 2016 Northwest Children’s Theater 12:00pm, 4:00pm & 7:00pm

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“My son’s experiences at NWCT have been nothing short of wonderful. This warm, embracing theater community lights him up like nothing else.”

–NWCT PATRON

NWCT is home to one of the largest theater schools on the West Coast, offering year-round training and arts education for children ages 3–18. Work with Portland’s best theater artists to explore scene study, voice, movement, and dance. Take center stage in an NWCT playlab, complete with sets, costumes, and a part for every student. Young thespians looking for a challenge can audition into one of NWCT’s Second Stage advanced-training programs: Kid’s Company NW, Studio JR, Studio NW, Interns NW, and Summer Intensives!

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ELEPHANT & PIGGIE’S “WE ARE IN A PLAY!”

“So happy that we have found you and the arts and your amazing group of performers! THANK YOU. [My daughter] still talks about Clarice, the cow jumping over the moon in Goodnight Moon; and asks me if Little Red is going to work on her car. We are thankful for you all!”

–NWCT PATRON

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OREGON CHILDREN’S THEATRE

When kids come to an OREGON CHILDREN’S THEATRE show, they’re eager to sit in this whimsical, welcoming giant throne in the lobby of Portland’5 just like OCT’s Artistic Director, Stan Foote.

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FOUNDED BY SONDRA PEARLMAN, 1988 CAUTION: Adventure ahead! Oregon Children’s Theatre’s (OCT) 2015–16 season features five fantastic adventures that would be dangerous to miss!

Our audiences will be delighted by three world premiere shows seen on OCT’s stages for the very first time anywhere.

explores the destructive power of peer pressure; OCT’s teen improv troupe Impulse returns for an unscripted show based on your suggestions; and finally, Chrysalis, an original work for OCT, is a modern-day myth that explores transformations in the teen years.

With tales ranging from the friendships and frustrations of school to the farthest reaches of outer space, we’re sure that there is an adventure ahead for everyone.

With five great mainstage productions and three unique shows for teens from our Young Professionals Company, Oregon Children’s Theatre has something to offer every member of your family.

TOP: Timmy Failure: Mistakes Were Made. BOTTOM: Ivy + Bean: The Musical. Photos by Owen Carey. OPPOSITE: Photo by NashCO Photography.

Our first adventure takes place somewhere we’ve all been before: the first grade. Junie B. Jones: The Musical follows the feisty 6-year-old as she finds out just how different this school year is going to be! Will Junie make it all the way to summer? Find out in this delightful musical!

It will be a season of adventure!

JUNIE B. JONES: THE MUSICAL

October 24–November 22, 2015 VENUE:

Newmark Theatre

GERONIMO STILTON: MOUSE IN SPACE

January 16–February 14, 2016 VENUE:

Newmark Theatre

BAD KITTY: ON STAGE

February 27–March 27, 2016 VENUE:

Winningstad Theatre

THE MIRACULOUS JOURNEY OF EDWARD TULANE

Geronimo Stilton: Mouse in Space begins with villains threatening the citizens of New Mouse City. Their only hope? Our reluctant hero, Geronimo Stilton! In this “enormouse” adventure, Geronimo is launched into space on a top-secret mission to save the day. Featuring Geronimo and his pals Thea, Trap, and Benjamin, this story will blast your family off to another world!

April 2–April 17, 2016 VENUE:

Winningstad Theatre

JAMES AND THE GIANT PEACH

May 7–May 29, 2016 VENUE:

In Bad Kitty: On Stage, some surprises are too hard to handle. Kitty doesn’t want a smelly new dog, a drooling new baby, or Uncle Murray’s unusual brand of cat-sitting. Kitty just wants to have Kitty’s world back to normal. A world that revolves around the most important creature in Kitty’s life: KITTY.

Newmark Theatre

YOUNG PROFESSIONALS COMPANY 2015–16 SEASON All shows presented at the Young Professionals Studio Theater.

The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane begins as Edward, a vain rabbit doll, is tossed overboard during a steamship cruise.

From there, Edward embarks on a perilous 20-year journey home. Along the way, his heart grows bigger as he discovers the importance of friendship.

THE WRESTLING SEASON November 5–15, 2015

IMPULSE! IMPROVISATIONAL TROUPE January 22–February 6, 2016

Which heroes are at the center of our fifth and final adventure? James and the Giant Peach, of course! One boy, two awful aunts, five larger-than-life insects, and a giant peach, to be exact! Enjoy the fun when the peach falls from the tree and sweeps them along on Roald Dahl’s marvelous adventure.

CHRYSALIS

April 14–24, 2016 Please visit www.octc.org for showtimes.

In addition, our Young Professionals Company has three great shows planned for the older kids in your family. The Wrestling Season

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IMMERSIVE. DIVERSE. KALEIDOSCOPIC. DYNAMIC. ENTERTAINING.

Oregon Shakespeare Festival 2016 SEASON FOUNDED BY ANGUS L. BOWMER, 1935

ANGUS BOWMER THEATRE

TWELFTH NIGHT

February 19–October 30, 2016

GREAT EXPECTATIONS World Premiere Adaptation

February 20–October 30, 2016

THE RIVER BRIDE World Premiere

February 21–July 7, 2016

ROE

World Premiere

TIMON OF ATHENS

July 27–October 29, 2016 THOMAS THEATRE

THE YEOMEN OF THE GUARD World Premiere Adaptation

February 24–October 30, 2016

Ashland’s Tony Award-winning Oregon Shakespeare Festival (OSF) is among the oldest and largest professional theaters in the country with an attendance of more than 400,000 each year.

Each season, OSF offers a diverse playbill of 11 productions. It is truly a unique true repertory theater experience, and audience members can enjoy the plays in three vastly different theaters: the indoor Thomas Theatre (275 seats), the Angus Bowmer Theatre (600 seats), and the famous outdoor Allen Elizabethan Theatre (1200 seats).

VIETGONE

March 30–October 29, 2016

RICHARD II

July 5–October 30, 2016 ALLEN ELIZABETHAN THEATRE

HAMLET

The 2015 season offers Shakespeare’s Much Ado about Nothing, Pericles, and Antony and Cleopatra;

June 7–October 14, 2016

THE WIZ

June 8–October 15, 2016

THE WINTER’S TALE

June 9–October 16, 2016 “For the soul who equally embraces the pleasures of mind and body, Ashland is like a dream...quite simply the biggest little town you’ll ever see and wish you never had to leave.” –WASHINGTON POST WEB OSFASHLAND.ORG

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the classic musical Guys and Dolls; the U.S. premiere of the contemporary Chinese classic Secret Love in Peach Blossom Land; the swashbuckling adventure of The Count of Monte Cristo; and the world premiere of Head Over Heels, a jukebox musical that will transform the Allen Elizabethan Theatre into a mashup of Go-Gos’ music and Elizabethan comic fun.

The 2016 season will feature five plays by Shakespeare—Hamlet, Twelfth Night, Richard II, Timon of Athens, and The Winter’s Tale. The Bard’s work is joined by two wonderful musicals—The Wiz, and Gilbert and Sullivan’s The Yeomen of the Guard.

The world premiere of Lisa Loomer’s Roe, which explores the intriguing personal stories behind one of America’s landmark Supreme Court cases, continues OSF’s American Revolutions cycle, and a new world premiere stage adaptation of Charles Dickens’ Great Expectations will delight audiences all season long.

OSF also provides programming for playgoers that includes concerts, lectures, free park talks, a free Green Show in the summer, and post-show discussions with artists.

TICKETS $30–$125

SHAKESPEAREFESTIVAL

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TOP: Allen Elizabethan Theatre, Cyrano de Bergerac, 2006. Photo by T. Charles Erickson. BOTTOM: Pericles, Wayne T. Carr, 2015. Photo by Jenny Graham.

April 20–October 29, 2016

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To learn more, call us at 503.227.6846 or visit www.oregoncf.org.

PORTLAND CENTER STAGE

2015 JAW Festival playwrights step outside PORTLAND CENTER STAGE for creative contemplation at Vera Katz Park, which runs alongside the Gerding Theater at The Armory.

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UNEXPECTED. POWERFUL. ILLUMINATING. EXHILARATING. ASTONISHING.

Portland Center Stage

TOP: Dreamgirls. Photo by Patrick Weishampel/blankeye.tv. BOTTOM: Three Days of Rain. Photo by Patrick Weishampel/blankeye.tv. OPPOSITE: Photo by NashCO Photography.

FOUNDED BY OREGON SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL, 1988 Each season Portland Center Stage (PCS) welcomes more than 150,000 theatergoers to the Gerding Theater at the Armory to explore its mix of beloved classics and powerful contemporary works, along with a taste of the future of American theater during its summer developmental festival, JAW. The 2015–2016 season at PCS continues this tradition with three major classics, a celebrated Tony Award-winning musical, and four fresh contemporary stories—including works by audience favorites Dan Hoyle and Aaron Posner, a riveting tale of family life that flows from Paris to Harlem, and a poignant story of survival infused with exquisite piano music performed by a Grammy nominated concert pianist.

classic, the Pulitzer Prize-winning Our Town, presented in a bold new production directed by PCS Associate Artistic Director Rose Riordan. Launching the season in the intimate Ellyn Bye Studio is Laura Eason’s steamy new play Sex with Strangers.

The sassy, sultry musical Ain’t Misbehavin’—a celebration of jazz legend Fats Waller—is sure to keep audiences jumpin’ and jivin’ throughout the fall season in a special expanded cast version directed by PCS Artistic Director Chris Coleman.

Kicking it all off in September on the U.S. Bank Main Stage is Thornton Wilder’s beloved American

The New Year brings the Charles Dickens’ literary giant Great Expectations to the stage in a new adaptation by Lucinda Stroud. In the Ellyn Bye Studio, Dael Orlandersmith performs Forever, the riveting legacy of life in Harlem, inspired by her visit to the famed Père Lachaise Cemetery. Hitting the stage in February is the title that already has audiences titillating—Stupid F**king Bird—an irreverent and hilarious remix of Chekhov’s The Seagull by awardwinning playwright Aaron Posner (Cyrano, Sometimes a Great Notion, The Chosen). The same month we join Dan Hoyle (The Real Americans) in his search for true community in our hyperconnected digital age, with his new solo show, Each and Every Thing.

To keep audiences warm in the winter, PCS is bringing back two hilarious hits that have become Portland holiday traditions—The Second City’s A Christmas Carol: Twist Your Dickens and David Sedaris’ The Santaland Diaries.

In April, Grammy-nominated artist Mona Golabek takes us to Vienna in 1938 and London during the Blitzkrieg, using stunning classical music to share her mother’s inspiring tale of survival in The Pianist of Willesden Lane. In May, Tennessee Williams’ iconic Pulitzer Prizewinning masterpiece, A Streetcar Named Desire, will feature the PCS debut of veteran stage/TV/film actor Russell Hornsby (Hank Griffin on Grimm). During the hot days of July, audiences can escape the heat at JAW: A Playwrights Festival, where free staged readings of new works will be presented in the air-conditioned comfort of the U.S. Bank Main Stage.

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OUR TOWN September 12–October 11, 2015 VENUE:

U.S. Bank Main Stage

SEX WITH STRANGERS October 10–November 22, 2015 VENUE: Ellyn Bye Studio

AIN’T MISBEHAVIN’ October 24–November 29, 2015 VENUE:

U.S. Bank Main Stage

THE SANTALAND DIARIES December 2–December 27, 2015 VENUE: Ellyn Bye Studio

THE SECOND CITY’S A CHRISTMAS CAROL: TWIST YOUR DICKENS December 9–December 31, 2015 VENUE:

U.S. Bank Main Stage

GREAT EXPECTATIONS January 16–February 14, 2016 VENUE:

U.S. Bank Main Stage

FOREVER January 30–March 20, 2016 VENUE: Ellyn Bye Studio

EACH AND EVERY THING February 6–March 27, 2016 VENUE: Ellyn Bye Studio

STUPID F**KING BIRD February 27–March 27, 2016 VENUE:

U.S. Bank Main Stage

THE PIANIST OF WILLESDEN LANE April 2–May 1, 2016 VENUE:

U.S. Bank Main Stage

A STREETCAR NAMED DESIRE May 14–June 19, 2016 VENUE:

U.S. Bank Main Stage

JAW: A PLAYWRIGHTS FESTIVAL We.Play.Rough.

July 28–30, 2016 VENUE:

Gerding Theater at the Armory

All performances held at Gerding Theater at the Armory.

Performance Times: T–Sun 7:30pm; Sat, Sun 2:00pm Thursday matinees at noon Date ranges include preview performances.

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PORTLAND PLAYHOUSE

PORTLAND PLAYHOUSE highlights this

quote from Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s “I Have a Dream,” reminding us that theater is also about “the content of their character.” Portland Playhouse shows character on and beyond the stage, honoring the neighborhood and community where it’s made its home.

Pictured: The cast of How We Got On. From left, Chip Sherman, Joseph Gibson, Ithica Tell, Ashley Williams

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GRATITUDE. GRIT. AMBITION. BELONGING. SURPRISE.

Portland Playhouse FOUNDED BY BRIAN, NIKKI & MICHAEL WEAVER, 2008

TOP: How We Got On, Forum Theatre. Photo by Noe Todorovich. BOTTOM: You For Me For You, Woolly Manmoth Theatre Company. Photo by Scott Suchman. OPPOSITE: Photo by NashCO Photography.

We envision a world awakened by the wonder of theater.

We’re Portland Playhouse, and we’ve worked hard since 2008 to help create such a world—one in which art connects us with each other and our community, one in which artists and audiences come together to celebrate the complexity of shared human experience.

We’d love for you to join us. With about 100 seats per night and its many shifting stage configurations, the Playhouse provides an ideal mix of intimacy, energy, and imaginative possibilities.

Our purpose is to surprise, delight, and challenge.

We seek to build a whole world with each of our plays by offering something unexpected, something that makes you wonder. We remember that theater should be fun, that even the most heartbreaking

tragedy is meant to be a good time. And we believe that art has a political dimension, that telling stories and sharing ideas is a way to examine ourselves, challenge the status quo, and to imagine the world we want for the future.

The 2015–16 season opens with How We Got On, written by Idris Goodwin and directed by Jennifer Rowe. In hip-hop’s late-1980s golden age, three Midwestern teens live their beats and rhymes and dreams of stardom. As they battle suburban biases, each other’s egos, and their own self-doubt, they learn about identity, inspiration, and creating the creative life.

We celebrate the holiday season with A Christmas Carol, written by Charles Dickens and directed by Cristi Miles. The enduring tale of Ebenezer Scrooge’s painful past, cruel present, and redemptive future springs to exuberant life for a third holiday run. Hopeful, musical, and above all, fun; this production won three awards including Best Production of 2014.

Next up is You for Me for You, written by Mia Chung and directed by Gretchen Corbett. With nothing left but each other, two North Korean sisters risk their lives and their bond for the hope of something better.

Through an emotionally visceral narrative, we follow Junhee as she rushes ahead at the pace of American culture, alien in its customs and overwhelming in its options, while Minjee searches for hope in the Kafkaesque labyrinth of their homeland. For both, survival requires sacrifice.

Finally, we present Peter and the Starcatcher, written by Rick Elice and directed

by Brian Weaver. While whisking us from a pirate’s brig to a mermaid’s grotto, from mountaintop to dark jungle, this swashbuckling grown-up prequel to Peter Pan takes us into the heart of the little boy who never grew up. A dozen actors playing more than 100 characters add up to a rollicking musical adventure that is by turns hilarious and touching.

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HOW WE GOT ON

By Idris Goodwin Directed by Jennifer Rowe

September 30–October 25, 2015 Portland Playhouse W–Sat 7:30pm; Sun 2:00pm

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A CHRISTMAS CAROL

By Charles Dickens Directed by Cristi Miles Adaptation and musical arrangements

by Anna Lackaff and Rick Lombardo

December 2–27, 2015 VENUE: Portland Playhouse TIME: W–Fri 7:00pm; Sat 4:00pm & 7:00pm; Sun 2:00pm & 5:00pm

with additional shows the week of Christmas

YOU FOR ME FOR YOU

By Mia Chung Directed by Gretchen Corbett

February 3–28, 2016 Portland Playhouse W–Sat 7:30pm; Sun 2:00pm

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PETER AND THE STARCATCHER

By Rick Elice Based on the Novel by Dave Barry and Ridley Pearson, Music by Wayne Barker Directed by Brian Weaver

April 27–May 29, 2016 Portland Playhouse W–Sat 7:30pm, Sun 2:00pm

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“The most surprising, strange, and satisfying theatre.” –THE OREGONIAN “Knocking it outta the park...” –PORTLAND MERCURY

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PORTLAND STORY THEATER

This meditation house at New Day School has a lot in common with PORTLAND STORY THEATER. Hand-fashioned from sand, clay, and maybe even some grass roots by the son of PST’s founders Lynne Duddy and Lawrence Howard, it’s a relaxed gathering place for open-minded folks.

Meditation House Scott Howard, Earthen Hand Natural Building, 2003

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MODERN. PROFOUND. TRANSFORMATIVE. INCLUSIVE. PASSIONATE.

Portland Story Theater MAINSTAGE FOUNDED BY LYNNE DUDDY & LAWRENCE HOWARD, 2004 You sit in the audience, riveted. This is not traditional theater. There’s no set, no script, no notes. A lone performer holds the stage, present in the emotional truth of the story. You are witness to the spontaneous unfolding of an art form that is celebrated onstage; in the moment, in the shared space between you—the listener—and the teller.

Now entering our 11th year as the Pacific Northwest’s premiere storytelling organization, Portland Story Theater was founded on the idea that everyone has a story to tell and that sharing our personal stories breaks down barriers and connects us to each other and the world. Exhilarating.

Energizing. Empowering. You’ll hear stories that honor the authenticity of the teller and highlight the universality of the human experience. Portland

Story Theater’s modern storytelling delivers a potent mix of vulnerability and heart.

September 12, 2015

We kick off the 2015–16 season in September with our newest Mainstage show, Founders, Friends & Faves, featuring some of the most talented storytellers in Portland, appearing by special invitation along with founders Lynne Duddy, Lawrence Howard, and Penny Walter. These are stories told eye to eye, face to face, and heart to heart; stories that matter.

SPELLBOUND

We continue our Mainstage series in October, as the seasons turn and the air grows cool, with Spellbound, our annual Halloween show, featuring tales to tingle your spine and haunt your dreams.

In February, it’s Kiss & Tell, the best Valentine’s date in town, with chocolate, wine, and true stories of love, romance, and sex—not necessarily in that order. Join us in March for our second annual St. Paddy’s celebration, Luck of The Irish, featuring story, song, and just a wee bit of blarney. Hosted by Brian O’ Hairt, Portland’s treasure trove of all things Irish.

March 12, 2016

TOP: Jeri Jenkins. Photo by Mike Bodine. BOTTOM: Photo by Scott Bump. OPPOSITE: Photo by NashCO Photography.

In January, Armchair Adventurer series takes you on a journey into the true events of history, creating a provocative mix of story and theater. This season, back by popular demand, we reprise the much-acclaimed Shackleton, The Untold Story, the gripping true story of the 1914 voyage of The Endurance. An amazing, epic tale of courage, fortitude, and survival.

Urban Tellers® is our program showcasing the work of everyday people who have gone through our Art of Personal Narrative workshop to discover and craft a personal story about a defining moment in their lives. Starting this season we will also debut two new, shorter workshops for those who want to test the waters of storytelling but aren’t yet ready to commit to The Art of Personal Narrative.

Look for our 90-minute Storytelling Starter, debuting as a TEDxMtHood Adventure in September, and our oneday Storytelling BootCamp, happening quarterly.

May the narrative be with you!

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October 24, 2015

KISS & TELL

February 13–14, 2016

LUCK OF THE IRISH ARMCHAIR ADVENTURER Shackleton, The Untold Story

January 23 & 30, 2016

URBAN TELLERS ® Second Saturdays

November 14, December 12, April 9, May 14 & June 11, 2016 All performances held at Alberta Abbey.

All shows start at 8:00pm.

2015-2016 WORKSHOPS

THE ART OF PERSONAL NARRATIVE Eight 3.5-hour sessions over five weeks Includes public performance on stage

STORYTELLING STARTER 90-Minute, Hands-on Workshop, No performance

STORYTELLING BOOTCAMP One Day, Interactive Workshop Check www.portlandstorytheater.org for specifics

“Authentic connection is what lies at the heart of Portland Story Theater” –THE OREGONIAN

“Something electric happens between storyteller and audience” –OREGON ARTSWATCH

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FEARLESS. FRESH. INVENTIVE. ACCESSIBLE. HILARIOUS.

Post5

KING LEAR

March 4–April 2, 2016 Post5 Theatre 7:30pm

VENUE: TIME:

FOUNDED BY TY BOICE, JEFF GORHAM & ORION BRADSHAW, 2010

OTHELLO

April 15–May 14, 2016 Post5 Theatre 7:30pm

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THE FURTHER ADVENTURES OF HEDDA GABBLER May 27–June 25, 2016 Post5 Theatre 7:30pm

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THE COMPLETE WORKS OF WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE [ABRIDGED] REVISED

July 8–August 6, 2016 VENUE: Post5 Theatre TIME:

7:30pm

LAUGHING WILD

July 15–August 13, 2016 The People’s Theatre.

RASHOMON

August 26–September 24, 2016 VENUE: Post5 Theatre TIME:

7:30pm

RICHARD III

Post5 is starting off the season with what they do best—Shakespeare. Theater Titan Tobias Anderson stars in King Lear as the title role, directed by Cassandra Boice.

October 8–November 5, 2016 Post5 Theatre 7:30pm

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Post5 Theatre’s sixth season is one of our most daring and eclectic seasons to date. For our 2016 season, we are sticking true to our mission: “To hold the mirror up to nature” by highlighting humanity in all its beauty and ugliness, from Shakespeare’s most famous tragedies to uproarious comedies.

Othello is next with a wonderful twist, casting

A CHRISTMAS CAROL: A ONE-MAN GHOST STORY December 2016 TIME: 7:30pm

True to their mission and hearts, Post5 Theatre comes out with two repertory comedies for the summer: Laughing Wild by Christopher Durang and their flagship show with an all new cast— The Complete Works of William Shakespeare [Abridged] Revised.

A much asked for stage rendition of Rashomon takes Post5 into the fall with Director Tobias Anderson.

Family is what the holidays are all about and A Christmas Carol is perfect for family fun! Phillip Berns tells Scrooge’s story as a one man show, playing all the parts and charming everyone with his love of the story.

“They soon could be a citywide treasure, and may have to make a play about themselves.”

–OREGON ARTSWATCH

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Next, PCS’ Brandon Wooley meets Post5 Theatre’s intimate stage with Jeff Whitty’s (Avenue Q) irreverent comedy, The Further Adventures of Hedda Gabler.

Next up in this feast of a season is one of Shakespeare’s greatest stories ever written: Richard III, directed by Artistic Director Ty Boice.

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all women to tell this heart-breaking story of jealousy and revenge.

Join us as we expand the world around us and sink into these amazing tales!

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TOP & BOTTOM: Photos by Russell J. Young.

VENUE: Post5 Theatre TIME: 7:30pm

THEATER

ONE SEASON. ONE PLAYWRIGHT.

Profile Theatre

FALL 2015 MAIN STAGE SEASON: SARAH RUHL FALL FESTIVAL: PASSION PLAY

FOUNDED BY JANE UNGER, 1997

September 9–13, 2015

Morrison Stage, Artists Rep Theatre TIME: W–Sat 7:30pm; Sat, Sun 2:00pm VENUE:

ORLANDO

November 5–22, 2015 Alder Stage, Artists Rep Theatre TIME: W–Sat 7:30pm; Sun 2:00pm VENUE:

2016 MAIN STAGE SEASON: TANYA BARFIELD THE CALL February 4–21, 2016

Morrison Stage, Artists Rep Theatre TIME: W–Sat 7:30pm; Sun 2:00pm

TOP: In the Next Room, or the vibrator play. BOTTOM: Dead Man’s Cell Phone. Photos by David Kinder.

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Profile Theatre’s mission is to produce a season of plays devoted to a single playwright, engaging with our community to explore that writer’s vision and influence on theater and the world at large.

We do this through large-scale professional productions, free In Dialogue Series readings and special events, and our vibrant and growing education program.

2015 Season: Sarah Ruhl Winner of the MacArthur Genius Grant Fellowship and twice nominated for a Pulitzer Prize, playwright Sarah Ruhl grasps her pen like an alchemist. The style of her plays is unique—structured more like poetry than prose, mixing lyricism with irony, and balancing the sacred and the mundane while capturing the essence of everyday life. She weaves tales of wonder that look like our lives and feel like our lives, but reveal truths we can’t see on our own. In her plays, a sea of language and emotion carries us to a deeper understanding of our own innermost selves as our minds are stretched and we are lured into letting our imaginations run free.

human beings rather than mouthpieces. They traverse time in an exploration of how human beings define themselves. Through sexuality, class, race, gender, politics, and love, her plays focus on a microcosm while examining the macrocosm of the world we live in, the lies we tell to protect ourselves and those we care about, and the truths we must face to grow. Through snarled arguments and honest conversations, Barfield expresses the difficulty and the necessity of authentic dialogue.

Alder Stage, Artists Rep Theatre TIME: W–Sat 7:30pm; Sun 2:00pm VENUE:

FALL FESTIVAL: ANTIGONE PROJECT

By Tanya Barfield, Karen Hartman, Chiori Miyagawa, Lynn Nottage, and Caridad Svich

September 7–11, 2016 Morrison Stage, Artists Rep Theatre TIME: W–Sat 7:30pm; Sat, Sun 2:00pm

BRIGHT HALF LIFE

October 27–November 13, 2016 Alder Stage, Artists Rep Theatre TIME: W–Sat 7:30pm; Sun 2:00pm VENUE:

IN DIALOGUE PROGRAMMING

Like fingers clasped together, Tanya Barfield’s plays intertwine subjective memory, truthful relationships, and poetic language. Barfield’s work is infused with sensitivity toward characters that are TEL. 503.242.0080

April 7–24, 2016

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2016 Season: Tanya Barfield

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January–December

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STUMPTOWN STAGES

STUMPTOWN STAGES finds this sculpture—a stump—to be the cutting-edge stage for this season’s telepathically gifted Carrie the Musical.

Bronze Stump

Tad Savinar and design team, for TriMet, 1998

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INNOVATIVE. CONSISTENT. QUALITY. CUTTING-EDGE. PROFESSIONAL.

Stumptown Stages FOUNDED BY KIRK MOUSER, 2005

CARRIE: THE MUSICAL Welcome to Stumptown Stages’ 2015–16 musical season.

Musicals don’t just entertain us; they bring us together and evoke the joys and sorrows we share.

There is no better place to celebrate the musical art form than Stumptown Stages, a cutting edge, innovative company that has presented over 35 musical productions since its inception in 2005.

TOP: Soul Harmony, 2015. BOTTOM: Ruthless, 2015. Photos by Paul Fardig. OPPOSITE: Photo by NashCO Photography.

True to our mission, Stumptown Stages is proud to present five incredibly diverse offerings. We open our season with the gripping, horrifying, and beau-

tifully moving Carrie: The Musical. Carrie: The Musical is based on the famed Stephen King novel, with music and lyrics by the writers of Fame.

This holiday season we bring back the ladies from Armadillo Acres in the hilarious The Great American Trailer Park Christmas Musical. This companion to the original The Great American Trailer Park Musical is just as much of a “cat-fightin’, sun-worshippin’, chair-throwin’ good time—but with tinsel and Keg Nog.” Our third show of the season is the world premiere of The Adventures of Dex Dixon: Paranormal Dick. Dex Dixon is designed to lampoon the cliffhanger serials of yesteryear, with classic ‘40s era music by K.J. McElrath and a satirical film noir script by Steve Coker. Our fourth show of the season is Smokey Joe’s Café, Broadway’s longest running musical revue.

Smokey Joe’s includes songs by the legendary songwriting team of Leiber and Stoller, such as Jailhouse Rock, Stand by Me, Hound Dog, and more! Our final show of the 2015–16 musical season is the Tony Awardwinner In the Heights. This show features a multicultural sound and the Latin beat of the upper Manhattan neighborhood of Washington Heights. In the Heights asks us to embrace and celebrate change while maintaining our rich cultural heritage.

With a reputation for artistic excellence, innovation, diversity, and integrity, Stumptown Stages is proud to be the city of Portland’s leading professional nonprofit musical theater company.

We look forward to having you join us for our 11th musical season at Portland’5 Centers for the Arts!

October 22–November 8, 2015 Portland’5 Brunish Theatre Th–Sat 7:30pm; Sat, Sun 2:00pm & 7:30pm VENUE: TIME:

THE GREAT AMERICAN TRAILER PARK CHRISTMAS MUSICAL December 10–27, 2015

Portland’5 Brunish Theatre Th–Sat 7:30pm; Sat, Sun 2:00pm & 7:30pm VENUE: TIME:

No Show on December 25th

THE ADVENTURES OF DEX DIXON: PARANORMAL DICK January 21–31, 2016

Portland’5 Brunish Theatre Th–Sat 7:30pm; Sat, Sun 2:00pm & 7:30pm VENUE: TIME:

SMOKEY JOE’S CAFE

February 18–March 6, 2016 Portland’5 Brunish Theatre Th–Sat 7:30pm; Sat, Sun 2:00pm & 7:30pm VENUE: TIME:

IN THE HEIGHTS

Previews: April 14–May 1, 2016 Portland’5 Brunish Theatre Th–Sat 7:30pm; Sat, Sun 2:00pm & 7:30pm VENUE: TIME:

“KBOO-FM congratulates Stumptown Stages on winning 12 individual PAMTA Awards and its production of Soul Harmony!

I thoroughly enjoyed the performance—just boffo.”

–BOB RIDDLE (KBOO-FM) “Step aside, Jersey Boys, Soul Harmony has arrived!

–CHARLIE HORNER,

CLASSIC URBAN HARMONY, LLC

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TRIANGLE PRODUCTIONS!

TRIANGLE PRODUCTIONS’ encyclopedic knowledge of Portland’s bohemian and fringe theater history is personified by this season’s character Tallulah Bankhead played by Margie Boulé.

And, one step at a time, the staircase at Central Library shares the company’s trademark optimism.

Garden Stair Larry Kirkland, 1997

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UNCOMPROMISING. UNIQUE. INNOVATIVE. CREATIVE. INSPIRING.

triangle productions!

FOUNDED BY DONALD HORN, 1989 Come celebrate our 26th year with one U.S. premiere, three West Coast premieres, and two Northwest premieres!

We are thrilled to share this season with you.

Dubbed “The Year for Women,” as four of the six shows are about women. Some people ask founder and Executive Director Don Horn how shows are selected for each season. The process begins with sifting through resource guides, newspapers, the Internet, and word-of-mouth. Horn reads each play under consideration to figure out if it fits the mission of triangle productions! and narrows the selections to five or six plays for the company to

produce. Securing the rights to a show can take between a month and six years!

Celebrating our 25th year with such shows as Horn’s original OMG! It’s the Donnie Show!, tick, tick…BOOM!, 5 Lesbians Eating A Quiche, Becoming Dr. Ruth, Jewtopia!, and Storefront Revue: The Babes are BACK! has truly been a joy. Along the way you have come, participated in being part of this company. Thank you! If it weren’t for you, there would be no us.

The first show of the 2015–16 season is Looped!, starring Margie Boulé as Tallulah Bankhead. The great actress is at the end of her career and trying to deal with not being the star she once was.

Next up is the West Coast premiere of The Book of Merman, with Amy Jo Halliday starring as Ethel Merman. This time the Mormons rang the wrong doorbell—or have they?

In February, we present What Every Girl Should Know, a drama about four teenage girls in a Catholic boarding school in 1914.

Join them as face the changes to their bodies and radical ideas coming from the outside world.

TOP: Photo by John Rudoff. BOTTOM: Photo by Katie Dessin. OPPOSITE: Photo by NashCO Photography.

With the spring comes the end of school and with that we are joining forces with local musical theater company Staged! to co-produce Heathers, a musical based upon the wildly popular cult classic movie of the same name. Hollywood Theatre will host the original movie February 13 at 7:00 p.m.

Next up is Liza! Liza! Liza!, with three different actresses portraying Liza Minnelli at various stages of her career. And, finally, we end the season with a rock show entitled Green Day’s American Idiot. The show will feature Dale Johannes, returning the triangle productions! stage for the first time since 2010 in the role of St. Jimmy. triangle is a company that does interesting, sometimes controversial works you will not see on any stage here in the Portland area—a statement again made true by this season.

LOOPED!

September 3–26, 2015 The Sanctuary at Sandy Plaza Th–Sat 7:30pm; Sun 2:00pm

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THE BOOK OF MERMAN

November 27–December 19, 2015 The Sanctuary at Sandy Plaza Th–Sat 7:30pm; Sun 2:00pm

VENUE: TIME:

WHAT EVERY GIRL SHOULD KNOW February 4–27, 2016

The Sanctuary at Sandy Plaza Th–Sat 7:30pm; Sun 2:00pm

VENUE: TIME:

HEATHERS: THE MUSICAL March 10–April 2, 2016

The Sanctuary at Sandy Plaza Th–Sat 7:30pm; Sun 2:00pm

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LIZA! LIZA! LIZA! May 5–28, 2016

The Sanctuary at Sandy Plaza Th–Sat 7:30pm; Sun 2:00pm

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GREEN DAY’S AMERICAN IDIOT June 9–July 2, 2016

The Sanctuary at Sandy Plaza Th–Sat 7:30pm; Sun 2:00pm

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“triangle occupies a pretty unique place in Portland Theater, and Don Horn delivers great fun again and again.” –CATHERINE THOMAS, OREGONLIVE

Come, join us, and take an amazing ride with our selections of entertainment just for you.

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VENUES ALBERTA ABBEY

126 NE Alberta St. Portland, OR 97211 503.897.7037

ALBERTA ROSE THEATRE 3000 NE Alberta St. Portland, OR 97211 503.719.6055

ALADDIN THEATER

DISJECTA

8371 N Interstate Ave. Portland, OR 97217 503.286.9449

ELLYN BYE STUDIO AT THE ARMORY [SEE GERDING THEATER AT THE ARMORY]

FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH

JEFFERSON HIGH SCHOOL 5210 N Kirby Ave. Portland, OR 97217 503.916.5180

JIMMY MAK’S

221 NW 10th Ave. Portland, OR 97209 503.295.6542

JORDAN SCHNITZER MUSEUM OF ART 1430 Johnson Lane Eugene, OR 97403 541.346.3027

KAUL AUDITORIUM [AT REED COLLEGE]

3017 SE Milwaukie Ave. Portland, OR 97202 503.234.9694

909 SW 11 Ave. Portland, OR 97205 503.228.7465

3203 SE Woodstock Blvd.

Portland, OR 97202 503.777.7522

ALLEN ELIZABETHAN THEATRE & THOMAS THEATRE

FIRST UNITED METHODIST CHURCH

KELLER AUDITORIUM

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15 S Pioneer St. Ashland, OR 97520 800.219.8161

1838 SW Jefferson St. Portland, OR 97201 503.228.3195

ANGUS BOWMER THEATRE

GERDING THEATER AT THE ARMORY

68 E Main St. Ashland, OR 97520 541.482.2111

ARLENE SCHNITZER CONCERT HALL 1037 SW Broadway Portland, OR 97205 503.248.4335

ARTISTS REPERTORY THEATRE [MORRISON STAGE AND ALDER STAGE]

1515 SW Morrison St. Portland, OR 97205 503.241.1278

BODYVOX DANCE CENTER

1201 NW 17 Ave. Portland, OR 97209 503.229.0627 th

THE CHURCH AT PORTLAND PLAYHOUSE 602 NE Prescott St. Portland, OR 97211 503.488.5822

COHO THEATRE

2257 NW Raleigh St. Portland, OR 97210 503.220.2646

COLUMBIA CENTER FOR THE ARTS

215 Cascade Ave. Hood River, OR 97031 541.387.8877

DEB FENNELL AUDITORIUM 9000 SW Durham Rd. Tigard, OR 97224 503.620.5262

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FIND YOUR ART

128 NW 11th Ave. Portland, OR 97209 503.445.3700

GRACE MEMORIAL EPISCOPAL CHURCH

1535 NE 17th Ave. Portland, OR 97232 503.287.0418

THE GROTTO

8840 NE Skidmore St. Portland, OR 97220 503.254.7371

THE HEADWATERS THEATRE 55 NE Farragut St. #9 Portland, OR 97211 503.289.3499

THE OLD CHURCH

1422 SW 11th Ave. Portland, OR 97201 503.222.2031

HOTEL DELUXE

729 SW 15th Ave. Portland, OR 97205 503.219.2094

IMAGO THEATRE

17 SE 8 Ave. Portland, OR 97214 503.231.9581 th

THE JADE LOUNGE 2342 SE Ankeny St. Portland, OR 97214 503.236.4998

222 SW Clay St. Portland, OR 97201 503.248.4335

KRIDEL BALLROOM

[AT THE PORTLAND ART MUSEUM]

1219 SW Park Ave. Portland, OR 97205

NEWMARK THEATRE [SEE PORTLAND’5]

NEW STAGE AT BROADWAY ROSE

12850 SW Grant Ave. Tigard, OR 97223 503.620.5262

NORTHWEST CHILDREN’S THEATER 1819 NW Everett St. Portland, OR 97209 503.222.2190

THE OLD CHURCH

1422 SW 11th Ave. Portland, OR 97201 503.222.2031

OR CONTEMPORARY THEATRE 194 W Broadway Eugene, OR 97401 541.465.1506

PARKROSE HIGH SCHOOL 12003 NE Shaver St. Portland, OR 97220 503.408.2600

THE PERFORMING ARTS CENTER, PCC SYLVANIA

LAKEWOOD CENTER FOR THE ARTS

12000 SW 49th Ave. Portland, OR 97219 971.722.6111

368 S State St. Lake Oswego, OR 97034 503.635.3901

PORTLAND’5 CENTERS FOR THE ARTS

[HEADLEE MAIN STAGE AND SIDE DOOR STAGE]

LEWIS & CLARK COLLEGE 0615 SW Palatine Hill Rd. Portland, OR 97219

LINCOLN PERFORMANCE HALL [AT PORTLAND STATE UNIVERSITY]

1620 SW Park Ave. Portland, OR 97201 503.725.4612

MILAGRO THEATRE

425 SE 6th Ave. Portland, OR 97214 503.236.7253

MISSISSIPPI STUDIOS 3939 N Mississippi Ave. Portland, OR 97227 503.288.3895

MT. ANGEL ABBEY

1 Abbey Dr. St. Benedict, OR 97373 503.845.3030

MT. HOOD COMMUNITY COLLEGE 26000 SE Stark St. Gresham, OR 97030 503.491.6422

MONTGOMERY PARK

2701 NW Vaughn St. #210 Portland, OR 97210

REYNOLDS HIGH SCHOOL 1698 SW Cherry Park Rd. Troutdale, OR 97060 503.667.3186

THE SANCTUARY @ SANDY PLAZA

1785 NE Sandy Blvd.

Portland, OR 97232 503.239.5919

THE SHOEBOX THEATRE

2110 SE 10th Ave. Portland, OR 97214 971.244.3740

ST. MARY’S ACADEMY

1615 SW 5th Ave. Portland, OR 97201 503.228.8306

ST. MARY’S CATHEDRAL 1716 NW Davis St. Portland, OR 97209 503.228.4397

ST. MICHAEL AND ALL ANGELS CHURCH 1704 NE 43Rd Ave. Portland, OR 97213 503.284.7141

STUDIO 2@ZOOMTOPIA 810 SE Belmont St. Portland, OR 97214 503.928.4223

THOMAS THEATRE

1111 SW Broadway Portland, OR 97205 503.248.4335

[SEE ALLEN ELIZABETHAN THEATRE]

PORTLAND ART MUSEUM

147 NW 19th Ave. Portland, OR 97209 503.222.9811

1219 SW Park Ave. Portland, OR 97205 800.273.1530

THE PORTLAND BALLET STUDIO THEATRE 6250 SW Capitol Hwy. Portland, OR 97239 503.452.8448

PORTLAND PIANO COMPANY

711 SW 14th Ave. Portland, OR 97205 503.775.2480

PORTLAND PLAYHOUSE 602 NE Prescott St. Portland, OR 97211 503.488.5822

PORTLAND STATE UNIVERSITY 1825 SW Broadway Portland, OR 97201 503.725.3000

REVOLUTION HALL

1300 SE Stark St. Suite #110 Portland, OR 97214 503.288.3895

TRINITY EPISCOPAL CATHEDRAL

TOM HUGHES CIVIC CENTER PLAZA 150 E Main St. Hillsboro, OR 97123

THE VENETIAN THEATRE 253 E Main St. Hillsboro, OR 97123 503.693.3953

WALTER CULTURAL ARTS CENTER 527 E Main Hillsboro, OR 97123 503.615.3485

WINNINGSTAD THEATRE [SEE PORTLAND’5]

YOUNG PROFESSIONALS STUDIO THEATER 1939 NE Sandy Blvd.

Portland, OR 97232 503.228.9571

ZION LUTHERAN CHURCH

1015 SW 18th Ave. Portland, OR 97205 503.221.1343

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EUGENE Mix & Match: SHOWS

SIGHTS!

Look, we know Eugene is a bit of a drive. And hey, why go all that way when cultural offerings abound right here in Stumptown? Well, after poking around www.eugenecascadescoast.org, we realized that a trek south opens up a whole new menu of performing arts and sightseeing options—especially if you’re willing to take long, scenic drives between stops. So here at Artslandia HQ, we decided to play a game: Pick a Eugene-area arts event and try to pair it with a suitable sightseeing adventure. Here’s what we came up with! We’re also attaching a map of the covered bridges referenced below, plus area wineries in case you want to, ahem, further round out your cultural palate. BY A.L. ADAMS.

FOR THE BIRDS

STUPID @#$%ING BIRD, OREGON CONTEMPORARY THEATRE + BIRDWATCHING (SEPT. 11–OCT. 3)

It stands to reason that where there’s a stupid bird, there are also some awesome ones—so why not contrast a night out at Aaron Posner’s provocative play with a relaxing day of birdwatching? In downtown Eugene, you could spot osprey, bald eagles, gulls, and swallows along the Willamette River. A hike up Skinner Butte may find you forest birds. Pay a visit to the Cascades Raptor Center to see fierce birds of prey in natural environs.

PHOTOS BELOW COURTESY OF THE JORDAN SCHNITZER MUSEUM OF ART .

FLY A KITE

MARY POPPINS, SHEDD THEATRICALS + KITE-FLYING (SEPT. 18–OCT. 4) If the songs of Mary Poppins happen to put you in a kite-flying spirit, you might want to check out Florence at the Oregon Coast where winds will take your kite to the highest height and locals are eager to point hobbyists to the best spots.

WINTER WONDERS

EUGENE BALLET COMPANY’S THE NUTCRACKER + SNOWY SLOPES (DEC. 4–20) The dancing snowflakes of this classic Christmas ballet may inspire you to hit the nearby slopes of Oregon’s Cascade Mountains for the real thing! Shuttles are available straight from Eugene. Willamette Pass is only an hour away, and Salt Creek Sno-Park is a great place for playing and snow-shoeing.

BALLET AND BEASTS

BALLET FANTASTIQUE’S DRAGON AND THE NIGHT QUEEN + SEA LION CAVES (FEB. 20–28)

If The Dragon and the Night Queen’s Celtic mythology leaves you dreaming of giant cave-dwelling beasts, the sea

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lions of Florence, Oregon, are standing by. Sea Lion Caves—America’s largest sea caves—are open year-round, and they’re a great place to visit real-life, cave-dwelling, heavy-breathing monsters in their lair.

The Feb. 20 Dragon performance is in Florence; all others are in Eugene.

EUGENE SYMPHONY’S LOCAL PRIDE

SYMFEST: MARIN ALSOP CELEBRATES EUGENE + ALL-INCLUSIVE EXTRAS (MAR. 2) Usually you have to plan to satisfy all of your senses...but this time, the Eugene Symphony will do all the work for you.

SymFest centers around an orchestra program of Mahler, Bernstein, and more, but the city’s iconic Hult Center will also be brimming with Eugene’s best food, beverages, art, and music. Tastings, an indie band showcase, a DJ remix competition, and dancing should give you a complete Eugene experience in one stop.

AMONG THE WILDFLOWERS

EUGENE OPERA, LITTLE WOMEN + ALPINE HIKE (MAY 13–15) If the flowery, bright prose of Louisa May Alcott sung as opera has a kindred in nature, it may be the Alpine Trail. Also known as “The Crown Jewel,” this path is flanked by beautiful views and should be

PORTL AND 110 MILES

(less than 2 hours)

scattered with wildflower meadows come spring. Consider hiking or biking some or all of this 14-mile route in Oakridge.

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OREGON BACH FESTIVAL + COVERED BRIDGE TOUR (JUNE–JULY)

Are you a typical Bach aficionado, reveling in symmetry and structure, and taking inspiration from pastoral scenery? Then you may want to balance out your visit to the Oregon Bach Festival by enjoying the surrounding area’s 20 covered bridges! These quaint, picturesque structures, built as early as the 1920s, are perfect to stroll through, picnic by, and take snapshots of while quietly humming an etude.

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Hit up the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art’s EC Comics art showcase first to stoke your sense of adventure, and then head west to The Oregon Dunes National Recreation Area. Sandland Adventures and Sand Dunes Frontier offer buggy trips and Sand Master Park gives sandboarding lessons to help you explore what— for Oregon—feels like alien terrain.

Find details on these and other countless adventures for South Willamette Valley

WWW.EUGENECASCADESCOAST.ORG

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WINE, DINING & SONG

Slake your thirst for good taste at these Eugene-area wineries.

1 Sweet Cheeks Winery “Twilight Tastings” with live music Fridays from midnight to 1:00am, and “Mimosa Sundays” with live music Sundays at noon.

2 Silvan Ridge Friday night concerts June– October. Tastings year-round.

3 Saginaw Vineyard “Friday Night Live” features live music Fridays from 6:00–9:00pm, and paintings from Red Barn Artists are on view.

5 Domaine Meriwether Winery

4 King Estate

“Sparkling Nights” every Friday from 6:00–9:00pm, featuring free tastings and live music.

Beyond wines, an organic experience, complete with a pear orchard, a lavender field, and an impressive new solar array.

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Cross these bridges when you come to them—or just take a picture.

How’d we do? We’d love to hear from you—especially if you want to propose other pairings, or if you end up trying any of these. Share your feedback at www.artslandia.com.

Coyote Creek Bridge Built 1922 | Span: 60 feet

Built 1925 | Span: 78 feet

Chambers Bridge

Stewart Bridge

Centennial Bridge

Mosby Creek Bridge

Currin Bridge

Built 1987 | Span: 84 feet

Built 1920 | Span: 90 feet

Built 1930 | Span: 60 feet

Built 1925 | Span: 105 feet

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BOLD. SMART. ENGAGING. DYNAMIC. UNEXPECTED.

STUPID @#$%ING BIRD

Oregon Contemporary Theatre

By Aaron Posner

September 11–October 3, 2015

FOUNDED BY RANDY LORD & CHRIS LEEBRICK, 1992

VENUE: Oregon Contemporary Theatre TIME: Th–Sat 7:30pm; Sun 2:00pm

RAPTURE, BLISTER, BURN

By Gina Gionfriddo

October 23–November 14, 2015 VENUE: Oregon Contemporary Theatre TIME: Th–Sat 7:30pm; Sun 2:00pm

SPECIAL EVENT

CHARLES DICKENS’ A CHRISTMAS CAROL

Adapted & directed by Elizabeth Helman VENUE: Oregon Contemporary Theatre TIME: Th–Sat 7:30pm; Sun 2:00pm

THE LAST FIVE YEARS

By Jason Robert Brown

January 15–February 6, 2016 VENUE: Oregon Contemporary Theatre TIME: Th–Sat 7:30pm; Sun 2:00pm

SILENT SKY

By Lauren Gunderson

February 26–March 19, 2016 VENUE: Oregon Contemporary Theatre TIME: Th–Sat 7:30pm; Sun 2:00pm

BLACKBERRY WINTER

By Steve Yockey

April 15–May 7, 2016 VENUE: Oregon Contemporary Theatre TIME: Th–Sat 7:30pm; Sun 2:00pm

VANYA AND SONIA AND MASHA AND SPIKE

“The 2015–16 season of Oregon Contemporary Theatre (OCT) is an exciting theatrical journey with a blend of comedy, drama, and musical theater ideally suited for our intimate stage, bookended by two fun, modern spins on Chekhov,” says Artistic Director Craig Willis.

The regional premiere of Aaron Posner’s Stupid @#$%ing Bird—irreverently based on Chekov’s The Seagull—starts things off. Posner grew up and went to high school in Eugene. Following is Gina Gionfriddo’s Rapture, Blister, Burn, a comic exploration of gender politics that was a Pulitzer Prize finalist.

By Christopher Durang

May 20–June 11, 2016 VENUE: Oregon Contemporary Theatre

“[OCT] creates a kind of happy and heady momentum, wrapping each successive show in an aura of excitement and anticipation. What will they do next?” –EUGENE WEEKLY

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The Eugene premiere of Tony Award-winning composer Jason Robert Brown’s The Last Five Years, featuring the exquisite voice of Evynne Hollens, kicks off 2016.

Following is the regional premiere of Lauren Gunderson’s Silent Sky, blending humor and romance in a riveting exploration of the life and career of real-life celebrated astronomer Henrietta Swan Leavitt (1868–1921), who fearlessly asserted herself in the male-driven, turn-of-the-century world of science and academia.

Next is a National New Play Network Rolling World Premiere of Steve Yockey’s Blackberry Winter. Yockey embraces large theatrical gestures and a childlike Alzheimer’s “creation myth” to recount one woman’s witnessing of the inevitable. Willis will direct.

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Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol returns to OCT for the holidays. This classic tale of redemption is retold in a family friendly production filled with music and dance.

The season concludes with the Eugene premiere of Christopher Durang’s Tony Awardwinning Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike. Durang turns Chekhov on his head with this witty and incisive farce.

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Top: Dontrell, Who Kissed the Sea by Nathan Alan Davis, 2015. Photo by Michael Brinkerhoff. Bottom: Becky’s New Car by Steven Dietz, 2014. Photo by Amber Ball.

November 27–December 20, 2015

ENLIGHTENING. DIVERSE. PEACEFUL. CONTEMPLATIVE. INSPIRING.

Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art FOUNDED BY GERTRUDE BASS WARNER, 1933 & JORDAN D. SCHNITZER, 2005

SEASON HIGHLIGHTS EXPANDING FRONTIERS The Jack and Susy Wadsworth Collection of Postwar Japanese Prints

September 26, 2015– January 3, 2016

FIRST FOLIO!

The Book that Gave Us Shakespeare

January 6–February 7, 2016

BRIAN LANKER From the Heart

January 23–April 24, 2016

ALIENS, MONSTERS, AND MADMEN The Art of EC Comics

May 14–July 10, 2016 For a complete schedule, visit www.jsma.uoregon.edu.

TOP & BOTTOM: Photos courtesy of Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art.

The University of Oregon’s Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art (JSMA) is a premier Pacific Northwest museum for exhibitions and collections of historic and contemporary art based in a major university setting. The JSMA features significant collections galleries devoted to art from China, Japan, Korea, the Americas, and Europe, as well as changing special exhibition galleries.

Expanding Frontiers: The Jack and Susy Wadsworth Collection of Postwar Japanese Prints. This special exhibition will explore the range of contemporary print techniques—aquatint, etching, intaglio, lithography, mezzotint, silkscreen, stencils, and woodblock printing—as well as a great range of subject matter.

work by one of America’s masters of the medium, Brian Lanker.

Aliens, Monsters, and Madmen: The Art of EC Comics. Aliens, Monsters, and Madmen celebrates the achievements of the most artistically and politically adventurous American comic book company of the 20th century: Bill Gaines’s Entertainment Comics, better known to fans all over the world as EC. Masterworks on Loan. The JSMA’s Masterworks on Loan program presents exciting works by important, internationally recognized artists and artworks from around the world that are borrowed from private holdings.

First Folio! The Book that Gave Us Shakespeare.

The exhibition—part of the international events planned for 2016 in observance of the 400th anniversary of Shakespeare’s death—will bring the 1623 original edition of the playwright’s first published collection to 53 sites: one site in all 50 United States, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, and the U.S. Virgin Islands. Each location will host the exhibition for four weeks.

MUSEUM INFORMATION LOCATED IN THE HEART OF THE UNIVERSITY OF OREGON CAMPUS There is always something to do at the JSMA. Whether it be a film screening or a guided tour, the JSMA offers a variety of ways to enrich your arts experiences drawn directly from the works in the galleries. Our events are always a great way to meet new people and learn more about art!

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“Best place in Eugene for feeding your soul!”

–JSMA VISITOR “Amazing diversity of art.”

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Brian Lanker: From the Heart. This retrospective exhibition explores the range of photographic

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The Hult Center for the Performing Arts wishes the Eugene Symphony a very happy 50th Birthday.

YOU KNOW YOU’VE SEEN IT, BUT WHERE...

Use this guide to learn more about the public art featured in this issue.

PUBLIC ART DIRECTORY HARVEY W. SCOTT

PUBLISHER’S LETTER, PG. 10

Gutzon Borglum (1933).

6000 SE Salmon St. Managed by RACC. This commanding figure in Mount Tabor Park looks like the king of a molehill when compared to his sculptor’s other work: Mount Rushmore. Scott was an editor of The Oregonian newspaper. He also fought to suppress Native American tribes and suffragettes.

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AMBASSADOR LETTER, PG. 13

LEE KELLY (2012).

511 NW Broadway. ©PNCA.

Lee Kelly’s sculptures were already ubiquitous in Portland in 2012 when Pacific Northwest College of Art (PNCA) installed this commanding 4,000-pound piece in front of Portland’s original U.S. post office, which would become PNCA’s new headquarters by 2015.

ST. JOHNS BRIDGE

CAPPELLA ROMANA, PG. 40

(1931), Cathedral Park (1968).

N Edison St. and Pittsburgh Ave.

Before it upheld the gorgeous gothic towers of the St. Johns Bridge, this area was a Lewis and Clark landing site (1806) and a Linnton ferry stop (1847). Developed into a park during the ‘70s, the site recently made world news (2015) with a Greenpeace/Shell showdown.

INVERSION +/PHAME, PG. 48

Lead Pencil Studio (2012).

SE Grand Ave. and SE Hawthorne Blvd.

Managed by RACC. This 80'×80' steel angle iron sculpture abstractly marks the “spacial void” left by buildings demolished during 1950s highway construction along Grand Avenue and Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard, including a cast-iron foundry, a warehouse, and an apartment building.

CRYSTAL SPRINGS RHODODENDRON GARDEN PORTLAND BAROQUE ORCHESTRA, PG. 50

(1950) 5801 SE 28th Ave.

Originally Portland mayor William S. Ladd’s “Crystal Springs Farm” in the 1800s, this land was converted into a rhododendron test garden by the American Rhododendron Society in 1950. The oldest rhododendron in the current garden was planted prior to 1917.

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PITTOCK MANSION PORTLAND COLUMBIA SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA, PG. 52

Edward T. Foulkes (1914).

3229 NW Pittock Dr.

This French Renaissance-style château was originally built as a private home for The Oregonian newspaper publisher Henry Pittock and his wife Georgiana. Now managed in part by Portland Parks & Recreation, it’s open for tours depicting life in the early 20th century.

LITTLE PRINCE PORTLAND GAY MEN’S CHORUS, PG. 54

Ilan Averbuch (1995).

NE Multnomah St. and N Interstate Ave. Managed by RACC.

This partially buried copper and steel crown claims literary inspiration from Antoine De Saint-Exupéry’s beloved children’s book. Though the Little Prince appears in the book sans-crown, he does encounter various rulers and begin to question the general idea of authority.

STREETCAR STOP FOR PORTLAND THIRD ANGLE NEW MUSIC, PG. 64

Jorge Pardo (2013).

N Broadway and N Weidler St. Managed by RACC.

Leaders of Portland Streetcar Inc. and RACC fostered the completion of this steel, wood, and fiberglass sculpture, designed by Cuban-born, LA-based sculptor Jorge Pardo to be “rainy on the outside, sunny on the inside.”

CASTING POND CLASSICAL BALLET ACADEMY, PG. 82

Westmoreland Park (1936).

SE McLoughlin Blvd. and SE Bybee Blvd.

This fly-casting pond was hand-excavated in the 1930s as part of the post-depression-era infrastructure improvement effort. The site of much recreation and occasional flooding ever since, the pond’s structure was reinforced in the early 2000s by Portland Parks.

FRANK BEACH MEMORIAL FOUNTAIN JEFFERSON DANCERS, PG. 84

Lee Kelly (1975).

400 SW Kingston Ave. Managed by RACC. Frank E. Beach (1853–1934) was a prominent Portland businessman credited with christening Portland “The Rose City” and proposing the annual Rose Festival.

In his honor, Beach’s family gifted the city with this stainless steel sculpture and water feature by local sculptor Lee Kelly in 1975.

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MOXIE CONTEMPORARY BALLET, PG. 86

OREGON CHILDREN’S THEATRE, PG. 120

Lee Kelly (1990). NW Naito Pkwy and NW Everett St. Managed by RACC.

Partially gifted to Portland by our sister city Sapporo, Japan, this sculpture was designed by Lee Kelly to visually reference Buddhist temples and to play digital audio of a 35-minute piece of music composed by Michael Stirling.

Alejandro Colunga (2003).

1111 SW Broadway. Managed by RACC.

This bronze and steel sculpture was given to Portland mayor Vera Katz in 2003 by Fernando Garza Martinez, mayor of the city of Guadalajara in Mexico, to celebrate Portland’s and Guadalajara’s 20 years as sister cities—but its name translates to “Brother Magician.”

RATIONAL EXUBERANCE

VERA KATZ PARK

OREGON BALLET THEATRE, PG. 90

PORTLAND CENTER STAGE, PG. 124

©Ivan McLean (2009). NW Waterfront Three pieces of yellow painted steel spanning 50' in length give the illusion that they’re waving in the wind. Passersby may walk on the structures.

LINCOLN HALL THE PORTLAND BALLET, PG. 92

Morris H. Whitehouse (1911).

1620 SW Park Ave.

Lincoln Hall is a classical revival style building with Corinthian columns. Originally the site of Lincoln High School, it was acquired by PSU in 1953. In the mid-70’s the stage was expanded and Lincoln Performace Hall was born. The Hall closed in 2008 for a $30 million renovation and reopened in 2010, just in time for its 100th birthday.

MACHINERY ARTISTS REPERTORY THEATRE, PG. 104

©Tom Cramer (1989).

N Shaver St. and N Williams St.

Painted in 1989, this mural’s original bright colors drastically faded in time and weather. In 2003, nonprofit art restoration group Metro Murals collaborated with painter Tom Cramer to restore its vibrancy, causing The Portland Tribune to declare, “Machinery is back in motion.”

HILLSBORO CIVIC CENTER FOUNTAIN BAG&BAGGAGE, PG. 106

LRS Architects (2005). 150 E Main St., Hillsboro, OR. The Hillsboro Civic Center fountain is the centerpiece of a government-built mixed-use development that includes the city hall for the county seat of Washington County. It’s open to the public on weekdays and Saturday mornings for interactive water play.

FOUR UMBRELLAS NORTHWEST CHILDREN’S THEATER, PG. 118

Michael Maiden, ©KPFF Civil Engineers and Vala-Christensen Landscaping (2010). 4400 NE Halsey St. Four giant bronze 10' x 12' umbrellas tilt at different angles to direct stormwater collected from Providence Hospital’s roof into a bioswale below. The bioswale is a landscaping configuration that helps purify rainwater as it transitions into groundwater.

Murase Associates (2008).

128 NW 11th Ave.

On the north side of the historic First Regiment Armory Annex building (built in 1891 and remodeled into the Gerding Theater in the early 2000s) a black granite water feature and vegetated stormwater planters honor a former Portland mayor with a lush oasis for theatergoers and passersby.

MARTIN LUTHER KING JR. BOULEVARD GATEWAY PORTLAND PLAYHOUSE, PG. 126

2.ink Studio (2012).

NE Grand Ave. and NE Hancock St. ©Portland Metro.

The Portland Development Commission helped plan this installation of curved screen walls with quotes from Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., along with a set of “Heritage Markers” intended to “preserve, interpret and celebrate the diverse history of the area’s cultural community.”

MEDITATION HOUSE PORTLAND STORY THEATRE, PG. 128

©Scott Howard and New Day School (2003). 1825 SE Clinton St. This hand-built cob structure, co-designed by architect Mark Lakeman, builder Scott Howard, school headmaster Maitri Erson, and others, was created during the Village Building Convergence from natural and recycled materials, and now stands as a gathering space for New Day students.

BRONZE STUMP STUMPTOWN STAGES, PG. 132

Tad Savinar and design team, for TriMet (1998). SW 17th Ave. and SW Morrison. ©TriMet.

Along with a soapbox and a pedestal, this stump is one of a trio of bronze pieces that invite passersby to stand on them and speak, like they do in London’s famed “Speakers’ Corner.” TriMet gave this Max stop near The Oregonian print location a “communication” theme.

GARDEN STAIR TRIANGLE PRODUCTIONS, PG. 134

Larry Kirkland (1997).

801 SW 10th Ave. Managed by RACC.

This elaborate granite etching illustrates the Central Library as a “garden of knowledge with pathways to wisdom.” Influenced

by William Morris’ textile designs from the Arts & Crafts era in which the library was built, the pattern’s sandblasted texture also makes the stairs skidproof.

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Exploring Whitney Nye’s studio

Discovering Carlos Kalmar’s biggest fan

Parading for Pride

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Red carpeting at the Drammys

Spotting Artslandia at NW Film Center Top Down: Rooftop Cinema series

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Giving the Mona Lisa a new expression

Climbing to unsteady vantage points with Leah Nash

Introducing the Ruby Rug April Fools’ joke

Jeweling up with Tonya Mahler and Candace Bouchard for our photo shoot

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