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Ursula Le Guin’s The Left Hand of Darkness

Where: Portland Playhouse
When: Through May 26
Portland Playhouse and Hand2Mouth Productions team up to present a stage adaptation of Ursula Le Guin’s award winning sci-fi novel The Left Hand of Darkness.
Hand2MouthTheatre.org

Amazing May

Where: Grants Pass
When:
Amazing May celebrates the arts for the entire month. It features everything from a quilt show to a play by Woody Allen, and every kind of art in between!
VisitGrantsPass.org

Palestinian Cultural and Film Festival

Where: Corvallis
When: Through May 31
The Palestinian Cultural and Film Festival features food, discussion, and award-winning work by filmmakers that cover the globe.
MecaForPeace.org/events/corvallis-or-palestinian-cultural-festiv

Abmeyer Wood Gallery

Alison O'Donoghue Show

People’s Republic of Portland

Where: Gerding Theater at the Armory, Portland
When: April 23 - June 16
Portland is garnering lots of attention lately—for our leadership in sustainability; for our food scene; for being, well, weird. And now we’ve caught the attention of Lauren Weedman, actor/writer of BUST. In the few months she spent here in the spring of 2011, Lauren’s imagination was captured by all things Portland.
PCS.org/republic/

Oregon Shakespeare Festival

Where: Various, Ashland
When: Febrary 16th - July 7th
The Taming of the Shrew; My Fair Lady; Two Trains Running; King Lear; The Unfortunates; A Streetcar Named Desire; Cymbeline; The Heart of Robin Hood; A Midsummer Night's Dream; The LIquid Plain; The Tenth Muse
OSFAshland.org

Waterfront Blues Festival

Where: Tom McCall Waterfront Park, Portland
When: July 4-7
The Waterfront Blues Festival is a five-day event and largest fundraiser for Oregon Food Bank, a nonprofit hunger-relief organization.
WaterfrontBluesFest.com

Waterfront Blues Festival:
26th Annual Waterfront Blues Festival

Where: Tom McCall Waterfront Park, Portland
When: July 4th - 7th
The 2013 Safeway Waterfront Blues Festival will feature more than 125 performances on four stages, plus Fourth of July fireworks, seven Delta Music Experience Blues Cruises on the Willamette River, a full-day Zydeco Swamp Romp, Swing Dance Competition, After Hours All-Stars concerts at the Marriott Grand Ballroom, workshops, dances and more.
WaterfrontBluesFest.com

JAW: A Playwrights Festival

Where: Gerding Theater at the Armory, Portland
When: July 15 - 29
JAW is Portland Center Stage’s developmental festival of new work for the stage. For two crazy weeks in July, JAW: A Playwrights Festival takes over the Armory, inside and out.
PCS.org/jaw

Art in the Pearl

Where: NW Park Blocks Portland
When: August 31 - September 2
Art In The Pearl, Portland Oregon’s annual Fine Arts & Crafts Festival, occurs every year on Labor Day weekend. The 17th annual festival will occur on August 31st, Sept. 1-2, 2013 in the Pearl District’s North Park Blocks.
ArtInThePearl.com

Object Focus: The Bowl

Where: Museum of Contemporary Craft, Portland
When: Through September 21
Objects that occupy daily lives can be some of the most challenging to present, analyze and consider in a museum environment. The second in the Object Focus series, this exhibition focuses on an archetypal cultural form: the bowl. Commonplace and familiar, the bowl can range from utilitarian to decorative, functional to conceptual.
MuseumOfContemporaryCraft.org/exhibitions/5412

PICA's Time Based Art Festival

Where: Various Venues
When: Septemeber 12 - 22
PICA’s annual Time-Based Art Festival (TBA) draws artists from across the country and around the globe for a convergence of contemporary performance and visual art. Installations and live performances fill out theaters, temporary galleries, and unexpected public spaces throughout Portland, activating the city with art and energy.
PICA.org/programs/tba-festival

Funding provided by:: Additional Support Provided By:
U.S. Bank
The Jackson Foundation
The Roundhouse Foundation
Fran and John von Schlegell

Oregon Arts Calendars:: Find more events and activities at these arts organization sites:; Literary Arts; The Pacific Northwest Folk Music Scene; Oregon Beat; RACC Events Calendar; Oregon Society of Artists