(Raphaël Feuillâtre, photo courtesy of Chamber Music Northwest) Chamber Music Northwest (CMNW) will present internationally lauded classical guitarist Raphaël Feuillâtre for his Portland premiere performance at The Old Church Concert Hall at 7:30pm on Thursday, November 5. This concert is the second in his nearly three-week North American tour. Feuillâtre’s program will include 18 pieces…
(Photo courtesy of Chamber Music Northwest) On October 28, 7:30pm at Lewis & Clark’s Agnes Flanagan Chapel, Chamber Music Northwest (CMNW) kicks off its 2026/27 mainstage season with a program of technically demanding Romantic-period pieces by Brahms and Dvořák that bookend Pura Fé’s (Tuscarora) Rattle Songs. Originally written for the Indigenous a cappella group Ulali,…
(Photo courtesy of Portland Winter Light Festival) The Portland Winter Light Festival will return February 5-13, 2027, bringing free light-art installations to locations across Portland for the 12th year. Since the call for participation opened in July, the festival has received over 250 submissions from artists, performers, architects and designers locally and from around the…
((L-R) Claire Wells and Pualina Lim | Photos courtesy of Chamber Music Northwest) For its 2026/27 Year-Round Season, Chamber Music Northwest will present a two-concert recital series featuring recent Protégé Project alumni who have gone on to establish international careers. The Sunday afternoon performances will take place in the intimate Irving Levin Performance Hall at…
Portland Festival of Cinema, Animation & Technology (PFCAT) recently announced the full lineup for its 2026 festival, now expanded to six days, running August 18-23 at OMSI. The festival will screen more than 170 films from 31 countries across four venues, including the Oregon premiere of psychological thriller SENDER starring Jamie Lee Curtis, Britt Lower…
(Photos courtesy of Song of Sunset) Cosmic Heirloom: Buried 400 Years, the first film scheduled to screen during Song of Sunset: Underground this fall, has been named an award finalist at the Oregon Short Film Festival. The 12-minute documentary will screen Sunday, September 20, 2026, at the Clinton Street Theater in Portland. The recognition arrives…
((Left) Roberta Lavadour has been reappointed to the Oregon Arts Commission, (Right) Elizabeth Quinn has been appointed to the Oregon Arts Commission | Photos courtesy of Oregon Arts Commission) The Oregon Arts Commission announced that Governor Tina Kotek has reappointed Roberta Lavadour of Pendleton to the Commission and has newly appointed Elizabeth Quinn of Mosier,…
(Masayuki Nagase’s Reflection of Stream is carved, polished and sandblasted basalt stones at OSU-Cascades campus. Installed, 2018) Oregon State University – Cascades is calling for submissions from artists, plus see more public art opportunities, fellowships and artist residences below. Email artist opportunities to Sarah Baylinson, our Art Collection & Artist Services specialist, for consideration in…
(Ellen Waterston) Governor Tina Kotek has appointed Ellen Waterston of Bend to a second term as Poet Laureate of Oregon. A celebrated poet/writer, educator and speaker who founded the Writing Ranch and the Waterston Desert Writing Prize, Waterston will serve a second two-year term ending in August 2028. Waterston is Oregon’s 11th Poet Laureate, first…
(Charity Woodrum) The documentary tells the remarkable journey of Charity Woodrum through childhood poverty in rural Oregon, the devastating loss of her husband and young son in 2017 at the Oregon Coast, and finding solace in far-off galaxies. We often hear about people’s worst moments in life, but seldom hear what happens next. Charity’s inspiring…
