Events

All of the plants and flowers utilized in this year's Festival of Flowers will be available for purchase beginning on June 11th at 8:00am

Join the 5 Useless Degrees & a Bottle of Scotch guys for Portland theatre's premiere awards ceremony, The Drammys. They'll be parked outside of the venue in advance of the event, checking out the couture and engaging the celebrities in some spontaneous Q&A. It's the red carpet gone wrong.

GRAHAM LAMBKIN
A Performance
Sunday, June 8, 8:30pm
$12 (Free to MEMBERS)

“I wouldn’t say I work with music, I would say I work with sound and if you wish to call it music that’s fine. I would be equally happy if you came up with a different definition.” Graham Lambkin has said, “I realized I was ‘organizing sound’ as opposed to ‘making music’ towards the end of the run of The Shadow Ring. Initially I wasn’t aware there was an alternative path you could take with sound. You were either in a band or you weren’t. Of course not being armed with the vocabulary that would come from studying it academically or otherwise, we were just taking the sounds that we could make, as untutored as they were, and organizing them into some kind of system where we had our own language. As the instruments changed and the conventionality of the instruments fell away, things like post production and application of events after the fact became more interesting and more important than strumming a guitar, I think that became a eureka moment. That became a chance for me to put my fingerprint on what we were doing. As a guitar player, I’m anonymous, I’m useless, and that’s fine. But as someone who is able to organize sounds after the fact, that’s where I think I found my tongue.”

“…I always keep in mind a sense of economy. I think it’s good for me to have less to work with. I think by taking stuff away all the time, it forces you to think harder, it ignites you… I got to the point a few years ago where the only equipment I had was a Walkman, and then I thought, ‘well, this is clearly not enough.’ There’s no way you can do good work with just a Walkman, and so I had to bring in things like YouTube, well that’s what I was doing, finding things. You should be able to make a decent record with a rubber band and a cardboard box just as easily as a string quartet.”

Graham Lambkin lives in Poughkeepsie, NY where he runs KYE RECORDS. From 1993 to 2003, he was a member of the uncompromising British band The Shadow Ring.

EELS have had one of the most consistently acclaimed careers in music. The ever-changing project of principal singer/songwriter Mark Oliver Everett, aka E, EELS have released nine studio albums since their 1996 debut, Beautiful Freak. Mojo Magazine calls Everett "a member of rock's very own League of Extraordinary Gentlemen," while legendary troubadour Tom Waits says he "eagerly awaits each new release." In 2008 Everett published his highly-acclaimed book Things the Grandchildren Should Know and starred in the award winning Parallel Worlds, Parallel Lives documentary about the search to understand his quantum physicist father, Hugh Everett III. In 2009 EELS began the release of an album trilogy: Hombre Lobo, End Times, and Tomorrow Morning.

It's fitting that Chelsea Wolfe's second album opens with a hair-raising, animalistic snarl -- the sound of some beastly metamorphosis caught on tape. Ἀποκάλυψις (pronounced "apokalypsis") finds the L.A.- based artist perfecting her distinctly doom-drenched electric folk. Here she graduates from mobile 8-track experimentation to an actual studio, enlisting a few friends to help even as she maintains the strikingly visceral elements of her powerful debut, The Grime & the Glow (2010). The end result is a both a broader sprawl and a tighter claustrophobia, a serious heaviness of sound and spirit prone to unexpected moments of beauty and triumph. Rightly, the album's title is Greek for both "apocalypse" and "revelation." Wolfe's gift for tense beauty reigns supreme on "Tracks (Tall Bodies)," where warm guitar, cavernous drums, and her beguiling voice engender an elemental feeling of regret in tune with the words: It's a machine we're up against/Devoid of reason, devoid of sense." The upbeat "Demons" follows, seemingly as counterpoint, rolling forth on a damaged surf beat and becoming a careening steam engine of scratchy thrash and tortured cries. Later, "Moses" demonstrates what Wolfe may very well do best, cooing choral over grinding Sabbathy guitars, somehow hinting at an odd ebullience hidden in the dirging murk. Though Ἀποκάλυψις's tone is decidedly dark, it's a dynamic album, evidenced by buzzing, organ-soaked soul of "The Wasteland," the clanging blues of "Friedrichshain," and the haunted ambience of "To the Forest, To the Sea," which feels like a field recording from the bewitched woods of Wolfe's youth. The LP's undeniable high point however, is the unforgettable "Pale on Pale." The seven-minute song slowly bores its way into the listener's skull thanks to Wolfe's ghostly moan -- which deals death at every lyrical turn -- and the thick black metal chords that push it along. Somewhere between the blood-curdling scream and squalling feedback that close out the track, transcendence is achieved, and Wolfe's transformation into a true force of nature is complete.

California native Chelsea Wolfe has always embodied light and dark. Her music is a raw, dirging doom-folk with hints of black metal, deep blues and minimal synthesizer music, but it's as prone to triumph as it is despair. Her voice is both haunting and seemingly haunted, though whether by angels or demons is unclear. And her lyrics reflect an obsession not only with life's murkier moments, but the unlikely truths and beauty they so often reveal. It makes sense then that her influences run from Nick Cave and Selda Bagcan to Ayn Rand and Ingmar Bergman, and even more so that she hails from the wilder, woodsy northern part of her state. Wolfe's hometown was a small unspecified burg amidst the trees, idyllic by day and begging exploration, but forbidding once the fog crept in. Her skewed romanticism began early. At 9, she started sneaking into her father's home studio to record warped keyboard covers and Gothy R&B originals. But growing up, she never shared these, and it wasn't until 2009 that she considered making music for others to hear.

After a three-month stint abroad with a nomadic performance troupe playing cathedrals, basements and old nuclear plants, Wolfe returned home inspired. She began toting around an 8-track and recording, eventually winding up with the songs that would become her stunning 2010 debut, The Grime & the Glow. Described as both healing and harrowing, enchanting and narcotic, the album established Wolfe as an elemental force on the rise. Just as telling were a pair of cover songs including the timeless "You Are My Sunshine" as well as a deep cut from Norwegian metal icon Burzum that in her capable hands managed to sound equally terrifying. Drawn to Los Angeles' unique mix of gloss and grit, she moved to the city late last year and recorded her second album, Ἀποκάλυψις (pronounced "apokalypsis"), out on Pendu Sound Recordings in 2011. Recently, Chelsea Wolfe's name exploded in the music world after pop artist Richard Phillips used her song "Moses" in his newest art-film starring Sasha Grey which premiered at the Venice Biennale in June 2011.

June 7 - 8, 2014 11am at Burnside Brewing Company.
All Ages

7th & E. Burnside on the North side of the street. Taking place between Burnside & Couch streets on 7th and in the parking lot of Burnside Brewing Co. at 701 E. Burnside Portland, OR 97214

Celebrate beloved film, The Goonies, in the town it was filmed – Astoria, Oregon! As a part of the Goonies 25th Anniversary Celebration in 2010, Mayor Willis Van Dusen declared June 7 to be officially recognized as Goonies Day. This date is special to Astorians because it is the anniversary of the day the film was released into theaters in 1985. 

This is an annul free event that shows some chinese tradition. Portland has held dragon boat racing for 25 years on the Willamette river near the Hawthorne bridge. The races feature exciting four-team heats held every nine minutes. More than 80 different teams – local, national and international.

Drag, Dance and Debauchery.
With Portland's fiercest performers, visual artists, DJs and our favorite host - 

Artemis Chase

And our favorite performers - 

John-Nuriel Yeshua Vissell

DieAna Dae

Pepper Pepper

Caitlin Popp

and 

River

Get drawn for free by Michael Horwitz !

Come join the rest of Portland's queers with some beers and cheers!

And take your clothes off!!

This is an all-night party after the Naked Bike Ride with a spectacular spectacle of color, wigs, skin, black light paint and much more!

Let's kiki!

A lot of love has gone into the making of this event.

DJs - Sleeper, Tek Fabrics, Quincy and Jackal !

Costumes by Elina Levkovskaya, Amanda Newell and Colby Garrett

Visuals by Ali Sa , Simon Sanchez and Brianne Siegel

Timber Timbre is a Canadian folk music project, featuring Mika Posen, Simon Trottier and Taylor Kirk. The moniker refers to an early series of recordings made in a timber-framed cabin set in the wooded outskirts of Bobcaygeon, Ontario.

The World Naked Bike Ride is an annual, worldwide bike ride that highlights the vulnerability of cyclists everywhere and decries society’s dependence on pollution-based transport. It’s also a lot of fun and it’s free for all!

The next ride is June 7th.  Ride meets at 8pm and rides at 9pm.  We depart from Normandale Park (5600 NE Halsey).  The ride is NOT a loop.

Poetry Press Week Spring/Summer 2014 will showcase the work of Albert Goldbarth, Zachary Schomburg, Carl Adamshick, Julia Claire Tillinghast, KMA Sullivan, Chrys Tobey, Zubair Ahmed, and Veronica Martin. The presenting poets were selected on the basis of their local and national reputations and on the strength of their work. 

Poetry Press Week is a showcase of new works of poetry by established and emerging poets before an audience of press, publishers, and the public. The event is modeled after the fashion industry’s biannual showcase “Fashion Week”, wherein designers send their new work down a runway via use of models. Similarly, Poetry Press Week mandates that poets use “models”: instead of reading the work themselves, the poets choose the readers and presentation best suited to the new work. Press and publishers in the audience have the opportunity to hear poems that are available for publication, and the public is encouraged to engage with the work in real-time.

An outdoor celebration of diverse cultures and energetic Hispanic social dances. Enjoy the flowing and universal language of dance, outside in a beautiful natural oak grove space. Tango and Salsa lessons taught by Portland’s exquisite maestros to live music.

June 7 - 8, 2014 11am at Burnside Brewing Company.
All Ages

7th & E. Burnside on the North side of the street. Taking place between Burnside & Couch streets on 7th and in the parking lot of Burnside Brewing Co. at 701 E. Burnside Portland, OR 97214

Celebrate beloved film, The Goonies, in the town it was filmed – Astoria, Oregon! As a part of the Goonies 25th Anniversary Celebration in 2010, Mayor Willis Van Dusen declared June 7 to be officially recognized as Goonies Day. This date is special to Astorians because it is the anniversary of the day the film was released into theaters in 1985. 

This is an annul free event that shows some chinese tradition. Portland has held dragon boat racing for 25 years on the Willamette river near the Hawthorne bridge. The races feature exciting four-team heats held every nine minutes. More than 80 different teams – local, national and international.

Join us on June 6th for a special screening of 24 Hour Party People at the generous Academy Theater, where all proceeds will go to XRAY.fm. The station will be there in force, with DDDJJJ666 playing a live after-party (where Jefferson Smith will tell anyone who will listen why he loves this movie so much.)

24 Hour Party People
In 1976, Tony Wilson sets up Factory Records and brings Manchester's music to the world.

Academy Theater
7818 SE Stark Street
Portland, OR, 97215

$5 Tickets (all proceeds go to XRAY.fm)
Movie starts at 9:15pm

The vessels will all sail into the Willamette on Wednesday and Thursday, June 3 and 4. Once docked, the ships will be open for free tours from roughly 9:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m., Friday through Sunday, June 8.

The sailors themselves will be out on the town, making public appearances at the Grand Floral Parade and other community events around Portland. The Coast Guard and Navy are even manning teams for a special head-to-head contest in the Dragon Boat races that weekend.

Celebrate beloved film, The Goonies, in the town it was filmed – Astoria, Oregon! As a part of the Goonies 25th Anniversary Celebration in 2010, Mayor Willis Van Dusen declared June 7 to be officially recognized as Goonies Day. This date is special to Astorians because it is the anniversary of the day the film was released into theaters in 1985. 

Running June 5-15, 2014, Beer Week features three big festivals —

Fruit Beer Festival (June 6-8) 

Rye Beer Fest (June 13) 

Portland Beer and Cheese Fest (June 15)

With many other events occurring all week. More information available at http://pdxbeerweek.com/calendar/