The PDX Pop Now! Festival returns on Saturday & Sunday, July 20-21. Featuring all Portland artists, the festival is free, all ages, and inclusive to all!
-- Saturday, July 20 --
12-1:40 p.m. | Friends of Noise Youth Performances
2 p.m. | Body Shame
2:40 p.m. | NEYBUU
3:20 p.m. | CobraThief
4 p.m. | BRUCE
4:40 p.m. | Coast2c
5:20 p.m. | Mane Of The Cur
6 p.m. | Brown Calculus
6:40 p.m. | Nick Delffs
7:20 p.m. | Mo Troper
8 p.m. | Pleasure Curses
8:40 p.m. | Danny Sky
9:20 p.m. | Schaus
10 p.m. | S.E.C.R.E.T.S
10:40 p.m. | ePP
11:20 p.m. | HELP
--Sunday, July 21--
12-1:40 p.m. | My Voice Music Youth Performances
2 p.m. | Wes Youssi and The County Champs
2:40 p.m. | SSOLD
3:20 p.m. | Voodoo Dollz
4 p.m. | Adebisi
4:40 p.m. | Cry Babe
5:20 p.m. | Mope Grooves
6 p.m. | Vueltas
6:40 p.m. | Gaytheist
7:20 p.m. | Stevo The Weirdo
8 p.m. | Plastic Cactus
8:40 p.m. | Raquel Divar
9:20 p.m. | Federale
More info at: http://pdxpopnow.com/lineup2019/
Portland Queer Comedy Festival
Featuring 5 stages and over 40 comics, Portland Queer Comedy Festival aims to bring the best and brightest talent in international LGBTQ stand-up comedy to a beautiful, diverse and inclusive Portland, Oregon; while giving back to the local community that supports us through non-profit initiatives. The venues are conveniently located to one another creating a fun pub-crawl atmosphere!
They have invited some of their favorite comics including the legendary Scott Thompson!
Scott Thompson (Kids in The Hall, Reno 911)
Nico Santos (NBC Superstore, Crazy Rich Asians)
Sandra Valls (Showtime)
Erin Foley (Conan)
Jen Kober (NPR, Conan)
Dwayne Perkins (Comedy Central)
D’Lo (HBO’s Looking, Dis-Oriented Comedy Tour)
Jeffery Jay (Best Trans Comic-The Advocate)
A full line-up, show information, and ticketing is available on our website at www.portlandqueercomedyfestival.com
On SATURDAY JULY 13TH — XRAY is proud to sponsor Back Fence PDX: RUSSIAN ROULETTE at The Old Church! A live storytelling show where performers spin a giant game show wheel filled with mystery prompts. Storytellers have just 5 minutes to prepare and tell a true story -- AND you vote for the winner! With storytellers CHRIS WILLIAMS, KATIE PIATT, LEATHER STORRS, ALEX DANG and more! DJ BOBBY from XRAY will spin tunes!
AYBLA Food Truck will be there and the show is ASL interpreted by BLAKE WALES. Advance tickets at BackFencePDX.com
XRAY.FM joins forces with Tender Loving Empire for a in-store DJ on select Saturdays each month from 12-4PM!
Come hang out and listen to music:
5/4 - Christopher Nakayama
5/11 - DJ Theo Craig
6/1 - DJFGQBNYJ
7/6 - DJFGQBNYJ
7/13 - Christopher Nakayama
Join us for The Big Float, Portland’s splash hit of the summer – coming up Saturday, July 13th on the Willamette River downtown. A parade/float/beach party spectacle with music by Blitzen Trapper and Redray Frazier. Our river is revived. Join the revival and jump into The Big Float 9! Register at thebigfloat.com. A movement disguised as a party – a benefit for the Human Access Project.
WHEN: Saturday, July 13, 2019
10:00 am - 6:30 pm
WHERE: Tom McCall Bowl - Waterfront Park (SW Columbia & Naito)
COST: $5 through Sunday, July 7th, $10 after, $15 Day of event. Discounted pricing under age 18.
WHO: 5,000+ floaters, observers and after-partiers.
WHY: To give our Willamette River a community hug.
WHAT: THE Portland summer celebration benefiting Human Access Project. Featuring Blitzen Trapper, Redray Frazier and Perk! Portland Grooves on two floating stages and MORE!
More information is available at www.thebigfloat.com
Beach party here we come!
To get to this year’s Big Float, Go By Transit! TriMet can get you right by the waterfront and yes, you can bring your water wings on board. To plan your trip to Waterfront Park, visit trimet.org to use their Trip Planner!
The Big Float is open to all ages. All floaters must wear a life jacket. It's a safe voyage, not a race. Join the flotilla and attend the grandest pool party Portland has ever seen! The Big Float is the annual fundraiser for the Human Access Project. www.humanaccessproject.com
KayelaJ's debut album D.Y.K.E (Don't Yield, Keep Enduring) is an album she has waited to make her entire life. Throughout her life she's experienced battles with the world and within herself. The album is a autobiography and an emotional roller-coaster which starts in KayelaJ's deep depression, transitions into her rage, and ends in love (including her self-love and love for others). She hopes this experience will be as therapeutic for you as it was for her. Join her at her album release party at Kelly's Olympian where she will bare it all.
Performances by:
DJMyrie
Quinn Foster
Covi.
Shardea Booth
Lyric Ranea Branch
Short film premiere from KayelaJ mixtape "Homage"
Written by KayelaJ and shot and directed by Devin Boss from Kill Class Productions
Thanks to sponsors:
XRAY.FM
The Numberz
Green Hop
Karma Rivera
Event is 21+
Pay $10 at the door
XRAY.FM joins forces with Tender Loving Empire for a in-store DJ on select Saturdays each month from 12-4PM!
Come hang out and listen to music:
5/4 - Christopher Nakayama
5/11 - DJ Theo Craig
6/1 - DJFGQBNYJ
7/6 - DJFGQBNYJ
7/13 - Christopher Nakayama
Every first Tuesday from 9PM-1AM join XRAY.FM DJs spinning records live at one of the coziest bars in Portland, Beech Street Parlor! For a full schedule of events visit Beech Street Parlor here.
XRAY.FM presents the Lavender Flu, Woolen Men, and Michael O. performing live at The Spare Room on June 28th.
Lavender Flu
(https://intheredrecords.com/collections/lavender-flu)
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Woolen Men
(https://woolenmen.bandcamp.com/
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Michael O.
(https://fruitsandflowers.bandcamp.com/album/powers-out)
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DJ Klyph Productions, McMenamins, XRAY FM, Cascade Record Pressing & Ear Trumpet Labs Present: MIC CHECK
The Bi-Monthly event brings you some of the best MCs in the region. Also featuring beat sets from some of the region's best producers & sets from resident DJs Trox and O.G. One., the Hip Hop Showcase is happening the last Thursday every other month at White Eagle, with Live performances, drink specials and good vibes!
Make sure you hit www.miccheckpdx.com
THURSDAY June 27th:
Featuring:
VURSATYL
Special guests:
CALL ME ACE
GEPETTO
SAMMY
Beat Set by: O.G. One
Hosted by: Klyph
Music by: Trox & DJ O.G. One
Doors @ 8pm, Show starts at 9pm...
21 and over, Tickets: $8 Pre-sale; $10 @ the Door
A Beat Happening is celebrating their 2nd year anniversary by throwing a 2-day fest! Forward Frequencies Fest is presented by A Beat Happening, an all-ages, monthly, inclusive, electronic/hip hop producer showcase, YouTube channel, and record label. Forward Frequencies is a celebration of DIY, left-field beat, hip hop, and electronic music culture in Portland, Oregon.
http://FORWARDFREQ.COM
Day 1
Brown Calculus https://browncalculus.bandcamp.com/
Amenta Abioto https://amentavera.bandcamp.com/
The Touri$t Showcase https://www.instagram.com/touristxtourist/
Vibra https://abeathappening.bandcamp.com/album/delirium
Jason Undefined https://soundcloud.com/jason-undefined
Sir Nai https://spoti.fi/2IqldBU
Cheyne Queezy x See the King https://soundcloud.com/cheynequeezy
Everyday Mixtapes https://www.instagram.com/everydaymixtapes/
Day 2
Fountaine https://fountaine.bandcamp.com/
Omari Jazz https://soundcloud.com/omarijazz
Northern Draw https://northerndraw.bandcamp.com/
Lisa Vazquez https://lisavazquez.bandcamp.com/
Auvie Sinclair https://abeathappening.bandcamp.com/album/float
Ms. Elle https://soundcloud.com/msellemusic/sets/thebrokeep
Kokio https://soundcloud.com/kokiobeats
DJ King Tim 33 1/3
Community Partners
Thirsty City Records https://www.facebook.com/ThirstyCityPDX/
Friends of Noise http://www.friendsofnoise.org/
Future Shock https://www.facebook.com/futureshockpdx/
XRAY.FM https://xray.fm/
TheyThemHer is beyond excited to be hosting not one but TWO parties over PDX Pride Weekend 2019! Join us at Church on Saturday June 15 & Sunday June 16 where we'll be celebrating Black Excellence!
FEATURING:
June 15th:
- DJ Carissa Lilly, DJ Reverend Dollas and DJ Nadia
June 16th
- Carlos the Rollerbalder (3pm - 6pm)
- DJ Reverend Dollas (6pm - 8pm)
- DJ No Bi.es (8pm - 10pm)
Stay tuned as we announce more entertainment and details soon!
TICKETS:
Tickets will be $30 for access to both parties!
THIS EVENT IS:
- An inclusive LGBTQIA+ event. Come exactly as you are!
- 21+
ABOUT THEMTHEMHER:
We host queer day parties focusing on the trans, womxn, femme, and non-binary community!
COLLATE / collate.bandcamp.com
NEUTRALS (Bay Area) / neutrals.bandcamp.com
SEABLITE (Bay Area) / seablite.bandcamp.com
CAY IS OKAY / cayisokay.bandcamp.com
8pm / 21+ / free! / no jerks!
LOCATION: 2175 NW Raleigh St. Suite 103, Portland OR 97210
GETTING HERE: Get $5 Uber discount with the code “mutualPDX“
6 Reasons To Stop By
- EAT & DRINK – Beer and wine by 21st Bar & Grill / Food by Elephants Catering
- GIVEAWAYS – Hydro-flask water bottles, Silipints, wine baskets
- DISCOVERY – Discover the Slabtown neighborhood & hang out at our new showroom
- NETWORKING – Meet people from Portland’s design community & industry vendors
- PODCASTING – Be part of history with Brian Libby’s new podcast, “In Search of Portland”
- WIN PRIZES – Life of Pie, McMenamins, Breakside Brewery, Orange Theory, Good Coffee
Join Thom Wednesday, June 12: PORTLAND, OR 7:30pm Location: Powell’s, 1005 W Burnside St., Portland
Mass shootings are on the rise. The call for gun control is at a fever pitch. And a recent Quinnipiac University poll shows that the majority of Americans support stricter gun laws. So what’s holding the U.S. back from enacting change?
In The Hidden History of Guns and the Second Amendment (Berrett-Koehler Publishers; June 4, 2019; 9781523085996), nationally syndicated talk show host and New York Times bestselling author Thom Hartmann offers an in-depth, historically informed view of the role guns have played throughout American history, from early European settlement to the Revolutionary War and Manifest Destiny, through the use of Slave Patrols in the Deep South (which became the "well-regulated militias" so debated in 1787), to the recent school massacres. He shows how the NRA and conservative Supreme Court justices used specious logic to invent a virtually unlimited individual right to own guns, which has enabled the ever-growing number of mass shootings in the United States.
There are solutions to this epidemic of gun violence and mass shootings, but they require a clear eyed reconciliation of America’s past with its present. Hartmann identifies common-sense and powerful solutions that would break the power of the gun lobby and restore the understanding of the Second Amendment that the Framers of the Constitution intended, such as:
• getting money out of politics to get the NRA out of lobbying
• passing laws that would treat gun ownership like car ownership (title, license, insurance)
• addressing the social despair and economic inequality that drive violent crime and mass shootings
Bryson Cone is a solo project started by Bryson Hansen in March 2016. Hansen is an artist living and working in Portland, OR. Hansen has played in various other projects including main songwriter and singer for Fog Father, synth wizard for Reptaliens and Cat Hoch band, guitar geek for Sex Money Monks and a few live guitar gigs with Gary Wilson. Bryson Cone is currently hard at work on a debut full length album.
Night Heron -
Night Heron is a slinky, spooky, sexy psych-pop outfit from Portland, OR. The band is comprised of members of Radiation City, Aan, Reptaliens, Moon By You, Social Studies, Psychomagic, et al.
Every first Tuesday from 9PM-1AM join XRAY.FM DJs spinning records live at one of the coziest bars in Portland, Beech Street Parlor! For a full schedule of events visit Beech Street Parlor here.
XRAY.FM joins forces with Tender Loving Empire for a in-store DJ on select Saturdays each month from 12-4PM!
Come hang out and listen to music:
5/4 - Christopher Nakayama
5/11 - DJ Theo Craig
6/1 - DJFGQBNYJ
7/6 - DJFGQBNYJ
7/13 - Christopher Nakayama
A community benefit concert for Power to the Dreamers and Friends of Noise ft. Samuel Eisen-Meyers & The Joyful Noise, Edna Vazquez, and special guest performances by Sarah Brahim and Mia O'Connor-Smith
Sponsored by XRAY.FM
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Power to the Dreamers (formerly We the Dreamers) organizes creative spaces for undocumented people to share their experiences and foster outlets for dialogue, healing, and understanding within undocumented and documented communities.
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Friends of Noise Friends of Noise seeks to foster healing and growth for the creative youth in our community via the arts by hosting professional development workshops and inclusive all age concerts that provide live performance opportunities for youth artist and hands on experience for emerging youth sound engineers.
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Artists:
Samuel Eisen-Meyers & The Joyful Noise
http://samuelem.com/
Edna Vazquez
http://ednavazquez.com/
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Sarah Brahim
Sarah Brahim is a movement artist passionate about creating meaningful work with artists of varying mediums. She grew up studying, choreographing, performing, and teaching jazz, contemporary, ballet, and tap. She studied at the San Francisco Conservatory of Dance and in 2016 she graduated from London Contemporary Dance School. Currently she is producing and creating work on the themes of culture, identity, borders, belonging, language, loss, and home.
Mia O'Connor-Smith
Mia O'Connor-Smith is a multidisciplinary experimental artist, born & currently based in Portland, Oregon. She started an arts platform known as DUG/ Deep Underground that expanded her creative community, experience and the need for more ways to express. Mia currently teaches & takes dance classes, performs and collaborates with family like The Sun Ra Arkestra, Brown Calculus, Omari Jazz, Akela Jaffi, Alexandria Saleem, Uriah Boyd, The Ah Ra Dance Ensemble, Rejoice!, SebeKan and more to come.