Events

FREE to play! // Raising funds for XRAY.FM

Featuring a special performance by the stunning Lylac! 

Join Untapped Trivia & the XRAY crew for a good old fashioned trivia night with prizes for the top 3 teams! Seating available indoors or outdoors on wraparound patio (much of which is covered and heated).

Untapped Trivia has been voted Best Trivia in Portland for both 2022 & 2023! Find out more about them and each of the venues they work with on Instagram @untappedtrivia and at untappedtrivia.com. 

FREE to play! // Raising funds for XRAY.FM

Join Untapped Trivia & the XRAY crew for a good old fashioned trivia night with prizes for the top 3 teams! Great food, full bar, and trivia hosted by the amazing Amanda-Jean!

Untapped Trivia has been voted Best Trivia in Portland for both 2022 & 2023! Find out more about them and each of the venues they work with on Instagram @untappedtrivia and at untappedtrivia.com. 

FREE to play! // Raising funds for XRAY.FM

Featuring an exceptional drag performance from the one and only Valerie DeVille with trivia by Beau & Yensi!!

Join Untapped Trivia & the XRAY crew for a good old fashioned trivia night with prizes for the top 3 teams! Seating available indoors or in the large patio garage (outdoors and covered). 

Untapped Trivia has been voted Best Trivia in Portland for both 2022 & 2023! Find out more about them and each of the venues they work with on Instagram @untappedtrivia and at untappedtrivia.com. 

All Ages | Doors 5pm, Show 6pm | $20 Advance, $25 Door | TICKETS

Celebrating the 50th Anniversary of Hip Hop~

Hosted by DJ Klyph (Welcome to the Neighborhood Sat 8-10pm on XRAY)

Music by DJ O.G. One (formerly of The Groove Theory Mix Show & In These Streetz on XRAY)

A Hip Hop showcase based in Portland Oregon, providing a platform for artist in an environment designed to help grow the culture. Mic Check began as the vision of emcee and promoter STARCHILE in 2016, and quickly grew into a monthly event where you could find some one the best emcees on the stage or in the audience. The original team of STAR (R.I.P.) as host, Trox as resident DJ, René Lopez and photographer and DJ Klyph behind the scene helping as curator built an event that continues to represent the culture in PDX.

In 2023, Mic Check PDX celebrates it's 7 year anniversary while also celebrating the 50th anniversary of Hip Hop. This event also kicks off Portland Hip Hop week!

All Ages | No Cover | 128 NW 11th Ave, Portland, OR 97209

Event: 7-10PM | Broadcast: 8-10PM

Experience LIVE radio in person (and on air!) with a standout XRAY show: Welcome to the Neighborhood with DJ Klyph! The live broadcast will serve as a pre-event to Mic Check PDX's 7th Anniversary Celebration on Sunday August 20th which will launch 2023's Portland Hip Hop Week from August 20th to 26th! 

Broadcast Features: 

• Prize Giveaways
• WTTN Live Verses
• Special Guests
• Artist Meet & Greet

FREE to play! // Raising funds for XRAY.FM

Join Untapped Trivia & the XRAY crew for a good old fashioned trivia night with prizes for the top 3 teams! Seating available indoors or outdoors.

Untapped Trivia has been voted Best Trivia in Portland for both 2022 & 2023! Find out more about them and each of the venues they work with on Instagram @untappedtrivia and at untappedtrivia.com. 

FREE | All Ages

Get ready to kick off the ultimate summer party every Wednesday starting July 12th from 6-9PM! 

Join Human Access Project, BikeLoud, and Lloyd EcoDistrict at Duckworth Dock, a hidden gem nestled just steps away from the Burnside Bridge and Oregon Convention Center in Lloyd’s backyard. This is your chance to dive into the best swimming hole in central city Portland, right on the Eastbank Esplanade. With lifeguards on duty, we’ll keep everyone safe while you cool down.

Get ready to amp up the party vibes with live tunes from Bike DJ PopCartPDX. This event series is all about bringing Portlanders together and celebrating our precious natural spaces. Leave your cars behind as the dock is only accessible by foot or wheels, creating a car-free oasis in the middle of the city. Convenient bike racks and swim ladders are available onsite, making it easy for everyone to join in the fun.

Don’t miss out on this unique opportunity to connect with your neighbors, embrace sustainable transportation, and have a blast. Join us at Duckworth Dock for a summer series that will leave you refreshed, inspired, and immersed in the beauty of our city. Mark your calendars and get ready to make unforgettable memories every Wednesday this summer.

TICKETS | $35 General Admission, $45 21+ Balcony

All Ages! 

BadBadNotGood is a Canadian instrumental band and production team from Toronto, Canada. The group combines jazz musicianship with a hip hop production perspective and are well known for their collaborations with artists like Tyler, The Creator, Daniel Caesar, Mick Jenkins, Kendrick Lamar, and Ghostface Killah. For their songwriting and production work, they have been nominated for four Grammy Awards, winning two.

badbadnotgood.com

FREE | All Ages | Well-behaved dogs are welcome!

LIVE ON AIR from 10am-2pm Saturday, August 12th

Your favorite neighborhood veterinary hospital is throwing a block party! DoveLewis has been serving our community with exceptional veterinary care for five decades, and we believe this milestone deserves a momentous celebration.

Celebrate 50 years at a family and pet-friendly block party featuring food trucks, vendors, DoveLewis and pet-themed activities, art activities, and more!

XRAY will be broadcasting live from the event with some of our stellar Saturday DJs including: 

• Sessions from the Box with DJ James Dineen (10am-12pm)
• Beaches with the Beaches Crew (12-1pm)
• The Impact Sound! with The Grand Yoni (1-2pm)

FREE | All Ages

Get ready to kick off the ultimate summer party every Wednesday starting July 12th from 6-9PM! 

Join Human Access Project, BikeLoud, and Lloyd EcoDistrict at Duckworth Dock, a hidden gem nestled just steps away from the Burnside Bridge and Oregon Convention Center in Lloyd’s backyard. This is your chance to dive into the best swimming hole in central city Portland, right on the Eastbank Esplanade. With lifeguards on duty, we’ll keep everyone safe while you cool down.

Get ready to amp up the party vibes with live tunes from Bike DJ PopCartPDX. This event series is all about bringing Portlanders together and celebrating our precious natural spaces. Leave your cars behind as the dock is only accessible by foot or wheels, creating a car-free oasis in the middle of the city. Convenient bike racks and swim ladders are available onsite, making it easy for everyone to join in the fun.

Don’t miss out on this unique opportunity to connect with your neighbors, embrace sustainable transportation, and have a blast. Join us at Duckworth Dock for a summer series that will leave you refreshed, inspired, and immersed in the beauty of our city. Mark your calendars and get ready to make unforgettable memories every Wednesday this summer.

First Saturdays | ALL AGES | FREE | Outdoors under the arches of the Fremont Bridge (1631 NW Thurman St.)

A monthly Portland celebration of music, art & small business

Join us every 1st Saturday each month for art, local makers, food and music provided by XRAY DJs! 

With 70+ vendors on display, you’ll be sure to find a wide variety of local hand-crafted goods, jewelry, textiles, ceramics, art, & countless rare treasures.

Learn more at www.bohemepdx.com and @boheme.pdx.event on Instagram.

FREE | All Ages

Get ready to kick off the ultimate summer party every Wednesday starting July 12th from 6-9PM! 

Join Human Access Project, BikeLoud, and Lloyd EcoDistrict at Duckworth Dock, a hidden gem nestled just steps away from the Burnside Bridge and Oregon Convention Center in Lloyd’s backyard. This is your chance to dive into the best swimming hole in central city Portland, right on the Eastbank Esplanade. With lifeguards on duty, we’ll keep everyone safe while you cool down.

Get ready to amp up the party vibes with live tunes from Bike DJ PopCartPDX. This event series is all about bringing Portlanders together and celebrating our precious natural spaces. Leave your cars behind as the dock is only accessible by foot or wheels, creating a car-free oasis in the middle of the city. Convenient bike racks and swim ladders are available onsite, making it easy for everyone to join in the fun.

Don’t miss out on this unique opportunity to connect with your neighbors, embrace sustainable transportation, and have a blast. Join us at Duckworth Dock for a summer series that will leave you refreshed, inspired, and immersed in the beauty of our city. Mark your calendars and get ready to make unforgettable memories every Wednesday this summer.

FREE | All Ages

Get ready to kick off the ultimate summer party every Wednesday starting July 12th from 6-9PM! 

Join Human Access Project, BikeLoud, and Lloyd EcoDistrict at Duckworth Dock, a hidden gem nestled just steps away from the Burnside Bridge and Oregon Convention Center in Lloyd’s backyard. This is your chance to dive into the best swimming hole in central city Portland, right on the Eastbank Esplanade. With lifeguards on duty, we’ll keep everyone safe while you cool down.

Get ready to amp up the party vibes with live tunes from Bike DJ PopCartPDX. This event series is all about bringing Portlanders together and celebrating our precious natural spaces. Leave your cars behind as the dock is only accessible by foot or wheels, creating a car-free oasis in the middle of the city. Convenient bike racks and swim ladders are available onsite, making it easy for everyone to join in the fun.

Don’t miss out on this unique opportunity to connect with your neighbors, embrace sustainable transportation, and have a blast. Join us at Duckworth Dock for a summer series that will leave you refreshed, inspired, and immersed in the beauty of our city. Mark your calendars and get ready to make unforgettable memories every Wednesday this summer.

FREE | All Ages

Get ready to kick off the ultimate summer party every Wednesday starting July 12th from 6-9PM! 

Join Human Access Project, BikeLoud, and Lloyd EcoDistrict at Duckworth Dock, a hidden gem nestled just steps away from the Burnside Bridge and Oregon Convention Center in Lloyd’s backyard. This is your chance to dive into the best swimming hole in central city Portland, right on the Eastbank Esplanade. With lifeguards on duty, we’ll keep everyone safe while you cool down.

Get ready to amp up the party vibes with live tunes from Bike DJ PopCartPDX. This event series is all about bringing Portlanders together and celebrating our precious natural spaces. Leave your cars behind as the dock is only accessible by foot or wheels, creating a car-free oasis in the middle of the city. Convenient bike racks and swim ladders are available onsite, making it easy for everyone to join in the fun.

Don’t miss out on this unique opportunity to connect with your neighbors, embrace sustainable transportation, and have a blast. Join us at Duckworth Dock for a summer series that will leave you refreshed, inspired, and immersed in the beauty of our city. Mark your calendars and get ready to make unforgettable memories every Wednesday this summer.

FREE | All Ages

Get ready to kick off the ultimate summer party every Wednesday starting July 12th from 6-9PM! 

Join Human Access Project, BikeLoud, and Lloyd EcoDistrict at Duckworth Dock, a hidden gem nestled just steps away from the Burnside Bridge and Oregon Convention Center in Lloyd’s backyard. This is your chance to dive into the best swimming hole in central city Portland, right on the Eastbank Esplanade. With lifeguards on duty, we’ll keep everyone safe while you cool down.

Get ready to amp up the party vibes with live tunes from Bike DJ PopCartPDX. This event series is all about bringing Portlanders together and celebrating our precious natural spaces. Leave your cars behind as the dock is only accessible by foot or wheels, creating a car-free oasis in the middle of the city. Convenient bike racks and swim ladders are available onsite, making it easy for everyone to join in the fun.

Don’t miss out on this unique opportunity to connect with your neighbors, embrace sustainable transportation, and have a blast. Join us at Duckworth Dock for a summer series that will leave you refreshed, inspired, and immersed in the beauty of our city. Mark your calendars and get ready to make unforgettable memories every Wednesday this summer.

TICKETS | $39.50-$79.50

Doors 7 PM | Show 8 PM

With Special Guest Monica Martin.
There is a 6 ticket limit per household.

Nickel Creek (formerly known as the Nickel Creek Band) is an American bluegrass band consisting of Chris Thile (mandolin), and siblings Sara Watkins (fiddle) and Sean Watkins (guitar). Formed in 1989 in Southern California, they released six albums between 1993 and 2006. The band broke out in 2000 with a platinum-selling self-titled album produced by Alison Krauss, earning a number of Grammy and CMA nominations.

Their fourth album “This Side” won a 2003 Grammy Award for Best Contemporary Folk Album. Following a fifth studio album and a compilation album, the band announced an indefinite hiatus at the conclusion of their 2007 Farewell (For Now) Tour. Following numerous solo projects from the band members, Nickel Creek reformed in 2014 with announcement of a new album and subsequent tour.

After intermittent performances between 2014 and 2019, Nickel Creek began writing new material in early 2021. On January 24, 2023, Nickel Creek announced a new album titled Celebrants, slated for release on March 24, 2023. The lead single “Strangers” was released the day the album was announced.

Come hang with the Monday night DJ crew for a live broadcast event at the newly-opened Dream House, which has taken over the space of former XRAY mainstay Beech Street Parlor. 

Broadcasting live to air, featuring the 8pm-midnight Monday lineup: 

• Shawn Swagerty of Big City Radio Show

• DJ Alice Wonder & Red Lincoln of Down the Rabbit Hole

• DJ Wednesday of Six Beats Under

• DDDJJJ666 of Hipsters Suck

TICKETS | $15 advance, $17 day of show

All Ages Welcome

Since first forming in 2014, New York trio THICK have triumphed at turning the harshest truths into wildly exhilarating punk songs. On their second album Happy Now, vocalist/guitarist Nikki Sisti, vocalist/bassist Kate Black, and vocalist/drummer Shari Page deliver their most complex and confessional work yet, exploring everything from self-sabotage and insecurity to victim-blaming and destructive relationships. Raw, irreverent, and brutally honest, Happy Now ultimately offers both joyful catharsis and much-needed instruction for living well in turbulent times.

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First Saturdays | ALL AGES | FREE | Outdoors under the arches of the Fremont Bridge (1631 NW Thurman St.)

A monthly Portland celebration of music, art & small business

Join us every 1st Saturday each month for art, local makers, food and music provided by XRAY DJs! 

With 70+ vendors on display, you’ll be sure to find a wide variety of local hand-crafted goods, jewelry, textiles, ceramics, art, & countless rare treasures.

Learn more at www.bohemepdx.com and @boheme.pdx.event on Instagram.

ALL AGES | FREE | FULL SCHEDULE OF EVENTS

8th Vanport Mosaic Festival

Join us for two weeks of memory activism to commemorate the 75th anniversary of the flood that destroyed Vanport - and to honor the community that called Vanport home.

From May 18th to May 29th, the 8th Vanport Mosaic Festival will offer in-person, virtual, and self-paced memory activism opportunities to Remember, Repair, Reclaim, and Re-image our collective story.

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2023 marks the 75th anniversary of the flood that destroyed Vanport, once Oregon’s second-largest city and the largest WWII federal housing project in the United States.  We will commemorate Oregon’s Katrina-like disaster with exhibits, art performances, a reunion/celebration of former Vanport residents, documentary screenings and oral history recordings, tours of the historic Vanport area, and community engagement activities.

Flood survivors are now in their 80s and 90s, so the Festival offers a long-overdue opportunity to honor and learn from their experience. The 75th anniversary of the flood, especially in light of the Covid pandemic and the ongoing devastating impact of climate change, will offer a timely opportunity to reflect on the state of emergency preparedness of our city, particularly on how disasters often replicate and deepen social inequalities.

For a taste of the Vanport Mosaic Festival and its impact, we invite you to watch these short documentaries: 

• History from the Bottom Up: The Making of The Vanport Mosaic Festival 2016
• Legacy of A Forgotten City - The Vanport Mosaic Festival 2017
• Call For Memory Activism: The Vanport Mosaic Festival 2018

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