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Hiiii, your schedule for the week is here! The city’s events are delightfully chaotic this week, with everything from exhibitions exploring trans care and textiles to performances by several legends: Jinkx Monsoon, Karen Slack, and handmade puppets. Plus, a sustainable feast flips off food waste, and the world’s sexist film festival is back in town. Take a look.
Monday, September 8
Waters of Body, and other PNCA shows
Exploring transness through soft, quilted terrain, Waters of Body pairs works by Portland artists Yana Sternberger-Moyé, Molly Alloy, and Michael Espinoza with Transmissions Quilts Project, artist Cordy Joan’s quilt-making initiative for trans and gender-queer people countrywide. The exhibition joins other interesting shows installed at PNCA: Portland Textile Month’s Warp Speed: Contemporary Conversations in Fiber showcases vibrant, fuzzy fiber works from the former Museum of Contemporary Craft’s collection, and Angelo Scott’s Time-Based Art Festival installation Omni Rail transforms the building’s railings and cable systems into an echoing, vibrational instrument. (The performance was on September 4, but you’ll find video footage projected in the Mediatheque.) (Pacific Northwest College of Art, 511 NW Broadway, Mon-Sat 10 am-4 pm through Oct 26, FREE, more info, all ages) LINDSAY COSTELLO
Tuesday, September 9
Storywork: The Prints of Marie Watt
Marie Watt’s balance of technical precision and expansive vision melds in larger-than-life textile processes and multimedia explorations. Storywork centers stories from her Seneca Nation ancestry, pairing them with references to everything from Greco-Roman myth to Star Trek. The selection of narrative prints appears alongside a sculptural tin jingle cloud. Programming includes an October 2 performance by champion jingle dancer Acosia Red Elk and a campus native plant tour led by the Indigenous Traditional Ecological and Cultural Knowledge team on October 14. (Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art at Portland State University, 1855 SW Broadway, Tues-Sat through Dec 6, FREE, more info, all ages) LC
Wednesday, September 10
Jinx Monsoon with the Oregon Symphony
Did you know that stunning singer, two-time RuPaul’s Drag Race winner, and Broadway star Jinkx Monsoon attended Grant High School in Portland? She’s currently starring as Mary Todd Lincoln in the Tony award winning musical OH, MARY written by the scathingly hilarious Cole Escola. It’s a true honor to have her back in town—she’s stepping away from freaking BROADWAY to do this show! Her debut with the Oregon Symphony will include “original songs and inventive covers—from cabaret and blues to show tunes, torch songs, and high-octane rock and pop.” Welcome home, Jinkx! Portland couldn’t be prouder of you! (Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall, 1037 SW Broadway, 7:30 pm, $44, more info, all ages) BRI BREY
Thursday, September 11
HUMP! Film Festival, Part 2
For many, 9/11 means only one thing: the debut of the 2025 HUMP! Film Festival, part two! We received so many hot n’ horny short dirty movies—made by sexy amateurs, such as yourself—we were forced to split this super fun, annual festival into two parts: a spring and fall version. That’s good news for you, because HUMP! lovers will get to see 22 brand-spankin’ (emphasis on the spankin’) new tiny porno flicks featuring every sexual kink you can think of. And even better? The hilarious Arlo Weierhauser will be your host to guide you—and a theater filled with happy, lusty humpers—through what will easily be the most hilarious and sexy night of your lives. Do not miss! (Cinema 21, 616 NW 21st, Sept 11-13 at 6:30 pm and 9 pm, $18-25, more info, 18+) WM. STEVEN HUMPHREY
Also worth it:
Joshua Almendinger: Dog Star, Partly, more info
Friday, September 12
PDX POP Now!
The most honorable Snoop Dogg once said: “Pop it like it’s hot,” and every year PDX Pop Now! does just that, with a line-up of the city’s local music heaters. The 2025 festival lineup is stuffed to the gills with the likes of Alienboy, Rango, Franklin Gothic, Friends Friends, the Prids, the Apricots, Femme Cell, Spiderling, Swiss Army Wife, and more. In past years, sets crawled the alleys of SE industrial, but this year’s location is legit: Westside Portland favorite Midtown Beer Garden. That means the food and family-friendly activities are on lock; all we have to do is rock. (Midtown Beer Garden, 431 SW Harvey Milk, Sept 12-14, FREE, more info, all ages) NOLAN PARKER
String and Shadow: Night at the Grand Opera
If you’re into the larger-than-life, puppetry-and-brass-band antics of Bread and Puppet (or just dig a DIY folk art aesthetic), the Olympia-based puppet company String and Shadow should appeal. Their shows incorporate circus and musical elements, plus lots and lots of cardboard, fabric, and papier-mché. For their Rococo-era story Night at the Grand Opera, the company constructed collapsing sets that unfold to reveal the nooks and crannies of a dramatic opera house. Bring your own chair or blanket; Boathouse Microcinema will screen experimental shorts after the show. (River Street Studios, 820 N River, 6:30 pm, $20-35 suggested donation, more info, all ages) LC
Saturday, September 13
Karen Slack: African Queens
Iconic soprano—and winner of the 2025 Grammy for Best Classical Vocal Solo—Karen Slack opens the Portland Opera 2025-25 season with a survey of story and style. Her curation of African Queens draws from songs already familiar and new compositions from contemporary composers Jasmine Barnes, Jessie Montgomery, Shawn Okpebholo, Dave Ragland, Carlos Simon, Joel Thompson, and Portland Opera’s Music Director Damien Geter—sometimes referred to as “the “Blacknificent 7.” Each commissioned work drew inspiration from a great African woman in the past; the collected evening draws a line through history via Slack’s impressive musical range. (Patricia Reser Center for the Arts, 12625 SW Crescent, Beaverton, Sept 13-14, $36-56, more info, all ages) SUZETTE SMITH
Tomato Fest
Portland’s juiciest summer event is back for its fifth year. Wellspent Market is celebrating all things TO-MAY-TO, TO-MAH-TO, but no matter how you pronounce it, they’re kindly reminding us all that it’s in fact a fruit. So ready your tastebuds for tomato tastings from the OSU tomato breeding and dry-farming programs and melon tastings from OSU and the Organically Grown Company. Get tomato tips at hourly demos between noon and 3 pm from food writer Heather Arndt Anderson, Wellspent founder Jim Dixon, Milk Glass Mrkt owner Nancye Benson, and Hot Mama Salsa owner Nikki Guerrero. And of course, you can’t hit up the Tomato Fest without partaking in tomato eats, so sink your teeth into Wellspent’s famous BLTs, plus tomato creations from Lauretta Jean’s, Estes, and Scottie’s Pizza Parlor. (Wellspent Market, 3402 SE Division, 12-4 pm, FREE, more info, all ages) JANEY WONG
Also worth it:
Wyrd War: Fief, Coniferous Myst and Wraith Knight, The Old Church, more info
Sunday, September 14
Downtown Sunday Parkways
The always fun Portland Sunday Parkways program—in which neighborhoods close their streets to motorized vehicles, allowing cyclists, skaters, and walkers to take over the roadways—now has a special downtown edition! Southeast Park and Broadway will be closed to cars from the Oak street carts to the Lovejoy Fountain, and along the way you can enjoy vendors, activities, and all sorts of surprises. Dust off your bike and roller skates, and join thousands of likeminded Portlanders on the open (literally) road! (Downtown Portland, 12-5 pm, map, FREE, more info, all ages) WSH
The BIGGEST Clothing Swap in the Northwest!!!
Fact: You need a new wardrobe. Second fact: You need it for CHEAP. That’s why the smart clothes horse will attend the excitedly-named “BIGGEST Clothing Swap in the Northwest!!!” in which $11 and a bag of clothes will grant you admission to the clothing swap of your dreams, which include non-binary sections, plus-size wear, shoes, accessories, and (of course) a bar and hot spins from DJ Gregarious. Note: Make sure the clothing you bring is clean (no holes or odors), and no underwear, socks, hosiery, or children’s clothes, thankyouverymuch. No bag of clothes to share? Buy an empty bag for only $5, and start shopping! (Crystal Ballroom, 1332 W Burnside, 12-3 pm, $11 plus one bag of clothes, more info, all ages) WSH
Urban Gleaners Summer Supper
Does wasting food rightfully give you the ick? Well then, join like-minded Portlanders at Urban Gleaners’ second annual Summer Supper, a walk-around tasting that highlights the city’s food scene while bringing attention to the potential of upcycled ingredients. Urban Gleaners does the lawd’s work of fighting food waste and food insecurity in our community by rescuing a whopping 1.5 million pounds a year and redistributing it to folks who need it. Fourteen of Portland’s culinary stars—including Sarah Minnick (Lovely’s Fifty Fifty), Louis Lin (Xiao Ye), and Fatou Ouattara (Akadi)—will show what’s possible by transforming gleaned food, crafting small plates using upcycled ingredients for a sustainable feast we can all get behind. Bevvies of all sorts from local vendors like True Tea, Post Familiar, and Commensal Fermentation will be flowing, and you can explore interactive booths and educational activities centered around food systems between bites. (The Redd on Salmon, 831 SE Salmon, 5-8 pm, $85-128, more info, all ages) JW
Also worth it:
Ambient Sundays, Speck’s Records, more info
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