Portland and Area Newsletter and Planner

DAYLIGHT SAVINGS TIME ENDS
Don't forget to set your clocks back 1 hour on Sunday at 2:00 am!

DIA DE LOS MUERTOS FESTIVAL
Come and enjoy the Day of the Dead Festival to remember our loved ones who have passed on to Mictlan. It will begin with the Aztec Dance, with community altars, raffles, music, Mexican treats and much more. It is a family-friendly event, and everyone is welcome.
Organized by: Mitotiliztli Tezkatlipoka and RISE

EVENT SCHEDULE:

2:00 – 4:00: Danza
4:15 – 5:00: Indigenous welcoming
5:15 – 6:00: Poetry / Spoken Word
6:15 – 7:00: Performance
7:15 – 9:00: Performance

YISHAI JUSIDMAN, PRUSSIAN BLUE
Yishai Jusidman’s Prussian Blue is a series of paintings rendered almost exclusively in one of the earliest artificially developed pigments used by European painters—Prussian Blue. The chemical compound that makes up this pigment happens to be related to the Prussic acid in Zyklon B, the poisonous product deployed at some of the Nazi concentration and extermination camps. By a strange turn, traces of the pigment remain to this day in the walls of the gas chambers. Such stains are quiet, disturbing, and palpable reminders, which Jusidman’s paintings re-engage with a profound effect.

CENTRAL EASTSIDE MURTOS CELEBRATION
Ideal PDX, Milagro Theater, and Central Eastside Together present a family-friendly Dia los Muertos celebration in Southeast Portland.
Discover local Latine artists’ interpretations of La Catrina, the female skull character associated with the Day of the Dead, as well as various activities, from a show at Milagro Theater to conversations around elements in altars, altar-building, sugar skull decorating workshops and a spin-off of the traditional Loteria game

PORTLAND BOOK FESTIVAL
When 8,500 people descended on the Portland Art Museum for the revived Portland Book Festival, (formerly “Wordstock”) in 2015, the message to its new organizer, Literary Arts, was clear: Portlanders love to get their read on, and this festival — missing in action for more than two years — had not been forgotten.

Founded in 2005 by local writer Larry Colton and renamed in 2018, the annual festival always featured an impressive lineup of local and national authors and a book fair. But its original incarnation, held at the expansive Oregon Convention Center through–2013, wasn’t quite the “metaphorical public square” that Literary Arts Executive Director Andrew Proctor, the festival’s new leader, had in mind.

Enter the Portland Art Museum. As the festival’s rebooted primary venue, the museum provides a backdrop for art, history and culture to merge with conversation, books and ideas. (Other venues include the nearby

LAS ADELITAS: A DAY OF THE DEAD PRODUCTION
The dead are commemorated every fall in Portland’s longest-running Día de Muertos (Day of the Dead) celebration. This year, Milagro observes their 28th Día de Muertos with an original production, Las Adelitas.  Las Adelitas will be infused with folkloric dance and music, accompanied by theatrical elements that celebrate the ancestors by building altars and sharing cultural traditions. Workshops will share altar-building crafts such as sugar skulls and paper flowers for decorating home altars.

VEGANIZER: WORLD VEGAN MONTH
This November, celebrate World Vegan Month with Veganizer PDX and 20+ Portland restaurants and carts. Participating locations will serve food/drink specials and donate a portion of sales from their special to a nonprofit of their choice.

Dine at participating locations and complete a World Vegan Month dining passport (8 stamps) for a chance to win restaurant gift cards. Dining passports can be picked up and dropped off at any participating location.

OAKS PARK SCARETOWN
Portland Oregon’s ONLY Scream Park returns this fall to one of the oldest amusement parks in the country, the historic Oaks Amusement Park. The Event features three horrifying haunted walkthrough attractions, amusement rides, themed side attractions, mini golf, roller skating, concessions and so much more.

MONTAVILLA FARMERS MARKET
Neighborhood farmers market featuring local farms, distilleries, coffee, bakeries, flowers, hot food vendors and more.  The market was founded by a grassroots collection of neighbors who were inspired by visions of a fresh, local, food market in a shared community space within the growing SE Stark Street business district. This dedicated group opened the market in just 10 short months with a small amount of grant funds and a generous outpouring of donations from local businesses, friends and neighbors. The tireless energy of these un-paid visionaries and countless other volunteers allowed MFM to open its first market on Sunday, July 22, 2007, with 17 vendors and over 2000 visitors. Montavilla Farmers Market is a thriving, diverse marketplace where all are welcome.

LEGENDARY MAKERS MARKET: AN ASIAN AMERICAN NIGHT MARKET
Asian American Town, in partnership with the Portland Night Market (PDXNM), is proud to announce the inaugural Legendary Makers Market: An Asian American Night Market, a celebration of Asian American storytelling across food, craft, media, music, wellness and art in the Pacific Northwest.

The Legendary Makers Market is poised to make history as the largest pan-Asian American-centered event ever held in Oregon and expects to have over 125 participating vendors and partners. The event will also include film screenings coordinated in partnership with Theatre Diaspora with appearances from notable AAPI/Asian American filmmakers Mike Truong from All the Homies Network, Luann Algoso, the creator of Gabby Smashes Web Series, Anchitta Noowong, and more. There will also be a Wellness Refuge at the market that will include yoga, acupuncture, massage, and more coordinated by Whitney Handrich and Jenna Nishimura. Art activations will feature a community zine-building project led by A’misa Chiu and entrance mural art by Alex Chiu and Rebecca Nguyen.

PORTLAND NIGHT MARKET
The Portland Night Market showcases many unique businesses that call Portland home. Blending food, culture, music, drinks and retail for an adventurous evening in the Central Eastside. Meet some of Portland's best makers and creators. With almost 200 hundred makers, the Night Market offers food carts, drinks, clothing, lifestyle goods, home goods, body care and art. The Portland Night Market is a FREE quarterly event open to all ages. 

FARMERS MARKET AT PORTLAND STATE UNIVERSITY
The Portland Farmers Market at Portland State University will be open every Saturday, year-round. April through October hours are 8:30 a.m. to 2 p.m. November through March hours are 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. The Market at PSU is located in Downtown Portland in the South Park Blocks between SW College & Montgomery Streets.

HOLLYWOOD FARMERS MARKETS
Year-round on Saturdays, the Hollywood Farmers Markets hosts 50+ vendors, bringing you the best of the region’s agricultural bounty. In addition to amazingly fresh, local food,  you’ll find live music, children’s activities, and fun events throughout the season.

• April through September, every Saturday 8 AM to 1 PM,
• October and November, every Saturday 9 AM to 1 PM,, and
• December through March: 9 AM to 1PM on the 1st and 3rd Saturdays of each month

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