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Hot Cakes Birthday Party
Sat May 25.Events
Celebrate Hot Cakes' first year with half-price molten chocolate cakes, $5 milkshakes, and more. Starred for the $6 “special boozy birthday cake shake,” which would be the best-ever show name for a fluffy white Pomeranian.
, Katie Jacobson, Thousands
March Against Monsanto
Sat May 25 at 11 am–2 pm.Events
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Are you appalled by Monsanto’s sinister efforts to dominate agricultural systems around the world? So are lots of other people! Show your solidarity at today’s march.
As We Go Up We Go Down
Fri, Sat. Through May 25.Gallery
As We Go Up We Go Down: Joe Wardwell's landscape paintings would be subtle and quiet, if lyrics like "REBEL SOULS" and "COME ON FEEL IT" were not outlined in bright colors all across them.
Free.
Expressions in Haida Mythology
Tues–Sun. Through May 25.Gallery
Expressions in Haida Mythology: Argillite Works of Lionel Samuels: Carvings in the traditional Haida black slate by a contemporary native Canadian artist. Free.
Cooking Class with Bruce Naftaly
Sat May 25, 1–4 pm, Sun May 26, 1–4 and 6:30–9:30 pm.Events
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Learn how to make great foods with all-time-great chef Bruce Naftaly (of the late, great Le Gourmand, who is also really nice), with eating and drinking included. Chef shouts, via email: "FIVE COURSES! HOW TO DO IT! AND WINE WINE WINE!" $75.
Sasquatch Music Festival: Mumford & Sons, the Postal Service, Sigur Rós, Macklemore & Ryan Lewis, Vampire Weekend, and many more
Fri May 24, Sat May 25, Sun May 26, Mon May 27.Live
sold out.
Spinning Yarns: Photographic Storytellers
Mon–Sun. Through May 28.Gallery
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Spinning Yarns: Photographic Storytellers: Photographers tell stories using diptychs, titles, grids, timelines, installations, abstraction.
Free.
Out of the Silence: Ending Bullying for LGBTQ Youth
Mon–Sun. Through May 31.Gallery
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Out of the Silence: Ending Bullying for LGBTQ Youth features more than 60 pieces by 39 calligraphers from across the U.S. and Canada. Proceeds from the show go to Pizza Klatch—the funnily named organization that does seriously important work, providing anti-bullying training and free pizza to high schoolers during their lunch period.
Free.
The City and the City
Open by appointment.Gallery
The City and the City: a collaboration between LxWxH owner Sharon Arnold and Portland artist Daniel Glendening. Free.
John Grade: After the Wawona
Tues–Sat. Through June 1.Gallery
After the Wawona: Following the immense, weather-sensitive radness that is Capacitor (a past work) and his arresting installation at MOHAI (a 64-foot wood sculpture made of rescued beams from the old Wawona schooner), John Grade brings transformation of the microscopic to the human-scaled with this new series of sculptures.
Free.
The Landscape Described
Wed–Sun. Through June 1.Gallery
Artist and Prographica founder Norman Lundin has this idea that all paintings lie somewhere on a spectrum ranging from descriptive to evocative. The Landscape Described—featuring Darlene Campbell, Kimberly Clark, Josh Dorman, Kathy Gore-Fuss, Laura Hamje, Michelle Muldrow, and Andrew Yates—explores the descriptive end of that spectrum. The next show will explore the evocative end.
Free.
New Members' Show
Wed–Sat. Through June 1.Gallery
New Members' Show: Julie Alexander, Julia Freeman, and Shaun Kardinal present new work investigating material, process, and narrative.
Free.
The Other Gun Show
Wed–Sat. Through June 1.Gallery
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The Other Gun Show: Gallery 110 artists reserve the right to bear arms. No, the other bear arms.
Free.
Within Without Me
Wed–Sat. Through June 1.Gallery
Within Without Me: The first exhibition at Roq La Rue's new Pioneer Square location—the gallery had been in Belltown for 15 years!—is Stacey Rozich cheerful, sinister, and menacing paintings. Even as her beast/human figures frolic by jumping rope or having a cookout, they seem to be moments away from bodily harm.
Free.
Ginny Ruffner
Tues–Sat. Through June 2.Gallery
Ginny Ruffner: Continuing her "Aesthetic Engineering" series, Ruffner uses glass and other media to engage with the changing practices of genetic engineering.
Grey Gardens
Tues-Wed at 7:30 pm, Thurs-Fri at 8 pm, Sat at 2 and 8 pm, Sun at 2 and 7 pm. Through June 2.Theater
"Directed by Kurt Beattie, Grey Gardens is a musical based on the fascinating real-life story of Edith and Little Edie, a mother and daughter from the wealthy Bouvier-Beale clan, once great socialites (and cousins of Jackie O) who became fallen, cat-food-snarfing shut-ins. Act one (the problem!) takes place in July 1941, when the Bouvier-Beales are living high on the gilded hog in their still-glorious Hampton estate. This part of the legend is necessary for context, to introduce the family, and to properly frame their fall. It needs to be, you know... there. But it is not worth fully one-half of this darn-nigh-three-hour show. And it is definitely not the most interesting or important part of the Grey Gardens story." (Adrian Ryan) $55-$77.
Larry Calkins
Tues–Sat. Through June 2.Gallery
Larry Calkins: the man whose super-skinny, super-flat outfits (his and hers) haunt the walls of this region on the regular. Free.
Nichole Rathburn and Ron Lambert
Through June 7.Gallery
Nichole Rathburn's hand drawn animations in 1000 Ports and Ron Lambert's overlapping urban grids in City Order and his fragmented landscapes in Land Slices.
Free.
(Un/Re) Attached
Wed–Sat. Through June 7.Gallery
(Un/Re) Attached: John Osgood and Miguel Edwards reveal their months-long collaborative investigation of the forces that separate and connect. By exchanging pieces back and forth between each other, they employ a variety of media and a cyclical concept and process.
Free.
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