This weekend brings all sorts of ways to get a dose of Portland arts and culture without ponying up all your cash, ranging from art openings at Elizabeth Leach Gallery Past Event Like List and Blue Sky Past Event Like List to a sock hop-inspired dance party Past Event Like List at Kenton Club, and from Ware Ceramics Maker + Maker Past Event Like List to the Elevate BIPOC Market Past Event Like List . As always, you can also scroll through our top picks for the week Like List and our guide to things to do all month long Like List .

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FRIDAY

MUSIC

Chibia Ulinwa Past Event Like List
For her first in-person show in a while, violinist and singer-songwriter Chibia Ulinwa will post up in Two Rivers' backyard for a laid-back set.
Two Rivers Bookstore, St. Johns ($10)

Sorcery of the Rabbit, God's Grey Earth, Madheart Past Event Like List
Move around to garage-rock fuzz from Portland's Sorcery of the Rabbit, plus additional tunes from local rockers God's Grey Earth and Madheart.
No Fun, Buckman ($8)

SHOPPING

My People’s Market: In It Together Past Event Like List
Connect with BIPOC entrepreneurs, makers, artists, culinary wizards, and beverage crafters. 
North Park Blocks, Downtown (free)

FRIDAY-SATURDAY

VISUAL ART

Lonnie Holley - The Influence of Images Past Event Like List
Get lost in multimedia artist Lonnie Holley's shadowy painted works on paper, which were created last year during her residency at the Elaine de Kooning House in East Hampton, New York. "Nested shapes appear to radiate and float in the cosmos amid a softly diffused palette of grays, pinks, blues, and yellows that emphasize their transformative, mystical quality," writes the gallery. 
Elizabeth Leach Gallery, Northwest (free; opening)

Ingeborg Gerdes: Out West Past Event Like List
The late German American photographer Ingeborg Gerdes gets a special memorial exhibition comprising work from several decades of her career, including pieces from her previous collections San Francisco in the '70s, Out West Across the Basin, Out West in Color, Eastern Washington, The Mission District, and Autobiography. 
Blue Sky Gallery, Northwest (free; opening)

Walking Past Event Like List
Artists pay homage to walking—something many of us got very familiar with in quarantine—as both a physical act and a spiritual practice.
PDX Contemporary Art, Northwest (free; opening)

SATURDAY

FILM

Rose City Comic Con Presents Speed Racer Past Event Like List
For a pair who made their bones with movies about pistol-packing lesbians (Bound) and gravity-defying kung fu (The Matrix), there's always been a puzzling air of Sturm und Drang around the work of the Wachowskis, a sense of weightiness that undercuts the high-concept hang time of their ideas. Speed Racer, the duo's bazillion-dollar rendering of the cartoon beloved by 1960s kids and 1990s college stoners alike, is a… well, I don't know what the hell it is, to be honest. Freakishly perverse, this is an immense, Otter Pop–colored nostalgic thing that expends so much energy replicating every last widget and geegaw from its source that it forgets to be, you know, fun. While the wall-to-wall special effects are undeniably amazing, it also feels groundbreaking in another regard: For perhaps the first time in history, there exists a movie that cannot be saved with frequent cutaways to a monkey in overalls. ANDREW WRIGHT
Clinton Street Theater, Southeast (free)

MUSIC

Bug Seance, Rainmaking Past Event Like List
Emo rockers Bug Seance will get moody and shoegaze-y after a set from queer hardcore outfit Rainmaking.
No Fun, Buckman ($8)

The Mawlee Jones Band, Dirt Lunch, The Quality Past Event Like List
Get your fix of alt-country crooning from The Mawlee Jones Band, who'll be joined by rock duo Dirt Lunch and self-proclaimed "misfits and outcasts" The Quality.
No Fun, Buckman ($10)

A Midcentury Summer Delights DREAM Dance Party Past Event Like List
Wear your cutest sock hop fit for this 50s- and '60s-inspired dance party with DJ Action Slacks on the patio.
Kenton Club, North Portland ($10)

SHOPPING

Elevate BIPOC Market Past Event Like List
Shop for local goods from BIPOC purveyors of food, art, jewelry, clothing, and more. Plus, don't miss out on a raffle whose proceeds benefit Pacific Northwest Family Circle, a Portland nonprofit that supports families who have lost loved ones to police violence.
The Breathe Building, Richmond (free)

SATURDAY-SUNDAY

VISUAL ART

Nature Inside Past Event Like List
Houseplant cultivation and indoor gardening didn't just give people something to do during this past year in isolation; they also provided people experiencing loss and anxiety with an outlet for nurturing growth. In this series, Portland artist Kelda Van Patten comments on the craze by making collages from her original photographs to display plants to "confuse depth and flatness, highlight imperfection, and transform plants into hyperreal objects."
Well Well, Kenton (free; opening)

SUNDAY

MUSIC

Big Mouth Society presents Precious Fruits: A Picnic Concert Past Event Like List
In commemoration of the 700th anniversary of Dante Alighieri’s death, the local music collective Big Mouth Society will perform music based on the Italian literary genius's poetry. Each show will take place at a private residence, so you'll have to RSVP to get the exact location.
TBA (pay what you can)

VISUAL ART

Ware Ceramics Maker+Maker Past Event Like List
Contemporary ceramic artist collective Ware Ceramics will pair 20 makers with complimentary local businesses so you can simultaneously snag a handmade candle and new ceramic candle holder, some locally roasted coffee and an earthenware mug, or a planter plus a plant baby. Ware and venue Oakshire Beer Hall are partnering with nonprofit Color Outside the Lines for this event, which will include a community mural on which all are welcome to paint.
Oakshire Beer Hall, Concordia (free)