---

Jump to: Monday | Tuesday | Wednesday | Thursday | Friday | Saturday | Sunday | Multi-Day

---

MONDAY

LIVE MUSIC

Charly Bliss Past Event Like List
On their new album Forever, Charly Bliss have shed what was left of their indie rock exoskeleton and taken flight as a polished pop band. Opening track “Tragic” could be a Taylor Swift song if it weren’t for the whirligig guitars, and “Back There Now” is as fun and boppable as anything Charli XCX released during her Sucker/“Boom Clap” era. In fact, track for track, the band seems to invite comparisons to some of today’s most beloved pop girlies. Do I miss the days when CB would recklessly blast through crispity, crunchity upbeat rock songs where vocalist Eva Hendricks would scream between lyrics about jumping so high on the trampoline that you pee your pants? Sure. But the band has always known the power of some well-placed punk patina, and I’m guessing they still will when they play here. STRANGER MANAGING EDITOR MEGAN SELING
(Mission Theater, Northwest Portland)

Chris Cohen Past Event Like List
When you get the urge to hear earnest, white-guy indie rock (which happens with some regularity, judging by how much of the stuff circulates at any given moment), you could do—and have done—much worse than to put on some Chris Cohen. The former Deerhoof guitarist writes songs that wear their melancholy lightly, their hangdog melodies spangling winsomely; they’re an introvert's delight. There's nothing mind-blowing about Cohen's music, but its low-key charms and his pleasantly affectless voice—which may be construed upon cursory listens as slack—should not be underestimated. He's a deceptively intricate tunesmith. STRANGER CONTRIBUTOR DAVE SEGAL
(Polaris Hall, Humboldt)

Sky Ferreira Past Event Like List
Indie sleaze queen Sky Ferreira—whom comedian John Early recently called "one of the last artists working with melody"—will return to Portland for the first time in over a decade. Considering that she hasn't released an album since 2013, you can expect to hear nostalgic tracks from her debut album, Night Time, My Time, which soundtracked many of my sleepless teenage nights scrolling Tumblr. AV
(Revolution Hall, Buckman)

TUESDAY

LIVE MUSIC

Delvon Lamarr Organ Trio Past Event Like List
I’ll admit it; jazz can feel very intimidating! There are so many subgenres to learn, names to remember, and history that feels gatekept by boomers with hi-fi equipment. However, nothing compares to hearing a skilled jazz ensemble play live. It's truly transcendental. If you haven't had the pleasure, Seattle-based ensemble Delvon Lamarr Organ Trio is an excellent entry point into the jazz world. The trio employs Jimmy Smith-style organs, Motown-spiced rhythms, and Jimi Hendrix-hazed guitars for timeless, feel-good soul-jazz you can dance to. AV
(The Get Down, Buckman)

Orville Peck: Stampede Tour Past Event Like List
After taking the world by storm with his Sub Pop-released debut album, Pony, the mysteriously masked cowboy known as Orville Peck found himself collaborating with country-pop queen Shania Twain, modeling for fashion labels such as Dior and Ivy Park, and rubbing elbows with mainstream names on the Grammy red carpet. Now supporting his third album, Stampede, Peck will lasso his way right into your heart with his deep baritone vocals and cinematic queer-anthems. Don't miss opening sets from country queens Nikki Lane and Emily Nenni. AV
(Hayden Homes Amphitheater, Bend)

WEDNESDAY

FILM

Portland Latin American Film Festival Remind Like List
Celebrate Hispanic Heritage Month and support Latin cinema in one fell swoop at the Portland Latin American Film Festival, which has returned this year with feature flicks that can be enjoyed by Spanish, Portuguese, and English speakers. PDXLAFF will start with the coming-of-age tale Los Frikis on September 25, which is set in '90s-era Cuba and inspired by true events. Producer Rebecca Karch Tomlinson and actor Eros de la Puente will offer a post-screening Q&A, and DJ Papi Fimbres will spin tunes at an after-party at Hey Love. LC
(Hollywood Theatre, Hollywood District)

LIVE MUSIC

A Boogie Wit Da Hoodie: Better Off Alone Tour Past Event Like List
Bronx-bred rapper A Boogie Wit Da Hoodie—who, fun fact, was once sued for clogging a toilet—will bring his effortless flows, catchy hooks, trap beats, and smooth R&B style to Portland on his Better Off Alone tour in support of his album of the same name. The Billboard-charting album features appearances from A-listers like Young Thug, Cash Cobain, Future, Lil Durk, Fridayy, and Mariah the Scientist. AV
(Moda Center, Lloyd District)

Green Day - The Saviors Tour
The Saviors tour is named after Green Day's latest album, but the gel-haired trio is giving the people what they really want—the entirety of Dookie and American Idiot, and hopefully more of Billie Joe's blistering anti-Trump antics. They're also bringing along alt-rockers the Smashing Pumpkins, punk revivalists Rancid, and teen phenoms the Linda Lindas. Sounds like a hella long concert for a Wednesday, but if you're a fan of the bands, perhaps today will be the greatest day you've ever known. JW
(Providence Park, Goose Hollow)

READINGS & TALKS

BIPOC Reading Series – September Past Event Like List
This recurring reading series centers stories by BIPOC writers, prioritizing their safety and creativity. Hosts Kyle Yoshioka and Jessica Meza-Torres will help lead a community discussion, and a not-yet-revealed featured readerwill share fresh writing. An open mic option for BIPOC writers will be available, too, so dust off the manuscript you've been scared to share. LC
(Literary Arts, West End)

Connie Chung in Conversation Past Event Like List
Celebrating the release of Connie: A Memoir, news pioneer and every reporter's favorite reporter, Connie Chung, will visit Portland. Chung's storied career revved up when she became the first woman to co-anchor the CBS Evening News, breaking barriers in a typically white, male-dominated field and navigating racism and sexism while scoring scoops on Watergate. Tickets to the talk include a copy of the household name's "sharp, witty" memoir. LC
(Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall, South Park Blocks)

THURSDAY

LIVE MUSIC

Peter Hook & The Light Past Event Like List
Stranger music critic Dave Segal writes: "Peter Hook is going to milk his legendary legacy with Joy Division and New Order for as long as he wants, and nobody can stop him—not even former bandmates Bernard Sumner, Gillian Gilbert, and Stephen Morris, who are not thrilled with their former bassist’s activities. Nevertheless, with his son Jack Bates on bass, Hook has made a solid living re-creating, in the flesh and in their entirety, albums by Joy Division and New Order. Warning: Hook's singing makes Sumner's sounds like Ian Curtis'." Nevertheless, the band is spotlighting the beloved Joy Division and New Order compilation albums, both entitled Substance. AV
(Crystal Ballroom, West End)

PERFORMANCE

Bob the Drag Queen: This Is Wild World Tour Past Event Like List
Bob the Drag Queen will step into Portland purse first on the heels of their emcee gig on Madonna's Celebration tour. Known for astute observations like "Harriet Tubman would beat Spiderman's ass," the season eight RuPaul’s Drag Race winner is embarking on their first headline comedy world tour. I recommend pregaming for the shenanigans with Gay Barz. LC
(Newmark Theatre, South Park Blocks)

FRIDAY

LIVE MUSIC

Pitbull: Party After Dark Tour Past Event Like List
Time travel back to the 2010s with an evening of throwback hits from Mr. Worldwide himself. Bald-headed legend Pitbull will perform Latin pop classics like "Timber (ft. Ke$ha)," "Time of Our Lives," and "Give Me Everything (ft. Ne-Yo, Afrojack, & Nayer)"—you probably know more of his songs than you realize! And, most importantly, T-Pain will open the show. Seriously, the man is an unsung musical genius. Just the thought of hearing "I'm Sprung" live gives me chills. AV
(RV Inn Style Resorts Amphitheater, Ridgefield)

SUNDAY

FILM

Deep Red with The Bavannaires Past Event Like List
Portland supergroup the Bavannaires—featuring Collin Hegna of Federale and the Brian Jonestown Massacre—will perform a selection of European horror score pieces before this screening of Italian madman Dario Argento's lurid, bloody giallo classic Deep Red. Portland Mercury contributor Bobby Roberts once described the film as having "garishly beautiful cinematography, innovative and disturbing kills, and, of course, a synthy, sleazy, serpentine sound of Goblin poured all over the soundtrack." Sleep tight. LC
(Hollywood Theatre, Hollywood District)

PDX Recovery Film Festival Past Event Like List
Presented by Portland peer-led recovery support nonprofit Bridges to Change, this annual festival spotlights films centered around homelessness, substance use, mental health, and incarceration, aiming to increase visibility, create space for storytelling, and inspire some much-needed hope. Last year's line-up included Emmy-nominated filmmaker Moni Vargas' Audrey's Poem and activist Mark Horvath's Peer Supervised Drug Consumption Site, so I'm looking forward to this year's thought-provoking flicks. LC
(Revolution Hall, Buckman)

LIVE MUSIC

Faye Webster Past Event Like List
Faye Webster's star has been steadily shining since her 2013 debut Run and Tell was released when she was just sixteen years old. But it wasn't until her 2021 album, I Know I'm Funny haha, that things really began to take off. Seriously, "In A Good Way" has nearly 50 million streams on Spotify. The album mixes soft R&B with a country-folk twang while utilizing her whispery soft vocal quality to deliver cheeky lyrics about basketball, falling in love, greedy landlords, and owning your sense of humor. Webster will play songs from her highly anticipated follow-up album, Underdressed at the Symphony, alongside Japanese indie pop artist Mei Ehara. AV
(Edgefield, Troutdale)

PERFORMANCE

Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street Remind Like List
A barber who murders people and turns them into pies with the help of his landlady sounds like a pretty gruesome tale, but with the magical touch of Stephen Sondheim, becomes a most amusing story. Originally premiering in 1979 (and winning eight Tony Awards, including Best Musical), Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street was recently revived on Broadway to rave reviews, and now returns to Portland Center Stage at the perfect time. Bring a little more horror into the haunting season this year and grab yourself tickets. SL
(Portland Center Stage, Pearl District)

MULTI-DAY

COMEDY

Mike Birbiglia - Please Stop the Ride Past Event Like List
Stand-up master, actor, and storyteller Mike Birbiglia has more than his fair share of solo shows, books, and feature films to his credit—his "household name" status is years in the making. Fresh off a new Netflix special, The Old Man and The Pool, in which he chats about the perils of heart disease and cardio, Birbiglia will pop by Portland to seek out our best pizza and pancake places. LC
(Newmark Theatre, South Park Blocks, Monday–Wednesday)

Tina Friml Past Event Like List
In November of last year, I was scrolling through my Instagram feed when I saw a post by The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon of a redheaded woman—wearing clothes I wish I owned—coming out from behind the curtain. A fan of comedy, I held off on moving on before I heard her say, “I am a fully functioning disabled adult living in NYC, I’ve got very ‘You go, girl’ energy.” My eyes widened, and she continued: “A lot of people see me and then think I suffer from cerebral palsy, which I don’t.” A compelling line coming from a person with impacted speech and CP hands. “I have cerebral palsy. I suffer from people.” I was stunned. A woman with visible disability chumming up a crowd and cracking Jimmy Fallon up about living her best life as a disabled person left me asking: WHO IS TINA FRIML? STRANGER CONTRIBUTOR MINDIE LIND
Read more in The Stranger's fall Arts + Performance Guide.
(Mississippi Studios, Boise, Wednesday–Thursday)

EXHIBIT

Crossing Boundaries: Portraits of a Transgender West Remind Like List
While many Native cultures recognize more than two genders, the term "transgender" is relatively new. What might the lives of trans people in the West have been like before the word existed? The Washington State Historical Society's original exhibition, Crossing Boundaries: Portraits of a Transgender West, offers a rare look at trans narratives from 1860 to 1940. Curated in collaboration with historian Peter Boag, the exhibition shares the stories of heartbreaker Harry Allen, medical doctor-turned-novelist Dr. Alan Hart, and "the mysterious Mrs. Nash, a laundress to the famed Seventh Cavalry," among others. LC
(Oregon Historical Society, South Park Blocks, Monday–Sunday)

Made with Love: 45 Years of Ikoi no Kai Remind Like List
For 45 years, Portlanders have ducked into the basement of Epworth United Methodist Church, just north of the Hawthorne Safeway, for Ikoi no Kai, a public, by-reservation lunch program serving up Japanese and pan-Asian cuisine. Exemplifying the concept of keirō 敬老, or respect for elders, Ikoi no Kai is volunteer-helmed and includes more than just food—attendees sing songs, play games, and pluck kotos. Made with Love: 45 Years of Ikoi no Kai honors the history of the city's lesser-known dining experience with text elements, artifacts, a video installation, and cute dumpling sculptures displayed in the museum's window. LC
(Japanese American Museum of Oregon, Old Town-Chinatown, Wednesday–Sunday)

Tree People: Puiden Kansa Past Event Like List
Works by Finnish artists Ritva Kovalainen and Sanni Seppo will come together for this photography exhibition, which draws from forest-based mythology to reflect on ancient customs and beliefs in rural Finland, Estonia, and East Karelia. To capture the images in Tree People, Kovalainen and Seppo researched and traveled for a decade; the results feel both sacred and familiar. After all, most of us have felt a close connection to a tree at some point in our lives. Head to the exhibition to learn more about the forest spirits and stories, then explore the World Forestry Center and Discovery Museum's wood-filled space. LC
(World Forestry Center & Discovery Museum, Washington Park, Wednesday–Sunday; closing)

FILM

Beetlejuice Beetlejuice Past Event Like List
It's not complicated. If Winona Ryder is on the screen, I'm seated in the audience. Even a reprisal of Beetlejuice, in which a frankly annoying spirit haunted a family back in the '80s, will suffice as long as Ryder appears. Director Tim Burton and star Michael Keaton return for this fashionably late sequel, which follows three generations of the Deetz family (including Lydia, who's now a mom, played by Ryder) as they return home to Winter River and discover a portal to the afterlife that's been carelessly left open. I'm betting someone says a certain name three times. LC
(Hollywood Theatre, Hollywood District)

Burden of Dreams Past Event Like List
I have been emotionally preparing for the death of Werner Herzog for the last decade, because I'm a little afraid to live in a world without the man who coined the term "the poet must not avert his eyes" when discussing trash television. He also openly talks shit about chickens. Oh, and his insight into extremity, sublimity, and the human condition makes him perhaps our most obsessive modern philosopher. What's not to love?! Well, one small thing—his film sets were often dangerous, and Fitzcarraldo even led to injuries and deaths. Les Blank's '82 documentary Burden of Dreams digs into the madness of that particular production, highlighting Herzog's kinda-sorta bonkers approach (he insisted on hauling a 320-ton steamboat over a mountain, for example). LC
(Cinema 21, Nob Hill, Monday–Thursday)

Eighth Annual Portland Dance Film Fest Past Event Like List
Spotlighting films from France, Vietnam, Greece, India, Iran, Japan, and many other countries this year, the Portland Dance Film Festival will return to cultivate more poetic connections with "the language of our bodies." Three screenings of curated picks include between eight and 10 short films, so you can return for each evening of the multi-day festival and have a completely different experience. Passholders can meet-cute with other dance fanatics at informal after-screening gatherings, too. LC
(Tomorrow Theater, Richmond, Thursday–Saturday)

The Substance Past Event Like List
As soon as I learned that The Substance was directed by Coralie Fargeat, the French filmmaker behind Revenge, my favorite "hot girl hunts evil men" film, I was on board. Fargeat's style might be described as New New French Extremity—while the aughts-era stuff was gratuitously brutal to women (Noé's Irreversible comes to mind), Fargeat's approach calls upon grotesque, everyday misogyny—assault in Revenge, beauty standards in The Substance—to craft twisted counterattacks and fuck with her audience a little. Fargeat's newest film stars Demi Moore as an aging celeb who's game to inject herself with a black market serum to become younger and more beautiful. I'd say "couldn't be me," but then again, I've got a lot more aging ahead of me. Perhaps that underlying anxiety is part of the point. LC
(Hollywood Theatre, Hollywood District, Monday–Thursday)

The Texas Chain Saw Massacre Past Event Like List
Hold on to your skin—Tobe Hooper's 1974 masterpiece will screen at the Hollywood in a fresh restoration, so audiences can catch Leatherface and his twisted pastimes in a brand new light. Far from just another slasher flick, The Texas Chain Saw Massacre changed the whole game, bringing festering horror into the bright Texas sunshine and transforming it into something deeply impactful. Without this film, your new bestie undoubtedly wouldn't exist. (Don't believe me? Wait until you see the dinner table scene.) LC
(Hollywood Theatre, Hollywood District, Friday–Sunday)

LIVE MUSIC

Close Encounters of the Third Kind in Concert Past Event Like List
Pairing beloved flicks with live scores, the Oregon Symphony's film series is its way of enlivening the cinematic experience while drawing in new audiences that wouldn't typically attend a classical concert. This week, the ensemble will take on Close Encounters of the Third Kind (you know, the one about UFO encounters?) with John Williams' epic score. AV
(Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall, South Park Blocks, Saturday–Sunday)

Dreamgaze PDX Past Event Like List
This year's inaugural Dreamgaze Festival will seep dreamy sounds through the St. Johns neighborhood for two days of experimental post-punk, shoegaze, and psych-rock tunes. Don't miss a performance from pioneering shoegaze band the Veldt, whose unique R&B-infused dream pop has led them on tour alongside goth household names like Cocteau Twins, the Jesus and Mary Chain, and Echo & the Bunnymen. If you're unfamiliar with the Veldt’s music, I recommend checking out their 1994 debut, Afrodisiac, which Pitchfork hailed as one of the top 50 shoegaze albums ever released. Other highlights from the lineup include the Prids, Mint Field, Somesurprises, Dead Leaf Echo, and Citrus Clouds. AV
(The Fixin' To, St. Johns, Saturday–Sunday)

PERFORMANCE

CoHo ClownFest 2024 Past Event Like List
Whether you're a literal clown or a simple clown appreciator, you'll want to honk your horn and slap on a gigantic pair of shoes for this year's edition of this four-week fringe festival celebrating all things clownery. CoHo's ClownFest includes an absurdist mix of physical comedy, workshops, and movement performances, building community between artists and audiences with a wide range of jolly performances. It transforms CoHo's little black box theater into a central hub for circus artists across the country to engage in "playful whimsy," which sounds good for the soul. Go forth and get your clown on. LC
(CoHo Productions, Slabtown, Thursday–Sunday)

Diné Nishłį (i am a sacred being) Or, A Boarding School Play Remind Like List
When a group of high schoolers is offered the chance to sing the Navajo national anthem at the 2002 Winter Olympics, they're understandably stoked, but a teacher throws a wrench in the works with a (false?) accusation. The group forms a plan to save their trip, and what unfolds is an "exuberant, sunny, and just a little bit haunted" comedy that celebrates the lives of young Native women. (We've got the brilliant Diné storyteller and playwright Blossom Johnson to thank.) After a run at Hillsboro's Vault Theater, the production will tour throughout the greater Portland area, with performances at the Native American Youth and Family Center October 4-6 and the PSU Native Student and Community Center October 10-13. LC
(The Vault Theater, Hillsboro, Wednesday–Sunday)

LIZZIE: The Musical Past Event Like List
I know what I like, and what I like is musical theater based on legendary murder mysteries. This one's so well-known there's a devilish children's song named after it. Lizzie Borden was put on trial (and acquitted—she was Teflon Don in the courtroom, I guess) for taking an axe to her mother and father in Fall River, Massachusetts, in 1892. LIZZIE explores the heated days leading up to and following the murders with a "searing rock score," "strong language," and enough flashing lights to warrant a trigger warning. LC
(Chapel Theatre, Milwaukie, Friday–Sunday)

PCS Presents: Risk/Reward's Election Anti-Party Past Event Like List
While this “micro-festival,” created by interim festival director James Mapes, is similar to the annual Risk/Reward fest in its adventurous nature and packed weekend format, the programming feels like an assortment of what Risk/Reward delivers in total, but with an overarching theme: the 2024 election and how we’re going to stay mentally healthy and engaged as the clusterfuck continues to unfold. The opening night of the festival, presents the Fig Tree Committee’s An Iliad—based on the epic Greek poem by Homer—performed by Paul Susi, with live accompaniment by cellist Anna Fritz. The duo have toured this show to 13 Oregon prisons, and played it for more than 3,000 people. On the second night, the Anti-Party features a double-header event, starting with the Rejoice! Diaspora Dance Theater who’ll perform a selection from their show Afrolitical called “Uprising” about the history of Black protest (casting a particular eye on the racial justice marches of 2020). Discussion on the intersection of activism and contemporary politics follows the performance. There’s also a screening of Tipping Point, the recent documentary that dives into Portland’s Black Lives Matter protests of 2020, interviewing participants, police, and activists, while providing a far more nuanced lens designed to counter the often hysteric reaction of local politicians and national media. The fest reaches its conclusion with a Saturday-evening showcase of 20 very-short, original performances—most staged for the first time. It’s a dynamic bill, boasting drag artists Carla Rossi and Pepper Pepper, an allegedly “very angry” piece from Tracy Cameron Francis of Boom Arts, first time voters from PSU and Hand2Mouth theater, and lots more (including a mysterious and intriguing appearance from “a sentient karaoke machine.”) PORTLAND MERCURY EDITOR-IN-CHIEF WM. STEVEN HUMPHREY
(Ellyn Bye Studio at the Armory, Pearl District, Thursday–Saturday)

VISUAL ART

Bean Finneran: Properties of Layers Past Event Like List
Bean Finneran's ceramic sculptures feel playful, rendered in Play-Doh-esque primary colors and squishy, organic forms, but the artist has spent many years molding "a single elemental shape, a hand-rolled curve of low fire clay that was assembled by the hundreds into temporary sculptures." Properties of Layers represents a serious investigation of clay's various states—liquid, mushy, dry, soft, and even frozen. The resulting sculptures are layered and iterated upon through multiple firing and glazing sessions, so while the bright results may feel spontaneous, they're actually deeply considered. LC
(PDX CONTEMPORARY ART, Slabtown, Tuesday–Saturday; closing)

Carson Ellis: One Week in January Remind Like List
While looking through some old boxes, illustrator, and author Carson Ellis discovered several pages of diary entries from 2001, which documented her first week living in Portland. The journals detailed 25-year-old Ellis’s new life in the city, as she moved into a “scrappy but cheap and fabulous” Southeast Portland warehouse, smoked a lot of cigarettes, and hung out with her housemates and fellow artists, including her future husband and Decemberists’ frontman Colin Meloy. Ellis got a kick out of the old entries, which offer a snapshot of Portland during a time of creative abundance and cheap rent. She painted 30 new pieces of art to go along with the diary entries from 23 years ago, and compiled them into a book, One Week in January: New Paintings for an Old Diary, which was published by Chronicle on September 10. PORTLAND MERCURY NEWS REPORTER TAYLOR GRIGGS
(Nationale, Buckman, Monday/Thursday–Sunday)

Coraline's Curious Cat Trail Remind Like List
Google doesn't often classify movies as "family/horror," but Coraline is one of the few flicks that fits the bill. The 2009 LAIKA film, which follows an audacious 11-year-old who finds an alternate world populated by strange characters (including a button-eyed Other Mother), is based on the creepiest, most addictive Neil Gaiman book I read as a seventh-grader. If the book/movie's lanky black cat elicits your nostalgia, I recommend spending an afternoon with Coraline’s Curious Cat Trail, LAIKA's path of six-foot Cat sculptures stationed throughout downtown Portland. LC
(Various locations, Monday–Sunday)

En Motion: WAVE Contemporary Past Event Like List
Similar to the conceptual setup of the current Oregon Contemporary show Orbit, which includes works by over a dozen international and local artists, WAVE Contemporary's member artists will also present En Motion this month. The group show probes everyday exposures and interactions with moving images to explore the "current social supremacy of film, video, and moving image as a driver of culture." My advice? Check out both Orbit and En Motion, then duck into Well Well Projects' hall gallery for Inner Sun, Katherine Spinella and Morgan Rosskopf's multimedia exploration of "uncomfortability and uncertainty in the creative process." Win-win-win! LC
(Well Well, Kenton, Saturday–Sunday; closing)

In Present Space: Kim Smith Claudel Past Event Like List
Kim Smith Claudel's first solo exhibition at Carnation Contemporary sees the multimedia artist (who holds an MS from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology) meditate on her attempts to "capture the ephemeral complexity of being a spirit in a physical world." In Present Space features works that grapple with evidence of time—what might a sculpture look like in decay? Although the show statement doesn't reveal much about the work outside of these initial ponderings, Claudel's website reveals her curious, playful sculptural sense. LC
(Carnation Contemporary, Kenton, Saturday–Sunday; closing)

MK Guth: Distant Dreamer Past Event Like List
Multidisciplinary artist MK Guth’s last show at Elizabeth Leach, Touching Matter, focused on social ritual, incorporating objects with “implied performativity” and extending opportunities for reflective audience engagement. Guth's latest solo exhibition, Distant Dreamer, dives into her archive to cherry-pick from themes and materials used across the artist and PNCA professor emeritus' 30-year career. "Full of adjacent tangents and aestheticized renditions, the result is what one could call a 'performance' by an indomitable artist very much connected to her own thesis," the gallery explains. Translation? Anticipate a range of multimedia works that revisit and expand upon Guth's wide-reaching oeuvre, including textile works and sculptures from repurposed materials. LC
(Elizabeth Leach Gallery, Pearl District, Tuesday–Saturday; closing)

Paul McCartney Photographs 1963–64: Eyes of the Storm Remind Like List
When I hear the words "photography" and "Paul McCartney," I typically think of works by his late wife, the legendary photog Linda McCartney, whose images feel uniquely charming and immediate. But it turns out Paul took stellar shots, too. This exhibition is proof. Paul McCartney Photographs 1963–64: Eyes of the Storm includes over 250 images McCartney captured from 1963-64, lending new insight into his life from inside the Beatlemania phenomenon. The results blend references to New Wave aesthetics, documentary filmmaking, and photojournalism, proving that McCartney had his eye on pop culture of all kinds. LC
(Portland Art Museum, South Park Blocks, Thursday–Sunday)

Xavi Bou: Ornithographies Past Event Like List
Inspired by childhood walks with his grandfather along Spain's Llobregat Delta and his background in geology, Xavi Bou's ongoing photography project Ornithographies documents something that typically escapes human perception: the "invisible patterns traced by birds in the sky when they fly." Merging a poetic eye and ongoing consultation with naturalists, Bou's work captures the lightning-fast flapping of wings in a single frame, making visible the imperceptible through organic shapes and abstracted forms. LC
(Blue Sky Gallery, Pearl District, Wednesday–Saturday; closing)