Posts tagged portlandia of the free

How to Be an Urban Explorer


Some of you may wonder how I found all these free/cheap events. The simple answer is I looked for them, but the complicated answer is where?


Well here a list of places I suggest you check out for free/cheap events!!


NOTE: This list was thrown together hap-hazardously. I will be editing it soon. 


READ (seriously. this is where I got most of my events):


Willamette Week

Portland Mercury


CHECK:


Around the Sun

Dave Knows: Portland

Portland on the Cheap

Portland Monthly On the Town

Eater Portland

PDX Pipeline


SIGN UP FOR EMAIL LISTS:


Collage PDX

Mississippi Studios

Hollywood Theater

Postfive Theater

OMSI Science Pub

Destination DIY

People’s Co-op

IPRC

In Other Words

MoCC (Museum of Contemporary Craft)

Jack London Bar

KBOO Community Radio

Multnomah County Library

BarFly!

Mountain Writer’s Series


PAY ATTENTION TO THESE VENUES:


Holocene

Mission Theater

Bagdad Theater

Hollywood Theatre

Academy Theater

Laurelhurst Theater

Jack London Bar

Backspace

Someday Lounge

Dante’s

Mississippi Studios

Hollywood Theater

Valentine’s

CineMagic 

Powell’s Books

Broadway Books

Waterfront Park

Director Park

Cathedral Park

Pioneer Square

In Other Words

Rotture

The Goodfoot

Bunk Bar

Slabtown

Plan B

Ash St. Saloon

Mississippi Pizza

Mississippi Studios

Curious Comedy Theater

IPRC

Ground Kontrol

MilePost 5

EastBurn Cafe

The Doug Fir

Multnomah Library


LOOK OUT FOR:


Posters

Fliers

Bulletin Boards


But most of all, if you look, you shall find!!

return home

Weekly Events


Here’s everything I can think of that happens every week!!


This will be updated as I think of more. Dates and times are subject to change. 


Mon


$1 Open Mic - Good Foot - 7pm-midnight

$1 Bingo & Bourbon - Misssissippi Pizza - 8pm

FREE Karaoke From Hell - Dante’s - 10pm

$5 Every 1st Monday Science Pub - Bagdad Theater 7pm

FREE Every 1st and 3rd Monday Down to Funny! East End 8-10pm

FREE Monday Funday - Colonel Summers Park - 6-10pm


Tues


FREE Stumptown Stories - Jack London Bar - 7:30pm

FREE Trivia - Triple Nickel - 8pm

$4 2 for 1 Movie Night - Academy Theater - Various Movie Times

FREE Pagan Tuesday with Pagan Jug Band - The Blue Monk - 6:30pm

$5 Every Last Tuesday Science Pub - Mission Theater - 7pm

$3 Every 1st Tuesday Nearly Naked Spelling Bee - Someday Lounge - 8:30pm


Wed


$12 Burger, Beer and Movie - Mission Theater - Various Movie Showtimes

FREE Suck My Open Mic - Alberta St. Pub - 8pm

FREE with purchase of 1 item Brody Open Mic 9:30pm

FREE People’s Co-op Farmers Market 2-9pm


Thurs


FREE Every Last Thursday - NE Alberta - 6-10pm

FREE Every 1st and 3rd Thurs - Broetry - The Treehouse - 9pm

FREE Every 1st Thursday Art Walk - Downtown Art Galleries - 6-9pm


Fri


FREE Every 4th Friday - FREE admission to Portland Art Museum - 5-8pm

$6 80s Video Dance Attack - Lola’s Room - 8pm

FREE Every 1st Friday Art Walk - Inner Eastside Galleries - 6pm

$5 Craft Class -Collage - 6-7pm


Sat


FREE PSU Farmers Market - South Parks Blocks - 8:30am-2pm


Sun


$5 Portland Poetry Slam - Backspace - 8pm

$2 Every 1st Sunday - OMSI - 9:30am-5:30pm

FREE ZooBomb - W Burnside at 13th Av - 8:30pm



return home

Fri 8/31: The Haps of Today!!


Fri 8/31: St. Johns is the Saint of Party!!






FREE The Fixin’ To 9-11pm


I think there’s a whole world of events up in St. Johns that I’m just not aware of because it’s so far away. Well, today I shall try to remedy that. You can go get your laugh on at this free monthly comedy show featuring Portland’s Funniest Person Nathan Brannon along with other Portland favorites.






FREE St. Johns Booksellers 7-10pm


This promises to be the grittiest, most down home writing you will ever hear in Portland. I’m not sure exactly what that means, but I know I want to find out! Portland’s Johnny No Bueno will host with features Dena Rash Guzman and Brian Tibbetts. There will also be an open mic of “the kind of literature that looks great with a black eye, that knows the sting of dry-wall in winter-cracked knuckles, that knows the difference between the smells of freshly sanitized stripper poles and black tar heroin.”


NOTE: It’s St. Johns’ Last Friday Art Walk tonight. So, show up early and walk around.



return home

Fri 8/31 Art Show: Techne Rendered Dawn FREE Disjecta 6-11pm This sounds like it could be either really cool or super ridiculous. I guess just bring both your sophisticated critic and ironic judgment hats. It sounds like there’s going to be performances, installations, projections, DJs and “virtual immersions” around the theme of “augmented reality as integrated technology and interactive performance.” I mean here’s a sample of the description. I don’t know what it means, but keep Portland weird right? Where as virtual reality conventionally conceived by technoindustrial processes is commoditized for future obsolescence in an economy of artifacts, the virtual states achieved by techne can also be a materialized dialogue between and artist and their symbio/physical environment. return home


Fri 8/31


Art Show: Techne Rendered Dawn


FREE Disjecta 6-11pm



This sounds like it could be either really cool or super ridiculous. I guess just bring both your sophisticated critic and ironic judgment hats. It sounds like there’s going to be performances, installations, projections, DJs and “virtual immersions” around the theme of “augmented reality as integrated technology and interactive performance.” I mean here’s a sample of the description. I don’t know what it means, but keep Portland weird right?


Where as virtual reality conventionally conceived by technoindustrial processes is commoditized for future obsolescence in an economy of artifacts, the virtual states achieved by techne can also be a materialized dialogue between and artist and their symbio/physical environment.



return home

Fri 8/31 Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory in the Park!! FREE Dawson Park Pre-movie entertainment 6:30pm; movie at dusk Now who says the original Willy Wonka movie isn’t creepy enough? I mean just look at those orange men with their broccoli hair and how they surround Gene Wilder with their white gloved hands. To be fair, it is Gene Wilder. You’d try to get on a hand on him if you were that close. Any case, we all know this movie. We all love it. Go watch it in the park!! return home


Fri 8/31


Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory in the Park!!


FREE Dawson Park Pre-movie entertainment 6:30pm; movie at dusk



Now who says the original Willy Wonka movie isn’t creepy enough? I mean just look at those orange men with their broccoli hair and how they surround Gene Wilder with their white gloved hands. To be fair, it is Gene Wilder. You’d try to get on a hand on him if you were that close. Any case, we all know this movie. We all love it. Go watch it in the park!!



return home

2 notes

Fri 8/31 Last Day of FREE Rail Zone!! FREE MAX Light Rail and Portland Streetcar - Free Rail Zone About every 13-15 mins: check MAX and Streetcar schedules TriMet is about to up the price and take away the Free Zone. So today is your LAST chance to ever ride TriMet for free. I suggest you jump on the MAX or Streetcar and just ride it back and forth. Or at least ride it downtown once today. Say goodbye to an era of affordability.  return home


Fri 8/31


Last Day of FREE Rail Zone!!


FREE MAX Light Rail and Portland Streetcar - Free Rail Zone About every 13-15 mins: check MAX and Streetcar schedules



TriMet is about to up the price and take away the Free Zone. So today is your LAST chance to ever ride TriMet for free. I suggest you jump on the MAX or Streetcar and just ride it back and forth. Or at least ride it downtown once today. Say goodbye to an era of affordability. 



return home

2 notes

Thurs 8/30: The Haps of Today!!


Thurs 8/30: Awesome Anthologies!!






FREE Backspace 7pm



If any of you are a fan of the Portland Poetry Slam, then you will love this anthology. All of your favorite poets are now combined into one amazing book. Our own poetry publishing collective Sparrow Ghost Collective (think Broetry) is releasing their 2nd anthology and they’re throwing a massive party tonight! There will be readings, music and hilarity! I highly suggest you buy an anthology! It’s only $15. They’re practically giving it away!!






FREE Broadway Books 7pm


Sometimes we need poetry to delve into topics that are too hard to discuss; to express those emotions we’re too passionate about to explain rationally. The conflict between Palestinians and Israelis is one these topics. The hope is that through poetry each side of this conflict will be able to have their voice heard. I know I want to hear what these poets have to say. 



return home

Thurs 8/30 Oregon Symphony in the Park!! FREE Waterfront Park 5pm: Portland Youth Philharmonic; 7pm Oregon Symphony (Man, I love the music director’s hair) Every year the Oregon Symphony kicks off their new season with one great big FREE concert! So, bring your chairs and blankets and get ready for a night of epic music. And don’t miss the Portland Youth Philharmonic who will be playing Swan Lake as the Oregon Ballet Theatre performs. I suggest you get there early because it will be crowded!!  return home


Thurs 8/30


Oregon Symphony in the Park!!


FREE Waterfront Park 5pm: Portland Youth Philharmonic; 7pm Oregon Symphony



(Man, I love the music director’s hair) Every year the Oregon Symphony kicks off their new season with one great big FREE concert! So, bring your chairs and blankets and get ready for a night of epic music. And don’t miss the Portland Youth Philharmonic who will be playing Swan Lake as the Oregon Ballet Theatre performs. I suggest you get there early because it will be crowded!! 



return home

Thurs 8/30 LAST THURSDAY!! FREE NE Alberta St. 6-10pm This picture still makes me so happy. Thank you internet. Thinternet. Any case, it’s Last Thursday and you know what that means: Portland’s biggest street party!! If you haven’t been, YOU NEED TO GO! If you have, you know how awesome it is. Be there!! return home


Thurs 8/30


LAST THURSDAY!!


FREE NE Alberta St. 6-10pm



This picture still makes me so happy. Thank you internet. Thinternet. Any case, it’s Last Thursday and you know what that means: Portland’s biggest street party!! If you haven’t been, YOU NEED TO GO! If you have, you know how awesome it is. Be there!!



return home

Thurs 8/30 National Mai Tai Day!! $6 Trader Vic’s 3-11pm Man I just got a history lesson in drank! Not only did I find out that there is in fact a National Mai Tai today, but that people have been celebrating the wrong day for years, at least according to Tiki Central. So while people have been sucking down mai tais on June 30th, the official National Mai Tai day is today August 30th cause Victor J. Bergeron invented the mai tai in August of 1944. So come get your drink on and celebrate properly!  return home


Thurs 8/30


National Mai Tai Day!!


$6 Trader Vic’s 3-11pm



Man I just got a history lesson in drank! Not only did I find out that there is in fact a National Mai Tai today, but that people have been celebrating the wrong day for years, at least according to Tiki Central. So while people have been sucking down mai tais on June 30th, the official National Mai Tai day is today August 30th cause Victor J. Bergeron invented the mai tai in August of 1944. So come get your drink on and celebrate properly! 



return home