Events

The wildly popular, multicultural Portland collective drops in during its 30th anniversary tour. Classical, pop, jazz—it’s all part of the band’s heady, progressive mix.

Local equestrian/yogini Jennifer Cohen Harper joins the 13 Hands Equine Rescue team to introduce tyros to the joys of interacting with equines, not necessarily while astride them.

This year's festival, honoring Emmy-nominated actor and area resident Walton Goggins, will feature 47 exceptional new films and shorts you won't see in wide release until later this fall and winter, including: Oscar-winning director Steve McQueen's WWII drama, Blitz, starring Saoirse Ronan Pedro Almodóvar's first English-language film, The Room Next Door, starring Tilda Swinton and

Kids are born fauvists, and Béla Bartók Bartok’s wild music can leave them classical- curious. At this family-friendly show, Romanian pianist Lucian Ban and US violist Mat Maneri promise to riff and transport.

Fresh from a bracing free sail aboard the Woody Guthrie, dive into hot pumpkin soup and fresh-baked pie while taking in live music emanating from two solar-powered stages.

Test your pickle face with the Pickle Triathlon (eating, juice-drinking, tossing). Among the more esoteric offerings from 100-odd vendors: pickle empanadas, pasta, cupcakes and ice cream.

The arts park invites families to improvise a tall, collaborative sculpture by knotting colorful swatches. If captivated, head back November 10 to go horizontal with a woven canopy.

The timing couldn’t be better to catch the irreverent successors of the Capitol Steps (1981-2020). These “equal-opportunity offenders” promise song parodies and assorted “foolish reflections.”