Mid-Autumn Festival, Time-Based Art, Elktoberfest, Watercolor Society Fall Exhibition: 9 things to do this week

As we dive into artwork occasions this fall, COVID-19 mandates and restrictions are pushing organizers to supply extra digital choices for attending occasions and holding many outside performances. There’s one thing for everybody this week, from indoor artwork reveals to the large record of stay and digital issues on supply on the Time-Based mostly Artwork Competition.

The Lan Su Chinese language Backyard will host the Mid-Autumn Competition from September 17-19, 2021.

Mid-Autumn Competition

Lan Su Chinese language Backyard celebrates the Mid-Autumn Competition, which is taken into account probably the most necessary Chinese language holidays, with three nights of lantern viewing and two days of festive occasions. Daytime occasions embody paper lantern crafting workshops, calligraphy demonstrations, and storytelling. Night occasions embody excursions of a whole lot of lit lanterns and a lion dance efficiency by the Portland Lee Affiliation Lion Dance Crew. The mid-autumn competition and the lantern evenings have restricted visitor capacities. Masks are obligatory.

Competition of the day 10 a.m. – 6 p.m. Saturday-Sunday, 18.-19. September, free admission to the backyard. Lantern evenings 7-9 p.m. Friday-Sunday, 17.-19. September, Lan Su Chinese language Backyard, 239 NW Everett St. Backyard Entry is $ 12.95 for adults. Night lantern admission is $ 15 to $ 35; www.lansugarden.org/MidAutumn.

“Good” watercolor by Nathun Finkhouse

Autumn exhibition of the watercolor society

Greater than 90 watercolor and water media artistic endeavors are proven on this juried present. The award ceremony will happen on Saturday at 3 p.m. stay on the veranda of the Marshall Home. Masks are obligatory.

Opening occasions 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. Friday-Saturday, 17.-18. September, 1301 Officers Row, Fort Vancouver; without spending a dime; swwswatercolor.org/occasion/herbst-ausstellung

An alternate of jazz and poetry

The Walters Cultural Arts Heart’s fall season kicks off with a efficiency by jazz musicians Shao Means Wu, Ed Bennett, and Randy Porter. The trio gives their very own compositions, requirements and an instrumental alternate of improvisation and interpretation. Throughout the efficiency, instrumental jazz will probably be mixed with studying unique works by native poet Mark Shikuma.

7:30 pm Friday, September 17, Walters Cultural Arts Heart, 527 E. Important St., Hillsboro; $ 8 advance, $ 11 day; CityOfHillsboro.TicketSpice.com

It is Oktoberfest season. File photograph. Kevin Rivoli | krivoli@syracuse.com

Elktoberfest

Vancouver Elks Lodge has a “Bands, Brats and Brews” gathering within the lodge’s again yard. Seize some native craft beers and German meals and hearken to native bands. Open to all ages. The occasion is a charity and membership promotion and is public.

4-10 p.m. Friday-Saturday, 17.-18. September, on the Lodge, 11605 SE McGillivray Blvd, Vancouver; without spending a dime

Movie nonetheless from “Sister” by Jennie MaryTai Liu and Simon LiuCourtesy of PICA

Time based mostly arts competition

PICA’s annual Time-Based mostly Artwork Competition is a convergence of latest artwork, worldwide artists, a world viewers, and native face-to-face conferences that showcase experimental works and concepts and the bounds of what it means to make up to date artwork – and who’s at it could take part – transfer.

It additionally pushes the boundaries of the sheer quantity of what you’ll be able to expertise. Try the total schedule on-line. The weekend kicks off with loads of decisions, together with Conviction, a video set up by Hong Kong-raised sister-brother artists Jennie MaryTai Liu and Simon Liu with sound by Portland-raised artist Andrew Gilbert. The set up contains two movies: “drive” and “Sistern”, which have been filmed in Hong Kong in 2019 and 2021 respectively. The set up could be seen from Friday, September 17 at midday within the PICA annex, enters the PICA background in 20 NE San Rafael St. and is included within the competition cross.

The competition cross costs begin with “Pay-what-you-can”, however don’t embody all performances or occasions.

TBA could be seen in numerous areas and on-line from September 16 by way of October 16. 3; Get a schedule right here: pica.org/tba

Katie Nguyen performs on the Campfire Tales Occasion at Zidell Yards, introduced by BackFence PDX

“Campfire tales”

Late evening tales, bigger than life, come to Zidell Yards for 2 exhibits an evening. Campfire storytellers take a real story and exaggerate it within the spirit of creepy tales informed by the hearth. Tickets are restricted to 60 visitors per present and the performances at 7:30 p.m. are bought out.

Exhibits obtainable Friday-Saturday, 17-18. September at 10 p.m., Zidell Yards, 3121 S. Moody Ave; $ 20 ($ 5 parking); tickets.artistsrep.org/7489/7521

Cracked Pots Block Get together

Judged reuse artists present works that encompass a minimum of 80% recycled supplies. Items are supplied on the market at greater than 20 stalls. Focus on the work with the artists in the course of the occasion and go to the youngsters’s artwork initiatives part. Masks and social distancing are enforced. Dwell music efficiency at 2 p.m.

Gross sales 11 am-5pm Saturday, September 18, ReClaim It, on North Williams Avenue, between Killingsworth and Jessup Streets; without spending a dime; crackedpots.org

Stage actress, singer, and songwriter Shoshana Bean is a part of the Oregon Youngsters’s Theater’s fundraising gala. (Arkasha Stevenson) LC-LC-

Oregon Youngsters’s Theater Digital Gala

See performances by award-winning visitors who additionally share tales about how theater and humanities training formed their lives. Members of the Younger Professionals Firm will even share how their time on the Oregon Youngsters’s Theater helped them obtain their desires. Skilled visitor artists embody Shoshana Bean, Delphon “DJ” Curtis Jr., Natalie Pleasure Johnson, and others.

6 p.m. Saturday, September 18, streaming at octc.org/gala; free, however RSVP requested on the hyperlink.

Composer / guitarist Ryan Meagher. Picture courtesy of PJCE.

“A Thousand Casts” launch live performance

PJCE Information presents two new music releases in a stay present on Thursday. A Thousand Casts composer and guitarist Ryan Meagher performs songs impressed by tales about fishing on the Clackamas River. Marilyn Keller and Ezra Weiss additionally play “Vanport’s Siren Music”.

6 p.m. Thursday, September 23, Botanist, 910 NW 14th Ave .; Out of doors seating, masks obligatory; Playing cards $ 15; tickettomato.com/occasion/7233

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