Ben Popp, who organizes Portland International Film Festival screenings, talks about this year’s films and theme: “Empathy has no ethnicity” This year’s Portland International Film Festival, fondly known by many Portlanders and audience members as “PIFF,” ...
8 Mar 2019 - Amanda Waldroupe
Richard Wilhelm and Sue Arbuthnot discuss their new film, "Refuge," about the 2016 Bundy occupation at the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge What is a refuge? Is refuge what we would call home? Are we fleeing from something – or someone – when we ...
25 Jan 2019 - Amanda Waldroupe
With the opening of Cully Park, Portland has its first Native Gathering Garden Along one edge of Northeast Portland’s Thomas Cully Park, prairie grasses sway and softly crackle in the breeze. Shaved tree trunks, tall and straight, border a graveled circul ...
6 Jul 2018 - Amanda Waldroupe
His new documentary examines the heartbreaking costs of the Albina district’s transformation Update on Jan. 15, 2018: "Priced Out" will be showing at Portland Community College's Cascade Campus on Jan. 16 at 2 p.m. and Jan. 24 at 6 p.m. in ...
3 Nov 2017 - Amanda Waldroupe
And that terrifies those who want to rule the world, the renowned Oregon author says Many consider the arts, and the ability to produce art, intrinsically connected to freedom of expression and essential to ensuring a democratic and egalitarian society. ...
29 Sep 2017 - Amanda Waldroupe
Programs that receive grant money add cultural and economic value across the state Leaders in Oregon’s art world were not surprised when the Trump administration in March became the first in U.S. history to propose eliminating the National Endowment for t ...
15 Sep 2017 - Amanda Waldroupe
The renowned scholar and author is coming to Portland to talk about her own experience with schizophrenia One day, when she was 16, Elyn Saks abruptly got up from her desk, walked out of her classroom and left school. She headed home, but she could not ex ...
9 Jun 2017 - Amanda Waldroupe
The 'South Park' voice actor shares stories of homeless people in 'Displaced,' to premiere in Portland Eliza Jane Schneider is best known for voicing nearly all of the female characters on Comedy Central’s “South Park.” She speaks with ...
16 Jan 2017 - Amanda Waldroupe