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Karen Martwick, Travel Portland’s director of content strategy, has lived in Portland since 1993. Read More

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Portland Events / Summer in Portland

Portland Street Fairs

Take to the streets for Portland's many neighborhood street fairs.

Updated Dec. 28, 2020 2 min read
Karen Martwick

Karen Martwick

Karen Martwick, Travel Portland’s director of content strategy, has lived in Portland since 1993. Read More

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Many Portland neighborhoods celebrate summer with a street fair. You could spend nearly every weekend exploring these retail districts enjoying live music, food and local color.

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May Street Fairs in Portland

Kenton Street Fair

One of the earliest neighborhood street fairs of the year, the Kenton Street Fair livens up this historic North Portland neighborhood with food, activities and local vendors.

St. Johns Bizarre

The annual art- and craft-focused St. Johns Bizarre features a community parade; along with local music; street performers; a market of craftspeople and vendor; food and a beer garden; kids art activities; and more in the heart of the St. Johns neighborhood in North Portland.

July Street Fairs in Portland

Mississippi Street Fair

Featuring live music on five stages, the Mississippi Street Fair is one of the city’s biggest street fairs, drawing 30,000+ visitors to the close-in North Portland street.

Street Spotlight: Mississippi

Spend a day discovering the secrets of one of Portland’s most popular streets with our guide to chic North Mississippi Avenue.

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Division/Clinton Street Fair

The Division/Clinton Street Fair celebrates this Southeast Portland neighborhood — close to downtown and bursting with top-rated eateries.

August Street Fairs in Portland

Lents Street Fair

The Southeast Portland neighborhood embraces its farmland heritage with the Lents Street Fair, featuring quirky county fair influences (think chicken beauty contest and urban goats) along with live music, food, vendors and a beer garden.

Alberta Street Fair

With three music stages, a beer garden and 300 local vendors, the Alberta Street Fair attracts more than 20,000 visitors to Northeast Portland’s Alberta Arts District. Also check out Last Thursday — the district’s monthly street fair.

Monthly Art Walks in Portland

Explore Portland's art gallery scene with three regular art walks, held in different creative neighborhoods around town.

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Fremont Festival

The Fremont Festival celebration in Northeast Portland’s quaint Beaumont neighborhood features a kid and pet parade to go with the array of local food and vendors.

Multnomah Days

The Multnomah Days festival in Southwest Portland’s Multnomah Village is really just one day, but it’s jam-packed with a small-town-style parade, live music and food and craft vendors.

Hawthorne Street Fair

One of Portland’s favorite streets — and its longest-running street fair — the Hawthorne Street Fair pulls out all the stops with multiple music stages, two beer gardens and blocks of sidewalk sales at many of the more than one hundred local shops that line this original “shop local” stretch.

September Street Fairs in Portland

Art in the Pearl

Technically, Art in the Pearl is a fine arts and crafts festival, but with live music, hands-on activities and food vendors, this Labor Day weekend party in the North Park Blocks of the Pearl District certainly belongs on the list of summer street fairs. Of course, it’s easy to enjoy the Pearl District’s art offerings with the monthly First Thursday art walk.

Belmont Street Fair

The street fair season winds down in style with the Belmont Street Fair, a party in another popular Southeast Portland retail and dining district.

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Neighborhoods

In its classic quirky fashion, Portland’s five main geographical sections, Northeast, Southeast, Northwest, Southwest and North Portland, are referred to by residents as the city’s “quadrants.”

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Cascade Festival of African Films
Feb. 5–Mar. 10, 2021

Cascade Festival of African Films

Virtual Free

VIRTUAL EVENT. Please visit the event website for current information. The 2021 Cascade Festival of African Films will be held virtually in 2021. The festival will remain free and open to the public, but films will be shown online. Visit the event website for more details and the list of films! Founded in 1991, the…

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Portland International Film Festival
Mar. 5–14, 2021

Portland International Film Festival

Virtual; Cinema Unbound Drive-In at Zidell Yards

Established in 1977, The Portland International Film Festival is a creative, multi-media feast spotlighting artists both around the corner and across the globe—embracing bold, original, future-forward storytellers making cinema in all its forms. March 5 – 14, 2021. The Portland International Film Festival (PIFF) is a community celebration of the stories that bind us—whether told…

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POW Film Fest
Mar. 25–28, 2021

POW Film Fest

Virtual

POW Film Fest is Portland’s premiere film festival showcasing films made by women and non-binary filmmakers. The festival features the work of some of today’s top women and non-binary directors, while honoring the true pioneers and recognizing the next generation of leading filmmakers. Over the years POW has striven to encourage thoughtful and engaged discourse…

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UFO Festival
May 13–15, 2021

UFO Festival

Hotel Oregon $20 and up

Every May, thousands of visitors flock to the city’s famous UFO Festival, featuring four days of parades, costume contests, expert speakers

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The Legendary Portland Mile
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The Legendary Portland Mile

Portland Meadows $50-$150

An auto/moto/bike race and music festival.

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Oregon Midsummer Festival
Saturday, June 12, 2021

Oregon Midsummer Festival

Oaks Amusement Park & Roller Skating Rink Varies – children 11 and under enter free

Midsummer continues to be a fun, family friendly and important day with centuries-old traditions and everyone is invited!​ Enjoy delicious Nordic cuisine, try traditional beverages and scrumptious sweets. Spend the day making your own colorful flower crown and other crafts. Play Kubb and other fun games, take a break in the beer garden before dancing…

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Waterfront Blues Festival
July 2–5, 2021

Waterfront Blues Festival

Tom McCall Waterfront Park

Every Fourth of July weekend, the Waterfront Blues Festival takes over downtown Portland’s Waterfront Park.

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Oregon Brewers Festival
July 28–31, 2021

Oregon Brewers Festival

Tom McCall Waterfront Park

Portland hosts dozens of beer festivals every year, but none compares to the Oregon Brewers Festival. With offerings from 80 craft brewers, the event draws nearly 70,000 attendees to the downtown waterfront every July.

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Portland Folk Festival
Jan. 14–16, 2022

Portland Folk Festival

McMenamins Crystal Ballroom $25 – $40

After taking 2021 off, the Portland Folk Festival is coming back strong in 2022 with not two, but THREE days of an all-ages celebration of Folk and American music at the historic Crystal Ballroom. Visit the event website for the latest lineup!

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Feb. 9–14, 2022

Portland ValenTango

DoubleTree by Hilton $24-$349

The City of Roses boasts one of the best tango communities outside of Buenos Aires, with dances and lessons available almost every night.

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RX Fest
Feb. 11–13, 2022

RX Fest

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​Music is medicine. RX Fest is a multi-venue, multi-day festival is a large-scale benefit for organizations vital to our community, all centrally located in downtown Portland at Star Theater, Dante’s, Kelly’s Olympian and Valentine’s.

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