Things to Do in Portland Today

Presenting the sights, sounds and sensations of the season, The Grotto’s Christmas Festival of Lights is the largest Christmas choral festival in the world. The festival features nearly 160 indoor holiday concerts performed by many of the region’s finest school, church and civic choirs. Offering a family-oriented blend of traditional celebration and serene reflection, the…

The pop-up shops are back this holiday season, turning Portland’s vacant retail space into temporary destinations for local designers and artists to “set up shop” Downtown. Downtown Portland Clean & Safe is pleased to announce this year’s holiday PDX Pop-Up Shops line-up. This year, there is added incentive – the chance to win two tickets…

Portland’s small business community is coming together to put the fun back into holiday shopping. The annual Portland tradition, Shop Small Win Big, returns for the 2022 holiday season with an expanded three weeks to explore the city’s unique neighborhoods with more than 100 participating independent retailers and pop-up shops. Shop Local and Win Prizes…

Unordinary Makers Collective will transform the Commonwealth Building into a hub for social wellness. Shop locally and intentionally this holiday season at this supportive space surrounded by opportunities to engage with small and local businesses. Explore local vendors and makers such as: Birds and Bees NurseryVeeVee Victoria SkincareR&Arie Quality Life GoodsIshq Ancestral Healing for Skin…

The Japanese American Museum of Oregon’s holiday pop-up shop features unique Japanese-inspired gifts and crafts by local artists, designers, and authors. They invite you to visit the Omiyage Museum Store for the holiday season and choose from jewelry, fashion and home accessories, cards, origami creations, art objects, books, and a selection of curated vintage items….

Come for the awe-inspiring light display and market at the Oregon Garden Resort. The Silverton Christmas Market offers a joyous and magical holiday experience for all ages. Stroll along immersive paths draped in more than one million lights. Explore the authentic German Christmas Market for gifts from artisan vendors and imported German nutcrackers, smokers and…

Recognized throughout the Pacific Northwest as the “Largest Holiday Light Show West of the Mississippi”, Winter Wonderland will grab your attention with glimmers and glows around every corner. Since 1993, a journey through Winter Wonderland has become a holiday tradition for many families, friends, and social organizations to celebrate the spirit of the holiday season….

What is the relationship of humans to their environment? Japanese artists have considered this question in myriad ways, influenced as deeply by the tempestuous natural forces shaping life in this Pacific Rim island archipelago as by long-standing traditions of natural imagery in Japanese art, literature, and culture. The human connection to the natural world has…

Portland Japanese Garden is delighted to welcome internationally acclaimed artist Jun Kaneko (b. 1942-). Kaneko, recently honored with the prestigious Lifetime Achievement Award from the International Sculpture Center, has made major contributions to the field of sculptural art on a global scale, exploring the relationships between art, nature, and people with the boldness and placement…

Enjoy a variety of free holiday performances at Pioneer Courthouse Square, Portland’s Living Room, where Portland comes together. In the heart of downtown Portland, Pioneer Courthouse Square is the urban park at the center of events, community, and all things Portland.

Have you ever wondered what it would be like to be a plant? Perhaps a frog, a slug or an orchid-butterfly hybrid? Or maybe you’re not an organic lifeform at all. This November 2022 through February 2023, the PAM CUT // Center for an Untold Tomorrow building at 934 SW Salmon Street will come to…

Traces presents poetic reflections on memory in contemporary art. Art has long played a role in aiding memory by depicting detailed stories in history painting, epic poems, or song cycles. It is also a space for artists to give physical forms to cerebral or emotional sensations. This exhibition, featuring recent acquisitions alongside artworks borrowed from…

SHOP LOCAL THIS SEASON Win 1 of 4 Raffle Baskets Take a photo inside a St Johns Retail businesspost on Instagram with #lightupstjohns and tag the business.The more businesses you go into and enter, the more chances you have of winningWinners will be drawn and notified on 12/19 via Instagram.

The Mittleman Jewish Community Center Hanukkah Fair is the perfect chance to stock up on lovely gifts for days of giving. For over 100 years, the Mittleman Jewish Community Center has been the “living room” of Portland’s Jewish Community. In a typical year, 12,000 people come through the doors of the MJCC every year, and…

Pop-up Gallery for two months starting November 1 – December 24, 2022, in downtown Lake Oswego. 40 local artists of the Pacific Northwest. Rain Spark Gallery is a group of professional artists who exhibit their work seasonally in person and year-round through this website. Member artists work cooperatively to curate, run, and maintain the gallery….

Take a journey through time and distance, along Highway 101 to Otis, Oregon. “We’re B’nai B’rith Campers, Rough and Ready!” greets you in singsong as you drive through the camp gate. It all began in 1921 with campers sleeping on old army cots in tents. After a century of growth, over 1,000 campers a summer…

This unique Holiday pop-up brings wines from member wineries for tasting and purchase all in one location. Fifteen member wineries will feature three of their Portland-Made Wines. There will be a rotating list of Five wines each day to taste, with all wines available for purchase. Mix and match your favorite wines to get discounts…

The best wineries in Oregon lie just under an hour’s drive from Portland in the Willamette Valley, a thriving wine region known for its outstanding Pinot Noir. The Willamette Valley is one of the world’s leading Pinot producers, and with over 550 wineries and 22,000 vineyard acres planted, it is the largest and most important…

Drive by or take a stroll past the campground on Duke Street to enjoy thousands of lights, a life-size nativity, and the tallest decorated Christmas tree in Southeast Portland. Lights will be on daily from dusk to dawn, beginning Thanksgiving weekend through the end of the year. Seasonal music will also play from 4:30 p.m….

Boardgames, boardgames, boardgames Come out for an evening of games and goofing around. Bring your own or play one of theirs. 4th Wall strives to create a very casual, welcoming environment for anyone looking to get to know some new games and maybe some new friends. All ages are welcome; snacks and drinks are available….

The Pearl District is about to get the creamiest, dreamiest ice cream shop in the universe, serving treats made from the best ingredients on earth. Eugene-based Cosmic Bliss, formerly Coconut Bliss, officially opens its all-organic and gluten-free ice cream shop to the public in Portland’s Pearl District – and will be giving away free ice…

Weekly free trivia hosted by Mike May Trivia. EastSide Bar and Grill on the corner of Russell and 82nd just got new owners. They have already started making some improvements to the property and menu. Come support them by coming out to one of many weekly concerts, comedy night Tuesdays or Trivia night on Thursdays….

Danny and the Deep Blue Sea is set in a rundown bar in the Bronx, where two of society’s rejects, Danny and Roberta, strike up a halting conversation over their beer. He is a brooding, self-loathing young man who resorts more to violence than reason; she is a divorced, guilt-ridden young woman whose troubled teenage…

Simpsons pub quiz featuring questions only from seasons 2-8. Every 2nd Thursday of the month at Tomorrow’s Verse Taproom. Free to play and prizes given.

The Fungi Film Fest (FFF) is the world’s only film festival dedicated to the beauty, weirdness, and human influences of mushrooms, lichens, and microfungi. Films are submitted by people like you, with the only requirement for entry being that the film features fungi somehow. Each year brings a different mix of films, with the 2022…

Join every Thursday for general knowledge pub trivia in the Community Room The Oregon Public House is a public benefit corporation that was founded with the belief that any business, any person can do more for their community. We invite our neighbors, friends, and visitors from afar to eat in the community and drink to…

Watch the Portland Trail Blazers take on the Denver Nuggets in this regular-season NBA Game. Cheer along with Rip City at the Moda Center and become part of a Portland tradition.

The Juicy Jam’s only goal is to jam, and The Juicy Jam’s only rule is no covers. Instrumentalists can blast off on space jams and be the backing band to songwriters from all over the place. Songwriters can find their band and explore new material in an environment that’s soaking wet with excitement. Parker’s Hideout…

White Album Christmas has become a tradition — a way to keep Portland weird during the holiday season. The Nowhere Band (a full 15-piece Beatles orchestra) plays the White Album note for note, while the jugglers, aerialists, clowns and acrobats of the Rose City Circus present feats of remarkable strength, focus and dexterity. Guaranteed to…

From the writers of the smash hit Red Hot Patriot: The Kick-Ass Wit of Molly Ivins comes a comic look at one of the country’s most beloved voices, who captured the frustrations of her generation by asking, “If life is a bowl of cherries, what am I doing in the pits?” Discover the story behind…

Reimagined for the stage as a live 1940s radio broadcast, idyllic Bedford Falls is brought to life with an exciting ensemble cast, gorgeous music, lavish costumes, and delightful foley effects. Small-town everyman George Bailey is having a Christmas Eve that can only be saved by a miracle. Enter George’s guardian angel, Clarence, who takes him…

Fuse Theatre Ensemble presents Our Town, a metatheatrical three-act play that won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 1938. The play tells the story of the fictional American small town of Grover’s Corners between 1901 and 1913 through the everyday lives of its citizens. An American theater classic, Our Town investigates the nature of life,…