First Friday Art Walk
On the first Friday evening of every month, the city’s artists, galleries, and arts venues open up their doors for Portland’s thriving First Friday Art Walk.
Upcoming First Friday Art Walk
Friday, October 2, 2020
Friday, October 2, 7PM | Elizabeth Hand discusses her book, THE BOOK OF LAMPS AND BANNERS. Co-hosted by Print: A Bookstore & Mechanics' Hall for First Friday via Zoom. The registration link is: <a href="https://bit.ly/printehand">https://bit.ly/printehand</a>. Photographer Cass Neary is desperate to get home, and she's already lost her camera — like losing a limb. Now her only chance is to cash in on a deal that a friend is about to cut for a legendary illuminated manuscript: The Book of Lamps and Banners. Rumored to have been rescued from the Library at Alexandria, the Book is said to contain ancient esoteric knowledge, even an otherworldly power. So when an intruder brazenly steals the manuscript, Cass and her ex-con lover Quinn must get it back-plunging headlong into a shady underworld where antiquarian booksellers, unhinged tech entrepreneurs, and brutal nationalists all converge. This breathless psychological thriller, featuring one of the greatest amateur sleuths of the past decade, could only come from the mind of Elizabeth Hand.
October 28, 7-8pm
Join Portland based potter Ayumi Horie in her studio (virtually of course)! Come get a closer look at her pottery and activism work.
This October, we’re so excited to bring local potter Ayumi Horie right to your computer for an in-depth virtual chat! Horie’s two-part lecture will cover her work and a survey of great ceramic work being made by contemporary makers. She’ll also discuss a number of side projects including The Democratic Cup, Pots In Action, and Portland Brick, a public art installation in the India Street neighborhood of Portland. If there’s time, there will be a studio tour and discussion.
FREE for Mechanics’ Hall members, $8 general admission. Register through Eventbrite.
Thank you to Machias Savings Bank, supporting sponsor for Makers at the Hall 20/21 season.
September 30, 7-8pm
Join Terrill Waldman of Tandem Glass in her studio (virtually of course)! Come get a closer look at the work of Tandem Glass duo, Terrill Waldman and Charlie Jenkins. Ask Terrill your burning questions (sorry, we couldn’t help ourselves). Tandem Glass Gallery is located in a 2000 square foot space in Dresden Mills, Maine. Normally you can visit their studio and gallery to witness the glass blowing process first-hand, but this September, we are bringing Waldman right to your computer for an in-depth virtual chat!
FREE for Mechanics’ Hall members, $8 general admission. Get your tickets through our Eventbrite page!
Thank you to Machias Savings Bank, supporting sponsor for Makers at the Hall 20/21 season.
Get your concert fix with OLS' live streamed shows. Use this link to find upcoming live streams along with archived shows! Donations are shared between both artists and OLS. Please share the stream to spread the music! Image: Liz Longley
Thursdays, 7-8pm Join Palaver Strings for an intimate livestream featuring a different Palaver soloist each week! They started this series in response to the Covid-19 pandemic, and look forward to continuing to reach audiences safely and frequently, with the personal touch of each soloist’s voice.
October 1st from 6-7:30pm THE ATHENAEUM OF PHILADELPHIA in collaboration with the Membership Libraries Group and Mechanics' Hall presents… Peniel E. Joseph: The Sword and the Shield: The Revolutionary Lives of Malcolm X and Martin Luther King, Jr. Description: In his new book, THE SWORD AND THE SHIELD: The Revolutionary Lives of Malcolm X and Martin Luther King Jr. (Basic Books; March 31, 2020), acclaimed historian Peniel E. Joseph offers a paradigm-shifting dual biography of the leaders, presenting a more nuanced narrative that pushes readers to reconsider these two leaders and the era they came to define. Joseph depicts both men not as antagonists, but as revolutionaries who confronted the same problem from two different perspectives. As Joseph explains, examining their political lives next to one another provides a more complicated, but ultimately more satisfying, understanding of these men and the times they shaped. Bio: Peniel E. Joseph is the Barbara Jordan professor of political values and ethics at the LBJ School of Public Affairs and professor of history at the University of Texas at Austin. He has written several previous books on African American history, including Stokely: A Life. He lives in Austin, Texas. FREE for Mechanics’ Hall members. Registration required.
Visit https://statetheatreportland.com/ to view upcoming free livestreams along with canceled show listings.
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