ARTS CULTURE & ENTERTAINMENT
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September 17, 2018
Museum. The performance features violinist-
looper, vocalist, and composer Joe Kye. Poet and
spoken-word artist Jenny Chu is the opening
performer. For info, or to buy tickets, call (503)
224-0008 or visit <www.portlandchinatown
museum.org>.
MAYUKO KAMIO
Mid-Autumn Festival
Sep 28, 3-4:30pm, Gregory Heights Library
(7921 NE Sandy Blvd, Portland). Celebrate the
Mid-Autumn Festival (also known as the
Harvest Moon Festival), one of the oldest and
best-loved holidays in many parts of Asia. The
event features stories about the festival, craft
activities, traditional children’s songs, and
mooncakes. For info, call (503) 988-5123 or visit
<events.multcolib.org>.
ONGOING EVENTS
Samantha Wall:
“Phantom Limbs”
Through Sep 29, 11am-5:30pm (Tue-Fri),
11am-5pm (Sat), Laura Russo Gallery (805 NW
21st Ave, Portland). View “Phantom Limbs,” an
exhibit by Korean-American artist Samantha
Wall that explores family identity, cultural
history, and loss. The display interweaves
portraiture with Korean ritual narratives,
summoning the past in order to decipher the
present. For info, call (503) 226-2754 or visit
<www.laurarusso.com>.
Drag queen storytime
Sep 29, 11am-noon, Sellwood-Moreland
Library (7860 SE 13th Ave, Portland). Children
two through six years old and their favorite
adult are invited to attend a special kid-friendly
drag queen storytime featuring the fabulous
Poison Waters reading stories about inclusion
and diversity, followed by a craft or dance party.
Free tickets for admission are available at
10:30am. For info, call (503) 988-5123 or visit
<events.multcolib.org>.
“Encounters”
Through Sep 29 (Tue-Sat), 11am-6pm, PDX
Contemporary Art (925 NW Flanders St,
Portland). View “Encounters,” a group exhibit
featuring works by Masao Yamamoto, Tsubasa
Kato, Nao Osada, Itsuki Kaito, Masumi
Kawamura, Masashi Echigo, and others.
“Encounters” speaks broadly to the meeting of
unexpected or unacquainted subjects, brought
into relation and into action with each other.
The setting for these encounters are our
increasingly
interconnected,
globalized
societies, where culture, language, history, and
everyday material realities are being constantly
processed through forms of translation. For
info, call (503) 222-0063 or visit <www.
pdxcontemporaryart.com>.
Naomi Shigeta: “Elements”
Through Sep 29 (Tue-Sat), 11am-5:30pm,
Augen Gallery DeSoto (716 NW Davis St,
Portland). View “Elements,” an exhibit of new
works by artist Naomi Shigeta, a native of
Gunma, Japan. In “Elements,” Shigeta
describes paintings that combine discreet
elements of line, form, time, and sequence,
developed layer by layer in small increments
over the many months it takes her to complete
her works. For info, call (503) 546-5056 or visit
<www.augengallery.com>.
“Pacific Currents” &
“Billabong Dreams”
Through Oct 21, 10am-5pm (Wed & Fri-
Sun), 10am-9pm (Thu), Seattle Art Museum,
Third Floor Galleries (1300 First Ave, Seattle).
View “Pacific Currents” & “Billabong Dreams,”
two adjacent installations featuring the theme
of water. The “Pacific Currents” exhibit honors
the creatures, spirits, and people who inhabit
the waterways of the Pacific from New Guinea
to Puget Sound, while in “Billabong Dreams”
Australian aboriginal artists demonstrate that
water can guide life and show the depths of
rockholes and billabongs, the tidal ebb and flow,
the rough and calm, as an analogue for ancestral
knowledge. For info, call (206) 654-3210 or visit
<www.seattleartmuseum.org>.
Su-mei Tse: “L’Echo”
Through Oct 28, 10am-5pm (Tue-Wed &
Sat-Sun), 10am-8pm (Thu-Fri), Portland Art
Museum (1219 SW Park Ave, Portland). View
Su-mei Tse’s “L’Echo” (2003), a piece that finds
the artist and her cello near the edge of a vast
mountain canyon. The acclaimed work won the
Golden Lion award for best national pavilion
(Luxembourg) at the 2003 Venice Biennale. An
accompanying video is on loan from the Miller
Meigs Collection, courtesy of the artist and the
Peter Blum Gallery. For info, call (503) 226-
2811 or visit <www.portlandartmuseum.org>.
“The Playful Brush”
Through Oct 28, 10am-5pm (Mon-Sat),
noon-5pm (Sun), Oregon Historical Society
Museum (1200 SW Park Ave, Portland). View
“The Playful Brush: Works by the Meito
Shodo-Kai Calligraphy Association,” an exhibit
highlighting the works of master calligrapher
Yoshiyasu Fujii and his students. In shodo
(Japanese calligraphy), the brush creates living
art by exploring the balance between lines and
space. A free calligraphy demonstration is
scheduled for September 23 as part of Family
Day. Admission to the museum is free for
Multnomah County residents and all Oregon
school groups. For info, call (503) 222-1741 or
visit <www.ohs.org>.
“Witness”
Through Dec 20, 10am-5pm (Tue-Sat),
1-5pm (Sun), Willamette University, Hallie
Ford Museum of Art (700 State St, Salem, Ore.).
View “Witness: Themes of Social Justice in
Contemporary Printmaking and Photography
from the Collections of Jordan D. Schnitzer and
His Family Foundation,” an exhibit that
explores issues of race, identity, and social
justice in contemporary printmaking and
photography. The display looks at four thematic
sections: Stories and Histories, Pressures of Pop
Culture, Challenging Expectations of Place, and
Pokémon Club
at Gresham Library
September 29 & 30
Saturday: 3:00pm w Sunday: 7:00pm
Skyview High School Concert Hall
1300 N.W. 139th Street, Vancouver, Washington
Oct 1, 4-5pm, Gresham Library (385 NW
Miller Ave, Gresham, Ore.). Players of all skill
levels are invited to play Pokémon at the
Pokémon Club. Participants are encouraged to
bring their Pokémon cards. For info, call (503)
988-5123 or visit <events.multcolib.org>.
Attend a performance by the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra featuring violin
virtuoso Mayuko Kamio. The concerts include pieces by Buetti, Barber, and
Bernstein. For more information, or to buy tickets, call (360) 735-7278 or visit
<www.vancouversymphony.org>.
Origami with lettersize paper
Unconventional Portraits. It features 82 prints
by 40 nationally and internationally recognized
artists, including Hung Liu, Roger Shimomura,
Nicola Lopez, and many others. For info, call
(503) 370-6855 or visit <www.willamette.edu/
arts/hfma>.
Moon Festival (also known as the Mid-Autumn
Festival), one of the oldest and best-loved
holidays in many parts of Asia. The event
features wall art featuring stamping and
coloring, lantern-decorating, and traditional
mooncakes. For info, call (503) 988-5123 or visit
<events.multcolib.org>.
Oct 1 & 9; Oct 1, 4-5:30pm (teens in grades
6-12), Midland Library (805 SE 122nd Ave,
Portland); Oct 9, 6-7:30pm (all ages),
Multnomah County Central Library (801 SW
10th Ave, Portland). Join origami instructor
Yuki Martin for a class to learn how to make a
beautifully folded piece of paper for a personal,
handwritten note. Participants learn various
ways to fold lettersize paper into designs for
notes, envelopes, picture frames, notebooks,
and other practical items. For info, call (503)
988-5123 or visit <events.multcolib.org>.
UPCOMING EVENTS
Teen Anime Club at
Northwest Library
OHS Family Day: “Japanese
Cultures in Oregon”
Teen Anime Club at
Northwest Library
Sep 23, noon-4pm, Oregon Historical Society
Museum (1200 SW Park Ave, Portland). Enjoy
free admission to the Oregon Historical Society
Museum on Family Day. The afternoon, themed
“Japanese Cultures in Oregon,” features a
Japanese calligraphy demonstration (noon to
1:30pm), a performance by Oregon Koto-kai
(2:30pm), origami, viewing of “The Playful
Brush: Works by the Meito Shodo-Kai
Calligraphy Association” exhibit, and much
more. For info, call (503) 222-1741 or visit
<www.ohs.org>.
Oct 2 & 16, 5-7pm, Northwest Library (2300
NW Thurman St, Portland). Join the Teen
Anime Club to meet, view, review, snack, and
talk about all things anime. For info, call (503)
988-5123 or visit <events.multcolib.org>.
Mayuko Kamio. (Photo courtesy of the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra)
Sep 18, 5-7pm, Northwest Library (2300 NW
Thurman St, Portland). Join the Teen Anime
Club to meet, view, review, snack, and talk
about all things anime. For info, call (503)
988-5123 or visit <events.multcolib.org>.
NWSL semifinal match
Sep 18, 6pm, Providence Park (SW 18th Ave
& SW Morrison St, Portland). Watch the North
Carolina Courage and the Chicago Red Stars
battle in the second semifinal of the National
Women’s Soccer League’s 2018 season. The
Courage squad features Yuri Kawamura, Abby
Erceg, and others. Chicago’s roster includes
Samantha Kerr, Yuki Nagasato, and others.
The winner of the semifinal match plays for the
NWSL championship on September 22 against
the Portland Thorns. The match, originally
scheduled for September 16 in North Carolina,
was moved to Providence Park due to Hurricane
Florence. Tickets for the match are $10 each.
For info, or to buy tickets, call (503) 553-5555 or
visit <www.portlandthorns.com>.
Waitress
Sep 18-23, 7:30pm (Tue-Sat), 2pm (Sat), 1pm
& 6:30pm (Sun), Keller Auditorium (222 SW
Clay St, Portland). Watch Waitress, a musical
that tells the story of Jenna, a waitress and
expert piemaker who dreams of a way out of her
small town and loveless marriage. For info, or to
buy tickets, call (503) 417-0573 or 1-800-273-
1530, or visit <www.broadwayinportland.com>.
Craft Central:
Autumn Moon Festival
Sep 21, 3-4:30pm, Multnomah County
Central Library, Community Room (801 SW
10th Ave, Portland). Attend a Craft Central
event in the Central Library’s Community
Room. This month’s crafty fun features the
creation of lanterns in celebration of the
Autumn Moon Festival. For info, call (503)
988-5123 or visit <events.multcolib.org>.
NWSL championship
Sep 22, 1:30pm, Providence Park (SW 18th
Ave & SW Morrison St, Portland). Watch the
Portland Thorns FC take on the winner of the
September 18 semifinal match between the
North Carolina Courage and the Chicago Red
Stars for the National Women’s Soccer League
championship. The Thorns FC squad features
Christine Sinclair, Sandra Yu, Emily Sonnett,
and others. For info, or to buy tickets, call (503)
553-5555 or visit <www.portlandthorns.com>.
Harvest Moon Festival
Sep 22, 2-4pm, Woodstock Library (6008 SE
49th Ave, Portland). Celebrate the Harvest
O-tsukimi
Sep 23-25, 7-9:30pm, Portland Japanese
Garden (611 SW Kingston Ave, Portland). Take
part in the custom of o-tsukimi, or moonviewing,
one of the oldest and most elegant traditions in
Japanese culture. Participants observe a
candle-lit tea ceremony, write poetry, enjoy live
music, and toast the rising moon with saké or
tea in the company of friends while listening to
traditional music. For info, or to register
(required), call (503) 223-1321 or visit <www.
japanesegarden.com>.
Mandarin storytime
Sep 23 & 30, 3:30-4:15pm, Woodstock
Library (6008 SE 49th Ave, Portland). Enjoy a
storytime presented in Mandarin Chinese. The
free readings are for children younger than
seven years old with an accompanying adult.
For info, call (503) 988-5123 or visit <events.
multcolib.org>.
Teen henna workshop
Sep 24, 6:30-8pm, Sellwood-Moreland
Library (7860 SE 13th Ave, Portland). Teens in
grades six through 12 are invited to learn about
the Indian art of henna at a workshop taught by
artist Raina Imig. Participants receive an
authentic, intricate, and temporary henna
design on their hand. For info, call (503)
988-5123 or visit <events.multcolib.org>.
Joe Kye & Jenny Chu
Sep 27, 5:30-8pm, Portland Chinatown
Museum (127 NW Third Ave, Portland). Attend
a fundraising event for the Portland Chinatown
“Descendent Threads”
Opens Oct 4, 3-8pm (Thu), 1-6pm (Fri), noon-
5pm (Sat-Sun), Portland Chinatown Museum
(127 NW Third Ave, Portland). View “Descen-
dent Threads,” an art exhibit celebrating
diverse mixed-media works created by Asian-
American artists Roberta Wong, Lynn Yarne,
and Ellen George. The pieces illuminate and
trace the wildly varied paths each artist has
chosen to embrace their Old Town/Chinatown/
Japantown
roots
and
Asian-American
identities. For info, call (503) 224-0008 or visit
<www.portlandchinatownmuseum.org>.
Vietnamese floral art
with homegrown flowers
Oct 7, 10:30am-noon, Midland Library (805
SE 122nd Ave, Portland). Learn about
Vietnamese floral art with homegrown flowers
at a free workshop presented in Vietnamese.
Participants learn tips and techniques to create
pieces of floral art using seasonal flowers from
your garden. For info, or to register (required),
call (503) 988-5123 or visit <events.multco
lib.org>.
Chinese brush-painting basics
Oct 7-28 (Sun), 3:30-4:30pm, Woodstock
Library (6008 SE 49th Ave, Portland). Parents
and children are invited to attend a four-session
painting workshop to learn, step-by-step, how to
select and hold Chinese brushes, paint with
various types of paper, and practice basic
painting strokes. The program is presented in
Chinese. For info, or to register (required), call
(503) 988-5123 or visit <events.multcolib.org>.
Teen Takeover: Halloween
Oct 26, 5:30-8pm, Northwest Library (2300
NW Thurman St, Portland). Join the Teen
Council for an evening of fun and free food with
a Halloween theme. For info, call (503) 988-5123
or visit <events.multcolib.org>.
Submit your Asian-related calendar listings to:
The Asian Reporter, Attn: Events Calendar
922 N Killingsworth Street, Suite 2D, Portland, OR 97217
News Department e-mail: news@asianreporter.com w Fax: (503) 283-4445
Submission Format: List event title, date, time, location with address, 2 to 3 brief
sentences describing the event, and a contact phone number (required) that
can be published. High-resolution photos, if available, may also be included.
Submission Deadline: Monday prior to the next issue date.
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