Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival (PÖFF) announces the line-up for Rebels With A Cause, an international competition program screening 14 feature films, alongside a short films competition that includes 13 entries this year, split across two programs. Rebels With A Cause is PÖFF’s showcase for challenging independent productions, offering new perspectives, mesmerizing visuals and…
Em Weinstein is a Yale School of Drama graduate, writer and director of new plays, films, musicals and interactive installations. Her latest film, “In France, Michelle is a Man’s Name,” has been selected to debut at the upcoming Outfest Los Angeles LGBTQ Film Festival. The film was shot in September 2019 in The Dalles, Tygh Valley and…
Photo: “Beethoven & Chopin Meet the Bride of Frankenstein” is a production from CoHo Productions that will be presented at the Fertile Ground Festival. The Portland-grown Fertile Ground City-Wide Festival of New Works kicks off its 11th annual festival beginning on Thursday, Jan. 30 and continuing through Sunday, Feb. 9. Fertile Ground is set in…
Back by popular demand, Jewish music’s rising star Benny Friedman will take the stage along with Michael Allen Harrison, considered the “Grand Maestro” of Portland, at 2 pm, March 30, in Salem. The program is called “Songs of Freedom.” “There was such a tremendous emotional outpouring from people who attended last year’s concert we are…
From a solid foundation of adapting compelling Jewish stories, the Jewish Theatre Collaborative soared into this season with the ultimate Page2Stage experience for Oregon audiences, which culminates this month with a world premiere Mainstage production. This year JTC has drawn on successful elements piloted in its previous five seasons to create a season-long experience centered…
On Thursday, Feb. 13, as you head home from work in the chilly dark of a late Portland winter, you can end your day in musical contemplation. Congregation Beth Israel presents the first in a new series of three free mini-concerts called Music Under the Dome. “I want to bring people in to our sacred…
Every day you hear about a 100th anniversary commemorating this or that. It’s the smaller blocks of time though – the decades or quarter-centuries – that truly impact us. With all the celebrations of her 32-year career at Congregation Beth Israel over the past nine months and with preparations for a final party in late…
