
A wine tasting event pairing five classic Halloween candies with six wines at the queer-owned winery Hip Chicks do Wine.

An immersive dance and circus performance experience where artists and audience members celebrate the power of performance and community connection.

An improvised vampire show that takes the audience on a mind-bending adventure through time, with a different play performed every night.

Actor and musician Finn Wolfhard performs live with Malcy at The Hawthorne Theatre.

A community fundraiser celebrating the life and legacy of Matt Choi, featuring traditional Korean dishes and donations to the Matthew Choi Farmers Market Vendor Grant.

Community roundtable to gather resident feedback on the City of Portland's Unified Housing Strategy for District 4.

A bilingual early science and engineering workshop for curious children ages 3-5 and their families at OMSI.
Volunteer stewardship morning to pull invasive Himalayan blackberry and mulch new plantings at Oaks Bottom Wildlife Refuge.

Community tree planting event at the 16-acre Errol Heights Park, which protects and restores natural wetland and riparian areas.

Free group bike ride to Harrison Park for Arbor Day, part of Portland's 'Ride Through the Seasons' series.

Two days of participatory Sacred Harp singing using the 2025 edition, open to the public with no prior experience required.

A screening of David Lynch's surreal horror film Eraserhead as part of the Night Blooming Jasmine programme, with a product launch from Fresh Cut Flowers.

Cappella Romana presents Sergei Rachmaninoff's All-Night Vigil, a luminous choral masterwork blending ancient Slavic spiritual traditions with late-Romantic expression.

Stumptown Stages presents the Tony Award-winning musical Guys & Dolls at Winningstad Theatre.

A curated film extravaganza of horror classics and vintage 16mm animation, hosted by Greg Hamilton as part of the Clinton Street Theater's Horror October series.

Weekly Saturday cribbage tournament for players and cribbage-curious at Tomorrow's Verse Taproom in NE Portland.

A free, all-ages showcase featuring Nonbinary Girlfriend and other women and nonbinary performers as part of the Femmes to the Frrront! series.

Screening of the 1993 fantasy comedy film Hocus Pocus at the Tomorrow Theater in Portland.

Live music performance by Matthew Waddell at the Annex Sidewalk Bar, free and all ages welcome.

A special 35mm screening of David Lynch's 'Blue Velvet' presented by Fresh Cut Flowers and PAM CUT, with wine and music, as part of the 'Night Blooming Jasmine' programme.

Halloween cruises with costume contests, disco parties, wine tasting and sunset sails aboard Island Style Charters.

The Georgian National Ballet 'Sukhishvili' performs its 80th anniversary celebration, based on traditional Georgian dance, at the Newmark Theatre.

An eclectic evening of music, comedy, juggling, and live painting in the style of a turn-of-the-last-century vaudeville show, presented by Miz Kitty & Friends.

Comedians tell their own true crime stories and are then questioned by the audience in a mix of storytelling, improv and crowd participation.

Screening of the 2019 psychological horror film The Lighthouse, directed by Robert Eggers, at the Clinton Street Theater.

The Oregon Symphony performs Mark Knopfler's score to The Princess Bride, directed by Rob Reiner, in a cinematic concert staging.

Concert by Mom Jeans. on their Fall Tour 2026, with opening acts H Harrison Gordon and S Sobs at the Roseland Theater.

Competitive improv comedy cage match where six comedians play games on the spot and the audience votes to decide who is left standing.

Doja Cat performs live at the Moda Center as part of her Tour Ma Vie World Tour, with special guest Latto.

Fabio Frizzi and the F2F Band, with special guest Ethan Lee McCarthy, play a tribute to the cinema of Lucio Fulci.

Environmental drag show by Pattie Gonia, with co-hosts Sequoia and VERA!, blending nature and sustainability themes with drag performance.

A birthday celebration for Bobby Weir featuring live music from Family Mystic, blending funk, soul, psych rock and americana.

A lively dueling piano show featuring audience requests, sing-alongs, games and comedy at The Barrel Room in Portland's Old Town Chinatown.
Screening of The Rocky Horror Picture Show with live musical performances by the Clinton Street Cabaret, a weekly tradition at the Clinton Street Theater.

Volunteer land tending day with the Crystal Springs Partnership to restore salmon habitat along Crystal Springs, with revegetation, selective plant removal and trash pick-up.

A 21+ drag brunch hosted by Rose Empress LXV and Devlin Lynn Phoenixx, with a rotating cast of performers.

A series of outdoor musical performances featuring Seismic Standard, Bendrethegiant, and Fleur Du Mal.

A guided history and art tour of the historic Mission Theater, exploring its origins as a Swedish Mission Covenant congregation and its evolution into a theatre pub.

Rich Compton performs original soulful roots-based folk music at the Lents International Farmers Market.

Special screening of David Lynch's Lost Highway within the Night Blooming Jasmine film series at the Portland Art Museum.

Singer-songwriter Joseph Konty performs his original Americana troubadour sound in an all-ages setting.

A film screening of The Lost Boys paired with a fiber arts crafternoon, where attendees can knit or crochet along while watching the movie, hosted by Ritual Dyes.

Concert by experimental musician Tyondai Braxton, former frontman of the band Battles, at the Holocene venue.

Concert by singer-songwriter Charles Wesley Godwin performing songs from his 2024 album 'Christian Name' on his The Christian Name Tour.

Rock alternative band Sawyer Hill performs live at the Hawthorne Theatre on their Everybody's Home, Nobody's Happy World Tour, with support from Never Ending Fall.

Allan Rayman performs favourites from his album Hotel Allan and wider catalogue on his 10 Year Anniversary Tour at McMenamins Mission Theater.

A major exhibition of Australian Indigenous art from the National Gallery of Victoria collection, featuring over 130 artists and works ranging from bark paintings to new-media pieces.

The Light Opera of Portland presents the classic Gilbert and Sullivan comic opera, H.M.S. Pinafore.

Stumptown Stages presents the Tony Award-winning musical Guys & Dolls at Winningstad Theatre, with an eight-piece live orchestra and ASL interpretation on October 3.

Oregon Ballet Theatre's production of the classic ballet Swan Lake, set to Tchaikovsky's score, with the OBT Orchestra performing live.

A month of horror classics presented through PAM CUT at the Whitsell Auditorium, with unique programs and series released throughout the year.

An immersive exhibition featuring over 100 authentic artifacts from the RMS Titanic wreck, allowing visitors to experience the ship's history through interactive displays and virtual reality.

Annual spooky art show featuring works by local artists exploring Halloween themes such as skeletons, spiders and pumpkins.

Exhibition of works by artist Diane Jacobs at Helzer Art Gallery, Rock Creek Campus, Portland Community College.

A textile exhibition by the Tokyo studio NUNO, featuring site-specific installations including suspended textile-cube sculptures and noren curtains, as part of the Portland TextileX Month Festival.

Documentary film about elephants in the Namib Desert, shown at OMSI as part of the life-science theatre programme.

Halloween-themed pop-up bars at select McMenamins locations, featuring seasonal cocktails and food, 21 and over.

Exhibition curated by the Harriet Tubman Center for Expanded Curatorial Practice, where fourth and fifth-grade students act as researchers and curators.

An immersive exhibition by David Buckley Borden that blends art, design and science to explore human experiences with forests amid environmental change.

An eight-week writing group built on freewriting, deep listening and strengths-based feedback, held behind-the-scenes at Powell's City of Books.

An immersive fulldome experience featuring Pink Floyd's iconic album The Dark Side of the Moon at the Kendall Planetarium.

Disney On Ice presents Jump In! at the historic Veterans Memorial Coliseum, featuring over 50 Disney characters on ice.