Alberta House News Today : Breaking News, Live Updates & Top Stories | Vimarsana

Check out our list of events for the week of June 9-15, 2023

The Portland Clean Energy Community Benefits Fund is project to spend an estimated $750 million over the next five years to support communities most affected by climate change.

Portland has a long and vibrant history as a hub for Black music, centered around the Albina neighborhood. This summer, the Albina Music Trust is hosting a series of events aimed at preserving that history. The Greaterkind collective will be playing at some of these events, reinterpreting local jazz, soul, funk and fusion compositions.

Who is an American? And what does it mean to be one? Those are questions that Cristi Miles, co-founder of the Portland Experimental Theatre Ensemble, explores in a new production that's as much a poem as a play.

“You motherfucker.” The two words, scribbled in a notebook, convinced Cristi Miles her vision was working. Since 2020, Miles—co-artistic director of Portland Experimental Theatre Ensemble (PETE)—had been dreaming up a theatrical presentation that would capture the way she felt when she first encountered Swiss photographer Robert Frank’s 1959 series The Americans, via an episode of The Daily, which noted their thematic overlap with that year's unstable summer. The high-contrast black-and-white images, taken by Frank in...