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In 2021, the completely free  event will be the first in-person event to tiptoe back, a hopeful sign for the days and months ahead, even if this year’s version won’t look much like its predecessors.  For starters, this year’s event—which kicks off this coming Friday and Saturday  from 6 to 10 p.m. and repeats on February 12–13, won’t be clustered around the Eastbank Esplanade and the Oregon Museum of Science and Industry. That area has traditionally been at its heart, resulting in molasses-slow, bundled-up crowds oohing and aahing at the often-inter...

In a COVID-19 environment, Portland's Winter Light Festival returns this Friday.

Björn Andrésen, the Swedish boy who played the character of Tadzio in Luchino Visconti's legendary Death in Venice, has just world-premiered in the World Cinema Documentary Competition of the Sundance Film Festival. (The article continues below - Commercial information) In 1970, Visconti was travelling Europe in search of the boy who would embody the perfect beauty that Thomas Mann described in his seminal novel. A wealth of impressive archive material shows the imposing, aristocratic, communist, openly gay auteur and the young actor during the casting, the filming, the world premiere in ...

In a COVID-19 environment, Portland's Winter Light Festival returns this Friday.

Jan 31, 2021 Photo: Remaining Light Photography/Artist Tyler FuQua Celebrating its 6th year, the Portland Winter Light Festival returns this Friday in a brand new way. Taking on an entirely new form to safely reflect our current pandemic reality, the festival has been re-imagined from a centrally located light festival to a series of smaller art installations throughout the entire city, expanded from three nights to two weekends. A map of all sites is available here on this website. Activities are being promoted as the 2021 Portland Winter Light (non)Festival. Art installation sites range fr...