BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//Clinton Street Theater - ECPv6.15.20//NONSGML v1.0//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH X-WR-CALNAME:Clinton Street Theater X-ORIGINAL-URL:https://cstpdx.com X-WR-CALDESC:Events for Clinton Street Theater REFRESH-INTERVAL;VALUE=DURATION:PT1H X-Robots-Tag:noindex X-PUBLISHED-TTL:PT1H BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/Los_Angeles BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:PDT DTSTART:20240310T100000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 TZNAME:PST DTSTART:20241103T090000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:PDT DTSTART:20250309T100000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 TZNAME:PST DTSTART:20251102T090000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:PDT DTSTART:20260308T100000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 TZNAME:PST DTSTART:20261101T090000 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250612T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250612T210000 DTSTAMP:20260429T105603 CREATED:20250322T202115Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250322T202117Z UID:10001797-1749754800-1749762000@cstpdx.com SUMMARY:Bottoms DESCRIPTION:Two unpopular queer high-school students start a fight club to have sex before graduation. Directed by Emma Seligman. \n\n\n\n \n Director: Emma Seligman\n Year: 2023\n Country: United States\n Runtime: 91 minutes URL:https://cstpdx.com/event/bottoms/ CATEGORIES:pride ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/webp:https://cstpdx.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/bottoms.webp END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250611T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250611T210000 DTSTAMP:20260429T105603 CREATED:20250609T031914Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250609T032036Z UID:10001875-1749668400-1749675600@cstpdx.com SUMMARY:BYE BYE LOVE (Church of Film) DESCRIPTION:Two outsider youths in Shinjuku\, Tamura and Giiko\, turn a chance encounter fighting the cops into a crime spree on the lam\, with the alluring magical hope of escaping the narrow confines of a world that has cast them aside. BYE BYE LOVE is a brilliant\, poetical take on Godard’s Pierrot Le Fou\, with a trans woman at its center. \n\n\n\nLong believed lost\, this queer Bonnie & Clyde-meets-the children of Revlon & Marx was discovered in a warehouse in 2018\, filling in one of the great mysteries of trans cinema\, and revealing a masterpiece that provides a copestone for the end of Japan’s era of radical cinema. \n\n\n\n*Screened in Japanese with English-language subtitles.* URL:https://cstpdx.com/event/bye-bye-love-church-of-film-3/ CATEGORIES:film ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/webp:https://cstpdx.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/bye-bye-love.webp END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250610T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250610T210000 DTSTAMP:20260429T105603 CREATED:20250406T214153Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250406T214154Z UID:10001809-1749582000-1749589200@cstpdx.com SUMMARY:The Watermelon Woman DESCRIPTION:Cheryl Dunye made cinematic history with her debut\, the first American feature to be directed by a Black lesbian as well as an incisive\, humorous critique of classic Hollywood’s racist stereotypes. \n\n\n\nDunye plays an eponymous video store employee and burgeoning filmmaker who sets out to make a documentary on the Watermelon Woman (Lisa Marie Bronson)\, an actress who specialized in “mammy” roles for Hollywood productions of the 30s and 40s. As Cheryl uncovers the Watermelon Woman’s identity she not only learns about a secret behind-the-scenes interracial romance but also begins one of her own with Diana (Guinevere Turner)\, a white woman who arouses the ire of Cheryl’s best friend Tamara (Valerie Walker). A landmark of the New Queer Cinema that testifies to the power of excavating legacies of oppression and in the process creates a progressive legacy of its own. \n\n\n\n \n Director: Cheryl Dunye\n Year: 1996\n Country: USA\n Runtime: 90 minutes URL:https://cstpdx.com/event/the-watermelon-woman-2/ CATEGORIES:pride ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/webp:https://cstpdx.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/watermelon-woman.webp END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250609T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250609T210000 DTSTAMP:20260429T105603 CREATED:20250427T022151Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250427T022152Z UID:10001835-1749495600-1749502800@cstpdx.com SUMMARY:The People vs. Agent Orange DESCRIPTION:Special screening presented by the Oregon Chapter of the Sierra Club.  \n\n\n\nThe Agent Orange catastrophe did not end with the Vietnam War. Today\, the world over\, a primary chemical of the notorious defoliant controls weeds in farming\, forestry\, parks\, along railbeds and roadways\, and even in children’s playgrounds. The herbicide can wreak havoc on the human genome\, causing deformities and deadly cancers.  \n\n\n\nAfter decades of struggle and tragic personal losses\, two heroic women are leading a worldwide movement that has raised awareness of the plague being caused by Agent Orange and the herbicides that have evolved from it. Their shared goal is to hold the chemical manufacturers accountable. For seven years\, Tran To Nga pressed a lawsuit in a French court against the American chemical industry for poisoning her and her children during the war in Vietnam.  \n\n\n\nIn America\, Carol Van Strum spent several decades collecting a huge trove of internal corporate documents exposing the knowing production of toxic herbicides and its use among civilian populations.  \n\n\n\nIncriminating documents disappear. Activists are threatened. A helicopter technician secretly films the contamination of reservoirs. After half a century of denials and obfuscation\, a massive industry-wide cover-up continues. \n\n\n\n \n Director: Alan Adelson\, Kate Taverna\n Year: 2020\n Country: France\, United States\n Runtime: 87 minutes URL:https://cstpdx.com/event/the-people-vs-agent-orange/ CATEGORIES:documentary ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/webp:https://cstpdx.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/the-people-v-agent-orange.webp END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250608T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250608T210000 DTSTAMP:20260429T105603 CREATED:20250406T204826Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250406T204827Z UID:10001808-1749409200-1749416400@cstpdx.com SUMMARY:Orlando\, My Political Biography DESCRIPTION:Taking Virginia Woolf’s novel Orlando: A Biography as its starting point\, academic virtuoso turned filmmaker Paul B. Preciado fashioned a documentary as a personal essay\, historical analysis\, and social manifesto. For almost a century\, Woolf’s eponymous hero/heroine has inspired readers for their gender fluidity across physical and spiritual metamorphoses over a 300-year lifetime. \n\n\n\nPreciado casts a diverse cross-section of more than twenty trans and non-binary individuals in the role of Orlando as they perform interpretations of scenes from the novel\, weaving into Woolf’s narrative their own stories in the fight for global trans rights. \n\n\n\n \n Director: Paul B. Preciado\n Year: 2023\n Country: France\n Runtime: 98 minutes URL:https://cstpdx.com/event/orlando-my-political-biography/ CATEGORIES:pride ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/webp:https://cstpdx.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/orlando.webp END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250608T150000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250608T170000 DTSTAMP:20260429T105603 CREATED:20250503T180314Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250503T180329Z UID:10001844-1749394800-1749402000@cstpdx.com SUMMARY:The Great Divide DESCRIPTION:Dark times call for dark comedy. Don’t miss this new film from John Skipp. \n\n\n\nJoin us for a limited screening of a deliciously ambitious\, quirky\, and entertaining dark comedy written and directed by John Skipp and featuring a brilliant ensemble cast. This juicy satire about wealth inequality and family dysfunction packs a lot of laughs\, some sinister shadows\, and a shocking revelation when the ultra-rich McMann family finally gets their just desserts. Q & A session to follow. \n\n\n\nLearn more at: www.thegreatdividemovie.org \n\n\n\nFollow on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thegreatdividemovie/ URL:https://cstpdx.com/event/the-great-divide-2/ CATEGORIES:film ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/webp:https://cstpdx.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/the-great-divide.webp END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250607T223000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250607T235900 DTSTAMP:20260429T105603 CREATED:20250322T200744Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250322T200746Z UID:10001790-1749335400-1749340740@cstpdx.com SUMMARY:The Rocky Horror Picture Show with the Clinton Street Cabaret DESCRIPTION:Doors open at 10:00 PM; pre-show starts at 10:30 PM \n\n\n\nJoin our weekly screenings of The Rocky Horror Picture Show that started in April of 1978! Starring Tim Curry\, Susan Sarandon\, and Barry Bostwick\, The Rocky Horror Picture Show (1975) continues to titillate and delight audiences all over the world. \n\n\n\nTonight’s screening features the cast of the Clinton Street Cabaret! $2 from every ticket goes to support the group. Come see the famous\, rambunctious show that has played every single week at the Clinton Street Theater in Portland\, Oregon. \n\n\n\n\nDirector: Jim Sharman\n\n\n\nCountry: USA\n\n\n\nYear: 1975\n\n\n\nRuntime: 100 minutes\n\n\n\n\n\nStarting March 16th of 2024 the CSC will have a selection of tickets for each show which are available to our BIPOC community members FREE of charge! \n\n\n\nTo reserve one send an email to the Clinton Street Cabaret clintonstreetec@gmail.com with the heading BIPOC Affinity Ticket and include your name and the date of the show you would like to reserve a ticket for in the body of the email. Only 1 ticket can be reserved per person per show and reserved tickets also include a prop bag. These tickets can only be reserved by confirmed email with the Clinton Street Cabaret and are not available to reserve at the Clinton Street Theater box office. \n\n\n\nTickets can be reserved starting 2 weeks before a show and no later than 2 hours before the show. Please note we won’t be able to accommodate late requests for shows that are already sold out. These are tickets specifically for the Clinton Street Cabaret’s performances of the Rocky Horror Picture Show at the Clinton Street Theater\, on the 1st\, 3rd\, and occasionally 5th Saturdays of the month. \n\n\n\nShowings on 2nd and 4th Saturdays or “For Virgins” nights are not Cabaret shows and do not qualify for this program. URL:https://cstpdx.com/event/the-rocky-horror-picture-show-with-the-clinton-street-cabaret-59/ CATEGORIES:drag ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://cstpdx.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/rockyhorror.jpeg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250607T170000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250607T210000 DTSTAMP:20260429T105603 CREATED:20250516T170359Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250516T170401Z UID:10001849-1749315600-1749330000@cstpdx.com SUMMARY:New Wave DESCRIPTION:We’re celebrating PRIDE in PORTLAND the NEWWAVE way! \n\n\n\nJoin us for screening of Elizabeth Ai’s breathtaking debut film—a poignant and beautiful reflection on the lasting impact of war & displacement on the Vietnamese diaspora and its transformation through joy\, music\, and reconciliation.  \n\n\n\nProduced by RETRO WITH XO. \n\n\n\nHosted by Blossom Drearie.  \n\n\n\nSponsored by APANO. \n\n\n\nDoors: 5:00 PM \n\n\n\nBook Signing: 5:30 PM \n\n\n\nAAPI Drag Performances: 6:00 PM \n\n\n\nDocumentary Screening: 6:30 PM \n\n\n\nAnd Q&A with Director Elizabeth Ai! \n\n\n\nMASKS REQUIRED when not actively eating or drinking. \n\n\n\nAfterparty at DOTS CAFE to follow  \n\n\n\n@amppdx \n\n\n\n@apanocuf \n\n\n\n@blossom_drearie \n\n\n\n@retrowithxo \n\n\n\n \n Director: Elizabeth Ai\n Year: 2024\n Country: United States\n Runtime: 88 minutes URL:https://cstpdx.com/event/new-wave/ CATEGORIES:discussion,pride ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://cstpdx.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/New-Wave-poster.jpeg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250606T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250606T210000 DTSTAMP:20260429T105603 CREATED:20250423T034633Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250423T034747Z UID:10001825-1749236400-1749243600@cstpdx.com SUMMARY:Best of SECS Fest DESCRIPTION:Making a special trip down to Portland\, The Best of SECS Fest is a sex-positive international film festival celebrating the artistry of erotic cinema while inspiring diverse communities to engage in adult conversations about sex. Featuring a variety of kinky queer shorts from around the world\, this event is explicitly 21+ only.  URL:https://cstpdx.com/event/best-of-secs-fest/ CATEGORIES:pride ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/webp:https://cstpdx.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/best-of-secs-scaled.webp END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250605T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250605T210000 DTSTAMP:20260429T105603 CREATED:20250406T215228Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250406T215229Z UID:10001813-1749150000-1749157200@cstpdx.com SUMMARY:It's All Gonna Break DESCRIPTION:In the early 2000’s\, cinematographer Stephen Chung moved from the suburbs to Toronto and found his people. They hung out\, they partied\, they stayed up late and made innovative music . . . and Stephen filmed it all. These friends ended up becoming the most successful indie rock band Canada ever produced—Broken Social Scene. From basement jams to Lollapalooza and Letterman\, intimately experience how everything happened\, through fly on the wall video.  \n\n\n\nFeaturing never before seen archival footage\, and modern day interviews with Kevin Drew\, Brendan Canning\, Emily Haines\, Amy Milan\, Fiest\, and many others\, watch friends growing up\, together\, and apart\, but always with love. URL:https://cstpdx.com/event/its-all-gonna-break/ CATEGORIES:music ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/webp:https://cstpdx.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/OA7WI6JUORO5ISLT37YIVBC4.jpeg-scaled.webp END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250604T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250604T210000 DTSTAMP:20260429T105603 CREATED:20250501T022903Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250501T022904Z UID:10001843-1749063600-1749070800@cstpdx.com SUMMARY:THE DAMNED HOUSE OF HAJN (1989) (Church of Film) DESCRIPTION:An unscrupulous social climber\, Petr\, marries into a wealthy family with designs to assume control of their factory. But in the sinister mansion\, he is surrounded by the families dark history—including a mad uncle who believes he is invisible and surveys the estate from secret places. It’s enough to drive his bride Sonya mad. \n\n\n\nTHE DAMNED HOUSE OF HAJN is a glorious\, surreal piece of Czech gothic\, shot in kaleidoscopic colors and steeped rich and unsettling atmosphere. URL:https://cstpdx.com/event/the-damned-house-of-hajn-1989-church-of-film/ ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://cstpdx.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/Damned-House-Poster.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250603T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250603T210000 DTSTAMP:20260429T105603 CREATED:20250319T034551Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250516T172839Z UID:10001781-1748977200-1748984400@cstpdx.com SUMMARY:My Own Private Idaho DESCRIPTION:SPECIAL SCREENING of GUS VAN SANT’s Portland-made 1991 masterpiece MY OWN PRIVATE IDAHO – followed by the WORLD PREMIERE of a new documentary short featuring rare production stories from late\, great director/actor WILLIAM RICHERT who was recruited by RIVER PHOENIX to play the infamous Bob Pigeon. \n\n\n\n“An essential testament to the beauty and chops of the late River Phoenix.” – ROLLING STONE \n\n\n\n“…a rich\, audacious experience.” – ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY \n\n\n\n“A simultaneously heartbreaking and exhilarating road movie” – CHICAGO READER \n\n\n\nRIVER PHOENIX and KEANU REEVES star Mike and Scott\, male hustlers living on the streets of Portland\, Oregon along with a host of other hustlers. They are friends with Bob Pigeon\, played by WILLIAM RICHERT\, who leads them on various misadventures. While embarking on a journey of self discovery\, the two friends find their relationship stumbling along the way as they navigate love\, sex and personal history.  Shot in Portland and Central Oregon. Written and directed by Gus Van Sant\, and loosely based on Shakespeare’s HENRY IV. \n\n\n\n \n Director: Gus Van Sant\n Year: 1991\n Country: United States\n Runtime: 102 minutes URL:https://cstpdx.com/event/my-own-private-idaho/ CATEGORIES:pride ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://cstpdx.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/My-Own-Private-Idaho-20251.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250601T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250601T210000 DTSTAMP:20260429T105603 CREATED:20250319T034338Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250319T034339Z UID:10001780-1748804400-1748811600@cstpdx.com SUMMARY:The People's Joker DESCRIPTION:An aspiring clown grappling with her gender identity combats a fascistic caped crusader. Directed by Vera Drew. \n\n\n\n \n Director: Vera Drew\n Year: 2022\n Country: United States\n Runtime: 92 minutes URL:https://cstpdx.com/event/the-peoples-joker/ CATEGORIES:pride ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/webp:https://cstpdx.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/the-peoples-joker.webp END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250601T150000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250601T170000 DTSTAMP:20260429T105603 CREATED:20250513T045550Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250526T184448Z UID:10001848-1748790000-1748797200@cstpdx.com SUMMARY:Shorts by Thom Hilton DESCRIPTION:Kick off Pride season with a collection of four shorts by local queer filmmaker (and co-host of The Rocky Horror Picture Show at the Clinton Street Theater) Thom Hilton! \n\n\n\nSynonymous With (2021\, 12 min) – A student’s increasingly intimate line of questioning causes his interview with a local horror host to take a vulnerable turn. \n\n\n\nOne Drift and We All Go Home (2022\, 14 min) – Kenai\, Alaska. July 1998. Commercial fishing has been closed for nine days. Dozens of workers have lost nearly an entire year’s income waiting for regulations to lift… all while a nearby tourist spot teems with joyfully unregulated sportfishermen. \n\n\n\nYou Look Pretty Up Here (2023\, 20 min) – In the wake of a tense breakup\, a young actress accidentally crashes her ex-boyfriend’s retreat to a remote Oregon cabin. \n\n\n\nMatinee Baby (2024\, 19 min) – In this raunchy and outlandish queer comedy\, best friends Robby and Noah-Lee – employees at Portland’s historic Clinton Street Theater – find themselves confronted by a parade of increasingly wacky\, genre-tinged suitors. \n\n\n\nProceeds from ticket sales will go towards production of Thom’s new film Waking Up From a Nap on a Long Day of Doing Nothing\, scheduled to shoot in Portland later this year. The film’s crowdfunding campaign ends on June 2nd – come give it a strong finish and learn more about how you can be involved with the upcoming project! Can’t make it to the screening? Contribute to Waking Up From a Nap on a Long Day of Doing Nothing here. URL:https://cstpdx.com/event/shorts-by-thom-hilton/ CATEGORIES:pride ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://cstpdx.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/shorts-by-thom-hilton-IG-01-scaled.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250531T220000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250531T235900 DTSTAMP:20260429T105603 CREATED:20250322T200647Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250528T172841Z UID:10001789-1748728800-1748735940@cstpdx.com SUMMARY:The Rocky Horror Picture Show with the Clinton Street Cabaret DESCRIPTION:Doors open at 9:30 PM; pre-show starts at 10:00 PM \n\n\n\nJoin our weekly screenings of The Rocky Horror Picture Show that started in April of 1978! Starring Tim Curry\, Susan Sarandon\, and Barry Bostwick\, The Rocky Horror Picture Show (1975) continues to titillate and delight audiences all over the world. \n\n\n\nTonight’s screening features the cast of the Clinton Street Cabaret! $2 from every ticket goes to support the group. Come see the famous\, rambunctious show that has played every single week at the Clinton Street Theater in Portland\, Oregon. \n\n\n\n\nDirector: Jim Sharman\n\n\n\nCountry: USA\n\n\n\nYear: 1975\n\n\n\nRuntime: 100 minutes\n\n\n\n\n\nStarting March 16th of 2024 the CSC will have a selection of tickets for each show which are available to our BIPOC community members FREE of charge! \n\n\n\nTo reserve one send an email to the Clinton Street Cabaret clintonstreetec@gmail.com with the heading BIPOC Affinity Ticket and include your name and the date of the show you would like to reserve a ticket for in the body of the email. Only 1 ticket can be reserved per person per show and reserved tickets also include a prop bag. These tickets can only be reserved by confirmed email with the Clinton Street Cabaret and are not available to reserve at the Clinton Street Theater box office. \n\n\n\nTickets can be reserved starting 2 weeks before a show and no later than 2 hours before the show. Please note we won’t be able to accommodate late requests for shows that are already sold out. These are tickets specifically for the Clinton Street Cabaret’s performances of the Rocky Horror Picture Show at the Clinton Street Theater\, on the 1st\, 3rd\, and occasionally 5th Saturdays of the month. \n\n\n\nShowings on 2nd and 4th Saturdays or “For Virgins” nights are not Cabaret shows and do not qualify for this program. URL:https://cstpdx.com/event/the-rocky-horror-picture-show-with-the-clinton-street-cabaret-58/ CATEGORIES:drag ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://cstpdx.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/rockyhorror.jpeg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250531T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250531T210000 DTSTAMP:20260429T105603 CREATED:20250325T032047Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250325T032048Z UID:10001799-1748718000-1748725200@cstpdx.com SUMMARY:The Wicker Man (1973) DESCRIPTION:A puritan police sergeant arrives in a Scottish island village in search of a missing girl\, who the pagan locals claim never existed. \n\n\n\n \n Director: Robin Hardy\n Year: 1973\n Country: UK\n Runtime: 88 minutes URL:https://cstpdx.com/event/the-wicker-man-1973-2/ CATEGORIES:Pagan May ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/webp:https://cstpdx.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/wicker-man-scaled.webp END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250531T150000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250531T170000 DTSTAMP:20260429T105603 CREATED:20250507T020307Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250517T221723Z UID:10001846-1748703600-1748710800@cstpdx.com SUMMARY:PSYCHOTRONIC AFTER SCHOOL SPECIAL DESCRIPTION:SCREENED ON GLORIOUS 16MM FILM!!! \n\n\n\nThe PSYCHOTRONIC AFTER SCHOOL SPECIAL is back at the Clinton for a mind-altering SIXTH EDITION featuring another insane collection of rare and unseen short films that will explode your brain and evacuate your soul!   \n\n\n\nJoin longtime Portland film archivist Greg Hamilton and take a 16mm film ride that hijacks the classroom film experience and sets it loose with some unbelievably funny moments and unparallelled strangeness spliced together for your enjoyment – and curated out of the world-famous Nyback Film Archive in SE Portland. \n\n\n\nWhether you’re unpacking your adjectives\, singing folk songs about glass-making\, taking the advice of an anti-smoking wizard\, or rubbing your eyes in disbelief at the strangely inappropriate story of girl and her unicorn\, this handmade 16mm film program features an incredible selection of oddball educational films\, animations\, advertisements and pop culture ephemera!   URL:https://cstpdx.com/event/psychotronic-after-school-special/ CATEGORIES:film ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://cstpdx.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/PsychoAfterSchool6_CST20251.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250530T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250530T210000 DTSTAMP:20260429T105603 CREATED:20250523T013454Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250523T013456Z UID:10001853-1748631600-1748638800@cstpdx.com SUMMARY:Samurai Cop DESCRIPTION:Joe Marshall and Frank Washington are two tenacious police detectives who seek at all costs to stop the Katana\, a renegade Yakuza gang composed of violent and sadistic killers who want to lead the drug trade in Los Angeles. \n\n\n\nPrepare to question everything you thought you knew about roundhouse kicks\, thongs\, and katana beheadings. Directed by prolific Iranian ex-pat Amir Shervan\, it’s a reckless and outrageous treasure of the trash-action pantheon. \n\n\n\n \n Director: Amir Shervan\n Year: 1991\n Country: USA\n Runtime: 96 minutes URL:https://cstpdx.com/event/samurai-cop-2/ CATEGORIES:film ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/webp:https://cstpdx.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/samauri-cop.webp END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250529T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250529T210000 DTSTAMP:20260429T105603 CREATED:20250416T051124Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250417T053020Z UID:10001817-1748545200-1748552400@cstpdx.com SUMMARY:The Palestine Exception DESCRIPTION:A new documentary tells the story of the largest anti-war movement since the 1970s as students\, faculty and staff demand divestment from companies doing business with Israel and an end to the war in Gaza. The documentary unfolds as a story of college campuses as sites of both rebellion and repression\, places where personal and collective histories converge in unexpected ways. Presented by the Quaker Palestine Israel Network. Profits from this screening will be donated to American Friends Service Committee’s Gaza Relief Fund. URL:https://cstpdx.com/event/the-palestine-exception/ CATEGORIES:documentary ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/webp:https://cstpdx.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/palestine-exception.webp END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250528T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250528T210000 DTSTAMP:20260429T105603 CREATED:20250501T022742Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250501T022743Z UID:10001842-1748458800-1748466000@cstpdx.com SUMMARY:THE SORCERER'S APPRENTICE (1977) (Church of Film) DESCRIPTION:A young beggar in Lusatia\, Krabat\, is summoned to a mysterious mill to work as an apprentice. It is no ordinary mill\, but one run by a powerful sorcerer who enslaves young men while teaching them black magic. On Christmas\, he challenges one of his boys to a sorcery duel to the death. As Krabat becomes more skilled in the dark arts\, will he be able to break the deadly cycle and escape? \n\n\n\nA gloomy\, beautiful work by Czech animation master Karel Zeman\, based on a Sorbian folk tale. URL:https://cstpdx.com/event/the-sorcerers-apprentice-1977-church-of-film/ ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://cstpdx.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/Sorcerers-Apprentice-Poster.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250527T183000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250527T210000 DTSTAMP:20260429T105603 CREATED:20250411T182219Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250411T182221Z UID:10001815-1748370600-1748379600@cstpdx.com SUMMARY:KMHD Presents A Night at the Movies with 'Round Midnight DESCRIPTION:In the 1950s\, Dale Turner (Dexter Gordon)\, a gifted black saxophonist with a drinking problem\, leaves behind New York and his estranged family and relocates to Paris. There he plays for a progressive\, jazz-loving audience without being judged by his race\, and ages quietly in peace. Not intending to turn away from his vices\, Dale nonetheless becomes the project of a French fan (François Cluzet) who tries to help him fight his alcoholism\, ultimately inspiring both Dale and his music. \n\n\n\nHosted by Clinton Street Theater and presented by KMHD 89.1FM\, Portland’s Jazz Without Boundaries. Doors open at 6:30PM. Because the event is free\, it’s first come first serve until capacity. Please arrive early to secure a seat! \n\n\n\n \n Director: Bertrand Tavernier\n Year: 1986\n Country: United States\, France\n Runtime: 133 minutes URL:https://cstpdx.com/event/kmhd-presents-a-night-at-the-movies-with-round-midnight/ CATEGORIES:music ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://cstpdx.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/Round-Midnight.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250525T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250525T210000 DTSTAMP:20260429T105603 CREATED:20250517T172703Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250517T172704Z UID:10001851-1748196000-1748206800@cstpdx.com SUMMARY:Destiny Smokez presents MELANGE: A Queer & POC Variety Show!! DESCRIPTION:It’s time to get aniMAYted!! This month\, catch our melanated cartoon cast\, performing as some of your favorites!!… Enter our costume contest\, dressed as your favorite character\, and win a prize!! \n\n\n\nBring your tipping dollars and raffle cash\, as well!!! Raffle prizes featuring a new basket from Fantasy Adult Video (worth big bucks) and other raffle gifts TBA! \n\n\n\nOur talented cast is ready to entertain\, enlighten\, and excite you!    \n\n\n\nHosted & performances by: \n\n\n\n\nUmBruh \n\n\n\nLyta Blunt\n\n\n\nLo Satanica\n\n\n\nMiss Monachrome\n\n\n\nNiNi Muchette\n\n\n\nMis monsta URL:https://cstpdx.com/event/destiny-smokez-presents-melange-a-queer-poc-variety-show/ CATEGORIES:drag ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://cstpdx.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/melange-may.jpeg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250524T230000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250524T235900 DTSTAMP:20260429T105603 CREATED:20250322T200621Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250322T200622Z UID:10001788-1748127600-1748131140@cstpdx.com SUMMARY:The Rocky Horror Picture Show with Thom Hilton DESCRIPTION:Come watch our intimate\, scaled-back screening of the ultimate cult movie that has played weekly at the Clinton Street Theater since 1978. \n\n\n\nIf you’ve ever wanted to attend\, but didn’t know if you’d enjoy your first time\, our special host for this evening\, Thom Hilton\, will be your guide. You’ll learn the funniest callbacks\, proper prop timing\, and how to dance the Time Warp. \n\n\n\nEnjoy the legendary “bad” movie with props and callbacks\, but without all the theatrics of a shadow cast on stage. Perfect for first and old timers. If you love the film on its own\, these screenings are an opportunity to watch the film with less visual interruption. \n\n\n\n*Please note this screening does not include a performance or shadow cast of the Clinton Street Cabaret.* \n\n\n\n\nDirector: Jim Sharman\n\n\n\nCountry: USA\n\n\n\nYear: 1975\n\n\n\nRuntime: 100 minutes URL:https://cstpdx.com/event/the-rocky-horror-picture-show-with-thom-hilton-4/ CATEGORIES:drag ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/webp:https://cstpdx.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/rhps-virgins.webp END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250524T130000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250524T210000 DTSTAMP:20260429T105603 CREATED:20250416T053855Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250513T231517Z UID:10001824-1748091600-1748120400@cstpdx.com SUMMARY:Cascadia Drag Festival 2025: The Day of Drag DESCRIPTION:A marathon of drag with rotating hosts and multiple casts of drag entertainers. 35 percent of ticket sales will benefit The Melange Fund.  \n\n\n\nDoors open at 12:00 PM. \n\n\n\nThree Day Festival Passes available for entry to all events; limited quantities remain! URL:https://cstpdx.com/event/cascadia-drag-festival-2025-the-day-of-drag/ CATEGORIES:drag ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/webp:https://cstpdx.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/cascadia-drag-festival-2.webp END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250523T210000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250523T230000 DTSTAMP:20260429T105603 CREATED:20250416T053726Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250513T231502Z UID:10001823-1748034000-1748041200@cstpdx.com SUMMARY:Cascadia Drag Festival 2025: Lash Bash DESCRIPTION:A fashion party that draws its inspiration from past Portland parties such as Pepper Pepper’s Critical Mascara\, Panty Raid at the Belmont Bodega\, Blow Pony\, and Mrs. Hosted by Wolfgang X. \n\n\n\nDoors open at 8:00 PM. \n\n\n\nIt is not a pageant or vogue ball. It’s not a competition. It’s a runway show! \n\n\n\nCategories that you can walk in:  \n\n\n\nCascadia – How do you interpret the PNW? Are you a lumber- twink? Willamette river fae? Mushroom king?  \n\n\n\nFloral Explosion – Flowers\, flowers\, flowers! Be the May Queen of your heart and follow your Midsommar fantasy.  \n\n\n\nCosplay Couture – Fictional characters don’t vote or pay taxes. You are the main character in this story.  \n\n\n\nGlamour Gore – an original category from Critical Mascara. Give us the horror fantasy with rhinestones.  \n\n\n\nProtest – It’s a dystopian future\, baby! \n\n\n\nThree Day Festival Passes available for entry to all events; limited quantities remain! URL:https://cstpdx.com/event/cascadia-drag-festival-2025-lash-bash/ CATEGORIES:drag ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/webp:https://cstpdx.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/cascadia-drag-festival-2.webp END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250523T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250523T210000 DTSTAMP:20260429T105603 CREATED:20250416T053504Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250513T231428Z UID:10001822-1748023200-1748034000@cstpdx.com SUMMARY:Cascadia Drag Festival 2025: Drag Dangerzone Showcase DESCRIPTION:New performers and established drag performers create a space for experimentation\, playfulness\, and workshop new material in a theater setting. 35 percent of ticket sales will benefit The Melange Fund. \n\n\n\nThree Day Festival Passes available for entry to all events; limited quantities remain! \n\n\n\nDoors open at 5:00 PM. URL:https://cstpdx.com/event/cascadia-drag-festival-2025-drag-dangerzone-showcase/ CATEGORIES:drag ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/webp:https://cstpdx.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/cascadia-drag-festival-1.webp END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250522T200000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250522T220000 DTSTAMP:20260429T105603 CREATED:20250416T053315Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250513T231431Z UID:10001821-1747944000-1747951200@cstpdx.com SUMMARY:Cascadia Drag Festival 2025: Dahlia's Night DESCRIPTION:A showcase featuring members of Kash Fam and House Of Smokez. 75 percent of ticket sales will benefit The Melange Fund to sustain BIPOC Queer Art in Portland.  \n\n\n\nThree Day Festival Passes available for entry to all events; limited quantities remain! \n\n\n\nDoors open at 7:00 PM. URL:https://cstpdx.com/event/cascadia-drag-festival-2025-dahlias-night/ CATEGORIES:drag ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/webp:https://cstpdx.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/cascadia-drag-festival.webp END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250521T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250521T210000 DTSTAMP:20260429T105603 CREATED:20250501T022519Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250501T022550Z UID:10001841-1747854000-1747861200@cstpdx.com SUMMARY:LITTLE MERMAID (1976) (Church of Film) DESCRIPTION:A beautiful mermaid princess rescues a human prince from a shipwreck and falls in love. To see her prince again\, she sacrifices her voice and leaves her utopian undersea world in order to walk among the troubled world of mankind. But this isn’t Disney. It’s a story of love\, silence\, pain\, and ultimately tragic sacrifice. \n\n\n\nDesigned by the brilliant Esther Krumbachova (Daisies)\, with a score by Lubos Fiser (Valerie & Her Week of Wonders)\, and directed by Czech film elder statesman Karel Kachyna (The Ear)\, THE LITTLE MERMAID is one of the unquestioned masterworks of post-New Wave Czechoslovakian cinema. URL:https://cstpdx.com/event/little-mermaid-1976-church-of-film/ ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://cstpdx.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/Little-Mermaid-Poster.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250520T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250520T210000 DTSTAMP:20260429T105603 CREATED:20250308T055252Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250513T204649Z UID:10001770-1747767600-1747774800@cstpdx.com SUMMARY:The Velvet Vampire DESCRIPTION:Seductive and eerie\, a vampire film that mixes supernatural horror with sensuality and suspense. It’s a hidden gem that explores desire\, bloodlust\, and the supernatural in a horny\, atmospheric package. Directed by Stephanie Rothman. \n\n\n\nPre-film drag perfromances by XO Skeleton and Prince Peanut Butter\, presented by the Queer Screams Film Festival\, returning to The Clinton Street Theater this August 1-3! \n\n\n\n \n Director: Stephanie Rothman\n Year: 1971\n Country: US\n Runtime: 80 minutes URL:https://cstpdx.com/event/the-velvet-vampire/ CATEGORIES:corman ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/webp:https://cstpdx.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/velvet-vampire-scaled.webp END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250518T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250518T210000 DTSTAMP:20260429T105603 CREATED:20250308T054929Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250308T054930Z UID:10001769-1747594800-1747602000@cstpdx.com SUMMARY:The Little Shop of Horrors (1960) DESCRIPTION:Corman’s original Little Shop of Horrors is a fast-paced\, dark comedy about a florist who becomes obsessed with a bloodthirsty plant. This proto-Moranis film cemented Corman’s place in cinema history. \n\n\n\n \n Director: Roger Corman\n Year: 1960\n Country: US\n Runtime: 72 minutes URL:https://cstpdx.com/event/the-little-shop-of-horrors-1960/ CATEGORIES:corman ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/webp:https://cstpdx.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/shop-of-horrors.webp END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR