Marla Darling presents The Cascadia Drag Festival! A love letter to the drag community of the Pacific Northwest. This project has been an idea for the last ten years, produced and curated by Marla Darling (Bjork Friday, The Rocky Horror Lavender Show, Drag Dangerzone). The festival features all kinds of artists from all over the PNW.
Let's celebrate mid spring, and usher in the warmer weather, with some performances that'll leave you all hot n bothered!!! It's an open themed show, so anything goes!
Splitting off from his Dolemite persona, rap pioneer & stand-up legend Rudy Ray Moore is once again the titular hero whose talent for comedy is only topped by his lumpy gift for martial arts!
TREASURE ISLAND is a masterfully labyrinthine surrealist metatext, and a full dynamite-charged brain-blown deconstruction of children's literature and adventure cinema, in a free-flowing logic of media and dreams.
Portland visual artist Eatcho curates this month’s Blessings Movie Night with an original live rescore to THE DARK CRYSTAL (1982) by returning local musician Pink Buddha.
From square bubbles, bubbles inside bubbles, fog-filled bubbles, giant bubbles, bubble volcanoes, tornados and trampolines to people inside bubbles, the Amazing Bubble Man conjures shrieks of laughter and gasps of amazement from all ages.
From square bubbles, bubbles inside bubbles, fog-filled bubbles, giant bubbles, bubble volcanoes, tornados and trampolines to people inside bubbles, the Amazing Bubble Man conjures shrieks of laughter and gasps of amazement from all ages.
Where does voguing come from, and what, exactly, is throwing shade? This landmark documentary provides a vibrant snapshot of the 1980s through the eyes of New York City’s African American and Latinx Harlem drag ball scene.
Join the team from OPB’s digital food series "Superabundant" for a free community screening of their latest episodes highlighting two well-known Pacific Northwest ingredients: Coffee and Hops.
Featuring 8 dynamic brand new performers from across the Pacific Northwest competing for one of 3 titles. Best Burlesque performer, Best Drag performer and Best Act in Show.
After coming out as a trans woman, world-record-holding gamer Narcissa Wright loses her massive fanbase. To win them back, she attempts to set a new world record in The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild, while live-streaming every minute of her mythic quest.
Long 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.
SOLD OUT!
Doors @ 6 / Show + Film @ 6:30
Sold out!
Doors @ 9:30 / Show + Film @ 10
You can expect to see the best independent horror films, some funny, some gory, some scary, but all cooler and more innovative than anything you can see at the multiplex.
Curious? Nervous? We've got you covered. Come dip into the shallow end of the pool at Rocky Horror for Virgins—our intimate, scaled-back screening of the ultimate cult movie.
You can expect to see the best independent horror films, some funny, some gory, some scary, but all cooler and more innovative than anything you can see at the multiplex.
An impossibly intimate portrait, this 1976 documentary quickly became a cult classic and established Little Edie as a fashion icon and philosopher queen.
Dive into three days and nights of global Black and Indigenous experience
Dive into three days and nights of global Black and Indigenous experience
Tonight's screening features the cast of the Clinton Street Cabaret! The Cabaret will be hosting a fundraiser for the Black and Beyond the Binary Collective at this show.
Dive into three days and nights of global Black and Indigenous experience
Filmmaker, anthropologist, painter, and musicologist Harry Smith worked on Film #18 Mahagonny, his final film, for over ten years and considered it his magnum opus. His cinematic transformation of Kurt…
With smoldering chemistry between its two leads, an evocative jukebox soundtrack, and vivid cinematography by Robert Elswit, Desert Hearts beautifully exudes a sense of tender yearning and emotional candor.
THE DEVIL QUEEN is an outrageous piece of Brazilian Cinema Marginal that tests just about every imaginable boundary of conventional and genre cinema!
When drag queen Anthony (Hugo Weaving) agrees to take his act on the road, he invites friends Adam (Guy Pearce) and Bernadette (Terence Stamp) to come along. In their colorful bus, named Priscilla, the three performers travel across the Australian desert performing for enthusiastic crowds and homophobic locals.
A gender-queer punk-rock singer from East Berlin tours the U.S. with her band as she tells her life story and follows the former lover/band-mate who stole her songs.
Curious? Nervous? We've got you covered. Come dip into the shallow end of the pool at Rocky Horror for Virgins—our intimate, scaled-back screening of the ultimate cult movie.
Let's celebrate mid spring, and usher in the warmer weather, with some performances that'll leave you all hot n bothered!!! It's an open themed show, so anything goes!
Director Nick Deocampo's radical documentary explored the intersection of gender, sexuality, and radical politics in the Philippines in lovingly crafted, poetic documents exploring queer Manila, revolutionary aspirations, and his own identity as a gay man and a left wing filmmaker.
Portland visual artist Eatcho curates this month’s Blessings Movie Night with an original live score to LOST IN TRANSLATION (2003) by local musicians.
In the summer of 1979, Paris-based filmmaker Anne is a producer of third-rate gay porn. After her editor and lover Lois leaves her, she tries to win her back by shooting her most ambitious film yet with her trusted, flamboyant sidekick Archibald. Featuring an original score by M83.
In his narrative feature debut, director Rick Charnoski’s history as a skate video director informs the frenetic storytelling style, as he combines Red’s nihilist musings with a collage of documentary and B-movie meta-narratives that paint a seedy picture of life on the outskirts of town.
The Space Program presents a full-length skate video. Doors open at 7:00 PM; film at 8:00 PM.
Tonight's screening features the cast of the Clinton Street Cabaret! Come see the famous, rambunctious show that has played every single week at the Clinton Street Theater in Portland, Oregon.
In this remake of the classic French farce "La Cage aux Folles," engaged couple Val Goldman and Barbara Keeley shakily introduce their future in-laws.
*This matinee screening will be shown with English-language subtitles.*
In this remake of the classic French farce "La Cage aux Folles," engaged couple Val Goldman and Barbara Keeley shakily introduce their future in-laws.
What’s more gay: Lady wrestlers or Red Hot Riding Hood? Find out! Experience straightness so sleazy it’s satire, a lovely vintage vignette of a trans woman, totally bonkers antique porn, and so much more! From the legendary collection of Dennis Nyback, this show is a one-of-a-kind peek into some queerness of the past… For better and worse. Trippy t-Shirts and stickers will be available for sale.
A lost trans classic, and a brilliantly designed, raunchy musical camp-fest full of Warhol Superstars and New York icons! Soundtrack featuring Bette Midler. It's like the whole crew of the Continental Bathhouse is present!
A powerful new documentary reveals how Christian Nationalist leaders have spread fear and anger for decades, distorting political issues into Biblical battles between good and evil. Financed through the secretive Council for National Policy, Christian Nationalists have succeeded in taking over the Republican Party, turning it into a powerful weapon to demolish democracy from within. Discover the origins of this organized grasp for power and the grassroots coalition of secular and interfaith leaders bravely confronting the unholy forces threatening democracy.
In this 19th century, supernatural winter epic, a drunken applejack salesman must go from zero to hero and become North America's greatest fur trapper by defeating hundreds of beavers.
When a beautiful stranger leads computer hacker Neo to a forbidding underworld, he discovers the shocking truth--the life he knows is the elaborate deception of an evil cyber-intelligence.
Tonight's screening features the cast of the Clinton Street Cabaret! Come see the famous, rambunctious show that has played every single week at the Clinton Street Theater in Portland, Oregon.
