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Tickets $20. Join hostess Violet Hex for a Queer Celebration of Pee-wee's Playhouse Christmas Special! Presented in Violet-Vision: Screened with archival commercial breaks spliced in for a special interactive TV viewing experience. Featuring a special PEE-WEE'S PLAYHOUSE DRAG SHOW with pre-film performances by PDX icons Given, Violet Hex, XO Skeleton, & More TBA!

Tickets $15. Grace and Jackson move into an old house deep in the country. With ambitions to write The Great American Novel, Grace settles into her new environment, and the couple soon welcome a child. However, with Jackson frequently—and suspiciously—absent, and the pressures of domestic life starting to weigh on her, Grace begins to unravel, leaving a path of destruction in her wake.

Tickets $15. Celebrate five decades of groundbreaking art and storytelling with Portland legend Rupert Kinnard! In conjunction with his 50-year retrospective at the Northwest Museum of Cartoon Arts, we’re thrilled to present a screening of No Straight Lines: The Rise of Queer Comics. This illuminating documentary traces the history of queer comics and the artists who reshaped representation on the page. Following the screening, Kinnard, creator of the first Black, queer superhero, will be onstage for an audience Q&A moderated by NWMOCA Board Chair Mike Rosen. Rupert Kinnard will sign books after the Q&A. 

Tickets $15. As A Larger Reality: Ursula K. Le Guin comes to a close at Oregon Contemporary, join us for a film that honors the imagination, empathy, and wonder at the heart of Le Guin’s work.