Tickets $15. 1-800-ON-HER-OWN follows groundbreaking indie musician/feminist Ani DiFranco, founder of the first “woman-run non-corporate queer-happy” label, Righteous Babe Records, on a wild road trip from her punk-folk past to her life today as an activist and rock star. Throughout, Ani remains resolutely true to herself, no matter the cost.
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Tickets $15. In 1960, United Nations: the Global South ignites a political earthquake, musicians Abbey Lincoln and Max Roach crash the Security Council, Nikita Khrushchev bangs his shoe denouncing America’s color bar, while the U.S. dispatches jazz ambassador Louis Armstrong to the Congo to deflect attention from its first African post-colonial coup.
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Tickets $15. A documentary series that takes us on a food journey through east Portland and Gresham. Come early to try foods featured on the program!
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Tickets $15. Intrepid scientists and lovers Katia and Maurice Krafft die in a volcanic explosion doing the very thing that brought them together: unraveling the mysteries of volcanoes by capturing some of nature’s most explosive imagery.
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Tickets $15. More than 60,000 of Ernest Cole’s 35mm film negatives were inexplicably discovered in a bank vault in Stockholm, Sweden. Most considered these forever lost, especially the thousands of pictures he shot in the U.S. Told through Cole’s own writings, the stories of those closest to him, and the lens of his uncompromising work, the film is a reintroduction of a pivotal Black artist to a new generation and will unravel the mystery of his missing negatives.
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Tickets $15. Hosted by Portland’s wellness experts at woo-woo, enjoy grounding breathwork and the immersive documentary Nocturnes, a cinematic expedition into the hidden worlds of the film’s nocturnal creatures.
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Tickets FREE. During the pandemic, South Park creators Trey Parker and Matt Stone bought the iconic Denver-based restaurant Casa Bonita (made famous in part by a 2003 South Park episode). This documentary chronicles that journey. Director Arthur Bradford will be in attendance for a Q&A after the film.
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Tickets $15. Songwriter/artist Allee Willis, best known for writing the “Friends” theme song, the Earth Wind & Fire mega-hit “September,” and “The Color Purple” musical, began filming her life as a kid in 1950s Detroit and never stopped. She pursued creative expression at all costs while struggling with not fitting established gender and sexual norms…until she found a path to love.
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Tickets $15. Join us for a self-care moment, hosted by Portland’s wellness experts at woo-woo.
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Tickets $15. In collaboration with Music Millennium, we’re thrilled to share a rare screening of the much anticipated non-documentary, We Are Fugazi From Washington, DC! Come early for a DJ set by Jerry A (of Poison Idea). Created to commemorate the 20 years that have passed since DC-based post-hardcore band Fugazi’s last live appearance (November 4, 2002, at The Forum in London), We Are Fugazi from Washington, D.C. is a 96-minute movie comprising crowd-sourced, fan-recorded live shows, and rare archive footage of Fugazi.
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