Tickets $15.

Doors at 3:30 p.m.; Event at 4 p.m. 
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THE EXPERIENCE

Join Rose City Rollers for a sock derby demo along with the 15-year anniversary screening of Drew Barrymore’s directorial debut, Whip It! The pre-show event will be hosted by the Rose City Rollers and lead by skater The Rodent of Unusual Size. 

ON SCREEN: Whip It

2009. Directed by Drew Barrymore. Runtime: 111 minutes. Rated PG-13.

Bliss Cavendar lives in small-town Texas and yearns to break free of her mother’s world of beauty pageants and conformity. She sees her chance when she meets the Hurl Scouts, a roller-derby team; she tries out for the team and wins a slot, lying to her parents about her new hobby. Bliss finds friendship and freedom with her teammates, but a conflict between a championship game and the Bluebonnet beauty pageant threatens to spill her secret.

ON STAGE: Erin “The Rodent of Unusual Size” Rodent

• Erin “The Rodent of Unusual Size” Rodent has been a skater with RCR since 2012.
• I had just turned 30 and moved back to Portland and was looking for community and a challenge and found both in derby. I’ve always been tiny and derby taught me that I was also strong.
• I manage events in Portland including the Portland Sunday Parkways series and other fun bike rides, street fairs and runs in the city.
• I spent 10 years teaching and managing outdoor education programs with OMSI before changing careers to event management.
• Skated 2012-2021 with RCR’s Wreckers (rec league) and since 2022 on the RCR home team The Break Neck Betties.
• I also volunteer as an off-skates official and coach for the RCR juniors Rose Petals program.
• I am an amateur orchardist, and spend most of the summer and fall harvesting apples, pears, berries and anything else my dad and I can grow.
• I play the guitar and sing, and recorded a song a day for my friends the entire first year of the pandemic lockdown.
• I have a growing collection of “Fauna Face” images of bugs and other small wild animals on my face. If this weirds you out, don’t worry, they hate it too.

Rose City Rollers
The Rose City Rollers mission is to serve women, girls, and gender-expansive individuals who want to play the team sport of roller derby, connect with an inclusive community, and realize their power both on skates and off.