Mayor Sam Adams

Now with HulaHub, Box Office Tickets Inc. (BOT) delivers a powerful social networking infrastructure that arts organizations can use to provide visitors and people in their community with a single consolidated calendar of events, profiles, reviews, ticketing and blogs.

In addition to connecting with audiences, HulaHub makes it easy for producers, artists and venues to collaborate, share services and cross-promote events. For example, producers and artists can search for venues by type of performance space, capacity, and other parameters. Artists and production personnel can post their professional profiles.

People can sign up to be on mailing lists and make donations online. Best of all, HulaHub frees cash-strapped arts organizations to spend less of their time and energy on web technologies — and more on making and promoting their art.

Watch a video from the launch party:

BOT is also launching an iPhone HulaHub application that will engage more people and make it even easier to keep up with events and arts news on the go. HulaHub on the iPhone opens new mobile/arts opportunities.

Andy Paiko and Ethan Rose: Transference

Andy Paiko & Ethan Rose

November 19, 2009 - January 9, 2010

Museum of Contemporary Craft

We are very excited to see this outstanding collaboration between Ethan Rose and Andy Paiko, one of our local artists whose elegant glass pieces were gifts to our Japan Sister City, Sapporo, for the 50^th Anniversary of our Sister City agreement, at the Museum of Contemporary Craft. See below for the press release:

"Through movement, light and sound, Transference is an exploration of the material and aural properties of glass. Portland-based artists Andy Paiko (glass) and Ethan Rose (sound/composition) collaborate to create a kinetic-sound installation reinterpreting the glass armonica, a nearly forgotten instrument.

Popular in the late 18th and early 19th centuries, the armonica employed a series of glass goblets, water and friction to create a sound evoking, "singing" wine glass. This exhibition combines the strangely ethereal qualities of the armonica with the visual and physical sensations of dozens of spinning glass bowls, wired to rotate in an intentionally random sequence."

In 2009, Abraham Ingle, from hoodturkey.com fame, brought Berlin's Papergirl Project to Portland. Over 200 pieces of original 2d art were displayed in a gallery, then rolled up, and distributed via bicycle to randomly selected people on the streets of Portland.

Watch the video:

Originally a brainchild from Berlin, Germany Paper Girl is an International project that's premise is quite simple: re-distribute donated art to random passers-by via bicycle!

From the Paper Girl website:

As part of Act for Art, a Creative Action Plan for the Portland Metropolitan Region, we are taking the first attempt at establishing a suggested gift protocol for regional elected officials and Portland business and non-profit representatives traveling abroad. The goals of this program include: cultural exchange, branding the region and its creative energy and providing another avenue for which our artists can be featured and promoted on the international stage.

This week, Mayor Adams, the Portland Development Commission, and a delegation from the Sapporo-Portland Sister City Association are traveling in Japan. The itinerary of their trip includes a celebration of the 50th anniversary of the sister city agreement with Sapporo and meetings with a variety of companies in Tokyo and Yokohama. The mayor is meeting with executives from leading companies, such as Sanyo and Nissan, to recruit business to Portland and create new jobs in key sectors, such as clean tech and electric vehicles. Along the way, Mayor Adams will be giving gifts to foreign dignitaries and business leaders and we have curated a selection of Portland's very best for this trip.

George Johanson’s Waiting for the Parade I: For this year’s City to City gift from Portland to our oldest sister city Sapporo, Japan—Mayor Adams gives a beautiful work by Portland favorite and Oregon Governor’s Award for the Arts winner, renowned artist George Johanson. Waiting for the Parade I is the first in a series of Rose Parade etchings—inspired by Portland’s Rose Festival. A Sapporo delegation was present during this year's Rose Festival so Johanson's etching is also symbolic of that trip. Special thanks to Bob at Augen Gallery for making this happen.

Regional Arts and Culture Council and the Portland Development Commission deserve thanks for their financial sponsorship of Portland art and we are forever grateful to the artists and musicians who worked with us to make these gifts possible. Another special thanks to Portland Open Studios who gave the Mayor's staff a great chance to get to know some of the artists in the Metro area. Portland Open Studios also donated a set of their calendars which feature different metro artists every month. 

Art Spark at Holocene is a swinging good time!

This Week: Thursday, November 19th  

Western Arts Alliance at Holocene, 

1001 SE Morrison  

Event: You are in for another treat...another Art Spark party game! Come prepared to "sell" yourself! The game? "America's Next Top Artist!!" Come learn more about this great organization, living here in Portland, but helping artists from coast to coast book gigs!   

  Here's what's in store: 

• Fantastic host from the arts community
• Our host presents at 6 p.m.
• Freewheeling conversation for the rest of the good time!

UPCOMING: December 17 - Fertile Ground 

- VISIT US AT PORTLANDARTSPARK.COM -

Thanks to all that came to the German American Society Event to Commemorate the 20th Anniversary of the Fall of the Berlin Wall Reception at Portland City Hall.

Mayor Adams was proud to commemorate this historic, international event with such an impassioned crowd and have the opportunity to meet with the night's honored guests: German Consul General, Peter Rothen Honorary Consul, Günther Hoffmann, and Steven Fuller, Prof. of German & International Studies at PSU.

If you missed the event, or just want a second look, stop by the month long Photo Exhibit:

After the Wall – Changes in a German Landscape

November 9th-30th in Portland City Hall 1221 SW 4th

FREE and Open to the Public

The After the Wall photo exhibit showcases the impact of the fall of the Berlin Wall on contemporary Germany and German culture.  The photos were collected by the German American Society.

What caught the eye of ordinary citizens living in or traveling through Germany after the wall? A Photo Exhibit at City Hall provides glimpses of contemporary Germany, depicting some of the changes that occurred in the last decades and marking some of the places where the wall used to exist. The photographs from Berlin and East Germany are snapshots of a changing landscape and its citizens. They are small windows into a country that still grapples with the aftermath of reunification but also energetically presses forward. The exhibit runs from November 9 to 30, 2009 at various locations in Portland City Hall.

Monday, November 16 (5:30 pm to 7:30 pm) Holocene, 1001 SE Morrison (www.holocene.org)

Come watch a demo of the new site and iPhone app which enables users to find events, share their thoughts and tell the world about their experience. Plus, we'll hear some inspiring words from Mayor Sam Adams, and of course there will be several iPod Touch and other giveaways.

You'll also have the opportunity to videotape seven seconds of your life with Fliptography, watch Polaris Dance Theatre debut a piece from their upcoming show called iCHANGE and take a quick lesson on how to hula hoop from HoopShine. It's the hot new workout.

There will be complimentary hors d'oeuvres and a no-host bar.

View the HulaHub Agenda (PDF)

Free food. Free drinks. The Dandy Warhols. A-Wol Dance Troup. Viva Voce.

Saturday, November 14th

The Bison Building

419 NE 10th Avenue, Portland, OR 97232

Doors at 7 p.m.

These are just a few things you can expect to see at the Glass Ball Gala this Saturday. Presented by the Portland Youth Development Coalition (PYDC), the first annual Glass Ball event will help support new development opportunities and creative outlets for Portland youth. 

So, indulge a little this weekend. For just $40, you can enjoy local music, local art and support local non-profits all at once. Claim your tickets here.

For more information, visit the PYDC Web site.

About PYDC

The Portland Youth Development Coalition (PYDC) was founded in 2009 as a response to growing needs for creative outlets and development opportunities for Portland youth.
The PYDC is made up of Portland based non-profits that strive to make youth development our cityês priority. The organizations that make up the Portland Youth Development Coalition offer free services to all Portland youth to participate in. PYDC values diversity, youth empowerment and community building.

German American Society Commemorates the

20th Anniversary of the Fall of the Berlin Wall with a kick-off reception

 ^{November 9th from 6 to 8 p.m.}

Reception at Portland City Hall 1221 SW 4th

^{FREE and Open to the Public}

On November 9th, the day the Wall came down, Mayor Adams will host a reception at City Hall to commemorate this historic, international event. Honored guests include:

• German Consul General, Peter Rothen
• Honorary Consul, Günther Hoffmann
• Steven Fuller, Prof. of German & International Studies

Photo Exhibit: After the Wall – Changes in a German Landscape November 9-30 in Portland City Hall  

What caught the eye of ordinary citizens living in or traveling through Germany after the wall? A Photo Exhibit at City Hall provides glimpses of contemporary Germany, depicting some of the changes that occurred in the last decades and marking some of the places where the wall used to exist. The photographs from Berlin and East Germany are snapshots of a changing landscape and its citizens. They are small windows into a country that still grapples with the aftermath of reunification but also energetically presses forward. The exhibit runs from November 9 to 30, 2009 at various locations in Portland City Hall.