Summer’s end and the beginning of fall not only mark the start of the performance season, it’s also the time of year when many public funding agencies announce their grant awards to eager arts companies. Portland Center Stage is off to an encouraging start in reaching our 2009/10 fundraising goals, thanks to the following recently [...]

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What makes PCS’s JAW: A Playwrights Festival possible – and free! – each July?  Contributed support from community partners, which this year included festival sponsors The Kinsman Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, and the Oregon Cultural Trust.
We’re delighted that the Oregon Cultural Trust will again be a partner in producing JAW 2010.  The [...]

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As the Chronicle of Philanthropy and others have reported, arts organizations across the country have been especially hard hit by the recession. So, we’re happy to announce that Portland Center Stage was recently awarded two grants from programs specifically designed to help ameliorate the economic downturn’s negative impact on nonprofit arts [...]

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Yes, I know – we’re just barely into fall, and we have yet to get through the finale of the longest election campaign in the history of the world. Still, it’s not too soon – no, really! – to be thinking about your year-end giving, and how you can double the impact of your contributions [...]

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I’m totally dating myself here, but one of my favorite films as a young thing was 1972’s Silent Running, which starred a then-young and shaggy Bruce Dern and featured a Bucky-inspired spaceship with several geodesic domes that held the last remnants of earth’s forests. Not to give away too much of the plot for those [...]

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