We are delighted to announce that the Gerding Theater at the Armory is one of 5 buildings to receive a “Preservation in Action” Pinnacle Award from the Architectural Heritage Center/Bosco-Milligan Foundation.
The award was inaugurated as part of the organization’s 20th anniversary to spotlight the cultural, historic, and economic value of historic preservation to the Portland [...]

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Tonight!!! Monday, November 10 in the Ellyn Bye Studio
Just added to the panel: Economist Joe (”The Young and the Restless”) Cortright

DYMAXION PORTLAND & THE SPACESHIP EARTH
A conversation about regional resources with
David Bragdon (Metro), John Haines (Mercy Corps NW), Jill Fuglister (Coalition for a Livable Future) and Lawrence Wallack (PSU’s College of Urban and Public [...]

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Do you ever wonder what happens here at the Armory when no one’s looking and the season hasn’t started?
Sometimes we have parties, fundraisers and scavenger hunts and sometimes we do really wild things like invite our friends at  Cascadia Green Building Council to get jiggy with lectures on thermal mass energy storage technologies and super [...]

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Once upon a time, the occasion of Theater produced a ripple effect, a buzz that created paroxysmal waves of civically valuable debate and engagement. No, really.
These days we may call it with funny names like Community Outreach, but if we take a trip in the Theater Wayback Machine to ancient Greece, we’ll discover a savage [...]

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JAW THEATER FAIR 2008: Taking it to the Street
Saturday, July 19, 12 – 3 pm
Davis Street (between 10th and 11th Avenues)
The Theater Fair –the wildly popular event for the theater community, theater patrons and the whole durn family—returns for the third year in a row, with a twist—it’s wild and in the street.
The idea is [...]

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