Thank you for your interest in volunteering at Portland Center Stage. This season is our second in the newly remodeled Armory, and will be an exciting time with many new volunteer opportunities. Throughout the season, we will often need volunteers in the various capacities listed below. Please download and complete a volunteer application to let us know you’re interested.

Please direct questions to volunteer@pcs.org.

CLICK HERE to fill out a new or returning volunteer application.

ongoing volunteer opportunities
Armory Ambassadors
The Armory Ambassadors group are Tour Guide volunteers who will lead regularly scheduled tours throughout the building to the interested public.

Entertainers
The Entertainers volunteer group hosts provide food and beverages for Technical Rehearsal dinners and Show-n-Tells of each production. We encourage the cooking-challenged to participate also.

Ushers
This volunteer group is responsible for ushering, ticket taking, and coat check.
(Must be able to stand up to four hours.) Click Here for more information about the Portland Center Stage Usher Program. Please call Lead House Manager Robyn Hodges at 503.445.3825 if you’re interested in ushering.

Office Assistants
The Office Assistants provide clerical support for PCS staff, such as staffing the reception desk, data entry, filing, bulk mail preparation and other administrative projects as needed.

Special Events
The Special Events committee acts as advocates for PCS by participating in or assisting with a variety of patron events, such as parties and fundraisers.

Spotlight Newsletter
The Spotlight volunteer newsletter is produced seven times a year with contributions made by volunteers through written articles, photographs, graphic design and layout.

Supporting Cast
The Supporting Cast transports guest artists and designers to and from the airport, train station, local schools and other destinations as needed.

special event opportunities
Contact PCS Volunteers today if you’re already a volunteer and you’d like to work any of the following special events. For priority consideration, please use only the name of the event as the subject line of your email.

THIS EVENT HAS BEEN FILLED - Portland Center Stage is seeking 10 Ushers for the following event:

Blessed Unrest: An Evening with Paul Hawken, Barry Lopez and Rebecca Solnit

April 14, 2008

Gerding Theater at The Armory, Main Stage, 7:30 pm

Entrepreneur and environmentalist Paul Hawken is the author of six books, including The Next Economy (1983), Growing a Business (1987) and The Ecology of Commerce (1993). His latest book, Blessed Unrest (2007), deals with what Hawken refers to as a movement of “coherent organic, self-organized congregations involving tens of millions of people dedicated to change.” Terry Tempest Williams has called the book, “a manifesto of hope for the twenty-first century.”

At this special event, Hawken will be joined on-stage by Barry Lopez, author of Arctic Dreams (1986) and editor of Home Ground (2006), and Rebecca Solnit, author of Storming the Gates of Paradise: Landscapes for Politics (2007). These authors will bring their unique perspectives and shared concerns for environmental and social justice to a conversation that will address the questions: “What’s going on ?” and “What can be done about it ?”

The call-time is 6:45pm (dress code black) and the event will run approximately 2 hours.