Pre-show music with DJ Mami Miami
Join us for a pre-show dance party featuring DJ Mami Miami of Noche Libre, a multi-genre Latinx DJ collective. Come dance and lounge with a DJ set of music influenced by the global soundtrack of In The Heights.
DJ Mami Miami is the alias of Emilly Prado, a Chicana writer, journalist, and DJ based in Portland, Oregon.
As the former co-host of Is Butter a Carb? on XRAY.FM, Emilly played a wide range of genres from cumbias and spanish punk rock to hip hop, neo-soul, and oldies. She plays songs of her childhood and music that she’s stumbled upon later in life. Her sets are always mood-driven.
In 2017, she co-founded Noche Libre, a multi-genre Latinx dance party turned DJ collective. You can learn more about her at emillyprado.com and on Instagram at @emillyp.
NOCHE LIBRE is a radical Latinx DJ collective of women creating space for Black, Brown, and Indigenous communities. They spin music that spans genres and geography from cumbia and quebradita to dancehall and perreo. They celebrate their family’s roots and rituals by carrying on the tradition of puro pinche pari.
Their active collective members include DJs Black Daria (Jené Etheridge), La Cósmica (Dez Ramírez), La Tati (Marina Mena), Lapaushi (Ines Paulina Ramírez), Mami Miami (Emilly Prado), No Manches (Diana Suarez), Scandaliz (Elizabeth Jimenez), and Xolotl (Yuriko Zubia.) Past members include Lucha (Luz Elena Mendoza) and Suavecito (Fabi Reyna).
The first Noche Libre event occurred in August 2017 with founding DJs Lucha, Mami Miami, and Suavecito. Book them for your next event by emailing nochelibrepdx@gmail.com, or stop by their Dig a Pony residency (third Thursdays) to hear a rotating lineup of their fuego DJs!
Current & Upcoming
Art Exhibit: ¡Soy Yo! by Mika Martinez
¡Soy Yo!, is a multi-media project, created by Mika Martinez, that examines and celebrates Latinx identity featuring more than 50 portraits of the Hispanic/Latino community in Portland.
Piano Bar with Courtney Freed and David Saffert
Join us for this monthly event with local songstress Courtney Freed and Portland-based pianist David Saffert as they host a good old-fashioned PIANO BAR.
Improvisation Classes for Beginners
Whether you're looking to get more confident in social situations, think quicker on your feet, or get in touch with your imaginative side, these "one-off" improv classes will set you on the path to success!
Nassim
From Iranian playwright Nassim Soleimanpour (creator of the Off-Broadway smash hit White Rabbit, Red Rabbit) comes an audacious new theatrical experiment, presented in collaboration with Boom Arts. Each night, a new, unrehearsed local performer joins the playwright on stage, while the script waits, unseen, in a sealed box... Touchingly autobiographical yet powerfully universal, NASSIM is a striking theatrical demonstration of how language can both divide and unite us.
Art Exhibit: Garam Garam Chai by Yusra Siddiqui
Portland Center Stage will host Garam Garam Chai, an art exhibit by Portland-based multidisciplinary artist Yusra Siddiqui, featuring a series of hand-sewn teabag printmaking pieces that serve as a contemplation of the communal tea times shared between Desi and British culture.
Coriolanus
Shakespeare’s tragedy about the war hero Coriolanus and the fight between the elite and the deprived masses will be fueled by a dynamic female and non-binary ensemble with a muscular, movement-focused staging.
Portland Center Stage is committed to identifying & interrupting instances of racism & all forms of oppression, through the principles of inclusion, diversity, equity, & accessibility (IDEA).
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