Events

Have an event coming up you’re looking to spread the word about? 

Send an email to events@xray.fm to see how we can help!

When emailing please include: 

1. Any relevant info about the event (dates/times, location, ticket links, info sheets etc.)
2. What you're looking for from us, preferably in the subject or early in the email.* This could be things like being a media sponsor, paid underwriting packages, inviting us to attend, PSAs* AV services, getting an on-air interview, booking an XRAY DJ, having us be present there, etc.
3. Who this event is for, so that we can place it appropriately on our schedule. If music, let us know the general genre/style. If non-music, what topics will someone that goes to this care about? 

Timeline: For those new to working with us, without an established event promotion relationship or agreement, we need to receive your submission at least three weeks prior to your event for inclusion on our events calendar or newsletter, and preferably six weeks if you are interested in a radio spot about your event (i.e. underwriting). We are unlikely to consider last minute requests. 

Please Note: We have a very limited capacity and unfortunately cannot accommodate all requests. The clearer your ask and the more obvious of a fit with our programming and/or mission, the more likely we'll prioritize it. We unfortunately cannot respond to every request, but welcome you nudging/following up with us to get it on our radar if it's a good fit and we haven't replied.

*Only nonprofits and/or things benefitting the wider community (such as something like demonstrations, disaster relief, mutual aid campaigns, etc.) are eligible for PSAs typically, with anything else being up to our discretion and typically done on media trade, paid campaigns, or as an act of good will because we feel strongly about something. All scripts need to be approved by us for our FCC compliance standards--even if a recorded file already exists.

Part of XRAY.FM's mission is to support our community through monthly event sponsorship, our community concert calendar, and event partnerships. We offer artist curation, live DJ sets from XRAY's team of talented DJs, playlist curation, and much more! 

If you have an event you'd like to partner with us on please submit your event at events[at]xray.fm.

The Black United Fund is having their annual 2017 Scholarship Awards Luncheon which brings together community leaders, university and college partners, students, parents, school officials, and community members. Making this event a true community-wide celebration for Oregon and SW Washington students embarking on their college journey. 

For information on sponsorship or table hosting contact our Development Team at development@bufor.org

The Clay Compound is a cooperative ceramics studio in NE Portland comprised of more than a dozen local ceramic artists!

The Clay Compound invites you to our Open Studio & Holiday Sale!

Share the holiday season with a dozen of Portland's ceramic artists in this three day event at our studio in NE Portland. We will be offering demonstrations throughout the weekend of the many different techniques used by our diverse group of members, as well as, refreshments and lots of welcoming vibrations.

Opening Night // Friday December 9th // 6pm - 9pm
Saturday September 10th // 11am - 6pm
Sunday September 11th // 11am - 6pm

This is an excellent opportunity to tour our facility and to meet our artists. Decorative and Functional Ceramic pieces will be available for purchase from our wide variety of artists.

All forms of payment accepted // Cash - Card - Check

Please pass on this invite to anyone you feel would be interested in checking out the scene down at The Clay Compound.

The Clay Compound
5849 NE Simpson Street
Portland, Oregon 97218

Entrance located up the driveway. Look for signs and twinkle lights!

Via Car -- Easiest to access via NE 60th Ave.
NE Simpson is halfway between Killingsworth and Portland Hwy.
Street parking available on NE Simpson and NE 59th Ave.

Via Trimet -- #72 Busline
From the East & Southeast Portland use STOP # 3210
From the West, North, and NE Portland use STOP # 3146
at NE 60th Ave.
We recommend walking up NE 59th (and not 60th) for safety.

All Are Welcome. 

Please note, our sales space and studio area are wheelchair accessible, but the kiln yard is not.

We hope to see you!

More information and demo schedule at https://www.facebook.com/events/1804841039789028/

The Clay Compound is a cooperative ceramics studio in NE Portland comprised of more than a dozen local ceramic artists!

The Clay Compound invites you to our Open Studio & Holiday Sale!

Share the holiday season with a dozen of Portland's ceramic artists in this three day event at our studio in NE Portland. We will be offering demonstrations throughout the weekend of the many different techniques used by our diverse group of members, as well as, refreshments and lots of welcoming vibrations.

Opening Night // Friday December 9th // 6pm - 9pm
Saturday September 10th // 11am - 6pm
Sunday September 11th // 11am - 6pm

This is an excellent opportunity to tour our facility and to meet our artists. Decorative and Functional Ceramic pieces will be available for purchase from our wide variety of artists.

All forms of payment accepted // Cash - Card - Check

Please pass on this invite to anyone you feel would be interested in checking out the scene down at The Clay Compound.

The Clay Compound
5849 NE Simpson Street
Portland, Oregon 97218

Entrance located up the driveway. Look for signs and twinkle lights!

Via Car -- Easiest to access via NE 60th Ave.
NE Simpson is halfway between Killingsworth and Portland Hwy.
Street parking available on NE Simpson and NE 59th Ave.

Via Trimet -- #72 Busline
From the East & Southeast Portland use STOP # 3210
From the West, North, and NE Portland use STOP # 3146
at NE 60th Ave.
We recommend walking up NE 59th (and not 60th) for safety.

All Are Welcome. 

Please note, our sales space and studio area are wheelchair accessible, but the kiln yard is not.

We hope to see you!

More information and demo schedule at https://www.facebook.com/events/1804841039789028/

Overcup Press is bringing together local publishers and a few local authors to sign books this holiday season. A signed book is a great personalized gift. You'll find gifts for beer lovers, traveling tipplers, art fans, books for the tikes and toddlers in your life and more. The team at N.W.I.P.A. will help you select some gift-worthy bottles of beer and cider to round out your holiday shopping list. Stop by, buy a book, buy a bottle and raise a glass all in the name of getting things done this holiday season.

This event is age 21+

Meet the authors: 
Jeff Alworth (The Beer Bible)
Niki Ganong (The Field Guide to Drinking in America)
Brian Yaeger (Oregon Breweries)
Steven Shomler (Portland Beer Stories)
Matt Wagner (The Tall Trees of Portland and art director for Gigantic Brewing label art)
Jon Abernathy (Bend Beer)
and more to be announced!

There will be also books by these publishers:
Overcup Press
Hazy Dell Press
and more

Are you looking for a job? Are you tired of sending resumes left and right and never getting an answer? If you are, dress in your best professional clothes, bring resumes and visit our Portland career fairs. You will have the opportunity to meet top employers and to interview for several positions during the course of the day, meeting the people who actually make the hiring decisions. You will save a lot of time since there will be no need to craft a customized personal statement for each company you visit: You’ll be able to tell them why you wish to work for them, and you’ll have the chance to sell yourself.

National Career Fairs employers send their managers to carry out onsite interviews. Don’t wait for someone to call you for an interview. Sign up for our next career fair and give off a first impression that makes a lasting career.

Wordstock: Portland’s Book Festival returns Saturday, November 5 at the Portland Art Museum and surrounding venues in the South Park Blocks in downtown Portland. 

ADVANCE TICKETS are $15 ($18 day of), available now. Stay tuned for updates here: http://www.literary-arts.org/what-we-do/wordstock/. Youth 17 and under and/or high school students with ID enjoy FREE admission to the festival.

Join thousands of readers of all ages for a full day of activities featuring more than 100 authors, onstage events, pop-up readings, writing workshops, a book fair with 70 local and national publishing vendors and literary organizations, food carts, and more!

Wordstock is dedicated to bringing readers together to celebrate a shared passion for books. This event is a place to discover new books, to meet your favorite writers, and to be inspired and entertained. We look forward to seeing you all at this year's festival on Saturday, November 5.

The relaunch of the festival has been made possible by the support of the following partners: Meyer Memorial Trust, Miller Foundation, M.J. Murdock Charitable Trust, Portland Art Museum, Oregon Public Broadcasting- OPB,Powell's Books, Inc., Multnomah County Library, Willamette Week, National Endowment for the Arts, Cole Haan, McMenamins Pubs, Breweries & Historic Hotels, Oregon Community Foundation, Marylhurst University,Poetry Foundation & Poetry Magazine Travel Portland, and TheStandard.

Please join us as we light up WareHouse ’23 for one fabulous day on October 22! This entire Saturday expo is open to the public and free to attend so invite your family members, friends and colleagues! Be there at 11am so you can meet Mayor Leavitt at 12 noon! 

The Ultimate Community Business Expo brings together our community members and dozens of business owners and professionals from the Portland/Vancouver area, all in one place, for a full day of shopping, sales and business exposure. Come see all the wonderful deals, incentives, giveaways, products and packages that local businesses offer.

Shop local small businesses for exclusive offers
Discover exciting products and valuable services
Network, build connections and stay informed 
Support local non-profits

Our community members and business professionals are going to make this an extraordinary expo! Invite your friends, colleagues & bring the family. 

Don't Forget the Kids! Lots of Fun Activities!

Kids will have tons of fun with balloon art, face painting and glitter tattoos sponsored by Joy Entertainers. Plus, Parties Inc. has something exciting planned just for this event. So bring the kids and enjoy a fun-filled special day of shopping, connecting and spending quality time together.  

On this evening at the recently opened tap room for Royale Brewing, The Garrison Tap Room, will be hosting a night that will feature some rare kegs form eight outstanding breweries. 

Located in the St. Johns neighborhood of Portland, The Garrison will be pouring exclusive offerings from Royale Brewing, Hair of the Dog, Melvin Brewing, Burnside Brewing, Gigantic Brewing, Alesong Brewing, Upright Brewing, and Cascade Brewing. 

All proceeds from the evening’s generously donated beer will go to Brewpublic co-founder Angelo De Ieso who continues to battle his brain tumor.

Lose Yr Mind is a two-day warehouse festival in industrial SE Portland. Music kicks of at 9pm each night. Doors open at 8. 

+ FRIDAY 7 OCTOBER +
The Shivas
Beach Fossils
The Woolen Men
Candace
Tickets: https://genero.us/loseyrmind/friday2016

+ SATURDAY 8 OCTOBER +
Shannon and the Clams
Mommy Long Legs
Máscaras
Moon By You
Tickets: https://genero.us/loseyrmind/saturday2016

A percentage of ticket sales will benefit The Jeremy Wilson Foundation, which assists musicians with medical debt. 

This event is 21+ / no outside alcohol. 
Beer, wine cider and mixed drinks will be available for purchase.
Tip yr bartender. 

Tickets are sold nightly and on a sliding scale: 
$15 suggested
$20+ DIY hero (Includes screen printed poster)

Lose Yr Mind is proud to only partner with Oregon-based businesses. Support local. Support DIY. 

Shout out to our sponsors:
Cascade Record Pressing + Eleven PDX Magazine + Secret Aardvark Trading Company + New Deal Distillery + Gilgamesh Brewing + Union Wine Company + Tender Loving Empire + ATLAS Cider Company + Baby Doll Pizza + Rontoms + Misplaced Screen Printing + Curly Cassettes +XRAY.FM + The Liquor Store

loseyrmind.com 
write feelings to: loseyrmind@gmail.com
xoxo

Art by: Sam Farrell of Curly Cassettes

PataPDX is pleased to announce INTER/MISSION, a two person exhibition with installation work from Los Angeles-based artist Allison Peck, and videos from Washington D.C.-based artist Rives Wiley. This exhibition was curated by S/PLI/T, a Portland-based curatorial group co-directed by Sam Hopple and Taryn Wiens.

Exhbition Dates: October 6–November 3, 2016 
Gallery Hours: Saturdays, 12–4pm and by appointment


ABOUT THE EXHIBITION: 

Rives Wiley (riveswiley.com) makes videos of figures positioned in elaborate built environments that blend the real, surreal,and virtual. Their behaviors walk an uncomfortable line between restraint and repetitive action that recalls the pull and push of social conventions on ourselves. 

Allison Peck (allisonpeck.com) intervenes in individual sites, adeptly using languages of material, shape, and color to break down any pretense of a gallery as place-less, as a way to explore notions of space and our positions within it. For this exhibition she will install site-specific work in conversation with the space, the curators, and fellow artist Wiley. 

Both Wiley and Peck work with ideas of environment: Wiley creates fictive environments to mirror the influence of our own social and virtual settings, while Peck forces us to confront the immediate environment of the gallery space. Each artist points to our agency, or lack thereof, in the ever- present context of our surroundings.

More info at http://splitprojects.weebly.com/intermission.html

ABOUT THE CURATORS

S/PLI/T produces two-person exhibitions in established and alternative art venues and vacant spaces. By introducing emerging artists with conceptual depth and contemporary concerns to new viewers, S/PLI/T encourages artistic practice at a critical stage while inviting the community to connect around fresh and vital work. S/PLI/T encourages accessibility and cross-disciplinary engagement through interpretive materials, interviews, public events, and a published catalog. 


The name S/PLI/T describes a duality that is present in the two-person exhibitions and implies two pieces of a whole. We are interested in the dialogue that can take place in the space(split) between different art practices.


S/PLI/T is co-directed by Sam Hopple and Taryn Wiens and is based in Portland, Oregon.

splitprojects.weebly.com

Organic Encounters
2015–2016 Papermaking Residency Exhibition

Organic Encounters presents work from the 2015–2016 c3:initiative and Pulp & Deckle Papermaking Residency artists Ellen George, Laura Foster, Tyler Peterson, and Ryan Woodring. Culminating from their experiences in the Pulp & Deckle studio, each artist utilized handmade paper as a medium to create new works that present ideas central to their art practice.

Organic Encounters considers the transformation of material to propel the medium of paper beyond its familiar use as a substrate. The process of papermaking is one of both strategic intent and material intuition. With no rigidity in process but an inventive appreciation for materialist ideals, Organic Encounters brings together disparate works that are sculptural in form but conceptual in methodology. The results present themselves as commentary on the natural world, the unstable value of objects, the mutability of biological forms, and notions of memory that are dually fluid and tangible.

Under the tutelage of Pulp & Deckle, the artists experimented with a variety of woodfree materials (including abaca, cotton rag, natural dyes, and locally sourced plants and vegetables) to create bodies of work concerned with paper's pliable nature and capacity for layering.

An artists' walkthrough is to follow on October 26th.

S1 and the Synth Library are pleased to announce a workshop and conversation with Russell E. L. Butler on. The workshop will focus on the history of improv and how it relates to Russell’s artistic process. Following the lecture, Russell will address strategies and key considerations of improvisation by demonstrating their live set as well as inviting students to patch a modular system as a group.

Russell Butler is an experimental artist and DJ based in Oakland, California. Originally from Bermuda, Russell has developed a process of improvisation that draws from a rich cultural of history rooted in their island and the black, queer diaspora.

Russell has been making waves in the Bay Area music scene for years.Their project Black Jeans evoked the emotional and physical qualities of minimal synth and electronic body music to transport listeners to hidden and forgotten sonic landscapes. For the past few years they have been making a brand of stripped down machine techno that has evolved rapidly with each successive release. Transplantation, evolution, and healing are themes in Russell’s music. They based their 2015 album, “God is Change”, on Octavia Butler’s Parable series of novels, in which these are central tenets of the philosophy that the books explore. Since its release “God is Change” has received major acclaim, with NPR naming it one of their top 10 favorite electronic albums of 2015. In 2016, Russell released Visions of the Future on Jacktone Records, which is a collection of improvised modular synthesizer sessions. A month later, Russell’s follow up to “God is Change”, “The First Step”, was released on Black Opal. “The First Step” is dedicated to the “…black, brown, trans, queer, and gay folks of Oakland” and posits that “…sometimes to resist oppression, all we must do is simply exist. That is the first step. Let us strive to walk without fear.”

Russell E. L. Butler will be playing live at S1 the following nighthttps://www.facebook.com/events/1565770287064141/

Enrollment for this class is on a sliding scale $5-15 and will be collected at the door. The workshop will be on Friday September 23rd at 6:00pm, and will last approximately 1 1/2 hours. This workshop is open for all. Payment is cash only.

A night of poetry featuring...

Michele Glazer, Ryan Mills, Erin Perry, Timmy Straw

Tuesday September 20th 2016
Doors 6:30pm

Reading 7pm sharp!

organized by artist
Rose Dickson
on the occasion of her exhibition
Slow Mask