City of Portland Community Budget Forums

PLEASE SHOW UP TO SUPPORT FUNDING TO OFFICE OF NEIGHBORHOOD INVOLVEMENT NEIGHBORHOOD AND COMMUNITY-BASED PROGRAMS.

The Forums provide you with the opportunity to offer testimony before City Council and express which service priorities are most important to Portland residents for next year’s FY 2013-14 budget which begins July 1, 2013.

ONI, and all city bureaus, were required by Mayor Charlie Hales to submit a 10% cut to each of their budgets. The ONI Budget Advisory Committee (BAC), on which neighborhood and other civic involvement groups are well represented, is proposing ‘add-back’ restoration to those cuts.

Your testimony at these public hearings will indicate to the new Council that there is community support for the restoration of funds for neighborhood and community involvement services.

ONI’s City Council Budget Worksession

2nd hearing for ONI to respond to questions from the City’s Budget Advisory Committee, which includes all Council members, NO PUBLIC TESTIMONY. Continue reading →

Mother Teresa is Dead is EXTENDING
Now through April 11th!

Due to audience demand, Mother Teresa is Dead is extending for one week, and will now be running through April 11th.

Read the review in The Oregonian, then make sure you…

Buy your tickets here!

2013-2014 Season Six

DETROIT by Lisa D’Amour
Directed by Brian Weaver
October 2 – November 3, 2013
A “sharp X-ray of the embattled Ameri-can psyche…a dark comedy as rich and addictively satisfying as a five-layer dip served up with a brimming bowl of tortilla chips.” -The New York Times

THE OTHER PLACE by Sharr White
November 20 – December 8, 2013
Gretchen Corbett stars in Sharr White’s riveting psycho-logical drama that critics have hailed as “piercing and tonally on-target” (New York Magazine) “curvy and com-pelling” (NY Daily News), and a “taut, incisive puzzle play” (Backstage).

JITNEY by August Wilson
January 15 – February 2, 2014
Don’t miss Portland Playhouse’s signature approach to Wilson, of which Portland Monthly wrote about this season’s King Hedley II: “if you like your drama strong and your performances intense, it’s unlikely that you’ll see a production this gripping… anytime soon.”

THE LIGHT IN THE PIAZZA Book by Craig Lucas
Music & Lyrics by Adam Guettel
February 26 – March 30, 2014
Discover what The New York Times calls “a blessing for those in search of signs of intelligent life in the American musical.”

AFTER THE REVOLUTION by Amy Herzog
Playwright’s Portland Debut
April 30 – June 1, 2014
Tamara Fisch (Race at Artist’s Rep 2012; The Scene at Portland Playhouse 2011; After the Revolution World Premiere workshop at the Williamstown Theatre Festival 2010) directs this “smart, engrossing play” that “crackle[s] with lively, natural dialogue” and characters that “are drawn with a perceptive sense of the contradictions that color personality” (The New York Times).

From the Northeast Coalition of Neighborhoods:

Full Time Executive Director: NECN welcomes applications for a full time Executive Director. The ideal candidate is a committed lifelong learner and facilitative leader who works in partnership with others (including neighborhood volunteers, board, staff, and community partners) to translate vision into action. This person has a passion for civic engagement and a track-record of community-building experience. Please click here for job description and information on how to apply. No calls please.

The King Neighborhood Association is invited to see Clybourne Park! A white community in 1950s Chicago splinters over the black family about to move in. Fast forward to our present day and the same house represents very different demographics, and neighborhood values and tensions. Decades apart, hilarious and horrifying neighbors pitch a battle over territory and legacy that forces us to consider how far our ideas about race have evolved—or not. When our houses become our homes, and our neighborhoods become our identities, what will we do to protect them? And from what? Clybourne Park won the 2012 Tony Award, the 2011 Pulitzer Prize and the 2011 Olivier Award for Best New Play. On the Main Stage at Portland Center Stage from April 6–May 5.

King neighbors get a $10 discount on tickets! See the attached flyer below for details:

King Neighborhood Discount to Clybourne Park