This is the last free Monday night lecture by the MFA department until January and of course, they are bringing another great speaker–Hamza Walker, whom the New York Times has labeled one of the seven most influential curators in the country.

From PSU MFA Department:

Since 1994, Hamza Walker has served as Director of Education/Associate Curator for The Renaissance Society at The University of Chicago – a non-collecting museum devoted to contemporary art.

His most recent group exhibitions include Black Is, Black Ain't, 2008; Meanwhile in Baghdad…, 2008; All the Pretty Corpses, 2005; The Here and Now, 2005; A Perfect Union…more or less, 2004; and New Video, New Europe: A Survey of East European Video, 2004. Read the rest of this entry »

Often there are some great Sunday shows in Portland. This Sunday brings a great show to Backspace (formerly BarackSpace).

From Miranda King:

Sunday November 30th
8pm, $7
Andy Combs and the Moth
The Uglysuit
Quail Lungs

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Not only can you buy local handmade items, but this also supports Oregon Food Bank…and there is a Drink Lounge! Boom…sold

From the website:

Shop for unique, locally handmade gifts at the Secret Society Sale, an annual artist-run holiday sale. All vendors participating in this sale will donate 10% of their profits to the Oregon Food Bank, because no one should be hungry.

Sunday, November 30^th, 2008 (One Day only!)
Secret Society Ballroom 116 NE Russell (next to the Wonder Ballroom)
10 am — 6 pm

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Portland Christmas** (Holiday) Tree, Pioneer Courthouse Square
Taken on January 2, 2008
Photo By Julian Chadwick / PDX Pipeline

The annual Christmas** tree lighting takes place today in Pioneer Courthouse Square. The photo above is from the take-down of last year's tree the day after New Years.

Info from the square about today's event:

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Jason Quigley Photography
portland, Oregon, USA

We are getting close to Santacon 2008. This picture is from 2005 and Jason sent this information about it:

This shot was taken during Santacon, in 2005, outside of Mary's club downtown. The bike cops followed us around all day just to make sure Santa didn't get too crazy. They were actually pretty cool about the whole thing, despite getting harassed all day by drunk people in Santa suits.

You can view a lot of great Santacon pictures and information from last year here. This message was sent from Drunken Rampage about the upcoming Satacon on December 6:

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This annual thanksgiving party always brings a good group of people thankful for something fun to do on a Thanksgiving night. See you there:

GIVE THANKS (and a swift roundhouse kick) at the 6th ANNUAL THANKSGIVING KUNG FU MINI-MARATHON!!!
Come on down to the Clinton for some turkey, holiday fixins and a brew – and prepare for 5 hours of uninterrupted Kung Fu! Kung Fu movies from 7pm until Midnight.  $5.00 gets you in and out all evening! Appearances by Jim Kelly, Bruce Lee, Sony Chiba and more…

The Clinton Street Theater 2522 SE Clinton St., Portland, OR 97202 Events phone – 503.238.8899

Shows at 7pm until Midnight
General Admission $5

Pipeline received a message from fellow twitterer Robin Parker about a nice Portland interactive Thanksgiving Day experience. You can read a nice break down of what happens at Mental Floss here.

From Robin:
Some friends and I are doing a collaborative live Thanksgiving website for the second year in a row, and we'd like our fellow Portlanders to join the fun online!  http://TurkeyTracker.com

We use Ustream, Flickr and Twitter to create an interactive webcast of our turkey smoking. We have a camera (probably 2 this year) trained on the smoker, which broadcasts all day. We take pictures throughout the cooking process and post those as we take them, alongside a twitter feed that includes automatic updates from a USB thermometer rig (which got mentioned on MAKE, actually! ).

Because a big part of our goal is to connect with family and friends who are also enjoying the holiday, we have chat (via Ustream) and a Flickr pool that others can post photos to, which are then randomly cycled for display on the site. We'll also be reading people's Thanksgiving “Thank You's” live when they direct message them to us on Twitter! Read the rest of this entry »

From Julian: Last Saturday, Melissa Lion and the Pipeline posse rolled out to meet Belladonna at Fantasy For Adults “Only” in Tigard. I took these pictures while waiting for our signed cards and Polaroids. Melissa was able to ask her 3 or 4 questions on video (link below) and wrote about our lovely Tigard road trip.

“Meeting Belladonna” By Melissa Lion

(Not necessarily NSFW, but just in case…More after jump including link to short video interview between Melissa and Belladonna)

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The Young Professionals of Portland are putting on networking event plus benefit for the Salvation Army. We are all being affected by this economy in some way, but many of our fellow Portlanders are really being hurt with the loss of charity resources and increased needs.

Around this time of thanks and bitter cold (hello Portland Winter, almost forgot about you), this is a good way to help those in need and get a free drink ticket (twofer!) as well.

From YPOP (event here):

Sameunderneath drink give-away!

Sameunderneath will be at this event with some of their clothing! Sameunderneath will be giving the first 100 people to complete a survey about their clothing a free drink ticket!

Canned Food and Toy Drive

YPOP will be kicking off a three week long canned food and toy drive to benefit The Salvation Army on Tuesday night. Donations can be brought to the Crown Room on the 25th during the YPOP event

*Thanks to Bryan at UrbanDrinks.com for the heads up on this event. You can check out the Crown Room happy hour here.

Portland State MFA department really does an amazing job of bringing interesting free lectures. If you have anything else going on tonight–drop it.

Photo from Frank Prattle. He has an interview with Matt Higgs here.

Info from PSU:

Matthew Higgs (b.1964. Wakefield, England) is a curator, critic and artist currently living and working in New York. Since the early 1990s he has sought to develop a practice that considers the intersections and overlaps between these disciplines. A primary facet of this approach has been the development of an ongoing, inter-generational dialogue amongst artists — through his exhibitions, projects and publications.

Higgs is currently the Director and Chief Curator of White Columns, New York's oldest non-profit art space. Since his arrival at White Columns in the fall of 2004 he has organized more than seventy-five individual exhibitions and projects, showing the work of more than 400 international artists of all generations. He has taught extensively over the past ten years and was a lecturer at Goldsmiths College, London and the Royal College of Art, London. Read the rest of this entry »