The favorite holiday of portly mathematicians everywhere take splace today, March 14, 2012: Pi Day!
Clearly, the best way to celebrate the versatile mathematical constant π is with a versatile pastry pie.
Look no further than Portland pi(e) blog Make Me Some Pie for the comprehensive 2012 Portland-area Pi Day Happenings list, and a little history of the wonderfully nerdy secular holiday.
Attack of the Flix, presented by Microflix, is a monthly competition for Portland filmmakers held at the Curious Comedy Theatre (5225 NE MLK). This month’s show takes place Sunday, March 18, 2012.
Submit your film if you are an Oregon or Washington filmmaker! Entries must be 10 minutes or less, and submitted on USB thumb drives encoded as AppleTV (see the FAQ for full details).
Films are shown in the order they are submitted, and screened live on the interwebz!
Vote for your favorite flicks – the first place winner receives a golden trophy!
Admission is free (a donation bucket will be at the door). Curious Comedy Theatre is an all ages venue, and has a full bar.
This recurring show takes place every third Sunday. Visit the Microflix website and the Attack of the Flix Facebook page for more details.
Every third Friday of the month the Blue Monk (3341 SE Belmont) hosts the Offbeat Belly Dance collective, a club rocking, good timing, genre-defying gang of badass belly dancers.
This Friday, March 16, 2012 is now exception: Offbeat Belly Dance! This Friday! Fun! Fabulous! Free Show!
This month, we will thrill to the speed, grace, and precision of the roguish redhead herself, Zighala Zurah!
We will marvel at the magical collision of hip hop and belly dance when the dynamic Vee takes to the floor!
We will be amazed by the amazing Jasmine, and her astonishing skillz and charisma!
We will catch the train to AwesomeTown with Samira Alemana, hostess of the Bella Note night of belly dance!
We will delight in the darkly decadent dance stylings of the sensational Jadzia!
Gadzooks! It is confirmed – the hypnotically captivating and fabulous Jessica will be joining us as well! Join us and feast your eyes upon her insouciant radsaucitude!
Stay tuned! More players to be named later!
Join us Friday! Get there early so you can get a good seat, or get there later and grab a chair at someone else’s table! Fine entertainment! Fun new friends! And so economical! Yowza!
Come be a part of the magic! Wooooo!
Join Karissa, the Ringleader of Offbeat Belly Dance (pictured to the right), and the other fabulous dancers at the show Friday night.
Individually, the members of the Offbeat Belly Dance collective perform at shows throughout the Portland area, but on the 3rd Friday of the month they come together at the Blue Monk to perform in a rollicking belly dance revue. One of the things that makes it offbeat, is that the dancers choose whatever kind of music they like. Karissa tells me this has included traditional Middle Eastern music, zydeco, AC/DC, Strauss, The Pogues, hip hop, jazz, blues, Old Crow Medicine Show, the Spice Girls, and just about everything else.
The shows are free, and go from about 7pm until 9:30pm.
Visit OffbeatBellyDance.com for more information. You can also become a fan on Facebook, and follow the genre-defying, good timing gang of belly dancers in Portland OR, w/Karissa as ringmaster/carnival barker/propagandiston on Twitter at @OffbeatBelly
Photo credit: Offbeat Belly Dance
A bi-monthly mingling of artists of all sorts to meet, discuss, blather, applaud and plot the growth of the arts in Portland, Art Spark events take place every third Thursday in January, March, May, September, and November.
The latest Art Spark Event Fair takes place this Thursday, March 15 from 5pm-7pm at the FAB PDX Art Space (1315 SE 9th).
In the true vein of Portland’s eclectic collaborating nature, this month we are joining forces with 3 unlikely suspects, Portland Story Theatre, Ooligan Press and FAB PDX Art Space. So the news is we are going to have a book cover contest, a book fold contest, a fun interactive get to know you by PST, as well as a short performance piece.
DJ John Henry will be on hand again, there will be giveaways, and more. Visit the Portland Art Spark website for more details.
The Stumptown Stories series, geared to everyone who loves this city we live in, takes place most Tuesdays at Jack London bar (basement of the Rialto, SW 4th and Alder). Free to get in, but must be 21 or over – there’s a full bar!
This Tuesday, March 14, 2012 Ian Waite presents The Quest for the Smurfy Grail:
The story of how one man found a code hidden in the Smurfs that lead to the truth behind the Holy Grail (aka The Da Smurfi Code). It’s a frivolous, yet serious trawl through Holy Grail mythology, with a sprinkling of pop culture, art history and personal travelogue.
Doors open at 5pm for this free event (21 and over only). Presentation begins at 7:30pm.