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Leigh sent out his weekly email of Portland weekend events earlier today. It is mostly reproduced below with some additions by Pipeline. You can get the email and your chance to win hookups for shows and deals by emailing leighfeldman3 @ gmail and asking to join

There are many listings so we have put events in red (blue = linked!) that we think will be good, well attended, or should be interesting.

Reminder: We give out free tickets to our Portland Facebook Group including to many of the top music and art venues in Portland. Join it if you like free stuff. Not on Facebook? Join our email list and win there.

From Leigh Feldman:
Things I'm currently jocking…

Free ish… We have tix here and will be giving away some on twitter (add @leighfeldman3) to FRESH 1 Year Anniversary w/ Samiyam & Nordic Soul (Fri), Seu Jorge (sun) and Vieux Farka Toure (wed)! Wanna win any of them? Forward this email to a friend, have them write us asking to join the group and we'll enter you both in a drawing to win — or you can find us on facebook at facebook.com/LifeisaPartyFB to get tickets, music and info on weekly events. (These are from Leigh, not Pipeline. Email/follow him to win these.)

Free music ish… The RRS Feed is a crew of three female dj's down in Cali. They rip it, pure and simple. For fans of Erykah Badu, Slum Village, future music, broken window jazz, soul, J Dilla etc etc grab this mix – http://bit.ly/cslWCV

Awesome ish… FRESH is teaming up with DECIBEL FEST for a PDX Pre-party featuring LA based Brainfeeder beatsmith SAMIYAM, along with the first Portland performance by SPLATINUM. Add a dj set by Tyler Tastemaker and this Friday night party at Crown Room will certainly be a crazy event for any fan of glitch, bass and sample based electronica.

Even more awesome ish… Next weekend is the Second Saturday of the month, which means it is open bar party time! For members of LifeisaParty, be prepared for an awesome night of music (Inspired Flight — the side project of band members that perform live with members of Wu-Tang Clan and Living Legends + DJ Doc Adam & Ronin Roc) and FREE drinks on us! More details next week or on facebook.com/LifeisaPartyFB

This list is growing by leaps and bounds. Turn to the person next to
you and see if they are reading the same email. If not, forward it to
them and tell them to join the community.

Portland Thursday Events, August 5

• From Pipeline: 50+ Portland First Thursday Events
• The Phunktion w/ Philly's Phunkestra Soul Orchestra @ Crown Room (FREE — New Orleans Brass Funk)
• Robot Love w/ DJ 100Proof, Automaton, Cory O @ East Chinatown Lounge (FREE — hip hop & r&b)
• Ecopalooza Fashion Showcase w/ LMG & Night Dedicated to House @ Couture ($5 — fashion show, cocktails, house music, big room, progressive)
• The Fix @ Someday Lounge (FREE — hip hop, funk, soul)
• Natasha Leggero from Last Comic Standing, Chelsea Lately & Reno 911 @ Helium Comedy Club ($15 — stand up comedy!)
• Steady Rockin w/ Deff Ro & Mighty Moves @ Bar XV (FREE — hip hop, funk, r&b)
• Spitball Media Party @ 925 NW Lovejoy (FREE — music, drinks, alt gathering)
• Underskore Orkestra @ Alberta St. Pub ($5 — Balkan brass)
• 2nd Annual Nano Beer Festival @ Fanno Creek (FREE — 15 different breweries with taps)
• Lizard Lounge First Thursday @ Lizard Lounge (FREE — art by Arsenio Torres, beer, music, food, the place to be)
• From Pipeline: The Watson Twins @ Crystal Ballroom — Lola's Room
• From Pipeline: Creative Advocacy Network First Thursday Flash Performances | NorthWest Dance Project, Last Regiment
• From Pipeline: Free Movie Nights in Portland
• From Pipeline: Rooftop Cinema @ Hotel deLuxe + Win Tickets
• From Pipeline: Portland Summer "Movies In the Park" Schedule
• From Pipeline: MusicfestNW Annual Post Show @ Backspace | First Thursday
• From Pipeline: Concerts In The Park | 2010 Portland Summer Concert Series | FREE!
• From Pipeline: Ping Pong Tournament @ Club 21 (5:30PM, $5 sign-up, winner gets pot, food/drink specials)

Friday, Saturday and Sunday events after the break… Read the rest of this entry »

First Thursday is over. It was a big one. Now it is time for First Friday and this is the show to check out. Over 250 pieces by EMEK including many music posters you'll probably recognize. This is the third (I believe) show at Po' Boy and the other two were very successful. I'm sure this will be the same.

Related events and info from PDX Pipeline:

• Our Portland Events List
• 75+ Portland Weekend Events, Parties & Free Tickets
• First Friday Opening @ Launch Pad Gallery | Katie Simpson Spain
• My Own Monsters | British Artist Brings Solo Show To Portland @ Red e
• First Friday East Side Gallery walk (more info)

From Po' Boy Art

Po' Boy Art presents "Fool's Gold Art — OR Recessionary Kindlin'" over 200 Rock posters, art prints, and handbills, past to present from artists EMEK.  Show open's First Friday Aug 6th from 5-11pm, the show will be up until Sept 1st

Emek has been referred to as "The Thinking Man's Poster Artist". Coming from a unique family of 5 artists, Emek has made his mark creating special limited edition silkscreen posters for live concerts around the world. Emek' style thrives on attention to detail, coupled with layers of meaning in the artwork. His infusion of socio-political commentary into pop culture imagery has made his work instantly recognizable in the field. Emphasizing craftsmanship, his work is mostly hand-drawn in the tradition of the classic psychedelic posters from the 1960′s. Born in the 70′s Emek was also strongly influenced by the DIY punk flyers of the 80's.

Over the last 2 decades, Emek has created hundreds of posters for some of the top alternative bands and events, like Radiohead, Coachella, Queens of the Stone Age, Tool, System of a Down, Jane's Addiction, The Flaming Lips, to name a few, as well as album covers from Neil Young and Pearl Jam to Henry Rollins and Erykah Badu. Emek's work has been shown in galleries across the United States, Berlin, London, Tokyo, Belgium and Canada. He has been interviewed on CNN, featured in dozens of magazines and books, including covers of Juxtapoz magazine.

Pipeline is giving away many tickets this weekend. Some of them you can win here on the site and some (Oregon Zoo), you can win by joining our facebook group and/or email list.

Reminder: We give out 100s of $$$ in free tickets every month to our Portland Facebook Group for many of the top events & venues in PDX. Join it if you like free stuff. Not on Facebook? Join our email list and win there.

• Win Tickets: Rooftop Cinema on top of Hotel deLuxe (August 5)
  Rooftop Cinema, an annual outdoor summer event that combines the love of movies with local music and a panoramic view of downtown Portland. To win, go to this post and comment why you would like to attend. Winner will be drawn and emailed at 3pm on August 5th.

• Win Tickets: Natasha Leggero at Helium Comedy Club (August 5-7)
  Natasha Leggero is a Judge on the current season of Last Comic Standing, has been on Reno 911, "Chelsea Lately", Always Sunny In Philadelphia and many other shows. We have a few pairs for both the Thursday night 8PM performance and the Friday 10:30 performance. To win, go to this post and & comment why you would like to attend (AND which day). Winners drawn on Thursday and Friday at 3PM.

• Win Tickets: Beer Belly Dinner at EastBurn with Vertigo Brewing ($70!, August 12)
  5-courses of beer and food on EastBurn patio. All proceeds go to RideON. To win, go to this post and comment why you would like to attend. Winner drawn Friday (August 6) at 3PM.

• Win Tickets: Levon Helm Band, Chris Issak & Cyndi Lauper – Oregon Zoo Concert Series
  Win tickets Oregon Zoo Concerts by joining our facebook group and/or email list.

Portland's monthly First Thursday event is tomorrow. Time is certainly flying by right now with all the great summer events. There are over 50 (probably 100) galleries having openings this month.

We have a very large list below thanks to Sequential Art Gallery (328 NW Broadway) & Rich Vail Mackin. They compile an email called the "[h]IT LIST" of events every month. You can join it by emailing them @ sequentialart @ gmail dot com. We have reproduced much of it below with permission.

Related: Portland EVENTS LISTINGS

Are you on the Twitter? Follow @FirstThursday or the #firstthursday hashtag to see what people are posting about it. You can also follow Sequential art on twitter: @sequentialart

Related Weekend Events & Info From Pipeline:

• 75+ Portland Weekend Events, Parties & Free Tickets | August 5-8
• Portland First Thursday: Original Artwork Of Scott Pilgrim @ Floating World Comics
• Thursday: The Watson Twins @ Crystal Ballroom — Lola's Room
• Thursday: Rooftop Cinema @ Hotel deLuxe + Win Tickets
• Creative Advocacy Network First Thursday Flash Performances | NW Dance Project, Last Regiment
• MusicfestNW Annual Post Show @ Backspace |First Thursday
• 6th annual Everett Station Lofts Courtyard Show (facebook)

This Month at Sequential Art Gallery:
Sequential Art Gallery is excited to again present local artist Katy Ellis O'Brien in her second solo exhibition with the space. “The Kilkenny Cats” is a story in pictures involving cartoon cats, boy scout camp, folk music and whiskey. Through a series of narrative paintings, the viewer's imagination is invited to explore the sometimes silly, sometimes sad story of the tumultuous relationship between a pair of musicians. The show opens First Thursday, August 5, and runs every Saturday through August.

Katy Ellis O'Brien grew up drawing cartoon animals in Forest Grove, Oregon. Wielding a degree in sequential art from The Evergreen State College, she now resides in Northeast Portland. In addition to being a painter and cartoonist, she's an editor for the Stumptown Underground zine collective, and she teaches children's workshops at Cosmic Monkey Comics.

Kaebel is a slacker…watch him LIVE at ustream.tv/channel/sequential-art-gallery-studio

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