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The weekend is finally here and once again, we have a great list of Portland events, parties and tons of free tickets.

We have also added events from Leigh Feldman’s LifeisaParty email blast. You can get the email and your chance to win hookups for shows and deals by emailing leighfeldman3 @ gmail and asking to join.

********************* Reminder: We give out free tickets including to many of the top music and art venues in Portland. Join our email list if you like free stuff *********************

Featured: Best of Oregon Food & Wine Festival DISCOUNT | Half-Off Tickets

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Win Tickets & Prizes From Pipeline

• Win Tickets: Last Hours Fest @ Bossanova Ballroom | DIY Punk/Metal Festival ($40, July 8-9)
• Win Tickets: The Unseen @ CoHo Productions| Quick & Dirty Art Project, Ninkasi Beer($60, July 9)
• Win Package: The Revenant Screening @ Hollywood Theatre | Horror Movie, Buddy Comedy ($25, July 9)
• Win Package: First Ever Portland Canned Beer Fest This Weekend @ The Guild | RideOn Benefit($80, July 9)
• Win Tickets: The Dead Kenny G’s @ The Goodfoot | Punk Jazz Trio($20, July 9)
• Win Tickets: ATLAS Dance Party w/ DJ Anjali, E3, The Incredible Kid @ Holocene | Global Bass($20, July 9)
• Win Tickets: Cherry Royale w/ The 16 Bars Hip-Hop Orchestra @ The Goodfoot | Atlanta Funk, Dance, Psychedelia($20, July 10)

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Portland Thursday Events July 7, 2011

• Featured: First Thursday @ Benjamin Benjamin Gallery: Art Inspired By Authors | Beer From Upright Brewing
• Featured: Wayne Horvitz’ Sweeter Than The Day w/ Kiki Band @ The Goodfoot | Acoustic, Blues, Soul
• Featured: First Thursday @ Pittock Mansion | Tour Historic Portland Landmark Late
• Featured: Black Star Brewers Visit @ East Burn | $2 Bottles of Lager, Meet The Brewer
• Featured: Portland’s Funniest Person Contest @ Helium Comedy Club | Certificates 1,000 Grand Prize, Helium Gift
• Featured: The Unseen @ CoHo Productions| Quick & Dirty Art Project, Ninkasi Beer(Win Tickets)
• Featured: Gilbert Gottfried @ Helium Comedy Club | The Aristocrats, Howard Stern, Tonight Show
• Featured: Trivia Nights @ Bare Bones Cafe & Montage/La Merde Lounge | Fun & Free, Prizes!
• Featured: Many Portland First Thursday Art Openings & Events | NW, SW, Pearl, Old Town, China Town

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• SE Portland:Buckman Farmer’s Market | Fresh Produce, Artisan Foods, Crafts
• SE Portland: Pickup Dodgeball @ Col. Sumners Park | FREE, dodgeball on the tennis court from 8-10pm [From Lifeisaparty]
• NW Portland:First Thursday @ BC Gallery |FREE, All Ages, Annie Heisey’s “Biting My Own Teeth”
• Downtown: Portland Noon Tunes – Ezra Holbrook @ Pioneer Courthouse Square
• NW Portland: First Thursday @ the Independent | “Tempus Incognitus,” Photographs by Brad Carlile
• NW Portland: First Thursday @ PRESENTspace | FREE, Disability and Art
• Pearl District: First Thursday @ Popina Swimwear: Travel Meet Up Italy | FREE, Kona Beer, Prizes
• Pearl District: First Thursday @ Pearl Gallery & Framing: Portland “Hoods and Pockets” by Chris Haberman
• Pearl District: Lizard Lounge First Thursday @ Lizard Lounge | FREE, music, food, drinks, ice cream, discounts on clothes, fundraiser for PICA [From Lifeisaparty]
• Pearl District: Ecotrust 2011 Free Portland Sundown Concert Series – Typhoon & Wild Ones
• NW Portland: Portland Concerts in the Park - Padam Padam (passionate street cabaret) @ Wallace Park
• Pearl District: First Thursday @ Wieden + Kennedy: W+K 12 | Student Work, Ninkasi Beer, Sokol Blosser Wine
• Downtown: First Thursday @ Elroy Artspace: Mods & Gods | Vintage Scooters, Tiki Pop Art, Rum Drinks
• NW Portland: First Thursday @ Backspace | Graffiti Artists Josh Mays, Meagan Spendlove
• Park Blocks: The Allure of the Automobile @ Portland Art Museum
• All Month: Discounted Bowling @ Grand Central Bowl | $2 and $4 Games, Prizes
• All Month: Free Movie Nights in Portland

More Portland Friday, Saturday, Sunday and Upcoming Events after the break Read the rest of this entry »

Trek In The Park
Woodlawn Park | Portland, Oregon
Taken by Erin Connolly

Portland’s wildly popular Trek in the Park series is back! The show will run every weekend throughout the month and this year’s episode is “Mirror, Mirror: Has the whole galaxy gone crazy?!”

Related Portland Events and Info on PDX Pipeline:

• Our Portland Events Calendar and Ticket Giveaways
• 2011 Portland “Movies In the Park” Schedule
• Concerts in the Park Schedule: Portland Summer Concert Series (2011) | FREE!
• Portland Pictures: Trek In The Park Crowd | Woodlawn Park
• Video: Trek In The Park & 2010 Info | Woodlawn Park

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Portland 2011 Trek In The Park Schedule, Info, Video, & More Pictures Read the rest of this entry »

YES! There is another free outdoor series in Portland this summer other than Noon Tunes, Concerts in the Parks, & Movies in the Parks. It’s the Ecotrust Sundown Concert series and it was a big hit last year. We missed one of these because there are so many great free Portland events going on right now. However, there are still three to go including Typhoon and Wild Ones tonight!

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Related Portland Events and Info on Pipeline:

• Our Portland Events Calendar and Ticket Giveaways
• 2011 Portland Noon Tunes Schedule: Free Concerts in Pioneer Courthouse Square
• 2011 Portland “Movies In the Park” Schedule
• Concerts in the Park Schedule: Portland Summer Concert Series (2011) | FREE!

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From Press Release:

Ecotrust’s bioswale-lined parking lot (10th & NW Johnson).
Thursday evenings in July. 5:30-8:30PM | Free!
Website: www.ecotrust.org/events/sundown

Sundown at Ecotrust Concert Series

Join us at the Natural Capital Center (Ecotrust), a hub for ideas and urban community, for a unique series of free outdoor concerts that tell a story about how to live deliberately in our bioregion. Learn about Ecotrust Programs and partner organizations to the tune of a homegrown music lineup, plucked from Portland’s varied and abundant music scene.

The Innovation Showcase will offer the chance to learn about local initiatives and connect with sponsors and organizations whose work corresponds with each evening’s theme. Topics include: water, food, energy, green building + forestry, and reliable prosperity.

All concerts will be powered by a solar generator from Solamor. Free bike valet provided. Pedal. Listen. Connect

Portland Ecotrust Concert Series Schedule: Read the rest of this entry »

If you want to catch another large Portland party other than the Mississippi Street Fair this Saturday, the Pearl will be home to the annual Bastille Day block party celebration. Thousands attend to eat, drink, and celebrate escape from French incarceration.

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Related Portland Events and Info:

• Our Portland Events Calendar and Ticket Giveaways
• 2011 Mississippi Avenue Street Fair Pictures & Information: “Largest Street Fair in Portland”
• Portland Voodoo Doughnut Grand Reopening | FREE, Music, Doughnuts
• Oregon Country Fair Pictures & 2011 Information | Veneta (Eugene) July 8-10

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Info from website:

2011 Portland’s Bastille Festival in the Pearl
Jamison Square Park | Free and open to the public
Saturday, July 9, 2011 | 12:00 noon – 8:00 p.m.

French wine, cuisine, art and sport; Portland Waiters Race, pétanque exhibitions and “Le Jazz” by the Patrick Lamb Band

The Portland Bastille Day Committee will present the 9th Annual Bastille Day Festival at Jamison Square Park on Saturday, July 9, 2011 from 12 noon to 8 p.m. The event is free, open to the public and for people of all ages. Bastille Day festivals – held in cities all around the world – celebrate the storming of the Bastille Prison on July 14, 1789, an event which is recognized as the start of the French Revolution.

The 2010 event in Portland was among the largest such festivals on the West Coast, with thousands of visitors (click here to view pictures), and was filmed in 2008 by PBS for a documentary that was shown nationally on TV. This year’s festival will feature a variety of vendors and organizations offering French wine, cuisine, music, art and sport.

Portland Bastille Day in the Pearl events will include: Read the rest of this entry »

Pipeline is giving away two pairs of tickets to the ATLAS Dance Party with DJ Anjali and The Incredible Kid Saturday, July 9 at Holocene. To win, comment on this post why you’d like to attend. Winners will be drawn and emailed Friday, July 8.
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From our sponsors at Holocene:
ATLAS w/ DJ Anjali and The Incredible Kid, E3
Saturday, July 9
8:30 p.m. | $5 | 21+

Holocene
1001 SE Morrison Street
www.holocene.org

ATLAS is Holocene’s longest-running dance party, inaugurated in November of 2003. ATLAS is hosted six times a year by resident DJs Anjali, E3 and The Incredible Kid. ATLAS exists to present the gritty urban music whose production and traditions are not limited by American borders.

Hosted by the crew that first introduced the Portland club audience to genres such as 2step, Balkan Beats, Bhangra, Dembow, Dubstep, Urban Desi, Funk Carioca, Kuduro, Merengue Urbano, Rai’n'B, Reggada and Reggaeton. Atlas is the Portland club night dedicated to exposing the latest electronic sounds emerging from the global diaspora. Atlas is the only night of its kind in Portland and has been going strong for over seven years!!

Portland’s monthly First Thursday event is tonight! Unlike the last months, it should not be raining and the temperature will be over seventy degrees. 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). 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: 2011 Portland June Events

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

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Related Thursday Events & Info From Pipeline:

• July 7: Black Star Brewers Visit @ East Burn | $2 Bottles of Lager, Meet The Brewer
• July 7: First Thursday @ Pittock Mansion | Tour Historic Portland Landmark Late
• July 7: First Thursday @ Benjamin Benjamin Gallery: Art Inspired By Authors | Beer From Upright Brewing
• July 7: First Thursday @ Pearl Gallery & Framing: Portland “Hoods and Pockets” by Chris Haberman
• July 7: First Thursday @ Wieden + Kennedy: W+K 12 | Student Work, Ninkasi Beer, Sokol Blosser Wine
• July 7-9: The Unseen @ CoHo Productions | Quick & Dirty Art Project, Ninkasi Beer, Wine

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MANY More Portland First Thursday Art Events

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From our sponsors at Pittock Mansion:
First Thursday @ Pittock Mansion
@ 3229 NW Pittock Drive
10 a.m.- 7 p.m.
$8 Adults |$7 Seniors | $5 Youth
Free Admission for Members

This summer, as part of Portland’s popular “First Thursdays,” Pittock Mansion will remain open until 7:00 p.m. on June 2, July 7, August 4, and September 1 so visitors may tour Pittock Mansion and enjoy the magnificent view during evening hours. Bring your friends, and make Pittock Mansion your initial First Thursday destination!

Constructed between 1909 and 1914 in Portland’s West Hills by Oregon pioneers Henry and Georgiana Pittock, Pittock Mansion is a meticulously preserved architectural landmark Read the rest of this entry »

By Will Conwell
FRIENDLY 2: Portland Timbers vs Club America
Thursday, July 7, 8:00 p.m.
Previous match-up(s): None

The Timbers will play host tonight to storied Mexican team Club America. Playing out of Mexico City, Club America has won the Mexican Primera Division ten times in it’s 95 year history. This season the Eagles struggled out of the gate but were able to turn their fortunes and finished sixth in the Clausura. Club America is known for drawing it’s players from throughout Central America and has featured Mexican World Cup stars including Cuauhtémoc Blanco and Hugo Sánchez.

The Timbers will field a team primarily of reserves, Read the rest of this entry »