Bergamot Burlesque presents: Legendary Burlesque featuring Judith Stein
Legendary Burlesque returns! Bergamot Burlesque is excited to bring back our beloved annual event, Legendary Burlesque, which features a living burlesque legend as the headliner. The relaunch of Legendary Burlesque is coming May 11, 2024 and will feature the Grand Beaver of Canadian Burlesque, Judith Stein. Tickets are on sale now to see this incredible performer. Judith Stein was a cash-strapped student in Eugene, Oregon in the 1970s until she finally joined the ranks of the strip tease. Starting out as a topless go-go girl, it was suggested she should become a stripper. The lure of more money, international travel and fabulous costumes was all the inducement Judith needed to fulfill her dreams. From 1973-1990 two suitcases were her home. She performed throughout Micronesia, USA, Canada, and New Zealand until finally retiring and trading the bright lights of burlesque for the Northern Lights of British Columbia, Canada. But, alas, there was no rest for the wicket as the saying goes. In 2012 Judith was rediscovered by the Burlesque Hall of Fame as the first Canadian Legend and with delight she began performing again. Judith was honored to be a subject in the film “League of Exotic Dancers” along with various podcasts, press and performances all with a side of saltiness and joy. She has also been mentoring performers with a side of truthful burlesque history. She continues to revel and reveal as the Grand Beaver of Canadian Burlesque with great delight. Joining Judith are a cast of fabulous performers from the PNW and beyond: *Featured Performer – Scarlet Letter (Reno)*Lacy Knightly (PDX)*Carson St. Clair (Seattle)*Pucks a’Plenty (Seattle)*Sandria Dore (PDX)*Sherwood Ryder (Seattle)*Whiskey Rick (PDX)*Angelique DeVil (PDX)*Natasha Riot (PDX)*Kate Cloud (PDX)*Simran Gleason & The Infamous Nina Nightshade (PDX) This is a ticketed event, for those 21+ with ID. Ticket Pricing: $25 GA Advance $35 GA At the Door $40 VIP with Preferred Seating (first 7 rows of the center section – available presale only) ASL interpreters will be provided. Join us for an evening of legendary burlesque performances headlined by one of the women who paved the way for the rest of us and continues do so! Review our Health & Safety Policies HERE
Live Wire with Luke Burbank
Join Emmy award-winning host Luke Burbank for the taping of Live Wire, the fastest growing entertainment show on public radio. We’ve got a late-night stride, an Oscar Wilde wit, and the charisma of Ferris Bueller grand marshaling a parade. Music, comedy, and conversation, live and packed with surprises.Featured Guests: MOSHE KASHER Moshe Kasher is a stand-up comedian, writer, and actor. He is the author of Kasher in the Rye. He has written for various TV shows and movies, including HBO’s Betty, Comedy Central’s roasts and Another Period, Zoolander 2, Wet Hot American Summer, and many more. His Netflix specials include Moshe Kasher: Live in Oakland and The Honeymoon Stand Up Special. He’s appeared in Curb Your Enthusiasm, Shameless, The Good Place, and other fun things. He co-hosts The Endless Honeymoon podcast with his wife, Natasha Leggero. Publisher’s Weekly calls his latest book, “Culture Vulture: A Memoir in Six Scenes,” “[a] winning blend of humor and pathos . . . This will resonate with readers who who’ve felt alone in an overwhelming world.”SLOANE CROSLEY Sloane Crosley is the author of the novels Cult Classic and The Clasp and three essay collections: Look Alive Out There and the New York Times-bestsellers I Was Told There’d Be Cake and How Did You Get This Number. Grief Is for People is her sixth book. GLITTERFOX Glitterfox is a Portland, OR-based indie folk band lead by married couple Solange Igoa and Andrea Walker with Eric Stalker and Blaine Heinonen on bass and drums. Since being named one of Portland’s “Best New Bands” by the Willamette Week in 2022, coming away from Oregon Country Fair 2022 one of the most buzzed-about breakout acts, and being named winners of the High Sierra Music Festival Band Competition in 2023, Glitterfox has worked relentlessly to electrify their live show while honing in on the inimitable “west coast indie meets Southern Americana songwriting” style that defines Glitterfox song craft. Tickets$30 General Admission$45 Preferred Seating (First 5 rows of Front Center Section – available in advance only) Click HERE for tickets. Doors open at 6:30 Guests subject to change.
BACKFENCE: ROULETTE
Each show begins with a giant game show size wheel packed with juicy story prompts. One of our five seasoned storytellers is randomly drawn. To determine the random prompt for their story, they spin that giant wheel! They can play or pass their prompt (once). If they pass, another teller can steal their prompt. Then the risky part… each storyteller has only 5 minutes to come up with a true 5-minute story based on their prompt! It’s like we invented a new game called truth AND dare. The audience votes on a winner at the end of the night – both the storyteller winner and one lucky audience member win a veritable bevy of prizes! Hosted by FRAYN MASTERS & MINDY NETTIFEE Music by: CHAACH With STORYTELLERS… Voted Portland’s Funniest Person 2022 – we welcome back ROULETTE winner SHAIN BRENDEN @SHAINBRENDEN Professional skateboarder WILLIS KIMBEL @WHEELBARROW November Winner, High School science teacher DARSHANPREET GILL Mercury Genius of Comedy, Co-host of Portland Mercury Presents: TWO EVILS ARLO WEIRHAUSER @arlo.c.w Chef, Culinary Innovation Consultant, Podcast Co-Host of Mike & Rinne Eat In , World Traveler MIKEY SHETHAR @MikeyShethar TicketsVIP Reserved $38 + feesReserved front rows seating, sexy treats, plus a drink ticket. This ticket level helps to support us in offering discounted and free tix to non-profits.Reserved $28 + feesReserved seating area near the front of the stage. This ticket level also helps to support us in offering discounted and free tix to non-profits.General Admission $22 + feesSeats are not reserved.PARTY PACK discount (5 or more people) $17 + feesSeating is not reserved. Arrive early to find seats together. :)Click HERE for tickets. Guests subject to change. Presented by Portland Mercury and XRAY-FM
Live Wire with Luke Burbank
Join Emmy award-winning host Luke Burbank for the taping of Live Wire, the fastest growing entertainment show on public radio. We’ve got a late-night stride, an Oscar Wilde wit, and the charisma of Ferris Bueller grand marshaling a parade. Music, comedy, and conversation, live and packed with surprises. Featuring:PAUL F. TOMPKINSComedian, actor, and writer Paul F. Tompkins is nothing short of a comedic gem and podcast royalty. Alongside being an absolute Live Wire fan-favorite, PFT has appeared on over two hundred episodes of Comedy Bang! Bang!, and hosts the wildly popular shows The Neighborhood Listen and Spontaneanation, among others. SARAFINA EL-BADRY NANCESarafina El-Badry Nance is an Egyptian-American astrophysicist, analog astronaut, and women’s health advocate. She has been awarded fellowships by the National Science Foundation and her work has been featured by the BBC, NPR, National Geographic, and more. GARY GULMANGary Gulman is one of the most popular touring comics, selling out theaters nationwide including Carnegie Hall. He has been a guest on every major late-night comedy program. He has a recurring role on the Hulu comedy series Life & Beth. FAMILY WORSHIP CENTERFamily Worship Center specializes in a strain of redemptive, 1970s-styled rock n’ roll that recalls the Rolling Stones, Leon Russell, The Band, and Delaney & Bonnie. The band formed in 2017 in Nashville, Tennessee founded by prophetic visionary, singer-songwriter and keyboardist Krissberg, but it has since relocated to Portland, Oregon. The Family’s latest offering—it’s first long player—Kicked Out Of The Garden, features a core band of devoted musicians, and was produced by Portland go-to producer Cameron Spies (Spoon Benders, Shivas) who specializes in what he calls “mid-fi.” Kicked Out Of The Garden was tracked in Portland with additional recording done in Philadelphia and Ukraine.Tickets$30 General Admission$45 Preferred Seating (First 5 rows of Front Center Section – available in advance only) Click HERE for tickets. Doors open at 6:30 Guests subject to change.
Live Wire with Luke Burbank
Join Emmy award-winning host Luke Burbank for the taping of Live Wire, the fastest growing entertainment show on public radio. We’ve got a late-night stride, an Oscar Wilde wit, and the charisma of Ferris Bueller grand marshaling a parade. Music, comedy, and conversation, live and packed with surprises. Featuring:R. ERIC THOMASR. Eric Thomas is the bestselling author of Here for It: Or, How to Save Your Soul in America, a Lambda Literary Award finalist, and the YA novel Kings of B’more, a Stonewall Honor book. Both books were also featured as Read with Jenna book-club picks on Today. He is also a television writer (Apple TV+’s Dickinson, FX’s Better Things), a Lambda Literary Award-winning playwright, and the long-running host of The Moth in Philadelphia. SAFIYA SINCLAIRSafiya Sinclair was born and raised in Montego Bay, Jamaica. She is the author of the memoir How to Say Babylon, the stunning story of her struggle to break free of her rigid Rastafarian upbringing, ruled by her father’s strict patriarchal views and repressive control of her childhood, to find her own voice as a woman and poet. Publisher’s Weekly calls it “a tour de force” and Kirkus Review writes that the book is “more than catharsis; this is a memoir as liberation.” NO-NO BOYNo-No Boy tells stories rooted in years of research and relationship-building, made vibrant and profound through a rich congregation of instrumental, environmental, and electronically manipulated sounds from Asia and America. The project developed as the central component of Julian Saporiti’s PhD at Brown University, drawing on years of fieldwork and research on Asian American history to write folk songs with uncommon empathy and remarkable protagonists: prisoners at Japanese American internment camps who started a jazz band, Vietnamese musicians turned on to rock ‘n’ roll by American troops, a Cambodian American painter who painted only the most beautiful landscapes of his war-torn home. Along the way he started to draw on his own family’s history, including his mother’s escape from Vietnam during the war. His 2021 album 1975 was called “a remarkably powerful and moving album,” by Folk Alley and “gentle, catchy and accessible folk songs that feel instantly familiar,” by NPR. His third album, “Empire Electric”, further examines narratives of imperialism, identity, and spirituality, and is being released by Smithsonian Folkways this fall. Tickets$30 General Admission$45 Preferred Seating (First 5 rows of Front Center Section – available in advance only) Click HERE for tickets. Doors open at 6:30 Guests subject to change.
Live Wire with Luke Burbank
Join Emmy award-winning host Luke Burbank for the taping of Live Wire, the fastest growing entertainment show on public radio. We’ve got a late-night stride, an Oscar Wilde wit, and the charisma of Ferris Bueller grand marshaling a parade. Music, comedy, and conversation, live and packed with surprises. Featuring:AUTHOR GUESTS TBAMUSICAL GUEST: NONBINARY GIRLFRIENDNONBINARY GIRLFRIEND is a bedroom punk band from PDX. The band is now celebrating the release of their first full-length album titled “BIG AND KIND,” and the release of their second music video, “BODY.” This June NONBINARY GIRLFRIEND was voted Best New Band in Portland, and also recorded a live session with KEXP! Inspired by bad days, kindness, and taking up space, NONBINARY GIRLFRIEND makes rock existential. Their music experiments with gender and sexuality through self-expression, siren-esque melodies, and reverberating instrumentals. The band hopes to spread validation and happiness through sound. Their music serves as a platform to make people feel seen by personifying their own experiences with sexual assault, queerness, gender expectations, and relationships.Tickets$30 General Admission$45 Preferred Seating (First 5 rows of Front Center Section – available in advance only) Click HERE for tickets. Doors open at 6:30 Guests subject to change.
BACKFENCE: ROULETTE
Roulette is Backfence’s high-risk high-stakes storytelling show where storytellers spin a giant game-show wheel that determines their prompt. Then they have just 5 minutes to come up with 5-minute story and tell it!! Both the storyteller winner and one lucky audience member win a veritable bevy of prizes! Hosted by FRAYN MASTERS & MINDY NETTIFEE Music by: CHAACH With STORYTELLERS… Pro Skateboarder and audience voted March Roulette winner: Willis ‘Wheelbarrow’ Kimbel @WHEELBARROW HR Superstar and winner of a baby beauty contest, Past Roulette Winner: Shannin Balcom Graves Actor, Teacher, Writer, Past Roulette Winner:Jason Rouse @gorillasuit 5th Strongest Woman in the WORLDGabi Dixson @gabigrl_prostrongwoman Tattoo Artist, Scorpio CIARA VONFELDT @ciaralynsey.pokes TicketsVIP Reserved $38 + feesReserved front rows seating, sexy treats, plus a drink ticket. This ticket level helps to support us in offering discounted and free tix to non-profits.Reserved $28 + feesReserved seating area near the front of the stage. This ticket level also helps to support us in offering discounted and free tix to non-profits.General Admission $22 + feesSeats are not reserved.PARTY PACK discount (5 or more people) $17 + feesSeating is not reserved. Arrive early to find seats together. :)Click HERE for tickets. For Arts for All tickets + ADA seating, and to join our email list, send a note to: info@backfencepdx.com Guests subject to change. Presented by Portland Mercury and XRAY-FM Ages 18+ Ages 18 – 20 must be accompanied by parent or guardian
Rose City Circus presents CIRCLES AND LINES with live music by Three for Silver
The fabulous Rose City Circus teams up with northwest doom-folk band Three for Silver for a night of death-defying performances, eye and ear candy and so much more!Performers include: Three for SilverJon DutchAnngela BurtBrandy GutheryAlicia AnthonyJamie AnthonyKate MakkaiMatt Radford Angela BryantKraig MeadAmanda WarrenJohnny NurielIsaiah EsquireAgatha AnginaMichael O’NeilLena Yust Tickets $35 General Admission$45 At the Door$50 Preferred Seating (seating in the first 7 rows of the center section – available in advance only) Minors ok with Parent or Guardian VIEW OUR HEALTH AND SAFETY POLICIES HERE
Rose City Circus presents CIRCLES AND LINES with live music by Three for Silver
The fabulous Rose City Circus teams up with northwest doom-folk band Three for Silver for a night of death-defying performances, eye and ear candy and so much more!Performers include: Three for SilverJon DutchAnngela BurtBrandy GutheryAlicia AnthonyJamie AnthonyKate MakkaiMatt Radford Angela BryantKraig MeadAmanda WarrenJohnny NurielIsaiah EsquireAgatha AnginaMichael O’NeilLena Yust Tickets $35 General Admission$45 At the Door$50 Preferred Seating (seating in the first 7 rows of the center section – available in advance only) Minors ok with Parent or Guardian VIEW OUR HEALTH AND SAFETY POLICIES HERE
Booklover’s Burlesque – Myths and Legends
“Myths are public dreams. And dreams are private myths.” -Joseph CampbellJourney through time and space into worlds where dreams are born as Lacy Productions and The Alberta Rose Theatre present BOOKLOVER’S BURLESQUE: Myths & LegendsBooklover’s Burlesque is the world’s sexiest literary salon which matches titillating, inspiring, and empowering book readings with burlesque, boylesque, and draglesque performances all in one show!Professional readers, actors, and/or local authors & writers read aloud a three to five minute piece of poetry, fiction (from any genre), memoir, non-fiction, etc, which is then followed by a burlesque performance inspired by the piece. Grab your tickets in advance- our tickets sell fast! $25 GA Advance$30 GA At the Door$40 VIP with Preferred Seating (first 7 rows of the center section – available in advance only) —— Door tickets sold only if available on a first come, first served basis! Once we reach capacity there will not be tickets available at the door. 21 & over only Review our Health & Safety Policies HERE
