Five Fun Things to Do This Weekend: Feb. 6-8

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Friday, February 06, 2015

Emily Goldman, GoLocalPDX Contributor

If you're not planning on attending the Portland International Film Festival over the weekend, here are five other options for you. Options include an entirely different film festival, an art show, a crafts fair, an improv theatre show, and an Off-Broadway award-winning dramatic presentation. Take your pick!

2015 Cascade Festival of African Films
The Cascade Festival of African Films is the longest-running annual African film festival in the United States, run by the Portland Community College’s Cascade campus. The festival will be opening this Friday with a showing of “Half of a Yellow Sun”, a Nigerian film based off the novel of the same name by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie and directed by visiting director Biyi Bandele. Hollywood Theatre, 3122 NE Sandy Blvd., (971) 725-5711. 6pm and 9pm, Friday Feb. 6, FREE. Click HERE for more information.

Byte Me! Art Show
AFRU Gallery’s annual technological art show Byte Me! Is back for fourth year this Friday. All of the pieces are interactive works that incorporate music, motion, light, and color, and none of these pieces would have been possible to create without the innovations of digital technology. AFRU Gallery, 534 SE Oak St., (971) 248-0324. 6-11pm, Friday Feb. 6, FREE. Click HERE for more information.

Riona’s Cave of Treasures Craft Faire
A combination renaissance festival, a science fiction/fantasy convention’s Artist’s Alley, and modern crafts fair, this one-day event gathers a veritable host of artisans and vendors selling objects fantastical, historical, scientifical, and/or geeky and nerdy in nature. There will also be musical performances by Irish traditional and fantasy singer Riona and many others. Check out the Facebook page for a complete list of vendors and performers. DoubleTree Hotel Portland, 1000 NE Multnomah St., 11am-6pm, Saturday Feb. 7, $1. Click HERE for more information.

Let’s Talk About Sex!
Portland Playback is a theatre troupe specializing in a certain style of improvisational theatre in which audience members share stories of their lives and then watch those stories played back to them by the company’s actors. On Saturday they’re bringing back another edition of their popular show “Let’s Talk About Sex!” Be prepared to see some very strange and some very touching stories of people’s sexual escapades. Hipbone Studio, 1847 E. Burnside St., #104, 719-6328. 7:30pm, Saturday Feb. 7, $15. Click HERE to purchase tickets.

Tribes
The 2012 Drama Desk award-winning play has come to Portland courtesy of the Artists Repertory Theatre. The play tells the story of Billy, the only deaf member of his family. His interactions and growing involvement with the dead community leads to clashes with his family, whose approval he continues to desire. Tribes just opened this Tuesday on February 3rd and will be running all month up to March 1st.  Each weekend there will be an ASL interpreted performance, with the first of them occurring this Sunday February 8th. Artists Repertory Theatre, 1515 SW Morrison St., 241-1278. 7:30pm on Friday-Saturday Feb. 6-8 and 2pm on Sunday Feb. 8, $25. Click HERE to purchase tickets.

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