Weekend Guide: Jazz festival, $2 Blazers tickets and more
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You have a choice: Get outside and experience culture IRL, or try to tackle the never-ending supply of new movies and television shows on streaming. We won't judge you.
- Here's a curated list of goings-on in our lovely city if you're feeling adventurous.
🏀 See if you can score $2 tickets to see the Blazers take on the Denver Nuggets at Moda Center Friday at 7pm.
🧚🏼 Sprinkle on some fairy dust at the Oregon Ballet Theatre's adaptation of "Peter Pan" for closing weekend at the Keller Auditorium.
- Showtimes vary, tickets start at $30.
🎸 Grammy-winning singer and bassist Esperanza Spalding will perform with Shabaka Hutchings at the Newmark Theatre Friday at 8pm as part of Portland Jazz Festival.
- Seating varies, prices start at $49.
🎨 "Policing Justice" opens at the Portland Institute for Contemporary Art this weekend, featuring work examining the history of police brutality from local artists, including Michael Bernard Stevenson Jr., Cleo Davis and Carrie Mae Weems.
- Through May 19. Free.
🩸 Blood donations are at a 20-year low. Consider donating at Alberta Abbey Saturday 9am-2pm for a drive benefiting people living with sickle cell anemia.
🍇 Set your crops up for success through the Winter Pruning Workshop Series at Oracle Orchard Saturday 10am-noon. Learn how to trim a large array of different berry and vine types for successful summer harvesting.
- General admission is $50.
📽️ Back Door Theatre hosts Queer Movie Night every fourth Sunday, and this month's film is "Pariah" — a story about a Brooklyn teenager's journey to embrace her identity from filmmaker Dee Rees.
- 7:30pm. $20 suggested donation.