QUEER HORROR celebrates Feminist March and Carla Rossi's birthday with BIRDS OF PREY (2020)! Hosted by Portland's premier drag clown Carla Rossi, this birthday celebration opens with a preshow tribute to Carla's favorite clown queen Harley Quinn, sponsored by Double Mountain Brewery and Cidery!

Produced by Margot Robbie and directed by Cathy Yan, BIRDS OF PREY AND THE FANTABULOUS EMANCIPATION OF HARLEY QUINN stars Robbie as the queer psychiatrist-turned-antihero, right on the heels of her breakup with Mr. J—and Gotham is coming for Harley with a laundry list of grievances. But when gay crime boss Roman Sionis (Ewan McGregor) and his hench-boyfriend Victor Zsasz (a bleached-blonde Chris Messina) put a bounty on teen pickpocket Cassandra Cain (Ella Jay Basco), Harley allies with Detective Renee Montoya (Rosie Perez), chanteuse Black Canary (Jurnee Smollett-Bell), and The Huntress (Mary Elizabeth Winstead) to take back Gotham with a wave of radical femme vengeance. A frenetic, ultraviolent explosion of color, sound, wicked writing, and pitch-perfect performances, BIRDS OF PREY is the end-all Harley Quinn film: a chaotic queer fantasy in line with TANK GIRL and the funniest feminist superhero film ever made.

Get tickets to BIRDS OF PREY here: https://hollywoodtheatre.org/events/birds-of-prey/

Doors Open 6:30 p.m.; Performance starts at 7 p.m. Tickets are $25.
Rating: PG-13 / R / Don’t bring your children.

Ready to take the leap into therapy? Great! Because you’re in need and Dr. Carla needs your money. Ask Dr. Carla is a hilarious new night of improvisational drag comedy starring Portland’s premier drag clown Carla Rossi—she might not have degrees or qualifications, but she has a full bar, liability waivers, and a couch with your name on it. Joined by her enterprising receptionist Svetlana Trantastic, Carla and Svetty welcome a special celebrity headliner client (this month it’s Portland’s own David Saffert & Jillian Snow as Liberace & Liza!) onto the couch each session so you—and they—don’t have to do all the work. Ask Dr. Carla: it’s like a late night talk show, except it’s unlicensed therapy with unhinged drag queens.

Get tickets here!

Doors at 6:30 p.m.; Musicians Perform at 7 p.m.; Film at 7:45 p.m. Tickets $15.

Join us for the world premiere of Thom Hilton’s MATINEE BABY, the new short film fiscally sponsored by PAM CUT.

Matinee Baby
2024. Directed by Thom Hilton. Not Rated. Runtime: 20 minutes.
In this raunchy and outlandish queer comedy, best friends Robby and Noah-Lee – employees at the historic Clinton Street Theater – find themselves confronted by a parade of increasingly wacky, genre-tinged suitors. Created by local writer Thom Hilton and featuring a key performance by drag performer Carla Rossi, MATINEE BABY arrives on screen one year after its successful community crowdfunding campaign, with contributions from over 130 donors and two dozen local businesses. The film is set to make its festival debut in March.

This special premiere event will include an interactive lobby display of makeup designs by Sprout Chinn and costumes by Lucas O’Brien, former fashion editor at VOGUE. The film will screen following a concert of selections from the film’s soundtrack by Jewelry Exchange, Jajoma, and The Apricots. A moderated Q&A with select members of the cast and crew to follow.

QUEER HORROR does the dance of the BLACK SWAN (2010)! Hosted by Portland's premier drag clown Carla Rossi, this winter edition opens with a preshow ballet starring Portland drag all-stars and sponsored by Double Mountain Brewery and Cidery!

Directed by Darren Aronofsky and starring Natalie Portman in an Academy Award-winning performance, BLACK SWAN transforms Portman into Nina Sayers, a hungry young dancer suffering under the expectations of herself, her domineering mother (Barbara Hershey), her predatory artistic director (Vincent Cassel), and the angry diva (Winona Ryder) she's set to succeed in a new production of Swan Lake. But as Nina tortures herself to become the Black Swan, a romance with a beautiful rival (Mila Kunis) sends Nina spiralling into a whirlwind frenzy of self-discovery, self-actualization, self-destruction, and ultimate perfection.

Get tickets to BLACK SWAN here: https://hollywoodtheatre.org/events/black-swan/

Ikanum are traditional stories, and our annual show is intended to showcase the contemporary art/artists/stories of the region's people.

Come join us for the opening reception of the 2023-2024 Ikanum show from 5 to 7 PM on November 30th, with an ikanum told and presented by Felix Furby & Anthony Hudson!

Join My Father’s Father’s Sister: Our Ancestor Shimkhin curators Felix Furby and Anthony Hudson as they talk about their groundbreaking exhibit at Chachalu Museum in Grand Ronde, how they uncovered and honored a queer ancestor, and why Indigenous worldviews and access to academic material about Tribal people and histories are crucial to cultural revitalization and healing.

Streaming live at 6:30 on Tuesday, November 21 via Native Arts and Cultures Foundation’s YouTube and Facebook pages.

QUEER HORROR opens the box and unleashes HELLRAISER (1987)! Hosted by Portland's premier drag clown Carla Rossi, and with a preshow starring Portland drag all-stars, this Halloween night screening is sponsored by Double Mountain Brewery and Cidery. Dress up and trick or treat for your own signed bottle of Carla and Double Mountain's new Call Me By Your Pain Peach Belgian Ale after the show!

Written and directed by out gay creator Clive Barker, HELLRAISER follows Kirsty (Ashley Laurence), who just wants to live a normal teenager's life. Unfortunately, her family has just moved into the home of her hedonistic, sadomasochistic, and freshly-skinned Uncle Frank (Sean Chapman), who has entered into a murderous love game with Kristy's wicked stepmother Julia (Clare Higgins), just in time for Pinhead (Doug Bradley) and the cenobites to come and collect what's theirs. A stunning debut based on Barker's novella The Hellbound Heart, HELLRAISER is a gorgeous, gory, and outrageously horny injection of iconic '80s queer horror.

Get tickets for HELLRAISER here: https://hollywoodtheatre.org/events/hellraiser/

QUEER HORROR celebrates 25 years of PRACTICAL MAGIC! Hosted by Portland's premier drag clown Carla Rossi, this anniversary screening opens with a preshow starring returning Portland drag all-star Pepper Pepper and sponsored by Double Mountain Brewery and Cidery.

Based on the book by Alice Hoffman, PRACTICAL MAGIC stars Academy Award winners Sandra Bullock and Nicole Kidman as Sally and Gillian Owens, two sisters in a family of witches whose husbands are all cursed to die. But when their aunts (Stockard Channing and Dianne Wiest) leave town, they soon find themselves raising the dead and simultaneously fending off demonic possession and a handsome murder detective (Aidan Quinn). Co-starring Goran Visnjic, Evan Rachel Wood, Camille Bell, Chloe Webb, and character actress Margo Martindale, PRACTICAL MAGIC is a cross-genre oddity and classic that will leave you craving midnight margaritas.

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What happens when a drag performer writes their first play? The Portland Drag Theatre Workshop, curated by Anthony Hudson in partnership with Risk/Reward, presents an afternoon of readings + previews of theatrical works by Portland drag performers who are best known for cabaret and nightlife, and who have been given time, support, and mentorship to develop and share something new and all their own. Presenting A View from My Back by Valerie DeVille, First Among Seconds: The Amazing Resurrection of Magdalene Woods by James Joiner/Loretta Lordchild, and Seasonal Delusions by Baby LeStrange, the Portland Drag Theatre Workshop is Sunday, June 25 at 2pm before the 15th Annual Risk/Reward Festival of New Performance, and is supported in part by the Regional Arts & Culture Council. Hosted by Anthony Hudson and Pepper Pepper. Ages 18+ only.

QUEER HORROR returns for its first ever re-watch with DEATH BECOMES HER (1992) on 35mm! Hosted by Portland’s premier drag clown Carla Rossi, this resurrected edition opens with a preshow starring Pepper Pepper and Carla—re-mounting their epic fight from 2017—and all sponsored by Double Mountain Brewery and Cidery!

Directed by Robert Zemeckis and co-written by queer screenwriter Martin Donovan, 1992’s DEATH BECOMES HER turns lifelong Hollywood rivals Madeline Ashton (Meryl Streep) and Helen Sharp (Goldie Hawn) into immortal frenemies after they acquire an elixir of youth kept by the mysterious Lisle von Rhoman (Isabella Rossellini). Unfortunately everlasting youth—and Madeline and Helen’s feud—survives well after their pulses cease. Co-starring Bruce Willis, DEATH BECOMES HER is jam-packed with breakthrough effects, iconic one-liners, and legendary performances that cement its status as a camp classic for an eternity to come.

NOTE: to protect our performers, masks will be required in the auditorium (except when actively eating and drinking) during this event.

BUY TICKETS HERE: https://hollywoodtheatre.org/events/death-becomes-her-in-35mm/

QUEER HORROR presents the world premiere of Body Academics' Portland-made rock opera EVIL BABYLON (2023)! Hosted by Portland’s premier drag clown Carla Rossi—who also portrays EVIL BABYLON's villainous Queen Urethrea—this special edition opens with a triumphant performance by the artists and is sponsored by Double Mountain Brewery and Cidery.

A film by local collective Body Academics, and supported in part by the Regional Arts and Culture Council, EVIL BABYLON is a phantasmagorical, psychosexual science-fiction movie musical masterpiece: the story of a sexually-repressed evangelical race car driver and the kink-positive party planet that leads him on a journey towards self acceptance. Made with all-original music, incredible animation, and starring a bevy of Portland drag all-stars, EVIL BABYLON is a riotous new spectacle that must be seen to be believed.

NOTE: to protect our performers, masks will be required in the auditorium (except when actively eating and drinking) during this event.

BUY TICKETS HERE: https://hollywoodtheatre.org/tickets/21013/

When Portland’s premier drag clown Carla Rossi is unleashed on the Portland Art Museum, her human avatar, Anthony, struggles with the crushing pressure of expectation as he traces his place in a lineage of Native artists and ancestors—and with Oregon’s settler history, which brutally intersects with Anthony’s own in an unexpected revelation. Alternating between drag numbers and earnest storytelling, The Weight of the World is an all-new work from Anthony Hudson celebrating Two-Spirit identity, the work of Oscar Howe and Jeffrey Gibson, and the perseverance of Oregon’s Tribes in the face of Oregon itself.

The Hollywood Theatre’s bimonthly program QUEER HORROR returns for a Valentine's Day PICNIC AT HANGING ROCK (1975)! Hosted by Portland’s premier drag clown Carla Rossi, this date night opens with a preshow starring PDX all-stars Kimber Shade, Valerie DeVille, and Wanda Bones, and is sponsored by Double Mountain Brewery and Cidery.

Directed by Peter Weir from Joan Lindsay's classic novel, PICNIC AT HANGING ROCK follows an Australian girls' school's titular class picnic on Valentine's Day, 1900. But when three girls and their teacher suddenly vanish, as if into the Hanging Rock itself, it sets the remaining schoolgirls, their unflinching headmistress Mrs. Appleyard (Rachel Roberts), and the neighboring colony on a collision course with obsession and doom. Gorgeously filmed (and inspiring Sofia Coppola's THE VIRGIN SUICIDES) and featuring multiple queer-coded characters, PICNIC AT HANGING ROCK is a sumptuous masterclass in existential terror and how to make it beautiful.

NOTE: to protect our performers, masks will be required in the auditorium (except when actively eating and drinking) during this event.

BUY TICKETS HERE: https://hollywoodtheatre.org/tickets/20420/

The Indigenous Community Art Showcase is an evening celebrating the work of artists and creators including:  

• DC-based intertribal Native American Northern drum group, Uptown Singerz, who will be performing Native American powwow drumming that includes both traditional and intertribal songs. They will be accompanied by Miss Chief Rocka, performing a traditional Native Shawl Dance and Hoop Dance.

• A conversation with Rose Powhatan, a local Pamunkey mixed-media artist whose work spans written pieces and visual art.  

• A livestream conversation with Anthony Hudson, the Portland-based artist, writer and sometimes better known as Portland’s premiere drag clown Carla Rossi. Two of Hudson’s digital performances will be displayed in the lobby, including Lamp Back, commissioned by and installed permanently at Pacific Northwest College of Art, and Martyr, or: Your Own Prairie Bonnet Jesus. Both video installations see Rossi explore themes around injustice and marginalization of Native communities. A third video, When It Was Hers, showcases a personal poem by Hudson.

• A reading of ADY by Rhiana Yazzie who will be joined by Regina Victor to present her two-person play that explores the collision of Navajo life and sexuality in this play about real-life muse, Ady Fidelin, a Caribbean dancer and only Black woman living in amongst the artists of the surrealist movement in France. Directed by Angelisa Gillyard.
  

Carla Rossi Does Drag makes its Portland premiere! Featuring song, monologue, too many wigs, and interactive “Rossivision” video and scenography with sequences celebrating and lampooning Chicago, Celine Dion, Life Alert™, multi-level marketing, Cher, and more, Carla Rossi Does Drag is a new greatest hits collection from Portland’s premier drag clown, all decked out in the signature surreality of the Carlaverse.

Free and open to the public. Masks are required for this event. Reserve your spot here: https://www.signupgenius.com/go/9040b4ca4ab2da1fd0-carla

Nearly a year after her passing, the Hollywood Theatre’s bimonthly program QUEER HORROR pays tribute to Anne Rice with INTERVIEW WITH THE VAMPIRE (1994) in lavish 35mm! Sponsored by Double Mountain Brewery and Cidery, this immortal edition opens with a preshow starring PDX all-stars Svetlana Trantastic, Valerie DeVille, and hosted by Portland’s premier drag clown Carla Rossi.

Directed by Neil Jordan from a screenplay by Anne Rice herself, INTERVIEW WITH THE VAMPIRE brought gay vampires into the mainstream with some of the '90’s biggest stars. After Louis (Brad Pitt) finds himself newly undead as the chosen companion of the vampire Lestat (Tom Cruise), the two venture from New Orleans with their vampire child Claudia (Kirsten Dunst) while everything in the world changes except for themselves. Featuring a breakthrough performance from 10-year-old Dunst and one of Tom Cruise's most compelling characterizations—so much that Anne Rice, who intially spoke out against his casting, put a two-page ad in Variety praising his work—and co-starring Antonio Banderas, Christian Slater, and Thandiwe Newton, INTERVIEW WITH THE VAMPIRE is a lush and crucial entry in the saga of queerness, not just in horror but on film as a whole.

NOTE: to protect our performers, masks will be required in the auditorium (except when actively eating and drinking) during this event.

BUY TICKETS HERE: https://hollywoodtheatre.org/tickets/19797/

GLOOP is a lifestyle. GLOOP is a brand. GLOOP is a modality. GLOOP is Glamorous Ladies of Opulent Persuasion. GLOOP is Carla Rossi and Pepper Pepper—Portland, Oregon’s premier avant-garde drag duo—bringing you a 90-minute, partially improvised drag explosion sending up whiteness and wellness culture.

In GLOOP, Carla and Pepper are slated to lead a psychedelic wellness seminar in Sedona until their party bus runs out of gas at the Whiteside, where they're left with no choice but to teach homodalities and hole-istic healing practices—and all before the mushrooms kick in. Tackling art therapy, micro-dosing, land acknowledgments, and demonstrating what it looks like when a drag queen has a meltdown while lipsyncing on an actively-inflating airbed, GLOOP will teach you how to overcome (and monetize) your limiting beliefs through a gauntlet of spectacularly unhinged drag from two of Portland's most beloved grifters.

$20 GA / $25 at the door. Tickets available here.

TThe Hollywood Theatre’s bimonthly program QUEER HORROR haunts Halloween night with 30 years of BRAM STOKER'S DRACULA (1992)! Hosted by Portland’s premier drag clown Carla Rossi, this edition opens with a preshow starring PDX all-stars Wanda Bones and Loretta Lordchild, all sponsored by Double Mountain Brewery and Cidery and celebrating their newest collaboration with Carla: Dracarla's Revenge Fresh Hop IPA! After the screening, get your limited edition bottle signed by Dracarla herself.

Directed by Frances Ford Coppola, BRAM STOKER'S DRACULA takes the titular text and throws it in a blender with every Dracula film before it. This time Jonathan Harker is a silver-haired Keanu Reeves with a vaguely British accent; after being held hostage in a castle by old Dracula (Gary Oldman), Jonathan's feminist fiance Mina (Winona Ryder) and her best friend with benefits Lucy (Sadie Frost) find themselves in danger of becoming undead. Can the weird, loud, Dutch, and arguably queer Abraham Van Helsing (Anthony Hopkins) and a coterie of Victorian men save these women from liberation? Co-starring Cary Elwes, Monica Bellucci, Richard E. Grant, and Tom Waits as Renfield, BRAM STOKER'S DRACULA is queer in its remixing of the Dracula mythos and its feminism, and is downright gorgeous to look at—complete with a slew of in-camera effects that still stun 30 years later.

NOTE: to protect our performers, masks will be required in the auditorium (except when actively eating and drinking) during this event.

BUY TICKETS HERE: https://hollywoodtheatre.org/tickets/19299/

This Halloweekend, step into Carla Rossi's Hell House at Oregon Contemporary—if you dare! In the style of an evangelical Hell House, but less hateful and more Carla-fied as a mutual aid fundraiser, artists bring their favorite sins to life in immersive performances and installations at Oregon Contemporary, now with a costume contest, spooky dance tunes by DJ Orographic, cocktails by Wild Roots, and bewitching brews from Double Mountain Brewery & Cidery, including the new Dracarla's Revenge 6.66% Fresh Hop IPA.

Hosted by

Carla Rossi

Music and spooky vibes by

DJ Orographic

Tickets include

Entrance to the event plus a Halloween treat goodie bag featuring Jacobsen Salt caramels

Bar featuring

Cocktails by Wild Roots Spirits, and beer and cider from Double Mountain including Dracarla’s Revenge, a 6.66% Fresh Hop IPA collaboration

Costume competition

Best Duo or Ensemble / Scariest / Funniest / Most Sinful / Carla’s pick

Sponsored by

Wild Roots Spirits

Double Mountain Brewery & Cidery

Jacobsen Salt

Dress to impress: it's a maskerade! To protect our artists and partners, masks are required when not actively eating or drinking.

GET TICKETS HERE: https://givebutter.com/CarlaRossiOxHalloween

“Actively unites the horror genre with the LGBTQ community.”
—Willamette Week

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Queer Horror, the only LGBTQ+ feature-length horror screening series in the United States, started as a short film festival in 2015 at the historic Hollywood Theatre in Portland, Oregon, incorporating live drag and burlesque acts in a riotous multimedia program asking what it means to identify with the monster. The East Coast premiere of Queer Horror: Gravest Hits presents the silliest and most ghoulish international horror shorts by, starring, and about queers culled from Queer Horror’s short film nights. Featured titles include Goat Witch by James Sizemore, In Satan’s Closet by Stacie Ponder, Don’t Wake the Baby by Gula Delgatto, Pizza Sluts by Sign of the Beast Burlesque, and The Susan and Denise Halloween Special by Susan and Denise. Hosted by Portland’s premiere drag clown and Queer Horror programmer Carla Rossi, and opening with a live one-act drag play performed by Rossi and Pepper Pepper, plus additional performances in between the films, Queer Horror: Gravest Hits will leave the audience shook, slain, and screaming for more. This event is made possible with support from the National Endowment for the Arts and is co-sponsored by Wesleyan’s College of Film and the Moving Image.

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Join us on September 29 for a community celebration featuring gallery tours of "Across the West and Toward the North: Norwegian and American Landscape Photography" with special guests DeLesslin “Roo” George-Warren and Anthony Hudson. Plus, enjoy a musical performance from Greenlandic electronic musician Uyarakq, as well as some good food!

About the event: 

To examine the themes of "Across the West and Toward the North: Norwegian and American Landscape Photography" through a critical lens, the National Nordic Museum has commissioned DeLesslin “Roo” George-Warren to organize tours of the exhibition and create complementary programming that provides an Indigenous retelling of the late 19th- and early 20th-century history of the American West and Northern Norway. This community celebration is a part of a week-long exhibition-related experience is titled “Indigenous Corps of Discovery Presents Don’t Go North!” DeLesslin, an artist, researcher, organizer, and citizen of the Catawba Indian Nation in South Carolina, has performed, lectured, and exhibited throughout the United States, including at the Utah Museum of Fine Arts, College of Charleston, and Vanderbilt University. DeLesslin will be joined by multidisciplinary artist and writer Anthony Hudson (Confederated Tribes of Grand Ronde), perhaps best known as Portland’s premier drag clown Carla Rossi, and Greenlandic electronic musician Aqqalu Berthelsen, who performs as Uyarakq. The celebration will include tours that offer Indigenous perspectives of the works on display and a musical performance by Uyarakq.