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GNARFEST, Vanport Mosaic Festival, and More Cheap & Easy Events Under $15

by EverOut Staff

The weekend is calling with low-key, high-fun events from Gnarly’s vegan market GNARFEST to The 9th Vanport Mosaic Festival and from East Portland Sunday Parkways to Lake Oswego’s AANHPI Heritage Month Celebration. For more ideas, check out our guide to the top events of the week.

FRIDAY
COMEDY

A Retrospection
Claire Woolner’s tragicomic clown confessional is the most surreal performance you’ll catch this week (or, like, maybe ever). Woolner’s blend of absurdist comedy and improvised clowning plumbs the depths of “ego battle, failure, creativity, and how to survive”—you know, all the important stuff! A Retrospective also swept last year’s Hollywood Fringe Festival, winning Top of the Fringe and numerous other awards. If you’re not convinced, consider this quote from the New York Times: “Ultimately, her absurdism answers one question: What if the performance artist Marina Abramovic were a clown?” LINDSAY COSTELLO
(Kickstand Comedy, Ladd’s Addition, $15)