Friends of Congress Square Park
The premier urban park in the heart of Portland’s vibrant Arts District. The park features local art installations, community events, free wifi and more!
Did you ever wish you could write in another language? Or have beautiful penmanship in your own? Here’s a chance to Try Your Hand at an international calligraphy event at Congress Square Park! People from around the world will show you how to write in their native script, such as Cyrillic, Japanese, Arabic. You’ll also …
Come join Ed King, Rosanne Graef and all your friends from Congress Square Park for a whole lotta shakin’ to 50 years of hits, misses and dance crazes. Guaranteed to put a smile on your face and a song in your heart. Lace up your blue suede shoes and high-heeled sneakers and let’s do a little dance!
Join us for dancing in Congress Square Park! If you can walk, you can contra.  Truly.  It's an easy, enjoyable, and accessible dance form for most people. Contra dance is community social dancing to live music.  It's lively, joyful, welcoming, modern, traditional, and fun! No partner is needed - you dance with everyone! Our community is diverse and …
***Risk of rain and lower temperatures means we need to postpone this event until 2020. Stay tuned for a new date!*** Join us for a fun, interactive, and family friendly theatre event hosted by Portland Stage! Experience the Fun & Magic of Theater with Play Me a Story! Enjoy a performance of children’s stories, …
Filmed over nearly five years in twenty-five countries on five continents, and shot on seventy-millimetre film, Samsara transports us to the varied worlds of sacred grounds, disaster zones, industrial complexes, and natural wonders. Samsara is a 2011 American non-narrative documentary film, directed by Ron Fricke and produced by Mark Magidson, who also collaborated on Baraka (1992), …
Join Portland Swing Project for live music and dancing in Congress Square Park! All are welcome and no experience is necessary for lively fun! Portland Swing Project spreads the appreciation of swing music and dance through weekly classes and events for all levels of experience. They teach, dance, perform and provide live and DJ’d music …
Metamorphosis hosted along Congress Street! Over four ever-growing annual festivals, Waking Windows Portland has hosted more than 250 bands, 50 authors, 35 DJs, dozens of special events and performances, artist projects, films, comedians, and so much more, across 20 different venues through Bayside and Congress St. It's been a beautiful and wild ride. Ecstatic, joyful, …
What matters to our community right now? Are we engaged in decision making processes the impact us? Are our needs and hopes being met? Do we know our neighbors? What does it mean to participate in civic life? Open City nights in Congress Square Park are opportunities for neighbors to gather to ask questions and share information …
The Portland Intercultural Festival (PIF) is being organized through the Friends of Congress Square Park in association with the Root House organization and local artist AFRiCAN DUNDADA. This event is a celebration of the richness of Portland's Black and Brown creative community as well as showcasing new and unexpected artists with diverse backgrounds and strikingly …
Join us for music and dancing in Congress Square Park with El Malo! El Malo is a contemporary Latin-Rock band out of Portland, Maine. They play a blend of classic salsa tunes and original instrumental Latin music that is sure to get any crowd up and dancing! No matter what your usual playlist may be, …