Portland filmmaker artist Vanessa Renwick has an expansive program this evening in connection to her Apex show Next Level Fucked Up. The event is in the courtyard, and the show is in the museum. There is an admission charge for the museum, $5 after 5PM, but the courtyard event is free for all. At 8 Renwick distributes "advance directives, donuts and free stickers" outside. At 8:15 Sam Coomes and Marisa Anderson perform music. At 8:45 Colleen Plumb provides projections accompanied by improvisational music with Coomes and Anderson. Food and drink available outside 5-9:30. Recommended. At the Portland Art Museum 1219 SW Park 5PM-9:30 $5/Free
Artists Demian DinéYazhi', Sara Siestreem, Sky Hoping, Keyon Gaskin, Gabe Flores and Sharita Towne have a show interpreting the native Chinook words mama x̣alaqɬ iliʔi: "make open space." At the PSU Littman and White Galleries in Smith Union. www.pdx.edu/littmanandwhite PSU Smith Hall, Room 250, 1825 SW Broadway 6PM-8 Free
Adrian Landon Brooks and Caleb Hahne have Conversations With Strangers. At Stephanie Chefas Projects www.stephaniechefas.com 305 SE 3rd Ave #202 - the City Sign Building, formerly a low cost artist space Map. 6PM-9 Free
