The long weekend is in reach, so take a break from your labors to hit up stress-busting events from Art In The Pearl to Flock Block Party and from the final days of Bike Summer 2025 to the Oregon State Fair. Our top picks guide suggests more fun things to do this week.
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FILM
Bill Plympton Presents Slide + Duckville
Born in Portland and raised in Oregon City, animator Bill Plympton returns to his stomping grounds to screen his recent films Slide (2023) and Duckville (2024). Perhaps best known for his 1988 animated short Your Face, which was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film, many of Plympton’s shorts appeared on Animania series on MTV. He’s guest animated on the Simpsons producing eight ‘couch gags,’ and has had illustrations featured in the New York Times, the Village Voice, Vogue, Rolling Stone, Vanity Fair, Penthouse, and National Lampoon. Come for the screening and Q&A with the artist, and leave with an original Bill Plympton sketch! BRI BREY
(Clinton Street Theater, Hosford-Abernethy, $15)
