Whether you’re blazing for 4/20 or praising during Easter this weekend, there’s plenty of fun to be had on this two-fer holiday weekend. Step out for happenings from the Flip Side Vegan Market to Church of Outhouse: An Easter Drag Spectacle & Zine Release and from Nurture: A National Poetry Month Reading to the Oregon Garden’s Earth Day Celebration. For more ideas, check out our top picks of the week and our Easter food guide.
FRIDAY
FILM
PURPLE RAIN! A Queer Celebration & Screening
This feels like a good place to mention that as a child, I sang the wrong lyrics to “Raspberry Beret”—”she wore a reeeed spherical ring,” to be exact—and no one ever corrected me. Don’t make the same mistake that eight-year-old me did. Pay your respects to the High Priest of Pop. I recommend donning your most loud-and-proud ’80s threads (a secondhand raspberry beret, perhaps?) for this sparkly queer shindig and screening of Purple Rain.A pre-screening video show curated by Cult Sensation will get the rhythm going, and proceeds will help pay off local drag starlet Violet Hex’s unexpected medical debt. If you’ve appreciated any of Violet’s glittery performances around town lately, show up to support the cause. LINDSAY COSTELLO
(Clinton Street Theater, Hosford-Abernethy, $15)
