The Short List

MISC.

First Thursday

It’s Thursday, June 4, at galleries in the Pearl District and other areas of Portland.

Rose Festival

It’s the big week in Portland’s celebration, including the Queen’s Coronation, 8:30 a.m. Saturday, June 6, followed by the Grand Floral Parade at 10 a.m.; CityFair at Waterfront Park, opening 3 p.m. Thursday and Friday, June 4 and 5, and 11 a.m. Saturday and Sunday, June 6 and 7, closing at 11 p.m.; the RoZone Concert Series’ 1980s celebration “Rock the Roses,” featuring Great White, Slaughter and Vixen, 7:30 p.m. June 5 ($25, $30 day of show), as well as the band Walk Off The Earth playing during KINK on the Waterfront, 5:30 p.m. June 6 ($25, $30 day of show);

Fleet Week ships start to arrive around 9:30 a.m. June 4, and stay until Monday, June 8; 127th annual Spring Rose Show, 1 p.m. June 4, Lloyd Center; Dragon Boat Races, 8 a.m. June 6 and 7; the annual Knighting Ceremony by the Royal Rosarians, 10 a.m. June 5, Oregon Square Courtyard, 825 N.E. Multnomah St. For complete info: www.rosefestival.org.

STAGE

‘HMS Pinafore’

Mock’s Crest Productions, a summer professional theater company supported by and staged at the University of Portland, celebrates its 25th anniversary with the Gilbert & Sullivan comedic operetta. It’s set on a satirically named royal ship and lampoons the social class system as Josephine has to choose between her true love and the person of her father’s choosing.

7:30 p.m. Fridays-Saturdays, 2 p.m. Sundays, June 5-June 28 (also 7:30 Thursday, June 25), Mago Hunt Center Theater, 5000 N. Willamette Blvd., magohuntboxoffice@up.edu, $32, $27 senior/students

CoHo Summerfest

Heads up: CoHo Productions continues its summer programming with the fourth year of the event, curated by Philip Cuomo, producing artistic director, and featuring local and touring performances by bold, original theater artists: Gordy Boudreau; Butt Kapinski (aka L.A.-based comedy artist Deanna Fleysher); the Wonderheads; Shaking the Tree; Portland Experimental Theatre Ensemble and “The Journey Play is the Whole Thing.”

7:30 p.m. Thursdays-Sundays, June 11-July 12, Coho Theatre, 2257 N.W. Raleigh St., www.cohoproductions.org, $55 Summerfest pass, $15 per show

‘The Rake’s Progress’

Another heads up: The opera, based on William Hogarth’s 1733 eight-painting chronicle, inspired Igor Stravinsky to compose a musical homage to Mozart (“The Rake’s Progress”) in 1951. Later, in 1975, David Hockney created costume designs for the opera at England’s Glyndebourne Festival. This year, the combined genuis of Hogarth, Stravinsky and Hockney comes together in the staging accompanied by a Portland Art Museum exhibition of Hogarth’s paintings and Hockney’s drawings.

7:30 p.m. Thursday-Friday, June 11-12, 2 p.m Sunday, June 14, Keller Auditorium, 222 S.W. Clay Ave., www.portlandopera.org

MUSIC

Dolly Parton Hoot Night

The 10th annual event put on by Siren Nation, which bolsters women’s performing and arts careers, will feature some of Portland’s best musicians paying tribute to one of the great singer-songwriters.

8 p.m. Saturday, June 6, Alberta Rose Theatre, 3000 N.E. Alberta St., www.albertarosetheatre.com and www.sirennation.com, $12, $15 at door

Sufjan Stevens

The singer-songwriter and great concert musician has produced some eclectic albums, including the recent “Carrie & Lowell.”

8 p.m. Monday, June 8, Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall, 1111 S.W. Broadway, www.portland5.com, $50

June arts

(Note: The Tribune will highlight some gallery openings and other arts happenings in the first edition of each month to coincide with First Thursday — this month, it’s Thursday, June 4)

• Portland Japanese Garden, 611 S.W Kingston Ave., presents a timely exhibit, “Kizuna: the Rebirth of Mashiko Ceramics,” June 6 through July 5, about the community of Mashiko, Japan, a historic pottery town, rallying from a devastating 2011 earthquake; Nepal has been hit hard twice by quakes. There’ll be 13 Mashiko artists’ work. Info: www.japanesegarden.com.

• The work of Portland artist and sculptor Mel Katz will be shown at Laura Russo Gallery, 805 N.W. 21st Ave., June 4 through 27, concurrent with museum exhibitions at the Hallie Ford Museum of Art at Willamette University in Salem (info: www.willamette.edu/go/hfma). An opening reception at Russo will be 5 p.m. First Thursday.

• The Columbia Center for the Arts will host a two-month art show celebrating the best art from mid-Columbia River Gorge residents — “The 2015 Best of the Gorge,” June 5 through Aug. 2 at Columbia Center for the Arts, 215 Cascade St., Hood River. Jennifer Zika, curator of Portland Art Museum sales and rental gallery, serves as juror for the show. It opens at 6 p.m. Friday, June 5.

• The “40 Reasons” exhibit at p:ear gallery, 338 N.W. Sixth Ave., features the art of 40 of Portland’s top professional artists and p:ear youth — p:ear works with homeless and transitional youth — with the theme being the artist’s interpretation of their favorite album art. It opens at 6 p.m. First Thursday and goes through July 30.

• The Museum of Contemporary Craft, 724 N.W. Davis St., and Pacific Northwest College of Art have a big exhibit coming up: “State of Oregon Craft,” opening June 5 and going through Aug. 15. It’s a survey exhibition presenting more than 50 works by 15 artists, makers and craft-based companies from around the state, making spruce root baskets and leather saddles to conceptual jewelry and kinetic glass and sound sculpture. It takes stock of how Oregonians make and live with handmade objects. Curators Nicole Nathan and Namita Gupta Wiggers traveled the state with a documentary crew to make the exhibition.

• For information on galleries: First Thursday, first thursdayportland.com; Portland Art Dealers Association, www.padaoregon.org.