Bits & Pieces: Miss America?

Ali Wallace, the reigning Miss Oregon from Portland, hopes to garner votes and win over judges to be in the running for Miss America, which crowns its winner on Sunday, Sept. 13, in Atlantic City (9 p.m., ABC).

Fans can vote with postings through Twitter and Facebook, both by typing in “Oregon #Miss AmericaVote.”

Tilikum and Opera

Portland Opera will get into the act on the opening day of the Tilikum Crossing, Bridge of the People, Sept. 12.

It’ll host a day of free public events and activities, “A Day and a Night at the Opera,” at the Hampton Opera Center, 211 S.E. Caruthers St. (adjacent to the east end of the Tilikum Crossing), starting at 11 a.m.

There’ll be a two-hour session of “Great Opera Choruses in Rehearsal,” featuring the 40-voice Portland Opera Chorus and “I Sang with Portland Opera” opportunity for attendees, as well as two 30-minute performances by resident artists and costume and properties displays from recent productions.

At 7 p.m., the opera hosts a screening of the Marx Brothers’ film “A Night at the Opera.”

And the All Classical Portland radio station will offer complimentary tours from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m.

PYP’s 92nd season

The Portland Youth Philharmonic, America’s first youth orchestra, has announced its 92nd season lineup at Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall, including: Nov. 14, “Warehouse Medicine” from Mason Bates; Dec. 26, Concert-At-Christmas, featuring 300 musicians and 100 alumni; March 5, Winter Concert, highlighted with “Sun Splendor” by Marion Bauer; May 1, Spring Concert, featuring Zoltan Kodaly’s “Variations on a Hungarian Folk Song ‘The Peacock.’”

For info and tickets: www.portlandyouthphil.org.

Polaris makeover

Polaris Dance Theatre is happily moving forward after a long search to find a new space (1826 N.W. 18th Ave.).

The company recently announced some new dancers as well — Brittain Jarrett Jackson, from Washington, D.C.; Melanie Verna, from Knoxville, Tenn. — who will team with returning company dancers and new apprentice dancers Maya Felten, Brynn Hofer (who lives in Portland), Alyssa Mitchell, Jessica Zoller, and trainee Astrid Angell.

Polaris also hopes to start classes at the new space in October.

For more: www.polarisdance.org.

Post5 leadership

Post5 Theatre is looking for new artistic leadership after the announced departure of Ty Boice, founding artistic director, who will move to Seattle with his wife, Cassandra.

Boice helped the theater company move from its origins on Southeast 82nd Avenue to the Sellwood neighborhood. He’ll finish out the season playing Sharpe in Bill Cain’s “Equivocation,” through Oct. 4, and co-directing “Equus” with Cassandra, the associate artistic director. “Equus” opens Oct. 16.

Post5 hopes to have replacements by the time of the Boices’ departure.

“What an incredible privilege this has been,” Ty says, of the past five years with Post5.

“This is an exciting time for this company — I leave Post5 Theatre in a wonderful place, ticket sales for the 2015 season are at 70 percent capacity, funding is steadily growing and, most importantly, the company is made up of some of the most inspiring, talented and generous artists I have had the pleasure of knowing.”