Cuba Libre
Artists Repertory Theatre is putting on the musical Cuba Libre, featuring Afro-Caribbean band Tiempo Libre, and OPBs Oregon Art Beat plans to air a half-hour, behind-the-scenes show about the evolution of the production Oregon Art Beat spent a year filming and reporting on the project from a dance workshop with temporary actors and dancers through national auditions and a seven-week rehearsal period to the Portland debut.
The documentary will air at 8 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 15, on OPB TV. its about a man caught between countries, losses and loves, and his search for freedom, set in the United States and Cuba.
Cuba Libre, directed by Damaso Rodriguez, Artists Rep artistic director, who works with playwright Carlos Lacamara and choreographer Maija Garcia and Tiempo Libre, runs through Nov. 15 (artistsrep.org).
Winter weather
The folks at the Oregon Chapter of the American Meteorological Society also gather experts and weather fans to talk about and predict the winter weather. The 23rd annual gathering happens at 10 a.m. Saturday Oct. 24, at the Oregon Museum of Science and Industry, 1945 S.E. Water Ave. Its free to the public (for info: ametsoc.org/chapters/oregon).
Bellydancing
The Portland Bellydance Guild will host Haflaween, live music and dance performances and open dancing, 6:30 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 24, at Euphoria Studios, 1235 S.E. Division St., No. 106. Its free to attend (suggested $5 donation).
For info: portlandbellydance.org.
The Art Gym
This fall marks the 35th year of Marylhurst Universitys The Art Gym, 17600 Pacific Highway (open noon-4 p.m. Tuesdays-Sundays), as a venue exhibiting some of the most significant and timely art of the region. The gallery is in the process of strategic growth through a five-year plan focused on sustainability of the gallery, standardization of wages for artists, increased catalogue production for artists, completion of renovation, and new piloted programming.
As part of the plan, The Art Gym will be one of the Pacific Northwests first Working Artists and the Greater Economy (W.A.G.E.) voluntarily certified organizations, (with certification pending fiscal 2015-16), implementing standardized wages for artists, including honorariums for exhibiting and support for art production.
Marylhurst University will match a $1 million challenge grant from The Robert and Mercedes Eichholz Foundation by 2019, to endow the director and curator positions to increase to full time in perpetuity. All contributed funds to The Art Gym during this time are matched by the foundation, so donations are automatically doubled in support of the gallery.
The Art Gym at Marylhurst University will present a large retrospective exhibit of the work of the late Kartz Ucci through Dec. 5.
Taylor John Williams, Noah Guthrie
A couple of young musicians who have become famous through modern ways are playing at the Alberta Rose Theatre this week. Singer-songwriter Williams, from Lake Oswego, best known for his success on season seven of The Voice, has been working on an album after releasing his debut EP Song of a Dead Man. Noah Guthrie, a bluesy pop singer-songwriter who has drawn fans from YouTube, has a 13-original-song album (Among the Wildest Things), and more than 22 million viewers have watched his version of LMFAOs Sexy and I Know It online, which also gave him much publicity. The details: 7:30 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 15, Alberta Rose Theatre, 3000 N.E. Alberta St., albertarosetheatre.com, $18, $22 at door.