Sip on your favorite drinks or find a new favorite at the Spring Beer & Wine Festival. This event showcases craft beer, wines, and cocktails, along with special features like the Tour de Cheese & Chocolate. Other features of the festival include live entertainment and food.
Get your tickets to a performance at the Artists Repertory Theatre. This theater features original plays and re-imagined classics, including titles like No Man's Land, Next to Normal, and God of Carnage. The theater brings the city new entertainment in an intimate environment, providing a different experience for theater-goers.
Appreciate the life of the outdoors as you take in the sights at the Smith and Bybee Wetlands Natural Area. As America's largest protected urban wetland, this natural area is home to animals like beavers, river otters, bald eagles, turtles, osprey and more. While Bybee Lake serves as a preserve, Smith Lake is a popular destination for light water recreation like fishing or canoeing.
Take the time to stop by and see one of the city's most significant pieces of public art, Portlandia. Located at the Michael Graves' Portland Building entrance, the statue is a reincarnation of the city seal, designed as a woman holding a trident and welcoming visitors to the building. The statue is the second largest copper repousse in the nation, surpassed only by the Statue of Liberty.