Vanport Mosaic
Reminder: The people, city and legacy of Vanport, 77 years after the devastating flood of 1948, will be commemorated in the 10th annual Vanport Mosaic Festival through June 1 with exhibits, walking tours, performances, screenings, conversations, and community gatherings.

Events will take place in venues across Portland and are offered for free or sliding scale. Festival headquarters is Alberta House, 5131 N.E. 23rd Ave., where there’ll be four exhibits: “Vanport: A Surge of Social Change,” “The Climate Refugees of Vanport — Artwork by Henk Pander,” “Cardboard Artwork” by Bayo, “Impressions of Vanport” by third-grade students at Buckman Elementary School.

Upcoming events:

“Memories in The Taking,” 6 p.m.-8 p.m. Thursday, May 29, Alberta House; A staged reading culled from over 400 walking oral history narratives on Black life and aging in Portland part of the SHARP program — conceived by Dr. Raina Croff, and co-directed by Clarice Bailey.

Vanport Day of Remembrance, 12:30 p.m.-5 p.m. Saturday, May 31, Delta Park and Expo Center; Tours, performances, pop-up exhibits, screenings, and storytelling on the land where Vanport once stood and nearly 4,000 Japanese Americans were unjustly incarcerated.

“We Are Still Here,” 3 p.m.-5 p.m. Sunday, June 1, Expo Center; A culminating site-specific performance co-presented by Vanport Mosaic and Resonance Ensemble, featuring Chisao Hata’s Portland Assembly Center Project and the world premiere of “On This Land” by Kenji Bunch.

More: vanportmosaic.org.

‘Book of Mormon’
Reminder: The hit Broadway musical “The Book of Mormon” stages through June 1 at Keller Auditorium. There’s a lottery for tickets at this point (BroadwayIn Portland.com). It’s a nine-time Tony Award-winning musical and it returns to Portland for the fifth time (and will be sold out for the fifth time).

Oregon Symphony
Two upcoming shows at Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall (orsymphony.org):

Conducted by Sarah Hicks, it’s “The Music of Angelo Badalamenti and Twin Peaks,” 7:30 p.m. Wednesday, May 28. It features various selections of Badalamenti’s iconic score from David Lynch’s mysterious town at the center of the former TV series “Twin Peaks.”

For kids and adults, it’s the score of “Peter and the Wolf,” conducted by Deanna Tham, 2 p.m. Sunday, June 1. Discover the instruments of the symphony through Prokofiev’s beloved children’s work “Peter and the Wolf,” the tale of the young boy who confronts a menacing wolf with the help of his animal friends.

NW Dance Project
The company NW Dance Project closes its 21st season with world-premiere dance creations of “A Midsummer Night’s Dream” and “La Mome Piaf,” 7:30 p.m. Friday-Saturday, May 30-31 at Newmark Theatre. Shakespeare’s iconic comedy “A Midsummer Night’s Dream,” one of his most popular and widely performed plays, gets a contemporary treatment from Spanish choreographer and former Luna Negra Artistic Director Gustavo Ramírez Sansano. With “La Mome Piaf,” acclaimed international dance-maker Ihsan Rustem returns to the company that provided him with his first commissioned work for his 14th creation for NW Dance Project— completely inspired by and featuring the unmistakable music and voice of French songbird Edith Piaf.

More: nwdanceproject.org.

Live Music
The Tribune runs a list of notable concerts each month under title “Live Music” on its website, portlandtribune.com/life style. Check it out — each and every month.

Country rock superstar Hardy, on his “Jim Bob World Tour,” plays Cascades Amphitheater in Ridgefield Washington, 6:30 p.m. Saturday, May 31 (cascadesamphitheater.com).

A co-founder of 2Cellos, Hauser comes to Portland on his “The Rebel Is Back” tour, and performs at Moda Center, 8 p.m. Tuesday, June 3 (rosequarter.com).

Now in its 33rd year, the Noon Tunes Summer Concert Series hosts concerts at Pioneer Courthouse Square at noon Tuesdays and Thursdays through July. It begins with Reisender on Tuesday, June 3 and Ben Rice & The PDX Hustle on Thursday, June 5 (thesquarepdx.org).

Chainsaw fun
A fan of timber sports and community events? Prepare for Trajectory NW’s first two-day SICC (Sandy Invitational Chainsaw Carving) Forest Festival on May 31-June 1, at 37000 Highway 26 in Sandy (trajectorynw.org/sicc). This is the third year of this event, sponsored in 2025 by Dick Hannah. The festivities will include live displays of carving artists creating pieces, timber sports, heavy equipment and mass timber displays, hands-on activities, educational booths, vendors, and a Family Zone (with hotdogs/burgers for purchase).

Portland Center Stage
Portland’s big theater company puts on the bold, witty adaptation of “The Importance of Being Earnest,” June 1-29 at The Armory. Previews begin June 1 with opening night June 6. Playwright Kamilah Bush reimagines Oscar Wilde’s classic through a contemporary lens — queering characters, challenging traditional power dynamics and injecting the satire with fresh urgency. It’s set in stylized 1919 and echoes modern movement, spotlighting class, gender and identity.

The story: What’s in a name? For some people — everything. In this brand-new spin on Oscar Wilde’s classic, Jack and Algernon bend truth and identity to become the men they think society wants them to be. Enter a world where cucumber sandwiches are sacred, desire is performative, and the line between honesty and performance is thinner than ever. Packed with sharp barbs and sweet buns, this is “The Importance of Being Earnest” as you’ve never seen it before: unbuttoned, uncorseted, and deliciously Wilde.

More: pcs.org.