This is the perfect venue for hosting a small party. The room is tastefully decorated. We hosted…read moreour daughter's baby shower there and loved it. Everyone I dealt with answered my questions and promptly communicated with me throughout the process. We were able to visit the venue twice to determine what we needed. They are flexible as far as who we hired to do the catering and bar service. They have a freight elevator and a wagon to help transport items. I appreciated having the option of clean up services for an additional fee. I also used their dishes and they are beautiful. The cost for this venue is extremely affordable for such a classy place. My daughter walked in and said it felt like she was in a dream! Thank you again for providing such a beautiful venue.

We have used this venue twice now for our family Christmas, once for a baby shower, and we already…read morehave it scheduled for a bridal shower in a few months. Tendue is a great space for gatherings, spacious, decorated very cute, great lighting from the windows and the staff is very accommodating, We are already planning our next Christmas gathering for 2024 to be at Tendue.

I was a guest at a wedding reception here. I had a an absolute blast with my friends. This function…read morehalls is inviting from the moment you walk in the door with modern design and a friendly/ accommodating and helpful staff. Spacious dancefloor. Comfortable amount of space for 80-100 guests. Definitely give this place a shot.

Went to another amazing art show at Blanc. Seriously this venue is what it is about in Portland…read more Exquisite, Artistic, Loving and filled with warm welcomes and wonderful interactions of Portland's who's who. Love this place and everything it stands for with our community.

This is an amazing place to visit, hang out & enjoy a concert or just to hang out!…read more Highly recommended!!!

Green Anchors Studios is a small business incubator built on a brownfield down by the river in…read moreshipping containers. Colonies like this are found in Oakland and in the first cyberpunk novel written in 1984, Neuromancer. In that story, the protagonist, a brilliant hacker, lives in a shipping container with electricity and an Internet connection, not much else. This is that. With the US-China trade imbalance, shipping containers are accumulating in West Coast ports, like Portland. It is not economic to ship them back empty. So shipping containers are being used to house almost a dozen small businesses at Green Anchors Studios. The Willamette River, in its depths and shores, is home to many polluted soils and sediments. In the way back, the solution to pollution was dilution, and the rivers and seemingly infinite oceans and their shores became home to toxic materials. A brownfield is a nice name for a polluted piece of land that costs more to clean up than its value. So it sits. Green Anchors firmly occupies a brownfield they make good. Or at least gooder. Portland is home to many small and startup businesses. Green Anchors includes a solar company, an indoor grower of salad greens, a group of tiny home builders, firewood cutters, several metal fabricators, a grower of mushrooms for restaurants, a vintage boat rebuilder, a sculptor and a docked steamboat with a radio station. Very Portland. Very sustainable. The land is spacious, some of the businesses are close to one another and others scattered. There is room for more. The land is not paved, it's covered with wood chips, it will likely be a bit muddy in rainy season. They have a City water supply. Some businesses have built canopies spanning the space between containers to make their own Drop City studios. It's perfect for noisy and messy small businesses. It is zoned heavy industry. There is no living at the site. The businesses are friends and friends with the DIY community in St Johns. They sometimes have open houses. Green Anchors Studios is a hive of small businesses under the St Johns bridge doing something productive with a piece of land that we forgot to take care of. If you have a business that can fit in a shipping container or a few, talk to them!

My wife and I have been taking weekly pastel classes here on Wednesdays with Barb, we've learned a…read morelot and have been having an absolute blast. Everyone in the class is so incredibly kind and encouraging, so it's a really positive and uplifting environment to be part of. This class is a fantastic way to express yourself and relax, it really helps a lot with my anxiety, and helps me appreciate the beauty in imperfections. The store itself also has a large variety of art supplies so we always shop here when we need to restock colors and materials.

Saw this on the news, what a great concept. Horrid employees. Very unwelcoming for no reason…read more Rolled her eyes as we walked in. As a person of color, this did not feel right. Why hang art if you do not want people to come in and look at it? Especially in a mall.

The Iron Fireman Collective is a 144,000 square foot pair of buildings with parking across the…read morestreet from the MAX Orange Line Holgate Station in industrial Portland It is raw now, with leasing possibilities from 800 to 35,000 square feet at about $1.40-$2.00 per square foot per month. There are two interconnected buildings, one built in 1920 and the other in 1972. Office space and light manufacturing are potential uses. ADX and Portland Made Collective partnered in their opening party, which featured local artisan food and drink. There was an acoustic band including an upright piano with a built in video screen controlled by the keyboard designed by deaf artists to bring a visual experience of music to deaf people http://www.cymaspace.org/technology/. With manufacturing being displaced from the Central East Side, this is a welcome addition. And if your maker business scales up, this is a place to consider. It is part of the Portland Made http://www.portlandmade.com/the-industrial-grange/ Industrial Grange program. As Sun Ra says, "space is the place." The Iron Fireman Collective is a new raw flex office and manufacturing space.

My brother, myself, and our cousin in Wyoming keep track of places here in Portland where my…read moremother's family lived after moving here from Mammoth, Utah in 1940. Utah had absolutely no work available at the time and was still deep in the Depression. They followed my grandmother's two younger brothers to work in the Kaiser Shipyards (the prepping for WWII was going on even though war had not been declared) and it saved them. They picked fruit for ten cents a basket as they drove to Portland. Talk about modern-day pioneers! Grandpa, grandma, my ten-year-old mother, and, her four-year-old brother coming across country based on faith that good things would happen. It is here at the now renovated Iron Fireman CollectIvee that my Grandpa got a badly-needed job as a machinist. For some reason, I can't save this as a draft. Ron and I plan to visit soon to get a look at the building, take pictures, and finish the review.

Wow! Love this place! Took a ten week class with Lela and loved it. As an artist who has done…read morepottery on and off for over thirty years it was great to come back to it here with great instructors who taught me some different techniques for wedging clay and throwing than I've learned in the past. Definitely coming back for a membership!

I love this creative space. Everyone is made to feel welcomed. They have the most amazing…read morehandmade items for sale, offer classes that don't make you feel intimidated to not know what you are doing and the owner is a great human! They believe in community and offer options to buy scholarships to support students who might not be able to pay for classes. It's just a great all around place!

Where to start?! I have known Kris and Pete, co-owners of Arte Soleil, for several years. Both of…read morethem bring their passion and experience as artists to the table - Pete as a song writer, musician, and painter, and Kris as an art therapist and an assistant professor of art therapy. Together they are making their dream of bringing art into underserved communities a reality. I began my involvement with Arte Soleil about 6 months after their launch, due to a promise I made to myself - to MAKE time to create. I soon found that I had more talents than I had first thought, and I am encouraged by Kris and peers alike. That is one of the things that I truly appreciate about the community at Arte Soleil... they build each other up. No matter what you are needing: - A gift made by a local artist? - Creative-inspired encouragement? - A supportive studio environment that is laid back in which to create? - An open mic opportunity among friendly people? - Wanting to take a class? - Or do you just want to get involved in something fun? Come check them out! Arte Soleil is located in outer SE Portland and is open in the afternoons, Friday through Sunday.

This is a wonderful place to pick up a gift made locally, grab a cup of pour over coffee, or take a…read moreclass. They are also hosting there first open mic night soon! I'm so excited that something like this has come to outer SE!

A real estate investor moved into North Portland at exactly the right time. In one of their…read morebuildings, they curate the entire basement of a more than quarter block building as artist studios, to give back. Once a year they have an open house to wander the studios and meet the artists. So it is not the Yelp conventional business: they are open to the public once a year for a few hours. But if you have an interest in buying work from an artist, contact them for access. The most unusual concentration of art styles here are large scale oil paint portraits and landscapes. But there are music studios, theatrical studios, sculptors and the studios of XRay.fm. Many of the apartments above and in their Mississippi properties happen to be occupied by artists too. And the landlord, in their commercial buildings, hosted art school studios. Modern Medicis, yes. For you, an opportunity to see artists at work, once a year. Curious? Check their website.

This month I was in Vancouver, WA as a performer at the Clark county fair for 10 days. I managed to…read moreget in a few days of Yoga when not running the streets near the hotel and it was really nice. I saw that Simply Yoga had and still has! A special deal of "10-days for 10$" and so I signed that up and took a few classes. I got to experience Hatha with Kristi and Vinyasa 1/2 w/ Christina. Both excellent teachers and the studio is beautiful, clean, well managed, and the vibes are so relaxing and open. I attempted another class but it was full, but it's all good! Simply Yoga is worth checking out, had good price points and is remodeling their large studio to be and beyond! Go check this place out and get your Yoga ON!

Went last night for the first time and loved it. I bought the 10 classes for 10 days in a row for…read more$10 - you can't beat that intro offer. I have not taken formal classes in many years, but have been doing yoga somewhat regularly virtually to Beth Shaw YogaFit, and I was able to fit right in with the class. There were 4 other people in the Hatha class with Kari and I loved the small class size. Kari was great. Having a "real, live" instructor really helps you to focus / relax much better than watching a video, and she really kept her eye on us and gently corrected our forms which was very positive for me. I had to email them because I had an issue with my account that was my own fault and they replied very quickly and wanted to make sure nothing got in the way of my returning before the kink got solved. I can't wait for the next class!