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Go, Tuesday: ‘Project Wild Thing,’ Riot Grrrl Then and Now

The Columbian

Published: April 23, 2015, 5:00pm

Nightlife

Swansea, Us Lights, 9 p.m. Doug Fir Lounge, 830 E. Burnside St., Portland; $7, for ages 21 and older. 503-231-9663 or www.dougfirlounge.com

Turbo Fruits, Eternal Summers, 9 p.m. Mississippi Studios, 3939 N. Mississippi Ave., Portland; $13 to $15, for ages 21 and older. 503-288-3895 or www.mississippistudios.com

On stage

Filmmaker Brian Lindstrom, 6:30 p.m. Lindstrom will present his two documentaries: “Alien Boy,” documenting one man’s struggle with schizophrenia and the police officers responsible for his death, and “Mothering Inside,” which follows a year in the Family Preservation Project at Coffee Creek Correctional Facility in Wilsonville, Ore. Kiggins Theatre, 1011 Main St., Vancouver; $7. www.kigginstheatre.net

Kathleen Hanna: Riot Grrrl Then and Now, 8 p.m. Revolution Hall, 1300 S.E. Stark St., Portland; $25 to $30 through Ticketfly, 877-435-9849 or www.ticketfly.com. www.revolutionhallpdx.com

“Project Wild Thing,” 6 to 8 p.m. The Food and Film Series offers an environmental-film screening and complementary pizza every fourth Tuesday of the month. David Bond’s film looks for ways to have kids reconnect with nature in the digital age. Vancouver Community Library, 901 C St., Vancouver; free. 360-852-9189 or www.vancouverwatersheds.org

Theater

“4000 Miles,” presented by Artists Repertory Theatre. Twenty-one-year-old Leo sets out on an unannounced cross-country bike trip to his 91-year-old grandmother’s West Village apartment. He learns of his grandmother’s radical, Bohemian past, shaking up his own world views in the process. April 28 through May 24; 7:30 p.m. April 28, Wednesdays through Saturdays, May 12, 19; 2 and 7:30 p.m. Sundays and May 23. Morrison Stage, 1515 S.W. Morrison St., Portland; $25 for April 28 through May 1; $41 to $56; $25 for students. 503-241-1278 or www.artistsrep.org

“Cyrano,” presented by Portland Center Stage. Recommended for ages 10 and older. 7:30 p.m. Gerding Theater at the Armory, 128 N.W. Eleventh Ave., Portland; $36 to $69; $25 for students and youth. 503-445-3700 or www.pcs.org. For more details, see the go: friday page.

Words

Last Tuesdays Poetry, 7 p.m. Seven poets will present their contributed work to the anthology “The Knotted Bond: Oregon Poets Speak of Their Sisters,” the featured book. Open mic slots will be available. Barnes & Noble, Vancouver Plaza, 7700 N.E. Fourth Plain Blvd., Vancouver; 360-253-9007 or www.bn.com/events

Sam Quinones, “Dreamland: The True Tale of America’s Opiate Epidemic,” 7:30 p.m. Powell’s Books, 1005 W. Burnside St., Portland; 800-878-7323 or www.powells.com

Fairs & festivals

Lilac Days, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. daily through May 10. Hulda Klager Lilac Gardens, 115 S. Pekin Road, Woodland; $3, free for ages 12 and younger. www.lilacgardens.com. For more details, see the go: friday page.

Museums

Mark O. Hatfield Historians Forum Lecture, 7 p.m. Theodore Roosevelt re-creator Joe Wiegand will give his living-history performance as the 26th president. First Congregational United Church of Christ, 1126 S.W. Park Ave., Portland; $25 to $75, $10 for students. 503-222-1741 or www.ohs.org

Dancing

Country line-dance lessons, 6:30 to 8 p.m. Fishers Grange No. 211, 814 N.E. 162nd Ave., Vancouver; $4. No partner or experience is required. Led by instructors Tom and Kathy Peters. 360-521-8360.

International folk dancing, 3 to 4:30 p.m. Marshall Center, 1009 E. McLoughlin Blvd., Vancouver. Learn folk dances. No partner or experience needed. $1. 360-487-7050 or www.cityofvancouver.us/parksrec