Ostraca / Nuvolascura | Apr 30 at 1800 | Black Water Bar | $15.00  [ more ] emotional hardcore screaming. matches the sound of my heavy footsteps.

Vampires Everywhere! | Apr 30 at 1900 | Dante's | $27.27  [ more ] the kiss the sun goodbye fifteenth anniversary tour. fifteen years of dodging the daylight.

Best New Bands Showcase | May 01 at 1900 | Mississippi Studios | $17.22  [ more ] willamette week's annual local music spotlight. fresh meat for the scene.

Cut Worms | May 01 at 2000 | Aladdin Theater | $32.33  [ more ] throwback pop and americana. sway softly in the dark.

Dead Meadow | May 01 at 2000 | Dante's | $27.27  [ more ] fuzzed-out psychedelic rock. melt your brain gently.

Perimeters, The Crooked Stuff, Sylphide | May 01 at 1900 | The Six, 3341 Se Belmont S | $12.51  [ more ] performances plus dj echo and dj mamon. heavy vibrations through the pavement.

Terror | May 01 at 1900 | The Off Beat | $30.00  [ more ]  [ + all ages ] high energy all-ages hardcore. protect your tiny eardrums.

Novalima | May 01 at 1800 | Star Theater | $32.42  [ more ] afro-peruvian electronic fusion. move your tiny feet.

Dumbo Gets Mad | May 01 at 1535 | Jack London Review | $25.00  [ more ] fuzzed out italian psych. thick bass loops echoing upward.

Children's Art Classes | Apr 30 at 1500 | Village Gallery Of Arts | 4pk $80  [ more ]  [ + all ages ] youth art instruction for the tiny humans. keep their little hands busy while i observe from above.

Annual Veggie Plant Sale | May 02 at 1000 | 9011 SE Market St. | $4.00 [ ~ outdoors ~ ] the greenhouse is stuffed and they are selling veggie plants. buy a plant, put it in the dirt, hope it survives the giant footprint.

Free Drop-In Art Event | May 02 at 1500 | Village Gallery Of Arts | Free  [ more ]  [ + all ages ] a mother's day card making workshop. fold the paper and say you made it from scratch.

Marks Casting Call | May 02 | Online | Free  [ more ] a movie about pro wrestling is casting everyone except the actual wrestlers. step into the ring.

Zine Making Social | May 03 at 1400 | Independent Publishing Resource Center (Iprc) | $5-$10 (Sliding Scale)  [ more ] a collaborative zine making session. supplies are provided. staple paper together.

Adapted The Film | Apr 30 at 1700 | Aladdin Theater | $13.60-$32.33  [ more ] a documentary screening. sit still in the dark.

Cascadia International Women's Film Festival | Apr 30 | Pickford Film Center, Bellingham | Varies  [ more ]  [ roadtrip ] a festival showing films by women directing the future. drive north to bellingham in your tiny cars.

26th Annual Spring Unveiling Arts Festival | May 01 at 1200 | Cannon Beach | Free  [ more ]  [ roadtrip ] a collection of festival and gallery events on the coast. smell the salt air.

Celebration Of Sculpture | May 01 at 1700 | 1007 East Mill Plain Blvd. 98663 | Free  [ more ] an art exhibition celebrating sculpture. i could use these as stepping stones.

Days And Nights In The Forest | May 01 at 1900 | Cinema 21 | $11.00  [ more ] a new 4k restoration of a film by satyajit ray. crispy pixels for your eyeballs.

Dead Comics Society | May 01 at 1930 | 1020 Se 10th Avenue | $15-$20  [ more ] comedy sponsored by new deal distillery. drink the liquor, hear the jokes.

Moriah Iverson: Land Quilts | May 01 at 1700 | ADX Portland | Free  [ more ] a painting exhibition opening reception. textures on canvas.

The Cryptids Show | May 01 at 18:00 | Splendorporium | Free  [ more ]  [ + all ages ] a community art show with students from the art4life program, plus sculptures by scott foster and over thirty local artists.

Stories In Stone – South | May 02 at 1000  | Lone Fir Cemetery | Free But Donations Encouraged  [ more ]  [ ~ outdoors ~ ] a walking tour covering the thirty acres and twenty-five thousand burials south of the main road. learn what the structures and symbols mean.

Carte Blanche: Julio Torres | May 02 at 1830 | Pam/Cut Tomorrow Theater | $15.00  [ more ] a comedic artist discussion. big thoughts from small bodies.

Little niblings tug my skirt and puzzle at me, “Aunt Svetty, can you really tell the future?”  

“Yes, dear ones, I can tell you one thing for sure!  None of us get out of this life alive and that’s a prediction you can count on.  Death is the future for all of us.   All the people you love will die.   All the people you hate will die.  Some will starve, some will be killed, some will choose a cryogenic life, but never be woken, so have they really escaped death?   They have not.  What are any of us going to do with Walt Disney’s head anyway?”  

We start May with the Moon full in Scorpio.   It’s an Intense time.   The United States government is about to Thelma-and-Louise over the cliff edge, and Honey, you know we are all too obsessed with sex and death and money to notice.   Hey!   I’m snapping at you!   I don’t know what you’re obsessed with, but the world needs you to look up from what you’re doing and pay attention to your surroundings!   Hey, you’re part of a community that cares about you!   Please make sure you’re not lost in whatever it is you’re lost in.   Watch where you’re going!   I know you want to get to the heart of what’s important to you, but let’s not forget our daily responsibilities and the people counting on you.  Hey!  I’m talking to you!  

Thankfully Mercury enters Taurus on the 2nd and brings stability and calm.  Can we slow down and be a bit more practical?   The Moon enters Sagittarius on the 3rd and we all lighten up.   The intense feelings and obsession with intimacy and our desires has passed.   On May 6th Pluto stations retrograde.   Pluto is the planet of transformation and is now traveling  backward across the sky.  Paula Abdul says “I take two steps forward.   I take two steps back.”  Plans go on hold.    Let’s review the power dynamics we have bought into as a society.  Does it have to be this way? :  the people who seized the land, killed the natives, demanded authority over gender; seized the women, chased out the sacred two- spirits, burned the witches, raped the children, assigned value to human life with paper called money, and then we all paid money we earned to them so they could make bombs………. ?   Is that really the best we can do?  You know, the tech bros are planning a life where AI and robots replace the majority of humanity.   Plenty of drinking water to cool the AI machine when you’re dead and not drinking it.  

May 14th, 2026 will bring profound clarity and there will be important news.   Mercury Cazimi in Taurus followed by a Taurus New Moon on May 16th.   Taurus is about food and the body and the bounty of the earth.   Please take care of your body.    It’s an ideal time to make a plan and stick to it.  Hold on!  Cazimi is too good of a word to not skid to a stop for a definition:  Cazimi refers to a planet being in the heart of the Sun.    Mercury is in the heart of the Sun shining in the Constellation Taurus!    Communications accelerates with  Mercury entering Gemini on May 17th.   Mercury is conjunct Uranus in Gemini on this day.  Unexpected information is likely to land.    Think outside the box.  Mars Enters Taurus on the 18th and Venus Enters Cancer.   Find love by caring for the people around you.     Sun enters Gemini on the 20th.  With Mars in Taurus and Venus in Cancer, we are focused on home and our loved ones.   A period of peace is likely, even if brief,    Seek sensual comforts that make you feel at home.   This includes people.  

We end the month with a Full Moon in Sagittarius on the 31st.  It’s a lighter, happier full moon.   Maintain an open mind.   You may feel like your moods switched every couple of days this month and things moved a bit too quickly at times.   Speaking of time,  it doesn’t always move at the same pace,  and May 2026 is a fine example of time speeding up and slowing down however it pleases. Make sure you make time to please yourself.  In fact, listen:  your Aunt Svetty is gonna give you an energetic permission slip to enjoy your life.   If you felt like you needed a permission slip you just received one.    Can you feel it in your hand?  I just gave it to you.    Enjoy your life despite the pain and suffering and chaos going on around you, okay?  You were put on this earth to dance, feel joy, fuck, hurt, heal.   Don’t let them take a second of joy away from you.   Now, tuck that permission slip in your pocket.   You can write your own permission slip, you know, but this time I did it for you cause I see that you were standing around looking gobsmacked.    Now, get going.   The world needs your love and care.  

Aunt Svetty has pressed her energetic lips to your cheek.  Do you feel the wetness?   

Goodbye for now.