We’re celebrating our 24th birthday, and we want to celebrate with you! SPACE first opened its doors on August 2, 2002, and we love marking…
Join us for a talk with artist Midori Morrow (MECA MFA ’24) celebrating the window gallery installation Confluence without Witness and exploring the intersection of…
Cult hero of outré folk Phil Elverum, an artist self-described as “stubbornly still DIY to the bone,” returns to Portland in his guise as Mount…
dir. Ross McElwee116 min. Filmmaker Ross McElwee has spent forty years recording himself and his family, creating documentaries that chronicle the shifting contours of American…
dir. René Laloux, 83 minutesIn French with English subtitles, 1987 An entire civilization must confront its destiny in alternative-animation pioneer René Laloux’s final feature, a…
dir. John Early98 min. MADDIE’S SECRET is comedian, writer, and actor John Early’s critically acclaimed directorial debut starring himself as Maddie, a plucky dishwasher who…
Join The Telling Room’s 2026 Young Emerging Authors Fellows as they celebrate their book launch at SPACE. Authors Anna Grey Bergstrom, E.C. Jay, Len Harrison, and Lily Jessen took…
dir. Tasha Van Zandt, 88 minutes A LIFE ILLUMINATED follows trailblazing marine biologist Dr. Edie Widder — one of the first women in her field and…
Legendary indie-rock act Destroyer, the longtime moniker of genre-hopping songwriter-artist Dan Bejar, makes the first Maine appearance of his nearly 30-year career in a special…
After numerous sold-out SPACE shows, Arkansas-based folksinger-poet Willi Carlisle returns to Portland for an evening at First Parish Church, toting his expansive new double-album, The Universal…