Our Monthly Picks Around Town: April 2025

Apr 1

April is in full bloom! With tulips stretching toward the sky and pizza slices calling your name, the city is bursting with color, flavor, and purpose. From clothes swaps to queer cinema and hands-in-the-dirt clean-up days, this month is all about connection—with each other, with the earth, and with the vibrant energy that makes this city shine. Let’s dig in, show up, and celebrate spring in all its forms.

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Get your bloom on!

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Support queer filmmakers

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Out with the old, in with the new!

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Let’s love on Oregon

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