Free Events in Portland: Oct 9–11 (Highlights Edition)

October 8th, 2009

Admission is free for all events below. Have a great weekend!

All weekend

Sample more than 60 varieties of apples and pears at the Portland Nursery Apple Tasting Event.

Saturday, October 10

Head to Oaks Park for the Oregon Bounty Fresh Hop Beer Tastival.

Learn to use a letterpress at the Red Bat Press Open Studio.

Visit Gresham for the Salmon Festival.

Enjoy free admission and family activities at the Washington County Museum.

Meet Oregon Book Award winner Deborah Hopkinson and illustrator Carson Ellis at A Children’s Place Bookstore.

Rub elbows with a stormtrooper at the LEGO Star Wars: Visual Dictionary Launch Event at Barnes and Noble in Clackamas Town Center.

Sunday, October 11

Check out Goat Day in Wilsonville.

Listen to a variety of music at “We Are the World” Cultural Celebration Day in Tigard.

See the documentary “Come Together Home” at Someday Lounge.

Visit Gresham for the Salmon Festival.

More events

For more free and low-cost events, check Portland on the Cheap.

For free concerts, see Concert Co-op.

For an extensive list of free and not-free literary events, check Reading Local.

If you know of any other free events happening this weekend, please write a comment about it.

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2 Comments Add your own

1. Dave&hellip | October 9th, 2009 at 4:07 am

Goat Day! Great find.

But Wilsonville is so far away
2. Alysia&hellip | October 15th, 2009 at 7:03 am

Goat day?! I never knew!

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