Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall

2024/25 Portland Arts & Lectures: Masha Gessen

EVENT UPDATE 2/12/25: Due to the severe weather advisory, Literary Arts has rescheduled the Feb. 13 Portland Arts & Lectures event with Masha Gessen for Thursday, May 8, 2025. 

Please hold on to your tickets as the barcodes will automatically transfer to this new date. For more information, or if you have additional questions, please reach out to [email protected].


This event is part of our 40th season of Portland Arts & Lectures. A series subscription must be purchased to attend this event.

For more information on the season, please see our FAQs or reach out to us at [email protected].

Masha Gessen is a Russian American author, activist, translator, and journalist. They’ve written 11 books, including Surviving Autocracy, The Future is History: How Totalitarianism Reclaimed Russia (winner of the 2017 National Book Award for Nonfiction). They’ve written for many US publications including The New York TimesThe Washington PostThe Los Angeles Times, and The New Yorker. Gessen is a distinguished professor at the Craig Newmark Graduate School of Journalism at CUNY and a distinguished visiting writer at Bard College. They live in New York with their wife and children. 

Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall : Upcoming Events

Arlene
Photo of Chang Mu dancers performing

White Bird welcomes ChangMu Dance Company to the Portland'5 Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall Wednesday, March...

Showing: 03/19
Arlene
The Oregon Symphony presents the music of the Rolling Stones

Oregon Symphony presents The Music of the Rolling Stones at the Portland'5 Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall...

Showing: 03/20
Arlene
Two dancers pose in front of a reflective wall and mirror ball

Live Nation presents Dancing with the Stars Live! 2025 at the Portland'5 Arlene Schnitzer Concert...

Showing: 03/21
Arlene
80s style artwork depicting a sunset over purple mountains with text reading DECADES: BACK TO THE 80s

Oregon Symphony presents their Back to the '80s concert, featuring iconic music of the '80s, at Arlene...

Showing: 03/22 - 03/23
Arlene
Photo of PYP violin player

Portland Youth Philharmonic presents a collaborative concert with Midwest Young Artists Conservatory at...

Showing: 03/24
Arlene
Image of Darcy & Jer standing behind text that reads "Average At Best"

Postponed (new date to be announced): Live Nation presents the Darcy & Jer: Average At Best Tour at...

Showing: 03/27