Our Community
Our Mission
The Open Road nurtures inner transformation through education, dialogue, meditation & mindfulness, and the arts, in order to promote peace, love, happiness and understanding.
We welcome everyone, regardless of income, age, or cultural background.
Our Programs
The Open Road supports and encourages lifelong learning for everyone through classes, talks, dialogue groups, study groups, performances, workshops, seminars and retreats.
HANDS OFF! Mass Mobilization 4/5/25
Dear Friends of The Open Road
Join the Open Road for a Mass Mobilization in Portland, on Saturday, April 5th, to demand HANDS OFF! Social Security, Our Bodies, Libraries, Immigrants & Refugees, Free Speech, Medicare, Schools, Clean Air, Greenland, etc, etc.
The April issue of peace, love, happiness & understanding features Ralph Waldo Emerson’s 1838 essay War. There is a peace, love, happiness & understanding Archive.
There will be a reading of OUR HANDS OF RUIN, a play by Casey Wood, at Taborspace on April 12th, at 2 pm. DON’T MISS THIS!
Check out the Open Road Spring 2025 schedule of Classes, Performances & Readings.
Catch The Fabulous DECK BOYS! when you can! Upcoming gig at Ross Island Grocery & Cafe on Friday, April 18th, at 7 pm.
A thing of beauty is a joy forever. Johnny Stallings reads from the English Romantic poets on Saturday, April 19th, at 3 pm, in the Artspace Room at Taborspace, 5441 SE Belmont, in Portland.
On May 2nd, LARRY YES (larryyes.com), will have an art opening and vinyl record release party for his new album EVERYONE ON THIS PLANET IS FAMILY at Purple Door Gallery. On May 3rd, there will be a second record release party at Leaven Community Center.
Bibliophiles Unanimous!, the Open Road literary salon, meets one Sunday a month at at 3 p.m. (PDT) on Zoom. On March 16th, our topic is Poems!
THANK YOU!!! to donors, teachers, performers, friends–everyone who makes The Open Road thrive!
YOGA with Elizabeth. Elizabeth Domike teaches yoga five mornings a week online. Gentle joint activation movement, with a poem at the end of each practice. Join people from all over the world. To register, contact her at: smallhouse@aol.com.
Check out the Open Road Archive of Classes, Workshops, Performances, et cetera and Past Events.
The Open Road published a monthly Meditation & Mindfulness Dialogue from September of 2020 through June of 2024. It was mailed to men in prison and emailed to people “on the outside.” There is a complete archive of this journal at: Meditation & Mindfulness Dialogue Archive.
Johnny Stallings performed WARPed or How I Graduated from the School for Phils on March 22nd, at Taborspace. Hair-raising adventures performing the longest part in the longest play in the English language.
Johnny read from his book The Nonstop Love-In at Indigo Small Press Month Reading on March 21st, at BOLD Books & Coffee, in Portland.
Johnny Stallings performed Silence–a theater piece about meditation on January 4th at Taborspace, in Portland.
The Open Road has a Walt Whitman Archive: Friends of Walt.
A Midsummer Night’s Dream in Prison is a documentary by Bushra Azzouz. The film premiered on August 7, 2022 at Cinema 21, in Portland, Oregon. The Open Road was fiscal sponsor of the the film from April of 2020 to June of 2024.
Open Road Press is a new project of the Open Road, starting in early 2024. Our first publication is The Nonstop Love-In: poems, stories, essays & other writings by Johnny Stallings. Click on the title to learn more about how you can buy a copy or get it from the Multnomah County Library. Makes a great gift!
The Open Road is fiscal sponsor of the Mom Foundation Nepal. Click on Mom Foundation to go to the web page and learn more.
The Village Zendo has online group meditations every day.
You can see and hear Hamilton Cheifetz and Janet Guggenheim play Song of the Birds by Pablo Casals.
May all people be happy.
May we live in peace & love.
–Johnny
