THE OPEN ROAD
a learning community
classes, performances & readings
SPRING 2025
The Open Road encourages lifelong learning, and seeks to build a gateless community of people who are curious about everything. Open Road Events (ORE) are initiated by the Open Road; other things in this schedule Open Road Recommends (ORR). All live events in Portland, unless otherwise noted. If you have questions, contact us at stallingsjohnny@gmail.com or 503-347-6869.
classes
¡Bibliophiles Unanimous! (ORE) Friendly online conversation that starts out with books and…meanders. Here’s the Zoom link: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/87614013058.
March 16, 3 pm: Poems
April 20, 3 pm: Novels
May 18, 3 pm: Nonficiton
Yoga with Elizabeth (ORR) 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.
Monday-Friday 8-8:30 a.m.
$38 per month
performances
WARPed or How I Graduated from the School for Phils (ORE) Johnny Stallings tells hair-raising tales of performing the longest part in the longest play in the English language.
Saturday, March 22, 3 pm (Free)
Muir Hall at Taborspace, 5441 SE Belmont
On the Rocky Road: Exiles, Itinerants and Outcasts in Irish Myth, Legend and Lore (ORR) From wandering scholars and itinerant peddlers to landless outcasts and banished poets, master storyteller Will Hornyak recounts tales and songs of Ireland’s long history on the rocky road of exile. A celebration of St. Patrick, Druid’s Day and the Countless Gods and Goddesses of the Celtic pantheon.
1. Sunday, March 16, 7 pm (doors at 6 pm)
Ross Island Grocery and Café, 3502 S Corbett Ave.
Great food and drink available
$20 (Reservations recommended) willhornyakstorytellingrockyroad.eventbrite.com/
2. Monday, March 17, 6 pm (PDT) (Waiting Room Opens at 5:30)
Virtual Zoom On-Line Only Event
Click Here: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/5483536891#success
3. Sunday, March 23, 3:30 pm
Ledding Library, 10660 SE 21st, Milwaukie, OR (Free)
4. Friday, March 28, 7 pm (doors at 6:30 pm)
Taborspace Copeland Commons, 5441 SE Belmont
$20 Cash/Check/Venmo/PayPal at the door
(Reservations Recommended: hornyak.will@gmail.com)
The Deck Boys (ORR) Jeffrey Sher plays with The Fabulous Deck Boys. Catch them when you can! (deckboys.com)
Fridays, March 21, April 18 & May 16 7-9 pm
Ross Island Grocery & Cafe, 3502 S Corbett Ave
Friday, March 7 & Saturday, April 26, 6-9 pm
48 North Pizzeria, 6500 S Virginia Ave.
Saturday, May 3, 7-9 pm
Al’s Den, 303 SW 12th Ave.
readings
Indigo Small Press Month Reading. (ORR) Johnny Stallings is among the authors who will be reading. He will read from his book The Nonstop Love-In: poems, stories, essays & other writings.
Friday, March 21, 7 pm (Free)
BOLD Coffee & Books, 1755 SW Jefferson
Our Hands of Ruin. (ORE) Reading of a new play by Casey Wood. Shakespeare’s villains find themselves in prison. Prospero is the warden.
Saturday, April 12, 2-5 pm (Free)
Artspace Room at Taborspace, 5441 SE Belmont
A thing of beauty is a joy for ever: The English Romantic Poets. (ORE) Johnny Stallings reads from the poetry of Shakespeare, Blake, Burns, Wordsworth, Coleridge, Shelley, Keats and Yeats—“the unacknowledged legislators of the World.”
Saturday, April 19, 3 pm (Free)
Artspace Room at Taborspace, 5441 SE Belmont
Song of Myself: Group Reading. (ORE) For Walt Whitman’s 206th Birthday, we will once again perform the sacred rite of reading from the greatest utterance produced in America so far.
Saturday, May 31, 3 pm (Free)
Artspace Room at Taborspace, 5441 SE Belmont