The Pacific Northwest is due for a major earthquake along the Cascadia Subduction Zone, and a magnitude 9 Cascadia earthquake and tsunami would likely produce an unprecedented catastrophe much larger than any disaster the state of Oregon has ever faced.

Oregon’s resilience to earthquakes is low, thus, preparing for a catastrophic disaster to become more resilient is needed to improve personal safety and safeguard communities and businesses. At this Science on Tap, Yumei Wang, engineer and geologist, will discuss Oregon’s earthquake setting, expected impacts from a Cascadia earthquake, and how Portlanders are preparing for “the really big one.”

Yumei Wang focuses on deficient infrastructure to improve community safety for Cascadia earthquakes and tsunamis and extreme weather disasters. She consults on disaster resilience projects including to DEQ on their forthcoming fuel terminal safety regulation, is Affiliate Faculty Senior Advisor on Infrastructure Resilience and Risk at PSU, and served for 26 years in the State of Oregon’s Department of Geology and Mineral Industries. Wang has conducted worldwide post-earthquake engineering damage assessments including the 2011 Tohoku, Japan and 2010 Maule, Chile disasters, and appeared in documentaries produced by OPB, NOVA, National Geographic, and Discovery. In 2022, she received the Public Service Award from The Geological Society of America, was named Engineer of the Year by the Professional Engineers of Oregon, and has served as a U.S. Congressional Fellow in Washington DC.


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When hinges creak in a doorless theater, and strange and frightening sounds echo from the stage — that is the time when ghosts are present, practicing their bump and grind with ghoulish delight, in search of foolish mortals like YOU to join their ninety-nine happy haunts at a cabaret like no other! 

Welcome to FOOLISH MORTALS: A Haunted Mansion Burlesque Cabaret

Kindly join us inside the haunted Alberta Rose Theatre, where you shall experience the creepiest of burlesque cabarets during this most gothic of seasons- where thwarted brides seek revenge, couples dance for all eternity, paintings change before your eyes, heads foretell your future, and grim-grinning ghosts fly overhead in search of one last mortal to join their cabaret troupe. Will it be you? Be sure to bring your death certificate... there’s no turning back now.

Hurry back. We're dying to tease you. 

TICKETS:

$25 GA Advance

$35 GA At the Door

$40 VIP with Preferred Seating (first 7 rows of the center section – available in advance only)

(Our tickets sell quickly - purchase early!  Lacy Productions have a history of selling out! )

Door tickets sold only if available on a first come, first served basis! Once we reach capacity there will not be tickets available at the door.

When hinges creak in a doorless theater, and strange and frightening sounds echo from the stage — that is the time when ghosts are present, practicing their bump and grind with ghoulish delight, in search of foolish mortals like YOU to join their ninety-nine happy haunts at a cabaret like no other! 

Welcome to FOOLISH MORTALS: A Haunted Mansion Burlesque Cabaret

Kindly join us inside the haunted Alberta Rose Theatre, where you shall experience the creepiest of burlesque cabarets during this most gothic of seasons- where thwarted brides seek revenge, couples dance for all eternity, paintings change before your eyes, heads foretell your future, and grim-grinning ghosts fly overhead in search of one last mortal to join their cabaret troupe. Will it be you? Be sure to bring your death certificate... there’s no turning back now.

Hurry back. We're dying to tease you. 

TICKETS:

$25 GA Advance

$35 GA At the Door

$40 VIP with Preferred Seating (first 7 rows of the center section – available in advance only)

(Our tickets sell quickly - purchase early!  Lacy Productions have a history of selling out! )

Door tickets sold only if available on a first come, first served basis! Once we reach capacity there will not be tickets available at the door.

When hinges creak in a doorless theater, and strange and frightening sounds echo from the stage — that is the time when ghosts are present, practicing their bump and grind with ghoulish delight, in search of foolish mortals like YOU to join their ninety-nine happy haunts at a cabaret like no other! 

Welcome to FOOLISH MORTALS: A Haunted Mansion Burlesque Cabaret

Kindly join us inside the haunted Alberta Rose Theatre, where you shall experience the creepiest of burlesque cabarets during this most gothic of seasons- where thwarted brides seek revenge, couples dance for all eternity, paintings change before your eyes, heads foretell your future, and grim-grinning ghosts fly overhead in search of one last mortal to join their cabaret troupe. Will it be you? Be sure to bring your death certificate... there’s no turning back now.

Hurry back. We're dying to tease you. 

TICKETS:

$25 GA Advance

$35 GA At the Door

$40 VIP with Preferred Seating (first 7 rows of the center section – available in advance only)

(Our tickets sell quickly - purchase early!  Lacy Productions have a history of selling out! )

Door tickets sold only if available on a first come, first served basis! Once we reach capacity there will not be tickets available at the door.

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About Our Guest
Casey Parks is a Washington Post reporter who covers gender and family issues. She spent a decade at the Oregonian, where she wrote about race and LGBTQ+ issues and was a finalist for the Livingston Award. Her articles have appeared in the New York Times Magazine, the New Yorker, Oxford American, ESPN, USA Today, and the Nation. A former Spencer Fellow at Columbia University, Casey was most recently awarded the 2021 J. Anthony Lukas Work-in-Progress Award for her work on Diary of a Misfit. She lives in Portland.

Carsie Blanton writes anthems for a world worth saving. Inspired by artists including Nina Simone and Randy Newman, her songs encompass a wide range of genres, from sultry pop to punk-tinged Americana. Whether alone with her electric guitar or fronting her four-piece “handsome band,” Carsie delivers every song with an equal dose of moxie and mischief, bringing her audience together in joyful celebration of everything worth fighting for.

Americana songwriter and performer Brittany Ann Tranbaugh opens the show

A split decision dictates our life’s course and can often leave us wondering of the “what-ifs.” Our contentment in the outcome of our choices can merely just be a matter of perspective. A powerful collective of aerial dancers twist and turn through this story while surrounded by a stunning visual and encompassing soundscape.

Featuring a musical score and live performance by Eastghost, AKA Ryan James Akeley

A-WOL was created in 2003 as a “Collective,” using the different strengths and skills of all company members, both on and off stage, and liberating audiences from traditional ideas of what it means to dance. Mingling the worlds of dance and aerial, A-WOL’s dancers ignite a wonder and curiosity for what can happen when a human body takes flight. The physicality of their movement both on the floor and in the air, conveys striking fearlessness and unmistakable rigor. A-WOL seeks to defy expectation, ignite inspiration, and foster creativity.

Minors ok when accompanied by a parent or guardian

Review our Health & Safety Policies HERE

A split decision dictates our life’s course and can often leave us wondering of the “what-ifs.” Our contentment in the outcome of our choices can merely just be a matter of perspective. A powerful collective of aerial dancers twist and turn through this story while surrounded by a stunning visual and encompassing soundscape.

Featuring a musical score and live performance by Eastghost, AKA Ryan James Akeley

A-WOL was created in 2003 as a “Collective,” using the different strengths and skills of all company members, both on and off stage, and liberating audiences from traditional ideas of what it means to dance. Mingling the worlds of dance and aerial, A-WOL’s dancers ignite a wonder and curiosity for what can happen when a human body takes flight. The physicality of their movement both on the floor and in the air, conveys striking fearlessness and unmistakable rigor. A-WOL seeks to defy expectation, ignite inspiration, and foster creativity.

Minors ok when accompanied by a parent or guardian

Review our Health & Safety Policies HERE

Minors ok when accompanied by a parent or guardian.
Review our Health & Safety Policies HERE

Hailed by American Songwriter as “one of America’s most intriguing, creative, and idiosyncratic voices,”
Eilen Jewell rises from the ashes on her captivating new album, Get Behind The Wheel, picking up the pieces of her shattered world and finding new purpose and meaning after watching her marriage, her band, and what felt like her entire career fall apart in a series of spectacular, heartbreaking implosions. Co-produced by multi-instrumental wizard Will Kimbrough (with Todd Snider and Hayes Carll), the collection pushes the acclaimed singer and songwriter’s trademark blend of vintage roots-noir into more psychedelic territory, with spacious, cinematic arrangements complementing her revelatory explorations of grief, loss, resilience, and redemption.

An Idaho native, Jewell built her career the old fashioned way, touring relentlessly with the kind of undeniable live show that converts the uninitiated into instant acolytes. Over the course of nine albums, she’s crisscrossed the globe countless times and shared bills with the likes of Lucinda Williams, Loretta Lynn, Mavis Staples, Wanda Jackson, George Jones, and Emmylou Harris. Rolling Stone lauded Jewell’s “clever writing,” while NPR declared that she has a “sweet and clear voice with a killer instinct lurking beneath the shiny surface,” and The Washington Post mused that “if Neko Case, Madeleine Peyroux and Billie Holiday had a baby girl who grew up to front a rockabilly band, she’d probably sound a lot like Eilen Jewell.”

Singer songwriter Nick Delffs opens the show

Get your tickets in advance because this show will likely sell out.

Minors ok with parent/guardian

Review our Health & Safety Policies HERE