Featured Events


Gallery Reopening
Jun
9

Gallery Reopening

Come join our local art collective in celebrating the renovation of our art gallery. Showcasing the diversity of our maker community, this mixed media art show will be an evening of mingling and markets you won't want to miss!

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Open House Tour
Feb
19

Open House Tour

Hello Portland!

Are you curious? Are you a maker or a creator or someone what wants to learn to be both? Are you a person who needs something made, remodeled or repaired? We can do that too!

Join us for our Monthly Open House tour, 3rd Sundays @ 4:30

In this open house tour we'll introduce you to our maker space, our class calendar, our community wood-shop, metal shop, blacksmithing forge, stained glass studio and our print shop as well as our community of artists and builders.

This event is free, we welcome you to learn more about Past Lives, hear our story, ask all the questions and stick around for Stone soup, our community meal after the tour!

Bring your Friends and Family!

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Thrift Store Prom
Feb
17

Thrift Store Prom

Thrift Store Prom!


Come Wear You Thrift Store Best!


80's music, craft brew and spiked punch! 21+


Dance to tubular tunes, eat radical snacks, Prom Quings and Kwings awarded. $8 early tickets- Register today!

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Open House Tour  (Copy)
Feb
14

Open House Tour (Copy)

Hello Portland!

Are you curious? Are you a maker or a creator or someone what wants to learn to be both? Are you a person who needs something made, remodeled or repaired? We can do that too!

Join us for our Monthly Open House tour, 2nd Tuesdays @ 5:30

In this open house tour we'll introduce you to our maker space, our class calendar, our community wood-shop, metal shop, blacksmithing forge, stained glass studio and our print shop as well as our community of artists and builders.

This event is free, we welcome you to learn more about Past Lives, hear our story, ask all the questions and stick around for Stone soup, our community meal after the tour!

Bring your Friends and Family!

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Call For Light - A conversation Pt 2
Feb
10

Call For Light - A conversation Pt 2

As we close our Call for Light” art show until next December we want to give our Community Partners an opportunity to answer questions about how they serve the incarcerated. This is a free event over two days.

We invite the Portland Public to come see the “Call for Light” gallery show and speak with people and organizations working within the justice system and with people impacted by it to make great changes.

The roster of speakers and program schedule will be updated by 1/15/2023

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Call For Light - A conversation
Feb
9

Call For Light - A conversation

As we close our Call for Light” art show until next December we want to give our Community Partners an opportunity to answer questions about how they serve the incarcerated. This is a free event over two days.

We invite the Portland Public to come see the “Call for Light” gallery show and speak with people and organizations working within the justice system and with people impacted by it to make great changes.

The roster of speakers and program schedule will be updated by 1/15/2023

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Stone Soup
Jan
22

Stone Soup

Community Stone Soup Event at Past Lives - Portland Makerspace. Bring a soup ingredient (or more than one!) and help make a yummy community soup!

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Open House Tour
Jan
22

Open House Tour

Hello Portland!

Are you curious? Are you a maker or a creator or someone what wants to learn to be both? Are you a person who needs something made, remodeled or repaired? We can do that too!

Join us for our Monthly Open House tour, 3rd Sundays @ 4:30

In this open house tour we'll introduce you to our maker space, our class calendar, our community wood-shop, metal shop, blacksmithing forge, stained glass studio and our print shop as well as our community of artists and builders.

This event is free, we welcome you to learn more about Past Lives, hear our story, ask all the questions and stick around for Stone soup, our community meal after the tour!

Bring your Friends and Family!

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Open House Tour
Jan
10

Open House Tour

Hello Portland!

Are you curious? Are you a maker or a creator or someone what wants to learn to be both? Are you a person who needs something made, remodeled or repaired? We can do that too!

Join us for our Monthly Open House tour, 2nd Tuesdays @ 5:30

In this open house tour we'll introduce you to our maker space, our class calendar, our community wood-shop, metal shop, blacksmithing forge, stained glass studio and our print shop as well as our community of artists and builders.

This event is free, we welcome you to learn more about Past Lives, hear our story, ask all the questions and stick around for Stone soup, our community meal after the tour!

Bring your Friends and Family!

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Family Meal, Thanksgiving Style
Nov
24

Family Meal, Thanksgiving Style

A family meal for Past Lives members and their families. Past Lives Members, bring your people to our Thanksgiving Meal!

Come have dinner in our giant community living-room! We'll be cooking up a storm for turkey lovers and vegans alike!

Come watch your favorite Holiday Movies, eat your favorite Holiday foods, talk and laugh and spend the day with chosen family!

This is a pot luck event, please email Ryan@pastlives.space with the dish you'd like to contribute :)

We can't wait to celebrate our thanks on this day

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Open House Tour
Nov
20

Open House Tour

Hello Portland!

Are you curious? Are you a maker or a creator or someone what wants to learn to be both? Are you a person who needs something made, remodeled or repaired? We can do that too!

Join us for our Monthly Open House tour, 3rd Sundays @ 4:30

In this open house tour we'll introduce you to our maker space, our class calendar, our community wood-shop, metal shop, blacksmithing forge, stained glass studio and our print shop as well as our community of artists and builders.

This event is free, we welcome you to learn more about Past Lives, hear our story, ask all the questions and stick around for Stone soup, our community meal after the tour!

Bring your Friends and Family!

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Maker Mingle
Nov
18

Maker Mingle

Hey Portland Makers & Creatives, let's mingle!

I love networking with my peers, meeting the other brilliant creative minds that spends days and days tucked away in their quiet studios. I love sharing stories (both good and bad) about our distinct and unique lifestyle and creating a community around our wildly diverse network.

Please join me at my favorite community table (Second Floor of Past Lives Maker Space) for beverages, snacks and the opportunity to meet likeminded people.

Bring a snack or a drink to share or just come as you are - this event is open to all makers (full, part-time, hobby) and designed as a way to build community in our somewhat isolated fields.

See you soon!

Friends and grown up family welcome :)

*Alcohol will not be served but you are welcome to BYO

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Halloween Double Feature Movie Night!
Oct
30

Halloween Double Feature Movie Night!

Join us for a double feature movie night in our community living-room!

This is a free event and everyone is welcome!

COSTUME CONTEST -
FIRST PLACE = Free Month Membership
SECOND PLACE = $50 off any class
THIRD PLACE = FIRST PICK OF COOKIES :O)

SCARY STORY CONTEST:
FIRST PLACE = $50 1 month membership.

We will feature two ooky spooky campy and amazing movies (TBD) while sitting 'round in our community living room. Snacks, popcorn, baked goods and so much candy provided.

This event is open to everyone however the movie choices are likely not recommended for children under 9.

Bring your friends, if you bake, show us your talents, we look so forward to meeting you for this in-door, cozy, amazing, halloween event!
🎃🎃🎃

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Metal Shop Guild Meeting
Oct
27

Metal Shop Guild Meeting

MEMBERS ONLY

Join Us the 3rd Thursday each month for the metal shop guild meeting!

General shop information - come learn about whats new in the shop, meet new metal shop members and stay for the skills instruction!

See you there!

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Stone Soup
Oct
23

Stone Soup

Gather ‘round my friends- the nights are getting longer and it’s time to huddle around our community for light, laughter, and warm food.

EVERYONE WELCOME! This is a BRING YOUR OWN BOWL event.

Stone soup is a community meal built by all members contributing one small thing to a giant family pot.

Each month we will have a vegan and chicken soup base.
Participants are asked to contribute to the meal by bringing something to add to our soup bases, either veggies, herbs, or simple proteins. By all contributing to the pot we make a rich and delicious community meal.

Please bring one of the following:
A vegetable or an herb or two to add to the soup
or
Bread and butter
or
Something Sweet

Drinks and light snacks will be provided - laughter and community included, free of charge :)

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Pumpkin Painting Potluck!
Oct
22

Pumpkin Painting Potluck!

Please note, this is a closed event, open only to currently enrolled Past Lives Members. To learn more about joining our maker community please send an email to membership@pastlives.space

Come paint a pumpkin, show off your costumes, hang with our amazing community and a ghost with the most or two!

Community Potluck and Pumpkin Painting Party!
Sat , Oct 22nd. 6:30 - 10:00
Bring food to share, a pumpkin to decorate and your amazing self.
Costumes strongly encouraged!
BYOB
Candlelit ghost stories may happen. 🤞🤞🤞
Come for the art, the ambiance and community, leave with the spooky-ooky of Halloween!

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Maker Mingle
Oct
21

Maker Mingle

Hey Portland Makers & Creatives, let's mingle!

I love networking with my peers, meeting the other brilliant creative minds that spends days and days tucked away in their quiet studios. I love sharing stories (both good and bad) about our distinct and unique lifestyle and creating a community around our wildly diverse network.

Please join me at my favorite community table (Second Floor of Past Lives Maker Space) for beverages, snacks and the opportunity to meet likeminded people.

Bring a snack or a drink to share or just come as you are - this event is open to all makers (full, part-time, hobby) and designed as a way to build community in our somewhat isolated fields.

See you soon!

Friends and grown up family welcome :)

*Alcohol will not be served but you are welcome to BYO

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Event Two
Oct
20

Event Two

It all begins with an idea. Maybe you want to launch a business. Maybe you want to turn a hobby into something more. Or maybe you have a creative project to share with the world. Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference.

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