The famous Portland Fair was a hugely popular annual event for more than 200 years – part childhood rite, part magical interruption to everyday life. But we’re not here to rebuild or reinstate the old Fair plank-by-plank.

The 2026 festival, we will reawaken the experience of it — in a stranger, twistier, sideways sort of way. Think of it as a Fair on a parallel Portland: familiar but off-kilter, a place where weird echoes, alternate histories and “what ifs” come out to play.

That Other Place is a mirror-Island, a near-twin, a parallel universe that looks like Portland… until it doesn’t.

Festival artists, events and more to be announced soon…