Portland Pride 2025
Key Dates
/Extra Rehearsals
Parade
Sunday July 20th
2025 Portland Pride Parade
Call Time: 10:45 AM
Warm-up: 11:00 AM
Where: NW 9th Ave at NW Couch St
Bateria Uniform:
PS Jersey (or similar style PS top), White Pants, White Shoes.
Volunteer Uniform:
Portland Samba T-Shirt, White or Blue Bottoms
Dancers:
Please ask your section leader for specifics.
Technical Rehearsal
Saturday July 19th
Required technical rehearsal for singers, string players, bateria, dancers, and front banner carriers. PCC CLIMB Center. 12:30 PM lunch (pizza provided) 1 PM downbeat. House party afterward at 5 PM. Contact directors for address.
Extra Rehearsals
Saturday July 12th
Run-through without music. Local drummers requested to attend. 1 PM. Eastbank Esplanade.
Thursday July 17th
Run-through with music while moving. Local drummers requested to attend. 6:30 PM. Eastbank Esplanade.
Repertoire
This year, Portland Samba will be presenting a modern enredo in the carnaval style of Rio de Janeiro, in which the group plays the song repeatedly without stopping for the duration of the parade, with intermittent rhythmic variations throughout the performance.
The specific enredo, Xangô, is adapted from Academicos do Salgueiro’s 2019 carnaval performance. Portland Samba will pay tribute to the Salguiero samba school and to its bateria directors, Gustavo and Guilherme Oliveira, who visited Portland in May 2025 to provide world-class workshops to the community, and who led Portland Samba in a performance of the enredo in the St. John’s Parade.