An Immersive Society · Portland, OR
Countercurse
Feeling disenchanted?
Break the spell.
Two Portals
Choose your experience.
1950s Jazz Nightclub · Coming Soon
The Pink Flamingo
Topple the patriarchy over cocktails.
Step into a 1950s jazz nightclub where the drinks are cold, the music's hot, and the patriarchy is very much on the menu.
Belmont Cafe · Coming Soon
The Green Heron
What is happening on Belmont Street?
Something is shifting in this Belmont cafe. The walls, the staff, the menu — everything seems to rearrange when you're not looking. Experience the transformation.
The Society
A society for women who see.
There is an imbalance in the room. Everyone feels it. No one wants to say it aloud.
Countercurse turns that feeling into a night out.
We create immersive experiences where hidden power shifts, buried truths surface, and guests break the spell together. The story is already moving when you arrive. The question is whether you'll peek through the keyhole — or walk through the door.
We are the hidden circle behind a series of immersive experiences, each one a different doorway into the same underground society. For centuries, private societies gave powerful men rooms where influence moved quietly. Countercurse reclaims the hidden room for women and their supporters: a society for those who see through the facade and are ready to shape the future.
Our events are made for women who want more, and for the people bold enough to follow them in. Come for the show. Leave with the sense that something buried has broken through the dark.
The Mark
Our emblem is a cherry tree breaking through dark clouds. Each blossom represents an act of courage, refusal, creativity, independence, or solidarity, while the clouds hide women's needs, minimize their experiences, and obscure their value. The tree breaks through because women rise together.
The Box Office
Ready for a night out?
Shh, the portals are not yet open. Join the society to receive the first signal.
Join the Society
The society is forming. Be the first to see the signs when a portal opens, hear whispers from behind the curtain, and receive invitations to gather before they're public.
Our Mission
Shaping the invisible.
Countercurse exists to make the invisible impossible to ignore.
Through immersive entertainment, we create experiences where hidden truths become physical: a coded invitation, a whispered warning, a communal understanding.
We believe equality is not only an idea. It is something you can feel in a room, when attention, desire, and power flow in two directions.
Our mission is to build experiences where guests can feel that shift together. Not as a sermon. As a revelation. A secret passed between strangers. A crack in an old enchantment.
Our Commitment
We stand with you.
Countercurse supports women, including all who identify as women, in pursuit of equity. We welcome allies and those learning to become allies. We recognize women's experiences are shaped by intersecting identities. While we focus on gender equity, we stand with all marginalized groups seeking equity in a world that defines value along the lines of gender, sex, sexual orientation, race, ethnicity, religion, ability, age, species and socioeconomic status. Discrimination has no place here; self-reflection, accountability and growth do.