Director of Royal Botanic Gardens at Portland Art Museum

Portland Japanese Garden and Portland Art Museum are co-presenting a lecture by Richard Deverell, director of the Royal Botanic Gardens in Kew, England, “Kew as a Global Living Museum: Gardens as a Metaphor for Change, Creativity, and Community-Building,” at 1:30 p.m. in the Whitsell Auditorium at Portland Art Museum, 1219 S.W. Park Ave., Portland. Tickets are $25 to the general public or $12.50 for students under 25. Purchase tickets online at secure.japanesegarden.org/4013/kew.