Bravo! It's story time at Darcelle XV Plaza

Sunday mornings in downtown Portland are for sequins and singing

Drag Story Time is held every Sunday at Darcelle XV Plaza, the park named for Walter Cole, the icon behind Darcelle’s, the West Coast’s longest running drag venue.

Before Story Time started on a recent Sunday, the performer Bolivia Carmichaels listened to a mix that filled the park with Madonna and Paula Abdul hits as she chatted with Downtown Clean and Safe Staff there.

When it was finally show time, she read “My Shadow is Pink” to a small but adoring crowd. “What do you say, should I sing now?” she said, closing the book as her gown twinkled.

Bolivia Carmichaels brings a touch of magic to a reading of “My Shadow is Pink” at Drag Story Time at Darcelle XV Plaza.

Little kids, that’s called a rhetorical question.

Then she belted out “Everything is Coming up Roses” from the Broadway musical “Gypsy.”

There’s even time to run the dog at Darcelle XV Plaza before story time starts on Sundays at 11 a.m. In the background is the crow sculpture “Mirrorball Messenger.”