One rota for two show days
The Oddities & Curiosities Expo runs Saturday 7 and Sunday 8 November 2026 in Halls C-D-E at the Oregon Convention Center, 777 NE Martin Luther King Jr Blvd, Portland. Public hours are 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. on both days. Housekeeping, security and front-desk cover share those 14 public hours. The published clock gives no length for the hours either side of the door.
The organiser sets the clock. The venue sets the standards the rota must meet. Most of those standards sit on the convention center's Know Before You Go page.
Two first aid rooms and one phone number
Two fully equipped first aid rooms serve the building. One sits in the Exhibit Hall A Lobby. The other sits outside Exhibit Hall E. Both rooms sit at the A and E ends of the building, and this show books the halls between them. A rota needs a named person for each room.
The venue stations an Emergency Medical Technician on site during events with attendance over 1,000, or when the venue deems the presence appropriate for attendee safety. Staff reach that EMT by picking up any house phone and dialing 7849, or by alerting any OCC staff member. A desk that lets a house phone ring through a busy hour closes the published route.
The convention center's event services page lists 24-hour building security, additional security through approved providers and staffed first aid stations among its safety resources.
Two wellness suites, routed through an app
Two Mamava wellness suites sit near the A and E meeting rooms on level 1. Each suite carries a Bluetooth SmartLock that syncs with the Mamava mobile app. A guest who needs a suite reaches it through the app and the lock. Door codes come from the receptionists in the administration office on level 2, or from 503-235-7575. Front desk staff need the location, the app name and the door-code route in the shift brief.
Complimentary Wi-Fi covers all lobbies and meeting rooms. The building offers wireless access throughout and lists an individual pay-as-you-go service at $12 a day for basic and $50 a day for business class. A shift brief should name which of the two covers the hall.
Locker rentals run through LocketGo at three points in the building: the MLK Lobby near the main entrance, the Holladay Lobby at the north end, and the Ginkoberry Concourse at the south end. Guests book a locker from a phone with a credit card. A visitor carrying a coat or a purchase and heading back to a room has three published options, and the desk should know all three.
Security load repeats at every return
The expo stamps hands for re-entry and searches bags every time a visitor comes back. Each return puts a bag through a check, so the security load holds through the day. It repeats past the 10 a.m. rush. Sunday runs the same seven-hour public clock as Saturday.
The convention center operates cashless and accepts credit, debit and touchless payment at its own counters. The organiser's own FAQ says cash and credit are accepted at the door. A visitor holding cash meets two different answers, and staff at both points need the same short reply.
Classes split the floor
The organiser's class page lists six formats for the 2026 US and Canada tour. The Opossum Taxidermy class and the Raccoon Taxidermy class run 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. The Sunset Moth Entomology class and the Octopus & Tentacle Globe Wet Specimen class run 10 a.m. to noon. The Scorpion Habitat Entomology class and the Ratalope Coffin Taxidermy class run 1:30 to 3:30 p.m. Students are asked to arrive 15 minutes before the start.
The organiser states that class options vary by city and day. Some classes meet inside the hall and some meet in a meeting room near it. A class ticket includes expo admission. An instructor working the 10-to-4 taxidermy class is in the building for six of the seven public hours. A meeting room holding a class needs a steward who knows the route to it. Class sizes are unpublished.
What a forty-city calendar asks of a weekend
The organiser's schedule page reads 40 cities across the US, Canada and Australia for 2026. Portland takes 7 and 8 November. The published calendar pairs four weekends outright. Tulsa and Toronto both run 9 and 10 May. Baltimore and New Orleans both run 20 and 21 June. Grand Rapids and Omaha both run 25 and 26 July. Buffalo and San Antonio both run 1 and 2 August.
A pair of shows on one Saturday splits whatever touring staff the operation carries. A show manager holds one city that day. Portland sits a week after Seattle on 24 and 25 October and a week before Sacramento on 14 and 15 November, so the run through the Pacific Northwest holds three consecutive weekends.
A hotel staffing this weekend hires into that calendar. The published dates place Portland between Seattle and Sacramento on consecutive weekends.
The hours the publication leaves open
The published clock gives a 10 a.m. door, a 5 p.m. close and 14 public hours across the two days. Move-in and move-out windows for this show are unpublished, so the hours before the door and after the close have no stated length. A rota built on the public clock alone leaves that cover unbudgeted.
A guest staying both nights takes one housekeeping service between the two show days. The venue publishes no attendance or occupancy figure for the booking, and the organiser publishes no forecast. Two first aid rooms, two wellness suites, three locker locations, 14 hours and a paired-weekend calendar are the terms a rota can be built on today.