Celebrating queer love and joy and traces Penn’s personal journey through musical settings and recitations of femme poets Virginia Woolf, Jane Bowles, Edna St. Vincent Millay, and Tatiana de la Tierra.
Celebrating the imposter syndrome living in each of us by poking a little fun at the idea that mastery is necessary for creative viability and inviting artists to courageously switch disciplines with another artist.
Co-curators Marissa Rae Niederhauser (Dance, video, performance art) and Kennedy Verrett (Music) each select 3 artists working in various disciplines. The artists’ names will go in one hat and their disciplines in another. In a publicly shared video drawing artists will be randomly assigned a medium outside of their usual practice to share for public exhibition. Artists are then given two weeks to gather supplies and prepare to show the result of their experimentations.
This is the third event of a quarterly showcase!
Submissions are ongoing on a rolling basis, a diversity of disciplines and demographic identities is encouraged.
Show at 8, Doors with an outdoor bar at 7:30
More info: https://pwnw-pdx.org/2023/05/15/june-24-imposter-switch-3/
Tickets: $5-$15 sliding scale At door, cash or Venmo. All ticket proceeds split between artists.
Curators: Marissa Rae Niederhauser and Kenendy Verrett
Participating artists: Ciela, Fernanda D’Agostino, Erin Boberg Doughton, Annika Mossberg, Daysmel Muniz (aka Dice) and Paul Susi
Swapping out the following disciplines: Acting, Video Art, Performance Art, Dancer of Erotic Art, Movement Art, and Experimental Music. Including a special video performance by Imposter/switch #2 artist, painter Linnea Solveig (who got Covid a day before the show) will share a video of her musical composition.
The Oregon Jewish Museum and Center for Holocaust Education is hosting a free public opening featuring a street-wide cultural exchange with a land acknowledgement, Chinese Lion performance, Portland Taiko, and the klezmer music of Michelle Alany and the Mystics. The museum is re-opening with an expanded footprint that includes a new core exhibition, Human Rights After the Holocaust and the opening of two powerful special exhibitions: But a Dream, a series of lithographs by Salvador Dali, and The Jews of Amsterdam, Rembrandt and Pander.
Lineage is the latest performance by Portland-based choreographer and performance maker Danielle Ross in collaboration with performers Muffie Delgado Connelly, Allie Hankins, Hannah Krafcik, and Emma Lutz-Higgins, sound designer Juniana Lanning, and lighting designer Brian Jennings.
Inspired by the loss of dance elders during the pandemic and the tenuous attempt to maintain connection through movement, Lineage explores how dance, familial, and chosen lineages show up in our moving bodies. Performers enact structures of looping, transmission, and remembrance as they navigate forms of collectivity that shift as the dance unfolds. Throughout, we approach lineage as a site of complicated affects, including grief, trauma, nostalgia, joy, and ambivalence.
June 1st at 8pm; June 2nd at 8pm; June 3rd at 4pm and 8pm
Tickets: https://www.tickettailor.com/events/lineage/910757
An evening of improvisation at Performance Works NW reunites Oakland-based saxophonist Wilson Shook and Portland-based Jean-Paul Jenkins in a duo of free improvisation, in addition to It’s OK Girl, the project of choreographer and performer Danielle Ross with saxophonist Ben Kates, and electro-acoustic vocal improviser stephanie lavon trotter.
Saturday, May 6th, 2023
Doors at 7pm, Show at 7:30pm.
Sliding scale $5-10 at the door
PEBG (Physical Education Basement Garage) is a series of events featuring dance, sound art, reading, and video/film presentation from Lu Yim & Kabir Carter, Roland Dahwen, Sam Hamilton, Jess Perlitz & Takahiro Yamamoto, Allie Hankins, Supergroup, and Jaleesa Johnston. Organized and coordinated by Taka, this event series invites the public to casually get together to enjoy artworks that have been stored in the actual, mental, and digital basement/garage.
Performances are free to attend and we ask that you kindly donate to support the performers.
Taka's new book NOTHINGBEING will be available for purchase on those days. ($20)
Performance Dates:
FRI 4/28 — 7pm — Lu Yim & Kabir Carter
SAT 4/29 — 5pm — Lu Yim & Kabir Carter
SAT 5/6 — 2pm — Roland Dahwen, Sam Hamilton, Jess Perlitz & Takahiro Yamamoto
FRI 5/12 — 7pm — Allie Hankins, Supergroup and Jaleesa Johnston
Take a break from doomscrolling this weekend to watch a multidisciplinary piece of contemporary dance, noise, and installation from Blue McCall + Jamondria Harris + an ensemble of eight queer and trans dancers. We'll have doom, and plenty of other moods too. High-physicality movement are set within custom coded and live-hacked projection from creative coder Ashely Ona Bott. Documentation and styling by @proof.of.body
Geomorph is a laptop ensemble composition about stability, change and the interplay between human and natural worlds. The score includes 3D-rendered landscapes, with plausible yet otherworldly dimensions; a series of mindfulness meditation prompts; and software that synchronizes the images, prompts and custom-built synthesizers. Performers place themselves in the pictured worlds, performing the topography via prompts using sounds that evoke natural forces on both gradual and rapid time scales. SAMPLE will also be incorporating ice sounds recorded and collected by the ensemble.
Ashlin Aronin is a sound and software artist involved in virtual placemaking. Aronin explores affectivity under capitalism through a lens of ecology and the sacred, manifesting as interactive experiences, music, virtual and IRL installations.
Visitor information: 7:30pm Wednesday 6/1 at the Studio Theater in PSU's Lincoln Hall
Cost: Free
Diversity: BIPOC , LGBTQIA+
Accessibility: Sensory Friendly, Wheelchair Accessible
ALT Text: A computer-generated landscape image that serves as one of the graphic scores that make up Geomorph.
ONE WEEK ONLY | MAY 15 - 21, 2022
The Theatre Company is excited to announce the live Oregon premiere of The Thin Place by award-winning playwright Lucas Hnath, May 15-21, 2022. Presented in partnership with KEX Portland, The Thin Place uses the intimate surroundings of their downstairs Gym and Tonic space to help create an immersive exploration of the fragile boundary between our world and the one just beyond.
The limited, one-week engagement offers just 20 seats per performance to enhance the intimacy of the seance experience. Portland stalwarts Diane Kondrat and Jen Rowe lead the small cast as Linda, a veteran medium, and Hilda, a keen listener and observer who’s grappling with loss. This quietly chilling story crackles with spiritual vulnerability while it plays with perceptions of reality and the omnipresence of death.
Two years after pivoting to podcasts and films in the wake of national Covid lockdown measures, TTC is thrilled to return to live performance. The company’s inaugural production, The Moors by Jen Silverman, was canceled just days before opening in the spring of 2020. The Thin Place at KEX Portland now marks TTC’s first in-person production.
ABOUT THE SHOW
Linda can speak to the dead. Hilda wants to. The Thin Place is a 90-minute ghost story about what’s really going on in the part just behind and just a little above your eyes.
PERFORMANCES
Sunday May 15th - Saturday May 21th at 8:00pm.
Tickets on sale now via The Theatre Company
Tickets are $25. Limited seating of 20 per night.
ABOUT THE SPACE
KEX, which means “biscuit” in Icelandic, first started in 2011, when a businessman and a set designer met at an abandoned biscuit factory in a strange corner of Reykjavík while scouting a location for an upcoming film. Today, it is a design-focused space in Portland filled with salvaged
The Thin Place premiered off-Broadway at Playwrights Horizons on November 22, 2019.
Directed by Les Waters, the production featured Randy Danson, Emily Cass, Triney Sandoval
and Kelly McAndrew.
materials and pieces from around the world, and a 26-room social hotel where people from anywhere can gather to eat great food, hear music, and be inspired.
ABOUT THE THEATRE COMPANY
The Theatre Company enlivens our community by transforming found spaces with bold, theatrical endeavors. Founded in 2019, The Theatre Company set a rule. Always make theater in non-traditional spaces. Allow stories to pop up wherever there is an alchemy linking story, space, and spectacle together in the artistic sense while also linking audience members with local businesses and areas of Portland they may not have discovered. As lovers of playwrights who create rich worlds, complex characters, infuse their scripts with bold themes and a capacity for spectacle, it’s part of the fun; an invigorating challenge to discover a non-traditional found space to enliven with a theatrical endeavor. Story. Space. Spectacle.
ABOUT THE PLAYWRIGHT
Lucas Hnath’s work as a playwright includes A Doll’s House, Part 2; Hillary and Clinton; Red Speedo; The Christians; A Public Reading of an Unproduced Screenplay About the Death of Walt Disney; Isaac’s Eye; and Death Tax. His work has been produced nationally and internationally, including at Playwrights Horizons, New York Theatre Workshop, Soho Rep, Actors Theatre of Louisville/Humana Festival of New Plays, Ensemble Studio Theatre, Mark Taper Forum, Steppenwolf Theatre, South Coast Repertory, Royal Court Theatre, and on Broadway at the John Golden Theater. He is a member of Ensemble Studio Theatre and a resident of New Dramatists. Hnath is a recipient of an Obie, Guggenheim Fellowship, Outer Critics Circle Award for Best New Play, Whiting Award, Kesselring Prize, two Steinberg citations from the American Theatre Critics Association, and a 2017 Tony nomination for Best Play.
ABOUT THE CAST
Diane Kondrat has been interested in spiritualism since, as a teenager, she was encouraged by a medium to channel her dead friend's spirit. THE THIN PLACE will be her first chance to play a psychic. Kondrat is a company member at Third Rail Repertory Theatre and with sketch comedy troupe, SPECTRAVAGASM. She was awarded a Drammy for defunkt's GIRL IN THE RED CORNER and was recently seen in BARBECUE at Portland Playhouse. Her performance of the solo show EVERY BRILLIANT THING (in person!) in Summer 2021 was the pinnacle of her Covid experience. Other credits include TRINKETS, GRIMM, as well as shows with CoHo Productions, Oregon Children's Theatre, and Profile Theatre. www.dianekondrat.com
Jen Rowe is the Artistic Director of TTC and has been following this script since it piqued her interest during development at the Humana Festival. Directing credits include: CAPAX INFINTI, a film by DeLanna Studi (TTC), VINEGAR TOM: A Podcast (TTC), TENDER NAPALM (Portland and Chicago). As an Actor, Jen has been seen at Portland Center Stage, Artists Repertory, Profile Theatre, Third Rail, Portland Playhouse, CoHo Theatre, Milagro, and Oregon Children’s Theatre. She has been seen on GRIMM, THE LIBRARIANS, played in a band, and written/performed in local sketch shows.
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PRODUCTION TEAM
Design: Alex Meyer Production Assistant: Abigail St John Dramaturg: Jessica Dart
Sound: Scott Moore Producing Associate: Aaron Cooper Swor Graphics: Susan Bein
For the first time in Pioneer Place history there will be a fashion show inside the mall. The work of N’Kossi and Mimi’s Fresh Tees will be presented by designers Jean Pierre Nugloze and Kamelah Adams. Models will go up and down the escalators. A reception will follow at Gallery Go Go. A giant shirt created by Jean Pierre Nugloze and Azure Attoe will be displayed along with other exhibits.
Visitor information: 3:00 (show) 3:30-4:30 reception
Someone Told Me Now Tells You: An Exhibition & Performance by Jay Ponteri
On December 3rd, Jay Ponteri will celebrate the launch of his book Someone Told Me, published by Widow+Orphan Books this fall. In PNCA’s Design Corridor, Ponteri will exhibit source materials and read excerpts from the book. Visitors should feel free to visit briefly, as one might a reception for an art opening, or stay for the duration. Books will available for purchase. If you’d like to attend, please RSVP through Eventbrite
Jay Ponteri directed the creative writing program at Marylhurst University from 2008-2018 and is now the program head of PNCA’s Low-Residency Creative Writing program. His book of creative nonfiction Someone Told Me is being published by Widow+Orphan House, Fall 2021. He’s also the author of Darkmouth Inside Me (Future Tense Books, 2014) and Wedlocked (Hawthorne Books, 2013), which received an Oregon Book Award for Creative Nonfiction. Two of Ponteri’s essays, “Listen to this” and “On Navel Gazing” have earned “Notable Mentions” in Best American Essay Anthologies. His work has also appeared in many literary journals: Gaze, Ghost Proposal, Eye-Rhyme, Seattle Review, Forklift, Ohio, Knee-Jerk, Cimarron Review, Tin House, and Clackamas Literary Review. While teaching at Marylhurst, Ponteri was twice awarded the Excellence in Teaching & Service Award. In 2007, Ponteri founded Show:Tell, The Workshop for Teen Artist and Writers, now part of summer programming at Portland’s Independent Publishing Resource Center (IPRC.org) on whose Resource Council he serves. He teaches memoir classes at Literary Arts and lives with his son, Oscar, and Oscar’s pug, MO.
Visitor information: Open Friday 4pm-6pm
In our Merrill Theatre Dec 2, 3, and 4, The Future is 0 is a cult-comedy live game show where artist contestants compete in a dizzying array of mental, physical, and psychological challenges. Co-presented by Sub Pop.
Buckle your seatbelt and kindly slow down to 25 MPH — The Future is 0 is BACK with 3 LIVE, in-person shows with On the Boards and Sub Pop this December 2nd, 3rd, and 4th. We’re gently lowering our pedals to the metal (vroom) to deliver 3 piping hot nights of fun game shows for you to enjoy. Please pass go, collect $200, live your life and pursue your dreams. We cannot wait to see you and ask you to shout cue cards with us.
On December 2nd at Oregon Contemporary, the nonprofit press and literary record label Fonograf Editions will be celebrating its five-year anniversary with performances by Eileen Myles (virtual), Samuel Ace (virtual), Brandi Katherine Herrera (local), Allison Cobb (local), and Sara Jaffe (local).
To support our upcoming publishing projects, we will be raffling and auctioning off books, records, zines, and merch from other presses, labels and literary organizations, such as Wave Books, Poetry Northwest, Albina Music Trust, Poetry Foundation, Milkweed Books, and more...
ALT Text Area: Photographs of Allison Cobb, Samuel Ace, Eileen Myles, Brandi Katherine Herrera, and Sara Jaffe, with the text: Fonograf Editions Five-Year Anniversary: Celebration & Fundraiser with performances by Eileen Myles, Samuel Ace, Allison Cobb, Brandi Katherine Herrera, and Sara Jaffe; December 2nd 7-9:30 PM PST *masks & vaccines requred; Oregon Contemporary 8371 N. Interstate Ave. *$8 at the door; Auctioning print & analog delights from our friends Milkweed Editions (logo), Canarium Books (logo); Fence (logo), Albina Music Trust (logo), Poetry Foundation (logo)...and many more
“HERE IS MY MOM. SHE’S DEAD.” by Portland Artist, Wiley, and curated by Sabrina Spurlock, premieres virtually on November 20.
Wiley (b. 1995, she/her) will host a viewing of her performance piece, HERE IS MY MOM. SHE'S DEAD. Curated by Sabrina Spurlock (b. 1998, they/them), the performance will include Wiley viewing over 40 VHS tapes of her mother, Lorrie Macanas Wiley, in real time. This will be the first time these videos have been viewed by Wiley and the first time Wiley has seen her mother since being killed by a drunk driver in 2001. As an artist, this project is an extension of Wiley’s work exploring durational performance; physical and emotional marathons are a cornerstone of Wiley’s past and current work.
The performance will begin at 10 AM PST on Saturday, November 20, 2021 and run approximately 8 hours.
"I know she’s dead. She's been dead for 21 years. I’ve waited long enough. It’s time for me to dig up those memories that I’ve kept buried, and meet my mom.
Her name is Lorrie Ann Macanas Wiley.
A loved friend, mother, wife, sister, and daughter.
I miss her every day.
It’s my hope that during this showing those who loved her will remember her. And this time around, I’m taking her with me everywhere I go."
-Wiley
Please join Wiley in meeting her mother for the first time, and celebrating what would have been Lorrie's 53rd birthday by registering at bit.ly/shesdeadtickets. Viewers are encouraged to interact with the work by typing in the chat and commenting on Wiley and Lorrie’s similarities and mannerisms.
This project was funded thanks to the generous donors of the fundraiser “Keeping My Mom’s Legacy Alive” found here.
ALT Text: In VCR text, the image reads "Here is my mom. She's Dead. 10 AM - 6 PM. November 20, 2021. bit.ly/shesdeadtickets." Below there is a color photograph of two cars parked with the ocean horizon in the background. The bottom of the image has "Sabrina Spurlock" and "Wiley" in the corner.
Come On In includes audio using provided headphones, while laying down on a bed - laying down is not essential and visitors can still access headphones. Printed transcripts of the text in the audio will be available on-site upon request. PICA’s main warehouse space is on the ground floor and is accessible to those with mobility aids. ADA-accessible, gender-neutral restrooms and a water cooler are located inside of PICA. If you have questions about accessibility you can contact us at boxoffice@pica.org or call 503-224-PICA.
Open Hours
November 19—December 11: Thursday & Friday, 4-8 PM | Saturday, 12-6 PM
December 28—30: Tuesday—Thursday, 12-6 PM
January 6—15, 2022: Thursday & Friday, 4-8 PM | Saturday, 12-6 PM
*Holiday Closures November 25 & December 12—27
Sliding Scale $0-$20 | These are timed tickets spaced out in one-hour increments with a capacity of 12 people in the installation at once. Because of this, reservations are recommended. Walk-ins are also welcome, but if we are at capacity, you’ll have to wait until the next available hour opens up.
Please click the "PURCHASE HERE" hyperlink below for your preferred weekend. This link will bring you to another window where you can select your date and time for entry.
November 19—20 | PURCHASE HERE
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New York-based choreographer Faye Driscoll (US, b. 1975) creates performances that activate the dynamic space between artist, performers, and audience. Often balancing poignancy and tenderness with irreverent wit and humor, her work as she describes summons “the unnamed forces that surge between the viewer and the viewed.”
Come On In, the artist’s first solo exhibition to date, creates a space of gathering that invites us to encounter, and carry forth, this intangible connection. Here, Driscoll simultaneously captures the sensation of being in the audience at one of her performance works, the intensity of being a performer in her work, and her own subjective voice as a director. By removing the performers and removing the theater, Driscoll gives the work to the body of the gallery-goer, leading us into an internal dance of our senses: of self and other, body and world, desire and abjection, communion and loss.
Upon entering the carpeted area, you’re invited to choose a listening station, each featuring a soundtrack spoken by the artist herself. Each listening station has a unique audio work playfully referencing prompts she might give to a performer. These are guided meditations, erotic power play, prayer, lamentations, aspirations, and longing that come together to ask: How are we alive to the non-linear symphony of our senses? In this time saturated in technology, where is the body? How far does it extend?
Faye Driscoll (b. 1975, California, lives and works in New York) is an award winning art and performance maker who uses an alchemy of bodies and voices, objects and live sound to conjure worlds that are, like ourselves, alive and forever changeable. She creates immersive worlds of sensorial complexity and perceptual disorientation aimed to rile up the passive, numb, screened-out body. These interventions come in the shape of intimacies: a performer holding your hand, death metal song made through recording your stomping feet, a place to rest and a private guided choreography in your ear.
In Thank You For Coming, her recently completed trilogy of performance works—Attendance (2014), Play (2016), and Space (2019)—each took a distinct genre blurring while summoning the unnamed forces that surge between the viewer and the viewed. For her first solo exhibition, at Walker Art Center, Driscoll brought the immersive experience of theater into the exhibition space, inviting viewers to become active participants through a series of prompts and subtle directives from her series of audio works, Guided Choreographies for the Living and the Dead.
She is currently the Randjelovic/Stryker Resident Commissioned Artist at New York Live Arts, and is the recipient of a Doris Duke Award, Guggenheim fellowship, a Bessie award and the Jacob’s Pillow Artist Award, among many others. Select presentations include Kunstenfestivaldesarts, La Biennale di Venezia, Brooklyn Academy of Music, Walker Art Center, Melbourne Festival, Wexner Center for the Arts, Onassis Cultural Centre in Athens, Centro de Arte Experimental in Buenos Aires.
Come On In includes audio using provided headphones, while laying down on a bed - laying down is not essential and visitors can still access headphones. Printed transcripts of the text in the audio will be provided on-site. This exhibition is on the ground level of PICA’s main warehouse space and is accessible to those with mobility aids. ADA-accessible, gender-neutral restrooms and a water fountain are located inside of PICA. If you have questions about accessibility you can contact us at boxoffice@pica.org or by calling 503-242-1419.
All guests over the age of two are required to wear a mask and keep six feet apart. Anyone who is experiencing or exhibiting any symptoms of Covid-19 or who has been in contact with others who are, are asked to stay home to avoid the risk of exposing others.
