Events

A.M. O’Malley lives in Portland, OR where she is the Executive Director of the Independent Publishing Resource Center. Her writing has appeared in Nailed Magazine, Poor Claudia and The Burnside Review, among other publications. Expecting Something Else, her first full-length book of poems is out in early 2016

claire barrera is an artist, educator and mother based in Portland, Oregon. Upcoming projects include (Un)Made YOU with Performance Works Northwest and When Language Runs Dry, a zine anthology to be published by Mend My Dress Press in 2016.

Kelly Rauer is an artist who experiments with video, movement, sound, installation and performance. She was included in the PORTLAND2014 Biennial of Contemporary Art presented by Disjecta and has traveled and presented work in Sao Paulo, Brazil and Berlin, Germany. She is currently enjoying various performative collaborations across genres, club dancing, techno music and is learning how to build analog synthesizers.

Claire Barrera (movement) / Kelly Rauer (video) / A.M. O'Malley (text)

Performance at 7pm sharp
Free, open to the public, 21+ only

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An Art reception with New work by Sean Christensen

with Live Performances by:
E*rock 
New Romancer
Polly Dactyly

New House & Nets is a show of paintings and sculptures that show the nature of home. 
Home that is our Body and home that is our surrounding/ 
The nets we cast to gather our comforts to make us feel a part of an environment we have control over/
Home is a sense of control.

Carl & Sloan Contemporary is pleased to present a solo exhibition of new sculptures by Emily Counts. The show opens March 12, 2016, 6–10pm and will run through April 17.

The work of Emily Counts is an incredibly complex system of mystical symbolism, ropes joining disparate elements, and body-like vessels being penetrated (both lovingly and violently). These sculptures concurrently create a sense of mystery and intrigue alongside fear and unease.

However, there is one thing which truly stands out in her carefully crafted ceramics. It is hidden away in these disjointed bodies and objects attempting to connect with fine, delicate wires. It is the feeling as if Counts is capturing all the joys and dangers, but especially the magic of love and lust in the age of the Internet.

Magic.

Something nearly indescribable which becomes even more abstracted in our times of disjointed communication and technological isolation. But you know magic when you see it and it hits you square in the chest. Then lulls you under its spell.

Emily Counts opens Saturday, March 12, 2016, 6–10pm and will run until April 17. For more information, please contact the gallery at 360.608.9746 or info [at] carlsloan.com

Emily Counts appears courtesy of Nationale (Portland, Oregon)

EMILY COUNTS

Emily Counts was born in Seattle, WA, and currently lives and works in Portland, OR. She studied at the Hochschule der Kunste in Berlin and the California College of the Arts, where she received her BFA. Counts was an artist in residence creating work for associated solo exhibitions at Raid Projects in Los Angeles in 2004 and Plane Space in New York in 2008. She has exhibited at the Torrance Art Museum (Torrance, CA), Garboushian Gallery (Beverly Hills, CA), Nationale (Portland), Disjecta (Portland, OR), Nisus Gallery (Portland, OR), Mark Moore Gallery (Santa Monica, CA), and in Tokyo at Eitoeiko Gallery and Gallery Lara. In 2012, she received grants from both the Oregon Arts Commission and The Ford Family Foundation. Most recently, Counts received a 2016 Project Grant from the Regional Arts & Culture Council. She is represented by Nationale in Portland, Oregon. 

This event was funded in part by the Regional Arts & Culture Council.

The launch of Jon Raymond's "The Community: Writings About Art in and Around Portland," a collection of 20 years of Raymond's writing about the Portland Arts Scene 
The book will be available in two versions:
b/w: $25
color: $30
The event is free and open to the public
For info: publicationstudio.biz

to pick up what we set down

It is a constant battle.

Covering things up. 

Having layers. 

Removing the thing beneath.

Always wanting to see what is resting behind. Always making larger attachments to small moments. Always wanting to find another vantage point. Hoping there is change in movement. Hoping we gravitate toward color. Hoping we gravitate towards light. 
Finding myself writing ‘always’ quite a lot these days. Might be the desire for some sort of stability. Wanting to disprove that my relationship with fabric is more closely bound to my person than my relationship to wood. I always end up saving the old wood. I always end up coming back to the belief in fabric’s inherent strength found in interwoven threads made with the body in mind.


Maggie Heath is a Portland artist whose work rests in considering the space a body inhabits. Heath received her BFA from Portland State University in 2015. She has been awarded an honorable mention in ISC's Outstanding Student Achievement in Contemporary Sculpture Award Program, the Kamelia Massih Outstanding Student Prize in the Arts, and received a 2015 Precipice Fund from Portland Institute for Contemporary Art. Her work has been seen at various galleries throughout Portland including: Surplus Space, MK Gallery, AB Lobby Gallery, galleryHomeland, Timeshare Gallery, Autzen Gallery, 511 Commons, B10, Blackfish Gallery, Short Space, and was part of a group exhibition at Virginia Commonwealth University. Heath collaborates with Emily Wobb on running Bronco Gallery, an exhibition tailgate that is based out of a 1991 Ford Bronco. http://www.maggie-heath.com/


DieAna Dae is a Portland based drag queen, performer, dancer, and artist. She has performed at Seattle Center, as well as Critical Mascara at PICA's TBA festival and is the regular host of Blow Pony, one of Portland's queer dance nights. DieAna works to find the bounds of herself within in the performance under the gaze of her audience.https://www.facebook.com/dieana.dae

Mister Yuck stickers were emphasized growing up for the obvious reasons. I recall watching news coverage of an anomalous tidal wave and thinking about all the Mister Yuck stickers washing into the ocean, fearful of exposure. 

My dad, Jeff, drinks from plastic bottles filled with Naboo's purified water because he doesn’t trust the tap anymore. 

The mosquitoes fly until October these days. Last fall they stuck around all the way into November. I heard officials are considering eradicating certain species. 

It’s mid February now and the ants are already swarming inside Portland homes. I make use of them and project my sticky tongue to lap them up and gain their protein. Some comic relief in times of scarcity. 

People expect everything to be serious like Terminator, but there’s value in childlike play. 

You can’t underestimate anyone. One day you’re banished for your clumsiness and the next you’re elected a senator. Life and politics are equally convoluted. Among the conflicting opinions and social turmoil, I often don’t know what to believe. 

I have this memory from early childhood where I’m lying on my parent’s bed staring up toward the skylight and an extinct fish meanders in and out of view, for only a moment.

Do you ever see pictures of organisms of the past and feel a deep sense of yourself implicated in universal forces? 

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Hot Pants is the first in a series of two solo presentations by Joseph McGehee. These pop-ups will be exhibited within two months of each other in partial fulfillment of an undergraduate thesis project at The Pacific Northwest College of Art. 

http://josephmcgehee.com/

Hot Pants
Friday March 11 - Sunday March 13
Opening March 11, 6-9 pm
Gallery hours: Saturday and Sunday, 12-6 pm

Julia Haft-Candell
Kristan Kennedy
Evan La Londe

A marginal tic

March 11 – April 23, 2016

Julia Haft-Candell is an artist living and working in Los Angeles. Haft-Candell’s recent exhibitions include Double Knot, Ochi Projects (Los Angeles, 2016); Loop, IKI IKO (Los Angeles, 2015); Where the Sand Worm Slumbers, The Pit (Los Angeles, 2015); Sculpting in Time, Glendale College Art Gallery (Glendale, 2014); Corporeal Impulse, Vincent Price Art Museum (Monterey Park, 2014); Sight Unseen Offsite (New York, 2014).

Kristan Kennedy is an artist and curator, whose has held recent solo exhibitions at the Crisp-Ellert Art Museum at Flagler College (St. Augustine, 2016) and Ditch Projects (Eugene, 2016) (forthcoming); Soloway (Brooklyn, 2014) and Fourteen30 Contemporary (Portland, 2013.) Group exhibitions include Sincerely Yours, Torrance Art Museum (Torrance, 2015); A Soul Selects Her Own Society, Law Waschaw Gallery, Macalester College (St. Paul, 2015); OO, Misako and Rosen (Tokyo, 2013); and Paint Off/Paint On, Halsey McKay (East Hampton, 2013). Kennedy lives and works Portland, Oregon.

Evan La Londe lives and works in Portland, Oregon. La Londe has presented work in numerous group exhibitions including Portland 2014: A Biennial of Contemporary Art, curated by Amanda Hunt, Disjecta Contemporary Art Center (Portland, 2014); Material Object, Charlie James Gallery (Los Angeles, 2014) and Untitled (Collage with Squares Arranged According to Chance) Fourteen30 Contemporary (Portland, 2014).

Deep Under Ground presents the beginning of a monthly discussion based open mic at In Other Words Bookstore. This space is created in hopes to gather the DUG community under one local establishments roof to socalize, network, watch, learn, listen. all that. There will be chillin, politicin, and planning for (ideally) some action.
Sign up is first come first serve in advance and also upon arrival at the door. 

Marijuana and the brain | Oregon recently joined only three other states to legalize recreational marijuana. As consumption of the plant's products becomes more a mainstream activity, its health benefits and risks will be at the forefront of policy discussions. Dr. Nephi Stella will explain the role marijuana plays in cutting edge neuroscience research.

Nephi Stella, Ph.D. is a Professor in the departments of Pharmacology and Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences at the University of Washington.

Dr. Stella is researching how the bioactive components devoid of drug abuse properties produced by Cannabis Sativa can be used to treat neurodegenerative diseases.

RSVP and stay tuned for updates on when/where is the meeting. Updates about student ticket pickup will also be posted here. If you would still like tickets after the deadline for signing up for full funding has passed, please email our club at neuro@pdx.edu and we will look into requesting more tickets if there is enough interest.

Wikimedia’s gender trouble is well-documented. In a 2011 survey, the Wikimedia Foundation found that less than 10% of its contributors identify as female. While the reasons for the gender gap are up for debate, the practical effect of this disparity, however, is not. Content is skewed by the lack of female participation. This represents an alarming absence in an increasingly important repository of shared knowledge.

Let’s change that. Join us at Yale Union on Saturday, March 5, 2016 from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. for a communal updating of Wikipedia entries on subjects related to art and feminism. This is our third year supporting an international effort with Art+Feminism. We will provide tutorials for the beginner Wikipedian and reference materials. Bring your laptop, power cord and ideas for entries that need updating or creation. For the editing-averse, we urge you to stop by to show your support. Women, women-identified, and male allies are welcome. We will have free on-site childcare and a few computers available to use. Please RVSP for childcare with children's ages to artfeminismwiki@gmail.com

For more information visit: 
http://art.plusfeminism.org/
http://artandfeminism.tumblr.com/

Portland contact: artfeminismwiki@gmail.com
Portland Wiki: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Meetup/Portland/ArtAndFeminism_2016
Info: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Z9X6NqCGwSr0h-t2aRBd8sjWrcUDayLF8Hr5TnA38hQ/edit?usp=sharing

Organized by Siân Evans/Art Libraries Society of North America’s Women and Art Special Interest Group, Dorothy Howard, Jacqueline Mabey/failed projects, and Michael Mandiberg, in collaboration with POWarts and The Museum of Modern Art.

About Keith Hennessy
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keith_Hennessy
http://www.circozero.org/

Keith Hennessy (born 1959 in Sudbury, Ontario, Canada) is a San Francisco-based dancer, choreographer, and performance artist regarded as a pioneer of queer and AIDS-themed expressionist dance. He is known for non-linear performance collages that combine dance, speaking, singing, and physical and visual imagery, and for improvised performances that often undermine the performer-observer barrier. Hennessy directs ZERO PERFORMANCE / CIRCO ZERO, which has received commissions from Les Subsistances (Lyon) & Les Laboratoires (Paris), FUSED (France-US Exchange), as well as funds from the Zellerbach Family Fund, San Francisco Arts Commission, California Arts Council, Grants for the Arts, and The San Francisco Foundation. 

Hennessy's performances are embedded in leftist and anarchist social movements; his career began in anti-nuclear juggling, acrobatics, and vaudevillian comedy. In 1982, he hitchhiked to the San Francisco Bay Area for a juggling convention, and stayed. In his San Francisco living room he co-founded the grassroots performance art coalition "848 Community Space," which later became CounterPULSE. He was influenced by and has worked with Lucas Hoving, Gulko, Ishmael Houston-Jones and Patrick Scully, Terry Sendgraff, Karen Finley, Joseph Kramer, the collective CORE (Jess Curtis, Stanya Kahn, Jules Beckman, Stephanie Maher, Hennessy), and Contraband, a company directed by Sara Shelton Mann. His work also developed from his participation in social and political activism inspired by Direct Action to Stop the War, Critical Resistance, ACT UP and Queer Nation. In San Francisco Hennessy's work has been presented at numerous venues including Dance Mission, Theater Artaud, Mama Calizo's Voice Factory and Yerba Buena Center for the Arts.

Free & open to the public

Church of Film is a weekly gathering for the reverence and worship of cinema, with the hope of bringing the long lost, forgotten, overlooked, obscure or unavailable to a hungry audience unable to get their fill from the local theater offerings. 

FUNERAL PARADE OF ROSES
Director: Toshio Matsumoto
Country: Japan
Year: 1969
Runtime: 107 minutes

In the hidden dens of Tokyo's homosexual clubs, drag queen Eddie vies for the heart of club-owner Gonda. Darting between documentary and fiction, FUNERAL PARADE OF ROSES follows Eddie through the parties, drugs, and romantic entanglements, and at last into a distorted recreation of the Oedipal myth. One of the first films to seriously explore transgender culture and homosexuality, Toshio Matsumoto's masterpiece is a breathless and revolutionary work of cinema, and reportedly inspired Stanley Kubrick's Clockwork Orange!

The Broadcast, Siren Nation's storytelling event, features women from all walks of life telling true stories live in front of an audience. Theme: Get Over It!

Emcee: Bri Pruett!
Storytellers:
Dana Thompson
Alicia Rose
Dylan Meconis
Decoteau Wilkerson

Arrive early to sign up to tell your own story! We will choose two storytellers from the audience!


Bri Pruett is a stand-up comic and improviser from Portland. In addition to regular appearances at Helium Comedy Club and other venues, Bri is the co-host, writer, and co-creator of the live talk/variety show Late Night Action with Alex Falcone; is a frequent contributor to the Portland Mercury; and performs new material monthly with the New Shit Show at the Clinton St. Theater. www.bripruett.com

Dana Thompson is an actress (best known as Lt. Uhura in Atomic Arts’s Drammy award-winning production of Trek in the Park), a model (commercial and print ads), and a singer in local punk rock band Dartgun & The Vignettes. www.facebook.com/DartgunandtheVignettes

Alicia Rose is a filmmaker and an award-winning still photographer who has created music videos for national artists like Cake and Bob Mould, as well as playing a key role in branding NW bands like The Decemberists and Menomena. In 2015 she created/directed/co-wrote the web series “The Benefits of Gusbandry,” which has received widespread critical acclaim.www.aliciajrosephotography.com 

Dylan Meconis is a cartoonist/writer/illustrator whose career as a professional comics artist began with Bite Me!, a vampire farce. In 2012 her short story Outfoxed was nominated for an Eisner Award in the category of Best Digital Comic. She is currently several years into Family Man, a long-form comic updating at lutherlevy.com. www.dylanmeconis.com 

Decoteau Wilkerson is co-founder and host of A People’s Choir, a communal-style sing-along that has brought people together at Last Thursdays, TEDx, and Crush Bar in Portland; through Art In Odd Places in NYC; and more! Decoteau also leads a double life as Dee Dee Pepper, a burlesque performer who co-founded and co-hosts “Pepper + Bones Presents: Anything Goes Burlesque.” apeopleschoir.weebly.com anddeedeepepper.com

Please join Portland State University for an evening commemorating Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

Black Lives Matter Founders
A Vision of Justice for All

With a vision of justice for all, the Founders of Black Lives Matter, Alicia Garza, Patrisse Cullors and Opal Tometi, engage audiences in discussion about race relations in America and how their activism from the fringes became the national movement it is today, galvanizing individuals to stand up together against the state violence, police brutality and social injustice plaguing our country. The MLK Tribute is part of Black History Month and the “Living the Legacy” series of campus and community events honoring the memory of the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

This event is presented by the Office of Global Diversity and Inclusion.

Reserve free tickets online or 503-725-3307

Pollinators serve an important role in our local food web. More specifically, we need them in order for our fruit trees to produce bountiful fruit sets! In this hands-on workshop, you will gain a basic understanding of bee-keeping, learn about the life of bees, how to construct mason bee habitats, and which plants are favorable for attracting pollinators. For the hands-on portion of this workshop, we'll be cleaning mason bee cocoons and assembling mason bee habitats that will be installed at our 2016 Community Orchard sites.  Additionally, every participant will get to take home cocoons, paper tubes for starter bee homes, and pollinator friendly flower seeds.

About the instructors:

Jen Davis lives in Portland with her two kids and husband.  She is an artist, writer, filmmaker and urban farmer.  She grows 16 kinds of fruit, and nearly one half of her family's vegetable supply.  She also keeps ducks, and has raised Mason bees for ten years.  She teaches Mason bee workshops from home and at schools throughout the region.

 Madelyn Morris is a Portland-based educator and co-owns Mickelberry Gardens, LLC with her husband. The start-up company is developing a product line based on locally harvested herbs, raw honey, beeswax, and other hive products from the couple’s steadily growing honeybee apiary in southeast Portland - where humane, ethical, and organic beekeeping methods are always utilized. Madelyn is happy to share her enthusiasm for honeybees and other pollinating insects, and promotes deepening our relationship with these fascinating and helpful creatures. www.mickelberrygardens.com

 The location address and other details will be provided after you register.

<<Click here to register now>>

The Portland Night Market showcases 75+ businesses that call the great City of Portland home. Blending food, culture, music, drinks and retail together for an adventurous evening in the Industrial District. The event allows people to meet some of Portland's best makers and creators set in the unique venue of a 100+ year old produce row warehouse. 

To kick off 2016, PNM is partnering with some of Portland's businesses for a special edition market, dubbed, "The Love Train." Entertainment showcasing live music, aerialists, an aphrodisiac alley complete with chocolate, tastings, an oyster bar and loads of other goodies!

FREE Admission 
All ages welcome!

The Summit
From garages to corporate offices, you will find pragmatic, creative people designing new solutions to pressing social and environmental issues and creating value for their companies, communities, and society at large. These social entrepreneurs are finding new ways to make a difference while changing how business is done. The Summit celebrates and shares new approaches to generating social and environmental impact across business, social, public, and academic sectors.

The program
The full day program includes a social innovation pitch fest; candid keynotes with renowned social entrepreneurs; diverse perspectives on funding for social impact; how an intrapreneurial company is partnering with employers to lower national recidivism; a look at the power of zip codes vs. genetic codes in lifelong health, and an exploration of the often untold risks, failures, and first steps to creating social change. Meet the speakers. 

Why attend

• Learn about powerful entrepreneurial approaches to creating change locally and globally
• Celebrate social entrepreneurship and social innovation with a diverse set of stakeholders
• Meet hundreds of entrepreneurs and founders, business and nonprofit professionals, students, academics, government officials and investors

Purchase Early Bird and Student Tickets Here 

Meet employers at the career fair where you can find hundreds of job opportunities, where you can have multiples job interviews, apply for a job at the events, and get hired. 

For more information visit nationalcareerfairs.com 

The Mask You Live In is a documentary that follows boys and young men as they struggle to stay true to themselves while negotiating America’s narrow definition of masculinity.

::::: TRAILER
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hc45-ptHMxo

::::: FULL SYNOPSIS
The Mask You Live In is a documentary that follows boys and young men as they struggle to stay true to themselves while negotiating America’s narrow definition of masculinity.

Pressured by the media, their peer group, and even the adults in their lives, our protagonists confront messages encouraging them to disconnect from their emotions, devalue authentic friendships, objectify and degrade women, and resolve conflicts through violence. These gender stereotypes interconnect with race, class, and circumstance, creating a maze of identity issues boys and young men must navigate to become “real” men.

Experts in neuroscience, psychology, sociology, sports, education, and media also weigh in, offering empirical evidence of the “boy crisis” and tactics to combat it.

The Mask You Live In ultimately illustrates how we, as a society, can raise a healthier generation of boys and young men.

Portland State University
Smith Memorial Student Union Room 296 & 298

This event is FREE and is brought to you by the PSU Student Alliance for Sexual Safety and Reimagine Masculinity.

The film starts at about 6:00 PM and will run till about 7:45 PM, but all attendees are invited to stay afterward for an informal discussion about the film. The film can be a pretty emotional experience, so please come prepared to be kind and respectful to others.