Join Lucy Lee Yim for SELFIE-HELPIE
4 Wednesdays (see below for dates and details)
Description:
Getting into, out of, over and under yourself (or at least flirting with the idea that this is a possibility).
In this class we are going to be with ourselves, lose ourselves, find ourselves, entertain ourselves, bore ourselves, encourage ourselves and scare ourselves all while somehow being with one another.
Worried you are self-centered? Dancing when no one is looking? Wanting to be seen but also wanting to be invisible? This is an interdisciplinary class centered around our bodies and our bodies in relation to each other, space and time. The swirl of emotions and excitement that comes with art making will simply be in the room with us as we proceed.
There will be in class activities and self studies outside of class that may potentially spark the beginnings, middles and ends of a creative project. We will share with each other our questions, needs, desires, fears and curiosities, ultimately entering into performance.
Wednesdays April 13+20, May 4+11
Time: 7-8:15
Cost: All 4 class for $40 or $12 Drop In
Artist Bio/Pic:
http://cargocollective.com/lucyyim/ABOUT
Soul'd Out Festival Proudly Presents
Thundercat
w/ special guests 1939 ensemble
Bio:
Bassist/songwriter/vocalist Stephen Bruner, aka Thundercat, has music deeply rooted within. His father, Ronald Bruner, Sr., is an internationally renowned jazz drummer who played with the Temptations, Diana Ross, Gary Bartz and Gladys Knight. His brother Ronald Bruner, Jr., a Grammy-winning drummer, has played with the likes of Roy Hargrove, Stanley Clarke, and Wayne Shorter. Stephen joined his brother as a member of West Coast punk vets Suicidal Tendencies, playing bass on their worldwide tours while still in high school. He also toured through Japan with StanleyClarke at the age of 16.
As Thundercat, Bruner takes his jazz roots and works with a mix of artists that suit his wildly experimental sensibilities – ranging from Flying Lotus, Erykah Badu, and Stanley Clarke, as well as more recent collaborations with Wiz Khalifa and Earl Sweatshirt, to name but a few. After meeting and touring with Flying Lotus, the two artists collaborated on Lotus’ 2010 LP ‘Cosmogramma’ on the track ‘MmmHmm.’ Their kindred sense of musicality led to Thundercat’s 2011 solo debut ‘The Golden Age of Apocalypse,’ co-produced by Flying Lotus, which opened Bruner up to a new stratosphere of songwriting and artistic exploration.
In 2013, Thundercat teamed up with executive producer Flying Lotus once again, to form a profound body of work for his second album, ‘Apocalypse.’ Forthcoming on Lotus’ Brainfeeder imprint this July, the album straddles lines and pushes genres further, blurring the confines of pop, funk, electronica and prog rock, and creating something else entirely. Both vulnerable and fearless, a comedy and tragedy, ‘Apocalypse’ is an intimate portrait of an artist who will continue to take music to a new place; the beyond.
7pm / Minors allowed w/ guardian
The SASS(y) Hour is a monthly workshop featuring a topic related to sexual violence prevention. This month's workshop will cover important sexual violence legislation and allow people to learn about their rights to institutional protection from and response to sexual violence.
This event is FREE, and food will be provided.
Since a young age, Thomas Meluch (aka Benoît Pioulard) has been fascinated by natural sounds and the textures of decay. He played piano before his feet could reach the pedals and for more than a decade has sought to create a unique sonic environment influenced by pop song structures and the unpredictability of field recordings. An avid collector of instruments and analog devices, Meluch relies on guitar and voice as the bases for his body of work, which now includes five full-lengths for the beloved Kranky label (including 2015's "Sonnet") as well as collaborations with Rafael Anton Irisarri (aka The Sight Below) and Kyle Bobby Dunn.
21+, $8 advance // $10 day of
Elgar’s First Symphony achieved what critics described as “immediate and phenomenal success.” And with a hundred performances across Europe and North America within just over a year of its premiere, we’re happy to continue the tradition.
Carlos Kalmar, conductor
• Augustin Hadelich, violin
Mendelssohn: A Midsummer Night’s Dream Overture
• Adès: Violin Concerto, “Concentric Paths”
Elgar: Symphony No.
Featuring January’s Winner, Works for Portland Public Schools + Improviser at Brody Theater Chris Williams (PDX), with returning crowd faves: Co-Producer of Those Who Can’t, Writer for Arrested Development Joey Slamon (LA), Talent Acquisition Coordinator, 3-Time Russian Roulette Winner Shannon Balcom (PDX), Writer/Performer for Live Wire! Jason Rouse (PDX), and new-comers: Writer/Performer, Former Associate Producer of Live Wire Radio! Tyler Hhughs (PDX), Veterinary Technician, Animal Rescuer & Caregiver Kahlie Towle (PDX), and Bartender at Bunk Bar Matt Brown (PDX).
Created, Hosted, Produced by B. Frayn Masters & Mindy Nettifee
Music by Bobby D from XRAY
$16-$20 Advance | $18 Door
More about Russian Roulette
How it works: each show begins with a full wheel of juicy story prompts. One of our 7 seasoned storytellers will be randomly drawn. To determine the random prompt for their story, they’ll spin the giant game show wheel. They can play or pass. If they pass another teller can steal their prompt. Then the risky part… each storyteller has only 5 minutes to come up with a true 5-minute story based on that prompt! It’s like we invented a new game called truth and dare.
At the end of the night, the audience will select a winner who will receive 50 bucks and some other cool prizes, like bragging rights for life. The winner will be invited to come back to the next show.
And one lucky audience member will also win prizes.
* Storytellers subject to change without notice.
* Stories will quite likely contain explicit language and/or subject matter.
Late Night Action is an original live talk show that features high profile guests, personalities, bands, comics, and more. Think Jimmy Fallon or David Letterman set to a Portland soundtrack.
The show is hosted by PDX comedy veteran Alex Falcone (The Portland Mercury, Bridgetown Comedy Festival,Portlandia) and feature Alex's breezy crowd work, original writing, and quick wit. He's supported by a dynamic group of professionals from all over the Portland comedy scene, including sidekick Bri Pruett (Curious Comedy, The Portland Mercury, Bridgetown Comedy Fest), and a great sketch team made up of the best and brightest comedic voices from the Pacific Northwest.
XRAY RECORDS is being born. Come bear witness as we pull it from the womb and feast on its placenta.
Featuring real-time quasi-interactive musical demonstrations by:
SUN ANGLE
Non-sequitor shred benders, love them again like it's the first time for yet another time.
https://sunanglemusic.bandcamp.com/
THE GHOST EASE
Rock, roll, and then some.
http://www.theghostease.com/
$10 advance
$12 at the door
First 100 people through the door will receive a free Heavy Breather postcard/album download. Special collector's item! Guaranteed to depreciate in value!
See My Friends Records and Maura Gingerich present: SECRET CITY! One night only all-ages nine-band vernal jubilee for the release of the 12" compilation Secret City Vol. 1 on See My Friends Records.
Evening progamming:
The Woolen Men
Lithics
Mope Grooves
Honey Bucket
Super Hit
Wave Action
Ladywolf
Seance Crasher
Marcy's Band
Full bar!
RESURGENCY
A poetry reading devoted to reclaiming colonized lands, identities, cultural mis(representations), gender constructions & lost connections to ancestry. Join Demian DinéYazhi, Melissa Bennett & Manuel Arturo Abreu as they transmit autonomy through the oral art of poetry in their ongoing quest for social and environmental justice.
Part of programming for Dene bāhī Naabaahii Exhibition in the Center for Contemporary Native Art at Portland Art Museum - March 18th - August 28th, 2016i.
Demian DinéYazhi' (b. 1983) is a Portland-based transdisciplinary artist born to the clans Naasht'ézhí Tábąąhá (Zuni Clan Water's Edge) & Tódích'íí'nii (Bitter Water) of the Diné (Navajo). His work is best understood through the lens of curatorial inquiry, zine production, street interventions, education, workshops, & transdisciplinary methods of art production. DinéYazhi’ received his BFA in Intermedia Arts from Pacific Northwest College of Art in 2014. He is the founder & director of the artist / activist / warrior initiative, R.I.S.E.: Radical Indigenous Survivance & Empowerment, as well as the creative director of LOCUSTS: A Post-Queer Nation Zine. He is the recipient of grants from Evergreen State College (2014), PICA - Portland Institute of Contemporary Art (2014), & Art Matters Foundation (2015).
Website: www.heterogeneoushomosexual.tumblr.com & Instagram: heterogeneoushomosexual
Melissa Bennett (Umatilla/Nimiipuu/Sac & Fox) is a writer & emerging storyteller interested in story as medicine, especially its ability to heal historical trauma among indigenous communities. Twice nominated for the Pushcart Prize, Melissa writes poetry and creative non-fiction with a focus on social justice, culture, tradition, and spirituality. Melissa is currently a member of the Northwest Indian Storytellers Association and WordCraft Circle of Native Writers & Storytellers. She is a 2015 recipient of the Evergreen State College Longhouse Native Creative Development Grant and serves on the Board of Directors for PlayWrite, Inc.
manuel arturo abreu (b. 1991, Santo Domingo) is a poet and artist from the Bronx. Working in found text, lyric, ephemeral sculpture, and photography, they explore precarity, magical thinking, and the pretensions of the white Left. Their first book, List of Consonants, is available from Bottlecap Press. It merges from-scratch text with found text in mourning for a friend who died by suicide in 2013. manuel's next chapbook, transtrender, is forthcoming Summer 2016 from Quimérica Presse. It deals with gender as a racial colonial construct, the trap of visibility, and the constraints of the lyric form. They are also working on a second full-length book, areítx, which refutes colonial narratives about the Taino, the original Dominicans. They are the managing editor of Civil Coping Mechanisms and co-founder of home school, a free pop-up art school in Portland. Find manuel at twigtech.tumblr and @Deezius
Tinashe is a singer-songwriter, producer and skilled dancer known for her electrifying, genre bending take on modern R&B and pop. The 22 year-old artist released her debut studio album, Aquarius, in 2014 on RCA Records hot off the heels of a slew of self-produced mixtapes and the #1, Platinum hit "2 On" featuring ScHoolboy Q. Aquarius, which Tinashe co-produced, continued to receive unanimous acclaim across the board well after release, appearing on many 2014 year-end best-of lists, including The Associated Press, Rolling Stone, The New York Times, Billboard, and many more. Upon releasing Aquarius after a slew of buzzed-about, self-made mixtapes, Tinashe quickly became one of the most talked-about and exciting emerging artists. In the wake of Aquarius, Tinashe covered magazines such as V Magazine and ACCLAIM,was honored as one of 2015¹s ELLE Women in Music, performed exclusively for Karl Lagerfeld, Chanel and Alexander Wang, was hand-picked by Janet Jackson to perform a tribute to her at the 2015 BET Awards and became the face of Ralph Lauren¹s Denim & Supply Fall/Winter 2015-2016 campaign. Now, with Joyride, Tinashe's vision and pop smarts come into even sharper focus, as evident on the album's lead single "Player" featuring Chris Brown and earth-shattering bass of fan favorite "Party Favors" featuring Young Thug. In a recent cover story, Dazed Magazine called Tinashe "her generation's most fearless R&B icon," noting that Tinashe creates a sound on Joyride that fuses 20th century pop ambition with an eclectic approach that¹s unimpeachably modern.
UPCOMING SCREENINGS: THEY WILL HAVE TO KILL US FIRST
The Hollywood Theatre’s Sonic Cinema Festival presents the best in new and classic music documentaries on the big screen… with big sound! A feast for the eyes and ears, the festival explores a wide range of musical artists, genres and styles.
Thursday, April 7 at 7:30pm | $9 | Buy advance tickets here.
THEY WILL HAVE TO KILL US FIRST: MALIAN MUSIC IN EXILE is a feature-length documentary following musicians in Mali in the wake of a jihadist takeover and subsequent banning of music. Music, one of the most important forms of communication in Mali, disappeared overnight in 2012 when Islamic extremists groups rose up to capture an area the size of the UK and France combined. But rather than lay down their instruments, Mali’s musicians fought back. Watch trailer here.
- See more at: http://hollywoodtheatre.org/sonic-cinema/#sthash.y0nbtLSN.dpuf
On April 7th multidisciplinary artist Leif J Lee will reveal their newest artwork and release issue #13 of their zine "Why a Queer Occult."
Based out of Portland, Oregon's Rainmaker Artist Residency artist Leif K Lee creates new works on paper, clay sculpture, embroidery on dyed fabric, super 8 MM film, photography, and performance work surrounding the illusive concept of queer spirits and occult practices.
Though their deeply personal, spiritual experiences, this artist enters into a trance induced creative practice, symbols, line and hand work bring about spells of drawing, sculpting and queer occult practices.
Leif J Lee's work is a shield against negative energies in the art world, a celebration of a queer spiritual underground, and a home for the lost orphan of homophobia and transphobia. With a new compus, Leif J Lee directs their intentions towards the spiritual guide residing within the queer body, previously hidden and for one night only illuminated by the black light.
Leif J Lee is a 2014 graduate of the Masters of Fine Arts, visual studies program at PNCA, and is a current artist in residence at the Rainmaker Artist Residency. Lee is a 2015 recipient of the Precipice Fund for their collaborative project, environmental impact statement. Their work has been shown in Portland Oregon's Duplex Gallery, Surplus Space, DISJECTA, PNCA, and in Olympia, Washington's Northern Gallery.
Dr. Jamal Badawi is Professor Emeritus at St. Mary's University in Halifax, Nova Scotia
Yet, at that council meeting, Commissioner Fish conceded, ”Let's acknowledge that this vote in and of itself solves nothing. "
Indeed. It did not.
Local news recently reported that Portland’s rent increases are the highest in the nation, increasing at a rate of 14% over just one month. The snooze-button emergency “renter protections” - - - 90-days notice on rent increases and no-cause evictions---did nothing to stop the exploitative price gouging. These "protections" did nothing to quiet the tsunami of forced displacement.
On April 7th, six months to the day of Portland’s declaration, we are asking you to join us in asking Multnomah County to take bold and decisive action. We can’t wait for the magical day that supply catches up with demand. We need to protect and stabilize tenants struggling to stay in their homes. We need rent control, and we need it now.
Oregon statute 91.225(5) gives local jurisdictions the power to enact rent control in a manmade disaster that results in significant material elimination of the rental housing supply.
Our rental housing has been materially eliminated by AirBnB, rampant evictions, speculative real estate practices, unregulated housing providers, and untenable rent increases.
And it is, most certainly, a disaster. We have all heard stories of the impact of housing insecurity: extreme health and education disparities, economic instability, homelessness, pregnant women and new mothers and entire families sleeping in cars or homeless camps, victims of domestic violence trapped in their abusive living situation, and even suicide. Indeed, research cited in the top selling book ‘Evicted’ shows that evictions are not a consequence of poverty, but a cause of it.
It is time for rent control; it is time for protection from no-cause evictions. Another summer of evictions is around the corner. We can’t wait. The time is now.
Strategy wires together Dickow's programming and performing experience via a hodgepodge of table top electronics, computers and realtime musicianship. Combining a granular ambient aesthetic with an abstract, percolating rhythmic sensibility, Strategy music does not find a singular sylistic expression, but rather exists along a genre-confounding continuum where all genres are created equal and primed for deconstruction. Strategy releases all his music under the same name: outcomes have taken the form of digital dub singles and remixes (for Shockout label), dancefloor singles (for ORAC and his own Community Library label), ambient and experimental music for kranky and others, and uncategorisable territories. Reflecting this, his working process includes everything from collage-based composition, to live improvisation, careful sound design and spontaneous noisemaking.
http://www.kranky.net/artists/strategy.html
Ben Glas is an interdisciplinary artist and experimental composer based in Portland, Oregon, where he is contemporarily attending the Pacific Northwest College of Art. Through multichannel installations and digitally driven performances, Ben’s work aims to question and explore the auditory perception of both individuals and groups; to help cultivate active and aware listening situations; and to install a sonic comma into reality’s sentences.
Joseph Wells
Joseph Wells is a contemporary New Media artist based in Portland, Oregon. He is constantly exploring new technologies and forms of visual media that are emerging around us, often taking systems and devices that are taken for granted in our daily lives and merging them into his artistic practice. With a short two and a half year stint practicing Computer Engineering at PSU, Joseph transferred to PNCA in the Spring of 2015 where he has been studying Video + Sound alongside Intermedia. Using his knowledge of programming and hardware design, Joseph has been using generative programming techniques and software integration into his visual design works. He performs visuals live for SubSensory and other events around the Portland area, and is currently in a band that tours throughout Oregon. His upcoming pursuits involve virtual reality headsets, generative video and sound performance, 3D printing, and abstracted hardware hacking.
soundcloud.com/sound-portfolio , http://blnkstrs.com/ben-glas ,
Ifsh
Ryan Stuewe’s last name is pronounced “Stevie,” as in “Stevie Wonder.” His earliest memory is of drumming on pots and pans on a kitchen floor in Kansas. Ifsh is his primary solo recording project and is pronounced phonetically. It is an electro-acoustic exercise in recursive self-sampling. It is about processing and re-processing sounds. Primary sources include drums, tonal percussion, tapes, other people’s music and found objects.
soundcloud (https://soundcloud.com/ifsh-it-do-ryan-stuewe)
bandcamp (https://ifsh.bandcamp.com/)
5-15, sliding scale
Santigold (pronounced Sahn-Tee-Gold; Santi like "Monty", not Santy like "Panty") has announced a North American spring tour in support of her forthcoming album 99¢, out on February 26th via Atlantic Records. Acclaimed for her monumental live shows, Santigold is taking it all to the next level in the brand new stage production.
Santigold recently shared the audio and video for "Chasing Shadows" from 99¢. Vampire Weekend's Rostam Batmanglij produced the track which features backing vocals from the West Los Angeles Children's Choir. The mesmerizing video directed by Elliott Lester, explores the conflicted reality of an artist's life, touching on themes of ambition and isolation.