Join us and 99 other kindred folks who seek to live life on purpose for
Wayfinder Weekend
MARCH 31-APRIL 2, 2017
WAYFINDING ACADEMY HQ, PORTLAND, OREGON
One of the best things about college is that it’s a socially accepted time to reflect on what you want to do with your life.
But a life on purpose is a life in progress; it entails continual growth and review. Big picture thinking doesn’t have to be confined to the short window of time right after high school–we want to inspire people to do this on the regular.
So, whether you’ve worked for 30 years or three, we invite you to Wayfinder Weekend: it’s a chance torefresh your purpose, try out new skills, and connect with a community ready to support you on your path.
Join us at Wayfinder Weekend 2017
Want to learn more?
Check out the 6 elements of Wayfinder Weekend and see our tentative schedule!
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Build on Wayfinder Weekend with year-round learning at our Labs.
“A weekend to explore new ideas, meet new people, and plan how to take action on what I really want to do with my life.”
The 6 elements of Wayfinder Weekend
We’ve taken the 6 elements that make up our 2-year program and restructured them for a 2-day, transformative educational experience (you know, like the one you’ve always wanted).
Here’s what you can expect:
1. CORE CURRICULUM
Become a wiser, kinder, more creative human with keynote talks that give you a taste of our core curriculum that will help anyone on any path
2. UNCONFERENCE-STYLE MINI LABS
Tease your curiosity with workshops on specific topics led by veteran Lab leaders, Wayfinding faculty, and even YOU
3. WAYFINDING GUIDES
Navigate the ‘choose your own adventure’ style weekend with the help of your Guide, and get to juicy conversations faster in small, introvert-friendly Guide Groups curated based on your interests
4. REAL WORLD EXPERIENCES
Solve problems that keep you up at night in one-on-one mentor sessions or stretch your empathy capacity on a field trip
5. LEARN AND EXPLORE TRIPS
Travel off campus with us via mini excursions to interesting, unique, and exciting local hotspots where you'll learn something new while also exploring the area
6. PORTFOLIO PIECE
Show the world who you are and what you can do by capturing a new skill, realization, or achievement you made during the weekend
***Plus, we’ll throw in a few surprises to delight you along the way.***
You’ll leave with a refreshed purpose, clear next steps, and a network of the most supportive people we know to help you in taking them.
“Inspiration of the highest order.”
Join us at Wayfinder Weekend 2017
Wayfinder Weekend Planned Schedule:
(Please note, this is a tentative schedule. Order of activities and exact timing subject to change. However, the start time on Friday and end time on Sunday are firm.)
FRIDAY:
3:00pm: Registration begins
4:00pm: Wayfinder Weekend kicks off with a mini orientation experience
5:00pm: A welcome from our founder and president Michelle Jones
5:30pm: First meeting with your Guide group of 5-10 people
6:45pm: Dinner (provided by Wayfinding Academy) and conversation
7:45pm: Wayfinding 101 mini class led by faculty member Sean Aiken
9:15pm: Possible, optional evening activities (TBD)
SATURDAY:
8:00am: Breakfast (provided by Wayfinding Academy) and conversation
9:00am: Second Guide group meeting
10:15am: Morning activity option 1 (participants choose between 3-5 options)
11:30am: Morning activity option 2 (participants choose between 3-5 options)
12:30pm: Lunch (provided by Wayfinding Academy) and conversation
1:30pm: Science, Technology, and Society mini class led by faculty member Nick Caleb
2:45pm: Afternoon activity option 1 (participants choose between 3-5 options)
4pm: Afternoon activity option 2 (participants choose between 3-5 options)
5:15pm: Third Guide group meeting
6:30pm: Dinner on your own or with other Wayfinding Academy participants (we will suggest locations!)
8:15pm: Possible, optional evening activities (TBD)
SUNDAY:
8:00am: Breakfast (provided by Wayfinding Academy) and conversation
9:00am: Morning activity (participants choose between 3-5 options)
10:45am: The Good Life mini class led by faculty member Emily Zionts
12:15pm: Lunch (provided by Wayfinding Academy) and conversation
1:15pm: Fourth and final Guide group meeting
2:45pm: Next steps and intentional closing
4:00pm: End of 2nd annual Wayfinder Weekend
“A reawakening of passion and intent in how to express it in the world.”
McMenamins, StarChile, WE 96.3, Pabst Blue Ribbon & XRAY FM Present: MIC CHECK
Mic Check is a Hip Hop Showcase every last Thursday of the month at White Eagle, with Live performances, drink specials and good vibes!
WE 96.3 we be in the building filming the event and you can watch it on their website www.we963pdx.com as well as the Mic Check
Youtube page:
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC2cHeUlJhhCirZI1rTHGRnw
THURSDAY MARCH 30TH:
Special Guests...
TOPE and RARE VIBE
Hosted by StarChile
Music by Trox
Dooors @ 9pm, Show starts at 10pm...
21 and over, Tickets: $7 @ the Door
Helvetia frontman Jason Albertini has quietly spent the last decade building one of the most prolific and undersung bodies of work within the indie-rock world. He has the ability to neatly package warm and familiar moments within unconventional song structures, allowing his music to please the senses, while still maintaining an unpredictable and adventurous edge.
9pm doors
9:30 show
21 and over
$8
9pm / 21+ / $7
LOSE YR MIND FEST presents:
Cardioid
Cardioid is the songs of Lizzy Ellison, and began as a recording side project of Lizzy and Riley Geare in 2014. After being put on the back burner, the project was resurrected in 2016 and the debut album, "Parts Dept." was completed and released on Jan. 26th, 2017.
Everyone Is Dirty (SF)
everyoneisdirty.bandcamp.com
Laura Palmer's DEATH PARADE
https://laurapalmersdeathparade.bandcamp.com/
March 29th 2017
Mississippi Studios + Past Haunts Present
Emma Ruth Rundle
The Dark Red Seed
Braveyoung
Live at Mississippi Studios
3939 N Mississippi Ave, Portland, OR 97227
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$8 Advance | $10 Day of Show
Doors at 8PM | Bands at 9PM
21+
Mega Bog is the project of Seattle singer/songwriter/mover/shaker Erin Birgy. With an ever-changing collection of friends filtering in and out of the band, Mega Bog’s sound varies, but you can probably expect honest and dreamy experiments in pop music that are the best kind of bonkers.
If you dig the sound of an electric guitar slicing through a prickly pop-rock song, Omni is your new favorite band. No joke. The Atlanta trio’s debut full-length Deluxe—released in July on Trouble in Mind Records—is a compact collection of catchy post-punk songs with sharp corners and stony attitude. Drummer Billy Mitchell pushes Omni along like a laser-guided rhythm robot. Philip Frobos’ basslines snap like a rubber band stretched to its limit, and his dead-eyed vocals ably straddle a line between memorable and melodic. Each member is a vital part of Omni’s admixture. But it’s Frankie Broyles’ guitar—sharp, jangling, rubbery, and weird—that puts Deluxe into a higher sonic tax bracket. His sound should be bronzed and inducted into the Post-Punk Hall of Fame.
Blossom
https://soundcloud.com/whoisblossom
Blossom is an artist who has released with the EYRST Label over the past few years. She is just starting a new show on XRAY.FM so we figured what better way to celebrate this union than to have her as our guest!
Neill Von Tally, the co-founder of EYRST does live beats, remixes and general ambiance while Skelli Skel and Ian Millhollen (EmVKush) of the PDX Mandem crew play records and have guest MCs in the style of their radio show on XRAY.FM
This is an all ages event til 9 PM and entry is free so don't miss it!”
Sure they have a silly band name, but Atlanta's Gringo Star crank out some serious pop songs.
9pm doors/9:30 show
$8 adv/$10 dos
21 and over
Join us for Merō's video and EP release!
RONTOMS SUNDAY SESSIONS
SUN MAR 26 / 830 PM / 21+ / FREE
1045p Merō
945p Sheers
9p Nike Ayers
Check out the bands here:
https://soundcloud.com/merotheband
https://sheers.bandcamp.com/releases
https://soundcloud.com/oshunbaaaaaaaaandddd
HURRY UP
soundcloud.com/hurryuppdx
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COOL SCHMOOL
coolschmool.bandcamp.com/releases
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LOVEBOYS
loveboys.bandcamp.com/
$5 / 9PM / 21+
Event is 21+
Alex Cameron’s 2016 debut Jumping the Shark landed on many year-end lists, though it was originally self-released for free in 2013. The album’s praise was well-earned, between its subtle synth-pop posturing and Cameron’s carousing lounge singer swagger. But it’s his onstage persona that ultimately endears listeners to his surreal talents. Taking on the identity of a failed entertainer, Cameron’s commitment to the role makes for riveting spectating, specifically on songs with plenty of negative space like “Happy Ending” and “Take Care of Business.” He’s currently touring with the talented guitarist Delicate Steve. Rest assured, this show will be an exposition of extremes.
Monqui Presents:
STRFKR
Saturday, March 25, 2017 9:00PM
Roseland Theater
All Ages | Bar w/ ID
General admission event.
No refunds or exchanges. Tickets are non-transferable.
Event is 21 and over
Kane Strang
Kane Strang's debut album, Blue Cheese, picks up on the rough disaffection of his earlier demo collection, A Pebble And A Paper Crane, which he recorded in a WWII bomb shelter in Germany. Now back in his hometown of Dunedin, New Zealand, Kane spent two curious months alone, housesitting for his parents. Relocated, yet still isolated, Kane composed all of Blue Cheese over those quiet days. Lead-off track "The Web" channels pummeling bass lines punctuated by a twinkling synth that calls upon microscopic pop principalities of restlessness ("Yeah, I met someone else/ Without leaving my little house/ No, I haven't held her yet/ I met her on the internet"). Its abrupt ending parallels Strang's own disconnect. "She's Appealing" weaves day-glo guitar motifs into distant, detached '80s garage pop vocals. "Never Kissed A Blonde" is driven by a slapping delay on both vocals and guitar. Kane never doesn't surprise with his path towards a melody, nor does he miss a hit-on-the-head-obvious-in-retrospect memorable line.
Chastity Belt is a rock band consisting of four friends - guitarists Julia Shapiro and Lydia Lund, bassist Annie Truscott, and drummer Gretchen Grimm. They met in a tiny college town in Eastern Washington, but their story begins for real in Seattle, that celebrated home of Macklemore and the Twelfth Man. Following a post-grad summer apart, a handful of shows and enthusiastic responses from the city's DIY community led them, as it has countless others, into a cramped practice space. They emerged with a debut album, No Regerts, sold it out faster than anyone involved thought possible, and toured America, a country that embraced them with open-ish arms. Now they're back and the tab is settled, the lights are out, the birds are making noise even though the sun isn't really up yet: it's Time to Go Home, their second long-player and first for Hardly Art.
In the outside world, they realized something crucial: they didn't have to play party songs now that their audience didn't consist exclusively of inebriated 18-22 year olds, as it did in that college town. Though still built on a foundation of post-post-punk energy, jagged rhythms, and instrumental moves that couldn't be anyone else's, the songs they grew into in the months that followed are equal parts street-level takedown and gray-skied melancholy. They embody the sensation of being caught in the center of a moment while floating directly above it; Shapiro's world spins around her on "On The Floor," grounded by Grimm and Truscott's most commanding playing committed to tape. They pay tribute to writer Sheila Heti on "Drone" and John Carpenter with "The Thing," and deliver a parallel-universe stoner anthem influenced by Electrelane with "Joke."
Recorded by José Díaz Rohena at the Unknown, a deconsecrated church and former sail factory in Anacortes, and mixed with a cathedral's worth of reverb by Matthew Simms (guitarist for legendary British post-punks and one-time tourmates Wire), Time to Go Home sees Chastity Belt take the nights out and bad parties of their past to their stretching points, watch the world around them break apart in anticipatory haze, and rebuild it in their own image with stunning clarity before anyone gets hungover.
Floating Room
"The type of sadness felt at 4 in the morning, reserved for the heartbroken and nervous, is a tender and surreal one. The world feels like the wrong size; the moment small, quiet and solitary, the rest of the day foreboding at a gargantuan scale. It’s a moment of contingency and introspection, and it’s soundtracked by Floating Room’s new album Sunless.
The record tracks the end of one relationship and the beginning of another, with lyrics and a sound that comprehend every aspect of this delicate time. Maya Stoner and Kyle Bates, Floating Room’s creators, are able to channel a heightened level of intimacy and emotional competency with their combined musical history and shared personal connections. “Kyle and I were discussing writing and recording at a house show when the idea of collaborating first game up. I had a lot of love and respect for Kyle’s project, Drowse, so I was excited to see how his brain worked,” recants Stoner. The melancholy, textured aspects of Bates’ aforementioned project meld well with Stoner’s past experimental guitar rock bands, Sabonis and Forest Park. They meet in a place of sensitivity and experimentation. With the assistance of bass player and frequent collaborator Alec Van Staveren, Floating Room has classic emotive aspects that also include electronic influences and dark beats and bass lines that work to transcend the usual bedroom tape project. With a name referencing the gloomy weather of the band’s Pacific Northwest home, the album is evocative of overcast despondency–but refuses to wallow.
“We started playing music together when we started dating, writing these short, confessional songs and capturing them with our cell phones; we quickly discovered a mutual love for artists like Mirah, The Microphones, Duster, and Bedhead.” Bates and Stoners’ gendered voices, musical compatibility and parallel perspectives of growth are audible. Stoner’s lyrics appeal to relatable feelings whilst staying specific enough to tell her story, with Bates sonically interjecting his own. Finding lyrical inspiration in conversations had with her female friends, Stoner uses unabashed dejection and candidness to create a new form of emotionally charged and empowered music, self-described as “gray pop.” On the crushing track “Fun,” Stoner proclaims her strength by using past insecurities and hesitations to detail the feeling of being silenced by oppressive systems and individuals, but finding resilience within those experiences. Stoner’s vocal power backed by buoyant guitars makes for a song set to inspire.
The intimate confines of the bedroom in which Stoner and Bates record and create together are heard in the warmth and indulgence of each song, bookmarked by personal clips of the two exchanging questions or the whimpering of a dog. But, with each track their cozy realm grows.Sunless is the sound of sharing fears, and becoming stronger as a result.
Revolution Hall Presents
WHY?
with Open Mike Eagle
Friday, March 24th
Doors: 8:00 pm / Show: 9:00 pm
General Admission / 21+ Floor / All Ages Balcony
THIS EVENT IS ALL AGES
Info: bit.ly/2kvoWyl
Tickets: ticketf.ly/2h2IbOY
On Sale Now!
21+
There probably isn't a single space-related word that hasn't been used to describe Pure Bathing Culture. Sure they're dreamy, astral, and euphoric—they'll turn your eyes into diamonds, your arms into flowing robes! They're downright mystical, and the reason we're running out of words to contain them is proof that you should have seen them live by now.
21+
NE Sandy’s Tonic Lounge has been through ups and downs and even a name change or two, but now it’s back as the Tonic and putting an emphasis on its best self: a rock ’n’ roll den with a great showroom, homey front bar, and an excellent patio. Tonight the club kicks off its latest chapter with a psych blowout from trance-inducing volume rockers Dead Meadow and Matt Hollywood, who’s sure to put swirls in your eyes.
Teenage Fanclub
The wait is over! On September 9, Teenage Fanclub return with Here, the band’s first album in six years.
As ever, song-wise the Fanclub present a textbook representation of democracy in action, the record offering four each by Norman Blake, Gerard Love, and Raymond McGinley. From the almighty chime of opener “I’m In Love” through the ecstatic soul-search of “The First Sight” and the paean to unerring friendship “With You,” Here is a collection of twelve songs about the only things that truly matter: life and love. As is befitting of a record that took its time to arrive, Here uses reflective space to dazzling effect. “Steady State,” with its gorgeous ebb and flow, has echoes of The Notorious Byrd Brothers’ astral jangle, while “I Was Beautiful When I Was Alive” unexpectedly curves off from dreamlike beginnings into a semi-acoustic/motorik outro, sonically replacing the steady beat of the German autobahn with the vast open skies of the Pacific Coast Highway.
Not for one second is Here the sound of procrastination or headscratching. It’s the effortless work of a band entirely confident in their own craft—the consolidation of nearly three decades of peerless songwriting and almost telepathic musicianship. Here is a record that embraces maturity and experience and hugs them close.
XRAY's Dave Cantrell from Songs from Under the Floorboard is raising money for his incredible post punk festival Out From The Shadow III by throwing a fundraiser/show. Besides featuring three of Portland's finest new bands (OK, new-ish so far as Murderbait is concerned), this is also a benefit to help raise funds for the Out From The Shadow III festival, so you can feel DOUBLY good attending! As with the showcases, three bands for five bucks. That's the deal.
https://murderbait.bandcamp.com/releases
https://fleshhpdx.bandcamp.com/releases
https://atomiccandles.bandcamp.com/album/eyez-ep