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Duke Riley combines populist myths and contemporary social dilemmas in his installations, drawings, and performances.
Learn moreRomanian poet Rotaru and Oregon Book Award finalist Schomburg will read their latest poems.
Learn morePie Ranch works to connect people to the source of their food, and inspire them to bring greater health to the food system from seed to table.
Learn morePICA’s outgoing Artistic Director Cathy Edwards reflects on her three-year tenure with the TBA Festival, in conversation with PICA’s soon-to-be-announced incoming Artistic Director.
Learn moreTiny TBA is a mini-festival within a festival that refuses to draw the line between kids and adults. Bring your families for open gallery hours and take part in activities led by TBA Festival artists and community volunteers.
Learn moreBig Terrific is a weekly comedy show in Brooklyn hosted by Gabe Liedman, Jenny Slate, and Max Silvestri.
Learn moreWorld Fair blends movement and video to present the body as a bank able to record, erase, or register different ingredients of modern reality and national identity.
Learn moreMatsue Okazaki of Offsite Dance Project and Malina Rodriguez of Dance Truck discuss their shared interest and experience in presenting dance in nontraditional locations.
Learn moreA performance showcase featuring work by the most exciting Portland and New York artists, including Luciana Achugar, Oregon Painting Society, Woolly Mammoth Comes to Dinner, and more.
Learn moreA live, cinematic concert of songs scored by Dean & Britta for 13 of Andy Warhol's famous black and white Screen Tests.
Learn moreRachid Ouramdane explores global and political anxieties through the body in his conceptual dance works. In conversation with Cathy Edwards.
Learn moreNEW MUSICS invites Portland’s most exciting sound scientists and pop adventurers to collaborate with some of the city’s under-sung traditional music ensembles.
Learn moreThree experimental poem-plays by the late Leslie Scalapino, staged with a small ensemble of instruments and singers.
Learn moreBenning explores duration and the cinematic industrial sublime in a series of masterfully composed long-take shots of Germany's Ruhr Valley.
Learn moreYOUNG-HAE CHANG HEAVY INDUSTRIES and Kristan Kennedy in conversation about how artists and curators use their “voices” to talk about work, money, and the world.
Learn moreMiwa Matreyek steps behind the video screen to enter as a shadow into a world of her own animation.
Learn moreA home-built, hand-cranked projector presents turn-of-the-century cinematic prototypes and long-forgotten ideas surrounding the moving image and its early promise.
Learn moreA carpet-pacing, pulpit-pounding performance reanimating an out-of-print vinyl record of a sermon by the evangelist Jimmy Swaggart.
Learn moreEnsemble theatre company Rude Mechs discuss their collaborative approach to creating multi-disciplinary performance with Fusebox Festival Director Ron Berry.
Learn moreExperimental 1/2 Hour, a biweekly cable access program produced by Eva Aguila & Brock Fansler, presents a night of video and live multimedia music performances produced for stage and television.
Learn moreMusicians Sarah Dougher and Claudia Meza share their “essential listening” list, contextualizing their own work within the larger history of American 20th century avant-garde.
Learn moreComic, contemplative, and surreal, Whispering Pines 10 is a one-act, live-performance, video opera featuring Moulton’s alter ego, Cynthia.
Learn moreCathy Edwards talks with performer, writer, and director Taylor Mac about his theatrical concerns, his approach to social commentary, and his aesthetic of the fabulous.
Learn moreArtists Ed Purver and Tim DuRoche discuss their project The Hidden Life of Bridges with Tony Lester, the Multnomah County Bridge staff who helped to create the project through RACC’s intersections residency program. Moderated by Peggy Kendellen of RACC.
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