Upcoming
Our Bar Garden is back—and this time, it’s a block party! We are closing down Hancock Street and bringing back your favorite hangout spot. Join us every day and night of the festival in the TBA:26 Bar Garden for shared beverages and meals that bring artists, crew, and community together.
Learn moreJoin us for the final morning of the Festival for our beloved Pancake Breakfast.
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Past
A delicious and convenient way to connect before the show, box meals offer a shared moment of nourishment and conversation with artists, staff, crew, and fellow attendees. Available for pre-purchase September 5 – 7 and 11 – 13, these meals invite you to slow down, gather at communal tables, and enjoy a thoughtfully prepared bite before heading into an evening of performance.
Learn moreDuring TBA:25, come gather in PICA’s Bar Garden for shared meals that bring artists, crew, and community together. PICA’s Bar Garden is home for the TBA:25 Opening Night Dinner, pre-show box meals with artists, and post-show chats over a drink.
Learn morePICA’s Pavilion—airy, welcoming, and centrally located—becomes the Bar Garden during TBA. Whether you’re a longtime collaborator or first-time attendee, join us for drinks, toasts, and long-table conversations that spill into the night.
Learn moreJoin cultural workers Alexandria Saleem and Sarah Farahat to steep in Teta’s tea. This is an invitation to grieve, nourish, and connect with what has been passed down through love and lineage, while remembering to cultivate new futures.
Learn morePart beer garden, party happy hour, and part afterparty, BEFORE & AFTER is an opportunity to come together with the TBA:24 community at PICA. These dedicated gatherings bookend the festival experience with a blend of celebration, conversation, and decompression, offering space to grab a drink or a bite before the first performance of the day, or cap off the evening after daily events have wrapped up. With a variety of food and drink options to explore, BEFORE & AFTER is more than a pit stop—it's a time to deepen your connections and extend the magic of TBA.
Learn moreA creation of Black narrative, an offering to Black lineage, Black Feast is a culinary event celebrating Black artists and writers through food. Black Feast: Black Imagerial, envisioned by artists Intisar Abioto, Akela Jaffi, and Salimatu Amabebe with creative support from Annika Hansteen-Izora, is a culinary creation and site-specific performance on Black-stewarded land inspired by the legacies of Black movement artists in Portland and the Pacific Northwest.
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Learn moreWe start the festival with a BBQ and end with a breakfast! For our final daytime event, wind things down with a brunch time extravaganza of pancakes, bacon, vegan sausages, mimosas, and PICA Executive Director Victoria Frey’s famous Bloody Marys! Our curators will be hard at work flipping pancakes and serving sides. Take this moment to reflect on the festival with old friends and new. This year’s Pancake Breakfast is also a chance to thank and appreciate the many artists and generous volunteers who make this festival possible.
Learn moreTBA:19 Roland Dahwen THE OVERSEAS BANQUET
Learn moreA panel discussion with PICA’s Artistic Directors and other curators and arts administrators to consider how art institutions host, celebrate, and make people feel welcome in their spaces. Moderated by Spencer Byrne-Series, PICA's Exhibitions Director, and curator of TBA:FOOD.
Learn moreA convocation for all! Our inaugural and first-ever TBA Block Party BBQ is a chance for artists, audiences, neighbors, and staff to kick off the festival over a casual, celebratory meal, featuring legendary barbecue from Po'Shines. In years past, the Opening Night Dinner was a lovely but exclusive affair. Now celebrating the third year in our home on NE Hancock St., the Block Party BBQ is open to all, an accessible and welcoming shared meal—all are invited!
Learn moreJoin PICA’s Artistic Directors, Roya Amirsoleymani, Erin Boberg Doughton, and Kristan Kennedy for a final TBA:18 farewell. They’ll be a pancake brunch, Vic’s infamous Bloody Mary bar, and plenty of time for conversation and reflections about the past 10 days. Let’s bask in the last festival moments together.
Learn moreTender Table is a series of stories about food, family, and identity told by femmes of color and nonbinary people of color. For each event, storytellers prepare a dish connected to the experiences they’ve shared. Audiences are invited to listen generously, spend time communally, and sample the food.
Learn moreTBA food vendors Big Elephant Kitchen, Mis Tacones, and Mija/Mija in discussion about the intersecting economies and politics of contemporary art, immigration, identity, and local food culture. Moderated by Jodie Cavalier, PICA Public Engagement Coordinator. Part of our refreshed TBA Food Program curated by Spencer Byrne-Seres. Lunch from local vendors will be for sale—come hungry!
Learn moreGet the first look at TBA:17 as we kick off the festival with our annual Opening Night Dinner. Enjoy a sneak peak of the festival by dining with local, national, and international artists and curators. This year's dinner by Field Day Feasts and Gatherings will have an elevated block party feel outside of our new home at 15 NE Hancock. This year's dinner will feature everything from this season's Pacific Northwest bounty. Join us to raise our glasses together to toast TBA:17 and new beginnings at PICA.
Learn moreThere’s no place like home… gather with us at the PICA family table with friends and artists for an unforgettable feast from Stacey Givens of The Side Yard Farm.
Learn moreOPENING NIGHT DINNER AT THE WORKS! To kick off the first night of TBA:15, this year's Opening Night Dinner guests will enjoy a sneak peek of the Festival's visual art program and a champagne toast before being whisked away to dine at our TBA:15 central hub. This year’s dinner will highlight everything from the season’s bounty, expertly prepared with love by the accomplished chefs of Feastworks. Gather at the PICA family table with friends and artists for a radiant late summer feast that is not to be missed!
Learn moreYour forecast for the final day of TBA: Spicy, salty, and refreshing and bright with a Bloody Mary or seven...
Learn moreWe cordially invite you to an “elegant” al fresco dinner (in a parking lot), served with the gone-but-not-forgotten flourish of the grand restaurants of yesteryear. For one night, we’ll summon the uncompromising finesse of James and Julia (Beard and Child DUH!), and we’ll capture the style of Sardi’s, Elaine’s, and the Pump Room, where table-side Caesars and flaming desserts were the norm.
Learn moreGet a first look at our home for TBA:14 as we officially kick off the first night of the Festival with Opening Night Dinner. This year's dinner will be a nomadic block party, a "seed to plate" local meal crafted by Stacey Givens (The Side Yard Farm and The Nomadic Chef) with table vessels designed by Daniel Duford. Givens is a combination urban farmer and chef, working closely with other farmers, ranchers, and artists as collaborators and sourcing every element of the meal as locally as possible.
Learn moreOur inner host(ess) with the most(ess) has broken loose, blitzed on wine coolers, with a stack of O.G. Better Homes & Gardens to inspire the party–planning. For TBA, Team Delicious and our cocktail soul mates, Merit Badge, will bring back a bygone era when “entertaining” meant more than a kale salad.
Learn moreWhen you stay up late to catch all of the artists and activity at the Time-Based Art Festival, you’re bound to get hungry. That’s why we’ve invited a mix of Portland chefs to drop the white tablecloths and cook the kind of food they make after-hours, indulging their secret, guilty pleasure tastes.
Learn moreGet your first look at our new home for TBA, as we officially kick off the first night of the Festival. Gather with all of your PICA friends and artists as Mitchell Wines begins the celebration with a proper christening of THE WORKS (champagne across the bow?!).
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