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Part of a long-term documentary project by interdisciplinary artist Carlos Motta— in collaboration with artists Heldáy de la Cruz, Julio Salgado, and Edna Vázquez– We Got Each Other’s Back is a three-part, multi-channel video installation featuring portraits of queer artists and activists in the United States who are or have been openly undocumented, and who are producing work to denounce historic and present-day broken US immigration policies. Free and open to all / masks required
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Learn moreJaamil Olawale Kosoko and collaborators Jennifer Kidwell and Dr. Brenda Dixon Gottschild will discuss the development and artistic process of American Chameleon: The Last Installments.
Learn moreA Movement for Black Laughs celebrates the role of Black humor in political movements, through a one-hour show that features Portland based Black comedians, and sound/video artists.
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Learn moreDao Strom will give an intimate performance of songs and visual poetry from her forthcoming hybrid poetry and music project, Instrument/Traveler’s Ode, a unique book/album release forthcoming from Fonograf Editions and Antiquated Future Records this Fall. This event marks the Portland release and debut of the project.
Learn moreCONVERSATION with Dao Strom and Elisa Harkins with Pablo de Ocampo
Learn moreLa Luz De La Esperanza is a musical telenovela that tells the tale of Dolores, a poor yet elegantly dressed domestic worker who falls in love with a rich man named Salvador. The story follows the abusive dynamic between Salvador and Dolores, leading to Dolores eventually finding true love with Esperanza, a genderless spirit.
Learn moreFor the TBA Institute, home school will curate and host Friday afternoon virtual presentations and discussions. home school is a free pop-up art school co-run by manuel arturo abreu and Victoria Anne Reis, in its fifth year of curriculum presenting multimedia, genre-nonconforming edutainment and creating welcoming contexts for critical engagement with contemporary art.
Learn moreAgainst the Current is a processional audiovisual journey along the Willamette River teaming Mobile Projection Unit with three performers and two roving “guides” with “lanterns”.
Learn moreLast Audience: a performance manual is a set of performance scores for the public to enact live theater in the intimacy of their own homes. Created by the collaborative group, a canary torsi, the work—inspired by requiems—is imagined as “manuals for a collective imagination on reckoning.”
Learn moreCome celebrate the official record release of the Radio III / ᎦᏬᏂᏍᎩ ᏦᎢ at a virtual listening party hosted by Elisa Harkins, Hanako Hoshimi-Caines and Zoë Poluch. Radio III / ᎦᏬᏂᏍᎩ ᏦᎢ is an Indigenous futuristic concert and dance performance that features songs by Elisa Harkins, some of which are in Cherokee and Muscogee (Creek).
Learn moreCONVERSATION with Shawné Michaelain Holloway and Kendra Jayne Patrick
Learn moreAs a retired party host, working as a pastor and cultural critic, bart fitzgerald thinks community as spirituality. How might the practice of spirituality in community advance the work of justice, political education, and joy?
Learn moreFor the TBA Institute, home school will curate and host Friday afternoon virtual presentations and discussions. home school is a free pop-up art school co-run by manuel arturo abreu and Victoria Anne Reis, in its fifth year of curriculum presenting multimedia, genre-nonconforming edutainment and creating welcoming contexts for critical engagement with contemporary art.
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Learn moreCONVERSATION with Demian DinéYazhi’ and Kevin Holden with Joseph M. Pierce
Learn moreSHATTER/// unhinges the romanticism of settler colonialism, implanting cosmic seedlings to nurture the political resurgence of Queer indigeneity. Performers Demian DinéYazhi’ and Kevin Holden elevate poetry and sound to transcend the brutality of history and celebrate collective liberation.
Learn moreFor the TBA Institute, home school will curate and host Friday afternoon virtual presentations and discussions. home school is a free pop-up art school co-run by manuel arturo abreu and Victoria Anne Reis, in its fifth year of curriculum presenting multimedia, genre-nonconforming edutainment and creating welcoming contexts for critical engagement with contemporary art.
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Learn moreReading Groups: Jaamil Olawale Kosoko’s American Chameleon: The Living Installments
Learn moreAmerican Chameleon: The Living Installments is a hybrid multimedia living artwork, instigated by Nigerian-American artist Jaamil Olawale Kosoko, that explores the ever-evolving ways in which digitality intersects with the fugitive realities and shapeshifting principles that Black queer people employ to survive and heal.
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