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CONVERSATION 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 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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Learn moreNo Human Involved: The 5th Annual Sex Workers’ Art Show November 8 - December 14, 2019 The phrase *“no human involved” (“NHI”) is a slang term that has been commonly used by police to refer to crimes involving the murder or injury of sex workers, drug users, gang members, immigrants, and transient folks, with Black and Brown populations disproportionately affected.
Learn moreCentering the voices of artists who are current and former sex workers, this panel will debunk common myths and misconceptions in sex work politics, and illuminate related topics, issues, and debates, including decriminalization vs. legalization; sex work in the age of internet, technology, and social media; feminism, sex positivity, and empowerment; SESTA-FOSTA; and sex trafficking’s relationship to sex work.
Learn morePICA, in partnership with PNCA’s MA in Critical Studies Program, presents a free, public lecture by Emi Koyama, a multi-issue social justice activist, writer, and rogue intellectual. Emi often writes and speaks out about feminism, sexual and domestic violence, sex work/trade and trafficking, queer and trans liberation, and intersex and disability issues, among others.
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 moreChoreographer Adam Linder discusses his TBA project, The WANT, an experimental dance, musical score, and opera created in collaboration with composer Ethan Braun and visual artist and designer Shahryar Nashat.
Learn moreSan Cha is a singer-songwriter, based in the City of Angels, increasingly known for her visceral and explosive live performances. Her name, derived from the Spanish word sancha, which translates to ‘mistress’, is a mischievous reference to the title of ‘San’, given to male saints in the Catholic tradition. Fans of cumbia and punk, bolero and electro, flock to see San Cha’s emotional renditions of traditional Mexican rancheras and original songs that queer conventions of identity, power and love. Her striking stage presence is accompanied by the one-of-a-kind garments she adorns, aesthetic reflections of the years spent performing in drag and club scenes in the Bay. San Cha was most recently the headlining act at the kickoff of the 2019 Red Bull Music Festival, with upcoming performances at the Levitt Pavilion, Getty Museum and Santa Monica Pier. Partner Program Presented by lumber room Curated by Libby Werbel In conjunction with their exhibition Kate Newby A puzzling light and moving. Limited seating, no reservations, doors at 6:30
Learn moreVisiting curator Adela Demetja is joined by Portland-based writer, curator, and artist Lucy Cotter, and collaborating artists from Europe and the U.S. In dialogue, they’ll share more about their residency time in Portland, the contexts and landscapes in which they each live and make work, and their collaborative TBA performance project.
Learn moreCurators Stephanie Snyder and Lisa Dent discuss the interdisciplinary exhibition and performance project, The Autopoets, with featured artists Roland Dahwen (Portland, OR) and Tuesday Smillie (NYC). A partnership between Reed College’s Cooley Gallery, Converge 45, and the TBA Festival, The Autopoets is on view at the Cooley Gallery through October 6, 2019.
Learn moreInnovative and celebrated musician, composer, and sound artist Kara-Lis Coverdale shares insights into her creative process and practice, gender in electronic and experimental music, and the ins and outs of her TBA performance--a unique composition for the organ at Portland's First Presbyterian Church--in conversation with Lorna Dune, a local electronic musician, composer, DJ, engineer, producer, and Sonic Arts educator.
Learn moreNOCHE LIBRE is a radical Latinx DJ collective of women creating space for Black, Brown, and Indigenous communities. We spin music that spans genres and geography from cumbia and quebradita to dancehall and perreo. We celebrate our family’s roots and rituals by carrying on the tradition of puro pinche pair.
Learn moreTBA:19 Opening Night Like a Villain (Holland Andrews) will be performing a night of expansive, ceremonial, extended-technique vocal compositions to draw in the opening of this year's TBA Festival.
Learn moreCo-Presented with c3:initiative Cannupa Hanska Luger site specific performance at c3:initiative. AFRAID NOT performative action by artist Cannupa Hanska Luger will tie a physical line from the tools of ar-ti-fa-ct to their task.
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