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For 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 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 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 moreReading Groups: Jaamil Olawale Kosoko’s American Chameleon: The Living Installments
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 moreMusician, composer, writer, and comedian Ahamefule J. Oluo shares insights into his interdisciplinary artistic practice and the development and stories behind SUSAN, his TBA work-in-progress performance that explores “the failings of men, and the endurance of women.” * This conversation will be ASL interpreted
Learn moreThreshold Practice: A Grotto Worlds Performance Workshop With Larissa Kaul, Grant Miller, Jonathan Paradox Lee, and Dare Sohei
Learn moreJoin PICA’s Creative Exchange Lab artists in residence for brief presentations about their current projects and practices over happy hour drinks!
Learn moreRenowned dance, performance, and visual artist Eiko Otake discusses her expansive TBA performance and exhibition projects with esteemed Portland-based artist and choreographer, Linda K. Johnson and PICA’s Artistic Director & Curator of Visual Art, Kristan Kennedy.
Learn moreMembers and guest artists of YGB Portland will facilitate a workshop focused on collective healing experiences for intergenerational Black and Brown communities. *Open to BlPOC+ participants only
Learn moreTBA artist Myles de Bastion—an artistic director, musician, creative altruist, and advocate for Deaf and Hard-of-Hearing communities—is joined by others working for greater access and inclusion for Disabled artists and audiences. * This conversation will be ASL interpreted
Learn moreIn conversation with Jaclyn I. Pryor, Anthony Hudson / Carla Rossi (Confederated Tribes of Grand Ronde) shares insights into the TBA performance Looking for Tiger Lily (Solo), including how the performance serves to queer acenstral storytelling practices, artistic and pop cultural references, and stereotypes of Native identities. * This conversation will be ASL interpreted
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 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 moreChoreographer Ligia Lewis discusses the many layers and references in her TBA performance, Water Will (in melody), with Portland-based scholar bart fitzgerald.
Learn moreUsing mindfulness, somatic, and improvisation-based exercises, this workshop will focus on how embodied practice can be an artistic technology to sharpen and hone our use of attention, both in performance practice and process, and for how we show up in relationships, in communities, and in the world.
Learn moreIn conversation with Reuben Tomás Roqueñi (Yaqui, Mayo, Chicanx), experimental musician, composer, and visual artist Laura Ortman (White Mountain Apache) shares more about her practice, including TBA performance collaborations with Marcus Fischer and Raven Chacon.
Learn moreMiguel Gutierrez and San Cha discuss how queer Latinx experience informs their respective experimental practices in dance and music, including discursive debates around aesthetics, abstraction, and cultural identity in performance making.
Learn moreAn all-levels voguing workshop facilitated by members of Portland’s PDXBall. Come learn and have fun, or practice in preparation for PDXBall’s TBA Late Night kiki ball competition!
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