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This interactive, multimedia, youth-designed and -led workshop focuses on deconstructing the concept of masculinity by examining societal impacts, pressures, stigmas and notions of masculine identity through the lenses, frameworks, and perspectives of minority, male-identified people of color. A showcase of immersive visual vignettes will be shared expressing individual stories through video and art, coupled with collective analysis and discussion among participants.
Learn moreTBA:17 Guest Scholars d.a. carter and Robin Deacon present back-to-back lectures that engage their current research, practice, ideas, and questions.
Learn moreInterdisciplinary artist Manuel Solano and Roy Pérez (Asst. Professor of English and American Ethnic Studies, Willamette University), discuss Manuel's TBA project and the artist's broader practice across visual art, video, performance, and music, drawing from pop and celebrity culture, appropriation, and personal queer narrative. In English and Spanish.
Learn moreCreative duo Maya Vivas and Leila Haile will facilitate a participatory discussion surrounding the history of art institutions, gatekeeping, Queer Black art, and their motivations behind opening Ori Gallery, a QTPOC-focused radical art space.
Learn moreInterdisciplinary theatre and performance artist and Reed alum Tina Satter joins Catherine Ming T’ien Duffly (Asst. Professor of Theatre, Reed College) for a conversation about her creative process and the influences and inspiration behind her TBA performance project, Ghost Rings.
Learn moreChoreographer Faye Driscoll shares her creative process, collaboration with dancers, audience and artist co-creation, and the underlying themes and concepts that drive the Thank You for Coming series. With Rachel Carrico, PhD, Dance Faculty Fellow, University of Oregon.
Learn moreThrough interactive discussion, this workshop will center the creation of performative works that unapologetically explore the the realizing of one’s Black identity, including in White consumer based structures. We will share stories, tips, and tricks and form solidarity lists to keep participants strong in the face of adversity while being Black and vulnerable.
Learn moreDead Thoroughbred artists sidony o’neal and keyon gaskin discuss process, concept, collaboration and their new TBA performance project in depth with Sampada Aranke (Asst. Professor, Art History, Theory, & Criticism, School of the Art Institute of Chicago) and Kemi Adeyemi (Asst. Professor, Gender & Sexuality Studies, University of Washington, Seattle).
Learn moreTight. Moving. Aural. Physical. Breath. Beat. Lost. Loose. Breathless. Minutes? Months? Meters? Monsters? Monograms? Macaroons? 15 m = ? Four ways. Samiya Bashir dreamcasts Portland poets Shayla Lawson and Dao Strom, plus special guest Ronaldo V. Wilson and collaborating artist Roland Dahwen Wu, as together they guide poetry through space. Four ways. Solve for the poem. What? See for yourself.
Learn moreBecca Blackwell shares insights into the creation of They, Themself, and Schmerm, including themes of gender and transition, strategies of humor, and forms of comedy and personal narrative. In dialogue with TBA Guest Scholar bart fitzgerald and Shawna Lipton, Chair, MA in Critical Studies, Pacific Northwest College of Art.
Learn moreTBA artist Morgan Bassichis and Guest Scholar Keith Hennessy talk comedy, queer performance histories and strategies, gender politics, maybe some mysticism or improvisation, and dive deeper into Bassichis' TBA Festival projects. Just a guess. With Keith Hennessy, dance and performance artist, activist, and writer.
Learn moreIn celebration of Pepper Pepper and friends’ fifth and final edition of Critical Mascara: A Post-Realness Drag Ball at TBA, don’t miss this roundtable and mimosa kiki by and for the growing Pacific Northwest ballroom scene. A diverse group of local dancers and performers will come together to get critical and connect about their practice and presence.
Learn moreArtist and writer Will Rawls discusses his durational performance, i make me [sic] for PICA, touching on the range of forms and influences in his choreographic and broader practice, most recently including an attention to "authorship, memory, race, and subjectivity as intersecting monuments in need of constant undoing." With TBA Guest Scholar Lydia Brawner, Curatorial Fellow, Performa.
Learn moreIn collaboration with dramaturg Kate Bredeson (Assoc. Professor of Theatre, Reed College), this afternoon series will illuminate the work of dramaturgs in dance and new performance.
Learn moreIn collaboration with dramaturg Kate Bredeson (Assoc. Professor of Theatre, Reed College), this afternoon series will illuminate the work of dramaturgs in dance and new performance. A talk by Katherine Profeta, followed by a roundtable on dance dramaturgy, together investigate how dramaturgs work, and provoke conversations about the role of dramaturgical collaboration in new work. This program is grateful for the support of the Literary Managers and Dramaturgs of the Americas, who awarded Portland dramaturg Kate Bredeson the 2017 Bly Fellowship that helps to make this series possible.
Learn moreRenowned musical and performing artists Stew and Heidi (The Negro Problem, Passing Strange) discuss the impulses and influences behind the creation of their TBA performance, Notes of a Native Song, inspired by the life, work, and politics of James Baldwin. With TBA Guest Scholar d.a. carter, Assistant Professor of Black Studies, Portland State University.
Learn moreHow might moving, listening, and being together as distinctly orientated bodies in everyday social and political spheres, further heighten our capacity to see what is hidden, erased, marginalized, forced underground? how might active, embodied investigations of place and purpose catalyze perspective?
Learn moreTBA:17 Guest Scholars Lydia Brawner and Keith Hennessy present back-to-back lectures that engage their current research, practice, ideas, and questions.
Learn moreInternationally esteemed choreographer Bouchra Ouizguen (Marrakech) sheds light on the creative process and visual, sonic, and movement elements or Corbeaux, which celebrates the power of the feminine through intensive, intimate public performances in collaboration with several artists from Morocco and over twenty local Portland participants. In dialogue with Angela Mattox, PICA Artistic Director.
Learn moreLearn from last year's Critical Mascara Vogue winner and local vogue instructor Daniel Girón (aka Carbon Electra) as he breaks down the five (5) fundamentals of Vogue Femme: Hand Performance, Cat Walk, Duck Walk, Floor Work, and Spin Dip. This class is open to all levels of vogue enthusiasts who wish to take their fundamentals to the next level by adding the element of performance.
Learn morePICA Creative Exchange Lab artists Ntsikelelo "Boyzie" Cekwana (Johannesburg) and keyon gaskin (Portland) exchange thoughts on making critically engaged dance, choreography, and performance that attends to questions of race and the persistence of colonialism and apartheid in artistic and cultural contexts. In conversation with Vivian Phillips of Seattle Theatre Group.
Learn moreTaught by performers from Alessandro Sciarroni's UNTITLED_I will be there when you die workshop is for anyone who wishes to learn and practice fundamental juggling techniques and apply them to individual and group composition and sequence.
Learn moreJunaid Sarieddeen is co-founder of Beirut’s Zoukak Theatre Company, founded in 2006 to develop an engaged professional theatre practice with a commitment to creativity as a form of resistance. Junaid will position Zoukak as a case study to illuminate the broader landscape of art and politics in Lebanon, sharing the origins of the company as a platform for contemporary performance and vehicle for social change, in a country lacking adequate public and cultural policy and haunted by cycles of ceaseless crisis.
Learn moreTBA Guest Scholar Maya Mikdashi (Dept of Women's & Gender Studies, Rutgers University) traces the history of the modern Lebanese state through an engagement with the archives of the country's high court. Ethnography of daily life at the courthouse is coupled with archival research in order to think more critically about mainstream Lebanese history and technologies of research, census taking, and the politics of identity.
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