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Good Dang Weekend 2 is a bingo fundraiser and dance party to benefit Elbow Room, a nonprofit community art studio and gallery space focused on providing artistic mentorship, material support, and meaningful exhibition opportunities to artists with intellectual developmental disabilities in Portland.
Learn moreGet ready to get down at the TBA:25 closing party, Dirty Thirty. This high-energy blowout marks the last official night of the Festival, bringing together artists, audiences, and the entire TBA community for one unforgettable throwdown.
Learn moreOver the last several decades, textile artist Freddie Robins has earned a reputation as a radical conceptualist whose hand- and machine- made tapestries, sculptures, and chimerical assemblages are as playfully cheeky as they are political. In Apotropaic, many of Robins’ recent assemblages are composed of the soft and, at times, unwieldy remains of other projects, coupled with found stones and other natural objects, as well as treasures from her vast collection of things past.
Learn moreA narrator searches for the shape of the universe amidst the ruins of 1980s material culture—bikini babes, Saturday morning cartoons, and the erotic overlap in between. Commercial detritus and degraded three-dimensional scans invoke feelings of memory and decay, while psychedelic mycelial rainbows provide hope and humor.
Learn moreTender Revolutions/Yellow Songs is a hybrid project comprised of writings, music, and visual ephemera that tend to “yellow subjectivities” and enact small spaces of connectivity across boundaries of diaspora and identity. The work features poetry and music by Dao Strom, with She Who Has No Master(s) and Fear No Music.
Learn moreCinema Project presents selections from Madison Brookshire's Number Series, 16mm dual-projector works of shifting colors. Double projection creates an uncanny experience of color as both presence and absence.
Learn moreAn evolving, experimental Black movement and sound sensorial experience crafted with local artists.
Learn moreIn a world where Manifest Destiny and “white” European immigrants definitely did not commit genocide to force colonialism and rewrite history in order to establish a country that treats corporations as people over Indigenous populations…comes a night of perspectives and stories from the original people who call these lands HOME.
Learn moreIn The Brutal Joy: A Lecture, Justine A. Chambers unfurls Black vernacular dance alongside sartorial gesture—as intellectual discourse, reverie, and devotion to Black living.
Learn moreThroughout TBA:25, Creative Exchange Lab artists will be developing work in real time, sharing process and dialogue with one another and the public. Hear from the cohort on Saturday, September 6 at 12:00 PM for a lunchtime conversation in PICA’s Pavilion.
Learn moreJasmine Orpilla (performer and composer) and Asher Hartman (director and writer) make Blessed with Switch, an unnerving hacking and syncing of language as it cuts into the geo-psychical feminine.
Learn moreInebria me is a new, experimental opera by acclaimed LA-based musician and performance artist San Cha that queers cisgender and heteronormative tropes of telenovela and celebrates the liberating power of ascendant relationships. Led by a visionary, bicoastal, queer of color creative team, Inebria me’s live sound score—with influences from ranchera, cumbia, punk, classical, and electro—merges with bold vocal performances and innovative theatrical design to create a powerful political and poetic statement for opera’s modern stage.
Learn moreIn DADS, Elby and Shane are confronted with the largest demon they have yet to face: their purpose. This deeply existential and heartfelt dance odyssey between two platonic lovers interrogates queer culture and Elby and Shane’s relationships to their fathers, all while trying to figure out their role in making the world a better place.
Learn moreHorizon is the perceived line where sky meets Earth—a locator in constant motion. Horizon is a dance.
Learn moreA 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 moreOmni Rail is an ambisonic, walk-through instrument designed from the stairwells, railings, and cable system of Portland’s historic 511 Building, transforming the architecture itself into a resonant body. The instrument is its own speaker system, both metaphorically and physically.
Learn morePICA is committed to accessibility as a value, ethic, and opportunity for learning, growth, and change. As we strive to create greater access to all of our programs and events, including the TBA Festival, we welcome feedback and dialogue from audiences and artists about their experiences and suggestions for improvement. To submit feedback, please contact us at boxoffice@pica.org or call 503-224-PICA (7422).
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 moreView the digital version of the 2025 TBA catalog.
Learn moreA day-by-day schedule for TBA:25
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