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A workshop exploring the words we use to describe the people we know, as a process to understand how we identify ourselves. Gayle will introduce the model of personality considered most useful and valid by contemporary personality psychologists, and we will use the space and each others' words to uncover how our personalities are expressed in our daily lives.
Learn moreMany thousands of languages are spoken today across the world. Each language offers a unique perspective, a world view, a window into the mind of its speakers. Language are richly varied and this variation offers insight into what is possible and what is not, and why.
Learn moreThe Dying Wind / A Ventriloquist’s Art / Luminist Silence and the Sublime Noise of Progress (2013) is a dual-synched video presentation that takes the form of an automated lecture.
Learn moreThree activities will focus on learning through touch as a language, two with clay as a medium.
Learn moreA workshop comparing ancient cave paintings, hieroglyphics, and cuneiform text to modern day street art, propaganda, and graffiti.
Learn moreA critical conversation on method and madness, knowledge and respect, theory and nascent wonder, ignorance and arrogance, authority and tradition, judgment and distinction, learning and the pleasing of another, sober realism and the rage for justice, in the style of G.K. Chesterton, and drawing on the work of a wide range of interlocutors, including Hannah Arendt, Ivan Illich, John Dewey, Peter Sloterdijk, Jacques Rancière, Bifo, and the Black Mountain Founders, to help us rethink this thing called education, higher and other.
Learn moreThis workshop is devoted to writing with constraints.
Learn moreThis will be an exercise in the making of a container or woven form, and also in the communication of these skills to students.
Learn moreC’mon Language is an exhibition in pursuit of an artistic vocabulary.
Learn moreLegendary musician and artist Laurie Anderson performs the third and final of her groundbreaking solo story works
Learn moreSound artist Akio Suzuki, experimental poet Gozo Yoshimasu, and improvisatory guitarist/turntablist Otomo Yoshihide present a range of performances that cross between literature, sound art, music, and improvisation.
Learn moreA taste of the LA bass sound as a closing night TBA party of surreal visions, sideways club trax, and darkside R&B dubs.
Learn moreAromatic poached chicken, fluffy rice, Thai herbs, and salty, spicy soy bean sauce—a perfect package meal!
Learn moreOver thirty local musicians, composers, and sound artists have mapped out their favorite sonic spaces in Portland, creating an "audio tour" of the most interesting naturally occurring acoustic landscapes, concluding in a one-day live concert.
Learn moreAn accessible workshop with members of Circo Zero, exploring improvisation and movement techniques.
Learn moreCompany members from Gob Squad lead a performance workshop right in the set of Gob Squad’s Kitchen, exploring their unique blend of theater and real life.
Learn moreA bizarro cooking demonstration exploring the effects of black light, led by the adorable host of FOOD PARTY.
Learn moreLip-smacking, filled-to-the-brim sandwiches from the crew at Bunk.
Learn moreThree vignettes track the absurd and mundane stories of a group of office employees in this stylized performance derived from everyday gestures.
Learn moreFaustin Linyekula discusses his bold solo dance and its themes of legacy, forgetting, and memory with Angela Mattox.
Learn moreA workshop led by cheltfisch’s award-winning director and playwright, Toshiki Okada, known for his stylized hybrids of oddly humorous text, distinctive lighting, and idiosyncratic movement.
Learn moreNew York-based singer, performer, DJ, and personality Penney will travel an emotional journey in song, from childhood to first love to romantic dissolution to ecstatic hope and empowerment.
Learn moreRecreating the iconic 60s films of Andy Warhol, live actors cross in and out of the film and audience.
Learn moreVegan Italian dishes that satisfy everyone: vegetable terrines, beet-pine nut manicotti, corn and mushroom chowder, and more.
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