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In this workshop, we can explore how we treat drawing, sculpture, sound, video projection, sets, costumes, and beyond as an equal material to dance/bodies moving in space.
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Past
On Wednesday, June 10 from 6:00–8:00 PM, join artist Meech Boakye and mathematician Kyle Ormsby for a collaborative workshop exploring playful forms of drawing through meander combinatorics.
Learn moreJoin cultural workers Alexandria Saleem and Sarah Farahat to steep in Teta’s tea. This is an invitation to grieve, nourish, and connect with what has been passed down through love and lineage, while remembering to cultivate new futures.
Learn moreMycelium Dreams is an ongoing, durational dance cartography and interview project initiated in 2022 by Portland dance and interdisciplinary artist Linda K. Johnson. Archival in nature, the PASTfuture interview component of the project is intent on creating an inclusive, nonhierarchical oral record of the stories of artists in the Portland community who have committed their life’s work to the field of dance.
Learn morePlease join us on Saturday, April 6, 2024, for Mapping the Pipeline Education Series. This program is part of Policing Justice, which is on view at PICA from February 23 – May 19, 2024.
Learn moreArtist: Power and Practices is a stimulating community conversation that will bring together five of Portland's most innovative creators to discuss the power that visual storytellers hold and the ethics around their process.
Learn moreTrue to the title, we’ll slowly share more information about each Time-Released program over the coming months. Read on to learn more.
Learn moreThe Japanese ceramic bell-making workshop is an immersive experience that centers around creating Furin "wind bells," historically suspended from trees in Japan. This unique workshop encourages participants to delve into the world of Furin by offering artistic interpretations of these unique creations.
Learn moreIn this workshop, we will question how movement can be used to facilitate deeper relationships with ourselves and each other. This gathering weaves together social dance forms, authentic movement, improvisation scores, somatic inquiry, theatrical intimacy education, dance parties and summer camp field games with a focus on how we can use these forms for community connection. This space invites all bodies, abilities, and ranges of movement experience.
Learn moreIn this workshop, Ralph Pugay will facilitate a series of activities aimed at empowering participants to conjure their own imaginary worlds through drawing and painting.
Learn moreWorkshop Description: This workshop will begin with a series of gentle somatic exercises to practice shifting our attention to ourselves, each other, and our collective space as we prepare to express ourselves through collage.
Learn moreTHE ACHE is the third installment of Allie Hankins’ five-part performance series of projects entitled, By My Own Hand. Developed in collaboration with Hannah Krafcik, THE ACHE calls attention to the myriad of ways selfhood can be constituted and remixed through creative acts of self-determination; it takes shape as 1) a video exhibition 2) a publication release and 3) a series of free intergenerational art-making workshops facilitated by local artists dee bustos, Muffie Delgado-Connelly, Midori Hirose, and Ralph Pugay.
Learn more𝐌𝐀𝐉𝐋𝐄𝐒 is a series of sound, silence, and movement-based workshops, audience-participatory scores, and collective reflections that seek to build new governance through individual creativity in relation to each other. Each 𝐌𝐀𝐉𝐋𝐄𝐒 session is generated from a score that situates the body as a site of knowledge, enacting movement and voice from and within the physical place they occupy to explore complex relationships to space. “Majles” is an Arabic and Persian term that translates to council, which can imply government, mourning, or celebration, and in this context, refers to the creative contract as a form of decentralized governance. 𝐌𝐀𝐉𝐋𝐄𝐒 includes transdisciplinary collaborations with other programs, collectives, and beings.
Learn moreAs an organization in residence during Remembering to Remember, Synth Library Portland will host multiple workshops open to everyone, offering both introductory hands-on teaching for beginners and instruction on how to create multi-channel sound compositions. In addition to workshops, Synth Library Portland will also provide informal open hours during which all are welcome to play with modular synthesizers and other electronic music equipment, and meet our facilitators.
Learn moreIn this training, Kite and Robbie Wing will guide participants in listening to the knowable and the unknowable: listening with and through nonhumans in the physical world and nonhumans in the unseen world. This training proposes that the frameworks for ethical decision-making must be learned in relationship with nonhuman beings. Half of this training will involve outdoor soundwalks, the other half will involve dreaming and futuring. Listening to nonhumans, on earth and in the spirit world leads to knowing how nonhumans create new knowledge. This workshop is part of Remembering to Remember: Experiments in Sound.
Learn moreCurated by Roya Amirsoleymani and Felisha Ledesma, Remembering to Remember: Experiments in Sound is a multifaceted program of 15+ international, national, and local artists spanning six live performances; five newly commissioned multichannel compositions; four film/video works at the intersection of sound and moving image; and one month of artist residencies, community workshops, and public engagements. The container for this breadth of programming is an exhibition that will be on view at PICA from February 17 to March 19, 2023, with an opening reception on Friday, February 17, 2023, 6:00 - 8:000 pm. Artists include Adee Roberson, Alison O’Daniel, bone lattice, Crystal Quartez, Hiro Kone, Kite & Robbie Wing, Lucy Liyou, Nivhek, Nyokabi Kariũki, Reese Bowes, Saint Abdullah, Sholeh Asgary, Synth Library Portland, Takashi Makino, and Tomoko Sauvage.
Learn moreWhat does it mean to have a critically engaged nervous system? How might the practice of following this intuitive and predictive technology cultivate possibilities for meaning-making and self-knowing? In this workshop Hannah and Emily will offer various scores and practices from their collaboration. Participants will be invited to attune to their sensations with attention toward nervous system awareness. This workshop will prioritize personal agency, needs, and boundaries for engagement.
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Learn moreThreshold Practice: A Grotto Worlds Performance Workshop With Larissa Kaul, Grant Miller, Jonathan Paradox Lee, and Dare Sohei
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 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 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!
Learn moreIn this workshop with TBA Opening Night artist Holland Andrews—whose experimental artistic practice spans composition, visual art, and performance using operatic and extended vocal technique—participants will explore guided meditation, vocal embodiment practice, performance, and collaboration.
Learn moreThis workshop brings together different modes of making into our practices. Whether you're a movement-based artist, a playwright, a poet or a painter, we will look into our writing/journal/note taking practices and stretch them beyond the studio, canvas, page, and stage. We will process our creative forms via movement improvisation, conversation and embodied listening activities.
Learn moreRelease-Receive-Become....You are an envelope which contains space. Not just a space, but an empty space. First, you try to receive all the sounds when freeing your head and the rest of your body. When you learn to receive, you will learn to become the embodiment of every sound that you hear.
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