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TICKETS | $13
AN IMMERSIVE ONE-NIGHT, THREE-BAND LIVE CONCERT THAT DARES ASK THE QUESTION:
BUT WHAT IF THERE WERE PUPPETS?
Salo Panto performing with puppeteers: Matt Hopkins, Matt Laird, Liz Ghiz
Holocene and Bogmonster Events present the 7th edition of POP + PUPPETRY, an interdisciplinary extravaganza for the eyes and ears! 3 puppeteer teams of diverse styles will be paired with 3 inventive Portland-based pop/rock groups. Each puppeteer will present an original puppet show created especially for this event and synced to the band’s music. The results should be dazzling, and help to elevate the experience of both artistic mediums when combined.
Proof of full COVID vaccination (or negative rapid COVID test) required to enter
TICKETS | $22.50 advance, $25 day of show, $25 advance 21+ Reserved Balcony, $30 day of show 21+ Reserved Balcony
All Ages | Proof of COVID vaccination or Negative Test within 72 hours required for entry
Formed in their mate’s bong shed in Coolum, Queensland 2016 at age seventeen, The Chats represent everything that’s good about Australia and nothing that’s bad: a rebel spirit, gallows humour and the endless hedonistic pursuit of A Bloody Good Time. Cold stubbies within close reach, 24-7.
Drawing influence from the same fertile Australian pub rock scene that spawned everyone from AC/DC and The Saints to Cosmic Psychos and The Hard Ons, and sharing a similar singular self-contained approach to their art as such latter-day Aussie rock heroes as King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard, The Chats describe themselves as “dropkick drongos from the Sunshine Coast of Australia”. It’d be difficult to argue otherwise.
with Mean Jeans & THICK
TICKETS | $16
All Ages
Takénobu is a live-looping cinematic folk string duo performing original songs with vocal harmonies and ethereal instrumentals.
Cellist Nick Ogawa has been a touring member of Kishi Bashi and is a composer for NPR's Invisibilia, Netflix's Last Chance U, and the Netflix documentary 42 Grams by Jack Newell about michelin star chef Jake Bickelhaupt.
Kathryn Koch holds a Masters degree in Violin Performance and plays regularly with the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra, the Atlanta Opera, and Chattanooga Symphony and Opera. She has toured with the Trans Siberian Orchestra and Tiny Rhymes, and appears on many film and video game soundtracks.
TICKETS | $13
21+ /// Proof of COVID-19 vaccination or proof of a negative COVID-19 test taken in the prior 72 hours required
w/ Kelli Schaefer & Field Drums
Slang’s debut COCKROACH IN A GHOST TOWN is a force of nature that came, seemingly, out of nowhere. Lyricist/singer/guitarist Drew Grow and drummer/singer Janet Weiss started the band over a decade ago in Portland, OR—both having spent more than half their lives dedicated to making and performing music. Through the years, Weiss has played with everyone from her bands Quasi, Wild Flag, and Sleater-Kinney, to collaborators like Elliott Smith, Stephen Malkmus, and others.; Grow has fronted his own groups Modern Kin and the Pastors’ Wives, producing other bands along the way. Starting as a moonlighting collaboration, the meeting of this particular group was kismet if not totally cosmic.
TICKETS | $35 Advance, $40 day of show, $40 Advance 21+ Reserved Balcony, $50 day of show 21+ Reserved Balcony
Doors 6:30 PM | Show 8 PM
All Ages | Proof of COVID vaccination or Negative Test within 72 hours required for entry
Breton-born artist Yann Tiersen has been involved in music for most of his life.
He started learning piano at the age of four, took up violin at the age of six and received classical training at musical academies in Rennes, Nantes and Boulogne. Then, at the age of 13, he chose to alter his destiny, breaking his violin into pieces, buying a guitar and forming a rock band.
Since the early 1990s, Tiersen has changed his style many times. His latest album, Kerber, contains his most overtly electronic material to date but still beautifully textured, highly immersive.
Featuring Charlie Cunningham
REGISTRATION | $180
June 14, 21, 28, 2022
Saturdays | 6:00 – 7:30 p.m. | 3 Sessions
Please note: Issues of sexuality, race, and some violent imagery are part of the class.
Centered on the heyday of practical special effects in 1980’s horror and science fiction, this 3 week online seminar will examine the history of bodily transformation from the earliest days of cinema through contemporary films and visual arts. Through comparative viewings, short readings, and weekly discussions we will examine the concepts of the cinematic body; representation of disease, bodily dissolution, and reparation; and the viewer relationship to on-screen physicality.s Discussion sessions will take place once a week. The third and final session will contain a special guest presentation by Nelson Lowry who has worked as head production designer for Danny Boyle, Tim Burton, Wes Anderson, as well as recent Portland based Laika films.
REGISTRATION | $180
June 14, 21, 28, 2022
Saturdays | 6:00 – 7:30 p.m. | 3 Sessions
Please note: Issues of sexuality, race, and some violent imagery are part of the class.
Centered on the heyday of practical special effects in 1980’s horror and science fiction, this 3 week online seminar will examine the history of bodily transformation from the earliest days of cinema through contemporary films and visual arts. Through comparative viewings, short readings, and weekly discussions we will examine the concepts of the cinematic body; representation of disease, bodily dissolution, and reparation; and the viewer relationship to on-screen physicality.s Discussion sessions will take place once a week. The third and final session will contain a special guest presentation by Nelson Lowry who has worked as head production designer for Danny Boyle, Tim Burton, Wes Anderson, as well as recent Portland based Laika films.
TICKETS | $25
21+ Only
7 PM Doors, 8 PM Showtime
Jaws of Love is the solo project of Colombian-American recording artist Kelcey Ayer. He is the co-lead vocalist of Los Angeles band Local Natives, a revered pillar of the indie rock community having released 4 records and 2 EPs to critical and commercial acclaim, and touring the world since 2009. Jaws of Love released its debut album, Tasha Sits Close to the Piano, in 2017 to similar praise.
Ayer now starts the next phase of Jaws of Love with a new EP entitled Patricia, in memory of his late mother of the same name. While his debut album touched on his love of finding light in dark places, these 5 original new tracks mark a giant leap forward for the artist. Co-produced by Danny Reisch (Shearwater, Sun June), the songs share influences from BJ Burton’s production work with Low and Charli XCX, Iosonouncane’s IRA and Mark Pritchard’s Under The Sun, all deep wells of distortion, subtlety, brutality and beauty that Ayer drew from to shape his own. Through the memory of his mother, Ayer explores depression, reconnection with his Colombian roots, and the duality of being biracial and white-passing. With more new music on the way, Ayer is excited for Patricia to usher in a new era for Jaws of Love.
"Patricia" - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mk6f0E72vaM
REGISTRATION | $180
June 14, 21, 28, 2022
Saturdays | 6:00 – 7:30 p.m. | 3 Sessions
Please note: Issues of sexuality, race, and some violent imagery are part of the class.
Centered on the heyday of practical special effects in 1980’s horror and science fiction, this 3 week online seminar will examine the history of bodily transformation from the earliest days of cinema through contemporary films and visual arts. Through comparative viewings, short readings, and weekly discussions we will examine the concepts of the cinematic body; representation of disease, bodily dissolution, and reparation; and the viewer relationship to on-screen physicality.s Discussion sessions will take place once a week. The third and final session will contain a special guest presentation by Nelson Lowry who has worked as head production designer for Danny Boyle, Tim Burton, Wes Anderson, as well as recent Portland based Laika films.
TICKETS | $13 Advance, $15 at the Door
21+ Only