Bike love is in the air.
Join us for the sixth annual Live the Revolution, presented by Sugar Wheel Works. It’s a bicycle-themed storytelling event that benefits the Bicycle Transportation Alliance’s Safe Routes to School education program. For the past five years, Sugar Wheel Works has been celebrating its anniversary with this great event as a way to inspire the next generation to ride!
“I remember my first bike—a little pink Schwinn ‘My Fair Lady’ spec’d with a banana seat and a bell! I had the training wheels for half a summer before I declared them useless and in one afternoon I had learned the art of the two-wheeler. Once I had a bike no television could keep me inside—the world was mine to discover. Today I ride a pink Sweet Pea bicycle spec’d with a brooks saddle, bell and no training wheels!”
-Jude Gerace, Owner Sugar Wheel Works
Get your ticket here. And one for your date.
What is Live the Revolution?
Live the Revolution is a collection of stories told live by your favorite Portland personalities. This year’s storytellers are (drumroll):
- Leah Benson, Gladys Bikes
- Donnie Kolb, Velodirt
- Diana Rempe, Street Books
- Mychal Tetteh, Community Cycling Center
SPECIAL GUEST: Brad Ross, Emcee. Join us in congratulating him on his retirement and celebrating his work with Cross Crusade.
Adams and Ollman is pleased to present A Future Life, a solo exhibition by New York-based artist Jonathan Berger. The exhibition will open on February 12 and be on view through March 12. This is the artist’s first exhibition in Portland, Oregon.
For A Future Life, Berger has created an installation comprised of a handmade floor and stage-like plinths, all of which have been constructed from thousands of small charcoal blocks. This imperfect gridded surface holds both the viewer and a series of elaborately crafted small-scale sculptural objects made from a restricted palette of what the artist refers to as elementary materials, which he identifies as tin, putty, charcoal, and chalk.
Central to the exhibition is a small model depicting a century plant, a flowering agave with roughly the same lifespan as a person, which dies after its first and only bloom. Berger’s rendition is made from a no longer produced tin material that he salvages whose silver surface appears, in turns, mirrored, dull, and corroded. In another untitled work, also made from the same material, the sharp points of two hearts orbit each other so closely that they nearly touch. In a third work, Berger has constructed a large globe from putty that appears impossibly round for its size and the apparent imperfect nature of the material from which it is made. Its dark grey surface, both polished and scratched, obscures any understanding of the object’s true weight, material, or content.
The objects in Berger’s set-like, nearly monochromatic exhibition appear simultaneously common and mysterious and the materials from which they are made are both recognizable, yet inaccessible or out of time--almost a caricature of themselves. Each isolated on its own plinth, the sculptures in the exhibition can be understood in terms of portraiture. The relationships that they form to one another and the viewer yield an implied narrative structure, which hints at something fundamental to human experience.
While Berger's connection to the individual works in the show remains personal and specific, their emotional weight and the evocative nature of the materials, as well as the accessibility afforded by his use of archetypal forms, gives the total work the feeling of a pop song--stylized, lyrical and open. The exhibition then becomes a structure into which one can project his/her own experience.
This exhibition marks Berger’s return to the construction of objects after a nearly eight-year hiatus, during which time he pursued projects which approached portraiture through making exhibitions that functioned as experimental biographies of various historical figures. Berger is best known for his six-year investigative portrait of entertainer Andy Kaufman, which resulted in three exhibitions that used abstract configurations of primary information, in the form of ephemera and testimony, to create a portrayal of Kaufman which was simultaneously accurate and inconclusive.
The Portland Night Market showcases 75+ businesses that call the great City of Portland home. Blending food, culture, music, drinks and retail together for an adventurous evening in the Industrial District. The event allows people to meet some of Portland's best makers and creators set in the unique venue of a 100+ year old produce row warehouse.
To kick off 2016, PNM is partnering with some of Portland's businesses for a special edition market, dubbed, "The Love Train." Entertainment showcasing live music, aerialists, an aphrodisiac alley complete with chocolate, tastings, an oyster bar and loads of other goodies!
FREE Admission
All ages welcome!
More information can be found here.
It's time for the 39th Portland International Film Festival, the Northwest Film Center’s annual showcase of new world cinema. Like the Film Center’s Northwest Filmmakers’ Festival, which surveys outstanding new work by our region’s media makers, through 97 features and 62 short films from three-dozen countries, the Portland International Film Festival explores not only the art of film but also the world around us, no matter the place or the language spoken.
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Time slot sign-up begins at 9pm.
With extended resident sets from Northern Draw, Bone Rock & Biz
21+
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Moderated discussion and Q&A with Russia's feminist punk rock protest group.
Pussy Riot is a Russian feminist punk rock protest group based in Moscow. Founded in August 2011, it has a variable membership of approximately 11 women ranging in age from about 20 to 33. They stage unauthorized provocative guerrilla performances in unusual public locations, which are edited into music videos and posted on the Internet, as well as reported widely by international media. Their lyrical themes include feminism, LGBT rights, opposition to the policies of Russian President Vladimir Putin, whom they regard as a dictator, and links between Putin and the leadership of the Russian Orthodox Church.
In 2012, five members of the group staged a performance in Moscow's Cathedral of Christ the Savior, protesting the Orthodox Church leader's support for Putin during his election campaign. On March 3, two of the group members, Nadezdha Tolokonnikova and Maria Alyokhina were arrested and charged with hooliganism. A third member, Yekaterina Samutsevich, was arrested two weeks later. On August 17, the three members were convicted of "hooliganism motivated by religious hatred," and each was sentenced to two years imprisonment.
The trial and sentence attracted considerable criticism, particularly in the West. The case was adopted by human rights groups including Amnesty International, and by a number of prominent entertainers. Having served 21 months, Tolokonnikova and Alyokhina were released on December 23, 2013. They have since been traveling around the world speaking against issues mentioned above in Russia.
All ages welcome
$39.50 advance, $45 day of show
Cinema Project's Spring 2016 Season Begins!
Nazli Dinçel’s 2011 film Leafless may seem on its sensual surface to be an update of Willard Maas’s Geography of the Body (1943), now warmly-colored and somehow both fantastic and familiar, with cuts to real landscapes between the peaks and valleys of a lover’s body. It was also made (hand-processed) by a young woman whose multi-located childhood between Turkey, the US, and Switzerland, is reflected in her other films under the theme of dislocation. It’s clear that Dinçel feels deeply, as though the cuts from an exacto knife, the punches from a sewing machine and typewriter, or the blows from a hammer that the 16mm acetate receives when she is creating these textured films is more than a metaphor for the malleability of the body. This program, curated by Dinçel herself, both reveals and revels in the body, emulsion, and those things we’re not yet used to talking about, like the sexual awakening of girls. Join us in welcoming Nazli Dinçel to Portland for this one-night program.
Nazli will be in attendance for this screening!
Three Day psychedelic music at Crystal Ballroom and various Mcmenamins locations sponsored by your old pal XRAY.
Friday: Super Furry, Animals, Earth, King Black Acid
Saturday: Red Fang, YOB, Witch Mountain, Eternal Tapestry
Sunday: Built To Spill, Mikal Cronin (acoustic duo), The Fresh and Only's, Brett Netson & Snakes
FULL Line-Up Here!
While psychedelic music covers a range of styles and genres, it is inspired by psychedelic culture and the attempt to replicate the mind altering experiences that started in mid-'60s folk, rock and blues. The Crystal Ballroom, Portland’s historical proving ground for psychedelia’s ever-evolving forms, hosts this celebration of this century’s interpretations of the artform. With events taking place all over the Crystal Property including Blasphemous Brew Fest in Lolas, performances in Al's Den and Ringlers Pub, not to mention a ridiculously awesome line up of todays stoner rock rotating through the main Crystal Ballroom stage for three nights!
Three Day psychedelic music at Crystal Ballroom and various Mcmenamins locations sponsored by your old pal XRAY.
Friday: Super Furry, Animals, Earth, King Black Acid
Saturday: Red Fang, YOB, Witch Mountain, Eternal Tapestry
Sunday: Built To Spill, Mikal Cronin (acoustic duo), The Fresh and Only's, Brett Netson & Snakes
FULL Line-Up Here!
- 6:30pm Friday, February 5, 2016
- 6:30pm Sunday, February 7, 2016
- 6:30pm Sunday, December 6, 2015
While psychedelic music covers a range of styles and genres, it is inspired by psychedelic culture and the attempt to replicate the mind altering experiences that started in mid-'60s folk, rock and blues. The Crystal Ballroom, Portland’s historical proving ground for psychedelia’s ever-evolving forms, hosts this celebration of this century’s interpretations of the artform. With events taking place all over the Crystal Property including Blasphemous Brew Fest in Lolas, performances in Al's Den and Ringlers Pub, not to mention a ridiculously awesome line up of todays stoner rock rotating through the main Crystal Ballroom stage for three nights!
Curated by resident Kaila Farrell-Smith, Tinderbox highlights Portland-based artist Gary Wiseman’s work while “embedded” with environmental group Bark, the guardians of Mt. Hood National Forest. From June through October 2015, Wiseman has worked from Bark’s Portland office, creating work in response to their ongoing campaigns defending the land and water of the region.
Maps of fire perimeters drawn with handmade ink sourced from the charcoal of the fires themselves, iconic glyphs inspired by the routes of Bark’s Portland canvassers, and strange figurative targets salvaged from the site of 2014’s 36 Pit fire populate the gallery.Each series is united by Wiseman’s curiosity to identify the systems that shape our understanding of the city’s wild backyard.
Tinderbox is an initiative of Signal Fire, which facilitates opportunities for artists in wild places and on public land.
About the Artist
Gary Wiseman was born in Portland, OR where he continues to live and work. He is a multimedia artist whose repertoire includes curating, drawing, painting, food, video, photography, installation, performance, large scale event production, publishing, writing, and interviews. Most recently he collaborated with an iOS developer to create a mobile app (B-View) that allows the user to peer under the surface of the B-Paintings, a recently completed body of work.
Wiseman has performed and exhibited at Flux Factory (NYC), The 2007 PICA TBA festival, The Douglas F. Cooley Memorial Gallery, Milepost 5, Reed College Arts Week, Gallery Homeland, Appendix Project Space, Open Engagement, PNCA, Nuit Blanche (Canada), The Housatonic Museum of Art (CT), and The Regional Arts and Culture Council.
Wiseman co-founded Place Gallery with Gabe Flores in 2010 and formed the art collective Kitchen Sink PDX (2005-2007) with Alicia Eggert. Wiseman has held residencies at Milepost 5, the YAMS residency program in Brooklyn, and Flux Factory. He has received honorariums from the Regional Arts and Culture Council, Gallery Homeland, PICA, Open Engagement, PNCA, and The Douglas F. Cooley Memorial Gallery.
http://garywiseman.tumblr.com/
Exhibition Dates: February 1- February 28, 2016
Opening Reception: February 7, 4 - 7 pm
Artist Presentation: February 7, 5 - 6 pm
Closing Reception: February 28, 5 - 7 pm
Patricia (Opal Tapes, L.I.E.S.) LIVE SET
https://www.soundcloud.com/patriciaaa
Human Material LIVE SET
(Joel S Golden Donna x Alex S A S S S)
Andrew Boie (Closer PDX)
https://soundcloud.com/andrewboie
Hammer / Sickle
(Women's Beat League + WAV FUZZ)
Visuals by Slu Dge
$8 presale/$10 door
$10+ members free ~ info: http://s1portland.com/membership
21+ Cash Bar
Presale https://venmo.com/Felisha-Ledesma
Venmo Note: PATRICIA + your first & last name
~S1 is an artist-run non-profit. All of the proceeds go directly to the performers and overhead costs of keeping the space open. If you cannot afford this show or would like to get more involved, email us for volunteer opportunities: felisha@s1portland.com
Three Day psychedelic music at Crystal Ballroom and various Mcmenamins locations sponsored by your old pal XRAY.
Friday: Super Furry, Animals, Earth, King Black Acid
Saturday: Red Fang, YOB, Witch Mountain, Eternal Tapestry
Sunday: Built To Spill, Mikal Cronin (acoustic duo), The Fresh and Only's, Brett Netson & Snakes
FULL Line-Up Here!
While psychedelic music covers a range of styles and genres, it is inspired by psychedelic culture and the attempt to replicate the mind altering experiences that started in mid-'60s folk, rock and blues. The Crystal Ballroom, Portland’s historical proving ground for psychedelia’s ever-evolving forms, hosts this celebration of this century’s interpretations of the artform. With events taking place all over the Crystal Property including Blasphemous Brew Fest in Lolas, performances in Al's Den and Ringlers Pub, not to mention a ridiculously awesome line up of todays stoner rock rotating through the main Crystal Ballroom stage for three nights!
PARALLELOGRAMS is an online artist project, curated by Leah Beeferman and Matthew Harvey, exploring the relationship between images and interpretation. Invited artists are given a set of images taken from deliberate web searches and asked to create a web-specific piece in response to one of them.
For the exhibition at S1, curated by Francesca Capone, Leah and Matt have invited a group of artists to hypothesize how experiences of place and the memories attached to them take shape. Does memory differ when it originates in the physical world or in digital space? Is the digital realm a place, itself? If so, is it a place which can create memory?
The exhibition results in a collection of semi-interactive content displayed as projections and on iPads in the gallery, and will later evolve into a collection of interviews with artists exploring significant or memorable physical places and digital experiences. The work, and the interviews, explore potential connects and disconnects between what is — or has been — "real" and what is — or was — "digital."
February 5 - March 5
Opening reception: February 5, 6-9p
Featuring contributing artists:
Alfons Knogl
Kayla Mattes
Gideon Barnett
Ben Alper
Joy Drury Cox
Rob Hult
Sheida Soleimani
Barry Stone
Eileen Isagon Skyers
Aeron Bergman and Alejandra Salinas
Fabian Hesse
Brion Nuda Rosch
Chris Maggio
Sophia Le Fraga
Gabriela Salazar
Courtney Stephens
David Court
Special thanks to Zac Parker
Image by Barry Stone
http://parallelograms.info/
http://s1portland.com/
The Summit
From garages to corporate offices, you will find pragmatic, creative people designing new solutions to pressing social and environmental issues and creating value for their companies, communities, and society at large. These social entrepreneurs are finding new ways to make a difference while changing how business is done. The Summit celebrates and shares new approaches to generating social and environmental impact across business, social, public, and academic sectors.
The program
The full day program includes a social innovation pitch fest; candid keynotes with renowned social entrepreneurs; diverse perspectives on funding for social impact; how an intrapreneurial company is partnering with employers to lower national recidivism; a look at the power of zip codes vs. genetic codes in lifelong health, and an exploration of the often untold risks, failures, and first steps to creating social change. Meet the speakers.
Why attend
- Learn about powerful entrepreneurial approaches to creating change locally and globally
- Celebrate social entrepreneurship and social innovation with a diverse set of stakeholders
- Meet hundreds of entrepreneurs and founders, business and nonprofit professionals, students, academics, government officials and investors
HOLDING SPACE: a social engagement and evening of art/performance hosted and presented by all artists of color. Join us for a night of voice / movement / poetry / music / visual installation by Portland-based artists exploring space, memory, time, lineage, and rituals of sharing.
Artists:
Intisar Abioto
Claire Barrera
Ripley Snell
Eileen Isagon Skyers
Dao Strom
Takahiro Yamamoto
About the artists:
Intisar Abioto is a writer, dancer, photographer. She is ever working with dance, word, and self-mythos to merge internal and external Intisars from past, present, future, and fantasy occasions of time. http://intisarabioto.com/
Claire barrera is an artist, educator and mother based in Portland, Oregon.
Dao Strom is a writer and musician who merges disparate “voices”—written, sung, visual—in her work. She is the author of three books, the most recent an experimental memoir, We Were Meant To Be a Gentle People, accompanied by an album, East/West. http://daostrom.com/
Ripley Snell creates music and performance art in Portland, Oregon. An EYRST Music artist, Ripley is set to release an album in spring, in conjunction with a limited series of Coffee Ceremonies. For content, announcements, and collaborations visit EYRST.com
Originally from Shizuoka, Japan, Takahiro Yamamoto is an artist based in Portland Oregon, working in dance performance, sculpture, and photography. His performance and visual art works have been shown nationally and internationally. He holds an MFA in Visual Studies at Pacific Northwest College of Art. He is a part of Portland-based group Physical Education with Allie Hankins, keyon gaskin, and Lucy Yim. http://takahiroyamamoto.com/
Eileen Isagon Skyers is an artist with a cell phone.
http://eiskyers.com/
21+ only. $10 general admission; $8 w/ student ID or EBT
Matt Hannafin will present four compositions for solo percussion — Earle Brown’s “December 1952,” John Cage’s “One4,” Cat Hope’s “Broken Approach,” and his own piece “Directions of Travel.” Matt Hannafin is a New York–born, Portland-based percussionist active in contemporary percussion, free improvisation, and Iranian classical and traditional music. His teachers included Persian tar and tombak master Kavous Shirzadian, percussionists Jamey Haddad and Glen Velez, composer La Monte Young, and Indian vocal legend Pandit Pran Nath. Active as a solo performer, he’s also played with a wide range of collaborators, including trumpeter Nate Wooley, Sun Ra altoist Marshall Allen, shakuhachi master Jeffrey Lependorf, oboist Catherine Lee, electronics players Tom Hamilton and Brian Moran, dancers Tere Mathern and Kat Macmillan, the Golden Retriever Chamber Ensemble, and chamber group 45th Parallel. He’s appeared at venues and festivals around the USA, from the United Nations General Assembly Hall and the Miami Iranian Cultural Festival to the late, lamented CBGB.
http://matthannafin.com/Music.php
Although Machete Order’s lineup features accomplished jazz musicians, the material and presentation are much more closely related to Black Sabbath or Mad Professor than to Miles or Coltrane. Machete Order embraces wide ranging influences like Naked City, Mr. Bungle, cartoon music, and twentieth century classical music. Although most of the compositions are loosely space and sci-fi themed, the only truly unifying principle of the band is the stylistically schizophrenic taste of founder and musical director Dan Duval. Everything is game, from Vangelis to Green Day to King Crimson and beyond. As Tim DuRoche said after Machete Order’s set at the 2015 Montavilla Jazz Festival, “This is the sound of a young person’s mind, stuck on shuffle mode.”
https://vimeo.com/album/3334230
$5-15, sliding scale
Writing about the Body celebrates Natalie Serber's new nonfiction book, "Community Chest." Along with Natalie's reading, Jay Ponteri and other writers (via Open Microphone!) will share writings about the body and from the body.
Natalie Serber is the author of COMMUNTIY CHEST and SHOUT HER LOVELY NAME, a New York Times Notable Book. She teaches classes at Marylhurst University, The Attic, and at Literary Arts where she will be teaching "The Stories We Carry," in January. http://www.literary-arts.org/what-we-do/oba-home/workshops/
Jay Ponteri is an Oregon Book Award winner for his memoir, WEDLOCKED, and the author of DARK MOUTH STRIKES AGAIN. He teaches writing at Marylhurst University and Literary Arts where he teaches "Memoir Boot Camp." http://www.literary-arts.org/what-we-do/oba-home/workshops/
Meet employers at the career fair where you can find hundreds of job opportunities, where you can have multiples job interviews, apply for a job at the events, and get hired.
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Have You In My Wilderness is Julia Holter's most intimate album yet, a collection of radiant ballads. Her follow-up to 2013's widely celebrated Loud City Song explores love, trust, and power in human relationships. While love songs are familiar fodder in pop music, Holter manages to stay fascinatingly oblique and enigmatic on her new album.
Have You in My Wilderness is also Holter's most sonically intimate album. Here, she and producer Cole Marsden Greif-Neill lift her voice out of the layers of smeared, hazy effects, putting her vocals front and center in the mix. The result is striking--it sounds as if Holter is singing right in your ear. It sounds clear and vivid, but also disarmingly personal. The focused warm sound and instrumentation -- dense strings, subtle synth pads -- adds to the effect.
Like Holter's previous albums, Have You in My Wilderness is multi-layered and texturally rich, featuring an array of electronic and acoustic instruments played by an ensemble of gifted Los Angeles musicians.
Have You In My Wilderness deals with dark themes, but it also features some of the most sublime and transcendent music Holter has ever written. The ten songs on the album are shimmering and dreamlike, wandering the liminal space between the conscious and the subconscious.
"... What ultimately makes Have You in My Wilderness transcendent -- and unique in [Julia] Holter's catalogue -- is its intimacy. The atmosphere is often light-hearted or even parodic: In the giddy '70s singer/songwriter melismas of "Sea Calls Me Home," the husky, Marlene Dietrich-like delivery of "How Long?" or the jokey, clap-trap country shuffle of "Everytime Boots," you hear Holter trying on sounds like costumes, sometimes for only a bar or two. Ironically, the more she shapeshifts, the more we seem to get to know her. For an artist who could sometimes seem forbidding or remote, Have You In My Wilderness feels humane, and with each new release, it seems like a bit more of the personal is teased out of Holter's stately, high-concept approach. Have You In My Wilderness embraces the specific, rather than the eternal, and in her narrowed focus you can sense a palpable self-confidence and a hard-won precision." - Pitchfork Best New Music