Events

Call of the Wild - A Camp-Inspired Celebration to Benefit Oregon Wild

All at Dig a Pony, all FREE and 21+

TOBACCO

The 2nd to last show of Late Night Action will be talking basketball 

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Tickets $10 adv / $15 dayof

Lose Yr Mind is a two-day warehouse festival in industrial SE Portland. Music kicks of at 9pm each night. Doors open at 8. 

+ FRIDAY 7 OCTOBER +
The Shivas
Beach Fossils
The Woolen Men
Candace
Tickets: https://genero.us/loseyrmind/friday2016

+ SATURDAY 8 OCTOBER +
Shannon and the Clams
Mommy Long Legs
Máscaras
Moon By You
Tickets: https://genero.us/loseyrmind/saturday2016

A percentage of ticket sales will benefit The Jeremy Wilson Foundation, which assists musicians with medical debt. 

This event is 21+ / no outside alcohol. 
Beer, wine cider and mixed drinks will be available for purchase.
Tip yr bartender. 

Tickets are sold nightly and on a sliding scale: 
$15 suggested
$20+ DIY hero (Includes screen printed poster)

Lose Yr Mind is proud to only partner with Oregon-based businesses. Support local. Support DIY. 

Shout out to our sponsors:
Cascade Record Pressing + Eleven PDX Magazine + Secret Aardvark Trading Company + New Deal Distillery + Gilgamesh Brewing + Union Wine Company + Tender Loving Empire + ATLAS Cider Company + Baby Doll Pizza + Rontoms + Misplaced Screen Printing + Curly Cassettes +XRAY.FM + The Liquor Store

loseyrmind.com 
write feelings to: loseyrmind@gmail.com
xoxo

Art by: Sam Farrell of Curly Cassettes

Nick Jaina will celebrate the release of his newest Fluff & Gravy Records album Brutal Lives with a full-band performance.

Brutal Lives (Fluff and Gravy Records, Sept 2016) is easily Nick Jaina’s most daring album to date. And that is saying a lot when you consider that Nick has made a career out of re-inventing himself. The 14-track album primarily features work that he originally composed for a contemporary dance piece in the summer of 2014. Though the songs were not used, Nick thought the recordings had some value in them, so he refashioned them, adding vocals, choruses and ambient sounds to give them new life.

Stylistically, the album jumps from the indie-pop standout “Make A Life”, to the haunting “Co-Creators”, to the jarring “Saw You On The Train Last Night”. And I swear, “Fell Too Much In Love” would be right at home in a John Hughes film.  Due to the unusual provenance of the recordings, almost every instrument was played and recorded by Nick himself. He gave the collection of songs the title that he proposed for the original dance piece, which was also rejected: Vies Brutales, or Brutal Lives.
 
This is Nick's second release on Fluff & Gravy Records, a follow-up to 2013's Primary Perception. It will be available digitally on September 16, and coupled with a limited-edition printing of an essay that Nick wrote for people who are new to dance, How To Enjoy Dance. 150 copies of the essay will be released in October.

The single, "Make A Life" is now approved for sharing and is downloadable, while the full album will be made available on September 16. 

Portland's premiere monthly hip hop showcase is back once again on First Thursday, October 6th at Kelly's Olympian in SW Portland!

We are proud to bring on a new sponsor for The Thesis, one of Portland's best music publications, Vortex Music Magazine. As always, we are also brought to you by We Out Here Magazine, the digital home of NW hip hop.

Each month we strive to present unique line-ups with the very best in hip-hop coming from Portland and tomorrow's headliners.

October 2016 welcomes Donte Thomas of STRAY fresh off his latest release, "Grayscale". Don't miss this homegrown Portlander with a passion for speaking his truth.

The Thesis is also welcoming Mic Mar for the first time. Mic has spent the last few years opening for a who's who list of talent and will bring his aggressive live show to Kelly's on Oct. 6th. 

Another talented artist, Nick B will help us kick the night off fresh off a run of highly regarded shows and his single "Moves" featuring past Thesis headliner, Brookfield Duece. 

As always, be on the look out for an excellent special unannounced guest as well. This line-up is straight hungry artists. It's sure to be phenomenol. 

Only $5 at the door. An RSVP list will be made closer to the show date. 21+ only.

Venue: Coho Theater 2257 NW Raleigh

Show Run: Oct 6th-16th

Schedule: Thurs. 8pm, Fri. 7:30 & 10pm, Sat. 7:30 & 10pm, Sun. 2pm

Tickets: $20 advance/ $25 at door, Tickets available at MercTickets.com

Stellar is 21+ performance - refreshments will be available

STELLAR is a solo performance by Bri Pruett, inspired by years of stand-up, storytelling and a detailed list of names and zodiac signs that she keeps on her phone. STELLAR explores sex, body positivity, surviving trauma, dating online and laughing about it. Her love lessons have been processed into bite-sized wisdoms and set to a Sade-heavy soundtrack.

STELLAR is an intimate night of R&B, surreal surprises, theatrical delight and real talk.
“Pruett is fearless…” -Aaron Scott, Portland Monthly

Bri was voted Best Comedian by Willamette Week's reader poll and Splitsider.com called her a comedian to watch. She's the hardest working woman in Portland, with her regular gigs: Earthquake Hurricane, Late Night Action, Friends with Benedicts, Helium Comedy Club, XRAY.fm and PRI’s LiveWire!

Local sketch powerhouse, Jason Rouse (Live Wire!, Wonderland, SWEAT) brings a touch of pure imagination as director.
A solo show of stories & jokes by Bri Pruett, Directed by Jason Rouse. 

Additional Information at: Bripruett.com and facebook.com/bripruettcomedy

PataPDX is pleased to announce INTER/MISSION, a two person exhibition with installation work from Los Angeles-based artist Allison Peck, and videos from Washington D.C.-based artist Rives Wiley. This exhibition was curated by S/PLI/T, a Portland-based curatorial group co-directed by Sam Hopple and Taryn Wiens.

Exhbition Dates: October 6–November 3, 2016 
Gallery Hours: Saturdays, 12–4pm and by appointment


ABOUT THE EXHIBITION: 

Rives Wiley (riveswiley.com) makes videos of figures positioned in elaborate built environments that blend the real, surreal,and virtual. Their behaviors walk an uncomfortable line between restraint and repetitive action that recalls the pull and push of social conventions on ourselves. 

Allison Peck (allisonpeck.com) intervenes in individual sites, adeptly using languages of material, shape, and color to break down any pretense of a gallery as place-less, as a way to explore notions of space and our positions within it. For this exhibition she will install site-specific work in conversation with the space, the curators, and fellow artist Wiley. 

Both Wiley and Peck work with ideas of environment: Wiley creates fictive environments to mirror the influence of our own social and virtual settings, while Peck forces us to confront the immediate environment of the gallery space. Each artist points to our agency, or lack thereof, in the ever- present context of our surroundings.

More info at http://splitprojects.weebly.com/intermission.html

ABOUT THE CURATORS

S/PLI/T produces two-person exhibitions in established and alternative art venues and vacant spaces. By introducing emerging artists with conceptual depth and contemporary concerns to new viewers, S/PLI/T encourages artistic practice at a critical stage while inviting the community to connect around fresh and vital work. S/PLI/T encourages accessibility and cross-disciplinary engagement through interpretive materials, interviews, public events, and a published catalog. 


The name S/PLI/T describes a duality that is present in the two-person exhibitions and implies two pieces of a whole. We are interested in the dialogue that can take place in the space(split) between different art practices.


S/PLI/T is co-directed by Sam Hopple and Taryn Wiens and is based in Portland, Oregon.

splitprojects.weebly.com

All Jane Comedy Festival is top national, local acts slated for Portland’s fest celebrating women in comedy.

This five-day event presents a carefully curated blend of the best up-and-coming and nationally headlining female comedic performers from throughout the United States and Canada. Five-day festival passes ($50–$125) and tickets to individual shows ($15–20) will be on sale at alljanecomedy.org imminently. A full lineup is listed online, and a schedule is forthcoming in September. 

Most events will take place at Curious Comedy Theater (5225 NE Martin Luther King Dr.), which produces and sponsors the festival, with a special Sunday night show at Revolution Hall (1300 SE Stark St.). 

Performers at this year’s festival include Maria Bamford (Lady Dynamite, Arrested Development), Jackie Kashian (The Dork Forest, The Jackie and Laurie Show), Page Hurwitz (Last Comic Standing executive producer), Debra DiGiovanni (Last Comic Standing, Live at Gotham, Just for Laughs Comedy Festival), Dulcé Sloan (CONAN,StandUp NBC winner), Lisa Best (Flophouse, Cheat Day Chowdown), and Maggie Maye (CONAN).

These and many other acclaimed performers arrive from New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, San Francisco and all points between to share the stage with Pacific Northwest powerhouses Susan Rice, JoAnn Schinderle, Katie Nguyen, Andie Main, Barbara Holm, Whitney Streed, and All Jane founder and Curious Comedy/All Jane Comedy Fest Artistic Director Stacey Hallal. 

About All Jane Comedy Festival

All Jane Comedy Festival (formerly All Jane No Dick) celebrates the unique voices of women in comedy, providing inspiration and increased visibility for the top performers of today and tomorrow. It encourages collaboration and dialogue, and highlights the great diversity of artistic approaches among female comedic performers today. Programming for All Jane 2016 includes stand-up showcases, a live taping of popular podcast The Dork Forest, workshops, and special themed shows.

About Curious Comedy Theater

This year's festival marks the debut of Curious Comedy Theater's renovated space. With the aid of a $172K grant from Mount Hood Cable Regulatory Commission, Curious is now the most technologically advanced independent comedy theater in North America. It is now equipped with state-of-the-art lights, sound, video recording, and live-streaming equipment specifically in place to further the careers of women comedians. 

Curious Comedy Theater (curiouscomedy.org) is Portland’s only 501(c)3 nonprofit theater devoted solely to comedy. The mission is to improve the lives of kids, adults, and seniors through the art of comedy. Each Thursday through Sunday, there is a high-quality artistic programming featuring our elite performance ensembles, the Curious Comedy Players and house teams, with additional showcases for new teams and students to gain experience and experiment with new formats and ideas.

There are five levels of classes and a wide range of workshops in Curious Comedy Training Center, corporate improv training, and outreach programs designed to make a positive difference in the world. CCTC founded and annually produce the All JaneComedy Festival (alljanecomedy.org), devoted to inspiring, encouraging, discovering and promoting the quality and diversity of allwomen in comedy. For more info, visit curiouscomedy.org and alljanecomedy.org.

Pokémon: Symphonic Evolutions has become the must-see video game concert of the year, giving audiences of all ages the chance to experience orchestral arrangements and carefully timed visuals from both recent and classic Pokémon video games. With a few added bonus connections to Pokémon Go, it's a celebration of the franchise's full evolution.

Debates! Debates! Join XRAY.FM, the Bus Project and Dig a Pony to laugh, gasp, point, cheer, or sit back in silence during all four of the 2016 Presidential Debates on the big screen. XRAY DJs will spin records before and after the debates and also during commercial breaks. Dig a Pony will offer drink specials, helping to keep spirits high during what is sure to be a very historic series of debates. 


Join us for the following three debates, co-hosted by XRAY.FM, Dig a Pony and The Bus Project.

Tuesday, October 4th (Vice-President) 
Sunday, October 9th (Pres)
Wednesday, October 19th (Pres)

All at Dig a Pony, all FREE and 21+

Tenth Degree presents in association with High Water Mark Lounge & BdaP Booking:



THE DEDEKIND CUT // Ninja Tune, NON

Lee Bannon made a name for himself producing beats for underground hip-hop MCs like Joey Bada$$ and Smoke DZA, but after signing to Ninja Tune and releasing two albums that all but abandoned hip-hop in favor of experimental jungle and ambient music, he stopped making music under his own name and began using the alias Dedekind Cut. The work created under his updated moniker is dark, volatile, jarring, and unpredictable, recalling the frenzied breakcore of Venetian Snares, the haunted U.K. garage of Burial, and elements of gabber/hardstyle, grime, ambient, and mutated Southern rap. Dedekind Cut's first release was the self-issued tHot eNhançeR EP in September of 2015. In early 2016, Dedekind Cut and Rabit joined forces on a blistering one-sided 12" EP on Ninja Tune titled R&D. A self-issued single named "Last" appeared shortly after, and a Black History Month-themed mix titled BHM/N3D was released by NON WORLDWIDE. In March, an ambient drone tape American Zen was issued by Dominick Fernow's Hospital Productions.

https://soundcloud.com/leebannon
https://www.facebook.com/LeeBannon3030


Special Guest:

E3 // Zam Zam Sounds
E3 (Ezra E. Ereckson) is a selector, producer, artist and co-boss of dub vinyl labels ZamZam Sounds and Khaliphonic. A founding member of the pioneering agit-dub band Systemwide (check the recent reissue 12” on Bristol’s No Corner label) and the president of now-retired BSI Records, E3 has been collecting records since the age of 13 and DJing for 15 years. On the solo tip, E3 has remixed Ishan Sound for Bristol’s Hotline label, and has vinyl releases on Bella Union and Boomarm Nation.

https://soundcloud.com/ae_e3
https://www.facebook.com/aee3dub

Residents:

ALBINO GORILLA // Tenth Degree
https://soundcloud.com/albinogorilla
https://www.facebook.com/TheAlbinoGorilla


KNATE PHASER // Tenth Degree, Doki Doki
https://soundcloud.com/knatephaser
https://www.facebook.com/KNATEPHASER

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Come Early, Stay Late, Cheap Drinks, Patio
21+

Quadruple tape release with performances by: 

Kulululu https://kulululu.bandcamp.com/

Wave Action https://waveaction.bandcamp.com/

Star Club https://starclub.bandcamp.com/

Marcy's Band https://marcysband.bandcamp.com/

-Local favorite Wave Action will give their official release from See My Friends Records
-Brand new Portland band Star Club will be selling their Demo Tape fresh off the press
-Jon Huteson Johnson (of Wave Action and Marcy's Band) is releasing a tape for his solo project (https://jonhutesonjohnson.bandcamp.com/)
-Kulululu will be surprising the audience with an experimental/live recorded tape of some kind

This is a benefit show for XRAY.fm. All Proceeds go to Xray.fm. 

All Ages, Bar with ID/$5 

Organic Encounters
2015–2016 Papermaking Residency Exhibition

Organic Encounters presents work from the 2015–2016 c3:initiative and Pulp & Deckle Papermaking Residency artists Ellen George, Laura Foster, Tyler Peterson, and Ryan Woodring. Culminating from their experiences in the Pulp & Deckle studio, each artist utilized handmade paper as a medium to create new works that present ideas central to their art practice.

Organic Encounters considers the transformation of material to propel the medium of paper beyond its familiar use as a substrate. The process of papermaking is one of both strategic intent and material intuition. With no rigidity in process but an inventive appreciation for materialist ideals, Organic Encounters brings together disparate works that are sculptural in form but conceptual in methodology. The results present themselves as commentary on the natural world, the unstable value of objects, the mutability of biological forms, and notions of memory that are dually fluid and tangible.

Under the tutelage of Pulp & Deckle, the artists experimented with a variety of woodfree materials (including abaca, cotton rag, natural dyes, and locally sourced plants and vegetables) to create bodies of work concerned with paper's pliable nature and capacity for layering.

An artists' walkthrough is to follow on October 26th.

A performance 

To pursue an acting career as a soap opera star as James Ferraro ® Simulacra Company was the ultimate 21st century dream for James Ferraro, a dream that was forged on a note pad under the cyber skies of Manhattan's slick midtown metropolis to become a world-famous hyperized living puppet of our Postmodern civilization, acquiring the world's media stage as a canvas, in the form of a glossy pure entertainment pop machine.

The approach to assembling his acting style was to be a theoretical expedition through the virtual landscape of Tabloid Cultoure, The Linguistic Consequence of Modern Decadence and Digital/Mega Entertainment Age Sexuality Persona … to name just a few sources of inspiration, and of course for it all to be captured on the flawless $1,000,000 TV cameras of the entertainment industries' major studio networks. 

But where to assimilate to the aforementioned theories:

"My ideas from New York had flowered in the most violently magical way, as I entered what we Hollywoodologists call 'The Floor' (HOLLYWOOD GROUND ZERO) . . . and this led to outlets beyond my wildest imagination, seeing beyond the institutional buildings of the worlds Entertainment Center," says Ferraro.

JF continues: "Whilst wine tasting in Napa valley with my mother, on a tour through Simulacra's wine country . . . in the red convertible PT Cruiser and watching a giant Hollywood Blockbuster intermittently on the on-board DVD screen between wineries, I was so excited and inspired by the leading actors performance that I decided to leave the world of acting to focus more dramatically on a venture to be a recording artist."

"I became completely obsessed with Bach's Concerto for Oboe and Violin in C minor. As it blasted from the speakers of the PT Cruiser, spilling out into the open air, I indulged in an ecstatic delirium that was colored by a sweet subtle victorious madness, ideas flooded my mind, blood coursed through my veins, Smart Water™ oxidized my brain . . . thoughts of Napoleon at the Olive Garden, Julius Cesar reading poetry to me . . . I started to fully investigate these two artistic individuals almost exclusively at this moment, scanning what historic memory I had available in my brain. When I arrived home I ran into my humble chamber and got to work."

Ferraro has since released countless musical recordings on various record labels hailing from The U.S.A., The United Kingdom, Japan, Europe and beyond. A critically acclaimed artist of the 21st Century POP ART wave, the man with the moon-lit pompadour now teams up with Hippos in Tanks to create the next chapter in his on-going sonic adventure, in which, Ferraro explains, "The results of this relationship will see a new era in Art History."

McMenamins, StarChile Pabst Blue Ribbon & XRAY FM Present: MIC CHECK 

Mic Check is a Hip Hop Showcase every last Thursday of the month at White Eagle, with live performances, drink specials and good vibes.

Special Guests: 
THE LAST ARTFUL, DODGR & LIBRETTO

Hosted by StarChile

Music by Trox

21 and over, $7 at the Door