Events

A reading of work by
Olivia Olivia
Jamondria Marnice Harris
manuel arturo abreu
Jeannie Yoon

In that this event is ahead of, prior to, and related to -- but not part of -- ORANGE, a forthcoming reading series by Jeannie Yoon.

poster by manuel arturo abreu 

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Jamondria Marnice Harris is a poet & artist living in Portland, OR. She uses words, sounds, wires, instruments, textiles & whatever is at hand to engage blackness, desire, decolonization, fairy tales, femme supremacy, & body horror. She is a VONA Workshop Fellow & board member at In Other Words feminist bookstore, among other things.

Olivia Olivia is a Salvadoran-American writer and interpreter based in Portland, Oregon. She writes for Salon, the Rumpus, Queen Mob's Teahouse, the Establishment, and more. She is currently a member of the Literary Arts Woodstock Advisory Council. Her first chapbook, "no one remembered your name but i wrote it down," was published by Impossible Wings. Follow her work at oliviawrites.com.

manuel arturo abreu (b. 1991, Santo Domingo) is a poet and artist from the Bronx. They work with found text, ephemeral sculpture, and photography. Their first book List of Consonants is available from Bottlecap Press. Find manuel at twigtech.tumblr.

Jeannie Yoon is a Korean-American writer and artist living in Portland. She is working on her first book.

SZA
w/ special guests Joyya Marie & Risky Star

Bio:
Alternative R&B artist SZA (Solana Rowe) grew up listening to classic and avant-garde jazz (such as Billie Holiday and John Coltrane), alternative (including Björk), and rap (like Wu-Tang Clan). In 2012, she released two EPs as free downloads. Those releases, See.SZA.Run and S, formed a dreamy, alluring, and occasionally unorthodox introduction with beats granted by brandUn DeShay, Felix Snow, APSuperProducer, Dot, Zodiac, and Hassan Insane, among others. SZA subsequently signed to Top Dawg -- home to the likes of Kendrick Lamar and Ab-Soul. A fantasy-like video for the S EP's "Ice Moon" was released in November 2013. Additional exposure came through "His & Her Friend," a track on labelmate ScHoolboy Q's Oxymoron, released the following February. Her digital download-only Z, a trippy ten-track set with assists from Lamar, Chance the Rapper, and Isaiah Rashad, came a couple months later.

8pm / All Ages

A Performance

Jason Lescalleet makes tape-based music.
His recorded catalog acknowledges a diversity of application, from lo-fi reel-to-reel works and pieces for hand-held cassette machines, to digital sampling and computer generated composition.

Soul'd Out Festival Proudly Presents

Thundercat
w/ special guests 1939 ensemble


Bio:
Bassist/songwriter/vocalist Stephen Bruner, aka Thundercat, has music deeply rooted within. His father, Ronald Bruner, Sr., is an internationally renowned jazz drummer who played with the Temptations, Diana Ross, Gary Bartz and Gladys Knight. His brother Ronald Bruner, Jr., a Grammy-winning drummer, has played with the likes of Roy Hargrove, Stanley Clarke, and Wayne Shorter. Stephen joined his brother as a member of West Coast punk vets Suicidal Tendencies, playing bass on their worldwide tours while still in high school. He also toured through Japan with StanleyClarke at the age of 16.

As Thundercat, Bruner takes his jazz roots and works with a mix of artists that suit his wildly experimental sensibilities – ranging from Flying Lotus, Erykah Badu, and Stanley Clarke, as well as more recent collaborations with Wiz Khalifa and Earl Sweatshirt, to name but a few. After meeting and touring with Flying Lotus, the two artists collaborated on Lotus’ 2010 LP ‘Cosmogramma’ on the track ‘MmmHmm.’ Their kindred sense of musicality led to Thundercat’s 2011 solo debut ‘The Golden Age of Apocalypse,’ co-produced by Flying Lotus, which opened Bruner up to a new stratosphere of songwriting and artistic exploration.

In 2013, Thundercat teamed up with executive producer Flying Lotus once again, to form a profound body of work for his second album, ‘Apocalypse.’ Forthcoming on Lotus’ Brainfeeder imprint this July, the album straddles lines and pushes genres further, blurring the confines of pop, funk, electronica and prog rock, and creating something else entirely. Both vulnerable and fearless, a comedy and tragedy, ‘Apocalypse’ is an intimate portrait of an artist who will continue to take music to a new place; the beyond.

7pm / Minors allowed w/ guardian

Since a young age, Thomas Meluch (aka Benoît Pioulard) has been fascinated by natural sounds and the textures of decay. He played piano before his feet could reach the pedals and for more than a decade has sought to create a unique sonic environment influenced by pop song structures and the unpredictability of field recordings. An avid collector of instruments and analog devices, Meluch relies on guitar and voice as the bases for his body of work, which now includes five full-lengths for the beloved Kranky label (including 2015's "Sonnet") as well as collaborations with Rafael Anton Irisarri (aka The Sight Below) and Kyle Bobby Dunn.

21+, $8 advance // $10 day of

Featuring January’s Winner, Works for Portland Public Schools + Improviser at Brody Theater Chris Williams (PDX), with returning crowd faves: Co-Producer of Those Who Can’t, Writer for Arrested Development Joey Slamon (LA), Talent Acquisition Coordinator, 3-Time Russian Roulette Winner Shannon Balcom (PDX), Writer/Performer for Live Wire! Jason Rouse (PDX), and new-comers: Writer/Performer, Former Associate Producer of Live Wire Radio! Tyler Hhughs (PDX), Veterinary Technician, Animal Rescuer & Caregiver Kahlie Towle (PDX), and Bartender at Bunk Bar Matt Brown (PDX).

Created, Hosted, Produced by B. Frayn  Masters & Mindy Nettifee
Music by Bobby D from XRAY

$16-$20 Advance | $18 Door

Late Night Action is an original live talk show that features high profile guests, personalities, bands, comics, and more. Think Jimmy Fallon or David Letterman set to a Portland soundtrack.

The show is hosted by PDX comedy veteran Alex Falcone (The Portland Mercury, Bridgetown Comedy Festival,Portlandia) and feature Alex's breezy crowd work, original writing, and quick wit. He's supported by a dynamic group of professionals from all over the Portland comedy scene, including sidekick Bri Pruett (Curious Comedy, The Portland Mercury, Bridgetown Comedy Fest), and a great sketch team made up of the best and brightest comedic voices from the Pacific Northwest.

XRAY RECORDS is being born. Come bear witness as we pull it from the womb and feast on its placenta. 

Featuring real-time quasi-interactive musical demonstrations by:

SUN ANGLE
Non-sequitor shred benders, love them again like it's the first time for yet another time.
https://sunanglemusic.bandcamp.com/

THE GHOST EASE
Rock, roll, and then some. 
http://www.theghostease.com/

$10 advance
$12 at the door

First 100 people through the door will receive a free Heavy Breather postcard/album download. Special collector's item! Guaranteed to depreciate in value!

See My Friends Records and Maura Gingerich present: SECRET CITY! One night only all-ages nine-band vernal jubilee for the release of the 12" compilation Secret City Vol. 1 on See My Friends Records. 

Evening progamming:
The Woolen Men
Lithics
Mope Grooves
Honey Bucket
Super Hit
Wave Action
Ladywolf
Seance Crasher
Marcy's Band

Full bar!

RESURGENCY

A poetry reading devoted to reclaiming colonized lands, identities, cultural mis(representations), gender constructions & lost connections to ancestry. Join Demian DinéYazhi, Melissa Bennett & Manuel Arturo Abreu as they transmit autonomy through the oral art of poetry in their ongoing quest for social and environmental justice. 

Part of programming for Dene bāhī Naabaahii Exhibition in the Center for Contemporary Native Art at Portland Art Museum - March 18th - August 28th, 2016i.

Demian DinéYazhi' (b. 1983) is a Portland-based transdisciplinary artist born to the clans Naasht'ézhí Tábąąhá (Zuni Clan Water's Edge) & Tódích'íí'nii (Bitter Water) of the Diné (Navajo). His work is best understood through the lens of curatorial inquiry, zine production, street interventions, education, workshops, & transdisciplinary methods of art production. DinéYazhi’ received his BFA in Intermedia Arts from Pacific Northwest College of Art in 2014. He is the founder & director of the artist / activist / warrior initiative, R.I.S.E.: Radical Indigenous Survivance & Empowerment, as well as the creative director of LOCUSTS: A Post-Queer Nation Zine. He is the recipient of grants from Evergreen State College (2014), PICA - Portland Institute of Contemporary Art (2014), & Art Matters Foundation (2015). 
Website: www.heterogeneoushomosexual.tumblr.com & Instagram: heterogeneoushomosexual

Melissa Bennett (Umatilla/Nimiipuu/Sac & Fox) is a writer & emerging storyteller interested in story as medicine, especially its ability to heal historical trauma among indigenous communities. Twice nominated for the Pushcart Prize, Melissa writes poetry and creative non-fiction with a focus on social justice, culture, tradition, and spirituality. Melissa is currently a member of the Northwest Indian Storytellers Association and WordCraft Circle of Native Writers & Storytellers. She is a 2015 recipient of the Evergreen State College Longhouse Native Creative Development Grant and serves on the Board of Directors for PlayWrite, Inc.

manuel arturo abreu (b. 1991, Santo Domingo) is a poet and artist from the Bronx. Working in found text, lyric, ephemeral sculpture, and photography, they explore precarity, magical thinking, and the pretensions of the white Left. Their first book, List of Consonants, is available from Bottlecap Press. It merges from-scratch text with found text in mourning for a friend who died by suicide in 2013. manuel's next chapbook, transtrender, is forthcoming Summer 2016 from Quimérica Presse. It deals with gender as a racial colonial construct, the trap of visibility, and the constraints of the lyric form. They are also working on a second full-length book, areítx, which refutes colonial narratives about the Taino, the original Dominicans. They are the managing editor of Civil Coping Mechanisms and co-founder of home school, a free pop-up art school in Portland. Find manuel at twigtech.tumblr and @Deezius

Tinashe is a singer-songwriter, producer and skilled dancer known for her electrifying, genre bending take on modern R&B and pop. The 22 year-old artist released her debut studio album, Aquarius, in 2014 on RCA Records hot off the heels of a slew of self-produced mixtapes and the #1, Platinum hit "2 On" featuring ScHoolboy Q. Aquarius, which Tinashe co-produced, continued to receive unanimous acclaim across the board well after release, appearing on many 2014 year-end best-of lists, including The Associated Press, Rolling Stone, The New York Times, Billboard, and many more. Upon releasing Aquarius after a slew of buzzed-about, self-made mixtapes, Tinashe quickly became one of the most talked-about and exciting emerging artists. In the wake of Aquarius, Tinashe covered magazines such as V Magazine and ACCLAIM,was honored as one of 2015¹s ELLE Women in Music, performed exclusively for Karl Lagerfeld, Chanel and Alexander Wang, was hand-picked by Janet Jackson to perform a tribute to her at the 2015 BET Awards and became the face of Ralph Lauren¹s Denim & Supply Fall/Winter 2015-2016 campaign. Now, with Joyride, Tinashe's vision and pop smarts come into even sharper focus, as evident on the album's lead single "Player" featuring Chris Brown and earth-shattering bass of fan favorite "Party Favors" featuring Young Thug. In a recent cover story, Dazed Magazine called Tinashe "her generation's most fearless R&B icon," noting that Tinashe creates a sound on Joyride that fuses 20th century pop ambition with an eclectic approach that¹s unimpeachably modern.

On April 7th multidisciplinary artist Leif J Lee will reveal their newest artwork and release issue #13 of their zine "Why a Queer Occult." 

Based out of Portland, Oregon's Rainmaker Artist Residency artist Leif K Lee creates new works on paper, clay sculpture, embroidery on dyed fabric, super 8 MM film, photography, and performance work surrounding the illusive concept of queer spirits and occult practices. 

Though their deeply personal, spiritual experiences, this artist enters into a trance induced creative practice, symbols, line and hand work bring about spells of drawing, sculpting and queer occult practices. 

Leif J Lee's work is a shield against negative energies in the art world, a celebration of a queer spiritual underground, and a home for the lost orphan of homophobia and transphobia. With a new compus, Leif J Lee directs their intentions towards the spiritual guide residing within the queer body, previously hidden and for one night only illuminated by the black light. 

Leif J Lee is a 2014 graduate of the Masters of Fine Arts, visual studies program at PNCA, and is a current artist in residence at the Rainmaker Artist Residency. Lee is a 2015 recipient of the Precipice Fund for their collaborative project, environmental impact statement. Their work has been shown in Portland Oregon's Duplex Gallery, Surplus Space, DISJECTA, PNCA, and in Olympia, Washington's Northern Gallery.  

Santigold (pronounced Sahn-Tee-Gold; Santi like "Monty", not Santy like "Panty") has announced a North American spring tour in support of her forthcoming album 99¢, out on February 26th via Atlantic Records. Acclaimed for her monumental live shows, Santigold is taking it all to the next level in the brand new stage production.

Santigold recently shared the audio and video for "Chasing Shadows" from 99¢. Vampire Weekend's Rostam Batmanglij produced the track which features backing vocals from the West Los Angeles Children's Choir. The mesmerizing video directed by Elliott Lester, explores the conflicted reality of an artist's life, touching on themes of ambition and isolation.

In 2009 rapper Freddie Gibbs set out to be the Midwest's unofficial street poet, releasing a series of mixtapes that were as complex as they were thuggish. Influenced by the likes of 2Pac, Biggie, UGK, and Bone Thugs-N-Harmony, Gibbs filled his lyrics with honest and compelling stories of his hometown's demise, a steady decline to which he helped contribute while a drug dealer. He dealt out of a Gary, Indiana recording studio, absorbing a steady stream of uninspired rhymes while pushing product. Figuring he could do better, Gibbs began writing his own lyrics and cut some demos that would eventually land in the hands of Interscope. When the label signed Gibbs in 2006, he moved to Los Angeles and recorded a debut album, but a year later the management of Interscope changed hands and the rapper was dropped. He returned to Gary, and then moved to Atlanta until producer Josh the Goon convinced Gibbs to return to L.A. for one more try. In early 2009 he released the Miseducation of Freddie Gibbs mixtape to critical and message board acclaim. The Midwestgangstaboxframecadillacmuzik mixtape soon followed, as did a feature in The New Yorker that found writer Sasha Frere-Jones declaring Gibbs "the one rapper I would put money on right now." Late in the year he released the 81-song mixtape The Labels Tryin' to Kill Me. As the mixtape's title inferred, Gibbs had, like Jay Electronica, become a 21st century Internet-age hip-hop star, able to draw press and earn a loyal following via downloads and mixtapes instead of the usual industry channels. He finished 2009 proudly unsigned but in 2010 he made a rare aboveground appearance with the Str8 Killa EP, released on the Decon label. Two years later he released two collaborative efforts: Piñata with Madlib, an album on the underground producer's Madlib Invazion label; and The Tonite Show with DJ Fresh, an entry in the West Coast producer's collaborative series. Gucci Mane, E-40, and Tory Lanez landed on 2015's Shadow of a Doubt, his first album for the ESGN label.

All Ages
$18.00 advance tix from Cascade Tickets
$23.00 at the door