Events

10 bux. This show is a benefit for Community Alliance of Tenants
www.OregonCat.org

For nearly two-decades Turiya has spent her time educating, motivating and inspiring audiences of all ages. Collaborating and opening for renowned leaders and artists like Nikki Giovanni, bell hooks, Angela Davis, John Trudell, Saul Williams, Staceyann Chin, Al Letson, & Al Olson, Bryonn Bain; Turiya delivers messages that resonate with wide audiences. Her work incorporates the arts, pop culture, and history, with personal, community and political struggles. As a teaching artist Turiya's provided assemblies, workshops & residencies to over 50 different schools K-12. She's created and hosted a variety of events to feature the talents of youth and other artists since 1997. Creating and delivering almost 20 unique university courses, across four departments, Turiya has built a veritable trunk show on culture and identity. Author and performer, her collection of poetry, Roots, Reality & Rhyme is a poetic journey that bridges the personal & political, the mythic & the real. Her one-woman show, with the same name, garnered great reviews and delved deep into her life story. She’s provided feature performances, workshops, panels, guest lectures and keynotes at over 20 colleges. Turiya has featured at hundreds of venues, including: The Nuyorican, CBGB's & Bar 13 in NYC,Black Lily in Philadelphia, the Bezerkley Slam in Berkeley, CA & Power to the Peaceful in Golden Gate Park SF. She competed at the National Poetry Slam competitions 3 years and was Portland's Grandslam champion. She hosts a monthly radio show, Poetic License, on KBOO Portland community radio that highlights the poetry and work of artists she meets along her travels of the country, as well as in her former state of residence.

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.tumbl

 Doors 7pm. Show 8pm. 21+over. Free.

The lo-fi pop prodigy swings through Portland in support of her new album, Next Thing.

The band’s debut album is intent on dismantling the ideas western listeners have about popularized Tuareg music. This new wave of Tuareg musicians sound very different to the desert distortion that accompanies groups like Mdou Moctar or Group Inerane. Instead, it finds a calm and passionate soul, provides sumptuous slow burners, and a complexity of composition that hasn’t been demonstrated by previous music exported from the Saharan people’s musical repertoire.

Even if the band has a direct DNA link to trail blazers Tinariwen - (Eyadou Ag Leche of Tinawiren is a cousin of frontman Sadam, and guided their evolution and produced and co-wrote several songs on this album), their poetry and flow has a more integrally urban base than the ancestral tamashek poetry and traditional rhythms of their elders, Tinariwen. Instead they offer something much more fresh and intricate; there is a lot of sensitivity and space in these jams, a lot of room for your mind to ponder and drift. 

This intimacy of Imarhan’s sound is no coincidence. In the language of the Kel Tamashek people ‘Imarhan’ means ‘the ones I care about’ - Iyad Moussa Ben Abderahmane aka Sadam, Tahar Khaldi, Hicham Bouhasse, Haiballah Akhamouk and Abdelkader Ourzig all grew up near each other in Tamanrasset, Southern Algeria, in a Tuareg community of Northern Malian descent. The giant divide between their spiritual home and physical home is heard in their tracks: the funkier groove of Western Africa, the emptier, subtle tones of Saharan Traditional folk music and the fire and romance of Algerian Rai music. No other Tuareg release to date has had such a variance of rhythms, tempo and feeling.

Imarhan’s record is a heads-up to anyone who thought Tuareg music as just one thing: it’s an invitation to closer listening and also an album that will stay fresh for a long time and influence those from the Sahara and beyond.

Following the highly-anticipated release of her twentieth album, "Dig In Deep" (Feb 26, Redwing Records), Bonnie Raitt will kick off her 2016 North American Tour, returning to major cities where she's long been recognized as one of contemporary music's great live performers.

Bonnie's Dig In Deep Tour will feature her longtime touring band, which backs her on the forthcoming album, including James "Hutch" Hutchinson (bass), Ricky Fataar (drums), and George Marinelli (guitar), along with Mike Finnigan (keyboards), who joined the line-up for the triumphant 2012-2013 Slipstream tour.

"So much of the album is focused on what I want to do live," she says. "I write and pick these songs so we can nail them on stage."

Since the release of 2012's GRAMMY Award-winning album "Slipstream," Bonnie has performed over 200 shows in the U.S. and abroad, including a sold-out concert at Boston's Fenway Park with James Taylor this past summer. Her powerful chemistry with this band creates a magic that has been described as "exquisite" (Chicago Tribune) and "perfect" (Boston Globe).

Opening for Bonnie on the tour will be The California Honeydrops, a five-piece ensemble led by dynamic vocalist and multi-instrumentalist Lech Wierzynski. Known for its engaging live show and diverse musical influences, the group incorporates Bay Area R&B, funk, Southern soul, Delta blues, New Orleans second-line, gospel, and psychedelic groove into its sound.

Continuing a long-standing tradition in conjunction with the Guacamole Fund, Bonnie will donate one dollar from every ticket purchased to grassroots local, regional, and national organizations whose work focuses on safe and sustainable energy, social justice and human rights, environmental protection, and blues/music education.

The album pre-order for "Dig in Deep" begins on November 6. The pre-sale for the tour will start on November 10 for Bonnie's Fan Community (available through her website), and will be followed by the public on-sale November 13. Ticket sales on Bonnie's site include Special Benefit Seats and packages to pre-order "Dig In Deep" CDs and LPs and to purchase an exclusive merchandise item. 

Bonnie Raitt on the Web: 

Please join the Ambient/Experimental every third Sunday of the month event at various Portland haunts. The monthly line-ups represent varying genres of electronic music, from Glitchy IDM to Ambient, Drone and coolly Experimental soundscapes.

Come out for a night filled with delicately blended electronic sounds, samples, and live instruments guaranteed to bring the electronic heads out of their basements and into this cozy sanctuary.

This month welcomes:

| Indignant Senility |
Desecrated and haunted offerings
https://soundcloud.com/_type/sets/indignant-senility

| Idol Eyes |
Astral Guitar Voyages
https://idoleyes.bandcamp.com/

| Selim X |
Glossy Ambient Cycles
https://realnewfast.bandcamp.com/

Visuals by:

Tape Jockey: Ant'lrd

FREE

Booking/Promotions:
Coco Madrid - djchachapdx@gmail.com

Bach’s Mass in B Minor is the pinnacle of the Baroque repertory and represents a synthesis of the musical and spiritual possibilities that Bach worked on throughout his life. Written over a period of 25 years, the Mass was never performed in its entirety during the composer’s lifetime. Performed by ten expert singer/soloists and chamber orchestra.

Celebrating the 108th day of the year with: 

LIVE
Personable (LA) https://mgeddesgengras1.bandcamp.com/
Caustic Touch https://caustictouch.bandcamp.com/releases
Krycek https://soundcloud.com/kry_cek
Wav Fuzz https://soundcloud.com/wave-fuzz

DJ
Doubt (MPLS) https://dvs1mistress.bandcamp.com/album/mistress-03
S1 Resident DJs ;n)

Going late - take a power nap
21+, 8 presale/10 door (link when available)

BBQ/Backyard show with M. Geddes Gengras 

Spend The Night Presents:

GUNNAR HASLAM (Portland Debut)
L.I.E.S, Mister Saturday Night, Delsin - NYC
http://www.residentadvisor.net/dj/gunnarhaslam
https://soundcloud.com/gunnar_haslam

OLIN (Portland Debut)
Argot, SmartBar - Chicago
http://www.residentadvisor.net/dj/olin
https://soundcloud.com/olin

+ Spend The Night residents:

Ben Tactic

Graintable


About Gunnar:
Haslam got his feet wet with DJing and production as an undergraduate at NYU, a time when he attended The Bunker religiously. When he released his first record in 2013—a full-length called Mimesiak—it was like a dam had broken. Since then he's maintained a steady outpouring of music, dropping EP after EP on Delsin, Argot, Mister Saturday Night and Efdemin's Naïf label, which put out what might be his biggest track yet: "Overcomplete," a colossal acid banger that's become something of a sleeper hit. In the meantime, he also made music with Tin Man as Romans, a duo that's about to tour Europe as a live act.” - Resident Advisor
http://www.residentadvisor.net/podcast-episode.aspx?id=504
https://thump.vice.com/en_us/article/gunnar-haslams-lebesgue-measures-interview

About Olin:
A Kansan by birth, Chicagoan by privilege, Olin has been quietly offering up his unique take on dance music. With several recent releases on respected labels such as Argot, Discovery, God Particle, Night Owl Diner, DETOUR, and more, Olin has cast a wide net with his productions, which range from deep techno to italo disco. His DJ sets offer the same dynamic variety and are often long-haul, cross-genre affairs. He is a resident DJ at Chicago institution, smartbar.
http://bit.ly/OlinBoilerRoomSet

21+

Take the sultry vibe of the Latin American Tropics, combine with the rhythm of India ("Taal") and stir into Tropitaal, a Desi/Latino Soundclash where the hottest club sounds from India and Latin America go head to head in an all-night dance-off of epic proportions. Resident DJs Anjali & The Incredible Kid combine their deep passions and deep crates from across the spectrum of Caribbean, Indian and Latin vibes. (We are not talking Salsa, but Reggaeton, Moombahton, Digital Cumbia, 3Ball Guarachero, Dembow and more.)

www.anjaliandthekid.com
www.facebook.com/Anjaliandthekid
www.soundcloud.com/djanjali
www.soundcloud.com/the-incredible-kid
www.instagram.com/anjaliandthekid

DJ Anjali and The Incredible Kid have spent fifteen years igniting dance floors with cutting edge music not limited by borders or language. They host the longest-running Bhangra and Bollywood party on the West Coast, co-founded the Pacific Northwest’s first Global Bass dance party and host two weekly radio shows on XRAY.FM and KBOO.FM. Few DJs can be said to have changed the sound of their city but that is exactly what DJ Anjali and The Incredible Kid have accomplished since they first introduced Portland, Oregon nightclub audiences to the many varied sounds of Global Bass at a raucous New Year’s Eve debut in 2000. They are most known for incinerating dance floors with the heavy dance floor artillery of South Asia, but the duo scour the globe for any hard-hitting music that combines local music traditions with window-rattling production. Anjali and The Kid regularly perform at festivals including five sets at the Sasquatch! Music Festival tenth anniversary where they headlined the dance tent opening night. They have performed at festivals such as Decibel, MusicfestNW, PICA's TBA Festival, Vancouver International Bhangra Celebration, Beloved, Photosynthesis, Soul'd Out Music Festival, Portland State of Mind, Fairytale Music Festival, Kaleidoscope, Vancouver Queer Film Festival & Portland International Film Festival to name a few. The duo travel to perform in cities such as New York City, Chicago, Washington DC, San Francisco and Vancouver, BC to headline parties such as Basement Bhangra, iBomba, Bhangrateque, Ottomania and Non Stop Bhangra.

After making a name for themselves in their hometown’s raucous house party circuit, DJ Anjali & The Incredible Kid introduced the Portland, Oregon nightclub scene to the sounds of Bhangra, Bollywood and Global Bass on New Year’s Eve 2000. A series of residencies followed, beginning with a night at the legendary Blackbird, and the duo began hosting their ANDAZ dance parties in July of 2002. The party’s focus on hardcore Panjabi Bhangra and the latest electronic confections from the Bollywood film industry continue to pack the dance floor after 13 years. While ANDAZ was still in the bloom of youth, Anjali and The Kid founded the revolutionary dance night ATLAS (with co-host/DJ E3) at Holocene in November of 2003 to introduce Portland to Global Bass sounds such as: Balkan Beats, Reggaeton, Funk Carioca, 3Ball Guarachero, Digital Cumbia, Urban Desi, French and Arabic Hip-Hop, Rai N B, Reggada, Dembow, Dubstep, Kuduro, Merengue Urbano and a host of other local and diasporic future musics. ATLAS was a vital party in Portland nightlife and the Global Bass scene internationally for more than nine years and remains the longest-running night in Holocene’s history. In 2013 Anjali and The Kid initiated TROPITAAL: A Desi Latino Soundclash, their latest project.

They have supported artists as diverse as Digable Planets, Balkan Beat Box, Major Lazer, Skrillex, A Tribe Called Red, DJ Spooky, Tigerstyle, Boban i Marco Markovic Orkestar, Delhi 2 Dublin, Sleigh Bells, Glitch Mob, State of Bengal, MSTRKRFT, Karsh Kale, DJ Rekha, CeU, Antibalas, Dengue Fever, Blockhead, Soulico, The Decemberists, Uproot Andy, Rupa & the April Fishes, Gold Panda, DJ Marcelinho Da Lua, Saini Surinder, Washed Out, Toy Selectah, Pink Martini, Quantic, Opiuo, Bonobo, Extra Golden, Maga Bo, Poirier, Plastician, Flying Lotus, Ming & FS, Joro-Boro, Kultur Shock, Ghostland Observatory, Rafi eL, J-Boogie, and Nickodemus from Turntables on the Hudson.


$5, 21 and over

Pink Collar Comedy Tour PDX! Partial proceeds to benefit Planned Parenthood Oregon.

The Pink Collar Comedy Tour features New York-based comedians Kaytlin Bailey, Abbi Crutchfield, Carrie Gravenson, and Erin Judge as they bring cutting-edge, hilarious stand-up comedy all across the US and beyond.

The Tour premiered in South Carolina in 2012 and has since played to packed houses in more than 36 cities, including Austin, Los Angeles, New Orleans, Philadelphia, Toronto, San Francisco, Raleigh, and many more. The Boston Globe said it best: The Pink Collar Comedy Tour is "smart comedy by female comics.

Boston Globe: www.bostonglobe.com/arts/theater-art/2013/06/20/road-again-with-pink-collar-comedy-tour/5M2yEOKA249oGo6BkXd2xK/story.html

Kaytlin Bailey is the founder of the Pink Collar Comedy Tour and performs regularly at the famous Vagabond Cafe in the West Village of Manhattan. Her nothing-to-lose honesty and brazen comedic style are sure to make you laugh, or avoid eye contact with your significant other...and mom. She is originally from Raleigh, NC, and she has appeared at the Cape Fear Comedy Festival and the North by Northeast festival in Toronto.

Abbi Crutchfield is a comedian, writer and actor from Indianapolis, IN. Her insanely popular @curlycomedy Twitter account boasts more than 22,000 followers! She produces two live comedy hours in New York City: The Living Room Show and Positively Awesome. You can read her work on Witstream.com. Abbi has been featured on VH1 and MTV as well as in national commercials.

Carrie Gravenson, a native New Yorker, won the 2009 New York Underground Comedy Festivals Emerging Talent Stand-Up Competition and was a runner up in 2009s Catch a Rising Star Stand-Up Competition. She was a semi-finalist in the Ventura Comedy competition and the She Devil comedy contest in 2012.  She also co-produces The Tomfoolery Hour, a popular monthly comedy showcase in New York City.

Erin Judge has appeared on Comedy Centrals "Live at Gotham" and at comedy clubs and venues all around the world. This Brooklyn native recently released her first stand-up album, So Many Choices (Rooftop Comedy Productions), to rave reviews. She has appeared at the Women in Comedy Festival, at the Bridgetown Comedy Festival, and in the pages of TimeOut New York, the Boston Globe, and the New York Times. Erin's humor writing has appeared all over the internet, including on Salon.com and the Good Men Project.

Producer and guest comic: Belinda Carroll is a Portland based stand-up comedian, actress, and singer; she has appeared on fun stuff like Portlandia, MTV, XM Sirius radio and NBC’s Grimm a couple of times. She also has opened or featured for people like Erasure (Andy Bell), The Cliks, Julie Goldman, Deanne Smith, ANT, Dwight Slade, Laurie Kilmartin, among others. She also gets to travel, which is good because she gets to stay in hotels and there is something very gratifying about stealing little soaps. http://www.belindacarroll.org

Price: 12.00 Advance      20.00 Day of Show  
Tickets: http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/2518883
www.pinkcollarcomedytour.com

Pink Collar Comedy Tour PDX! Partial proceeds to benefit Planned Parenthood Oregon.

The Pink Collar Comedy Tour features New York-based comedians Kaytlin Bailey, Abbi Crutchfield, Carrie Gravenson, and Erin Judge as they bring cutting-edge, hilarious stand-up comedy all across the US and beyond.

The Tour premiered in South Carolina in 2012 and has since played to packed houses in more than 36 cities, including Austin, Los Angeles, New Orleans, Philadelphia, Toronto, San Francisco, Raleigh, and many more. The Boston Globe said it best: The Pink Collar Comedy Tour is "smart comedy by female comics.

Boston Globe: www.bostonglobe.com/arts/theater-art/2013/06/20/road-again-with-pink-collar-comedy-tour/5M2yEOKA249oGo6BkXd2xK/story.html

Kaytlin Bailey is the founder of the Pink Collar Comedy Tour and performs regularly at the famous Vagabond Cafe in the West Village of Manhattan. Her nothing-to-lose honesty and brazen comedic style are sure to make you laugh, or avoid eye contact with your significant other...and mom. She is originally from Raleigh, NC, and she has appeared at the Cape Fear Comedy Festival and the North by Northeast festival in Toronto.

Abbi Crutchfield is a comedian, writer and actor from Indianapolis, IN. Her insanely popular @curlycomedy Twitter account boasts more than 22,000 followers! She produces two live comedy hours in New York City: The Living Room Show and Positively Awesome. You can read her work on Witstream.com. Abbi has been featured on VH1 and MTV as well as in national commercials.

Carrie Gravenson, a native New Yorker, won the 2009 New York Underground Comedy Festivals Emerging Talent Stand-Up Competition and was a runner up in 2009s Catch a Rising Star Stand-Up Competition. She was a semi-finalist in the Ventura Comedy competition and the She Devil comedy contest in 2012.  She also co-produces The Tomfoolery Hour, a popular monthly comedy showcase in New York City.

Erin Judge has appeared on Comedy Centrals "Live at Gotham" and at comedy clubs and venues all around the world. This Brooklyn native recently released her first stand-up album, So Many Choices (Rooftop Comedy Productions), to rave reviews. She has appeared at the Women in Comedy Festival, at the Bridgetown Comedy Festival, and in the pages of TimeOut New York, the Boston Globe, and the New York Times. Erin's humor writing has appeared all over the internet, including on Salon.com and the Good Men Project.

Producer and guest comic: Belinda Carroll is a Portland based stand-up comedian, actress, and singer; she has appeared on fun stuff like Portlandia, MTV, XM Sirius radio and NBC’s Grimm a couple of times. She also has opened or featured for people like Erasure (Andy Bell), The Cliks, Julie Goldman, Deanne Smith, ANT, Dwight Slade, Laurie Kilmartin, among others. She also gets to travel, which is good because she gets to stay in hotels and there is something very gratifying about stealing little soaps. http://www.belindacarroll.org

Price: 12.00 Advance      20.00 Day of Show  
Tickets: http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/2518883
www.pinkcollarcomedytour.com

(Performance at 7 pm)

"the quality that we call… however, must always grow from the realities of life, and our ancestors, forced to live in dark rooms, presently came to discover… in shadows, ultimately to guide shadows to… ends.”
--junichiro tanizaki

current obsession: obsession

currently hearing: [ ]lackness and
[ ]lack noise and the [ ]lack body as it is queered, exhausted, eulogized, and conscripted into emotional bureaucracies & sonic discourses of the human, b

currently wearing: my mother's facial expressions & little else of note

last question: organ or apparatus?

sidony o’neal (b. 1988) is a writer, performance artist, and dramaturg based in Portland, OR. Her work is interdisciplinary— often synthesizing text, textiles, movement, installation, as well as sound and olfactory components. sidony has presented work in North America and West Africa. She has performed as a member of DEAD THOROUGHBRED, future death agency, and DELICTO. Her writing has appeared in Passages North, BATHHOUSE, and SPOOK among others. She is the translator of Prognosis: Descarga Poetica Decolonial (Quilomboarte 2014) and author of f a c e bowl (THE MINI CHAPBOOK PRESS 2013). sidony has held a Literary In(ter)ventions residency at the Banff Centre, Canada and was the co-recipient of two 2015 PICA Precipice Fund grants. In June 2016 she will participate in a residency at Arteles Creative Center in Finland.

Take a guided audio tour through Kenton, part of The Music That Makes Us, presented by the Portland State University Art and Social Practiceprogram as part of Chiara Giovando's "Sound is Matter" Curator-in-Residence season. 

Meet at Disjecta and experience the landscape of the neighborhood through the individual and collective memories of those who have created it. The tour takes approximately 90 minutes. Free and all ages.

Can't make it? You can also experience the tour on your own. The Kenton Audio Walk is a guided tour through the historic Kenton neighborhood. The piece is a collection of interviews and field recordings that were taken in the neighborhood during February and March of 2016, and acts as an audio archive for a phase of Kenton’s history that is marked by rapid growth and change. Listeners are invited to experience the landscape of the neighborhood through the individual and collective memories of those who have created it.

The tour takes approximately one hour on your own. Listen to the directions on our website.

www.disjecta.org/portfolio-items/kenton-audio-walk-2/

Created by Renee Sills in collaboration with the Art & Social Practice MFA program and Featuring: Heather Perkins (experimental musician, composer and a Kenton resident), Joshua James (Kenton Club bartender), Norman “Boogie Cat” Sylvester (Blues musician, Kenton resident, and husband of Paula Sylvester), and Robin Gordon (Music Pastor at Celebration Tabernacle), Bryan Suereth (Director of Disjecta Contemporary Art Center).

- See more at: http://hollywoodtheatre.org/mad-tiger/#sthash.9co9aexk.dpuf

AU will return after a 2 year hiatus to share the stage with the 155 singers of the Camas High School choir program - a collaboration between choral director Ethan Chessin, Luke Wyland of AU, and Young Audiences of Oregon & SW Washington.

As well as performing music composed specifically for them, the choir has also spent months learning the ins and outs of booking shows, designing posters, running sound, and writing press releases (you’ll see one example attached below). 

In addition to the choir, AU will be expanded to a 6 piece ensemble comprised of members of Like A Villain, Blue Cranes, Aan and the Crenshaw.

This yearlong project culminates in a unique and fascinating performance at Yale Union, with performances by Edna Vazquez & Luz Elena Mendoza (of Y La Bamba) along with student bands and songwriters. The press release you’ll find attached was written entirely by students, and it’s not exaggerating: this performance will be one of the most memorable Portland shows of 2016.

Ticketing - $10 adv/$12 day of 

Design Week Portland is a week-long, city-wide series of programs exploring the process, craft, and practice of design across all disciplines. Our mission is to increase appreciation and awareness about design and its far-reaching effects on matters of cultural and social relevance, including community development, education systems, and the economy.