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TBA 2008 Closing Night

Last night was the closing ceremony of this years TBA 2008. For all the weary festival goers and staff who have been on this two week time-based marathon, it was a great way to close out the festival, as well as Mark Russell’s three year stewardship as PICA’s guest artistic director.
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Tiago Guedes – Materiais Diversos (Various Materials)

Last night was the last of three performances of Tiago Guedes’ Materiais Diversos downtown at the Portland Center for Performing Arts. When Guedes first walks onto the blank stage he appears to be a perfectly normal fellow. Clean haircut, baby blue t-shirt, khakis, and Converse sneakers. But as soon as he begins you know that everything for the next hour will be anything but obvious.
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Tim Crouch Workshop: No Audience, No Echo

“I’m gonna talk a bit, then we’ll do some stuff, then I’ll talk a bit more. That’s usually how this goes, that’s all I know.”
With a laugh, and the smile that would become a familiar sight in the next three hours, Tim Crouch’s workshop began.
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this landmark is your landmark, this landmark is my landmark, this landmark was made for you and me

Posted by Laura Becker 6.19.2005 i have had a lot on my mind lately, increasingly, in fact since the last time we all posted on this blog. i feel like it’s sort of been one long down hill since last … Continue reading

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WHAT A DECADE LOOKS LIKE.

PICA is about the activity generated by a community using its energy. And so is this place- or this space that i am in right now. The PICA blog has existed for the past two years – mainly as a … Continue reading

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