Sunday April 13, 2008
11:00 AM : House Bound @ Performance Works NW
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You are fêted, fed, and lulled to relaxation. You move through installations and films, connect with performers in intimate spaces. Then the walls start closing in.
Welcome to the house that Works Corps built. "House Bound" is a kinesthetic salon of installation and performance with roving audience participation, in which the five women artists of Works Corps investigate the tension between solo and connectivity, individual and relationship, freedom and claustrophobia. Audiences will experience the show, which is a co-presentation of 2GQ, at Performance Works NW in Southeast Portland as part of the new experimental series, Alembic. Space is extremely limited, and reservations are strongly recommended.
"A slideshow about secretly wanting to throw the baby out with the bathwater," is how Emily Stone describes her performance. Known for her dance and theatre work for presenters including PICA's TBA festival and On the Boards in Seattle, Stone will deliver a performative lecture about caretaking, the body as a domestic space, and "the wild territory of freedom and claustrophobia that exists in our own backyards."
Writer Nora Robertson, a recent finalist for the Pushcart Prize in poetry, will perform a monologue delving into "the underbelly of interdependence." Her character, Charlie, is described as "a charmer, a cocktail waitress with an alarming habit of chucking her boyfriend's records out the window."
Performer and choreographer Lilian Gael is the show's producer. She invites audiences into the dreamlike "attic" of the show's "house," which is defined by a kinetic installation of walls. The walls are the work of visual artist and letterpress printer Clare Carpenter, who covered them with wallpaper she printed. She says the walls are "imbued with the residue of stories from within a WWII housing project."
Interdisciplinary artist Tiffany Lee Brown, co-editor of PLAZM magazine and director of the non-profit art and literary project 2GQ, will explore fertility and creativity with a site-responsive installation, film, and video. Brown will also feed the audience. She says, "The breaking of bread and sharing of wine are indispensable rituals of community, the source of metaphorical and literal nourishment."
Ticket price includes hors d'oeuvres and drinks. Tickets cost $15 in advance or $20 at the door; a limited number of discount tickets are available for $10 advance. For reservations, contact housebound@2GQ.org or 503 475 2306. Performance Works NW is located at 4625 SE 67th Avenue; various show times occur April 13 between 11 a.m. and 5 p.m. "House Bound" is co-presented by 2GQ, a project of the non-profit organization 2 Gyrlz Performative Arts.
03:00 PM : Sitelines @ Marylhurst University
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Sitelines, a two-person show by Jenene Nagy and Stephanie Robison
Preview Reception: Sunday April 13, 3-5p
Exhibition runs April 14-May 14
The Art Gym at Marylhurst University
For more information please visit:
http://www.marylhurst.edu/aboutmarylhurst/pressrelease20080325.php
http://www.jenenenagy.com
http://www.stephanierobison.com
08:00 PM : "Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid" Benefit Movie Night @ The Artistery
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"My plan was to kiss her with every lip on my face." - Rigby Reardon
Hi again. More last minute info brought to you by your pals at Food Fight. Time again for SHAC7 benefit movie night! Yay!
WHAT, WHEN, AND WHERE?
"Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid", April 13th, 2008, 8PM @ The Artistery (4315 SE Division)
Darn funny movie. Check the trailer out here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ixAyGhUgr0E
Come hang out and experience "camaraderie" as they call it. Ok? Please? GREAT! YOU"LL MAKE IT! WE'RE SO VERY HAPPY!
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