November 3, First Thursday
at the Heathman Hotel Tea Room
1001 SW Broadway at Salmon
(the Tea Room is through the hotel lobby to the left)
* Haiku Inferno
* Lauren K. Newman/LKN
* Word of Mouth
* Angelle Hebert Philip Kraft
* Julian Tulip
* Yvette Tourangeau
* with your hosts, Tiffany Lee Brown Nora McCrea
* Haiku Inferno is Kevin Sampsell, Frayn Masters, Frank D'Andrea, and Elizabeth Miller -- The Ramones of Haiku.
resonant guitar technique.
For 2GQ, the founder of Stellamarie and different.
their work at Conduit, Performance Works NW, and others -- present performance art involving language, movement, and music.
Yvette Tourangeau leads you, the audience, in an ongoing game of Ahnamanna.
This language was created especially for tonight's show, and the booklets at your tables will help you speak it with each other. And oh: it can also be played as a drinking game.
is a found poetry project conceived by Scott Allen Smith.
He recruits people to collect words on a certain day -- this time, on Day of the Dead. The resulting poems will be read by Scott himself and Zea Ewert-Bean.
* Julian Tulip has a wicked way with singing, spoken word, and neo-new wave stylings.
At our show, this Julian Tulip's Tea Room's sleek grand piano. He'll also be creating a special attorney Kohel Haver, who won the song as a prize at 2GQ's September fundraiser.
Join us for one last fantastic month full of performance, music, art, workshops, readings!
This is the very last EL-fest-as-we-know-it. The Enteractive Language series will return in a different form in 2007.
And don't forget: 2GQ will host a very special night of readings, performances, and word games at the Heathman Hotel Tea Room on First Thursday, November 3.
Dress exquisitely! For details,
writers, and musicians will stun the city one last time. Hope to see you there.
Calendars are available around town (online version isn't quite up yet, so stay tuned).
The 2GQ event, with readings and at the Heathman Hotel in downtown Portland. Dress exquisitely!
Photo of Tamara Yeskel by Steve Fritz.
Holocene, 1001 SE Morrison St 21+
September 30, 8pm-1:30am
Sliding Scale Admission $5-$5000 (Whatever you can
pitch in!)
with:
SPACEFAIRY (THEIR FAREWELL SHOW!
)
SORIAH (Tuvan throat singing extraordinaire!)
VISUAL ART from some of Portland's most respected photographers, painters, and BODY ARTISTS on display and available for direct sale.
VIDEO of some artists involved in EL-fest will be mixed live by MurkVisuals.
get a sneak peak at this year's Enteractive Language festival, fests, or will be joining us for the first time this year. Several local body artists (tattoo, piercing, scarification, etc) will be exploring the boundaries of identity and culture.
you for buying raffle tickets online -- 2GQ luvs yr support!
If you have questions about your order, email 2005@2GQ.org. And come to the raffle party/reading on September 22 if you're in Portland.
Friday night July 1 at midnight, several members from the Gone Orchestra will reunite to perform on KBOO 90.7FM. Performers to include Niski, and possibly, Ric Stewart, Stan Wood, and Mike Lastra.
It's gonna be just like Coke Classic.
members of Smegma, the Gone Orchestra, Brainwarmer, Black Orchid, Tres Gone, the Jesters Marching Band, and a bunch of other stuff.
Tune into KBOO 90.
7 FM in Portland, or find it online: .
recently put together a lovely project called Word of Mouth. A couple dozen writers, many in Portland, were asked to create a found poem of sorts, out solstice).
Writers including Scott, Katrina Arcadia the Rose, Jacob, Bob Seitz, and yours truly gathered at the Red Black Cafe to read/perform the results. (Well, okay, I cheated because I thought Scott was bringing my poem, so instead I wrote a new one out of conversations around the cafe. Got a few dirty looks for that.
) Pictured here: Scott, Katrina. Keep an eye out for the next Word of Mouth. --Tif
This weekend, June 24-25, some of Portland's most indubitably talented performers can be seen at Mobilization's in Berkeley and San Francisco.
Gyrlz including Soriah, Llewyn Maire, Lisa Newman, and Noah Mickens (with Thee 999 Eyes ov Endless Dream group) join forces with such notables as Skip Arnold, Savage Republic, Mike Watt, F Space, and The Extra Action Marching Band at the Shipyard. Expect fire, insanity, and mayhem.
sounds kinda tame in comparison, but we do in fact have some interesting stuff to do if you can't make it to the Bay Area.
Friday night offers a sneak preview I.C.Mummy/Backroom space.
Details below. Or check out the McLibel movie at the Saturday finds and the March Fourth Marching Band opening the new Wonder Ballroom space on NE Russell.
pm.
$5 (and a friend gets in free). 332 NE San Rafael. 21+.
various music, performance, and visual arts events. While the space was known for putting the art in party, founder Bryan Suereth is heading in a more ambitious direction with the latest incarnation of Disjecta.
Now a non-profit organization, the currently-homeless Disjecta hopes to reputation.
They've found a beautiful, raw space in the Reed College's Douglas F. Cooley Gallery), and Cris Moss, who presents the 9th edition of his Donut Shop series.
If they meet their high fundraising goals, the space may be theirs for a much longer stint in the future. --Tiffany Lee Brown. Photo by Joshua Berger.
2 Gyrlz just won a Yay, and huge thanks to RACC.
Fulfilling the grant does require us to raise additional funds and produce over 100 extra copies 2GQ. To help, and specify 2GQ in the Designation field.
Every dollar helps!
Plus: Thanks to all who made our Powell's reading last night a freakin' blast.
And big thanks to our Boobie Auction supporters, who helped raise funds for this fall's EL-fest.
and the 2GQBlog will not be updated for the next several weeks. We're working on a re-design appreciate your patience.
meantime, check out the Strategy review, performance announcements, and other chewy nougaty goodness below on the 2GQBlog.
Fiction and digital arts are available in our section. And the will set you up with interviews of Wipers frontman Greg Sage, Portland poet Leanne Grabel, experimental musicians Smegma, and other fine stuff.
Oh!
We also have a NEW mailing list for sending out the occasional announcement about our site events we put on. Please atmospheric, sometimes jazzy, experimentally-tinged, or quietly interesting fare. They put out indie bigshots like Low and Godspeed You Black Emperor!
along with lesser-known bands like the NW's Growing and Fontanelle. Portland-based Strategy-- solo project of DJ/laptop maestro, Emergency alum, and Nudge/Fontanelle collaborator Paul Dickow-- trades in airy layers, repetitive loops, and subtle rhythms. Live dub mixing and digital soundscaping combine on Drumsolo's Delight to create an entirely pleasant album.
isn't always what you're looking for in music, however, and it's hard predictable, e-friendly fare. Final Super Zen establishes a base of sound stagger around the reverb chamber. All too soon, they're melodic repetition.
A similar buildup pattern is repeated on many tracks; on Walkingtime, which features the vocals of CARO, it actually works, grabbing with emotional and melodic hooks lacking sculptures on album's dreamy closer, The Jazzy Drumsolo.
listens turn up neat-o synthesized or sampled sweeps of sound, but they tend to be used in a generic background fashion. Half the album could gabbing with friends at Holocene; a shame, because the rest deserves the listener's full attention and a pair of top-notch speakers.
Our own performance group, as embodied by 2 Gyrlz directors Llewyn Maire and Lisa Newman, will perform Wedesday as part of the Gender in Conflict presentation at Lewis Clark College. The piece is described as a conceptual/endurance score, exploring the medical, cultural, and psychological endurance of a transsexual male(?)-to-other(?
) process...
.through action, video and sound.
performer and writer Spalding Gray has been missing for weeks.
His body was found in the East River today. As his self-penned epitaph put it:
An American Original: Troubled, Inner-Directed and Cannot Type.
Joe Ponce, and our own Stevan Allred.
Alumni of their workshops, held Haystack program, include such dignitaries as Chuck Palahnuik (Fight Club), Jennifer Lauck (Blackbird), and local writers like Monica Drake. (And let's not forget ME.)
they've finally put up a web page.
Find out about upcoming workshops, events, buy special editions of books, and all manner of good stuff at .
Sunday nights at the Ohm are dedicated to showcasing up-and-coming DJs in the Portland area. With an early start at 8 pm, there's no cover charge, and artists and performers will present their work gratis.
hearts, says Jason.
He's looking for visual artists, fire performers, artistic dancers, stilt walkers, pole dancers, and any imaginable performance-related thing you can do with music happening. Email if interested.
March 1, a team of twelve tenacious tellers to twine together these listening to the good stuff! Featuring Lisa Radon, Chris Piuma, mARK oWEns, Michael Nicoloff, Matthew Marble, Maryrose Larkin, Laura Feldman, Ashley Edwards, Amanda Deutch, Joseph Bradshaw, Linda Austin, and David Abel .
who will also be reading.
Monday night, March 1, 9:00 pm to midnight. Kalga Kafe, 4147 SE Division. Free.
Beer wine for 21+.
shoulda been there at Powell's last night: good readings, good turnout, and even a bit of drama. Yep, one of the readers, wrestling with that giant weird goofy Powell's podium, flung his water bottle to the floor and it erupted into great wateriness.
A pretty awesome, well-acted piece of theatre.
It was Grant Cogswell, whose demi-epic poem Pacific Bell will knock yr socks off. Howard Robertson read from his new book about long-haul truck driving; dreamy stuff, speaking of Western roads and places I know well, interspersing trucker talk with previous job: librarian.
Casey Sanchez, a Portland native, was visiting slime line in an Alaskan salmon cannery. (He'll also read at Fisher Poet's in Astoria this weekend; see previous entry.)
Poet Howard W.
Robertson will be reading at Powell's downtown with fellow Clear Cut authors Casey Sanchez and Grant Cogswell, whose excellent, hand-bound poem you may've seen in The Hanged Word fundraiser last year.
The Powell's reading celebrates the publication of Robertson's Ode to Certain Interstates and Other Poems on Astoria, Oregon's own, incredibly fabulous . Chicago-based Casey Sanchez will also read at Astoria's annual , which sees hundreds of fish workers coming to Astoria for three days of events.
Feb 25 at Powell's, 1001 W. Burnside, 7:30 pm, free. Sanchez at Fisher Poets: February 27th at 7:40 pm.
Wend your way to Astoria for the Dark Arts Festival this weekend, which sounds more shpooky than it is. This annual fundraiser for features music from Mesmer and Passiflora, along with Tarot readings, fire performance, belly dance, and palm readers. Dark Arts Fest also celebrates the black magick of tasting yummy Stouts microbrewed around the Northwest, thanks to Jack Harris, master brewer of the much-beloved Bill's Tavern in Cannon Beach.
AVA Gallery is currently showing Roger Hayes and other outsider artists. Saturday, February 14, 3-8 pm, at AVA Gallery in Astoria -- 160 Tenth Street (at Commercial, along the 2 Gyrlz presents another fabulous, free event with music, performance, art, and the smashing of televisions. It's Perpetuating Response VI at the CO7 Gallery Cooperative, on February 6th.
Come by as you experience the east side First Friday festivities.
Featuring Alysa Volpe (paintings), (charcoal), and Passion/Obsession Quilt, selected works from the students of Horatio Law at .
The Feb 6th opening of this month long exhibit will feature performances from , , , Pecos B, Analogue Priest Alex Lily's Television Smasher.
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First Friday 06 FEB.
..7:30 - 1 pm.
..CO7 Gallery Cooperative (2000 SE 7th Ave).
..Beer with 21 + ID courtesy of Pike Brewing.
mean harsh noise, ambient noise, breakcore, noise-rock or industribal. I won't have it.
Anyway, these and many other miniscule CD called Anomalous Silencer 6.
This is the 6th and possibly final installment in Radek Kopel's lauded international series, pressed in the Czech Republic and featuring artists from 12 nations. Radek made exactly 1000 copies of this CD, and sent 20 of them to each artist on the comp. With 7 U.
S. bands on the comp, that means there are 140 copies of Anomalous Silencer 6 available in the United States. Only one of these 7 bands is from Portland, Nequaquam Vacuum (HEL-LO everybody!
); which means there are exactly 20 copies of this CD available here in town. Actually, I already sent three more on the road with Scott Nydegger; and of course I'm keeping one for myself. So I guess that makes 17 copies available, two of which are at Everyday Music and one of which is at Ozone UK.
If any of you are curious, It's real, REAL good. I direct your attention in particular toward Ultretomba, K2, and Discotheque Gronland.
Detonate a PIPE bomb with us at Powell's tonight!
The Portland Independent Press Experiment presents short readings introductions to area publishers and publications. I'll be representing for 2 Gyrlz Quarterly (2GQ). I'm not sure who-all's on the slate tonight, but i think Verse-Chorus Press, Gobshite, Motion Sickness, Pinball Publishing, and Too Much Coffee Man may be involved.
Monday, Jan 12, Powell's downtown Portland Oregon, 7:30 pm, W Burnside at 11th; free.
and if you're into the whole text/word/lit thing, you may be interested in our new list of resources links. Check Word Media here on the .
the schematic/diagrammatic work we present, these pieces are intended to function as poetry, rather than addressing poetry, or (god forbid) relaying it.
They describe and illuminate and confuse and thresh and hum and re-read and snowmelt and annotate and re-describe. They do not spake Diagram's Sonics Editor, Shannon Fields.
SantaCon Special, Twisted Xmas Mashups, and Portland's Only Real Live Raffle Elf!
! Holy smokes, can ya beat that??
Pay a trifling donation, reach your hand in the bag, and walk away with a lovely compact disc! It's Santariffic! (Let us know if you have something fabulous to donate -- email 2003@2GQ.
org.)
TWISTED XMAS MASHUPS ON CD: Courtesy of DJ Brokenwindow - Freaking hilarious! Bring five bucks for your own copy.
It's a Santa Spectacular!
Persons dressed in full Santa regalia receive a FREE raffle ticket! Mention the SantaCon Special as you walk in the door.
EL-Fest continues unabated! The fabulous Kate Bornstein performs at the Interstate Firehouse Cultural Center (IFCC) on Friday and Saturday nights, Nov 21 22..
. The Language of Print offers prints, readings, installations, guerrilla readings, and of course, crepes, beer, wine, at La Palabra this Sunday the 23rd..
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The day after Thanksgiving, folks from Adbusters, the Cacophony Society, and 2 Gyrlz get together to help you celebrate International Buy Nothing Day. You can just guess how much it costs to get in -- and hit the Confessional Bar -- at The Language of Con$umption, Nov 28.
Click the headline for deets of all shows. Just hit the calendar links at the top of the page.
about it.
In brief: the thing has been rockin'. Amazing performances weekend, Nov 13-16:
Thursday, Spare Room twists the word in delightful ways..
. Friday, members of Smegma and other West Coast noise collectives unravel The Language of Noise..
. Saturday, Kaosmosis (familiar to many a local Burning Man devotee) presents The Language of Movement at Mt.Tabor Pub.
.. and last but not least, slide into your pajamas and Hit for details.
features live trippy-spacey music (including Legerdemain, Mugwort, Rudement, Pulse Emitter, and me, Passiflora), dream machines, herbal elixirs, and a nice chance to come down from all the excitement of the week.
Yay for Portland! We get a free show November 25 with the extraordinarily talented Jeff Kaiser.
Kaiser's last two releases, 13 Themes for a Triskaidekaphobic and 17 Themes for Ockodektet, build shivering walls of sound around his luminous trumpet, creating a lush, sophisticated mood that manages to remain lighthearted.
Both records were released on and--bonus!-- come with really sweet packaging.
Jeff Kaiser plays trumpet and electronics with Portland guitarist Tom McNalley for an evening of improvised music on Tuesday, November 25th, from 8:30-11pm, the Tugboat Brewery (SW Park and Ankeny).
The Pacific Northwest-based mutating anthology, Northwest Edge, has just dropped its second payload of innovative, experimental, and literary short fictions, with Fictions of Mass Destruction. 2GQ Advisory Board member and upcoming Guest Freezone Curator Lidia Yuknavitch and 2GQ contributor Trevor Dodge are editors; contributors include yr ever-lovin' gyrlz Llewyn Maire, Lisa Newman, and Tiffany Lee Brown.
Special discount price at is $8, or support your local independent bookstore buy it there.
What they say: Edited by Andy Mingo, Trevor Dodge, and Lidia Yuknavitch, the book showcases works by established Northwest authors such as Jeanne Senaratne, Billie Livingston, Caitlin Sullivan, Lance Olsen, Doug Nufer, and Leon Johnson alongside new emerging voices such as Mia DeBono, Fern Capella, Grant Olsen, and Shannon Densmore.
by the zip-lip, search and siezure, police state antics of the current administration, Northwest Edge refuses to settle for the typically overdone environmental salmon scenarios, memoirs of life set in a Charlie Russell painting, or tired references to tree spirits.
Fair warning from the militant left: In Dubya's Amerikka, the pen is, indeed, mightier than the sword. From the fringes of the Pacific Northwest's salmon canneries, potato fields, and tree farms the literary proletariat is calling a spade a spade.
Artwalk on NE Alberta Street.
The festival brings local and international artists, musicians, and performers together for 23 events throughout November. Bonus: many are free and all are accessibly priced deals with citizens' responses to post-911/War on Terrorism America, and is at Optic Nerve Arts (1829 NE Alberta, Suite 11). The opening is this evening; show will be up all month.
2GQ photography editor Christopher Rainone shows photography of PDX graffiti, Josh Berger of Plazm presents an installation of designers, plus MB Condon and Rhoda London. FREE
Friday night, we have the French GG Allin , Jean Louis Costes, performing at La Langue du Culte: Porno-Social Ritual, If you like sex, blood, and mayhem, we'll see ya there. International Club Mummy, 322 NE San Rafael, (3 blocks north of NE Broadway, west of MLK/Grand Ave).
Doors at 8 pm, 21+ with ID, $5 to $15 sliding scale.
Saturday evening, celebrate your ancestors and the Day of the Dead, at The Language of Ancestors, at and behind Hi-iH Lamp Shop on NE Alberta at 29th. Food, music, fire dancers, and generally rocking good times.
Bar with ID. FREE, starts 7:30 pm. Music and performance from Sikhara, Children of Paradise, Romulus Remus, Zanne, Try My Cab?
iste, Sati Fyre, and members of Proyecto Fuego with Soriah.
Early Sunday evening, it's everybody's favorite youngsters, The Black Peppercorns, courtesy of Rock Roll Camp for Girls. P:ear teams up with 36 Invisibles to present The Language of Youth, featuring artwork and performance by youth from P:ear, Outside In, and the Fuego project.
this oughtta be fantastic. FREE, all ages. 809 SW Alder, 6:30 pm.
Hit for details and the whole month's schedule.
Hey little dogies, git on over to and check out their Autumn 2003 release. Five literary interpretations, three new additions to The Birthing Room.
Digital art + Lit = one of Portland's best literary zines.
Participants in 2GQ's upcoming event, The Language of Print, have been named finalists for the Oregon Book Awards. Lidia Yuknavitch predecessor, Two Girls -- is a finalist for the H.
L.Davis Award for Short Fiction for her collection, Reel to Reel (FC2). The Casey Kwang-authored Copia, published by Pinball Publishing, is up for the Stafford/Hall Award for Poetry.
will read at our Nov 23 show, and Pinball will show printed visual art. so pretty, so dazzlingly perfect, they make your skull ache. Kids so real, you never wanna see another Hollywood-generated actroid on the screen again.
A simple, elegant presentation of an intricate play on time and space. Violence on a slow boil. Hitchcock on Oxycontin.
has produced a calm, spacious masterpiece about American high school students, American high school life, and American high school shootings. Making a film about the Kip Kinkels and Columbines of this to the emotional immensity of the situation. Filmmakers run the risk of glorifying violence by dealing with it in the first place.
day, alluding here and there to the ultra-violence of films like A Clockwork Orange and Natural Born Killers, but refusing to moralize in any predictable way. This emotionally expansive, aesthetically mesmerizing approach slowly pierces the psyche, leaving images and moments there which will take weeks to work out. Van Sant's brilliant decision to use regular ol' kids from around Portland, rather than actors, enabled the writer/director to create an utterly self-defining and self-sufficient world.
Not only did the crowd at the North American premiere last night love Elephant -- so did the judges at Cannes, who awarded the film the Palme d'Or and also gave Van Sant props for Best Director. Van Sant's still the cool guy he was when he made the Portland premiere of My Own Private Idaho a benefit for the city's homeless youth agency, . Last night's screening at the Schnitz benefited the same cause.
the usual boring, elitist, and generally annoying tradition of American smaller-town ones, Elephant opens in Los Angeles and New York on October 24. The rest of you should get a taste shortly thereafter. Don't pass it by.
annual, month-long international festival of performance, music, and arts. So come to the Enteractive Language Fundraiser, October 8th at Portland's Viscount Ballroom!
Witness performances from WowWee Zowee Shadow Cinema, Acme Tiger Dance Co.
, Pete Kuzov Edie Tsong...
hear music by La Orquesta Lengua (featuring moi as one of the players) and To-Ka-Ge...
see the trippy-ass live video mixing of Murk...
purchase art at shocking prices in the Silent Art Auction...
win cool stuff in the raffle...
check out the verbiage of the incomparable Pecos B...
. eat, drink (full bar), and be merry!
Wednesday, Oct 8, Viscount Ballroom at 722 East Burnside.
Admission on a sliding donation scale from $7 to $70. Formal Costume attire encouraged!
is a lovely zine cleverly shaped as a cereal box.
Not only do you want one (available at La Palabra), but you might want to contribute as well.
prose, and photography are accepted; they're particularly looking for philosophy and cultural criticism, cereal-style. Email cbr@lapalabracafepress.
org for more info. PS: I have a piece in the current, fall '03 edition. Yay!
Guitarist Joe Patterson reports that Buck Dagger the Big River Band have been rehearsing rehearsing a re-creation of Johnny Cash's Live At Folsom Prison for some time.
with Johnny's passing, says Patterson, who performs along with Buck Dagger, Erik Clampett, Nathan Murphy, Jen Stefanick, and Marley Gaddis while celebrating one of the best live events ever. We will be performing the actual show of 19 songs in sequence, not the shortened 13 song LP version.
It's this Saturday night at Duff's Garage in Portland on SE 7th Ave, about 2 blocks south of Hawthorne. $5; Lisa Miller Her Kin open.
TBA Festival invoked all sorts of opinions, from festival media sponsor Willamette Week's glowing raves to 2GQ's decidedly erratic views.
While abysmal experience, thanks primarily to the vocalist's incompetent whinging irritating lyrics, Godfre Leung previewed it favorably -- see our REVIEWS section. That's where you'll also find Melissa Logan's praise for Vijay Iyer and Co. Scroll down on this weblog page for more thumbs up (David Greenberger and 3 Leg Torso), thumbs down (the opening party), and half-n-half reviews (Shelley Hirsch).
As for the rest? We couldn't pry full reviews from the rest of our gossip squad, but here's the summary of their reports:
- Eiko and Koma: amazing.
- Bill Shannon aka Crutchmaster: cool, but overrated.
- Ros Warby: beautiful and complex.
- Silt: bland and uninspired.
- Peripheral Produce: greatest hits couldn't be greater.
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that's erratic opinion for you.
As part of an organization that also puts on an ambitious performance festival, I can assure you that this kind of thing ain't easy to pull off! While the shows may have been hit-or-miss, TBA in general was an impressive event for Portland.
Sometimes a press release is so delicious, you just gotta let it speak for itself:
a succulent blend of celluloid fantasy, curveball cubism, flying reams of paper, careening trombones, a mobile audience, ferocity, friendliness, vituperative poetry masquerading as a cozy sweater, and sometimes improvisational, sometimes interactive (and other words that the cracks between movement, music/sound, word, images--The poem might be silent.
In fact it might move.
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