PUBLIC WORKS reveals works-in-progress by local musicians, artists,
and writers.
With good food & delicious cocktails, in one of Portland's most
beautiful, intimate venues.
Join us this Wednesday, May 9 for the final evening of this Public
Works series. Guest artists SARAH DOUGHER (music) and JOSHUA BERGER
(visual art) will join our regular writers, performers, and
interdisciplinary artists: TIFFANY LEE BROWN, LILIAN GAEL, NORA
ROBERTSON, and EMILY STONE.
2GQ presents Public Works
Wednesdays, April 4 through May 9
5:30-7:00 pm
Free, at Someday Lounge
125 NW 5th Ave between Couch and Davis
GUEST ARTISTS: BIOS
Joshua Berger is a founder and creative director of Plazm. Berger has
been recognized by numerous design publications and award shows. He
received the Gold Medal at the Leipzig Bookfair for his collaboration
with John C Jay on the book Soul of the Game (Melcher Media/Workman).
His most recent projects include the art direction and design of
ESPN's Ultimate Highlight Reel (Melcher Media/ESPN Books) and
development of the web site www.anti-war.us, dedicated to
distribution of anti-war graphics to activists globally.
Sarah Dougher has joined 2GQ for some fun shows at EL-fest before,
and we're happy to have her back. Sarah formerly played with the
Crabs, the Lookers, and Cadallaca (with Corin Tucker of
Sleater-Kinney and novelist sts). An educator and advocate, she is
known for her work with local organizations such as p:ear and the
Rock and Roll Camp for Girls. Sarah's album "The Bluff" (Mr. Lady)
was called "a long, wild leap into even stronger music" by Greil
Marcus in The New York Times.
She followed it up with the mesmerizing
"Harper's Arrow" on Cherchez La Femme records, which she founded.
"Harper's Arrow" is a 16-song cycle exploring themes from Homer's
Odyssey in relation to contemporary war and media; it has been
performed at PICA's TBA festival, Ladyfest, and the Knitting Factory.
Cherchez La Femme has since put out records by Katastrophe, Swallows,
Sarah Jaffe (of Erase Errata), and others, including a benefit CD for
the SMYRC (Sexual Minority Youth Resource Centre) that includes
tracks from Indigo Girls, Decemberists, Sleater-Kinney, and Pink
Martini, among many others. Find out more at
http://cherchezlafemmeprojects.com/.
PUBLIC WORKS CORPS: BIOS
Tiffany Lee Brown is a writer, performer, and interdisciplinary
artist. Her fiction, poetry, and nonfiction appear in various books,
anthologies, and periodicals, and she's presented work in venues
ranging from Wordstock to Burning Man. See http://www.magdalen.com for
deets. A recipient of residencies from Caldera and Soapstone, Miss
Brown received her BA in Dramatic Art from the University of California at
Berkeley and is currently pursuing an
MFA in Interdisciplinary Arts from Goddard College. This summer, she
and Clare Carpenter will publish a limited book arts edition of her
first book, "A Compendium of Miniatures." She edits 2GQ and is a
co-editor of Plazm magazine.
Clare Carpenter is a book artist and letterpress printer living in
Portland, Oregon, where she has been the proprietor of Tiger Food
Press since 1999. She uses hand-set type, linoleum and wood block
prints, and her own writing to create mostly fictional narratives
that take the form of illustrated books, broadsides and posters. The
themes that pervade her work are urban myths, historical subjects,
and the meaning of place in peoples lives. Recently she has been
working collaboratively with Tiffany Lee Brown, and is co-publishing
a short story by writer Maria Caruso.
Lilian Gael is a performing artist working with improv-movement,
dance, enviornments and sound. Her performance art piece, "Revery/The
Kitchen Project" was performed at the Oregon College of Arts and
Craft in 2006 for audiences of one at a time. She is a recipient of a
Soapstone writing residency in poetry and a 2006 RACC grant. She is a
founding collaborator for the Begging Project.
Nora Robertson is a writer living in Portland. With 2GQ, she has
performed in the Enteractive Language Festival, in Powell's readings,
and is a regular contributor to the 2GQ.org website. Her poem "How to
Boil an Egg" was recently published in the journal Redactions, and
subsequently nominated for a Pushcart Prize.
Emily Stone bridges dance and theatre worlds by being an actor,
dancer, choreographer and director. Her work has been produced in
Seattle and Portland by PICA's TBA Festival, On the Boards' Northwest
New Works and 12 Minutes Max, 10 Tiny Dances, Performance Works
Northwest, Telegraph Arts' Chroma Project, Velocity Studio and
defunkt theater. As a dancer, she has appeared in work by Sheri
Cohen, Linda Austin, Linda K Johnson, Corrie Befort, Tahni Holt,
Angelle Hebert and Philip Kraft. Stone performs and directs for her
own theater/dance company Salvage Yard with fellow Lewis and Clark
College alum James Moore. She is currently earning her MFA in
Interdisciplinary Art at Goddard College and most recently created a
porno staircase installation as part of "Catacombs" at Portland Art
Center.
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