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Fertile Ground: 5th Annual Multi-Disciplinary Arts Festival

Starting next Thursday, January 22 and running through February 1, an eleven-day program called Fertile Ground will present numerous new works. Tagged “Abundant Acts of Creation in Portland”, it is a city-wide theater-centric arts festival now going in to its fifth year and will feature a multitude of genres such as dance, comedy, and staged readings. A week ago, […]

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Festival Literature and Spoken Word

Poetry is the New Black

Poetry Press Week 2014 at Disjecta Imagine a small, dark stage. In the center, there is a child’s bed and floor lamp. Two screens serve as the backdrop. On one, a black and white sky of furiously undulating clouds is projected, looking like the turbulent water of two whirlpools at odds, swirling in two directions. […]

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Arts Review Festival

Yellow and Brown: Visual Arts Review + T:BA:14 Epilogue

As round as an apple, as deep as a cup There is still time to view all the visual exhibits featured at T:BA this year. One thing that now seems permanent to the routine is this magazine that Kristan Kennedy put together to accompany her visual arts program. The content pivots out from featured artists […]

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Arts Review Festival

Milk Crates and Paper Towels at T:BA:14

Days 9 & 11 at T:BA:14 Day 9 I got to the workshop with Larry Arrington and Ruairi Donovan a little bit late. Everyone was seated on the floor in the space just outside (inside) the studio. Sitting in a circle, people took turns randomly sharing the skills/things they are good at/can offer. Ruairi wrote down […]

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Arts Review Festival

T:BA:14 Scatters the Room and Kicks Up the Dust

Days 9-11 at T:BA:14 The walls are closing in and there is no escape. No escape but through yourself. But when you find the hatch and down you go, there is no turning back, and its hatches all the way down. It is a dream realized upon a dream, projected against the brick wall of […]