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Festival Music

Roscoe Mitchell Headlines a Generation of Improvisers

Creative Music Guild brought together dozens of unique performers every day at Disjecta, for their annual dance and music improvisation conference. Mostly, it is music, but the importance of dance and spoken word in the program is now irreversible. When inclusive community groups do something big, you can feel it. ISP is an event that […]

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Festival Photography

Photo Set: Improvisation Summit of Portland

Ambit was on the scene for almost all of Creative Music Guild’s annual festival, which brings improvised dance and music together through collaborative performance. Images of the event are special, in that they represent an immediate experience, one that cannot necessarily be replicated. Photography captures the moment which is completely fleeting, and in improvisation, the moment […]

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Film

Enjoyable Eclectic Collection at Northwest Filmmakers Festival

I have many alarming and unsettling thoughts swimming in my head on a regular basis, akin to a piranha eating away at my identity, sanity, and psychological safety. I’d like to think these are common: the unforeseen malignant brain tumor developing in my head, and the inherent paranoia of some ominous, all-seeing ‘big eye’/’power that be’ pulling the strings of […]

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Film

Small Acquisitions Over Time Equal One Big Collection

Say goodbye to Cinema Project for the summer. Last weekend, their final frame for several months flickered in the musty upstairs event hall of the VFW (Veterans of Foreign Wars) local office in the industrial-turning-leisurely inner southeast neighborhood. They hope that this marks their last event after two years of gypsy-like, ad-hoc presentation from unusual […]

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Report War & Peace

Yemen Crisis and the Wheel of Contradiction

The Yemen Crisis only recently grabbed my attention during the usual morning routine of reading the news over breakfast. Lately, a story of violence, destruction, extremism, and political crisis breaks nearly everyday. Not only are there too many civil wars going on right now to cover, they tend to read like sports articles and analysis: […]