UPCOMING EVENTS: 2008

Have a smashingly brilliant 2008, everyone! Here's what I'll be up to, among other stuff:

The Wife, the Mistress, & the Prostitute: Plazm at the Back Room, January 11
At Podkrepa Hall, Portland. I'll be on the hot seat, with Plazm's Josh Berger & Jon Raymond, for this back room supper & art/design conversation. With music by Tara Jane O'Neil. Curated and hosted by Stephanie Snyder. $45 includes supper, drinks, and your copy of a book written & pressed specifically for this occasion. Reservations highly recommended. Details here.

"HOUSE BOUND" at Performance Works NW, April 13
Portland, Oregon. I'm thrilled to be creating with the Works Corps again. My own piece will confront the identity of a childless/childfree woman in a culture built around the rituals and archetypes of motherhood and procreation. Audiences must call/email ahead to schedule their spot in this unusual, intimate performance. Details here.

Hypatia Residency, April 16-May 7
Olympic Peninsula, Washington. I am grateful to Hypatia-in-the-Woods for the opportunity to focus on my work in solitude for three blissful weeks, as part of their residency program for artists and writers.

Drowning Rat, May 16-18
Undisclosed location, Oregon Cascades. Oregon's finest private festival of ritual performative madness enters its seventh season. As the founder and reigning Rat Princesse, what can I say? I'm excited.

First Wednesdays Poetry Reading, June 4
Portland, Oregon. Curated by Charles Deemer, this series takes place every first Wednesday, 7-9pm, at Blackbird Wineshop on NE 44 off Fremont. Music, videos, and readings.

"American Battery" at Fort Worden -- POSTPONED
Port Townsend, Washington. My proposal for an installation and performance at the decommissioned military base housing the Centrum arts organization is in the bureaucratic maze at the moment. I hope to work with Tom Cashman, a photographer and videographer stationed in Iraq, along with a non-heirarchical selection of Goddard College MFA students and guest artists. Watch this space for developments...

"Title TK" at Fort Worden -- August 16-17, 2008
Port Townsend, Washington. For this August, I will perform and direct an intimate installation and performance at Battery Vicar on the base, along with three performers who work in movement and dance: Cara Cadawaller of San Diego, Kristen Tsiatsios of Seattle, and Emily Stone of Portland.

"Beyond Walking Practice," August 25-September 2
Black Rock City, Nevada. A followup to the 2005 and 2006 "Burqua Walk" experiments.