Our 16th Festival of New Performance, showcasing and supporting Pacific Northwest performing artists!
Thanks for coming!
| PICA - Hancock Building, 15 NE Hancock St., Portland, OR, 97212
Music by Drama Informed: (.)welcome(.)
FRIDAY, JUNE 21st THROUGH SUNDAY, JUNE 23rd: 7pm
Our mainstage event – the Festival of New Performance in PICA’s Annex Theatre. These artists were chosen by our fantastic panel of curators to create 20-minute pieces for the Festival.
Including:
Sarah Finn – “Is this the right thing to be doing?” – A keynote speaker at an annual anthropocene conference presents her latest achievement — her metamorphosis into a mushroom.
Olivia Camfield – “Unwinding” – Sisters Olivia and Celeste Camfield use movement, live music, and film to explore the Alien, Mvskoke stories of beyond the stars, and their own selves – as family – navigating through space.
The Clown Mystics – “Seers of the Savant Garde” – an occult, gender-bending ensemble clown performance from Given Davis, Urks Io, and Zai Outlaw that uses the Tarot to play with the hands of fate.
Paul Susi – “The Great Minotaur” – A living digression on emergency homeless shelters in Portland, the inescapable labyrinth of immigrant identity, and confronting the monstrousness of being.
Drama Tops – “DADS” – Elby Brosch and Shane Donohue explore their complex thoughts on getting a daddy and/or turning into a daddy in this sarcastic, inflatables-fueled piece of nightlife and modern dance.
SATURDAY, JUNE 22nd AND SUNDAY, JUNE 23rd: 10p
Stay after the Festival for the R’n’R Bar and a selection of music, film, and ritual in PICA’s Warehouse.
Trash Witch Trio – A vocal mantra, a folklore documentary, and a powerful statement on the ecological trashing of sacred lands.
Drama Informed – Live electronic dance music duo; radical queers; old friends and allies: Vera and Miau envision an empowered queer utopia together.
Sarah Turner – Cam girl priestess, glitch_bitch, takes the hotties to the fat ASStral plane through a guided sonic meditation over house beats.
TAHNI HOLT + EMMA LUTZ-HIGGINS
SATURDAY, JUNE 22nd and SUNDAY, JUNE 23rd at 6p
Tahni Holt and Emma Lutz-Higgins dance through the space of the PICA Warehouse; twinning, twining, and rocking into ways of seeking, dispersing, and disappearing.
LYNDSAY HOGLAND
Once in a Lifetime: Dead People’s Sheets
Taking over the warehouse with the installation Once in a Lifetime: Dead People’s Sheets, Lyndsay Hogland is stitching together linens from estate sales into a massive structure of history and reflection. Running through-out the Festival, Dead People’s Sheets can be seen before or after any Festival event.
OPENING NIGHT PARTY WITH DARK REFLECTOR
Friday, JUNE 21st, 10p
Join us in opening our 16th year of the Festival with Ryan Cross’s new deep-groove music project, Dark Reflector!
Svetlana Trantastic – SATURDAY, JUNE 22nd, 4p
Sonnei Verbena and Alex Hartman of The Pansy Agenda – SUNDAY, JUNE 23rd, 4p
Anthony Hudson and Pepper Pepper return to host a new set of readings from local drag artists.
I need to know how to buy tickets immediately
No problem – go here! Tickets are by the day: getting a ticket for a day lets you come and go for every event in the Festival, in any space. Take a risk, find your reward!
And our tickets are completely and totally pay-what-you-will.
I’d love to come, but I require specific accommodation or need additional information!
Drop us a line at info <AT> risk-reward.org and we’ll see how we can help!
Okay, but what is the Risk/Reward Festival?
Each day the festival includes the same slate of new works, performed back-to-back over a 2+ hour extravaganza with short breaks and one intermission.
We solicit proposals from regional artists for new works that can be performed in 20 minutes or less. A panel of local artists and tastemakers select a lineup and we challenge the artists to run wild – encouraging creative risks, experimentation, and bold investigation. No one really knows what to expect until opening night. Audiences come to sample a variety of artistic voices and art forms in what the Willamette Week calls, “speed dating for contemporary performance.”
The Risk/Reward Festival is dedicated to the presentation of new performance and preference is given to works that are currently in development or that have not been produced fully in the past. Risk/Reward addresses some of the most pressing needs of local artists and audiences by providing a platform for artists to present new work while introducing Portland audiences to artists from across the west coast.
The festival’s major goals are:
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Due to the popularity of our Pay-What-You-Will model —
we are making ALL TICKETS PAY-WHAT-YOU-WILL for the entire festival again this year!
Thanks to our festival sponsors!
