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2024 Risk/Reward Festival

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A series of solos choreographed by Linda Austin, claire barrera, keyon gaskin, Takahiro Yamamoto, and Lu Yim.

Interwoven storytelling and improvised music telling a tale of communal grief.

WAITING FOR GUFFMAN (1996) returns to the big screen with Portland's own Risk/Reward!

Featuring Hannah Victoria, Slumber Party, Shannon Stewart/Screaming Traps, Marisa & Maribel Plasencia, Claire Rigsby, Emily June Newton, James Mapes/Fly Paper Games

Carla Rossi navigates climate disaster and the terror and joy of living on an increasingly distressed planet.

GHOSTING dissects the inner monologue of a performer through questioning the boundary lines of the audience-performer relationship.

Featuring Kate Duffly & Peter Ksander, Noelle Simone, Jenny May Peterson, Wade Madsen, ATOLE, James Mapes//Fly Paper Games, Roman Norfleet...

Unit Souzou ensemble members will explore otherness in their deeply personal stories in this multi-disciplinary taiko performance.

Ongoing fundraiser for Risk/Reward & contemporary performing artists in the PNW

Featuring Princess Bouton, Wobbly Dance, Morivivi Theatre (with Hand2Mouth), Kelly Nesbitt & Mad Composer Lab, Olivia Louise...

Featuring Princess Bouton, Wobbly Dance, Morivivi Theatre (with Hand2Mouth), Kelly Nesbitt & Mad Composer Lab, Olivia Louise...

Comeback Special featuring music and hosting by Renée Muzquiz and co-host extraordinaire Jason Potter!

FUNDRAISER FOR PNW ARTISTS ON APRIL 15

Special Edition: Queer National Convention! This week, all ticket proceeds go to Portland's Black Resilience Fund.

Featuring Subashini Ganesan, KT Kusmaul, Oluyinka Akinjiola, Fear No Music, Amenta Abioto, Gerrin Mitchell, Anya Pearson...

Risk/Reward supports the current national uprising and stands in solidarity with those working to fight for Black lives.

A filmed installment of the variety show that defies the traditional cabaret with rock music and a focus on the intimate humor, joys and vulnerabilities of living on the LGBTQIA+ spectrum.

Unit Souzou ensemble will come together for the first time with installation artist Horatio Law and violinist-looper, Joe Kye in a celebratory showcase of these Asian American artists.

RENÉE’S QUEER CABARET is a live stage performance that defies the traditional cabaret with rock music and a focus on the intimate humor, joys and vulnerabilities of living on the LGBTQIA+ spectrum.

CLOWN DOWN tackles anxiety, depression, artistic block, and your favorite everyday traumas in a warped tribute to Mister Rogers and absurdist theatre.

Portland variety show hosts Dahlia Kash (Mélange), Belinda Carroll (Outlandish), Meg Nanna & Jess Green (Fused Creative), and Renée Muzquiz (Renée's Queer Cabaret) share their vision and talk curation, promotion and production.

Starring past Risk/Reward artist Anthony Hudson // Carla Rossi, who put a queer spin on the ancestral art of storytelling. Part of PICA's 2019 TBA Festival.

Featuring Body Home Fat Dance, Milton Lim & Patrick Blenkarn, ilvs strauss, LanDforms, Joni Renee Whitworth...

The third installment of our resistance variety show featuring drag, burlesque, storytelling, music, and more. This show's theme is B-Movie favorite "Not of This Earth."

Risk/Reward and Gallery 114 collaborate on a live performance during the opening reception and First Thursday of David Slader and Owen Carey's show "InkBodySkinPaint+Fire."

Beloved drag/dance femme icon Cherdonna returns to Portland with a show that draws on vintage feminist ideals to find out what queer/drag feminine means today.

The second in a series of themed "resistance variety shows" hosted by Rockstar and B Movie Actress Renée Muzquiz. October's theme? "Night of the Living Dead"

2015 Risk/Reward Festival artists Tim Smith-Stewart and Jeffrey Azevedo premiere their full-length work in Portland.

The first in a series of themed "resistance variety shows" hosted by musician and B Movie actress Renée Muzquiz.

Risk/Reward's first foray into the outdoors with pop-up performances in the Pearl, coinciding with First Thursday's art walks.

Featuring Bouton Volonte, Cheryl Delostrinos/AU Collective, Moonyeka, Eli Steffen, Britt Karhoff, John Berendzen...

Strong Female Protagonist is a comedic, queer solo performance that prioritizes the power of femininity and sass.

Risk/Reward hosts this gathering of Portland’s independent theatre, dance and hybrid art-makers. Come together to help survey the field and discuss...

Featuring Linda Austin Dance, Queen Shmooquan, Pam Tzeng, Pepper Pepper, Shannon Stewart/Donal Mosher, Kiana Harris...

Winners and Losers is a staged conversation that embraces the ruthless logic of capitalism..

Featuring Holcombe Waller, David Ornette Cherry, Nancy Ellis, Noah Dunham, Danielle Ross, Donal Mosher and Jack Stocklyn...

Featuring Vanessa Goodman / Action at a Distance, Anthony Hudson / Carla Rossi, Milton Lim / Hong Kong Exile, SNKR, ilvs strauss...

A one-of-a-kind dance spectacular by Seattle’s favorite drag-clown-dance artist....

Featuring Tahni Holt, Sascha Blocker, Faith Helma, Anthony Hudson (aka Carla Rossi), Grace Carter, Action/Adventure Theater and Portland Experimental Theatre Ensemble...

A haunting meditation on public expectations, private vulnerabilities, and the precariousness of the feminine ideal. Featuring Suniti Dernovsek, Holland Andrews, Allie Hankins...

Featuring: Markeith Wiley, Faith Helma, Nancy Ellis, Éowyn Emerald & Dancers, Dani Tirrell, Katie Piatt, Tim Smith-Stewart, Jessica Jobaris & General Magic...

Featuring Linda Austin, Tracy Broyles, Katie Watkins, opticnoodle, PETE, Katherine Longstreth, Fuse Theatre Ensemble, Push Leg, Pepper Pepper and Wayne Bund...

Join us for a year-end celebration and special video screening of this one-of-a-kind dance/music/performance mashup by Montreal-based artist Frédérick Gravel and his hot-blooded team of dancers/musicians...

A correspondence between chroeographer Allie Hankins and Ballet Russes danseur noble Vaslav Nijinsky...

Featuring: Laura Heit, Ilvs Strauss, The Neutral Fembot Project, Erin Pike, Lucy Lee Yim, Portland Experimental Theatre Ensemble...

KILL ALL FESTIVALS is a consortium of summer festivals that come together for a unique event of live performances, line up announcements, film, music, animation, prizes, pizza, beer and more...

Part installation, part image-driven theater, Loss Machine unearths a world of lost items, misplaced thoughts, and fractured journeys all housed within an intricately detailed set...

Featuring Portland Experimental Theater Ensemble, Troika Ranch, Alicia Jo Rabins, Hand2Mouth, Allie Hankins, Kaj-anne Pepper, Danielle Ross, PushLeg, Action/Adventure, and Fuse Theatre Ensemble...

Featuring AJA, Wayne Bund, Shannon Stewart, Josh Martin (605 Collective), LanceLife, the Satori Group...

KILL ALL FESTIVALS is a collaborative event between the Experimental Film Festival, Creative Music Guild (hosts of the Improvisation Summit of Portland), Northwest Animation Festival, and the Risk/Reward Festival...

New creations and world premieres are all the rage in the performance community. This event gathers local dramaturgs, playwrights, ensembles, producers and audience members to discuss the creation and evolution of new work...

A forum for creators from the Northwest to introduce new and upcoming projects to an audience of international artists, curators, producers, presenters, and programmers...

Featuring Tracy Broyles, Corrie Befort, Pappas and Dancers, DECEPTiCONS, Queen Shmooquan, Hand2Mouth, Cat Main & Jamie Nesbitt...

Featuring bobbevy, Jessica Jobaris and general magic, Part & Parcel, Kyle Loven, People Person, Portland Experimental Theatre Lab, Zac Nelson & Stephanie Simek...

Featuring The Cherdonna & Lou Show, Oslund + Co, Katherine Longstreth, Erin Leddy, Angela Fair, Paul Budraitis directed by Sean Ryan, Hand2Mouth, Mike Pham...

NYC performance company Witness Relocation comes to Portland for a one night showing of their newest piece, THE PANIC SHOW. Dubbed, "A dance-theater anarchist's Utopia" by Performing Arts Journal, Witness Relocation combines dance & theater ....

Featuring Hot Little Hands, Linda Austin, Janet Pants, Angela Fair, Joe von Appen, Hooliganship, Byron Au Yong, Rush-N-Disco...

Justin Bond, star of John Cameron Mitchell's 'Shortbus', 2009 nominee for the GLAAD Awards and one half of Tony nominated performance due Kiki and Herb, began writing songs while straddling a log on a mountain in Tennessee on Mayday of last year ...

Featuring Woolly Mammoth Comes to Dinner, LizZieMoVeS Co., Kyoko Uchida, Rush-N-Disco, Marya Sea Kaminski, Faith Helma, Joe von Appen, Fever Theater, Helsinki Syndrome, Oracle, Iretsu, Atole, Polka Madre / Jack "Yankl" Falk, DJ Browkenwindow...