SIGNS OF DISSENT
CALENDAR OF CONCERTS & EVENTS - FEBRUARY 4-28
Saturday February 7th - 7:30pm
Lauren Sheehan (Roots Americana)
Lauren Sheehan is a fiesty Great Auntie with a passion for independence, self determination and social justice. Her Irish roots tend to reach for the broodier side and for this show, Signs of Dissent, she is pulling our shadows from the corners, using folk song and music to illuminate the darker side of humanity. Expect moments of levity to balance the set and to reinvigorate our senses of fullness and hope.
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Hobnail (Irish Music)
​Irish traditional music has been at the center of identity and political struggle in Ireland for centuries. Over the 800 years of attempted control by colonial powers, Ireland’s harpers, pipers, poets, and balladeers memorialized the plight of the Irish as a testament to their long struggle to self determination and preservation.
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Friday February 13th - 6:00pm
News of the Day
Workshop / Performance with John Daniel Teply Gallery
News of the Day is a group of creative people who identify and create art and performances from the archetypes, metaphors, and allegories found in the daily news. Creatives who are a real time witness to Shakespeare's portrayal of the foolishness and vanity of King Lear; Goya’s oil painting of the horrific appetite of Saturn eating his children; Tchaikovsky’s ballet of Princess Odette transforming into a swan each day to swim in a lake of her mothers tears; Sophocles’ Oedipus, who can't escape his fate; the blind poet Homer, singing his song of Helen as she dances on the walls of Troy.
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Saturday February 14th - 7:30pm
MOsely WOtta (Spoken word, Hip-Hop, Documentary)
MOsley WOtta is both a full live band and solo performer Jason Graham. Jason Graham is a prize-winning competitive poet and performer. Both his visual art and auditory artistic expressions inspire us to find common bonds. Even the stage name MOsley WOtta is a play on the words mostly water. MOsley WOtta – solo or ensemble – is fun, uplifting and high energy. In the spirit of ideas worth spreading, TEDx is a program of local, self-organized events that bring people together to share an experience. This evening with MOsley WOtta will be in that spirit.
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​​The Dan Kaufman Band (Western Rock & Blues)
From the one-man band to the full ensemble, Dan Kaufman uses his baritone voice, rhythm guitar, and harmonica to deliver western-style rock & blues that you can move to. His original songs are easy to dance to and come with a message, and Dan’s message ties in perfectly with this month’s “Signs of Dissent” theme.
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Friday February 20th - 6:00pm
Pressing Back: Printmaking as Protest
Talk and Printmaking Workshop with Hannah Theiss​​​
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Saturday February 21st - 1pm & 2pm
Panel Discussion with The Black Gallery, Don't Shoot Portland, and CoDesign Collaborative
Followed by Protest Poster Workshop (2pm)
Saturday February 21st - 7:30pm
The Bansidhe Chorus (Musical Theatre)
Join us as we sing funny songs about our human struggle to find our empowerment. It is never too late.
Themes on aging, queerness, mysticism. All acts of imagination are antiauthoritarian
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Read & Wolf (Queer Performers)
They will be presenting performance essays on homeless health
care, substance use, AIDS grief and the importance of ridiculous costumes.
Kirk Read is the author of "How I Learned to Snap,” works as a
public health nurse and co-leads the Pacific Northwest Collage
Collective. https://linktr.ee/kirkread
Ed Wolf is a longtime writer and AIDS care provider featured
in the film "We Were Here." Read his substack at https://edwolf.substack.com/
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Friday February 27th - 7:30pm
Jam Busters (Bluegrass)
The JAM BUSTERS are a bluegrass power trio consisting of Justin Auld (guitar, vocals), Jed Mitchell (mandolin, vocals) and Matt Donahue (bass, vocals). Playing more obscure and challenging bluegrass songs and tunes the JAM BUSTERS strive to push the boundaries of traditional jamming to the limit.
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​​Bug Toast (Progressive Folk)
Bug Toast defy categorization, playing genre-bending, progressive chamber folk on zouk, accordion, guitars, bass, violin, synthesizers, and percussion. Major themes of their original music center on social justice and deep human experience.
Blended from two musical families, the ensemble create the arrangements together -- richly textured, interwoven pieces with careful attention to counterpoint, voicing, harmonies, and rhythms, often in interesting modes and time signatures.
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