With my aerobics partner Miss Nancy, I teach Homorobics every 1st and 3rd Wednesday of the month at 2020 Cycle. Class meets at 7pm at 2020 Union and is a $3-10 donation.
Experimental Filmmaker Karaoke Throwdown II!
Presented by PDX Fest and Disjecta
Friday, May 8
Doors open at 9PM, 21+
$7
In 2008, PDX Fest birthed a brand new tradition – The Experimental Filmmaker Karaoke Throwdown - creating an unholy alliance between traditional karaoke and experimental filmmaking for the benefit of all mankind. In 2009, the party returns to make your karaoke fantasies a dayglo reality. A brave new team of cinematic experimentalists have hunkered down in their mad laboratories to concoct an all new PDX Fest Karaoke Katalog of epic proportions featuring another round of your favorite karaoke hits. Audience members will have the opportunity to sign up to perform songs from this custom catalog, each accompanied by a brand new video from one of our challengers. Expect over-the-top performances, spontaneous sing-a-longs, and a whole mess of surprises in this one of a kind event. You’ve never experienced karaoke like this! Singing is not required but we DARE you to resist.
Featuring videos by:
Jesse England, Stephen Slappe, Christy LeMaster, Andy Blubaugh, Bryan Boyce, Kara Hearn, Jodie Mack, Jeanne Liotta, Sarah Halpern, Karl Lind, Michael Robinson, Rob Tyler, Ben Russell, Keith Wilson, Chris Larson, Shana Moulton, Melissa Tvetan, Jon Beanlands, Patrick Williams, Nickey Robare and more!!
Plus:
Performances from YouTube stylistas Rush-N-Disco and everyone’s favorite animated superhero band Hooliganship! DJ BJ on the turntables! Best watch out when PDX Fest gets its party on! POW! Your world just got rocked!
Hunker Down to Rise Above
curated by Vanessa Renwick 2008
78 minutes
The program starts out with a short by Gibbs Chapman which shows how in the modern era, the combined elements of human innovation and dementia have led us into a new relationship with our time and energy, one in which the quest for a current immediacy or an ease of operation has created a culture of lethargy and ignorance of new proportion.
This film is followed by a slew of shorts which focus on folks taking matters into their own hands, be it within bike culture, hobo culture, kitchen culture or just plain ol' falling in love. These films are not the usual activist videos, but rather a hybrid of art/documentary and DIY.
The Waypost-Portland, Oregon- March 13, 2009
