Performing Arts

Enjoy A Voice of Her Own / Una Voz Propia, an evening of music, storytelling, and film celebrating the cultures, stories, and extraordinary talents that immigrants bring to the state and communities—and standing with them when they need support the most.

The evening will feature live music and storytelling by Gemanereida Barragán-Cruz—Mariachi Singer and Storyteller, and culminate in the world premiere of a new 15-minute documentary about her extraordinary artistic journey and the power of her voice.

More than a film screening, this is an evening to gather in community, experience music and stories live, and celebrate Gemanereida and the many ways immigrant artists enrich the cultural life of our community.

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Part origin story, part healing spell. Decrepit psychedelia with a powerdrone score. Memory As A Rock Out Of Reach is a duet performance in which Erika M. Anderson (EMA) and visual artist Tabitha Nikolai use video game technologies to build out the psycho-sexual inner world of a girl-child in the ’80s. Soundtracked by modular synth and guitar, a narrator searches for her shape amid commercial detritus, degraded 3D scans, and a Polly Pocket apocalypse.

Erika M. Anderson is an artist and musician who has been active in the West Coast DIY and experimental scene for over two decades. She performs under her initials as EMA and has toured extensively, playing internationally in warehouses, sold-out arenas and everywhere in between. In 2011 she released her critically-acclaimed solo debut, Past Life Martyred Saints, which has been included on the “Best Of The Decade” lists from Pitchfork, Stereogum, and Rolling Stone. Her albums are frequently self-produced, with a signature style that borrows from noise, folk, and memories of popular music. While Anderson’s music has brought her to prestigious music festivals, including Coachella, Bonnaroo, and Roskilde, her multimedia performances have taken place in museums such as PS1 MoMA, The New Museum, and The Barbican Centre in London. She has been profiled in The New Yorker, The New York Times, The Guardian, and many others. NPR called her indie music’s “greatest worldbuilder.” Originally from South Dakota, Anderson now lives in Portland, Oregon, where she runs a recording studio.

Tabitha Nikolai is a visual artist and designer who uses video games, installation, and writing to study life under the visceral and disorienting onslaught of mass virtuality. Currently based in Portland, she grew up in Utah, and is forever influenced by her experiences there. Her work orbits themes of gender, isolation, futurism, and fantasy, often with a dark and humorous twist. With a long history of running DIY spaces, Nikolai believes deeply in the lifesaving power of community-organized scenes. Her work has been shown internationally at venues including the Kunsthall Trondheim, Trondheim, Norway; Vox Populi, Philadelphia, PA; and apexart, New York, NY. Nikolai’s video games have been covered by The New York Times, VICE, and Art in America, and in academic outlets including the Journal of Gaming & Virtual Worlds.

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Memorie Olfattive is a film documentary about perfumer and visionary Meo Fusciuni, exploring his life and creative process. The film beautifully follows his early beginnings and path into the present, exploring themes of identity and personal transformation.

One of the best parts of art is that it is often hard to describe, difficult to put words to, and ultimately must be experienced for oneself. The artists making such profound works as these produce pieces that are much more difficult to describe, as they are not just the source of this feeling, this heart, this soul, but also the hand that offers it into our collective existence. Portland fragrance enthusiasts have shown great care and passion for Meo Fusiuni’s works of fragrant art over the years; anyone who has smelled these vulnerable and singular scents from this honest and big-hearted perfumer knows how moving, evocative, and emotional they are. Meo, in turn, cares deeply for Portland and Fumerie Parfumerie, and is responsible for Fumerie‘s very first original fragrance, Ponte Etereo, which is inspired in equal measure by Portland and the emotional bond between Tracy Tsefalas (Fumerie Founder, Owner, & Creative Director) and Meo Fusciuni. This documentary, directed by Francesco Spagnuolo and produced by Angelika Vision, is an intimate and poetic journey through scent, memory, and identity.

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