PICA condemns the violent, racist, and militaristic methodologies of police departments and white supremacist culture across the United States and specifically in Portland, Oregon. We are actively working to dissolve our own connections to these systems. We challenge our city, state, and national government; our partner organizations, our audiences, our donors and funders, and our own organization to do better. We urge you to join us in taking action: donate, read, post, petition, protest, and have tough conversations. We are asking our white and non-Black audiences, artists, donors, partner organizations, and ourselves to find ways to show up and actively engage in solidarity with, and support of, Black community members, Black-led organizations, QTBIPOC, and other historically underserved and underrepresented peoples.
WATCH | DISABILITY + PLEASURE ACTIVISM with adrienne maree brown + Claudia Alick
THURSDAY, JANUARY 28 / 1:00pm PST / 4:00pm EST
Closed captioning + ASL interpreting
A free online event with adrienne maree brown + Claudia Alick, exploring the intersection of disability justice, pleasure + liberation. Hosted by Disability Visibility Project + Integrated Community Services. The Zoom webinar is at capacity, but you can still sign up to watch the event. Please sign-up at www.connectics.org/DPA, and the event organizers will send you a link. If you have any questions, please email dana@connectics.org.
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WATCH | LOOKING FOR TIGER LILY, BY ANTHONY HUDSON
THURSDAY, JANUARY 28 / 4:00pm PST / 7:00pm EST
Starring Anthony Hudson—the human vessel for Portland’s premier drag clown Carla Rossi—Looking for Tiger Lily utilizes song, dance, drag, and video to put a queer spin on the ancestral tradition of storytelling. Asking what it means for a queer mixed Native person to experience their heritage through white normative culture as they recount growing up watching the 1960 production of Peter Pan featuring Sondra Lee’s blonde, blue-eyed “Indian Princess” Tiger Lily, Anthony (and Carla) draw from a songbook sketching across Disney’s Pocahontas to Cher’s Half-Breed.
Written and performed by Anthony Hudson and part of Safe Harbors NYC's 2021 Reflections of Native Voices Festival, presented by The La MaMa Indigenous Initiative. Watch live on January 28th at 4:00pm PST / 7:00pm EST or stream on-demand through Feb. 7th. Looking for Tiger Lily (solo) was co-presented at TBA:19 by PICA and Risk/Reward.
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JOB ANNOUNCEMENT | PROJECT DIRECTOR FOR FIRST NATIONS PERFORMING ARTS (FNPA)
DEADLINE TO APPLY FEBRUARY 5, 2021
The FNPA (formerly known as the Global First Nations Performance Network / GFNPN) – is an Indigenous-led new infrastructure, support system, and resource that will uphold the self-determined goals of Indigenous artists and increase the quantity, impact, and capacity for Indigenous performance in rural and urban communities. FNPA is seeking a Project Director to help establish this multi-year pilot program in collaboration with an established advisory consortium. Click on the link below for more details and to download a PDF of the full job description.
Project Director job description
JOB ANNOUNCEMENT | EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR, APANO (ASIAN PACIFIC AMERICAN NETWORK OF OREGON)
DEADLINE TO APPLY FEBRUARY 9, 2021 | 5:00pm PST
As APANO’s Executive Director –focused on cultivating organizational culture and collaboration– you will lead a team of highly dedicated community organizers and social justice advocates working to realize APANO’s vision, mission, and values. You will work in a distributed leadership model, in close partnership with the significantly empowered eight-member Director Team, to implement policies and strategic direction set by the c3 and c4 Boards of Directors and staff. You’ll help facilitate the organization’s ongoing adaptation and implementation of this new leadership model, which was jointly approved by board and staff members in December, 2020. Click on the link below for more details.
APANO’s Executive Director Job Announcement
DONATE | HELP ICE QUEEN BUILD OUT THEIR STOREFRONT
Ice Queen is a BIPOC woman-owned popsicle business in Portland, OR. It all started back in 2016 when Rebecca Smith began taking entrepreneurial courses around starting the business at Mercy Corps, since then she has managed to go from pop-ups to wholesale to storefront.
We are asking our community for help. Everything Ice Queen has will only get them so far in this build. Examples of what this money will be used for are plumbing, electrical, freezers, permits, ice cream case, fridge etc. We are all in this together and we hope through your support you will be able to walk into a full Ice Queen store by next spring.
CALL FOR BIPOC OR LGBT+ EMERGING ARTISTS
The Downstairs Gallery is a brand new gallery space operating in the downstairs area of the Yoga on Yamhill Studio in Downtown Portland, Oregon. Newly primed for art exhibitions of all types, The Downstairs Gallery recently began working with Daren Todd, artist and muralist, to showcase works from emerging Portland and Northwest area artists.
The Downstairs Gallery is organizing an art show featuring BIPOC or LGBT+ emerging artists, and emerging artists with disabilities. We believe that artists have a unique and undeniable place in this revolution and want to offer a stage for voices that have been too long silenced.
LISTEN | THE BOLD BITCH PODCAST BY GIA GOODRICH
In The BOLD BITCH Podcast we dive deep into taboo topics. Each week award-winning creative powerhouse and compulsively curious host Gia Goodrich talks to badass visionaries and brazen game-changers with bold visions and strong opinions. Diving below the surface of subjects we're socialized not to talk about, we learn, lift the veil, and shift perspectives on the lightning rod issues impacting us every day. It might ruffle a few feathers, but it takes honesty to inspire change and remind us that the boldest version of ourselves is exactly what the world needs.
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