Nancy Hills Caine College of the Arts Creative Artist of the Year
Nancy Hills is the 2016 Creative Artist of the Year from Utah State University's Caine College of the Arts. Nancy was born in a Studebaker in San Mateo, California. She is head of Theatre Costume Design at USU. Nancy is a member of the Costume Society of America, the Costume Society of Great Britain and the U.S. Institute of Theatre Technology. Some of her favorite designs include Les Liaisons Dangereuses, Pride and Prejudice, Amadeus, To Kill a Mockingbird, The Miser, Enchanted April and Our Country’s Good. Her designs for The Miser and Dangerous Liaisons were displayed at the International Prague Quadrennial. She has also designed at the Artist Repertory Theatre in Portland, Oregon including Next to Normal, And So It Goes, The Playboy of the Western World and Blithe Spirit. She designed the premiere of Streetlight Woodpecker at The Salt Lake Acting Company in February 2016. In 2013 she received the Janet Arnold Award from the Society of Antiquaries in London that funded the development of a collection of patterns taken from two historic clothing collections in the UK. Nancy can be found on YouTube giving a TEDX Talk on the impact of WWII on clothing called Make Do and Mend. She is the mother of twin sons Douglas and Tristan.
Panel Responsibility to Represent with Indigenous Artists in Portland, Oregon—Monday 9 April 2018
Artists Repertory Theatre, NAYA, and Native Arts & Cultures Foundation in Portland, Oregon present the panel discussion “Responsibility to Represent: What is the artists responsibility to their community and how does it inspire/empower future generations of indigenous artists?” livestreaming on the global, commons-based peer produced HowlRound TV network at howlround.tv Monday 9 April 2018 at 7:30 p.m. PDT (Los Angeles) / 9:30 p.m. CDT(Chicago) / 10:30 p.m. EDT (New York).
What is the artists responsibility to their community and how does it inspire/empower the future generations of indigenous artists?
MODERATED BY: Alyssa Macy (Confederated Tribes of Warm Springs)
About HowlRound TV
HowlRound TV is a global, commons-based peer produced, open access livestreaming and video archive project stewarded by the nonprofit HowlRound. HowlRound TV is a free and shared resource for live conversations and performances relevant to the world's performing arts and cultural fields. Its mission is to break geographic isolation, promote resource sharing, and to develop our knowledge commons collectively. Participate in a community of peer organizations revolutionizing the flow of information, knowledge, and access in our field by becoming a producer and co-producing with us. Learn more by going to our participate page. For any other queries, email tv@howlround.com, or call Vijay Mathew at +1 917.686.3185 Signal/WhatsApp. View the video archive of past events.
Portland Oregon Artists
Portland Oregon Artists
Chabre Vickers, Big Brothers Big Sisters
Produced October 2, 2014 Artists Repertory Theatre
Comcast Newsmakers of Oregon and Southwest Washington is hosted by veteran journalist Ken Ackerman. It features informational discussions with local, state and federal elected officials as well as community, non-profit, education and civic leaders. It is a great way for residents in the community to find out about the people and issues that directly affect their lives.
Pegge McGuire, Fair Housing Council of Oregon
Produced October 2, 2014 Artists Repertory Theatre
Comcast Newsmakers of Oregon and Southwest Washington is hosted by veteran journalist Ken Ackerman. It features informational discussions with local, state and federal elected officials as well as community, non-profit, education and civic leaders. It is a great way for residents in the community to find out about the people and issues that directly affect their lives.
Andrew Haight, OMSI
Produced October 2, 2014 Artists Repertory Theatre
Comcast Newsmakers of Oregon and Southwest Washington is hosted by veteran journalist Ken Ackerman. It features informational discussions with local, state and federal elected officials as well as community, non-profit, education and civic leaders. It is a great way for residents in the community to find out about the people and issues that directly affect their lives.
Erin Hubert, Boys & Girls Club of Portland
Produced October 2, 2014 Artists Repertory Theatre
Comcast Newsmakers of Oregon and Southwest Washington is hosted by veteran journalist Ken Ackerman. It features informational discussions with local, state and federal elected officials as well as community, non-profit, education and civic leaders. It is a great way for residents in the community to find out about the people and issues that directly affect their lives.
Anything Helps God Bless - A Snowlion Repertory Theatre Production. Sept. 29 - Oct. 8, 2017
How do you feel about panhandling in Portland, Maine?
The panhandlers on the median strips have created a lot of controversy in Portland, Maine. In this play by Snowlion Reportory Company, the conscience of the community is tested when Portland must come to grips with conflicted feelings about homelessness, giving, and individual freedom. The proposal of a simple public safety ordinance unleashes a torrent of passionate, sometimes outrageous response from all sides that ultimately leads to a heated court battle over constitutional rights.
This production is 100% true and based on the voices of those involved: mayors, city councilors, advocates, lawyers, police, the press, the public, neighborhood association heads, and the panhandlers themselves.
LOCATION-DATES-TICKETS
The World Premiere Production runs from September 29 through October 8 at the Portland Ballet Studio Theater at 517 Forest Avenue in Portland. Tickets are $20 and may be ordered at snowelionrep.org. or 207-518-9305.
For more general information, visit snowlionrep.org.
This production is funded in part by a grant from the Maine Arts Commission an independent state agency supported by the National Endowment for the Arts.
**The views expressed in this video and in this performance are not necessarily the views of the participants of the production, including Dr. Lou Jacobs and Jacobs Chiropractic Acupuncture, P.A. Dr. Jacobs is on the board of Snowlion Repertory Company.
Website:
Find us on Facebook:
Sarah Slipper, Woolf Papers (2016)
Choreographed by Sarah Slipper. Performed by dancers Samantha Campbell, Kody Jauron, Elijah Labay, Lindsey McGill, Franco Nieto, Andrea Parson, Julia Radick, Viktor Usov, and Ching Ching Wong at Lincoln Performance Hall, Portland State University.
Sarah Slipper is the founder and artistic director of NW Dance Project:
For more information about the Portland Dance Archives at Portland State University Special Collections:
Beth Kaye, Oregon Public Heath Institute
Produced October 2, 2014 Artists Repertory Theatre
Comcast Newsmakers of Oregon and Southwest Washington is hosted by veteran journalist Ken Ackerman. It features informational discussions with local, state and federal elected officials as well as community, non-profit, education and civic leaders. It is a great way for residents in the community to find out about the people and issues that directly affect their lives.
What If Culture Really Mattered?: Kimberly Howard at TEDxPorltand
Currently, the state of Oregon ranks 33rd in public funding for the arts. We can do better than that.
What if we treated culture if it really mattered? What if we had a self-sustaining fund in perpetuity that helped propel our cultural pursuits in the arts, heritage & humanities? Kimberly Howard is on the right track and has an idea to share.
Kimberly Howard was appointed in 2009 to oversee the Oregon Cultural Trust—to develop and sustain arts, heritage and humanities. Previously she was managing director at Portland's Interstate Firehouse Cultural Center and education/outreach director for Artists Repertory Theatre. Howard is an accomplished actress with credits in New York, the Williamstown Theatre Festival and Portland theaters, including Sojourn Theatre and Boom Arts' staged reading of Hollow Roots by Christina Anderson at Reed College.
In the spirit of ideas worth spreading, TEDx is a program of local, self-organized events that bring people together to share a TED-like experience. At a TEDx event, TEDTalks video and live speakers combine to spark deep discussion and connection in a small group. These local, self-organized events are branded TEDx, where x = independently organized TED event. The TED Conference provides general guidance for the TEDx program, but individual TEDx events are self-organized.* (*Subject to certain rules and regulations)
A Promise Kept: 15 – Mary Kathryn Nagle, Esq.
Influential policy advocate, writer, curator, and 2014 recipient of the Presidential Medal of Freedom Suzan Shown Harjo (Cheyenne and Hodulgee Muscogee) is recognized for a lifetime of achievement in this symposium, “A Promise Kept: The Inspiring Life and Works of Suzan Shown Harjo.” A founding trustee of the National Museum of the American Indian, Harjo’s legacy of activism and artistic accomplishment continues to inspire Native Nations and people and influence U.S. policies about Native sovereignty and cultures. In this segment, Mary Kathryn Nagle, Esq., Partner, Pipestem Law, P.C. and Playwright, speaks on From Performance to Poetry: The Power of Suzan Shown Harjo’s Narrative.
Mary Kathryn Nagle (Cherokee Nation) is a playwright and a partner at Pipestem Law, where she works to protect tribal sovereignty and the inherent right of Indian Nations to protect their women and children from domestic violence and sexual assault. Nagle is an alum of the 2013 Public Theater Emerging Writers Program. Productions include Miss Lead (Amerinda, 59E59), Fairly Traceable (Native Voices at the Autry), Sovereignty (Arena Stage), Manahatta (Oregon Shakespeare Festival), Return to Niobrara (Rose Theater), and Crossing Mnisose (Portland Center Stage). She has received commissions from Arena Stage, the Rose Theater, Portland Center Stage, Denver Center for the Performing Arts, Yale Repertory Theatre, and Round House Theater. In 2019, Marin Theatre Company will produce Sovereignty, and the Yale Repertory Theatre will produce Manahatta.
The symposium was webcast and recorded in the National Museum of the American Indian Rasmuson Theater on September 20, 2019.
Queen Shmooquan - Risk/Reward Festival 2012
Queen Shmooquan. I am.
Performed at the Risk/Reward Festival of New Performance
June 23-24, 2012
Queen Shmooquan and original music created/performed by Jeppa K Hall.
Video by Joe Plotts
Additional music by Prince, Omar Souleyman, Banned from Kona, Bill Horist, Eric Clapton
BIOS
Jeppa K Hall is a performance artist/comedian, vocalist, and musician based out of Seattle, Washington.
Jeppa's performances as Queen Shmooquan are a hybridization of an unknown number of genres resulting in solo psychedelic theater performances that merge pop-art clowning with multi-media performance art, music, and non-linear storytelling. She is also known as Goatgirl: her 21st century ballads project and is one half of the acoustic metal duo FINGER with violinist Julie Baldridge.
Joe Plotts is a multimedia artist working with video and new technologies to create audio/video installations in a variety of environments. He studied film and video production at the Evergreen State College and has self produced documentaries in Asia, North America and India.
SPECIAL THANKS
Eli Kaufman, Bianca Maggio, Lutra Elwha Anicha Kaufman-Hall
Risk/Reward Festival of New Performance
June 23-24, 2012
Sat-Sun 7:30pm | Artists Repertory Theatre
The Risk/Reward Festival celebrates its fifth anniversary in 2012. This annual West Coast micro-fest presents dance, theatre and music artists who are pushing the boundaries of live performance in new and innovative directions.
DANCE: Tracy Broyles (Portland); Corrie Befort (Anacortes, WA); Pappas and Dancers (Los Angeles)
PERFORMANCE ART: DECEPTiCONS (Kaj-anne Pepper & Anthony Hudson, Portland); Queen Shmooquan (Seattle)
THEATRE: Hand2Mouth (Portland); Cat Main & Jamie Nesbitt (Vancouver, BC)
Thanks to our festival sponsors!
Sterling Bank, Oregon Arts Commission, Ninkasi, Hand2Mouth, Willamette Week, Boom Arts, Conduit Dance, KZME, Hot Lips Pizza
Black Violin - A Flat (Music Video) (2012)
Black Violin's new single A Flat off of their highly anticipated Sophomore album Classically Trained produced by Infamous. Video was directed by @WileyAbbas shot in Brooklyn NYC. @BlackViolin
Get Black Violin's new album Stereotypes
Apple Music:
Amazon Music:
Google Play:
Spotify:
Connect With Us
Opening Plenary Session—2017 TCG National Conference Full Circle—Portland, OR—Thurs, June 8 2017
Theatre Communications Group presents the 2017 TCG National Conference: Full Circle (ASL-interpreted) livestreaming on the global, commons-based peer-produced HowlRound TV network at howlround.tv Thursday, June 8 to Saturday, June 10.
From June 8-10, the 2017 TCG National Conference: Full Circle will welcome 1,000+ theatre practitioners from across the globe to Portland, OR, for peer connection, professional development, and inspiring thought-leaders from within and beyond the field. We’ll build on the success of the 2016 DC Conference by strengthening core programming like our Skills-Building Workshops and At the Intersections arc, as well as conduct bold new experiments like last year’s visits to Capitol Hill.
Full Circle will also draw inspiration from our host city of Portland’s central role in the “Maker” culture—a network of artisans and hackers dismantling industrialized systems through a return to a more local, human scale. In a region renowned for its commitment to sustainable ecosystems, could our most local and human of art forms be a natural partner in these movements?
This will also be our first major gathering after a contentious election process that featured profoundly different visions of our country’s past, present, and future. As storytellers and community-builders, how can we bridge the divisions of our country and world? How can we create ‘virtuous circles;’ feedback loops where our vision for a better world for and because of theatre reinforce each other?
Thurs, June 8 2017
6:30 p.m. - 7:45 p.m. PDT (Portland) / 9:30 p.m. - 10:45 p.m. EDT (New York)
Sponsored by: Scandiuzzi Krebs
Welcome: Teresa Eyring, Executive Director, TCG
Remarks By: Cynthia Fuhrman, Chief Operating Officer, Portland Center Stage; Sarah Horton, Managing Director, Artists Repertory Theater
Theatre Practitioner Award Presented to Linda Hartzell, Artistic Director Emerita,Seattle Children’s Theatre
Speaker: Lidia Yuknavitch
About HowlRound TV
HowlRound TV is a global, commons-based peer produced, open access livestreaming and video archive project stewarded by HowlRound, a knowledge commons by and for the theatre, arts, and cultural community. The channel is at howlround.tv and is a free and shared resource for live events and performances relevant to the world's live arts fields. Its mission is to break geographic isolation, promote resource sharing, and to develop our knowledge commons collectively. Follow and use hashtag #howlround in Twitter to participate in a community of peers revolutionizing the flow of information, knowledge, and access in our field. Our community uses the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (CC BY 4.0). Become a producer and co-produce with us by going to our participate page. For any other queries, contact @HowlRound on Twitter, email tv@howlround.com, or call Vijay Mathew at +1 9176863185 Signal/WhatsApp.
Help us caption & translate this video!
My Name is: YBN Cordae COADM Tour 2019 Portland Oregon
My name is... YBN plays the song that blew him up. Please like and subscribe
DREAMSCAPE Sep. 19-20 at Milagro Theatre, Portland Premiere!
Through Beatboxin’, spoken word, and dance, this hip-hop performance depicts the inner life of a young woman who dreams though the impact of the twelve bullets that kill her. A powerfully clear-eyed look at the relationships between race, the body, and violence as woman reminisces about her life, describing the pleasures of softball, dancing, kissing, and hair styling with sweetness, humor, and all the insight of a nineteen-year-old. Rickerby Hinds is the creator of the first ever full-length play to use the founding elements of hip hop as the primary language of the stage, introducing the genre of hip hop theater to the world.
Join us for the free post conversations every night after the show!
September 19 & 20 only at Milagro Theatre 525 SE Stark Portland
Tickets on sale now! milagro.org
Sponsored by the Western States Arts Federation (WESTAF)
PSU Theatre presents - TRUE WEST
Pittsburg State University Theatre presents TRUE WEST!
February 28th through March 3rd inside the PSU Studio Theatre!
True West is a gritty comedy about two brothers, a drifter and a screenwriter, who come to believe that switching places in life is the only way to find out who they truly are.
Editors note: this play contains strong language
KATV GMA & Willy Dog-Food Truck Festival
VIDEO:Willy Dog USA servin up dogs & promoting the Main Street Food Festival on the air @ KATV Good Morning Arkansas in the Little Rock River Market.
**Join us Saturday, October 6, 2012 from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. for the 2012 Main Street Food Truck Festival! Want more information? Call the Downtown Little Rock Partnership at 501.375.0121 or go to downtownlr.com. **
Mission
To bring people back to Main Street!
Downtown Little Rock Partnership is a nonprofit advocate for a vibrant downtown in which to work, play, live and invest. Revitalization of Main Street is at the top of the list!
General Information
The Downtown Little Rock Partnership, the Main Street Revitalization Committee and Landers Toyota-Scion present the second Main Street Food Truck Festival! The first food truck festival drew an unexpected 5,000 attendees!
The festival will be held Saturday, October 6, from 10 a.m. -- 3 p.m. between Third and Ninth Streets on Main Street in downtown Little Rock. The area will be blocked off to traffic and buzzing with activity...over 30 street food vendors, 39 ETSY Little Rock craft vendors, music, three beer gardens, a costume sale at The Rep, a children's plaza sponsored by Heifer International Village and much more!
Want to know more? Keep up to date with the latest information on Facebook. Or email bfalkowski@downtownlr.com to subscribe to the downtown Weekly Update. Or for more information call Downtown Little Rock Partnership at 501.375.0121.
Sponsors for this year's event, in addition to Landers Toyota-Scion, include Little Rock Convention & VIsitors Bureau, City of Little Rock, Mann on Main, Golden Eagle, Downtown Dental Care, East-Harding Construction and Verizon Wireless.
Also supporting the event are Arkansas Repertory Theatre, Arkansas Times, Ben E. Keith, Best Park, CJRW, Entergy, Fox16//CW Arkansas, Heifer International, KATV/Channel 7, Maduro Cigar Bar & Lounge, Myers Chemical & Supply, Riverfest, Stone Ward, The Point 95.1 and 100.3 The Edge.
Mobile food vendors signed up for this year's event include (*participated in 2011):
Arkansas Pineapple Whip (Conway)
Aunt Sissy's (Enola)
Bryant's BBQ & Catering
Calypso Snow
Clyde and Kiddo's* (Alexander)
Eat My Catfish (Benton)
Gammy and Gamps Concession (Bryant)
Grills on Wheels* (Maumelle)
Haute Wheels (Mabelvale)
Haygood BBQ
Hot Dog Mike*
Jackie's Mobile Café
Juicy Bottoms Shaved Ice (Searcy)
King Blvd*
Kristina's Hawaiian Ice* (Maumelle)
Kyler Arkansas Dogs
Le Pops*
Lewis & Edna Mobile Grill (truck)
Lewis & Edna Mobile Grill (cart)
Luncheria Mexicana Alicia*
Meyer Dogs
Philly's (North Little Rock)
Red River Catering (Judsonia)
Repicci's Italian Ice
Snow Blizzard (Hot Springs)
Taqueria Jalisco San Juan
The Sugar Shack Sweets & Treats
The Banana Leaf*
The Southern Gourmasian
Willy Dog USA- 1 cart
Willy Dog USA- 2 cart
Wishbone's*
ETSY Little Rock art and craft vendors include:
A Quiet Curiosity
A Thought is the Blossom
AFS Art Studio
Amaethon's Armory, Garden of Sypria, Sypria
AR State of Mind Clothing Co
ArkieStyle
Bead Makers
Beautiful Baltic Designs
Bijou Booth
Blue Hydrangea Vintage
Blue Morpho Apothecary
Captain Benjaminas'
Cosmic Gems and Jewels
Crafts by Luvmibug
Dimestore Diamonds
Dream Catcher Designs: The Art of Brandy Everett
Ekio Art
Elizabeth and Maxine, LLC
golden muses
Handmade Heaven
HappyJAR Creations
Hillcrest Cottage
littleAnu
Mahogany Luxe
Mindy's In- Stitches
Old White Truck
Orbiting Debris
OriginaliTee Too
Pretty Prints Shop
Reclaimed Handmade Woodwork
Roadside Attractions
Roll & Tumble Press
Sharon's Art and Things
Shop Ell
Simplie Girlie Designs
Sugarbiscuitandme
Sweet Brit-Jess
The Twisted Purl
Ximena & Elle
A Partner You Can Trust - The Big West Marketing Team
Get Your Free Consultation Here:
Joe Burnich
Head Honcho
Joe is a web designer by trade. Unemployed in 2009 he started a small cleaning service business in Missoula, Montana. After creating and ranking his website, the phone began to ring. He decided to help out a couple other business owners as an experiment. Over 850 clients later his Internet marketing experience makes him uniquely qualified to design and optimize websites for the home service and contractor industry. He incorporates the “practice what you preach” philosophy to help fellow entrepreneurs succeed as he has.
Leah Zins
General Manager
Leah is a Montana native who, after adventuring in Portland, OR and Mexico, found herself back in Big Sky Country a few years ago. She appreciates the natural beauty in Montana and you'll find her kayaking, biking or simply soaking up some sun.
As a former teacher, Leah found she was good at making sense of lots of moving pieces, and was promoted to general manager in early 2018. She is excited to refine the processes here, put her management and Web design experience to use, and help our clients succeed.
Wendy Moon
SEO Guru
Wendy is originally from Los Angeles and spent her formative years in southeastern Idaho. She returned to Southern California for many years, but, when she started a family, the Rocky Mountains called her back. She ultimately decided that beautiful Western Montana was the “Last Best Place” to bring up her two sons.
Wendy’s goal with SEO is to empower your business to put its best foot forward in internet search results! She collaborates with the brightest minds in the SEO community to find the most effective ways to promote signals of distance, relevance and prominence!
Jacob Bahns
Marketing Consultant
A New York native, Jacob moved to the Midwest to study Media Arts & Technology at Michigan State University. After living in Los Angeles to pursue a career in film, his love of adventure and open spaces beckoned him to the Rocky Mountains. Jacob worked on a ranch in Jackson Hole, managed a homestead in Montana and spent three seasons in Alaska supporting the salmon runs. However, his love for media arts never subsided. Jacob’s extensive background allows him to connect with clients across different industries in order to provide personalized, professional web design and marketing services.
Lauren Head
Web Designer
Self proclaimed foodie and proud cat mama, Lauren’s journey to Big West Marketing is as unique as her ever-changing hair. Ever since she was little, she has always pursed interests in both arts and technology. With a BFA in scenic painting, she toured with the Montana Repertory Theatre for a season, and worked at the Bigfork Summer Playhouse for a number of years. She eventually decided to settle in Missoula, returning to the area she fell in love with while getting her degree. In recent years, she started to focus more on coding and web development as a career path instead of just a hobby. She believes in standing out and brings that philosophy to her designs, finding the balance between functionality and style.
Chelsea Reichard
Google Ads Specialist
Originally from the Bitterroot Valley, Chelsea moved to Missoula to study Broadcast Journalism at the University of Montana. After graduating, she spent a year as the morning show director for NBC Montana Today, working 2 am to 10 am. She was lucky enough to work with her two best friends, so she never missed out on floating the river during the summer. Chelsea is also a proud mom of 5 chickens and 15 houseplants.
Before joining Big West, she spent a year doing freelance social media and marketing for small businesses. She brings her love for small town businesses and passion for technology to work everyday. Chelsea believes in transparent communication and quick problem solving.
Taylor
Guard Labradoodle
A Western Montana native, Taylor is a valuable asset to the Big West Marketing Team. Her duties here at the office include greeting and screening visitors, alerting the staff to UPS and FedEx deliveries, office neighbor relations and general morale boosting.
Her interests include, H-I-K-I-N-G, digging for gophers, soup bones, plush toys, and treats.