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SUMMARY:Best of Portland Stand-up
DESCRIPTION:Portland has built a reputation as one of the most creative and influential comedy hubs in the country. For decades\, the city has been a launchpad for distinctive voices that have gone on to shape the national comedy landscape. \nNow it’s time for the next wave. A fresh generation of Portland comics is ready to hit the stage with bold\, unforgettable performances. Expect nothing less than a tour de force of the city’s sharpest\, funniest talent. \nFeaturing:\nDavid Tvetie\nSean Jordan\nVahé Hove\nLee H Tillman\nMarietje Hauprich\nJaren George \n*May include adult themes.
URL:https://thereser.org/event/best-of-portland-stand-up/
LOCATION:The Patricia Reser Center for the Arts\, 12625 SW Crescent St\, Beaverton\, OR\, 97005\, United States
CATEGORIES:Comedy
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SUMMARY:Comedy For Peace
DESCRIPTION:The Pan African Cultural Foundation is proud to present Comedy for Peace. A unique international interfaith comedy project featuring Jewish\, Muslim\, and Christian professional comedians. Comedy for Peace brings together a rotating lineup of performers who share their personal experiences and perspectives in the most original and hilarious way. \nOver the past six years\, Comedy for Peace has presented more than 250 shows in over 100 cities across the United States and Canada and has been featured at the New York Comedy Festival three times\, most recently in November 2025. \nThis is not a political event. It is a community-building experience that demonstrates how laughter can bridge divides\, foster empathy\, and remind us how much more we share in common than what separates us. \nFeatured Performers\n• Usama Siddiquee – The Late Show with Stephen Colbert\, Don’t Tell Comedy\, and named by Deadline Magazine as one of the Most Promising Comedians of 2026.\n• Leah Bonnema – The Late Show with Stephen Colbert\, nationally headlining comedian\, writer\, actor\, and popular podcast host.\n• Tehran Von Ghasri – LA Laugh Factory favorite; writer\, actor\, television\, radio\, and podcast personality touring internationally.\n• Erik Angel – New York Comedy Festival\, NBC\, Last Comic Standing. \nUsama Siddiquee\nA New York–based stand-up comedian\, actor\, and writer known for his sharp observational humor\, fearless honesty\, and distinctive point of view as a first-generation Bangladeshi-American. He gained national recognition as a finalist on America’s Got Talent. In addition to stand-up\, Usama has appeared on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert\, as well as on HBO\, Netflix\, and TBS\, and in the acclaimed HBO miniseries The Night Of. As a writer\, he contributed to Netflix’s Patriot Act with Hasan Minhaj\, helping shape one of the most influential comedy news shows of its generation. \nTehran Von Ghasri\nOne of the fastest-rising stars in comedy\, Tehran is a powerhouse performer with a one-of-a-kind background: Black\, Persian\, Muslim\, and Jewish — streetwise and Ivy-educated. His bold\, brilliant blend of cultures gives him a voice that’s as thought-provoking as it is hilarious. Tehran has been featured on Comedy Central\, HBO\, and FOX\, and when he’s not touring across the U.S. or internationally\, you can catch him bringing down the house regularly at The Laugh Factory in Los Angeles. \nErik Angel\nAn Israeli-Jewish-American comedian and the founder of Comedy for Peace. Angel delivers comedy with heart\, edge\, and a global perspective. Born and raised in Israel and now based in New York\, Erik has performed in over 100 cities across the U.S. and in more than a dozen countries worldwide. He’s opened for headliners like Maz Jobrani and Zarna Garg\, appeared on NBC\, and has been featured in numerous comedy festivals. His stand-up — which has racked up over 3 million views on TikTok — is sharp\, high-energy\, and deeply personal\, tackling the hilarity and chaos of life as a recent immigrant\, a Jewish newlywed in his forties\, and someone who proudly speaks English-Falafel 24/7. \nLeah Bonnema\nLA–based stand-up comedian\, writer\, and actress known for her smart\, fearless\, and refreshingly honest comedy. A regular performer at top clubs across the country\, Leah has appeared on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert\, Comedy Central\, The Tonight Show\, and SiriusXM. Her debut comedy album\, The Half of It\, was named one of the Best Comedy Albums of the Year by The Interrobang. With sharp writing and a confident stage presence\, Leah delivers clever\, high-energy comedy that connects with audiences through wit\, insight\, and originality. \nLearn More:\nComedy for Peace Trailer\nComedy for Peace Website\nFeature Article in The Forward\nInterview on CBS News
URL:https://thereser.org/event/comedy-for-peace/
LOCATION:The Patricia Reser Center for the Arts\, 12625 SW Crescent St\, Beaverton\, OR\, 97005\, United States
CATEGORIES:Comedy
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SUMMARY:Live Wire with Luke Burbank!
DESCRIPTION:Live Wire Radio is an independently produced radio show based in Portland\, Or. Hosted by Luke Burbank and announced by Elena Passarello\, the show artfully blends unpredictable conversation\, live music\, and original comedy featuring all kinds of cultural talent and creative minds\, from emerging artists to established acts. Live Wire champions discovery by producing engaging\, spirited\, and genuine live and listening experiences for a local and national audience. \nGUY BRANUM \nGuy Branum is the creator and host of truTV’s Talk Show The Game Show\, a mashup pitting comedians and celebrities against each other for “Best Guest of the Night.” He recently starred in BROS with Billy Eichner and wrote for Mel Brooks’ History of the World\, Part II. His book My Life As A Goddess made NPR’s 2018 Good Reads List. You may know him as “Staff Homosexual” on Chelsea Lately or from No Strings Attached. As a TV writer\, Guy was supervising producer on The Other Two\, wrote for The Mindy Project\, HACKS\, and numerous other shows including A League of Their Own and Q-Force. \nJULIAN BRAVE NOISECAT \nJulian Brave NoiseCat is a writer\, Oscar-nominated filmmaker\, champion powwow dancer\, and student of Salish art and history. His writing has appeared in dozens of publications\, including The New York Times\, The Washington Post\, and The New Yorker. NoiseCat has been recognized with numerous awards\, including the 2022 American Mosaic Journalism Prize and many National Native Media Awards. He was a finalist for the Livingston Award and multiple Canadian National Magazine Awards and was named to the TIME100 Next list in 2021. His first documentary\, Sugarcane\, was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Documentary. Directed alongside Emily Kassie\, Sugarcane premiered at the 2024 Sundance Film Festival\, where NoiseCat and Kassie won the Directing Award in U.S. Documentary. NoiseCat is a proud member of the Canim Lake Band Tsq̓éscen̓ and descendant of the Líl̓wat Nation of Mount Currie. We Survived the Night is his first book. \nSASHA DEBEVEC-MCKENNY \nSasha Debevec-McKenney’s debut poetry collection\, Joy Is My Middle Name\, was called an Essential Read of 2025 by The New Yorker. Her poems have appeared in The New Yorker\, New York Review of Books\, and Yale Review. She was the 2020–2021 Jay C. and Ruth Halls Poetry Fellow at the University of Wisconsin and a 2023-2025 Creative Writing Fellow at Emory University. She was born in Hartford\, Connecticut. \nMAX GOMEZ \nSinger-songwriter Max Gomez grew up in Taos\, New Mexico\, where he fell under the influence of country blues early on and developed a songwriting style that was uniquely his. He received critical acclaim upon the release of his debut album Rule The World (2013\, New West Records); and his subsequent EP\, Me and Joe(2017\, Brigadoon Records)\, contained a freshly minted classic\, “Make It Me\,” which has gained over 4 million listeners on Spotify alone. He has shared billing on hundreds of stages with stalwarts of the genre like James McMurtry\, Buddy Miller\, John Hiatt\, Patty Griffin\, Tommy James & The Shondells\, and Jeff Beck. His forthcoming album\, Memory Mountain\, will release this summer.
URL:https://thereser.org/event/live-wire-with-luke-burbank-6/
LOCATION:The Patricia Reser Center for the Arts\, 12625 SW Crescent St\, Beaverton\, OR\, 97005\, United States
CATEGORIES:Comedy
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SUMMARY:Live Wire w/ Luke Burbank!
DESCRIPTION:Live Wire Radio is an independently produced radio show hosted by Luke Burbank and announced by Elena Passarello. The show artfully blends unpredictable conversation\, live music\, and original comedy and features all kinds of cultural talent and creative minds\, from emerging artists to established acts. Live Wire champions discovery by producing spirited live shows and listening experiences that create genuine connections with local and national audiences. \nFEATURED GUESTS: \nJEAN GRAE \nJean Grae is a multidisciplinary artist\, humorist\, and former rapper with over 25 years of experience in the entertainment industry. She’s collaborated with influential musicians including The Roots\, Robert Glasper\, and her prolific body of work is featured at the National Museum of African American History and Culture. In 2019\, the Public Theater commissioned her one-person show Jeanius\, which played for a limited time and sold out to audiences in New York City. She currently resides in Baltimore with her shared-custody cat Littles. In My Remaining Years is her first book. \nOMAR EL AKKAD \nOmar El Akkad is an author and journalist. He was born in Egypt\, grew up in Qatar\, moved to Canada as a teenager\, and now lives in the United States. He is a two-time winner of both the Pacific Northwest Booksellers Association Award and the Oregon Book Award for fiction. His books have been translated into thirteen languages. His debut novel\, American War\, was named by the BBC as one of one hundred novels that shaped our world. \nTHE LULLABY PROJECT \nThe Lullaby Project is a collaboration with the Oregon Symphony and Path Home that brings together professional singer-songwriters with parents experiencing homelessness. Through this partnership\, participants work with symphony musicians to create personal lullabies for their children\, fostering connection\, healing\, and creativity. The lullabies are professionally recorded and shared with the larger community at a concert. Path Home\, a nonprofit that empowers homeless families with children to get back into housing and stay there\, provides outreach to identify and support parents to participate\, while the Oregon Symphony contributes its artistic expertise to bring these heartfelt songs to life. \nEVAN RATLIFF \nJournalist & “Shell Game” Podcaster Evan Ratliff is an award-winning investigative journalist\, bestselling author\, and podcast host. He’s the author of the The Mastermind: A True Story of Murder\, Empire\, and a New Kind of Crime Lord; the writer and host of the hit podcasts Shell Game and Persona: The French Deception; and the cofounder of The Atavist Magazine\, Pop-Up Magazine\, and the Longform Podcast. As a writer\, he’s a two-time National Magazine Award finalist. As an editor and producer\, he’s a two-time Emmy nominee and National Magazine Award winner.
URL:https://thereser.org/event/live-wire-w-luke-burbank-2/
LOCATION:The Patricia Reser Center for the Arts\, 12625 SW Crescent St\, Beaverton\, OR\, 97005\, United States
CATEGORIES:Comedy
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SUMMARY:The Zaniac Comedy Show
DESCRIPTION:With the energy of 1\,000 suns\, Alex Zerbe moves like a rubber band from one end of the stage to the other. Beatboxing\, juggling\, dancing\, singing\, music and magic are just a few of the things that led Piers Morgan of America’s Got Talent to call this physical comedian\, “The total package.” \nThe “Professional Zaniac\,” whoʼs been cracking jokes onstage for almost 15 years\, zigzags between physical stunts and non-stop comedy. During the show vegetables are sliced in half by flying playing cards\, flaming torches and bowling balls are juggled with ease and every audience volunteer leaves the stage in triumph. \nFormerly of the award-winning duo Brothers from Different Mothers\, Zerbe is a Hacky Sack World Champion\, was voted The Pacific Northwest’s Funniest Prop Comic and is a two-time Guinness World Record holder. Heʼs performed everywhere from cruise ships and comedy clubs to prime-time television in three countries\, including “Americaʼs Got Talent!” and “Last Comic Standing. Visit TheZaniac.com to see Alex in action.
URL:https://thereser.org/event/zaniac/
LOCATION:The Patricia Reser Center for the Arts\, 12625 SW Crescent St\, Beaverton\, OR\, 97005\, United States
CATEGORIES:Comedy
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SUMMARY:Lindy West: Every Castle\, Ranked
DESCRIPTION:EVERY CASTLE\, RANKED\nCo-created by Lindy West & Ahamefule J. Oluo\nPerformed by Lindy West \nA castle is the ultimate “expectation vs. reality” meme. Like a lot of kids\, Lindy West grew up dreaming of castles and princes\, of a magic beyond everyday life. But reality has a way of grinding the fantasy out of you. Pets and parents die\, dreams get downsized\, and it turns out castles aren’t magical at all—they’re just wet\, stinking military installations built to fortify the immoral power of horrible men. Outrageous! In Every Castle\, Ranked\, a now 40-something Lindy takes us on a hilarious\, bittersweet journey through her own disillusionment\, finding hope again at 40\, and the history of toilets. \nLINDY WEST \nLindy West (she/her) is the author of the New York Times bestselling memoir Shrill and the essay collections The Witches Are Coming and Shit\, Actually. Her fourth book\, Adult Braces\, a follow-up to Shrill\, will be released in 2026. Her work has appeared in This American Life\, The New York Times\, The Guardian\, Cosmopolitan\, GQ\, Vulture\, Jezebel\, and many others. She currently co-hosts the weekly comedy podcast Text Me Back. She is the co-founder of the reproductive rights de-stigmatization campaign #ShoutYourAbortion. Lindy was a writer and executive producer on Shrill\, the Hulu comedy adapted from her memoir starring Aidy Bryant. She co-wrote and produced the independent feature film Thin Skin\, released in 2023. Her e-mail newsletter\, Butt News\, is regarded by everyone as the most influential and beloved e-mail newsletter of all time. \nAHAMEFULE J. OLUO \nAhamefule J. Oluo (they/he) is a multi-instrumentalist\, composer\, writer\, comedian\, and creator of live performance. They were a founding member of experimental jazz quartet Industrial Revelation\, Mellon Creative Research Fellow\, Creative Capital awardee\, Artist Trust Arts Innovators recipient\, a MAP Fund awardee\, a Foundation for Contemporary Arts Emergency Fund grantee\, and semi-finalist in NBC’s Stand Up for Diversity competition. Oluo co-produced two comedy albums by Hari Kondabolu and one by Dwayne Kennedy. They premiered the critically acclaimed performances Now I’m Fine (2016) and SUSAN (2020) at The Public Theater’s Under the Radar Festival (NYC). They wrote for the stop-motion animated comedy “Santa Inc.” on HBO Max\, starring Sarah Silverman and Seth Rogen. They appeared on This American Life. Now I’m Fine was adapted into the film Thin Skin\, released in 2023\, which Oluo wrote\, scored\, and starred in\, and which was awarded Best Director at the Harlem Film Festival. They have been commissioned\, presented\, or invited by Under the Radar\, On the Boards\, Portland Institute for Contemporary Art (PICA)\, Meany Center\, STG\, Wa Na Wari\, Langston\, REDCAT\, and MacDowell and Yaddo residencies. Their newest show\, THE THINGS AROUND US\, premiered at PICA’s TBA Festival in 2024; was presented at New York’s Under the Radar Festival in 2025; and is currently touring nationally and internationally. \nPhoto credit: Jenny Jimenez
URL:https://thereser.org/event/lindy-west-every-castle-ranked/
LOCATION:The Patricia Reser Center for the Arts\, 12625 SW Crescent St\, Beaverton\, OR\, 97005\, United States
CATEGORIES:Comedy,Theatre
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SUMMARY:Live Wire w/ Luke Burbank!
DESCRIPTION:Featuring Guests: Ira Madison III\, Riki Lindhome\, and Paisley Rekdal. \nLive Wire Radio is an independently produced radio show and non-profit based in Portland\, OR and broadcast nationwide. Hosted by Luke Burbank and announced by Elena Passarello\, the show artfully blends unpredictable conversation\, live music\, and original comedy featuring all kinds of cultural talent and creative minds\, from emerging artists to established acts. Live Wire champions discovery by producing engaging\, spirited\, and genuine live and listening experiences for a local and national audience. Live Wire is in its 20th season and is now heard by 300\,000 listeners across the country every weekend. \nIRA MADISON III  is a cultural critic\, writer\, and the host of Crooked Media’s pop culture podcast\, Keep It. His new autobiographical book\, Pure Innocent Fun\, explores the key cultural moments that inspired his career as a critic and guided his coming of age as a Black gay man in Milwaukee. \nRIKI LINDHOME is an actress\, comedian\, and musician best known for forming the band Garfunkel and Oates with actress Kate Micucci. Her first solo album\, No Worries if Not\, will be released in March 2025. \nPAISLEY REKDAL is the author of four books of nonfiction\, and seven books of poetry including “West: A Translation\,” which won the 2024 Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award and was longlisted for the National Book Award. Paisley currently teaches at the University of Utah where she directs the American West Center. \nTo purchase Arts For All tickets\, please contact The Reser box office in person or by phone – 971-501-7722. Oregon Trail Card with matching ID is required for pick-up.
URL:https://thereser.org/event/live-wire-w-luke-burbank/
LOCATION:The Patricia Reser Center for the Arts\, 12625 SW Crescent St\, Beaverton\, OR\, 97005\, United States
CATEGORIES:Comedy
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SUMMARY:Text Me Back! LIVE! with Lindy West & Meagan Hatcher-Mays
DESCRIPTION:Bestselling writer Lindy West and democracy policy expert Meagan Hatcher-Mays are two Award-Winning Best Friends From High School (Most Likely To Make You Laugh in their high school senior poll – sorry to intimidate you!). Each week\, Lindy and Meagan hilariously digest what’s going on in the news\, their lives and their text threads with their singular combination of political smarts\, embarrassing sincerity\, and a truly concerning level of investment in pop culture. Text Me Back is a podcast about best friendship and making your favorite people laugh\, even when this dumpster fire of a world gets you down. \nLINDY WEST\nLindy West (she/her) is the author of the New York Times best selling memoir “Shrill” and the essay collections The Witches Are Coming and Shit\, Actually. Her fourth book\, Adult Braces\, a follow-up to Shrill\, will be released in 2025. Her work has appeared in This American Life\, The New York Times\, The Guardian\, Cosmopolitan\, GQ\, Vulture\, Jezebel\, and many others. She currently co-hosts the weekly comedy podcast Text Me Back. She is the co-founder of the reproductive rights de-stigmatization campaign #ShoutYourAbortion. Lindy was a writer and executive producer on Shrill\, the Hulu comedy adapted from her memoir starring Aidy Bryant. She co-wrote and produced the independent feature film Thin Skin\, released in 2023. Her e-mail newsletter\, Butt News\, is regarded by everyone as the most influential and beloved e-mail newsletter of all time. \nMEGAN HATCHER-MAYS\nMeagan Hatcher-Mays is the co-host of Text Me Back\, a podcast about her deranged and beloved relationship with her BFF Lindy West. She is also\, no joke\, a lawyer in good standing based in Washington\, DC. Before becoming a wildly successful part-time podcast host\, she worked as an expert on democracy policy at several progressive organizations as well as in Congress. Meagan has appeared on MSNBC (“All In” with Chris Hayes\, “American Voices” with Alicia Menendez\, “Velshi”)\, Peacock (“The Mehdi Hasan Show\,” “Zerlina”) and BNC (“Prime with Charles Blow) and has been featured in The New York Times\, The Washington Post\, CBS News\, Vox\, and more as a subject matter expert on the courts and democracy. \nLindy and Meagan will be joined on stage by Julie Fahey\, the Oregon Speaker of the House\, and special guest Guy Branum! \nGuy Branum is the creator and host of truTV’s “Talk Show The Game Show\,” a hilarious mashup of two beloved television formats that pits comedians and celebrities against each other for the title of “Best Guest of the Night.” You can catch him on the new Apple series “Platonic” with Rose Byrne and Seth Rogan. You may also know him from his recurring segment “No More Mr. Nice Gay” on “Totally Biased” with W. Kamau Bell\, serving as “Staff Homosexual” on “Chelsea Lately\,” and his performance as Natalie Portman’s sassy gay friend in the feature film “No Strings Attached.” Guy has also appeared on “Conan\,” “@Midnight\,” and “Debate Wars.” \n  \n \nSponsored by Reser Family Foundation
URL:https://thereser.org/event/text-me-back-live-with-lindy-west-meagan-hatcher-mays/
LOCATION:The Patricia Reser Center for the Arts\, 12625 SW Crescent St\, Beaverton\, OR\, 97005\, United States
CATEGORIES:Comedy
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SUMMARY:Live Wire x Portland Book Festival
DESCRIPTION:Live Wire is proud to partner with the Portland Book Festival for a special matinee performance featuring three extraordinary writers plus a special musical performance. \nLive Wire Radio is an independently produced radio show and non-profit based in Portland\, Oregon. Hosted by Luke Burbank and announced by Elena Passarello\, the show artfully blends unpredictable conversation\, live music\, and original comedy featuring all kinds of cultural talent and creative minds\, from emerging artists to established acts. Live Wire champions discovery by producing engaging\, spirited\, and genuine live and listening experiences for a local and national audience. \nFeatured guests: \nMorgan Parker is the author of young adult novel Who Put This Song On?; and the poetry collections Other People’s Comfort Keeps Me Up At Night\, There Are More Beautiful Things Than Beyoncé\, and Magical Negro\, which won the 2019 National Book Critics Circle Award. Parker is the recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts Literature Fellowship\, winner of a Pushcart Prize\, and a Cave Canem graduate fellow. Her debut book of essays\, You Get What You Pay For\, traces the difficulty and beauty of existing as a Black woman through American history\, from the foundational trauma of the slave trade all the way up to Serena Williams and the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. \nRachel Khong is the author of Goodbye\, Vitamin\,winner of the California Book Award for First Fiction\, and named a Best Book of the Year by NPR; O\, The Oprah Magazine; Vogue; and Esquire. Her work has appeared inThe New York Times Book Review\, The Cut\, The Guardian\, The Paris Review\, and Tin House. In 2018\, she founded The Ruby\, a work and event space for women and nonbinary writers and artists in San Francisco’s Mission District. \nDanielia Cotton is no stranger to reinventing herself. Growing up in Hopewell\, NJ\, Danielia was raised on a steady diet of classic rock behemoths like AC/DC\, Led Zeppelin\, and the Rolling Stones. With a powerful first album that launched her career\, Small White Town\, Danielia was selected as “Artist to Watch” by WXPN out of Philadelphia. Danielia’s latest project\, Charley’s Pride: A Tribute to Black Country Music\, pays homage to trailblazer Charley Pride – the first Black American voted into the Country Music Hall of Fame – while infusing the songs with a fresh\, modern approach that is all her own.
URL:https://thereser.org/event/live-wire-with-luke-burbank-5/
LOCATION:The Patricia Reser Center for the Arts\, 12625 SW Crescent St\, Beaverton\, OR\, 97005\, United States
CATEGORIES:Comedy
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SUMMARY:Live Wire with Luke Burbank!
DESCRIPTION:Live Wire Radio is an independently produced radio show based in Portland\, Oregon. Hosted by Luke Burbank and announced by Elena Passarello\, the show artfully blends unpredictable conversation\, live music\, and original comedy featuring all kinds of cultural talent and creative minds\, from emerging artists to established acts. Live Wire champions discovery by producing engaging\, spirited\, and genuine live and listening experiences for a local and national audience. This season marks Live Wire’s 20th year! \nShalom Auslander was raised in Monsey\, New York. Nominated for the Koret Award for writers under thirty-five\, he has published articles in Esquire\, The New York Times Magazine\, Tablet magazine\, The New Yorker\, and has had stories aired on NPR’s “This American Life.” Auslander is the author of the short story collection Beware of God\, the memoir Foreskin’s Lament\, and the novels Hope: A Tragedy and Mother for Dinner. He is the creator of Showtime’s “Happyish.” \nSimon Shieh is a Taiwanese American poet and essayist and the author of Master (Sarabande\, 2023)\, which was the winner of the Poetry Society of America’s Norma Farber Award and the Kathryn A. Morton Prize in Poetry\, as well as a finalist for the 2024 Los Angeles Times Book Prize . He has lived in upstate New York and Beijing\, China\, where he co-founded Spittoon Literary Magazine\, which translates the best new Chinese writing into English. From 2008-2014 he competed as an amateur and professional Muay Thai fighter in China\, Brazil\, Argentina\, Thailand\, and the U.S. Simon’s work has been awarded a National Endowment for the Arts Literature Fellowship and a Ruth Lilly and Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Fellowship from the Poetry Foundation. \nPenny Lane has been making award-winning\, innovative nonfiction films for over a decade. This includes six features – most recently Confessions of a Good Samaritan\, winner of the Hope Award at SXSW 2023 – and over a dozen short films. A 2020 Guggenheim Fellow\, Penny has been honored with mid-career retrospectives at the Museum of the Moving Image\, San Francisco DocFest\, Open City Documentary Festival and Cinema Moderne. She is a member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. And yes\, Penny Lane is her real name. \nTropa Magica was formed by brothers David and Rene Pacheco in 2018. Inspired by the songs and vibes of 90’s East LA backyard quinceañeras\, baptisms\, family gatherings\, and punk shows\, their signature psychedelic cumbia fusion boasts a “troop” of new “magical” sounds\, blending the guitar and rhythms of 60’s Peruvian Cumbias and 90’s grunge with a neo-southern psychedelic twist. The Chicago Reader recommends their shows “if you wanna get down to music that has the spirit of laughing in the sun while food cooks outdoors\, of gazing up at a starry night sky while feeling small but content\, [or] of hugging the people who matter most to you.
URL:https://thereser.org/event/live-wire-with-luke-burbank-4/
LOCATION:The Patricia Reser Center for the Arts\, 12625 SW Crescent St\, Beaverton\, OR\, 97005\, United States
CATEGORIES:Comedy,Lecture
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SUMMARY:Summer Camp: Acting: Creating Characters
DESCRIPTION:Build dynamic characters that make scripts come to life in this Skills Camp! Dive into a character’s backstory\, surroundings\, thoughts\, and fears and learn how to translate that using the tools of the actor: voice\, body\, and imagination. \nCombine with Musical Theater: Heroes & Villains to make it a full day! \nNWCT Skills Camps are for students who want to learn more about a specific theater skill like comedy styles\, musical theater\, stage combat\, and technical theater and design. \nAn informal demonstration will occur during the last 30 minutes of the final day of camp. \nAges 10 – 14\nAug 12 – 16\n1 – 4 pm
URL:https://thereser.org/event/summer-camp-acting-creating-characters/
LOCATION:The Patricia Reser Center for the Arts\, 12625 SW Crescent St\, Beaverton\, OR\, 97005\, United States
CATEGORIES:Classes,Comedy,Kids
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