: : GORBIE INTL RECORDS PRESENTS : :
>>>>>>DUAL PROJECT RELEASE<<<<<<
The Sea and the Mother / Dao Strom : Sense, 6-song EP
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Barry Brusseau : This Picture Is A Dream, a book of stories & poems
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a night of music, poetry, & prose // with special guest readers Danielle Frandina & tbd
8-10pm
free
(dis)place
a photography exhibit :: presented by De-Canon
with work by:
Intisar Abioto // Vincent Trinh // Roland Dahwen Wu // Dao Strom
De-Canon: A Visibility Project partners with Artists' Milepost to host the second installation of our "pop-up library". Library Exhibit & Community Space open from May 12-July 28, 2018. With support from an APANO Place-Making Grant. Curated/co-facilitated by Dao Strom & Neil Aitken.
In support of Shayla Lawson's new poetry book I Think I'm Ready To See Frank Ocean
Reading and multi-media performance with Shayla Lawson, Dao Strom, and Elena Passarello (in collaboration with Northwest Academy)
@ Literary Arts (925 SW Washington St, Portland OR)
Tight. Moving. Aural. Physical. Breath. Beat. Lost. Loose. Breathless. Minutes? Months? Meters? Monsters? Monograms? Macaroons? 15 m = ? Four ways. Samiya Bashir dreamcasts Portland poets Shayla Lawson and Dao Strom, plus special guest Ronaldo V. Wilson and collaborating artist Roland Dahwen Wu, as together they guide poetry through space. Four ways. Solve for the poem. What? See for yourself.
De-Canon: A Visibility Project, a popup library and social engagement project showcasing writers and artists of color, launched with our first installation exhibit at UNA Gallery, from Aug 3 to 26.
De-Canon: A Visibility Project is a “pop-up library” and web resource project that showcases literary art by writers/artists of color. Our goal is to put forth an alternative literary “canon” — or multiple canons — that are inclusive, diverse, and multi-storied in their approach to representation. De-Canon wishes to challenge existing ideas of what constitutes the North American literary canon, especially in our current culture.
The American Library in Paris is pleased to present a collective reading and presentation called "She Who Has No Master(s)" showcasing nine women writers of Vietnamese descent, now located in the U.S., Canada and France, who will come together and read from a collective project exploring themes such as displacement, silence, memory and trauma, repercussions of war and colonialism. The writing collective consists of acclaimed and award-winning authors and academics encompassing a range of literary disciplines, including fiction, poetry, nonfiction, performance, and criticism.
PURRR (Poets. United. To. Read. Rouse. Resist.) hosted a launch event at the IPRC on 3/4/17. In a nod to the 15th Amendment, and the 270 required electoral votes, we invited 15 poets to contribute to a 270-line collaborative poem centered around the theme of "the vote". We referenced these reading materials in our writing, and then 'arranged' our poem semi-spontaneously during the live reading on 3/4/17.
A night of poetry + music. Featuring all women artists.
Poets: Coleman Stevenson, Endi Bogue Hartigan, Sarah Bartlett, Shayla Lawson, Stephanie Adams-Santos
Songwriters: Lindsay Clark, Kelly Anne Masigat, Timmy Straw, Dao Strom
All proceeds from the show went to IRCO (International Refugee Center of Oregon)
PAM Artist Talk Series: Poetry/Music Performance + Talk - an interaction with artwork by Wendy Redstar and Lorna Simpson (in the Contemporary Art Photo galleries) in the Portland Art Museum.
Poetry Reading @ Passages Bookshop. With: Amaranth Borsuk, Jennifer Kronovet, Sarah Mangold, Sarah Rosenthal, Dao Strom, Valerie Witte.
Reading/Performance as part of Reed College's Fall 2016 Visiting Writers Series. Introduced by Samiya Bashir.
Video & installation collaboration with Roland Dahwen Wu and Kyle Macdonald. Sound collaboration with Barry Brusseau.
Poetry & music curated by Coleman Stevenson for Workshop Vintage, a shop featuring unique vintage finds & goods by local makers, including limited-edition books & chapbooks by Portland poets. With: Timmy Straw, Hajara Quinn, Dao Strom, & guests. Free.
Artist Presentation for Postwar Tablefruit, image+text+music project, as part of Creative Capital Literature Award Grantee program.
Poetry+Music+Storyteling+API women artists. New series. With music, storytelling, poetry, and illustration by: Dao Strom, Elina Lim, A’Misa Chiu, Pamela Santos, Ginger Ko, and Anna Vo.
Performing music in support of Shayla Lawson's new book of poems, PANTONE. With readings/performances by Shayla Lawson, Coleman Stevenson, Dao Strom, La Priesteza; DJing by Lamar Leroy.
Group show featuring work by image-text artists from Portland OR and from the IPRC Image-Text Certificate Program Track. With pieces by: Benjamin Charbonneau, John Akira Harrold, A.M. O'Malley, Rubina Martini, Dao Strom, Sophia Vidal, Marilyn Tornado.
Debut of a new hybrid forms series event, INHERITORS, co-curated with Tell It Slant Reading Series (Danielle Frandina) & A.M. O'Malley (IPRC). With readings by: Angie Chau, Aimee Phan, Isabelle Thuy Pelaud, Dao Strom, Stacey Tran, Julie Thi Underhill.
INHERITORS is a hybrid-art & literary series exploring the theme of aftermath as expressed through the lenses of multidisciplinary artists/collaborations who are descendants and inheritors of violence stemming from war, cultural and civil upheaval, domestic abuse, intergenerational trauma, domestic and other forms of power abuses.
Our May 28th debut event, She Who Has No Master(s), will gather the voices/experiences of female descendants and inheritors of the Vietnam War and refugee exodus.
She Who Has No Master(s), for INHERITORS series launch event @ Likewise Art Bar
(Photo credit: Justyn Hegreberg)
Reading with: Bich Minh Nguyen, Viet Thanh Nguyen, Aimee Phan, Dao Strom, Vu Tran @ AWP 2016 Conference & Book Fair. Los Angeles Convention Center, CA.
Reading+Music+Multimedia at The Box, Knox College, in Galesburg IL.
Portland poetry/reading series hosted by Robert Duncan Grey. With: Dao Strom, Georgia Wood, Manuel Arturo Abreu.
Music+Movement+Poetry @ The Waypost. Co-curated by Dao Strom, Danielle Ross, Steve Hefter. With: Neil Aitken, Michael Apinyakul, Catherine Egan, Lance Leonnig, Danielle Ross, Dao Strom, Stacey Tran, Becca Yenser.
Tell It Slant Reading Series + Late Night Library present "The Refugee Experience," a reading and panel discussion with Vu Tran, Dao Strom, and Olivia Olivia.
Late Night Library (www.latenightlibrary.org) presents a book-themed variety show. With: Arthur Bradford (host), Carola Dibbell, Amelia Gray, Natalie Graham, Whitney Monge, Dao Strom.
Reading Event as part of LITCRAWL SF. A collective of "Viet-feminine" voices, featuring members of the Vietnamese diasporic women artists/writers collective She Who Has No Master(s). Readers: Angie Chau, Bich Minh Nguyen, Thao P. Nguyen, Aimee Phan, Dao Strom, Julie Thi Underhill.
Book launch party for Press Otherwise (aka imprints: MPMP & Paperdoll Works) publications. With works by Jacob Paul & Mariano Hernan Spina/Novoa (Feed Mayonnaise To Tuna), and Dao Strom (We Were Meant To Be a Gentle People + East/West).
Mini Lit & Music Series / Two Thursdays in July:
7.9.15 - music w/ Barry Brusseau, Dao Strom, Cotton
7.16.15 - reading w/ Jacob Paul, Dao Strom
A night of "fourth genre" performance, including performances merging poetry, music, prose, video projection, and graphic novel content. With: Dao Strom, Adam Selzer, Barry Brusseau. Emceed by Danielle Frandina and Erin Ergenbright.
