![]() KEEP PORTLAND WEIRD at La Gaîté Lyrique also consists of graphics from Crash America, one of the city's prominent music graphics artists. La Gaîté Lyrique welcomes the spirit of Portland for 5 evenings of concerts: carte blanche goes to Portland musicians Stephen Malkmus and Tara Jane O'Neil, Slimkid3 (formerly of The Pharcyde) stars in a "Portland Groove" hip-hop night, we accept an i nvitation from Portland music festival MusicfestNW and to finish up there'll be the Glass Candy club special programmed by the PICA - Portland Institute of Contemporary Art.Īlso note, Experimental ½ hour, the Channel 22 cable TV collaborative programme showcasing the Portland avant garde will be broadcast in Paris for the first time throughout the Keep Portland Weird week. Artistic profusion, musical diversity, environmental activism, a non-conformist state of mind, Portland isn't like other cities. cases and myriad walls of coffee shops in and around the Portland metro area, now the small town of Wheeler can contend with what Keeps Portland Weird. How often does that happen? Jooiiiin uuussssssss.Portland, cradle of American underground music, comes to Paris, Metz and Nantes in a ten-day takeover combining indie revolt and environmental activismįrom the 19th to the 29th April 2012, at La Gaîté Lyrique and the Centre Pompidou in Paris, the Centre Pompidou-Metz and Le Lieu Unique in Nantes Portland at La Gaîté Lyriqueįollowing Istanbul in September 2011 and Berlin in April 2011, Portland is coming to La Gaité Lyrique, from the 24th to the 29th April 2012. The island is relatively small, so every day has loads for you to see and get involved with once you get there, with a lot of great and diverse work by artists who not only aren’t crap but are actively excellent. This is the only event I’m involved in that isn’t free, but it’s cheap: £3.50 in advance or £5 on the door. Nancy Loo Updated: / 04:59 PM CST ( NewsNation) The motto Keep Portland Weird has been wiped away by the Oregon city’s reputation for violent political unrest, homelessness and crime. ![]() With yet another daft costume I’ll be performing in the artists’ cabaret at the Royal Manor Theatre on the night of Thursday 11th September. ![]() I’ll be dressed like Donnie Darko, obviously. Trust me, you don’t want the little darlings freaking out in there. Locals delight in enjoying the pleasantly unexpected, whether it be watching adults zoom down an extinct volcano in soapbox derby cars, joining in on one of the world’s largest naked bike rides, or crafting deliciously strange new types of doughnuts. Teenagers are fine, but it’s not for young children because it’s dark, potentially a bit trip and bump hazard-y in and the whole thing might be a bit scary. In Portland, being dubbed weird is never an insult. If you’re coming, arrive nice and early because space is very limited. Again, meet near the South Entrance of the Verne, then you’ll be conducted into the former High Angle Battery tunnels. I’ll be talking about Alice in Wonderland as one of the most influential fictions over more than a century, discussing the fine line between adorable and abominable, and asking why the hell bunnies so often wear bow ties but rarely wear shirts, among other things. On Saturday the 6th, 13:30-14:30, you can come to my free talk and supercut of (mostly, probably) every major cinematic appearance of Oryctolagus cuniculus. In addition to popping up randomly to give you great photo ops for your Facebook page or Twitter timeline (and/or scaring children and animals), if you really want to follow the white r***** then I’ll be at the Cove Inn on Saturday 12th and near the South Entrance of the Verne Citadel on the 13th. I’m hoping to collect from Portlanders as many stories, justifications, excuses and confabulations as they can think of regarding this prohibition and its continued relevance to the island. I’ll be recognisable throughout the two weeks mainly because I’ll be dressed as the animal whose name it is forbidden to mention on Portland. ![]()
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