2025 | Fall Events

Amy needs bucks to help her get a new tooth!
(Beware of popcorn, folks!)

stop by PWNW between 3 and 5pm
Saturday Sept 6
hang out, and buy some art!

PWNW is happy to co-produce the TBA Festival performance of Drama Tops’ newest Queer Tragedy, DADS—a holesome, sci-fi dreamscape about fatherhood that is guaranteed to blow your mind and stick with you for years.

In conjunction with their Oct 10-11 performances, visiting artist Maya and longtime collaborator Claire barrera lead three different workshops:

• October 5 | B.F.B.F.F. (Best Fantastic Binomial Friends FOREVER) language for friendship, all ages
• October 10 |  Fantastic Binomials: a language generation workshop, for ages 10+
• October 12 | Moving Views: involving a practice called videowalking, for ages 12+

October 10 & 11
Friday and Saturday at 7pm

A performance exploring the generative power of two: two people, two images, two storytelling threads developing across language and movement. Playing with the archive of their 30+ year friendship and the creative scores of Italian pedagogue Gianni Rodari, Maya and claire unfold possibilities across difference and distance. Rory, a friend of the duo since 1996, joins on piano.

ALEMBIC CO-PRODUCTION

A performance offering attuned to the web of connectivity as well as life’s ephemeral nature. The Risible Rise and Fall is a voyage of endurance for the audience and performers, alike. You are invited to become less yourself and more a part of everything as poetry, physical theatre, Jungian archetypes, and dance forms undulate and expand our assiduous nature.

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An evening of deep play ritual & practice as we collectively explore the borderlands between order and chaos, art and therapy, sense and nonsense, performer and audience, buoyancy and heaviness, risk and safety. 

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New and in-process sound and music by Brandon Conway, TJ Thompson, and Midnight Variety Hour. Curated by stephanie lavon trotter.

Saturday November 15
Doors at 7pm | Show at 7:30

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November 20–22
Thursday–Saturday at 7:30pm

Beyond Gravity features works by Bay Area artists plus one PDX-based artist that navigate the vulnerability of change and the beautiful fragility of the interconnected webs we weave with lovers, family, and intimate friends.
Allie Hankins & Rachael Dichter
Aiano Nakagawa in collaboration with ainsley tharp
Gabriele Christian in collaboration with Styles Alexander

ALEMBIC CO-PRODUCTION