February 14 | workshop 7

Join us for workshop 7 featuring new and in-process sound and music by John Niekrasz, Gilly Hanner, and ari albertson.Saturday, February 14th, 2026

doors 7pm, show 7:30pm 
$10-15 sliding scale
$5 Arts for All

workshop is a series for musicians and artists working in sound to present new and in-progress works and compositions. workshop supports experimentation, improvisation and composed sound and noise, maybe even “songs”. it is an informal showing, a moment to work through new ideas, or old ideas in a new way.

curated by stephanie lavon trotter and presented by PWNW, the space supports acoustic and electronic works, as well as work that includes projection, lighting and movement.

About the Artists:
John Niekrasz is a Chicago-raised, Portland-based artist working in sound, language, performance, and movement. His work has been commissioned by Paris’ Cite des Arts, The Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, The Stone NYC, Issue Project Room, & PICA’s Time Based Art Festival. John received his MFA from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, studied percussion and dance in Havana, classical Hindustani tabla in India with Pandit Lacchu Maharaj, and improvisation with Milford Graves. John composes for and performs in music ensembles Methods Body, IXNAY, LTD Time, and Orchestra Becomes Radicalized, and creates sound for dance, film, and theater. He publishes fiction, poetry, and essays and is currently finishing his third novel.

Gilly Ann Hanner is a multi-instrumentalist, composer, studio/collaborative musician, recipient of the RACC Make/Learn/Build Grant(2021), and founding member of multiple bands. She studied Experimental Music, Electronic Music, Music Theatre, Engineering/Recording and Writing at The Evergreen State College (B.A. Liberal Arts 1989).
She performed with Ingram Marshall’s Experimental Music Ensemble, Eugene Chadbourne’s Guitar Orchestra, and the Olympia Film Society’s Fringe Festival. She formed proto riot grrrl punk group Calamity Jane (1988-92), utilizing sociopolitical gender equality tactics to change the punk scene. They released several records, and toured the U.S. extensively before disbanding in 1992 following a brutal and historic stadium show supporting show supporting Nirvana in Buenos Aires, Argentina.She was songwriter, guitarist, vocalist, bassist in subsequent bands Starpower (1991-95), Semisweet (1996-97), and No.2 (1998-2024). Her current projects include Desír (2020-P), and Braille Stars (1998-P), as well as The Fabulous Bloodstains (2025-P). She started performing with the experimental ensemble Extradition (2025-P) on electric guitar, pedals, Ebow, and nylon string guitar.
Her current interest lies in making music on a strange, long-form spectrum that intersects rock with ambient, punk, experimental noise and dreamcore. Her most recent improvisational work with Braille Stars is an ongoing series of instrumental 2 pieces that rely on intuition, invention and responsiveness as they collaboratively generate compositions in real time. These are soundtracks to dreams and landscapes of imagination that exist in the liminal spaces, defying the confines of traditional genres, song structures, or marketability.

ari albertson is an interdisciplinary artist living in portland, oregon. current areas of interest include: ceramics, sound/noise, installation, diy spaces, collective experience, dancing, hybridity + betweenity, webs + spirals, flow states, and other things.