2026 | Summer Events

Tuesday, August 4 | 5:30–7:00 PM
Paper Making
Experience the satisfaction of making paper by hand! Together we’ll stir, sift, lift, and mold pulp into beautiful handmade paper. All ages are welcome.

Wednesday, August 5 | 10:30 AM–12:30 PM
My Portion
A movement workshop for caretakers exploring the joys and challenges of caring for others. Through collective prompts, conversation, and dance, we’ll reflect on the labor, love, and transformation of caregiving. This workshop honors all bodies that have carried children—including experiences of loss—and welcomes anyone who cares for others.

Thursday, August 6 | 5:30–7:30 PM
INNER PLAY
A somatic movement practice centered on internal experience and holistic body awareness. We’ll begin with ritual, breath, voice, and tactile awareness, move through restorative floor work, and end with a flowing movement phrase. Process is prioritized over product. Participants are encouraged to bring a journal.

Saturday, August 8 | 10:30 AM–12:30 PM
Open House
Join us for a family-friendly morning of paper making, dance, and basket weaving. Parents and children are encouraged to participate together. If you plan to make paper and would like to take it home, please bring a piece of felt or linen cloth to transport your wet paper while it dries.

Dive into the artistic process with Noel Price-Bracey one last time before she departs back to the east coast. Price-Bracey will open the studio for an informace – an informal and informational performance. You will be invited to reflect and ask questions after a brief sharing of generated material.

Thursday, August 13
5:00-6:30pm
Free to attend

Join us for workshop 9 at Performance Works NW featuring new and in-process sound and music by warm canopy, Maxx Katz and Vanessa Micale.

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.

Saturday, August 22
Doors, 7:00, show at 7:30pm

SEARCH AND DESTROY (S.A.D.) is a multimedia variety show featuring dance and other artistic mediums where artists & local leaders share their craft and discuss what matters most to them while exploring ways in which we can better ourselves, our communities, and our relationships with each other. Through storytelling, live conversations, audience interaction, and heavy doses of honesty & humor, S.A.D. seeks to give hope and be an entertaining, informative space for all to have fun, let loose, and be reminded that we as people have the agency & ability to initiate change by working together. SEARCH AND DESTROY is a show for everyone; parental discretion is advised for audience members under 18 years of age.

Friday, August 28
Doors, 7:30, show at 8:00pm

Friends After Good Sound will be premiering three new works by Kennedy Verrett, Ted Laderas and Jazel Morfin for an evening of Portland’s newest of new.

Friends After Good Sound is a queer new music collective focused exclusively on bringing new works by local PDX composers to life. We seek to be a vehicle that overcomes the many trepidations posed to artists when it comes to creating new work. New work is the pulse of any good music scene, it’s exciting, it’s overrated, it doesn’t work, it changes things and people. Without new work  concerts can be boring, predictable and prescribable. (F)-(A)-(G)-(S) isn’t that.

Saturday, September 12
Doors, 7:00, show at 7:30pm

SEARCH AND DESTROY (S.A.D.) is a multimedia variety show featuring dance and other artistic mediums where artists & local leaders share their craft and discuss what matters most to them while exploring ways in which we can better ourselves, our communities, and our relationships with each other. Through storytelling, live conversations, audience interaction, and heavy doses of honesty & humor, S.A.D. seeks to give hope and be an entertaining, informative space for all to have fun, let loose, and be reminded that we as people have the agency & ability to initiate change by working together. SEARCH AND DESTROY is a show for everyone; parental discretion is advised for audience members under 18 years of age.

Friday, July 31
Doors, 7:30, show at 8:00pm

Join us for a night of music with Sustentacula and the Foster/Jenkins/Eubanks Trio.

Sunday, July 26
Doors, 7:00, show at 7:30pm

Punk Rock Pride is back this year on June 20th! The event takes place at multiple venues along Foster Road, featuring a punk all-ages queer punk bands at Performance Works, drag brunch, and vendors on SE Foster Road. The event is a benefit for Outside In, supporting their work in gender-affirming care and healthcare for vulnerable communities.

Saturday, June 20
3:00–10:30pm

PWNW TOILET LAUNCH!
It’s a bathroom reveal party! It’s free!

Saturday, July 11
Doors 6:30
Free, but donations accepted!

noise night noise night quietly presents: Time DeBeauchamp & [_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _] Performing Tape B & Baggage 2

Friday, July 17th
doors 7:30 | show 8:00pm
$10-15 sliding scale
$5 Arts for All (Oregon Trail / SNAP)