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Support creation, experimentation, and community in 2026!
Thank you for participating in PWNW’s 25th anniversary year—especially the three-day love fest in August that was 25 Hours for 25 Years. Beyond that incredible weekend, our jam-packed 2025 included so much. In 2026 we will bring you more!
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January 16–17 & 23–24 | Impact Play | Genderbomb
Genderbomb’s “Impact Play” is a soiree combining kink and storytelling live onstage. Enter our salon, sample crudités from a human platter, and settle in for an evening of bondage, cannibalism, living dolls, and, of course, impact play!
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December 20 | Tom’s Movie Night
Tom DeBeauchamp would most cordially like to invite you to a free screening of Andrei Tarkovsky’s Stalker at Performance Works Northwest on December 20th, 2025. Doors open at 4pm, and we’ll probably start the show around 4:15, maybe a bit afterward. There will be seltzers for drinking and likely some popcorn for eating, chairs and…
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December 20 | Shake & Sing with Sadie Leigh & Emma Pauline
shake + sing is a low stakes movement and voice workshop and gathering. participants come together for a physical, guided shaking warm up, followed by group singing involving rhythm and rounds. if you’ve ever moved your body in any way or ever made any sounds with your mouth, this offering is for you!! also, sadie…
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December 6 | MY DAY two decades | Nate Orton, James Yeary, Chris Ashby
Please join us on December 6 at Performance Works NW as we celebrate the 20th anniversary of Nate Orton’s ongoing MY DAY series! MY DAY was established in 2005 by visual artist Nate Orton with poets Chris Ashby and James Yeary and is an ongoing self-published documentation of the Northwest.
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November 7–9 | real things: an evening of deep play ritual and practice | PDX Deep Play Performance Troupe
Join the PDX Deep Play Performance Troupe for 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. At its core, the piece weaves together a series of structured improvisational games and ceremonies…
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November 20–22 | Beyond Gravity PDX
Beyond Gravity PDX is an evening of three contemporary experimental works by San Francisco–based artists Gabriele Christian with Styles Alexander, Aiano Nakagawa with ainsley elizabeth tharp, and Rachael Dichter with Portland artist Allie Hankins. N0vember 20-22, 2025
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November 15 | workshop 6
Join us November 15 for workshop 6 at PWNW featuring new and in-process works by Brandon Conway, TJ Thompson, and Midnight Variety Hour. workshop is a series for musicians and artists working in sound to present new and in-progress works and compositions.
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September 13 | Autumnal Equinox Shake & Sing with Sadie Leigh
shake & sing is a low stakes movement and voice workshop and gathering. participants will come together for a body-based, guided/improvised shaking warm up, followed by group singing involving rhythm and rounds. if you’ve ever moved your body in any way or ever made any sounds with your mouth, this offering is for you— all…
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September 6 | ART SALE | Amy Conway
A note from Amy! Hello friends I am writing to invite you to my upcoming ART SALE. You see, back in July i cracked my tooth apart biting down on a popcorn kernel. and from there, the story worsens but i will summarize with these light, descriptive words: pain, extraction, liquids, allergic, hives, rashes, sleep…
Performance Works NW || Linda Austin Dance 