Tag: disability art

  • Who Am I To Stop It at Portland Community College Rock Creek Campus

    Listen to this post: Next week, the Disability Services and Students With Disabilities Club are sponsoring a screening of Who Am I To Stop It at Portland Community College Rock Creek! Here’s what’s on the flyer: RC Students With Disabilities Club presents: Who Am I To Stop It, a film by Cheryl Green and Cynthia…

  • Pigeonhole Podcast 17: Autoethnographic poetry

    Listen to this post: [The podcast is at the bottom of the post.] The Trauma Survivors Network community celebrates National Trauma Survivors Day on May 16th. One of the reasons this network got started was research that says it’s not how bad a traumatic injury is that tells you how difficult recovery will be. It’s…

  • Who Am I To Stop It at NW Documentary’s Doctober

    Listen to this post: Oh, how I love a good pun and love working with great local organizations. Starting October 1st, both are all wrapped into one fun series of events called Doctober at NW Documentary. We’re so thrilled to be a small part of Doctober. Please join us for a screening of Brandon’s Story…

  • Hollywood Theatre PDX Airport Cinema Shorts

    Listen to this post: Airports. Ugh. I’ll just leave it at that. Or I would have left it there until The Hollywood Theatre opened their microcinema at the PDX Airport here in Portland in February, 2017. They have seasons where a selection of local short films play on an hour-long loop. If you had a…

  • Boom Arts presents the amazing Jess Thom, Touretteshero

    Listen to this post: I first heard about Jess Thom several years ago talking about Backstage in Biscuit Land. For that show, Jess delightfully warns audiences, “having Tourettes means I’m neurologically incapable of staying on script, and that’s where the fun starts.” While Jess also uses the name Touretteshero, please don’t mistake her for the one-dimensional…