TAKE 2

PENNY has gotten over a few tech glitches from her attempted livestream last week!

Furstwurld + Penny are back at it again offering a hybrid film performance livestream!

Please join us for...
Post Thanksgiving
Palette cleansing
Popcorn
Penny
Party
Premier

Penny is a conduit who speaks to this American moment by expressing our collective grief and despair, yet exemplifies the unquenchable hope that lies deeper in the human heart.

Healing is an overt theme of the work, as exemplified by Penny’s awkward yet earnest commitment to meditation, nature worship, and conversations with a radically different kind of deity.

Even in relative isolation, Penny taps into cultural themes of loneliness, class disparity, contradictory values, and unprecedented U.S. instability, illuminating everyday magical wonders while lamenting the catch-22 bind of being human: “No one said it was going to be easy!”

This hilarious and heartfelt multimedia performance/film juxtaposes physical pratfalls with seriousness, absurdities with sincerity, and pathos with humor.

This piece utilizes experimental sound design, lowbrow video editing techniques, and DIY aesthetics for comedic effect.

Written, produced, filmed, and performed by artist Kelly Nesbitt with the use of iphone, ipad, and imovie.

In collaboration with Furstwurld and Khamush/Robbi ~ Penny will now be lifted to new high tech levels!

Once again we are honored to have music donated to the show by the most excellent composer Lee Scott.

RUNNING TIME 30 minutes

Starts on time!

8pm PST
10pm CST
11pm EST

Live stream link:
Stay tuned.....

NOTE!

If by chance this new livestream becomes glitchy - report back to this page for another link. The show must go on! We got this!

FREE + DONATIONS

kellynesbitt.com
Tip Jar: Venmo @kellynesbitt

Become a FurstWurld Patron : https://www.patreon.com/furstwurld

Special thanks to Furstwurld, Bobby, Robbi, Draven, Kennedy, Hank, Den Zolo, Headwaters Theater ... and more!

FURSTWURLD People....
You may recall Kelly, who performed at Furstwurld as Dr Tallulah 3 years ago

PENNY - a Joshua Tree crash landing 

FACEBOOK Event with link:

https://www.facebook.com/events/1066193727184478

LIVESTREAM LINK

https://youtu.be/w0iLxkkqJMU

This will broadcasted LIVE and direct from Joshua Tree at Bobby Furst’s with Penny there!

https://www.furstwurld.org/

This hilarious and heartfelt multimedia performance juxtaposes physical pratfalls with seriousness, absurdities with sincerity, and pathos with humor. 

Penny is a one-person performance that is written, produced, filmed, and performed by artist Kelly Nesbitt. Kelly first debuted at Furstwurld back in 2017 as part of the Dr Tallulah Vaginal Consciousness Tour (VAGCON™). 

This performance/film features Penny on the stage, on the screen, socially distanced, and broadcasted live from Furstworld. Penny debuts her world premiere short film composed of a mash-up of homemade, absurd, non-linear, low-budget videos highlighting the inner workings of their clown mind. Grab your popcorn! 

Penny is a conduit who speaks to this American moment by expressing our collective grief and despair, yet exemplifies the unquenchable hope that lies deeper in the human heart. Healing is an overt theme of the work, as exemplified by Penny’s awkward yet earnest commitment to meditation, nature worship, and conversations with a radically different kind of deity.

The film utilizes experimental sound design, lowbrow video editing techniques, and DIY aesthetics for comedic effect. The film was made on an iPhone, iPad, and iMovie. Pop references are made to honor the late Gil Scott Heron, Fred Rogers, The Muppets, Alan Watts, and Roberta Flack. 

We witness Penny’s subversive homage to Conan The Barbarian through reenacted battle scenes that mock the relentless phallic imagery dispersed throughout the original 1982 film. Penny’s umbrella can be a dick too! We then switch to Penny seeking advice from META PENNY™, an elder genderless alter-ego, time-traveling queerdo. 

Even in relative isolation, Penny taps into cultural themes of loneliness, class disparity, contradictory values, and unprecedented U.S. instability, illuminating everyday magical wonders while lamenting the catch-22 bind of being human: “No one said it was going to be easy!” ~ Penny 

In collaboration with FURSTWURLD ~ PENNY will be lifted to new levels! We will be broadcasting LIVE from FURSTWURLD, in JOSHUA TREE on TUESDAY NOV 17th. Save the date! 

kellynesbitt.com 

Venmo @kellynesbitt

https://www.facebook.com/events/3216997178326929/

PECULIAR PEOPLE DAY (officially January 10th) fall son a full moon and is here to celebrate the leaders of the strange and unusual, those who refuse to succumb to the world’s idea of what is normal and sane - contrary to what most humans might think, it has never been the normal people who have set the world in motion - it’s been the weirdos and queerdos - so peculiar people day is a chance to let your freak flag fly - get out there and shake up the world with your amazing and unique personality - please come out in your best 2020 flare to support these spectacular peculiar artists who will be presenting NEW WORK and will be in need of one bad ass peculiar audience!

Friday January 10th
Doors 7:30
Show 8:00 sharp (includes a brief intermission, ends 10pm)

Ticket Sales $10-$20 sliding scale
Cash, Venmo, Paypal
No tickets sold in advance - at door only
Concession Stand; beer, wine, treats

Co-produced by Kelly Nesbitt and Hank Logan

Host: Katie Piatt

Five Performances by: Hank Logan/Pat McCulley, Claire Rigsby/Keegan Kyle, Crow Lauren Jean, Kelly Nesbitt, [E]mpress

Katie Piatt is a nonbinary educator, storyteller, and performance artist who teaches children and adults alike how to smash patriarchy through the wonders of arts and crafts. They have performed at the Banff Centre, Portland’s Artist Repertory Theatre, PNCA, PSU, the street, the Siren Theater, and most recently at Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art in May 2019."

Hank Logan Peterson is a multidisciplinary theatre/movement artist who's latest volume of work has been devoted to Butoh and it's various sister forms from Japan, and abroad. Working with Patrick McCulley for their second iteration is a true delight; to facilitate a transpersonal and hypnotic journey of sonic and Mono; material.

Patrick McCulley is a Portland, Oregon saxophonist, composer, and educator. His music blends elements from the playing styles of saxophonists Colin Stetson, John Coltrane, and Roscoe Mitchell to transform the saxophone from an everyday instrument into an unrelenting force of nature.

Claire Rigsby and Keegan Kyle are physical theatre artists who are drawn to repetitive motion and simplicity. Inspired by Pina Bausch’s Cafe Müller, The Viewpoints, and Mary Oliver, Palindrome Machines seeks to explore the tension and resolve contradictions that exist within ourselves.

Crow Lauren Jean (they/them), “death do us part" is a performance that tells the origin story of the inescapable monster that is gender. The telling of this tale comes through a human body in movement as they devolve through ancestral memories to their most primal roots in the prehistoric seas.

Kelly Nesbitt is a performance artist who merges performance art, physical comedy, and video. Nesbitt will be introducing a new character, Penny. This will be a tale about a changing climate and the relationship between a clown and mother earth (video/performance).

[E]mpress - Rayawnie Paris, is a Portland native, is a musician who bridges genres forming original sounds like hip-hop, EDM, and classic rock - it’s like a combination of Gandalf and StevenTyler, but way better. You’ll wanna get out of your seat for this one! (photo credit henry m ward)

ABOUT the SPACE: The Headwaters Theatre is part of Water in the Desert (established in 2007) with a mission is to create artful experimentations at the intersection of creative, ecological, and social transformation. The Headwaters Theatre itself was established in 2010 and is an ADA accessible black box theater space that is a community resource for artists to produce their own work in a professional, affordable and accessible venue.

Save the date! JANUARY 10th
#WITD #peculiarpeopleday #headwaterstheater

Heidi Duckler Dance/Northwest (HDD/NW) presents Rush Hour, an interdisciplinary dance project, in which an assemblage of cars and trucks provides the setting for a collection of narratives about human relationships and identities. Each story is told in, on or around a mode of transportation.

Saturday, May 18 at 6pm & 8pm, Marine Artists Studios Northwest, 2516 NW 29th, Portland, OR.

Curated by Heidi Duckler Dance NW. Featured artists include:

Kya Bliss
mizu desierto scooter performance/dance with kelly nesbitt along with lolo halman on sound
Heidi Duckler
Conrad Kaczor
Carla Mann
Kiel Moton
Rayawnie Paris
Nicholas Petrich
Snubs
Jenny Windom
Jennifer Wright

Heidi Duckler Dance/Northwest receives support from the Regional Arts and Culture Council and the Oregon Arts Commission, a state agency, funded by the State of Oregon and the National Endowment of the Arts.

Directions/Tickets:

https://www.facebook.com/events/550516532022258/?event_time_id=550516535355591

Have A Heart Vaudeville Gospel Service is going to be the sweetest loviest fluffiest silliest Valentine's show in Portland. If you have never experienced one of Karla Mi Lugo’s Faith Faucet sermons, this one on the theme of love, is a MUST. Local artists Mizu Desierto and Kelly Nesbitt will also be sharing the stage to offer special ASMR, human carwash, and butoh aerobic experiences + some gravity defying choreography...and then to wind it all up, YOU get to create your own Autonomous ART party into the night...with sound support from Loren Halman (lolo haha). We can’t wait to love it up with every one of you! ❤. Please come and please share!

The Headwaters Theatre is an ADA accessible - 66 seat black box theater - concession stand available with beer, wine, and snacks

When - Feb 14th

Time - 9pm

Tickets - at the door. Cash, Venmo, Credit Card options. $5-15 sliding scale

Facebook Event - https://www.facebook.com/events/460096424523217/permalink/462677517598441/

(poster by karal mi lugo)

Attending:

Water in the Desert Theater brings Mushimaru Fujieda. #witd

Mushimaru calls the body of his dance work “Natural Physical Poetry”. In this workshop, students will explore movement in relationship to their breathing rhythm, which Mushimaru believes is highly individual and the most basic approach for accessing and generating one’s own unique dance. Through our personal expression, we will search to rediscover the playfulness of the inner child, free from more normalized codes of gesture. Mushimaru’s method is an effective tool for developing sensitivity as a dancer in order to both integrate and release the mind-body. This workshop is open to all ages and abilities as well as all levels of experience of movement and dance. Come join us to explore our own natural poetry through motion.

Exercises include:

Controlling the mind-body through the breath
Exercises to prepare and focus the mind-body
Breath-Walking
Vocalization: using the voice as an extension of the breath
Facial Expression
Exercises to link the breath with movement
Somatic Meditation
 

https://www.facebook.com/events/195432121026432/

Attending:

Utilizing creative impulse, imagination, poetic contemplation & mindful movement, we will come together to train and co-create a weekend of personal and collective harvest rituals. Utilizing the metaphor of the season and the changing landscape (both internally and externally) we offer and share together the culmination of the seeds we have consciously or unconsciously planted over the passing year. What is currently emerging in its fullness, ready for you to more deeply embody? At the same time, what old skin/habits/patterns are currently dying? Using physical/imaginative warm-ups to open the energetic centers of our body and joints, along with exercises with roots in butoh, contemplative dance and physical theatre--this weekend is an opportunity to harvest our creative selves in community and to celebrate/ritualize the changing season.

This workshop will take place outside, weather permitting (light rain, yes! torrential downpour, move to Waterline Studio). Wear layered clothing to keep you both warm and cool as needed, water and light snacks to keep you nourished.

Registration is sliding scale ($100-150 for 2 days/10 hours); For those who would like to trade with work instead of pay, we will have a farm work day on Friday, October 13th from 10am-5pm. If you come for the whole day, this will cover the cost of the workshop. Pre-registration is required.

Mizu Desierto is a dance-theatre artist, artistic director and farmer whose life=art explores themes of feminism, queerness, playful social deviance and regenerative land/culture. She is the co-founder of Portland’s Water in the Desert, a hub of numerous projects, including: The Headwaters Theatre, Prior Day Farm & the annual festival that is Butoh College. Mizu has trained in butoh, physical theatre and improvisation for over 20 years. She has performed with Diego Piñon (Mexico), Harupin-Ha (Japan/Berkeley), Yoshito and Kazuo Ohno (Japan), The Carpetbag Brigade, and Degenerate Art Ensemble, as well as creating and touring her own work. She recently concluded her 2nd fellowship residency at PLAYA, with the multi-generational women's ensemble, Ævium. She has performed and taught workshops throughout the US, including Naropa University, Portland State University, Prescott College & Reed College.

https://www.facebook.com/events/832551943591026/

FACEBOOK EVENT: https://www.facebook.com/events/326316101163228/?ti=icl

Alone/Together

An evening of solo performance by Katie Piatt and Kelly Nesbitt exploring comedy, drag, physical theater, eye contact, audience participation, and alone/together! 

Alone/Together we find solidarity and community in the creative process and mobilize femmeness through our performative art forms. 

“If you have that funny terrible thing which every artist can recognize and no artist can define - You are responsible to share it. This creative force which you didn’t ask for, and this destiny which you must accept, is also your responsibility. For it is the artist who can tell the story of what it is for anyone who gets to this planet, how to survive it.” (James Baldwin - paraphrased)


DOORS: 7:30
SHOW: 8pm
END: 9:30

LOCATION: Shout House at 210 SE Madison (under the Hawthorne Bridge)

TICKETS: At door. Sliding scale $10 to $15. Donation based wine bar available. Cash & Square payment is an option at door. Seating is LIMITED! Reserve seats here > katiepiattmischief@gmail.com

BYOB. WINE BAR (cash only) available. Bring an extra pillow if you can! 

Katie Piatt, a performance artist living, playing dress up, and telling jokes that also count as fine ar (thanks for asking X)), in Portland, OR by way of southwest Missouri. At Alone/Together Katie will perform: Male Fragility: A Night of Rant & Reaso. atriarchy’s tradition of cutting off men from their feelings and solely rewarding aggression leaves us all with stories to tell, and sometimes, rant. This piece is a critical loved letter to men. Or to put it anther way -- you're very loved, but also accountable, and nothing helps us learn more than participation. (Invite Men!) katiepiatt.com (30 min)

Kelly Nesbitt, a performance artist who creates original outlandish performances that are character driven, rooted in movement-based theater, find power in the femme experience, and defy easy categorization. At Alone/Together she will perform: POONSTRUCK™, er hilarious one woman shero's journey told through the character Dr Tallulah (a fiery Sexual Activist, Zen Cosmetologist, and Vaginal Consciousness Pioneer), who juxtaposes pratfalls with the seriousness, absurdities with sincerity, and pathos with humor while exploring themes of aging, womanhood, sexuality, intimacy, societal expectations, individualism, collective consciousness, whiteness, and alienation. kellynesbitt.com (30 min)

*There will be interludes and mastering of ceremony ;)


TIP! Go to ALONE/TOGETHER first then check out CRITICAL MASCARA at 10:30! 
 

High Voltage - Venice, CA
hosted by Josh Berkowitz

Coinciding with Abbot Kinney First Fridays, this monthly signature program is curated and hosted by Associate Artistic Director Josh Berkowitz.  The showfeatures cutting-edge performance artists whose work truly electrifies audiences!

You can experience High Voltage monthly throughout the year (except January and July).  Tickets are $10 and shows start promptly at 9pm in our Dance Studio.  Please arrive early as parking is limited.  Snacks and beverages are available.

TICKETS  

FACEBOOK Event

Dr Tallulah will be hosted by  > http://powerandlightpress.com/press/

Stay tuned for specific details for event...

Power and Light Press is a ship-shape print shop built to handle all of life’s messy emotions.  Ever since we flipped the switch on in 2009, our cards have been designed, printed, and packaged in-house, meaning each and every piece has come straight from our own blood, sweat, and tears.  Metaphorically.  For the most part.  Our company is fueled by a fleet of all-female letterpress printers with clean hands and filthy mouths: a bunch of real class acts who like making real-ass things.  Because at Power and Light Press, we aren’t afraid to get a little dirty now and then.

Power & Light Press has raised over $80,000 to donate to Panned Parenthood. Buy their tote bags today! > http://powerandlightpress.com/press/

I will be a featured story teller inside this pyramid! 

At this exhibition, celebrate Open Signal's work with Open School North (OSN), led by artist-in-residence Kello Goeller. Enjoy tacos, refreshments, interactive activities and storytelling performances by artists from Kello's community and OSN students, inspired by the concept of infinity.

You'll also get to experience "i/me/you/we are infinitely unique together," the culminating project of Goeller's residency. During Goeller's time at the school, Open School North middle school students learned the basics of fractals, the concept of infinity and how these ideas connect the beauty of the natural world with math. 

After learning that their bodies are fractalline in structure, that there is a vast landscape of self-similarity inside, the students created kaleidoscopic animations inspired by the prompt: What makes you infinite? These will be displayed via a ten-foot-tall, twenty-foot-wide sound-reactive pyramid, with video projections visible from both the outside and inside of the structure. 

"These kids need community, inclusivity, safety to be themselves, and the world we live in doesn’t encourage their heart, magic and soul," said Goeller. "I've been cultivating a ‘permissionary’ practice in my work and community, leading a performance art collective to share work in progress and heal creative blocks. We need more blanket forts in this world, more fuzzy things, more pillows, to feel and cry and shine.”

See Kello's past work on their website, kelloworld.com.

Live Music by:
Ben Martens & Helen Spencer-Wallace

Storytelling by:
Feather Bear Kohn
Kelly Nesbitt
Maya Seidel
Hank Logan

Fabrication Support:
Mo West Creations
(fabric for the pyramid)

A workshop by Keith Hennessy

Dying and caring for the dead as creative, experimental, social practice. Healing, fake healing, playing dead, inventing ceremony. Dying alone and dying in community. Saying goodbye as transformative sculpture, performance, ritual, and play. The trip is divided into 3 practices: fake healing, solo death mediation, collaborative care of the dead. The final practice requires several volunteers (dying swans?) to play dead for 2 hours in service to community death practice. 

This event is part of 3 Trips: a series of guided experiences with Keith Hennessy (Feb 11-18)

Keith Hennessy is a performer, choreographer, teacher, writer and activist. Born in Sudbury Canada, he lives in San Francisco and tours internationally. His interdisciplinary research engages improvisation, ritual and public action as tools for investigating political realities. Ideas and practices inspired by anarchism, critical whiteness, punk, and queer-feminism motivate and mobilize Hennessy’s creative and activist projects. Hennessy directs Circo Zero, and was a member of the collaborative performance companies: Contraband with Sara Shelton Mann, CORE, and Cahin-caha, cirque bâtard. Awards, commissions, residencies? Yes, several. Rejections, unemployment, failures? Yes, plenty.

https://www.eventbrite.com/e/trip-1-practicing-death-dying-tickets-31073664166?aff=es2

Dr Tallulah will perform a special and timely ceremony as a featured guest at the next "Follies", Portland's new Physical Comedy showcase.
Created and hosted by International Italian performer Stefano iaboni, whose own influences include Andy Kaufman and Monty Python, Follies says "ciao" to traditional stand-up and improv and instead highlights the richly diverse, artistic and hilarious world of physical comedy, variety and sketch comedy.
Expect to see Stefano performing alongside a fresh line-up of talent each month as Follies brings together a wide range of local and imported artistic talent every first Sunday of the month.

$7 ADVANCE http://www.merctickets.com/events/39029240/follies-the-unofficially-best-ever-variety-show
$10 AT THE DOOR

FB Event Page https://www.facebook.com/events/1301908013193331/

Lets talk about sex!  Join us for a sex fueled creative evening of performance by Kelly Nesbitt followed by a panel discussion and Q&A on the topic of sexuality led by 'SEX OF SELF' sex educators Dana Fadel and Kellie Ryan. Ultimately, the best activism around sexuality may be to offer a space that makes all experiences normal and acceptable and gives them a voice. 

SPACE GALLERY LINK:  http://www.space538.org/events/sex-self

THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 3, 2016

7:30pm Doors, 8pm Show!

iCal

$5-$10 SLIDING SCALE