Portland Protests | Welcome to the Show!
Please note: Masking is required for this performance. The musicians may perform without masks if every member tests negative on the day of the performance. For updated health and safety guidelines, please visit our updated page.
Program
Click HERE TO ACCESS THE DIGITAL PROGRAM FOR PORTLAND PROTESTS
The program includes a letter from guest conductor Shohei Kobayashi, bios for the featured soloists, program information about the pieces you’ll hear, as well as the lyrics for the pieces so you can follow along.
This program will be available for streaming next month
Thanks to contributions to Resonance Ensemble Access Project (REAP), we are able to professionally record this weekend of performances for listeners around the world to enjoy for free later this month.
To learn more about how you can help support this vital accessibility tool, please visit our REAP page.
Enhance Your Experience
Looking to dive deeper before or after the show? Check out these important resources, films, artworks, and more to enhance your experience and understanding of tonight’s performance.
DIVE DEEPER WITH ARRESTING POWER
Still image from Arresting Power documentary
Excerpts from this groundbreaking work, Arresting Power: Resisting Police Violence in Portland, Oregon, will be featured throughout the performance. The full documentary can be found here for free.
The documents the history of conflict between the Portland police and community members throughout the past fifty years. The film features personal stories of resistance told by victims of police misconduct, the families of people who were killed by police, and members of Portland’s reform and abolition movements.
Filmmakers Jodi Darby, Julie Perini, and Erin Yanke will be in attendance at the Saturday evening performance.
Witness HISTORY WITH HENK PANDER
Henk Pander - Stain (Oil on Canvas, 2020)
During the performance, audience members will be encouraged to move about Alberta House to closely view and reflect on a powerful exhibit by internationally-acclaimed (and Portland-based!) artist Henk Pander.
Presented by Vanport Mosaic, Henk Pander: The Artist as Eyewitness to History + Vanport Flood Series powerfully captures two historic events in Portland. In Vanport’s own words “This is Henk’s gift to his viewer: he takes nothing for granted. He keeps images alive in his mind’s eye, polishing and refining their precision, producing a tableau of moments almost too painful to take in. Henk Pander fulfills the duty of the artist to remind us, in the most vivid and sometimes disturbing ways, of the pressing issues in our world today.”
In addition to these paintings, a documentary about Pander by his son James—entitled Strain—will also be available for viewing on video monitors before and after the performance.
To see the documentary and read more in depth about the works on display, click here.
GET TO KNOW YouR (Talented) NEIGHBORS!
Music, poetry, oil paintings, film, and photography featured on this program are all by talented arts-makers living right here in the Portland area. Learn more about their work at the links below—their next project may be unveiled at a venue near you!
Tojo Andrianarivo, Photographer
Kenji Bunch, Composer
Jodi Darby, Filmmaker
S. Renee Mitchell, Poet-in-Residence
Kimberly R. Osberg, Composer
Henk Pander, Visual Artist
Julie Perini, Filmmaker
Judy A. Rose, Composer
A. Mimi Sei, Poet
Vin Shambry, Poet
Erin Yanke, Filmmaker
Take action in your community!
We have been working on compiling resources for listeners everywhere to engage deeper with the topics Resonance explores in our programming. For Portland Protests, we encourage our audience to check out the BLACK LIVES MATTER section of these resources.
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up next!
Resonance Ensemble Programming:
Still from Around the Requiem
Around the Requiem: A World Premiere Film Screening
April 21st | Historic Alberta House
Co-Presented with Historic Alberta House
Join us for an evening of reflection and community as we unveil the world premiere of the film Around the Requiem. Produced by Oh! Creative, the film centers around an intimate conversation with musicians and artistic team members from the 2022 premiere of An African American Requiem by Damien Geter. Guest appearances include Damien Geter (composer), Dr. S. Renee Mitchell (poet and narrator from the Requiem), and A. Mimi Sei (author of the foreward for the Requiem), along with Resonance Ensemble Artistic Director Dr. Katherine FitzGibbon (commissioner of the Requiem) and Alberta House director Vin Shambry.
Other programs you may enjoy:
As part of our ongoing efforts to foster collaborative relationships in our community, we are proud to share upcoming events from our season partners and from our friends participating in Arts Madness—we encourage you to check out their fantastic array of programming!
March 18-26: Portland Opera presents Thumbprint
March 19: Third Angle New Music presents Decibel Series: Machado Mijiga
March 19: In Mulieribus presents We Rise!
March 20: Fear No Music presents Legacies II: influence and confluence
April 14: Chamber Music Northwest presents Catalyze the Future
April 16: Third Angle New Music presents UNCOVERED
April 17: Fear No Music presents World Premieres: Chris Thomas and Jessica Hunt
April 21: Resonance Ensemble presents Around the Requiem
April 27: Third Angle presents Yo-Yo Va
For more on our season partners, visit our Community Partners page or check out their pages at the links below!
Alberta House | Chamber Music Northwest | Fear No Music | Third Angle | Portland Opera