25 Hours! Celebrating 25 Years of Performance Works NorthWest

PWNW celebrates 25 years of avid experimentation, sublime mayhem, tender intimacy, community-building, rigorous play, and dedicated art-marking, with 25 hours of performances, workshops, socializing, conversation, karaoke, a dance party, and a closing Sunday brunch. This is the perfect occasion, thanks to the dedication and generosity of our artist and audience friends, to raise money for the coming season!

• Please see the schedule below, and/or check out details of the event HERE.
  
• Then purchase your passes or tickets to individual events. Capacity is limited, so get your tickets soon!
  
• P.S. We also have a fantastic RAFFLE! --> click HERE

FRIDAY AUGUST 1
3–5:30p — Contact Improvisation Workshop led by Emily Jones and Hannah Krafcik
5–6:30p — Outdoor FREE Happy Hour with no host bar & fun activities
7–9p — Foreman Fest Redux ||Bringing back one of PWNW's signature series in honor of avant-garde playwright/director Richard Foreman (1937-2025). With Linda Austin, Early Worms (John Berendzen, Ero Gray, Alex Reagan, Tamara Lynne, Jeff Simmons & Liz Costello) Long Drive Theatre (Kaitlyn Petrik, Richie Greene, et al), Erin Boberg Doughton, Allie Hankins + keyon gaskin, David Abel + Mark Owens, James Yeary, Lois Leveen, & Pepper Pepper.
9:30p–12a — Karaoke 

SATURDAY AUGUST 2
10a — AEROBICOURAGE class led by Allie Hankins
11:30a — Holy Goats Improvisations: Music and dance curated by stephanie lavon trotter || With Daniel Addy, Linda K Johnson + Tim DuRoche | Danielle Ross + Maxx Katz | KT Kusmaul + stephanie lavon trotter
1:30p — Moose & Squirrel Poet’s Cabaret Spare Room Poets Collective || David Abel, Chris Ashby, Marissa Rae Niederhauser, Tom De Beauchamp, Sam Lohmann, Nate Orton, Danielle Ross, James Yeary, and a cast of ashcans will perform short plays by Gertrude Stein, Alice Notley, Ruth Krauss, and Paul Ableman, poetry by JamesYeary, and amateur Foley.
3p — PASTfuture conversation: Linda K. Johnson & Linda Austin || The latest in Linda K’s series of conversations with Portland dance elders and part of her Mycelium Dreams project.
6p — Public Nature (movement, sound, text) curated by Danielle Ross || With Tom DeBeauchamp, Juniana Lanning & Midnight Variety Hour.
8p — It’s a Fucking Miracle led by Tahni Holt & Luke Wyland
9:30p — Dance Party with DJ lolo haha — INCLUDES ONE FREE DRINK!

SUNDAY AUGUST 3
11:30a-2:30p — Brunch with music by Becky Miller, performance by Linda Austin, video by Seth Nehil + auction