PAST EVENTS
Meditative Tea Ceremony & Sound Bath
This evening begins with a meditative tea ceremony led by Marialicia, which will bring the participants into the quietude of themselves as a collective. Sharing and being served tea is one of the most ancient and loving arts on the planet. After tea we will take our cultivated energies and meditative states to the mat, where we will lay down and enjoy a sound bath, lead by Andrew, with the crystal singing bowls.
OPA ~ Annual Conference
University Place Hotel ~ Portland State University
310 SW Lincoln St, Portland, OR 97201
October 13-15
Marialicia presented Haiku: A Moment in Time as part of the OPA conference
University Place Hotel ~ Portland State University
310 SW Lincoln St, Portland, OR 97201
October 13-15
Marialicia presented Haiku: A Moment in Time as part of the OPA conference
The August exhibit at Gallery 114 will feature work by local artists Joanie Krug and Diane Kingzett. Each poet will read at least one new poem that relates to one or more pieces in the show.
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REVELRY ~ A Night of Storytelling, Strings, & Song
Ford Food & Drink
2505 SE 11th Ave, Portland, OR
Saturday, August 26, 2017
7p
Join me for an evening of beautiful words & song, where I will be performing alongside an incredible troupe of artists:
- Jenn Forman is a poet, live story teller, social worker, radical life liver, bike rider, and cat lover. She loves words, story, and believes in the power of brave and fearless expression especially in front of an audience. She has been published in The Sun, The Timberline Review and VoiceCatcher.
- Claudia F. Savage is one-half of the performance duo Thick in the Throat, Honey and co-runs the forthcoming music label Thrum Recordings. She's the author of Bruising Continents (Spuyten Duyvil), The Last One Eaten, and, with three other poets, The Hour of Anjali. Her collaboration reductions, about motherhood and ephemerality, with Detroit artist Jacklyn Brickman, will be exhibited November 2017 in Chicago and her writing has also recently been in Water-Stone Review, Nimrod, BOMB, Denver Quarterly, Columbia, Cordella,and Drunken Boat/Anomaly, where she interviews Arab-American poets for the series “Witness the Hour.” She’s garnered awards from Jentel, Ucross, The Atlantic Center for the Arts, and RACC and lives and teaches with her husband and daughter in Portland, OR. Find her at Claudia F. Savage.
- Marialicia (Mari) González is a writer, midwife, and leatherworker. She started writing poetry as a child and chose leatherworking in 2016, while searching for new canvases to express herself. She's the founder of http://www.bisonbutterfly.com/ and can be found placing haiku graffiti all around town. Mari has been published in Birth Gazette, Harper & Row Children's Book catalogue, Midwifery Today, and most recently, VoiceCatcher.
- Mikaela Schey followed the paint drops of her ancestors into the listening heart of Life as Art. Sparked by the deep heights of music and song, she collaborates on the classical guitar and charango with melodic beatboxing and lush vocals, and celebrates creativity as the currency for culture change.
- Melissa Rain Hobbs has been singing since she was a young child, sending seeds to the future from the rooftops of playground structures. Working with the soulful tones of cello, she now loves using many styles of voice to offer sound as a form of healing. She draws inspiration from her experience with classical chamber chorus, world music ensemble, and solo work in opera, theatre, and jazz. Through improvisation, she approaches music as a language that speaks from the truest parts of ourselves.
Scenes from BisonButterfly's First Solo Art Show!
Original Artwork will be available for viewing and purchase until August 26, 2017 ~ Please enjoy!
Goldrush Coffee Bar
2601 NE Martin Luther King Jr Blvd, PDX
All Ages!
Free!
On Saturday, July 8, 2017, Goldrush hosted BisonButterfly's first solo art show ~ showcased was the past year's revolution of haiku, leatherwork, burning, and beauty. It was a super joyful and wonderfilled event!
What to expect when you visit Goldrush:
Goldrush Coffee Bar
2601 NE Martin Luther King Jr Blvd, PDX
All Ages!
Free!
On Saturday, July 8, 2017, Goldrush hosted BisonButterfly's first solo art show ~ showcased was the past year's revolution of haiku, leatherwork, burning, and beauty. It was a super joyful and wonderfilled event!
What to expect when you visit Goldrush:
- Images of haiku graffiti from the past year
- HaikuHitsHavana- images from my dear friend's travels to Cuba w my leather haiku art
- Original leatherwork & haiku art
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Tea Fest PDX
World Forestry Center 4033 Southwest Canyon Road, Portland, OR Saturday, July 22, 2017 9:30a - 5:30p $10 at the door 12-1p ~ "Tea Here Now" space ~ I will be pouring tea & providing a space for poetry writing/exploration. It is sure to be delightful! The first annual Tea Festival is being held in Portland on July 22, 2017 at the World Forestry Center, from 9:30 am - 5:30 pm. This family friendly, all ages event is a one day celebration of local and international tea culture includes ceremonies from traditions around the world, vendor booths, tea classes, tastings and more. Open Mic!
Everyone's got a story to tell...difference is, we're gonna listen to yours! Bison Butterfly has joined with Best Friend PDX for our first All Ages Open Mic of the Summer.....! Join us this Friday, June 16th, 7-9pm ~ add your... - music - song - reading of your own writing or writing that moves your heart - storytelling Or just come, listen, & enjoy some tasty treats & elixirs ~ We gotchu ❤️ 1121 SE Division Street PDX questions? say [email protected] |
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Begin Again ~ Stories of Re-Connection
An Evening of Storytelling Friday, April 28, 2017 7-9p Click here for FB event page As part of Portland artist Erin Leichty's month long exhibit, Re-Connection, we bring you an evening of storytelling. Six women share their stories of finding a way back to themselves after heartache, trauma, and loss. Authentic, emotional and inspiring, join us as we re-connect with ourselves, each other, our stories and our hearts. Featuring: Traci Emerson Leora Marialicia González Sue Moshofsky Linda Resca Monica Welty About Erin Leichty's April Exhibit: Re-Connection uses evocative photos of everyday people transferred onto plaster to explore narratives of loss and discovery. Deep within rich layers of texture and cold wax, I bury and uncover the universal story of the need for human connection. Click here for the FB event page for opening night and the full schedule of events. Embrace Festival
May 4 - 6, 2017 Portland Art Museum Portland, OR Embrace Festival is a three-day, international, sacred community and social transformation gathering, which will be held May 4-6, 2017 in beautiful downtown Portland, Oregon for those wishing to positively transform their lives, their local communities, and the world. On the Saturday morning (May 6 ~ 10:50a at the Portland Art Museum) of Embrace, I'll be performing the story of trekking 120 miles in seven days through northwestern Spain, after the death of my mother. Poet-Tea Happy Hour!
Friday, May 12, 2017 5:30 - 7p Fly Awake Tea Garden ~ 909 N Beech St, Portland, OR $5 payable to Mari at the event RSVP here or here if you're on meetup or just email me Join me for a "happy hour" session of haiku poetry writing while sipping the finest of teas at Fly Awake Tea Garden. Bring a favorite poem to share (haiku or not) and I will lead you through exploratory poetry exercises ~ you'll walk out with at least one of your very own original haiku ~ Ooo! Haiku and Tea are perfect bedfellows – let’s make magic together! Leora Marialicia González is the founder of BisonButterfly.com and Haiku Graffiti ~ decorating our beautiful world one haiku at a time. She started exploring the poetry form as a child and has been smitten ever since. You can find her poems posted around town, on BisonButterfly.com, or burned into original leatherwork. Contact her with any questions or to say [email protected]. |