LIGHTBOX KULTURHAUS

Located in sunny Portland, Oregon, Lightbox Kulturhaus is an independent dance and community arts space, focused on Synesthetic experimentation and physical theater & social engineering. The Lightbox aims to be an incubator of local culture, community dialogue, and intimate dance and theater performance.

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Splak! A Picnic with Crackers.

A short promo video for my solo clown show and performance art tour. Enjoy! Please share with any folks who might enjoy the beautiful, the bizarre, and the w...

In Portland tonight? You've got a chance to see this and other oddities at the Lightbox! 1/23 & 1/24/15 Doors at7pm, Show 7:30. $15-50 sliding scale.

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Last chance to make it bounce before the holiday hustle! Milkshake is Saturday morning at 10am, $10 drop in. 

Milkshake is a booty-centric dance workout for ALL bodies. Practice and explore the history of intersecting styles of dance including twerk, wine and bounce. You will also find hip openers, strength building, and shaking it every way it feels good. This is a queer/sex positive and body positive space, with sexually explicit dance tracks. All experience levels welcome. Dress to sweat and bring water.

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Holy Shit: on the road art show Friday, December 5th, 2014 6pm - 10pm, Free and open to public

New paintings and sculptural work by Thomas Christopher Haag at Lightbox Kulturhaus - 2027 NE MLK JR Blvd, Portland, OR 97212 enter through glass doors behind Tiny's Coffee

Join us for the closing reception of this incredible exhibit of paintings and assemblage. Thomas will be showing new paintings (some of which he finished last month in his amazing magical temporary Portland garage studio) and a found object installation that makes you feel like you're getting away with something in church. Spread the word and bring mischievous friends.

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Twenty-five Really Tiny Dances takes over the Lightbox Friday, November 14th. Join us for an evening of dance featuring a dozen Portland area dancers and performers. Pre-sale tickets available now. This show will sell out.

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"Oregon Makes Me Wet" T-Shirts  only $20 each

Email Jacob to get yours today!!

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Our friend Jacob Mooney, beloved Portland artist and creative director of the Lightbox Kulturhaus, needs our help and support urgently at this time.  On October 8th, during the blood moon eclipse, Jacob fell while performing on stilts, fracturing three bones and dislocating his lunate bone in his right wrist.  Jacob underwent corrective surgery October 22, getting a plate, 6 screws and some tissue repair. Thankfully the operation went smoothly, and some medical coverage was secured, but Jacob will be out of work as a carpenter for 3-6 months during his rehabilitation and recovery. Jacob’s carpentry and building work has served to subsidize the bulk of the Lightbox’s offerings during the past 4 years.  The Lightbox continues to offer engaged programming in performance praxis, dance-theater, clowning, improvisation, and multi-sensory art salons.  Countless Portland artists and patrons of the arts have trained, created, performed, and participated at the Lightbox Kulturhaus, incubating authenticity, radical presence, physical humor and connection.  At this time, this vibrant, radical Lightbox programming does not yet fully support the financial cost of keeping the space going. Both Jacob and the Lightbox Community need your support at this time, so that they can continue to serve the Portland artistic community into the future. Please donate whatever you can; contributions of every level are valued and appreciated. If you can’t offer financial support at this time, please pass along this message to your contacts who support and appreciate the arts.   Thanks for your time in considering this request to help our friend and teacher Jacob Mooney, who contributes much to the life of many in Portland and beyond through his teaching, healing, culture creation, and social experimentation.  

http://www.gofundme.com/jacobmooney

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Domicile – October 24th – 26th @ Lightbox Kulturhaus
 Reception: Saturday, October 25th, 7-10pm
 Artist’s Talk: Sunday, October 26th, 1-2pm

The immensity of the geodesic dome crowds every inch of the gallery.  A small triangular opening allows entry into the glowing structure.  Above, projections of clouds, stars, the sun and the moon race across the concave ceiling.  Below the dizzying skyscape, a topographical sculpture expands across the floor.  It appears heavy, hovering only inches above the ground.  Mountains, valleys and rivers roll across its surface.  Thousands of tiny streets and buildings appear atop the sculpture’s rippling landscape with an overwhelming degree of detail as it sits perfectly nestled within the womb-like vessel of the dome.

Tyler Corbett and Erinn Kathryn present Domicile, an installation of video, sculpture and architecture that explores perceptions of home through contrasting viewpoints: the adult, pragmatic, obsessive present versus the idyllic and formative yet distorted memories of childhood.

This project was possible by funding from the Regional Arts and Culture Council.www.racc.org

For more information: corbettkathryn.com

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You've heard of "10 Tiny Dances", on TBA's 4'x4' stage. Get ready for Twenty-five Really Tiny Dances! November 14th offers an intimate night of dance performance at the Lightbox. The Lightbox welcomes individuals and groups for 60sec minimum - 4 minute max, on a 2'x2' stage. Guaranteed at least 2.5 times better than TBA.

Seating is limited, and both shows will sell out. Stay tuned at lightboxkulturhaus.com for details.

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MILKSHAKE starts October 11th. A work out to shake what you got! Twerk, wine, bounce and play with Mister E, Saturdays 10-11am thru Dec 20th. (No class Oct 25th or Nov 29th). $10 drop in  Milkshake is a booty-centric dance workout for ALL booties. Practice and explore the history of intersecting styles of dance including twerk, wine and bounce. You'll also find hip openers, strength building, and shaking it every way it feels good. This is a queer/sex positive and body positive space, with sexually explicit dance tracks. All experience levels welcome. Dress to sweat and bring water.

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@saintharridan Pop-Up Shop Comes to @lightboxkulturhauspdx - for Two Weekends! We can’t wait to suit you up! Friday, September 26 thru Sunday, September 28, 2014 and Saturday, October 4 thru Sunday, October 5 2014

Time: Friday: 1pm to 6pm

Saturdays and Sundays: 11am – 6pm

Saint Harridan, designer and retailer of masculine clothing and accessories for women and transmen, is bringing it’s national Pop-Up Shop Tour to Portland for two weekends! Join us September 26-28 and again October 4 & 5 at Lightbox Kulturhaus. Slip into a masculine suit coat that understands the size of your shoulders. Try on a dress shirt that fits your neck, chest, and sleeve - all at once. Zip up a pair of men’s style trousers that knows you have hips but doesn’t accentuate them. Experience what if feels like to enter a shop where YOU are the expected customer, a shop staffed by people who live to make you look and feel your boldest, a shop filled with clothing and accessories made to fit your body and your gender. Mark your calendar now. More info at www.saintharridan.com.

Location: Lightbox Kulturhaus, 2027 NE MLK Jr Blvd, Portland, Oregon 97212

Contact phone#: [phone]

Website: www.saintharridan.com

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Enjoy a kick ass double header - improv AND puppet show - at the Lightbox on Saturday, September 6th.

First up - Lightbox Ensemble brings us This Group's Game, when the improv team tries to fit more and more players into every scene. Improv scenes aren’t just for 2 anymore but everyone. Will maximizing the number of players in each scene, multiply the laughs or will the group descend into chaos?  Come find out! Doors at 7:30pm, Show at 8pm - $7 cash admission

Crankie Fest: East Meets West starts at 10pm. Katherine Fahey, Anna Cosper and James Sarsgard bring us a moving panorama of storytelling and live music. Find out more on our website or just show up and find out.

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Join us at Lightbox Kulturhaus Friday, August 29th, for "TOPIA" an evening of intimate dance theater, performance art and live music (for the ones who didn't get away...

TOPIA: A Fantasy in My Brain - Barefoot Walking on Bricks in Rivers Doors at 7:30pm, Show at 8pm $10-$20 sliding scale Seating is limited

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Bodies of Data: Topological Investigations of Movement Dynamics

August 6th through 9th: 6:00 – 8:00pm.

Over four consecutive days of two-hour meetings, this workshop unites practicing research mathematicians with Portland dancers, to collaboratively explore topological data analysis and its interpretations in movement and physical metaphor.  Topological data analysis — the study of “the shape of data” — aims to understand data and information from the perspectives of topology — identifying the global, robust, holistic patterns and structure of spaces.  Expect to learn some new mathematics (no prerequisites beyond an open and listening mind).  Expect to translate ideas and respond with movement and action, in ordered and disordered activities.  Expect meta-discussions centering awareness on interdisciplinary collaborative practice.  Expect new metaphors and mysteries, and a new language to access them: math vs. art; continuous vs. discrete; map vs. territory; signal vs. noise.  Facilitated by Jacob Mooney and Luke Wolcott, a local mathematician with a PhD in algebraic topology, a YouTube channel full of dorky dance videos, and years of experience collaborating with visual and performance artists on math-art work (see forthelukeofmath.com or daikonpickle.com). Six to nine participants from the Portland movement community are welcome to register (free).  Contact Luke at [email protected] if interested or with any questions.  The six to nine mathematicians will be drawn from the concurrent annual meeting of the Mathematical Association of America, taking place at the Hilton that week. The workshop is ungoal-oriented, however, the last hour on Saturday night will be opened to the public ($10) for witnessing, followed by music and uniformly convergent instability. We hope that your are free to attend in whatever capacity strikes your fancy.

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Come watch the improv fun last Saturday of every month at 8 pm.

Harold: Presented by The LightBox Ensemble Saturday, July 26th 2014 Doors at 7:30, Show at 8:00 At the LightBox Kulturhaus 2027 NE MLK, Portland Or Admission $7 Cash Only The LightBox Ensemble is set to perform the most classic long form improv format ever known.  Both acts will be interpretations of Del Closes format, known by no other name than Harold.  All too often this format is manipulated into many different things that it is not, but these Kulturhaus comedians are working hard to use the initial framework set up by its inventor, honoring the launching point for improvised theater.  

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“The Forbidden Fruit” by Otto Schade ~ Chilean artist

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Ink, pen and acrylic drawing on paper. 42 x 42 cm 2013

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— Artist Creates Charcoal Art In Beautiful Way —

Credit: Heather Hansen, Spencer Hansen

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Awesome video of kids in Uganda tearing it up to Eddy Kenzo's "Jambole".