STATEMENT

Stelo Arts

May 16th 7PM & May 17th 2PM

STATEMENT is a coming together of six legendary elders of Portland’s creative community, using their various art forms to make a statement about life, love, America, grief, dance, inspiration, and being a Jew. If you’ve been in Portland for the past fifty years, you know these names. Each artist has been asked to prepare a 9-minute monologue, enhanced with their unique brilliance. Westerwelle will speak with humor and guts in a conversation with God; Banyas will be talking about her early inspirations in movement; Martinez-Grieco will be moving and speaking about, well, everything; Keefe, who has photographed everything and everyone over the past 40 years, will be showing us her beautiful, imagistic documentation; Sander will be doing spoken-word as well as original music; and Grabel will be doing a spoken word piece about America and being a Jew. We have all collaborated in the past, but never as a group.