Poetry+Music+Storyteling+API women artists. New series. With music, storytelling, poetry, and illustration by: Dao Strom, Elina Lim, A’Misa Chiu, Pamela Santos, Ginger Ko, and Anna Vo.

Performing music in support of Shayla Lawson's new book of poems, PANTONE. With readings/performances by Shayla Lawson, Coleman Stevenson, Dao Strom, La Priesteza; DJing by Lamar Leroy.

Debut of a new hybrid forms series event, INHERITORS, co-curated with Tell It Slant Reading Series (Danielle Frandina) & A.M. O'Malley (IPRC). With readings by: Angie Chau, Aimee Phan, Isabelle Thuy Pelaud, Dao Strom, Stacey Tran, Julie Thi Underhill.

INHERITORS is a hybrid-art & literary series exploring the theme of aftermath as expressed through the lenses of multidisciplinary artists/collaborations who are descendants and inheritors of violence stemming from war, cultural and civil upheaval, domestic abuse, intergenerational trauma, domestic and other forms of power abuses. 

Our May 28th debut event, She Who Has No Master(s), will gather the voices/experiences of female descendants and inheritors of the Vietnam War and refugee exodus.

Reading+Music+Multimedia at The Box, Knox College, in Galesburg IL.

Hosted and presented by all artists of color. Curated by Stacey Tran. A night of voice / movement / poetry / music / visual installation by Portland-based artists exploring space, memory, time, lineage, and rituals of sharing. With: Intisar Abioto, Claire Barrera, Ripley Snell, Eileen Isagon Skyers, Dao Strom, Takahiro Yamamoto.

I think that when we talk about “space” in these terms we are often talking about belonging; and it is a form of belonging that is not only physical, but personal, cultural, sexual, social, aesthetic, psychological, ideological, philosophical. We are asking, ultimately, we are also challenging/testing, how much or how well we will be allowed in(to) a space—in essence: are we welcome?—to be, expose, express, share and have received, ourselves in authentic and whole displays... On February 3rd, a group of artists will be “holding space” in Portland, Oregon. The event is named for its intent to construct and claim “space” for artists of color. This reflects, at least in part, on some debates that have arisen (largely via social media) regarding the “whiteness” of “spaces”—in arenas of art and literary enterprises, namely—in the otherwise very liberal, cultured, and progressive “space” that Portland as a town is reputed to be...The most basic distillation of the question might be this: are people of color being justly represented in the “spaces” they (too) occupy? And what is just representation—what should it look like? And who is or should be responsible for curating, organizing, initiating and/or staking claim to and in those spaces?  -- from interview & reflection with Stacey Tran for diacritics.org

Portland poetry/reading series hosted by Robert Duncan Grey. With: Dao Strom, Georgia Wood, Manuel Arturo Abreu.

Music+Movement+Poetry @ The Waypost. Co-curated by Dao Strom, Danielle Ross, Steve Hefter. With: Neil Aitken, Michael Apinyakul, Catherine Egan, Lance Leonnig, Danielle Ross, Dao Strom, Stacey Tran, Becca Yenser.

Late Night Library (www.latenightlibrary.org) presents a book-themed variety show. With: Arthur Bradford (host), Carola Dibbell, Amelia Gray, Natalie Graham, Whitney Monge, Dao Strom.

Solo music performance, shared bill with Jenn Rawling and Dao Strom.

Mini Lit & Music Series / Two Thursdays in July:

7.9.15 - music w/ Barry Brusseau, Dao Strom, Cotton
7.16.15 - reading w/ Jacob Paul, Dao Strom

A night of "fourth genre" performance, including performances merging poetry, music, prose, video projection, and graphic novel content. With: Dao Strom, Adam Selzer, Barry Brusseau. Emceed by Danielle Frandina and Erin Ergenbright.