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30th Annnual Time-Based Art Festival - Portland, OR
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30th Annnual Time-Based Art Festival

Arts and Entertainment

August 8, 2025

From: Time-Based Art Festival

The Time-Based Art Festival is a seasonal movement, a collective passage from summer to fall. TBA:25 marks a special milestone—PICA’s 30th year—and gives us an opportunity to look back at where we came from while leaning towards the future.

For ten days in September, we come together to witness contemporary art in action: performances, exhibitions, music, and movement. We run into old friends and form new connections. Across the 2025 program, artists defy expectations, stretching our understanding of art and its place in the world we inhabit. From experimental operas to performance-lectures, multimodal poetry to droning soundscapes, TBA:25 truly has something for everyone.

TBA is treasured because it is temporary. It is a time dedicated to being here and now—time that is rarer and rarer these days. A time when everyone belongs, when you belong.

Life happens when you show up. TBA happens only once a year. Experience it.

Schdeule of Events

September 4, 2025

6:00 PM: Angelo Scott at PNCA
Omni Rail

8:00 PM: Opening Night Dinner PICA Pavilion

September 5, 2025

6:00 PM: Tahni Holt and Emma Lutz-Higgins at PICA
Horizon

8:00 PM: Drama Tops at PICA Annex
DADS

8:00 PM: San Cha at Winningstad Theatre
Inebria me

9:30 PM: Asher Hartman and Jasmine Orpilla
Blessed with Switch
PICA

September 6, 2025

12:00 PM: Box Meal & Conversation with Artists PICA Pavilion

4:00 PM: Tahni Holt and Emma Lutz-Higgins at PICA
Horizon

6:00 PM: Drama Tops at PICA Annex
DADS

7:30 PM: Justine A. Chambers at PICA
The Brutal Joy: A Lecture

8:00 PM: San Cha at Inebria me Winningstad Theatre

September 7, 2025

4:00 PM: Tahni Holt and Emma Lutz-Higgins at PICA
Horizon

6:00 PM: Drama Tops at PICA Annex
DADS

7:30 PM: The Untitled Native Project at PICA

September 11, 2025

7:00 PM: keyon gaskin and collaborators at PICA

8:30 PM: Madison Brookshire at PICA
Number Series

September 12, 2025

6:00 PM: Dao Strom at PICA Annex
Tender Revolutions/Yellow Songs

8:00 PM: Erika M. Anderson (EMA) and Tabitha Nikolai at PICA
Memory as a Rock Out of Reach

September 13, 2025

12:00 PM: Box Meal & Conversation with Artists PICA Pavilion

12:00 PM-5:00PM: Freddie Robins at Douglas F. Cooley, Memorial Art Gallery, Reed College
Apotropaic

6:00 PM: Dao Strom at PICA Annex
Tender Revolutions/Yellow Songs

8:00 PM: keyon gaskin and collaborators at PICA

9:00 PM: Dirty Thirty TBA:25 Closing Party PICA

September 14, 2025

12:00 PM-5:00PM: Freddie Robins at Douglas F. Cooley, Memorial Art Gallery, Reed College
Apotropaic

4:00 PM: Elbow Room at PICA
Good Dang Weekend 2

Date: September 4-7 and 11-14, 2025

Location: Various Venues in Portland, OR 97212

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