Grief Stick with special guest Corrina Repp
- Thu, Feb 20
Run Time: 120 min.
TICKETS $15
Doors 6:30 p.m.; Event 7 p.m.
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THE EXPERIENCE
Kicking off this event, musician and Grief Stick music composer, Corrina Repp returns to Portland, after moving to LA, to serenade the Tomorrow Theater audience in a homecoming not to be missed.
Following Corrina, writer, producer, and musician Alex Behr will read poems from her book Grief Stick, which she composed during her partner Chris’ illness.
ON SCREEN: Grief Stick
2024. Directed by Brian Padian. Runtime: 17:30 minutes.
After 30 years, separated by time and circumstance, Portland poet Alex Behr reunites with her lost love Chris Hartman. Soon after reconnecting, Chris becomes ill with an accelerated, fatal disease. Grief Stick explores the contours of love and death, using photographs, poems, voicemails, and video to show the before, during, and after of the illness and how it impacted them both.
ON STAGE: Corrina Repp, Alex Behr, & Brian Padian
Critically acclaimed guitarist and singer/songwriter Corrina Repp, currently lives in Los Angeles, but came up in Portland, Oregon in the late ‘90s, carving out a space as she developed her sound. (A sometime actress too, she’s also known for a recurring role on Portlandia.) Her first two solo works, now out of print, came out at the tail end of that decade, with four more released in the 2000s: I Take On Your Days (2001), It’s Only the Future (2004), The Absent and the Distant (2006). From 2006-2012 Corrina focused on the experimental indie rock band Tu Fawning, exploring and honing her skills in a quartet setting. The latter half of the 2010s brought Corrina back into the solo world with Pattern of Electricity (2015), How A Fantasy Will Kill Us All (2018), and her most recent release, ISLAND (2021). She has just finished recording her first instrumental guitar album, ACTIVITY DREAM, to be released in 2025.
Alex Behr is a writer and musician living in Portland, OR. She is the author of Planet Grim: Stories (7.13 Books) and co-author of the chapbook Cold Plum Wine (Picture Frame Press). Her writing has appeared widely, including in Salon, Tin House, Vol. 1 Brooklyn, Oregon Humanities, Propeller, and The Rumpus. She received a Regional Arts and Culture Council Arts 3C grant to support the short documentary Grief Stick, directed and edited by Brian Padian. Its exploration of love and sudden loss is shadowed by a poetry chapbook of the same name (Picture Frame Press), now in its second printing. She lives in Portland.
Brian Padian‘s credits as writer/director include the feature film THE BLACK SEA, two seasons of the webseries MICROAGGRESSIONS, the short film THE BIG BLACK DARK and others. Currently he is in post-production on his second feature SISTER/BROTHER. Brian’s projects have screened at Dances With Films, Portland Film Festival, Seattle True Independent, NYC Webfest, Local Sightings, Stareable Fest and others. Brian was awarded the 2022 Final Draft Fellowship at Stowe Story Labs and has received project grants from the Regional Arts + Culture Council for shorts, series, and feature projects. Brian holds an MFA in Screenwriting from the American Film Institute, where he received the Jack Oakie Memorial Scholarship and he studied theater and film at Humboldt State University. He lives in Portland.
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