Growing our ability to carry out our mission is important to Conduit. In the last year alone we brought on new board members, improved access for artists, and expanded staff. In looking toward the future we are in the process of initiating new programs, exploring partnerships, and continuing recruitment efforts for both Board and staff. As Bob Hicks recently noted in his review of TopShakeDance, "Conduit, for all its tininess, remains a crucial player on the Portland dance scene."
Dancers donating their talents in support of Conduit include Gavin Larsen, former principal soloist with the Oregon Ballet Theater, Gregg Bielemeier, TopShakeDance's Jim McGinn, Mizu Dezierto of Water in the Desert, Katherine Longstreth, Ten Tiny Dance producer/performer Mike Barber, Lucy Yim, Tracy Broyles, Linda Austin, Tere Mathern, Vanessa Vogel, and a special performance by Vox: a spoken chorus.
| Le Pigeon Restaurant ($100 Gift Certificate) |
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Le Pigeon has been named one of the best restaurants in the country by countless magazines including; The New York Times, People, The Oregonian, Gourmet Magazine, Bon Appetite Magazine, and The Washington Post. The restaurant itself is small and romantic with an open kitchen where people may view James Beard Award-winning chef and owner, Gabriel Rucker, at his best. The menu changes regularly but always includes many creative culinary items. |
2005 Chateau Fontesteau Haut Medoc ($25 value) |
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2005 was an exceptionally dry vintage. This dark ruby bottling displays a nose of black fruit with complex aromas of mushrooms, earth, toasty oak and vanilla. A medium bodied Cabernet Sauvignon-based blend, it offers a rich attack of black current and chewy tannins on the finish. |
Clay Circle Studios -- 7"x 15" ceramic "Orange Lotus" ($185) |
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Sara Swink works in clay, making human and animal forms with a psychological stance. She uses encoded shapes, surfaces, color and facial expression to suggest the subtleties and contradictions of what lies just beneath the surface of consciousness. All this is playfully delivered with dash of humor, making the heady pill a little easier to swallow. Each piece is unique. She coil-builds with rough sculpture clays fired to mid-range temperatures. Surface treatments include combinations of cracking slip, oxides, stains and glazes, sometimes finished with gold leaf, waxes and inks. |
Venus Allure Salon & Spa 'Cut and Color' ($150 value) |
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Venus Allure Salon and Spa is the latest upscale salon with exceptional hair, nails, massage, facial services from when you make your appointment to walking in and when you are ready leave. Come in and feel the difference! |
Unique hand-blown glass paperweights by Matthew Denton ($50 each) |
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Art glass paperweights are intricate miniatures of all the beauty and technique found in blown glass sculpture. They have long transcended merely holding something down. An ever growing and enduring interest, collectible art glass paperweights encompass every conceivable theme, from modern abstraction to the traditional as well as the exotic--and span a wide range of limited edition series and shapes, including the classic sphere and beyond. Matthew Denton's glass art focuses on bowls, plates, vases, and these exquisite paperweights. |
Conduit Dance -- Six Class Card ($84 value) |
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Technique classes at Conduit Dance explore a broad-based and rigorous approach to the body of knowledge currently influencing contemporary dance training and performance. Stylistically diverse, reflecting each teacher's specific background and aesthetic interests, classes are both conceptual and physical. Thorough core warm-ups, extended passages of appropriately complex movement and opportunities to construct or improvise are central to each class. |
Jerome Robbins' NY Export: Opus Jazz DVD ($25 value) |
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In 1958 Jerome Robbins' "ballet in sneakers," NY Export: Opus Jazz, became a smash hit when it toured around the world. 'Jazz' represents an innovative mix of a mean-streets vernacular with ballet's formal structures that was startling. It tells the story of disaffected urban youth through movement that blended ballet, jazz and ballroom dancing with Latin, African and American rhythms to create a powerfully expressive, sexy and contemporary style. This reimagined production from the 1958 original has won awards at film festivals and was nominated for the Rose d'Or Award. A must-see for dancers of all genre! |
Portland Taiko -- 2 tickets to their Fall concert "Beat Salad: U-Pick" ($70 value) |
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For seventeen years Asian American drum ensemble Portland Taiko has crafted an innovative blend of Taiko and dance expression informed and enriched by long honored Japanese traditions. This year the company brings their big drums and big sound to the stage in three 2011 Season concert premieres Ponta & The Big Drum, Drums@Work, Drums@Play, and their season finale Beat Salad: U-Pick. NOTE: This gift certificate needs to be validated by completing and sending to Portland Taiko by no later than September 15, 2011. |
1993 Simi Reserve Alexander Valley Cabernet Sauvignon ($70 value) |
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According to Robert Parker: "The 1993 Simi Cabernet Sauvignon Reserve is a restrained, French-styled Cabernet with an attractive black currant nose with subtle oak and earth overtones. On the palate, this lighter-styled wine is medium-bodied and soft, with dry tannin in the finish. |
Top Line Sales, LLC -- 3 hours of custom sales coaching, a book ("The 48-hour Rule and Other Strategies for Career Survival"), a subscription to an online newsletter ($460 value) |
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Top Line Sales, LLC is an independent strategic sales and sales marketing company, specializing in helping individuals and companies develop strategic sales plans, grow existing business, and connect to new customers. |
An evening of conversation with popular writer, teacher, story teller, and poet David Oates ($350 value) |
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Invite your friends to share an evening in conversation with David Oates, David's work explores how our human world connects with the larger world of natural wilderness. He writes about nature and urban life and has authored many provocative books regarding our relationship with the natural environment, including one of local interest, "City Limits: Walking Portland's Boundary," a two and one-half year journey tracing Portland's Urban Growth Boundary. Audiences respond to his message of passionate connectedness: that there is a wildness that links humans (mind and body!) with the living world around us. |
Clay Circle Studio -- 2"x6"x6" ceramic 'Goggles' ($75 value) |
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Sara Swink's ceramic works are personal narratives that reflect the inner workings of her psyche and its preoccupations. She sees art objects as symbols of empathic connection between inner and outer worlds that invite an exchange between conscious and unconscious forces. It is at this threshold that memories, feelings, insights, and new possibilities for expression arise. |
Two sets of 2011/12 Season Tickets to White Bird's Uncaged Dance Series ($200 value) |
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Enjoy an exciting season of innovative dance performance by four highly acclaimed dance companies Australia’s Chunky Move performs the US premier of the visually dramatic "Connected." Portland’s tEEth performs a new work commissioned by White Bird. Kidd Pivot presents its acclaimed "Dark Matters" featuring puppetry, and Yasmeen Godder performs "Love Fire," an untraditional work set to traditional waltzes. White Bird co-founder Walter Jaffe says "It’s outrageous and fun." |
1998 Elk Cove Vineyards Ultima Gewurztraminer ($50) |
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Ultima has a cult like following because of its rarity. These bottles are very limited and we had to indulge in the magic of Ultima and share it with you. Intensely perfumy with orange marmalade, rich and full bodied with great concentration and delicious mouthwatering acidity on the finish. This sweet, dessert wine is just the ultimate! |
Venus Allure Salon -- European Facial ($80 value) |
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Venus Allure Salon and Spa is the latest upscale salon with exceptional hair, nails, massage, facial services from when you make your appointment to walking in and when you are ready leave. Come in and feel the difference! |
A pair of 2011/2012 Season Tickets to the World Affairs Council of Oregon's International Speaker Series ($320 value) |
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Every year the International Speaker Series features prominent national and international figures who address the most significant issues of our time. Inaugurated in 2000 to celebrate the Council’s 50th Anniversary, the Series has become the nation’s premier speaker series focusing on international discussion and education. Last year speakers included Vandava Shiva, Paul Volcker, and Nicholas Kristoff. |
(3) three hour preliminary architectural design consultations ($1,800 value) |
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Are you in the beginning stages of a contemporary commercial, residential or interiors project? Here's an opportunity to take advantage of the creative juices of an award-winning retired design architect to help you formulate goals, analyze your needs, stimulate creative thinking, and explore exciting concepts. |
2 Tickets to the Portland Japanese Garden ($38 value) |
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Proclaimed as the most authentic Japanese Garden outside of Japan, the Portland Japanese Garden is a 5.5-acre haven of tranquil beauty nestled in the scenic West Hills of Portland. Your tickets will gain access to the Garden, the Garden Gift Store, and when offered, public tours, exhibitions, and some special events. |
Conduit Dance -- 10 hours of rehearsal space at Conduit Studios ($150 value) |
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Our beautiful, sunlit and heated studio is available for your performance or rehearsal needs! Spacious and centrally located, Conduit's space is well-suited for individual and group rehearsals, as well as for artists not looking for the typical proscenium or black box performance setting. While Conduit welcomes proposals for all types of studio rentals, we maintain highest priority for rental proposals that further our mission of advancing contemporary dance. |
Murder, Margolin & Merlot ($500 value) |
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Enjoy an evening of wine, hors d'oeuvres, and dinner for four and listen to stories by Phil Margolin, criminal defense attorney turned NY Times best-selling author of fifteen of the most acclaimed criminal and mystery books on the shelves today. Hear about his fascinating journey from defending some of Portland's most notorious criminals to writing bestselling novels. |
Neskowin Condo -- 3 nights ($675 value) |
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This 1500 SF condominium is located on the beautiful beach at Neskowin, facing Proposal Rock and the Pacific Ocean. All on one level with two bedrooms and two baths, it is spacious and complete. The master suite includes a king-size bed. A large, fully equipped kitchen area allows for fun family meals. This condo can accommodate up to six people comfortably. There is a large deck with a panoramic view of the ocean, Proposal Rock, and the rolling hills of Neskowin. NOTE: Reservations must be made between October 2011-March 2012, excluding holidays. |
40"x32" custom portrait by Horatio Law ($500 value) |
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Horatio Hung-Yan Law is an interdisciplinary artist whose work examines constructions of identity, issues of representation and cultural history. He holds degrees in printmaking, media arts and natural science and teaches at PNCA. The winner of this silent auction item will receive a custom, 40"x32" photographic portrait carefully rendered in digital candy -- Lifesavers, jelly beans and Skittles. The scanned candies seem lighter than air; a slight shadow beneath each form makes them float above the surface of the paper on which they are printed. These highly processed confections have been rendered through his computer-based manipulations, thus connecting their mass production to the artist's process. The artist requests that this work be completed between September and October of 2011. |
2 Bottles of wine from Naked Winery ($44 value) |
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At Naked Winery we aim to Tease. We strive to change the conversation, encourage you to set the mood of fun and romance. Open a bottle of Naked Merlot with your spouse and see where your evening takes you. Or drop in a bottle of Climax Chardonnay at a party you attend. Splurge and by a third bottle of Penetration Cabernet and have your mother-in-law read the back label at your next family dinner. You can get Naked daily in our tasting room in downtown Hood River, Oregon, where we have live music 5 nights a week. We also attend lots of events in Portland. Come get Naked with us! Bring confirmation Email with you when you pick up your donation at our Hood River Tasting Room. |
Clay Circle Studio 4.5"W x 3D x 15"H ceramic "Suspended from Skool" ($95 value) |
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Sara Swink's ceramic sculptures show a world that expresses a kind of subterranean existence. For Sara, the art and dream worlds are very inter-connected. She uses clay as a personal narrative of her life, often a reflection of inner experience, colored with a shade of humor. |
Join us on June 24th to celebrate the vibrancy and achievement of Portland's lively dance community. We are raising funds to help support our mission of advancing contemporary dance, which includes the development and creation of new work, providing a vital performance forum for the community, and offering professional training for dancers of all abilities.