A Community Based Performance
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Chisao Hata
Educator, dance/theatre artist
Ping Khaw
Art educator, visual artist
HiiH Gallery
LÃm Quáng & Kestrel Gates
Slomo
performance installation groupHARMOS explores and values global themes of peace, surrender, reconciliation and compassionate action for the world, each other and ourselves.
Chisao Hata is a performer and educator whose work honors cultural traditions, even transcends them. Her movement/healing work forms collaborations with public/private schools, hospitals, peace and spiritual communities, Japanese American communities and colleges throughout the Northwest. She is certified dance specialist in the State of Oregon and trained in forms of modern dance, classical/folk Japanese dance, taiko (drumming) and physical theatre.
Ping Khaw is a professional visual artist who has worked with multicultural and community groups in Portland, as well as in Malaysia since 1984. Her work with community has transformed her personal art experience to juxtapose the human connection in mixed media art form. Since moving to US from Malaysia in 1990, she has collaborated/taught many art workshops with social service agencies, public/private schools in Portland and throughout the Northwest.
HiiH Lights (Lâm Quàng & Kestrel Gates)
Lâm Quàng has been hand-crafting lamps and light sculptures for nearly a decade. An exploration of the art of paper-making in its primitive form, led Lâm to his use of paper fibers to create lamps and lanterns. He opened HiiH Gallery in 1997, on Alberta Street.
Kestrel Gates joined Lâm in June of 2004 applying her background in the performing arts to the design and construction of HiiH's lamp forms. Together, Lâm and Kestrel work as a creative team, from concept and design, through the creation process. Their work is inspired by plant and sea life, ultimately expressing an abstract aesthetic. They do commissions, and in house sales at HiiH Gallery.Slomo is a performance installation group that Kestrel began in 2004. Slomo has performed at various events including: Itisness Valentine’s Day party, Reed Art Week, a meeting at the Oregonian, Alberta Street’s Art Hop, during Get out the Vote, PICA’s Dada Ball, the TBA Festival’s opening party, the Grand Opening for the Gerding Theater, and peace rallies.
Shakuhachi player Larry Tyrrell is the preeminent voice of the Japanese bamboo flute in the Northwest. He performs, teaches and records music from a repertoire encompassing traditional Japanese meditation pieces, new classical compositions and multi-ethnic music. He recently completed a commission for a composition for shakuhachi trio to be premiered this month, August 2007, in Japan. Mr. Tyrrell lived in Japan for six years where he studied with two great masters of shakuhachi; Kohachiro Miyata and Katsuya Yokoyama. He currently lives in Portland and has teaching studios both here and in Seattle.
This project is supported by REGIONAL ARTS & CULTURE COUNCILl, METRO - NORTH PORTLAND ENHANCEMENT, MULTNOMAH COUNTY CULTURAL COALITION.
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