Thick in the Throat, Honey will join Fused Creative for a night of visual art, poetry, music, dance, spoken word, improv, and theatre on the theme of The Feminine Era. Buy tickets here!

PJCE Records present John’s group lie very still (featuring John Savage, woodwinds, Ken Ollis, drumset, Michael Gamble, electric guitar, and Shao Way Wu, bass) will perform.

As part of the Just off Site: A Literary Festival, Thick in the Throat Honey will be performing and curating poetry-music duos! (electronic musicians, folk, rock, and experimental) called

Iterations, Improvisation and Collaborations performance

Passages Bookshop, 1223 NE MLK Blvd.

A free collaborative reading by contributing writers to Poets Reading The News, The Rise Up Review, and Writers Resist at AWP, hosted at Rontoms--have a yummy bite and join the resistance!

POETS READING THE NEWS READERS: Megan Merchant, Rémy Dambron, Matty Layne Glasgow, Devon Balwit, Collin Spinney, Charissa Menefee

RISE UP REVIEW READERS: Devon Balwit, Brent Terry, Lenny DellaRocca, Jennifer Jean, Iris Dunkle, Claudia F. Savage, Darius Atefat-Peckham, Joel Peckham, Cynthia Atkins, Katharine Whitcomb, Erica Goss, Jane Ann Devol Fuller

WRITERS RESIST READERS: Peter Brown Hoffmeister, Tara Campbell, Tori Cárdenas, Jamie Davenport, Lisa DeSiro, Robbie Gamble, Amanda Gomez, Liz Kellebrew, Courtney LeBlanc, LJ Provost, Sima Rabinowitz, Sam Sax, Judith A. Skillman, Alina Stefanescu, Katie Thomason, C. Gregory Thompson, Writer and Hector Tobar

Re:Soundings (John Savage, flute, Dana Reason, piano, and Catherine Lee, oboe) joins the legend Roscoe Mitchell at The Park Avenue Armory, NYC.

As part of the Conversations with Writers series, Claudia will be giving a talk and reading on Radical Empathy using her own love poetry and the love poetry of Luis Alberto Urrea, Osip Mandelstam, Cecilia Vicuna, and Maram al-Masri.

Winter Poetry Festival

Performance at 4PM

Workshop at 5-6PM

Music Your Work New

In every culture poets have collaborated with music and musicians--whether with a lyre in Greece, singing pantoums in Southeast Asia, with jazz in America, or ecstatic poetry in the Middle East. Poetry-music duo Thick in the Throat, Honey, has been creating and performing work that pushes both art forms for over a decade. Collaborating with music offers opportunities for poetic discovery in terms of form, sound and bodily connection. In this 1-hour workshop, we will generate new work alone and together inspired by both silence and music. Participants will also learn methods of scoring and performing a poem in order to work with musicians in the future. 

The Ezra Weiss Big Band (including John on woodwinds) presents a new jazz suite: "We Limit Not the Truth of God" (a newly commissioned work about explaining the state of the world to our children) 

Deflecting Violence Through Poetry

How can poetry actually help students deal with the violence in our modern world–wars that have been happening since they were born, violence in the schools, the rise of nationalism, sexism, and racism, and threats on social media and media in general? The poet has always been feared by fascists and those in power for good reason. In this class we’ll discuss three ways that you can help your students create art that feels meaningful and gives them back their voice. We will tackle issues of hypocrisy (through blackout poems and found poems), explore methods utilized by activists to oppose those in power (like Chilean poet Cecilia Vicuna against Pinochet and Morgan Parker against sexism and racism in American popular culture), and we’ll learn how to give love back to the forgotten in our lives through praise and persona poems. Together we will explore poets who inspire and methods that will get students writing and sharing. 

Kinney classroom at the Portland Art Museum. Free. Sign up here.

Thick in the Throat, Honey perform Other Echoes Inhabit the Garden for Tenor Saxophone and Gated Tape (2013) by Daniel Brandes for this quarterly Creative Music Guild experimental music series.

The Extradition Series is an ongoing workshop where performers and audience explore new approaches to music-making and music-listening. By presenting works that are generously experimental – giving equal agency to their composers and interpreters, and embracing the contingency of their ultimate form – we seek to draw musicians and audience into the moment, exchanging hard expectations for radical openness.

Claudia attends the Black Earth Institute Fellowship retreat for the first year of her fellowship with the 2018 fellows in Wisconsin.

The Black Earth Institute seeks to help create a more just and deeply interconnected world and promote the health of the planet. To do so artists are appointed as Fellows for a term and Scholars join as advisors. BEI then encourages and supports its present and past Fellows and Scholars to address social justice, environmental issues and the spiritual dimensions of the human condition in their art and work.

Come join Trio Sauvage with John Savage-woodwinds, Tim DuRoche-drums and Andrew Jones-bass (and celebrate John's birthday!)

Montavilla Jazz Festival with Creative Music Guild: Sound Foundry   

Mike Gamble-guitar, John C. Savage-woodwinds, Jimmie Herrod-vocals, Andrew Jones-bass, Chris Johnedis-drums

Thick in the Throat, Honey performed as part of Cindy Williams Gutierrez's El Grupo Artist Salon's 10th Anniversary celebration.

Thick in the Throat, Honey will be part of a gathering of national and local artists who will engage with the environment and the community through short form site-specific performances in public spaces throughout the First Thursday gallery walk enlivening our streets with unexpected images and experiences.

Sante Bar: 411 NW Park Ave.

Starts at 6:30 at the bar. Performances begin at 7 until around 8.

https://www.facebook.com/events/1837553699656694/

We will be performing new work from Claudia's book about the Syrian refugee crisis.

John is part of Dana Reason's An Apple for My Teacher ensemble, in honor of Pauline Oliveros, along with Mike Gamble, Mark Dresser, Holland Andrews, Catherine Lee, and other fine musicians

Lie Very Still with John C. Savage (saxophones, woodwinds, compositions), Mike Gamble (electric guitar), and Ken Ollis (drumset)

John's Trio Sauvage with Tim DuRoche (drums) and Andrew Jones (bass) at one of the most intimate venues in the city

Claudia (poetry, Middle Eastern drums) will read from her book Bruising Continents and perform new work about the Syrian refugee crisis and jazz improvisation as a form of protest with her husband, John (saxophones and flutes).

free event + open mic as well

John is part of PJCE's phenomenal Maxville to Vanport performance (a story of African American migration in Oregon)
Music sample. More info, including an amazing film about the Vanport flood. 

Claudia will be reading along with writers Monica Hay, Missy Ladygo, Katie Guinn, Jane Hodges, Leah Dieterich, Aubrey Lenahan as part of Jenny Forrester's Unchaste series. 

Claudia F. Savage joins poets Judith Arcana, Liz Nakazawa, Shawn Aveningo Sanders, and many more wonderful ones for The Poeming Pigeon's reading of their Love Poem issue. 

The Pond House
(at The Ledding Library)

2215 SE Harrison Street, Milwaukie, OR

 

Claudia reads with 9 other writers at the WITS Literary Arts reading. Held at Literary Arts:

925 SW Washington Street, Portland

Claudia is a featured reader along with Carolyn Martin and Linda Ferguson. Curated by Anthony Pfannenstiel and Dan Encarnacion. 

Free, Open mike at 6, featured readers 6:30pm
Thurman Library, Northwest Meeting Room
 

Literary Arts' class taught by Claudia F. Savage. 4 sessions. Thursdays, 7-9pm through November 2.

Poetic Personal Essays. Sign up.