Toast: PICA Holiday Cabaret
“chestnuts roasting on your nose…”
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Here’s how we’re going to begin our month-long revelries. PICA’s picked the perfect spot for their Holiday Cabaret in Wilf’s Piano Bar and Lounge (800 NW 6th), adjacent to the beautiful Union Station. It’s normally a cozy spot evoking another era at which one might have a highball or at this time of year a Tom & Jerry. On December 4, Wilf’s will find its ambient energy level turned up a notch or three as PICA fills the evening with holiday musical favorites presented by emcee (and TBA:06 alum) Holcombe Waller, JamieLee Christiana, Hand 2 Mouth Theatre, and many more.
This benefit for PICA’s artistic programming starts with a patron reception from 6-9 PM ($75) with drinks and hors d’oeuvres and opens up from 9-midnight for um…karaoke…and other performances $5 general/$3 member.
At the TBA Festival noontime chat with Mark Russell, he speculated on what he could do with grander budget for the festival. We’d like to see PICA get the funding they need to make the festival as extravagant as they can imagine it to be. TBA is one of Portland’s cultural treasures.
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