 Report Back A huge thank you to Black Water for hosting and their incredible crew (support all ages venues)! It was a heart explodingly beautiful night and community rallied collectively! In organizing events, even being something like this and a bday bash for SGC, it's not about the organizer. We organize events to create another opportunity for community to rally, to connect with comrades, to create space for coalition building, new friendships and to connect community with vital resources. That's what it's all about and we experienced that happening in multitudes during the event. Incredible sets from Mids and Halfbird as always, a beautiful Butoh performance from Haley Jensen in collaboration with Yardsss ∅∀‡, an absolutely vital skillshare from Missy Rohs of Arctos School (check out the school and all of the rad workshops they organize) on chemical weapons aftercare, comrades from Institute of Anarchist Studies, Defense Fund PDX and Sunnyside Shower Project all tabling, zine distro from SGC and Rose City Distro (the distro table was almost empty by the end!) and the film screening of It's Revolution or Death Part III: Reclaiming the World Wherever We Stand from our amazing comrades at Sub Media. What an absolutely beautiful and perfect night in community. We (as in you!) collectively raised over $700 for Defense Fund PDX on the door alone! Thank you to everyone whether present or supporting from afar, it truly means everything and IS everything. We have a lot of announcements and upcoming events in the queue so stay tuned. Thank you for being in community with us and we with you. Love and solidarity forever - XO SGC ----- SGC Presents Saturday, February 7th 2026 Black Water (5115 NE Sandy Blvd PDX) 7:00 PM All Ages Benefiting Defense Fund PDX Bands Yardsss ∅∀‡ Halfbird Mids Tabling Defense Fund PDX Institute For Anarchist Studies Sunnyside Shower Project National Lawyers Guild Portland Mutual Aid Self Group Collective Skillshare National Lawyers Guild - Know Your Rights Missy Rohs of Arctos School - Chemical Weapons Aftercare Cold Weather Supply Collection We're collecting cold weather gear and other mutual aid supply donations for Sunnyside Shower Project. Film We'll be showing It's Revolution or Death Part III: Reclaiming the World Wherever We Stand from Sub Media via Channel Zero Network between doors and show start with subtitles. Downloadable Poster - JPG / PDF ----- Yardsss ∅∀‡ "On September 11, Portland experimental group Yardsss ∅∀‡ will release their new album, Cultus via Self Group. The album is a trio of extended improvisational pieces that prominently feature drones, dissonance and an ominous aura, bringing to mind the epic and eerie sounds of Godspeed You! Black Emperor or the no wave symphonies of Glenn Branca. It’s at times chaotic, beautiful and overwhelming, and today they’ve shared the lead track from the album, titled “Cultus II.” It’s a pulsing piece of dark psychedelia, underscored by a krautrock pulse, that builds up into something powerful and hypnotic, eventually boiling over into a climactic post-rock roar." - Treble Zine Halfbird Halfbird is a noise jazz / punk maximalist improv trio from Portland, OR composed of Grant Pierce (Young Hunter, June Rose) on drums, Brandon Conway (former president of the Creative Music Guild) on guitar and Ben Kates (Thicket, Orchestra Becomes Radicalized) on saxes. Their music is a maximalist mix of chromaticism, layered tempos, and walls of noise all shaped together into intuitive forms via active listening and luck. Halfbird has played with and/or shared the stage with the likes of Kelli Schaeffer, Ava Mendoza, CSTMR, The Social Stomach, Arrington De Dionyso, Inhalant, Dead Airfresheners, Sea Moss, Yardsss and many more since forming in 2014. Halfbird have released five albums (available at halfbird.bandcamp.com) and have toured the west coast as well as western Canada. Mids The new duo project from Nicholas Quiller and Michael Fisher previously of The Wild Body. Defense Fund PDX We’re an anti-State anti-repression org in PDX that focuses on prioritizing SW'er, BIPOC & queer folx in jail and people impacted by the PIC. Institute For Anarchist Studies The Institute for Anarchist Studies (IAS), established in 1996 to support the development of anarchism, is a grant-giving organization for radical writers and translators worldwide. To date, we have funded well over a hundred projects by authors from countries around the world. Equally important, we publish the Anarchist Interventions book series in collaboration with AK Press and Justseeds Artists’ Cooperative, the print and online journal Perspectives on Anarchist Theory, the Lexicon pamphlet series, and an Anarchist Imaginations series of books in collaboration with AK Press that began with Octavia’s Brood: Science Fiction Stories from Social Justice Movements. We organize educational events and in the past, the Renewing the Anarchist Tradition conference. The IAS is part of a larger movement to radically transform society. We are internally democratic and work in solidarity with people around the globe who share our values. Sunnyside Shower Project Sunnyside Shower Project is a Sunnyside Neighborhood Association Community Cares Committee program, fiscally sponsored by Southeast Uplift (SEUL). We are a volunteer-powered mutual aid project rooted in care, connection, and respect for our unhoused and housing-insecure neighbors in Southeast Portland. Through free showers, hygiene supplies, clean clothing, laundry access, and connections to supportive resources, we meet immediate needs while honoring each person’s dignity and humanity. Our space is low-barrier, welcoming, and judgment-free—a place where everyone can be seen, heard, and valued. By building trust and meaningful connections, we nurture a stronger, more compassionate neighborhood for all. National Lawyers Guild The National Lawyers Guild is dedicated to the need for basic and progressive change in the structure of our political and economic system. Through its members—lawyers, law students, jailhouse lawyers and legal workers united in chapters and committees—the Guild works locally, nationally and internationally as an effective political and social force in the service of the people. Portland Mutual Aid Portland Mutual Aid Network started in the summer of 2020 in direct response to the needs of the unhoused community in downtown Portland, Oregon. We are an all-volunteer mutual aid group distributing food, survival supplies, and personal care products weekly. The people we serve define what we do and what we offer. We are always looking to Engage — Listen — Respond. Arctos School The Arctos School of Herbal and Botanical Studies offers classes in plant medicine, botanical identification, mushroom foraging, community herbalism, and more in and around Portland, Oregon. Our bioregional approach to herbalism grows from our commitment to social justice. We believe that empowered, caring communities are preventative medicine. In our classes, you will learn to start seeing ecosystems: the ways that flora, fungi, and fauna live together and depend on each other in a dynamic environment. We introduce our students to plants that they can build relationships with, that can become their friends and allies for life.
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 We'll be tabling with free copies of Collectivist Zine, stickers, buttons and posters alongside so many amazing collectives and comrades. Hope to see you there!
More Info  The first annual Unfair Fair is happening on Saturday, June 28th 2025! There's also a TON of RAD events happening, no matter what you attend you'll be support local orgs, creative fam and community!
Events 6/28: Unfair Fair Bloc Party - SE Belmont between SE 27th and SE 29th Rad Pride - Wilshire Park Friends of Noise Show - The Off Beat parking lot Just Friends Collective house show & benefit - see their IG for location Basics SE Belmont between SE 27th > SE 29th 12:00 - 3:00 PM @ SGC Haus 3:00 PM - Late @ The Nest, Bare Bones, The Vern A coalition neighborhood bloc party on SE Belmont (SE 27th - SE 29th) including The Nest, Bare Bones, The Vern and SGC Haus featuring bands, DJ's, art, graff demo, mutual aid and orgs tabling, vendors, food pop-ups, flash tattoo pop-ups and more. Starts at 12:00 PM at SGC Haus (NE corner of SE Belmont & 28th), everything else launches at 3:00 PM. Though this is a free vent SGC Haus is encouraging donations to and benefitting Street Roots: www.streetroots.org. Founded in 1999, Street Roots is a nonprofit 501(c)3 organization in Portland, Oregon, that publishes a weekly social justice newspaper sold by people experiencing homelessness and poverty to earn an income. Follow SGC on Instagram for announcements. In love and solidarity, SGC  GET TICKETS HERE • Sunday, February 4th • Holocene We are celebrating 14 years of DIY collectivism! Since 2010 the collective has been working together in an anarcho-syndicalist practice sharing resources, access to the means to produce and maintain full control and agency over the methods, direction and creative output of each member’s own labor and art. No lone straw holding the cup. This also marks the return and first Yardsss ∅∀‡ show since Rx Fest in February of 2020. As with all SGC events this is a benefit for local PDX nonprofits. Profits from B14 go to Outside In and Sisters of the Road. Additionally SGC will be collecting non-perishable food and cold weather supply donations during the event to distribute to our houseless neighbors. All are encouraged to bring any items they would like to donate and have distributed. Music by Yardsss ∅∀‡ • www.selfgroup.org/yardsss "Regarding Yardsss: If you read about it before listening, you'd likely mistake it for a liberal arts master's thesis. Where most bands play "shows," Yardsss puts on "performance case studies" and multimedia installations, including a collection of songs inspired by—not covers of!—avant-garde composer John Cage. All this could be completely obnoxious except for one thing: Yardsss is transcendentally, earth-shatteringly gorgeous. If you can make music like that, you get to call your show a case study. Glacial Fall • www.glacialfall.bandcamp.com Glacial Fall is the collaborative effort of Jeremy Hooton and Heidi Elise Wirz, two earth humans from Portland, Oregon. Hyper aware of their own limited life spans and imminent mortality, these are recorded chronicles and visual artifacts of their lives. Sonically Glacial Fall currently consists of two bass players and an Elektron Octatrack. Ellipsism • www.selfgroup.org/ellipsism The solo project of Eli Savage, (Small Skies, Southerly, Yardsss) Ellipsism tries to capture the essence of a moment passed, a moment that no longer exists, the moments that will pass long after we become bones, and eventually stardust. Mixing dark textures of synthesizers, pianos, drum machines, and found sounds with the unison of a chorus of voices that exhort the heartache and uncertainty of the human experience, Ellipsism attempts to reassemble and share these sonically dense echoes of those stories passed and the stories that will be. Visuals by Easy • www.instagram.com/its_easy_ok About Sisters of the Road • www.sistersoftheroad.org Sisters of the Road exists to support low-income and houseless individuals through charitable and educational programs, including providing affordable, healthy, and delicious meals in a space that welcomes all to come dine with dignity. Sisters of the Road uses this space and other programs to build authentic relationships and alleviate the hunger of isolation in an atmosphere of nonviolence and gentle personalism that nurtures the whole individual, while seeking systemic solutions that reach the roots of homelessness and poverty in an attempt to end them. About Outside In • www.outsidein.org Since 1968, Outside In has supported youth experiencing homelessness and other marginalized people as they move toward improved health and self-sufficiency. Driven to meet the changing needs of those it helps, the agency has created an all-inclusive and integrated system of cutting edge and sometimes controversial wraparound services that has transformed and saved thousands of lives over the years. Sunday, February 4th 2024 Holocene (1001 SE Morrison) 7:00 PM Doors / 8:00 PM Show $10 AD / $10 DOS GET TICKETS 21+ Want to help promote and share on socials or directly with friend fam via text or email? Graphicsss below! 
Yardsss ∅∀‡ have announced new dates in the pacific northwest including stops in Bellingham and Seattle! These are likely to be the last two shows of the year, both all ages and sliding scale.
10.26 Bellingham, WA • Make.Shift EVENT/RSVP 10.27 Seattle, WA • Teatro de la Psychomachia EVENT/RSVP Yardsss tends toward the dark and droning and bombastic, with heady, swelling orchestrations. Perhaps because human voices appear so rarely and the music is so evocative, it occasionally brings to mind Emeralds' Does It Look Like I'm Here? It doesn't take many listens to understand that Krueger is breaking boundaries not for the sake of being (or seeming) transgressive, but to make sounds that awaken actual feelings—uplifting, inspiring emotions. - Portland Mercury Yardsss ∅∀‡ announces first full band tour dates in April and May throughout the northwest4/24/2017
The creative sign-up sheet, an effort to help promote and discover all of the amazing artistic endeavors by members of our creative community who happen to be participating as attendees for our events, was full for the (((Sound|Sight))) March 30th multidisciplinary event at The Projection Museum in Portland! The event included visual art from Heidi Elise Wirz, Leslie Dorcus and Krist Krueger, sound art from Healersss, Institute for Creative Dying and Masonique and visual by Cari Gummer. Thank you so much to Colin Manning and The Projection Museum for hosting and keeping our rare all ages DIY event spaces alive. Links below!
Eran Haas (projection, video, animation) - www.vimeo.com/eranhaas Mrrranda L Tarrow (collage, cutouts, shadow puppets) - no URL Ezekiel Brown (The Lyric Project) - www.thechocolategiant.com Ian Lucero (document, shorts, pieces for projection in theaters - www.ianlucero.com Gabriel Huston (Windy Tooth) - www.windytooth.bandcamp.com Deepwoods Music Collective - www.deepwoods.bandcamp.com Madisyn (Witch Princess) - www.witchprincess.ink Josh Young (shorts, experiments, music videos) - www.joshyoungdirector.com Tim Sternat (visuals, audio, sound) - www.awefull.net
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