The multi-discipline Espectaculo series manifested in four events over the period of 2 years (2000 - 2002).
Through this project the gyrlz, not only formed but, represented over 100 visual and performative artists,

including:
Jennifer Robin, Technician, TOI, Jamie McMurray, T Lee Gilliam, the Distance Formula, Human Sculpture, Izanami, Jawihge, Sardonik Grin, FreQ, Mesmer, Nommo Ogo, DJs Romulus & Remus, Pamela Boyd, the End of the World Circus, Acroyear, Eroto-Comotose Lucidity, Padrice Stewart, Josh Lubin, Creeper, Myron Chase, Lisa Newman, Jesse Pepe'r, Alysa Volpe, Faith Jennings, Jake Scharbach, Patrick Puopolo, John Arnold, Faith Jennings, Ben Pink, Chris Moss, and Joshua Camozzi Milligan.

Proud 2 Put Out manifested between 2000-2003 featuring work from local and international artists who are driven to challenge the politics of language and symbolic communication; through border-crashing live art, sonique exploration, and the post-genre communiqué of text-based performative art.

This included; Ty Connor, Pecos B, Creative Material Group, Padrice Stewart, Jennifer Robin, and the gyrlz;
Lisa Newman, the Reverend Rafik Legbara (Llewyn Máire),
Lidia Yuknavich, and Devin Crowe’s (visual art).

Two spotlight presentations, called the Identity Fuxux Forum have been hosted

featuring the local installation theatre group Technician (2002),

and international performative laboratory osseus labyrint (2001).

 

The format of the events consisted of a performative exhibition followed by a breakout gathering which facilitated an outlet for creative deconstruction/ critique of the presented work(s) and provide a forum for intellectual/ emotional decompression and information sharing/ exchange.

 

The Perpetuating Response presentations (2002-2003)
manifested as a series of events in diverse locations, throughout PDX,
with the primary intent of providing a free forum for the exposure of local artists and performer's work,
creating environments for discourse, gave regular access to the gyrlz, and created opportunities to recruit potential volunteers, contributors, and artists.

 

2 Gyrlz, in association with Western States Center, presented
La Pocha Nostra's Mexotica: A Living Diorama of Fetishized Others (2002).

Mexotica is a multi-disciplinary, living diorama in which Guillermo Gómez-Peña and collaborator Juan Ybarra construct hybridized personas, merging several cultures/ languages, and exhibit themselves as "cultural specimens." The artists personas explore complex identities of race and gender.

 

 

The Planet Gallery hosted an annual fundraiser of mamocentric art to benefit the EL-fest (2002-2006)

Artists included: Luke Buser, William Brindmour, Jamie Lee Christiana,
Jeannine Hart, Hot Lava, Noah Mickens, Joshua Camozzi Milligan,
Jonas Nash, Lisa Newman, Lily Noches, Lori Olds, Michele Rainier,
Libby Rowe, Jesse Pep'er, TOI, Alysa Volpe, and more...

RE:build focused on providing a forum for some basic introductions between groups (2003).
Several arts groups (and members of the media) tabled information at the event. 2 Gyrlz Performative Arts | 36 Invisibles/ Radon/ BLR/ 3 Headed Goat | Creative Music Guild | Cultural Economy Initiative | Four Wall Cinema Collective | iCAN | Liminal Performance Group | p:ear | Performance Works NW | PICA | PCAC | Red76 | Spare Room | sito.org/ The Know | The Organ | Soundvision | Willamette Week

El-fest transformed the city for the month of November, bringing together emerging local talent and accomplished international figures (2002 - 2005).
16-23 events at diverse locations manifested with the mission to:

deliver a spectrum of live art, media & experience; where international & local artists, cultural groups, and communities converge for a month dedicated to exploring identity, bodies, political environments, dreams, desire, love and nightmares

Some of the artists included: Paul Couillard and Ed Johnson (FADO, Canada), osseus labyrint (L.A.), Calpernia Addams & Andrea James (Deep Stealth, LA), Gerry Witbeck (Human Sculpture, PDX), Wicked Geisha (Bay Area), Donald Spitzer (oxygenheads, PDX), Aaron Link (nomadic), P.A.N. Butoh (Seattle), Soriah (PDX), Pete Kuzov & Edie Tsong (nomadic), That One Guy (Bay Area), Savage Republic (Mobilization, Bay Area), B'eirth (In Gowan Ring, nomadic), Jesse Pepe'r (CO), Societas Insomnia (PDX), P.A.C. Session (Bay Area), the Language of Harmonics (Kaosmosis, PDX), Zoë Keating (Rasputina), Corpus Collosum (San Jose), Kate Bornstein (New York), Micah Perry (Cliché Au Lait), and so many many more... See Archives for details.