Screenings, 2025
Nov 17 — PSU’s English Department presents a screening of Grief Stick with Alex Behr and Brian Padian, poetry, and intro to writing in natural patterns
Nov 7 Up Up Books — Conversing with the Dead, Portland Book Fest’s Cover to Cover event with Jason Arias, Allisa Cherry and Alex Behr — an evening of prose, poetry and film
Oct 19 Turn! Turn! Turn! with Arch Cape and Mae Starr and Alex Behr — an evening of film, music and poetry
Thur Feb 20 PAM CUT’S Tomorrow Theater Grief Stick with Musical Guest Corrina Repp
Event Runtime: 120 min.
TICKETS $15 Doors 6:30 p.m.; Event 7 p.m.
THE EXPERIENCE
Kicking off this event, musician and Grief Stick music composer, Corrina Repp returns to Portland, after moving to LA, to serenade the Tomorrow Theater audience in a homecoming not to be missed.
Following Corrina, writer, producer, and musician Alex Behr will read poems from her book Grief Stick, which she composed during her partner Chris’ illness.
ON SCREEN: Grief Stick
2025. Directed by Brian Padian. Runtime: 17:30 minutes.
After 30 years, separated by time and circumstance, Portland poet Alex Behr reunites with her lost love Chris Hartman. Soon after reconnecting, Chris becomes ill with an accelerated, fatal disease. Grief Stick explores the contours of love and death, using photographs, poems, voicemails, and video to show the before, during, and after of the illness and how it impacted them both.
A Northern Flicker Films/Dogwood Ink co-production
With grant support from Regional Arts and Culture Council
January 26, Oregon Documentary Film Festival, Clinton Street Theater
Nominated for BEST DOCUMENTARY,
Review by Mikel Fair, filmfestivalcircuit.com