GOOD PAIN
Live performance tour, 2022-2023. More info below.
Good Pain Tour
May 22, 2023 · Alberta Rose Theatre · Portland, OR · fundraiser for Ultimate Peace
April 27 & 29, 2023 · Oregon Fringe Festival · Southern Oregon University Meese Auditorium · Ashland, OR
April 1, 2023 · National Association for Poetry Therapy Conference · Denver, CO
June 5, 2022 · Oranj Studio · Portland, OR · with Steven Gosvener
May 21, 2022 · PianoFight Main Stage · San Francisco, CA · with Nick Jaina
April 16, 2022 · Alberta Rose Theatre · Portland, OR · with Steven Gosvener
January 8, 2022 · Alberta Rose Theatre · Portland, OR · with Steven Gosvener
Good Pain II, charcoal powder, chalk, eraser, live performance drawing, 72" x 96", May 22, 2023
Good Pain, graphite on paper, live performance drawing, 72" x 96", 2022
“I was absolutely broken open and healed by Good Pain.”
— Gray Hunter
“Michael gracefully gives voice to the journey of our spirits and our bodies as we rise, time and time again, from the pain of being alive.”
— Satya Gaia Grace
“Michael's poetry held up a mirror to my own pain, and showed how to hack a path through it to kindness, empathy, and love.”
— Avi
“It felt like a good therapy session.”
— Gina Fong Seidler