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Friday, 10/13
5:00 PM 2006 SEATTLE LESBIAN AND GAY FILM FESTIVAL (10/13 - 10/23)
6:00 PM "Pushin' 5" Skateboard art at BLVD Gallery
6:00 PM "Monster Mayhem and Day Of The Dead Delights" @ Roq la Rue
7:00 PM Arts Gumbo @ RVCC
8:00 PM? The Heavenly States @ the Triple Door
9:00 PM Weapons of Mass Reproduction: Bombing Ballard
Saturday, 10/14
8:00 PM Small But Mighty Wanderingf Pearl / What Could It Mean To Say Yes? @ CoCA
9:00 PM? Math and Physics Club CD release show @ The Sunset Tavern
Thursday, 10/19
6:00 PM Russian art exhibit reception by FENOMENA
8:00 PM Zombies, bmx bikes, sweaty bodies and driving beats at OtB
8:00 PM SAM Benefit Party @ The Showbox
Friday, 10/13
2006 SEATTLE LESBIAN AND GAY FILM FESTIVAL
It's the largest queer film event in the Pacific Northwest! The Seattle Lesbian & Gay Film Festival brings you ten days of the best queer films and videos from across the globe. This year the festival will screen more than 65 local films, narrative features, documentaries and short films, and will include special presentations with visiting filmmakers and producers. Come out to the movies and join us at the best queer parties of the year. Tickets go on sale September 26 at Ticket Window locations. See seattlequeerfilm.com for more information.
www.seattlequeerfilm.com
"Pushin' 5" Skateboard art at BLVD Gallery
Charles Peterson writes:
Hi Y'all,
Manik, a local skateboard company, has done a line of limited edition
skateboards this fall featuring some of my classic grunge archives.
They're amazing and will be featured in this show, along with a few
prints. Should be fun. CP
PUSHIN’ 5
A PUSH Project organized by Nin Truong and Larry Reid examining the
intersection of fine art, contemporary graphics and skateboard culture.
Featuring Charles Peterson, Shawn Wolfe, Joe Newton, Andrew Pommier,
Maya Hayuk, Eric Sans, Chikayoshi Satomi, Nathan Fox, Marco Hernandez,
Andrio Abero, Josh Howard, Todd Lown, Jay Clarke, Mary Long, Damion
Tripplet, Josh & Kenta (brkn home), Bigfoot, Joe Vollan, Ries Niemi,
Robert Hardgrave, Yoshi Obayashi, Jesse Edwards, Sua, George Estrada,
Tim Silbaugh, Jason Sho Green, Mike Poetzel and more.
Manik Skateboards, in association with BLVD. Gallery, is pleased to
present “Pushin’ 5,” an exhibition examining the aesthetic carnage at
the unmarked intersection of fine art, contemporary graphics and
skateboard culture.This show is a follow-up to the highly acclaimed
“PUSH Project” exhibition, which opened in Seattle in 2003 before
traveling to Los Angeles, New York and Portland, OR. Like its
predecessor, the show will feature the work of highly accomplished
artists working in a variety of media. This exhibition marks the fifth
anniversary of the innovative Seattle-based skateboard enterprise
Manik. In addition to facilitating events related to skateboarding
culture throughout the region, Manik’s sophisticated approach to
skateboard graphics employs an artist-in-residence program in producing
their popular line of limited edition skate decks and related products.
New skateboard designs by internationally recognized photographer
Charles Peterson will be introduced in the “Pushin’ 5” exhibition,
alongside the grunge era photographs that inspired his skateboard
series. Peterson will be joined by a broad array of artists including
George Estrada, Shawn Wolfe, Joe Newton, Maya Hayuk, Marco Hernandez,
Iosefatu Sua, Jesse Edwards, Mary Long, Tim Silbaugh, Sam Sneke, Ries
Niemi, Chikayoshi Satomi, Bigfoot, Robert Hardgrave, and Andrio Abero,
among a host of others.
October 13 – November 4, 2006
Opening reception Friday, October 13, 6:00 – 10:00 PM
BLVD Gallery
2316 2nd Avenue, Seattle
http://blvdart.com
"Monster Mayhem and Day Of The Dead Delights" @ Roq la Rue
Roq la Rue presents
"Monster Mayhem and Day Of The Dead Delights"
featuring the work of Pooch and Ojimbo
opens Friday October 13th 6-9pm
Music by DJ Vodka Twist
show runs through November 4th 2006
Roq La Rue is pleased to present a Halloween themed show (like we usually do) this October. Rather than a group show, this year we decided to focus on two extraordinary artists working in the Lowbrow genre.
Michael " Pooch" Pucciarelli (Florida) creates intricately detailed paintings that feature his carnavalesque worlds, usually in which characters are sent on careening rollercoaster rides through worlds populated by movie monsters, skeletons, and underground pop culture icons. Pooch the allows himself the freedom to explore various cultural symbols, but also keeps inspired by digging deeper into those respective subjects. His newest works reflect his constant exposure to Florida theme parks, where surreal carnival ride facades reflect the false fronts of modern society. Meaning aside, Pooch’s paintings are created to hold the viewer’s attention, which is quite a challenge in today’s TV and computer age. Pooch’s technique is intensive, and he paints the devil in the details.
Artist Jim "Ojimbo" Sheely (Ohio) carves mind boggling detailed wood pop culture totem poles and wall pieces. Carving almost exclusively from kiln dried American basswood, Ojimbo originally was entranced by the carving of cultures in which it was integral to their culture, such as the Pacific Northwest Coast tribes, New Zealand's Maori, and Balinese carvers. However, rather than simply emulate it, Ojimbo decided to stay true to his own sensibilities and his interest in the dark comic grotesque qualities of art that has become a hallmark of much contemporary pop art. Ojimbo often sands down his pieces, to give them a timeworn look, like a toy handed down through generations.
His attention to technical detail and sublime color sense ratchet each piece up from amusing curio to sophisticated folk art like sculpture.
Roq la Rue
http://www.roqlarue.com/
Arts Gumbo @ RVCC
Mixing the sights, sounds and flavors of three world cultures
Arts Gumbo continues on Friday, October 13th with a spotlight on Croatia, featuring a musical performance at 7 p.m. by Damir’s Ensemble, a banquet from the Balkan Market at 8 p.m. and a participatory dance workshop at 9 p.m. The program is presented in collaboration with the Ethnic Heritage Council of Washington.
Damir’s Ensemble features traditional tunes from Eastern Europe, played on a variety of instruments. Following the performance, Arts Gumbo will provide a banquet of Eastern European delicacies created and served by The Balkan Market, an area specialty food market. Audience members will then be invited to participate in a Croatian dance workshop led by veteran dancer and instructor Jon Morovich.
Now in its 6th year, Arts Gumbo is appropriate for families & audience of all ages. Tickets will be available at the door: $8 Adults, $5 Children & Seniors. Arts Gumbo continues Friday, November 3 with a Hmong celebration, including a vocalist performance by Laotian artist Paj Zaub Lauj. For event information, please call SEED Arts & Event line at 206- 760-4285, or visit http://www.seedseattle.org/arts/rvcc/in dex.htm.
http://www.seedseattle.org/arts/rvcc/in dex.htm.
The Heavenly States @ the Triple Door
The air'schanging; summer's over, and new music abounds. After a nice courtship, I'm happy to announce my new "match": the US's only band to have ever played Libya, Oakland-based The Heavenly States.
So, if you're around, come join me this Friday (Oct 13th) @ the Triple Door, as The Heavenly States open for Califone.
About THS:
(www.theheavenlystates.com)
The Heavenly States landed in Oakland, CA early in the new millennium. It's first member, Ted Nesseth previously of Minnesota, played guitar upside down because he was a lefty underclassman who abandoned school for scandal. The second member, Jeremy Gagon, studied jazz in Texas but moved to California to build things. The third member, Genevieve Gagon, was an ex-graduate who tended to write out of the box. All three were on the lamb when they found each other and began to write rock songs inspired by the great SST records, young Springsteen, Dinosaur Jr., the Minutemen, Shostakovich and the many others of their collective past. Ted was the veteran of several projects including his band Fluke Starbucker which produced two and a half albums before The Heavenly States were born.
In 2002 under the moniker Fluke Starbucker they put out the 7" Elephants from Ants which featured songs recorded in the middle of the night for free at a media and engineering school. In 2003, they shared a special 7" release with Coldplay and The Postal Service. Their first self-titled full-length album was recently re-issued in the USA and the UK featuring a special 3-song single with a punk track called King Epiphany produced by John Agnello and another epic version of the same song produced by Colin Gagon. The spoken word piece Monument forms the center of this triptych from ancient Mesopotamian history and Fort Media 2004.
Their brand new record Black Comet, out July 2005, is a real chamber-rock record, relentless and full but raw and truly played. The songs reveal the band's obsession with protecting the jagged edges of rock from being snipped off, as if they believed the cloth of too-tidy clothes would serve too-tidy ideas and tidy little dangerous minds.
In fact, the real draw for this band and much of its reputation is based on its live show. The band has been playing out from the 8th day of its existence when Genevieve set herself on fire by lighting her scarf at a Minneapolis New Years Eve show. Since then, they have toured Australia, the UK, Egypt, several times around the USA and are the first rock band to play Libya. In early 2005 The Heavenly States broke the occidental sound barrier when after months of negotiations they carted half their gear to Africa and played the greatest underground show of their careers in a Tripoli basement. Then, after bringing their independent music alternative to Cairo, Egypt where they performed two shows on their return to Europe, they dared to perform Rock the Casbah in London and weren't murdered on the spot.
Best to you-
Lynn
http://www.thetripledoor.net/
Weapons of Mass Reproduction: Bombing Ballard
First I thought this is a fake. But it is not:
Are you sick of watching women's reproductive rights slowly erode in this country? Have you bitched in the last year about how lawmakers seem to think they own your uterus? Now's the time to take action while doing what comes naturally--getting drunk!
What: 2006 Weapons of Mass Reproduction Tour: The Kocked-Up Whisky Knock-Down!
When: Friday -- October 13th -- 9PM!
Where: Meishan and Marc's Lederhousen: 2221 NW 64th Street in Ballard
Women -- We're going on a tour of Seattle bars in our best pseudo-pregnancy garb (aka big bellies).
Men -- You're coming with us. Pretend you are having sympathy pains and bloating or something...and bring us pickles.
Why: We drink to freak them out (and to entertain ourselves). Then we give them buttons and help them learn more about the educational and healthcare cutbacks that make telling pregnant women not to drink the absolute LEAST you can do to protect women and children's rights in the US.Make em think you're 20 months pregnant, girls!
Who: Here's who's RSVPd so far. Only the most awesome team of fake-preggers sex-machines ever assembled. Carey, Brianna, Meishan, Betsy, Jeff Larson Larson, Zoey, Brenna, Marc, Atom, Benni, Jon, Carol, Bevin (iffish), Girly. Tremble, Ballard. Get ready to be bombshelled!!!!!
There's room for more. Even if you're REALLY fat. I mean, pregnant.
2006 Weapons of Mass Reproduction Tour: The Kocked-Up Whisky Knock-Down!
Meishan and Marc's Lederhousen: 2221 NW 64th Street in Ballard, 9 PM
Saturday, 10/14
Small But Mighty Wanderingf Pearl @ CoCA
Mndy writes:
Hello all -
I wanted to invite you to a reprise of my Bumbershoot installation "Small
but Mighty Wandering Pearl" at CoCA. Please come celebrate with me! And
please check out the lovely image attached.
Thank you, Mandy Greer
Small but Mighty Wandering Pearl: An installation by Mandy Greer
WHO: Mandy Greer
WHAT: Viewers entering Mandy Greer's installation Small But Mighty
Wandering Pearl will experience the transformative powers that materials
have on presenting graphic images. A Stag in his death throes bleeds to
death, violently ripped open -- hundreds of feet of crocheted, beaded,
stitched and knitted blood and entrails pour from his wounded flank. Our
sympathy for the dying animal is overpowered by a feeling of awe and respect
for the beauty of the scene. Greer's environment is exquisitely elegant, a
moment frozen in which we engage with that beauty instead of turning away
from the trauma, seduced by the mass of pooled blood.
Great transformations in our lives are often accompanied by a violent
killing-off of old selves, and we emerge as something new, raw and
exquisite. …I'll never forget the gush of beautiful viscera and what felt
like the joyful expelling of my own internal organs when I gave birth to my
son. Reading those entrails, I was a seer of an unknowable future." --
Mandy Greer
Yesterday I ran into Tomiko at IKEA and she reminded me on her upcoming show.
Yes, IKEA - that's where the real art is happening in Seattle these days (just kidding):
What Could It Mean To Say Yes?
A photographic installation by Tomiko Jones
What Could It Mean To Say Yes? is a photographic exploration of what
society deems an important rite of passage for a woman through the
embodied character of the bride. She is alone on this journey; the
images lead us deep into the dreamscape of the psyche. The narrative
unfolds as the question of commitment transforms: what does it mean to
say yes to oneself?
Reception: Saturday, October 14th, 8pm
Exhibition: October 14- November 12, 2006
$5 suggested donation to support CoCA
Contemporary Art (CoCA)
410 Dexter Ave. N., Seattle, WA 98109
206.728.1980
www.cocaseattle.org
Gallery
Hours: Wednesday – Sunday 12-5 pm
Gallery Hours: Wednesday – Sunday 12-5 pm
EVENT DATE: Saturday, October 14th, 2006, 8pm
EXHIBITION DATE: October 14 - November 12, 2006
Math and Physics Club CD release show @ The Sunset Tavern
The Three Imaginary Girls are recommending this show:
Greetings, imaginary friends!
Math and Physics Club CD release showWho needs an October Surprise? We've got two Imaginary ROCK-tober surprises for ya: the Math and Physics Club CD release show, and free show tickets for Blood Brothers, Secret Machines, Now It's Overhead, and Figurines.
Three Imaginary Girls proudly presents:
* Math and Physics Club {CD release show}
* BOAT
* The Seaworthies
The show is at The Sunset Tavern this Saturday night, October 14. Math and Physics Club will be playing a slew of songs live for the first time in their hometown, hot off their east coast tour and fresh from their KEXP live performance this Friday. The new record is the sweetest mix of Belle and Sebastian, the Smiths, and the Lucksmiths that you'll hear this side of the Atlantic (um, or the Pacific, really).
www.sunsettavern.com
http://www.threeimaginarygirls.com/mapc06oct.asp
Thursday, 10/19
Russian art exhibit reception by FENOMENA
Join us for the SOLO bar & gallery grand opening with a Russian art exhibit reception by FENOMENA!
FENOMENA and FINE ART VISION galleries have teamed up once again to bring you works on paper, oil paintings, and photography by eight Russian masters.
EXHIBIT DATES: October 19 - December 17
INFORMATION: www.fenomena.us | art@fenomena.us | 206-227-8512
Thursday, October 19, 6:00-9:00 PM
SOLO bar & gallery (under new ownership)
200 Roy St, Suite 104 . Seattle | 206-213-0080
Zombies, bmx bikes, sweaty bodies and driving beats at OtB
Hi Party Volcano
We’re excited to present the latest creation from Seattle ' s dance/music superstars locust and their new show “mockumentary” – combining zombies, BMX bikes, driving beats, and hot, sweaty bodies. Led by choreographer Amy O ' Neal and composer Zeke Keeble, “mockumentary” is part documentary, part hip-hop video, part horror film, and part rock show. The show is three nights only at On the Boards – 100 W Roy St , Seattle , WA 98119 .
Featuring Amy O ' Neal, Zeke Keeble, Jessie Smith, Jurg Koch, Amy Clem, Matthew Smith, Benjamin Maestas, and Ellie Sandstrom
Also - join us after opening night (Thursday) for a gath erin g with the cast, staff and crew at the sitting room (in the same building as On the Boards).
(Q&A’s follow the performance on Friday and Saturday)
xo
Sara
Yellow flag: Q&A after the show. (You need a Q&A session in order to make sense of this show?)
Orange flag: price.
TICKETS: $18 Regular / $12 Student
www.ontheboards.org
206.217.9888, Tue-Fri, noon-6pm
Thu-Sat, Oct 19-21, 8pm
SAM Benefit Party @ The Showbox
Hey there Party Volcano!
Here’s a little something for next Thursday, Oct. 19:
SAM at the Showbox, featuring an unbelievably hot local lineup with “Awesome,” Choklate, SunTzu Sound, Marya Sea Kaminksi of WET and Super Secret Guest Stars. (I can tell you who, if you promise not to spill the beans until Saturday...)
The show is benefiting SAM and celebrating the future of art in this town — from all the incredible work that’s being created in studios, garages and rehearsal rooms all over Seattle to the Olympic Sculpture Park and the museum’s downtown expansion.
Cheers!
Leah
Tickets are $25, available at the Showbox box office and http://ticketswest.rdln.com/EventDetails.aspx?evt=50481.
Doors at 8 p.m. More info at http://iamsamcampaign.org/index.php?p=SAM_at_the_Showbox_Oct._19&s=216
Cold Lava Report
GMP #27: Happy Birthday to Who? (Sat, 10/7/2006)
Guerrilla Masquerade Party #27
Happy Birthday to Who? To Cole! Photos & Recap
Hey Guerrillas!
Huge thanks to the many, MANY people who showed up Saturday night to
celebrate the (un)birthday of a very special (and unsuspecting) guest
of honor. For those of you who missed out on the fun, here's a little
recap...
Around 10pm, Guerrillas began filling up the Rosebud, grabbing drinks,
turning heads, and congregating throughout the bar and on the patio.
By 11pm, the place was packed with partiers. Gift bags were passed
out, a present table was set up, a cake and treat table was created,
balloons were blown up and drinks were in hand (thanks to everyone for
their patience and politeness when getting drinks).
Finally, at 11:20, we got everyone from the patio inside and gathered
facing the door. Presents were prepped, cards were pulled out, and
one very special present was brought inside and 'filled'.
With a scream of 'We're starting early!' at 11:23pm, Dirty Bunny
sparked a wave of 'Surprise!' and 'Happy Birthday' from all the
Guerrillas as one very confused young man walked in the door. Who was
our guest of honor? We soon found out:
Name: Cole
Age: 24
Hometown: Reno, NV
Favorite drink: Whiskey Ginger
Arrived: On a bike, with a date and a bag containing a towel
Left: On a bike, with 2 new girls digits, a sore ass, and a bag full
of presents
Whereabouts of date: Rumored to have taken off with a 20yo guy
Whereabouts of towel: Dirty Bunny's apartment
Upon arriving, Cole's arms were quickly filled with gifts and cards,
his mouth was quickly filled with a cupcake, and his head was capped
off with a birthday hat. We all sang "Happy Birthday", and Tatiana
the burlesque clown popped out of a giant present to give the birthday
boy a special dance. Cole also received cards, books, movies, vodka,
candles, cupcakes, candy, a camera, and 24 well-delivered bare-ass
spankings from about 1/2 dozen different hands.
Other party entertainment included a cowgirl, scads of party clowns
(Welcome back Necronomiclown! We missed you!), a Gorilla, and a
magician. Also seen among the crowd were a guy in a Birthday Suit, a
giant cake, a living toucan pinata and living pin the tail on the
donkey, and Alice in Wonderland's Unbirthday Tea Party.
It was a wild night full of laughs and suprises. We lucked out with a
very fun birthday boy who was a great sport and stuck around all night.
A lot of photos were taken, and we've begun to receive links. The
official GMP photos have been posted at
<http://www.gmpseatt le.com/gallery/>, but be sure to also check out
Tulse's photos at
<http://www.flickr. com/photos/ tulse/sets/ 7205759409251960 0/> and Greg
Rubin's photos at <http://gallery. nettgryppa. com/gmp_unbirthd ay>
See you next time, and keep the party ideas coming!
dirty bunny
Guerrilla Masquerade Party
http://www.gmpseatt le.com/
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