We already missed the Fido Fashion Show at Hotel Monaco at noon today. But there are some other events that might be worth going to. My favorites for this week are probably the Instinct Opening Gala at ConWorks and Sounds of Shadow and Light @ NW Film Forum.
Friday, 10/8
7:30 PM Sounds of Shadow and Light @ NW Film Forum (10/8-10/10)
8:00 PM Instinct Opening Gala @ ConWorks
8:00 PM Inside the Music at CoCA
9:00 PM ANTIBALAS AFROBEAT ORCHESTRA @ Neumos
9:00 PM Teen Link Benefit @ CHAC
Saturday, 10/9
8:00 PM Reconstructed benefit @ ToST
8:00 PM Get drunk for PAWS in Greenwood.
8:00 PM FEED YOUR BODY AND SOUL @ On The Boards.
11:00 PM Mr. Moonlight @ AXIS
Sunday, 10/10
11:00 AM Zakir Hussein and the Art of the Indian Drum @ SAM
Noon Croatia Fest @ Seattle Center
Thursday, 10/14
7:00 PM "Not Recommended By the Manufacturer" @ NW Film Forum
Friday, 10/8
Sounds of Shadow and Light @ NW Film Forum
The Northwest Film Forum, The Japan America Society and Jack Straw Productions present:
Sounds of Shadow and Light:
New Music for Japanese Silent Films
featuring the Aono Jikken Ensemble
Sounds of Shadow and Light, a rare presentation of classic Japanese silent films, with new live musical accompaniment, will be presented October 8, 9, 10, 2004, at the Broadway Performance Hall (1625 Broadway at Pine, Seattle). The program includes the Northwest premiere of two rediscovered short films from 1929 - I Graduated, But... and A Straight Forward Boy by master director Yasujiro Ozu (Tokyo Story). Also showing is Teinosuke Kinugasa's 1926, avant-garde masterpiece A Page of Madness. All three films will be presented with new live scores by the Aono Jikken Ensemble - done in their unique style with a combination of traditional Asian, western and world instruments; found objects; children's sound toys; and specially created sound devices made of metal, bamboo, kelp and other materials. Showtimes are 7:30 p.m. nightly (total running time is 90 minutes). Admission is $12 and advance tickets are available from Ticket Window at (206) 325-6500 or ticketwindowonline.com! . For other information contact (206) 368-5645 or AonoJikken.com.
I don't know whether you have seen any of Ozu's movies. He used a very unique camera technique. His camera was almost always static and only moved rarely. You might find it dry or a little bit boring in the beginning. But that's only because you grew up with MTV and Dogma movies. After a while you get used to it and strange things happen: You completely focus on the story because there are no camera gimmicks that could distract you. I can recommend Tokyo Story. At the very end of that movie Ozu - after over an hour of static views - moves the camera to show a landscape and you think: "Wow, this is a cool effect!"
Yasujiro Ozu's short films are social comedies from the director's early period. In I Graduated, But... (Daigaku wa Deta Keredo), a young man fresh out of college cannot find a job (a common predicament in 1929 Tokyo) and pretends to be successful for his visiting mother and fiancee. In A Straight Forward Boy (Tokkan Kozo), based on the O. Henry short story The Ransom of Red Chief, an incorrigible mischief-maker is abducted by a kidnapper who becomes so frustrated he attempts to return the boy to no avail. Teinosuke Kinugasa's A Page of Madness (Kurutta Ippeiji) is one of the most unique films of the silent era. It was cited by historian James Card in his book Seductive Cinema: The Art of Silent Film as "a mind-boggling masterpiece...an intriguing cross between (The Cabinet of Dr.) Caligari and One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest." The film's moving story of a retired sailor seeking redemption from his wife - now institutionalized in an insane asylum - for his ear! lier, neglectful ways was co-written by Nobel Prize-winning author Yasunari Kawabata. Page's bold, ahead-of-its-time, visual style, sensitive acting, and controversial subject matter caused a sensation in the 1920's and it still retains its power today.
The Aono Jikken Ensemble, founded in 1997, explores new sights and sounds in experimental music and performance-based art. Their main areas of endeavor are creating innovative new performance works for the stage and composing-performing new live scores for classic Asian silent films. Their previous work includes the multi-media performance Komori-uta (Lullaby); the dance-theatre piece Drift; the CD recording A Page of Madness; and new silent film scores for Yasujiro Ozu's 1934 masterpiece A Story of Floating Weeds (Ukigusa Monogatari); and the 1932 Chinese martial arts adventure Swordswoman of Huangjiang (Huangjiang Nuxia). They have presented their work at the Seattle International Film Festival, Vancouver International Jazz Festival, On The Boards, Seattle Asian Art Museum and Northwest Asian American Theatre among others. AJE's featured musicians are William Satake Blauvelt, Susie Kozawa, Yoko Murao, Michael Shannon and Esther Sugai, with guest artists Stan Shikuma a! nd Marcia Takamura.
Sounds of Shadows and Light is a prelude for the upcoming Yasujiro Ozu Retrospective presented by the Northwest Film Forum this coming Winter in which over thirty films from throughout the master director's career will be screened, including many silent features all with new live scores by some of Seattle's most innovative composer-musicians. Sounds of Shadows and Light, is also a benefit for the Aono Jikken Ensemble's upcoming multi-media performance work Kaiki Shoku (Eclipse) based on the true story of journalist/activist Sugako Kanno who, in 1911, became the first female political prisoner to be executed in Japan's modern history.
NW Film Forum 1515 12th Ave
Instinct Opening Gala @ ConWorks
Happy birthday ConWorks!
Consolidated Works turns five years old. Now, I won't go on about how
much it feels like five days, or how it simultaneously feels like five
decades. I'll just say it. Consolidated Works turns five years old. I
won't get all statistical, pointing out that we've outlasted 67% of the
businesses with whom we launched in Washington state in 1999. I'll just
put it out there, that ConWorks is five. Why dwell on the fact that
we've built a facility and a program that is practically unique in the
country, an organization that's growing by nearly 20% per year, one
that's won national awards and national acclaim? Five years.
To celebrate this occasion and to ring in the 2004-2005 season, please
join me, join us, for the opening of Instinct, the first of three
"consolidation series" planned for the season. Opening night will be
outstanding. Check out Microsoft curator Michael Klein's instinctual,
sight-unseen tour of ConWorks curator Dylan Neuwirth's newest visual
art exhibit, Quiet Revolution. Listen to DJ John Gilbreath (KEXP,
Earshot Jazz) and indie pop from Some by Sea. Check out films in the
cinema all night, performances in the theater from Europe's TheatreRUN,
tons of food, and of course, the ConBar open all night for your
alcoholic pleasure. See all y'all down here Friday night. It'll be
cool.
Here are the details:
Consolidated Works
is proud to present
Instinct
the fall 2004 consolidation series
Visual Art * Music * Lectures * Film * Theater
October 8 - November 21
Instinct Opening Gala
Friday, October 8
8 pm - 2 am
$7, Free for Members
Featuring:
Sight-unseen tour of the visual art exhibit Quiet Revolution with
Michael Klein
DJ John Gilbreath (KEXP, Earshot Jazz) spinning all night
Indie pop with Some by Sea
Films in the cinema all night
Performances by Europe's TheatreRUN
Food
Dancing
The ConBar for your alcoholic pleasure
What is the show about? I don't know. The press release only offers a pile of art gibberish:
Instinct is the Quiet Revolution against quantified, mediated and
systematized existence. It is the inheritable and unalterable tendency
of a being to react to outside stimuli without reason. Emanating from
within the subconscious, instinct fills the organism with spontaneous,
animated energy.
For the artist, instinct is the singular guiding force in the creation
of art. Imbued with an inner light, the artist responds to his or her
own specified artificial or natural atmosphere without logic and with
signature results. These responses concentrate on describing the self,
the environment, and the presence of the other.
The six artists in Quiet Revolution were chosen for their ability to
describe these themes through various, layered approaches. Each artist
is concerned with exploring these themes in particular or in their
interactions.
I guess I will have to go and see for myself...
Consolidated Works
500 Boren Avenue North, between Mercer and Republican
www.conworks.org
Inside the Music at CoCA
Ann Cummings, pianist, artist, in conjunction with the Center of Contemporary Art (CoCA) proudly announces a new performance series that delivers the electricity of classical music through the tangibility of visual art. Join us at CoCA each month to hear and see new dimensions of listening and vision as Cummings takes you through a journey into the imaginations of great composers and painters. Special guest performers from the Pacific Northwest will join Ms. Cummings each month so don't miss out on the excitement!
She writes:
INSIDE the MUSIC is my personal project. I am a classical pianist who began using visual "props" with my concerts back in 1994. The process of working with visual elements in classical music revealed to me an awareness of creativity that extends beyond music.
If you were to simply ask "What is inside the music?" you would discover that classical music is not just sound, it is human imagination.
The adventures are endless.
This site presents projects that invite you to experience some of these adventures for yourself.
http://www.insidethemusic.com/AboutSite.htm
ANTIBALAS AFROBEAT ORCHESTRA @ Neumos
J-Justice writes:
If you haven't seen them, you're missing out. If you like Fela Kuti,
this is right down that lane. 13 piece Afro Beat band. No way to stand
still at this show.
Probably a good show:
Wake Up Productions and KEXP Best Ambiance Present
ANTIBALAS AFROBEAT ORCHESTRA
with SunTzu Sound DJs: AC Lewis + J-Justice
Neumos
925 E. Pike Street - Seattle WA
http://www.neumos.com
$13.50 adv.
9 pm doors
Teen Link Benefit @ CHAC
Uniting Souls Presents:
a benefit for Teen Link - local teen hotline.
Friday October 8th 9pm-2am
Capitol Hill Arts Center - Lower Level - 1621 12th ave.
Featuring:
Massive Monkees
Spoken Word by Christa Bell
and DJ's spinning house, funk, soul and groove music
Net Proceeds going to Teen Link
$5 cover -21 and over
CHAC
Saturday, 10/9
Reconstructed benefit @ ToST
Join TOST as it supports one of its own during the
Reconstructed benefit at 8 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 9.
Reconstructed will help support TOST bartender and
Fremont resident Dan H., who was recently assaulted
and left requiring facial reconstructive surgery.
Dan H. has been working at TOST as a bartender since
the local eatery and club opened two years ago and has
achieved a sense of "true happiness" there with his
fellow staff and patrons. In the last few weeks,
however, his happiness has turned to worries about
medical bills and his inability to work following the
late-night, anonymous attack. TOST has helped with
prescription costs but is seeking community support in
helping to pay for the costly surgery.
Reconstructed will feature...
B-Smarter, Equalize, SEA
Brannon, Space Virgins, SEA
Shapeshifter, Static Factory Media, SEA
Door cover is $6, and all proceeds will go toward
Dan's medical bills.
Please attend, please help him.
Sincerely,
the white-winged faery
TOST is located at 513 N. 36th St. For more
information, please visit www.tostlounge.com
Get drunk for PAWS in Greenwood.
Zibby writes:
Hi Party Volcano people! Was wondering if you might post this event on the next list- should be lots of fun and is, of course, for a great cause. A good number of people who bring injured wildlife to us are from the Seattle area and we'd love to see them there. Thanks!!
Getting drunk for PAWS? Why not!
October 9, 2004 DRINK A PINT, SAVE A LIFE!
Put on your fancy pants and come on out to The Ould Triangle pub in lovely Greenwood for a night of great music and ever greater company, and hoist a pint for PAWS. Proceeds for the evening will benefit wildlife center projects at PAWS. PAWS Wildlife Center cares for over 40% of the wildlife rehabilitated and released in Washington each year and your support will allow us to continue to do so.
So save the date, and come on down to get wild for wildlife!
When: Saturday, October 9th, 8 pm
Where: The Ould Triangle, 9736 Greenwood Avenue N
What: Raffles (with amazing prizes) and live music (The Raybone Experience!)
For more info please visit www.paws.org
FEED YOUR BODY AND SOUL @ On The Boards.
Sara writes:
Dearest Party Volcano,
I hope I’m not too late to get this into your super awesome party calendar this week. I’m new to using it – so let me know if I need to change anything about the format.
The event is put on by On the Boards – the funky contemporary arts center in Queen Anne…It’s a terrific performance by 8 great local dancers, and then a good chance to have fun with the cast/crew at Mirabeau afterwards. You can see a trailer for the piece at our website at www.ontheboards.org. Here’s the info below.
And thanks Party Volcano!
Unfortunately we alredy missed the Soul part. But you can still feed your Body until Sunday:
FEED YOUR BODY AND SOUL – A full night of dancing (and then later drinking) with On the Boards.
THE BODY:
This Thurs-Sat, Oct 7-9, 8pm - Mary Sheldon Scott / Jarrad Powell Performance (MSS/JPP) – This Seattle-based company presents the world-premiere of their latest piece in a super-limited run at On the Boards. Vessel explores the strangeness, awfulness and beauty of living as a human within a body Eight of the most skilled and charismatic dancers in Seattle perform this gorgeous piece: * Corrie Befort * Michelle Burgess de la Vega * Alice de Muizon * Beth Graczyk * Jessica Jobaris * Jess Klein * Ellie Sandstrom * Allison Van Dyck*
On the Boards is located 100 W Roy St in lower Queen Anne. Tickets/Info at www.ontheboards.org or 206.217.9888. ($18 General, $12 student/RUSH)
THE SOUL:
OPENING NIGHT AFTER PARTY – Thursday Oct 7th! Join the cast/crew of MSS/JPP and the staff of OtB after the opening night of Vessel at the Mirabeau Room. Bring a ticket stub from Vessel and get a discount off the cover charge! Dance, drink and chat with us while listening to the musical talents of the awesome, soulful and talented Reggie Watts. The Mirabeau Room is located on Queen Anne Avenue, just 2 blocks from OtB.
On the Boards is located 100 W Roy St in lower Queen Anne. Tickets/Info at www.ontheboards.org or 206.217.9888. ($18 General, $12 student/RUSH)
Mr. Moonlight @ AXIS
This will be a hard one. But somebody has to do it: I am going to downgrade Mr. Moonlight...
Dear Friends,
MRMOONLIGHT will be making a 'guest appearance' and play at a friend's open-house party at the AXIS in Seattle Saturday, Oct 9th around 11:00pm. DJLondonPeter will also be playing, accompanied by the Seattle GoGo Dancers.
Entrance to the AXIS is free, simply mention this invite
Mark your calendars now, and look forward to seeing you at the show!
Sincerely,
MRMOONLIGHT
I was introduced to Mr. Moonlight at an art opening. He is a really nice guy and he somehow knew that I run an email list about events in Seattle. After a while he asked me whether I would be interested in his portfolio and I said: "Sure, I'll have a look at it". So he got me one of his portfolios from his car and the following week I listened to his brand new CD called "Virtues and Vices".
I found it incredibly bad in many respects. It really sounds like Yanni with a drum machine or Richard Clayderman on speed. On some tracks he (romantically?) whispers in the background and here and there he gets out of sync with the beat that the drum machine is mercilessly dictating throughout the whole album. I don't think anybody wants to listen to this kind of music at home or at a bar - unless it's senior night at the Axis, which might be the case. A friend of mine said: "This music would be good for porn movies."
Our staff here at PV Labs is not necessarily famous for giving constructive criticism but they are willing to try it for Mr. Moonlight (he is after all a nice guy):
(1) Change your name. Mr. Moonlight is just bad.
(2) Throw out that drum machine and hire a real drummer. You can still use it for drum machine circles if they are still around.
(3) Please contact PV Reporter Ron Jeremy and ask him for advice how to get in contact with the porn industry.
I guess that sums it up for this week.
Axis, 11 pm, free.
www.mrmoonlight.com
http://www.yanni.com/
http://www.clayderman.co.uk
Sunday, 10/10
Zakir Hussein and the Art of the Indian Drum @ SAM
THE SPEAKING HAND
Zakir Hussein and the Art of the Indian Drum
Feature-length documentary
Oct 10, 11:30am
Seattle Art Museum, 100 University, Downtown
Sophia Purekal (Tasveer) writes:
The subject of this fantastic documentary is world-renowned tabla virtuoso, Ustad Zakir Hussein. A legend in his own time, Hussein is blessed not only with a flawless command of an instrument of extraordinary technical complexity, but also with the vision, inspiration and energy to innovate with the tabla, to venture into new styles, and to employ the tabla in ways masters of the past had never done. As Ravi Shankar says in The Speaking Hand, “It is a fact that he (Hussein) has brought the…whole art and technique of tabla playing so much forward, so much advanced, and left it in a place where it is limitless.”
Sumantra Ghosal’s documentary of Hussein is both informative and inspiring. The maestro speaks openly and enthusiastically about his musical journey, and what tabla playing has meant for him in his life. He shares stories from his young years studying with his father, his experiences playing and performing with other greats of South Asian classical music, the opportunities tabla playing has given him to communicate to people all over the world, and the moments he has taken to collaborate and create with percussion masters of various backgrounds and traditions. The film features such legends of South Asian classical music as “Baba” Ustad Allaudin Khan, Pandit Ravi Shankar, and Hussein’s father, Ustad Alla Rakha, who offer their own insights into Hussein’s expertise and unique contribution to the South Asian musical tradition. The film is also dense with long-running clips of many of Hussein’s greatest concerts. Music lovers seldom find opportuniti! es to come so close to one so synonymous with the art. Ghosal’s movie creates this closeness with Hussein for the audience.
- Sophia Purekal
Film Reviewer
Tasveer, independent south asian film
The Speaking Hand, presented by Tasveer, is part of Utsav 2004, a festival of Indian music and arts. Utsav 2004, a four-day festival by Ragamala and Pratidhwani, opens this Thursday.
Oct 10, 11:30am
Seattle Art Museum, 100 University, Downtown
Croatia Fest @ Seattle Center
A Celebration of Croatian Culture and Folkways”
Croatian-Americans of the Pacific Northwest share their history with you. Experience the treasures of Croatia - breathtaking landscapes, music, art, history and folklore during CroatiaFest at Seattle Center.
CroatiaFest is an all-day celebration of Washington State's Croatian-Americans. They will share their rich, diverse heritage, history, culture and contributions to Washington State. Join us for a day of colorful entertainment, lively music in our salute to Croatia and her people!
CroatiaFest will be held Sunday, October 10, in the Center House, on the Seattle Center Campus from noon to 8pm. CroatiaFest will introduce the community at large to the rich heritage of the Croats who number approximately 50,000 in Western Washington. Through folkloric performances in music, song and dance, local Croatian performing groups, including Vela Luka Croatian Dance Ensemble, The Seattle Junior Tamburitzans, and groups from Vancouver B.C., will take visitors to CroatiaFest on a musical journey of Croatia.
Thursday, 10/14
"Not Recommended By the Manufacturer" @ NW Film Forum
Thursday October 14th 7 pm
in Seattle at the NW Film Forum 1515 12th Avenue
Crackpot Crafters are unleashed for a full program of loops and handmade
movies called "Not Recommended By the Manufacturer"
in the Local Sightings series – $7.50/$5.00 NWFF Members
For the past three years, the "Crackpot Crafters" have gathered once a week
to make cameraless handmade movies directly on film leaders, boldly
experimenting with materials in ways not recommended by any
manufacturer.
It’s an informal free weekly gathering, open to all, sharing ideas and
fellowship, kind like (as one participant put it) "a quilting bee for film
dorks." The group started in South Boston, MA, and then had sessions
alternating weekly between Providence, RI and Waltham, MA, Damonte then did
a tour of 24-Hour Moviemaking Experiments across Canada and US. It came to
settle into alternating weekly between Olympia Film Society and 911 Media
Arts in Seattle. The group currently meets each week, rotating between
homes in Olympia, Tacoma and Seattle.
This show presents the best bits from over one hundred of these sessions, as
construed by the current participants. The program also includes completed
works by Eric Ostrowski "Golden Daisy", Devon Damonte "Fuckingoofy," Jason
Gutz and Stephanie Warren. There will also be the world premiere of "Duct
Duct Goose" a new audience participation film utilizing a bad print of
Devon’s recent film "Duct and Cover" and inviting everybody there to draw on
or otherwise mess with it, then we’ll watch it right away. The idea is that
every time "Duct Duct Goose" is shown that audience will alter it and watch
it again. So the film will grow and transform with each screening. Crackpot
Crafters ringleaders are also available to teach more in-depth hands-on
workshops in conjunction with the screening
NW Film Forum 1515 12th Ave
$7.50/$5.00 NWFF Members
http://www.nwfilmforum.org/localsight/index.shtml
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