We are looking at a slow week. The highlight of this week is probably watching drunken Santas without pants at Westlake Center on Saturday.
Blame it on my itching downgrade thumb or the rainy weather: you'll find two or three downgrades and three gloomy haikus about Iron Composers.
Friday, 12/10
6:00 PM Joe Newton and Michael Leavitt @ Roq La Rue
6:00 PM "There is Little Sense in Having Arrived Anywhere." @ Aftermath
8:00 PM "my mother my father" @ SOIL
11:00 PM RAIDERS OF THE LOST ARK: THE ADAPTATION @ NWFF
Saturday, 12/11
Noon GMP’s SANTARCHY @ PIKE PLACE MARKET
3:30 PM Artwalk & Posada in "Ballard"
1:00 PM ANOTHER HOLIDAY ART SALE @ the S.S. Marieantonette
6:00 PM Art opening @ Wingnut Galleries
9:00 PM? Cirque du Noc @ Seattle Center
10:59 PM YES! Shameless @ The Rebar
Tuesday, 12/14
6:00 PM Amanda Koster’s Print sale
Thursday, 12/16
8:00 PM IRON COMPOSER - "RAMADAN & RETIREMENT" @ Crocodile
Friday, 12/10
Joe Newton and Michael Leavitt @ Roq La Rue
Probably not one of my favorite shows. But still better than that Scion show I had to downgrade earlier this year:
Roq La Rue Presents
Joe Newton
And
Michael Leavitt
Opening Friday December 10th 6-10pm
Show runs through end of January 05
For its last show of 2004, Roq La Rue is pleased to present a new show of works by two Seattle artists, Joe Newton and Mike Leavitt.
Joe Newton returns to the gallery with a new series of paintings, based on a lullaby called “ Babes In The Woods”- a somber and cautionary tale of two children who wander into the forest and don’t come out again. Newton has made a name for himself with his bold graphic sensibilities combined with a melancholy sweetness in his work. He paints his imagery, heavily influenced by Japanese and American underground comics, on found wood with acrylics and automotive primer, adding a rustic touch that can be well summed up as “Appalachian Superflat”.
Early on in his career, Michael Leavitt developed a distaste for popular artists who pander to the lower common denominators in order to make a buck, and started to appreciate the efforts of artists who, commercially successful or not, kept true to their individual vision to create purer forms of art. Creating figures of these artists allowed Leavitt to create a kind of totemistic fetish for the energies of each artist, a sort of “Art Army”. He also includes figures of artists he feels has fallen under the spell of “The Man”- artists who have sold out, in his estimation, to the allure of mass commercialism and money.
"There is Little Sense in Having Arrived Anywhere." @ Aftermath
My downgrade thumb is itching. Let's hope it's better than the title of the show:
Aftermath Presents:
Paintings by Ursula Gullow
"There is Little Sense in Having Arrived Anywhere."
This is the last opening of 2004 for us. Ursula has come all the way back from North Carolina after 2 years to visit! Come meet or catch up with her. And see her great mural!
We are cleaning up our address book and hope you like this new mr.outbox technique. It won't fill up your inbox with attachments, they won't send you ads, it's locally run (though we haven't met them yet !?) AND it's free. It's much easier now to get on or off the list so thanks for your patience.
xo diana
Aftermath Gallery
aftermathgallery@gmail.com
Free Opening Friday, December 10 6-10pm Aftermath Gallery, 928 12th ave, (Capitol Hill near Spring St.)
"my mother my father" @ SOIL
They had a show last week too:
please join us this friday & saturday
at SOIL art gallery for special performances
featuring butoh & experimental music.
dec 10, 11 @ 8pm / free
sheri brown / gust burns
mandy gulla
alan sutherland / annie lewandowski
douglas ridings (10th only)
haruko nishimura / joshua kohl (11th only)
this program is part of an ongoing
installation/performance/video project:
"my mother my father"
a theater installation by dk pan
in collaboration with inphaseprod & chris engman
The SOIL Art Gallery is transformed into a theater
for the duration of December by artist, dk pan.
The project entitled, "my mother my father"
is about the bridging of dichotomies and pursuing
the personal as source of meaning.
Designed to combine the black box theater with the
white cube gallery, a 'lightbox' performance / video
space is created. Projected within the installation during gallery
hours will be works on video by
kaleb hagan-kerr
robb kunz
sara murá
tzaddi
ishan vernallis
Throughout the month, there will take place three weekends
of special evening performances including butoh, dance, theater,
and poetry. Each one of the artists expresses the personal as they
explore their own relationship to the mother/father theme.
SOIL art gallery / 112 3rd ave s.
206.264.8061 / gallery@soilart.org
contact: pan@graffiti.net / 206.940.6079
RAIDERS OF THE LOST ARK: THE ADAPTATION @ NWFF
Sounds horrible:
DEC 10-11 Fri-Sat at 11 pm
SEATTLE PREMIERE!
FILMMAKER IN ATTENDANCE!
RAIDERS OF THE LOST ARK: THE ADAPTATION
(Eric Zala, USA, 1982-1988, 115 min)
In 1982, three 12-year-old kids from Mississippi set out to create a
shot-for-shot remake of their favorite movie, RAIDERS OF THE LOST ARK. They
made their own props and costumes, created their own special effects, did
their own stunts, and gathered their friends and siblings to fill out the
cast. Six years later they finished. The end result is an amazing homegrown
homage. The only thing more unbelievable than the kids' resourceful
techniques is witnessing the cast go through puberty (the hero grows
stubble, and the heroine grows breasts) - it's like watching five Harry
Potter movies at once! We are proud to present RAIDERS OF THE LOST ARK: THE
ADAPTATION in its Seattle premiere with co-director and star Chris
Strompolis in attendance. The making of THE ADAPTATION is currently being
adapted by genius comic book artist/screenwriter Daniel Clowes (GHOST WORLD)
into a MAJOR MOTION PICTURE.
"A new and genuinely startling viewing experience...like nothing you've
seen before." Sarah Hepola, AUSTIN CHRONICLE
"A very loving and detailed tribute to our Raiders of the Lost Ark...vast
amounts of imagination and originality." -Steven Spielberg
I lookup some phrases used in this invitation in our Party Volcano Event Decoder Dictionary and found the following translations:
"genuinely startling viewing experience" = "alarmingly bad performance"
"like nothing you've seen before" = "like nothing you ever want to see again".
"very loving" = "self absorbed"
“detailed tribute to” = "boring as much as redundant work about"
"vast amounts of imagination" = "incongruent mess"
"originality" = "oranges".
Let's read the decoded version:
"A new and alarmingly bad performance...like nothing you ever want to see again." Sarah Hepola, AUSTIN CHRONICLE
"A very self absorbed and boring as much as redundant work about our Raiders of the Lost Ark...incongruent mess and oranges." -Steven Spielberg
Ah, that sounds much better, doesn't it?
The Northwest Film Forum is now in its brand new facilities at 1515 12th
Ave, on Capitol Hill between Pike and Pine. For more information, visit our
website at www.nwfilmforum.org or call our movieline at (206)267-5380.
Website: http://www.nwfilmforum.org/latenite/#raiders
Saturday, 12/11
GMP’s SANTARCHY @ PIKE PLACE MARKET
For the Guerrilla Masquerade Party Santarchy is probably one of the most important events of the year. Santarchy has become a movement and the GMP has made it their goal to make it as crazy as possible. I have heard stories about them trying to invade Lusty Ladies and usually at least one of the Santas (Dirty Santa?) ends up walking around at Westlake Center without his pants but clearly intoxicated.
Happy Holidays, Guerrillas!
For the past 10 years, at more and more locations each year,
hundreds of people dress up in santa suits, meet up, and spend a day
wandering the streets and invading bars. They get drunk, they hand
out toys and gifts, and they occasionally cause mayhem.
They call this event SANTARCHY!
Sound familiar? It should. Santarchy (along with it's SF cousin,
Guerrilla Queer Bar) was a huge inspiration for Guerrilla Masquerade
Party. And this year, Santarchy marks it's 10th anniversary. The
brainchild of the Cacophony Society in San Francisco, it's grown
from a SF event to a worldwide sensation. Cities as far and wide as
Toyko, Bangkok, London, Montreal, Tijuana, Anchorage, and even a
location in Antarctica have joined the fun and held their own
Santarchy events. The Cacophony Society of Seattle has been holding
Santarchy in our town since 1997 (as far as we can tell) and this
year is no exception.
So to pay homage to our forefathers, Guerrilla Masquerade Party will
be bringing our Sleazy Santa selves to the fun as guests of
SANTARCHY this year.
On SATURDAY, DECEMBER 11TH we'll be joining up with the rest of the
Santas at 12 NOON at the PIKE PLACE MARKET PIG -- Right at the
entrance to Pike Place Market, where Pike Street turns to become
Pike Place, one block West of 1st Avenue.
For those of you busy during the day, a 7 pm dinner stop will take
place at an as yet undetermined location. This is a chance to catch
up to the crowd and join in the fun for the evening.
A full itinerary is being finalized, including the location of the
dinner stop. We'll send this out as soon as it's available.
So get your Sleazy Santa gear together, and your evil elven outfits
on, and come join the fun of SANTARCHY! Whether you don a full St.
Nick suit or a simple Santa Hat, whether you feel the urge to dress
as a Reindeer or Mrs. Claus, and whether your inner Frosty or your
secret Elf self come out to play, this is going to be one fun
afternoon and evening. Don't miss it!
And for the extra motivated -- the Santas will be handing out hand-
made misfit toys this year. Cut some toys apart and hook them
together in new ways and bring them along to give to lucky boys and
girls!
See ya Saturday!
Dirty Santa
Guerrilla Masquerade Party
http://www.gmpseattle.com
Here is the Itinerary:
12pm - The Pig - Pike Place Market
1:30pm - Seattle Downtown Library - 1000 Fourth Ave
4pm - McCaw Hall - Seattle Center
6pm - Pacific Place - Sixth Avenue & Pine
7pm - Dinner @ Westlake Center Food Court - 400 Pine Street
9pm - The NiteLite - Second Ave and Virginia St
If you miss us at one of these stops, or need to verify our
location, call one of the numbers below to find out where the Santas
are at.
Day & Evening:
206-818-2495 - Santa Ivan
206-372-9968 - Bubbles the Evil Elf
307-871-5086 - Santa Jacob (all the way from Wyoming!)
Evening only:
206-799-0374 - Santa 7
206-713-1206 - SantIan
206-295-3571 - Stripper Santa
And a final note before Saturday: Santa Hats are currently $2.50 at
your neighborhood Safeway store. Pick one up, along with a box of
candy canes, and join the fun.
For more information on Santarchy & the Cacophony Society, go to
http://www.gmpseattle.com/main.html
http://www.gmpseattle.com/
Artwalk & Posada in "Ballard"
Aimee from Greener Life Styles (former known as Amada Luna) is inviting us to stop by at her shop and celebrate Posada:
Artwalk , Posada and the greatest gifts to make a difference
Come to celebrate a Posada with us
(Mexican style celebration)
In the traditional Mexican way, we will help Mother Mary find shelter (Posada) for the night and
set up the nativity scene (nacimiento). Alicia will tell the story of what this preparation ceremony
before christmas means. We will sing the traditional spanish songs to ask for posada (and explain
what they mean to those who do not speak spanish) as well as explain what piñatas represent. We
will then proceed to break the Piñatas.
Come share the joy, drink ponche (hot fruit beverage) and enjoy traditional Mexican holiday treats.
Children are specially invited at 3:30 and adults will also have their piñata at 7:30 If the weather
allows. WE ENCOURAGE YOU TO ARRIVE ON TIME.>
For Artwalk, we will be featuring Lisa Collins' new collection.
We are inviting you to make a difference this season.
You can make a choice for Sustainable gifts that support our environment.
Sharing the joy of celebrating light in the dark
receive a warm greeting from Greener Lifestyles
Helping you make a difference
The Posada version I have heard was a little bit different: Every year around this time of the year neighbors would reenact the story of Mother Mary looking for shelter - for a whole week. Every evening Mother Mary would eventually find home at one of the neighbors’ houses. That’s where everybody would meet later and have a big party involving lots of drinking, eating, and Piñata slaughtering. That sounds more like a folk version of Santarchy to me! I assume that the original way of celebrating Posada needed to be adjusted to tranquil Ballard.
But in either way it will be fun!
www.greenerlifestyles.com
53127 Ballard Ave NW
ANOTHER HOLIDAY ART SALE @ the S.S. Marieantonette
ANOTHER HOLIDAY ART SALE
to be hosted at the S.S. Marieantonette
1235 Westlake Ave.
December 11th and 12th from 1PM - 5PM both days
I Heart Rummage is trying to help fill the void left by the annual Forgotten
Works Challenge and the Pound Gallery holiday sale by adding a third event
on December 11th and 12th.
Usually I Heart Rummage hosts wearable and useable art and design. This show
is oriented toward art that can hang on the wall with 15 artists that
include Robert Hardgrave, Tory Franklin, Javar (from Hipposchemes), Sam
Trout and Grahm Fracha.
Art opening @ Wingnut Galleries
Beatrice writes:
Time for the plug of the week: I have 7 (whoohoo! 7!) new paintings + a bunch of greeting cards in an exhibition that opens next week.
This exhibition has a (loose) Belle Epoque theme; it features contemporary work by Seattle artists, as well as original photography and vintage prints from the Belle Epoque era.
WHERE: Wingnut Galleries, 1205 East Pike Street (Capitol Hill, Seattle)
WHEN: Saturday December 11, 6 to 10 P.M. (The show will remain on view through the holidays)
Hoping to see you there!
Yours truly
Wingnut Galleries, 1205 East Pike Street
Cirque du Noc @ Seattle Center
Some kinky thing, I think:
Come out and play at Cirque du Noc!
Cirque du Noc
Saturday, December 11th, 2004
Seattle Center, NW Rooms on Warren and Republican
http://www.cirquedunoc.com
Browse among over 40 vendors of tools and toys at the Fetish Bazaar. Enjoy
the acrobatic artistry of Circus Contraption and be ready to bid on your
favorite fetish styles as clothing designers auction pieces from their
collection. Dress up and strut your stuff at the Masquerade Ball where DJ
Silver and DJ Black Maru will spin the night away with tunes from
various
forms of Goth, Industrial, Synth-pop and eastern influenced music.
Tickets for the Show and Ball are each $15 advance/$20 door. Purchase
your tickets at www.cirquedunoc.com or call 1-800-838-3006.
Certain age restrictions apply. See website for details.
YES! Shameless @ The Rebar
YES! Shameless
Saturday, December 11th @ The Rebar
An elektro, techno, disco, punk extravaganza
Residents...
Recess, Scorpio, & MC Anton Bomb (Club YES)
FOC:EYE on visuals
Special Guests...
dONALD Allan's bOY (DJ dAb) http://www.solidrate.com
His career has spanned over a decade. Influenced globally, dAb has seen
trends come and go but one thing that remains is his love for electronic
music. During the Mid-80s he produced tracks for many local Seattle-area
rappers. In 1988 he realized his dream when he opened for Rob Base and EZ
Rock along with Chicago breed rapper MC Slice. From '91-'95 dAb released
many independent full-legnth performance based excursions under the name
Disk Data Corrrupt. Since, he has been consistently releasing mix CDs,
introducing what he believes to be 'Future Music'. Between running Solid
Rate Studios, Free Family and a busy DJing schedule he's also found time to
release tracks on Moonshine, RedHanded, Free Records and Free The Funk. This
is just the beginning!
And we get 'em for some weird, dancey electro. Last time I saw him play was
down at Robo.Trash where there wasn't a soul that wasn't dancing. fREAK.
Plus...Robb Green (Tilted) It's his birthday!!!
Click for flyer...
http://img.villagephotos.com/p/2004-11/894616/ShamelessHandbill2Single.jpg
Rebar 1114 Howell St.
(206-233-9873)
Free before 11:00, $5 Thereafter, 21+
http://www.rebarseattle.com
http://www.simplyshameless.com
Tuesday, 12/14
Amanda Koster’s Print sale
This might be a good chance for you to do some panic shopping before the Xmas days.
INTERNATIONAL PHOTOGRAPHER MAKES “CRAZY DEALS”
Amanda Koster is an internationally acclaimed photographer who has made it her mission to document some of the world’s most compelling issues. She will hold an open-studio print sale that include archived work and new photos from a Victoria, B.C. eating-disorder clinic in support of her “This Is Beautiful” project.
There will be a wide range of prints available with a rare opportunity to purchase Koster’s work.
Prints will range: color and b&w : 8x10-20x24, from $5-$150. Framed pieces, color and b&w, 11x14-20x20, from $20-$300. Subjects range from India, Brazil, WTO, Romania, Cuba, Kenya, Refugee/Immigrant project, This Is Beautiful (3 shoots), Japanese garden in Seattle, Louisiana Bayou, and a bunch or wacky work from the streets of New York.
“I am also making crazy deals to make clean up a lot easier ($5 bins!),” Koster says.
Cash and checks only, please.
About Koster’s work:
* Koster’s domestic violence project was exhibited in around the world for the International Year of the Woman and for Doctors Without Borders.
* The U.S. Department of Education supplied a grant to document the lives of seven refugee students in Seattle that became a traveling exhibition and multi-media curriculum for college courses.
* Her photographs and video project of AIDS orphans and widows of the Luo tribe in Kenya took 2ndplace for the people / culture category in the international 2004 LUCIE Awards
* “This Is Beautiful,”in collaboration with the bodyBODY Project, is an ongoing exploration that redefines the innate beauty of women (thisisbeautiful.org)
* Her most personal project to date, “Andrew’s Roots” tells the story of her grandfather, an immigrant from Romania.
Grants from Kodak Professional support all of these projects.
Print sale
Tuesday, Dec. 14
6-9pm
3842 Interlake Ave. N, Seattle, WA
(206) 286-9707
Thursday, 12/16
IRON COMPOSER - "RAMADAN & RETIREMENT" @ Crocodile
Seattle School presents:
IRON COMPOSER - "RAMADAN & RETIREMENT"
The Popular Real Time Live Songwriting Competition, Drinking Game, and Aural Obstacle Course
ROBB BENSON of Nevada Bachelors and Dear John Letters VS.
HEATHER DUBY
Featuring the post-show debut of the Seattle School Corporate Training Series!!
Seattle, WA - December's IRON COMPOSER is honored to be the last gig of Robb Benson's musical career: having recently gotten married, and having quit his band Dear John Letters a mere 2 weeks ago, Robb is using December's IRON COMPOSER bout as his swan song from his 15 years in the club life. We wish Robb well in his retirement, and wonder if this will make him a sentimental favorite over the ferociously talented Heather Duby.
Celebrity judges will be the effervescent Three Imaginary Girls of ThreeImaginaryGirls.com: Liz Riley, Char Davidson, and Dana Weissman.
Opening act is Nathan Smith and Robert Blake performing Shel Silverstein's "The Devil and Billy Markham".
Post show entertainment will be the debut of Seattle School's new Corporate Training Series: this month, SPEED SCRABBLE, a large-scale Scrabble game - where slang and proper names are allowed - featuring 6" X 6" letter tiles placed on an oversized grid laid out in The Crocodile, and 4 teams of 10-20 people each competing. Ever felt alone while playing Scrabble? like there's words you're not seeing? Here's your chance to play by drunken committee.
For IRON COMPOSER, one audience member, randomly chosen as the "secret ingredient," gushes about his or her current state of affairs (or nefarious past) in a five-minute interview. Each composer draws inspiration from the personal these life-details and incorporates those into an original song to be performed at the end of the bout.
Think it's that easy? This 45-minute competition is divided into five nine-minute segments. Each segment contains a "Mystery Chaos," performed by The Interloper (Korby Sears of Seattle School) which distracts the composers. As added molasses, each composer drinks a shot of liquor at the beginning of each round, consuming five shots in the course of 45 minutes. Each composer is equipped with "musical kitchens" contaning: one guitar, one piano, paper and pencil and one Sous Chef Line Musician. The Sous Chef conducts live rehearsals with the house band on stage, and composers can only communicate with the band via their Sous Chef. Now that's what we call confounding! Yahear?
Last week I forgot to metnion that the Three Imaginary Girls had an IRON COMPOSER Haiku Contest at http://www.threeimaginarygirls.com/IronHaiku.asp. Winners would receive free tickets to the this Iron Composer event on Dec 16th, in which the poem-luvin' TIGs are judging. Contest deadline was yesterday, Dec 9th and I barely made it. TIG demanded that the haikus had to contain or relate to "Iron Composer", which already occupies 5 syllables from the 5-7-5 form.
I don’t know why but my haikus usually end up being dark and somewhat negative – especially if I have to slam them together in 5 minutes. Here are my three submissions:
Wrinkles in his face
Let’s iron that composer.
Give him a face lift.
Sinking in the pool.
My shoes are filled with iron.
Composers don't cry.
Found a composer.
Seaweed and a yellowed shirt.
Iron bullet in his head.
For more info on Seattle School, go to: www.seattleschool.net
For more info on IRON COMPOSER www.ironcomposer.com or contact Korby Sears at 206-335-3500 or seattleschool@earthlink.net
WHEN: Thursday, Dec 16th, 2004 - Doors at 8pm, Opening act at 8:30pm, Show/Competition at 9pm
WHERE: The Crocodile Cafe, 2200 2nd Ave, Seattle, WA (206) 441-5611
ADMISSION: $8 at the door.
Advanced tickets may be bought at Ticket Web www.ticketweb.com
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