Tuesday, March 6, 2007

Events for 12/8 - 12/14/2006

The Xmas craziness is starting early this year. Didn't have much time for downgrades and the Computer Corner. Here you go!

Friday, 12/8
6:00 PM Fortunettes closing party @ Hooverville
6:00 PM Art Army Guerilla Crew at BLVD Gallery
6:00 PM Jean Pierre Roy / MaDora Frey @ Roq La Rue Gallery
8:00 PM Very Merry Imaginary Karaoke Bash at the Crocodile Cafe
8:00 PM Cornish Dance Department Presents New Moves Concert

Saturday, 12/9
Noon Pound Studios Holiday Open Studio Sale
4:00 PM RICK KLU Artist Reception @ Café Racer
4:00 PM Annual South Park Art under $100 sale
9:00 PM? Expiration Date at Jimmy Z's - In Everett
10:00 PM The Stay Up Late Show @ CHAC

Tuesday 12/12
7:00 PM Guardian Ear @ Retail Therapy

Wednesday 12/13
6:00 PM Cocktails for a Cause at Form/Space Atelier

Thursday 12/14
5:00 PM Prrr Chistmas


Friday, 12/8

Fortunettes closing party @ Hooverville

Fortunettes closing party @ Hooverville:
December 8th
Come down, drink a beer and check out our lovely fortunettes!
(www.sukiyockey.net/fortunettes)
Dan Ayala and Beth Yockey have made 101 small works of great import, each with its own fortune, and perfectly priced for holiday gift-giving. Wouldn't you like to give your cube-mate a fortune that said "your ideas will be totally acceptable" ( http://sukiyockey.net/fortunettes/img/50.jpg) or "patience may be a factor in maintaining your vitality" ( http://sukiyockey.net/fortunettes/img/22.jpg)?
Well, this is your last chance to buy an original piece of collaborative art for only $10.
Prints will be available soon, they have been such a hit.

www.sukiyockey.net/fortunettes


Art Army Guerilla Crew at BLVD Gallery

BLVD Gallery is proud to present the latest installment in Michael
Leavitts
Art Army® series, “The Guerilla Crew”. The Art Army® action figures are
homages to the killer art and artists that rock our world. Instead of
making boring normal art, Leavitt is paying tribute to great people and
work. This is no customization hobby, and it also ain't some profound
artistic statement. The one-off figures are each original, fully
posable mini sculptures engineered for major articulation. They look
like real toys, but no Art Army® figure is machine manufactured. These
action figures don't fit in any molds. Each is sculpted from scratch as
one artists' offering to an icon. The “Guerilla Crew” is Mikes tribute
to the vibrant street/ urban art community featuring legends of
graffiti, skateboarding, Hip Hop, and street fashion. For this show
Mike has sculpted figurines of
Banksy, Twist, Seen, Tupac, Nigo, Basquiat, Lady Pink, ODB, Fafi, and
more.


We are also proud to present new works from three very talented
painters,
Kristian Olson (Los Angeles), Colin Johnson (Minnesota), and Chris Huth
( Denver/Seattle). All three of these artists have been getting
attention individually for their unique approach to the craft of
painting. Kristian Olson has developed a mixed media technique for his
work. Combining elaborately designed digital artwork, giclée printing,
and acrylic paint he creates otherworldly entities and structures that
beg for exploration.

Colin Johnson utilizes an interesting combination of collage and more
painterly technique that transitions between otherworldly and homespun.
Chris Huth brings a more street level approach to his work, having once
been active in the graffiti world. He is now pushing towards a more
refined look to his work leaving behind the ubiquitous drips and clouds
that typify graffiti inspired artwork while retaining his strong
graphic style.

BLVD Gallery presents
The Art Army Guerilla Crew
New sculpted Figurines by Mike Leavitt
Plus New Paintings By Kristian Olson,
Colin Johnson, and Chris Huth
December 8, 2006 - January 6 , 2007
Artist Reception Friday December 8 6pm - 10pm
BLVD Gallery 2316 2nd ave Seattle Wa 98121
http://www.blvdart.com


For more info about the artists:
http://artcardmike.com
http://huthmarks.com/
http://www.kristianolson.com/
http://www.colinjohnsonillustration.com/

Jean Pierre Roy / MaDora Frey @ Roq La Rue Gallery

Roq La Rue Gallery
presents

Jean Pierre Roy
"Soletta"

MaDora Frey
"The Calling"

opens Friday December 8th 6-9pm
show runs through Feb 2nd 2007

Roq La Rue is pleased to present an special two month exhibit of haunting works by two emerging artists from New York, MaDora Frey and Jean Pierre Roy. Both painters are exceptional at creating still moments in the peak of turbulent stories, and cause the viewer’s imagination to wonder what lead to each moment captured. While the subject matter is often dark, the paintings and destruction within are mesmerizing and beautiful.

Jean Pierre Roy paints epic apocalyptic scenes seen from the air, featuring twisted metal, shattered landscapes, and decimated buildings. He meshes the grandeur and beauty of nature with the destructive nature of man upon the world and himself, attempting to create a pivotal moment in time that allows the viewer to engage with the ideas rather than recoil instinctively from images of destruction and war. However, even in the darkest wreckage are suggestions of enduring life, such as tiny flocks of birds or enigmatic and beckoning little lights.His style is almost photo realistic, with just enough surrealistic qualities to lend the paintings an almost science fiction feel, scenes of an impossible, beautiful, but understandable apocalypse.

MaDora Frey also paints scenes mixing nature and mankind, although in a much different way. MaDora’s new series of paintings, “The Calling”, shows anthropomorphic creatures caught in disturbing acts. Her work explores the uneasy relationship between humans and their inner “animal natures”, whether exploring the combative nature of sexuality, the addictions and longings that cause us to drop our civilized veneers, and the almost inhuman strength love gives us to protect that which we hold dearest.

Roq la Rue 2312 2nd Ave Seattle WA 98121 (206)374-8977 www.roqlarue.com


Roq La Rue Gallery
"Purveyors Of Fine Pop Surrealism
and Bad Ass Lowbrow Since '98"
www.roqlarue.com


Very Merry Imaginary Karaoke Bash at the Crocodile Café

The Three Imaginary Girls write:

Greetings, imaginary friends!

Very Imaginary Karaoke Bash! This is it! This Friday, December 8th, join us for our Very Merry Imaginary Karaoke Bash at the Crocodile Cafe!!

We'll start the night at 8p with a pre-party with Sub Pop and Barsuk Records, with acoustic sets from members of Sub Pop artists Fruit Bats and Tiny Vipers, and a very special performance from Barsuk Records' Jim Noir.

Then just after 9:30p, the rockstar karaoke begins!!! The night will feature performances by members of Math & Physics Club, Iceage Cobra, Head Like a Kite, Schoolyard Heroes, Speaker Speaker Kane Hodder, Optimus Rhyme, the Pale Pacific, the Elephants, We Wrote the Book on Connectors, The Trucks, A Gun That Shoots Knives, Central Services, The Pharmacy, Tullycraft, Night Canopy, Dita Vox, and Shorthand for Epic... as well as a few super secret special guests who are prepared to rock your holiday stockings off!

The event will also feature the amazing John Roderick of the Long Winters as Indie Rock Santa, plus tons of raffle prizes from favorite imaginary record labels like Merge, K Records, Magic Marker, Blue Disguise, Suicide Squeeze, Polyvinyl, Wind-Up, and Pattern 25 Records to bulk up your end-of-year CD collection. Event supporters Sub Pop, Barsuk, and Seattle Sound magazine will also be providing extra-goodie gift packs for lucky audience members to win. That's our way of wishing you a happy imaginary holiday season!


Here's the timeline for the night and the juicy details:

* 8p: Tiny Vipers acoustic set.
* 8:30p: Fruit Bats acoustic set.
* 9p: Jim Noir set.
* 9:40: Rockstar karaoke, raffles, and general merriment begins!!
* This event is 21+.
* Tickets are $10 -- and yes, this gets you into BOTH shows. Tickets are also halfway sold out. We strongly recommend you reserve yours right now at Ticketweb.

All we want for xmas is {to see} you {there}!!!

xo from your ho-ho-hostesses,
dana, liz, char
*three imaginary girls*

http://www.threeimaginarygirls.com/verymerrykaraoke06nov.asp
http://www.threeimaginarygirls.com


Cornish Dance Department Presents New Moves Concert

Cornish Dance Department Presents New Moves Concert
'New Moves Concert' Poster

Cornish College of the Arts Dance Department presents the New Moves Concert 2006, featuring student choreography and performance December 8-10. The concert will introduce Seattle audiences to emerging choreographers and performers and will include a diverse array of dance styles. Choreographers represented will include: Markeith Wiley (break dance-influenced duet set to music by Tin Hat Trio), Geoff Johnson (nine-member group piece titled Free Dive), Ezra Dickinson (experiments with stillness and movement with And Now), and Amanda Oie (an ensemble piece called Abyssinian Plateau set to music by a Chalbi folk artist, Jan A.P. Kaczmarek, and hip-hop group Spooks that explores the opposition of masculinity and femininity). Other choreographers included in the program are Sarah Adamski, Katie Bruce, Ben Dominick, Jessica Finn, Lisa Krug and Rebecca Morris.

New Moves Concert
Friday, December 8 at 8pm
Saturday, December 9 at 3 & 8pm
Sunday, December 10 at 8pm

Velocity MainSpace Theater
915 East Pine, 2nd Floor
Seattle

Tickets: $5 general, $3 students, seniors & Cornish College alumni
Tickets can be purchased through Ticket Window at 206.325.6500 or at www.ticketwindowonline.com or at Ticket Window box offices located at Pacific Place, Broadway Market, Pike Place Market, Bellevue’s Meydenbauer Center.

Velocity MainSpace Theater
915 East Pine, 2nd Floor

Saturday, 12/9

Pound Studios Holiday Open Studio Sale

Reminder for some and invite for others from Jana Brevick!

Sneak in for a minute or stay for a visit and finish your gift list early at the Pound Studios Holiday Open Studio Sale

Friday, December First: five to eleven pm
and
Saturday, December Second: noon to five pm

Over twenty participating artist, filmmakers, and general troublemakers!
Please go to www.poundpictures.com for a full list of artists.

1216 10th Ave, between Union and Seneca. One block east of Broadway and one north of Seattle University (and IHOP!)
Look for the blue door and come on up!

from Jana

The Pound.
1216 10th Ave, between Union and Seneca
http://www.poundpictures.com/

RICK KLU Artist Reception @ Café Racer

RICK KLU

Artist Reception


Rick KLU was born on July 10th, 1968 in Taiwan. His father was a retired fighter pilot with the Flying Tigers during World War II, who went on to fly under contract with the Southern Air Transport during the Viet Nam war. His mother was exiled from mainland China for counter-revolutionary activities as a journalist for Readers Digest (Chinese version).

Rick KLU spent his childhood studying martial arts in Taiwan and Japan, where he mastered Jeet Kun Do, Jui Jitsu, and Tzen Fu Low (a VERY fast form of Tai Chi). While visiting the Albino Snake Dojo in Tokyo, KLU met the famous sumi brush artist Ishibashi. After visiting Ishibashi's studio, KLU became interested in art.

During a visit to Korea he discovered "Coaster Art" which was usually found in brothels and gambling halls. These coasters were used to illustrate what the customers wanted to order because it was taboo to voice these requests. KLU became fascinated with this visual dialogue and the unique variations in style and form that these random customers developed.

KLU has exhibited in 21 group and solo shows in Asia and the United States. Along with his coaster drawings he has also exhibited his paintings and sculptures. KLU currently lives in Kirkland with his wife of 14 years, Mai Jun Kim, an acclaimed classical violinist.

Café Racer is proud to host this internationally acclaimed artist. Please join us and the Artist for Happy Hour Reception this Saturday! We look forward to having you here!

Cissy & the Café Racer Staff

Saturday December 9, 2006
4:00 pm – 8:00 pm
Café Racer 5828 Roosevelt Way NE


Annual South Park Art under $100 sale

Annual South Park Art under $100 sale
December 9th
22 artists selling their wares for cheap
music, raffles, wine, snacks!
The art ranges from handmade hats and blown glass vases to artisan sauces and CDs
I'll be selling calendars and other assorted goodies.
Get there early - last year, most artists sold out and had to pack it in before the closing bell rang.
4-10 pm, South Park Old Firehouse ( 8201 10th Avenue South)

more info: www.southparkarts.org

Expiration Date at Jimmy Z's - In Everett

John writes:

SATURDAY:
Expiration Date at Jimmy Z's - In Everett. This is a total shithole dive bar, and it's worth going to a death metal show there cause the vibe is perfect.
Have you ever seen Smoke Stalagtites? Thats where so many people smoke in the bar that the ceiling becomes coated with the tar, and then dust gets adhered to it, and then more people smoke, and more dust adheres... and these long feathery tentacles start to grow down from the ceiling.
With the no smoking ban in Washington state, this is one of the last places that you can go to see these rare lifeforms. And Expiration Date is the perfect band to experience this atmosphere with.

Jimmy Z's - In Everett
http://jimmyzltd.com/
Subscribe to John's party updates: John_Schlick@Hotmail.com


The Stay Up Late Show @ CHAC

The Stay Up Late Show is here to warm your Decem-brrrrr,
featuring saucy guests & saucier action - and, as always, the
irrepressible delight of your host Rebecca M. Davis, on December 9 in
CHAC's Lower Level!

This month, the Stay Up Late Show will feature Seattle theater
superstars Troy Miszklevitz and Rhonda J. Soikowski, with a preview
snippet of "The Show"; the down-homey bluegrass strains of Tom Stewart
and friends; PLUS, forgot to get a Christmas gift for a cousin,
nephew, sibling, or spouse? The Stay Up Late Show will save your
bacon with our Last-Minute Christmas Craft demo!

As always, there will be trivia, prizes, and more, more, more!!!

***Featuring the first Stay Up Late Show Northwest Harvest can drive!
You bring us a non-perishable food item, you get $2 off the price of
admission!***

PLUS - The CHAC bar will be open to wet your whistle throughout the evening!


The Stay Up Late Show is a monthly talk show featuring a variety of
local celebrities and almost-celebrities from all over the Seattle
scene. Past guests have included Nick Licata, Sean Nelson, Kevin Kent,
Stephanie Pure, and many, many others.

The Stay Up Late Show began in November of 2003 as a monthly
late-night talk show. We aim to create a fun, relaxed way to bring the
community together to see bits of a bunch of stuff they normally might
not get to see. What kind of stuff? Everything we can cram into an
hour-or-so-long show. Politicians, Artists, actors, writers,
journalists, chefs, animal trainers, musicians, sports stars, TV
anchors, local celebs and quirky personalities ... The possibilities
are endless, really.

Oh, and it's live. Never broadcast, never recorded. What you see is
what you get and if you miss it, well, that's the beauty of live
theater, people. It's spontaneous, it's unpredictable and it's
happening right in front of you. Come join us, won't you?

The Stay Up Late Show - Seattle's one and only LIVE late-night talk show!

The Stay Up Late Show
Saturday, December 9
10:00pm
CHAC Lower Level - corner of 12th Ave and E. Pine St. (1621 - 12th Ave)
$12 at the door
www.stayuplateshow.com

Tuesday 12/12

Guardian Ear @ Retail Therapy

Oh the loveliest of weather we are having please join us for the fabulous Capitol Hill Art Walk on tuesday Dec 12th and we will provide you with a rather facinating evening. Guardian Ear will be playing at the shop. Hot Totties and other loveliness will be provided to get you in a jolly spirit. You can hear their music on their myspace page : http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendid=105537821 and below is a review of their music The Seattle-based experimental quartet Guardian Ear probably shouldn't exist. Listening to them for the first time recently left me with a feeling of my mind, no, my entire exstence being turned inside out and splattered against the walls of my apartment. When that happens you get a good look at your own inner depths, and you start to realize that there are several good reasons that you usually keep them tucked away so nicely. This effect was no accident either. These sadistic bastards openly flaunt their irreverence for convention, custom, expectations and beauty with every last scratched-out note. The oboe (...they have an oboe!) flows gracefully over an undulating rhythm section, trying, painfully, to paint something smooth and sweet, while it's nemesis, an electric 5-string cello relentlessly beats every last melody into cowering, pathetic squeeks and fragmented, gasping syllables. The resulting "pieces" are often simultaneously bitter-sweet, confusing, pretty and ridiculous. It's hard to pin down any large influence over the music, with each member coming from accomplished, yet entirely seperate backrounds, which seem to overlap in the strangest places. Was that a hint of death metal? Was that a cock-rock solo played on a woodwind? Did they all just grunt in unison? What did he just break? This band may not be for the faint of heart or easily frustrated, but they seem to be doing what I had previosly thought was a passé experiment, exploring new realms of music, new concoctions of sounds and genres, and coming out with something legitimately original.... for better or worse. -Ilene Zunwald (Music critic from Usedom, Germany)

Retail Therapy
905 E Pike ST, Seattle, WA
http://www.evite.com/pages/invite/viewInvite.jsp?event=WJCZMZIQBZWUZKMHOQAJ


Wednesday 12/13

Cocktails for a Cause at Form/Space Atelier

Join us for SSF–Seattle’s Newest Event

Cocktails for a Cause is a monthly event hosted at Seattle-area venues that helps raise awareness about the good work of area nonprofits through an evening of cocktails, music and fun. Through networking with others who share the passion and dedication to Puget Sound non-profit efforts, we can all work together towards our common goal: increasing the well being of mankind and our environment.

December's Featured Organization: Cheers to The Vera Project, who provides what every teenager wants: a music-arts center run by and for youth. By engaging participants at all levels of music production and community organizing, Vera fuels personal and community transformation through popular music shows produced in partnership with young people in Seattle. Since its inception in 2001, Vera has provided a unique resource to Seattle's youth and music community by maintaining a safe, alcohol-and-smoke free environment for people of all ages to come together and experience music in a way that transcends commercial entertainment and erases divisions between performer, staff and audience. Vera is currently focused on raising money to finish building its new, long-term venue at the Seattle Center. The new space is set to open in February 2007. Get more info at theveraproject.org

About the Venue: Form/Space Atelier, hosted by Intracorp Seattle, is a new downtown gallery space and multi-media concept that will blur the line between art, architecure and the urban form. Upcoming shows will focus on art and urban themes, including landscape, urban living, culture, sustainability and the transitional nature of the built environment. In addition, the gallery will be hosting upcoming events and themed lectures.

Special this month: In honor of the holiday season, we'll be accepting unwrapped toys to donate to Toys for Tots. Please join us during this season of giving and help us spread some holiday cheer by donating a toy or two.

About your Host: Sustainable Style Foundation is an international, member-supported nonprofit organization created to provide information, resources and innovative programs that promote sustainable living and sustainable design. For more information or to find out how to become an SSF Member, please call us at 206.324.4850 and/or visit www.sustainablestyle.org.

SSF wants to remind you to please cocktail responsibly.


Cocktails for a Cause
Wednesday December 13
6:00pm to 8:00pm
at Form/Space Atelier, hosted by Intracorp
1907 Second Avenue, across from The Moore Theater
Seattle, WA
No host Bar
Donations Only
Music, Munchies and Fun provided


Thursday 12/14

Prrr Chistmas

It's time once again for the Prrr Christmas celebration. Socialize while you shop, bring friends, meet some of mine and find unique gifts for the ones that couldn't make it. Luscious, lush bags, sparkling jewels, and snuggly hats, all hand crafted here at Prrr.

We'll have wine and nibbles. Feel free to forward this invitation.

Prrr
1216 N 40th st, Seattle, WA
When: Thursday, December 14, 5:00pm
Phone: 206 499 4474
http://www.evite.com/pages/invite/viewInvite.jsp?event=WXMXFXHFMYLECPOWWYBU

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