Happy New Year!
Friday, 1/3.
6:00 PM Member's Juried Exhibition @ PCNW.
7:00 PM SAW opening: DANILA RUMOLD.
10:00 PM Music Video Premier @ Liquid Lounge.
Saturday, 1/4.
7:00 PM SOIL opening: Of Sustenance, Secrets and Two Girls.
Sunday 1/5.
2:00 PM Stephen Fandrich (piano) @ Frye Art Museum
Tuesday 1/8
9:00PM? Purple Rain at Baltic Room
Friday 1/3
Member's Juried Exhibition @ PCNW.
Party Volcano is usually impressed with PCNW shows. This year's juror for the annual Member's Juried Exhibition is Elizabeth A. Brown, Chief Curator at the Henry Art Gallery. Given the excellent shows that the Henry puts on, it's clear that Ms. Brown knows her shit, so this PCNW exhibition promises to be good. Plus the openings generally have excellent snacks if you get there early enough. PCNW gets a very commendable 4 out 5 stars on PV's snack chart.
Reception and awards, 6 pm to 8 pm, Photographic Center Northwest, 900 12th Ave (cross street: E. Marion, across from Seattle University).
http://photos.yahoo.com/bc/partyvolcano/vwp?.dir=/Invitations&.dnm=Reynold%27s+photo.jpg&.src=ph
http://www.pcnw.org/
SAW opening: DANILA RUMOLD.
The title of Danila Rumold's show is "Gestural Representations, Visual Abstractions". Here is the press release:
This show will feature oil paintings and enamel drawings on acetate paper by Seattle artist, Danila Rumold. Strongly influenced by Buddhist notions, Danila's subject matter explores life and death, and connections between the natural world and human beings. To Ms. Rumold, "color acts as capturing a moment in the day."
Artist Reception: Friday Jan.3, 7 - 10pm.
SAW, 113 12th Avenue.
www.secludedalleyworks.org
Music Video Premier @ Liquid Lounge
After blowing all that money for overpriced NYE's events, it's feels redemptive to be frugal on the weekend after--you know, starting off the New Year being fiscally responsible, just like starting off the New Year with that new exercise rregime that this time you're really going to stick with. Uh huh. Still, in an effort to suport you, our dear readers, in at least one of your New Year's resolutions we have a good FREE event for you: the vid premiere/local band gig at EMP. The Capitals (which I know nothing about) opens at 10:00 pm and Going South (which I have heard very good things about) plays at about 11:30 pm. But the real draw is that in between sets Going South will be premiering their new video for a song called "Salt Wells" and the extremely talented K.D. Schill designed all the costumes for the vid. The style is 1940's bordello--seamed stockings, corsets, garter belts--and Salt Wells is actually the name of a real brothel in Nevada. Our fact checker, Gisele, says that she is particularly looking forward to checking out for all the vintage fashion. PV is there!
Liquid Lounge at Experience Music Project, 325 5th Ave. N., FREE.
The Capitals open at 10 pm; Going South plays at 11:30 pm; "Salt Wells" video is being shown in between sets.
http://www.giselencyclopedia.com/
http://www.giselebundchen.hpg.ig.com.br/index.html
Saturday 1/4
SOIL Opening: Of Sustenance, Secrets and Two Girls.
SOIL is showing installations and objects by Jodi Rockwell and Karuna “Toi” Sennhauser. The press release says:
The first SOIL exhibition of the year brings together two Seattle artists with a fascination for food as a sculptural medium. At the core of Sennhauser's and Rockwell's work is a curiosity to experiment with the characteristics, symbolism and history of food. For the month of January, the gallery will become the temporary home for mountains of sugar, 80-pound ice balls encasing molasses, sour yeast dough, hard candy portraits and 100 eggs. The visual feast will slowly morph throughout the duration of the show, warranting multiple visits.
The Stranger (Emily Hall) recommends it too:
In Toi Sennhauser's past performances, she's poured milk over her bare legs and had bright berry jam dripped--ever so slowly and bloodily--over her thumb, which stuck lonely and alone out of a felt backdrop. This month she's teamed upp with sculptor Jodi Rockwell to produce a galleryful of food-as-art, including heaps of sugar, armies of eggs, and portraits done in candy--all of which will change over the course of the month as it variously rots or disintegrates. The contemporary masterpiece is as ephemeral as it is philosophical (and delicious!).
That is all fine with me as long Toi makes her delicious chicken sate! I met Toi at Noodlework's SOIL auction last year while I was waiting in line for the bathroom. I don't meet many people that speak German and Thai fluently and know how to cook. Months later she told me that she cooks for that Teatro ZinZanni (dinner and theater in a tent but without any jelly fish).
SOIL, 1317 East Pine St, 7-10pm, free.
http://www.thestranger.com/current/stranger_suggests.html
Sunday 1/5.
Stephen Fandrich (piano) @ Frye Art Museum.
Two weeks ago we were recommending an event with Stephen Fandrich (Superstition, 12/13). This Sunday he is playing piano at the Frye Art Museum.
He writes:
This concert will feature the works of Bach, Chopin, Scriabin, local composer Mark Ostrowski of the Monktail Creative Music Concern, and works of my own. In addition to this being my first solo performance since graduation, all proceeds of this event will fund my studies and travels in Indonesia, where I hope to hear and learn from the masters of vocal music in central Java and Bali.
The link for the program is unfortuntately broken. But I expect him playing a Chopin ballade and a prelude/fugue pair from the Well-Tempered Clavier by Bach. I will go!
Frye Art Museum 704 Terry Avenue, 2pm, $5-$15.
Program: http://whatisart.org/events/stephen_fandrich_concert/
Tuesday 1/8
Purple Rain: A night celebrating the music of Prince.
Derek Mazzone (Wo'Pop, KEXP) is wishing us a Happy New Year and invites us to Purple Rain at Baltic Room:
Hey all, Happy New Year. We are throwing our monthly Prince night this Wednesday, January 8. Last month was a blast with the Controversy format. This month in line with our sogginess we are throwing..
DJ Star
DJ KO (of IQU)
Come out and play!
Baltic Room, 1207 Pine St, $5.
Ladies free before 11. Drag Queens and Kings always free
Derek Mazzone: http://spool-web-1.kexp.org/spooling/arc_byhost.asp?selectid=285
Cold Lava
New Year's Eve At Shelly and Dan's (12/31).
I guess I missed a great party. Instead we picked up our stinking drunk friends ("If you eat pigs why don't you eat dogs as well?") and drove them around on Capitol Hill for an hour - because I was too drunk to give meaningful directions to that Sumo wrestling party.
Let's get back to the winner of the evening. Dan and Shelly were having a New Year's Eve party at their place. Here is Dan's damage report:
Yes indeed, was a good party....many people enjoying our hospitality..
Even the police came! They thought the party was so great they wanted
to give me a "citation"! After I heard it wasn't suitable for framing,
I declined to accept this award...
Found a few things in the rubble: coat(s), scarf, gloves/hat, umbrella, prescription glasses (?!), banner belonging to marching band (heheheh).
That marching band was of course the Infernal Noise Brigade. They have teamed up with some people for the last three years to throw a truly lawless parade to 1st and pike for a midnight bonfire by the clock. After being pepper-sprayed by the SPD last year they decided to do it a little bit stealthier. It seems they executed their original plan:
After the 1st and Pike midnight, we like to invade other people's parties until about dawn. This involves the marching band in the back of a U-Haul doing surprise visits on expensive events- sometimes it's "good vibes," other times more like a brawl. Anyhow, there doesn't seem to be a damn thing going on, nothing worth even not paying for. Nothing worth the dollar worth of gasoline to drive the Uhaul.
Please email or call Dan to claim any lost items. Unclaimed items will be sold to highest bidder with proceeds going to the "replace the broken window fund".
More evidence: http://www.pbase.com/seaturtle/new_years_eve
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