Sorry for not sending out this letter last week. I was at a conference in San Jose and ran out of time before I had to take the Caltrain to San Francisco. What a great city!
But Seattle is not that bad. This week is a little bit different. Usually we get a big pile of events for Fri and Sat and the rest of the week is muted. This week there are a lot of events spread over the week.
I don't really have a favorite. I like Steve Miller's work (Thu) but Purification (Sat) sounds good too. Please also consider Amanda's Morocco event, because it is for a good cause. ConWorks is also having some shows. But I didn't like them and unfortunately also didn't have enough time to write up a downgrade they deserve.
This week's computer corner will discuss tiny people on food in Russia.
Since our readers were able to help me with that obscure Swedish firemen with cats site I am hoping to get somebody to explain this week's site to me. Do you speak Russian?
Friday, 2/17
8:00 PM Dark Room (Crispin Spaeth Dance Group) @ Western Bridge
8:00 PM? SPLIT BILL (Dance) @ OTB
9:00 PM? Darek Mazzone at the Bal Mar.
Saturday 2/18
9:00 AM Daytime Tree Carving at John's house.
8:00 PM Purification @ OUCH MY EYE
9:00 PM KINETIC @ the Pacific Science Center
10:00 PM The Furios, Buttersprites, Stiff Upper Lips @ Rendezvous
Sunday 2/19
6:00 PM "Traveling beyond our means" Reading @ Confounded Books
6:30 PM Moroccan Women Song Project party and fundraiser
Tuesday 2/21
8:00 PM Lead Pencil Studio Lecture @ Cornish
Wednesday 2/22
6:00 PM TRASH FASHION BASH @ Seattle Asian Art Museum
Thursday, 2/23
6:00 PM Swallow Harder Opening Reception @ Frye Art Museum
Friday, 2/17
Dark Room (Crispin Spaeth Dance Group) @ Western Bridge
Western Bridge presents
Crispin Spaeth Dance Group: Dark Room
Fridays and Saturdays at 8, 8:45, and 9:30, February 17 through March 4.
Tickets ($10) available at Ticket Window, 206-325-6500 http://www.ticketwindowonline.com/show.php?shownumber=1063
Seattle choreographer Crispin Spaeth completes our winter show, Crash. Pause. Rewind., with Dark Room, a newly commissioned dance performance/ installation. Exploring themes of darkness and surveillance, Dark Room is performed in a pitch-black space lit only by infrared LEDs, and is viewed by a small audience using night-vision scopes. The dancers perform sightlessly, guided only by their nonvisual senses and their training.
Dark Room will be performed three times a night, Fridays and Saturdays from Feb 17 through March 4. The performance lasts approximately 20 minutes.
For more information, contact Western Bridge at 206-838-7444.
Eric Fredericksen
Western Bridge
3412 Fourth Avenue South
P.O. Box 24687
Seattle, WA 98124
(206) 838-7444
www.westernbridge.org
SPLIT BILL (Dance) @ OTB
Dear Party Volcano,
We’ve been anticipating this week’s show for months. Running three nights only (Feb 16-18), 2 of the Northwest’s most innovative, emerging choreographers team up with visual artists and pop music composers to create 2 new works at On the Boards. For just $18 – you get to see both pieces. Also - join us opening night after the show for a celebration at the Mirabeau Room (lower Queen Anne). Hope to see you there.
SPLIT BILL - 2 NEW DANCE PIECES BY NW COMPANIES
MONSTER SQUAD WITH MARTY SCHNAPF
Island Desk: my teeny, tiny knowledge of nothing
Featuring Portland dancers Daniel Addy, Angelle Hebert, Dawn Joella Jackson and Emily Stone.
Sophisticated Portland-based choreographer Tahni Holt collaborates with visual artist Marty Schnapf to pierce the corporate bubble in a riveting, modern dance work for 5 performers. With captivating video by Emily Bulfon and music by Brent Knopf of the pop band Menomena.
ZOE SCOFIELD WITH JUNIPER SHUEY AND MORGAN HENDERSON
there ain’t no easy way out
Featuring Seattle dancers Christiana Axelsen, Ezra Dickensen, Kate Monthy, Julie Learned, Marissa Rae Niederhauser and Zoe Scofield.
Seattle’s Zoe Scofield combines an austere aesthetic with balletic precision. This fierce work for 6 dancers explores the human impulse to create and destroy. With a driven, percussive score by Morgan Henderson (Blood Brothers) and a stark visual landscape by Juniper Shuey.
www.ontheboards.org
206.217.9888, Tue-Fri, noon-6pm
OtB is located at 100 W Roy St (lower Queen Anne)
Darek Mazzone at the Bal Mar.
Darek writes:
So it’s been a big year. Had a baby, spun in Europe, played with some of the biggest musicians on the blue marble. Picked up a ton of new music that is blowing my mind. It’s time to share it with everyone. I’m spinning at the Bal-Mar in Ballard (Corner on Market and Ballard) A new lounge with a sweet vibe and a lovely sound system. It’s a great place to chill, partake, and begin your weekend.
Friday Night’s in Ballard
Darek Mazzone at the Bal Mar.
Saturday 2/18
Daytime Tree Carving at John's house.
John, who also sends out an email letter about events, writes:
I have 7 elm trees that had Dutch Elm disease. So, the city made me do
something other than leave them dead and standing. My housemate
Tiffany decided that the cool thing to do is to have them carved into life
sized or larger statues.
Russ Moline is a tree sculptor, and on Saturday, he will be doing the
first part of the carving process. Using a chainsaw to strip the bark
off the trees. and, guess what... We will have a guest chainsaw for
those that want to help a little. The rules say that you are NOT
allowed to cut your toes off with it though.
We will also have a Guest Book for you to sign stating that you are
looking forward to seeing the erotic carvings that the trees will turn
into in the future.
This will be on Brandon Street between California and 44th in West
Seattle starting at 9:00AM Saturday and going till 7:00PM or so.
Brandon Street between California and 44th in West
Seattle starting at 9:00AM Saturday and going till 7:00PM or so.
John_Schlick@Hotmail.com
Http://eXotic-Lighting.Com
Purification @ OUCH MY EYE
OUCH MY EYE
with JAG Design
Saturday, February 18th, 2006, 8pm-2am
@ the Bemis Building
55 S Atlantic
21+
Purification
Ouch My Eye presents a juried exhibition: Purification
February was named for the roman god Februus the god of purification. The term purification is powerful on many levels. How do you react to the term?
23 artists, 3 DJs and a full bar.
Featuring:
Anne Michaux
S!R ONE
J. Gordon
Connie Stern
Astrid Fortier
Muler-Karger
James Key
Katie Miller
Emily Rose Bucy
Lawrence Ruelos
Joel Clarin
Heidi Ring
Kevin Clark McCarthy
Christopher Lin
Patti Bowman
Ian Wilmoth
Justin Hahn
Kevin Brannaman
Thomas Clayton
CM Ruiz
Douglas Gatz
Aaron Sutherland
Michelle Ringgold
Juried By: Robert Hardgrave, John A. Gascon, Amy Holan, Bob Brunner
Ouch My Eye
Lady Kerrin B (Electropop)
The Architect (Acid Jazz)
Mr. Clark T. Cromwell (Funk)
Gorgeous Roy the Bartender
Ouch My Eye
This will be the final Ouch My Eye production at the Bemis Building. JAG Design and Ouch My Eye are joining forces and are pleased to announce the opening of a new studio and gallery on April 1st, 2006. Details will be released in March.
JAG DESIGN
Host: Ouch My Eye
Location: Bemis Building
55 S Atlantic, Seattle, WA
When: Saturday, February 18, 8:00pm
http://www.evite.com/pages/invite/viewInvite.jsp?event=DVYZCVPXXDMFGMXBFKAX
KINETIC @ the Pacific Science Center
The response has been huge for this Saturday’s KINETIC event at the Pacific Science Center. Both this week’s Seattle Weekly and The Stranger (both come out tonight... 02.15.06) have made it the “pick” for Saturday Night! Here is what they wrote:
The Seattle Weekly...
Last summer's "Magnetic" event in the same unconventional location allowed you to pet sea urchins and watch butterflies shed their cocoons to the beat of pounding house music—and this year's lineup is twice as eclectic and solid: Atmos, DJ Heather, Lusine, Deru, Osiris Indriya, Nordic Soul, Ramiro and Jeromy Nail, Amanita, Jerry Abstract, Julie Herrera, Son of Rose, Kris Moon, and more appear. Pacific Science Center, 200 Second Ave. N., 9 p.m. $18 adv./$25 18+ [no author listed]
The Stranger...
How much audio-visual stimulation is too much? Kinetic will force you to answer that question. Nothing succeeds like excess, and the Decibel, Uniting Souls, and IOSIS crews have assembled a potent lineup to prove it. Feast on the gamut of electronic styles flaunted by Lusine, Deru, Nordic Soul, Son of Rose, Kris Moon, Atmos, Osiris Indriya, Jerry Abstract, Heather, and others. It’s like a week of beats crammed into one glorious night. (Pacific Science Center, 200 Second Ave N, 686-4622. 9pm, $18 adv/$25 DOS, 18+.) DAVE SEGAL
KINETIC => February 18th, 2006 @ the Pacific Science Center
info: http://www.infiniteconnections.org/node/144
18+ Welcome
2 Full Bars (by Static Factory Media) for 21+
TICKETS - http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/2963
There are still plenty of regular presales available for $18. Tickets are $25 at the door.
http://www.yvettesoler.com/flyers/Kinetic/kineticlineup.gif
The Furios, Buttersprites, Stiff Upper Lips @ Rendezvous
Hello,
We are hosting a J-pop ska night at the Rendezvous!
Please add to your listings-Thank-you!
Elizabeth Jameson
Buttersprites
Vancouver BC's favorite ska band
Stiff Upper Lips, Seattles newest ska sensations!
Rendezvous, $7, 10pm.
www.buttersprites.com
www.losfurios.com
Sunday 2/19
"Traveling beyond our means" Reading @ Confounded Books
DJ Superjew writes:
hello all,
I would like to cordially invite you all to a Cult of Youth reading by
the authors themselves next weekend, sunday Feb 19th, at Confounded
books on Capitol hill. Do hope you can make it! Catch yourself an early
evening coffee and come by this delightful small press/comic shop...and
pick up your [signed] copy of COY#1. In other good news, Cult of Youth
is organized in partnership with Sedrat Arts (www.sedrat.org), a
multidisciplinary arts support and development organization.
xoxo,
Marianne
www.mariannegoldin.com
The Cult of Youth Project
Cult of Youth #1, the “Traveling beyond our means” issue, focuses on the stretches that happen most profoundly in the earlier stages of life that prove to us our immense capacity for learning and change/self-improvement. The contributors in this issue demonstrate, through written and pictorial means, the spectrum of human existence and possibility in uncertain times. Readers from this volume will be featuring selected articles from the reader and other works from their acumen. It is available now at Confounded Books.
Cult of Youth #2, the “unADULTing” issue, is currently in production for May 2006 and is accepting submissions.
We start COY Volume #1 with “Teenage Wasteland”, a biting little narrative by Mairead Case (Pitchfork, The Stranger, Venus Zine) about reading outlaw literature with youth in a detention center. Margaritte Knezek (Travel Queeries) writes in “Learning Beyond American” about her search to find interdependence in her community despite being brought up in a hippy environment. There is a brief autobiography by the Polaroid Kid (Plrds.com) who documents a wholly un-nostalgic brand of Americana in his wayward travels. Following is a lesson in the esoteric history of virgin martyrs of early Christendom as told (and illustrated) by the rare and un-dogmatic voice of Julia Gfr�rer (Thorazos.net). We are also treated by A. D. Huebner’s first ventures into nonfiction critical writing with “Market This!,” a look into youth culture feeding patterns that the big corporations haven’t yet gotten past their gullets. There is another interview with emerging photographer John Argetsinger (Wavyhead.com), who is currently working on a photo-documentary project in Alaska. Dwight Jonsson (Black Death) and Lindsey Gjording close the issue with their articles, “San Francsico: Brotherly Love” and “Same Same, but Different”, about the future of art school graduates, and the introspection that happens in finding-yourself travels, respectively.
Also featured are illustrations by Craig Updegrove, a prolific poster artist in Seattle; Jesse Edwards (Jesseedwards.net), who paints still-lives with crack pipes; a work in pen and ink by myself on the topic of my own Junior High crushes; works on paper by Scotty Enderle (Seattle expat now in S.F.); and a photo of an elk head with more personality than most living people by A. D. Huebner.
C.O.Y. Reader #1 – “Traveling beyond our means”
6:00 PM Sunday Feb 19, 2006
Reading at Confounded Books
315 E Pine, Seattle, 98122 (right by Bauhaus)
Admission FREE ~ Donations Accepted
Moroccan Women Song Project party and fundraiser
Amanda writes:
Morocco!
Hello! This is a reminder about the party this weekend: Sunday, February 19 at the Neighborhood Caf�, from 6:30-9:30. My current exhibition AIDS Is Knocking will be on display at the caf� to give people an idea of my work for the pre-print sale.
Come enjoy Moroccan food, music and grace at The Neighborhood Caf� hosted by my friend Khadija, a magical Moroccan Berber with recipes that will have you on your knees.
This year The Northwest Folklife Festival will have a focus on Arab Culture, and the director is interested in premiering the first exhibition of this project at the festival!! My fingers are forever crossed.
I hope you can make it to the event. Donations will be appreciated and it is also possible to donate on the site.. Looking forward to seeing you at: The Neighborhood Caf� / (206) 784-9404 / 1418 NW 70th St, Seattle In Ballard: 70th st. / 14th ave.
Note the Morocco web site has been updated with more information!
Warmest wishes,
Amanda Koster
There will be a fundraiser with Moroccan food, music and grace at
The Neighborhood Café hosted by Khadija, the owner of the café
and a magical Berber friend from Morocco. Her cooking will have
you on your Knees. I will be offering my print pre-sale again.
There is strong interest amongst curators and universities for
collection + exhibition. Clink on 'how to support' to learn more.
Sunday, 2/19/06, 6:30-9:30pm
@ Neighborhood Café
1418 NW 70th St, Seattle, WA
(206) 784-9404
http://www.amandakoster.com/morocco/
amanda@amandakoster.com
Tuesday 2/21
Lead Pencil Studio Lecture @ Cornish
Hi Don,
Cornish is pleased to announce a visiting artist lecture by Lead Pencil Studio, the creative duo of Annie Han and Daniel Mihalyo, who create work combining the disciplines of architecture and site-specific art. Most recently, Lead Pencil Studio’s award-winning work was shown at the Henry Art Gallery, in an installation exploring the history of that location.
Lead Pencil Studio will discuss their work at Cornish on February 21 at 8 pm in PONCHO Concert Hall. This talk is free and open to the public.
Thanks,
Adriana
LEAD PENCIL STUDIO GIVES A TALK AT CORNISH
Tuesday, February 21, 8 pm
Lead Pencil Studio
Cornish Visiting Artist Lecture
Annie Han and Daniel Mihalyo, who collaborate as Lead Pencil Studio, will discuss how their work combines art with architecture.
PONCHO Concert Hall, 710 East Roy Street, Seattle
Free and open to the public.
Wednesday 2/22
TRASH FASHION BASH @ Seattle Asian Art Museum
We create fashion out of trash in order to entertain, educate and empower others to rethink, reuse and recycle. Our show seeks to break down the boundaries of stereotypical beauty and fashion by celebrating bodies of all sizes, shapes and ages through humor and satire.
Haute Trash is a troupe of resourceful women who produce runway fashion shows featuring haute couture made from society's trash. Through our art we will change the way you see the world.
TRASH FASHION BASH
to Benefit International Sustainable Solutions
Seattle Asian Art Museum
1400 East Prospect Street Volunteer Park
Seattle, WA 98112-3303
Thursday, 2/23
Swallow Harder Opening Reception @ Frye Art Museum
Steve Miller writes:
Three images from the Milky Series have their museum debut in a show that will be full of provocative art. Many local artists in the show including myself, will give a short talk on Friday May 5 at 6pm
http://www.fryeart.org/pages/SwallowHarderSelectionsfromtheBenandAileenKrohnCollection.htm
Don Volcano’s Computer Corner.
Susan and I have been trying to get together for drinks for about two months without success. We both are just too busy. Instead we are sending each other weird links. She sent me this one a few days ago - and I am still scratching my head:
Tiny people on food.
http://legnangel.livejournal.com/564026.html
I assume this is a Russian blog site. But what is it about? And why would somebody show those pictures? Is this a joke? You have to help me out here!
Nastarovje!
Don Volcano
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