Sunday, March 4, 2007

Events for 9/10 to 9/16/2004

Burning Man is over (see Ron Jeremy's Cold Lava report) and suddenly events are pouring into our inboxes again. My favorites for this week are the Roq la Rue opening on Friday and the Independent South Asian Film Festival Opening Gala Night on Thursday.

Also the Three Imaginary Girls are pointing out that No Vote Left Behind shows all go on sale at 10am today, September 10th (http://www.novoteleftbehind.net/news_20040910.php).

Last but not least I want to mention that I've got some feedback about the recent changes I have made. It's funny: some people like the new format (shorter, more comments) others don't. It turns out that I spend the same time with the new format because I have to write more instead of copying emails together. Maybe there is a middle ground...

Have a great week!



Friday, 9/10
6:00 PM Ray Caesar and Amy Hill @ Roq La Rue
6:00 PM Snapshots of Small Town America @ Aftermath
6:00 PM THE BACK TO SCHOOL SHOW @ WingNut Galleries
8:00 PM Kilroy Was Here @ ConWorks.

Saturday, 9/11
6:00 PM The Recycled Art Show @ Ballard's Art Walk
9:00 PM BEN WATT of EBTG & LAZY DOG @ CHOP SUEY

Sunday, 9/12
1:00 PM One Year Anniversary for Cinema Diaspora

Monday, 9/13
4:00 PM Banya 5 Grand Opening

Tuesday, 9/14
8:00 PM Poolsides & Landscapes Art Show @ Retail Therapy

Thursday, 9/16.
8:00 PM Independent South Asian Film Festival Opening Gala Night

Friday, 9/10

Ray Caesar and Amy Hill @ Roq La Rue

Let's forget about my last Roq La Rue downgrade (although friends of mine that did go confirmed it was bad) and take a fresh look at what they are offering this week: This will be a great show! Roq La Rue showed some of Ray Caesar's work at their anniversary show earlier this year and I liked it. They are a little bit creepy, though. But they are affordable.

Caesar's digital images are not as good as paintings by Mark Ryden or Marion Peck. But you also don't have to pay $8000 for a Ryden reproduction or $1500 for an original painting from Peck where you can see Jesus if you stare at a pig long enough (I should have bought that one). If I remember correctly Caesar's prints will be sold for $600 for one print of limited editions of 20 prints.

Roq La Rue
Presents
Ray Caesar and Amy Hill

Opening Friday September 10th 6-10pm- Runs through October 7th

Roq La Rue is very pleased to present an extraordinary show of the work of two artists for the month of September, Ray Caesar (Toronto, Canada) and Amy Hill (New York).

Ray Caesar creates fantastical, grimly hopeful and gravely whimsical images of wizened children who radiate an enigmatic serenity. Sprouting bio-mechanical limbs and appendages, the figures are otherworldly, a melding of sci fi fantasy, lush landscapes, and Victorian sensibilities. Working for 17 years in the Art and Photography Department of The Hospital For Sick Children in Toronto, Ray documented things such as child abuse, surgical reconstruction ,psychology and animal research. Ray acknowledges this time to be the birthplace of his imagery, and considers his paintings to be the creation of dreams for those who didn’t get a chance to live theirs.

Ray’s work is astonishing in the fact it is all digitally created, most people assume they are looking at paintings due to the seamless blending and “painterly quality” of the work as well as it’s unique emotional impact. Creating models in a 3D modeling software he then wraps them in painted and manipulated texture maps. Each model is set up with an invisible skeleton that allows him to pose each figure in it’s 3D environment.

Ray will have a selection of his incredible limited edition prints on exhibit, as well as three new prints never before seen. We are very honored to be hosting Ray’s work and foresee an incredible art career for him. This is his 2nd art exhibit.

Amy Hill paints with a notoriously difficult Dutch Renaissance technique, using formality in the execution and opting for non-conventionality in her subject matter. In her newest series, Amy has painted a series of classic movie monsters as businessmen in suits. Earthy, luminous portraits are painted in tones perfect for the discriminating boardroom, as repulsive monsters are lovingly painted and renamed with “normal” societially accepted names. Funny, yet thought provoking, the initial assumption of “businessmen as monsters” begins to expand as the viewer considers what the artist might actually be implying.


Amy will be showing her entire series of oil on panel Monster paintings. This is her first show at Roq la Rue.

Info/images: Kirsten Anderson Kirsten@roqlarue.com (206)374-8977
2316 2nd Ave Seattle WA 98121
www.roqlarue.com


Snapshots of Small Town America @ Aftermath

Greetings, friends, it's been a while but we have a lot of stuff simmering...

Join us tomorrow, Friday September 10 from 6-10 pm for an art opening featuring photo snapshots by successful local writer and journalist Gillian Gaar.

"This is What Democracy Looks Like: Snapshots of Small Town America."

Meet Gillian and have some refreshments! Also, you can hit up the Photographic Center NW because they are having an opening at the same time.

I don't think there is a show at PCNW, though.

Aftermath Gallery
928 12th Ave (Capitol Hill near Spring st - south of Pike/Pine 3 blocks)
www.aftermathgallery.com


THE BACK TO SCHOOL SHOW @ WingNut Galleries

WingNut Galleries announces
THE BACK TO SCHOOL SHOW •
Friday, September 10 from 6 'til 10 p.m.

This is a group event aimed at a mature
audience featuring artwork based on a theme of
school-aged innocence and "not-so-innocents".

Artists' roll call includes resident WingNut artist
Michael Bailey, painter of perversion Beatrice
Billard, fetish photographer Rik Garrett, box-artisan
Tracy Higgs, naughty illustrator Jessica McCourt,
local pin-up legend Krysztof Nemeth, and the
inimitable Derek Nobbs.

Students, Librarians, Teachers, Disciplinarians ...
Come dressed in your favorite back-to-school outfits!!
- the saucier the better (there is no mandatory skirt
length or safety dress code here!)

This bit of exhibitionism thru September 30th.

WingNut Galleries is located at 1205 East Pike Street,
Capitol Hill, Seattle, next to Elysian Brewery.
206*328*2978
wingnutgalleries@yahoo.com

Kilroy Was Here @ ConWorks.

Oh man, I think this is a lemon:

Theater: Kilroy Was Here

a darkly comic war epic


Fresh off smash-hit performances on the Canadian Fringe One World
brings it's newest show to Consolidated Works for four performances
only!

This company never ceases to amaze...so powerful, so dynamic, so
moving...a MUST SEE! 5 stars out of 5! Judy Unwin Global TV,
Edmonton

Passionate, powerful and sharply focused piece of theatre...ambitious,
morally ambiguous and theatrically spellbinding.

4 suns out of 5! Colin Maclean Edmonton Sun

The force of the performances is astounding, their simple and effective
staging riveting. 4 stars out of 5! Eva Marie Clarke SEE Magazine
Powerful moments...an engaging piece you find yourself drawing back to
hours later.

4 stars out of 5! Alan Kellogg Edmonton Journal

Come see what the critics are raving about!

The email says pretty much nothing about the performance except for quoting some small town newspapers, that gave them 'stars' and 'suns' because they liked the show. Our verdict: Two thumbs down - out of two!

>September 10th and 11th
>Shows at 8:00pm and 11:00pm
>Consolidated Works
>500 Boren Ave N
>Tickets- $10.00 at the door
>Call (206) 264-1735 for reservations
www.1worldtheatre.org


Saturday, 9/11

The Recycled Art Show @ Ballard's Art Walk

Diane (Ruby Re-Usable, the Dumpster Diving Diva) writes:

MY dearest PV:

Enjoyed your new format, it is the editorial wit that keeps me reading every week, wishing that I could actually attend some of the events (I live in "Olympia," and I don't get out much....I live vicariously through Party Volcano and the Stranger).

However, I will be heading north to participate in this event, and hope that maybe you will consider listing it, even if it is in "Ballard".

love, etc Ruby

Let's see:

CELEBRATE ARTS IN BALLARD!
Presented by Arts Ballard and The ReStore
September 11 - October 2

The Recycled Art Show
Artists' Reception at Sev Shoon and BallardWorks on Saturday, September 11, 6-9PM

We will have a two-part exhibit ­ a show juried by Marita Dingus and an Invitational with work by several artists who use recycled/found materials as an integral part of their _expression. Participating artists include Marita Dingus, Ross Palmer Beecher, Diane Kurzyna, Barbara Barnes Allen, Joan Stuart Ross, Mary Molineaux, Kathy Glowen, Ruthie Tomlinsen, and Harriett Sanderson. In addition to poetry reading by author J. Glenn Evans, the Offbeat Jazz Ensemble and the Arts Ballard Festival Choir will be performing during the opening reception starting 7PM.

Art'fisk will be an evening of music, performance, visual, and FilmFest to celebrate the arts throughout Ballard. For more information, visit www.artsballard.org.

In my opinion Ballard is an excellent location for showing art made of recycled trash. It fits very well into the overall theme of the "art" that is usually displayed in "Ballard": TRASH. The only exceptions are The Recycled Art Show and Amada Luna (which now has a new name). Yesterday I saw a pretty interesting piece from the same artist (Jenny soandso), that will show her work at the furniture shop on Ballard Ave.

Artists' Reception at Sev Shoon and BallardWorks on Saturday, September 11, 6-9PM

BEN WATT of EBTG & LAZY DOG @ CHOP SUEY

BEN WATT of EBTG & LAZY DOG
Buzzin' Fly Records - London, UK

along with
BRENT LAURENCE
Sound Consortium
WESLEY HOLMES
Perfect Hit

SAT. 11 SEPT 2004

CHOP SUEY
1325 East Madison Street. Seattle
206 324 8000.
www.chopsuey.com

$15 Adv.

9pm Doors / 21+


Sunday, 9/12

One Year Anniversary for Cinema Diaspora

Sunday, 9/12 - One Year Anniversary for Cinema Diaspora.

Screening of Afro-Brazilian film Uma Onda No Ar (Something in the Air)

at the Richard Hugo House.

Screenings at 1pm, 4pm, 8:30pm.

More info: www.cinemadiaspora.org.

Monday, 9/13

Banya 5 Grand Opening

You are cordially invited to attend a Preview Reception for BANYA 5.

Seattle's first Russian bath & Turkish steam room.
To fully experience the banya, bring along a bathing suit, shower shoes and an adventurous spirit!

RSVP by Tuesday, September 7th.
For more information visit www.banya5.com.

BANYA 5. 217 9th Ave North, Seattle, WA View Map
When: Monday, September 13, 4:00pm to 9:00pm
Phone: 206-262-1234
http://www.evite.com/pages/invite/viewInvite.jsp?event=ZAESMQOWGIFKUZLATGUW


Tuesday, 9/14

Poolsides & Landscapes Art Show @ Retail Therapy

Pool Sides and Landscapes are painting collaborations between two great friends and amazing painters: Lane Gwinn and Barb Jaksa. Both have been accomplished painters for over 20 years.

Some of you may be familiar with Lane's work from her previous show last fall at Retail Therapy. Her pool side paintings are so breathtaking they give the feeling of a warm flooding sea surrounding you.

You can get some sneak peeks of previous pieces at
http://www.lanegwinn.com or http://www.museo.cc/lg.html

Barbara's abstract landscape paintings have all been influenced by her many roadside travels. The show will mainly feature pieces in striking reds and oranges with incredible texture "...depositing emotions and fossilizing memories in the form of paintings."

Please join us for their opening reception this Tuesday September the 14th at 8pm. Wine and snacks will be provided as always and everyone is welcome.

Location: Retail Therapy
905 E. Pike, Seattle, WA View Map
When: Tuesday, September 14, 8:00pm
http://www.evite.com/pages/invite/viewInvite.jsp?event=RIZCRTQXBSGBMBMDDNDM


Thursday, 9/16.

Independent South Asian Film Festival Opening Gala Night

Wissam is organizing the ISAFF Opening Gala Night this year:

One South Asia: Uncensored, Uncut
Join us for a night of enchantment at the Consolidated Works on Thursday September 16th, 2004 at 8:00pm as we channel the spirit and celebrate the rich culture that inspires the cinema, art and music of South Asia.

Discover the power of film to enlighten and inform--explore the following in our screening rooms and throughout the space:

Screenings of modern South Asian short films, trailers, and music videos
Visual art projections providing an exotic, South Asian ambiance.
A festival kick-off presentation featuring film clips and collages.

Featured visual art by Ayesha Khan

Dance as these artists transport you across space and time:

DJ Anshul & Anup
Classical Dance and other live performance

Special presentation by International Tabla Player Vishal Nagar

Dress up. Come. Discover. Celebrate – and be transformed by this magical night of cultural exploration.

Farah organized the film festival. She writes:

Dear Don Volcano,

If you want to actually witness a Rakhi ceremony, come to the Opening Gala of Seattle’s 1st Independent South Asian Film Festival on Sept 16. The Cinema Room will be showing short films all night - one such film “The Divide” has a complete Rakhi ceremony taking place in the privacy of an authentic Indian family living in England.

Also in the Cinema Room: Bhangra radio station provides humor and shoulder bopping on a daily basis, Indian engineers in Tokyo reminisce the simple life of their village, and a Pakistani woman goes about her daily routines including bathing - a rare appearance of bare brownness on film.

Consider the Opening Gala as a Bumbershoot – with live bands, art, DJs, film festival – but South Asian style.

Farah Nousheen

Not everything from India is on my current downgrade list. This one actually sounds like a good deal. Ten bucks is not much money for an opening gala and Wissam has a lot of experience in throwing parties and events like this. I know Farah more as a DJ but I was impressed by her merciless downgrade of the SIFF Gala movie this year. She seems to really care about not wasting everybody's time and money (in contrast to the SIFF Gala organizers) by picking the best movies she can find. Two thumbs up!

There is also an opportunity to win free tickets:

To win two tickets to a festival movie of your choice, email
info@tasveer.org the correct answer to the following question by this
Friday (9/10) 5pm:

Which actress debuted in a Satyajit Ray film and who is now an
award-wining director? Name the actress and her debut film.

You may also want to listen in to Barbie's radio show at 3-5pm, today, on KBCS 91.3FM (www.kbcs.fm), which is streaming a live interview with Farah. They will be talking about the 1st Annual South Asian Film Festival and will also giveaway free tickets.


Tickets are for $15 door, $10 adv.
For festival information, please visit
www.Tasveer.org
http://www.culturetheory.com/%5FISAFF/?ID=883E340C-ED2B-4286-9EDB-776301668EC4&Next=../_ISAFF&


Cold Lava

Space Virgins Cocktail Party: 9/3/2004, Black Rock City, Nevada

PV special correspondent Ron Jeremy writes:

As you spend the entire year shelling out your hard-earned stock option dividends to attend Burning Man fund raising parties, you may occasionally wonder exactly what these funds are being raised for. The answer is so that these very same groups can afford to throw their Burning Man fund lowering parties once they actually arrive on the playa. Case in point, the Space Virgins Friday Night Cocktail Party, last week at Burning Man, in Black Rock City, Nevada.

What seemed like thousands of dollars worth of quality booze was poured for all comers at what was once again THE party of the year at Burning Man. Of course, now that Burning Man has basically become a renaissance faire -- a small group of obsessed hobbyists dedicated to dressing in period costumes and re-enacting the glories of a bygone era, all for the benefit of vast throngs of annoying yuppies in street clothes, perhaps "THE party of the year at Burning Man" is not saying much. But I digress.

The nearly full-size replica of the Athenian Parthenon, backed by the pink, fuzzy, and inviting Slumber Dome, provided a perfect venue for the event. Despite fears of a harsh buzz-kill, temperatures in the low 40's did not diminish the crowd or the fun at this mostly outdoors shindig. The winds stayed calm enough not to bring the expected white-out dust storms down on the party, and the cold temperatures were bravely met with increased alcohol consumption.

The only downgradeable aspect to the party was the Alien Monkey Love Nest Extreme Sex Act Midnight Talent Show. Now don't get me wrong, I like extreme sex act midnight talent shows as much as the next guy -- come to think of it, I probably like them more -- but this kind of thing just attracts the wrong element to a cocktail party. I.e. horny drunken frat boys, and pervy old men wearing t-shirts with no pants. I mean seriously, bringing more horny drunken frat boyz and pervy old men wearing t-shirts with no pants to an event at Burning Man is like bringing patchouli to an Oracle Gathering. But the talent show must have provided adequate masturbatory release for the audience, as even this influx of testosterone did not in the end hurt the party.

Two thumbs up.

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