Monday, March 5, 2007

Events from 10/14 to 10/20/2005

We are experiencing a little pre-halloween eruption. The local Burning Man people will have a big Playa Pajama Party @ ConWorks on Saturday. There will be some openings at Roq La Rue and Western Bridge. The Tashiro Kaplan building will have an open house event on Saturday too. It's hard to pick a favorite, but I would probably go with the Guerrilla Masquerade Party. It's not hard to pick the downgrade of the week: Real/Fake @ Richard Hugo House.

Also in this week's edition: an angry letter from a reader who is into blowing stuff up safely and followed by a computer corner review of a website that finds leaf raking and bubble wrap as exciting as watching bread go stale.

Friday, 10/14
6:00 PM Receptions at Fancy, Schmancy and Pants
6:00 PM "Bad Moon Rising" @ Roq La Rue
7:00 PM "Crash. Pause. Rewind." @ Western Bridge
7:00 PM Gay & Lesbian Film Festival (Oct 14-23rd)
9:00 PM Jacob Sayle's Necrophelia Party

Saturday, 10/15
10:00 AM Real/Fake @ Richard Hugo House
4:00 PM The Tashiro Kaplan Open House and Auction
6:00 PM Rat City Rollergirls Championship Bout and Grudge Match
9:00 PM Playa Pajama Party @ ConWorks
9:00 PM Genitorturers @ Fenix
9:00 PM John Arnold + Jeremy Ellis @ Baltic Room
10:00 PM GMP #22 - The Good! The Bad! And the Mutated!

Tuesday, 10/18
7:00 PM SH!TSTORM II: Welcome to Hootervillle!


Friday, 10/14

Artists' Receptions at Fancy, Schmancy and Pants

Friday, October 14th
Reception from 6-8pm


At FANCY:
Artist: Mary Capper Stewart
Materials: Wool felted sculpture
Local sculptor Mary Capper Stewart creates art that is both fancy and
functional. Each piece is unique and hand made by the artist.

At SCHMANCY:
Artist: Jamie Jester
Materials: paint, paint brush, wood, canvas
Seattle's Jamie Jester paints imaginative and fun work inspired by graffiti
art, childrens art, and Japanese culture.

At PANTS:
Artist: Lucas Vidana
Materials: Silkscreened prints and tees.
Tacoma-born Lucas Vidana credits his artistic sensibilities to a history of
artists in his family. His Great-Grandfather was a photographer from Cuba
who traveled the world to photograph landmarks that he later hand colored
and used for postcards in the 1920's. Lucas began his own professional
career at age 14 when he apprenticed for a fashion magazine ad designer. He
has also created two Public Murals funded by Washington State.

Fancy...
1932 2nd Ave
Seattle, Wa 98101
206.443.4621
www.fancyjewels.com

www.vidanapopart.com

"Bad Moon Rising" @ Roq La Rue

“Bad Moon Rising”
a Halloween themed group show

opening Friday Oct 14th 6-10pm
in our BRAND NEW SPACE
at 2312 2nd Ave (right next door to the old space)

Artists: Ojimbo, Jim Blanchard, Lisa Petrucci, Pooch, Mike Leavitt, Mike Curato, James McLeod, Travis Louie, Ryan Bubnis, Joshua Petker, Brian Despain, Anthony Ausgang, Johnny Crap, Nicole Steen, Yo Ueno, Joe Vollan, Amanda Wachob, Jason D’Aquino, David Rauschenberg, Chuck Demorat, Justin Hampton, Quintin Gonzales, Marion Peck, Luke Chueh, Marion Peck

Roq La Rue has moved! The gallery will be expanding (again) and moving into the large space right next to the current gallery location, making it our largest, fanciest, and quite frankly, coolest gallery space yet. With twice as much space, we will be able to exhibit even more work by the best up and coming Pop Surrealism/Lowbrow artists as well as a house a small bookstore devoted to only the crème de la crème of underground art and pop culture books. In addition, we are excited to announce the newest member of Roq La Rue, Celeste Fuechsel, who is our new gallery director. Celeste has been with the gallery as an assistant for over a year and we are super thrilled to have her on board full time in this new position.

We are thrilled that our inaugural show in our fancy new space will be our annual Halloween themed exhibit, this year’s “Bad Moon Rising” show. We will be exhibiting work by artists from all over the country as well as overseas. The work, while dealing with dark themes, ranges wildly from the dark, futuristic digital portraits by Quintin Gonzales to the more playful cartoony paintings of Pooch. We are excited by the return of gallery artists such as Lisa Petrucci, Jim Blanchard, and Mike Leavitt as well as works by new artists to the gallery such as tattooist and painter James McLeod, Japanese Pop Surrealist Yo Ueno, and Lowbrow wood carver Ojimbo.

For the opening we will also have hearses from Rain City Hearse Club, monster film clips courtesy Something Weird Video, refreshing liquids and hideous candy, and live goth swamp-garage rock by ROT13!

Roq La Rue . 2312 2nd Ave
Contact Kirsten Anderson for more info:
kirsten@roqlarue.com


Gay & Lesbian Film Festival (Oct 14-23rd)

October 14-23, 2005
The 10th Anniversary!

It's the largest queer film event in the Pacific Northwest! The Seattle Lesbian & Gay Film Festival celebrates its tenth anniversary with ten days filled with films and videos from around the world. Featuring local film, national celebrities, and chats with visiting directors. Come out to the movies and join us at the best queer parties of the year. promises to be the best yet with an extended 10-day festival and all the glitz and fabulous fun you have come to expect from Three Dollar Bill Cinema.

Tickets go on sale October 4th at Ticket Window (ticketwindowonline.com)

http://seattlequeerfilm.com/


"Crash. Pause. Rewind." @ Western Bridge

Western Bridge presents its fall exhibition

“Crash. Pause. Rewind.”

October 14 – March 4

“Crash. Pause. Rewind.” is a critique of the allure of images of destruction. Often working with very recognizable imagery drawn from the media and Hollywood, the artists in “Crash…” explore the persistence of certain images, generating a sort of contemporary iconography of disaster.

As part of “Crash…,” Western Bridge will commission a new dance piece from Crispin Spaeth Dance Group, which will be performed in the galleries at the end of the exhibition’s run. “Dark Room” will take advantage of Western Bridge’s black-box video gallery by placing the company’s dancers in utter darkness, as the audience watches through night-vision devices.

Two large-scale sculptural installations by E.V. Day (a dress from her “Exploded Couture” series) and Chris Larson anchor the exhibition. Larson’s “Pause,” a life-scale model in wood of the Dodge Charger from “Dukes of Hazzard” crashing through the Unabomber’s cabin, conflates fiction and nonfiction, and two varieties of antihero, in an enthralling, discomforting juxtaposition. Christoph Draeger’s large projected video “Crash” provides an emphatic exclamation point for the exhibition, mingling footage from blockbuster movie disasters with real-life scenes from news footage of air disasters.

Richard Barnes is represented by a photographic diptych documenting Ted Kaczynski’s cabin in storage in a government warehouse, and also the site it was removed from in Montana. The images pose the cabin, an exhibit in the Unabomber’s trial, as a sort of ethnographical museum object: removed from its original context and carefully stored, awaiting its unveiling in the trial. It serves us as a metaphor for the whole exhibition, which traces the way that horrible events are recorded and replayed endlessly, transformed from events into icons, aesthetic objects offered up for our terrified pleasure.

Public Opening: Friday, October 14, 7 – 10 pm

Western Bridge
3412 Fourth Avenue South
Seattle, WA 98134
info@westernbridge.org
www.westernbridge.org


Jacob Sayle's Necrophelia Party

The next Lock & Key™ will be Friday, October 14th at Aristocrat's Club.

9pm to 3am.
$10 Living
$7 Undead

Who says undead can't be sexy?
Feel free to invite your friends!

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This event is photography friendly.
an Antenna Of Strange production

Aristocrat's Club
220 4th Ave S
Friday, October 14, 9:00pm
http://www.evite.com/pages/invite/viewInvite.jsp?event=IBUXLOYNVAMGGZKYZFUR

Saturday, 10/15

Real/Fake @ Richard Hugo House

I guarantee you that this event is not worth $50 unless you pay with Monopoly bills:

RICHARD HUGO HOUSE PRESENTS

"Real/Fake"
Examining the intersection of fiction and real life

The 8th Annual Inquiry of Richard Hugo House

October 15, 2005 at Richard Hugo House

SEATTLE, WA - Richard Hugo House presents its 8th Annual Inquiry:
"Real/Fake" from 10 a.m. to 10 p.m. on October, 2005 at Richard Hugo House;
a full-day festival of readings, classes, film, theater, workshops and more
as we explore the places where fiction and real life intersect-and personas
emerge.

"Real/Fake" is the 8th Annual Inquiry of Richard Hugo House, the literary
arts center founded in 1997 on Seattle's Capitol Hill.

"This year's theme calls to mind poets, media tricksters, reality TV shows
and art forgeries," said artistic director and co-founder Frances McCue. "On
one hand, 'Real/Fake' is about that space where the imagined and the real
intersect. It's also about persona-how people transform themselves into
characters to explore difficult terrain. Poets Marge Piercy, Deborah Digges
and Sharon Olds are writers who invoke the first person "I" in their
work.

Yet, we're never sure if the speakers in their poems are the writers
themselves. I love the blurring of expectation that these poets conjure up.
We commissioned Kurt Beattie, actor, playwright and ACT artistic director,
to create a piece inspired by W.B. Yeats, the master of "Real/Fake" as it
pertains to imagination as an engine to fuel reality. These events, along
with many others, are a fabrication that will bring us a little closer to
"real" life."

The Annual Inquiry's set of events will include an original staged reading
by Kurt Beattie, actor, playwright and ACT artistic director; panel
discussions on "Persona in Media" and "Persona in Culture;" readings and
writing classes with poets Marge Piercy, Deborah Digges and Sharon Olds; a
discussion of The Real Hugo/The Fake Hugo with Richard Hugo House artistic
director and co-founder Frances McCue; a reading by 2005 New Works
Competition winner Douglas Rudoff with a short talk on lying by Brian
Goedde; and a film screening of "'F' is for Fake," by Orson Welles.

ABOUT THE ARTISTS
Deborah Digges-poet/memoirist
Marge Piercy-poet/fiction writer
Sharon Olds-poet/activist
Kurt Beattie-actor/playwright
Frances McCue-poet/instigator
John Richards-deejay/dad
Ann Powers-critic/aficionado
Amy Jenniges-columnist/documentarian
Joni Balter-editorial writer/culture seeker
Tara Hardy-poet/activist
Doug Schuler-programmer/activist
Christa Bell-slam poet/sound poet
Hazel Pine-zinester/feminist
Matthew Baldwin-programmer/blogger
Michaelangelo Matos-critic/truth teller

TICKET PACKAGES:
All events, excluding classes: $50 / $40 RHH members, seniors, FT teachers
and FT students. Single session tickets may be available at the door.

"Real/Fake" is generously sponsored by The Maurer Family Foundation,
National Endowment for the Arts, 4 Culture, KUOW, Urban Press, Callison and
the Alexis Hotel.

I take that back: save your Monopoly money!


WHAT: "Real/Fake"
The 8th Annual Inquiry of Richard Hugo House
WHEN: October 15, 2005. 10 a.m. - 10 p.m.
WHERE: Richard Hugo House, 1634 11th Ave., Seattle, WA 98122
TICKETS: All events, excluding classes: $50 / $40 RHH members,
seniors, FT teachers and FT students. Single session tickets may be
available at the door.

Hugo House is located at 1634 11th Ave., Seattle.
www.hugohouse.org


The Tashiro Kaplan Open House and Auction

Susan Robb writes:

Dear Friends,

The Tashiro Kaplan Open House and Auction is this Saturday, October 15 from 4-10pm.
115 Prefontaine Place (between Yesler and Washington, on the other side of the block from SOIL, Platform, Garde Rail etc...)


As well as open studios, this year we are also holding an art auction to benefit VCR Projects, a new non-profit, multi-disciplinary arts venue we are planning for the Vandenbrink Community Room here at the TK.


The auction is from 4-7:30pm - Drinks and appetizers will be on hand!
and note that auction items can be bought outright from the moment the auction begins – so if you’re interested please come early.
To see artwork in the auction please go to http://stevenmillerphotography.com/tkvcr/donating.shtml.


I'll have my studio (#301) open so please stop by and say hi.

Hope to see you on Saturday,
Susan

Tashiro Kaplan Buolding in Pioneer Square.

115 Prefontaine Place


Rat City Rollergirls Championship Bout and Grudge Match

Rat City Rollergirls Championship Bout and Grudge Match!
Saturday, October 15th!
(doors open @ 4:30pm, game begins @ 6:00pm)
All ages event with a (cash only) beer garden!

LOCATION
Warren G. Magnuson Park at Hanger 27 7400 Sand Point Way NE, Seattle, WA
TICKET INFO
Act now to guarantee you don't miss out! Purchase tickets in person at:
» Concrete (227 9th Ave N)
» All Silver Platters locations
» Online via Brown Paper Tickets

General Admission ticket prices will now be $18 at the door so get your tickets early! New ticketing price levels added for Groups & Kids!
Detailed ticket info, click here.

In a Grudge Match to end all grudge matches, GRAVE DANGER will try and pillage and burn the SOCKIT WENCHES. But the Wenches almost made it to the finals themselves, so they're not going down easy!!

And for the Championship Game, it's the Intergalactic THROTTLE ROCKETS vs. hardcore revolutionairies the DERBY LIBERATION FRONT!! Both teams have only lost one game... to each other! So, who's it gonna be? You'll have to be there to find out!


CHAMPIONSHIP PRE-FUNK & ENTERTAINMENT
A very special end of the season Pre-Funk in the BEER GARDEN W/ Live music by The Spazms! Meet the Rat City Rollergirls and the Rat Finks! Get autographs and free Rat City Rollergirk Schwag!


Championship After Party
Celebrate the End of Our First Season at Jules Maes!

There's nothing like being given a good strong drink after beating the shit out of your league mates. We'll be celebrating the end of our first season at Jules Maes after the bout. Join us!

Location:
Jules Maes in Georgetown
5919 Airport Way S.

Warren G. Magnuson Park at Hanger 27 7400 Sand Point Way NE, Seattle, WA


Playa Pajama Party @ ConWorks

This is probably only interesting if you are into Burning Man, Rainbow Gatherings, and that kind of stuff.

After years of letting an art project roast on the back burner, it has finally come to the forefront and will be made! Astragalos, the dice of the Gods will be born! (www.astragalos.com) 100% of this post-playa gathering will go towards the making of an incredible art project!

Playa Pajama Party
Sat. Oct. 15th
ConWorks, 500 Boren Ave N
Seattle, Wa

100% of proceeds to benefit the Astragalos project

Feat. Demo station of the astragalos project

Zombie Cuddle Movie room by Static
LED art by the manic mechanics
Slides by Hank and FoxfireFX
Body work by the Temple Whores

Music by:
DJ Erin (vancouver)
diem vs. brannon
Solovox

Chill by:
Spinergy
Casey ann
Bacchus


Presale at http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/2345, $10 presale/$13 door in pajamas, $245 no pajamas.

Location: ConWorks, 500 Boren Ave N
When: Saturday, October 15, 9:00pm
www.astragalos.com for more info, and a nifty flyer.


Genitorturers @ Fenix

John Schlick writes:

There is a show thats not to be missed. The Genitorturers are
out on tour, and they are stopping at the Fenix. Charlie Drown, another act
thats not to be missed - is opening for them at the early show.
The Genitorturers put on the most visually stimulating show I've ever seen.
They are doing 2 shows, the first starting at 6:00PM, and the second at 9:00
or son. If you are over 21, you can stay for both with the admission, but
the first is an all ages show.

If you never go to shows that you get told about, this is the one to break
that habit with. The Genitorturers are seen as a pretty extreme show,
making Marilyn Manson look tame, but it's sex/fetish/bondage as a stage
show, and throw in some fake blood, and you have an event that you must be
at to experience. It's designed to push the buttons of even the most
jaded.

Oh, and their music? It's edgy, and it's great. If you go to this show,
you won't go home unaffected.

John.

Fenix, 9:00 PM


John Arnold + Jeremy Ellis @ Baltic Room

SunTzu Sound & Ubiquity Records present

JOHN ARNOLD + JEREMY ELLIS
100% Live Freestyle Session - MPC/Keys/Vox/Guitar

plus SunTzu Sound Record Release Party

SATURDAY OCTOBER 15th

NuJazz Warriors John Arnold & Jeremy Ellis team up for a national
tour
in support of ‘Style&Pattern’, Arnold’s latest full-length on Ubiquity
Records. Their 100% Live Freestyle Sessions are a unique mix of
electro-funk and broken boogie incorporating keyboards, guitar, vocals
& MPC.Together they have rocked dancefloors worldwide and now bring
their future funk party to the Baltic Room.

more info on John Arnold here:
http://www.ubiquityrecords.com/john_arnold.html
more info on Jeremy Ellis
here:http://www.ubiquityrecords.com/jeremy_ellis.html

Seattle’s acclaimed DJ crew is proud to announce the debut release on
their SunTzu Sound label, featuring original tracks from AC Lewis and
Dr. J’s 1LUV project, which features additional production and vocals
from globetrotting MC Capital A. The record is already rocking
dancefloors abroad and getting spins on England’s BBC 1xtra. Pick up
your copy on vinyl or cd at the show!

John Arnold + Jeremy Ellis (live set - Ubiquity Records)
SunTzu Sound Record Release Party

Saturday October 15

The Baltic Room / 1207 Pine St. / 206.625.4444
$7 before 11p / 21+ / 9p-2a /
http://www.thebalticroom.com

http://www.ubiquityrecords.com
http://www.suntzusound.com

GMP #22 - The Good! The Bad! And the Mutated!

Hey Super-Guerrillas!

We hope you have your capes ready and your magic lassos prepared, cuz
this Saturday, October 15th we're going to save Seattle from the evils
of a boring nightlife in Super Hero style for 'The Good! The Bad! and
the Mutated!'.

And what location will act as our Hall of Justice (or Legion of Doom,
if you prefer) for the night? One location stood out above all others
for two reasons: It recently thwarted an attempt to destroy it by
dastardly villians, and it accomplished that goal by crossing the
street, becoming a Bizzarro version of itself.

At 10pm this Saturday, October 15th, we'll descend on the new, Bizzaro
Twilight Exit at 2051 E Madison St.

To make the night a little more Bizzaro, we suggest popping into the
new Safeway just one block up Madison street and buying an odd item
first to bring along with you. Maybe a can of whipped cream, or an
air freshener?... or perhaps a single rose or a jar of mint jelly?
Anything unexpected that might help you fight crime. Just not celery.
Celery is Dirty Bunny's kryptonite. And if you're asked by the
anyone at Safeway why you're dressed up, tell them you need that box
of Magnum condoms to save the world from Dr. Doom. The staff are sure
to get confused by the end of the night.

So discard your mild-mannered alter-ego, put on your Super outfit,
grab a jalapeno or a wire whisk from Safeway, and join the rest of the
Good, the Bad, and the Mutated at the Twilight Exit at 10pm this

Saturday, October 15th!

See you there!

dirty bunny
Guerrilla Masquerade Party

http://www.gmpseattle.com/

Bizzaro Twilight Exit at 2051 E Madison St.


Tuesday, 10/18

SH!TSTORM II: Welcome to Hootervillle!

SEATTLE - The Venerable Council of SH!TSTORM is pleased to announce the second incarnation of its no-holds-barred discussion series on the state of culture in Seattle (such as it is). SH!TSTORM II: Welcome to Hooterville –will be held Tuesday October 18th at 7pm in the Rendezvous Jewelbox Theatre.

The last year has seen a sea change in artistic leadership in Seattle, with the Rep, ConWorks, PNB, Empty Space, Town Hall and other Seattle arts institutions importing new talent to captain their respective ships. SH!TSTORM has invited the new blood to hear all about the bad blood and the bloody good that they will encounter by accepting a leadership position in our fair yet drizzly city. The bravest of the brave new recruits have accepted.

Now the call goes out to artists of every discipline and persuausion to come and tell the new folks, and the old folks and the middle-timer folks, what sucks and what is great about the Seattle arts community.

Those newbies in attendance will be given a chance to introduce themselves and their vision for their respective organizations. And then the BONE will be thrown out. On one side, “Welcome to Hooterville – A Great Place to Live and Work” (presenter to be announced). The rebuttal, “Welcome to Hooterville – Run Away, Run Very Far Away” will be presented by Tamara Paris, writer, actor and all-around lovably venom-tongued harpy. Then the floor is opened, and the SH!TSTORM begins.

The night’s proceedings will be guided by the firm yet gentle hand of our Parliamentarian, Bret Fetzer, writer, actor, theatrical entrepreneur and sworn enemy of pedantry.

As always, the OATH OF NO ATTRIBUTION will be in effect for press and gossipers alike.

SH!TSTORM II: Welcome to Hooterville

Tuesday October 25th at 7pm

The Rendezvous Jewelbox Theater

2322 Second Ave – Seattle

www.jewelboxtheater.com

For more information, visit www.shitstormseattle.org or email info@shitstormseattle.org.

Future Lava

Halloween is coming up soon and I wanted to let you know about this party that requires you to make reservations ahead of the event. Donna writes:

Halloween Party in Lake Quinault

Wanted to see if you might be interested in posting this!

This is our third year running a Halloween Party in Lake Quinault, Washington where we rent out the whole damn lodge and have a weekend long party culminating in a Costume Ball Saturday night and into the dawn.
Here's the link for sign up and more info. including a video and some pics. from last year where we held a funeral for Tupac and Biggie where they rose from the dead to rap together once more. This year, some kind of mad science theme with monster wrestling.

thank you!!!
Donna

www.quinaulthalloween.com



Letters to the Editor

RE: Johnny Jetpack Launch #48 @ Gasworks Park (10/1/2005)

PV,

I must have seen close to 10 launches in my lifetime and NEVER has Johnny had a problem with the authorities. The creator of Johnny in fact stated that he has NEVER before had a problem with the authorities in his 47 previous launches. Johnny is fueled with compressed CO2 (carbon dioxide, the stuff you exhale) and water. wow, real dangerous. hmm. if it hadn’t been for the fact that news of johnny was plastered here and in other (semi-public) places, this might not have happened. I doubt that the Special Events coordinater for the Parks Dept. was just randomly wandering by that day.

if you keep news of launches to your private lists next time (READ close personal friends) and maybe this won’t happen again.

Segue

Dear Segue,

Thanks for the info. It amuses me that people like you take themselves sometimes so seriously even if it is about a silly hobby like trying to shoot puppets into space.

So this is a private thing you guys are doing? Interesting.
I am sure I'll run into you at one of the next meetings at Blow Yourself Up Anonymous!

Don Volcano
("Hi, my name is Don Volcano and I like to blow up stuff")


Don Volcano's Computer Corner

"Celebrate the ordinary" is the motto of a site hosted by the Dull Men's Club. From them I learned that October is Leaf Raking Month!

Dull Men's Club
http://www.dullmen.com/home.html

It's easy to underestimate what they are doing. Their collection of dull links is quite impressive. If you dig a little bit you'll find gems like this Bubble Wrap site that has been certified as dull proof by the Dull Men's Club. Their comment: "A link to a site that provides hours of safe excitement for a dull man. A page of bubble wrap. You can use your mouse to endlessly move your cursor over the bubbles to enjoy hearing them pop."

Bubble Wrap
http://www.dullmen.com/links.htm#Bubble%20Wrap

If I only had more time I would check out the other links: Airline meals, Beans on Toast, Dullest Blog in the World, and maybe the most fascinating: "Bread? Watch It Going Stale".

Oops, I guess I just came out of the Dull Men closet!

Dully yours,

Don Volcano

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