I am writing this week's letter from San Jose. Have you ever been to San Jose? It's not that bad. It's not that great either. Let's say, I am glad I don't have to write a Party Volcano for San Jose!
But this week San Jose is actually beating Seattle. There is a free outdoor movie event going on at San Pedro St. on Thursdays and the season for open air concerts at Market St has started.
I am downgrading Pilchuck and Celebration of Life and I don't really like Phoenix Festival. 14/48 is not a bad idea but who wants to see a play when it is nice outside? I have seen Kultur Shock about three times already, which leaves me with Noise for the Needy as my favorite.
Two events didn't make it on this week's list: There is a Burn in the Forest in B.C. (Fri-Sun) and a Salsa Cruise is taking off from Pier 55 on Sat at 10:30 PM.
Friday, 7/15
8:00 PM 14/48 @ Broadway Performance Hall
Saturday, 7/16
10:00 PM? KULTUR SHOCK @ the Crocodile
Sunday, 7/17
5:00 PM Celebration of Life @ Langston Hughes Cultural Arts Center
6:00 PM NOISE FOR THE NEEDY Post Party @ Mission
7:00 PM? Pilchuck Open House
Thursday, 7/21
4:00 PM? Phoenix Festival 2005
Friday, 7/15
14/48 @ Broadway Performance Hall
14/48
the world’s quickest theater festival
Summer 2005 festival to be held at Broadway Performance Hall
July 15-16 and July 22-23, 2005
14/48; the world’s quickest theater festival introduced Seattle to its unique brand of theater eight years ago
at the Freehold Studio on Capitol Hill. After more than 250 world premiere plays and dozens of sold-out
houses, 14/48 is moving back to Capitol Hill where the July 2005 festival will take place on the stunning
main-stage of the Broadway Performance Hall.
“We are thrilled to be co-presenting Seattle's most dynamic and original theater event” says Meg Stevenson
of the Broadway Management Group, “14/48 is the most revolutionary development to come down the
theatrical pike in a long time.”
“The new venue is awesome,” says producer Shawn Belyea. “It’s over twice the capacity we’ve been
working with, it’s high tech, it’s air conditioned, and it’s centrally located. There’s more space for artist
and audience alike. It’s an incredible move forward for the festival.”
14/48 exists to provide a safe environment for radical artistic collaboration. The concept is simple but has
proved extraordinarily successful: put some of the hottest talents in the region into a pressure cooker of
strict deadlines and randomly assembled teams, choose a theme at random, and present 14 fully produced
ten-minute plays on that theme in the next 48 hours.
The Broadway Performance Hall is located in the heart of the Capitol Hill district and features an intimate
stage with an air conditioned auditorium; easy access to Metro bus lines, I-5 and ample parking, and is
within walking distance of a variety of Seattle's best restaurants, taverns and night clubs.
This move signals the dissolution of 14/48’s seven-year producing partnership with Consolidated Works.
Recent events at the contemporary arts center have made it, in the producers’ opinion, impossible to
continue to co-produce with them, in good conscience.
“We no longer trust that Consolidated Works is a place that shares the same values that we bring to bear
with the festival.” says steering committee member Anthony Winkler, “we are moving forward with a
course of action that permits us to invite our community of collaborators to a respectful and safe venue
where they will feel empowered to work for the advancement of the art form.”
“I think we’ll look back on ConWorks as the teen years of 14/48,” adds steering committee member Carl
Sander, “where for six years we got to experiment in a very supportive home, but honestly, we were getting
too comfortable. 14/48 is exploding on so many levels. We take this as an opportunity to demand more of
ourselves artistically, and grow. But not too much, just into our early twenties.”
The Producers
Shawn Belyea Michael Neff Jodi Paul Wooster
The Steering Committee
William Cole Peggy Gannon James Jewell Tina LaPlant Wesley Middleton
Shanga Parker Matthew Richter Carl Sander Anthony Winkler
Saturday, 7/16
KULTUR SHOCK @ the Crocodile
A friendly reminder for Kultur Shock's only summer show in Seattle:
This Saturday, July the 16th
KULTUR SHOCK
@ the Crocodile (2nd & Blanchard)
For more info:
http://www.thecrocodile.com
Hope to see you at the show!
Xoxo,
Kris
Crocodile (2nd & Blanchard)
Sunday, 7/17
Celebration of Life @ Langston Hughes Cultural Arts Center
My downgrade thumb is itching:
Import an Things has Grand Opening Specials every Sunday at the Capital Hill Farmers Market. The Capital Hill Farmers Market is located in the Bank Of America Parking lot on Broadway. You will see our sign, baskets and statues in the back of the market. We feature all kinds of great new and used Furniture and Home furnishings. 206-524-4724.
Celebration of Life
Talent Showcase
Talent Search...Are you a talented performer? Do you sing, Dance, Rap, perform Spoken Word, or have a Unique Talent? Then ADAWA Productions is looking for you to perform at the Celebration of Life Talent SHowcase July 17th, 2005 at Langston Hughes Cultural Arts Center...for more information contact ADAWA productions 206-709-9521 or Shade Myers 206-264-2432
Langston Hughes Cultural Arts Center
104 17th Ave S,Seattle,WA
Sunday, July 17, 5:00pm
(206) 524-4724
http://www.evite.com/pages/invite/viewInvite.jsp?event=AXJKGUAZAIOMZTMJVGKY
NOISE FOR THE NEEDY Post Party @ Mission
Chris Olson writes:
I am proud to be working with NOISE FOR THE NEEDY as they present a week of great Seattle music to raise money and awareness for homeless youth from July 11-17. The week kicks off MONDAY with an evening at the Rendezvous featuring performances by Kim Virant, Christy McWilson (The Picketts) and Jared Clifton (Radio Nationals).
Sunday, July 17th 6p.m.-10p.m.
Post Party at Mission (West Seattle)
DJ Curtis (Lowlife, The Jeunes)
Hosted by Abe Beeson of KEXP’s Audio Oasis.
This event is free. A percentage of the bar sales from this evening will go to ROOTS Young Adult Shelter.
http://www.noisefortheneedy.org/
Pilchuck Open House
Seattle Spin writes:
Art: Pilchuck Open House, July 17th, $20, reservations required. Cut out the middleman and go straight to the source. View glassworking, wander through studios, and talk to the artists about their works and sources of inspiration. Watch glass blowers working, with cheeks like trumpet players.
Why I am mentioning it here? In order to downgrade it of course! How does "cut out the middleman" can be in a sentence with a $20 entrance fee? What the hell is an Open House with "reservations required"?
But most puzzling for me is: What does glass blowing have to do with art?
http://www.pilchuck.com/events/open_house.htm
Thursday, 7/21
Phoenix Festival 2005
I thought they were dead:
Phoenix Festival 2005
The Dragon is Stirring!
Klickitat County, Wa
7/21 - 7/25
http://www.phoenixfest.com
96 hours of madness...
More madness than you can swing a stick at. But we'll not fault ya for
tryin.
Hello and welcome to another PF update, this is a special update as it's
being brought to you directly from Memphis, Tennessee, mere miles from
Graceland. And just in case you were wondering, it's hot, it's humid and
Prince is on the juke.
We're about 48 hours from the next ticket price increase. Most of y'all know
where to get your passes but just in case you've been living under a rock
for the past couple of months, you can get em online from Brown Paper
Tickets or at a variety of brick & mortar shops in the NW.
Get your BPT tickets, as well as a full list of physical locations, here:
http://www.phoenixfest.com/tickets.html
Also, in case you've not heard, we've got a couple of themecamps up on the
website. There's some folks returnin and some folks who are tryin their hand
at themecampin for the first time. It doesn't take much to do a themecamp,
just a gaggle of peeps and a creative bent and before you know it, you'll
have yourself a little spot to call home. Of course it will also likely
become home to several others and that, gentle reader, is exactly what a
themecamp is all about.
Of course, you don't have to register your themecamp, but if you do, we'll
list ya on the site and maybe even an email or two. Who knows?
You can register your camp here:
http://www.phoenixfest.com/themereg.html
That's about it for this, the deep south version of the PF update.
However, it wouldn't be a PF update if we didn't let you know that you can
learn all sorts of hand info here...
http://phoenixfest.com/essentials.html
...The PF essentials page, don't leave for the fest without readin it.
Oh yeah and the forums are back, so check em out!!
Lovingly and hot!,
-The Phoenix Folk(s)
Don Volcano’s Computer Corner
Party Volcano reader Casey was not impressed by our Getto Chess so I asked him what he is clicking on these days. He replied: Well, have you educated yourself regarding nature's harmonic simultaneous 4-day time cube?
I hadn't:
Nature's harmonic simultaneous 4-day time cube
http://www.timecube.com/
This is definitely no fake. Only a true crazy fuck can come up with shit like that!
Don Volcano
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