More Events for Fri May 3 to Sun May 5, 2002

Friday May 3

Jeffrey Braverman Opening @ Photograhic Center Northwest. This is what the Seattle Weekly says: "Jeffrey Braverman began creating his series of chalkboard portraits-in which he records his subject's face, dress, and handwriting-in 1996. He was inspired toward this work by the small chalkboard he bought off a dusty shelf in a general store years ago, and by a strange personal avidity for police mug shots. In every photo, subjects hold the small chalkboard on which Braverman has instructed them to write their name, age, and place of birth-information made all the more compelling since it's scrawled in the subject's own hand. 'CHALKBOARD Portraits' is the very first solo exhibition of an emerging, shockingly original talent." PV is willing to give this a shot. PCNW often hosts wonderful exhibitions.

Opening reception 6-8 p.m. Fri. May 3.

Photographic Center Northwest, 900 12th, 720-7222. Map link: http://www.mapquest.com/maps/map.adp?country=US&address=900+12th&city=seattle&state=wa&zipcode=&homesubmit.x=0&homesubmit.y=0

PCNW Gallery hours: Noon-9:30 p.m. Mon.; 9 a.m.-9:30 p.m. Tues.-Sat.; 11 a.m.-9 p.m. Sun. This show ends May 30.

Sample Braverman photo: http://photos.yahoo.com/bc/partyvolcano/vwp?.dir=/Invitations&.src=ph&.dnm=0204_jbraverman.jpg&.view=t&.done=http%3a//photos.yahoo.com/bc/partyvolcano/lst%3f%26.dir=/Invitations%26.src=ph%26.view=t

Friday May 3 to Sunday May 5

Chris Karamatas reminds Party Volcano that the Seattle Poetry Festival is presently in progress through Sunday. There's a number of interesting events happening including Tess Gallagher giving a reading on Friday. Gallagher is an excellent poet in her own right but she is perhaps best known for having been married to the extremely influential short story writer Raymond Carver who died in 1988 and inspired a whole generation of writers with his sparse, minimal prose (including Richard Ford who wrote "The Sportswriter" and Jay McInerney who wrote "Bright Lights, Big City"). Party Volcano remembers being a young college kid moved deeply by Carver's writing and weeping upon hearing of his death. PV digresses...but maybe not too much. Check out Gallagher's poem at the end of this email: it resonates with Carver's death.

For schedule and prices see: http://www.poetryfestival.org/sched2002.shtml#sched

Tess Gallagher Poem:

Red Poppy by Tess Gallagher

That linkage of warnings sent a tremor through June
as if to prepare October in the hardest apples.
One week in late July we held hands
through the bars of his hospital bed. Our sleep
made a canopy over us and it seemed I heard
its durable roaring in the companion sleep
of what must have been our Bedouin god, and now
when the poppy lets go I know it is to lay bare
his thickly seeded black coach
at the pinnacle of dying.

My shaggy ponies heard the shallow snapping of silk
but grazed on down the hillside, their prayer flags
tearing at the void-what we
stared into, its cool flux
of blue and white. How just shaking at flies
they sprinkled the air with the soft unconscious praise
of bells braided into their manes. My life

simplified to "for him" and his thinned like an injection
wearing off so the real gave way to
the more-than-real, each moment's carmine
abundance, furl of reddest petals
lifted from the stalk and no hint of the black
hussar's hat at the center. By then his breathing stopped
so gradually I had to brush lips to know
an ending. Tasting then that plush of scarlet
which is the last of warmth, kissless kiss
he would have given. Mine to extend a lover's right past its radius,
to give and also most needfully, my gallant hussar,
to bend and take.

Sunday May 5

The super talented photographer Christine Taylor gives this show high marks:

 “…to see how one brilliant photographer has applied his own vision to this great form of expression [multiple exposure photography] 

check his show out at Victrola this month.  If you come to the opening you can meet him and I guarantee you he will be wearing a big smile.  

Justin Dylan Renney is the newest, hottest, kindest band photographer I know working in Seattle today.”  

Given Christine’s own extreme photographic talent, her mark of approval is a good sign to P.V.

 Photographs of Your Favourite Bands II, featuring Justin Dylan Renney's photos of Yo La Tengo, Sleater Kinney, Mogwai, Modest Mouse, and more.

Victrola Coffee

411 15th E SEATTLE

Opening: 6 to 8 PM