Friday, April 6, 2007

Events from 4/6 to 4/12/2007

Busy week, not much time...

Friday, 4/6
4:00 PM Del Forte Trunk Show
5:00 PM High-Tech Art in an Old-Fashioned Setting
6:00 PM Fremont First Friday Art Walk
6:00 PM Paintings by Arne Piehl @ Fremont Coffee
8:00 PM X-ActoMundo @ Ouch My Eye
8:00 PM 25 Years of Gamelan Pacifica @ PONCHO
11:00 PM Spin the Bottle @ Annex Theatre

Saturday, 4/7
2:00 PM Jodi Picoult reads 'Nineteen Minutes'
9:00 PM GOD IS DEAD Party
9:00 PM Balls to the walls: Ben's birthday party
9:45 PM Degenerate Art Ensemble @ Bainbridge Performing Arts Center

Tuesday, 4/10
6:00 PM Opening @ Retail Therapy

Thursday, 4/12
9:00 PM Stranger's Gong Show @ Crocodile Cafe


Friday, 4/6

Del Forte Trunk Show
Del Forte Trunk Show with SSF, April 6th from 4 -7pm
Don't forget about our extra special happy hour event this Friday!


High-Tech Art in an Old-Fashioned Setting
From Gopi:
High-Tech Art in an Old-Fashioned Setting
First Friday at McLeod Residence!
Wine and snacks will be served.

Fremont First Friday Art Walk
Fremont First Friday Art Walk
is April 6th from 6-9pm - Rain or Shine!

Come help us celebrate spring in Fremont! Support your local artists and have a blast at this month's Fremont Art Walk. Join us for new shows, music, refreshments and conversation in the Center of the Universe!
LIVE at LENIN!!! Make your first stop at the statue of Lenin located at 36th and Evanston to pick the evenings’ event program and enjoy live music performances at 6:00 pm and 8:00 pm.

FRANK and DUNYA is very proud to present locally and internationally acclaimed artist Rick Simpson. To determine the course of his creations, he draws from both representational and nonobjective genres. The resulting works display contrasting images of fantasy beauty and mystery. He "invents" and portrays imaginary objects and figures often not found in reality. Much of his work is influenced by his 12-year stay in Germany and his travels through more than 50 countries, where he studied the works of modern artists and Old Masters.

At Trofeo,"100 Faces", an amazing collection of portraits of those who have given their lives in Iraq, begins its second exhibition month. The portraits are haunting, powerful, and beautifully painted by local artist Annie Adams. Whatever your position on the war, please take a minute to stop by and honor each and every soul lost to war.

FRAME UP STUDIOS welcomes Rod Pilloud and his newest series of floral and landscape watercolor paintings. Rod's work emphasizes bright color and movement, taking full advantage of the fluid properties of this medium.

CAFFE LADRO will be featuring local Seattle painter Erik Andrew.
Northwest Healing Studios exhibits artist Brooks Condon, a sculpture/ painter, working in stone, metal, wood, and pastels.

WINDOWS art gallery features minimalist paintings by Ron Paul Baum.

FREMONT JEWELRY DESIGN is very proud to showcase the amazing oil paintings of Lauren Kistner. Using bright & blending colors, she uses a unique process that allows her work to oxidize and change long after she's finished.

Fremont Coffee is having their 3rd annual Customer Art show displaying 18 customers' art including clothes designs and music.
These businesses stay open late each First Friday:
Art F/X Studio Gallery
Black Box/ M Cars
Frame-Up Studios
Form-Space-Light
Frank & Dunya
Fremont Abbey Arts Center
Fremont Jewelry Design
Gasworks Gallery - after hours party, 8-11pm
Habitude
Icon Coffee
I.O. Stone
Oasis Art Gallery
Oohlas Hair Design
Evo Times Infinity
Theo Chocolate
Trofeo
Windows Art Gallery and many more!
More information: www.fremontseattle.com and fremontfirstfriday@yahoo.com.
Official maps and list of venues may be picked up at Frame-Up Studios located at 3515 Fremont Ave. N.


Paintings by Arne Piehl @ Fremont Coffee
Hey,

I have two new paintings hanging in a group show at Fremont Coffee
Opening reception is tomorrow night 6 to 9pm.
Please stop by and take a look.

Thanks,
Arne


X-ActoMundo @ Ouch My Eye
Ouch My Eye presents: X-ActoMundo – A Stencil Show.

Stencils have been used for centuries as a form of early artistic expression and more recently as a tool for creating the signs that permeate our urban landscapes.

Today, there has been a resurgence of stencils as a form of counterculture communication. Battling against the pervasiveness of billboards, neon signs, and LED displays, stencils, along with graffiti, have been utilized by artists as a medium for expressing the views of street culture and the unrepresented masses. Unlike graffiti, stencils have had a tendency to express a collective message that many can relate to, rather than the raw self expression often associated with tagging.

Opening Reception:
Friday, April 6th 8pm - 1am
April 6th – April 27th
Featuring:
Lou Samson
Jackie Kingsbury
Spacecraft
Amy Holan
Luke McGruff
Miles Partington
Washer
Matty Harper
N8
MYTH
Avery Bloom
Celeste Cooning
Michael Chandler
Robert Brunner
JAG
Ouch My Eye is a collective of creatives working independently and collaboratively on numerous creative projects ranging from photography to architecture. Ouch My Eye strives to expand the opportunities for artists to create and share their work and blur the lines between art gallery and design studio.
Ouch My Eye just returned from a 24-hour photo marathon in Austin, Texas the results of which will open June 1st. Check out the website for other upcoming shows including: Urban Wildlife and Apocalypse Now.
Ouch My Eye
1022 1st Avenue South
Seattle WA 98134
206.381.8457
http://www.ouchmyeye.com/


25 Years of Gamelan Pacifica @ PONCHO
The Gamelan Pacifica ensemble, under the direction of Cornish Professor of Music Jarrad Powell, is celebrating a 25-year history of gamelan music in Seattle with a special performance at Cornish April 6-7. The concert is the premiere of several new works that have been commissioned for the occasion with funding provided by the Paul Allen Family Foundation.
Gamelan Pacifica began in 1980 at Cornish through an instrument building workshop and today is a full-fledged independent ensemble and non-profit arts organization. It is among the first ensembles to develop the resources to create and perform gamelan music in the United States.
April 6-7, 8 pm
PONCHO Concert Hall at Kerry Hall, 710 East Roy Street, Seattle
Tickets: $15 general; $7.50 students, alumni and seniors
Free to the Cornish community
For tickets contact Ticket Window at (206) 325.6500, www.ticketwindowonline.com or at Ticket Window box offices located at Pacific Place, Broadway Market, Pike Place Market, Bellevue's Meydenbauer Center
http://www.cornish.edu/news/2007/03/gamelan_pacifica_celebrating_2_1.html


Spin the Bottle @ Annex Theatre
Even a good thing needs to be shaken up every once in a while. This
month, Spin the Bottle sets aside its usual format and transmogrifies into
a full-on GAME SHOW, in which members of our very own audience will
compete for valuable prizes! Prizes so fabulous, we hesitate to put them
in print -- plus, we're still gathering some. But they'll be swank, we
swear.

Rise to the challenge this FRIDAY night, April 6 at 11 pm!
The games -- which require no advance preparation -- mix quizzes and
physical challenges as we play TRIPLE THREAT, ODD THING OUT (featuring the
daffy creativity of GUDE/LAURANCE), MIND OR BODY (featuring celebrity
guests TROY MINK, AMBER WOLFE, and KEVIN HYATT), and (this is Spin the
Bottle after all) DUELING SMUT, featuring Annex's very own artistic
director and recurring smutress, GILLIAN JORGENSEN.
Providing dizzy theme music for the evening will be the a cappella
melodies of THE FABULOUS PARTING GIFTS!

And just to leaven the game show goodness, we'll also have a few
performances, including the funny-horrifying afterlife vignettes of MARK
BOEKER and the spare, sexy dance of OSCAR GUTIERREZ and GIAVANNA ENRIQUEZ!
Also featuring, as all good game shows do, a GIANT SPINNING WHEEL.
If you want to take part without competing, and get a modest discount on
your ticket price while you're at it, bring in a prop -- an unusual or
pedestrian object just lying around your house -- and you'll get $1 OFF
your already cheap ticket. These props will be used as part of our ODD
THING OUT game (featuring GUDE/LAURANCE).
With, as ever, our Bob-Barkeresque, Regis-Philbinian, Richard-Dawsonite
host, BRUCE HALL.

Annex Theatre's Spin the Bottle takes place on the second floor of the
Oddfellows Hall (at 915 E. Pine St. in Capitol Hill, just a block off of
Broadway) in Freehold's East Hall Theater. Only $9, and your ticket also
functions as a free raffle ticket! Good stiff drinks can be had at the
bar. Want to know more about Annex? Go to <www.annextheatre.org>.

Yours, StB curator Bret Fetzer
(...if you would rather not receive this monthly notice, please let me
know, as I don't wish to annoy anyone. At least not by accident. Or if
you get it more than once, let me know that too, and I'll fix that in a
jiffy...)
Annex Theatre's Spin the Bottle takes place on the second floor of the
Oddfellows Hall (at 915 E. Pine St. in Capitol Hill, just a block off of
Broadway) in Freehold's East Hall Theater.


Saturday, 4/17

Jodi Picoult reads 'Nineteen Minutes'

From Gopi:
A story of the aftermath of a tragic high school shooting, Nineteen Minutes asks what it means to be different in our society, who has the right to judge someone else, and whether people are ever whom they seem to be. Bestselling author of My Sister’s Keeper and Vanishing Acts, Jodi Picoult reads from her new novel Nineteen Minutes at 2 p.m. Saturday, April 7 in the Microsoft Auditorium at the Central Library
Seattle Central Library, 2pm


Degenerate Art Ensemble @ Bainbridge Performing Arts Center
After Dark: Degenerate Art Ensemble
Saturday, April 7 @ 9:45 p.m.

Performing as a seven-piece band in BPA’s After Dark Series April 7, Degenerate Art Ensemble DAE is known for a mash-up of garage band music and butoh-inspired theater and dance - a performance company that through hyper-experimental music and dance transforms traditional genres into multi-dimensional explosive and expressive works. DAE is known to morph and transform – a dance company, punk/jazz band, 45-piece orchestra - the group never losing its ability to electrify an audience and create experiences that bring audiences to new territories of perception. At its core DAE’s key artists are constantly in a state of invention and re-invention – always guided by a strong unified creative vision.
This hard-edged, delicate and complex visual music and dance performance company has earned rave reviews throughout the US and Europe:
“Prepare for some serious aesthetic bastinado... make way for a few conceptions about boundaries between theater, classical and rock music to melt... [Degenerate Art Ensemble] leaves a huge chunk of the rule book tattered in the gutter.” – Willamette Week
DAE has “smeared together the styles called classical, experimental, world, jazz and rock music so completely that it seems pointless to ever untangle them again. Remember the time when there were such things as boundaries?” - Organ Magazine (London)

Degenerate Art Ensemble appears at BPA Saturday, April 7 at 9:45 p.m. Drinks and light snacks available for purchase before each performance. The one-hour performance is suitable for all ages. Tickets, $10 per person, are available at BPA, 200 Madison Avenue North, Bainbridge Island, or they may be charged by phone at 206.842.8569 or purchased online at www.theplayhouse.org. BPA Box Office hours are 10:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. Tuesday through Friday, and one hour prior to each performance. BPA’s After Dark series continues June 2.


GOD IS DEAD Party
Festivities begin at 9:00pm. 21 & over only please (w/ I.D.)
By your tickets in advance online thru BrownPaperTickets & save a buck!
“God is dead. And we have killed him.
How shall we comfort ourselves…
What festivals of atonement, what sacred games
Shall we have to invent?”
—Nietzsche

April 7th 2007, the Saturday between Good Friday & Easter,
marks the one unique day on the calendar in which devout Christians, unrepentant Atheists, and guileless Heathens can all join their hands in unity, sing out loud together and rejoice in the knowledge that, yes...

GOD IS DEAD!
one night only...
...so let's have a party!!!

This year's GOD IS DEAD Party is held Saturday, April 7th at the Youngstown Cultural Arts Center on Delridge Way (http://youngstownarts.org), with two auditoriums featuring bands and DJs, music and dancing, fate and frivolity.
In Room ONE:
(on the Secular Humanist Stage)
FOSCIL
SLEEPER CELL - including members of transPacific & the Graze
BLUE STAR CREEPER
ADAM GROSS & the RED KETTLE PLAYERS
In Room TWO:
(the Godless Heathen Dance Floor)
SUN-TZU SOUND
AC LEWIS (SunTzu) - live laptop set
RECESS (Shameless)
PACKY (Uniting Souls/Innerflight)
INTROCUT (foutrhcity/Hidden Habitats)
M'CHÂTEAU
Festivities begin at 9:00pm. 21 & over only please. (w/ I.D.)
The GOD IS DEAD! Party
a New Style Collective Joint
Saturday April 7, 2007
@ Youngstown Cultural Arts Center
4408 Delridge Way SW, West Seattle
(http://youngstownarts.org)
$8.00 Adv./$10 day-of-show
9:00pm, 21+ with ID


Balls to the walls: Ben's birthday party
BALLS TO THE WALLS "THREE"

HI friends, this is an invitation/reminder to come to BALLS TO THE WALLS "THREE", which is me and Dougs SEVENTIES ROCK PARTY!

We have an excellent selection of L.P.'s that include - IRON BUTTERFLY, GRAND FUNK RAILROAD, HUMBLE PIE, FOCUS, MOUNTAIN, EDGAR WINTER, TEN YEARS AFTER, DEEP PURPLE, BLOODROCK, THE JAMES GANG and more!!

THIS TIME WE WILL EXPAND OUR SET TO INCLUDE POPULAR SEVENTIES POP GROUPS such AS - SUPERTRAMP, TONY ORLANDO AND DAWN,FREDA PAYNE, SUGARLOAF, THREE DOG NIGHT ETC.
NEW SOUL AND FUNK L.P.S -SLY AND THE FAMILY STONE, PARLIAMENT/FUNKADELIC, DENNIS COFFEY.

We have a new set worked up of classic 70's Fusion - MAHAVISHNU ORCHESTRA, BILLY COBHAM, RETURN TO FOREVER AND HERBIE HANCOCK. Also some select cuts from the legendary CTI label.
And of course an expanded classic and obscure disco work out!
CONTESTS, GIVE AWAYS AND UNDERGROUND FILMS BY SOME OF SEATTLES FINEST SUPER 8 MADMEN!
ITS MY BIRTHDAY AS WELL!!!

ITS FUN AND ITS FREE! We encourage dressing seventies - but it is not a requirement.
The Cafe Racer serves food, beer, and cocktails.
Hope to see ya'
Ben Ireland & Doug Lane
LOCATION: CAFE RACER, 5828 Roosevelt Way NE, cross street being roughly Ravenna, next door to the TRADING MUSICIAN, Seattle, in the U-District. ( zip code 98105 if you want to use MapQuest.
WHEN: APRIL 7th, Saturday
TIME: 9:00 pm -2 AM


Tuesday, 4/10

Opening @ Retail Therapy
New Art Show and More!

Hello my lovelies! I hope you are surviving the rain. I just wanted to give you a quick update:
We have all New art on April 10th. A group show called Faces. We contacted each artist and told them "We are are putting a show together for April. It is called Faces." That was the only instruction each artist received.
Faces is a show with over 15 artist all of which are diverse in their
approach to media, artistic philosophy, and life. The work itself
spreads across the spectrum with traditional paintings and drawings to
found art and outsider art all the way to the personal artifacts
Tuesday April 10th
Retail Therapy
905 E Pike St
6-9pm


Thursday, 4/12

Stranger's Gong Show @ Crocodile Cafe

From Slog, pointed out by Gopi:
Attention talented freaks and those who love to gawk at them: On Thursday, April 12 at the Crocodile Cafe, The Stranger will be presenting its first-ever Gong Show, hosted by yours truly.
In advance of the show date, we're looking for any and all unique and entertaining acts hungry to strut their stuff before a panel of drunken judges for fabulous prizes. This means jugglers, magicians, yodelers, strongmen, stand-up comics, clog dancers, air bands, contortionists, jug bands, sword swallowers, vaudeville acts, and anyone else with an act that's under four minutes long and doesn't involve fire or minors. (The Croc is a bar.)

For more info and to sign up for the competition, go here. (Talent may also sign-up at the door the night of the show.)
And if you just want to gawk/cheer/heckle the drunken celebrity judges (including Sarah Rudinoff, Kerri Harrop, Dave Meinert, and On the Boards artistic director Lane Czaplinski), show up at the Crocodile on Thursday, April 12 for the fabulous and totally free freak parade kicking off at 9pm.
Stranger's Gong Show
Crocodile Cafe
9pm
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