Events from 5/25 to 5/30/2007

I am pretty busy at work. So this is just a flat list of events.

Note that I have also added a special section at the end called Imaginary Boy's Seattle International Film Festival Picks.
Thanks Imaginary Boy and TIG!
There is also a long list of films under ALTERNATE CINEMA on Fri.
Gotta run!

Friday, 5/25
6:00 PM OPEN REHEARSAL/ FUNDRAISER FOR WANDERING BEAR @ Lee Center for the Arts at SU
7:00 PM NWFF and SIFF present: ALTERNATE CINEMA
7:00 PM EMC presents: Total Emersion Experience
9:00 PM COMEBACK! @ Chop Suey

Saturday, 5/26
4:00 PM Rat City Roller Girls
7:30 PM Cornish Junior Dance Company: 2007 Spring Dance Concert

Tuesday, 5/29
8:00 PM MONSTER MADNESS: 'GODZILLA' vs. 'JAWS' @ Chop Suey

Wednesday, 5/30
3:00 PM MOE Bar Grand Opening
5:00 PM LUSHY w/ dj Johnny horn (KEXP) early show
9:00 PM Free ART OPENING PARTY IN THE NEUMOS MEZZANINE

Friday, 5/25

OPEN REHEARSAL/ FUNDRAISER FOR WANDERING BEAR @ Lee Center for the Arts at SU

Please come bring friends spread the word about the piece and donate any amount if you can ... $1 or $100 or $1000 !!! All donations will be matched!

IN ONE WEEK....

Maureen Whiting Company in partnership with Seattle University Fine Arts department PREMIERE’s

WANDERING BEAR, an exotic, hypnotic realm where dancers cross the thin line between human and animal states and arrive on the “wild side” of the subconscious. Dancers are a stylistically diverse corps of highly technical dancers from backgrounds of ballet, contemporary dance, improvisation, and theater. Wandering Bear features Ezra Dickinson, Julie Tobiason, Alexandra Dickson, Tamin Totzke, Cassie Wulff, and Maureen Whiting.

Scenic Design by award-winning designer Etta Lilienthal

Original music score by local luminaries Dave Abramson, Gust Burns, Eyvind Kang, Jason Staczek, and Evan Schiller.

Costumes by Tilla Kuenzli, Helga Hizer, and Neodandi

WANDERING BEAR is presented as part of Whiting’s three-year creative residency at Seattle University. The company’s SU residency has become a platform not just for Whiting’s choreography, but also for introducing modern dance to new audiences through an ongoing series of work-in-progress showings.

WANDERING BEAR is created with support from 4 Culture, Mayors Office of Arts and Cultural Affairs and Seattle University.

Maureen Whiting Company creates multi-media and site-specific dance work driven by intellectual research, movement invention and interdisciplinary collaboration. Maureen Whiting Company is dedicated to presenting dance as a means to express the variety of human experience, and to bringing its work to new audiences.

WHAT Open Rehearsal/ Fundraiser for Dancers and WINE AND CHEESE
WHEN Friday, May 25th from 6-7 pm
WHERE Lee Center for the Arts at Seattle University 901 12th Avenue on the corner of Marion and 12th
Ticket Info Free for All AND Free Food but please let us know if you intend to come by e-mail or phone!
Phone 206.323.9405

www.maureenwhitingco.org

NWFF and SIFF present: ALTERNATE CINEMA

MAY 25 - 31, Fri- Thurs
NWFF and SEATTLE INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL present

ALTERNATE CINEMA

The Dutch call it exploding cinema; the French the avant-garde; in Seattle we call it Alternate Cinema. A collection of features and shorts, which aim to push the boundaries of traditional film culture, this year's selections explore unconventional modes of visual, aural and emotional landscapes. Yet when we examine these works, they seem more and more to be in tune with ourselves, with our thoughts, and with the very medium itself. Estaban Sapir's The Aerial combines expressive elements of the silent era and graphic elements of comic books to comment on the state of our media culture. One11 and 103, the legendary John Cage's sublime dance of camera, light and sound, makes its Seattle premiere. SIFF Tributee Anthony Hopkins makes his directorial debut with the daring Slipstream, and Jiska Rickels' 4 Elements presents an evocative meditation on mankind's timeless-and often precarious-connection to the natural world. Esther B. Robinson's A Walk Into the Sea: Danny Williams and the Warhol Factory documents a man who, while on the surface just another nameless member of the Warhol factory, was himself an editor, filmmaker, light designer, lover and son. The above is just a sampling of these invigorating and exciting selections from some of cinema's most daring filmmakers.

MAY 25, Fri at 7pm
MAY 28, Mon at 9:30pm
THE AERIAL
(Estaban Sapir Argentina, 2007, 90 min)
In Year X in the City Without a Voice, a fascist media regime keeps the population forcibly silent. Plots and counter-plots ensue in this alluring allegory that, ironically, employs the language of silent film to salute the power of free speech. A stunning amalgam of comic books and '20s-era science fiction.
THE AERIAL

MAY 25, Fri at 9:15pm
MAY 26, Sat at 9pm
LIFE IN LOOPS (A MEGACITIES RMX)
(Tino Novotny, Austria, 2006, 80 min)
This award-winning experimental documentary is a mesmerizing remix of the acclaimed 1997 film Megacities, combining its stunning original footage with an excellent new soundtrack by Sofa Surfers. A fiercely imaginative audio-visual journey that finds fragments of hidden urban life in New York, Tokyo, Moscow, Bombay and Mexico City.
LIFE IN LOOPS

MAY 26, Sat at 4:30pm
MAY 30, Wed at 9:30pm
4 ELEMENTS
(Jiska Rickels, Netherlands, 2006, 89 min)
A poetic visual essay about man's uneasy relationship with fire, water, earth and air, as seen through the experiences of firefighters in Siberia, king crab fisherman on the Bering Sea in Alaska, German mineworkers, and Russian cosmonauts preparing a launch to the international space station.
4 ELEMENTS

MAY 26, Sat, at 6:30pm
MAY 27, Sun, at 9:15pm
A WALK INTO THE SEA: Danny Williams and the Warhol Factory
(Esther B. Robinson, USA, 2007, 75 min)
Virtually unknown today, Danny Williams shot more than 20 films at the Warhol Factory and designed the Velvet Underground's groundbreaking light show before mysteriously disappearing in 1966. This intimate documentary unearths his films and explores his love and struggles with both Warhol and his legendarily dysfunctional Factory.
A WALK INTO THE SEA

MAY 27, Sun at 4pm
MAY 28, Mon at 7pm
ONE11 AND 103
(John Cage, Henning Lohner, USA/Germany, 1992, 93 min)
John Cage created his only feature-length film in the year of his death. Combining randomly drifting patches of light with one of Cage's richest musical compositions, this is a sublime, stunning acknowledgment of time from one of the most widely influential artists of the 20th century.
ONE11

MAY 27, Sun at 6:30pm
MAY 28, Mon at 4:15pm
ON THE ROAD WITH JUDAS
(JJ Lask, USA, 2006, 100 min)
Imagine Charlie Kaufman in a peppy mode and you might get begin to get an inkling of this dazzling metaphysical comedy. Reality, fiction and the notions of storytelling intertwine in this eclectic narrative about a conservative New York businessman (NAPOLEON DYNAMITE'S Aaron Ruell), his night gig as a cutthroat computer thief, and the woman he loves.
ON THE ROAD

MAY 29, Tues at 7pm
MAY 31, Thurs at 9:15pm
GHOSTS OF CITÉ SOLEIL
(Asger Leth, Denmark/USA, 2006, 88 min)
This provocative documentary gives an unprecedented close-up look at the chimères (ghosts), gangs of gun-toting, doped up, nothing-to-lose thugs in Haiti's ultra-violent slum Cité Soleil, designated by the United Nations as the most dangerous place in the world. A tough, shocking film, but also a hauntingly intimate and truthful one.
GHOSTS

MAY 29, Tues at 9:45pm (Harvard Exit)
JUNE 2, Sat at 4:30pm (SIFF Cinema)
I DON'T WANT TO SLEEP ALONE
(Tsai Ming-Liang, Taiwan/France/Austria, 2006, 115min)
Shooting in Malaysia for the first time, Tsai Ming-Liang adds an emotional glow to his usual mixture of humour and horror. The homeless Hsiao Kang is beaten up and left to die on the streets of Kuala Lumpur; rescued and nursed by an immigrant labourer, he revives to find himself at the apex of a romantic triangle...
I DONT WANT TO SLEEP

MAY 29, Tues at 7pm (SIFF Cinema)
MAY 30, Weds at 4.30pm (Egyptian)
SLIPSTREAM
(Anthony Hopkins, USA, 2007, 110 min)
An inventive, multilayered journey into the mind of an aging screenwriter whose fictional universe begins to invade his real life. This bold and experimental directorial debut from famed actor Anthony Hopkins plays with the nature of cinema and pokes a little fun at the movie business in the process.
SLIPSTREAM

MAY 29, Tues at 9pm
I DOT THE EYE
(Various)
Remembrances of things past highlight this exploration of the concept of memory. With works depicting messages of friendship, records of love, historical disconnects and explorations of that all too elusive place called creativity, you'll find yourself amused, bemused and occasionally befuddled.
I DOT THE EYE

MAY 30, Weds at 7pm
REDUCE, REUSE, RECYCLE
(Various)
This amusing and enlightening program features pop-art collages to filmic archeology, including film sequences and images lifted from the safety of their original reels and contexts, only to be reborn in unexpected landscapes.
REDUCED REUSED RECYCLED

MAY 31, Thurs at 7pm
JUNE 1, Fri at 7:15pm (SIFF Cinema)
STRANGE CULTURE
(Lynn Herschman Leeson, USA, 2006, 75min)
When conceptual artist Steve Kurtz's wife died of heart failure, suspicion fell on materials that Kurtz was using for an art exhibition. Within hours, he was detained as a suspected bio-terrorist. Lynn Herschman Leeson's brilliant documentary, STRANGE CULTURE, uses unconventional techniques to tell this story of domestic tragedy turned Kafkaesque nightmare.
STRANGE CULTURE

JUNE 4, Mon at 9:45pm (SIFF Cinema)
JUNE 7, Thurs at 4:30pm (SIFF Cinema)
SYNDROMES AND A CENTURY
(Apichatpong Weerasethakul, Thailand/France/Austria, 2006, 104 min)
Following up TROPICAL MALADY, director Apichatpong Weerasethakul confirms his innovative talent with a seductively mysterious film of self-reflecting halves. Beginning with two doctors in different hospitals, the fluid narrative travels across time and space to invoke the changing times of the filmmaker's native Thailand. SYNDROMES AND A CENTURY

JUNE 1, Fri at 10PM
ALTERNATE CINEMA PARTY!

Join NWFF and SIFF for a celebration of ALTERNATE CINEMA! With Studio 66's DJ Chrispo spinning 60's mod & psychedelic rock, vintage soul, Brit-Pop, acid jazz and international pop sounds plus the fabulous Go-Go stylings of the Tangerine Tonic! More info on Studio 66 can be found at www.myspace.com/studio66

http://www.nwfilmforum.org

EMC presents: Total Emersion Experience

The words “Total Emersion Experience” definitely applies to this unique and
groundbreaking live performance. Acclaimed author and music pioneer David
Miles Huber will be hosting an evening of aural and visual enticement as a
surround-sound speaker system carries your senses across three screens of
live projected visualizations. David will be starting the night by giving a
short lecture on insights into surround sound, performing in surround using
Ableton “Live” performance software, as well as alternative performance
controllers. Following this, four high-caliber electronic performers (David
Miles Huber, Marcell Marias, Henta, Ludington GT) will come together to
create a media rarity… an interactive event that involves original music,
synchronized laptops running in surround sound in conjunction with projected
visual media. This setup allows the screens of their computers to be
projected onto opposing walls, so you can see exactly how they're doing it!

This educational music event is a MUST for anyone who’s producing and
working with audio in the computer world.

Friday, May, 25th
Youngstown Cultural Arts Center Theater
4408 Delridge Way SW
Seattle, WA, 98106
7pm – 7:45pm Talk on surround and the technology used in the performance
8pm – 10pm
$7 general public / $5 students

COMEBACK! @ Chop Suey

5.25 Friday Chop Suey Presents
COMEBACK!
with DJs Colby B., Fucking In The Streets & Porq
and Special Guests The Lost Boys & Lady Bob.
$5 / FREE! before 10pm
9pm doors
21 & over

Chop Suey

Saturday, 5/26

Rat City Roller Girls

We're back at the hangar and tickets are going fast. You won't want to miss the first match-up of the year between the Sockit Wenches and the Throttle Rockets. Will the Wenches' mechanical training keep things running smoothly or will the Throttle Rockets quest for Intergalactic Domination throw a monkey wrench in their plans?

It's the interleague rematch of the year! In 2006, Derby Liberation Front took the revolution down south and traveled to Austin, TX, to take on the infamous Texas Rollergirls. Though the Texans came away from that bout with one more notch on their collective belts, DLF is looking to even the score. The Honky Tonk Heartbreakers, the cowboy sweethearts of the derby, aren't going to know what hit 'em! [hint: it'll be wearing green]

bikeworks peopleOur featured community organization for May is Bikeworks. Their mission is to build sustainable communities by educating youth and promoting bicycling. They teach young people how to fix bikes, reward them with their own set of wheels, and provide affordable bicycle services to the community. Students learn bicycle repair over eight class sessions, then swap 24 hours of community repair for their own recycled cycle.

Doors open at 4 p.m. and we'll have our pre-show band starting at 5 p.m. in the beer garden. DJ Boo Berry will be spinning tunes all night long! After the bout, don't forget to stop by the afterparty and congratulate your favorite rollergirl (or help them drown their sorrows).

Hangar 27, Magnuson Park
7400 Sandpoint Way NE
Seattle, WA 98125
http://www.ratcityrollergirls.com/bb/viewtopic.php?t=14321&highlight=
http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/15219

Tuesday, 5/29

MONSTER MADNESS: 'GODZILLA' vs. 'JAWS' @ Chop Suey

5.29 MONSTER MADNESS: 'GODZILLA' vs. 'JAWS'
Both movies, played back to back in the lounge!
Drink Specials All night! FREE Popcorn!

FREE! Doors 8pm, 1st Movie 8:30 / 21 and Over

Chop Suey

Cornish Junior Dance Company: 2007 Spring Dance Concert

Cornish College of the Arts Junior Dance Company presents the 2007 Spring Dance Concert featuring intermediate and advanced students from the Preparatory Dance Division.

About the Spring Dance Concert

The program will feature Ballet Blanc, staged by Gwenn Barker, Pat Hon and Courtney Harris. The piece has been adapted from the ballet Les Sylphides, choreography by Michael Fokine with music by Frederic Chopin, and is a romantic ballet that depicts an atmosphere of reverie, lightness and ethereal fantasy. Additionally, original works by choreographers Pat Hon , Christine Juarez , and Courtney Harris will be performed.

2007 Spring Dance Concert
Saturday, May 26 at 3 pm and 7:30 pm
Shorecrest High School
15343 25th Ave. N.E.
Shoreline, WA. 98155
Tickets $12 general admission and $10 students, seniors, Cornish alumni

Tickets available at Ticket Window at 206.325.6500, www.ticketwindowonline.com or at Ticket Window box offices located at Broadway Market, Pacific Place , Pike Place Market and Bellevue ’s Meydenbauer Center

Wednesday, 5/30

MOE Bar Grand Opening

It’s been 1⁄2 a year since we bid farewell to the Bad Ju Ju Lounge and started work on the space on 10th Ave next to Neumos. Many hours have been spent uncovering the old-growth hardwood, steel and bricks of this beautiful century-plus old building; custom tables, comfortable booths, a room-spanning bar, and the finest wallpaper on the hill! Add some handpicked posters from the glory days of MOE and a Jukebox loaded with good stuff…and we welcome you to MOE BAR!!!

A fine place to step away from epic Neumos events or meet some friends for delicious beverages in a casual-yet-classy atmosphere.

HAPPY HOUR PRICES ALL NIGHT LONG. $2 BEERS AND WELL DRINKS

"Prom sucked, this doesn't" Amy Dials
"You won't find a bar with finer wallpaper" Tilsen
"It's sort of dirty bourgeois" Kelly O
"Shiny" Roy Atizado
"Are those drinks two for one?" Fortune Kiki

We invite you to the grand-opening celebration of our little slice of disheveled elegance!

WEDNESDAY MAY 30th
Party Starts at 8pm, but show up as early as 3pm for Happy Hour fun!

MOE BAR (10th& Pike, next to Neumo's)
1425 10th ave
Seattle, WA 98122

LUSHY w/ dj Johnny horn (KEXP) early show

Lushy, Seattle’s gently electronic

Bossa-ala-Exotica-Au-Go-Go band,
is
inaugurating the first in a series of happy hour shows
at Chop Suey on
Wednesday, May 30, from 5:00 to 8:30 pm.

The concept of early happy hour shows first caught on
in Los Angeles several years ago. Club goers wanted
live music earlier, so they could see a show in the
evening and still make it to work the next day. The
idea has since spread across the country. Now, happy
hour shows are an institution at clubs in New York ,
Chicago, Boston and Atlanta . Now it’s Seattle ’s turn
to belly up to the bar and get happy-go-lushy!

Also appearing with Lushy is DJ Johnny Horn of KEXP

LUSHY w/ DJ Johnny Horn
Wednesday, MAY 30, 2007
Doors 5PM
Band starts at 6PM two sets, 21+
FREE!!! FREE!!! FREE!!! FREE!!!
Chop Suey's Early Show
http://chopsuey.com
1325 E. Madison Seattle, WA 98122
206.324.8000
Happy Hour drink specials too.

Lushy Kicks Off Happy Hour Show at Chop Suey

http://lushy.com

http://kexp.org

Free ART OPENING PARTY IN THE NEUMOS MEZZANINE

Wednesday May 30 - IN THE NEUMOS MEZZANINE: A very special ART OPENING PARTY featuring the work of MR. ZEB LANCASTER. DJs TBA. 9pm doors.FREE!!!

Neumos.

Imaginary Boy's Seattle International Film Festival Picks

Hey Mr. Volcano,

No event listing, but I thought I'd let you know about the SIFF '07
preview we've posted over at Three Imaginary Girls:

http://www.threeimaginarygirls.com/siff2007preview

Feel free to point to us in next week's mail. Beginning Tuesday (and
continuing the following two) I'll also be posting reviews and picks
and advice for SIFF films scheduled in the coming weekend and week.

Best,

Imaginary Boy Embracey
Film/Theater content editor
Three Imaginary Girls

Thank you Imaginary Boy!

Events from 5/18 to 5/24/2007

This is a good week: the sun is shining and we got lots of events. The Burners are crawling out of their holes, the Seattle International Film Festival starts on Thu, and Henry is turning 80.
I almost feel like getting myself a Ben Gurion ticket for their birthday bash later.
Almost...

Friday, 5/18
6:00 PM Caffe Fiore Opening Party in Ballard
8:00 PM The Big Bang Henry Art Gallery Birthday Bash
9:00 PM Trash Tea Party (BM Fundraiser for the Rockstar Orphans)

Saturday, 5/19
11:30 AM "Misery Loves Comedy" @ Fantagraphics Bookstore & Gallery
2:00 PM VAIN's Offbeat Bridal Shower
6:00 PM Opening at Crawl Space Gallery
7:00 PM SE Asia Show at R+E Cycles
8:00 PM August Strindberg's"A Dream Play" @ Freehold Studio
9:00 PM KYOTO JAZZ MASSIVE @ Baltic Room

Sunday, 5/20
1:00 PM VIVEZA ART TASTING 2007
7:00 PM One Pot Dinner at Hideout

Thursday, 5/24
5:00 PM SIFF Opening Night Gala
5:30 PM Spirits with Spidey @ Pacific Science Center

Friday, 5/18

Caffe Fiore Opening Party in Ballard

Chauney writes:

You are invited to the Opening Party for the new Caffe Fiore and my plywood cutout show.
this Friday, 6pm at in Ballard (up through June 30th)
5405 Leary- just north of the Olympic Health Club with the neon diver

Caffe Fiore, 5405 Leary, 6pm.

The Big Bang Henry Art Gallery Birthday Bash

The Henry Art Gallery presents:

THE BIG BANG BASH!

The Big Bang Theory debuted in 1927. In the same year the Henry Art Gallery was launched by a generous gift from Horace C. Henry... Coincidence?

Friday, May 18, 8 PM to Midnight (Bash Artist & Patron Preview: 6 to 8 PM)

The Henry celebrates 80 years of fantastic art and artists with a remarkable evening centered around a lively art sale, featuring a galaxy of art at outrageously attractive ($300, $200, $100!) prices.

• Astral Art Sale hosted by interplanetarily-famous auctioneer Laura Michalek!

• Sarah Rudinoff, Nick Garrison, and special guests Sissyfist perform space ballads, robot songs, and interplanetary odes.

Online Tickets sales through Brown Paper Tickets end Thursday, May 17 at 6 PM. A limited quantity of tickets will be on sale at the Henry on Friday, May 18.

CHOOSE YOUR STRATOSPHERE:

$1927 Supernova*

You’ve checked out the amazing list of Bash Artists. - you KNOW you’ll want to buy art work! Supernovas are guaranteed one work of art BEFORE the first Patron preview sale round. The Supernova round begins promptly at 6:30 PM, and you must be present to choose. Supernovas receive:
• Admission to the Bash (including the Patron preview) for TWO people.
• One artwork, paid for (And chosen FIRST! At 6:30 PM BEFORE the Pulsar round, choosing from all 200 works.)
* These tickets are limited, and the order in which Supernova payment is received corresponds to their order to choose artwork. (First to pay, first to play!)

To purchase Supernova tickets, please email mike@henryart.org or call 206.221.3244.

$150 Pulsar Patron

Attend the party preview with our 200 donating artists!

Patrons are guaranteed an opportunity to purchase work during the preview art sale round. Enjoy stellar cocktails and entertainment before the stars collide! The preview art sale round begins promptly at 7 PM, preceding the general sale of all 200 works. Patrons draw random numbers at check-in, and then choose from a selected area of artworks.

$65 Henry Comet (General Admission)

Join us for this out-of-this world art sale and party to mark our 80th year!

$50 Henry Superstar (Members)

Are you a Henry member? Great! Then your general tickets for the Bash are $50 instead of $65! Not a member? We can fix that! It’s not rocket science: call our membership hotline 206.616.8781 before you purchase your Bash ticket or visit www.henryart.org/join.htm and join online.

Why stopping at Supernova?
Here are my suggestions:

$3000 White Dwarf
$5000 Black Hole
$6000 Check Mate
$7000 Ultimo
$10000 Ben Gurion

And that's where it has to stop, because according to Ephraim Kishon nothing can beat Ben Gurion...

Henry Art Gallery

This FRIDAY, May 18. For tickets, click here:
http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/11611

Trash Tea Party (BM Fundraiser for the Rockstar Orphans)

Trashy Tea Party - BM Camp Fundraiser!
Friday May 18th

Rockstar Orphans Presents...

The Trashy Tea Party

in Wunderland Super Happy Fun Time
a Burning Man Camp Fundraiser for the Rockstar Orphans

And Kellie R's Very Merry UNBIRTHDAY to YOU.
yes, YOU.

DJs

Manos (Sub-merge, Uniting Souls)
J-SUN (Innerflight)
Jen Woolfe (Leschi Lounge/Dreemworld.com)
Infinikid (PDX)
ESNCE (PDX)
Sklobot on SAX (Leschi Lounge/Codlauncher)

Costumes Highly Encouraged. Yes, Highly.
Live Art, Performance and Card Readings

9pm - 2am
21+
$7 donation w/ costume, $10 without
or more for increased Karma

Waids Restaurant and Bar
12th & Jefferson
http://www.myspace.com/waidsplace

Saturday, 5/19

"Misery Loves Comedy" @ Fantagraphics Bookstore & Gallery

Hello friends,

We hope you can drop by Fantagraphics Bookstore & Gallery this
Saturday, May 19 from 11:30 to 8:00 PM to preview "Misery Loves
Comedy," a show of new and recent work by Ivan Brunetti. You may have
seen his work on the cover of the New Yorker magazine earlier this
month. Wait'll you see his work in person! We also produced a lovely
silk screen exhibition print for only $20 - in a very limited edition
of 50 copies - so get 'em while they last. And his new collection of
the same title is simply stunning. As Art Spiegelman put it, "I enjoy
watching Ivan suffer" -- and so will you!

Ivan will be at the store for a festive reception and signing on
FRIDAY, JUNE 8 from 6:00 - 8:00 PM, but you won't want to wait until
then to see his show. Fantagraphics Bookstore & Gallery is located at
1201 S. Vale Street (at Airport Way S.) in Seattle's historic
Georgetown arts community. We're open daily 11:30 to 8:00 PM (Sundays
until 5:00 PM).

See you soon.

Eric Reynolds

Fantagraphics Books
7563 Lake City Way NE
Seattle, WA 98115 USA
(206) 524-1967 x218 tel.
(206) 524-2104 fax
www.fantagraphics.com

VAIN's Offbeat Bridal Shower

Calling all non-traditional brides + wedding parties..

VAIN's Offbeat Bridal Shower
Saturday, May 19th from 2 to 6pm at VAIN
Free

*Win prizes, hair products + "F!@% TAFFETA" Offbeat Bride t-shirts
*Free VAIN goodie bags for the first 50 brides through the door
*Complimentary makeup consultations + 'Guerilla Bride' hairstyles
*Get non-traditional wedding advice from Ariel Meadow Stallings, author off OFFBEAT BRIDE: TAFFETA-FREE ALTERNATIVES FOR INDEPENDENT BRIDES

Plus fizzy drinks + cupcakes all afternoon long

VAIN
2018 1st Ave @ Virginia
206.441.3441 | vain.com | offbeatbride.com

Opening at Crawl Space Gallery

Nicholas BROWN - William LAMSON
New linocut prints by Seattle guest artist Nicholas Brown New video by New York guest artist William Lamson 19 May – 10 June 2007 OPENING RECEPTION: Saturday 19 May, 6-9pm Crawl Space 504 E. Denny Way and Olive *behind a wooden fence

Crawl Space Gallery
6-9pm

SE Asia Show at R+E Cycles

SE Asia Show at R+E Cycles, May 19, 7PM
For those of you in and around Seattle who didn't make it to Bike Expo to see "A Tale of Twos: Cycling Thailand and Laos" here's your opportunity. R+E Cycles is a small shop in the University District, so there is limited seating. The show will cost $10 and all of the proceeds will benefit Bike Works, a non-profit organization working for kids, bikes, and community in the Rainier Valley since 1996.

To reserve a seat go to this link below and follow the instructions in the newsletter.
www.rodbikes.com/archives/05_07_news.pdf

Or show up early and get a seat.

A Tale of Twos: Cycling Thailand and Laos
May 19, 7pm
R+E Cycles
5627 University Ave NE
206.527.4822

August Strindberg's"A Dream Play" @ Freehold Studio

Hanafi writes:

I hear tell that this is a keeper. Purportedly very well acted by a young cast too. The descriptive "This fantastical dive into the subconcious is a tale of biblical proportions, a sort of "David Lynch does Joan of Arc in Wonderland." is enough to get me there.

Pak Hanafi

Here are the details:

In Caryl Churchill's spare and resonant version of August Strindberg's
expressionistic "A Dream Play," a heavenly creature named Agnes comes down to earth to experience human suffering and report back to god, the gods, whatever. This fantastical dive into the subconcious is a tale of biblical
proportions, a sort of "David Lynch does Joan of Arc in Wonderland."

As Strindberg said about the play, written in 1901, it imitates "the disjointed yet seemingly logical shape of a dream. Everything can happen, everything is
probable and possible. Time and space do not exist." Characters merge into
each other, locations change in an instant, and a mysterious locked door
becomes an obsessively recurrent image.

First produced at the National Theatre, U.K., in February 2005, Edge Theatre
Ensemble is delighted to have this opportunity to present Ms. Churchill's
version of this play to Seattle audiences. Through movement-based ensemble
exploration, Ensemble actors bring Strindberg's darkly comic abstraction to
strange and wonderful life.

A Dream Play opens on May 4th - purchase your tickets today!

May 11 at 8 PM
May 12 at 3 PM and 8 PM (2 shows!)
May 18 at 8 PM
May 19 at 3 PM and 8 PM (2 shows!)

Freehold Studio/ Theatre Lab's East Hall Theatre
2nd Floor, Oddfellows Hall Building
1525 10th Ave, Seattle WA 98122

Tickets:
Regular -- $15
Senior/ Student/ TPS discount -- $12

http://www.edgetheatre.org/dream.html

Brown Paper Tickets
call 1-800-838-3006

KYOTO JAZZ MASSIVE @ Baltic Room

SunTzu Sound presents SAFARI

featuring the long awaited return of

/// KYOTO JAZZ MASSIVE
**10th Anniversary Tour**
[Compost Records / Especial Records - JAPAN]

BROTHERS SHUYA & YOSHI OKINO FORMED THE DJ DUO KYOTO JAZZ MASSIVE 10 YEARS AGO & HAVE SINCE BECOME INTERNATIONAL SUPERSTARS OF SOULFUL DANCE MUSIC. RELEASING RECORDS ON COMPOST RECORDS & ESPECIAL, THEY CREATE MUSIC WITH CLASS, SOPHISTICATION & THEIR OWN UNIQUE BLEND OF JAZZ, SOUL, & ELECTRONIC BEATS. SUNTZU SOUND IS PROUD TO WELCOME BACK SHUYA OKINO FOR HIS FIRST SEATTLE APPEARANCE IN 4 YEARS. SHUYA WILL ALSO BE CELEBRATING HIS FIRST SOLO ALBUM FEATURING COLLABORATIONS WITH AFRONAUGHT,SEIJI, DOMU, VIKTER DUPLAIX, PHIL ASHER & 4HERO. UNITED LEGENDS IS OUT NOW.

along with residents

/// SUNTZU SOUND
[City Soul - KBCS 91.3FM]

video by PIXELFLIP

THE BALTIC ROOM
1207 Pine Street. Capitol Hill. Seattle

$8 ADV Tickets at BrownPaperTickets.Com
http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/15214
$10 at the door
9pm doors. 21+

http://www.kyotojazzmassive.com
http://www.suntzusound.com
http://www.pixelflip.com
http://www.citysoul.org
http://www.thebalticroom.net

Sunday, 5/20

VIVEZA ART TASTING 2007

VIVEZA ART TASTING 2007

Come sample how Viveza can help you live more vividly at Viveza Art Tasting 2007. Drop in anytime from 1:00PM – 5:00PM, Sunday, May 20. Our gallery will be full of recent work from a wide range of Viveza artists. Our friendly staff will be waiting to help with questions, discuss our flexible payment options, or just pour you a glass of wine as you explore. There's much you can savor at Viveza Art Tasting 2007…

- Wine, light hors d'oeuvres and Viveza artwork freshly paired for your enjoyment
- Viveza artists available to discuss their work
- Our brand new Belltown Art Tour Guide to help you explore your neighborhood's other art experiences
- A full day of art exploration by visiting Olympic Sculpture Park, just two blocks away
- A chance to win your own piece of Viveza artwork

Date: May 20th
Time 1-5pm
Where: Viveza Art Experience

Address:
2604 Western Ave (Western @ Vine in Belltown)
Seattle, WA 98121

more info at www.viveza.com or email questions at gallery@viveza.com

One Pot Dinner at Hideout

From Gopi:

one pot is meant to be a bit more than a way of cooking, or a way to gather people, or a way to make some cash. it is meant as a gesture – a gentle fuck you – to the corporate little box we reside in and are supposed to dine in – you might see one pot plastered around town with an upside down trademark, an underscore, a conflation that says I am open source. if you are in nebraska, toledo, alabama, please take the name one pot, use it, put up posters, tag it, cook something simple, gather people and charge them money, or charge nothing, do it in a monastery, do it on a hill, your apartment, wherever, or don’t do it at all.

you want something more clear: I’m not a big fan of the transparent, a clumsy tool – but i will let you know the way I am personally using this thing called one pot - this brand that i am offering to any takers who feel the call – my little corporate one pot world headquarters in seattle washington will be hosting dinners in various locations – some open to the public and listed here, some deeply private and not listed anywhere, where we cook one simple thing in one simple pot and serve it to a group of willing participants. the main thing served on said evenings will have cooked long and hard and slow in an aged vessel. it is hardly any more complicated.

if you do decide to start your own one pot thing – be it a dinner, or a boxing match (food is not required - nothing is actually required) let me know and i will do my best to promote your endeavors, however tired, brilliant, or just plain not they may be… your event will be listed here - indiscriminately - with my own - it will be talked about in our email newsletters, it will get noticed. but. you need to send me some pictures, a broken plate, a story, some kind of talisman that speaks of what happened. if you are serious and ready (or just amused) email me at onepotorg@gmail.com. ‘till then.

One Pot Dinner at Hideout
7pm
http://www.onepot.org/
http://www.hideoutseattle.com/

Thursday, 5/24

SIFF Opening Night Gala

I don't know about the opening night gala, but if you have any recommendations for movies we should watch please send them over!

Opening Night Gala

Launching the festival on May 24 at 7 p.m. is the hysterically funny British homage to the movies and growing up in the ’80s, “Son of Rambow,” followed by SIFF’s Opening Night Gala at McCaw Hall. A VIP package includes valet parking, a private pre-screening reception, reserved seating and access to the post-screening VIP Lounge

The VIP Opening Night Experience
A Fundraiser for SIFF
Showing: Thursday, May 24, 5:00 PM
Running Time: 120 Minutes
Theater: The Allen Room at McCaw Hall
Ticket Code: VIP2007V

Purchase includes Opening Night Film & Gala and the VIP Upgrade (including valet parking, a private pre-screening reception, reserved seating, access to the post-screening VIP lounge, and a gift bag.)

http://www.seattlefilm.org/festival/events/sec.aspx?FID=32&SID=172
http://www.seattlefilm.org/festival/events/reserve.aspx?id=4375&FID=32
http://www.seattlefilm.com/index.aspx

Spirits with Spidey @ Pacific Science Center

Spirits with Spidey

Superhero Happy Hour | 5:30-7:30 p.m.
Spiderman 3: The IMAX® Experience | 7:30 p.m.

Join your friendly neighborhood Spider-Man for a superhero happy hour and then watch him on the largest screen in town as Science with a Twist presents Spider-Man 3: The IMAX® Experience

DJ Curtis will spin superhero inspired tunes while our caricature artist will portray guests as their favorite comic book star. The evening climaxes with a showing of Spiderman 3: The IMAX® Experience. Tickets are $20 and include the film, food and one drink, $17 for Pacific Science Center members. For tickets call (206)443-3611 or email group_events@pacsci.org. Tickets also available at the door.

Limited number of theater seats available; advanced tickets are recommended for this event.

Pacific Science Center
(206) 443-3611
Science with a Twist!
An event series for adults 21+ every third Thursday at Pacific Science Center pacificsciencecenter.org/twist

Events from 5/11 to 5/17/2007

Bummer: We missed Lawyerpalooza 5 (http://www.lawyerpalooza.com) and Gopi winning the contest for Seattle's Most Stylish Man (www.pikepine.com)! I hope this week I am giving you the complete list. Well, I didn't add Kinky Carnival (http://www.celticlotus.com/taal).

Friday, 5/11
5:00 PM Jennifer Davis @ Fancy + Pants
6:00 PM First Of Many @ BLVD Gallery
6:00 PM Matthew Pasquarello & Chris Thompson @ Roq la Rue
7:30 PM Degenerate Art Ensemble @ The Vera Project
9:00 PM BROKEN DISCO @ Chop Suey

Saturday, 5/12
2:30 PM HAPPY 100TH BIRTHDAY SOUTH PARK
6:00 PM Zappa animator Bruce Bickford @ Fantagraphics Bookstore & Gallery
10:00 PM? ROBOT PORN AT KRAKT
10:00 PM POLARITY - The Union of Opposites.

Tuesday, 5/15
7:30 PM A Conversation with Tim O’Brien @ Richard Hugo House

Wednesday, 5/16
8:00 PM The Adventures of Ali & Ali and the aXes of Evil

Friday, 5/11

Jennifer Davis @ Fancy + Pants

Jennifer Davis:
New paintings on display at Fancy + Pants through May.
Opening Reception Friday the 11th- 5-8 p.m.
Store hours 11-7p.m. Tuesday - Saturday, Sunday 12-5 p.m.

http://fancyjewels.com/

First Of Many @ BLVD Gallery

BLVD Gallery presents
First Of Many
A Group Show Celebrating Year One
May 11 – June 2, 2007
Artist Reception Friday May 11 6pm - 10pm

BLVD Gallery is proud to present in celebration of our 1st
anniversary a group showing of work that represents the best and
brightest future for the Urban Contemporary movement. “First Of Many”
features a strong showing by Northwest based artists coming from
Vancouver, Portland, and Seattle as well as artists representing from
Minnesota, NYC and Toronto. This show is not a look to the past, to
established “artstars” but a look into the future and the Northwest’s
place in what has become the most exciting visual arts scene globally.
BLVD Gallery has established over the past year a venue in which
artists, patrons, and the casual observer can come together to
experience “Urban Art” in all of it’s multitude forms. We are extremely
excited about our many successes over the last year and look forward to
what is certainly going to be an amazing future for urban art here in
the northwest and across the globe.

First Of Many features the work of:

Allister Lee
Robert Hardgrave
Colin Johnson
Brandon Walsh
Amanda Church
Parskid
Jilf
Sam Sneke
Peekaboo Monster
Warren Dykeman
Joshua Howard

May 11 – June 2, 2007
Artist Reception Friday May 11 6pm - 10pm

BLVD Gallery 2316 2nd ave Seattle Wa 98121
http://www.blvdart.com
For more info about the artists:
http://www.enterthealist.com/
http://www.farmerbobsfarm.com/
http://www.colinjohnsonillustration.com/
http://www.amandachurch.ca/
http://www.parskid.com/
http://www.mytuckus.com/
http://snekeone.com/
http://www.peekaboomonster.com/
http://www.warrendykeman.com/
http://www.joshuaabramhoward.com/

Matthew Pasquarello & Chris Thompson @ Roq la Rue

Roq la Rue Gallery
Presents

Matthew Pasquarello
and
Chris Thompson

Opening Friday May 11th 6-9pm

With music by DJ Vodka Twist
Free to public
Show runs through June 2nd
Click artist's images for online galleries

Chris Thompson

Roq la Rue is pleased to present the work of two new forces in the contemporary/Pop Surrealism movement. Both blend a an aura of childhood nostalgia blended with humor as well as poignancy.

chris Thompson

Chris Thompson is a Seattle artist who uses a steady hand an a generous dose of humor in his work. His canvases depict scenes ripped straight from a kid’s waking dreams, such as model jets dropping candy bombs, bath tub toy scuba men coming to life and menacing bathroom visitors, and bats that camouflage themselves to match candy canes. Chris first gained prominence with his paintings that placed pre-school toy “people” in dark domestic situations, which were used on a Sunny Day Real Estate album cover. Since then he’s laid low, working as a tattooist, but is ready to emerge with a new series of his darkly whimsical paintings.

Florida painter Matthew Pasquarello also references a surrealistic fantasy world, however his canvases seem a little more subdued and infused with slight melancholy. Technically highly adept, he uses his skills to create a dreamland populated by quiet children and animals. From the more overtly pop work such as a bunny with a Rubik’s Cube, or the more dreamlike portrait of a young girl with her vampire giraffe pet, his work always retains a poetic atmosphere.

www.roqlarue.com

Degenerate Art Ensemble @ The Vera Project

Degenerate Art Ensemble
friday may 11th * 7:30pm Vera Project (all ages)
w/ Ribbons & Hideous Theives

“They entranced the audience... the secret of their performance is perfect drama, gradation and splendid visuals, indescribable costumes and a punk-symphonic-garage-big-band style. Dynamic upheavals were turning into relaxing passages and everything was falling into place like wheels in a post-modernist clock machine.” Kultur Magazine ( Prague )
photo by steven miller

THIS SHOW IS ALSO DAE's CD RELEASE FOR THEIR NEW ALBUM "CUCKOO CROW" on TELLOUS RECORDS!

In an evening of beautiful, mind-jolting, engaging and imaginative music and performance, Degenerate Art Ensemble will appear along with Ribbons and the Hideous Thieves at the beautifully newly renovated Vera Project on Friday, May 11th at 7:30pm (all ages).

This will be Degenerate Art Ensemble's first Seattle music performance in 2007 - this show leads up to a West Coast Tour, their first major European Festival Performance in July and the release of their new album "Cuckoo Crow" slated for national release this summer (pre-release copies will be available at the show!). In addition to playing songs from their new record and songs never heard before, DAE will be integrating the projected animation of genius animator Stefan Gruber.

THE RIBBONS: (http://www.myspace.com/jherekbischoff) The Ribbons is the solo project of Jherek Bischoff of Dead Science, Jason Webley and formerly of Degenerate Art Ensemble. The group is Jherek playing mandolin and singing, backed up by a powerful string quartet.

Hideous Thieves: (http://www.myspace.com/hideousthievery) Formerly Jeff Suffering and the Hideous Thieves, the group has taken on a whole new sound. Somewhere between Animal Collective and Beirut , Hideous Thieves' sound is melodic, passionate and wild. All of the group members are multi instrumentalists and singers.

Friday, May 11
7:30 PM $7
The Vera Project
Republican and Warren Avenue N
www.degenerateartensemble.com / www.myspace.com/degeneratespace
www.theveraproject.org

BROKEN DISCO @ Chop Suey

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BROKEN DISCO : MAY
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FRIDAY MAY 11TH

Chop Suey, Decibel, Fourthcity, Sensory Effect and Shameless present the second edition of Broken Disco!

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idol stage - 18+
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KNIFEHANDCHOP - Live [Tigerbeat 6 / Toronto]
PASSIONS - Live [Trouble & Bass, Kitsune / NYC]
SUNTZU SOUND - DJ Set [City Soul Radio - KBCS 91.3 / SEATTLE]

Visuals by PIXELFLIP and KILLINGFRENZY
Featuring FUNKTION ONE Sound

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make-out room - 21+
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NOMINAL I - Live [Fourthcity]
NDCV - Live [Basskamp]
NORDIC SOUL - Live [Decibel]
Featuring LUVSHACK Sound

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afterhours - 18+
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KRIS MOON - DJ Set [Decibel, Robotrash]
NAHA - DJ Set [NAHA Army]
MC ANTON BOMB - MC [Shameless]

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@ Chop Suey
1325 E. Madison, Seattle, WA 98122
Open 9pm to 4am (afterhours!)
18+, bar for those 21+ with ID
$10 advance, $12 Day of show, $6 afterhours entry after 2am

http://www.broken-disco.com/
http://www.chopsuey.com/
http://www.dbfestival.com/
http://www.fourthcity.net/
http://www.myspace.com/electrosect
http://www.simplyshameless.com/

Saturday, 5/12

HAPPY 100TH BIRTHDAY SOUTH PARK

Historic Seattle Neighborhood Celebrates on May 12

On Saturday, May 12th, South Park celebrates 100 years as a Seattle
neighborhood, with a full day of events for all ages. Join the
celebration and visit the neighborhood you thought was only a cartoon.

The celebration is a showcase of South Park92s community-building,
with Its active civic and arts community and skate park in-progress.
South Park is the neighborhood link between two sections of the
hard-to-find but fun-to-ride Duwamish Bike Trail.

The fun begins at 2:30 pm with a Bike Fiesta, when kids and adults decorate
bicycles at the South Park Community Center, 8319 8th Avenue South. WE
NEED BURNERS TO MAKE THIS FUN ...PLEASE COME! Supplies are provided
free, but bring your own bike. Cool prizes for people with proper
fitting helmets

And free stylish helmets for those who promise to wear them.

We92ll tour the neighborhood on our decorated bikes from 4 to 5,
Departing from the Community Center. The tour will separate into two
groups; one For kids and skateboarders, and one for bolder bicyclers.

From 5 to 9, do the South Park Art Walk along 14th Avenue South.
Admire and maybe even buy locally-made art including painting,
photography, sculpture, and neon by local artists at ten businesses on
14th Ave. S. Have dinner at an authentic South Park restaurant and
support local artists.

In addition to individual artists92 shows, come to an art benefit for
the River City Skate Park at the Durango CafE9 at 8701 14th Ave. South
(in the heart of South Park) from 5 to 9. Numerous artists have
donated art for sale here, and all proceeds will benefit the River
City Skate Park. Buy cool T-shirts and make the skate park happen,
too. Rumor has it that the long-awaited Durango CafE9 (South Park92s
first sit-down coffee place) will also be having its grand opening
celebration on May 12.

Spend the night in South Park! Free live music at the County Line Bar
From 9 to 2 am. The Kristen Ward Band (rootsy and sultry with a
lonely western twist), Levitations (rock n92 roll with a touch of folk
and a chaser of psychedelia), and Julep (female-fronted indie rock)
are the icing on South Park92s cake.

South Park is located in South Seattle on left bank of the lovely Duwamish
River. For more information and a map, visit http://www.southparkarts.org.

Zappa animator Bruce Bickford @ Fantagraphics Bookstore & Gallery

Hello friends,

We'd like to invite you down to Fantagraphics Bookstore & Gallery on
Saturday, May 12 at 6:00 PM for our presentation of "The
Idiosyncratic Cinema of Bruce Bickford." You may know his work from
Frank Zappa's classic "Baby Snakes" film. If you haven't seen
Bickford's amazing clay animations, you're in for a real treat. The
reclusive animator doesn't get out much, so this is a rare
opportunity. The evening will be hosted by Jim Woodring, and Bruce
will discuss his work after the screening of four shorts - one of
which has never been seen. Free admission, as always. Spread the word.

We're open daily 11:30 to 8:00 PM (Sunday until 5:00 PM). See you all
soon.

Fantagraphics Bookstore & Gallery is located in Seattle's lively
Georgetown arts community at 1201 S. Vale St. (at Airport Way S.).

ROBOT PORN AT KRAKT

Hello! this month we have Berg Nixon (aka Ryan Crosson), an up-and-coming artist from Detroit. Well, up-and-coming is a little of an understatement. At this point, he's been signed to two of the largest and most influential international techno labels, Trapez Ltd and Richie Hawtin's Minus label. Like all techno artists that "make it,' he's heading off to Berlin indefinitely, so we snagged him for one last hurrah before his fees skyrocket ('cause you know they will). Ryan will be performing a live pa of his old, new and unreleased music.

Also joining us are Portland power couple Derek Fisher and The Perfect Cyn. Derek and Cyn run the Sexy Robot Music collective in PDX and don't make it to Seattle enough! We're happy to have them as they are both incredibly technical and charismatic DJs.

from the krakt monster:

KRAKT MAKE SEXY ROBOT TIME AT REBAR.
REDUCE SEXY ROBOT MORALS.
INCREASE SEXY ROBOT POWER.
SPAWN SUPER PORNO BOT.

PORNO BOT GO GONZO.
HOOK CROWD ON METH.
SHAVE DANCEFLOOR HEAD TO TOE.
GREASE WITH ASTROGLIDE.
MAKE DANCERS DO OBSCENE THINGS FOR DIMEBAGS.

KRAKT @ REBAR. 10 BUCKS. SATURDAY. MAY 12.
TECHNO. BOOZE. ROBOT PORN.
BERG NIXON | DEREK FISHER | THE PERFECT CYN | KRISTINA CHILDS

WWW.RYANCROSSON.COM
WWW.TRAUMSCHALLPLATTEN.DE
WWW.SEXYROBOTMUSIC.COM
WWW.MYSPACE.COM/KRAKT

POLARITY - The Union of Opposites.

The fundraising gala will start during the day with yoga, workshops and art. As we remain open, the day's events are expanding with collaborating artists. More details will be available soon. In the evening, guests will find themselves emersed in performance art, music and dancing. Musical perfomances by,

NAHA
AURORA QUEEN
JEN WOOLFE
DIEM
SHAPESHIFTER
MICHAEL MANAHAN
w/ The KV2 Sound System

ALONG WITH,

Sunset ceremony by Celeste Axelson (SEA)
Sunrise morning chanting by goddess Nomi Lyons (VAN)
Performance by the seductive Verotica143
Lush aerial and acrobalancing by Anneka
Vibrant stiltwalking by TRIX
Heavenly Hoopers

Spirited Libations and concoctions carefully infused
to the spirit of the gathering

Location: 1020 1st Ave S ( Entrance on Occidental Ave S )
Time : 10:00pm - LATE
Age : 21+
Cost : $15, Presale @https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr

www.thebodytempleseattle.com

Tuesday, 5/15

A Conversation with Tim O’Brien @ Richard Hugo House

Richard Hugo House Presents

“A Conversation with Tim O’Brien”
May 15 – 7:30 p.m. (corrected time)

National Book Award winner Tim O’Brien joins Richard Hugo House executive director Lyall Bush for an on stage conversation Tuesday, May 15.

Seattle – Richard Hugo House is pleased to present “A Conversation with Tim O’Brien” on May 15 at 7:30 p.m., with a party following. Tickets are $12 ($10 for members) and are available at www.brownpapertickets.com on April 16.

The event is an on-stage conversation between O’Brien and Hugo House executive director Lyall Bush, who will be interviewing him about his books, his writing life and his thoughts about war since Vietnam. The author will stay for the party that follows.

Tim O’Brien writes with fresh and startling power about Vietnam in books that include “The Things They Carried” (a Pulitzer Prize finalist in 1990), “Going After Cacciato” (a National Book Award winner in 1979), “Tomcat in Love” and “In the Lake of the Woods” which Time magazine selected as the best novel of 1994.

About Tim O’Brien

Tim O'Brien has been hailed as “the best American writer of his generation” (San Francisco Chronicle). The author of eight books, O’Brien’s Going After Cacciato won the National Book Award in Fiction in 1979. The Things They Carried was named by the New York Times as one of the ten best books of 1990, received the Chicago Tribune Heartland Award in fiction, and was a finalist for both the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Award. The French edition of The Things They Carried received the Prix du Meilleur Livre Etranger, and the title story was selected by John Updike for The Best American Short Stories of the Century. In the Lake of the Woods was named by Time magazine as the best novel of 1994. The book also received the James Fenimore Cooper Prize from the Society of American Historians and was selected as one of the ten best books of the year by the New York Times. His other books include If I Die in a Combat Zone, Northern Lights, Tomcat in Love and July, July. Tim O'Brien holds the Roy F. and Joann Cole Mitte Endowed Chair in Creative Writing at Texas State University.

Richard Hugo House
1634 11th Ave. (206) 322-7030 www.hugohouse.org

Wednesday, 5/16

The Adventures of Ali & Ali and the aXes of Evil

Hi Party V,

Wed, May 16, 8pm
We wanted to let you guys in on an after-party next Wed following the opening night of On the Boards' last show of the season, neworldtheatre's hysterically clever "The Adventures of Ali & Ali and the aXes of Evil". This show is a smart and funny theater expose about the Bush regime. Following the performance we'll convene in the Sitting Room for a champagne toast and appetizers. Join a great group of artists and art-supporters for a fun and raucous night on Lower Queen Anne. Opening night RUSH tickets are only $12.

Thanks!
Sara

The Adventures of Ali & Ali and the aXes of Evil by Vancouver BC's neworldtheatre
Wed - Sun | May 16 - 20 | 8pm
$18 general | $12 student | $12 opening night RUSH
On the Boards Box Office| 206.217.9888 | Tue - Fri, noon - 6pm | www.ontheboards.org

Events from 5/4 to 5/10/2007

I am writing this edition of Party Volcano from San Jose between checking out from the hotel and airport and I haven't really had time to look at the events for this week. My favorites are Retail Therapy's 4 year anniversary Party and NASSIM ASSEFI's Book Launch. MaShUp looks like a waste of time and money.

Friday, 5/4
8:00 PM Circus Contraption and the Yard Dogs Road Show
10:00 PM ALAN BISHOP: SUBLIME FREQUENCIES DJ SET @ Alibi Room

Saturday, 5/5
9:00 PM Retail Therapy's 4 year anniversary Party
9:00 PM BALLS TO THE WALLS "FOUR" - STINCO-DE-MAYO

Sunday, 5/6
5:00 PM Bruce Davidson Lecture @ Henry Art Gallery
6:30 PM Rat City Rollergirls: Green vs. White

Monday, 5/7
7:30 PM NASSIM ASSEFI's Book Launch @ Elliott Bay Book Company

Thursday 5/10
7:00 PM MaShUp - NWFF's Annual Fundraising Gala

Friday, 5/4

Circus Contraption and the Yard Dogs Road Show

Seattle’s Circus Contraption teams up with The Yard Dogs of San Francisco to offer a one-night-only performance featuring vaudeville, circus, rock & roll, and burlesque ...

In a rare double-bill, Seattle ’s own Circus Contraption and San Francisco ’s Yard Dogs Road Show (on their Cabaret Blitz! Tour) appear at The Showbox on Friday, May 4. In a one-night-only, one-two punch of cabaret and live music, Circus Contraption and Yard Dogs team up to heat up a venue that Circus Contraption sold out for their Halloween performance last October. These two ensembles are at the forefront of the modern circus movement, each coupling wicked and fantastical design with a live band, vaudeville style spectacle, and striped-socked vixens. What Circus Contraption and the Yard Dogs Road Show have in common separates them from the many emulators they have spawned: their ability to weave story and character into a traditionally narrative-free form of performance. As described by Time Out New York “The confluence of story and stunt…offers moments of pure genius.”

Founded in 1998, Circus Contraption, the Northwest’s premiere one-ring traveling circus began with performances two years in a row at the Seattle Fringe Theater Festival. Circus Contraption mixes traditional circus skills such as trapeze and aerial dance, acrobatics, juggling and clowning with elements of cabaret, vaudeville and physical comedy. The troupe also creates its own fantastical masks, costumes, puppetry, props, sets and banners. Created with a leaning toward the surreal, Circus Contraption juxtaposes the dangerous with the whimsical, the exotic with the absurd. http://circuscontraption.com/

Born from the saloon vaudeville that toured the Wild West in the late 1800's. Slammed into the underworld of modern American road culture. The Yard Dogs combine the elements of vaudeville and burlesque - creating a timeless space for the union of ancient theatrical alchemy and modern Pop culture. A true story on stage. Sword swallowers, dancing dolls, fire eaters and sunset hobo poetry - all animated by the live sounds of the Yard Dogs cartoon gypsy band. http://www.yarddogsroadshow.com

Press photos for Circus Contraption available at http://www.circuscontraption.com/photos.html

Circus Contraption and the Yard Dogs Road Show
Friday, May 4, 2007
8:00pm, 21 and over
$18.00 General Admission
The Showbox
1426 1st Ave at Pike, Seattle WA
Advance tickets are available at The Showbox or through Ticketmaster.

ALAN BISHOP: SUBLIME FREQUENCIES DJ SET @ Alibi Room

This one's truly special. Bishop doesn't do this often, if ever...

Friday May 4, 10 pm, 21+, free
ALAN BISHOP: SUBLIME FREQUENCIES DJ SET
Continuing the Alibi Room's commitment to expanding
musical horizons, Alan Bishop of Sun City Girls and
founding member of Sublime Frequencies ethnographic
film collective plays music from Southeast Asia, the
Middle East, and North Africa which he has collected
in three decades of extensive travel.

Alibi Room - www.myspace.com/alibiroomseattle

Saturday, 5/5

Retail Therapy's 4 year anniversary Party

Um just a few simple words: Get your BOOTIE on the DANCE Floor. Why? Cause my little shop is turning 4, it is SPRING and you can't wait to meet some great people and shake your tail feathers. We have an awesome and diverse line up to warm you up into the perfect groove and is just what you have been aching for. Choklate http://www.myspace.com/listen2chok Furniture Girls http://www.myspace.com/furnituregirls Kippy & Anshul return for your favorite dance grooves May 5th Doors open at 9pm Waid's Haitian Restaurant 1212 E Jefferson $8 Bring someone we( Dylan, Angela, Verity, and Me'¦Wazhma) have not met and receive a FREE GIFT BAG! BIG GIANT KISSES xo ;)

Waid's Haitian Restaurant
1212 E Jefferson $8
http://www.evite.com/pages/invite/viewInvite.jsp?event=UTTKMQWHOUMNKKMVLHWP

BALLS TO THE WALLS "FOUR" - STINCO-DE-MAYO

BALLS TO THE WALLS "FOUR" - STINCO-DE-MAYO CELEBRATION!!!!!
HI friends, this is an invitation/reminder to come to BALLS TO THE WALLS "FOUR", which is me and Dougs cinco de mayo SEVENTIES ROCK PARTY!
Besides the usual seventies rock, pop, and soul we will play some festive latin rock and disco. We will also do a set of classic 70's rockin' blues by the likes of John Lee Hooker and Canned Heat!!!
In honor of Cinco de Mayo the Cafe Racer will feature Mexican beers and maybe even some tacos!!
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: May 5th, Saturday
TIME: 9:00 pm

Sunday, 5/6

Bruce Davidson Lecture @ Henry Art Gallery

Aperture West Collaborative Lecture Series: Bruce Davidson

Sunday, May 6, 5 PM (PLEASE NOTE - if you received a postcard for this event, the time on the postcard is wrong. The lecture is at 5 PM, not 2 PM.)

FREE, seating is limited - first come, first served.
Bruce Davidson is an outsider on the inside, making visible the invisible and the overlooked. Entering worlds such as a traveling circus in 1958, a Brooklyn street gang in 1959, and the Civil Rights movement (including the Freedom Rides in 1961 and the Selma March in 1965), Davidson demonstrates that once a photographer finds his way into a world he can manifest meaning and beauty by utilizing a keen sense of compassion, commitment, and discipline.

A member of Magnum Photos since 1958, Davidson was the recipient of both a Guggenheim Fellowship and the first grant in photography from the National Endowment for the Arts. Images from Time of Change—Civil Rights Photographs 1961-1965 will be featured in Aperture’s Chelsea gallery in May. His Aperture books include Subway (1986), Central Park (1995), and Portraits (1999).

The Aperture West Collaborative Series is generously supported by Freestyle Photographic; this lecture is also supported by Canon and the Explorers of Light program.

Henry Art Gallery

Rat City Rollergirls: Green vs. White

If yellow and blue make green, what do green and white make? A very scary bout, that's what. RCRG's Western Regional Champion all-star team is going to undergo a little binary fission, and then ... and THEN ... the all-star team is going to play ITSELF! That's right, that's right, a little green versus white.

The May 6 Green & White Bout at Bellevue Skate King is a fundraiser for the all-star traveling team, which needs to raise enough money to get to Austin, Texas, for the Women's Flat Track Derby Association (WFTDA) national championship later this year.

Doors are at 6:30 p.m. and the bout starts at 7 p.m. -- don't miss even a minute of this all-star throw-down. Halftime act is a "boy bout" with coaches, refs, and derby widows (those who sit home alone and wait for their rollergirls to come home from endless hours of practice). Each of the two halves of the all-star bout will be 20 minutes long.

Tickets are $10 each, general admission only, and ticket numbers are EXTREMELY limited.

Venue website: http://www.bellevueskateking.com/

http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/14971

Monday, 5/7

NASSIM ASSEFI's Book Launch @ Elliott Bay Book Company

Nassim writes:

A decade ago, I was trapped alone in a monsoon in Yogyakarta, Indonesia. My travel companion had departed the day before. I had run out of books to read and had already written my postcards. I was a 23-year-old medical student on holiday, a privileged Iranian-American unacquainted with suffering. As I waited for the rains to end, I had little else to do but sit with myself. The spiritually perplexing issues posed to me by my patients with unimaginably difficult lives percolated through my mind. I realized I was woefully unprepared for making sense of the maelstrom of sickness and dying that I was witnessing in the clinical setting. I began to write. A novel was born, the story of how great loss might manifest in the context of a comfortable US life. I had seen grief take a variety of forms in different parts of the world. This seemed worthy of further exploration. I kept writing after my return from Indonesia, stealing quiet moments in the interstices of medical work. Finally—for publication is a lesson in delayed gratification and patience—my writing is publicly accessible. My novel, Aria, is now arriving in American bookstores, is available on amazon.com worldwide, and is being translated into five languages.

About Aria:

Aria
Published by Harcourt May 2007. Available now.

Jasmine is a cancer specialist and single mother in Seattle, long estranged from her Iranian parents and heritage. When faced with the sudden accidental death of Aria, her five-year-old daughter, she finds little solace in the healing advice she’s prescribed to her dying patients and their families. Despite the loving support of her best friend Dot, a “little person” studying the role of dwarves in ancient Egypt, and her partner Alexander, a retired war correspondent, Jasmine is flattened by grief. Lacking religious scaffolding or comforting rituals, Jasmine abandons her life in exchange for a one-way ticket around the world.

Kick off book launch is May 7 at Elliot Bay Books in Seattle.
www.nassimassefi.com
http://nassimassefi.com/books.aspx

Thursday 5/10

MaShUp - NWFF's Annual Fundraising Gala

An evening of synthetic union and unhinged bidding
to benefit Northwest Film Forum

The spring gala returns for a recombinant evening of the unlikely, the elegant, the monstrous, and the piquant chopped, diced, spliced and presented as a whole to liberate the dollars of the assembled for the benefit of Northwest Film Forum

Attire: Smashing and Clashing!
Attitude: Rash and Brash with plenty of cash!

Watch for your invite, or visit the website to request your printed invitation:
http://www.nwfilmforum.org/party.html

Saturday, May 5 at 7pm
tHe MaShUp - NWFF's Annual Fundraising Gala
Temple de Hirsch Sinai
More at nwfilmforum.org/party

May 5th, 6:00-11:00 PM
$50 individual
$400 table of 8
at Temple De Hirsch Sinai
1520 E. Union
Seattle
TICKETSALES WILL CLOSE APRIL 30TH

Temple de Hirsch
1520 E. Union

http://www.nwfilmforum.org/mashup.html
http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/14122