Thursday, May 10, 2007

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.


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


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.


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


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


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


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
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