Friday, May 25, 2007

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


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


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).


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


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:
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!


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