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 ForumThe 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
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