Let me send you this week's PV letter just before I am leaving for India in a few hours. The temperature in Delhi seems absurd: 90F. That must be a typo. Or not. This will be a business trip but I think I'll be able to squeeze out an afternoon in Delhi. Do you have any recommendations? What would you do in Delhi for a few hours?
Friday, 2/29
6:00 PM Kader Attia: New Work @ Henry Art Gallery
7:30 PM Leap Forth in Fremont
8:00 PM Foscil Residential #2
8:00 PM? Solo Performance Festival (SPF:2)
Saturday, 3/1
6:00 PM Art Opening: Father & Son Bloodscape Drawings & Giant Doodles
6:00 PM *Sweet Dreams* at the Sweet Spot
6:00 PM Seattle Erotic Arts Festival (SEAF)
8:00 PM Saturday Morning Cartoons @ Ouch My Eye
9:59 PM JUICE, Seattle's only Modern Global Dance Night
Sunday, 3/2
Noon I Heart Rummage returns @ Chop Suey
Monday, 3/4
5:00 PM Knockout Tuesday Primary Party at Moe Bar
8:00 PM? PYRAMID LOUNGE 4 YEAR ANNIVERSARY SHOW AND MASQUERADE PARTY
Tuesday, 3/5
8:00 PM A Conversation with Stephin Merritt of the Magnetic Fields
Thursday, 3/6
5:00 PM CityDog Magazine Art Show featuring Decopaw Design
5:00 PM PUNCH Presents: Howard Barlow
6:00 PM Opening @ SOIL
7:30 PM Science: The Atlas Project at CERN
8:00 PM Pseudo-Koreans & dysfunctional white people @ On the Boards
Friday, 2/29
Kader Attia: New Work @ Henry Art Gallery
The Henry Art Gallery is pleased to welcome Kader Attia to the Pacific Northwest. In March 2008, the Henry will open an exhibition of installations and new video works by the French-Algerian artist, his first large-scale, solo exhibition in the U.S.
Attia, born in 1970 to a Muslim family of Algerian origin, grew up in the outskirts of Paris in a largely immigrant-populated area. The impact the environment in which Attia grew up permeates much of the artist’s works. His early work captured identity and gender issues in Muslim immigrant populations living in a French consumerist society. Attia’s recent projects have turned darker and more intimate, presenting an apocalyptic outlook on the suburban landscape of today. His recent installations move away from explicit narratives to explore the affect of architectural scale.
http://www.henryart.org/ex/attia.html
Leap Forth in Fremont
Hello PV,
Entertaining event with proceeds benefitting some hot nonpartisan political action...
fyi
/*Leap Forth! */
*Backbone Campaign celebrates Leap Day with Heart Stopping Aerial
Performances *
http://www.backbonecampaign.org/storydetail.cfm?id=217
(Seattle, WA) The Backbone Campaign will host an aerial performance,
Friday, February 29^th , 7:30 - 10:30 pm at Theo's Chocolate Warehouse,
3400 Phinney Avenue North, Seattle.
Tickets to the event, featuring
Seattle's best aerial performers, live music, live auction, and cash
bar, are available at BrownPaperTicket.com and at the door for $25. The
event is a send-off party and fundraiser to launch the Backbone
Campaign's Procession for the Future, a touring parade using high
production value art and spectacle to animate our aspirations and
deliver a compelling progressive vision for the country.
Performers include the Velone Sisters (Martha Enson and Cathy
Sutherland), the Cabiri, Esther Edelman, Lynelle Sjoberg, Lara Paxton,
The Aerialistas, Kari Podgorski, Jonathan Rose, Ben Wendel and Rachel
Nehmer, The Flying Caribe Sisters, and other amazing acts of daring and
grace. The performances will be augmented by live music provided by
Yellow Hat Band, Gina Sala, and others.
There will also be raffle drawings and a live auction featuring items
such as a trip for two to Costa Rica, paintings by Pam Ingalls and
others, sailboat cruise on Puget Sound, weekend stay on Vashon Island,
and more.
Proceeds will go to fund the Procession for the Future's cross country
tour. The Procession is a creative organizing tool to inspire, educate
and train students, youth and concerned citizens to be more effective
activists ? in this crucial election year and beyond. The Procession
consists of giant puppets and floats representing a progressive vision
for the country. Images include a polar bear representing the need for
climate stabilization, a giant sun for renewable energy, an
origami-inspired peace crane representing peace, fair trade farmers
exchanging apples and coffee, a giant globe carried by costumed people
representing our planet's cultural diversity, a Lady Liberty for
immigration fairness, an inflatable doctor representing Universal
Health Care, and much more. Following each Procession, these festival art
pieces will transform into a theme park for education and activist
training.
The Procession will debut in Portland, Oregon on March 4^th , a day the Backbone Campaign celebrates the power of 'We the People.' The call to action takes place March 4th--"March Forth!"--which also happens to be the day the Constitution was ratified by the States, in 1789.
The Procession for the Future includes a giant Constitution preamble that
has been signed by thousands of Americans who hold a vision for a
better, more perfect nation. "The Constitution is a living document and
we feel the Procession for the Future is a living testimony to the
aspirations of the American people for a better, more humane and just
future," says Amy Morrison, Backbone Campaign Board President.
For more information about this event, or the Procession for the
Future, go to www.backbonecampaign.org <http://www.backbonecampaign.org/ or
call the Backbone Campaign, (206) 408-8058.
Friday, February 29^th , 7:30 - 10:30 pm at Theo's Chocolate Warehouse, 3400 Phinney Avenue North, Seattle.
Foscil Residential #2
This friday BLVD Galleries favorite Seattle band Foscil will be
continuing their musical residency with another performance. For this
show Foscil will forego the usual mix of acoustic and electronic
instruments for a complete Electro bash. It should be fun and if you
happen to be a fan of these guys other project "Truckasaurus" you know
they bring the party everytime.
BLVD Gallery is proud to announce a new music performance series
featuring Seattle’s “Post Baroque Nu-Hop” ensemble FOSCIL. Foscils
music is an amalgam of diverse influences touching on the atmospheric
production of Wu Tangs RZA, the out-jazz of Miles, and the psychedelic
meandering of Zappa.
The series of shows, titled “Residential”, will occur on the last
Friday of every month with a different incarnation of Foscil. While the
first show in January will feature the band in its regular lineup
subsequent shows will be an opportunity for Foscil to explore their
material through a variety of approaches including the use of the very
deep talent pool here in Seattle. “The goal is to evolve”, says member
Adam Swan “ People are in an artistic state of mind in the gallery
setting and that environment lends itself to different perspectives of
what our band can be”.
BLVD Gallery presents
“Foscil Residential #2”
A Musical Residency
with special guest Witnica
Friday February 29, 2008
Doors Open at 8pm
2316 2nd ave
In the Belltown Neighborhood
Seatttle Wa, 98121
www.blvdart.com
206.448.8767
http://www.blvdart.com
Solo Performance Festival (SPF:2)
Seattle's annual solo performance theatre festival is dedicated to presenting fearless, cutting-edge, diverse performances by solo theatre artists. SPF: 2 features the talents of Andrew Connor, James Judd, Aaron LaPlante, Jayson McDonald, Suzanne Morrison and Michelle Todd. SPF:2 will host six original solo one-act plays by these local and international theatre artists, as well as two evenings of short solo performances curated by the Unicycle Collective and featuring emerging and established Seattle artists.
Friday February 29th-Sunday March 16th. Tickets $15.
For more information, go to http://www.theatreoffjackson.org
Saturday, 3/1
Art Opening: Father & Son Bloodscape Drawings & Giant Doodles
6pm.
The Anne Bonny.
1355 E Olive Way, Seattle WA.
www.theannebonny.com
*Sweet Dreams* at the Sweet Spot
Hey Party Boyz,
Drawings and Paintings by Dan Ayala
Recent work in line with the sexy atmosphere of the fabulous Sweet Spot Cafe. Spacious cafe with a fun staff. Party room in back. Just opened in December, come check it out!
Feel free to click on these websites for info on the artist and/or the location.
http://www.thesweetspotcafe.com/
http://www.eyeballtornado.com/
Opening Saturday, March 1 6 - 11pm
Stop by for an excellent latte or mocha before hitting the Erotic Art Festival.
Hope to see you there!
*Sweet Dreams* at the Sweet Spot, 7811 Aurora Ave N., March 1 -30, 2008
Seattle Erotic Arts Festival (SEAF)
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Saturday Morning Cartoons @ Ouch My Eye
Thanks to all of you that came down for SPACECRAFT, checkout some of the photos here.
This Saturday, March 1st 8pm Saturday Morning Cartoons. That's right! Saturday Morning Cartoons, Saturday Night.
Waking up two hours earlier than you did the rest of the week to begin a six hour trance...fueled on sugar cereal
worshipping at the technicolor religion of Superfriends, Fat Albert, Land of the Lost, Bugs Bunny and a bunch of others. Saturday morning taught us how a bill became a law, super heroes are nothing without verbs and that peanut butter spread onto celery sticks any time of day are a treat. Lawrence Ruelos and Dev Madan bring us another ritual to fondly remember.
FEATURING NEW WORK FROM:
Rick Garland, Augie Pagan, Brian Patenaude, James Ma, David Pauls, Dev Madan
Karin Yamagiwa Madan, Ed Pun, Gene Blakefield, Jason Zayas, Joe Kresoja
Kevin Neireiter, Leslie Harrington, Marsha Rollinger, Paul Whitehead, Rich Werner
Rob McDaniel, Royden Lepp, Scott Kikuta, Lawrence Ruelos, Suzanne Kaufman
Richard Anderson, Tim Gillette, Matt Holmberg, Stephen Notely, Sarita Kolhatkar
Come down and support local artists, musicians, thinkers and drinkers
Ouch My Eye
Ouch My Eye 1022 1st Avenue South | info @ouchmyeye (dot) com | 206.381.8457 | http://ouchmyeye.com
JUICE, Seattle's only Modern Global Dance Night
JUICE, Seattle's only Modern Global Dance Night in support of Tasveer
March 1st, Saturday • $8; $5 before 10 pm
Nectar Lounge 412 N 36th St
Support Aaina by coming out to Dance!
JUICE is a monthly dance party that focuses on Global Dance music. Each month, KEXP's DJ Darek Mazzone with his collaborators Eric Schmidt (DJ Rhythma) and Rebecca Campeau, along with special guests create a vibe that blends Latin, South Asian, Brazilian, African, and other global flavors into a funky night that is unique in Seattle. The proceeds from each night goes to a different charity that does international work for peace, social services, environmental protection, education, health, and justice.
For March, JUICE proceeds will be donated to Tasveer. Come and hang out with the Aaina and Yoni ki Baat organizers and participants! Plus we will have raffles and surprises.
http://www.myspace.com/juiceinseattle
Sunday, 3/2
I Heart Rummage returns @ Chop Suey
I Heart Rummage is Seattle's longest running cutting edge urban craft experience!
Now in our new location: Chop Suey! 1325 E. Madison, Seattle
Join IHR Sunday March 2nd for it's very first show at Capitol Hill's Chop Suey!
IHR features 40 of Seattle's most innovative indie designers and urban crafters at Chop Suey
from 12-4pm the first Sunday of most every month.
Be sure to stop by March 2nd and shop the best variety of urban crafts,
try out the new Chop Suey eats, and hear our own DJ Huggy, spin his tracks!
Special guest for March is Urban Fashion Network.
IHR always has the latest and greatest in urban crafts!
The first Sunday of most every month
12-4pm.
Chop Suey.
1325 E. Madison, Seattle, WA.
www.iheartrummage.com
www.iheartindiecrafts.com
www.myspace.com/iheartrummage
Monday, 3/4
Knockout Tuesday Primary Party at Moe Bar
MARCH FOURTH MARCH FORTH
Knockout Tuesday Primary Party!
Texans and Ohioans are headed to the primaries, and they've got lots of delegates to give. Our Democratic Presidental nominee could very well be determined by the results of their voting - Who's gonna win? Are you an Obama fan or is Hillary more your style? Watch the spectacle and drink in the name of democracy at Moe Bar with happy hour drink specials till 8. Join our friends from Washington Bus and FUSE. 5pm till the returns are in..
* Two flat screen HD-TVs viewable throughout the main bar area
* Tuesday March 4th @ 5pm, going until the returns come in
* Happy Hour prices until 8:00 - $2 beers and $2 wells
* Hosted by Washington Bus, FUSE Washington, Democrats Work, and Moe Bar!
Moe Bar is located next door to Neumos on 10th Ave.
PYRAMID LOUNGE 4 YEAR ANNIVERSARY SHOW AND MASQUERADE PARTY
~Stepping Out : A Bellydance Masquerade Party -
A dress up night on the town for bellydancers. Come in your costumes and be ready for a mind expanding evening! We are going to have Seattle's hottest acts stepping out and doing things you never see them do!
Laura Rose, Seattle's Gothic Bellydance and Burlesque Queen, does classic Egyptian Cabaret with Live music by House of Tarab! Nadira, 5 time national cabaret title holder, shakes it up with hip hop fusion! The earth goddess Delilah will have something special cooked up! Raqs Serpentine will be performing a (gasp*) cabaret routine with all beads and sparkles. Who know what House of Tarab will do when they step out!
Suggested attire: Bellydance clothes and Mardi Gras style masks. Polish up a little known facet of the beautiful diamond that is you!
Tickets on-sale NOW: http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/25505 or call 24/7 800-838-3006
Pyramid Lounge flyers with the features for the entire year and special limit edition RAQS SERPENTINE T-Shirts will be available
Tickets: http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/25505 or call 24/7 800-838-3006
Tuesday, 3/5
A Conversation with Stephin Merritt of the Magnetic Fields
Richard Hugo House presents A Conversation with Stephin Merritt, of The Magnetic Fields. “69 Love Songs” singer/songwriter Stephin Merritt takes the stage with Hugo House executive director Lyall Bush to discuss his droll lyrics and, among other things, his boredom with love songs.
Stephin Merritt has released seven albums by his band The Magnetic Fields (including "69 Love Songs" and this month’s “Distortion”) and two albums from The 6ths. He also makes music under the names Future Bible Heroes and The Gothic Archies. Spin and Rolling Stone magazine, along with dozens of major national magazines and newspapers, praised "69 Love Songs" as one of the best albums of 1999. Some called him the Cole Porter of his generation. (His favorite band is ABBA, to whom he credits his compositional impulses.)
8 p.m. FREE. 1634 11th Ave, (206) 322-7030 www.hugohouse.org
Thursday, 3/6
CityDog Magazine Art Show featuring Decopaw Design
WHO
CityDog Magazine, you and your furry, four-legged art lover.
WHAT
Join CityDog Magazine and the Pioneer Square Community Association for the first-ever dog friendly art walk as part of the First Thursday Art Walk in Pioneer Square.
Be sure to check out the CityDog-hosted, one-night-only art exhibit showcasing the fabulous works of some of Seattle's finest dog photographers and artists all under one roof!
Photographer extraordinaire Amy Soper of Dane & Dane Photography will be on hand to snap portraits of your own furry friend (available for purchase) and Pioneer Square's own Dry Soda will be there with refreshing samples of their gourmet sodas.
WHEN
March 6, 2008, 5 p.m. to 9 p.m.
WHERE
Seattle's Pioneer Square on the corner of S. Washington & Occidental
(at the old Fenix; enter through the atrium on Occidental Square)
Not in Seattle? It's not too late to get plane tickets and hotel reservations!
FEATURED PHOTOGRAPHERS & ARTISTS
Bev Sparks, B Sparks Photography
Emily Rieman, Best Friend Photography
J. Nichole Smith, Dane & Dane Photography
Jenifer Flynn, Four Legs Photography
Jamie Pflughoeft, Decopaw Design
Jennifer Sellers, Artist
Shai Steiner, Animals In Primary
Angela Ketelhut, Art by Angie
This dog friendly event is one-night-only, so don't miss this chance to mingle with fellow dog lovers and visit with the photographers and artists who specialize solely in the art of the four legged. Each will be on hand to discuss and share their wonderful works of fine art and photography with you. Then, look for the "CityDog Friendly" sign at other participating, dog friendly galleries as part of the First Thursday Art Walk in Pioneer Square.
Also, be sure to check out the Winter Decopaw Design sale, going on now through March 31st! http://www.decopaw.com. I will also have small art prints on sale at the art show.
Hope to see everyone there!
Fenix Underground, 109 S. Washington St, Seattle, WA 98104 US,
http://www.evite.com/pages/invite/viewInvite.jsp?event=SAIGPXCSDJNJEUWPUAYB
PUNCH Presents: Howard Barlow
Safe and Sound
Howard Barlow
March 6 – 30, 2008
Opening Reception: Thursday, March 6, 2008, 5-8 pm
Artist will be in attendance the first and final Saturdays of the month.
Exhibition Link
Download Press Release in Word Format
Artist Website
Howard Barlow’s new body of work, Safe and Sound, is cold and unfriendly yet formal and safely non-objective with evidence of an obviously dangerous past. Borrowing from a hospital aesthetic, Barlow aims to bridge the gap between conceptions of stability and volatility. Utilizing institutional powder-coat colors, gun-barrel patina finishes, recycled bullet-lead solder, reconstructed broken window panes, wool yarn, abused steel, and actions such as knitting, hacking, shooting, shattering, and leading glass, this body of work explores the symbiotic relationships of danger and safety, vulnerability and protection.
This exhibition includes Seven Pains Mended, a series of windowpanes broken out of Barlow’s own home. By means of melting down spent bullet lead in combination with solder, each pane has been reconstructed and placed in a bullet-riddled steel frame. Other works, such as Big Guns Make Good Neighbors and The Weather Outside is Frightful, consist of steel panels that have been shot and/or hacked by hatchet or splitting maul and linked together, lovingly, one to the next, with hand-knit limbs. Notions of an armed population creating stability and stereotypes of maternal versus paternal protective instincts are explored in these works.
Howard Barlow lives east of the Cascades in the small rural town of Thorp where he has converted an old firehouse into a live/work space. He currently instructs art at both Columbia Basin College and at Central Washington University.
PUNCH Gallery Hours: Noon-5 pm, Fri-Sun, or by appointment: art@punchgallery.org
PUNCH, 119 Prefontaine Place South, Seattle, WA 98104
www.punchgallery.org,
(206) 621-1945
www.hbarlow.com
Opening @ SOIL
Please join us in welcoming our newest members
New Members Show -- 2008 Nola Avienne, Vesna Pavlovic, Renée Rhodes and Adam Satushek
March 6--30, 2008
Thursdays through Sundays, 12--5pm
Opening reception First Thursday, March 6, 6-9 pm
The New Members Show will feature work by four of SOIL's newest additions: Nola Avienne, Vesna Pavlovic, Renée Rhodes and Adam Satushek. This diverse group of artists will add fresh new perspectives to the SOIL collective. New works in photography, installation, video, sculpture and drawing will be exhibited.
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Nola Avienne Recent events from personal history, transformation, and memory are the starting points of Nola Avienne's work. While investigating the tensions between different materials, how they evoke art and science, pain and humor, she addresses the issues of fragility and protection. Her works, made as traces of mechanical interventions are seductive objects, which both physically and perceptually, open up the space between order and chaos. For theNew Members Show, Avienne will create drawings and sculpture to illustrate these concepts with the use of magnets.
Vesna Pavlovic Vesna Pavlovic's works develop as anthropological studies, analyzing culture and visual representations through particular phenomena, and through the behavior of certain social groups. The prevailing themes in Pavlovic's work are issues of taste, desire and expectation, and the friction of performance. For her participation at the New Members Show, Pavlovic will present her most recent series Show Homes, produced in 2006-07. The images of model houses, meticulously arranged for prospective buyers, and shot in various locations in the US, reveal the shifting boundaries between private and public space. Presented both as photographic prints, as well as projected images, within this installation, the images will work simultaneously as images of display, and the display of images.
Renée Rhodes Through the language of dance Renée Rhodes continues thinking over her relationship to the places and spaces she comes to rest in. From locations with physical immediacy to spaces more obscure in nature, controlled structures of human movement aim to aid with the discovery of her human place. The works to be shown at SOIL will make use of absurdly controlled guidelines and structures which act as the frameworks for the video's surface. Beyond the surface dances lie choreographically demanding phone calls, physically controlling geographies and fleets of pelting ping pong balls..
Adam Satushek Adam Satushek's work investigates the knitting of humans with the world—how people's actions and creations influence surrounding environments and how these environments in turn affect people. As people build structures within the existing framework of the world they mimic and adopt existing aspects of it while augmenting and rejecting others. Adam's photographic work shown in the New Members Show explores the mutually constitutive and fluctuating dimensions that exist between built structures and the surrounding world.
March at SOIL in the Backspace:
Randy Wood: Panic, Dora!
Curiosity gets the best of her and little Dora opens the forbidden box. Terrified, she flees from freshly released ghosts. Spookiness ensues.
Randy Wood presents new sculptural work
SOIL ARTIST-RUN GALLERY, 112 3rd Ave S, Seattle, WA 98104.
Science: The Atlas Project at CERN
This spring, the most powerful machine ever conceived—the large hadron collider (LHC) is scheduled to begin operations. CERN, dubbed "the world’s largest experiment," is an international collaborative scientific project (near Geneva, Switzerland), which seeks to simulate the big bang. It is hoped that the collider will produce the elusive Higgs boson, the observation of which could explain how other elementary particles acquire properties such as mass and provide the ‘missing links’ in the search for a grand unified theory of physics. Uwe Bratzler, a graduate of the University of Washington and a physicist on the project, unlocks the science behind this momentous experiment. Presented as part of The Seattle Science Lecture Series.
Tickets are $5 at the door only. Town Hall members receive priority seating.
First Thu Art Walk
Pioneer Sq Galleries. Downstairs at Town Hall, enter on Seneca Street. Thursday, March 06, 2008. 7:30 PM
Pseudo-Koreans & dysfunctional white people @ On the Boards
Hi Party V -
Next up at On the Boards is the Seattle debut of YOUNG JEAN LEE with her break-out theater show, “Songs of the Dragons Flying to Heaven (A Show about White People in Love)”. We saw this show last year and found it daring, dark, blunt and really funny. Lee said her worst nightmare was to make a “confessional, ethnic identity play with a flowery Asian-sounding title”… so she decided she needed to do just that. In Songs of the Dragons..., a character named "Korean-American" navigates increasingly disturbing levels of a pseudo-Korean world intercut with scenes of a white couple discussing their stereotypically dysfunctional relationship. $24.
“…chauvinistic monologues and ass-slapping Korean dances…” – Village VOICE
Tickets & info @ http://ontheboards.org Mar 6 - 9, 8pm
Cold Lava
Vince Mira @ Triple Door (2/26/08)
Gates Ballard writes:
Friday, 2/29
6:00 PM Kader Attia: New Work @ Henry Art Gallery
7:30 PM Leap Forth in Fremont
8:00 PM Foscil Residential #2
8:00 PM? Solo Performance Festival (SPF:2)
Saturday, 3/1
6:00 PM Art Opening: Father & Son Bloodscape Drawings & Giant Doodles
6:00 PM *Sweet Dreams* at the Sweet Spot
6:00 PM Seattle Erotic Arts Festival (SEAF)
8:00 PM Saturday Morning Cartoons @ Ouch My Eye
9:59 PM JUICE, Seattle's only Modern Global Dance Night
Sunday, 3/2
Noon I Heart Rummage returns @ Chop Suey
Monday, 3/4
5:00 PM Knockout Tuesday Primary Party at Moe Bar
8:00 PM? PYRAMID LOUNGE 4 YEAR ANNIVERSARY SHOW AND MASQUERADE PARTY
Tuesday, 3/5
8:00 PM A Conversation with Stephin Merritt of the Magnetic Fields
Thursday, 3/6
5:00 PM CityDog Magazine Art Show featuring Decopaw Design
5:00 PM PUNCH Presents: Howard Barlow
6:00 PM Opening @ SOIL
7:30 PM Science: The Atlas Project at CERN
8:00 PM Pseudo-Koreans & dysfunctional white people @ On the Boards
Friday, 2/29
Kader Attia: New Work @ Henry Art Gallery
The Henry Art Gallery is pleased to welcome Kader Attia to the Pacific Northwest. In March 2008, the Henry will open an exhibition of installations and new video works by the French-Algerian artist, his first large-scale, solo exhibition in the U.S.
Attia, born in 1970 to a Muslim family of Algerian origin, grew up in the outskirts of Paris in a largely immigrant-populated area. The impact the environment in which Attia grew up permeates much of the artist’s works. His early work captured identity and gender issues in Muslim immigrant populations living in a French consumerist society. Attia’s recent projects have turned darker and more intimate, presenting an apocalyptic outlook on the suburban landscape of today. His recent installations move away from explicit narratives to explore the affect of architectural scale.
http://www.henryart.org/ex/attia.html
Leap Forth in Fremont
Hello PV,
Entertaining event with proceeds benefitting some hot nonpartisan political action...
fyi
/*Leap Forth! */
*Backbone Campaign celebrates Leap Day with Heart Stopping Aerial
Performances *
http://www.backbonecampaign.org/storydetail.cfm?id=217
(Seattle, WA) The Backbone Campaign will host an aerial performance,
Friday, February 29^th , 7:30 - 10:30 pm at Theo's Chocolate Warehouse,
3400 Phinney Avenue North, Seattle.
Tickets to the event, featuring
Seattle's best aerial performers, live music, live auction, and cash
bar, are available at BrownPaperTicket.com and at the door for $25. The
event is a send-off party and fundraiser to launch the Backbone
Campaign's Procession for the Future, a touring parade using high
production value art and spectacle to animate our aspirations and
deliver a compelling progressive vision for the country.
Performers include the Velone Sisters (Martha Enson and Cathy
Sutherland), the Cabiri, Esther Edelman, Lynelle Sjoberg, Lara Paxton,
The Aerialistas, Kari Podgorski, Jonathan Rose, Ben Wendel and Rachel
Nehmer, The Flying Caribe Sisters, and other amazing acts of daring and
grace. The performances will be augmented by live music provided by
Yellow Hat Band, Gina Sala, and others.
There will also be raffle drawings and a live auction featuring items
such as a trip for two to Costa Rica, paintings by Pam Ingalls and
others, sailboat cruise on Puget Sound, weekend stay on Vashon Island,
and more.
Proceeds will go to fund the Procession for the Future's cross country
tour. The Procession is a creative organizing tool to inspire, educate
and train students, youth and concerned citizens to be more effective
activists ? in this crucial election year and beyond. The Procession
consists of giant puppets and floats representing a progressive vision
for the country. Images include a polar bear representing the need for
climate stabilization, a giant sun for renewable energy, an
origami-inspired peace crane representing peace, fair trade farmers
exchanging apples and coffee, a giant globe carried by costumed people
representing our planet's cultural diversity, a Lady Liberty for
immigration fairness, an inflatable doctor representing Universal
Health Care, and much more. Following each Procession, these festival art
pieces will transform into a theme park for education and activist
training.
The Procession will debut in Portland, Oregon on March 4^th , a day the Backbone Campaign celebrates the power of 'We the People.' The call to action takes place March 4th--"March Forth!"--which also happens to be the day the Constitution was ratified by the States, in 1789.
The Procession for the Future includes a giant Constitution preamble that
has been signed by thousands of Americans who hold a vision for a
better, more perfect nation. "The Constitution is a living document and
we feel the Procession for the Future is a living testimony to the
aspirations of the American people for a better, more humane and just
future," says Amy Morrison, Backbone Campaign Board President.
For more information about this event, or the Procession for the
Future, go to www.backbonecampaign.org <http://www.backbonecampaign.org/ or
call the Backbone Campaign, (206) 408-8058.
Friday, February 29^th , 7:30 - 10:30 pm at Theo's Chocolate Warehouse, 3400 Phinney Avenue North, Seattle.
Foscil Residential #2
This friday BLVD Galleries favorite Seattle band Foscil will be
continuing their musical residency with another performance. For this
show Foscil will forego the usual mix of acoustic and electronic
instruments for a complete Electro bash. It should be fun and if you
happen to be a fan of these guys other project "Truckasaurus" you know
they bring the party everytime.
BLVD Gallery is proud to announce a new music performance series
featuring Seattle’s “Post Baroque Nu-Hop” ensemble FOSCIL. Foscils
music is an amalgam of diverse influences touching on the atmospheric
production of Wu Tangs RZA, the out-jazz of Miles, and the psychedelic
meandering of Zappa.
The series of shows, titled “Residential”, will occur on the last
Friday of every month with a different incarnation of Foscil. While the
first show in January will feature the band in its regular lineup
subsequent shows will be an opportunity for Foscil to explore their
material through a variety of approaches including the use of the very
deep talent pool here in Seattle. “The goal is to evolve”, says member
Adam Swan “ People are in an artistic state of mind in the gallery
setting and that environment lends itself to different perspectives of
what our band can be”.
BLVD Gallery presents
“Foscil Residential #2”
A Musical Residency
with special guest Witnica
Friday February 29, 2008
Doors Open at 8pm
2316 2nd ave
In the Belltown Neighborhood
Seatttle Wa, 98121
www.blvdart.com
206.448.8767
Solo Performance Festival (SPF:2)
Seattle's annual solo performance theatre festival is dedicated to presenting fearless, cutting-edge, diverse performances by solo theatre artists. SPF: 2 features the talents of Andrew Connor, James Judd, Aaron LaPlante, Jayson McDonald, Suzanne Morrison and Michelle Todd. SPF:2 will host six original solo one-act plays by these local and international theatre artists, as well as two evenings of short solo performances curated by the Unicycle Collective and featuring emerging and established Seattle artists.
Friday February 29th-Sunday March 16th. Tickets $15.
For more information, go to http://www.theatreoffjackson.org
Saturday, 3/1
Art Opening: Father & Son Bloodscape Drawings & Giant Doodles
6pm.
The Anne Bonny.
1355 E Olive Way, Seattle WA.
www.theannebonny.com
*Sweet Dreams* at the Sweet Spot
Hey Party Boyz,
Drawings and Paintings by Dan Ayala
Recent work in line with the sexy atmosphere of the fabulous Sweet Spot Cafe. Spacious cafe with a fun staff. Party room in back. Just opened in December, come check it out!
Feel free to click on these websites for info on the artist and/or the location.
http://www.thesweetspotcafe.com/
http://www.eyeballtornado.com/
Opening Saturday, March 1 6 - 11pm
Stop by for an excellent latte or mocha before hitting the Erotic Art Festival.
Hope to see you there!
Seattle Erotic Arts Festival (SEAF)
John writes:
SATURDAY MARCH 1st
SEAF opens. (The Seattle Erotic Arts Festival) As you've probably heard, The Seattle Erotic Art Festival Gala is this weekend. On March 1st at 6pm we'll open the doors of the Seattle Center's Exhibition Hall to present to you a lavish event celebrating erotic art, performance and our sex positive community. Tickets for this spectacular one night event are just $20 advance/$25 door; purchase your ticket to avoid the lines at the door www.BrownPaperTickets.com/event/26656
To put a different spin on it from thier standard advertizing, here is a note from one of the performers:
I just wanted to mention SEAF this saturday! (march 1st from 6pm to 2am at seattle center exhibition hall)
zan has created a beautiful eye CANDY piece using me and my sexy boyfriend paul and our beautiful friend sharon. we will be made into statues portraying apollo, daphne, artemis and the oracle. zan will be dipping us into CLAY and using her wicked talent and mysterious CHARM POWERS to turn us into STONE! and make us POSE as the statues of the TRAGIC and lovely myth!
this solemn mayhem will start around 6pm (when doors open) and last for an hour or so.
following that, paul and I will turn each other BACK into the FLESH! and perform WEIRD and BEAUTIFUL erotic rituals on one another! we will use officially verified *sacred items* such as a birds nest! TWIGS! 100 red ribbons! and a *seriously spiritual* pitcher of heavy cream with fresh fruit! yes YES you can come see these particular items and more!!
SEAF opens. (The Seattle Erotic Arts Festival) As you've probably heard, The Seattle Erotic Art Festival Gala is this weekend. On March 1st at 6pm we'll open the doors of the Seattle Center's Exhibition Hall to present to you a lavish event celebrating erotic art, performance and our sex positive community. Tickets for this spectacular one night event are just $20 advance/$25 door; purchase your ticket to avoid the lines at the door www.BrownPaperTickets.com/event/26656
To put a different spin on it from thier standard advertizing, here is a note from one of the performers:
I just wanted to mention SEAF this saturday! (march 1st from 6pm to 2am at seattle center exhibition hall)
zan has created a beautiful eye CANDY piece using me and my sexy boyfriend paul and our beautiful friend sharon. we will be made into statues portraying apollo, daphne, artemis and the oracle. zan will be dipping us into CLAY and using her wicked talent and mysterious CHARM POWERS to turn us into STONE! and make us POSE as the statues of the TRAGIC and lovely myth!
this solemn mayhem will start around 6pm (when doors open) and last for an hour or so.
following that, paul and I will turn each other BACK into the FLESH! and perform WEIRD and BEAUTIFUL erotic rituals on one another! we will use officially verified *sacred items* such as a birds nest! TWIGS! 100 red ribbons! and a *seriously spiritual* pitcher of heavy cream with fresh fruit! yes YES you can come see these particular items and more!!
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Saturday Morning Cartoons @ Ouch My Eye
Thanks to all of you that came down for SPACECRAFT, checkout some of the photos here.
This Saturday, March 1st 8pm Saturday Morning Cartoons. That's right! Saturday Morning Cartoons, Saturday Night.
Waking up two hours earlier than you did the rest of the week to begin a six hour trance...fueled on sugar cereal
worshipping at the technicolor religion of Superfriends, Fat Albert, Land of the Lost, Bugs Bunny and a bunch of others. Saturday morning taught us how a bill became a law, super heroes are nothing without verbs and that peanut butter spread onto celery sticks any time of day are a treat. Lawrence Ruelos and Dev Madan bring us another ritual to fondly remember.
FEATURING NEW WORK FROM:
Rick Garland, Augie Pagan, Brian Patenaude, James Ma, David Pauls, Dev Madan
Karin Yamagiwa Madan, Ed Pun, Gene Blakefield, Jason Zayas, Joe Kresoja
Kevin Neireiter, Leslie Harrington, Marsha Rollinger, Paul Whitehead, Rich Werner
Rob McDaniel, Royden Lepp, Scott Kikuta, Lawrence Ruelos, Suzanne Kaufman
Richard Anderson, Tim Gillette, Matt Holmberg, Stephen Notely, Sarita Kolhatkar
Come down and support local artists, musicians, thinkers and drinkers
Ouch My Eye
Ouch My Eye 1022 1st Avenue South | info @ouchmyeye (dot) com | 206.381.8457 | http://ouchmyeye.com
JUICE, Seattle's only Modern Global Dance Night
JUICE, Seattle's only Modern Global Dance Night in support of Tasveer
March 1st, Saturday • $8; $5 before 10 pm
Nectar Lounge 412 N 36th St
Support Aaina by coming out to Dance!
JUICE is a monthly dance party that focuses on Global Dance music. Each month, KEXP's DJ Darek Mazzone with his collaborators Eric Schmidt (DJ Rhythma) and Rebecca Campeau, along with special guests create a vibe that blends Latin, South Asian, Brazilian, African, and other global flavors into a funky night that is unique in Seattle. The proceeds from each night goes to a different charity that does international work for peace, social services, environmental protection, education, health, and justice.
For March, JUICE proceeds will be donated to Tasveer. Come and hang out with the Aaina and Yoni ki Baat organizers and participants! Plus we will have raffles and surprises.
http://www.myspace.com/juiceinseattle
Sunday, 3/2
I Heart Rummage returns @ Chop Suey
I Heart Rummage is Seattle's longest running cutting edge urban craft experience!
Now in our new location: Chop Suey! 1325 E. Madison, Seattle
Join IHR Sunday March 2nd for it's very first show at Capitol Hill's Chop Suey!
IHR features 40 of Seattle's most innovative indie designers and urban crafters at Chop Suey
from 12-4pm the first Sunday of most every month.
Be sure to stop by March 2nd and shop the best variety of urban crafts,
try out the new Chop Suey eats, and hear our own DJ Huggy, spin his tracks!
Special guest for March is Urban Fashion Network.
IHR always has the latest and greatest in urban crafts!
The first Sunday of most every month
Chop Suey.
1325 E. Madison, Seattle, WA.
www.iheartrummage.com
www.iheartindiecrafts.com
www.myspace.com/iheartrummage
Monday, 3/4
Knockout Tuesday Primary Party at Moe Bar
MARCH FOURTH MARCH FORTH
Knockout Tuesday Primary Party!
Texans and Ohioans are headed to the primaries, and they've got lots of delegates to give. Our Democratic Presidental nominee could very well be determined by the results of their voting - Who's gonna win? Are you an Obama fan or is Hillary more your style? Watch the spectacle and drink in the name of democracy at Moe Bar with happy hour drink specials till 8. Join our friends from Washington Bus and FUSE. 5pm till the returns are in..
* Two flat screen HD-TVs viewable throughout the main bar area
* Tuesday March 4th @ 5pm, going until the returns come in
* Happy Hour prices until 8:00 - $2 beers and $2 wells
* Hosted by Washington Bus, FUSE Washington, Democrats Work, and Moe Bar!
Moe Bar is located next door to Neumos on 10th Ave.
PYRAMID LOUNGE 4 YEAR ANNIVERSARY SHOW AND MASQUERADE PARTY
~Stepping Out : A Bellydance Masquerade Party -
A dress up night on the town for bellydancers. Come in your costumes and be ready for a mind expanding evening! We are going to have Seattle's hottest acts stepping out and doing things you never see them do!
Laura Rose, Seattle's Gothic Bellydance and Burlesque Queen, does classic Egyptian Cabaret with Live music by House of Tarab! Nadira, 5 time national cabaret title holder, shakes it up with hip hop fusion! The earth goddess Delilah will have something special cooked up! Raqs Serpentine will be performing a (gasp*) cabaret routine with all beads and sparkles. Who know what House of Tarab will do when they step out!
Suggested attire: Bellydance clothes and Mardi Gras style masks. Polish up a little known facet of the beautiful diamond that is you!
Tickets on-sale NOW: http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/25505 or call 24/7 800-838-3006
Pyramid Lounge flyers with the features for the entire year and special limit edition RAQS SERPENTINE T-Shirts will be available
Tickets: http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/25505 or call 24/7 800-838-3006
Tuesday, 3/5
A Conversation with Stephin Merritt of the Magnetic Fields
Richard Hugo House presents A Conversation with Stephin Merritt, of The Magnetic Fields. “69 Love Songs” singer/songwriter Stephin Merritt takes the stage with Hugo House executive director Lyall Bush to discuss his droll lyrics and, among other things, his boredom with love songs.
Stephin Merritt has released seven albums by his band The Magnetic Fields (including "69 Love Songs" and this month’s “Distortion”) and two albums from The 6ths. He also makes music under the names Future Bible Heroes and The Gothic Archies. Spin and Rolling Stone magazine, along with dozens of major national magazines and newspapers, praised "69 Love Songs" as one of the best albums of 1999. Some called him the Cole Porter of his generation. (His favorite band is ABBA, to whom he credits his compositional impulses.)
8 p.m. FREE. 1634 11th Ave, (206) 322-7030 www.hugohouse.org
Thursday, 3/6
CityDog Magazine Art Show featuring Decopaw Design
WHO
CityDog Magazine, you and your furry, four-legged art lover.
WHAT
Join CityDog Magazine and the Pioneer Square Community Association for the first-ever dog friendly art walk as part of the First Thursday Art Walk in Pioneer Square.
Be sure to check out the CityDog-hosted, one-night-only art exhibit showcasing the fabulous works of some of Seattle's finest dog photographers and artists all under one roof!
Photographer extraordinaire Amy Soper of Dane & Dane Photography will be on hand to snap portraits of your own furry friend (available for purchase) and Pioneer Square's own Dry Soda will be there with refreshing samples of their gourmet sodas.
WHEN
March 6, 2008, 5 p.m. to 9 p.m.
WHERE
Seattle's Pioneer Square on the corner of S. Washington & Occidental
(at the old Fenix; enter through the atrium on Occidental Square)
Not in Seattle? It's not too late to get plane tickets and hotel reservations!
FEATURED PHOTOGRAPHERS & ARTISTS
Bev Sparks, B Sparks Photography
Emily Rieman, Best Friend Photography
J. Nichole Smith, Dane & Dane Photography
Jenifer Flynn, Four Legs Photography
Jamie Pflughoeft, Decopaw Design
Jennifer Sellers, Artist
Shai Steiner, Animals In Primary
Angela Ketelhut, Art by Angie
This dog friendly event is one-night-only, so don't miss this chance to mingle with fellow dog lovers and visit with the photographers and artists who specialize solely in the art of the four legged. Each will be on hand to discuss and share their wonderful works of fine art and photography with you. Then, look for the "CityDog Friendly" sign at other participating, dog friendly galleries as part of the First Thursday Art Walk in Pioneer Square.
Also, be sure to check out the Winter Decopaw Design sale, going on now through March 31st! http://www.decopaw.com. I will also have small art prints on sale at the art show.
Hope to see everyone there!
http://www.evite.com/pages/invite/viewInvite.jsp?event=SAIGPXCSDJNJEUWPUAYB
PUNCH Presents: Howard Barlow
Safe and Sound
Howard Barlow
March 6 – 30, 2008
Opening Reception: Thursday, March 6, 2008, 5-8 pm
Artist will be in attendance the first and final Saturdays of the month.
Exhibition Link
Download Press Release in Word Format
Artist Website
Howard Barlow’s new body of work, Safe and Sound, is cold and unfriendly yet formal and safely non-objective with evidence of an obviously dangerous past. Borrowing from a hospital aesthetic, Barlow aims to bridge the gap between conceptions of stability and volatility. Utilizing institutional powder-coat colors, gun-barrel patina finishes, recycled bullet-lead solder, reconstructed broken window panes, wool yarn, abused steel, and actions such as knitting, hacking, shooting, shattering, and leading glass, this body of work explores the symbiotic relationships of danger and safety, vulnerability and protection.
This exhibition includes Seven Pains Mended, a series of windowpanes broken out of Barlow’s own home. By means of melting down spent bullet lead in combination with solder, each pane has been reconstructed and placed in a bullet-riddled steel frame. Other works, such as Big Guns Make Good Neighbors and The Weather Outside is Frightful, consist of steel panels that have been shot and/or hacked by hatchet or splitting maul and linked together, lovingly, one to the next, with hand-knit limbs. Notions of an armed population creating stability and stereotypes of maternal versus paternal protective instincts are explored in these works.
Howard Barlow lives east of the Cascades in the small rural town of Thorp where he has converted an old firehouse into a live/work space. He currently instructs art at both Columbia Basin College and at Central Washington University.
PUNCH Gallery Hours: Noon-5 pm, Fri-Sun, or by appointment: art@punchgallery.org
PUNCH, 119 Prefontaine Place South, Seattle, WA 98104
www.punchgallery.org,
(206) 621-1945
www.hbarlow.com
Opening @ SOIL
Please join us in welcoming our newest members
New Members Show -- 2008 Nola Avienne, Vesna Pavlovic, Renée Rhodes and Adam Satushek
March 6--30, 2008
Thursdays through Sundays, 12--5pm
Opening reception First Thursday, March 6, 6-9 pm
The New Members Show will feature work by four of SOIL's newest additions: Nola Avienne, Vesna Pavlovic, Renée Rhodes and Adam Satushek. This diverse group of artists will add fresh new perspectives to the SOIL collective. New works in photography, installation, video, sculpture and drawing will be exhibited.
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Nola Avienne Recent events from personal history, transformation, and memory are the starting points of Nola Avienne's work. While investigating the tensions between different materials, how they evoke art and science, pain and humor, she addresses the issues of fragility and protection. Her works, made as traces of mechanical interventions are seductive objects, which both physically and perceptually, open up the space between order and chaos. For theNew Members Show, Avienne will create drawings and sculpture to illustrate these concepts with the use of magnets.
Vesna Pavlovic Vesna Pavlovic's works develop as anthropological studies, analyzing culture and visual representations through particular phenomena, and through the behavior of certain social groups. The prevailing themes in Pavlovic's work are issues of taste, desire and expectation, and the friction of performance. For her participation at the New Members Show, Pavlovic will present her most recent series Show Homes, produced in 2006-07. The images of model houses, meticulously arranged for prospective buyers, and shot in various locations in the US, reveal the shifting boundaries between private and public space. Presented both as photographic prints, as well as projected images, within this installation, the images will work simultaneously as images of display, and the display of images.
Renée Rhodes Through the language of dance Renée Rhodes continues thinking over her relationship to the places and spaces she comes to rest in. From locations with physical immediacy to spaces more obscure in nature, controlled structures of human movement aim to aid with the discovery of her human place. The works to be shown at SOIL will make use of absurdly controlled guidelines and structures which act as the frameworks for the video's surface. Beyond the surface dances lie choreographically demanding phone calls, physically controlling geographies and fleets of pelting ping pong balls..
Adam Satushek Adam Satushek's work investigates the knitting of humans with the world—how people's actions and creations influence surrounding environments and how these environments in turn affect people. As people build structures within the existing framework of the world they mimic and adopt existing aspects of it while augmenting and rejecting others. Adam's photographic work shown in the New Members Show explores the mutually constitutive and fluctuating dimensions that exist between built structures and the surrounding world.
March at SOIL in the Backspace:
Randy Wood: Panic, Dora!
Curiosity gets the best of her and little Dora opens the forbidden box. Terrified, she flees from freshly released ghosts. Spookiness ensues.
Randy Wood presents new sculptural work
Science: The Atlas Project at CERN
This spring, the most powerful machine ever conceived—the large hadron collider (LHC) is scheduled to begin operations. CERN, dubbed "the world’s largest experiment," is an international collaborative scientific project (near Geneva, Switzerland), which seeks to simulate the big bang. It is hoped that the collider will produce the elusive Higgs boson, the observation of which could explain how other elementary particles acquire properties such as mass and provide the ‘missing links’ in the search for a grand unified theory of physics. Uwe Bratzler, a graduate of the University of Washington and a physicist on the project, unlocks the science behind this momentous experiment. Presented as part of The Seattle Science Lecture Series.
Tickets are $5 at the door only. Town Hall members receive priority seating.
First Thu Art Walk
Pioneer Sq Galleries. Downstairs at Town Hall, enter on Seneca Street. Thursday, March 06, 2008. 7:30 PM
Pseudo-Koreans & dysfunctional white people @ On the Boards
Hi Party V -
Next up at On the Boards is the Seattle debut of YOUNG JEAN LEE with her break-out theater show, “Songs of the Dragons Flying to Heaven (A Show about White People in Love)”. We saw this show last year and found it daring, dark, blunt and really funny. Lee said her worst nightmare was to make a “confessional, ethnic identity play with a flowery Asian-sounding title”… so she decided she needed to do just that. In Songs of the Dragons..., a character named "Korean-American" navigates increasingly disturbing levels of a pseudo-Korean world intercut with scenes of a white couple discussing their stereotypically dysfunctional relationship. $24.
“…chauvinistic monologues and ass-slapping Korean dances…” – Village VOICE
Tickets & info @ http://ontheboards.org Mar 6 - 9, 8pm
Cold Lava
Vince Mira @ Triple Door (2/26/08)
Gates Ballard writes:
Kat and I went to an amazing show last night at the Triple Door - Vince Mira:
15 year old prodigy from Federal Way that sounds EXACTLY like young Johnny Cash. The show was a great mix of his surpisingly good orginals (twangy honky tonk era sounding country songs) and Cash covers/medleys. Plus all the up and coming talent he brought along. And his 4 year old nephew singing and strumming his little guitar..
Highly recommended, one of the best shows I've seen in years.
http://www.vincemira.com/ http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/pop/352707_juannycash26.html?source=mypi15 year old prodigy from Federal Way that sounds EXACTLY like young Johnny Cash. The show was a great mix of his surpisingly good orginals (twangy honky tonk era sounding country songs) and Cash covers/medleys. Plus all the up and coming talent he brought along. And his 4 year old nephew singing and strumming his little guitar..
Highly recommended, one of the best shows I've seen in years.
