Friday, October 26, 2007

Events from 10/26 to 11/1/2007

Halloween!

Friday, 10/26
7:00 PM Hand To Paper
7:00 PM Documentary: RUNNING DRY @ SAM
7:30 PM Circus Contraption’s Haunted Housewarming
7:00 PM Joe Sacco @ Fantagraphics Bookstore & Gallery
8:00 PM American Buffalo @ Schmee

Saturday, 10/27
6:00 PM Scary Art @ Café Racer
8:00 PM Becoming a Man in 127 EASY Steps
9:00 PM FERALIA DECEPTIVA
9:00 PM The MoonSpinners, Dudley Manlove's Halloween Spook-tacular @ Tractor
9:00 PM Tricks-n-Treats V : Run for your lives!
9:00 PM East of the Underground @ The Electric Tea Garden at Oseao
9:00 PM Halloween Party @ Youngstown Cultural Arts Center
10:00 PM Hide Out Halloween

Sunday, 10/28
2:00 PM Art Opening: Francine Seders Gallery

Wednesday, 10/31 (Halloween)
7:00 PM Trolloween/Troll-a-Go-Go
7:00 PM Pike Place Market Paranormal Pub Crawl
7:00 PM RODRIGO y GABRIELA @ The Paramount
9:00 PM The "Boogie Monster" comes to CoCA
9:15 PM Seattle's 2nd Annual Naked Run

Thursday, 11/1
6:00 PM November at Soil


Friday, 10/26

Hand To Paper

Hand To Paper
Friday, Oct. 26th 2007, 7-9PM.
All-Ages. Free (donation)
Art By: Rick Linville, Marianne Goldin, Josh Slater.
Music by: PWRFL POWER and Dennis Driscoll.
Marianne painting © Vermillion

If you've passed by the gallery this week you may have seen Marianne Goldin dutifully working on her mural on the north wall of the gallery. Marianne is one of three artists for our show that opens this Friday: "Hand To Paper". She's showing figurative work done with ink and watercolor on paper. Here's her Flickr page.

Rick Linville Detail

Rick Linville worked in Sharpie™, as well as ink, pastel and graphite. (See detail at left) and produced a large body of work before he passed away earlier this year. We're showing 21 original pieces in honor of this greatly missed emerging talent.

Josh SlaterJosh Slater lives in Brooklyn and has graced us with some truly weird, but way-cool, art. He has a blog HERE. Here's his official artists statement: "You can't always tell from the outside what fruit has gone rotten."

PWRFL POWER and Dennis Driscoll are playing great music for the opening. PWRFL POWER is a Japanese International Student / Singer-songwriter who charmed the pants off the crowd at the Capitol Hill Block party. Dennis is on K records.

1508 11th Ave, Seattle, WA. 98122
Contact: Diana Adams
206/709.9797
email@vermillionseattle.com
http://www.vermillionseattle.com/


Documentary: RUNNING DRY @ SAM

Documentary: RUNNING DRY
Directed by James Thebaut
Narrated by Jane Seymour
http://seattle.thewarrenreport.com/default.asp?pageID=7
The explosive and enlightening in-depth documentary, RUNNING DRY, was inspired by former U.S. Senator Paul Simon’s book TAPPED OUT, the coming world crisis in water and what we can do about it. The documentary was written, produced and directed by Jim Thebaut.

FREE The Seattle Art Museum, 100 University St, SEATTLE
Friday, October 26, 2007 - 7 PM

http://www.runningdry.org/trailer.html



Circus Contraption’s Haunted Housewarming

CIRCUS CONTRAPTION MAKES NEW HOME IN FREMONT , HOSTS “HAUNTED HOUSEWARMING”

Circus Contraption’s Haunted Housewarming

A Halloween Cocktail Party and Blowout Bash

Welcome to the new “House of Contraption!” Circus Contraption, Seattle ’s own off-beat one-ring circus troupe, moves its home base to the Theo Chocolate building in Fremont this October, just in time for a hair-raising Halloween housewarming party. The Circus is known far and wide for its popular Halloween events-- this one will be extra-special since it represents a homecoming to the nine-year-old troupe’s original stomping grounds. Fans and friends are invited to celebrate Circus Contraption’s return to the “Center of the Universe” by checking out their new “digs” on Friday, October 26.

Early evening guests will be treated to an intimate Haunted Housewarming Cocktail Party beginning at 7:30pm, complete with personal guided tour of the new space (and all its special Halloween mysteries) by a bonafide Circus Contraption performer, a complimentary “Wicked Welcome” cocktail, hors d'ouevres, entertainment by the legendary Baby Gramps, and Halloween games, Circus Style. Then the doors cre…eak open to the masses at 9:30pm for the Haunted Housewarming Blowout: a celebration of Halloween the way only Circus Contraption knows how! The ghastly goings-on include live performances by Circus Contraption and special guests Nanda, Scarlet Room, Vince Miranda, and Holly Chernobyl-bound to bring on a terminal case of the jitters, the willies and the creeps! Bring your trick-or-treat bags! Please note that both the Cocktail Party and the Bash are 21 and over (with ID).

A little info about some of the evening’s entertainment:

Circus Contraption – Halloween is a rare opportunity for the Circus Contraption Band to let their hair down and play the music that is too loud, too rock n' roll, or too sinister for the Circus Contraption stage show. The band, a gypsy carnival junk orchestra consisting of 7 musicians and umpteen instruments, will be accompanied by generous helpings of Halloween hijinks from the Circus Contraption puppeteers, strumpets, acrobats and riffraff.
http://www.circuscontraption.com

Baby Gramps - A Popeye-voiced, old-timey, bizarro balladeer described by some as “an attic crammed with curiosities of another era.” His steel-guitar workouts and guttural growls, hoots, and whispers combine with a sense of fun as he rummages through vintage jazz, sea chanteys, nonsense songs, poetry, Delta blues, Tin Pan Alley, world music and forgotten folk tunes.
http://www.babygramps.com


Nanda - Four young and extremely well-toned acrobats from Port Townsend who combine stage combat, break dancing and comedy to create a show that resembles a Kung Fu movie come alive.
http://www.nandatown.com

Scarlet Room – Described as “Masterminds who founded a musical style they’ve dubbed ‘cabaret rock,’ twenty-somethings Aleksandra Weil and Eloise Govedare are a match made in musical heaven in the vein of a younger, hipper and female Kander and Ebb or Weill and Brecht.” http://www.scarlet-room.com/

Vince Miranda – The 15 year old Johnny Cash sensation.

Holly Chernobyl – Performing Stephen King’s “Carrie” as a one woman puppet show.


DATE: Friday, October 26, 2007
TIME: Cocktail Party: 7:30pm; Blowout Bash: 9:30pm to the wee hours

PLACE: Theo Chocolate, 3400 Phinney Avenue N. , in the Fremont neighborhood, Seattle WA

TICKET PRICES: $35 for the Cocktail Party, includes the Blowout Bash afterwards; $18 for the Bash alone.

WHERE TO BUY TICKETS: http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/20860;
1-800-838-3006

This event is 21 and over (with ID).
Guests are encouraged to come in costume.
Sponsored by 4 Culture and the Mayor’s Office of Arts & Cultural Affairs

www.CircusContraption.com: “A bracing curative for the afflictions of our times.”



Joe Sacco @ Fantagraphics Bookstore & Gallery

Genius Alert!

Fantagraphics Bookstore & Gallery is pleased to welcome to Seattle
the cartoon genius that is Joe Sacco. This Friday evening and
Saturday afternoon, Fantagraphics celebrates the publication of
"Palestine: The Special Edition" with two extraordinary events.

On Friday, October 26 from 7:00 - 9:00 PM we host an exhibition of
Joe's stunning original artwork from "Palestine." This also marks the
world premiere of the deluxe hardcover edition of "Palestine." It
includes supplementary material including photographs, journal
entries, sketches and more from his visit to the war torn region 15
years ago - an exquisite, modestly priced volume that is an essential
addition to any comics-lovers library. Sacco will be present to sign
advance copies.

This Saturday, October at 2:00 PM, Joe will discuss his
groundbreaking approach to "comics journalism" in conflicts from the
Middle East to the Balkans, as well as his pop culture and
autobiographical works. If you haven't seen Joe speak, you're in for
a treat. This artist is passionate, articulate and entertaining.

Fantagraphics Bookstore is located at 1201 S. Vale Street at the
corner of Airport Way S. in Georgetown, just 10 minutes south of
downtown Seattle. We're open every day 11:30 to 8:00 PM, Sundays
until 5:00. Phone: 206,658.0110. Come down and check out our new
releases and complete selection of Fantagraphics favorites, including
hard-to-find backlist books. See you soon.

Eric Reynolds

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

(206) 524-2104 fax

www.fantagraphics.com



American Buffalo @ Schmee

Hello my Lovelies!

Another Opening,Another Show!
Yes, I have another Costume project.And it's the last one.(For a good,long while at least.)
I'm doing the costumes for "American Buffalo" by David Mamet.
It will be Theatre Schmeater on Summit between Pike and Pine.
(Capitol Hill)
Opening Night is October 26th,Friday at 8pm.
It will play Thursday,Friday and Saturday nights thru Dec.1st.
(no performance on Thanksgiving)
Only $18! Cheap!

For tickets go to: www.brownpapertickets.com

Come and see great theatre in a small place.
Which is a damn site better than small theatre in a great place.

All my love,
K.D.

Theatre Schmeater on Summit between Pike and Pine.


Saturday, 10/27

Scary Art @ Café Racer

Hey, Volcanic Partyers --

The Friends of the Nib (that art gang of cartoonists and wiseacres of which I'm a proud card-carrying member) are having a Halloween Art Show/Party at the Cafe Racer (our cool clubhouse and bar). Come for the art, music, and thrills! Mind-bending black lights and smoke machines! Liquor, food, and surprises! Costumes encouraged! Or stay home and mope, loser.

SATURDAY, OCTOBER 27TH
CAFE RACER 5828 Roosevelt Way NE

Yours truly,
Bob Rini

THE FRIENDS OF THE NIB
Max Badger
Bruce Bickford
Mark Campos
Kaija Campos
Max Clotfelter
Tom Dougherty
Heidi Estey
Scott Faulkner
Kinoko
David Lasky
Jen Ralston
Bob Rini
Angela Stork
Matt Tamaru
Dalton Webb
Jim Woodring

CAFE RACER, 5828 Roosevelt Way NE,
cross street being roughly Ravenna, next door to the TRADING MUSICIAN.
http://bobrinimakesart.blogspot.com/ http://9poundhammer.blogspot.com/



Becoming a Man in 127 EASY Steps

Hey Party Volcanoers!

We’re presenting a young Transgender Artist named Scott Turner Schofield at Capitol Hill Art Center, Friday and Saturday, the 26th & 27th, at 8pm, tix are $10/$12.

Theater piece: ‘Becoming a Man in 127 EASY Steps’ – it’s the national premiere here in Seattle !
He’s a super groovy dude who’s the first trans guy to be commissioned through the National Performance Network.

Presented by the Pat Graney Company.
Info: 206-329-3705.

Tix: www.brownpapertickets.com



FERALIA DECEPTIVA

Hello friends,

We're full-on into autumn and one of my favorite times of the year, Halloween! Growing up, I always thought of Halloween as the most festive holiday next to Christmas, because of the costumes. It's wonderful to see people's creativity come through in whatever unique outfit they may devise. Also, as a child of the 80's I LOVED horror movies, so Halloween's macabre themes were always fun for me.
As I'm sure you've guessed by now, I'm about to tell you all about the most fun-tastical, horrifyingly wonderful Halloween bash you could ask for. It's happening this Saturday and here's the skinny on it...

Saturday, October 27th: Starborne presents ~FERALIA DECEPTIVA~ night of the moth
This is going to be a truly memorable night for everyone there. Amazing music, performances, decorations, and costumes. Don't sleep on this!

Soundz by:
Freaky Chakra [Live] - freakychakra.com (LA)
b0t 23 - E.L.M. Conceptions/Buried in Time (PDX)
NAHA - djnaha.com
novaTRON vs Shapeshifter [Live] - Space Island/S.B.A.
Michael Manahan - Oracle Gatherings
manos - Innerflight/Uniting Souls

Also featuring...
Ritual Theatre Performances by: Obsidian Moon
Optical Enhancement by: Tracer Visuals - myspace.com/tracervisuals
Decorum by: Mate' - spaceshaping.net
Chai Lounge
& the Starborne KV2 soundsystem!!

After you recover from this Hallow's Eve festivities, there's a couple other happenings going down in the next few weeks you may want to be at. However, I'm still waiting for all the details, so I'll get back to that in another email after this weekend.

Hope to see you all in costume on the dancefloor this weekend!

Lotz of love,
sEth

P.S. There will also be a super-secret, ultra heady house party on Friday Oct 26th. If you're interested in attending, email me (Seth Branum, [mailto:manos213@hotmail.com]) for the downlow.


Coordinates: 1950 1st Ave South (Seattle)
9pm-6am
18+
$25 appreciated @ door Carpool & Conserve!!
Arrive early to wish NINA a happy birthday!
http://www.nwtekno.org/vb/showthread.php?threadid=119149


The MoonSpinners open for Dudley Manlove's Halloween Spook-tacular

Saturday Oct 27th 9PM
Tractor Tavern

5213 Ballard Ave NW

$12 adv/$15 door

http://myspace.com/themoonspinners
http://www.dudleymanlove.com/front.html
http://www.tractortavern.com/


Tricks-n-Treats V : Run for your lives!

Lucky Clam Productions & Ouch My Eye proudly present Tricks-n-Treats V, the party to die for. This year it's bigger, bloodier and dare we say sluttier than ever at our new location at OME Gallery. We're bringing it to a whole new level featuring an array of devilish delights to satiate your lust for carnage and cleavage. Costume contest with $500 in cash prizes, hell-a hot burlesque ladies, the "Red Room" lounge and DJ's spinning your favorite Thriller-esque jams til 4am. Oh and did we mention FREE DRINKS all night long. Even the devil himself might crawl up for this one.

I think this one is way too expensive:

$40 Tix SOLD OUT!
50-149 - $50 SOLD OUT!
150-274 - $60 SOLD OUT!
275-300 - $75
Buy Your
Tickets Now Boils & Gouls!
*21 plus only
*No door sales
*Costume required
*No exceptions

http://www.myspace.com/tricksntreats07
http://www.evite.com/pages/invite/viewInvite.jsp?event=EWKKRUEGOUBAQRQVDTBU


East of the Underground @ The Electric Tea Garden at Oseao

James writes:

Ladies and Gents!

Yes! Yes! Yes!

This Saturday we are throwing it down at East of the Underground!

We are honored to have as our special guests: Signia, one of the best Bhangra bands from Canada! Singers LV and San J. will be performing with a DJ and live percussion.

Also residents James Whetzel and DJ Muad'deep will be adding to the fun. James will be doing a live electro-acoustic set of sarod, voice and original beats; DJ Muad'deep will be doing a energetic bhangra infused DJ Set, also playing will be DJ Baba James who will bring his sublimely syncopated Asian and African beats and multi-culti mashups.

Ji han, aywa, claro que si, mais oui, and oh yeah! It's going to be a good one!!!!!! Attend if you can: James kicks it off at 9pm with his electro-acoustic set.

East of the Underground with Signia, DJ Muad'deep, James Whetzel and Baba James
Saturday, October 27, 2007

The Electric Tea Garden at Oseao,
1402 E. Pike Street on Capitol Hill
(just above the Artificial Limb Co.)

9pm - 2am
$7 All Ages!


Halloween Party @ Youngstown Cultural Arts Center

Hello Mutants!

It's been 13 years since you left the halls of Xavier's Institute for Mutant Youngsters, the academy of the X-men. Now it's time to return on Sat Oct 27th and find out how your classmates turned out: heros, villains or regular mutant freaks.

You'll register at the Mutant Registration Photo Booth and dance to the beats of Seattle's finest DJ's and live bands in the Disco Cerebro and the Mutant Drop Out Rooms. Worn out? Enjoy quality liquor and beer in the Bub Pub and the Danger Room or relax and shed your powers in the Savage Land Chill Room. Mutants will be offered battle training, humans can join the Human Resistance Movement, and everyone can jump into the story in the Giant Comic Strip. Kapow!
http://www.hive-mind.com/halloween/07/

When:
Saturday, Oct 27th, 2007, 9 pm - late
Where:
Youngstown Cultural Arts Center
4408 Delridge Way SW, (West) Seattle ( map)

What:
Halloween Party, Costumes Required
21+ w/ID, $15 at the door

Two dance floors:
Cerebro
Mutant Drop Out
Genvay Fav (Funktastic Progressive House)
Brannon (Glitch Breaks)
DJ? Whatever (Epic Mashups)
Recess (Progressive Beats)
Baz (PsyTrance)

DJ Muchacho (Hip Hop)
WD4D (Hip Hop / Deep Down House)
Beehive (Live PA)
Fauxfaux vs. Sweet Chris Bell (Eclectic Electro vs. Breaks)
TBA

All profits will be split between Room to Read, building schools, providing scholarships and more for girls in Nepal, Laos, and other countries, and Youngstown, providing arts education to underprivileged youth and a home for arts education and environmental organizations.

Saturday, Oct 27th, 2007,
9 pm - late
Halloween Party,
Costumes Required
21+ w/ID,
$15 at the door

Youngstown Cultural Arts Center

4408 Delridge Way SW, (West) Seattle
http://www.hive-mind.com/halloween/07/


Hide Out Halloween

Sat Oct 27th
Hide Out Halloween

Yes I know it is early. Halloween is a long, long ways away. Still, please mark your calendar for Halloween festivities at the Hideout.
We will be hosting our third annual pumpkin carving party on Wednesday, October 25th. Alcohol and knives. Great idea.
And we will be hosting our third annual costume party Saturday, October 27th. And yes, costumes are required.
Both evenings are free and fantastically fun. So get your costumes together, mark your calendar and make this Halloween a sure thing.

The Hideout
10pm

FREE

http://www.hideoutseattle.com/



Sunday, 10/28

Art Opening: Francine Seders Gallery

JUAN ALONSO
Grey Matters

Reception: Sunday, October 28, 2-4 pm, FREE
Francine Seders Gallery

6701 Greenwood Avenue North

Seattle, WA 98103

206-782-0355

http://www.sedersgallery.com/



Wednesday. 10/31

Trolloween/Troll-a-Go-Go

Trolloween/Troll-a-Go-Go

At 7 pm on every Halloween, a large group of costumed people spontaneously shows up under the north end of the Aurora Bridge where the famous Fremont Troll is located for the Trolloween event. The performances usually commence with some sort od humorous costume drama including huge puppets, followed by skeleton dancers, musicians, and/or fire performers.

Following the Trolloween performances, the costumed throng marches en-masse down to a venue in Downtown Fremont (usually the Theo Chocolate
Building) for the big Troll-A-Go-Go Halloween party, with music, drinks, etc

http://fremontartscouncil.org/events_seasonal.html


Pike Place Market Paranormal Pub Crawl

I am running a Pub Crawl through the Market for Halloween night. Groups of 25 are starting out at different bars, like Il Bistro, The Alibi Room and The Can-Can, and through the course of the night they will be taken to different parts of the Market to experience different scary stories, and learn how to use a pendulum, how to see ghosts, and be freacked out...At the end of the night, at Midnight, I am going to take the stage as a ranting Spiritualist from the late 1800's and I will perform a seance to try to conjure up the spirit of Houdini. There has been Houdini seances every Halloween night all over the world since 1927. The seance will be at The Can-Can. There are limited tickets and they are on sale now. Tickets are $20. Groups of 20-25 get a discount. But like I said, tickets are limited...so let me know if you want to come!

Mercedes Yaeger

Pike Place Market Paranormal Pub Crawl

At night, the Pike Place Market comes alive in an entirely different way than during the day. The tables empty, the tourists leave and the Arcades are wide open. Some of the best restaurants and bars are in the Pike Place Market, and many of them are haunted. This Halloween, join some very eccentric guides as they take you on a Paranormal Pub Crawl of the Pike Place Market. Included on the crawl is the Can-Can, The Alibi Room, Kell's Irish Pub and Il Bistro. Ghost Stories and will be told along the way. Culminating in a seance at the Can-Can, it is sure to be an incredible night. Guides along the way will share stories, history, scientific explanations and share with you how to see and communicate with ghosts.

Meet at the PIG at 7:00PM, you will be divided into groups and taken to different restaurants/bars in the Market. Ticket price does not include drinks, but does include a secret gift.

Pike Market
93 Pike St
Seattle, WA 98101
www.seattleghost.com
http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/20135



RODRIGO y GABRIELA @ The Paramount

RODRIGO y GABRIELA (Mexico/Ireland, acoustic rock w/ Latin rhythms) @ The Paramount

$25 adv/$30 dos, all ages, doors 7p

Originally from Mexico, but now living in Ireland, this acoustic duo were discovered by David Gray busking in the streets of Dublin and were signed to ATO, Dave Matthews Record Label (also home to Gray). This has been a phenomenal year for them, with healthy radio support and appearances at many major music festivals around the world. They describe their music as "Fusion music: It's mainly got Latin harmonies and rhythms but the structure is rock."

Listen: http://www.myspace.com/rodrigoygabriela
Watch: http://www.rodgab.com/watch.htm



The "Boogie Monster" comes to CoCA

Halloween Night Wednesday October 31st from 9pm to 2am


Wanna have a monstrously good time?
Prepare to party with the "Boogie Monster" as CoCa & Clubvibes hosts a Halloween Celebration showcasing the "Necromorph" group show exihibition.

"It's Mark Mitchell" will MC the night and judge the costume contest awarding cash & other prizes.

Special dance performance by Archana Kumar

Music hosted by local DJ Legends...

* Austin Payne: Team AK www.myspace.com/austinpayne
* Scott Keith: LSC/Electra-FI Entertainment www.djscottkeith.com
* Darnell Sue: http://blog.seattlepi.nwsource.com/girlabouttown
* Alex Xavier: Clubvibes Seattle www.clubvibes.com
* Tommy Long: 206Blend http://www.206blend.com
* AJ Spider Sorbello: www.myspace.com/ajspidersorbello
* DJ Pheloneous: www.myspace.com/djpheloneous
* Jimmy Hoffa
* Same DNA

Necromorph Artists...

* Jeff Hengst
* Ben Hirschkoff
* Katharine Houpt
* Kamala Dolphin-Kingsley
* Margot Quan Knight
* Andrea Rogalski
* Darin Shuler
* Roger Wheeler


http://cocaseattle.org/apps/enewsletterpro/v.aspx?SI=2754&E=info%40cocaseattle.org&S=1&N=74&ID=0&NL=3
Tickets are on sale now at www.cocaseattle.org

$10 General Admission

Email: info@cocaseattle.org

Web: www.cocaseattle.org

Tel: (206) 728-1980

CoCA is located inside the Shilshole Bay Beach Club located at,
6413 Seaview Ave NW Seattle WA 98107



Seattle's 2nd Annual Naked Run

Finally! Complete Pumpkin Debauchery! Seattle's 2nd Annual Naked Pum

On a chilly, dark Halloween night in 2007, Seattle set a new record
for the largest inaugural Naked Pumpkin Run event with seven brave
Pumpkin Head runners plus a small entourage of friends!
Yes my ghoulish comrads, the time of the year to don our favorite
orange squash fruit and run like Jack-o’-lantern-possessed freaks and
fools is nearly upon us!

Announcing:

the 2nd Annual Seattle Naked Pumpkin Run (NPR)

Wednesday, Oct 31, 2007 Halloween - Meetup at 9:15 PM

+ (NEW) Daylight Naked Pumpkin Run (Saturday, Nov 3, 2007) on a small
stretch of the Burke Gilman Trail (details revealed on Halloween night)

The super shady meetup/start location for the Halloween Run will be at

the Green Lake Park *East Beach* - same as last year

http://www.cityofseattle.net/parks/parkspaces/GreenLakePark/beach1.htm

meet at the lifeguard elevated chair, inside of the 2.8 mile inner
walk/bike trail, and adjacent to/just west of the Community Center/
Evans Pool (7201 E. Green Lake Drive N). Similar to last year, we
will be jogging a short distance around the lake, around the streets
a bit, whatever else the group wants to do (the night will still be
young).

Anybody up to offering to carpool to another location (I’ve got a few
additional ideas depending how brave everybody feels after the main
run) or providing a place for an afterparty? We are also looking for
a pumpkin carving pre-run party host and location.

How long will the run be? We’ll discuss it before we run, but last
year we just winged it. We actually ran/jogged/stumbled a good
distance, 15-25 minutes or so, believe it or not, since the entire
Green Lake area seemed completely desolate. There is no planned route
– the nature of the run will be at times random, confused, ridiculous
and often highly exuberant!

Last year there were few people on the path, and surprisingly few out
driving on the streets. People were honking, pulling over and
screaming, giving us cheers, people in the Green Lake Community
Center were taking our picture with their mobile phone cameras as we
posed in front of the entrance, it was awesome! Yes, whatever fear
you have of the run will be quickly replaced by the enthusiasm of
complete strangers cheering you on!

We have been asked by Vladamir Leber at Naked Pumpkin Run Central in
Boulder to try to find someone to videotape or photograph our Seattle
run so we can share pictures with the other cities and to help
promote the run in the future. Approved documentation people will be
asked to only shoot people with their pumpkins on, or if not, with
special permission. Perhaps we can produce our own underground art
film (see examples below). Contact me if you can help! Picture CD-Rs
are still available from last year’s run for last year’s participants
and their friends.

What to bring:

*A carved out pumpkin, large enough to fit over your head, with big
openings that you can see out of while running/jogging a short
distance. Buy your pumpkins soon – the big ones may start disappearing!
**For those wearing real pumpkins, Cleo recommends wearing shower
caps so your “hair doesn't get icky”.
** Franz has made four papier-mâché pumpkin heads for $17-25 per
pumpkin (sliding scale). Rent one for the evening for $5 - cheap!
Please e-mail me ASAP if you are interested (aside from my own, there
are only three available). These are lightweight and reusable.
*Shoes/socks you can jog in
*Something to put your clothes in (unless you want to take a small
risk and leave your clothes where you took them off)
**One popular idea is to use a trick or treat bag for your clothes to
run with.
**accessories: glowsticks, el-wire-ware, et cetera. The area we will
be starting our run is _very dark_, you may want to bring a bright
flashlight to see your way. Of course you can just follow the aimless
ass of the clown in front of you.
*Bring a towel if you are crazy enough to take this experience one
step further into the lake afterwards. So far, no one has been crazy
enough to do this.
*Bring your friends! Maybe the one who isn’t quite convinced of the
merits of all of this malarkey can guard your clothes.
WARNING: Run at your own risk! The area is dark, the air is cold,
surrounded by water and there are some trip hazards in the park
(which are even harder to see with a pumpkin over your head.

Ideas and inspiration:

http://nakedpumpkinrun.org - Official national site
http://nakedpumpkinrun.org/npr6.mov - New video, very funny!
http://www.mylittleportal.com/naked-pumpkin-run-2006 - 2006 video
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/nakedpumpkinrun/ - Official Yahoo! group

Seattle’s NPR Wikia site (includes pictures from 2006):

http://naked.wikia.com/wiki/NPR_Seattle

(will not include specific start location info)

Let us know you are interested in getting involved with our Halloween
Shindig! Remember... Naked Pumpkin Run is a PARTICIPATORY event, NOT
a spectator sport, except, well... for when we are on the LOOSE IN
THE STREETS!... Muhahahahahaha!

Join the announcement list:

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NPR_Seattle/ - Seattle Yahoo! group

Questions? Wanna join us? Of course you do! Contact us at
369 - 2661 mobile phone (call anytime) or e-mail me

Happy Halloween!

Daniel Johnson

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NPR_Seattle/
http://www.cityofseattle.net/parks/parkspaces/GreenLakePark/beach1.htm
http://nakedpumpkinrun.org/npr6.mov


Thursday, 11/1

November at Soil

Sensoria Iole Alessandrini, Thom Heileson, Wyndel Hunt, Ed Mannery, Ben McAllister

Sensoria presents two new immersive installations, each integrating light and sound to transform the gallery space, concentrating on the visitor’s sensory perceptions within the specific physicality of a new environment. Each work will in its own way conflate and link different sensory experiences: vision, hearing, and feedback to physical movement.

The exhibition will feature the interactive installation Hidden Spaces, by artist/architect Iole Alessandrini, programmer/composer Ben McAllister and engineer Ed Mannery. In this work, lasers create planes that form flat spatial fields. Through the use of video tracking and computerized sound, the planes are ‘audio-visualized’: people explore, with their own movements, the spaces hidden within the planes of light by triggering sounds made as they intersect these planes.

Also featured is Free Dissociation—a new collaborative work by Thom Heileson and Wyndel Hunt—a three-channel, stereo audio projection installation enveloping the gallery visitor in a textural, audio-visual tapestry that pairs Heileson’s animated visual imagery with Hunt’s similarly abstract sound composition. The artists exploit perceived parallels in their work—which speak in corresponding emotive tones but in different sensory media—to build an immersive perceptual ground delineated by intrinsically linked strata of light and sound.

November, 2007 at SOIL
Hours noon-5pm Thursday-Sunday
SOIL Gallery, 112 Third Ave. South, Seattle, WA 98104
Opening receptions First Thursday, 6-9:00 pm

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