Events from 11/28/2007 to 1/3/2008

I just came back from Jackson but I am surprised to find only a few events for this week. There is of course New Year's Eve 2007 on Monday but other than that it seems pretty quiet. If you are looking for more NYE parties other than the ones that are listed here please have a look at The Stranger's Sayonara 2007 list at: http://www.thestranger.com/seattle/Content?oid=465967

My favorite NYE's party is SCIENCE FRICTION NYE BASH @ YOUNGSTOWN CULTURAL ARTS CENTER.

See you next year!

Saturday, 12/29
7:30 PM Circus Contraption at Winterfest

Monday, 12/31 (New Year's eve)
2:00 PM NEW YEAR'S RESOVOLUTION
8:00 PM NEW YEARS EVE IN MOE BAR
8:00 PM? BrickHouse @ Koi in Bellevue.
9:00 PM AION: New Year's Eve Costume Ball
9:00 PM? NYE @ The Little Red Studio
9:00 PM SCIENCE FRICTION NYE BASH @ YOUNGSTOWN CULTURAL ARTS CENTER

Thursday, 1/3
5:00 PM My Phone Tells Me to Do Bad Things
5:00 PM Fire Retard Ants Presents: WE 8 OURSELVES @ SOIL

Saturday, 12/29

Circus Contraption at Winterfest

Circus Contraption at Winterfest

As the year draws to a close, Circus Contraption invades the Center House at the Seattle Center! We'll be teaming up with The Aerialistas to stage these free, all-ages performances including our famous pink poodles, bear & deer acrobalancing, The Circus Contraption Band and The Aerialistas in their sweetest act ever.
Winterfest
Seattle Centerhouse
Saturday December 29th, 7:30
Sunday, December 30th, 6:30

http://upcoming.yahoo.com/event/379545/


Monday, 12/31 (New Year's eve)

NEW YEAR'S RESOVOLUTION

NEW YEAR'S RESOVOLUTION

Party with a Purposefeaturing CLINTON FEARON & BOOGIE BROWN BAND
MONDAY DECEMBER 31, 2pm till dawn (2pm - 8 pm, free all ages ; 8pm - dawn, 21+, $20)Underground Events Center 2407 1st Avenue (between Battery and Wall), Seattle
http://www.thinksmall.org/PWAP
A righteous combination of art, music, and activism aimed at inspiring and empowering people to work together for positive change in 2008.

http://www.thinksmall.org/PWAP


NEW YEARS EVE IN MOE BAR

NYE - ENCHANTMENT UNDER THE SEA IN MOE BAR AND VIP

Join us NYE 2007 at Moe Bar and VIP Room!

Moe Bar and Death Of The Party are combining forces this New Years Eve in the spirit of the one thing we all love, partying. To ensure you have a most wonderful New Years Evening, we are providing party DJs, an impressive bar, copius amounts of alcohol, an extra supply of shot glasses, spiffy clothes and two floors of music. We certainly hope to see all of our friends there. Full details about the event and our DJs for the evening are hosted below.

FREE PAIR OF TICKETS!
The first person to write us back (info@neumos.com) about NYE will get one complimentary pair of tickets to the swaray. Good luck! For those that don't win, you can BUY TICKETS with no service charges online (the password is "friendofmoe") or in Moe Bar itself.


The Enchantment Under The Sea Dance
PAUL DEVRO

FOURCOLORZACK
PRETTY TITTY
DJ CURTIS

* 2 floors of music - Moe Bar + VIP Room
* Champagne toast
* Your favorite Neumos and Neighborhood owners
* $20 Tickets, no service charge
* 8pm doors, 21+

http://www.neumos.com/123107.html


BrickHouse @ Koi in Bellevue.

John writes:

Hi everyone:

BrickHouse will be playing a New Year's Eve show at the Koi restaurant in Bellevue.
Brickhouse is a great party/dance band that does a lot of "funk".
Heather Ward Richter is one of the front glitter girls, and that girl can SING.

http://www.koijr.com/index.html
Subscribe to John's party update: John_Schlick@Hotmail.com


AION: New Year's Eve Costume Ball

This New Year's Eve, adorned in finery and surrounded by exquisite original artwork, you melt into the music which carries you through multiple rooms of decadent mystery. Explore the contrast between Light and Dark at...

AION: New Year's Eve Costume Ball
at Capitol Hill Arts Center
1621 12th Ave. Seattle, WA 98122
(12th & Pine in the heart of the Capitol Hill neighborhood)


TICKETS ON SALE NOW!
http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/18919

$30 presale
$35 at the door
$75 VIP (two private lounges, complimentary coat check, champagne toast and a bag of treasures)

Enjoy...
the work of seven Visual Artists
New Year Predictions by several roaming masters of divination
Live Industrial and Trance Music
House, Trance and Chill DJs from both the East and West Coast, the US and Canada
Three Unique Environments
Midnight Performances by Womanipura and Pure Cirkus

More info:
http://www.infiniteconnections.org

AION: New Year's Eve Costume Ball at Capitol Hill Arts Center
1621 12th Ave. Seattle, WA 98122
(12th & Pine in the heart of the Capitol Hill neighborhood)
http://www.infiniteconnections.org


NYE @ The Little Red Studio

John writes:

And, of course, I'll be at the festive NYE event at The Little Red Studio at 750 Harrison.
The Nasty Habits are the featured live music, but there will also be many other kinds of performances there over the course of the evening, and it will definitely be a party. I've heard that advance ticket sales (www.littleredstudioseattle.com) are going VERY well, so it ought to be PACKED with fun celebratory people, and I've heard a rumor that the food provided will be the kind that will make anyone extatic.

The Little Red Studio at 750 Harrison.
Subscribe to John's party update: John_Schlick@Hotmail.com


SCIENCE FRICTION NYE BASH @ YOUNGSTOWN CULTURAL ARTS CENTER

Tickets are on sale now for the biggest and baddest NYE bash in Seattle. Get yours now!!! Full Details Below!

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MONDAY : DEC 31 : Youngstown Arts Center
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Decibel, Flight to Mars, Youngstown, Shameless, Fourthcity & SunTzu Sound present

/// SCIENCE FRICTION - NYE Extravaganza!!!

FEATURING:
->25+ performers (DJs / Bands / Live PA / Video Artists)
->4 Rooms of music (Breaks, Techno, Electro, House, Downtempo, Funk, Hip Hop)
->Custom Sound (KV2 and McCauley)
->4 Full bars
->Visual art
->Costumes (dress to express!)
->VIP Lounge
->Sci-Fci decor
->Huge outdoor smoking tent
->Food stand
....all taking place in a fully restored 1920s School House

[Decibel Room]
SUTEKH - LIVE PA : SF / Force Inc / Context
http://www.context.fm

JACOB LONDON - LIVE PA : Classic / dotbleep / U-Freqs
http://www.myspace.com/jacoblondon

JERRY ABSTRACT - DJ : Decibel / Fixelplix / Shitkatatpult
http://fixelplix.com

NORDIC SOUL - DJ : Decibel / Broken Disco
http://www.myspace.com/nordicsoul

KRISTINA CHILDS - DJ : Krakt! / Decibel / Plasmodium
http://www.kristinachilds.com

+ visuals by....
KILLING FRENZY : Decibel / KillingFrenzy
http://www.killingfrenzy.com

[Flight to Mars / SunTzu SoundRoom]
SUNTZU SOUND - DJs / PERCUSSION : KBCS 91.3
http://www.suntzusound.com

KID HOPS - DJ : KEXP 90.3
http://www.kidhops.com

DJ? WHATEVER - DJ : Flight to Mars
http://www.myspace.com/darwinman1

FAUXFAUX vs. STICK YO HAND IN DIRT - DJ : Flight to Mars
http://www.flight2mars.com

MUCHACHO - DJ : Flight to Mars
http://www.flight2mars.com

GENEY FAV - DJ : Flight to Mars
http://www.flight2mars.com

[Shameless / Fourthcity Room]
TRUCKASAURAS - LIVE PA : Fourthcity
http://www.myspace.com/teapartiesgunsnvalor

RECESS - DJ : Shameless / Broken Disco vs. SWANK - DJ : UHF / C89FM
http://www.simplyshameless.com / http://www.unitedhousefront.com/members/swank/

M'CHATEAU - DJ : Fourthcity
http://www.myspace.com/strikeharder

LEVI CLARK - DJ : Shameless
http://www.simplyshameless.com

THE PLANET - LIVE PA : Fake Computer Music, Housewreckin - Chicago
http://www.fakecomputermusic.com

MENAMI - DJ : Shameless / Broken Disco
http://www.simplyshameless.com

MC ANTON BOMB - DJ : Shameless
http://www.simplyshameless.com

+ visuals by....
PIXELFLIP : Broken Disco
http://www.pixelflip.com

[Electronic Music Collective (EMC) Lounge]
DIEM - DJ
http://www.themidhnightsons.com / http://www.djdiem.com

DAVID MILES HUBER
http://www.51bpm.com

LUDINGTON GT
http://www.soundclick.com/ludingtongt

RED ROCKET
http://www.soundclick.com/ludingtongt

DEREK MAZZONE - DJ : KEXP 90.3
http://www.kexp.org


[TICKET / VENUE INFO]
$25 advanced / $30 at the door
Advanced tickets available through Brown Paper Tickets:
http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/24237

Party begins at 9pm and goes until 4am (afterhours!)

21+ w/ ID

@ YOUNGSTOWN CULTURAL ARTS CENTER
4408 Delridge Ave SW
Seattle, WA 98106
http://youngstownarts.org


Thursday, 1/3

My Phone Tells Me to Do Bad Things

My Phone Tells Me to Do Bad Things
Ries Niemi

January 3 - February 3, 2008
Opening Reception: Thursday, Jan 3, 2008, 5-8 pm

Using his ironic brand of dark humor, Ries Niemi presents a vision of cell phones as a life form, manipulating humanity for their own purposes. Niemi claims to have purchased, sight unseen, this collection of objects from a mini-storage auction. Vamping on the familiar themes of conspiracy theory and paranoia, Niemi examines just how exactly that cell phone got into his pocket, and who is really in charge.

Inspired by the Classics (in this case an equal measure of Andy Warhol and the Beastie Boys) Niemi cuts and pastes pop culture in a variety of mediums, including: digital imaging, embroidery, wood, paper, textiles and metal. In his installation, pages from old books, fossils, textiles, metallic objects, even furniture and clothing document the surprising centuries long attempts by cell phones to take over the world.

Ries loves his phone. Ries hates his phone.

Working in a broad range of media, Niemi has shown widely around the country, and works extensively in public art, including a new piece on Pine Street adjacent to the Paramount Theatre, "Eat, Drink, and Be Merry.”

http://www.punchgallery.org/exhibitions/2008-01.html
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


Fire Retard Ants Presents: WE 8 OURSELVES @ SOIL

January 3–27, 2008 at SOIL
Fire Retard Ants Presents: WE 8 OURSELVES (for your Urgent Need)

Fred Muram and Mike Simi

We 8 Ourselves (for your Urgent Need) presents a new collaborative collection of sculptures, photographs and videos by Fire Retard Ants which consider the awkward territory of adolescence and its nostalgic persistence as a vehicle for creativity. Fire Retard Ants culminated out of the awkwardness that both artists experienced during their respective childhoods; one the perpetual daydreamer and the other with the persistent need to conform to the norm.

This exhibition is about growing pubic hair, fighting ninja's and eating Cheez Whiz, all while maintaining a C+ average. The memory of early social interactions and how they manifest in the adult lives of these two artists is an integral part of this show. Think robotic tennis shoes, mock quests under couches and how irritating it must be to have your face repeatedly poked with a stick.

When a person grows into an adult who are they supposed to be, and is any stasis attained as an adult just a fleeting sentiment? Is pissing your pants as a kid the same as losing your job as an adult? Fred Roger's from Mr. Roger's neighborhood said that each and every one of us is special just the way we are, no matter what. Fire Retard Ants sets out to prove it to themselves.

January, 2008 at SOIL
Hours noon-5pm Thursday-Sunday
SOIL Gallery, 112 Third Ave. South, Seattle, WA 98104
Opening receptions: First Thursday, 6-9:00 pm