Friday August 10, 2007
06:00 PM : Visual Collective Show @ Audio Cinema
Visual Arts / Architecture Flyered by Rob W.
Artists Bean Gilsdorf, Candace Gossen, Cat Coats, Cyruss Smith, Dan Gilsdorf, Geoffery Ellis, Ilan Laks, Jeremy Tucker, Josh Kim, Katie Behel, Kimber Shiroma, Mike McGovern, Pasha, Samantha Wall and Uli Beutter show work at Audio Cinema. Gallery 500 refugees organize the the space yearly - the results are varied but never boring. A portion of the proceeds will be donated to P:ear.
226 SE Madison Audio Cinema
Artist preview Thursday, August 9th 7-10pm. Invitation only.
Opening night Friday, August 10th 6-2am. $5 donation (also the same night Disjecta closing party)
Saturday and Sunday, August 11th and 12th 12-6pm. Sliding scale donation.
09:00 PM : esoZone @ Someday Lounge
Talk/Expo Flyered by kmikeym
Three day underground arts and culture festival announced
This August, the City of Roses will play host to esoZone, a unique, three-day event billed as a "Designer Reality Expo."
esoZone will bring together people from disparate Internet subcultures to exchange art and intellect from Fri., August 10 to Sun., August 12 at the Someday Lounge in downtown Portland, Ore. It will feature mind-altering performances, dangerous entertainment, occult art, futurist rituals and a dance floor, all to culminate with an epic meditation by cult phenomenon artist Paul Laffoley.
The event will showcase members of the experimental occultists and artists, and other highly active anti-professionals toiling away in isolation.
"We're trying to create a bridge between the sort of intellectual aspects of these fringe cultures and the artistic aspects," says art director Danny Chaoflux. "We want this to be a great party, as well as an event where people learn something."
esoZone is being coordinated by people from online communities all over the world and locally supported by Portland Occulture, a loose affiliation of people with an interest in esoteric subjects.
Performers will include: syndicated television host Freeman; alternative Internet radio personalities the Viking Youth; the London theatre troupe Foolish People; and acclaimed
local performance artist the Red King.
Klint Finley, esoZone executive director and Portland Occulture organizer describes esoZone as "a natural extension of both the international Internet culture and the local network we've built."
"Portland, Ore. has long had a reputation as a city for outsiders, marginals and malcontents," says event director Nick Pell. "It seemed the natural place to hold a weekend dedicated to both high and low weirdness."
Other organizations contributing to esoZone include the Key 64 webzine, the online community Irreality.net, and the Foolish People.
For tickets and more information, visit www.esozone.com.
10:00 PM : Burnside Bridge Bash @ The RJ Templeton Building
Party (Launch/B-Day/Etc.) Flyered by kmikeym
Dear Friends, Colleagues, Supporters, Artistes, Wiccans, Skeptics, Detractors and General Curmudgeons, et al,
Well, the fat lady has sung the final ballad of RJ Templeton. In honor of the occasion, Disjecta will host one last event at the fabled Templeton Building before moving on to more supple and verdant pastures...and we'd like you to join us!
(Details about our impending move will be forthcoming in the next few months--sorry we can't share more with you now.)
We genuinely enjoyed our brief respite on the Burnside Bridge and couldn't resist the opportunity to have a farewell party. So in grand style, help us say goodbye with Keegan Smith, The West and DJ Wann. A good, old-fashioned summertime dance party. The last of its kind. And we'd love to see you there.
Burnside Bridge Bash @ The RJ Templeton Building
Friday, August 10th
Doors at 10 pm.
$10 in advance (One drink with entry)
10 p.m. - 2:30 a.m.
5 SE 3rd, PDX, OR 97214
Parking under the bridge and at 400 E Burnside in the Wentworth Chevy lot.
Tickets and info at www.disjecta.org
Sponsored by: Widmer, New West Distillery, Hi-Ball, Hint, Izze Soda, The Chesterfield, West Coast Drape, and LtdLifestyle.com