Saturday January 15, 2005
10:00 AM : Artists Wanted @ RACC
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RACC Public Art staff Peggy Kendellen and Kristin Calhoun discuss city and county Percent for Art programs, with proposal examples, architectural issues, and budgeting considerations. Reduced fee: $10.00. To register visit www.up.edu/cfe and click on community projects, or call the Center for Entrepreneurship at (503) 943-7769.
RACC, 108 Northwest 9th Avenue.
10:00a.m.-1:00p.m.
07:30 PM : Peter Fenton @ Powell's
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Carnival Con Artist
Wednesday the 12th, 7:30PM Powell's City of Books on Burnside
Forget Las Vegas: nowhere reeked of the grift so keenly as the environs of Detroit's carnival midway in the 1960s. Before he became a journalist with the National Enquirer, Peter Fenton worked the carny scams with consummate skill. Until, at least, he discovered his trusted partner and best buddy was ripping him off. In an engrossing cautionary tale, Fenton guides the way through obsessive mendacity in Eyeing the Flash: The Education of a Carnival Con Artist.
Monday January 17, 2005
07:30 PM : Issue #7 of Eye-Rhyme @ Powell's
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Eye-Rhyme Magazine: Roses Are Red
Monday the 17th, 7:30PM Powell's City of Books on Burnside
Issue #7 of Eye-Rhyme magazine is just a-budding with Portland talent. Dubbed the "Roses Are Red" issue, this volume promises work by Martha Grover, Patrick Hartigan, Roderick Maclean, Frayn Masters, and Suzy Vitello, all of whom will read this evening.
Monday January 24, 2005
07:30 PM : Portland Edge @ Powell's
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The Portland Edge
Monday the 24th, 7:30PM Powell's City of Books on Burnside
Most livable city in the USA, on the cutting edge for smart urban growth, a model mass transportation system: all these accolades apply to Portland, Oregon. But critics often deride Portland's heavy-handed bureaucracy and sky-rocketing housing costs as an example of good intentions gone wrong. So, which is it? A group of Portland State University faculty have tackled the issue with The Portland Edge: Challenges and Successes in Growing Communities. Contributors appearing this evening include Jennifer Dill, Karen Gibson, Chet Orloff, and Connie Ozawa.
Thursday January 27, 2005
07:00 PM : PICA's Visual Arts Lecture Series @ W+K
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PICA's Visual Arts Lecture Series: Marc Joseph.
The first of four lectures sponsored by PICA in 2005. Joseph is a New York-based photographer, whose extraordinary first book American Pitbull (Steidl Verlag), 2004 is a nonfiction narrative that documents the culture surrounding this often-misunderstood breed. Over a three year period Marc Joseph traveled the United States photographing Pit Bull Dogs, their owners, breeders and "old time dog men," in their homes and yards, and during events related to the breed. What emerges in Joseph's portrayal is a wide-eyed and sincere portrait of a community he is able to portray with equal parts reverie and disbelief.
Wieden + Kennedy
224 NW 13th Ave
Admission: $8 PICA Members / $10 General.
Call for more information at 503.242.1419 or visit http://www.pica.org.
Monday January 31, 2005
07:30 PM : Douglas Coupland @ Powell's
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Monday the 31st, 7:30PM Powell's City of Books on Burnside
Liz Dunn is overweight, crabby, and plain with nothing on the horizon except oral surgery and an armful of schmaltzy videos to get her through an oral convalescence. Tuh-duh: Enter Jeremy with all the tools necessary to upend Liz's rather pathetic existence. A real chance for happiness dangles before Liz's heart as Jeremy takes her from one end of the globe to the next, and puts her in undesired danger. Douglas Coupland's Eleanor Rigby is a haunting tale on the trail of loneliness.
Personally I'm a huge fan of Mr. Coupland, not only of his writing but he has made some amazing art and really nice furniture. A true renaissance man.
Thursday February 17, 2005
08:00 PM : Gov. H. Dean vs. Richard Perle @ Pacific University
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Governor Howard Dean and Richard Perle will debate at Pacific University's annual Tom McCall Forum.
Please reserve your tickets at $27.50 each by calling the League office at 503-228-1675 or mail in the order form at www.lwvpdx.org. Order Deadline is December 15!
($5.00 of each ticket is a tax deductible contribution to the LWVP Education Fund.)
Governor Howard Dean led an influential campaign for the Democratic nomination for President, focusing the Democractic debate on health care and the creating of jobs. Dean served as governor of Vermont from 1991 until 2002.
Richard Perle, a political commentator, writer, and advisor, is a resident fellow at the American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research. He is a regular guest on television's top news programs and author of Hard Line.
Wednesday March 2, 2005
07:00 PM : AC Disckson: eBay Powerseller @ REED
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AC Dickson eBay PowerSeller show to the Super Cal. It's going to be March 2nd at Reed. A mere $5. 7pm.
Everyone is REQUIRED TO GO TO THIS! (because it will RULE!)
From Mr. Dickson:
for those of you who we did not get a chance to say a proper goodbye to, I apologize. Between moving and work, saying goodbye to friends got the squeeze.
The good news is we'll be back in Portland for the first week of March. Susan and I are doing the AC Dickson: eBay PowerSeller show at Reed on the evening of March 2nd (7pm at Vollum Lecture Hall, $7) and hanging out the rest of the time. I hope to see you that week!
And if you need some eBay wisdom and advice in the meantime, check out AC's new blog at http://www.urbanhonking.com/powerseller
-Andrew
Saturday March 12, 2005
10:00 AM : Grantwriting as a Foundation to Profitability @ U of P
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Grantwriting as a Foundation to Profitability
Fundraising expert Larissa Golden Brown will illustrate how to find and research foundations and other funding opportunities, and how to write successfull proposal. Fee: $35.00 To register visit www.up.edu/cfe and click on community projects, or call the Center for Entrepreneurship at (503) 943-7769.
University of Portland, Center for Entrepreneurship, 5000 North Willamette Blvd
Saturday March 19, 2005
01:00 PM : Music Business Seminar @ AFM Local 99
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3/19 Success in the Music Business: A legal and marketing seminar for all musicians. This FREE seminar is for all levels of experience: from those just starting out in the music business to seasoned professionals. The event will be an excellent opportunity to learn more about the business of music from experienced local experts. Topics to be covered include: creative strategies to make more money in the local and national music business, the ins and outs of recording contracts, copyright basics, recording and licensing music, songwriting and publishing, Internet distribution, music education, the international music industry and much more. 1-4 PM. Location: AFM Local 99: 325 20th Avenue, Portland. For more information, call AFM 99 at: 503.235.8791.
Monday March 28, 2005
07:00 PM : Alexandra Hrycak Lecture @ Reed
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Lecture Series in Public Policy: "Ukraine's Orange Revolution", Alexandra Hrycak, associate professor of sociology at Reed College, investigates social movements in Ukraine. Since 1992, she has conducted research on students, performance groups, and national identity. In recent years, her work has focused on the Ukrainian women's movement. She served as an election monitor in Ukraine during the December 26, 2004, repeat presidential runoff.
7 p.m., Vollum Lecture Hall, this event is free and open to the public; seating is limited, no reserved seating. For more information call 503/777-7755, or visit web.reed.edu/public_policy_series.
Sunday April 17, 2005
12:00 PM : BlogFest @ Daniel's Warehouse
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Okay, here are the details for the BlogFest on Sunday, April 17th. We're going to be meeting at Daniel's artspace warehouse. It's just off the corner of 14th and Pettygrove in northwest, just outside of the Pearl District. When you are at 14th and Pettygrove, you want to go east and you'll see a big garage door and a smaller human sized door marked "Suite B". That is the door you want.
12:00 - 12:30 Introductions of people and blogs
12:30 - 1:00 MT Refresher/Overview
1:00 - 1:30 Killing Spam and Eating Lunch
1:30 - 2:00 Making Video For The Web
2:00 - 2:30 Customizing Your Site (HTML/CSS)
2:30 - 3:00 A Look at Tagging (Flickr, del.icio.us)
3:00 - 3:30 Questions and Hopefully Answers
We'll also take some photos of people who haven't had their UrbanHonking portrait taken. We've kept everything really brief so it's not too boring, but we can go into as much detail as people need. We'll have wi-fi access, so bring your laptop, and drop me an email if you think you can make it (and feel free to bring friends) so we can have an idea of how many people to expect!
Sunday June 12, 2005
08:30 PM : McSweeney's Sweet 16 @ Powells
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From Strong Week:
Somewhere between smart and smartypants is the clever, clever writing of McSweeney's. While it sometimes falls into literary stand-up comedy ("Hey, didja ever notice..."), it makes you laugh anyway and appreciate the beautiful and expansive brains applied thusly to lists, letters, and other deadpanisms. Now the McSweeney's juggernaut (introduced tonight by managing editor Eli Horowitz) releases both Issue 16 of its print self (it's also at McSweeneys.net) and two books (by Paul La Farge and Salvador Plascencia) under its new Rectangular Fiction imprint. Salvador Plascencia, whose The People of Paper is being heralded as a great first novel (involving East Los, origami, and Catholicism in a mythic cassoulet), will represent Team McS at Powell's.[LR]
Friday July 8, 2005
12:00 PM : Portland on Tap @ Governor Hotel
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Friday Forums
From our series of speeches from government leaders to various panels on the arts, education and technology, Friday Forums engage audiences in issues of significance, prominence, urgency and humanity. City Club forums guide citizens in the ways of civic affairs, giving complex subjects relevance and clarity. City Club welcomes members and nonmembers to Friday Forums.
FRIDAY JULY 8 - Portland on Tap: How Microbrews Became Big Business
Doors open at 11:30 a.m., Program begins at 12:15 p.m. and concludes at 1:15 p.m.
Speaker(s) :
Karl Ockert, Brewmaster of BridgePort Brewing Co.
Jim Parker, former Executive Director of The Oregon Brewers Guild and now Editor-in-Chief of The New Berwer and Zymurgy magazines
At the Governor Hotel, 614 S.W. 11th Ave.
Luncheon tickets are $16 for members, $20 nonmembers (reservations/cancellations must be made by 2 p.m. the Wednesday before the Friday Forum; see below) Coffee/tea table tickets are $5 and are available at the door on a first-come, first-served basis, General seating is free for members and $5 for nonmembers, and is available at the door on a first-come, first-served basis Coffee/tea table tickets: $5.00 members and nonmembers
Description
According to the Oregon Brewers Guild, no matter where you are in Portland, you're never more than 15 minutes from a craft brewery. In fact, Portland has more breweries than any other city in the world — 23 craft breweries in Portland; 34 in the Portland metro area — and we are home to one of the nation's largest beer festivals.
Given that July is American Beer Month, City Club pauses for a refreshing look at one of Portland’s definitive homegrown industries. Sample a few BridgePort specialties while learning more about how craft breweries got started in Portland, their impact on the larger industry, the market explosion of craft beer and how that's affected Oregon’s economy.
Friday July 15, 2005
08:00 AM : Webvisions 2005 @ Oregon Convention Center
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WebVisions 2005 : The Conference
July 15th at the Oregon Convention Center
http://www.webvisionsevent.com
JOIN THE GIANTS OF THE WEB WORLD to explore the future of design,
content creation, technology and business strategy. From podcasting to
universal usability, you'll discover how the Web is interacting with
digital devices to change the way we communicate, access information
and do business.
Register Online at http://www.webvisionsevent.com/register/
Monday July 18, 2005
07:30 PM : Why White Kids Love Hip Hop @ Powell's on Hawthorne
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In Why White Kids Love Hip Hop, a bold bombshell of a book, Bakari Kitwana argues that hip hop has broken down more racial barriers than any other social development of the past three decades. With this brave tour de force, Kitwana takes his place alongside the greatest African-American intellectuals of recent history. "Eschewing tired cliches, refusing racial pieties, and resisting old habits of thought, Kitwana clears a brilliant path to fresh insight." — Michael Eric Dyson, author of Holler If You Hear Me
Monday July 25, 2005
12:00 PM : Grant Writing Workshop for Non-Profits in Portland
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Loaves & Fishes Centers, Inc., in partnership with Grant Writing USA, will present a two-day grant writing workshop in Portland. All government and nonprofit professionals are welcome to attend.
Grant Writing USA delivers nationwide training programs and workshops that dramatically enhance performance in the areas of grant writing, national foundation and government grant maker research and relations, program planning, and personal and organizational excellence.
This workshop is suitable for beginning and experienced grant writers who desire to increase their fundraising competitiveness and broaden their funder focus.
Tuition is $349 (YIKES!) and includes all materials: workbook and accompanying 220MB resource CD that's packed full of tools and more than 200 sample grant proposals.
For more information visit http://grantwritingusa.com or contact:
Katie Schrier
Loaves & Fishes Centers, Inc.
503.736.6325 ext. 25932
kschrier@lfcpdx.org.
Wednesday July 27, 2005
06:00 PM : Personal Telco Monthly Meeting @ UrbanGrind
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The July 2005 Monthly Meeting
When: Wednesday, July 27th 2005. 6:00pm - 9:00pm
Where: UrbanGrind Coffee House
Who: Everyone
Why: For more info read the MeetingJuly2005 page.
Monday September 19, 2005
07:30 PM : Poker Champion Annie Duke @ Powell's
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Poker Champion Annie Duke
Monday the 19th, 7:30PM Powell's City of Books on Burnside
In How I Raised, Folded, Bluffed, Flirted, Cursed, and Won Millions at the World Series of Poker, the top-ranked female poker player in the world reveals an insider's view of the World Series of Poker, a glimpse of her fascinating journey to the top, and keen analysis of winning hands. Annie Duke takes readers deep into the World Series of Poker as she wins millions, becoming the only woman to ever win two major tournaments in one year.
Tuesday September 20, 2005
07:00 PM : Barbara Ehrenreich @ Bagdad Theater
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Tuesday, September 20th 2005 07:00 PM
Bagdad Theater, Portland, OR
The bestselling author of Nickel and Dimed goes back undercover to do for America's ailing middle class what she did for the working poor. After exploring the lives of low-wage workers, Barbara Ehrenreich enters another hidden realm of the economy: the shadowy world of the white-collar unemployed. Bait and Switch: The (Futile) Pursuit of the American Dream highlights the people who've done everything right — gotten college degrees, developed marketable skills, and built up impressive résumés — yet have become repeatedly vulnerable to financial disaster. Please note: This free event takes place at the Bagdad Theater, 3702 SE Hawthorne Blvd. Seating is limited to first come, first served.
Sunday September 25, 2005
07:00 PM : 'SALT' Launch Party @ Portland Art Center
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Party for SALT
Sunday September 25th
7-10 pm
free admission
Portland Art Center
2045 SE Belmont St
(503) 239-5481
Short poignant readings by:
Leanne Grabel
Zhang Er
David Abel
Leonard Schwartz
Maryrose Larkin
Endi Hartigan
Amanda Deutch
Alicia Cohen
David Pickering
Music by John Berendzen & the Parametric Orchestra
Snacks, booze, mingling and specially designed Voodoo Donuts for the
occasion
PLUS an art installation by James Jack in the gallery
Copies of Salt will be available for purchase at the event
It’s going to be a splash!
This event is co-sponsored by Portland Art Center/ Spare Room/ Nestucca Spit Press
www.nestuccaspitpress.com
Thursday September 29, 2005
07:30 PM : Mistakes We Should Stop Making: How Past Policies Have Shaped Emerging Issues @ Kaul Auditorium
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September 29
The Environmental Lecture Series Presents: Richard White’s Mistakes We Should Stop Making: How Past Policies Have Shaped Emerging Issues. Americans are notoriously a people who live in the present and the future. The past, particularly when it is unpleasant, is something we want to put behind us. Increasingly, however, our gravest environmental problems are legacies of our past. Global warming, ozone holes, the depletion of fisheries, the pollution of waters, soil exhaustion, declining bio-diversity and other environmental problems are not recent phenomena. They are the product of historical processes of considerable duration: in some cases a half century, in other cases a century, and in still other cases even longer histories of human activities. Their pasts seem pertinent to their futures. Richard White is widely regarded as one of the nation’s leading scholars in three related fields: the American West, Native American history, and environmental history. Professor White came to Stanford in 1998 and is the author of five books, including The Middle Ground: Indians, Empires and Republic in the Great Lakes Region, 1650-1815, which was named a finalist for the 1992 Pulitzer Prize.
7:30 p.m., Kaul Auditorium. This event is free and open to the public.
Monday February 27, 2006
07:00 PM : Edie Tsong @ PSU
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Every Monday night from now until March 13, and periodically the rest of the school year, Harrell Fletcher will be presenting a series of informal talks by regional, national and international contemporary artists as part of the PSU MFA Monday Night Lecture Series. PICA is proud to be a sponsor of this series. The talks are free and the public is invited and encouraged to attend.
Edie Tsong
Mon . Feb 27 . 7 pm
FREE
5th Avenue Cinema Room 92
510 SW Hall St. (on the corner of SW 5th & Hall)
Edie Tsong's recent projects have utilized fax, video, teleconference, performance, and plasticene to explore identity as an interactive group project. She has performed collaboratively with Pete Kuzov in Portland's enterActive Language Festival in 2002, 2003, and 2004.
Tsong has exhibited and lectured nationally. She has recently shown at the Mattress Factory, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, and Atlanta Center for Contemporary Art. Tsong lives and works in Portland, OR. (More info on Tsong)
The PSU MFA Monday Night Lecture Series is funded in part by PICA, Reed College, and PNCA
Saturday March 4, 2006
03:30 PM : DJ Spooky @ Reed
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The Reed Arts Week presents a talk by hip hop artist Paul Miller, aka DJ Spooky. While his reputation sometimes overwhelms the aesthetic quality of his work, Miller has long been practicing conscious hip hop. Intellectual and philosophical, Miller's talk last fall in a small W&K conference room was reported out as brilliant and thought provoking. 3:30PM Vollum Lecture Hall Reed College $3/ Reedies free
-Rob, Your Arts and Culture Sherpa
Sunday March 5, 2006
02:00 PM : Peace Corps Workshops @ PSU
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Sometimes it's a bit depressing to see the direction of our fair country has taken. The best therapy is to work for change. Where to start? - anywhere which inspires you! If you are inspired by working in other countries, the Peace Corps is offering an afternoon of panels and workshops. I've worked with and visited several volunteers, the program will be intense, but you will emerge with tools that will allow you to undertake anything. General info at www.peacecorps.gov. 2-5pm PSU Smith Center Room 228 Free
-Rob, Your Arts and Culture Sherpa
Tuesday March 7, 2006
07:00 PM : Marina Abramovic @ Reed
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Marina Abramovic, born 1946, in post war Belgrade, is the mother of extreme performance in the art world, now grandmother, still performing at age 60. This article articulates some of her performance history much better than can I.
I wouldn't miss this once in a lifetime opportunity to hear Abramovic speak. Arrive early, or you may watch the talk videoconferenced to the overflow classroom. 7pm Vollum Lecture Hall, Reed College Free
-Rob, Your Arts and Culture Sherpa
07:30 PM : Michael Lerner @ Powell's
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Michael Lerner reads from his book The Left Hand of God: Taking Back Our Country from the Religious Right. Lerner is an influential political thinker and author. His many writings offer a spiritual basis for
living and spreading progressive politics accessible to America's middle.
7:30 Powell's Burnside Free
-Rob, Your Arts and Culture Sherpa
Wednesday March 8, 2006
03:45 PM : Michelle Tea @ Lewis & Clark
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Lewis and Clark College presents a reading by and discussion with poet and novelist Michelle Tea. Tea has been living and exploring life and identity to the edge and writing of it from San Francisco. The energy of her writing is matched by her persona and her readings.
3:45-5:15PM Council Chamber of the L&C Templeton Student Center Free (but expect to pay for parking if arriving by car)
-Rob, Your Arts and Culture Sherpa
Sunday March 12, 2006
02:00 PM : John Elderfield @ Portland Art Museum
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The Portland Art Museum presents a lecture by John Elderfield, the NY Museum of Modern Art's chief curator of painting and sculpture.
Elderfield will review the history of modern art in the context of art made now, right now.
2PM Whitsell Auditorium at the Portland Art Museum advance tickets free for Museum members or with Museum admission that day.
-Rob, Your Arts and Culture Sherpa
Saturday March 18, 2006
06:00 PM : Red76's Laundry Lecture @ F & I U Wash
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Hello Friends,
We are extremely excited to have the opportunity to host a Laundry Lecture for our dear friend from Chicago, Bonnie Fortune. Bonnie will give her talk tomorrow, Saturday, March 18th at 6pm at the F & I U Wash (28th btw. Burnside and Ankeny) in Portland, Oregon. Many thanks go to Gallery Homeland
(Paige Saez and Paul Middendorf) for hosting Bonnie through Homeland's new artist-in-residency program (http://www.galleryhomeland.org/).
1. Laundry Lecture w/ Bonnie Fortune
2. About Bonnie Fortune and Free Walking
3. About the Laundry Lecture Series
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1. Laundry Lecture w/ Bonnie Fortune
Saturday, March 18th 6pm
F & I U Wash
28th (btw. Burnside and Ankeny)
Portland, Oregon
For her Laundry Lecture, Bonnie will be presenting a brief history of Free Walking, encouraging you to submit to In the Weather, and briefly mentioning her most recent interactive social art collaboration, Dormant. A Q & A will follow the talk where she expects you to ask the hard questions. She will also be washing a load of socks and underwear, because these are the key part of any successful walker's wardrobe.
2. About Bonnie Fortune and Free Walking
Bonnie Fortune is a Chicago based art organizer. She collaborates with uncontrollable reprobates in goods and services of intangible significance, and occasionally will give you directions on how to get there. Currently, her main projects are Free Walking ( www.freewalking.org) and In the Weather (www.intheweather.org), with Chicago artist Melinda Fries. In 2004, she graduated from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and started her Free Walking Project ( www.freewalking.org), a curatorial framework for exploring her adopted city while talking about ideas of public space, decay, lost histories, and horizons. In the Weather is a growing compendium of directions for self-guided walks, online and in guidebook form. These projects and others have been included in exhibitions in Chicago, Atlanta, Toronto, and North Adams.
3. About the Laundry Lecture Series
In the Fall of 2003 Sam and Laura were sitting in the Polish Laundromat (Laundry/Prania) around the corner from the then Red76 headquarters in Chicago, IL. They got to thinking about places you wait in. Places wherein their function is mainly sitting around for something to happen. From this the Laundry Lecture Series was initiated.
Why not set up a series of talks in your local Laundromat? Why even ask the owners? We didn't. As long as you are a paying customer what's to stop you from gathering you and your friends to talk about whatever you'd like, as the socks get lost, and your favorite pink t-shirt gets frayed one more time in the dryer? Nothing, we say. Go ahead, get your friends together, feel free to be open and honest wherever you are. Speak your mind. Share your thoughts: in Laundromats, on checkout lines, and so many other wonderful shared-use venues all over the world.
Bring yr. laundry.
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Thanks everyone,
More soon,
R76
www.red76.com
ask@red76.com
Monday March 20, 2006
07:00 PM : Future Academy @ 5th Avenue Cinema
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What to build is more important than where to build
An artists' talk presented by Future Academy
Featuring: Clementine Deliss, Marjorie Harlick, Oscar Tuazon with Harrell Fletcher and Matthew Stadler.
FREE
Monday, March 20, 7 pm
5th Avenue Cinema Room 92
510 SW Hall St.
(on the corner of SW 5th & Hall)
Future Academy will discuss mobile working environments, local institutions, and the long-running hippie survivalist zine "Dwelling Portably," published in Philomath, Oregon. Living and working out of a temporary, mobile publishing and video studio in a 1999 Tioga Arrow RV, Future Academy is preparing Metronome no. 10, the first magazine to be published in conjunction with Documenta 12. The premier of Metronome no. 10 will be held at PICA next weekend.
Spanning five continents, Future Academy is a student-led investigation into the art college of the future, whereby key questions are raised with regard to the architecture of future buildings; mobility and portable working environments; the content and form of the future library and archive; and new forms of interdisciplinary collaboration between informatics and art.
www.metronomepress.com
www.harrellfletcher.com
www.clearcutpress.com (Matthew Stadler)
Future Academy
07:00 PM : Susan E. Rice @ Reed
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Susan E. Ricespeaks on "The National Security Implications of Global Poverty: Africa's Strategic Importance to the U.S" at Reed College. Rice, former National Security Council member focused on peacekeeping and Africa in the Clinton administration, and was later Assistant Secretary of State for Africa under Madeline Albright (http://secretary.state.gov/www/albright/albright.html)
Rice is now at the Brookings Institution. Her tenure includes policy decisions on Somalia, Rwanda, and Sierra Leone addressed cinematicly in "Black Hawk Down", "Hotel Rwanda", and "Lord of War" respectively.
7PM Vollum
Lecture Hall Reed College Free
-Rob, Your Arts and Culture Sherpa
Wednesday March 29, 2006
05:00 PM : Pure Data Workshop for Sound and Vision @ Apotheke
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- Mar 29-30 - "Pure Data Workshop for Sound and Vision"
A workshop on Pure Data, GEM and PDP for sound and video artists.
Pure Data is a free and open source software, a modular and object-oriented programming environment geared towards manipulation and synthesis of both audio and video. It is similar to the commercial package "Max/MSP" , and can be used on Linux, OSX and Windows.
Participants will learn the basic "grammar" and "vocabulary" of Pure Data, GEM and PDP, upon which objects for sound, 3D and video will be added. Emphasis will be placed on direct connections between sound and image through three different methods: influence of sound on image, influence of image on sound and the use of common "control data" for both image and sound.
The workshop spans two days, and is geared as a ground-up introduction and interface between the programming environment and artist. (Geek to English.) Attendance of the first day is a prerequisite for the second day, since information and concepts introduced in the beginning of the workshop will be used later on.
Students will also be required to bring their own computer, however PD software will be provided, for either Linux, OS 10.3/4 or Windows. (With the exception of PDP, which is not available for Windows.)
The workshop starts at 1pm each day, and should last about four hours.
Registration costs $75, or $50 with a Student ID. You can sign up at Apotheke, payment will be required to hold a spot. Sign up early, as space is limited.
Full schedule info is tagged to the end of this release, and can also be found at the venue's website, http://www.apotheke-nw.com.
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More information on both of these events, and about some of the
artists involved, can be found on these websites:
http://www.umatic.nl
http://www.sarako.net
http://www.onomato.org
http://sethnehil.artdocuments.org/
http://www.vcr100.com
Thanks! Hope to see you there.
Apotheke
1314 NW Glisan St., #2a .
503.241.7866
www.apotheke-nw.com
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Workshop Schedule >>
*DAY ONE: BASICS & AUDIO
Installation Clinic.
The first part of the workshop will be devoted to installing Pure
Data, GEM, PDP and several other externals on the participants'
computers. For PD and GEM, Mac OSX, Windows and most Linux
distributions can be accomodated. Please note that PDP is NOT
available for Windows, and only runs on Linux or OSX 10.3/4!
Pure Data as a Language.
Like learning any new language, PD starts with learning vocabulary and
grammar. In this case, we will learn the names of many common objects
and the syntax of how to use them, in a clear "Geek-to-English"
translation which makes the complex data-flow operations of PD
understandable to non-programmers.
Pure Data for Sound Synthesis.
PD has powerful signal-processing abilities, and we will explore these
by building a simple, monophonic synthesizer controllable from either
a MIDI device or from the keyboard of your computer. Different types
of sound sythesis, such as Additive, Subtractive, Amplitude
Modulation, Frequency Modulation and Wavetable Synthesis will be
covered, along with the use of filters and delays for a variety of
effects.
Pure Data for Sample Manipulation.
Because PD uses a range of very basic building-blocks to store and
playback sampled sound, a wide range of manipulations are possible.
Here, we will explore pitchshifting, time stretching, looping and
basic granular synthesis. Other uses of data stored in tables for
control purposes will also be touched on.
DAY TWO: VIDEO & CROSS-SYNTHESIS.
Pure Data for 3D: GEM.
GEM is an external library used in PD for moving 3D graphics under the
OpenGL protocol. It is also an ideal environment for VJ mixing. We
will explore how to create and manipulate simple 3D objects, how to
texture them with images, how to playback and mix video clips in GEM
and how to use a live camera input.
Pure Data for Video: PDP.
PDP (Pure Data Packet) is used primarily for video playback and
effects filters. We will investigate PDP for direct video synthesis,
for the playback and mixing of (audio)visual clips and for the
processing of a live camera input. PDP includes several tools for the
analysis of video for movement, change and color, which in turn can be
used to control
sound playback and other events in PD.
Pure Data for Audio Analysis.
We continue our investigation of the audio side of Pure Data by
looking at different methods of analyzing sound signals for pitch and
amplitude information. The data we extract from the audio can be used
to either (re)synthesize new sounds or to control 3D or video graphics
manipulations.
Pure Data for Cross-Synthesis.
Combining what we have learned so far about sound and image in PD,
we'll explore the interrelation of sound and image in three ways: the
analysis of sound to control video (PD-->GEM/PDP), the analysis of
video to control sound (PDP-->PD) and the use of data to
simultaneously control sound and image (PD, GEM, PDP).
Friday April 21, 2006
07:00 PM : Chris Kraus @ Cooley Gallery
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Chris Kraus, co-editor of Semiotext(e) book series
(http://www.semiotexte.com/), filmmaker, and author,
reading from her new novel, Torpor.
@
Cooley Gallery, Reed College, 3203 SE Woodstock Blvd.
Friday, April 21, reception at 6:00 pm, reading at
7:00 pm.
Friday April 28, 2006
10:30 AM : TOKYO FLOW SYMPOSIUM SCHEDULE @ W+K
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TOKYO FLOW SYMPOSIUM SCHEDULE
Friday, April 28
Otaku Flow, 10:30 am – noon:
Antonia Levi, Author, Samurai from Outer Space: Understanding Japanese Animation, Associate Professor, PSU
Carl Horn, Editor, Dark Horse Comics
Katsu Tanaka, Proprietor, Just Be Complex
Moderated by John Calvelli, Associate Professor, Communication Design, PNCA
Oki Sato Presentation, 1:30 – 3 pm
Oki Sato, Principal, nendo, Tokyo
Design Flow Portland, 3:15 – 5 pm
Chris Riley, Director, International Marketing, Apple
Sudeep Gohil, Strategist, Wieden + Kennedy
Steve McCallion, Creative Director, Ziba Design, Inc.
Moderated by Paul Platosh, Chair, Communication Design, PNCA
Design Flow Tokyo, 7 – 8:30 pm
Teruo Kurosaki, President, Idée Co., Tokyo
Oki Sato, Principal, nendo, Tokyo
John Calvelli, Associate Professor, Communication Design, PNCA
Moderated by Paola Antonelli, Curator, Architecture and Design, MoMA, New York
Tokyo Object Flow, April 28 – May 27 at the Felman Gallery
Suitcase curators:
Teruo Kurosaki, President, Idée Co., Tokyo
Oki Sato, Principal, nendo, Tokyo
John Jay, Executive Creative Director, Wieden + Kennedy, Portland
Howard Lichter, Creative Director, Nike Design Studio Tokyo
John Calvelli, Associate Professor, Communication Design, PNCA
Tokyo Design Revolution II: Tokyo Flow • Friday, April 28 • 10:30am • 9:30pm
Free and open to the public
Pacific Northwest College of Art – 1241 NW Johnson
Monday May 1, 2006
07:00 PM : Kathryn Van Dyke @ PSU
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All the way from Mill Valley, CA!
Kathryn Van Dyke will present her work
as part of the PSU MFA Monday Night Lecture Series
The public is invited (it's free, tell your friends)
Monday, May 1st, 7:00pm
5th Avenue Cinema Room 92
510 SW Hall St. (on the corner of SW 5TH & Hall on the PSU Campus)
Kathryn Van Dyke holds a bachelor’s degree in Political Economy from UC Berkeley, a BFA in painting from CCA, and an MFA from Yale University. She has shown her work at SFMOMA, YBCFA, Stephen Wirtz Gallery in SF, Roberts and Tilton in LA, and Greg Kucera Gallery in Seattle, and Pulliam Deffenbaugh in Portland. She was a 2001 recipient of the SECA award and the Headlands Center for the Arts residency.
For more information on Kathryn go to:
www.pulliamdeffenbaugh.com/Artist-Detail.cfm?ArtistsID=215
www.wirtzgallery.com/bios/bio_vandyke_frame.html
Next in the PMMNLS: May 8th San Keller
The PSU MFA Monday Night Lecture Series is funded in part by PICA, Reed College, and PNCA
Thursday May 11, 2006
09:00 PM : The Portland Mercury's Evening with Dan Savage @ Cyrstal Ballroom
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Thursday, May 11
Presented by Pabst Blue Ribbon, Sponsored by McMenamins
The Portland Mercury's Evening with Dan Savage
Join the Mercury for an evening getting to know columnist and author Dan Savage!
Hear stories, ask questions - be a part of it!
AND . . enjoy musical guests Storm Large and the Balls!!!
Thursday, May 11
Crystal Ballroom
8pm doors, 9pm showtime
21+, $5 advance, $7 doors
Tickets available at Crystal Ballroom box office and all Ticketmaster locations.
Saturday May 27, 2006
02:00 PM : Steal This Festival @ Loveland
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MAY 27 @ the Loveland International
320 SE 2nd Ave - PDX
2PM - 10PM
A full day of bands, speakers, films, and workshops, with proceeds to benefit counter-military recruitment and the purchase of radical resources for local teachers.
$10 before 6. $12 after.
http://stealthisfestival.org/
Friday June 2, 2006
10:00 PM : Poet-Novelist Michelle Tea Reads @ ACME
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Michelle Tea (b 1971), spawn of Kathy Acker, reads from her latest book Rose of No Mans Land. Acker's semantic and philosophical adventures were replaced by Tea's body mod, punk, Mission District, cheap drug, mosh pit, lesbian sexual revolution, poetry movement real life adventures in the 1990's, chronicled.
Working class, self educated, novelist, poet and icon, Tea is the organizer of Sister Spit, the SF girl spoken word events, bakes cookies for the Radar Reading Series at the SF Public Library and is proud of stirring things up wherever she goes. This event also features Portland artist, and cofounder of the Portland Zine Symposium, Nicole Georges, and music by The Golden Bears and Portland's Evolutionary Jass Band.
Perhaps Tea is a cross between Ani Difranco, Alan Ginsberg, Mary Magdaline and Charles Bukowski, but that really doesn't get it. For a better idea, Hip Mama editor Ariel Gore interviews Tea.
The event is a find raiser for the IPRC. 10PM 21+ at ACME 1305 SE 8th xMain $8
Thursday June 8, 2006
06:00 PM : MERRELL + JDK PRESENTATION @ OFFICE
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THURS JUNE 8 / 6 to 8 PM / MERRELL + JDK PRESENTATION: Reinventing The Laptop Bag
FREE / RSVP required (event@officepdx.com) / Space is limited / @ OFFICE (2204 NE Alberta St), of course
6:00 to 6:30 / Networking
6:30 to 7:00 / JDK and Merrell Presentation
Go to www.officepdx.com
Join award-winning product, apparel, and graphic design leaders from JDK (Burton Snowboards, among others), and their client counterparts from MERELL as they present a behind the scenes look at how MERRELL reinvented the laptop bag. They will reveal, for the first time, research insights, brand challenges, and provide never seen before sketches, materials, and color palettes for the original Merrell bags that broke new ground in the bag category. They’ll also (drum-roll please) discuss what’s next for MERRELL + JDK, and why the made they move to Portland, OR. This is an amazing opportunity to hear from both the design team and the client team on what it takes (and how) to reinvent a product brings it to market and why world-class brands are moving to Portland, OR. All MERRELL bags will be 15% off that evening.
Saturday June 10, 2006
01:00 PM : Artist Talk @ Guestroom Gallery
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Artist Talk:
"Tone, shade + other in betweens..."
with Abi Spring, David Eckard & Troy Briggs
Moderated by TJ Norris (curator) Saturday, June 10, 1PM
At Guestroom Gallery, 128 NE Russell, Portland, Oregon, under the Wonder Ballroom
Guestroom's number is 503-284-8378
The style of the talk will be something of an informal conversation between the three artists about ambiguous invisibility, the psychology of the surface and more.
Monday June 12, 2006
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Forged of carbon in earth's magma, diamonds' value is made entirely by man. The industry which makes it happen is a bit publicity shy, and for good reason. This rock's equation of size and value, and its deposits in Africa, have spawned a generation of unspeakable bloodshed, of which I am acquainted. Al Qaeda converted bank funds to uncut diamonds in Africa in July, 2001. The film Lord of War touches upon it, a feature film next year will fully bring the issue into pop consciousness. The book covers diamonds' history, mining and cutting, as well as their carefully crafted mythology. If you are considering purchasing one, you might start your research with this book. Powells Books Burnside 7:30PM Free
Thursday June 15, 2006
06:00 PM : LAIKA: Creating a killer ANIMATED portfolio @ OFFICE
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THURS JUNE 15 / 6 to 8 PM / LAIKA: Creating a killer ANIMATED portfolio
FREE / RSVP required (event@officepdx.com) / Space is limited / @ OFFICE (2204 NE Alberta St), of course
6:00 to 6:30 / Networking
6:30 to 7:30 / LAIKA presentation, moderated panel discussion, Q and A
Go to www.officepdx.com
Looking @ LAIKA? Learn the story behind this reinvigorated company formerly known as Vinton Studios. Join OFFICE for this once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to meet the internationally award-winning creative teams behind globally known, but Portland, OR based, LAIKA/house and LAIKA Entertainment. Find out how to build a portfolio and reel that will get you noticed. Written up in everything from Wired Magazine to The Hollywood Reporter and AdWeek, LAIKA’s high-octane creative teams have racked up 11 Clio Awards, two Cannes Lion International Advertising Festival awards, two Academy Awards®, five Academy Awards® nominations, and 11 Prime time Emmy Awards. LAIKA/house produces animated commercials and shorts for global clients including but not limited to Coca-Cola, Wrigley’s, ESPN and Esure UK. LAIKA Entertainment has two greenlit animated feature films in various stages of production, “Coraline” and “Jack & Ben’s Animated Adventure.”
Thursday June 22, 2006
05:45 PM : Match of the Millenium: Art vs Advertising Talk @ Disjecta
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EBay Power Seller Andrew Dickson, Portland filmmaker, EBay performance artist and one half of creative power coupleTM with craft star Susan Stars, speaks on "Art vs Advertising". You, the audience, carry on the debate. Come prepared to mark your territory. Did I mention that the debate will be fueled by free PBR, who, along with the Portland Advertising Federation, is sponsoring the event? PBR's lack of advertising has fueled its indy cred, now it's gingerly experimenting with Portland promotions.
In Portland, where everyone is creative, this question is no joke. Sell out? Send work your artist friends way? Support a family? One band, their song becoming an ad soundtrack, explained "it's not whether you sell out, it's when".
Dickson will review examples of collaboration and antagonism between artists and advertisers. After presenting "EBay Power Seller" performances, Dickson himself was tapped by a local ad agency to create a character for a campaign by a big shoe company. Other artists have rejected corporate collaboration. The ultimate example - Adbusters, where artists and agency creatives working on the sly, produce work that is copied widely in the industry it disses.
An interesting historical perspective is offered in the book Conquest of Cool: Business Culture, Counter Culture and the Rise of Hip Consumerism by Baffler editor Thomas Frank. http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0226260127/sr=8-1/qid=1150833342/ref=pd_bbs_1/104-2016882-3883147?%5Fencoding=UTF8
At Disjecta 230 E Burnside Doors and taps open 5:45, match at 6:30 $10 Disjecta members, else $15 probably 21+
Wednesday August 9, 2006
08:00 PM : Photographs @ Albina Press Cafe
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Albina Press presents the photographs of friends, Gretchen Vaudt and Michelle Ott. Portlander Vaudt records images of a canoe trip, maybe in our area. Ott, an Antarctic resident, captures beautiful bleak landscapes from which she removes objects marking human presence. Until 8 4637 N. Albina Ave at Blandena
Friday August 11, 2006
12:00 PM : The Portland Zine Symposium @ PSU
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The Sixth Annual Portland Zine Symposium Brings Together a Diverse Community of Independent Publishers from Around the US and Abroad
This event enhances communication and community between many different producers of independent media and artas well as help people share skills and information related to zines and zine culture. Through hands-on and discussion-based workshops, Symposium participants examine the role and effect of all types of zines in and on underground and mainstream culture.
Portland, Oregon (Portland Zine Symposium) June 13, 2006 The Portland Zine Symposium is one of the nation's largest annual zine events, organized by Portland State University (PSU) students and others in the Portland DIY/zine community and held on the PSU campus in downtown Portland. This event is open to the public on Friday, Aug. 11 from 12pm 5pm and on Sat. & Sun. Aug. 12 13 from 10am 5pm. Admission and workshops are free.
A zine, (pronounced zeen), is a self-published magazine usually produced by one person or a small group of people in small runs. In the past ten years or so, some zines (for example, Bust and Giant Robot) have moved into the mainstream in the form of glossy magazines or books, but the DIY (do-it-yourself) revolution that zines sprang from is still flourishing.
The Symposium is comprised of a few different components: Tabling enables creators/zinesters to sell and trade their zines, comics, books, and other related media and allows attendees to experience a wide range of material and people; Workshops (there will be over 20) facilitate skill-sharing and exchange of knowledge and ideas about independent publishing and zine culture; and evening Social Events extend the fun!
The Sixth Annual Portland Zine Symposiums theme Building Bridges was chosen because of the organizations core values of encouraging communication and building community among zine-makers. In addition, this years Symposium will include an international component.
For more information or to see photos and press from past years Zine Symposiums, please visit our website at www.pdxzines.com.
About Our Organization:
The Portland Zine Symposium is a 501(c)3 non-profit organization started six years ago by a group of Portland organizers, activists, artists, students, and zinesters who sought to create an annual event that would celebrate zine-making and create a stronger connection among producers of independent media and art.
Tuesday September 5, 2006
07:00 PM : Creative Capital @ PICA
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Creative Capital and the MAP Fund visit Portland
SEPTEMBER 5, 2006
7PM
PICA Resource Room - 224 NW 13th Ave.
FREE
Please join us (and spread the word to artist friends!) for this gathering in the PICA Resource Room to meet Sean Elwood (Creative Capital) and Kelly Cooper (MAP Fund) whom will talk about their respective funding initiatives for visual and performing and new genre artists.
Artists are encouraged to attend! Its Free and everyone is welcome!
Wednesday September 13, 2006
07:00 PM : Madgesdiq @ Interstate Firehouse Cultural Center
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Hip Hop Book Event - Printable Version - September 5, 2006
For Immediate Release
Book Release Signing and performance
"Steppin’Out" by Madgesdiq
WHEN: September 13, 7:00
WHERE Interstate Firehouse Cultural Center
5340 N Interstate (near Killingsworth MAX line)
TICKETS free
INFORMATION 360 907-3209
www.myspace.com/madgesdiq
MEDIA CONATCT Kenya Budd
360 907-3209
mismasi@aol.com
Your family’s athleticism is legendary. You are compared to your father, your uncle, as well as your nationally recognized cousin and brother. Not just by your family, friends and community, but every sports fans from all over. Every young school boys supposed dream is loaded on your shoulders. Your name and face are broadcast across the country. And you have talent too. Talent to play ball, be charming, talent to get out and get rich. Who would choose to be poet instead of a famous basketball player? Madgesdiq.
Madgesdiq grew up Antoine Stoudamire in a family of star athletes. His first book, a collection of thoughts and poems, entitled "Steppin’ Out" chronicles his journey toward freedom and peace. He displays tremendous courage and faith as he rises above the expectations of others and charts his own path; one of writer, author, performer and public speaker.
Much of Madgesdiq’s work has been performed live, but he longs for a more tangible and personal experience for the audience member, hence the publication of "Steppin’ Out". September 13th he will share readings from his collection of poems followed by a book signing. Attendance is free.
Madgesdiq first began his artistic endeavors as a musician in 1999. Since then the conscious hip hop artists has released two successful albums (the first being titled, The Rebirth and the second one being self-titled), as well as a prosperous mix tape, known in streets as, All I Wanna Do. With each new album and appearance the fiery soul rebel continues to gain momentum and enthusiasts. He has opened for premier acts such as KRS-One, Lyrics Born, Living Legends, Medusa, The Lifesavas, The Jungle Brothers, Zion I, Black Sheep, Rjd2, Chuck D and The Coup. He has also performed at the Seattle Hemp Fest, Northwest Reggae Festival and Alonzo Mourning’s ZO’s Summer Groove in Miami, Florida.
Adrienne Flagg, Creative Director
Interstate Firehouse Cultural Center
5340 N Interstate
Portland, OR 97217
www.ifcc-arts.org
503.823.4322
Direct 503.823.2070
Fax 503.823.2061
"Committed to creating an environment in which people of every ethnic/cultural background come
Tuesday September 19, 2006
11:30 AM : River in Focus @ City Hall
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19 TUESDAY
River in Focus Brown Bag: The River Plan
11:30 a.m. - 12:45 p.m. Grab your sack lunch and head to City Hall for lunch with the River Renaissance team. Sallie Edmunds, River Plan Project Manager, and members of the River Plan Team will update the group on the progress of the North Reach River Plan. This will include progress on the Greenway Trail Alignment, water recreation, watershed health, industrial land use issues and riverbank design. The event will be held in the Lovejoy Room at City Hall, 1221 SW 4th Avenue, and is free and open to the public. For more info visit www.portlandonline.com/river or call 503-823-5747.
River Renaissance Initiative
Friday September 29, 2006
10:00 AM : Solar Expo @ Oregon Convention Center
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September 29, 30, October 1
Cultural explorers seek the leading edge, the experimental, they are the vanguard. The Convention Center's million square feet of rain cover is for mass adopters. While this event is not to the million foot level, that solar in the Northwest is approaching mass adoption is a good thing. Witness the great attendance at the sustainability tour. The show includes vendor booths and a raft of seminars. Details at http://www.nwsolarexpo.com/
Fri & Sat 10am-7pm Sun 10am-6pm $8 per day under 12 free. Tickets at the door.
Monday October 9, 2006
08:15 PM : Robert A. Pruitt lecture @ PSU
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Robert A. Pruitt lecture at PSU this Monday, Oct 9th at 8:15pm
All the way from Houston, TEXAS!
ROBERT A. PRUITT will present his work
as part of the Portland State University MFA Monday Night Lecture Series
The public is invited (it's free, tell your friends)
Monday, Oct, 9th, 8:15pm
5th Avenue Cinema Room 92
510 SW Hall St. (on the corner of SW 5TH & Hall on the PSU Campus) Portland, Oregon
Robert A. Pruitt incorporates America's often unsettled race relations into the aesthetics of desire. His rereading of twentieth-century art, especially the ready-mades of Marcel Duchamp, in light of African American history and experience offers a commentary on the ongoing struggles of black Americans. Pruitt's participated in the 2006 Whitney Biennial. He has worked for a number of years with Project Row Houses, and is a member of the collaborative group Otabenga Jones & Associates, which was also included in the 2006 Biennial.
Pruitt writes: "I have been educated by the contemporary art system, but my neighborhood, and most of its residents, are unaware of this world, and that world is unaware of it. This is the dichotomy out of which I work. An inhabitant of two worlds, my work attempts to bridge the gap between African cultural traditions supposedly lost to African Americans, and contemporary art making tactics. I fuse Hip-hop sensibilities, rewritten histories, and penchant for the found, (or cheaply bought) object. I romanticize the revolutionary ideologies of the seventies, the dope fresh styles of the eighties, and the conceptual art making practices of the nineties. I collect objects, quotes, and events from my stereotypically disenfranchised neighborhood, bring them back to my studio, and mix them up to make art. My materials are artifacts stained with memory and meaning. I use these artifacts to make objects and images that expound on the black condition in America, and I use a chitlin circuit style of humor to sneak it into the subconscious of my audience."
For more information on Robert go to:
http://www.whitney.org/www/2006biennial/artists.php?artist=Pruitt_Rob
http://www.clementine-gallery.com/pruitt.html
http://www.projectrowhouses.org/
This is the first in the PMMNLS for this season. We will have free public lectures every Monday night of the school year.
The PSU MFA Monday Night Lecture Series is funded in part by PICA, Reed College, PNCA, Lewis and Clark College, and The Affair At The Jupiter
Next up for the PMMNLS:
Julia Bryan-Wilson: Oct 16
Jeffery Mitchel: Oct 23
TBA: Oct 30
Jessica Jackson Hutchins: Nov 6
Vanessa Renwick: Nov 13
Marc Horowitz: Nov 20
Jeanne Finley: Nov 27
James Lavadour: Dec 4
Saturday October 14, 2006
10:00 AM : Ladd Walking Tour @ Ladd's Addition
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A Neighborhood Walk.
Sat Oct. 14th @ 10 a.m.
Departs from:
North Tri-Met Bus Shelter at
SE 17th & SE Division. Parking is available at St. Philip Neri Church at 2449 SE Tamarack (SE 18th & Division). Please purchase tickets in advance.
$15 - http://www.portlandwalkingtours.com/tours/ladds.htm
Walk through a wonderful southeast neighborhood with us. The Ladd's Addition neighborhood is an area where locals always seem to get lost. We'll help you find your way as we meander the unusual streets, meet some neighbors and visit multiple rose gardens
We'll navigate the quiet, mazelike streets of Ladd’s Addition, Portland’s oldest (1891) planned community. Along the way, they’ll admire four blooming rose garden parks that accent the angles of this geometrically-laid out neighborhood. You'll learn about Ladd’s residents’ successful quest to save their old, historic American elms, and admire the impeccably restored bungalows, Victorians, and Arts and Crafts homes that give Ladd’s Addition its place as one of the city’s most desirable neighborhoods.
With 177 historic designations and an ongoing battle to preserve its integrity, this is the only walking tour selected by the City of Portland to showcase Portland’s neighborhoods for dozens of urban planners in the International Federation for Housing and Planning's Spring Conference 2005.
Four rose gardens and a microcosm of architectural styles makes this a special treat.
(No hills and an easy pace. Please purchase tickets in advance as this tour has limited capacity.)
Monday October 16, 2006
08:15 PM : Julia Bryan-Wilson @ PSU
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All the way from Providence, Rhode Island!
Julia Bryan-Wilson will present a lecture entitled: On Nuclear Time
as part of the Portland State University MFA Monday Night Lecture Series
The public is invited (it's free, tell your friends)
Monday, Oct, 16th, 8:15pm Sharp!
5th Avenue Cinema Room 92
510 SW Hall St. (on the corner of SW 5TH & Hall on the PSU Campus) Portland, Oregon
Julia Bryan-Wilson received her Ph.D. in art history in 2004 from
UC Berkeley, and is currently assistant professor of contemporary art and
visual culture at the Rhode Island School of Design, where she recently
received the John R. Frazier Award for Excellence in Teaching. She has
held fellowships from the Smithsonian, the Luce Foundation, and the
Mellon Foundation, amongst others. She has curated shows of emerging
artists on both the east and west coasts, and her writing has appeared
in Artforum, Art U.S., Art Journal, Bookforum, Camera Obscura, Frieze,
Oxford Art Journal, and Technology and Culture. This academic year,
Julia is a J. Paul Getty Trust postdoctoral fellow, and is completing
her book "Art Works: Artistic Labor in the Vietnam War Era," which is
under contract with the University of California Press.
For more information on Julia go to:
http://firstpulseprojects.net/Strange-Weather-mt/2006/02/julia_bryanwilson_nuclear_futu.html
http://www.learningtoloveyoumore.com/selections/bryan_julia/1.php
This is the second in the PMMNLS for this season. We will have free public lectures every Monday night of the school year.
The PSU MFA Monday Night Lecture Series is funded in part by PICA, Reed College, PNCA, Lewis and Clark College, and The Affair At The Jupiter
Next up for the PMMNLS:
Jeffry Mitchell: Oct 23
Vanessa Renwick: Oct 30
Jessica Jackson Hutchins: Nov 6
Mark Newport: Nov 13
Marc Horowitz: Nov 20
Jeanne Finley: Nov 27
James Lavadour: Dec 4
Friday October 27, 2006
07:00 PM : Derrick Jensen@Disjecta
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Author + philosopher Derrick Jensen gives a talk on the unsustainableness of civilization, sponsored by Mythmedia. $10 check www.derrickjensen.org for more details.
Sunday October 29, 2006
06:00 PM : worldchanging @ Forestry center
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worldchanging is having a reading and party for their new book
october 29th @ world forestry center, 6pm-9:30pm
World Forestry Center
4033 SW Canyon Rd.
Portland, Oregon 97221
tour url: http://www.worldchanging.com/archives/005027.html
book url: http://www.worldchanging.com/archives/004819.html
Monday November 13, 2006
08:15 PM : Mark Newport @ PSU
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Mark Newport
Monday, November 13
Monday, Nov 13, 8:15 pm
5th Avenue Cinema, Room 92
510 SW Hall (at 5th)
FREE!
"For centuries, knitting has been associated with the feminine -- from medieval portraits of the Virgin Mary beatifically purling to Grandma’s treasured knit afghans. Arizona artist Mark Newport, however, views knitting and related domestic textile arts in quite a different way. For him, they are symbols for understanding masculinity and brute strength -- and the unlikely means by which he is able to create the iconic wardrobes of the superhero." - John D. Spiak
Mark Newport's visual art work, usually based in objects, has been exhibited widely at galleries in Seattle, Las Vegas, Albuquerque, Pittsburgh, New Orleans, and New York. Internationally he has shown at the Mitterand Gallery in Geneva. Newport has been awarded working residencies at Yaddo and Western Washington University in Bellingham. He is an Associate Professor of Art at Arizona State University in Tempe. He received his MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 1991
Click the link below for more info on the artist.
www.gregkucera.com/newport_reviews.htm
Next up for the PMMNLS:
Marc Horowitz: Nov 20
Jeanne Finley: Nov 27
James Lavadour: Dec 4
The PSU MFA Monday Night Lecture Series is funded in part by PICA, Reed College, PNCA, Lewis and Clark College, and The Affair At The Jupiter
Thursday November 16, 2006
05:00 PM : Cory Doctorow @ PSU
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Cory Doctorow, co-editor of Boing Boing, science fiction author, and copyright activist will be delivering a lecture titled "What's the point of copyright?" at PSU.
Date: Thursday, November 16, 2006
Time: 5:00 - 6:00 p.m.
Location: Room 338 (Vanport Room), Smith Memorial Student Union, 1825 SW Broadway Avenue, Portland, Oregon 97201
Monday November 20, 2006
08:15 PM : Monday Night Lecture Series @ PSU
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Portland State University MFA Monday Night Lecture Series
The public is invited (it's free, tell your friends)
Monday Nights 8:15pm Sharp!
5th Avenue Cinema Room 92
510 SW Hall St. (on the corner of SW 5TH & Hall on the PSU Campus) Portland, Oregon
Marc Horowitz: November 20th
Marc Horowitz, comedic performer and conceptual artist, has been featured on dozens of national and international radio stations, newspapers, and television programs simply because he wants to dine with strangers.
Recently he was invited by Nissan to spend seven days living in his car for their advertising campaign.
Marc wrote Dinner w/ Marc 510-872-7326 (his name and cell phone number) on a dry-erase board fixed to a desk-like piece of furniture, which was being photographed as a retail product for the Fall 2004 Crate & Barrel Catalog. He did it in hopes to have dinner with whoever calls the number from the catalog.
The catalog was distributed with his personal invitation to dinner and he remarkably received over 30,000 calls. As a result, Marc embarked on a Trans-America journey to meet with as many people for dinner as possible, calling it The National Dinner Tour.
Marc was born to Karen Meyer and Burton Horowitz, a schoolteacher and pharmacist respectively, in Westerville, OH. He spent his childhood in the Midwest and the South. From an early age, Marc was a driven and successful businessperson, entrepreneur, and organizer.
At age 8, he founded his first company - a ghost removal and cleaning service with his mom serving as scheduling coordinator. He had his first press at nine when he organized a break dancing competition as entertainment for senior citizens. Additionally, Marc created several scale model stegosaurus business suits from cardboard in an attempt to win the seat for class president.
At age fifteen, Marc left home. For awhile, he lived in an actor friends basement and attended high school in Paradise, Indiana, playing football, running track, and buying beer for others with his fake ID as a business venture. He moved around frequently, posing as a foreign exchange student; at age seventeen, he attended Indiana University in Bloomington, receiving his degree in Business Marketing and Microeconomics. After graduating, he traveled extensively overseas, shearing sheep and turning down offers to start various carpet businesses in Morocco. He ultimately took a job in Silicon Valley with a graphics firm. Later, he left for hopes of starting his own venture, and attended The San Francisco Art Institute for a year.
After the Art Institute, Marc and a long time collaborator, Jon Brumit, reinvented themselves as the business team of Sliv & Dulet Enterprises and opened an office in downtown San Francisco. They staffed their company with thirty artists posing as business people to help them develop a summer line of products and services, which eventually included a fog removal initiative for the Golden Gate Bridge, a full-service office in a tent, a Swiss Army Cubicle, and much more.
In the summer of 2004, Marc completed his Errand Feasibility Study, which included running his daily errands while riding a pack mule through San Francisco. He dropped off his dry cleaning, accompanied the mule into REI to return a stove, made photocopies, did his grocery shopping, and made a deposit at his bank.
That same year, every Saturday, Marc ran 1500 feet of extension cord from his kitchen to the local park three blocks away where he hooked up a coffee maker and served free coffee to all who visited.
Marc continues his social research through many other projects like The 25th Annual Sample Gum Chew-Off, The Center for Improved Living, Sapce The Spaceman, The Rabid Rabbit Run, The Human Video Game Experiment, and Free Ideas, which nearly got him arrested for handing out scrawled ideas on post-it notes. His work can be seen on his website, www.ineedtostopsoon.com.
Hed like to encase a 1969 Camaro in Lucite someday and is known to chase cardboard dragons.
Monday November 27, 2006
08:15 PM : Jeanne C. Finley @ PSU
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All the way from San Francisco, CA!
Jeanne C. Finley will present a lecture about her work
as part of the Portland State University MFA Monday Night Lecture Series
The public is invited (it's free, tell your friends)
Monday, Nov. 27th, 8:15pm Sharp!
5th Avenue Cinema Room 92
510 SW Hall St. (on the corner of SW 5TH & Hall on the PSU Campus) Portland, Oregon
Jeanne C. Finley is a media artist who works in experimental and documentary forms. Her work has been exhibited in international institutions including the Guggenheim Museum, SF and NY Museum of Modern Art, Whitney Museum and the George Pompidou Center. She has been the recipient of several grants including a Rockefeller Media Arts Fellowship, Guggenheim Fellowship, Creative Capital Foundation Grant, Cal Arts/Alpert Award, National Endowment for the Arts Fellowships, Arts-Link Fellowship and the Phelan Award in Video.
Since 1989 she has worked in collaboration with John Muse on many installation and video projects. During 1990 Finley received a Fulbright Fellowship to Yugoslavia where she directed programs for Radio/TV Belgrade. In 1994 she was an Artist-in-Residence in Istanbul, Turkey through a grant from the Lila Wallace Readers Digest Foundation. In 2001 she received an Arts-Link fellowship to Sarajevo to create a film and website with Bosnian media artists
Finley's film and video credits include: Loss Prevention, 2000, O Night Without Objects, a Trilogy, 1998, A.R.M. Around Moscow, 1993, Involuntary Conversion, 1991 and Nomads at the 25 Door, 1991. These tapes have won awards at international festivals such as the San Francisco, Atlanta, Berlin Video Festival, Toronto, and World Wide Video Festival.
Finley is a Professor of Media Studies at the California College of the Arts and currently lives in San Francisco with her husband, daughter and son. Her gallery work is represented by the Patricia Sweetow Gallery and her films are distributed by Video Data Bank, Women Make Movies and Electronic Arts Intermix.
For more information on Jeanne go to: http://www.vdb.org/smackn.acgi$artistdetail?FINLEYJ
PSU's Art Dept. offers free public lectures every Monday night of the school year. This is the eighth lecture in the PMMNLS for this season.
The PSU MFA Monday Night Lecture Series is supported in part by PICA, Reed College, PNCA, Lewis and Clark College, The Affair At The Jupiter, and The Eye High Gallery
Thursday December 14, 2006
07:00 PM : Everyone I Know Lives on Roads @ Reading Frenzy
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Author Trevor Dodge will read from his short story fiction collection Everyone I Know Lives On Roads. Borrowing celebrity or remixing culture the press release notes:
"Everyone I Know Lives On Roads (Chiasmus Press, 2006) examines the accident scene of celebrity, fate and language, measuring the skidmarks for traces of our oedipal selves and chalking out the metaphorical places where these three paths converge. Road ragers and rubberneckers met along the way include Kathy Acker, Alan Greenspan, Jacques Derrida, Ayn Rand, Michael Alig and James Joyce, with hourly traffic reports from Dan Rather."
Trevor Dodge is the author of Yellow #10 (Eraserhead, 2003) and co-editor of the Northwest Edge anthology series. His work has appeared in Plazm, Gargoyle, Black Ice, Two Girls Review, Fiction International, Natural Bridge, Rain Taxi, and Review of Contemporary Fiction.
921 SW Oak 7PM
Wednesday January 17, 2007
07:30 PM : Money Talks Talk @ Illahee Lecture Series
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This is the kick off of the Illahee environmental lecture season. Previous years' themes have circled around sustainability, landscape, the environment and energy. Very brainy, very lean forward, definitely not boring. This year's theme, "Money Talks", themes the environment, social evolution and economics together.
Andrew Revkin, author and New York Times environment reporter, speaks on "Oil, Climate, and Money". You will find the audience spans generations; these are Portland's thoughtful dreamers of the future. Sometimes the series need volunteers, though it may be late. The lectures are viewable in replay in the Illahee offices, including the excellent ones of the past, for free, I believe. http://www.illahee.org/lectures/revkin First Congregational Church, 1126 SW Park Ave 7:30PM $75, 5 lectures or $20 each
Sunday January 21, 2007
02:00 PM : Brady Cranfield's Music Appreciation Society @ Disjecta
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Public Speakers presents:
Brady Cranfield's Music Appreciation Society
Six notable artists (broadly conceived) each present a piece of music they especially like, followed by public discussion. Vancouver, BC, artist and musician Brady Cranfield will host the panel which includes film directors Gus Van Sant, Matt McCormick, and Vanessa Renwick, Portland Art Museum curator Jennifer Gately , Vancouver, BC, artist Kathy Slade, and New York-based photographer Marc Joseph.
Sunday January 21, 2 pm – 4 pm, Disjecta, snacks and drinks .
The Music Appreciation Society is a broadly inclusive secret society promoting the fluid notion of appreciation and encouraging the lively pursuit of any and all manner of musical interests, from the most remote to the commonest. A vigorous complex of opinions and debate are constitutive of the Society.
Monday January 29, 2007
08:15 PM : Frida Yngstrom, Staffan Hjalmarsson @ 5th Avenue Cinema
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All the way from Gothenburg, Sweden!
Frida Yngstrom & Staffan Hjalmarsson will lecture about their work
The Public is invited (it's free, tell your friends)
Monday, Jan 29th, 8:15pm Sharp!
5th Avenue Cinema Room 92
510 SW Hall St. (at the corner of SW 5th & Hall on the PSU Campus) Portland, OR
Frida Yngstrom and Staffan Hjalmarsson are two Swedish artists living in the city of Gothenburg where they are active as individual practitioners and working together in the group GLU. During the last two years they have collaborated and using artistic strategies in working with asylum politics and different kinds of educational programs to teach and use contemporary art to intervene and affecting change in society. GLU has been functioning within the political networks ‘Flyktingamnesti 2005’ (refugee amnesty 2005), ‘Natverket Asyl’ (Asylum network) , ‘Ingen Manniska ar illegal’ (no man is illegal) as well as within the educational program of Goteborgs Konsthall and in the upcoming spring at the artist run gallery space Box in Gothenburg.
Frida Yngström works with audience participation, site specific installation and performance. The work involves questions of value and delegation of responsibility.
Frida Yngström has been working and exhibiting worldwide in China, Bogota Columbia, Melbourne Australia and recently showed with the experimental London gallery ‘the center of attention‘ in London May 2006, Istanbul Modern Oct 2006-Jan 2007 and was awarded the prize of best Artist 2006 by Gothenburg Nojesguiden.
Staffan Hjalmarsson has during the past five years collaborated with a number of individual artists, schools and different kind of organizations. An ongoing project is a temporary art centre at Göteborg´s main shopping centre in collaboration with the regional library, artists, hidden refugees and different groups that have little or none access to privileged parts of the city. Staffan Hjalmarsson has exhibited among other places in different spaces in Gothenburg and at Modern Museum of Beograd, Serbia and Galleri Titanik Abo, Finland.
For more information about Frida and Staffan go to: www.geasyl.nu, www.imai.org, www.flyktingamnesti.nu
PSU's Art Dept. offers free public lectures every Monday night of the school year. This is the tenth lecture in the PMMNLS for this season.
The PSU MFA Monday Night Lecture Series is supported in part by PICA, Reed College, PNCA, Lewis and Clark College, The Affair At The Jupiter, and Walter Lee Projects.
Wednesday January 31, 2007
03:30 PM : Harrell Fletcher @ 5th Ave cinema
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Harrell Fletcher will be doing a free public lecture about HIS work as part of my Art and Social Practice class on Wednesday, 1/31 from 3:30-5pm at the 5th Ave cinema room 90.
www.harrellfletcher.com
www.learningtoloveyoumore.com
Friday February 2, 2007
06:00 PM : Beasts! Release @ Grass Hut Gallery
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GRASS HUT GALLERY PRESENTS THE RELEASE OF BEASTS!
With artists signing the new Fantagraphics hardcover collection of nearly 100 illustrators depicting mythological and folkloric creatures.
WHAT: Beasts! book release party and signing
WHO: Jacob Covey, Bwana Spoons, Martin Ontiveros, Jesse Reno, Coleen
Coover, Adam Grano, Jason Miles, Eric Reynolds and others t.b.a.
WHEN: Friday, February 2nd, 6pm-9pm
WHERE: Grass Hut Gallery, 811 East Burnside, Portland OR 97214
WEB ADDRESS: www.grasshutcorp.com
Beasts! is a 200 page, full-color (plus Gold throughout), hardcover book from Fantagraphics Books. Ninety artists from the fields of rock posters, skate graphics, comics, children's books, fine art, etc. have each chosen a classic mythological or folkloric creature to illustrate. All of the depicted beasts have been thought at some time to exist (generally through a handful of eyewitnesses or as cultural
stories).
Each beast is accompanied by a brief description of the creature written by Paul Hughes, Felicia Gotthelf, Heidi Broadhead, or Rob Lightner. It was birthed/curated by Jacob Covey and marvelously edited by Karin Snelson. It is due in stores in early January.
Grass Hut
811 eastern Burnside
Portland, OR 97214
grasshutcorp.com
07:00 PM : Rob Halpern & Matthew Stadler @ Clinton Corner Cafe
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inton Corner Cafe
(SE Clinton & 21st, Portland, Oregon)
F r i . F e b . 2 a t 7 P M
Rob Halpern is the author of Rumored Place (Krupskaya 2004) and Disaster Suite (Vigilance Society 2006). Currently, he’s co-editing the poems of the late Frances Jaffer together with Kathleen Fraser, writing a collaborative poem with Taylor Brady, and translating the early essays of Georges Perec, the first of which is forthcoming in Chicago Review. He lives in San Francisco.
Matthew Stadler is the author of four novels, including Landscape: Memory and Allan Stein. He was the literary editor of Nest Magazine and is the co-founder and editor of Clear Cut Press. His non-fiction has been published widely in North America and Europe, and he is currently researching the early history of North Pacific America, for a series of lectures and essays.
Thursday February 8, 2007
06:00 PM : Offsite @ Someday Lounge
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Thursday Feb 8, 2007
6 - 9 PM
Someday Lounge
125 NW 5th Avenue
Portland, Oregon
503 248 1030
http://www.core77.com/offsite/unkl.asp
Get ready for a jam-packed Offsite event featuring a presentation and discussion with the cross-disciplinary design visionaries at UNKL, along with the musical stylings of Mr. Strack and an open bar. This will be the first Offsite in Portland since 2002, so shake off your winter blues with the rest of the local design scene.
UNKL brand is notoriously irreverent and mysterious. Their mission is simple: create original characters and products for design conscious consumers. There's no doubt you've seen their work around -- UNKL’s cast of characters and visually compelling stories are currently being developed into movie and television programs. Big-Giant and UNKL have been featured in numerous publications such as IdN, Vapors, Giant Robot, Hi-Fructose, Playtimes, Clutter, XFuns and Super 7.
Founders Derek and Jason will give us an exciting inside look into the UNKL operation, explaining how it all came about, including the origins of our favorite UNKL characters like SUG and JunPo. They will also discuss their work at their own design consultancy Big-Giant, with clients including Virgin, adidas-Salomon, Starbucks, LEGO, NFL, Microsoft, Converse and Nike.
Following the kick-ass presentation and a Q&A session, we'll move the party over to the open bar, with downtempo and old school 80's spun by everybody's favorite Mr. Strack. You must RSVP to have access to the presentation and open bar. Did we mention open bar?
The event will be hosted at the recently renovated, beautifully deconstructionist, Someday Lounge and will be simulcast online. UNKL products will be sold two doors down at Just Be/Compound during the event (as they always are)...
Entry to this event requires an RSVP. Please fill out the form to reserve your space at this event.
Saturday February 24, 2007
12:00 PM : MacNcheese&Pancakes @ Reed
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Mathew Stadler has hosted a series, The Backroom dinner talks, at various Portland points, like Ripe, Simpatico, Medoyeff, with some pretty awesome speakers. It becomes a creative vortex with Portland's most creative musicians, a brilliant speaker and the most important ingredient - you, lubed by yum food, and sometimes Mathew's favorite bargain brandy, which if it isn't Cuban, should be - all talking and reinteracting with the speaker, the musicians and the other participants.
This morning (!?), The Backroom lays down an instantiation for all ages. It's Paul Stewart and Chris Riddell, authors and illustrators of The Edge Chronicles. Their very Brit series is a childrens' fantasy, with copious "imaginary" characters, quests and battles. Illustrator Riddell will lead the kids in drawing and show them how he makes his "imaginary" characters. Anacortes musician Karl Blau provides music which I can guarantee won't be insipid.
So drawing for kids; pancakes, talk and macNcheese for all; mimosas for the big kids and OJ for the not big kids.
There is a place at the table and no doubt floor sprawling space for 65. So reserve your table or floor spot in advance. - $5, available at http://www.thebackroompdx.com/thebackroom_purchase.html.
It's at the Reed student union at Noon
Tuesday February 27, 2007
06:00 PM : MEET THE PDX DESIGN PRESS @ Office
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Tues Feb 27
MEET THE PDX DESIGN PRESS:
PANEL DISCUSSION with local opinion leaders on how to get your design/art/culture/product story some ink
Includes but is not limited to editors, reporters and freelance writers for:
METROPOLIS
WILLAMETTE WEEK
OREGONIAN
ULTRA PDX
PORTLAND PICKS
URBAN HONKING
COMMERCE MAGAZINE
PDX MAGAZINE
DAILY JOURNAL OF COMMERCE
Monday March 19, 2007
08:15 PM : Shaun O'Dell @ PSU
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All the way from San Francisco, CA!
Shaun O'Dell will lecture about his work
The Public is invited (it's free, tell your friends)
Monday, March 19th, 8:15pm Sharp!
5th Avenue Cinema Room 92
510 SW Hall St. (at the corner of SW 5th & Hall on the PSU Campus) Portland, OR
Shaun O'Dell is a painter, illustrator, videographer and musician who explores the intertwining realities of the human and natural orders. The symbolic lexicon in his work becomes a historiographic mapping of mythic narratives about humans, nature, time, and the development of cultural and nationalistic ideologies. He examines how America's long-time addiction to the technological and ideological suppression of nature has helped create a culture of denial. O'Dell has exhibited his work at many venues, including the Jack Hanley Gallery in San Francisco, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, UCLA Hammer Museum, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, Whitebox in New York, and the Marianne Boesky Gallery in New York. His work is held in the permanent collections of the SFMOMA, M.H. deYoung Memorial Museum and the Berkeley Art Museum. O'Dell received his MFA from Stanford. He is the recipient of the 2006 Diebenkorn Teaching Fellowship from the San Francisco Art Institute, 2005 Arttadia Award, 2004 SECA Award from the San Francisco Museum Of Modern Art and a 2002 Fleishhacker Foundation Award. He is currently teaching at the San Francisco Art Institute and is the co-organizer of The New New Masses, a lecture series on Art and Politics.
Monday April 9, 2007
08:15 PM : Bruce Conkle @ PSU
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Monday, April 9 , 8:15 pm
5th Avenue Cinema, Room 92
510 SW Hall (at 5th)
FREE!
Well Traveled, And Living In Portland, OR! Bruce Conkle Will Lecture About His Work this Monday night.
Bruce Conkle is a visual and installation artist whose work examines nature and culture. He loves snowmen, coconuts, fairy tales, Sasquatch and gingerbread. He is interested in creating work which uses art and humor to address contemporary attitudes towards environmental concerns, including deforestation and global warming. His work often deals with escapism, artificial worlds and man's place in nature and frequently examines what he calls the "misfit quotient" at the crossroads.
Sunday April 15, 2007
11:00 AM : Crafty Wonderland @ Doug Fir
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We are doing Crafty Wonderland again this Sunday, April 15th, at the Doug Fir in Portland. It goes from 11-4. I've been working on new drawings (they come framed!) and Lucy has been working on new photos and photo coasters. Come give us a visit if you are in town.
As always, many other vendors will be there and we are pretty excited about seeing some of them. Get the full scoop at www.craftywonderland.com.
Also - it is the one year anniversary of Crafty Wonderland so there will be celebration a-plenty. Yip!
Monday April 16, 2007
08:15 PM : Walter Lee @ PSU
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"Because of a visiting artist's schedule change we will be doing something different for the PSU MFA Monday Night Lecture Series on April 16th (that's in a week). MFA Candidate Walter Lee, known for his Walter Lee Projects on YouTube such as this one: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nbyT6KSsHA4&mode=user&search= , will host an open mic night of sorts in which audience members will be offered the opportunity to present work found on YouTube that they deem worthy of public attention on the big screen. To make the evening come together as fluidly as possible, Walter will take recommendations and create a playlist all week leading up to the presentation. To be included as a presenter please e-mail Walter as soon as possible at wfrancislee@gmail.com. There will be a Q and A after the screenings in which we hope to discuss the relevance of YouTube and other web based platforms in relation to contemporary art practice. As always the public is invited. Tell a friend."
Monday April 23, 2007
08:15 PM : Jim Goldberg @ PSU
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All The Way From San Francisco, CA!
Jim Goldberg Will Lecture About His Work.
The Public Is Invited (it's free, tell your friends)
Monday, April 23rd, 8:15pm Sharp!
5th Avenue Cinema Room 92
510 SW Hall St. (at the corner of SW 5th & Hall on the PSU Campus) Portland, OR
Jim Goldberg was born in 1953. Goldberg has been a member of Magnum Photos since 2006, He is also a Professor of Art at the California College of the Arts. He has been exhibiting for over 25 years and his innovative use of image and text make him a landmark photographer of our times. He began to explore experimental storytelling and the potentials of combining image and text with “Rich and Poor” (1977-85), where he juxtaposed the residents of welfare hotel rooms with the upper class and their elegantly furnished home interiors to investigate the nature of American myths about class, power, and happiness. In "Raised by Wolves” (1985-95), he worked closely with and documented runaway teenagers in San Francisco and Los Angeles to create a book and exhibition that combined original photographs, text, home movie stills, snapshots, drawings, diary entries as well as single and multi-channel video, sculpture, found objects, light boxes and other 3-D elements. He is currently working on two new book projects - one a fictional autobiography and the other on migration in Europe. He is represented by Pace/MacGill Gallery in New York and the Stephen Wirtz Gallery in San Francisco.
For more information on Jim go to:
Jim Goldberg
Wednesday April 25, 2007
05:30 PM : (TBA) Time-Based Art Festival Public Launch @ PICA
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Time-Based Art Festival Public Launch
Wednesday, April 25, 2007
PICA : 224 NW 13th Avenue
5:30 pm
FREE
503.242.1419
www.pica.org
The Portland Institute for Contemporary Art (PICA) invites PICA members and the general public to a friendly reception with Artistic Director Mark Russell as we introduce the artistic lineup of the 2007 Time-Based Art Festival (TBA:07).
PICA's TBA:07 Festival, now in its fifth year, is a contemporary art festival of regional, national, and international artists presenting performance, dance, music, new media and visual arts projects. With performances running from September 6-16, 2007 and month long exhibitions on display until October 8, 2007 , The TBA Festival is presented under bridges, over rivers, and throughout the city--all in Portland, OR USA.
TBA:07 Festival passes will also be on sale during the reception at a special early bird price. Passes are limited so don't miss this opportunity!
Can't wait until next Wednesday? Find out this Saturday at TADA Underground: a gathering of underground glances, glimpses, gazing, gawking, flirting, flitting, hooting, hollering, risking and rocking! TADA marks the announcement of the TBA:07 artist lineup and tickets are nearly sold out. Don't miss your chance to get the absolute first peek!
All TADA proceeds benefit PICA's artistic programming.
Thursday May 10, 2007
07:00 PM : UrHo Talks @ Mississippi Ballroom
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"It is taking place on MAY 10th, at the Mississippi Ballroom in North Portland, on Mississippi and Shaver, at 7 PM. It will be weird. I will be giving a short talk on Midcentury Design and screening a glut of Charles and Ray Eames films (rare!). There will also be an art history class taught by Greg Borenstein of Ideas for Dozens, a lecture from local art pundit and writer Matthew Stadler -- who curates the Using Global Media blog here on "UrHo" -- and something from Aaron Flint Jamison, New Media pioneer and editor-in-cheif of Veneer Magazine." - Claire Evans
Friday May 18, 2007
07:00 PM : Miranda July @ 1st Congregational Church-Park Blocks
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Miranda July used to live here. Between Olympia and LA. She wove punk club performances, recordings on Kill Rock Stars, a video chain letter, college film screenings, short fiction, screen writing, collaborative open source art, museum installations, small films/large films and stage performances into a beautiful dream. That is what her work is about and that is how it affects the audience. She deftly navigates identity, the black holes surrounding us and love to make something magical. Perhaps you saw her film "Me, You and Everyone We know"? Tonight she visits on a tour of LA, SF, PDX, Seattle, NY, London, Amsterdam and Milan to read from her book "No One Belongs Here More Than You" Tickets, which will sell out, online at http://www.ticketweb.com/user?region=oregon&query=schedule&venue=congregational
First Congregational Church 1126 SW Park 7PM $13
07:00 PM : Researcher on Alien Abductions Speaks @ McMinnville McMenamins
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Dr David Jacobs, who operates the International Center for Abduction Research, speaks about alien abductions. Afterwards there is a bluegrass show by Jackstraw and a performnce by Kirby Swatosh and The Moonrock Patrol. That's Friday evening. Saturday there will be a UFO costume parade, and alien pet costume contest and an alien costume ball. I am not making this up. All the "facts" may be found at http://www.ufofest.com/ $7 for talk. 7PM
Monday May 21, 2007
07:30 PM : Marisa Meltzer @ Hawthorne Powell's
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How Sassy Changed my Life
Monday the 21st, 7:30PM Powell's Books on Hawthorne
For a generation of girls who came of age in the early '90s, Sassy magazine was nothing short of revolutionary. In How Sassy Changed My Life, Kara Jesella and Marisa Meltzer present for the first time the inside story of Sassy's rise and fall, while celebrating its unique vision and lasting impact. They highlight its fusion of feminism and femininity, its frank commentary on taboo topics, and its battles with the religious right.
Sunday June 3, 2007
11:00 AM : Lov.li Fair @ Rontom's
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The lov.li fair is going to be fantastic. Rontom's is a beautiful space in very-close-in Southeast, indoor and outdoor tables, cocktails and food, music, demonstrations, raffle, a make-and-take craft table, and a whole lot more.
Rontom's is 21 and over. (600 E. Burnside)
If you would like to be considered as a vendor for the fair, please contact expatrick through lov.li. Vendors must be lov.li sellers and at least 21.
Co-sponsored by DIY ALERT!, All the crafty stuff in PDX delivered right to your in-box.
Saturday June 16, 2007
07:30 PM : Blumesday @ Bagdad Theater
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Literary Event: Blumesday
June 16th, Baghdad Theater, 7:30
On June 16th fans of James Joyce reenact the activities of Leopold Bloom, the protagonist of Ulysses, which took place on the same day in 1904. But instead of Bloomsday, this year we’re celebrating BLUMESDAY, to honor the works of a contemporary author who perhaps has more personal relevance to many of us: Judy Blume. Local writers and Blume fans will read from her various works, including, but not limited to: Are You There God It's Me Margaret, Blubber, Forever, Deenie, Tiger Eyes, and Superfudge. The event is hosted by Heather Larimer and Joanna Miller, and is at 7:30 pm at The Bagdad Theatre (on Saturday, June 16th). The event is sponsored by Community of Writers.
Readers are: Monica Drake (author of Clown Girl), Erin Ergenbright (author of The Ex-Boyfriend Cookbook and co-founder of the Loggernaut Reading Series), Courtenay Hameister (head writer and producer of OPB’s Livewire!), Frayn Masters (author of Pants All Night and the co-founder of Haiku Inferno) Edie Van Ness (defense attorney and former stand up comic), Robin Rosenberg (writer, curator, and restaurateur), Joanna Miller (writer and producer) and Chelsey Johnson (writer, Wallace Stegner Fellow). The emcee will be Heather Larimer (writer, musician and cofounder of the Loggernaut Reading Series).
Thursday June 21, 2007
07:00 PM : Creating a Killer Portfolio @ Office
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DATE: THURS JUNE 21 / 7 TO 9 PM / FREE – rsvp required event@officepdx.com
What: Creating a Killer Portfolio – A panel discussion with Portland’s top creative leaders in graphic, retail, architecture and advertising
Detail: design firms speak out on the strategy behind the portfolio. Join creative directors and design leaders from adidas (Tyler LaMotte), Nike (Luis Rueda), Sandstrom (Marc Cozza) Twenty Four Seven (Craig Wollen) and Wieden + Kennedy (Fritz Messenbrink) as they define what it takes to get noticed and get work from/with/for their high profile companies, moderated by OFFICE co-owner, Kelly Coller. Note: This event is back by customer demand and will repeat with new panelists in October of 2007. This event is exclusive to OFFICE and RSVP required. Perfect for: students, freelancers, or companies looking for freelance or fulltime work with Portland’s top creative companies.
Sunday June 24, 2007
05:00 PM : DorkbotPDX @ Vendetta
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I just want to say that Vendetta is quickly becoming my favorite Portland bar. Okay...
DorkbotPDX 0x00, June 24, 5PM @ Vendetta
Come join DorkbotPDX, people doing strange things with electricity,
for our inaugural event at Vendetta on June 24th at 5pm. If you're a
hacker, painter, engineer or sculpture, musician or maker you'll fit
right in. We bring together the tech and art worlds and enjoy it all
over a pint of beer. We'll have presentations and performances by
these fine folks:
Jason Plumb is a software engineer by day...hardware hacker, reverse
engineer, and experimental sound geek by night. He will provide an
overview of the Essential Reality P5 glove controller and explain how
it can be used with free and open-source software to create and
manipulate sound.
Jesse Fox studied music composition and physics at Bates College
before getting a Master's Degree from the Center for Computer Research
in Music and Acoustics at Stanford University. He will discuss his
involvement with the League of Electronic Musical Urban Robots (LEMUR)
and describe the detailed technical recreation of George Antheil's
"Ballet Mecanique", which includes xylophones, bass drums, tam-tam,
pianists, electric bells, a siren, airplane propellers, and a volley
of player pianos.
Donald Delmar Davis, principal research anarchist at D3 Laboratories,
will overview the deconstruction of Arduino and Wiring platforms to
create artistic robot platforms with AVR microcontrollers. "AI Begins
With Self Destruction"
paint & copter create multi-media experiences of regurgitated and
improvised media. By synthesizing live and pre-manipulated video
feeds, field recordings and live instrumentation, Paint and Copter
filter cultural noise and reprocess it into a new, mesmerizing thread.
We will also have a brief open-mic of sorts referred to as Open Dork.
This is a show and tell where you can have the mic for a few minutes
to discuss your latest project, vent about frustrations trying to get
your art grant or tell us about the intricacies of the color blue.
It's your time to tell us what you think we need to hear.
Festivities will begin at 5pm and you can expect them to last until
they kick us out. Please bring yourself, your friends and any thing
you'd like to share.
Monday July 2, 2007
07:30 PM : Emily White @ Powell's on Hawthorne
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Rich's spouse, Emily White, wrote a book about an old friend of theirs that started hanging out with movie stars and turned into a big scam artist and then went to white collar prison for a couple of years. This is the dude that sold a minority stake in Sub Pop to Warner Music Group for 20 million in 1995. A great American story. Weird, confusing, sad. Celebrity, money, magic, or at least magical thinking.
Em is an astonishing and lyrical writer and her readings are really solid.
Em is reading at Powell's on Hawthorne Monday night at 7:30. Maybe if enough people crash the reading we can get her to go bowling or something after.
Saturday July 7, 2007
07:00 PM : Gallery Homeland Talks @ Mark Woolley Gallery
Talk/Expo Flyered by kmikeym
Scratching the Surface is near and the heat is on. Please join us Saturday
July 7th for an evening of talks, slide show, music, prizes, food and
drinks!
Learn about our Scratching the Surface '07 on the Portland