UPCOMING EVENTS
Film: Jean-Michel Basquiat: The Radiant Child Thursday 09.09.2010, Doors at 7:00 PM, Starts at 7:30 PM, Ends at 9:30 PM, $7 / $5 for SPACE Members, All Ages Buy tickets here. Centered on a rare interview that director and friend Tamra Davis shot with Basquiat over twenty years ago, this definitive documentary chronicles the meteoric rise and fall of the young artist. In the crime-ridden NYC of the 1970s, he covers the city with the graffiti tag SAMO. In 1981 he puts paint on canvas for the first time, and by 1983 he is an artist with “rock star status.” He achieves critical and commercial success, though he is constantly confronted by racism from his peers. In 1985 he and Andy Warhol become close friends and painting collaborators, but they part ways and Warhol dies suddenly in 1987. Basquiat’s heroin addiction worsens, and he dies of an overdose in 1988 at the age of 27. The artist was 25 years old at the height of his career, and today his canvases sell for more than a million dollars. With compassion and psychological insight, Tamra Davis details the mysteries that surround this charismatic young man, an artist of enormous talent whose fortunes mirrored the rollercoaster quality of the downtown scene he seemed to embody. Visit the film's website. |
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Saturday 09.11.2010, Starts at 6:00 PM, Ends at 9:00 PM, Free, All Ages BLOCK PARTY! is an unprecedented event for SPACE Gallery, in collaboration with Portland Ovations, The Portland Museum of Art, Children's Museum & Theatre of Maine, Pickwick Independent Press, Portland Symphony Orchestra, and our numerous neighbors on Congress Street.The shops, galleries and venues from One Longfellow Square down to Port City Music Hall will transform their “front yards" with the help of local artists. Stop by in front of the PMA to check out Andrea Zittel's Group Formerly Known as Smockshop installation and launch event. Make way for the steamroller making giant woodblock prints by some of your favorite Portland artists with Pickwick Press at the controls! Take the kids down the street for hands-on activities and performances provided by the Children's Museum & Theatre of Maine, plus giant grid games and a host of surprises as we once again close off a portion of Congress Street to celebrate the vitality of Portland's Arts District. And what block party is complete without dancing? At 7pm we'll be treated to a special outdoor performance by Sao Paulo, Brazil's Garotas Suecas who are making waves bringing the best tropicalia and soul to the northern hemisphere. Lots more details available by clicking the link below! This project is made possible with generous support from the Davis Family Foundation, with additional support from Wright-Ryan and SMRT Architects and Gnome Landscapes, Design, Masonry, and Maintenance.
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Woods with MV&EE and Herbcraft Wednesday 09.15.2010, Doors at 8 pm, Starts at 8:30 PM, $8 in advance, $10 at the door, 18+ Buy tickets here or at any Bull Moose Music location. New York’s Woods intimates a modern rock aesthetic fully informed by historical manifestations of teenage along with a concomitant feel for the specifics of time and place. The distance between 2007’s underground gem At Rear House and 2010’s critically acclaimed At Echo Lake may at first seem only semantic but it more properly represents a move from a kind of informal back porch jam ethos to a fully-committed vision of the infinite possibilities of group playing. Over the past few years Woods have established themselves as an anomaly in a world of freaks. They were an odd proposition even in the outré company of vocalist/guitarist/label owner Jeremy Earl’s Woodsist roster, perpetually out of time, committed to songsmanship in an age of noise, drone and improvisation, to extended soloing, oblique instrumentals and the usurping use of tapes and F/X in an age of dead-end singer-songwriters. Woods’ secret weapon is the quality of Earl’s voice, osmosing the naive style of Jad Fair, Jonathan Richman and Neil Young while re-thinking it as a discipline and a tradition. He is singing at the peak of his powers, in a high soulful style that is bolstered by heavenly arrangements of backing vocals. MV&EE, outlaws from the frontiers of folk, will open along with Portland's own Herbcraft, both having recently released the first two albums on Woodsist vinyl-only imprint, Hello Sunshine. |
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Dirty Dishwater: Everything and the Kitchen Sink Thursday 09.16.2010, Doors at 10:00 PM, Starts at 10:30 PM, $9 in advance, $11 at the door, 18+ Buy Tickets Here or visit any Bull Moose Music location The Dirty Dishes Burlesque Revue, Portland's sex-positive, queer-positive feminist burlesque group, cordially invites you to attend the seasoned sensation, "Dirty Dishwater: Everything And the Kitchen Sink". Think fluidly: wet, flowing liquids, fluidity of all kinds. Abstract or obvious, this show will drip. "Dirty Dishwater" presents a an evening sopping with passion and originality as performers solidify their dewey moments into dance, skits, comedy, striptease and song. Hosted by Drag Princess Bunny Wonderland, the evening of sexual, sensual, erotic and playful performance welcomes to the stage the finely-honed skills of long-term performers as well as those just flooding the scene. Performances also include the dramatic debut of The 90 Minute Blonde, that dynamic dance duo Atomic Trash!, the serpentine Cait Capaldi, and vaudevillian style band Over A Cardboard Sea. |
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Dirty Dishwater: Everything and the Kitchen Sink Thursday 09.16.2010, Doors at 7:00 PM, Starts at 7:30 PM, $9 in advance, $11 at the door, 18+ Buy Tickets Here or visit any Bull Moose Music location The Dirty Dishes Burlesque Revue, Portland's sex-positive, queer-positive feminist burlesque group, cordially invites you to attend the seasoned sensation, "Dirty Dishwater: Everything And the Kitchen Sink". Think fluidly: wet, flowing liquids, fluidity of all kinds. Abstract or obvious, this show will drip. "Dirty Dishwater" presents a an evening sopping with passion and originality as performers solidify their dewey moments into dance, skits, comedy, striptease and song. Hosted by Drag Princess Bunny Wonderland, the evening of sexual, sensual, erotic and playful performance welcomes to the stage the finely-honed skills of long-term performers as well as those just flooding the scene. Performances also include the dramatic debut of The 90 Minute Blonde, that dynamic dance duo Atomic Trash!, the serpentine Cait Capaldi, and vaudevillian style band Over A Cardboard Sea. |
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Friday 09.17.2010, Doors at 7:30 PM, Starts at 8 pm, $10, 18+ Buy tickets here or at any Bull Moose Music location As a part of his "Acoustic Bicycle Tour," a two-week, carbon-neutral concert tour of New England, Taylor Ho Bynum will bring his original jazz compositions to life with the help of Maine natives Lisa Saffer (voice) and Paavo Carey (tenor saxophone). The tour celebrates both the interconnectedness of the region's creative arts communities and alternative ways of thinking about our world, including a post-oil perspective and an emphasis on regional music on the heels of local food and local economy awareness. Critics have called Bynum "a young brass master and compelling composer" (Boston Phoenix) and "one of the most exciting figures in jazz's new power generation" (Time Out Chicago). |
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Monday 09.20.2010, Doors at 7:00 PM, Starts at 7:30 PM, Ends at 10:00 PM, $7 / $5 for SPACE Members, All Ages Buy tickets here. Presented by Environmental Health Strategy Center Based on the acclaimed book by ecologist and cancer survivor Sandra Steingraber, Ph.D., Living Downstream is an eloquent and cinematic feature-length documentary. This poetic 85-minute film follows Sandra during one pivotal year as she travels across North America, working to break the silence about cancer and its environmental links. Visit the film's website here. |
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Portland Music Foundation presents “Playing a Live Show: From Advancing to Soundcheck" Tuesday 09.21.2010, Doors at 6:00 PM, Starts at 6:30 PM, Free for PMF members, All Ages
TOPIC: Playing a Live Show: From Advancing to Soundcheck There’s a right way and a wrong way to play a show, and we’re not talking about your performance. This panel will focus on the best practices for working with a club and acting like a professional, including: creating technical documents like input lists and stage plots; loading in correctly; interfacing with the house sound engineer; the difference between a line check and a soundcheck; and the specific equipment you absolutely need to have on hand. This presentation will also feature a live band, and a live solo artist, performing a soundcheck the right way. MODERATOR: Jim Begley, the Studio This event is free to PMF members. Sign up onsite or at www.portlandmusicfoundation.org $20.00 gets you a 1 year membership, free admission to all PMF events, and tons of area discounts!
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Wednesday 09.22.2010, Doors at 8:30 PM, Starts at 9:00 PM, $7, 18+ Buy tickets here or at any Bull Moose Music location. Originally from Florida, the husband and wife/mc and dj duo of Daisey and Batsauce now reside in Berlin and have travelled across Europe, Asia and the U.S. sharing stages with artists from Method Man to The Roots. Lady Daisey has rocked venues around the globe with a message of love and inspiration, soulfully presented over head nodding Batsauce beats. Her bluesy voice is infused with a hip hop vibe, but retains a classic soul sensibility that recalls Jill Scott and Erykah Badu. |
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Film: Exit Through the Gift Shop (at the PMA) Friday 09.24.2010, Starts at 7:00 PM, Ends at 9:00 PM, $7 General Admission, All Ages Banksy is a graffiti artist with a global reputation whose work can be seen on walls from post-hurricane New Orleans to the separation barrier on the Palestinian West Bank. Fiercely guarding his anonymity to avoid prosecution, Banksy has so far resisted all attempts to be captured on film. Exit Through the Gift Shop tells the incredible true story of how an eccentric French shop keeper turned documentary maker attempted to locate and befriend Banksy, only to have the artist turn the camera back on its owner. The film contains exclusive footage of Banksy, Shepard Fairey, Invader and many of the world's most infamous graffiti artists at work, on walls and in interview. As Banksy describes it, "It's basically the story of how one man set out to film the un-filmable. And failed" The film is being co-presented by SPACE Gallery and the Portland Museum of Art and will be screened at the PMA theater. Please visit the PMA website for more details. Tickets available at the PMA front desk on each screening day or at the door. |
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Friday 09.24.2010, Doors at 8:30 PM, Starts at 9:30 PM, $12 advance/$15 day of show, 18+ Buy tickets here or at any Bull Moose Music location. Though conceived as a duo, Kori Gardner and Jason Hammel - the he and she music factory known as Mates of State - have never failed to generate a trademark wall of sound built on dozens of varied voicings of keys, drums, and alternately lushly layered and playfully dueling vocals. On their newest album, "re-arrange us," they move beyond these boundaries (their traditional organ sound is a distant memory, replaced with organic piano and synth sounds) with additional instrumentation, not to mention a quantum leap in song craft apparent on instantly indelible gems like "now," "jigsaw" and "get better." Throughout the new album, Kori's piano and the emergence of both Mates' lead vocals from their trademark harmonizing signal the next stage of Mates of State's evolution. We've loved hosting the Mates since all the way back when SPACE started and, with this new album and a summer tour supporting their Covers Mixtape (including Tom Waits and Nick Cave!) under their belt, we're excited to see what they have in store this round. |
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Film: Exit Through the Gift Shop (at the PMA) Saturday 09.25.2010, Starts at 2:00 PM, Ends at 4:00 PM, $7 General Admission, All Ages Banksy is a graffiti artist with a global reputation whose work can be seen on walls from post-hurricane New Orleans to the separation barrier on the Palestinian West Bank. Fiercely guarding his anonymity to avoid prosecution, Banksy has so far resisted all attempts to be captured on film. Exit Through the Gift Shop tells the incredible true story of how an eccentric French shop keeper turned documentary maker attempted to locate and befriend Banksy, only to have the artist turn the camera back on its owner. The film contains exclusive footage of Banksy, Shepard Fairey, Invader and many of the world's most infamous graffiti artists at work, on walls and in interview. As Banksy describes it, "It's basically the story of how one man set out to film the un-filmable. And failed" The film is being co-presented by SPACE Gallery and the Portland Museum of Art and will be screened at the PMA theater. Please visit the PMA website for more details. Tickets available at the PMA front desk on each screening day or at the door. |
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Film: Exit Through the Gift Shop (at the PMA) Saturday 09.25.2010, Starts at 7:00 PM, Ends at 9:00 PM, $7 General Admission, All Ages Banksy is a graffiti artist with a global reputation whose work can be seen on walls from post-hurricane New Orleans to the separation barrier on the Palestinian West Bank. Fiercely guarding his anonymity to avoid prosecution, Banksy has so far resisted all attempts to be captured on film. Exit Through the Gift Shop tells the incredible true story of how an eccentric French shop keeper turned documentary maker attempted to locate and befriend Banksy, only to have the artist turn the camera back on its owner. The film contains exclusive footage of Banksy, Shepard Fairey, Invader and many of the world's most infamous graffiti artists at work, on walls and in interview. As Banksy describes it, "It's basically the story of how one man set out to film the un-filmable. And failed" The film is being co-presented by SPACE Gallery and the Portland Museum of Art and will be screened at the PMA theater. Please visit the PMA website for more details. Tickets available at the PMA front desk on each screening day or at the door. |
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Film: Exit Through the Gift Shop (at the PMA) Sunday 09.26.2010, Starts at 2:00 PM, Ends at 4:00 PM, $7 General Admission, All Ages Banksy is a graffiti artist with a global reputation whose work can be seen on walls from post-hurricane New Orleans to the separation barrier on the Palestinian West Bank. Fiercely guarding his anonymity to avoid prosecution, Banksy has so far resisted all attempts to be captured on film. Exit Through the Gift Shop tells the incredible true story of how an eccentric French shop keeper turned documentary maker attempted to locate and befriend Banksy, only to have the artist turn the camera back on its owner. The film contains exclusive footage of Banksy, Shepard Fairey, Invader and many of the world's most infamous graffiti artists at work, on walls and in interview. As Banksy describes it, "It's basically the story of how one man set out to film the un-filmable. And failed" The film is being co-presented by SPACE Gallery and the Portland Museum of Art and will be screened at the PMA theater. Please visit the PMA website for more details. Tickets available at the PMA front desk on each screening day or at the door. |
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Erick Lyle: On the Lower Frequencies Monday 09.27.2010, Doors at 7:00 PM, Starts at 7:30 PM, free, All Ages Erick Lyle, aka Iggy Scam, is a writer, musician, activist, zine editor, and author of the new book On The Lower Frequencies, published by Soft Skull Press. Born in Orlando, FL, he spent much of the 90s hopping freight trains around the country and living without electricity in abandoned buildings. Since 1991, Lyle has edited SCAM, an influential zine that featured personal writing, politics, reports on protest events, and interviews with activists and punk bands. He frequently contributes to the San Francisco Bay Guardian as well as countless punk zines. His reading will be accomanied by Portland musician Chris Teret, who will play some SCAM-specific songs. |
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Japanther with Screaming Females Monday 09.27.2010, Starts at 9:00 PM, $7, 18+ Buy tickets here or at any Bull Moose Music location. After this evening's reading, Erick Lyle proves he's a jack of all trades and joins headliner band Japanther for a few songs. Part Screamers intensity, part Misfits anthemery, part RZA samples/beats and part Lightning Bolt art/freakshow, Japanther is one of the best, most energetic live shows around and we like them a whole heck of a lot. Last scene at SPACE opening for Ted Leo, Screaming Females are power-pop gone ragged. The New Jersey trio has only one actual screaming female, Marissa Paternoster, who Rolling Stone calls "2009's answer to Sleater-Kinney's 2006 breakup". Let's leave it at this: the band plays until they bleed, and then they play some more. |
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Film: 2010 Manhattan Short Film Festival Tuesday 09.28.2010, Doors at 7:00 PM, Starts at 7:30 PM, Ends at 10:00 PM, $8 / $6 for SPACE Members, All Ages Buy tickets here.
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Thursday 09.30.2010, Starts at 12:00 PM, free, All Ages
In her three-day performances as the 60 wrd/min art critic, Lori Waxman makes herself available on a first-come-first-serve basis to local artists seeking succinct and opinionated reviews of their work. While a receptionist processes each artist’s submission, Waxman churns out one review every twenty minutes, the texts of which are displayed live on a nearby monitor for artists and observers to read. As each one- to two-hundred word review is finished, the receptionist will “publish” a physical copy to a nearby wall. Eventually all or some of the reviews are published in a magazine or newspaper.
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Murder By Death with Samantha Crain and Ninja Gun Thursday 09.30.2010, Doors at 7:30 PM, Starts at 8 pm, $12 in advance/$14 at the door, 18+ Buy tickets here or at any Bull Moose location They may call Bloomington, Indiana, home, but since their 2000 formation, Murder by Death have been a band without musical borders. Theirs is a world where Old West murder ballads mingle with rock-injected Western classicism; where an album's sequencing can take listeners from a haunted back alley in rural Mexico to a raucous Irish pub. All of which is to say, Murder by Death albums don't just string together songs; they create experiences. With their fifth album (and second for Vagrant), "Good Morning, Magpie", Murder by Death continue the tradition of border expansion that drove career standouts like 2006's "In Bocca al Lupo" and 2008's "Red of Tooth and Claw". The difference, however, is that this time, the band literally went off the map to get there. The fiery folk stylings of Samantha Crain and powerful rural roots rockers Ninja Gun open. |
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Emilia Dahlin - Homecoming Show! Saturday 10.02.2010, Doors at 8:00 PM, Starts at 8:30 PM, $10, 18+ Buy tickets here or visit any Bull Moose Music location. On the heels of her international tour, Emilia Dahlin is back on home turf. In 2009, Emilia released her awaited forthcoming CD, played a coveted opening slot for Ani DiFranco and in the peak of a booming music career left almost everything (work, house, home, and beloved dog) to embark on a year-long global journey of service and learning that would focus her interests in emergent and ancient trends in regenerative culture. Her weaving of a historian’s imagination with a troubadour’s artistry offers an American original sound that blends vintage jazz, the tang of a Tom Waitsian waltz and the somber grit of a low tide lullaby. Think superstar songwriting sensibilities that balance the smooth of Norah Jones and the groove of Django Reinhardt. Part of the proceeds from the evening will support Poesia Audiovisual, the non-profit project that Emilia collaborated with while in Brazil.Warming up the stage for Emilia’s homecoming performance is the jazz/groove sensation, Ahmad Hassan Muhammad Trio. |
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Film: Milton Glaser: To Inform & Delight Thursday 10.07.2010, Doors at 7:00 PM, Starts at 7:30 PM, Ends at 10:00 PM, $7 / $5 for SPACE Members & Students w/ ID / FREE for AIGA Maine Members, All Ages Buy tickets here. Part of SPACE's SCOPE visual arts film series. Co-presented by AIGA Maine. For many, Milton Glaser is the personification of American graphic design. Best known for co-founding New York Magazine and the enduring I ♥ NY campaign, the full breadth of Glaser's remarkable artistic output is revealed in this documentary portrait, MILTON GLASER: TO INFORM AND DELIGHT. From newspapers and magazine designs, to interior spaces, logos, and brand identities, to his celebrated prints, drawings, posters and paintings, the documentary offers audiences a much richer appreciation for one of the great modern renaissance men. Milton Glaser website. |
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Deerhoof with Xiu Xiu and Father Murphy Monday 10.11.2010, Doors at 7:30 PM, Starts at 8:00 PM, $13 advance, $15 day of, 18+ Buy tickets here or at any Bull Moose Music location. Avant-garde psychedelic pop trio Deerhoof's return to SPACE has been years in the making! Satomi Matsuzaki's vocals alternately bite and coo over John Dieterich's spastic guitar lines and Greg Saunier's dramatic driving drumming. Flopping between infectious childlike melodies and jagged experimental noise, your feet will command you to jump up and down with enough vigor to match the band's hyper-space-jams. At work on a new album for next year, the group is sure to pull out all the stops after being egged on by fellow avant-pop crazies Xiu Xiu opening. Kicking things off is experimental rock trio Father Murphy, to be the first in a trilogy of weird trips and post-punk glitches. |
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Thursday 10.14.2010, Doors at 7:00 PM, Starts at 7:30 PM, Ends at 10:00 PM, $7 / $5 for SPACE Members, All Ages Tickets on sale here. Filmed over a period of six years in Native communities throughout New England, Language of America demonstrates how language is not just a tool for communication, but a window into the beauty, mystery, and richness of a different culture - a culture that has existed in Maine for over 9,000 years, but is now quickly approaching the brink of disappearance. The story follows members of three New England tribes, the Passamaquoddy, Wampanoag, and Narrangansett, who against all odds are struggling to maintain their language and traditional ways of living in 21st century America. Language of America website. |
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Thursday 10.21.2010, Doors at 7:00 PM, Starts at 7:30 PM, Ends at 10:00 PM, $7 / $5 for SPACE Members, All Ages Buy tickets here. Freakonomics is the highly anticipated film version of the phenomenally bestselling book about incentives-based thinking by Steven Levitt and Stephen Dubner. Like the book, the film examines human behavior with provocative and sometimes hilarious case studies, bringing together a dream team of filmmakers responsible for some of the most acclaimed and entertaining documentaries in recent years: Academy Award® winner Alex Gibney (Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room, Casino Jack and the United States of Money), Academy Award® nominees Rachel Grady and Heidi Ewing (Jesus Camp), Academy Award® nominee Morgan Spurlock (Super Size Me), Eugene Jarecki (Why We Fight) and Seth Gordon (The King of Kong). Freakonomics website. |
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Friday 10.22.2010, Doors at 7:00 PM, Starts at 7:30 PM, Ends at 10:00 PM, $7 / $5 for SPACE Members, All Ages Buy tickets here. Freakonomics is the highly anticipated film version of the phenomenally bestselling book about incentives-based thinking by Steven Levitt and Stephen Dubner. Like the book, the film examines human behavior with provocative and sometimes hilarious case studies, bringing together a dream team of filmmakers responsible for some of the most acclaimed and entertaining documentaries in recent years: Academy Award® winner Alex Gibney (Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room, Casino Jack and the United States of Money), Academy Award® nominees Rachel Grady and Heidi Ewing (Jesus Camp), Academy Award® nominee Morgan Spurlock (Super Size Me), Eugene Jarecki (Why We Fight) and Seth Gordon (The King of Kong). Freakonomics website. |
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Sunday 10.24.2010, Doors at 7:00 PM, Starts at 7:30 PM, Ends at 10:00 PM, $8 / $6 for SPACE Members, All Ages Buy tickets here. As the daughters of the baby boom reached adolescence, the American school system struggled to educate them on matters of sexual and social development lessons that were not always being taught at home. To the teacher uncomfortable with such topics, classroom films were a godsend. They depicted the reproductive system in anatomical detail (Growing Girls) a wide array of social issues, from the importance of cooking skills (You’re the Judge, starring a young Bonnie Franklin), to self-defense (Attack) and how to say "No" (Saying No). Often corny, sometimes frightening, these cinematic life lessons curated and introduced by Skip Elsheimer, founder of the A/V Geeks educational film archive provide a fascinating window to the hopes and fears of parents and educators in mid-century America. And unlike school, boys will be allowed to view these films. A/V Geeks website. |
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Tuesday 11.02.2010, Doors at 8 pm, Starts at 8:30 PM, $10, 18+ But tickets here or at any Bull Moose location If you missed them this past summer, now is the time to redeem yourself! Montreal trio Land of Talk rock the post-hardcore idiom in the vein of Pretty Girls Make Graves and Tokyo Police Club with frontwoman (and Broken Social Scene alum) Elizabeth Powell's vocals taking notes from the best of early Cat Power. Bon Iver's Justin Vernon produced their most recent record, "Some Are Lakes" to accentuate the band's brittle buzz-saw guitars chime with nagging melodies and crackling emotion, honeyed and broken. Montreal's Suuns open with their dark, propulsive collusion of pop, post-punk and experimental rock. |
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Tuesday 11.09.2010, Doors at 7:00 PM, Starts at 7:30 PM, Ends at 10:00 PM, $7 / $5 for SPACE Members, All Ages Buy tickets here. Winner Grand Jury Prize Documentary - Sundance 2010 Restrepo is a feature-length documentary that chronicles the deployment of a platoon of U.S. soldiers in Afghanistan's Korengal Valley. The movie focuses on a remote 15-man outpost, "Restrepo," named after a platoon medic who was killed in action. It was considered one of the most dangerous postings in the U.S. military. This is an entirely experiential film: the cameras never leave the valley; there are no interviews with generals or diplomats. The only goal is to make viewers feel as if they have just been through a 90-minute deployment. This is war, full stop. The conclusions are up to you. A film by Tim Hetherington and Sebastian Junger (author "The Perfect Storm") Restrepo website.
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Film: Louise Bourgeois: The Spider, the Mistress and the Tangerine Thursday 11.11.2010, Doors at 7:00 PM, Starts at 7:30 PM, Ends at 10:00 PM, $7 / $5 for SPACE Members & Students w/ ID, All Ages Buy tickets here. Part of SPACE's SCOPE visual arts film series. Louise Bourgeois: The Spider, the Mistress and the Tangerine is a cinematic journey inside the life and imagination of an icon of modern art. As a screen presence, Louise Bourgeois is magnetic, mercurial and emotionally raw. There is no separation between her life as an artist and the memories and emotions that affect her every day. Her process is on full display in this extraordinary documentary. As an artist, Louise Bourgeois has for six decades been at the forefront of successive new developments, but always on her own powerfully inventive and disquieting terms. Film website. |
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Saturday 11.13.2010, Doors at 1:30 PM, Starts at 2:00 PM, $12 for adults, $8 for kids (ages 3-17), free for children under 3, All Ages Buy tickets here. SPACE Gallery, in association with Bloom Arts & Events, presents Elizabeth Mitchell. A Smithsonian Folkways Recording artist, Mitchell has been recording and performing music for children since 1998. Elizabeth was the first new children's music artist signed to Smithsonian Folkways Recordings in the 21st century. She has released four albums of children's music, including her 2006 release, "You Are My Little Bird", which was voted Best Children's Album of 2006 by Amazon.com. Elizabeth has collaborated with musicians including Levon Helm, Dan Zanes, Ella Jenkins, Jon Langford and Ziggy Marley. She can be heard singing a duet with Ziggy on his 2009 release, "Family Time". Elizabeth records and performs with her husband Daniel Littleton and daughter Storey Littleton. They live in the Catskill Mountains of upstate New York. Elizabeth is a founding member of the band Ida. |
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Film: Matthew Barney's Cremaster Cycle Thursday 11.18.2010, Starts at 7:00 PM, $10 per screening or $20 for a full Cycle pass., All Ages The Cremaster Cycle, written and directed by Matthew Barney, is an epic masterwork with near cult status in the art world. This much-discussed work of art is not now, nor will it ever be, available to own on DVD. It can only be seen in theaters and has not toured nationally since 2003 following the completion of Cremaster 3. This is only the second screening of the complete Cycle in New England. SPACE Gallery is presenting the Cycle in collaboration with the Portland Museum of Art. Please visit their website for more details. 11/18: Cremaster 1 and Cremaster 2 (119 min.) The Cremaster website. |
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Sunday 11.28.2010, Doors at 9:00 PM, Starts at 9:30 PM, $12 advance/$14 day of show, 18+ Buy tickets here or visit any Bull Moose Music location. By combining the blueprint of hip hop with the DIY ethos of punk and a slew of disparate artistic and musical influences, Doomtree has won the favor of a broad range of audiences. They are as likely to find fans at indie rock shows as they are at rap shows or basement dance parties. In the past several years the collective has grown to include the lyrical and production talents of more than a dozen core members. For the first time ever, all members of the Doomtree crew, including P.O.S, Dessa, Sims, Cecil Otter, Mike Mictlan, Lazerbeak, and Paper Tiger, are out on tour to perform an epic night of some of the most forward-thinking beats and rhymes this side of 1987. |
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Thursday 12.09.2010, Doors at 7:00 PM, Starts at 7:30 PM, Ends at 10:00 PM, $7 / $5 for SPACE Members & Students w/ ID, All Ages Part of SPACE's SCOPE visual arts film series. HERB & DOROTHY tells the extraordinary story of Herbert Vogel, a postal clerk, and Dorothy Vogel, a librarian, who managed to build one of the most important contemporary art collections in history with very modest means. In the early 1960s, when very little attention was paid to Minimalist and Conceptual Art, Herb and Dorothy Vogel quietly began purchasing the works of unknown artists. Devoting all of Herb's salary to purchase art they liked, and living on Dorothy's paycheck alone, they continued collecting artworks guided by two rules: the piece had to be affordable, and it had to be small enough to fit in their one-bedroom Manhattan apartment. Within these limitations, they proved themselves curatorial visionaries; most of those they supported and befriended went on to become world-renowned artists. Their circle includes: Sol LeWitt, Christo and Jeanne-Claude, Richard Tuttle, Chuck Close, Robert Mangold, Sylvia Plimack Mangold, Lynda Benglis, Pat Steir, Robert Barry, Lucio Pozzi, and Lawrence Weiner. Herb & Dorothy website. |
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