UPCOMING EVENTS
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Monday 02.06.2012, Starts at 6:00 PM, Ends at 7:00 PM, free, All Ages Ox-Bow is an art school and residency program situated on the western edge of Lake Michigan. The organization was founded in 1910 by faculty of the School of The Art Institute of Chicago and they have a hundred year history of being an associated with SAIC. Ox-Bow offers SAIC-accredited courses in studio art in the Summer, Fall, and Winter, as well as a number of opportunities for artists to work in residence. Elizabeth Chodos, Associate Director at Ox-Bow, will talk about opportunities for artists at all stages in their career. Presented with the Portland Arts and Cultural Alliance. |
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Cinderella Ate My Daughter...And What You Can Do About It Thursday 02.09.2012, Starts at 7:00 PM, Ends at 10:00 PM, Free, All Ages Join Hardy Girls Healthy Women for a book talk and discussion with Peggy Orenstein, author of Cinderella Ate My Daughter and member of Hardy Girls' National Advisory Board. "Cinderella Ate My Daughter and What You Can Do About It" is a talk focused on solutions for raising healthy, happy, hardy girls. Co-sponsored with SPACE Gallery, The Telling Room, USM Women & Gender Studies Program, Add Verb Productions, and Longfellow Books. |
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Friday 02.10.2012, Doors at 7:00PM, Starts at 7:30PM, Free, All Ages In this series, writers, performers, and notable community members tell ten-minute stories to a live audience without notes or props. In honor of cold and flu season, and other things that can go wrong in life, the dual theme this time is "[sic] – stories of illness and/or mistakes". Storytellers putting their spin on this playful literary idea include Cathy Kidman from Maine Women’s Fund, Joe Ricchio of Maine Magazine and Food Coma TV, The Telling Room’s own Andrew Griswold, Maine Med physician Renee Fay-LeBlanc, writer and clinical social worker Jennifer Lunden and Leah Heyman, Instructor at Chewonki. Presented, as always, by The Telling Room, in association with the Maine Writers and Publishers Alliance, the Salt Institute for Documentary Studies, and SPACE Gallery. |
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Tuesday 02.14.2012, Doors at 7:00 PM, Starts at 7:30 PM, Ends at 9:30 PM, $7 / $5 for SPACE Members, All Ages Purchase tickets here. FAKE IT SO REAL dives head-first into the world of independent pro wrestling. Filmed over a single week leading up to a big show, the film follows a ragtag group of wrestlers in North Carolina, exploring what happens when the over-the-top theatrics of the wrestling ring collide with the realities of the working-class South. |
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Thursday 02.16.2012, Doors at 6:30 PM, Starts at 7:20 PM, $5, All Ages Tickets available here. Started in 2003 by Klein Dytham Architects, Pecha Kucha (pronounced peh-chak-cha) Night is an opportunity for designers of all stripes to present their work. We welcome a broad mix of participants to present their designs, thoughts and ideas in a format of 20 slides x 20 seconds each. If you’re an architect, graphic designer, illustrator, painter, landscape designer, photographer or some other creative type, then come and tell the world about your ideas in 6 minutes and 40 seconds! Pecha Kucha is a fast-paced, friendly social gathering where you can see and/or present work while meeting other designers and artists. To submit, visit: www.pechakuchaportland.com |
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Kids Open Studios: Free For All Watercolor Workshop Saturday 02.18.2012, Starts at 1:00 PM, Ends at 4:00 PM, $5 studio fee/$3 for SPACE members, All Ages Kids ages 6 and up are invited to use our current gallery exhibit, Free For All, as inspiration to create sketches and original watercolor paintings. Free For All is a salon style exhibit featuring work by emerging and established artists in a variety of subject, medium, style and form. |
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Saturday 02.18.2012, Doors at 8:30 PM, Starts at 9:00 PM, $10, 18+ Purchase tickets here or at all Bull Moose locations. The 4th Annual 48 Hour Music Festival is here! Thirty adventurous artists from different Portland bands of all genres agree to step out of their comfort zones and be randomly shuffled into 6 supergroups, announced on Thursday afternoon. No members of these newly formed bands are allowed to have previous musical history with one another. From there, each band has exactly 48 hours to construct and practice a 25 minute set of material, culminating in the Saturday performance. This entirely new pool of local talent, featuring members of Isobell, Marie Stella, The Coalsack In Crux, The Heebee-Jeebees, Heavy Breathing and Waranimal - as well as Sean Morin, Sam James and Kate Cox - will be tested by a need for teamwork and a couple of sleepless nights. Each year, the 48 Hour Music Fest has proven to be one of the most exciting and creative nights of the year and a sold-out show so buy your tickets in advance! Sponsored by D.L. Geary Brewing Co. |
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2012 Oscar-Nominated Short Films: Animation Thursday 02.23.2012, Doors at 7:00 PM, Starts at 7:30 PM, Ends at 9:30 PM, $8 / $6 for SPACE Members & Students with ID, All Ages Purchase tickets here. Shorts International presents the 2012 Oscar-Nominated Short Films: Animation. Dimanche/Sunday (Patrick Doyon) |
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The Toughcats with The Milkman's Union and Nat Baldwin Friday 02.24.2012, Doors at 8:00 PM, Starts at 8:30 PM, $8 advance/$10 at the door, 18+
Buy tickets here or at all Bull Moose locations. The Toughcats blend old-time bluegrass, swooning indie rock and classic pop twitches into one mean live show. With Jake Greenlaw providing the feverish beats, Joe Nelson on guitar and Colin Gulley on banjo, the charming trio from midcoast Maine make for a best of both worlds scenario: timeless music that is at once unquestionably danceable and haltingly listenable. They'll be joined by the deft and idiosyncratically melodic Portlanders The Milkman's Union, who've steadily been building a name for themselves across New England with a cache of hyper-literate, eclectic grooves. And, as if that wasn't enough, double-bassist Nat Baldwin, member of Dirty Projectors and disciple of free jazz legend Anthony Braxton, kicks the night off with his intimate, richly textured, avant-pop explorations.
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2012 Oscar-Nominated Short Films: Live Action Saturday 02.25.2012, Doors at 7:00 PM, Starts at 7:30 PM, Ends at 9:30 PM, $8 / $6 for SPACE Members & Students with ID, All Ages Purchase tickets here. Shorts International presents the 2012 Oscar-Nominated Short Films: Live Action. Pentecost (Peter McDonald and Eimear O’Kane) |
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Tuesday 02.28.2012, Doors at 7:00 PM, Starts at 7:30 PM, Ends at 9:30 PM, $5, All Ages Buy tickets here. TV SHOW is a television variety show featuring short documentaries, comedies, interviews, animations, and music videos produced by Shoot Media Project (a program of Creative Trails) and bomb diggity arts (a program of Momentum). Shot in many locations in the Greater Portland area, episode 4 features Santa Clause, the galaxy, vampire bats, and a high-speed police chase. |
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Wednesday 02.29.2012, Doors at 8:00 PM, Starts at 8:30 PM, $7, 18+ Tickets on sale at all Bull Moose locations. Tonstartssbandht is brothers Andy and Edwin White, originally from Orlando and now residing separately in Montreal (Andy) and New York (Edwin). The brothers' music is full of complex vocals and hazy, tropics-dripping boogie jams, blending pretty bedroom pop and harder experiments in wrecked sound. Part of the Arbutus Records family (Grimes, Braids), the pair recently had a profile in Interview magazine. On tour with them in advance of South by Southwest is Baltimore's Run DMT aka Mike Collins, your sound ambassador to the weird and wonderful, the blissed out, the vivid and contemplative. |
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Film: Marx Reloaded -USM Philosophy Symposium Film Series Monday 03.05.2012, Doors at 7:00 PM, Starts at 7:30 PM, Ends at 9:30 PM, $7 / $5 for SPACE Members FREE for USM staff and students with ID, All Ages Purchase tickets here. Marx Reloaded is a cultural documentary that examines the relevance of German socialist and philosopher Karl Marx's ideas for understanding the global economic and financial crisis of 2008—09. The crisis triggered the deepest global recession in 70 years and prompted the US government to spend more than 1 trillion dollars in order to rescue its banking system from collapse. Today the full implications of the crisis in Europe and around the world still remain unclear. Nevertheless, should we accept the crisis as an unfortunate side-effect of the free market? Or is there another explanation as to why it happened and its likely effects on our society, our economy and our whole way of life? Sponsored by the USM Philosophy Symposium. Followed by discussion with Jason Read, USM Professor of Philosophy. |
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A Night of Patriotism & Perversion with Steve Almond Saturday 03.10.2012, Doors at 7:00PM, Starts at 7:30PM, Free, All Ages Iconoclastic essayist and fiction writer Steve Almond (My Life In Heavy Metal) comes to SPACE for an irreverently amusing evening of reflections on bad behavior, opportunism and the weirdly warped state of the nation. Almond has authored ten books, including most recently the short story collection God Bless America and his writing has appeared in Best American Short Stories 2010, McSweeney’s, New England Review, Playboy, Tin House, and many other publications. Co-presented with Maine Writers & Publishers Alliance.
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Portland Society of Architects' Drink n' Crit Monday 03.12.2012, Doors at 6:30 PM, Starts at 7:00 PM, free, All Ages
The Crit is a staple of an architectural education. It's the final critique in an academic studio where you hang your designs on the wall, and stand and present your ideas in front a jury of your peers. It's a chance for public glory, brilliant theoretical discussion and slings and arrows if the work doesn't measure up. In normal life, this all ends once you leave school, but we're bringing it back to Portland for architects, landscape architects, interior designers and other design fans. Open to the Public. Sponsored by the Portland Society of Architects.
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Everything Is Terrible! presents DoggieWoggiez! PoochieWoochiez! Sunday 03.25.2012, Starts at 8:00 PM, $8, All Ages Buy tickets here. Those krazed VHS-hunting pupz from Everything Is Terrible! are back with their third inner-eye-opening feature — containing a feat never before attempted in either human or canine history. EIT! asks but a few simple questions: 1) “What if we made a movie composed ENTIRELY out of dog-related found footage?”; 2) ‘What if this magickal movie, made up of thousands of other dog movies, was also a remake of Alejandro Jodorowsky’s 1973 masterpiece The Holy Mountain?”; and, 3) “What if we went on the road performing an all-new “live in fur” show that picked up where Cirque Du Soleil and The Rock-A-Fire Explosion left off?” Well, let’s stop asking dumb rhetorical questions because this never-ending spiral of World-Pup winning, sunglasses-wearing, murder-solving, skateboarding pooches is real! This is it! Are you dog enough to go fetch it? ARFFFFFF! Feast your shade covered eyes on this sneak peek of DoggieWoggiez! PoochieWoochiez! No bonez about it this time! RUFFFFF!
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Monday 04.02.2012, Doors at 7:00 PM, Starts at 7:30 PM, Ends at 9:30 PM, tbd, All Ages Third Coast International Audio Festival listening events (often called "Listening Rooms") present unforgettable audio work in a public setting -- a theater, a coffee shop, a bar -- anywhere with a good set of speakers and where people can gather together and listen. Each event features a special guest and includes a diverse selection of documentary audio work. It’s a little like a book club for radio. Co-Presented by SPACE and The Salt Institute for Documentary Studies. |
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Sunday 04.08.2012, Doors at 7:00 PM, Starts at 7:30 PM, Ends at 9:30 PM, $7 / $5 for SPACE Members, All Ages Purchase tickets here. JIRO DREAMS OF SUSHI is the story of 85 year-old Jiro Ono, considered by many to be the world’s greatest sushi chef. He is the proprietor of Sukiyabashi Jiro, a 10-seat, sushi-only restaurant inauspiciously located in a Tokyo subway station. Despite its humble appearances, it is the first restaurant of its kind to be awarded a prestigious 3 star Michelin review, and sushi lovers from around the globe make repeated pilgrimage, calling months in advance and shelling out top dollar for a coveted seat at Jiro’s sushi bar. Sponsored by Rabelais - Fine Books on Food & Wine |
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Lost In The Trees with Poor Moon Tuesday 04.10.2012, Doors at 7:30 PM, Starts at 8:00 PM, $10, 18+ Buy tickets here. Lost In The Trees (ANTI-) is lush, orchestral chamber-pop from North Carolina. With Poor Moon, the new project from Christian Wargo of Fleet Foxes. |
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We Were Promised Jetpacks with Breton Wednesday 04.25.2012, Doors at 7:30 PM, Starts at 8:00 PM, $13 advance / $15 at the door, 18+ Buy tickets here or at all Bull Moose locations. Scottish indie-rock quartet We Were Promised Jetpacks released their sophomore album In The Pit Of The Stomach in 2011 and have been gaining momentum ever since, with Rolling Stone describing their sound as "clear, plaintive vocals propelled by ascending-staccato guitars and hellbent dance-worthy rhythms, as if the Texas band Explosions in the Sky had shown up with New Order’s singer and backfield." Fresh off a coveted appearance at Coachella Festival, the group will bring their fierce live show to SPACE alongside south-east London's Breton, an intriguing multimedia collective of artists who concoct razor-sharp electronica that's like "Battles with a hip-hop edge". |
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The Sketchbook Project 2012 World Tour Wednesday 07.11.2012, Starts at 12:00 PM, Ends at 6:00 PM, Free!, All Ages The 2012 Sketchbook Project World Tour makes a stop a SPACE from July 11-14th. Come browse hundred of sketchbooks submitted by people from all over the world. The deadline to sign up for the project is January 31st, click here for more information. |
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