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Friday 02.03.2012, Starts at 5:00 PM, Ends at 8:00 PM, Free!, All Ages Come see our salon style exhibit Free For All. The walls will be stacked with art from emerging and established artists, in a range of subjects, sizes and mediums. It's a true Free For All! |
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Monday 01.30.2012, Doors at 7:30 PM, Starts at 8:00 PM, $15 advance / $18 day of show, 18+ SOLD OUT Sonic Youth frontman and underground music godfather Thurston Moore comes to SPACE. Moore's 2011 solo album "Demolished Thoughts", expertly produced by Beck, showcases the restless spirit and rigorous mind that informs all of Moore's work, this time with a stripped-down acoustic bent. With NH's Mmoss. |
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Club 86, Charles Neville and the 86 Ensemble Saturday 01.28.2012, Doors at 7:00PM, Starts at 7:30PM, $10/$8 for SPACE Gallery members, All Ages Tickets on sale here and at Bull Moose locations. Join Near Sighted Productions and SPACE Gallery for the inaugural live performance of Club 86, a new radio series in the tradition of A Prairie Home Companion and The Vinyl Café, featuring special guest, Grammy award-winning saxophone virtuoso, Charlie Neville of the Neville Brothers. The series, written and directed by Mike Langworthy, revolves around the comedic and poignant stories of the employees and patrons of a local tavern in Lewiston, Maine as its new manager strives to rebrand the club as a showcase for local and national performing artists. The evening includes music from the Club 86 Ensemble, led by noted jazz pianist Jesse Lynch plus music / spoken word collaborations with poet/performer Gil Helmick. Charlie Neville will close the program with a solo set.
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O'Death and Brown Bird with if and it Friday 01.27.2012, Doors at 8:00 PM, Starts at 8:30 PM, $12, 18+ Buy tickets here or at all Bull Moose locations.
"[O'death] draws from the starkness and spiritual purity of Appalachian folk, the menace of punk and the rowdy theatricality of Tom Waits, jumbling sacred and profane." ‐ Ben Sisario, The New York Times
Raw, ragged Americana returns to SPACE with the killer combination of Brooklyn's O'Death and Providence's Brown Bird. With if and it. |
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Free For All Opening Reception Wednesday 01.25.2012, Starts at 6:00 PM, Ends at 8:00 PM, Free!, All Ages Come celebrate the opening of our salon style exhibit Free For All. The walls will be stacked with art from emerging and established artists, in a range of subject, size and medium. It's a true Free For All! |
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Tuesday 01.24.2012, Doors at 7:00 PM, Starts at 7:30 PM, Ends at 9:30 PM, $7 / $5 for SPACE Members, FREE for AIGA Maine, All Ages Purchase tickets here. Urbanized (the third part of Gary Hustwit’s design film trilogy, joining Helvetica and Objectified) is a feature-length documentary about the design of cities, which looks at the issues and strategies behind urban design and features some of the world’s foremost architects, planners, policymakers, builders, and thinkers. Followed by Q&A with Noah Chasin, Assistant Professor at Bard College and Mitchell Rasor of MRLD Landscape Architecture + Design. Co-Presented by AIGA Maine and MRLD Landscape Architecture + Urbanism. |
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Sunday 01.22.2012, Doors at 7:30 PM, Starts at 8:00 PM, $7, 18+ Tickets on sale at Bull Moose locations. Brooklyn-based artful chanteuse Xenia Rubinos delivers cheeky spanglish wordplay in a punkish tone. With a full-length debut album still in the works, Rubinos has people taking notice. Latina magazine called her one of "six Latina acts you have to catch at SXSW 2011." Soul, electronica, Cuban and Puerto Rican children's songs, tape loops, weird keyboards, intriguing vocals all come together to form music that The Fader says is like "a schoolyard chant we can’t shake." Come out and play. With mosart212. |
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Alias, Trails, Sandbag, Educated Advocates Saturday 01.21.2012, Doors at 8:00 PM, Starts at 8:30 PM, $8, 18+ Tickets on sale at Bull Moose locations. Local hip-hop luminaries take the stage for an expansive evening of beats and rhymes. No stranger to SPACE, Alias' amazingly diverse portfolio of EPs, remixes, collaborations and sonic explorations consistently impresses. Rapper Syn and DJ/producer theLin form the raw and unconventional duo Trails. Sandbag is a collective of talented emcees - Mr. Harps, Pensivv, Nate Shupe, and Ill By Instinct - who fuse socially aware lyricism with good-old-fashioned hip hop. Educated Advocates makes "new vintage" hip-hop, mixing innovative rhymes and vocal arrangements with golden era production styles. Keeping it fresh all night on the decks will be DJs Mayonnaise and Rew. With expert visual instruction by David Meiklejohn. |
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Film: Future Shorts Pop-Up Film Fesival Friday 01.20.2012, 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. The Future Shorts Festival is the biggest pop up film festival of its kind, showcasing the most exciting short films from around the world. Anyone, anywhere can set up a screening, forming a massive network of cinematic events and becoming part of a powerful global community. Future Shorts website. |
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In The Blood - Live: A "Docu-Exhibit" Saturday 01.14.2012, Doors at 7:00PM, Starts at 7:30PM, $10, All Ages Buy tickets here. Lumbermen began living in logging camps in the Maine woods in the early 1800s. They were the pioneers who created a successful self-contained working community in the woods, and on who’s backs the state’s economy and history were largely established. In The Blood, filmmaker Sumner McKane's ambitious multi-year project, takes the audience into this rugged environment - into the camps, onto the haul roads, landings and yards, rivers and lakes. Through rare archival film, digitally restored photography, raw and honest interviews, ambient sound design and live scoring, this innovative and entertaining multimedia presentation, featured on NPR's Echoes, brings this lost world vividly into the present. |
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Friday 01.13.2012, Starts at 7:00 PM, Ends at 1:00 AM, $7 Advance / $9 at the door, 18+ Buy tickets here or at all Bull Moose locations. Unlucky you! On Friday the 13th, The Dirty Dishes Burlesque Revue, Pussyfoot Burlesque and Eternal Otter Records proudly present The Bad Luck Bazaar. Beginning with a carnival of desires, featuring sexy games and saucy prizes, the vendor fair from 7-9pm includes representatives from Nomia Boutique, CS Boutique, USM's Center for Sexualities and Gender Diversity and other sex-positive local vendors. Stay on for performances by The Dishes, Pussyfoot, musical guests Over A Cardboard Sea, an aerially-fixated Apparatus Dance Theater and your lovely hostess for the evening, Bunny Wonderland. With a climactic and interactive showdown after which you may require a shower and a 13th hour dance party courtesy of DJ DarkCity, sponsored by Salacious Magazine. |
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Wednesday 01.11.2012, Starts at 5:00 PM, Ends at 7:00 PM, free, All Ages The Portland Arts and Cultural Alliance and Creative Portland are co-hosting a "Meet the Mayor" event for the local arts and cultural community. Portland's first elected mayor in 88 years, Mayor Michael Brennan was sworn into office on December 6, telling Portlanders: "My success will also be your success, and I can only be successful with you." Expressing an interest in working across sectors to address community issues, Mayor Brennan also acknowledged the significant value the arts, culture, and creative economy add to the city. This event will provide Portland's arts and cultural community an opportunity to meet the mayor, hear briefly about his priorities in the months ahead and to ask questions. Information about the hosts and the event can be found at portlandarts.org and liveworkportland.org. |
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Tuesday 01.10.2012, Doors at 7:00 PM, Starts at 7:30 PM, Ends at 9:30 PM, $7 / $5 for SPACE Members & Students with ID, 18+ Purchase tickets here. DRAGONSLAYER documents the transgressions of a lost skate punk falling in love in the stagnant suburbs of Fullerton, California in the aftermath of America’s economic collapse. Taking the viewer through a golden SoCal haze of broken homes, abandoned swimming pools and stray glimpses of unusual beauty, DRAGONSLAYER captures the life and times of Josh “Skreech” Sandoval, a local skate legend and new father, as his endless summer finally collides with the future. DRAGONSLAYER is a punkrock manifesto to youth, love and learning to survive after the decline of western civilization. Dragonslayer is co-presented by the Camden International Film Festival as part of SPACE's on-going CIFF Selects programming collaborative. |
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Friday 01.06.2012, Starts at 5:00 PM, Ends at 8:00 PM, Free!, All Ages Project 35 is a program of single-channel videos selected by 35 international curators who have each chosen one work from an artist that they think is important for audiences around the world to experience today. The resulting selection is released in four installments, we will be presenting part two of four this month. Also on display: Two works that were featured in our ICING New Year's Eve party: YAY by Alicia Eggert and Mike Fleming and a rope installation by John Sundling in the annex. In the window a performance work by Maria Paz Garaloces titled Tireless Device. |
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Tireless Device: A Living Paper Dress Friday 01.06.2012, Starts at 5:00 PM, Ends at 8:00 PM, Free!, All Ages Tireless device, a work in progress by Maria Paz Garaloces, brings together a number of different media, such as sculpture, installation, performance and design, which are merged together to create a fictional scene that focuses on aspects of beauty, drama, obsession and imagination. It is a multidimensional piece that explores the relationship between body and object and the object in action. It also investigates the power of “the unexpected” allowing the material to express itself, to express what was already hidden and had never been discovered. |
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ICING: SPACE Gallery's New Year's Eve Bash! Saturday 12.31.2011, Starts at 9:00PM, Ends at 1:00AM, $50/$400 for a virtual table of 10, 21+ Buy tickets here. Ring in the new year SPACE style! ICING, our popular New Year's Eve bash, will be full of performances and surprises, with music, food, art installations, a champagne toast and the eventual descendence into an all out dance party! Come see what everyone has been talking about and live it up, it is the last party of the year, so do it right! $50 for an individual ticket, or contact us (info@space538.org, 828-5600) to purchase a virtual table of 10 for $400. Visit the facebook event page.
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Thursday 12.29.2011, Starts at 2:00pm, $14 adults, $12 students and seniors, $10 kids twelve and under., All Ages In the grand tradition of vaudeville, Acorn Productions has assembled a line-up of world-class performers from all over the country to entertain you with a unique blend of expert juggling, incredible illusions, mystifying magic, captivating storytelling, and side-splitting physical comedy. Come see some of the best new vaudeville entertainers working in the business today! |
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Wednesday 12.28.2011, Starts at 2:00pm, $14 adults, $12 students and seniors, $10 kids twelve and under., All Ages In the grand tradition of vaudeville, Acorn Productions has assembled a line-up of world-class performers from all over the country to entertain you with a unique blend of expert juggling, incredible illusions, mystifying magic, captivating storytelling, and side-splitting physical comedy. Come see some of the best new vaudeville entertainers working in the business today!
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Tuesday 12.27.2011, Starts at 2:00pm, $14 adults, $12 students and seniors, $10 kids twelve and under. , All Ages In the grand tradition of vaudeville, Acorn Productions has assembled a line-up of world-class performers from all over the country to entertain you with a unique blend of expert juggling, incredible illusions, mystifying magic, captivating storytelling, and side-splitting physical comedy. Come see some of the best new vaudeville entertainers working in the business today!
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Monday 12.19.2011, Doors at 7:00PM, Starts at 7:30PM, $5 suggested donation, Free for SPACE Gallery members, All Ages Join independent radio producer Andy Mills (best new artist at Third Coast Audio Festival) and the musicians in Chicago indie-pop band Hudson Branch for an intimate and experimental evening of multimedia storytelling as part of their short east coast tour, Dogs Go East. Joining them will be producer Rob Rosenthal, who'll share a story of his own to start the night. Sponsored by our friends at Bangor Savings Bank. |
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Film: How To Start A Revolution Sunday 12.18.2011, Doors at 7:00 PM, Starts at 7:30 PM, Ends at 9:30 PM, FREE, All Ages Half a world away from Cairo’s Tahrir Square, an ageing American intellectual shuffles around his cluttered terrace house in a working-class Boston neighbourhood. His name is Gene Sharp and for the world’s dictators his ideas can be the catalyst for the end of their regime. Few people outside the world of academia have ever heard his name, but his writings on nonviolent revolution (most notably ‘From Dictatorship to Democracy’, a 93-page, 198-step guide to toppling dictators, available free for download in 40 languages) have inspired a new generation of protesters living under authoritarian regimes who yearn for democratic freedom. Followed by discussion. Sponsored by OccupyMaine. |
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Gideon Bok Wall Drawing/Covers artist lecture and closing reception Friday 12.16.2011, Starts at 7:00 PM, free, All Ages Gideon Bok worked in the gallery through November and December on a charcoal wall drawing, using SPACE as the subject. Gideon's interior paintings and drawings highlight the passage of time, usually utilizing the space where the work is made. They feature the changing cast of characters who have stopped by, records strewn about, and other artifacts such as musical instruments, empty bottles, and semi-complete paintings. Gideon will give a slide talk about his work and we'll celebrate the completion of this project at SPACE. Presented with support from The Artists Resource Trust and Bangor Savings Bank. |
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Thursday 12.15.2011, Doors at 7:00 PM, Starts at 7:30 PM, Ends at 9:30 PM, $7 / $5 for SPACE Members & Students with ID, All Ages Purchase tickets here. How did two boyhood friends from Midland, Texas wind up arrested on terrorism charges at the 2008 Republican National Convention? Better This World follows the journey of David McKay (22) and Bradley Crowder (23) from political neophytes to accused domestic terrorists with a particular focus on the relationship they develop with a radical activist mentor in the six months leading up to their arrests. A dramatic story of idealism, loyalty, crime and betrayal, Better This World goes to the heart of the War on Terror and its impact on civil liberties and political dissent in post-9/11 America. |
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AWAAS, Haru Bangs, Falls of Rauros, The Baltic Sea Saturday 12.10.2011, Doors at 8:00 PM, Starts at 8:30 PM, $8.00, 18+ Tickets available here and at all Bull Moose locations. Four essential Maine bands, a vast wilderness of sound. Falls of Rauros has been gaining steady notoriety for their stunning atmospheric take on black metal, conjuring soundscapes that veer between bleak, acoustic introspection and harsher, more driving passages. The Baltic Sea, whose new album Period Piece dropped this fall, continue to craft beautifully-damaged art rock, heavy with emotion. Add to that the survivalist ragas of Awaas (ex-Conifer, ex-Ocean) - a new band for a new paradigm - and the really, really loud, ultra-American Haru Bangs. |
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A Brief History of Porn featuring Sam Benjamin Thursday 12.08.2011, Doors at 7:00 PM, Starts at 7:30 PM, Ends at 9:30 PM, $5 Suggested Donation, 18+ A multimedia lecture utilizing primary material from the sleaziest film archive in the universe to track the underground evolution of adult film across the last half century. Using non-explicit clips, Benjamin dances skillfully between the greasy, groovy funk of 1970's skin flicks to the synth-laden bleary video hemmorhage that is 1980's erotica. As a former participant in the genre, Benjamin's cache of personal experiences assist him in explicating the facts, with particular attention paid to production value, geographical locus, technology, and narrative. |
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USM Philosophy Symposium Film Series: An Encounter With Simone Weil Tuesday 12.06.2011, 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. |
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Letter Circle: Reviving the lost art of letter writing Saturday 12.03.2011, Starts at 12:00 PM, Ends at 4:00 PM, $3, All Ages Have you been putting off writing a letter to your friend on the West Coast, or to your grandmother in Nebraska? Do you find yourself resorting to e-mail and facebook to connect with loved ones because you just don't have the time to sit down and write a good letter? Don't worry, we're here to help. The Letter Circle is a full service open hours letter writing facility for all ages. From 12:00-4:00PM we will supply various papers, envelopes, quills, pens, pencils, typewriters, stamps, wax seals and even lipstick for you to write letters and personalize them for whomever you like. We will even mail it for you (you pay postage)! This holiday season, let's slow down and take a minute or two to make our communication more thoughtful, personal and intentional. Join us in our mission to revive the lost art of letter writing. |
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Palestinian Film Festival: Salt of This Sea Saturday 12.03.2011, Doors at 7:00 PM, Starts at 7:30 PM, Ends at 9:30 PM, $7 / $5 for SPACE Members, MVPR Members & Students with ID, All Ages Purchase tickets here. Soraya, born in Brooklyn in a working class community of Palestinian refugees, discovers that her grandfather’s savings were frozen in a bank account in Jaffa when he was exiled in 1948. Stubborn, passionate and determined to reclaim what is hers, she fulfills her life-long dream of “returning” to Palestine. Once there, slowly she is taken apart by the reality around her and is forced to confront her own anger. She meets Emad, a young Palestinian whose ambition, contrary to hers, is to leave forever. Tired of the constraints that dictate their lives, they know in order to be free, they must take things into their own hands, even if it’s illegal. |
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Friday 12.02.2011, Starts at 5:00 PM, Ends at 8:00 PM, Free!, All Ages Come celebrate the holiday season like you mean it! The Alternative Gift Market strives to provide the community with a meaningful alternative to object based gift giving, while celebrating and supporting local non-profit organizations. If the stress of holiday shopping makes you uneasy, come learn about local non-profits and decide to make a difference by giving back to your community and donating in someone's name. You will be able to choose from a selection of limited edition, hand printed cards designed by artists Beth Taylor, Erin Flett and Jacqueline Dubois. Give your friends and loved ones something meaningful, handcrafted and hug-worthy this holiday season. Participating organizations include: The Telling Room, Breaking Ground, The Siddhartha School Project, Portland Trails, Sail Maine, Birth Roots, Maine Sustainable Agriculture Society, Hardy Girls Healthy Women, Konbit Sante, and Maine Centers for Women, Work and Community.
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Palestinian Film Festival: Jenin Jenin Thursday 12.01.2011, Doors at 7:00 PM, Starts at 7:30 PM, Ends at 9:30 PM, $7 / $5 for SPACE Members, MVPR Members & Students with ID, All Ages Purchase tickets here. Directed and co-produced by Palestinian actor Mohammad Bakri, Jenin Jeninincludes testimony from Jenin residents after the Israeli army's Defensive Wall operation. The city and camp were the scenes of fierce fighting which ended with Jenin flattened and scores of Palestinians dead. Palestinians as well as numerous human rights groups accused Israel of committing war crimes in the attack. The United Nations appointed a commission of inquiry, but Israel refused to let its members visit the scene. |
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Saturday 11.26.2011, Starts at 10:00 AM, Ends at 5:00 PM, Free, All Ages Local clothier Rogues Gallery transforms SPACE once again into a warehouse stocked with design samples, overstock, prototypes, and tee shirts! |
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Saturday 11.26.2011, Doors at 7:00 PM, Starts at 7:30 PM, Ends at 9:00PM, $7 / $5 for SPACE Members & Students with ID, All Ages Purchase tickets here. Tucker & Dale Vs Evil is a hilariously gory, good-spirited horror comedy, doing for killer rednecks what Shaun of the Dead did for zombies. Tucker and Dale are two best friends on vacation at their dilapidated mountain house, who are mistaken for murderous backwoods hillbillies by a group of obnoxious, preppy college kids. When one of the students gets separated from her friends, the boys try to lend a hand, but as the misunderstanding grows, so does the body count. Tucker & Dale Vs Evil has been a hit on the festival circuit, debuting at Sundance and winning the Midnight Audience Award at SXSW. Starring Alan Tudyk from Firefly. |
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Film: Pruitt-Igoe Myth: An Urban History Tuesday 11.22.2011, Doors at 7:00 PM, Starts at 7:30 PM, Ends at 9:30 PM, $7 / $5 for SPACE Members & Students with ID / FREE for Portland Society of Architects Members, All Ages Purchase tickets here. Destroyed in a dramatic and highly-publicized implosion, the Pruitt-Igoe public housing complex has become a widespread symbol of failure amongst architects, politicians and policy makers. The Pruitt-Igoe Myth explores the social, economic and legislative issues that led to the decline of conventional public housing in America, and the city centers in which they resided, while tracing the personal and poignant narratives of several of the project’s residents. In the post-War years, the American city changed in ways that made it unrecognizable from a generation earlier, privileging some and leaving others in its wake. |
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Saturday 11.19.2011, Doors at 8:00 PM, Starts at 8:30 PM, $8.00, 18+ Buy tickets here. Little Wings is the musical incarnation of San Francisco based artist and beach dweller Kyle Field. A communal, ever-changing roster of bonfire musicians paints the Little Wings portrait, with Kyle as founder, and also the only permanent member. He has collaborated with the likes of Feist, who covered his song "Look at What the Light Did Now," M. Ward (Kyle played bass in Rodriguez, Ward's earlier endeavor), Will Oldham (Bonnie Prince Billy), YACHT, Grandaddy and many others. Visionary, vagabond, seagull worshiper, call him what you may, but this dude is onto something. Opening the night is Small Sur, otherwise known as what John Muir would have sounded like if he was a beard-farming musical craftsman from Baltimore. Read an interview with Kyle from his show at Park Life here. |
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Film: Black Power Mixtape 1967-1975 Friday 11.18.2011, Doors at 7:00 PM, Starts at 7:30 PM, Ends at 9:30 PM, $7 / $5 for SPACE Members & Students with ID, All Ages Purchase tickets here. THE BLACK POWER MIXTAPE 1967-1975 mobilizes a treasure trove of 16mm material shot by Swedish journalists who came to the US drawn by stories of urban unrest and revolution. Gaining access to many of the leaders of the Black Power Movement—Stokely Carmichael, Bobby Seale, Angela Davis and Eldridge Cleaver among them—the filmmakers captured them in intimate moments and remarkably unguarded interviews. Thirty years later, this lush collection was found languishing in the basement of Swedish Television. Followed by discussion. |
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Matt Haimovitz 'Flash' Concert Thursday 11.17.2011, Starts at 5:30pm, Ends at 7:30pm, Free, All Ages Innovative and acclaimed cellist Matt Haimovitz stops in at SPACE for a "flash" concert in advance of his full Portland Ovations performance "Shuffle.Play.Listen" with pianist Christopher O'Riley the following day at Merrill Auditorium. Presented by Portland Ovations and 317 Main Street Community Music Center, this is a unique and intimate chance to check out Haimovitz's virtuosic take on the contemporary and classical repertoire. Reception to follow, with specially discounted $10 tickets available for "Shuffle.Play.Listen". |
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Eternal Otter Records presents the treble treble retrospective Wednesday 11.16.2011, Doors at 7:30PM, Starts at 8:00PM, $6 advance/$8 day of show, 18+ Buy tickets here. Eternal Otter Records celebrates the release of treble treble vol. 3 with a retrospective style night of performances. A three year project made possible by support from the Maine Arts Commission, treble treble documents the contemporary underground music scene emerging in Maine. Volume 3., curated by Ian Paige (Planets Around the Sun) and pressed on blue vinyl, features songs by Big Blood, Samuel James, Wesley Hartley and Traveling Trees, Nasty Negligee, Kent, Village of Spaces, Gay Camp, Drab Pony, Jakob Battick and Phantom Buffalo. |
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Another Night of BS with Aaron Stephan Tuesday 11.15.2011, Starts at 6:00PM, Ends at 9:00PM, Free, reservation required., 21+ Blurring the barrier between performance, convivial entertainment, and the space that art and artist can occupy, artist Aaron Stephan brings this visual, architectural and culinary event to the SPACE Gallery annex for a three evening run. Part Dada lecture, part construction zone, this "dinner party" invites the public to take part in his continued investigations of the obscurities within conventions and formalities of the artist role and identity. |
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Coast City Comic Con Panel and Films Day Two Sunday 11.13.2011, Starts at 12:00pm, Ends at 8:30pm, $5-20, available at the door and through Coast City Comics, All Ages Coast City Comic Con presents three daytime discussion panels, Cryptozoology in Comics, Guerilla Film-Making, and Philip K. Dick, followed by two film screenings: God of Vampires and Grant Morrison: Talking With Gods. |
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Coast City Comic Con Panels and Film Screening Saturday 11.12.2011, Starts at 12:00 PM, Ends at 11:00 PM, $5-20, available at the door and through Coast City Comics, All Ages Coast City Comic Con presents two daytime panels, Self-Publishing 101 and Breaking Into Comics, followed by a screening of the cult film Deadly Spawn. Plus, later in the evening, the East Coast premiere of the film Warren Ellis: Captured Ghosts |
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Another Night of BS with Aaron Stephan Saturday 11.12.2011, Starts at 6:00PM, Ends at 9:00PM, Free, reservation required., 21+ Blurring the barrier between performance, convivial entertainment, and the space that art and artist can occupy, artist Aaron Stephan brings this visual, architectural and culinary event to the SPACE Gallery annex for a three evening run. Part Dada lecture, part construction zone, this "dinner party" invites the public to take part in his continued investigations of the obscurities within conventions and formalities of the artist role and identity. |
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Friday 11.11.2011, Starts at 8:00 PM, $7 / Free entry for Comic-Con Weekend Pass Holders, 18+ Advance tickets available here and at all Bull Moose locations. Holy Spandex, Fanboys and Fangirls! Coast City Comic-Con kicks off the big weekend at SPACE with a SUPER HERO THEMED COSTUME DANCE PARTY*, a.k.a. NERD RAVE. Mega-rockers Waranimal unleash their party beast. Electro-punk diva outfit Heloise and the Savoir Faire show us their downtown glitz (Sequins! Backup dancers! Debbie Harry's favorite underground New York band!) and Dj PonyFarm, igniter of dance party wildness, caps off the heroic night. *Including Costume contest and Prizes! |
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Another Night of BS with Aaron Stephan Thursday 11.10.2011, Starts at 6:00PM, Ends at 9:00PM, Free, 21+ Limited space. Reserve your spot for this event here. Blurring the barrier between performance, convivial entertainment, and the space that art and artist can occupy, artist Aaron Stephan brings this visual, architectural and culinary event to the SPACE Gallery annex for a three evening run. Part Dada lecture, part construction zone, this "dinner party" invites the public to take part in his continued investigations of the obscurities within conventions and formalities of the artist role and identity. |
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Tuesday 11.08.2011, Doors at 7:00 PM, Starts at 7:30 PM, Ends at 9:30 PM, $7 / $5 for SPACE Members & Students with ID, All Ages Buy tickets here. Part of SPACE Gallery's SCOPE Visual Arts Film Series Almost thirty years ago, a peg-legged artist and motorcycle mechanic from Mississippi walked into MIT!s Center for Advanced Visual Studies and demanded a meeting with the Director. They had not returned his calls. Forty-five minutes later, after trashing the receptionist!s desk and holding off the Cambridge police, Joe Davis walked out of Director Otto Piene's office with an academic appointment at MIT. Over the years his status there has provided him with resources and collaborators for the creation and planning of much of his work - work that includes sending vaginal contractions into space to communicate with aliens; fishing for paramecia; encoding Greek poetry into the DNA of white-eyed flies; building an airplane powered by frog's legs; and developing a language to write the world beneath the world. In person: Joe Davis and filmmakers Peter Saskowsky and Amy Grumbling |
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Kids Open Studios: Record Art! Saturday 11.05.2011, Starts at 12:30PM, Ends at 3:30 PM, $5 studio fee/free for SPACE members, All Ages Our current gallery artist Gideon Bok's still life paintings of record covers set the stage for this installment of Kids Open Studios. From Neil Young to The Stooges to The Dandy Warhols and Funkadelic, we are using music as our inspiration. Come get groovy and choose from our stock of vintage records to paint on, collage over or alter to create a unique piece of art! Suggested age is 3 and up. This open studios is geared for kids, but all ages are welcome to come and create!
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Saturday 11.05.2011, Starts at 4:00 PM, free, All Ages Xander Marro talks about the work in her show Cursed New England. She writes, "Heavily curious about New England's past practice of harboring feminist spiritualists, witches, revolutionaries, and radical souls, I believe that there is now more than ever, a place for music, rituals of light, and local idiosyncratic customs in personal and collective transformation. For now is the time to remember the magic inherent in being made of flesh and bones and synapse and song." Sponsored by our friends at Bangor Savings Bank. |
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Cursed New England Closing Party Saturday 11.05.2011, Starts at 8:00 PM, Free!, All Ages The final chance to experience Xander Marro's mixed media installation in the annex. Featuring screenings of a selection of Xander's video work and live performances by two performers involved in Cursed New England: Diana Joy (Vermont) and Omnivore (Mass). Diana Joy is a self-described "gypsy euro-trash beast with the intention of ruling the world in style via ritualistic music video and performance." Omnivore is performance artist and sound manipulator Glenna Van Nostrand, whose circuit bent work references avant-garde traditions and ambient realms. |
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First Friday Art Walk: Gideon Bok and Xander Marro Friday 11.04.2011, Starts at 5:00 PM, Ends at 8:00 PM, free, All Ages With the support of the Artist's Resouce Trust, Gideon Bok will work through the month of November and into December, using the gallery as the subject for a charcoal life drawing on one of the gallery walls. Gideon's interior paintings and drawings highlight the passage of time, usually utilizing the space where the work is made. They feature the changing cast of characters who have stopped by, records strewn about, and other artifacts such as musical instruments, empty bottles, and semi-complete paintings. Accompanying this wall drawing will be a collection of perspective paintings Gideon has painted, reproducing more than 200 LP record covers unified by loose conceptual threads. In the annex, a last look at Xander Marro's Cursed New England. |
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Pterodactyl with Captain Hollow, Glass Fingers Wednesday 11.02.2011, Doors at 8:00 PM, Starts at 8:30 PM, $8, 18+ Buy tickets here or at Bull Moose locations. Jagged, yet precise, Pterodactyl's hyper-rhythmic noise-punk grind has drawn comparisons to a more scientific Lightning Bolt or a brighter Glenn Branca. But enough with comparisons - this New York band reaches for ecstatic, guitar-shredding heights and succeeds, big time. Catch them with the charged-indie rock of local guitar heroes Captain Hollow and the glitchy jams of Glass Fingers, the very promising project from South Portland's Jesse Gertz. |
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Danava, Thrones, La Otracina, Sylvia Monday 10.31.2011, Doors at 8:00 PM, Starts at 8:30 PM, $8, 18+ Buy tickets here or at all Bull Moose locations. A quartet of heaviness for the true All Hallow's Eve. Thrones, the solo project of Joe Preston (Earth, The Melvins, Sunn O))), High on Fire), is royalty of the sludge and doom set. Oregon's Danava take the epic riffs of 70s prog-gods and lace them with unhealthy doses of dark psychedelia on their new release Hemisphere of Shadows. NYC's La Otracina situate their proto-metal freakouts somewhere between the outer limits of improvisatory free jazz and outre German kosmische. Sylvia (ex-Ocean, Whitcomb, Cult Maze) open.
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Saturday 10.29.2011, Starts at 9:00 PM, $10, 21+ Buy tickets here or at all Bull Moose locations. It's baaaaaack! SPACE's ultra-popular Halloween extravaganza returns to satiate (almost) all your ghoulish desires. Wild costumes, photo-booth debauchery, and a killer line-up of local performers. Danzig in the Dark! The Blood Capsules return as The Misfits in a modified line-up. Sweet Personal Jesus! Sunset Hearts take the stage as Depeche Mode. Mouth of the Severn channel the dystopic brilliance of Portishead. Vistas get their French-on as Daft Punk and Mr. Dereloid takes you on a late nite flight from Berlin to Detroit.
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Family Friendly Halloween Dance Party! Friday 10.28.2011, Starts at 5:00 PM, Ends at 7:00 PM, $6/$4 for SPACE members/free for kids under 2, All Ages Parents: get the most out of your kids' Halloween costumes by dressing them up and bringing them down to SPACE for a costume dance party to kick off Halloween weekend! Sip some cider (adult and kid friendly versions available) and taste some local snacks while the kids dance! |
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Nosferatu with Live Original Score Wednesday 10.26.2011, Doors at 7:00PM, Starts at 7:30PM, $8, All Ages Purchase tickets here or at all Bull Moose locations. A special screening of the F.W. Murnau's classic 1922 silent film. A Philiadelphia and Boston-based quintet, led by pianist and composer Brendan Cooney, will perform Cooney's original score for the film, which mixes klezmer devices, gypsy grooves, avant-garde textures, and classic horror-film camp, evoking both the moods of Transylvania and German Expressionism. A Halloween treat! More information at: www.nosferatu2011.com |
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Sunday 10.23.2011, Doors at 12:30PM, Starts at 1:00PM, Ends at 3:00PM, $8 / $6 for kids 12 and under, All Ages SPACE presents a fieldtrip opportunity to USM's Southworth Planetarium. Orbit(film) is a project that uses the art of cinema to inspire the art of science and education. A collaborative, 80-minute omnibus movie about our solar system, Orbit(film) is intended for all ages, as grade-schoolers will have their interest in art and science piqued, and older generations will have their youthful love of space renewed. Each screening will be preceded by a brief night sky tour in the planetarium dome. |
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Thursday 10.20.2011, Doors at 6:30 PM, Starts at 7:20 PM, $5, All Ages 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. |
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Braids with Pepper Rabbit, Blue Hawaii Wednesday 10.19.2011, Doors at 8:00 PM, Starts at 8:30 PM, $8.00, 18+ Cancelled, sorry! Elliptical, haunting, and undeniably ambitious, BRAIDS achieves a sound The New York Times declared to be as “mesmerizing and vertiginous as desire can be.” From their early days, collaborating as high-schoolers in Calgary, Alberta, the deft art-rock quartet has produced music that explores the full range of their instruments, including singer Raphaelle Standell-Preston's intriguingly unpredictable vocals. Now Montreal-based, the band's 2011 release Native Speaker has set the critics' hearts and pens aflutter, garnering all manner of superlatives in the press. With the psychedelic pop confections of L.A.'s Pepper Rabbit. |
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Wednesday 10.19.2011, Doors at 6:30PM, Starts at 7:00PM, Ends at 9:00PM, $8 / $6 for kids 12 and under, All Ages SPACE presents a fieldtrip opportunity to USM's Southworth Planetarium. Orbit(film) is a project that uses the art of cinema to inspire the art of science and education. A collaborative, 80-minute omnibus movie about our solar system, Orbit(film) is intended for all ages, as grade-schoolers will have their interest in art and science piqued, and older generations will have their youthful love of space renewed. Each screening will be preceded by a brief night sky tour in the planetarium dome. |
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The Fourth Annual Indie Biz Awards Tuesday 10.18.2011, Starts at 6:30PM, Ends at 10:00PM, FREE for Portland Buy Local Members and their employees! $5 suggested donation requested from all others., All Ages
The Fourth Annual Indie Biz Awards will recognize the leaders among Portland’s vibrant independent business community and showcase the impact that independently owned businesses have on greater Portland and the state of Maine. The event will include a "Keep It In The Loop" raffle and awesome food and drink from local businesses. |
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Monday 10.17.2011, Doors at 6:30PM, Starts at 7:00PM, Ends at 9:00PM, $8 / $6 for kids 12 and under, All Ages NOTE: Due to a tragic faculty death, tonight's screening of Orbit[film] at USM's Southworth Planetarium has been CANCELED. Come see the omnibus film on Wednesday at 7pm or Sunday at 1pm. Our sincere condolences to the staff and family of the USM Astronomy Dept. SPACE presents a fieldtrip opportunity to USM's Southworth Planetarium. Orbit(film) is a project that uses the art of cinema to inspire the art of science and education. A collaborative, 80-minute omnibus movie about our solar system, Orbit(film) is intended for all ages, as grade-schoolers will have their interest in art and science piqued, and older generations will have their youthful love of space renewed. Each screening will be preceeded by a brief night sky tour in the planetarium dome. |
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Sunday 10.16.2011, Doors at 1:30pm, Starts at 2:00pm, Ends at 3:30pm, $7, All Ages Co-Presented with SPACE Gallery at the Portland Museum of Art. Oscar-winning film director Kevin Macdonald’s Life in a Day was born out of a unique partnership between Ridley Scott’s Scott Free UK and YouTube. The film is a user-generated, feature-length documentary shot on a single day-July 24, 2010. Life in a Day brings together the most compelling footage from YouTube to create a 90-minute film crafted by Macdonald, executive producer Ridley Scott, producer Liza Marshall, and their teams. The film offers a unique experience that shows-with beauty, humor, and joyful honesty-what it’s like to be alive on Earth today. |
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Sunday 10.16.2011, Doors at 7:30 PM, Starts at 8:00 PM, $8.00, 18+ Buy tickets here or at any Bull Moose location. Tim Presley is the one man behind the one man band White Fence, a Woodsist and Make A Mess record label darling. A side project for Presley, who plays in The Strange Boys and Darker My Love, White Fence's fuzzy pyschadelic tunes induce a healthy mellow vibe with the right amount of reckless abandon to make keep your ears happy. Dover, NH's MMOSS bring their homegrown blend of garage pop and folk-noise to get everyone in the mood. |
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Saturday 10.15.2011, Doors at 1:30pm, Starts at 2:00pm, Ends at 3:30pm, $7, All Ages Co-Presented with SPACE Gallery at the Portland Museum of Art. Oscar-winning film director Kevin Macdonald’s Life in a Day was born out of a unique partnership between Ridley Scott’s Scott Free UK and YouTube. The film is a user-generated, feature-length documentary shot on a single day-July 24, 2010. Life in a Day brings together the most compelling footage from YouTube to create a 90-minute film crafted by Macdonald, executive producer Ridley Scott, producer Liza Marshall, and their teams. The film offers a unique experience that shows-with beauty, humor, and joyful honesty-what it’s like to be alive on Earth today. |
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Saturday 10.15.2011, Doors at 6:30pm, Starts at 7:00pm, Ends at 8:30pm, $7, All Ages Co-Presented with SPACE Gallery at the Portland Museum of Art. Oscar-winning film director Kevin Macdonald’s Life in a Day was born out of a unique partnership between Ridley Scott’s Scott Free UK and YouTube. The film is a user-generated, feature-length documentary shot on a single day-July 24, 2010. Life in a Day brings together the most compelling footage from YouTube to create a 90-minute film crafted by Macdonald, executive producer Ridley Scott, producer Liza Marshall, and their teams. The film offers a unique experience that shows-with beauty, humor, and joyful honesty-what it’s like to be alive on Earth today. |
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Saturday 10.15.2011, Doors at 9:00 PM, Starts at 9:30 PM, $10, 18+ Purchase tickets here or at all Bull Moose locations. The Cimarron Project is an ensemble dedicated to showcasing the diversity of Afro-Cuban music and dance at its most traditional - rumba, son, pillion, chanqui and other deeper forms. An extraordinary opportunity to hear six of NYC's most sought after Cuban musicians: Roman Diaz, Onel Mulet, Yunior Terry, Yuniel Jimenez, Mauricio Herrera and Stevie Insua. Prepare for a captivating experience on the dance floor. The evening begins with a special performance of a double masquerade, featuring Cimarron's lead dancer and Oscar Mokeme, Nigerian Chieftain and Director of Portland's Museum of African Culture. |
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Friday 10.14.2011, Doors at 6:30PM, Starts at 7:00PM, Ends at 8:30PM, $7, All Ages Co-Presented with SPACE Gallery at the Portland Museum of Art. Oscar-winning film director Kevin Macdonald’s Life in a Day was born out of a unique partnership between Ridley Scott’s Scott Free UK and YouTube. The film is a user-generated, feature-length documentary shot on a single day-July 24, 2010. Life in a Day brings together the most compelling footage from YouTube to create a 90-minute film crafted by Macdonald, executive producer Ridley Scott, producer Liza Marshall, and their teams. The film offers a unique experience that shows-with beauty, humor, and joyful honesty-what it’s like to be alive on Earth today. |
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Friday 10.14.2011, Doors at 7:00PM, Starts at 7:30PM, Free, All Ages In this popular series, writers, performers, and notable community members tell ten-minute stories to a live audience without notes or props. This installment, in collaboration with Faces of Learning, features storytellers Aimee Bessire, Claude Rwaganje, Jim Morse, Patty Hagge, Sonya Tomlinson and Zoe Weil. |
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Thursday 10.13.2011, Doors at 7:00 PM, Starts at 7:30 PM, Ends at 10:00 PM, $7 / $5 for SPACE Members & Students with ID, All Ages Purchase tickets here. The Interrupters tells the moving and surprising stories of three Violence Interrupters who try to protect their Chicago communities from the violence they once employed. From acclaimed director Steve James (Hoop Dreams) and bestselling author Alex Kotlowitz, this film is an unusually intimate journey into the stubborn persistence of violence in our cities. Shot over the course of a year, The Interrupters captures a period in Chicago when it became a national symbol for the violence in our cities. During that period, the city was besieged by high-profile incidents, most notably the brutal beating of Derrion Albert, a Chicago High School student, whose death was caught on videotape. |
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LIVE! ON STAGE JONATHAN RICHMAN featuring TOMMY LARKINS on the drums! Wednesday 10.12.2011, Doors at 8:30 PM, Starts at 9:00 PM, $15, 18+ Buy tickets here or visit any Bull Moose location. Jonathan Richman has been writing songs, making records and performing live for most of his life, winning fans and making friends around the world with his guileless honesty and playfully catchy compositions. He began playing guitar at the age of 15, and in the early 1970s formed the Modern Lovers, whose raw, minimalist sound and emotionally forthright songs helped to lay the groundwork for punk rock. Over the years, Jonathan's music has absorbed a multitude of influences, from doo-wop to country to a variety of international styles, without sacrificing the artist's effervescent personality. |
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Screaming Females with The Underground Railroad To Candyland, Mouth Washington Tuesday 10.11.2011, Doors at 7:30 PM, Starts at 8:00 PM, $8, 18+ Purchase tickets here or at all Bull Moose locations. With a mash-up of punk and diy-based influences New Jerseys Screaming Females return to SPACE Gallery to headline another evening of exquisite shredding and all-around great rock. Known as one of the hardest working bands in North America, they are moving their way through New England after a European tour to promote the re-release of their first album Baby Teeth. California’s playful pop-punk The Underground Railroad To Candyland will open along with Portland’s own DIY rocker princes Mouth Washington. |
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Another Night of BS with Aaron Stephan Monday 10.10.2011, Starts at 6, Ends at 9:00 PM, Free, reservation required., 21+ Limited tickets will be available starting 10/22. Blurring the barrier between performance, convivial entertainment, and the space that art and artist can occupy, artist Aaron Stephan brings this visual, architectural and culinary event to the SPACE Gallery annex for a three evening run. Part Dada lecture, part construction zone, this "dinner party" invites the public to take part in his continued investigations of the obscurities within conventions and formalities of the artist role and identity. |
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Saturday 10.08.2011, Starts at 10:00 AM, Ends at 5:00 PM, Free, All Ages Local clothier Rogues Gallery transforms SPACE once again into a warehouse stocked with design samples, overstock, prototypes, and tee shirts! |
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First Friday Artwalk: Xander Marro: Cursed New England and Maya Hayuk: ZONE Friday 10.07.2011, Starts at 5:00 PM, Ends at 8:00 PM, Free!, All Ages In the annex: Providence based artist Xander Marro's multi-media project Cursed New England began on the banks of the Woonasquatucket River, where she sought out New England's offerings of joyful spells and rituals performed for the creation of a new consciousness. Come try on a mask and get your photo taken by Xander! In the main gallery: ZONE by Maya Hayuk.
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Thursday 10.06.2011, Doors at 7:00 PM, Starts at 7:30 PM, Ends at 9:30 PM, $7 / $5 for SPACE Members & Students with ID, All Ages Purchase tickets here. Part of SPACE Gallery's SCOPE Visual Arts Film Series An entertaining and revelatory “secret history” of Feminist Art, !Women Art Revolution deftly illuminates this under-explored movement through conversations, observations, archival footage and works of visionary artists, historians, curators and critics. Starting from its roots in 1960s antiwar and civil rights protests, the film details major developments in women’s art through the 1970s and explores how the tenacity and courage of these pioneering artists resulted in what is now widely regarded as the most significant art movement of the late 20th century. |
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Hume, The Rattlesnakes, Moon King Wednesday 10.05.2011, Doors at 8:30 PM, Starts at 9:00 PM, $7, 18+ Buy tickets here or at all Bull Moose locations.
Playfully toeing the line between expansiveness and minimalism, concrete-pop outfit Hume are a bright star in the DC-indie scene, whom the Washington Post called one of "DC's most precise bands, playing constantly snaking songs that veer in all sorts of wild directions while maintaining a hard-driving momentum." The four piece share the bill with the fresh and pixelated art-punk of Toronto-duo Moon King (recently seen on stage with Japanther) and the devil-may-care lo-fi jams of Portland's own The Rattlesnakes. |
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Shinji Masuko (DMBQ, Boredoms) with AWAAS Tuesday 10.04.2011, Doors at 8:30 PM, Starts at 9:00 PM, $10, 18+ Buy tickets here or at all Bull Moose locations.
Shinji Masuko, founder of legendary Japanese psych outfit DMBQ and principal guitarist with noise rock titans Boredoms since 2004, comes to SPACE in support of his first solo release, Woven Music. Hypnotic and technically complex, Masuko's layered compositions envelope the listener in an almost overwhelming beauty. AWAAS, a brand new project featuring members of Conifer and Ocean, opens, making their much anticipated first appearance. |
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Monday 10.03.2011, Starts at 3:00 PM, Ends at 7:00 PM, free, All Ages Our friend Kyle Durie built a letterpress studio in the back of a 1982 Chevy step van and has spent a good part of this year driving it across the country. Her project is called Moveable Type, and she has been rolling into all kinds of communities giving demonstrations and spreading the gospel of printing. For her SPACE visit, she'll park out front from 3-6pm, then come in to the gallery to give a slide talk about her adventures and her work. She'll return to the truck afterwards for more printing excitement! view on Facebook |
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Saturday 10.01.2011, Doors at 10:30am, Starts at 11:00am, $12 adults / $8 ages 3-17 / children under 3 free, All Ages Purchase tickets here or at all Bull Moose locations. 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. |
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Saturday 10.01.2011, Doors at 1:30pm, Starts at 2:00pm, $12 adults / $8 ages 3-17 / children under 3 free, All Ages Purchase tickets here or at all Bull Moose locations. 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. |
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Sunset Hearts Album Release with Kurt Baker and Mango Floss Saturday 10.01.2011, Starts at 9:00 PM, $6, 21+ Tickets available here or at all Bull Moose locations. Ascendant Portland pop conglomerate Sunset Hearts unleash their first full length album, Inside the Haunted Cloud, to an undoubtably suspecting crowd. Filled with lushly crafted, eminently danceable tracks, the octet's efforts have The Bollard raving "pure genius". With the mod-rock swagger of Mister Kurt Baker and the effortlessly cool hooks of Mango Floss. |
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Film: Manhattan Short Film Festival Tuesday 09.27.2011, Doors at 7:00 PM, Starts at 7:30 PM, Ends at 10:00 PM, $8 / $6 for SPACE Members, All Ages Purchase tickets here. The 14th annual MANHATTAN SHORT Film Festival is the largest short film festival in the world. It's stated mission is "to unite audiences around the world with the most creative short films in the world" and tonight, our SPACE audience will unite with viewers from 6 continents to watch and vote for the 2011 winner. A global event will take place the week of September 25th to October 2nd when over 100,000 people in over 250 cities across six continents gather in Cinemas, Galleries, Museums and Cafes for one purpose...to view and vote on our Finalists' Films in the Annual MANHATTAN SHORT Film Festival. |
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Dark Dark Dark, A Hawk and A Hacksaw, Pillars and Tongues Monday 09.26.2011, Doors at 8:00 PM, Starts at 8:30 PM, $10 , 18+ Purchase tickets here or at all Bull Moose locations.
Dark Dark Dark, musical wanderers and conjurers of highly atmospheric, multi-instrumental chamber folk music, mark their return to SPACE with a new album, Wild Go, under their belt and signature banjos and accordion in tow. Originating in Minneapolis, the dreamy troubadours blend the sounds of New Orleans jazz, Americana, traditional Eastern European and Sufi melodies into songs redolent of Sycamore forests and shimmering seas. Co-headliners A Hawk And A Hacksaw appear for the first time on our stage. The group, founded in 2004 by Neutral Milk Hotel's Jeremy Barnes, has traveled the globe, literally and figuratively, infusing their eclectic music with a gypsy soul, equally at home on the high desert plains or city roofs at night. Chicago-trio Pillars and Tongues open the night with their avant-pop manifestations. |
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Film: Beats Rhymes & Life: The Travels Of A Tribe Called Quest Sunday 09.25.2011, Doors at 1:30PM, Starts at 2:00PM, Ends at 3:30PM, $7, All Ages BEATS, RHYMES & LIFE: THE TRAVELS OF A TRIBE CALLED QUEST is a All screenings at the Portland Museum of Art - 7 Congress Square. Co-Presented by SPACE Gallery. |
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Sunday 09.25.2011, Starts at 10:00 AM, Ends at 4:00 PM, $3 Early Entry 10-11am / Free 11am-4pm, All Ages
Come get your lazy Sunday vinyl fix at the the Portland Record and Art Party! Browse tables upon tables of great records, as well as arts and crafts, and listen to DJ sets, while basking in the neon glow of Maya Hayuk's gallery installation. |
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Astronautalis and Lady Lamb the Beekeeper Saturday 09.24.2011, Doors at 8:30 PM, Starts at 9:00 PM, $12, 18+ Purchase tickets here or at all Bull Moose locations. Truly a combination you could only catch at SPACE! Two of our favorites, Astronautalis and Lady Lamb the Beekeeper, co-headline a night that pairs Astronautalis' unique brand of southern-indie-artsy-electro-historical-fiction-folk-crunk with Lady Lamb's unique brand of perfectly pitched, gutsy, raw and lyrically inventive musical compositions. Astronuatalis is backed by a full band, featuring Portland's own Oscar Romero (Gully) and Derek Gierhan (Haru Bangs) and will be debuting material from his brand spankin' new album, This Is Our Science. Spearheading their own spin-offs of rap and indie rock these two share in being performers so emphatic and commanding there was no need for opening acts, so get to this one on time as not to miss a moment. |
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Film: Beats Rhymes & Life: The Travels Of A Tribe Called Quest Saturday 09.24.2011, Doors at 6:30PM, Starts at 7:00PM, Ends at 8:30PM, $7, All Ages BEATS, RHYMES & LIFE: THE TRAVELS OF A TRIBE CALLED QUEST is a All screenings at the Portland Museum of Art - 7 Congress Square. Co-Presented by SPACE Gallery. |
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Film: Beats Rhymes & Life: The Travels Of A Tribe Called Quest Saturday 09.24.2011, Doors at 1:30PM, Starts at 2:00PM, Ends at 3:30PM, $7, All Ages BEATS, RHYMES & LIFE: THE TRAVELS OF A TRIBE CALLED QUEST is a All screenings at the Portland Museum of Art - 7 Congress Square. Co-Presented by SPACE Gallery. |
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Kids Open Studios: Technicolor Pattern-Making! Saturday 09.24.2011, Starts at 1:00 PM, Ends at 4:00 PM, $4 studio fee/kid, free for members!, All Ages Drop in for an open studios workshop on pattern-making using a variety of materials and neon colors. We will draw inspiration from Maya Hayuk's mural installation which features technicolor patterns, glow-in-the-dark neon shapes and woven textiles. This open studios workshop is all about color and fun. No experience necessary, suggested age is 5 and up.
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Friday 09.23.2011, Doors at 7:30 PM, Starts at 8:00 PM, $10, 18+ Purchase tickets here or at all Bull Moose locations. Olas is, to borrow their phrasing, "heavily influenced by Andalusian Flamenco and Arabic folk music, translated through a blend of American folk, rock, Arabic, and Afro-Cuban sounds…an original, all-acoustic mash-up of very raw and passionate music and dance in Portland, Maine." We couldn't really describe this dynamic collective any better. Come catch the celebratory spirit at what Olas says will be their last performance for "awhile". Providence's dark-tinged blues-and-outlaw-country-lovin' folk duo Brown Bird kick off the night, and Burlington, VT's Barika bring the deep Malian grooves to close it out. |
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Film: Beats Rhymes & Life: The Travels Of A Tribe Called Quest Friday 09.23.2011, Doors at 6:30PM, Starts at 7:00PM, Ends at 8:30PM, $7, All Ages BEATS, RHYMES & LIFE: THE TRAVELS OF A TRIBE CALLED QUEST is a All screenings at the Portland Museum of Art - 7 Congress Square. Co-Presented by SPACE Gallery. |
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Maine Women Write’s Inaugural Event Thursday 09.22.2011, Doors at 7:00PM, Starts at 7:30PM, Free, All Ages
Maine Women Write celebrates seven new women authors from Maine. Writers Sarah Braunstein, Susan Conley, Melissa Coleman, Elizabeth Miles, Shonna Milliken, Liza Bakewell and Caitlin Shetterly will present their new books in a collage of five-minute presentations of pithy passages followed by an open discussion with the audience. Hosted by MPBN’s Susan Sharon and MWPA's Sibyl Masquelier. Maine Women Write was founded in 2011 by Lisa Bowe, Liza Bakewell and Caitlin Shetterly with a mission to celebrate and promote the works of Maine women authors. For more information please visit Maine Women Write on Facebook. This event is sponsored by SPACE Gallery, Longfellow Books and Maine Writers & Publishers Alliance.
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Film: Doxita 4: Inside/Outside Tuesday 09.20.2011, 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. doxita is a traveling festival of documentary films that are under 40 minutes in length. The program represents a wide variety of documentary – domestic and foreign, super-short and longer format, serious and funny. It is designed to profile the great content and artistic vision that non-fiction short films provide, but that people don’t often get a chance to see. |
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Monday 09.19.2011, Doors at 6:30PM, Starts at 7:00 PM, Free, All Ages The day after he left office in 2003, Angus King took to open road for almost six months with his family in a 40-foot RV, criss-crossing the country. The former Governor takes the stage at SPACE to discuss his new book “Governor’s Travels: How I Left Politics, Learned to Back Up a Bus, and Found America" and to share his experiences in and out of office. |
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HillyTown Presents: O'Death with Butcher Boy and Splendora Cölt Sunday 09.18.2011, Doors at 7:30 PM, Starts at 8:00 PM, $8 advance/$10 day of, 18+ Purchase tickets here or at all Bull Moose locations. HillyTown Presents a show 3 years in the making. Brooklyn's O'Death mixes mountain music with punk and metal flourishes, mining a dark, Gothic-tinged vein of Americana in their raw, ragged fashion. Fronted by singer and guitarist Greg Jamie (who previously brought his other group, Blood Warrior, to SPACE for a HillyTown OFFStage show and runs Biddeford's The Oak and the Ax), the group's 2011 release, Outside, finds the group continuing on this path of ruinous beauty. Rowdy and razor-sharp, Portland's Butcher Boy puts their own maniacal spin on the folk-punk genre. Wesley Hartley's new band, Splendora Cölt, opens the night.
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Saturday 09.17.2011, Doors at 8:30 PM, Starts at 9:00 PM, $10, 18+ Buy tickets here or at all Bull Moose locations. Prolific and eclectic, Oneida resists easy classification. The Brooklyn psych-rockers draw from minimalism and kraut-rock, restlessly and relentlessly exploring rhythms, repetitions and textures, making heavy use of percussion, analog equipment, hypnotic loops of driving sound. Champions of under-recognized awesomeness (they founded Brah! Records - an imprint of Jagjaguwar - to promote artists they believe in), Oneida do not shy away from sonic adventures, as their legendary live sets attest. Company joins the evening, bringing an authoritative and deep take on folk, punk, and country traditions in their stellar songs. Tonight they'll be releasing their latest record Night Ground on Peapod Recordings. This show is doubling as SPACE Gallery co-founder Jon Courtney's big 40th birthday bash, so come make it extra-memorable for the guy! |
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Film: Over Your CIties Grass Will Grow Tuesday 09.13.2011, Doors at 7:00 PM, Starts at 7:30 PM, Ends at 9:30 PM, $7 / $5 for SPACE Members & Students with ID, All Ages Purchase tickets here. Part of SPACE Gallery's SCOPE Visual Arts Film Series OVER YOUR CITIES GRASS WILL GROW bears witness to German artist Anselm Kiefer’s alchemical creative processes and renders as a film journey the personal universe he has built at his hill studio estate in the South of France. In 1993 Kiefer left Buchen, Germany for La Ribaute, a derelict silk factory near Barjac. From 2000 he began constructing a series of elaborate installations there. Like a strange, sprawling village, La Ribaute extends over 35 hectares and is composed of old industrial buildings and working studios that link to a network of underground tunnels dug out by Kiefer, which run underneath pavilions built to house paintings and installations. Traversing this landscape, the film immerses the audience in the total world and creative process of one of today’s most significant and inventive artists. |
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What Cheer? Brigade with A Severe Joy Saturday 09.10.2011, Starts at 9:00 PM, $10, 21+ Tickets available here and at all Bull Moose Locations. Providence, RI marching band madness! The What Cheer? Brigade, a 19-piece brass band from Providence, RI, mixes the sounds of Bollywood, The Balkans, New Orleans, Samba and Hip-Hop, with metal-like intensity. This is some serious party music, with driving, aggressive rhythms and crazy bursts of polyphonic wildness. Get a taste of this critically-acclaimed collective at BLOCK Party earlier in the evening and catch their full show inside SPACE. A Severe Joy, a new project from Jose Ayerve (Spouse), warms things up with his mixture of performance art and exuberant indie-dance-pop alongside an appearance by The 90-Minute Blonde. DJ Che Ros and VJ Dirty Laundry Lights team up to finish the night with an end-of-summer dance party.
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Saturday 09.10.2011, Starts at 5:00 PM, Ends at 8:00 PM, Free!, All Ages Block Party returns to the Portland Arts District, for another year of outdoor, interactive art installations, performances and fun! SPACE Gallery, in collaboration with a host of Portland arts organizations, alongside our numerous neighbors on Congress Street, will transform a portion of the Arts District along Congress Street into a temporary zone for artistic exploration and enjoyment. Block Party 2011 will feature site-specific installations and performances by Maine artists Greta Bank, Kimberly Convery, Sean O'Brian, and Lorem Ipsum Theater Productions, ranging from a mobile theater to a scale-model Godzilla film set! Providence, RI's What Cheer? Brigade, a 19-piece street marching band, will ratchet up the party vibe with their irresistible New Orleans meets Samba meets Balkan Brass sound! Attendees will be able to witness the debut of Pickwick Independent Press' project "Analog Tweets", observe Shoot Media Project's "Newscast" in production, get in on the fun with The Children's Museum and Theatre of Maine's "Make Your Own Musical Instruments and Costume" station for kids, and pop-in to Mayo Street Arts' "Dress-Up Photo Booth" for an impromptu portrait session. With additional performances and projects from the ICA at MECA,Portland Ovations, Portland Stage, The Telling Room, Mensk, Sylvia Kania Gallery/Dooryard Collectiveand more, Block Party 2011 is bound to delight and surprise!
SPONSORSHIPS AND SUPPORT: Support for BLOCK Party 2011 has been generously provided by the Maine Arts Commission,Portland Color, the New England Foundation for the Arts, Oak Street Lofts, XPress Copy, Portland's Downtown District and SPACE Gallery members.
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Artist Talk: What Cheer? Brigade Friday 09.09.2011, Starts at 7:00 PM, Free!, All Ages Since their early days in Providence circa 2005, What Cheer? Brigade has played with Dan Deacon, Man Man, Japanther, Dengue Fever, Okkervil River, Lightning Bolt, Ninjasonik, Mika Miko, Wolf Parade, Matt and Kim, Slavic Soul Party, Javelin, Sage Francis, and Chain and the Gang. They’ve appeared at Lollapalooza, Sziget (Hungary), and Guca (Serbia). They've played in just about every crazy place you can imagine. How do they make it all work and hold down day-jobs to boot? What's it like making travel arrangements for 20+ people? What's the whole DIY marching band thing about? Come meet the musicians, hang out, hear funny stories and gain some insight into how these guys have sustained their artistic pursuits. Co-presented with Portland Music Foundation. Made possible in part through a grant from New England Foundation for the Arts. |
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Film: Page One: Inside The New York Times Thursday 09.08.2011, 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. In the tradition of great fly-on-the-wall documentaries, PAGE ONE: INSIDE THE NEW YORK TIMES deftly gains unprecedented access to The New York Times newsroom and the inner workings of the Media Desk. With the Internet surpassing print as our main news source and newspapers all over the country going bankrupt, PAGE ONE chronicles the transformation of the media industry at its time of greatest turmoil. Writers like Brian Stelter, Tim Arango and the salty but brilliant David Carr track print journalism’s metamorphosis even as their own paper struggles to stay vital and solvent. Meanwhile, their editors and publishers grapple with existential challenges from players like WikiLeaks, new platforms ranging from Twitter to tablet computers, and readers’ expectations that news online should be free. Followed by Q&A with Justin Ellis from the Nieman Journalism Lab at Harvard. |
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Wednesday 09.07.2011, Doors at 8:30 PM, Starts at 9:00 PM, $13 adv / $15 at the door, 18+ "An alchemical fusion of Morricone-esque cinematic grandeur, midnight surf guitar, traditional Middle Eastern rhythms and time signatures, demonic death metal and electronic deviance." -Pitchfork Buy tickets here and at all Bull Moose locations. Secret Chiefs 3 return to SPACE for another visionary evening of music. Led by composer and producer Trey Spruance, former guitarist of Mr. Bungle and Faith No More, the group is touring in support of their long-awaited new album, Book of Souls, out this fall. French drum & synth duo FAT32 bring their breakcore-freejazz-polka madness to open the night.
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First Friday Artwalk: Zone by Maya Hayuk and Pulled by Mike Perry Friday 09.02.2011, Starts at 5:00 PM, Ends at 8:00 PM, free, All Ages Come celebrate the re-opening of our main space and the opening of Maya Hayuk's installation, Zone. Take in the large scale mulit-colored bullseye, the floor to ceiling drippy woven wall textile, the paper peice that trails onto the wall and the glow-in-the-blacklight neon mural on our newly constructed wall. In the annex, soak up the beautiful variance of techniques and styles in the screen-printing exhibition, Pulled, by Mike Perry. |
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The Kids Are Alright: Family Contra Dance with The City Chickens! Wednesday 08.31.2011, Doors at 11:45 AM, Starts at 12:00 PM, $3 Adults/ $2 Kids, All Ages
In SPACE Gallery annex. Tickets available at the door. The Kids Are Alright Series concludes with daytime contra dance for parents and kids, featuring caller Maggie Robinson and The City Chickens playing traditional New England dance tunes. With friendly, lively fiddling designed to get the feet moving, this event with have the mama hens, papa roosters and baby birds swinging alike. This is the real deal roots music of Maine. First time contra dancers more than welcome! Sponsored in part by Bull Moose Music and The State Theater
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SPACE Gallery at The Saco Drive-In Sunday 08.28.2011, Doors at 7:00 PM, Starts at 8:30 PM, Ends at 1:00AM, $15 / Carload., All Ages SPACE Gallery has brought hundreds of original film programs to downtown Portland over the years and the Saco Drive-In has been hosting outdoor screenings of films since 1939. This weekend we join forces to bring you a doublefeature of classic "space" films to close out your summer in the warm Maine night air. Steven Spielberg's E.T.: The Extra Terrestrial and James Cameron's deep space thrillfest Aliens. SPACE will be curating a mix of local music for broadcast before and between films. A portion of gate proceeds will go to support SPACE Gallery. Saco Drive-In website. |
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SPACE Gallery at The Saco Drive-In Saturday 08.27.2011, Doors at 7:00 PM, Starts at 8:30 PM, Ends at 1:00AM, $15 / Carload., All Ages SPACE Gallery has brought hundreds of original film programs to downtown Portland over the years and the Saco Drive-In has been hosting outdoor screenings of films since 1939. This weekend we join forces to bring you a doublefeature of classic "space" films to close out your summer in the warm Maine night air. Steven Spielberg's E.T.: The Extra Terrestrial and James Cameron's deep space thrillfest Aliens. SPACE will be curating a mix of local music for broadcast before and between films. A portion of gate proceeds will go to support SPACE Gallery. Saco Drive-In website. |
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SPACE Gallery at The Saco Drive-In Friday 08.26.2011, Doors at 7:00 PM, Starts at 8:30 PM, Ends at 1:00AM, $15 / Carload., All Ages SPACE Gallery has brought hundreds of original film programs to downtown Portland over the years and the Saco Drive-In has been hosting outdoor screenings of films since 1939. This weekend we join forces to bring you a doublefeature of classic "space" films to close out your summer in the warm Maine night air. Steven Spielberg's E.T.: The Extra Terrestrial and James Cameron's deep space thrillfest Aliens. SPACE will be curating a mix of local music for broadcast before and between films. A portion of gate proceeds will go to support SPACE Gallery. Saco Drive-In website. |
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The Kids Are Alright: 317 Main St Ensemble Wednesday 08.24.2011, Doors at 11:45 AM, Starts at 12:00 PM, Ends at 1:00 PM, $3 Adults/ $2 Kids, All Ages
In SPACE Gallery annex. Tickets available at the door. In this installment of The Kids Are Alright series, co-presented with the Maine Academy of Modern Music, SPACE welcomes an ensemble of students and faculty from Yarmouth's 317 Main Street Music Center. The organization, founded in 2004, offers instruction in a plethora of instruments and musical styles, so expect an unexpected variety of sounds from this group! Sponsored in part by Bull Moose Music and The State Theater
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The Kids Are Alright: The Grassholes Wednesday 08.17.2011, Doors at 11:45 AM, Starts at 12:00 PM, $3 Adults/ $2 Kids, All Ages
In SPACE Gallery annex. Tickets available at the door. The Kids Are Alright series continues with fun day of bluegrass music, courtesy of The Grassholes. Featuring Heather Kahill on fiddle, Sam Pfeifle on guitar, Jake Henry on mandolin, Field Rider on banjo and harmonica, and Dan Pierce on bass, this band likes to mix it up. A little traditional, a little modern, a little country, a little punk - and lots of charisma! Sponsored in part by Bull Moose Music and The State Theater |
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Opening reception: Pulled by Mike Perry Thursday 08.11.2011, Starts at 5:00 PM, Ends at 8:00 PM, Free!, All Ages Brooklyn based artist and author Mike Perry's new book Pulled: A Catalog of Screen Printing presents a diverse scope of prints from over forty of the most dynamic contemporary designers today. The accompanying exhibition includes screen prints from many of the artists featured in the book.
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Pulled: Members Reception, Slide Talk and Book Signing Wednesday 08.10.2011, Starts at 5:30 PM, Ends at 7:30 PM, This event is open to SPACE and PMA Members only and is free, All Ages Together with the Portland Museum of Art we are hosting a member's preview of Mike Perry's new exhibit Pulled, with a slide talk and a book signing where Mike will be hand screen printing directly on the books! This event is open to SPACE Gallery and PMA members only. Pulled will be available in the Museum Store along with some of Mike's earlier books. Click here for info on becoming a SPACE Gallery member, and here for info on becoming a PMA member. |
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The Kids Are Alright: Britta Pejic Wednesday 08.10.2011, Doors at 11:45 AM, Starts at 12:00 PM, $3 Adults/ $2 Kids, All Ages In SPACE Gallery annex. Tickets available at the door. The Kids Are Alright series continues with South Portland native Britta Pejic. Pejic, whose style references Robyn Hitchcock, Pete Townshend, alt-country, garage-pop and surrealist wordplays, had a several year stint in France before she returned to Maine. Backyards That Weren't There Before, Pejic's 2010 release, has aptly been dubbed a "willfully offbeat" and "distinctly unorthodox" album. Giant onions, bourgeois trees, feudal laundry, heart transplants and Godzilla all inhabit her strange and delightful songwriting universe. It's a fun place to visit. Sponsored in part by Bull Moose Music and The State Theater
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Hot August Night, On a Boat, aka Party Barge Sunday 08.07.2011, Doors at 4:30 PM, Starts at 5:00 PM, Ends at 9:00 PM, $15, 21+ Peapod Recordings and HillyTown Presents , in association with Space Gallery, bring you Hot August Night, On A Boat, aka Party Barge. Remember last year’s boat party? Here it is again, with more rock ‘n roll for yr seafaring ways. Things start off with the pastoral electric indie post-folk of if and it, a reprise performance by the ever-fluctuating brilliance of Tyler Jackson’s Foam Castles, punched out by Huak’s lovely discordant DC-isms, garage popped by Mango Floss, and closed with a set from Portland noise pop ingénues Metal Feathers. Plus special guest DJ Cutlass. A sunset ride with your closest rock pals and a healthy supply of booze. Perfection. Board at Casablanca Cruises, 18 Custom House Wharf in Portland. Boarding: 4:30pm Purchase tickets from Bryan, Ron, or directly from the bands. Visit HotAugustNightOnABoat.com for more. |
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First Friday Artwalk: Elia Bettaglio, Selena Kimball & Tatiana Simonova: Drawings Friday 08.05.2011, Starts at 5:00 PM, Ends at 8:00 PM, Free!, All Ages New York based artists Elia Bettaglio, Selena Kimball and Tatiana Simonova present drawings in various media. This show is in our new annex space.
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Friday 08.05.2011, Starts at 1:00 PM, Free, All Ages The Portland Hive is an intensive, weeklong workshop for exceptional high school creative writers hailing from the greater Portland Area and is taught by some of the country’s leading poets and fiction writers. The Portland Hive Student Reading will showcase the finest poems and short stories that emerge from this year’s session.
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The Kids Are Alright: Samuel James Wednesday 08.03.2011, Doors at 11:45 AM, Starts at 12:00 PM, $3 Adults/ $2 Kids, All Ages
in SPACE Gallery annex. Tickets available at the door. SPACE and the Maine Academy of Modern Music present The Kids Are Alright, a new series of Wednesday lunchtime performances by local musicians for the whole family can dig! Stop by for a break after the Farmer's Market, or before you hit the beach for a cool hour of music by great live acts tailored for the kids. Parents and kids will be able to meet the musicians, ask them questions, and even experience an "instrument petting zoo"! For our first show in August, the ever-amazing Samuel James will perform in the new SPACE annex. How to describe Samuel? A pre-war blues master, a contemporary songwriting virtuoso, a performer of stunning singularity, the last of the great, black, American troubadours? Yes to all of this, but your kids will probably just think he's totally awesome. Sponsored in part by Bull Moose Music and The State Theater. |
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The Kids Are Alright: Jeff Beam Wednesday 07.27.2011, Starts at 12:00 PM, $3 adults/ $2 kids, All Ages in SPACE Gallery annex. Buy tickets here and at the door. SPACE and the Maine Academy of Modern Music debut The Kids Are Alright, a new series of Wednesday lunchtime performances by local musicians for the whole family can dig! Stop by for a break after the Farmer's Market, or before you hit the beach for a cool hour of music by great live acts tailored for the kids. Parents and kids will be able to meet the musicians, ask them questions, and even experience an "instrument petting zoo"! This time, psych-rocker Jeff Beam returns to SPACE with his catchy, oddball melodies. Heavily influenced by British-invasion styles and 60's experimentalism, Jeff Beam will no doubt delight the kids with his slightly surreal take on pop tunes. You too.
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Friday 07.22.2011, Doors at 9:30PM, Starts at 10:00PM, Ends at 12:00AM, $7 / $5 for SPACE Members, 18+ Purchase tickets here. Celebrating the classic American 'Grindhouse' genre, Hobo With A Shotgun is the product of a trailer competition held by Quentin Tarantino and Robert Rodriquez for the making of their collaborative film Grindhouse. A hobo (played by Rutger Hauer) rolls into town hoping for a fresh start but instead finds himself trapped in an urban hell ruled by a murderous crime boss and his sadistic sons. As the brutality rages around him, the hobo realizes the only way to make a difference in this town is with a pawnshop shotgun in his hands. Viewer discretion is strongly advised. |
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A Reading and Signing with Simon Van Booy Wednesday 07.20.2011, Doors at 7:00 PM, Starts at 7:30 PM, free, All Ages
Simon Van Booy’s debut novel, Everything Beautiful Began After, will be released in the United States, Canada, Ireland, and the United Kingdom in July 2011. Andre Dubus III calls the novel, “A powerful meditation on the undying nature of love and the often cruel beauty of one’s own fate.” A native of London, Van Booy’s 2009 collection Love Begins in Winter won the Frank O'Connor International Short Story Award. He is also the author the story collection The Secret Lives of People in Love, and editor of three philosophy books: Why We Fight, Why We Need Love, and Why Our Decisions Don't Matter. His essays have appeared in The New York Times, The Daily Telegraph, The Times, The Guardian, and on NPR. His work has been translated into ten languages. Presented with The Telling Room and Maine Writers and Publishers Alliance. |
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The Kids Are Alright: In The Audience Wednesday 07.20.2011, Starts at 12:00 PM, $3 adults/ $2 kids, All Ages SPACE and the Maine Academy of Modern Music debut The Kids Are Alright, a new series of Wednesday lunchtime performances by local musicians for the whole family can dig! Stop by for a break after the Farmer's Market, or before you hit the beach for a cool hour of music by great live acts tailored for the kids. Parents and kids will be able to meet the musicians, ask them questions, and even experience an "instrument petting zoo"! In this installment of this series, rising indie band In The Audience step up to the plate. The young pop collective, based out of both Portland, Maine, and Toronto, recently rocked SPACE at their EP release show and have been garnering impressive praise around town for their tightly crafted songs, including winning The Phoenix's Best Rock Act 2011. Buy tickets here. |
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Tuesday 07.19.2011, Doors at 6:30 PM, Starts at 7:00 PM, Free, All Ages Artspire is a program of the New York Foundation for the Arts (NYFA) with resources to help artists build their professional careers, find new opportunities, and increase their fundraising potential. Join Eleanor Whitney, Program Officer for External Affairs and Fiscal Sponsorship, as she presents Artspire/NYFA’s resources, fundraising, and support programs available nationwide for artists in all disciplines at every stage in their careers. The presentation is geared towards individual artists of all disciplines as well as small and emerging arts organizations. Visual, performing, literary artists and filmmakers are all encouraged to attend. Q&A immediately after the presentation. |
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The Dirty Dishes Burlesque Revue presents Polymorphously Perverse Saturday 07.16.2011, Doors at 6:30 PM, Starts at 7:00 PM, $9 advance, $11 at the door, 18+ The Dirty Dishes Burlesque Revue serve up more deviance than you can Freudian slip at their 2011 summer hysteria, “Polymorphously Perverse.” Definitively, Polymorphous Perversity is a psychoanalytic term used to describe the human ability to gain sexual gratification outside socially normative sexual behaviors. Get fixated on some hot and bothersome local perversity through dance, skits, comedy, striptease, and song. You’ll gaze upon performances by new-burlesquers-on-the-prowl Pussyfoot Burlesque, Portland’s own bear-lesquer Lincoln DeTaint, cherry bomb Holly Danger, feminist icon Simone Debaucherie and more! Get your tickets here and at all Bull Moose locations. |
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The Dirty Dishes Burlesque Revue presents Polymorphously Perverse Saturday 07.16.2011, Doors at 9:30 PM, Starts at 10:00 PM, $9 advance, $11 at the door, 18+ The Dirty Dishes Burlesque Revue serve up more deviance than you can Freudian slip at their 2011 summer hysteria, “Polymorphously Perverse.” Definitively, Polymorphous Perversity is a psychoanalytic term used to describe the human ability to gain sexual gratification outside socially normative sexual behaviors. Get fixated on some hot and bothersome local perversity through dance, skits, comedy, striptease, and song. You’ll gaze upon performances by new-burlesquers-on-the-prowl Pussyfoot Burlesque, Portland’s own bear-lesquer Lincoln DeTaint, cherry bomb Holly Danger, feminist icon Simone Debaucherie and more! Get your tickets here and at all Bull Moose locations. |
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Tricky Britches Album Release with Papadello, Maisie Newell & Eric Dayan Friday 07.15.2011, Doors at 7:30 PM, Starts at 8:00 PM, $8, 18+ Fresh off a Southern tour, the Tricky Britches bring their high-energy blend of old-time, bluegrass, country and folk to SPACE for the release of their new album, Hard Fought Day. Portland, ME-based trio Papadello's music is steeped in the sounds of traditional folk and blues with a modern pop sensibility. With fiddler Maisie Newell and Eric Dayan. Come party down with rollicking music, free food and a cornhole tournament! Buy tickets here and at Bull Moose locations. |
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G.Love & Special Sauce with Special Guests Samuel James and This Way @Maine State Pier Friday 07.15.2011, Doors at 6:00pm, Starts at 7:00pm, $29.50 General Admission, All Ages KahBang Presents G.Love at the Maine State Pier. G. Love & Special Sauce is a three member alternative blues and hip-hop band from Philadelphia. G. Love's new album, "Fixin' to Die", was produced by the Avett Brothers and has been called his finest release to-date - full of soul, laid-back grooves and a matured outlook. PopMatters gave the album 9 stars out of 10. Opening up the show are two top-notch acts, virtuoso bluesman Samuel James and Americana-roots five-piece This Way, making for a fantastic Friday night on the Pier. SPACE Gallery is the non-profit beneficiary for this show and receives a portion of every ticket sale. Alright, yeah! Tickets available HERE or in person at Port City Music Hall Box Office, charge by phone at 512.389.0315 |
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Mid-Summer Mega Dance Party - The Return of Gabe FM! Thursday 07.14.2011, Starts at 9:00 PM, $3, 21+
Mid-Summer Mega Dance Party. Calling all Geminis, Cancers and Leos to come celebrate your summer birthdays with former Portland hip hop guru Gabe FM. Gabe FM combines an obscure mix of glitched out hip hop with latin and reggae styles. This will be his first DJ appearance in Portland in over 3 years! Maine's own Lord of the Dance, Nan'l Meiklejohn, takes turns on the decks to give Gabe some time to bask in the glow of his return to Portland. Get tickets here and at Bull Moose locations. |
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Poets Joy Harjo and Patricia Smith Wednesday 07.13.2011, Doors at 7:30 PM, Starts at 8:00 PM, $10/$8 for SPACE Gallery members, All Ages Two of today's most dynamic and acclaimed poets, Joy Harjo and Patricia Smith, come to SPACE for an electrifying evening of spoken word, live music and performance. Albuquerque-based Harjo draws on her Mvskoke-Creek heritage to bring stories of transcendence and redemption to life. Chicago-native Smith's 2008 work, Blood Dazzler, a National Book Award finalist, chronicles the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans in riveting, fierce style. Smith and Harjo are joined by local poets Martin Steingesser, Gil Helmick and a live backing band led by Kyle Hardy. Co-Presented with Port Veritas Spoken Word and Near-Sighted Productions. Held in association with the USM Stonecoast MFA Program. Purchase tickets here or at all Bull Moose locations.
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The Kids Are Alright: Theodore Treehouse Wednesday 07.13.2011, Starts at 12:00 PM, $3 Adults/ $2 Kids, All Ages
SPACE and the Maine Academy of Modern Music debut The Kids Are Alright, a new series of Wednesday lunchtime performances by local musicians for the whole family can dig! Stop by for a break after the Farmer's Market, or before you hit the beach for a cool hour of music by great live acts tailored for the kids. Parents and kids will be able to meet the musicians, ask them questions, and even experience an "instrument petting zoo"! Kicking off the summertime fun is Theodore Treehouse, local rock boys extraordinaire, whose album Mercury: Closest to the Sun, has fast become a favorite around here. The quartet's jaunty, infectious rhythms and brash energy will get everybody's feet moving. Buy tickets here or at all Bull Moose locations.
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"Chromatic Wildlife": Cello and Live Cinema Performance Tuesday 07.12.2011, Doors at 8:00, Starts at 8:30, $5, All Ages
Swedish musician and sound artist Lindefelt (Fredrik, The LK) builds layers of distorted, textural melodies into hazy, synesthetic explorations. "Chromatic Wildlife", his first solo release, is out in September on 10" vinyl. Gorgeous, day-dreamy stuff - it's like summer swimming or fading light through the trees. Pennsylvania-based derelict-format film alchemist Caleb Smith accompanies with abstract, mutating 8mm and 16mm film loops to create an amphibious, stream-of-consciousness experience. The pair bring their interlaced sounds and visuals to our new annex space. Tickets available here.
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Jolie Holland with Sallie Ford & the Sound Outside Thursday 07.07.2011, Doors at 7:30 PM, Starts at 8:00 PM, $15 advance, $18 day of show, 18+ Buy tickets here or visit any Bull Moose Music Location Texas-born Jolie Holland fuses folk, traditional country and blues into songs that are, as the old book says, 'as wise as serpents and as innocent as doves'. Loosely inspired by Neil Young's Zuma, Holland's fourth album, Pint of Blood, is out on ANTI- records on June 28th. Embracing the live-studio rock approach of the 60’s and 70’s, Holland nods to The Velvet Underground, the Stones, and Bowie. The New York Times has called Holland "the folk singer who’s from everywhere and nowhere", but her latest work is a matured distance from her days in The Be Good Tanyas, firmly settled in a grounded personal sound of artistic exploration. Sallie Ford pulled up her Carolina roots and moved across the country to Portland, Oregon, where she met her band, the Sound Outside. Channeling the vocal stylings of Billie Holiday, Bessie Smith and Etta James, the group is doing for roots music what Sharon Jones and the Dap Kings have done for the contemporary soul music revival. |
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Wednesday 07.06.2011, 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. The government says there’s nothing to worry about – it’s just a problem with bears making trouble in the mountains and forests of Norway. But local hunters don’t believe it – and neither do a trio of college students who want to find out the truth. Armed with a video camera, they trail a mysterious “poacher,” who wants nothing to do with them. But their persistence lands them straight in the path of the objects of his pursuits: Trolls. They soon find themselves documenting every move of this grizzled, unlikely hero – The Troll Hunter – risking their lives to uncover the secrets of creatures only thought to exist in fairy tales. Talk on trolls to follow with Loren Coleman, cryptozoologist, author and Director of the International Cryptozoology Museum. |
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First Friday Artwalk: Elia Bettaglio, Selena Kimball & Tatiana Simonova: Drawings Friday 07.01.2011, Starts at 5:00 PM, Ends at 8:00 PM, Free!, All Ages New York based artists Elia Bettaglio, Selena Kimball and Tatiana Simonova present drawings in various media. This is our first show in our new annex space.
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First Friday Artwalk: The Back Story Friday 07.01.2011, Starts at 5:00 PM, Ends at 8:00 PM, Free!, All Ages The Back Story is a visual chronicle of artist Beth Taylor's persistent back pain. "Inspiration for this project comes from personal pain triggers, coping mechanisms, scientific understandings of pain, and the difficulties of navigating the health care system." Hand sewn pill pillows, bright red yarn and a series of anatomical illustrations explaining "why it hurts" draw the viewer into this personal narrative with a humorous, yet sympathetic tone. |
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First Friday Artwalk: Project 35 Friday 07.01.2011, Starts at 5:00 PM, Ends at 8:00 PM, Free, All Ages Project 35 is a program of single-channel videos selected by 35 international curators who have each chosen one work from an artist that they think is important for audiences around the world to experience today. The resulting selection is released in four installments, we will be presenting part one of four this month. *Some content contains adult material. |
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ASCAP, BMI, SESAC and Music Rights: A workshop for performers, producers and dance instructors Wednesday 06.29.2011, Starts at 6:30 PM, Ends at 8:30 PM, $10, $5 Portland Music Foundation members, All Ages Buy tickets from the Maine VLA here. Grand rights, small rights, synchronization rights, licensing, royalties….the world of music rights is a complicated one to navigate, especially if you have no previous experience with copyright law. Often it can seem easier to just cross your fingers and hope that no one asks any questions. However, not only are the fines and penalties for being in violation of copyright laws quite large but the artists that create and record the music deserve recognition and compensation for their work. This workshop, led by attorney Valerie Lovely of The Music Law Firm, is designed to give performers, producers and dance instructors an overview of music rights as it pertains to performing and how to obtain permission to use a piece of music in a production or show.
Presented by: Maine Volunteer Lawyers for the Arts and Dark Follies In collaboration with: Portland Music Foundation and Lucid Stage
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TV SHOW: Episodes 2+3 plus "The Kidnap" Tuesday 06.28.2011, Doors at 7:00 PM, Starts at 7:30 PM, Ends at 9:30 PM, $5, All Ages Purchase tickets here. Presenting episode two and three of TV SHOW followed by The Kidnap- a 1930’s era spy movie. TV SHOW is a television variety show produced by bomb diggity arts a program of Momentum and Shoot Media Project, a program of Creative Trails. Using video cameras from the Community Television Network, artists in these two media programs create short documentaries, comedies, interviews, animations, music videos etc for the show. Episodes two and three feature joke telling, lightning, hot chocolate, Mariah Carey, firefighters, vampires, snowboarding, ghost horses, Freddy Mercury, a whale and a tomato to name just a few. |
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Josiah Wolf with The Gloaming, if and it, Dj pEACEFANg Sunday 06.26.2011, Doors at 8:30 PM, Starts at 9:00 PM, $8, 18+ Buy tickets here or visit any Bull Moose location. Josiah Wolf, like his younger brother and WHY? bandmate (and Anticon labelmate) Yoni, has never been able to escape the call of music. His father, a Cincinnati rabbi, taught him drums at the age of 9, so that curly-haired kid could provide the backbeat for worship service. Later, he'd dabble in darker arts (i.e. grunge) and fall in love with the hard bop of Thelonious Monk on his way to the University Of Cincinnati's music conservatory. Inspired by the likes of the Silver Jews' melancholy acoustic storytelling and multiple cross-country relocations over the past decade, Josiah's solo album, Jet Lag, finally came to fruition in a cottage in the woods outside Cincinnati. The Gloaming is a boy/girl duo from Portland, Maine that specializes in making big sounds come from small instruments. Locals if and it round out the bill and Dj pEACEFANg brings his deep Sunday night selection of all things electronic to keep the jams rolling between sets.
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Audrey Ryan (Album Release) with Brown Bird, South China Saturday 06.25.2011, Doors at 8:00 PM, Starts at 8:30 PM, $8, 18+ Buy tickets here or visit any Bull Moose location. Mount Desert Island native and Phoenix BMP award winner (Best Folk Act, Best Female Vocalist) Audrey Ryan is a multi-instrumentalist, one-man-band act on most occasions, best known for her ability to play drums to her live guitar loops and accordion creating a full band sound from just one person onstage. However, her new record “Thick Skin” is a departure towards multi-track recording with as many as 20 instruments on some songs. The result is an orchestral sound that evokes the work of Sufjan Stevens and Bjork in its ambience and instrumentation. Providence's Brown Bird pulls from blues, outlaw country, roots rock, early American folk, Gypsy and Eastern European music to offer harmonized voices, haunting lyrics and diverse rhythm and instrumentation, often swelling into high-spirited, foot-stomping madness. Portland's favorite musical couple, South China opens. |
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Jeff Beam with The Lucid, Laminated Cat Friday 06.24.2011, Doors at 8:30 PM, Starts at 9:00 PM, $8, 18+ Buy tickets here or visit any Bull Moose Music location. Returning to Maine after a brief stint in New York, Jeff Beam returns to Portland with their 60's psych and British invasion-inspired experimental rock. Beam combines catchy, oddball melodies with obscure but cohesive chord changes, matched with existential and surrealistic lyrical content. Woah, sounds trippy. The Lucid return to SPACE with their epic pop-rock, evinced on this year's self-titled album. Maine-to-Athens, Georgia transplants Laminated Cat open with a set of Elephant 6-style far-out pop. |
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Thursday 06.23.2011, 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. Cult director Takeshi Miike (Audition, Ichi the Killer, Visitor Q) delivers a bravado period action film set at the end of Japan's feudal era in which a group of unemployed samurai are enlisted to bring down a sadistic lord and prevent him from ascending to the throne and plunging the country into a war-torn future. The film is a remake of Eichi Kudo’s 1963 black-and-white movie of the same name, Jûsan-nin no shikaku. 13 Assassins website. |
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Wednesday 06.22.2011, Starts at 9:00 PM, $5, 21+ Buy tickets here or visit any Bull Moose Music location. New York maximum rock and roll party machine DJ Jonathan Toubin returns to SPACE after repeatedly bringing us the best dance parties we've ever had. SOUL CLAP is making it's way across the nation where everyone is welcome to get down to classic 45s from Etta James to James Brown. You can move your feet to your favorites AND get your mind blown by Toubin's crate of obscure soul gems. Later in the evening, the bravest, boldest, and baddest can choose to compete in the dance-off, grab a number, and compete for a $100 cash prize (and some serious clout). The competition winner is determined by a panel of local judges, a celebrity smorgasbord of some of your favorite faces in town. SOUL CLAP has become notorious in New York and all over the world for bringing together wild raucous crowds of folks young and old who want to dance and prove that they know how to shake their thing. Come show us what you've got. |
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Alina Simone Reading And Music Tuesday 06.21.2011, Doors at 6:30 PM, Starts at 7:00 PM, Ends at 9:00 PM, Free, All Ages Reading from her new book of essays, You Must Go And Win, and performing songs from her new album, Make Your Own Danger. Alina Simone – a critically acclaimed singer who was born in Kharkov, Ukraine, and now lives in Brooklyn – returns to SPACE, where she previously played songs from her last record, a tribute to Russian post-punk cult icon Yanka Dyagileva. Her music has been everywhere from BBC’s The World, NPR, Spin, and Billboard to The New Yorker and The Wall Street Journal. This month she celebrates the release of her first collection of essays, You Must Go And Win, described by best-selling author Neil Gaiman as “music, religion, Russia and family conjured and dissected with warm humor and sharp eyes" as well as a new full-length record, Make Your Own Danger. Tonight she’ll read selections from the book and perform songs from the album. Longfellow Books will be on hand to sell copies of the book. |
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BRZOWSKI Album Release with Prayers for Atheists, Doll Fight!, H.W. and Ill By Instinct Saturday 06.18.2011, Doors at 9:00 PM, Starts at 9:30 PM, $8, 18+ Buy tickets here or visit any Bull Moose location. After 5 years of touring throughout 5 countries, over 600 performances, 2 mixtapes, 2 ep's, 1 7" single, countless featured appearances, and performing live with a venerable who's-who of the independent (progressive) hiphop, Portland's own BRZOWSKI returns with his sophomore solo release. "A Fitful Sleep" finds our narrator moving away from the thick veil of funereal affectations of his debut, and now speaks from a soapbox steeped in the culture of independent artistry and on top of a widely broadened palette of production sounds, even if the punk/metal/gothic/outlaw aesthetics remain on the skin. This is your first chance to grab the album and see the songs live (Backed by Moshe and Emoh Betta). Described by CMJ as "[the sound of] Public Enemy bum rushing a basement hardcore matinee,"Prayers For Atheists return to SPACE from their homebase in Providence. Doll Fight! joins the fray from Burlington with Riot Grrrl roots and power-packed songs. Emcees H.W. and Ill By Instinct each offer a short set to get the night humming.
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Kids Open Studios: Portrait Printing Saturday 06.18.2011, Starts at 2:00 PM, Ends at 4:00 PM, $5/free for members, All Ages Bring a friend and come make printed portraits with us! This open studio workshop will be led by local art teacher Ashley Shoukimas. We will be experimenting with relief and hand burnishing printing techniques while using Acrylic inks to create colorful, textural portraits. This workshop is fun, easy and you get to bring home your printing plate to continue experimenting as much as you like. |
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Friday 06.17.2011, Doors at 7:00 PM, Starts at 7:30 PM, FREE!, All Ages In this series, writers, performers, and notable community members tell ten-minute stories to a live audience without notes or props. The stories this time all focus on “losing”: getting “Rolf-ed” and letting go of your inhibitions, witnessing the aftermath of a suicide bombing, hearing about your loss on television, and losing in order to find your voice. Storytellers will include Portland Press Herald columnist Bill Nemitz, singer-songwriter Emilia Dahlin, New York Times best-selling author Melissa Coleman, Writer and Telling Room Executive Director Gibson Fay-LeBlanc, 9-time biathalon national champion and near-Olympian Walt Shepherd, and Lulu Hawkes, a student at Catherine McAuley High School and Maine State Poetry Out Loud Champion. presented 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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Alela Diane with The Parson Red Heads, Emily Dix Thomas Wednesday 06.15.2011, Doors at 7:30 PM, Starts at 8:00 PM, $10, 18+ Buy tickets here or visit any Bull Moose location. The Portland, Oregon-based musician Alela Diane, though traveled the world over, is most at peace within audible range of a crackling fire and her cat’s paws padding across the wood floors of her creaky Victorian residence. From fashioning hand-sewn CD jackets for her debut The Pirate’s Gospel, to garnering a huge European following and a new album on Rough Trade entitled "Alela Diane & Wild Divine", she has now fully taken the reigns of her strong, disarming voice backed by a full band. Comparisons often evoke childhood friend Joanna Newsom or Jolie Holland, but Alela is ultimately a traditionalist forging beautifully simple songs with uncluttered arrangements better suited to her Sandy Denny-esque vocal stylings over a decidedly folk, unequivocally American sound. West coast dreamers The Parson Red Heads and local cello-playing songstress Emily Dix Thomas, backed by Hersey State and Plains, open the night.
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Deep Heaven Now presents - Deep Heaven Portland Day 2 Sunday 06.12.2011, Doors at 2:00 PM, Starts at 2:30 PM, $5 day two/$12 for 2 day festival pass, 18+ Buy tickets here or visit any Bull Moose location. On the heels of three successful festivals in Boston, the Deep Heaven series makes its way to Portland heralding the rising tide of New England psych bands for two full days of far out music. Day 2 also serves as an album release party for local headliners Herbcraft (members of Cursillistas, Tempera, Planets Around the Sun). The band's second full length, "Ashram to the Stars", drops June 14th on Woodsist records vinyl-only imprint Hello Sunshine. Mid-coast mind-voyagers Dreams join the journey with fellow Time-Lag Records artist Silent Land Time Machine. Canadian comrades from Constellation Records, Khora and Nick Kuepfer round out the bill. More band info and set order below. Sponsored by Narragansett. |
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Saturday 06.11.2011, Doors at 12:30 PM, Starts at 1:00 PM, Ends at 3:00 PM, $7 / $5 for SPACE Members, All Ages Purchase tickets here. Co-presented with Maine Autism Alliance. In Wretches & Jabberers, two men with autism embark on a global quest to change attitudes about disability and intelligence. Determined to put a new face on autism, Tracy Thresher, 42, and Larry Bissonnette, 52, travel to Sri Lanka, Japan and Finland. At each stop, they dissect public attitudes about autism and issue a hopeful challenge to reconsider competency and the future. Wretches & Jabberers website. |
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Deep Heaven Now presents - Deep Heaven Portland Night 1 Saturday 06.11.2011, Doors at 7:00 PM, Starts at 7:30 PM, $10 night one/$12 for 2 day festival pass, 18+ Buy tickets here or visit any Bull Moose location. On the heels of three successful festivals in Boston, the Deep Heaven series makes its way to Portland to herald the rising tide of New England psych bands with two full days of far out music. Night One features Portland poster children Metal Feathers, horticulture friends Foam Castles and the mind-bending Mr. Chris and the Instant Animals joined by away teams 28 Degrees Taurus, QUILT, and MMOSS. More band info and set order below. Sponsored by Narragansett. |
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Thursday 06.09.2011, 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. Co-presented with Maine Autism Alliance. In Wretches & Jabberers, two men with autism embark on a global quest to change attitudes about disability and intelligence. Determined to put a new face on autism, Tracy Thresher, 42, and Larry Bissonnette, 52, travel to Sri Lanka, Japan and Finland. At each stop, they dissect public attitudes about autism and issue a hopeful challenge to reconsider competency and the future. Wretches & Jabberers website. |
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Fenix Theatre Company Fundraiser Wednesday 06.08.2011, Doors at 5:30 PM, Starts at 6:00 PM, Ends at 10:00 PM, Free, All Ages Fenix Theatre Co., the group who bring free performances of the classics of theater to Deering Oaks each summer, is throwing a Summer launch party and fundraiser for the 2011 season! Delicious food, live music from Home by 8, and a chance for Fenix to thank the community for all of their support. This summer, they'll be running two shows in repertory and need all the help they can get, so they'll be taking donations at this event. |
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Monday 06.06.2011, Doors at 7:00 PM, Starts at 7:30 PM, $8, All Ages Buy tickets here or visit any Bull Moose location. In "Sea to the City" and "Dreams from the Deep", Low Flying Airplanes' two independent releases, there is heartening sense that LFA's music played for its own sake. Like other aspiring indie groups in the post-boom folk revival, Low Flying Airplanes is about a lack of pretense and onstage warmth, which continually develops as we watch the band quickly mature. In 2010 Low Flying Airplanes won the Maine Academy of Modern Music Rock-Off and played with Rustic Overtones, Paranoid Social Club, and even an Alive At Five show! Come celebrate a new chapter for the band with their sophomore appearance on the SPACE stage.
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First Friday Artwalk: Draw Your Face Off! Friday 06.03.2011, Starts at 5:00 PM, Ends at 8:00 PM, free, All Ages
Draw Your Face Off is a drawing rally and it works like this: artists (Emily Walsh, Irina Skornyakova, Jackie Dubois, Adam Stockman, Tim Powers, Greta Bank, Cat Jensen, Sean O'Brien, Pat Corrigan, Ariel Fay Lowthier, Erin Leon and Mike Gorman) make drawings on the spot, pin their drawing to the wall upon completion and, if you can get your hands on it fast enough, it's yours to take home for just $20. It's as simple as that. Come watch the artists' process and become an instant art collector. Unsold work will hang from 6/1 to 6/17. Get it while it lasts! |
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Wednesday 06.01.2011, Starts at 6:00 PM, Ends at 9:00 PM, Free!, All Ages The first installment of Draw Your Face Off back in 2009 was so much fun we decided to do it again. This time we spread the activity out over two nights. Draw Your Face Off is a drawing rally and it works like this: artists (Kimmy Convery, Clint Fulkerson, Karen Gelardi, Devin Dobrowolski, Irina Skornyajova, Kyle Bryant, Alison Kenway, Nicole Hogarty, and Greta Bank) make drawings on the spot, pin their drawing to the wall upon completion and, if you can get your hands on it fast enough, it's yours to take home for just $20. It's as simple as that. Come watch the artists' process and become an instant art collector. |
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In The Audience EP Release Party with Dirty Dishes, The Milkman's Union Sunday 05.29.2011, Doors at 7:30 PM, Starts at 8:00 PM, $7, 18+ Buy tickets here or visit any Bull Moose location. The members of In the Audience have found a way to prosper as a rising indie band (and score a Phoenix BMP nomination for Best Rock Act) despite having a key songwriter float between Portland and Toronto. The collective members all come home tonight to celebrate the release of their new EP just 8 months after the 2010 debut LP “What Lives”. More assured songwriting and larger contributions from the band’s ever-expanding lineup push things forward. The album’s tone is aided significantly by producer Ron Harrity of Peapod Recordings and is being released in a limited edition by Nice Friends for the show, before a larger release later in the Summer. Come celebrate the release of the EP (and the one year anniversary of the band’s first performance at SPACE) with Boston’s Dirty Dishes and local boys The Milkman's Union. |
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Mission of Burma with Haru Bangs Saturday 05.28.2011, Doors at 7:30 PM, Starts at 8:00 PM, $15, 18+ Buy tickets here or visit any Bull Moose location. Simply stated, Mission Of Burma were, and remain, one of the most important American rock bands of the last 20 years. The band was formed in Boston, Massachusetts in 1979 by Roger Miller (guitar), Clint Conley (bass), Peter Prescott (drums) and Martin Swope (tape manipulator/sound engineer). Miller, Conley and Prescott share singing and songwriting duties. Like many of their post-punk contemporaries, Mission of Burma's efforts are largely concerned with extending punk's original vocabulary without losing its essential rebellious spirit. Using rapid shifts in dynamics, unconventional time signatures and chord progressions along with tape effects, Mission of Burma challenges the prevailing idioms of punk while attempting to retain its power and immediacy. Portland's Haru Bangs start the night out loud and proud.
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Good Kids Sprouting Horns CD RELEASE PARTY with Marie Stella and Theodore Treehouse Friday 05.27.2011, Doors at 8:30 PM, Starts at 9:00 PM, $6, 18+ Buy tickets here or visit any Bull Moose location. Winter is never really gone. The heat of summer days reminds us, like a scar, of the wounds of 6 months past. Good Kids Sprouting Horns' We Are Animals is a picture of winter, dark and moody, that follows last year's Give Up The Ghost and trumps it. Frontman Anthony Bitetti recorded both albums by himself, but new equipment and experience has led to a marked improvement in audio fidelity. Bandmates Jessamy Luthin and Ryan Higgins contributed to the sound of the album this time around, as opposed to GUTG's one-man-band approach. The result is an evocative, atmospheric album. Celebrate the new release on [dog] and [pony] with GKSH and openers Marie Stella and Theodore Treehouse. |
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Portland's Working Waterfront: A Forum Thursday 05.26.2011, Starts at 7:00 PM, Free, All Ages
We're sorry, this event has been canceled.
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Wednesday 05.25.2011, 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. THE CITY DARK is a feature documentary about light pollution and the disappearing night sky, premiering in competition at the 2011 South by Southwest Film Festival. After moving to New York City from rural Maine, filmmaker Ian Cheney (King Corn, The Greening of Southie) asks a simple question, “Do we need the stars?” Exploring the threat of killer asteroids in Hawaii, tracking hatching turtles along the Florida coast, and rescuing injured birds on Chicago streets, Cheney unravels the myriad implications of a globe glittering with lights – including increased breast cancer rates from exposure to light at night, and a generation of kids without a glimpse of the universe above. Featuring stunning astrophotography and a cast of eclectic scientists, philosophers, historians and lighting designers, THE CITY DARK is the definitive story of light pollution and the disappearing stars. Q&A after film with filmmaker Ian Cheney. Co-presented by Camden International Film Festival |
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SPACE Gallery Benefit Night at Flatbread Company Tuesday 05.24.2011, Starts at 5:00 PM, Ends at 9:00 PM, Free, All Ages SPACE Gallery is a non-profit organization dedicated to bringing you the best in contemporary arts, but we can't do it without your support. Our friends at Flatbread Company in Portland are helping do their part the best way they know how - making awesome pizza! Show up at Flatbread from 5-9pm on Tuesday, May 24th to chow down and leave basking in the knowledge that proceeds will go towards another packed year of programming at SPACE in 2011! Flatbread Company//2 Commerical Street//Portland, ME//207.772.8777 |
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Saturday 05.21.2011, Doors at 7:30 PM, Starts at 8:00 PM, $20 general/$18 students and SPACE members, 18+ Buy tickets here or visit any Bull Moose location. John Cameron Mitchell’s Obie-winning glam-rock musical comes to Portland. "Internationally ignored song stylist" Hedwig Schmidt, a fourth-wall smashing, East German rock & roll goddess who also happens to be the victim of a botched sex-change operation, which has left her with just "an angry inch." Hedwig tells her story in the form of a rock gig/stand-up routine backed by the hard-rocking band "The Angry Inch". Hedwig, then a boy named Hansel, meets Luther, an American GI, who promises to take the young man to the States on the condition that he switch his gender. After the bungled operation, Luther abandons newly-named Hedwig in a Kansas trailer park where she turns to music and meets geeky Tommy Speck, whom she takes under her wing and soon falls for. Tommy steals her songs, achieves rock star fame and Hedwig is once again cast aside. She stalks Tommy’s world tour, performing in the TGI-Fridays that are situated next door to his stadiums. It's a rocking ride – funny, touching and ultimately inspiring to anyone who has felt life gave them an inch, when he/she deserves a mile. Starring Gene Dante and Lisa van Oosterum. Official Site.
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Friday 05.20.2011, Doors at 7:30 PM, Starts at 8:00 PM, $20 general/$18 students and SPACE members, 18+ Buy tickets here or visit any Bull Moose location. John Cameron Mitchell’s Obie-winning glam-rock musical comes to Portland. "Internationally ignored song stylist" Hedwig Schmidt, a fourth-wall smashing, East German rock & roll goddess who also happens to be the victim of a botched sex-change operation, which has left her with just "an angry inch." Hedwig tells her story in the form of a rock gig/stand-up routine backed by the hard-rocking band "The Angry Inch". Hedwig, then a boy named Hansel, meets Luther, an American GI, who promises to take the young man to the States on the condition that he switch his gender. After the bungled operation, Luther abandons newly-named Hedwig in a Kansas trailer park where she turns to music and meets geeky Tommy Speck, whom she takes under her wing and soon falls for. Tommy steals her songs, achieves rock star fame and Hedwig is once again cast aside. She stalks Tommy’s world tour, performing in the TGI-Fridays that are situated next door to his stadiums. It's a rocking ride – funny, touching and ultimately inspiring to anyone who has felt life gave them an inch, when he/she deserves a mile. Starring Gene Dante and Lisa van Oosterum. Official Site.
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Thursday 05.19.2011, Doors at 7:30 PM, Starts at 8:00 PM, $20 general/$18 students and SPACE members, 18+ Buy tickets here or visit any Bull Moose location. John Cameron Mitchell’s Obie-winning glam-rock musical comes to Portland. "Internationally ignored song stylist" Hedwig Schmidt, a fourth-wall smashing, East German rock & roll goddess who also happens to be the victim of a botched sex-change operation, which has left her with just "an angry inch." Hedwig tells her story in the form of a rock gig/stand-up routine backed by the hard-rocking band "The Angry Inch". Hedwig, then a boy named Hansel, meets Luther, an American GI, who promises to take the young man to the States on the condition that he switch his gender. After the bungled operation, Luther abandons newly-named Hedwig in a Kansas trailer park where she turns to music and meets geeky Tommy Speck, whom she takes under her wing and soon falls for. Tommy steals her songs, achieves rock star fame and Hedwig is once again cast aside. She stalks Tommy’s world tour, performing in the TGI-Fridays that are situated next door to his stadiums. It's a rocking ride – funny, touching and ultimately inspiring to anyone who has felt life gave them an inch, when he/she deserves a mile. Starring Gene Dante and Lisa van Oosterum. Official Site.
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The League of Young Voters presents the 6th annual ReEmergence Party! Wednesday 05.18.2011, Starts at 6:00 PM, $7-$20 donation, 18+ CommUNITY: Embracing Portland's Cultural Diversity is a League-style shindig to highlight Portland's diversity through art and performance, as well as organizations that are working on cultural diversity in Portland. On-demand screen printing by Infiniti-Ts (bring an item)! Live reggae by Mystic Vibes and rock by Hoboe! African dancing by Blue Moon Troupe and performances by Pussyfoot Burlesque and Lady Zen round out the bill. Come to SPACE from 6-9 for an amazing community art show then stay till late for the party! |
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Creative Conversations - Spring Series Part 3: Artists and Spaces (Speed Dating Style) Tuesday 05.17.2011, Doors at 6:30 PM, Starts at 7:00 PM, Free, All Ages Portland Arts & Cultural Alliance and SPACE bring you another season of Creative Conversations, mediated discussions about the Arts from a personal, local, and regional perspective. Part 3: Artists and Spaces This final installment of the spring series will unfold like a speed dating event where artists can show portfolios and make connections to representatives from galleries, restaurants, coffee shops, and office-spaces that are interested in showing work. Artists are asked to show up with business cards, postcards, and a small portfolio of works (representations of your work, not originals, please). The spaces are asked to bring a description of their venue including location, floor plan, and a point of contact for the artists to take with them. |
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Monday 05.16.2011, Starts at 9:15PM, $8 - Purchase at The Nickelodeon, All Ages East Coast Premiere at The Nickelodeon - co-sponsored by SPACE Gallery. My Heart Is An Idiot is a romantic documentary that spans two years and over a hundred cities. The film captures the road-tripping lifestyle of Davy Rothbart (This American Life, FOUND Magazine) who looks for love in all the right places, and in all the wrong ways. The first feature-length film project from Portland, Maine filmmaker David Meiklejohn, My Heart is an Idiot is a hot mess disguised as a love poem, weaving together multiple stories to illustrate the joys and dangers of romantic pursuit. My Heart Is An Idiot website. |
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Saturday 05.14.2011, Doors at 7:30 PM, Starts at 8:00 PM, $20 general/$18 students and SPACE members, 18+ Buy tickets here John Cameron Mitchell’s Obie-winning glam-rock musical comes to Portland. "Internationally ignored song stylist" Hedwig Schmidt, a fourth-wall smashing, East German rock & roll goddess who also happens to be the victim of a botched sex-change operation, which has left her with just "an angry inch." Hedwig tells her story in the form of a rock gig/stand-up routine backed by the hard-rocking band "The Angry Inch". Hedwig, then a boy named Hansel, meets Luther, an American GI, who promises to take the young man to the States on the condition that he switch his gender. After the bungled operation, Luther abandons newly-named Hedwig in a Kansas trailer park where she turns to music and meets geeky Tommy Speck, whom she takes under her wing and soon falls for. Tommy steals her songs, achieves rock star fame and Hedwig is once again cast aside. She stalks Tommy’s world tour, performing in the TGI-Fridays that are situated next door to his stadiums. It's a rocking ride – funny, touching and ultimately inspiring to anyone who has felt life gave them an inch, when he/she deserves a mile. Starring Gene Dante and Lisa van Oosterum. Official Site.
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Friday 05.13.2011, Doors at 7:30 PM, Starts at 8:00 PM, $20 general/$18 students and SPACE members, 18+ Buy tickets here or visit any Bull Moose location. John Cameron Mitchell’s Obie-winning glam-rock musical comes to Portland. "Internationally ignored song stylist" Hedwig Schmidt, a fourth-wall smashing, East German rock & roll goddess who also happens to be the victim of a botched sex-change operation, which has left her with just "an angry inch." Hedwig tells her story in the form of a rock gig/stand-up routine backed by the hard-rocking band "The Angry Inch". Hedwig, then a boy named Hansel, meets Luther, an American GI, who promises to take the young man to the States on the condition that he switch his gender. After the bungled operation, Luther abandons newly-named Hedwig in a Kansas trailer park where she turns to music and meets geeky Tommy Speck, whom she takes under her wing and soon falls for. Tommy steals her songs, achieves rock star fame and Hedwig is once again cast aside. She stalks Tommy’s world tour, performing in the TGI-Fridays that are situated next door to his stadiums. It's a rocking ride – funny, touching and ultimately inspiring to anyone who has felt life gave them an inch, when he/she deserves a mile. Starring Gene Dante and Lisa van Oosterum. Official Site.
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HillyTown Presents: Goes Cube with Waranimal, Huak Tuesday 05.10.2011, Doors at 8:00 PM, Starts at 8:30 PM, $8, 18+ Buy tickets here or visit any Bull Moose location. It would be easy to call Brooklyn's Goes Cube a metal band. After all, their music is heavy, loud, and often fast. But Goes Cube continually demonstrates that it exists in a universe all its own: outside the trends and styles of New York (where the band formed), and outside of the standard metal tropes - drawing on influences that also include punk, hardcore, noise, and indie rock. Their idea is simple: make the heavy heavier, fast faster, hooky hookier, and pretty prettier. Their new disc - In Tides And Drifts (The End Records) - even calls upon folk singer Jaymay, whose haunting melodies break hearts as the band behind her batters eardrums. Waranimal are a totally excellent party metal band who recently gave us a strong contender for show of the winter season by filling SPACE with a bounce house, silly string, and a whole lot of crowdsurfing dudes in hawaiian shirts. Local punk (post-punk/hardcore/political/art/just-call-it-great) quartet Huak have a new full length coming this summer and open this show. HillyTown Presents works with both national touring acts and Maine musicians to curate unique live music experiences. |
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Jerusalem and the Starbaskets, Phantom Buffalo, Foam Castles at The Apohadion Theater Monday 05.09.2011, Doors at 8:00 PM, Starts at 8:30 PM, $5-$10 suggested donation, All Ages Columbia, Missouri stalwart rockers and De Stijl Records signees Jerusalem and the Starbaskets have been holding down their spot in the midwest as the king and queen of the scene. James Jackson Toth (Wooden Wand) is also a big fan and can say it better than we can: "Basically a duo (although sometimes augmented by other members), Jerusalem and the Starbaskets play unfashionable, unpretentious and completely devastating pop music, and they're one of my all time favorite live bands… sounding like the third Velvets LP played by The Terminals. Note the righteous guitar tone any stoner rock Chud would envy, and catchy, infectious tunes (with a recent emphasis on country melodies) that will stay in your head for weeks. Completely necessary and great." Our own princely posters, Phantom Buffalo open the night with Foam Castles. Co-presented by SPACE Gallery and our friends at The Apohadion Theater, located at 107 Hanover Street, Portland Maine. Cash only at the door, first come first serve. |
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Kid Open Studios: Tunnel Books! Saturday 05.07.2011, Starts at 12:00 PM, Ends at 3:30 PM, 5, All Ages Join us for a lesson in tunnel bookmaking led by Ashley Shoukimas. These books are a set of pages bound with two folded strips on each side, viewed through a hole in the cover. Making tunnel books is a really fun and easy way to explore landscape and achieve depth of field with simple materials. Using Mark Marchesi’s photographs of the Portland waterfront as inspiration, we will provide the tools for creating unique and creative tunnel book landscapes. Drop by anytime from 12-3:30pm. Suggested age is 5 and up. |
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First Friday Art Walk: Slack Water with Slide Talk by Mark Marchesi Friday 05.06.2011, Starts at 5:00 PM, Ends at 8:00 PM, free, All Ages Photographer Mark Marchesi spent the summer of 1999 at a shellfish wholesaler on Portland's waterfront, continuing a life-long interest in marine boating and fishing. He began taking pictures of this unique remnant of Maine's industrial heritage, and in 2008 began a concerted series documenting the rough beauty of Portland's wharves, facilities and their workers. Special zoning and respect for marine-derived economy have helped preserve the character of this part of the city, keeping development in check. Yet change is inevitable, and how the Portland community chooses to manage the relationship between the old and the new will be an ongoing conversation for years to come. Marchesi's crisp photographs find color, beauty and vibrancy that's still very much alive in this important area that goes unseen by so many of us. At 5:00pm, Mark will give a brief slide talk about his work and this project.
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Thursday 05.05.2011, Starts at 6:00 PM, $10, free for kids 12 and under, All Ages Come celebrate Cinco de Mayo with The University of Southern Maine College of Nursing for their annual La Fiesta fundraiser. Maine's own Cuban Son band, Primo Cubano, will be playing live and rocking Congress Street with it's smooth latin vibes. There will be plenty of activities for kids and adults, and ALL are welcome to celebrate with us for a great cause. All proceeds from the event will go to Partners for Rural Health in the Dominican Republic (PRHDR). Twice a year, nursing students, faculty physicians and health care volunteers work with counterparts in the Dominican to provide personal care and health eduction to over 2,000 patients in 15 rural villages. All funding comes from individual and corporate donations and special fundraising events. To learn more about PRHDR and the good things our local nursing students and community members are doing to improve the lives of those in need, please visit www.prhdr.org. |
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Wednesday 05.04.2011, 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. |
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Saturday 04.30.2011, Doors at 7:00 PM, Starts at 7:30 PM, $12 general/$10 members, 18+ Buy tickets here (Please note: Due to graphic violence, nudity and strong adult content, no one under 18 will be admitted.) Drugs, guns, sex, and country-western: this ain't your daddy's night at the theater. Something like the love-child of Sam Shepard and Quentin Tarantino, "Killer Joe" lures you with pitch black humor into the trailer-trash world of a greedy and vindictive Texan clan desperate enough to murder their mother for her insurance policy. Unable to pull off the dirty deed themselves, they hire a contract killer who sinks his claws into their young daughter and sends their plan spiraling out of control. In his first play, Pulitzer Prize-winner Tracy Letts pushes Southern Gothic to a pulpy, shocking extreme, creating a visceral experience that builds tension to a jaw-dropping, hilariously depraved climax. |
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Friday 04.29.2011, Doors at 7:00 PM, Starts at 7:30 PM, $12 general/$10 members, 18+ Buy tickets here (Please note: Due to graphic violence, nudity and strong adult content, no one under 18 will be admitted.) Drugs, guns, sex, and country-western: this ain't your daddy's night at the theater. Something like the love-child of Sam Shepard and Quentin Tarantino, "Killer Joe" lures you with pitch black humor into the trailer-trash world of a greedy and vindictive Texan clan desperate enough to murder their mother for her insurance policy. Unable to pull off the dirty deed themselves, they hire a contract killer who sinks his claws into their young daughter and sends their plan spiraling out of control. In his first play, Pulitzer Prize-winner Tracy Letts pushes Southern Gothic to a pulpy, shocking extreme, creating a visceral experience that builds tension to a jaw-dropping, hilariously depraved climax. Directed by Sean Mewshaw. Starring Brent Askari, Shannon Campbell, Brian Chamberlain, Christopher Reiling, and Casey Turner. Designed by Colin Sullivan-Stevens.
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Thursday 04.28.2011, Doors at 7:00 PM, Starts at 7:30 PM, $13 general/$10 students and SPACE members, 18+ Buy tickets here Annie Sprinkle has 37 years of experience in sexually oriented art, entertainment, and pioneering sex education. She worked as a prostitute and porn star for twenty years, was a mover and shaker in the 80’s sex positive feminist movement, then evolved into an internationally acclaimed performance artist and doing a sparkling array of art projects about sex. Her motto is “eroticise everything, even breast cancer.” Sprinkle became the first porn star to earn a Ph.D. Today she is into nature fetishes and an avowed “ecosexual.” Committed to making the environmental movement more sexy, fun and diverse, she’s shifting the metaphor from “Earth as mother” to “Earth as lover.” Sponsored by Nomia
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Film: American | The Bill Hicks Story Wednesday 04.27.2011, 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. Much more than a comedian, Bill Hicks was and still is an inspiration to millions. His timeless comedy tackled the contradictions of America and modern life head on. But his unique gift was to tease apart the essence of religion, the dangers of unbridled government power and the double standards inherent in much of modern society, using nothing but his hilarious ideas and the uncompromising observational style that continues to resonate with successive generations. American website. |
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Saturday 04.23.2011, Doors at 7:00 PM, Starts at 7:30 PM, $12 general/$10 members, 18+ Buy tickets here (Please note: Due to graphic violence, nudity and strong adult content, no one under 18 will be admitted.)
Drugs, guns, sex, and country-western: this ain't your daddy's night at the theater. Something like the love-child of Sam Shepard and Quentin Tarantino, "Killer Joe" lures you with pitch black humor into the trailer-trash world of a greedy and vindictive Texan clan desperate enough to murder their mother for her insurance policy. Unable to pull off the dirty deed themselves, they hire a contract killer who sinks his claws into their young daughter and sends their plan spiraling out of control. In his first play, Pulitzer Prize-winner Tracy Letts pushes Southern Gothic to a pulpy, shocking extreme, creating a visceral experience that builds tension to a jaw-dropping, hilariously depraved climax. Directed by Sean Mewshaw. Starring Brent Askari, Shannon Campbell, Brian Chamberlain, Christopher Reiling, and Casey Turner. Designed by Colin Sullivan-Stevens. |
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Friday 04.22.2011, Doors at 7:00 PM, Starts at 7:30 PM, $12 general/$10 members, 18+ Buy tickets here (Please note: Due to graphic violence, nudity and strong adult content, no one under 18 will be admitted.) Drugs, guns, sex, and country-western: this ain't your daddy's night at the theater. Something like the love-child of Sam Shepard and Quentin Tarantino, "Killer Joe" lures you with pitch black humor into the trailer-trash world of a greedy and vindictive Texan clan desperate enough to murder their mother for her insurance policy. Unable to pull off the dirty deed themselves, they hire a contract killer who sinks his claws into their young daughter and sends their plan spiraling out of control. In his first play, Pulitzer Prize-winner Tracy Letts pushes Southern Gothic to a pulpy, shocking extreme, creating a visceral experience that builds tension to a jaw-dropping, hilariously depraved climax. Directed by Sean Mewshaw. Starring Brent Askari, Shannon Campbell, Brian Chamberlain, Christopher Reiling, and Casey Turner. Designed by Colin Sullivan-Stevens. |
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Film: The Upsetter: The Life and Music of Lee Scratch Perry Wednesday 04.20.2011, 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 The Upsetter: The Life & Music of Lee Scratch Perry is a feature length documentary about one of the most fascinating and influential artists of our times. |
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Creative Conversations - Spring Series Part 2: Street Art vs. Graffiti Tuesday 04.19.2011, Doors at 6:30 PM, Starts at 7:00 PM, Free, All Ages Portland Arts & Cultural Alliance and SPACE bring you another season of Creative Conversations, mediated discussions about the Arts from a personal, local, and regional perspective. Part 2: Street Art vs. Graffiti Street art can add color and flavor to an urban area. Graffiti can diminish property values. But how does one determine which is which? If a landlord commissions a piece of street art does it lose it's street cred or can it still be just as powerful? Portland has legal graffiti walls that are far removed from downtown, would the issue of tagging diminish if the walls were in a more public place and the penalties for tagging were more severe? And what about the nature of unsanctioned public intervention works? This is a heated issue in our own community and cities around the world. Visual examples will be provided from our own backyard and beyond. |
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Food+Farm: Urban Farm Fermentory Workshops Sunday 04.17.2011, Doors at 8:30AM, Starts at 9:00AM, Ends at 4:00PM, $15 / each session., All Ages We've asked our friends at the Urban Farm Fermentory to put together a couple of intensive learning workshops for this year's Food+Farm. Please feel free to bring snacks to share and vessel for hot or cold beverages. Each session $15. Class size limited to 15 participants. All experience levels welcome. All workshops are at the UFF - 200 Anderson St. - Bay 4, Portland Morning workshop, 9am-noon. Introduction to Urban Gardening Afternoon workshop, 1pm-4pm Season Extension Techniques and Sheetmulching Urban Farm Fermentory website. |
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Food+Farm: The Greenhorns' Young Farmers' Mixer Saturday 04.16.2011, Doors at 3:00 PM, Starts at 3:00 PM, Ends at 5:00PM, FREE, All Ages This afternoon mixer is an opportunity for young farmers to come and meet their peers and enjoy a little nosh. We'll be providing good eats and beverages from Local Sprouts, Flatbread Co. and Maine Root in addition to volunteer massage therapists to ease sore farm muscles. Representatives from The Greenhorns and MOFGA will be on hand to discuss their work with the young farming community. The Greenhorns is an organization focused on recruiting, promoting and supporting young farmers in America - "young" being loosely defined as farmers under the national average age of 57. If you're a farmer or intern currently working in agriculture, please come down and socialize with us from 3-5pm. If you're interested in supporting or are considering becoming a young farmer, please consider coming to our Greenhorns evening event later with The Greenhorns at 7:30pm. The Greenhorns website. |
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Food+Farm: The Greenhorns Film & Q&A Saturday 04.16.2011, Doors at 7:00 PM, Starts at 7:30 PM, Ends at 9:30 PM, $5 / FREE for SPACE Members and students, All Ages Buy tickets here. The Greenhorns is a documentary film that explores the lives of America's young farming community -- its spirit, practices, and needs. As the nation experiences a groundswell of interest in sustainable lifestyles, we see the promising beginnings of an agricultural revival. Young farmers' efforts feed us safe food, conserve valuable land, and reconstitute communities split apart by strip malls. The film will be followed by a Q&A with Greenhorns director Severine von Tscharner Fleming a farmer, activist and organizer based in the Hudson Valley, NY. She co- founded the Pomona Organic Farm and founded UC Berkeley's Society for Agriculture and Food Ecology and is a proud co-founder of the National Young Farmers Coalition. The Greenhorns website. |
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Food+Farm: Wake Up the Farm with Cultivating Community Saturday 04.16.2011, Doors at 9:00AM, Starts at 9:00AM, Ends at 12:00PM, FREE, All Ages Come out to Cultivating Community's Turkey Hill Farm in Cape Elizabeth and help them get ready for the 2011 growing season. You'll help CC wake up the farm and you'll get hands-on experience and an opportunity to ask the CC staff about your farming/gardening questions. Activities for all ages and skill levels and we'll end the morning with a soup and bread lunch to thank you for your hard work. Cultivating Community's mission is to strengthen communities by growing food, preparing youth leaders and new farmers, and promoting social and environmental justice. We use our community food work as an engine for high-impact youth and community development programs that reconnect people to the natural and social systems that sustain us all. Cultivating Community website. |
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Nau/Horny Toad Warehouse Sale at The Pavillion Saturday 04.16.2011, Starts at 10:00 AM, Ends at 7:00 PM, Free, All Ages Our friends at Horny Toad have offered to donate 2% of the sale of each item from the Nau Clothing warehouse sale on Saturday, April 16th to SPACE Gallery! This event is happening at The Pavillion, 188 Middle St. Portland from 10-7pm. Come check out a selection of sustainable urban and outdoor apparel and support SPACE! |
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Friday 04.15.2011, Doors at 7:00 PM, Starts at 7:30 PM, Ends at 9:30 PM, FREE, All Ages Anna Lappé is a widely respected author and educator, renowned for her work as a sustainable food advocate. The co-author or author of three books and the contributing author to nine others, Anna’s work has been widely translated internationally and featured in The New York Times, Gourmet, Oprah Magazine, among many other outlets. Named one of Time’s “eco” Who’s-Who, Anna is a founding principal of the Small Planet Institute and the Small Planet Fund and has for more than a decade been a key force in the growing international movement for sustainability and justice in the food chain. Small Planet Institute website. |
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Food+Farm: Of Farms and Fables Thursday 04.14.2011, Doors at 7:00 PM, Starts at 7:30 PM, Ends at 9:30 PM, FREE, All Ages |
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Sunday 04.10.2011, Starts at 7:00 PM, $5, All Ages SOUP is a collaborative public dinner event and democratic experiment in micro-funding for creative projects in Portland. The event, modeled after Detroit SOUP, is designed to create an open environment for the intertwining of diverse creative communities coming together to choose a project that will positively impact Portland’s art community. It works like this: attendees bring a bowl, a spoon, and $5 to the event, and are then eligible to enter a raffle. Ten names will be drawn, and those selected will be given five minutes to present a creative, powerpoint-less proposal to all dinner guests. At the end of the evening, attendees take a vote, and the winner is granted the proceeds of the event to fund their idea. Tasty local soups and bread are donated by Scratch Bakery, 50 Local, home, Aurora Provisions and Local Sprouts. Music provided by Soldat, featuring Leander Johnson, Justin Taylor, and Ian Paige. |
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Saturday 04.09.2011, Doors at 1:30 PM, Starts at 2:00 PM, $8, All Ages Buy tickets here or visit any Bull Moose location. Groovy Gustafer Yellowgold is a small, yellow, cone-headed fellow, who came to Earth from the Sun and has a knack for finding himself neck-deep in absurd situations as he explores his new life in the Minnesota woods. Illustrator/songwriter/musician Morgan Taylor developed the “musical moving book” Gustafer Yellowgold experience as equal parts pop rock concert and animated storybook. The latest chapter, Gustafer Yellowgold’s Infinity Sock, follows our hero as he embarks upon a hilarious, mind-bending musical journey in search of the toe-end of the longest sock in the universe. The New York Times calls the Gustafer show and accompanying live music “a cross between ‘Yellow Submarine’ and Dr. Seuss, filtered through the lens of the Lower East Side.”
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Middle Eastern Night with The Shavarsh Kef Ensemble and Alhan Middle Eastern Music Ensemble Saturday 04.09.2011, Doors at 7:30 PM, Starts at 8:00 PM, $10, 18+ Buy tickets here or visit any Bull Moose location. The Shavarsh Kef Ensemble carries on a Maine tradition of Middle Eastern music started by the late master musician Alan Shavarsh Bardezbanian. The ensemble consists of five musicians who have played with, studied with and been inspired by Al: Eric LaPerna, percussion, Amos Libby, oud, Beth Borgerhoff, accordion, Michael Gallant, violin and Steve Gruverman, clarinet. They continue to play a rich mixture of Turkish, Greek, Armenian and Arabic folk and classical music. Alhan Middle Eastern Music Ensemble's repertoire is drawn from compositions of some of the preeminent composers of Lebanon, Syria, Egypt and Turkey. They also perform Muwashshahat, a classical song form developed in 10th century Andalusia and performed throughout the modern Arab world. The group features Eric LaPerna; riqq and darbuka, Tom Kovacevic; oud, nay and vocals, Madeleine Hanna; lead vocals and frame drum and Michael Gallant; violin. All of the members have studied with some of the leading performers of Middle Eastern Music in the world today, including Simon Shaheen, Bassam Saba, Michel Merhej and the late Alan Shavarsh Bardezbanian. |
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Slack Water: Opening Reception Friday 04.08.2011, Starts at 5:00 PM, Ends at 8:00 PM, free, All Ages
Photographer Mark Marchesi spent the summer of 1999 at a shellfish wholesaler on Portland's waterfront, continuing a life-long interest in marine boating and fishing. He began taking pictures of this unique remnant of Maine's industrial heritage, and in 2008 began a concerted series documenting the rough beauty of Portland's wharves, facilities and their workers. Special zoning and respect for marine-derived economy have helped preserve the character of this part of the city, keeping development in check. Yet change is inevitable, and how the Portland community chooses to manage the relationship between the old and the new will be an ongoing conversation for years to come. Marchesi's crisp photographs find color, beauty and vibrancy that's still very much alive in this important area that goes unseen by so many of us. |
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Thursday 04.07.2011, Doors at 7:00 PM, Starts at 7:30 PM, $12 general/$10 members, 18+ Buy tickets here (Please note: Due to graphic violence, nudity and strong adult content, no one under 18 will be admitted.) Drugs, guns, sex, and country-western: this ain't your daddy's night at the theater. Something like the love-child of Sam Shepard and Quentin Tarantino, "Killer Joe" lures you with pitch black humor into the trailer-trash world of a greedy and vindictive Texan clan desperate enough to murder their mother for her insurance policy. Unable to pull off the dirty deed themselves, they hire a contract killer who sinks his claws into their young daughter and sends their plan spiraling out of control. In his first play, Pulitzer Prize-winner Tracy Letts pushes Southern Gothic to a pulpy, shocking extreme, creating a visceral experience that builds tension to a jaw-dropping, hilariously depraved climax. Directed by Sean Mewshaw. Starring Brent Askari, Shannon Campbell, Brian Chamberlain, Christopher Reiling, and Casey Turner. Designed by Colin Sullivan-Stevens. |
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STRFKR with Champagne, Champagne and Foam Castles, Vistas Wednesday 04.06.2011, Doors at 8:00 PM, Starts at 8:30 PM, $10, 18+ Buy tickets here or visit any Bull Moose location. In the past, Portland, OR-based Starfucker (STRFKR) has received almost as much attention for its not-exactly-accessible moniker as for its immensely accessible dance hooks. But, having flirted briefly with a couple of name changes, the group is now firmly settled on Starfucker and so the focus can rightly return to what got people talking in the first place: the quartet's endlessly catchy, hook-laden pop in the tradition of Phoenix and Of Montreal. "Reptilians" juxtaposes lectures by Alan Watts with vibrant crescendos, explosive drum beats, and layered synth melodies that drive a theatrical live show where dance party meets Roxy Music. Champagne, Champagne is redefining hip-hop from the left coast, inciting Matt (of Matt & Kim) to say they're his "favorite Seattle band, even more than Nirvana!" Portland's ever-shifting pop collaboration Foam Castles open, supporting their new electronics-based EP, "Come Over To My House". Midcoast electronic duo Vistas makes their SPACE debut to keep things moving between sets. |
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Film: Being In the World - USM Philosophy Symposium Monday 04.04.2011, 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 w/ ID, All Ages Buy tickets here. Our annual film screening presented with the USM Philosophy Symposium. Join world renowned philosopher Hubert Dreyfus, along with a generation of philosophers he inspired, as they take us on a riveting journey of ideas, tackling some of the deepest philosophical issues of our time. In this enlightening trip, we learn what is unique about human beings that allows us to take the risks necessary to learn skills, and how an appreciation of mastery can help us recover a meaningful world. Travel to New Orleans to meet the Queen of Creole Cuisine, travel to Spain to meet the legendary poet and flamenco master Manuel Molina, and enter the world of Hiroshi Sakaguchi a Japanese master craftsman. |
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Sunday 04.03.2011, 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. For many Americans, the bicycle is a choice. An expensive toy. An eco-conscious mode of transportation. For countless others across the globe, it is much more. For Fred, a health worker in Zambia, the bicycle is a means of reaching twice as many patients. For Bharati, a teenager in India, it provides access to education. For Mirriam, a disabled Ghanaian woman, working on bicycles is an escape from the stigma attached to disabled people in her community. For Carlos, a farmer in Guatemala, pedal power is a way to help neighbors reduce their impact on the environment. For Sharkey, a young man in California, the bicycle is an escape from the gangs that consume so many of his peers. With My Own Two Wheels weaves together the experiences of these five individuals into a single story about how the bicycle can change the world—one pedal stroke at a time. Q&A with filmmaker Jacob Seigel-Boettner. Proceeds to benefit World Bicycle Relief. |
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Jesse Pilgrim and the Bonfire CD Release with Panda Bandits, Grant Street Orchestra, Butcher Boy Saturday 04.02.2011, Doors at 8:00 PM, Starts at 8:30 PM, $8, 18+ Buy tickets here Jesse Pilgrim was born and raised in West Bath, Maine and wouldn't have it any other way. He plays loud and proud folk music with his band The Bonfire and tonight marks the debut release of his first full length album "Trial & Error." The Portland Phoenix writes, "Jesse Pilgrim's set sounded broadcast from Folsom Prison. Songs like these are fit for bold storytelling, and Pilgrim's clear, brassy pipes were a shiny and inclusive welcome." Opening the night are Panda Bandits who steal songs, burn down stages, and care nothing for money - they have come only for your soul. Also on the bill is Grant Street Orchestra. Born and raised in Parkside Portland, they are the most happenin' seven piece live hip hop act in town, fusing funk and rock into an energetic set that'll make you want to move. Rounding out the night is Butcher Boy, a maniacal four-piece that smashes the current 'folkpunk' trend to smithereens with a live show that is equal parts hardcore sweat-lodge dancefest and paranoid storytelling circle. |
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First Friday Artwalk: The Sketchbook Project Friday 04.01.2011, Starts at 5:00 PM, Ends at 8:00 PM, free, All Ages The Sketchbook Project unites more than 10,000 artists from over 60 countries with a simple call to action: fill a sketchbook and share it with the world. Now in its third year, the Project reflects the DIY ethos of Art House Co-op, a Brooklyn-based gallery dedicated to creating massive international art projects for everyone. Beginning in March 2011, the Project will tour the country as an innovative mobile library, visiting museums and galleries in Portland, Atlanta, Chicago, Austin, Seattle and San Francisco before returning home to the Brooklyn Art Library. The Library's unique cataloging system, developed specifically for the Project, allows artists to trace their sketchbook's journey through many hands, connecting a physical and virtual community that spans the globe.
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Thursday 03.31.2011, Doors at 7:00 PM, Starts at 7:30 PM, $12 general/$10 members, 18+ Buy tickets here (Please note: Due to graphic violence, nudity and strong adult content, no one under 18 will be admitted.) Drugs, guns, sex, and country-western: this ain't your daddy's night at the theater. Something like the love-child of Sam Shepard and Quentin Tarantino, "Killer Joe" lures you with pitch black humor into the trailer-trash world of a greedy and vindictive Texan clan desperate enough to murder their mother for her insurance policy. Unable to pull off the dirty deed themselves, they hire a contract killer who sinks his claws into their young daughter and sends their plan spiraling out of control. In his first play, Pulitzer Prize-winner Tracy Letts pushes Southern Gothic to a pulpy, shocking extreme, creating a visceral experience that builds tension to a jaw-dropping, hilariously depraved climax. Directed by Sean Mewshaw. Starring Brent Askari, Shannon Campbell, Brian Chamberlain, Christopher Reiling, and Casey Turner. Designed by Colin Sullivan-Stevens. |
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Titus Andronicus with Dinowalrus, Brenda Tuesday 03.29.2011, Doors at 8:00 PM, Starts at 8:30 PM, $10, 18+ Buy tickets here or visit any Bull Moose location. With critics falling over themselves to cite Titus Andronicus' epic second album "The Monitor" as one of 2010's top releases, the New Jersey band is poised for further ascension in 2011. They effortlessly glide through ambient drones, blazing saxophone, pianos homages to "A Charlie Brown Christmas," complete marching drumlines, Thunder Tube solos, fourteen-minute Billy Bragg knock-offs, backwards liturgical pieces, bombastic country duets, garbage cans hit with tambourines, choirs of angels with bromantic faces, probably too many spoken word interludes lifted from cassette tapes, and, of course, the hissy-fit punk songs and off-key warbling that suggest Conor Oberst in a vat of acid. In summary, this band rules. Portland's own indie rock darlings, Brenda, start out the night right with Brooklyn psychedelic synth-punks Dinowalrus.
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Portland Society of Architects' Drink n' Crit Monday 03.28.2011, 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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Saturday 03.26.2011, Doors at 7:00 PM, Starts at 7:30 PM, $12 general/$10 members, 18+ Buy tickets here (Please note: Due to graphic violence, nudity and strong adult content, no one under 18 will be admitted.) Drugs, guns, sex, and country-western: this ain't your daddy's night at the theater. Something like the love-child of Sam Shepard and Quentin Tarantino, "Killer Joe" lures you with pitch black humor into the trailer-trash world of a greedy and vindictive Texan clan desperate enough to murder their mother for her insurance policy. Unable to pull off the dirty deed themselves, they hire a contract killer who sinks his claws into their young daughter and sends their plan spiraling out of control. In his first play, Pulitzer Prize-winner Tracy Letts pushes Southern Gothic to a pulpy, shocking extreme, creating a visceral experience that builds tension to a jaw-dropping, hilariously depraved climax. Directed by Sean Mewshaw. Starring Brent Askari, Shannon Campbell, Brian Chamberlain, Christopher Reiling, and Casey Turner. Designed by Colin Sullivan-Stevens. |
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Kids Open Studio: Sketchbook Project Saturday 03.26.2011, Starts at 12:00 PM, Ends at 4:00 PM, $5.00/$3 members, All Ages In anticipation of the arrival of the 2011 Sketchbook Project starting on March 30, we will explore the idea of keeping a sketchbook. Providing kids with mock moleskins, art supplies, and lots of inspiration, we will talk about what it means to keep a sketchbook, how to maintain it and then begin working on them. Kids can bring their sketchbooks home to fill up, but make sure to come back through to check out the show and celebrate the art of sketching! Drop in any time from 12-4. |
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Friday 03.25.2011, Doors at 7:00 PM, Starts at 7:30 PM, $12 general/$10 members, 18+ Buy tickets here (Please note: Due to graphic violence, nudity and strong adult content, no one under 18 will be admitted.) Drugs, guns, sex, and country-western: this ain't your daddy's night at the theater. Something like the love-child of Sam Shepard and Quentin Tarantino, "Killer Joe" lures you with pitch black humor into the trailer-trash world of a greedy and vindictive Texan clan desperate enough to murder their mother for her insurance policy. Unable to pull off the dirty deed themselves, they hire a contract killer who sinks his claws into their young daughter and sends their plan spiraling out of control. In his first play, Pulitzer Prize-winner Tracy Letts pushes Southern Gothic to a pulpy, shocking extreme, creating a visceral experience that builds tension to a jaw-dropping, hilariously depraved climax. Directed by Sean Mewshaw. Starring Brent Askari, Shannon Campbell, Brian Chamberlain, Christopher Reiling, and Casey Turner. Designed by Colin Sullivan-Stevens. |
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Thursday 03.24.2011, Doors at 7:00 PM, Starts at 7:30 PM, $6 (half price!), 18+ Buy tickets here (Please note: Due to graphic violence, nudity and strong adult content, no one under 18 will be admitted.) Drugs, guns, sex, and country-western: this ain't your daddy's night at the theater. Something like the love-child of Sam Shepard and Quentin Tarantino, "Killer Joe" lures you with pitch black humor into the trailer-trash world of a greedy and vindictive Texan clan desperate enough to murder their mother for her insurance policy. Unable to pull off the dirty deed themselves, they hire a contract killer who sinks his claws into their young daughter and sends their plan spiraling out of control. In his first play, Pulitzer Prize-winner Tracy Letts pushes Southern Gothic to a pulpy, shocking extreme, creating a visceral experience that builds tension to a jaw-dropping, hilariously depraved climax. |
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Feed the Arts - at El Rayo Taqueria Sunday 03.20.2011, Starts at 11:00 AM, Ends at 9:00 PM, Free, All Ages SPACE Gallery is a non-profit organization dedicated to bringing you the best in contemporary arts, but we can't do it without your support. Our friends at El Rayo Taqueria figured out the easiest way to help support the arts - through your belly! Show up for brunch, lunch, or dinner on Sunday, March 20th anytime from 11am-9pm to chow down and bask in the knowledge that proceeds will go towards another packed year of programming here in 2011! El Rayo, 101 York St, Portland, ME 04101-4550, (207) 780-8226
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Samuel James with Joe Fletcher and The Wrong Reasons, The Loomin' Ten Saturday 03.19.2011, Doors at 8:00 PM, Starts at 8:30 PM, $8, 18+ Buy tickets here or visit any Bull Moose location. The last of the great, black, American troubadours, Samuel James is a performer of stunning singularity. He has irreversibly changed what it means to be a solo act. Unfortunately for the reader he is unique to the point of non-comparison. I mean, seriously, he’s been called, “…the Guardian of Lightning,” by Rolling Stone, France. That’s pretty serious, right? He has mastered the guitar, piano, harmonica, and banjo. Yup, even the banjo. Joe Fletcher and the Wrong Reasons return to SPACE with a snarling set of real rock n' roll that would make Johnny Cash proud. The Loomin' Ten is the new project of Aleric Nez, Dave Noyes (Seekonk), and Burdie Bird (Over A Cardboard Sea). |
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Friday 03.18.2011, Doors at 7:30 PM, Starts at 8:00 PM, $5, All Ages Supersonic Boston arts-collective known as the Whitehaus Family Record will be throwing down an ultimate showcase of their raw talent to celebrate the Spring Equinox. We’re talking about homemade sets, dramatic lighting, long-haired goats and special effects. This wild bunch of weirdos started churning out recordings and underground happenings over four years ago right out of their 5 story 'haus' in Boston's Jamaica Plain neighborhood. Portland is ready to greet great Whitehaus entertainers such as: Gracious Calamity; Morgan Shaker; Peace, Loving; Casey Rocheteau; Brian S. Ellis; Jimmy Ambulance; Manners; Welcome Home; Chris North; and special guests, Portland's own seasonal party purveyors Planets Around The Sun, and Matt Ferrel (yes Theodore Treehouse fans, the skillz run in the family). Come from 8pm-10pm for the live music and then stay for table-slayer Dj Ponyfarm's dance party with the best mixes and mashes of the last three decades of vinyl. Happy Spring! At The Apohadion Theater. 107 Hanover Street. Cash only at the door. |
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Susan Conley and Lily King: A Conversation in Writing Thursday 03.17.2011, Doors at 7:00 PM, Starts at 7:30 PM, free, All Ages Portland-based writer Susan Conley celebrates the publication of her new memoir, The Foremost Good Fortune, in conversation with award-winning Maine novelist Lily King. The authors will trace their writing process as they share notes on their new books and their friendship and the things they can’t stop writing about. Join us and The Telling Room and the Maine Writers and Publishers Alliance as we fete these two talented members of our local creative community. |
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Creative Conversations - Spring Series Part 1: Rethinking the Gallery in the Digital Age Tuesday 03.15.2011, Doors at 6:30 PM, Starts at 7:00 PM, Free, All Ages Portland Arts & Cultural Alliance and SPACE bring you another season of Creative Conversations, mediated discussions about the Arts from a personal, local, and regional perspective. Part 1 - Rethinking the Gallery in the Digital Age Are galleries still relevant in the age of Etsy, Facebook, and other digital ways to connect artists with collectors? Does the experience of art have the same impact when mediated by a screen? And what about galleries as an intermediary between private studios and large institutions like museums? This discussion will examine the changing nature of the white cube as well as the commodofication of art. Panelists include Dan Kany, Bridget McAlonan and Andy Verzosa. |
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Dan Deacon with Ed Schrader's Music Beat, Computer at Sea, Glass Fingers, DJ Ponyfarm Friday 03.11.2011, Starts at 8:30 PM, $10, 18+ Buy tickets here or visit any Bull Moose location. The art made by Baltimore artist Dan Deacon is about community and how to organize and inspire it. It also often revolves around totally nuts live shows with the audience crowded around Deacon's table of electronic gadgets and noisemakers. He's prone to describing his bouncing, driving, noisy pop as "absurd" and "insane" but his latest album, "Bromst", catapulted him out of the underground and proved that his electro-acoustic compositions could be enriched with live instrumentation and intricate parts to reveal a maturity of songcraft - even if it's still couched in the totally pumped feeling of warping to world 8 and saving the princess on five espressos. Some rad dudes in jean shorts called Ed Schrader's Music Beat join the fray and local gizmo wiz Computer at Sea salvages pop songs and noise fields from a thicket of aftermarket Casios, video game consoles, and handmade electronic devices. Newcomer on the local scene and handpicked by Mr. Deacon himself, South Portland's Glass Fingers opens the night while DJ Ponyfarm keeps the jams going in between sets. |
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The 2011 Slow Food Writers Night Thursday 03.10.2011, Doors at 6:00 PM, Starts at 6:30 PM, $25, $20 for Slow Food members, All Ages Buy tickets here. It is time for the SIXTH annual Slow Food Portland Writers Night. For the second year in a row, the event will coincide with Maine Restaurant Week to further the Maine culinary experience. Writers Night is an evening filled with delicious local foods and engaging readings from authors near and far. This year the subjects covered will range from Italian food to farming in its various guises. As a new addition to the program the winner of the first annual Young Food Writers Competition will read their winning essay. As in years past there will be a variety of tasty food offerings - the best Maine has to offer from land to sea. After the program, all authors will be on hand to sign copies of their books, which will be for sale at the event.
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Film: William S. Burroughs: A Man Within Wednesday 03.09.2011, 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. Featuring never-before-seen archival footage of Burroughs, as well as exclusive interviews with colleagues and confidants including John Waters, Patti Smith, Iggy Pop, Gus Van Sant, Genesis Breyer P-Orridge, Sonic Youth, Laurie Anderson, Amiri Baraka, Jello Biafra, and David Cronenberg, WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS: A MAN WITHIN is a probing, yet loving look at the man whose works at once savaged conservative ideals, spawned countercultural movements, and reconfigured 20th century culture. The film is narrated by Peter Weller, with a soundtrack by Patti Smith and Sonic Youth. William S. Burroughs: A Man Within website. |
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The Low Anthem with Bobby, Daniel Lefkowitz Monday 03.07.2011, Doors at 8:30 PM, Starts at 8:45 PM, $12, 18+ Buy tickets here or visit any Bull Moose location. Providence's The Low Anthem combines folk and blues arrangements with the elegance of chamber music and the fervor of gospel. Recently seen in Portland opening for two sold-out shows at Merrill Auditorium opening for Ray LaMontagne, the trio uses a variety of unusual instrumentation—by its own count, the bandmates took turns playing 27 different instruments on 2009's "Oh My God,Charlie Darwin"—that gives its songs, at times, an otherworldly quality. Some critics have called The Low Anthem’s sound Americana, but what the group has really done is to conjure a varied and elusive sound of its own. "Smart Flesh", the band's followup to OMGCD, is out on February 22. Already enshrouded in rumor and legend before their first record hits, Pop-Appalachia-Enthusiasts from Montague, MA mysteriously known only as Bobby support the bill and the night starts off with an intimate acoustic set by North Carolina's Daniel Lefkowitz. |
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First Friday Art Walk: Cannonball Press Friday 03.04.2011, Starts at 5:00 PM, Ends at 8:00 PM, free, All Ages Cannonball Press presents Burn the Lot: Splinter Heads, Nut Mobs & Ballyhoo, featuring a huge new pile of limited-edition $20 prints by the likes of Dusty Herbig, Angela Earley, Drew Iwaniw, Sarah Nicholls, Tyler Krasowski, and Donna Diamond. Also, Martin Mazorra and Mike Houston will premiere their new supersized woodcuts depicting the capitalist wasteland, as seen through the lens of a carnival for the ages. Mega carny prints on canvas! |
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Astronautalis with Sims, Sandbag Thursday 03.03.2011, Doors at 8:00 PM, Starts at 8:30 PM, $10, 18+ Buy tickets here or visit any Bull Moose location. Once described as what Tom Waits joining the MC battle circuit would sound like, Astronautalis is back to sweat, shout and freestyle all over our stage, all the while seducing the crowd with his unique brand of southern-indie-artsy-electro-historical-fiction-folk-crunk. AND CHECK THIS: Astronautalis is taking a LIVE BAND on tour this round. NOT ONLY THAT, the band features Portland's own Oscar Romero (Gully) and Derek Gierhan (Haru Bangs) thanks to their meeting for the first time playing at the SPACE Halloween Party last year. SPACE can now add musical matchmaker to our mission statement! Doomtree emcee Sims returns with his signature set of alienated prophecy, empowered hope and badass beats. Sandbag focuses on originally produced hip hop beats & lyrics that address in-depth social commentary to keep Portland's independent hip hop movement alive. |
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Saturday 02.26.2011, Starts at 9:00 PM, $3, 21+ What seems like ages ago, Dj Ian Paige's MODNIGHT dance party residency at The White Heart (R.I.P.) kept Portlanders moving all year long to the finest in Soul, Mod, Britpop, Psych, and Dub tunes. Given the wildly popular soul parties at SPACE lately, it seems like a good time to bring back a good thing. The rules are simple - look sharp and dance till you drop. |
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Kids Open Studios: Printmaking Saturday 02.26.2011, Starts at 12:00 PM, Ends at 4:00 PM, $5.00, All Ages This printmaking workshop is open to all parents and kids ages 5 and up. Acting as an open studio, we will provide the inspiration, the tools, and some technical assistance. Our gallery show Burn the Lot: Splinter Heads, Nut Mobs and Ballyhoo, from the fine folks of Cannonball Press, features graphic, black on white woodcuts that we be will drawing our inspiration from. No need for previous experience, just bring a smock and an open mind! Drop by anytime from 12:00-4:00PM and remember to eat lunch, we will provide light snacks. image on right taken from Martin Mazorra's Lux Nocturne. |
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Film: 2011 Oscar-Nominated Short Films: Live Action Friday 02.25.2011, Doors at 7:00 PM, Starts at 7:30 PM, Ends at 9:30 PM, $8 / $6 for SPACE Members, All Ages Buy tickets here. Shorts International presents the 2011 Oscar-Nominated Live Action Short Films. LIVE ACTION – 101 min. (estimated TRT – 110 min.) |
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Film: 2011 Oscar-Nominated Short Films: Animation Thursday 02.24.2011, Doors at 7:00 PM, Starts at 7:30 PM, Ends at 9:30 PM, $8 / $6 for SPACE Members, All Ages Buy tickets here. Shorts International presents the 2011 Oscar-Nominated Animated Short Films. ANIMATED – 65 min (estimated TRT with titles, etc – 85 min.) Plus Highly-Commended Animated films: |
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Saturday 02.19.2011, Doors at 8:30 PM, Starts at 9:00 PM, $10, 18+ Buy tickets here or visit any Bull Moose location. The 3rd Annual 48 Hour Music Festival is here! 30 artists from different Portland bands of all genres will be randomly shuffled into 6 supergroups, announced on Thursday afternoon. From there, each band has exactly 48 hours to construct and practice a 25 minute set of material, culminating in this 9pm Saturday performance. This entirely new pool of local talent, featuring members of Huak, the Rattlesnakes, Covered in Bees, Planets Around the Sun, Falls of Rauros, The Travelling Trees, Antiseptic, Conifer, Sunset Hearts, Marie Stella, I Barbarian, Space vs. Speed, Corpse Pose, Shabti, Baltic Sea, The Mallett Brothers Band (and more!), 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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Saturday 02.19.2011, Starts at 10:00 AM, Ends at 4:00 PM, Free, All Ages Local clothier Rogues Gallery transforms SPACE once again into a warehouse stocked with design samples, overstock, prototypes, and tee shirts! They'll be providing some fresh brewed coffee so you can manically sift through the piles of treasure while you listen to Dj Steve Tesh spin awesome vinyl jams! |
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John Prine Turns 40: A Tribute to his 1971 Debut Album - featuring Matt Newberg and Friends Friday 02.18.2011, Doors at 7:30 PM, Starts at 8:00 PM, $10 advance/$12 day of show, 18+ Buy tickets here or visit any Bull Moose location. This year marks the 40th anniversary of the release of John Prine’s 1971 debut album, as potently relevant now as it was then. It seems “Sam Stone” will have to be infinitely re-written. Though it may be one of the most powerful tunes on the album there are topics other than war eloquently explored – legalization of marijuana, environmental issues, farming and local agriculture, isolationism, aging…you name it. It’s timeless material. Matt Newberg leads a troupe of top caliber local talent, including Steve Jones, Gregg Hoover, Jeff Glidden, Stuart MacDonald, Mason Thayer, Sean Finn, Jeff Trippe, Steve Deptula, Dylan Newberg and Laura Piela to perform the album song for song, with an encore of other Prine classics. Following the presentation of the album, celebrated Maine poet Gary Lawless will read original work along with veterans Terry Grasse and Rip Tyoe. Additionally, there will be a silent auction of autographed Prine merchandise with 100% of the proceeds going to the Maine Cancer Society. |
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Thursday 02.17.2011, Doors at 6:30 PM, Starts at 7:20 PM, $5, All Ages Buy tickets 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. |
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B. Dolan presents the Church of Love & Ruin Sunday 02.13.2011, Doors at 7:00 PM, Starts at 7:30 PM, $10 advance/$12 day of show/$18 for couples!, 18+ Buy tickets here or visit any Bull Moose Music location. In celebration of the New Year and symbolic burial of 2010, Providence's master showman and Strange Famous Records emcee B. Dolan has put together a Valentine's Extravaganza years in the making. Vaudeville, Hip-Hop, New Orleans Bounce, Marching Band & Burlesque culture come together for the "Church of Love & Ruin," featuring DJ Beesknees and Vockah Redu & The Cru both representing New Orleans), 16 piece freakout marching band What Cheer? Brigade, and B. Dolan headlining with a cast of special guests. Hosted by Jamie & Sissy DeWolfe (of Oakland's "Tourettes Without Regrets" showcase) and also featuring performances from Boston Drag Queen Ms. Nicholle Pride and Portland's own Dirty Dishes Burlesque Revue. Best of all, in the spirit of the holiday, you can save money and bring your honey. Couples discount on tickets at the door!
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Friday 02.11.2011, Doors at 7:00 PM, Starts at 7:30 PM, FREE!, All Ages Who, what, when, how, and why have you longed for someone or something? On Friday, February 11th, in honor of Valentine's Day, The Telling Room will try to answer that question as a series of writers, artists, and notable community members tell ten-minute stories about longing to a live audience without notes or props... |
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Film: Lemmy: 49% Motherf**ker, 51% Son of a Bitch Wednesday 02.09.2011, 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. Over four decades, Motorhead frontman Lemmy Kilmister has registered an immeasurable impact on music history. Nearly 65, he remains the living embodiment of the rock and roll lifestyle, and this feature-length documentary tells his story, one of a hard-living rock icon who continues to enjoy the life of a man half his age. Shot on a combination of High Definition and Super 16mm film, "Lemmy" includes interviews with friends, family, bandmates past and present and such admirers/peers as Metallica, Slash, Dave Grohl (Nirvana/Foo Fighters), Ozzy Osbourne, Peter Hook (Joy Division/New Order), actor Billy Bob Thornton, wrestling superstar Triple H, Alice Cooper, Mick Jones of The Clash, and many more. Lemmy website. |
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Lemmy Tribute with Hessian and Pigboat Wednesday 02.09.2011, Doors at 9:30 PM, Starts at 10:00 PM, Ends at 11:59 PM, $5, 18+ Buy tickets here or visit any Bull Moose Music location. Following the screening of "Lemmy: 49% Motherf**ker, 51% Son of a Bitch", SPACE hosts two of Portland's most viciously awesome bands for a night of their favorite Motorhead tunes (with a Hawkwind song or two thrown in for good measure). Relentless torch-bearers of authentic heavy metal, Hessian, join forces with heavy riff revivalists Pigboat for a thrashing good time. |
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Film: And Everything Is Going Fine Monday 02.07.2011, 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. AND EVERYTHING IS GOING FINE provides an intimate portrait of master monologist Spalding Gray, as described by his most critical, irreverent and insightful biographer: Spalding Gray. Director Steven Soderbergh, who collaborated with Gray on Gray’s Anatomy (1996), has sifted through rare and revealing footage to construct a riveting final monologue. There are glimpses of Gray’s father, and of his son Forrest (who provides soaring music for the end credits), but mostly this is an inspired one-man show, a bittersweet display of Spalding’s playful and embattled intelligence, his gift for tracking universal truths by looking himself squarely in the eye. Co-sponsored by our friends at the Maine Writers and Publishers Alliance. |
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Saturday 02.05.2011, Starts at 6:00 PM, $5 students, $8 adults, All Ages Buy tickets here or visit any Bull Moose Music location. Girls Rock! is a showcase of female talent from the Maine Academy of Modern Music and copresented by the Portland Music Foundation. Host to Portland’s original “Rock Camps,” MAMM instructs student ensembles year round, and this is when you get to hear their talent! The bands include The OxyMorons, Longstory, and Lady and the Gents plus local guest stars The Veayo Twins, The Curious Girl, and Amanda Gervasi. Come check out a great night of local girls and guys that rock, while benefitting the music and mission of the Maine Academy of Modern Music. |
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Artist Talk: "Woodcutology" with Mike Houston and Martin Mazorra of Cannonball Press Saturday 02.05.2011, Starts at 3:00 PM, FREE!, All Ages Artists Mike Houston and Martin Mazorra from Cannonball Press will present to the public their 38-minute Powerpoint presentation entitled “Woodcutology,” explaining why the hell they do what they do.
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First Friday Art Walk: Cannonball Press Friday 02.04.2011, Starts at 5:00 PM, Ends at 9:00 PM, free, All Ages Cannonball Press presents Burn the Lot: Splinter Heads, Nut Mobs & Ballyhoo, featuring a huge new pile of limited-edition $20 prints by the likes of Dusty Herbig, Angela Earley, Drew Iwaniw, Sarah Nicholls, Tyler Krasowski, and Donna Diamond. Also, Martin Mazorra and Mike Houston will premiere their new supersized woodcuts depicting the capitalist wasteland, as seen through the lens of a carnival for the ages. Mega carny prints on canvas! |
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Woods with Ducktails, Herbcraft at The Apohadion Theater Thursday 02.03.2011, Doors at 8:00 PM, Starts at 8:30 PM, $5-$10 suggested donation, All Ages Over the past few years New York’s 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. Ducktails is Matthew Mondanile, a New Jerseyian whose pop is drenched in a warm drone. There is a pretty amazingly realized aesthetic running through this stuff, with all its plastic nostalgias -- like Ninja Turtles pizza, fake palm trees, sugary cereal -- and the lo-fi tape fuzz that also permeates his other projects, Predator Vision, Real Estate, and Dreams In Mirror Field. It's home recording with one of the comfiest feels you'll find. Herbcraft, the Portland Maine deep-psych songwriting project of Matt Lajoie opens the night in anticipation of their new release, "Ashram to the Stars", on Woodsist vinyl-only imprint, Hello Sunshine. Co-presented by SPACE Gallery and our friends at The Apohadion Theater, located at 107 Hanover Street, Portland Maine. Cash only at the door, first come first serve. |
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Film: Lemmy: 49% Motherf**ker, 51% Son of a Bitch Wednesday 02.02.2011, Doors at 7:00 PM, Starts at 7:30 PM, Ends at 9:30 PM, $7 / $5 for SPACE Members, All Ages THIS EVENT IS POSTPONED UNTIL 02.09.11 DUE TO AN EPIC BLIZZARD. Over four decades, Motorhead frontman Lemmy Kilmister has registered an immeasurable impact on music history. Nearly 65, he remains the living embodiment of the rock and roll lifestyle, and this feature-length documentary tells his story, one of a hard-living rock icon who continues to enjoy the life of a man half his age. Shot on a combination of High Definition and Super 16mm film, "Lemmy" includes interviews with friends, family, bandmates past and present and such admirers/peers as Metallica, Slash, Dave Grohl (Nirvana/Foo Fighters), Ozzy Osbourne, Peter Hook (Joy Division/New Order), actor Billy Bob Thornton, wrestling superstar Triple H, Alice Cooper, Mick Jones of The Clash, and many more. Lemmy website. |
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Lemmy Tribute with Hessian and Pigboat Wednesday 02.02.2011, Doors at 9:30 PM, Starts at 10:00 PM, Ends at 11:59 PM, $5, 18+ THIS EVENT IS POSTPONED UNTIL 02.09.11 DUE TO AN EPIC BLIZZARD. Following the screening of "Lemmy: 49% Motherf**ker, 51% Son of a Bitch", SPACE hosts two of Portland's most viciously awesome bands for a night of their favorite Motorhead tunes (with a Hawkwind song or two thrown in for good measure). Relentless torch-bearers of authentic heavy metal, Hessian, join forces with heavy riff revivalists Pigboat for a thrashing good time. |
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Film: Found Footage Festival + Heavy Metal Parking Lot Monday 01.31.2011, Doors at 7:00 PM, Starts at 7:30 PM, Ends at 9:30pm, $9 / $7 for SPACE Members, All Ages Buy tickets here. Hosts Joe Pickett and Nick Prueher make their 4th visit to SPACE Gallery with a whole new package of found video shenannigans. VHS may be dead, but the format is gloriously resurrected in this action-packed fifth edition of the Found Footage Festival. Joe and Nick have compiled their most densely-packed lineup of videos to date, complete with bad celebrity career moves, drunk guys mooning Hare Krishnas, and, at long last, cats riding motorcycles. As a special bonus, the FFF will be screening the 15-minute cult video classic Heavy Metal Parking Lot before the program to celebrate it's 25th anniversary! FEATURING:Ventriloquism • Let's Work It Out • Rent-A-Friend • Linda Blair's How To Get Revenge • VHS Cover Slideshow 2 • Lying & Stealing • Spring Break '85 • Hunting Calls • Self Hypnosis • Petpourri • Seminars • and more Found Footage Festival website. |
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Saturday 01.29.2011, Starts at 9:00 PM, $7, 18+ Buy tickets here or visit any Bull Moose Music location. We're going to crank the heat and dance up a sweat so wear your shorts and hawaiian shirt under your snowsuit when you come to Waranimal's Winter Beach Ball! Everyone gets lei-ed at the door! Grab a lawn chair and an adult sno-cone with your sunglasses on as you enjoy the ceremonial headbanging and beer tornados of local boys done bad-ass, Waranimal (featuring Dethbot). Boston's Razormaze holds down the long hair, pointy guitars and ripping solos and Corpse Pose, the new supergroup featuring members of Conifer, Cult Maze and LANTVRN, makes their SPACE debut. Think Weekend at Bernie's meets Bauhaus. Dj Kurt Baker spins vinyl all through the night so you don't have to put your coat on till last call!
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Dead of Winter 5 - The Death of Dead of Winter Friday 01.28.2011, Doors at 8:00 PM, Starts at 8:30 PM, $6, 18+ Buy tickets here or visit any Bull Moose Music location. Five years ago, soon-to-be SPACE Programmer Ian Paige and not-quite-yet Brenda frontman Joshua Loring had a good idea: Create an event that helps Portland musicians and audiences get through these darkest days of winter with hot toddies, cozy candlelight, and intimate performances from a cross-section of our city's finest musicians. All good things must come to an end, however, and Josh and Ian are going to see this wildly successful series out with a bang. They'll be joined by a boatload of Portland celebrities visiting the stage as your hosts sit by the fake fire in their armchairs, snifters in hand, guiding you through performances by Tyler Jackson (Foam Castles), Samuel James, Aleric Nez, Kelly Nesbitt, Jay Lobley (Metal Feathers), Sean Morin, Leif Sherman-Curtis (AOK Suicide Forest), JD Walker and Sontiago, Emily Dix Thomas, and more! 14-year-old wunderkind Leander Johnson dj's the night with the sound of snowflakes falling and expect a ton of surprises from the likes of Joe Ricchio (Portland Food Coma), Crank Sturgeon, Mayor Nick Mavodones, TJ Metcalfe (Dead Man's Clothes) and Sean Wilkinson on one of our favorite nights of the year! |
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Thursday 01.27.2011, 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. |
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Ann Arbor Film Festival (Part 2) Wednesday 01.26.2011, Doors at 7:00 PM, Starts at 7:30 PM, $7, or $5 for SPACE Members and MECA students, All Ages Buy tickets here. The Ann Arbor Film Festival is the longest-running independent and experimental film festival in North America, established in 1963. Internationally recognized as a premiere forum for independent filmmakers and artists, each year's festival engages audiences with remarkable cinematic experiences. The AAFF is a pioneer of the traveling film festival tour and each year presents short films programs at more than 30 theaters, universities, museums and art house cinemas throughout the world. This program features new avant-garde and experimental films from established and emerging North American makers. Several works creatively document landscapes, including Sleeping Bear, Scene 32 and Laura Kraning’s portrait of Hollywood’s last drive-in theater, Vineland. Daichi Saito’s Trees of Syntax, Leaves of Axis, won the AAFF “Best of Festival” award with gorgeously textured hand-processed 35mm and a visceral soundtrack. Handcrafted animation is masterfully represented by several artists, including a puzzle piece treatise by Martha Colburn and a meditation on the effects of cancer by Karen Aqua. Continuing his exploration into machinima and multiplayer game sampling, Phil Solomon presents his newest work Still Raining, Still Dreaming. Presented with our friends from the ICA at the Maine College of Art. |
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Thursday 01.20.2011, Starts at 9:00, $5, 18+ Buy tickets here or visit any Bull Moose Music location. You've heard of emcee battles, you've heard of air guitar competitions but are you ready for a dance-off? New York maximum rock and roll party machine DJ Jonathan Toubin returns to SPACE after repeatedly bringing us the best dance parties we've ever had. SOUL CLAP is making it's way across the nation where everyone is welcome to get down to classic 45s from Etta James to James Brown. You can move your feet to your favorites AND get your mind blown by Toubin's crate of obscure soul gems. Later in the evening, the bravest, boldest, and baddest can choose to compete in the dance-off, grab a number, and compete for a $100 cash prize (and some serious clout). The competition winner is determined by a panel of local judges, a celebrity smorgasbord of some of your favorite faces in town. SOUL CLAP has become notorious in New York and all over the world for bringing together wild raucous crowds of folks young and old who want to dance and prove that they know how to shake their thing. Come show us what you've got. |
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Ann Arbor Film Festival (Part 1) Wednesday 01.19.2011, Doors at 7:00 PM, Starts at 7:30 PM, $7, or $5 for SPACE Members and MECA students, All Ages Buy tickets here. The Ann Arbor Film Festival is the longest-running independent and experimental film festival in North America, established in 1963. Internationally recognized as a premiere forum for independent filmmakers and artists, each year's festival engages audiences with remarkable cinematic experiences. The AAFF is a pioneer of the traveling film festival tour and each year presents short films programs at more than 30 theaters, universities, museums and art house cinemas throughout the world. This program presents memorable and award-winning short films from artists around the world. Included are stunning new works by established experimental makers Lewis Klahr, Semiconductor and Inger Lise Hansen. Emerging Spanish maker Chema Garcia Ibarra's narrative portrait reveals a story both funny and tragic. Acclaimed animators Joanna Priestley and David O'Reilly's share their latest, dynamic creations. Films by Stephen Wetzel, Duke & Battersby and Kent Lambert offer provocative visions through sampling, song and hybrid styles that defy classification. Presented with our friends from the ICA at the Maine College of Art. |
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Audio Slam Throwdown presented by Blunt Youth Radio Sunday 01.16.2011, Doors at 6:30 PM, Starts at 7:00 PM, free, All Ages Get inspired by some great listening this winter at what may be the world's first Audio Slam! It's similar to a poetry slam with a few twists: Producers from all over the country are entering 4 minutes of produced audio, and these entries will be played and be judged live at the Slam in a series of one-minute rounds. This event is presented by Blunt Youth Radio, with funding from the Maine Arts Commission, as the finale of our Great Northeast Radio Rally, a full-day conference for audio producers and enthusiasts. Full details about the Slam and the Rally can be found at www.bluntradio.org. |
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Saturday 01.15.2011, Starts at 8:00 PM, $10, All Ages Buy tickets here. by Frederico Garcia Lorca Directed by Tess Van Horn A lively, committed theater ensemble comes together to present Lorca's Blood Wedding, a classic tragedy that is at turns violent, beautiful, strange, and funny. The play deals with the big desires and grudges that can bloom and fester in small towns. Sound familiar? With Amanda Huotari, Peter Brown, Nicholas Schroeder, Pat Mew, Laura Chakravarty Box, Annie Larmon, Dena Riegel, Michael Dix Thomas, Ian Carlsen, Joe Bearor, Amanda Painter, Deirdre Fulton, Andrew Sawyer, and Claire Guyer. This production made possible in part by the University of Southern Maine Department of Theater. |
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Friday 01.14.2011, Starts at 8:00 PM, $10, All Ages Buy tickets here. by Frederico Garcia Lorca Directed by Tess Van Horn A lively, committed theater ensemble comes together to present Lorca's Blood Wedding, a classic tragedy that is at turns violent, beautiful, strange, and funny. The play deals with the big desires and grudges that can bloom and fester in small towns. Sound familiar? With Amanda Huotari, Peter Brown, Nicholas Schroeder, Pat Mew, Laura Chakravarty Box, Annie Larmon, Dena Riegel, Michael Dix Thomas, Ian Carlsen, Joe Bearor, Amanda Painter, Deirdre Fulton, Andrew Sawyer, and Claire Guyer. This production made possible in part by the University of Southern Maine Department of Theater. |
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Thursday 01.13.2011, Starts at 7:30 PM, $10, All Ages Buy tickets here. by Frederico Garcia Lorca Directed by Tess Van Horn A lively, committed theater ensemble comes together to present Lorca's Blood Wedding, a classic tragedy that is at turns violent, beautiful, strange, and funny. The play deals with the big desires and grudges that can bloom and fester in small towns. Sound familiar? With Amanda Huotari, Peter Brown, Nicholas Schroeder, Pat Mew, Laura Chakravarty Box, Annie Larmon, Dena Riegel, Michael Dix Thomas, Ian Carlsen, Joe Bearor, Amanda Painter, Deirdre Fulton, Andrew Sawyer, and Claire Guyer. This production made possible in part by the University of Southern Maine Department of Theater. |
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Sara Cox with South China, Megan Jo Wilson Saturday 01.08.2011, Doors at 7:30 PM, Starts at 8:00 PM, $7, 18+ Buy tickets here or visit any Bull Moose Music location. After a two year hiatus, Sara Cox returns to the stage with new songs from her upcoming album. Her second release, “Arrive”, was named Album of the Year by the Portland Phoenix. She was listed as “one to watch” by the syndicated public radio show “Acoustic Cafe” and has shared the stage with artists such as Gillian Welch and David Rawlings, John Hiatt, Suzanne Vega, Ray LaMontagne, Richard Buckner, John Hammond and Lori Mckenna. Cox's warm and resonant voice is always in the forefront, but backed by strong melodies and the talents of longtime bandmate, guitarist Nate Schrock. South China was born in 2002 as a marriage, musically and literally, of Jeremy and Jerusha Robinson. Their individual backgrounds in experimental rock and classical music produce a sound that feels sparse and improvised, evoking a slightly dark and dream-like state. Their work was featured on NPR this year and, in April, they were the focus of the final episode of “The Acadia Sessions”, a TV documentary series about bands and the recording industry in Maine. Megan Jo Wilson opens with a set of her joyful, acoustic soul. |
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Saturday 01.08.2011, Starts at 10:00 AM, Ends at 1:00 PM, $3 per person for materials, All Ages Bring your kids to SPACE for a collaborative day of art making! We will source inspiration from our current gallery show “Polyhedra” to make sculptures, drawings and models of these beautiful and intricate forms. Moms and dads will create and learn with thier kids with some guidance by Oak St. Studios teacher Ashley Shoukimas. Best suited for kids ages 5-12. All you need to bring is yourselves and your creative mind! We’ll have some snacks, but we suggest eating lunch before or afterwards. Stop in any time. One hour should be enough to complete the activities. |
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Thursday 01.06.2011, Doors at 7:00 PM, Starts at 7:30 PM, Ends at 9:30 PM, $7 / $5 for SPACE Members & Students w/ ID, All Ages Buy tickets here. Budrus is an award-winning feature documentary film about a Palestinian community organizer, Ayed Morrar, who unites local Fatah and Hamas members along with Israeli supporters in an unarmed movement to save his village of Budrus from destruction by Israel’s Separation Barrier. Success eludes them until his 15-year-old daughter, Iltezam, launches a women’s contingent that quickly moves to the front lines. Struggling side by side, father and daughter unleash an inspiring, yet little-known, movement in the Occupied Palestinian Territories that is still gaining ground today. In an action-filled documentary chronicling this movement from its infancy, Budrus shines a light on people who choose nonviolence to confront a threat. The movie is directed by award-winning filmmaker Julia Bacha (co-writer and editor of Control Room and co-director Encounter Point), and produced by Bacha, Palestinian journalist Rula Salameh, and filmmaker and human rights advocate Ronit Avni (formerly of WITNESS, Director of Encounter Point). Budrus website. |
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ICING: SPACE Gallery's New Year's Bash Friday 12.31.2010, Starts at 8:00 PM, Ends at 1:00 AM, $50, 21+ Buy tickets here. SPACE Gallery and The VIA Group ring in 2011 with our 2nd annual ICING New Year's Bash. Dress to impress and live it up for a wild evening with good food, friends, dancing, and a cavalcade of performances and installations by SPACE's talented family of artists. Performances include a soulful set by the inimitable Lady Zen, live drumming by Dylan Blanchard and friends and West African inspired dancing by Blue Moon Tribe, led by Marita Kennedy-Castro. There'll be some time-warping trouble provided by Tin Pan Alley alums Over A Cardboard Sea. Portland's Dirty Dishes Burlesque Review plan to live up to their name and Kate Cox and Matt Rock have something up their sleeve for when the ball drops and we lift a glass to another year at SPACE! Dj King Alberto keeps the soul and funk grooves spinning all night. It's the last dance party of the year - let's make it count! Watch the video here. Cash bar, champagne toast at midnight, heavy hors d’oeuvres, and an array of local desserts! |
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Phyzkidz! - Shane Miclon, Phil Smith, Zany Umbrella Circus Thursday 12.30.2010, Starts at 11:00 AM, $12 adults; $10 students/seniors; $8 kids twelve and under, All Ages In the grand tradition of vaudeville, Acorn Productions has assembled a line-up of world-class performers from all over the country to entertain kids of all ages with a unique blend of expert juggling, incredible illusions, mystifying magic, unbelievable feats of dexterity, and side-splitting physical comedy. For more information, and to purchase tickets, visit the Acorn website.
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Phyzkidz! - Jamie Adkins, Daniel Forlano, Michael Trautman Wednesday 12.29.2010, Starts at 11:00 AM, $12 adults; $10 students/seniors; $8 kids twelve and under, All Ages In the grand tradition of vaudeville, Acorn Productions has assembled a line-up of world-class performers from all over the country to entertain kids of all ages with a unique blend of expert juggling, incredible illusions, mystifying magic, unbelievable feats of dexterity, and side-splitting physical comedy. For more information, and to purchase tickets, visit the Acorn website.
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Phyzkidz! - Daniel Forlano, Norman Ng, Zany Umbrella Circus Tuesday 12.28.2010, Starts at 11:00 AM, $12 adults; $10 students/seniors; $8 kids twelve and under, All Ages In the grand tradition of vaudeville, Acorn Productions has assembled a line-up of world-class performers from all over the country to entertain kids of all ages with a unique blend of expert juggling, incredible illusions, mystifying magic, unbelievable feats of dexterity, and side-splitting physical comedy. For more information, and to purchase tickets, visit the Acorn website.
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Phyzkidz! - Daniel Forlano, Norman Ng, Zany Umbrella Circus Tuesday 12.28.2010, Starts at 2:00 PM, $12 adults; $10 students/seniors; $8 kids twelve and under, All Ages In the grand tradition of vaudeville, Acorn Productions has assembled a line-up of world-class performers from all over the country to entertain kids of all ages with a unique blend of expert juggling, incredible illusions, mystifying magic, unbelievable feats of dexterity, and side-splitting physical comedy. For more information, and to purchase tickets, visit the Acorn website.
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Phyzkidz! - Jamie Adkins, Drew Richardson, Yo-Yo People Monday 12.27.2010, Starts at 11:00 AM, $12 adults; $10 students/seniors; $8 kids twelve and under, All Ages In the grand tradition of vaudeville, Acorn Productions has assembled a line-up of world-class performers from all over the country to entertain kids of all ages with a unique blend of expert juggling, incredible illusions, mystifying magic, unbelievable feats of dexterity, and side -splitting physical comedy. For more information, and to purchase tickets, visit the Acorn website.
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Phyzkidz! - Jamie Adkins, Drew Richardson, Yo-Yo People Monday 12.27.2010, Starts at 2:00 PM, $12 adults; $10 students/seniors; $8 kids twelve and under, All Ages In the grand tradition of vaudeville, Acorn Productions has assembled a line-up of world-class performers from all over the country to entertain kids of all ages with a unique blend of expert juggling, incredible illusions, mystifying magic, unbelievable feats of dexterity, and side-splitting physical comedy. For more information, and to purchase tickets, visit the Acorn website.
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Phyzkidz! - Norman Ng, Drew Richardson, Yo-Yo People Sunday 12.26.2010, Starts at 5:00 PM, $12 adults; $10 students/seniors; $8 kids twelve and under, All Ages In the grand tradition of vaudeville, Acorn Productions has assembled a line-up of world-class performers from all over the country to entertain kids of all ages with a unique blend of expert juggling, incredible illusions, mystifying magic, unbelievable feats of dexterity, and side-splitting physical comedy. For more information, and to purchase tickets, visit the Acorn website.
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Phyzkidz! - Norman Ng, Drew Richardson, Yo-Yo People Sunday 12.26.2010, Starts at 2:00 PM, $12 adults; $10 students/seniors; $8 kids twelve and under, All Ages In the grand tradition of vaudeville, Acorn Productions has assembled a line-up of world-class performers from all over the country to entertain kids of all ages with a unique blend of expert juggling, incredible illusions, mystifying magic, unbelievable feats of dexterity, and side-splitting physical comedy. For more information, and to purchase tickets, visit the Acorn website.
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Wednesday 12.22.2010, 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. It's the eve of Christmas in northern Finland, and an 'archeological' dig has just unearthed the real Santa Claus. But this particular Santa isn't the one you want coming to town. When the local children begin mysteriously disappearing, young Pietari and his father Rauno, a reindeer hunter by trade, capture the mythological being and attempt to sell Santa to the misguided leader of the multinational corporation sponsoring the dig. Santa's elves, however, will stop at nothing to free their fearless leader from captivity. What ensues is a wildly humorous nightmare – a fantastically bizarre polemic on modern day morality. RARE EXPORTS: A CHRISTMAS TALE is a re-imagining of the most classic of all childhood fantasies, and is a darkly comic gem soon to be required perennial holiday viewing. Rare Exports website. |
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S. Carey with White Hinterland, The Milkman's Union Friday 12.17.2010, Doors at 8:00 PM, Starts at 8:30 PM, $10, 18+ Buy tickets here or visit any Bull Moose Music location. While many are familiar with the cabin mythology of Bon Iver, the story behind S. Carey joining the band is equally kismet. After hearing through mutual friends that Justin Vernon was looking to put together a band, he spent two weeks in his bedroom listening to "For Emma, Forever Ago" on Myspace, dissecting and learning the drum and vocal parts so well that Justin invited him to join the band upon Sean's approach. S. Carey's solo debut, "All We Grow", is a convergence of Carey's Waltz For Debby-era Bill Evans inflected jazz tendencies, and traditional rock band experience, taking leads from Mark Hollis' Talk Talk. It also retests the waters of modern classical composition, investigating the moodiness generated by percussive repetition in a manner familiar to fans of Steve Reich. Minimalist electronic popsters White Hinterland knocked our socks off when they rolled through Portland last summer with their live looping, electronic and acoustic percussion, and kaleidoscopic sound. Local newcomers The Milkman's Union open. |
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Thursday 12.16.2010, 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. The largest domestic natural gas drilling boom in history has swept across the United States. The Halliburton-developed drilling technology of "fracking" or hydraulic fracturing has unlocked a "Saudia Arabia of natural gas" just beneath us. But is fracking safe? When filmmaker Josh Fox is asked to lease his land for drilling, he embarks on a cross-country odyssey uncovering a trail of secrets, lies and contamination. A recently drilled nearby Pennsylvania town reports that residents are able to light their drinking water on fire. This is just one of the many absurd and astonishing revelations of a new country called GASLAND. Part verite travelogue, part expose, part mystery, part bluegrass banjo meltdown, part showdown. Gasland website. Co-presented by the Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund and Maine Rivers. |
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Tuesday 12.14.2010, Starts at 8:00 PM, $5, 21+
Looking for something to do immediately after the State Theatre and Greendrinks winter bash of 2010? Join us for for an after-party featuring dance beats by way of Jamie O'Sullivan and a handful of guest DJ's and local celebrity playlists. Your tiny cover charge gives you a warm feeling in your tummy knowing all proceeds go to Prepare Maine, an education initiative designed to make sure that education remains a top priority on the state level. After, of course, you sop up all that Greendrinks beer with the free food available thanks to the generous sponsorships of a couple dozen local business sponsors! Put your dancing shoes on and be there or be square.
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Theodore Treehouse CD Release Party with Brenda, Phantom Buffalo Saturday 12.11.2010, Doors at 8:30 PM, Starts at 9:00 PM, $7, 18+ Buy tickets here or visit any Bull Moose Music location. Only a year and a half after bursting onto the Maine music scene, Theodore Treehouse have secured themselves a place in the pantheon of great Portland indie bands with memorable pop tunes and high energy live shows. Tonight, they release "Mercury: Closest to the sun", their first full length full of feel-good sing-along, high-fives all-night-long songs we've come to expect and love. They're joined tonight by fellow titans of Portland peninsula pop, Brenda and Phantom Buffalo, for a once in a blue moon triple bill of local tunes. |
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[dog] and [pony] DVD Release Party with Jacob & The House of Fire and more! Friday 12.10.2010, Doors at 7:30 PM, Starts at 8:00 PM, $8, 18+ Buy tickets here or visit any Bull Moose Music location. Local production team at-large [dog] and [pony] is turning a corner on their film-work in Maine. After two years of filming musicians, the group is making a jump into narrative work. And they're saying goodbye (for now) with a second DVD release show. Catch all your favorite artists from [dog] and [pony]'s second season, from Jakob Battick to Lady Lamb to some live episodes from the Arootsakoostic Music Festival in New Sweden, Maine. The DVD will even feature some never before seen episodes! Headlining the release party is Jacob & The House Of Fire. You can also catch D. Gross performing with full band, Jakob Battick & Friends, Robber & Thief and Selbyville. |
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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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Wednesday 12.08.2010, Starts at 5:00 PM, Ends at 9:00 PM, FREE, All Ages Join us for SNOW TRAIN, a reprise of holiday shopping and cheer presented in conjunction with Portland’s Downtown District and Buy Local’s neighborhood shopping night, Think Outside the Box. Browse a selection of vintage threads, handmade wear-ables and the finest salvaged and sewn goods that will definitely inspire warmth and nostalgia in your soul. Snag something for that special someone that will surely be cherished for decades. DJ Sandmand (of Sounds Absurd) will provide us with a rare mix of Soul Train and old Pop/Surf with secret nostalgic and wacky holiday surprises! We’ll be sipping some winter cocktails and hopping on the snow train, so come on out! |
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Portland Music Foundation presents “Defining a Social Strategy for Musicians" Tuesday 12.07.2010, Doors at 6:00 PM, Starts at 6:30 PM, Free for PMF members, All Ages
TOPIC: Building and Managing Street Teams It seems like the Holy Grail: Getting people to work for you on promoting your shows and albums. But there’s a science to it, and there are good ways and bad ways to get your fans invested in your band or career. We’ll talk about the best way to develop a street team, how best to use them, and talk to bands who have established street teams. MODERATOR: Mark Curdo, WCYY/Labor Day Records
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Saturday 12.04.2010, Starts at 10:00 AM, Ends at 6:00 PM, FREE!, All Ages Come revel in handmade bliss with one of our most popular events: Shop-A-Do! Browse through an inspiring collection of local crafters' goods including prints, handmade clothing, original artwork, books, t-shirts, cards and more! Grab a hot beverage, don a cozy sweater and come on down for some good old fashioned holiday cheer.
Vendors please note: the deadline for submissions was Friday, October 15th. We are no longer accepting applications for this year's sale. |
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Friday 12.03.2010, Starts at 5:00 PM, Ends at 9:00 PM, FREE!, All Ages Come revel in handmade bliss with one of our most popular events: Shop-A-Do! Browse through an inspiring collection of local crafters' goods including prints, handmade clothing, original artwork, books, t-shirts, cards and more! Grab a hot beverage, don a cozy sweater and come on down for some good old fashioned holiday cheer.
Vendors please note: the deadline for submissions was Friday, October 15th. We are no longer accepting applications for this year's sale. |
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Film: Strange Powers: Stephin Merritt and The Magnetic Fields Thursday 12.02.2010, 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. With his unique gift for memorable melodies, lovelorn lyrics and wry musical stylings that blend classic Tin Pan Alley with modern sounds, Stephin Merritt has distinguished himself as one of contemporary popʼs most beloved and influential artists. Both a prolific recording artist and composer of theater and film scores, he performs most famously as the Magnetic Fields, whose 1999 three-disc opus 69 Love Songs is widely considered a masterpiece of traditional songcraft and irresistible synthpop. Ten years in the making, STRANGE POWERS explores Merrittʼs songwriting and recording process, and focuses on his relationships with his bandmates and longtime manager Claudia Gonson, revealing an artist who has produced one of the most engaging and confounding bodies of work in the contemporary American songbook. Strange Powers website. |
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Doomtree - Wings & Teeth Tour, with Sontiago 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. Portland's own mistress of hip-hop, Sontiago, warms up the night. |
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Film: Matthew Barney's Cremaster Cycle Sunday 11.21.2010, 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 and advance ticket purchase. 11/18 7pm: Cremaster 1 and Cremaster 2 (119 min.) 11/21 1pm: Cremaster 1 and Cremaster 2 (119 min.) 11/21 3:30pm: Cremaster 3 (182 min.) The Cremaster website. |
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Mean Creek with The No. 9, Audrey Ryan Friday 11.19.2010, Doors at 8:30 PM, Starts at 9:00pm, $7, 18+ Buy tickets here or visit any Bull Moose Music location. Boston’s Mean Creek bend genres, simultaneously channeling the straight-ahead rock energy of the Replacements and the alt-country stylings of Buffalo Tom. They were voted "Best Band in Boston" by The Boston Phoenix readers in their 2010 Best Music Poll which prompted Paste Magazine to write "Mean Creek is not merely a great Boston Band; they're a really great band period." In June, Mean Creek released their new 7 inch / digital single "The Comedian" on Old Flame Records. These two songs were recorded with producer John Agnello (Dinosaur Jr., Sonic Youth, Hold Steady), and are the band's best material to date. Local alt-country rockers The No. 9 are fronted by Gully's Stu Gurley. Mt. Desert Island native Audrey Ryan's brand of experimental folk melds influences from the past (Dylan, Mitchell, Young) with her contemporaries (Flaming Lips, Wilco, Arcade Fire) to open the evening. |
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Thursday 11.18.2010, Starts at 9:00 PM, $3, 18+ Tickets available at the door. Judging from our last collaborative dance party, good things happen when the Rogues Gallery and SPACE Gallery teams get together to throw a shindig. This time, we're hosting DJ NAME NAMES, the one and only, the living legend of Nation of Ulysses, Make-Up, and Chain and the Gang fame, philosopher, and host of VBS TV's Soft Focus, Ian Svenonius, as he spins the finest 45s of soul, girl group, R&B, garage, surf, skronk, and stomp. What are we going to do? DANCE. When are we going to do it? ALL NIGHT. How? HARD. COLD RICE UNADULTERATED DANCE PARTY. |
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Jon Langford & Skull Orchard with Chris Mills Tuesday 11.16.2010, Doors at 7:30 PM, Starts at 8:00 PM, $10 advance/ $12 day of show, 18+ Buy tickets here or visit any Bull Moose Music location. Recent visiting artist to our gallery, Jon Langford returns with his Skull Orchard project which weaves the Americanisms he has been rehearsing over the years with the Mekons, Pine Valley Cosmonauts, and Waco Brothers. The New York Times says, "Smart, cynical and still impassioned about the state of humanity, Langford has recharged his music by stripping away any indulgences." He's joined by Chris Mills, who pushes powerful chamber-pop, channeling Nilsson and Haskins through the lens of the southern countryside. |
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Portland Music Foundation presents “Defining a Social Strategy for Musicians" Tuesday 11.16.2010, Doors at 6:00 PM, Starts at 6:30 PM, Free for PMF members, All Ages
Portland Music Foundation Social Media Seminar on Nov. 16th relocates to ONE CITY CENTER The next installment of Portland Music Foundation’s “Music as a Profession” Series has relocated to the 2nd Floor conference room of One City Center. Doors remain at 6:00 PM with Start time of 6:30 PM. MAP: http://bit.ly/cW8wUN For more information, email info@portlandmusicfoundation.org |
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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 or visit any Bull Moose Music location. The 2pm show is SOLD OUT! but there are still tickets available for the 11am matinee. 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. » |