UPCOMING EVENTS | Community event
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Saturday 09.11.2010, Starts at 6:00 PM, Ends at 9:00 PM, Free, All Ages BLOCK PARTY! is an unprecedented event for SPACE Gallery, in collaboration with Portland Ovations, The Portland Museum of Art, Children's Museum & Theatre of Maine, Pickwick Independent Press, Portland Symphony Orchestra, and our numerous neighbors on Congress Street.The shops, galleries and venues from One Longfellow Square down to Port City Music Hall will transform their “front yards" with the help of local artists. Stop by in front of the PMA to check out Andrea Zittel's Group Formerly Known as Smockshop installation and launch event. Make way for the steamroller making giant woodblock prints by some of your favorite Portland artists with Pickwick Press at the controls! Take the kids down the street for hands-on activities and performances provided by the Children's Museum & Theatre of Maine, plus giant grid games and a host of surprises as we once again close off a portion of Congress Street to celebrate the vitality of Portland's Arts District. And what block party is complete without dancing? At 7pm we'll be treated to a special outdoor performance by Sao Paulo, Brazil's Garotas Suecas who are making waves bringing the best tropicalia and soul to the northern hemisphere. Lots more details available by clicking the link below! This project is made possible with generous support from the Davis Family Foundation, with additional support from Wright-Ryan and SMRT Architects and Gnome Landscapes, Design, Masonry, and Maintenance.
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Portland Music Foundation presents “Playing a Live Show: From Advancing to Soundcheck" Tuesday 09.21.2010, Doors at 6:00 PM, Starts at 6:30 PM, Free for PMF members, All Ages
TOPIC: Playing a Live Show: From Advancing to Soundcheck There’s a right way and a wrong way to play a show, and we’re not talking about your performance. This panel will focus on the best practices for working with a club and acting like a professional, including: creating technical documents like input lists and stage plots; loading in correctly; interfacing with the house sound engineer; the difference between a line check and a soundcheck; and the specific equipment you absolutely need to have on hand. This presentation will also feature a live band, and a live solo artist, performing a soundcheck the right way. MODERATOR: Jim Begley, the Studio This event is free to PMF members. Sign up onsite or at www.portlandmusicfoundation.org $20.00 gets you a 1 year membership, free admission to all PMF events, and tons of area discounts!
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Thursday 09.30.2010, Starts at 12:00 PM, free, All Ages
In her three-day performances as the 60 wrd/min art critic, Lori Waxman makes herself available on a first-come-first-serve basis to local artists seeking succinct and opinionated reviews of their work. While a receptionist processes each artist’s submission, Waxman churns out one review every twenty minutes, the texts of which are displayed live on a nearby monitor for artists and observers to read. As each one- to two-hundred word review is finished, the receptionist will “publish” a physical copy to a nearby wall. Eventually all or some of the reviews are published in a magazine or newspaper.
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