4.1.2006 | Sat
4.2.2006 | Sun

A Company of Girls presents:

The 2nd Annual Maine Women & Girls Film Festival

The theme for 2006 is the Body Politic. Our program includes a dynamic, award -winning group of films in four categories – documentary, narrative fiction, animation, and experimental – made by women ranging in age from 16 to 65. Filmmakers from all corners of America will join their Maine peers to screen their work at SPACE Gallery and at the Portland Museum of Art, during what is sure to be a remarkable weekend.

Tickets:
- per block of Films $7.00

- Portland Museum of Art  - Festival Celebration & Screening, April 1st, Saturday 6:30-9:30 Tickets $25.00

- Festival Pass $35.00 (Seven Film Blocks)

- Festival Pass including Festival Celebration $50.00,tickets

For more information call 874-2107 or click here.

SATURDAY, APRIL 1
Block 1/11:00– 12:30: GIRLS FILM SCHOOL/ Film selection
Screening of multiple shorts made by girls and discussion with:
Deborah Fort, Founder GFS; Corine Roberts-Niemann - GFS2005 Mentor/ Current student in Moving Image Arts, College of Santa Fe
Alyssa Cashman -GFS2005 Participant  - Current student Taos High School; Melanie Stewart - GFS 2002 Participant - Current student in Sarah Lawrence College Film Program
Block 2/ 12:45 – 2:45 Desire: Julie Gustafson & The Teenage Girls Documentary Project
Running Time: 84 Minutes; Screening followed by discussion with filmmakers Julie Gustafson and girls from the Teenage Girls Documentary Project
Block 3/ 3:00 – 5:00 Boys of Baraka: Heidi Ewing & Rachel Grady
Running Time: 89 Minutes, Screening followed by discussion with filmmakers Rachel Grady and Heidi Ewing
Block 4/ 5:15 – 7:15 Five Shorts
My Story: A Girl with OCD: Patricia Stutzman, Running Time: 11 Minutes, Screening followed by discussion with young filmmaker Patricia Stutzman; Perfection: Karen Lin, Running Time: 6 Minutes; In Whose Name? Nandini Sikand, Running Time: 15 Minutes, Screening followed by discussion with filmmaker Nandini Sikand; The Girl With The Music Box: Aruna Nair, Running Time: 18 Minutes; The Cornfield: Patricia Riggen, Running Time: 27 Minutes
Block 5/7:30 – 10:30 PM Space Gallery Evening Program: Documentary Focus, The Samantha Smith Project: Irene Lusztig
Running Time: 52 Minutes, Screening followed by discussion with filmmaker Irene Lusztig; Born In Brazil: Cara Biasucci, Running Time: 52 Minutes, Screening followed by discussion with filmmaker Cara Biasucci
SUNDAY, APRIL 2
Block 6/ 11: 00 - 2:00 – Maine Artists
Excerpts from documentaries Her Game and Lou, Of Betty and Lou: Dana Rae Warren, Discussion about process with Dana Rae
Time: 45 Minutes; Ima Plume Trilogy: Nancy Andrews, Running Time: 100 Minutes, Screening followed by discussion with filmmaker Nancy Andrews
Block 7/ 2:15 – 5:15 – Troop 1500 & The Education of Shelby Knox
Troop 1500: Ellen Spiro and Karen Bernstein, Running Time: 68:00; The Education of Shelby Knox: Marion Lipshutz & Rose Rosenblatt
Running Time: 76 Minutes, Screening followed by discussion with Shelby Knox and filmmaker Rose Rosenblatt

4.2.2006 | Sun

Fritz Haeg: Lab, Studio & Salon

7p, $3-5 suggested / free to MECA students, all ages

www.fritzhaeg.com/studio.html

Presented by Citizen Salon, The Maine College of Art, and SPACE Gallery

Fritz Haeg has been initiating a broad range of ambitious projects through his design practice Fritz Haeg Studio, the happenings & gatherings of Sundown Salon, the ecology initiatives of Gardenlab and his work as a college educator.

Alternately wearing the hat of architect, designer, curator, educator,
gardener and producer Fritz Haeg rejects the disciplinary boundaries of
professional practice in favor of the freedom and diversity of a broad
life in art and design. In the same spirit collaboration plays a central
role in most projects and initiatives.

Current projects include the design for art and gallery spaces and ecologically sensitive residences and landscapes which include the Bernardi Salcedo Residence in the Silverlake hills of Los Angeles, a retreat for a surfer in Costa Rica, a new residence for an extended family in the foothills of Altadena, the redesign of the contemporary art gallery peres projects, among others.

4.7.2006 | Fri

First Friday: Salvage + Assemble

5-9p, free, all ages

With their Maine debut, members of The Barnstormers will give new life to salvaged materials from Maine by adorning them with contemporary, urban-style mural paintings. David Ellis, Michael Houston, Chuck Webster and Yuri Shimojo will work around the clock on a series of boats, barn materials and barrels, all rescued from potential decay and reassembled inside the gallery. Come see them at work beginning April 4th, and celebrate with us at the gala opening during the First Friday Art Walk.

4.8.2006 | Sat

The Lunchbox Series with Lisa Jahn-Clough, presented by Curious City and SPACE

11a, $3 / person or $5/family, 4+

The artist in the book LITTLE DOG paints the darkness of her city street and the darkness of her moods until a stray dog leads her to brighter landscapes and much happier days.  Lunchbox kids will experiment with color to see how it can portray those moods that matter.

4.8.2006 | Sat

2nd Annual WMPG Fashion Show:"By The People, For the People"

8p, $5 students / $8 general, 18+

WMPG presents its second annual Benefit Fashion Show “By The People, For The People.” Featuring all-original clothing, jewelry and accessories designed by local artists, as well as belly dancing by Naya’s Trance, live video by Skeleton Media, and music by WMPG DJs Goober and Caitlyn. All proceeds from the evening will go to WMPG, a community radio station based on the University Of Southern Maine’s Portland campus. FMI visit www.wmpg.org.

4.11.2006 | Tues

Souvenir's Young America and Conifer

8:30p, $5, 18+

Richmond Virginia’s Souvenir’s Young America creates sounds that could be called electronic, metal, prog, and ambient all at once. Epic, spiraling dirges with keyboards, percussion, samples, guitars, accordion, xylophone, cello, fill their songs. Conifer provides monolithic post rock excellence, with swooshing, bleeping electronic ambience and eerie plaintive melody, which engages in slow-burning, gradually building metallic indie post-rock exercise.

4.14.2006 | Fri

Devil Music

8:30p, $8, All ages

Devil Music explores rock, electronic, orchestral, folk, improvisation and incidental music with live movie soundtracks. At SPACE they’ll perform the score to the 1922 silent film “Nosferatu,” which descended from the artistic wave of German artistic film, where painting, architecture, literature, psychology, and politics met in works that gratifiy both the eyes and the spirit. The film develops over several dimensions, from its artistic claim of Romantic-Expressionism, the advent of Nazism, to homosexuality, desire, globalization, and a reflection on cinema itself. (81 minutes).

4.15.2006 | Sat

John Tchicai Trio with Charlie Kohlhase and Garrison Fewell

8pm, $10 adv. / $15 at door, All ages

The John Tchicai Trio with Charlie Kohlhase and Garrison Fewell brings together three veteran composer/improvisers, each with decades of experience and a legacy of high-quality creative music. John Tchicai Trio is: John Tchicai, tenor sax, bass clarinet and voice; Charlie Kohlhase, alto, tenor and baritone saxes; Garrison Fewell, guitar, assorted musical objects and percussion. This drummer-less collective performs original compositions from all three musicians, as well as music that features spontaneous collective improvisation.

4.17.2006 | Mon

Threads, Spires that in the Sunset Rise Michael Columbia Pots and Pans and Larkin Grim

8:30p, $5, 18+

A fairly new amalgam of relatively old musical comrades, Threads is an all acoustic group playing original songs, composed of heart and mind and born from the ground up. Spires That In The Sunset Rise is steeped in primal experimentalism and world eclecticism, with music that is a repellant and magnetizing swarm of harps, guitars, cello, drums, harmonium, banjo, mbira, spike fiddle, bells, and vocals. Michael Columbia Pots and Pans includes filtered bass tones weaving in and around synths, saxophone, clarinet, violin and delay, while synthetic ambient vocals sinuously drone over pressurized machine crushing beats. Larkin Grimm’s songs show rustic influences through a modern, psychedelic filter. Her intense, ecstatic voice with swirling multi-tracked patterns recalls the richness of Illuminations-period Buffy Sainte-Marie and the sparkle of Linda Perhacs.

4.19.2006 | Wed

Words + Images 2006

6p, Free, All ages

USM releases their latest journal of art and writing, Words + Images, with a party featuring the DJ stylings of popgirl 23.

4.20.2006 | Thurs

Documentary Film: B.I.K.E.

7:30p, $6 / $5 for SPACE Members, All ages

film site here

B.I.K.E. is an exploration of the Black Label Bicycle Club (BLBC) and the wider freak bike subculture that has grown up around it. BLBC started in Minneapolis in 1994 and has inspired rival clubs and grown into an international subculture with hundreds of members worldwide. Comprised mainly of artists driven by anti-materialism and a belief that the impending apocalypse will render cars useless and bicycles in power, BLBC battles mainstream culture and rival gangs for its vision of a better tomorrow. B.I.K.E. pullls together threads from Critical Mass and the wider bike counterculture while giving a definitive look at the intersection of subculture, radical politics, group dynamics and personal identity. (89 minutes).

4.21.2006 | Fri

Hip Hop Without Borders Presents

9pm, $7, 18+

Hip Hop Without Borders presents Flex Mathews with Doom Fist, Saylove! and Young Solo. Hip Hop Without Borders is Maine-based arts organization that believes that art and culture--not force--is what will unite people globally. Engrossed with Hip Hop music and culture, HHWB will execute Operation Drop Hip Hop: Serbia, their keystone project, in the summer of 2007, placing 8 Hip Hop artists from the US in post-conflict/developing nations to teach free weeklong intensive workshops where participants will be able to learn the fundamental elements of MCing, DJing, break-dancing, graffiti arts and the history and social significance of the emergence of Hip Hop culture. Proceeds from tonight’s show benefit Hip Hop Without Borders.

4.22.2006 | Sat

Kris Clark presents: The British Lords of House

9pm, $6, 21+

Kris Clark serves up another slamming House Party, this time served with a Limey twist. An All-Brit lineup of DJs featuring Lords of House 333 (Primary, NYC), Brian Carter (Beatroute, CT) and Marcus Caine (Zodiac Parties). Brilliant! If you missed FUNkHOUSE in January, don’t be a wanker and miss your second chance. All Whigs, Tories and even Commoners welcome. 9pm, $6, 21+

4.24.2006 | Mon

One Self (DJ Vadim, Yarah Bravo and Blu Rum 13): The C.O.P. Tour

9pm, $8, 18+

One Self (DJ Vadim, Yarah Bravo and Blu Rum 13) has arrived on the scene!! This is the Hip Hop supergroup everyone is talking about, the lovechild of three of hip-hop’s most innovative visionaries. Rocking stages world-wide as the touring unit “The Russian Percussion”, they are three of the funkiest, most innovative and soulful performers on the scene today. Their combined passion for beats and rhymes created one of 2005’s best albums - Children of Possibility. The critics, are calling it “genius.” This is music with a heart . . . and they put on a show you shouldn’t miss.

4.26.2006 | Wed

Creative Conversations: Does Art Mean Business?

7p, free, All ages

Does art mean business? Join us to discuss the opportunities and challenges of the arts scene in Portland from a small-business perspective. We’ll talk about what business resources are available for small companies and individual artists, and we’ll attempt to identify what else could make Portland more hospitable to artists and arts businesses.

4.27.2006 | Thurs

The Cafe Review Spring Publication Party

7:30p, $5, All ages

This fifteen year-old journal presents the Spring, 2006 edition with an evening of readings plus performances by Gabe FM, jdwalker and Sontiago. April just happens to be National Poetry Month, so we’re excited to be r ecognizing the fact in an appropriate manner.

4.29.2006 | Sat

Seekonk CD Release with The End of the World

8:30p, $5, 18+

Portland’s own Seekonk plays a bewitching fusion of slowcore, dream pop, and post-rock. And they play a birdcage. We’ve had an early mix of their newest album “Pinkwood” on our iPods for about a year now, and we’re thrilled that the final version is available for the rest of the world. This celebration of their CD kicks off a cross-country tour. We’re also thrilled about Portlander Robert Stillman’s return (he was here in January with his project “Horses”) with his four-piece The End of the World. Their urgent sound manages to merge an ethic for thoughtful songcraft with a love for the loud and the unhinged, with influences drawn equally from Sam Cooke, The Rolling Stones, and Sonic Youth. Heck, you may have heard their title track for Jonathan Demme’s remake of “The Manchurian Candidate.”

Tickets for all music events and films available at Bull Moose Music Stores