6.2.2006 | Fri

First Friday Art Walk:

5-8pm, All ages, Free

Preview here

Come support SPACE Gallery by bidding on these BEAUTIFUL framed Polaroid prints, donated by friends and artists from near and far. We’re thrilled with what’s come in, and there promises to be some interesting bidding on a lot of them. All proceeds support the gallery programs here at SPACE.

6.3.2006 | Sat

Josephine Foster, Threads and Alec K. Redfern

8:30p, 18+, $8

Josephine Foster has captivated audiences & critics alike through the utterly overwhelming strength and seductive unease of her voice, matched with her brave and iconoclastic spirit. Her latest album, “A Wolf in Sheep’s Clothing,” is a deeply absorbing, magical reconstruction of 19th century German art songs that float in a wash of blissed voice and electric guitar in an almost dreamlike fashion. Alec K. Redfearn, of the Providence band The Eyesores, has been involved with various local and regional ensembles as a musician, composer, and performance artist. In Threads, MIcah Blue Smaldone and members of Cerberus Shoal and tarpigh stretch out into a new but similar direction with acoustic music that stems from sessions around the kitchen table.

6.8.2006 | Thurs

Burning Houses, Beautiful Houses, Ennui, White Light

8p, all ages, free

Music from three bands. Boston-based experimental rock band Burning Houses, Beautiful Houses (formerly The List Exists) describe their sound simply as “movie music.” With an eclectic mix of ever-rotating instruments, theirsongs focus on mood and contrast, allowing memorable melodies to emerge out of careening layers of electronic noise and echoing ambience. The lush, vocal-driven indie-pop of Pittsburgh’s Ennui shows a band with a penchant for strong melody and a love for shoegazing atmosphere. White Light: Local friends and relations formerly known as Certain Numbers navigate etheric waters to find islands of pop akin to the Kinks and Tyrannosaurus Rex.

6.9.2006 | Fri

Phantom Buffalo with Diamond Sharp

8:30pm, 18+, $5

Portland’s own Phantom Buffalo plays music which is simply wonderful, uplifiting, joyous, exuberant and loads of other adjectives. There is a heavy Byrds element in most of the songs on their album Shishimumu, from the jangle (on almost all the tracks) to the use of pedal steel (`Anywhere With Oxygen’). Coupled with frontman Jonathan Balzano-Brookes’ Fran Healyesque vocals, this is a special record indeed. Joining them are Diamond Sharp, an indie-garage-pop band from Portland.

6.10.2006 | Sat

The Lunchbox Series with Peter Brown: A Curious City and SPACE Event

11a, 4+, $3 / $5

The flightless birds are tired on their feathered relatives letting loose on their heads in the new book, THE FLIGHT OF THE DODO. A dodo, a penguin and an ostrich take to the skies to seek scatological revenge on their cousins. Lunchbox kids get to build flying machines and send their favorite characters into the clouds.

6.10.2006 | Sat

Bindlestiff Family Cirkus

8 pm, 18+, $10 advance / clowns in makeup or folks in circus garb, $15 day of the show.

The Bindlestiffs Family Cirkus is responsible for spawning the whole neo-vaudeville, independent circus/performance trend. With a continuous vaudeville show in Times Square, the Cirkus brings its unique hybrid of vaudeville, circus, burlesque, and sideshow to theaters, clubs, colleges, and festivals. The company has produced innumerable cabaret shows, customized performances for special audiences, all-ages and family productions, and sophisticated adult shows. The SPACE performance will fall in the latter category, and dedicated fans and initiates alike will come to see one of the best and most original acts working today.

6.19.2006 | Mon

Fence Kitchen with Dragons 1976 and Mystic Outbop Review

8:30p, 18+, $7

Fence Kitchen is Tim Harbeson, who experienced musical profundity in Asia as a younger man, leading to study jazz trumpet with Stan Slotter. He immersed himself as a scholar and as a dreamer, later joining an international soul band in Turkey. After moving to Maine he formed the trio tarpigh, creating six albums and another four in collaboration with Cerberus Shoal. Dragons 1976 is a cool, steady swinging horn-bass-drum trio from Chicago. The band turns more corners with their tight grooves and cinematic twists than a screen gems tornado roaring through the heart of downtown Los Angeles. Portland’s own Mystic Outbop Review is a free improvisation trio that has been performing since 2000. The trio consists of Kit Demos on bass, Chico Valentine on drums and Alonzo Holliday on sax.

6.21.2006 | Wed

Acorn Productions Presents: A Shakespearean Summer Solstice

7:30p, All ages, $5 suggested

Come experience Portland’s “Best Bard and Brew” (Phoenix 2005) with Acorn Productions’ Shakespeare Ensemble when Naked Shakespeare presents an evening of scenes from some of Shakespeare’s most beloved plays, including Romeo and Juliet, Macbeth, As You Like It, Othello, Richard III, and A Midsummer Night’s Dream. Comedy, power, passion, sex, murder -- what more could you ask for on a hot summer evening? Visit www.nakedshakespeare.org for more information.

6.23.2006 | Fri

Emilia Dahlin CD Release

8:30p, 18+, $7

It all began with the search for the derevation of a childhood saying; “Lynn, Lynn, city of sin, you never go out the way you come in”. Thus began the “God Machine,” the third musical release by Emilia Dahlin. She weaves mesmerizing tales (complete with Greek myths, robotic messiahs, epic floods, and tax evaders) with raw, rootsy folk and dynamic jazz vocals. Crafting songs that sound as if they’ve been left outside where time and weather have worn cracks for the wind to whip through, Emilia delivers her music with honesty. Come help her celebrate the new release!

6.29.2006 | Thurs

Documentary Film: Coming to Light

7:30p, All ages, $6, $5 for members

A self-taught and very successful society photographer in early 20th Century Seattle, Edward S. Curtis dedicated most of his life and career to the chronicling of Native American life before it was lost in forced assimilation. “Coming to Light” is an insightful documentary by Anne Makepeace interweaves the story of Curtis’s life with the results of his work, and through it, we see the world he sought to preserve. Many of the descendants of those tribal members who sat for Curtis appear in the film; through their voices these old, sepia-toned photographs evoke their ancestors’ lives, inspiring them to continue their traditions. (85 min.)

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