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1.5.2007 | Fri |
First Friday Art Walk: Rural Vernacular
5-8p, free, all ages |
The rural vernacular is a complex plurality, a language that is rapidly being altered by suburban encroachment, development, and preservation. The rhythms of forests, plains, hollows, hillsides, and long dirt roads form a basic grammar while a regional rural patois is forged through variations in human interaction with the land. The work exhibited in Rural Vernacular--maps, photographs, drawings, sculptures, and videos--are inspired experiences in rural environments. Concerns of poverty, identity, land usage, isolation, and natural forces share common ground with issues of home, place, routine, labor and leisure. With work by Brad Birchett, Cat Clifford, A. Jacob Galle, Sarah Gamble, Heather Gray, Lydia Moyer, Abby Sadauckas and Jeff Whetstone. |
1.6.2007 | Sat |
One Music Maine: Grupo Esperanza with Please Be Ours and Moses Atwood
9p, $8, 18+ |
Presented by One Music Maine, a new anti-genre oriented forum of local bands and musicians from across the spectrum of styles whose common goal is to perform together, bringing a more diverse performance to a more diverse audience. Grupo Esperanza is a 10-piece afro-cuban band from Portland, with a traditional Cuban rhythm section (Bongos, Congas, Timbales, Bass, and Piano) and a four piece horn section (Dirty Bird Horns). The music is a mix of originals and traditional Cuban standards, all of which will bring you helplessly to the dance floor. Please Be Ours is an all-star musical supergroup composed of 5 Portland natives, including members of Grupo Esperanza. Moses Atwood’s sold-out CD release at SPACE in October showcased his talents formed by heavy influences from blues masters such as Mississippi John Hurt and Skip James, songwriting legends like Woody Guthrie and Townes Van Zandt, and contemporaries such as Tom Waits and Kelly Joe Phelps. |
| 1.13.2007 | Sat |
Hiss & Chambers with The Information and Sydney Bourke
9p, $5, 18+ |
Hiss and Chambers is a Portland based quartet combining anthemic rock and dark retro dance stylings. The Information has cross-genre appeal. The band revives ’80s synth-rock and layers it with an ample does of modern, cheeky attitude. They also draw from harder-edged, early punk pioneers such as the Stooges, offering something that bridges the gap between dance crowds and hard-nosed punks. |
| 1.17.2007 | Wed |
An Evening w/ Richard Ford, presented with Longfellow Books
7:30p, $5, All ages |
Richard Ford’s novel Independence Day, a followup to The Sportswriter, was the first novel to win both the Pulitzer Prize and the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction. Ford continues the series with The Lay of the Land, in which his central character Frank Bascombe faces his mortality, a failing second marriage, and the uncertainty of the 2000 presidential election. |
1.18.2006 | Thurs |
Erin McKeown
with Sean Hayes
9p,
$10 advance,
$12 day of show, 18+
You can hear Erin's tunes on WCLZ.
Or, you can listen to a song here using RealPlayer (available here).
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Fresh on the heels of her melancholy pop exploration, We Will Become Like Birds (Nettwerk, 2005), Erin McKeown comes roaring back with Sing You Sinners – 13 songs of mischief and spunk collected from the forgotten corners of Tin Pan Alley and Broadway. Written by the likes of Johnny Mercer, Cole Porter, and Fats Waller, learned from Fred Astaire, Gene Krupa, Nat King Cole, and Blossom Dearie, Sing You Sinners is McKeown's singular and sly take on the not-so-standard entries in the Great American Songbook. Sing You Sinners is McKeown's fourth studio album in six years and her seventh release since she began her career in 1997 at the age of 20. Eight years later, she has built a truly unique reputation for being a complete original. In true McKeown fashion, the new material offers a wide range of rhythms and emotions - all collected under the guise of a mischievously good time. Sean Hayes opens, playing Appalachian ambient folk like an Irish rooster channeling Nick Drake. |
| 1.19.2007 | Fri |
Casco Bay Cabaret
7:30p, $5-$20 donation, 18+ |
The Casco Bay Cabaret is a biannual festival of puppetry, performance, music, circus arts, theatre, clowning, mime, mixed media, dance, cardboard creations, poetry, and cheap art. Morgan F.P. Andrews is a Philadelphia-based printmaker, puppeteer and electronic folk musician, and has toured dozens of puppet shows around North America and Brazil. Erik Ruin is a Minneapolis-based puppeteer, printmaker and author who has performed at the Puppetropolis, Black Sheep, and Philadelphia Fringe Festivals, and last year pulled his show “How Can You Own?” around Europe in a bicycle cart. Going Nowhere, the debut collaboration between Ruin and Andrews, journeys through a dozen short shadow puppet scenes framed within a question: “If you had to give up all of your senses, except one, which would you keep?” With a Lovely soundtrack by Minneapolis duo Dreamland Faces, plus live music employing John Cage’s principle of “chance operations.” Also featuring Beth Nixon, Joshua Marcus, Kate Cox, Matt Rock, Blainorn and Julie Goell. |
| 1.20.2007 | Sat |
Casco Bay Kids Cabaret
1p, $5, All ages |
A repeat performance of the Casco Bay Cabaret for families and children. |
| 1.20.2007 | Sat |
Kris Clark Dance Party: Bringing Down the House
9:30p, $5 + $5 suggested donation for Save Darfur, 21+ |
Kris Clark presents his latest dance party: Bringing Down the House! Mix-house-masters Popgirl 23, Marcus Caine and special guest will raise the roof, floor the crowd and leave your dancing feet begging for mercy. A portion of the proceeds will benefit the Save Darfur campaign. |
| 1.21.2007 | Sun |
Documentary film: Summercamp!
1p, 7:30p, $6 / $4 for viewers under 18
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Summercamp! follows the day-to-day drama of 90 kids let loose in the woods at Swift Nature Camp in northern Wisconsin. Camp is a place where kids can be kids, where their home and school lives momentarily fade into the background as they go through the highs and lows of adolescent rituals: sing-alongs, talent shows, homesickness, counselor mutiny--and first love. Amidst group activities, showy arguments, and secret conversations, filmmakers Bradley Beesley and Sarah Price submerge themselves into this curious camp subculture, capturing a diverse array of adolescents from all economic and social backgrounds. Through the non-calloused eyes of kids, Summercamp! captures the raw emotional experiences that will endure with them for the rest of their lives. Soundtrack by the Flaming Lips. Free S’mores at the afternoon show. |
| 1.22.2007 | Mon |
An Albatross
9p, $8, 18+
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An Albatross is a psychedelic sonic orgasm; a barrage of mechanical, jerky and discombobulated time signatures eclipsed by hectic Farfisa organ/synthesizer melodies. Not unlike sitting down with an average American family during primetime television, the music is unquestionably attention-span friendly for an ADD-diagnosed society: unbelievably short, complex, infectious bursts of polyrhythms and spirit.
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| 1.24.2007 | Wed |
USM Philosophy Symposium Film Series: Antonio Negri - A Revolt That Never Ends
7:30p, $6 / free for USM students and staff with ID |
Over the years few intellectuals have experienced as much admiration and hatred, or as much praise and rejection, as Antonio Negri. His book Empire was an international bestseller. A critical analysis of the new global economy, it was hailed as a bold new manifesto for the 21st century and overnight it turned Negri into a leading spokesperson for the international anti-globalization movement. Antonio Negri-A revolt That Never Ends profiles the controversial life and times of this university professor, philosopher, militant, prisoner, refugee, and so-called ‘enemy of the state.’ It traces Negri’s roots in the history of radical left-wing movements in Italy during the Sixties and Seventies, illustrated through archival footage of workers’ strikes, factory occupations, terrorist actions, violent street confrontations, political repression, and government trials of dissidents. Followed by discussion with Jason Read, USM Assistant Professor of Philosophy.
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| 1.25.2007 | Thurs |
Slow Food Writers Evening
6-9p, $25 / $20 for Slow Food members, All ages |
This 2nd annual night of hors d’oeuvres and readings by writers of food-oriented books celebrates Portland’s chapter of Slow Food, an international movement that integrates enjoyment of food with ecology, tradition and culture, and harmonious living. We've got a fantastic lineup of writers: Ed Behr, food writer and publisher of the insider's journal "The Art of Eating"; journalist, TV and radio host, and cookbook author Kathy Gunst; Leslie Land, New York Times columnist and author of numerous books on cooking and gardening; and Molly Stevens, cookbook author, food writer, editor and James Beard award winner. |
| 1.26.2007 | Fri |
Oxford Collapse
band site | MySpace
9pm, $7, 18+
Listen:
Please Visit Your National Parks from their newest album, Remember the Night Parties (October, 2006), and
The Boys Go Home from A Good Ground (July, 2005) |
Brooklyn-based Oxford Collapse possesses a vitality born of blaring tape decks, deafening basement shows and a wide-eyed, bottomless enthusiasm that makes “jaded” sound as dirty and shameful as it should. They’ve released two full-lengths (Some Wilderness in 2004 and A Good Ground in 2005), and a handful of singles and EPs. Taking cues from post-punk pioneers and genre-transcending bands like The Embarassment, Mission of Burma or fIREHOSE, Oxford Collapse construct melodic art-pop packed full of chiming guitars and shout-along vocals. Oxford Collapse has toured extensively with the Constantines, the Joggers, and Part Chimp. |
| 1.27.2007 | Sat |
Big Blood with Arborea and Marissa Nadler
8:30p, $7, 18+
Hear Marissa's live BBC recording |
Presenting a night of exquisitely strange folk music steeped in otherworldly mystery. Big Blood, the phantom four piece of Asian Mae, Caleb Mulkerin, Rose Philistine and Colleen Kinsella performs only as a duo--an intimate team, walking blind through each other’s songs, presenting one of a kind songs tailor-made to the night’s performance. Arborea was formed in Maine in 2005 from the midnight ramblings and deep woods mischief making of Buck and Shanti Curran. Equal parts psychedelia, Smithsonian field recordings, and backwater folk, Arborea succeeds in creating a new folk form of breathtaking originality. Gothic Americana folk musician Marissa Nadler’s songs are very dreamy and atmospheric: an amalgam of traditional folk, paisley underground, shoe gaze, and dream pop.
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| 1.29.2007 | Mon |
Acorn Productions Presents Macbeth
7:30pm, $5, All ages |
Acorn’s Macbeth is a one-hour version of the classic play, directed by Acorn’s Producing Director Michael Levine and featuring company members Karen Ball and Paul Haley, with original live music by Denis Nye. The actors take on multiple roles in the production, which includes all the most famous text passages as well as nearly complete versions of the scenes between Lady Macbeth and Macbeth. Acorn’s version of the classic play still tells the entire story by compressing intervening scenes into a short narrative by another character in the play, resulting in a focus on the essential question of Macbeth’s journey from war hero to tyrant and the causes of his downward spiral. |
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