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2.2.2007 \| Fri	First Friday: Rural Vernacular 5-8p, free, All ages	Rural Vernacular” explores rural environments through maps, photographs, drawings, sculptures, and videos. Each artist demonstrates a conscious relationship to the land by exploring concepts far beyond just the bucolic. 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. Curated by A. Jacob Galle, this show is our fourth annual group show curated by a local artist. Featuring live Old-time music and a preview of “Music for the Sky,” a documentary by Nikolai Fox at 7:30.
2.3.2007 \| Sat	The Lunchbox Series with Anna Alter: A Curious City and SPACE event 11a, $5/person, $10/family, All ages Best for kids ages 4-9, but all welcome.	Having trouble getting out of bed in the morning? Whether you are a wee watercolor fox trapped in the pages of an Anna Alter picture book or just a run of the mill human, getting up some days is just plain hard. Picture book artist Anna Alter will talk about the mystery of grumpiness and how odd things like ‘sepia’ and ‘cross-hatching’ can reveal such moods. Kids will get to work at her side portraying their own magnificent moodiness on giant paper.
2.3.2007 \| Sat	Miss Fairchild with Samuel James and DJ P.Nice 9p, $7, 18+ Buy Tickets at Virtuous.com	The next group in the lineage of Sly and the Family Stone, Miss Fairchild has been delighting audiences with their infectious, memorable dance music all across the country. Call it Future Pop, Future Funk, or just plain fun; whatever you call it, Miss Fairchild’s music has the power to turn any time of day into Saturday Night, when having fun is easiest and inhibitions are at a minimum. The soulful chaos that boils just under the surface of their smooth transitions and well-crafted image is enough to make even the coolest in-crowd forget what day it is. This show opens with a special set by Samuel James, a Portland bluesman who spent decades on an old dusty road on the Delta. Following Miss Fairchilds’ set, there will be a special set of party jams new and old by DJ P.Nice a/k/a Samuel P.Nice a/k/a Sammy Bananas, half of the superstar DJ team Certified Bananas.
2.6.2007 \| Tues	Pandora Get-together 7p, free, All ages	The Music Genome Project began in January 2000 as a comprehensive musical taxonomy comprised of 400 musical dimensions designed to capture a song’s musical ‘DNA’. For seven years now, a team of 50 trained musician analysts have been analyzing songs along this template, one at a time, gradually building a collection of several hundred thousand songs that now powers the personalized playlists of Pandora. It allows for the creation of radio ‘stations’ that play music listeners’ love, with very little effort. It is a free, ad-supported service. Pandora’s creator Tim Westergren has been traveling around the US speaking with groups in a series of meet-ups about Pandora, online music, and the evolution of digital technology in general.
2.7.07 \| Wed	Brett Dennen with Sara Bareilles 9p, $8 adv., $10 at the door, 18+ Buy Tickets at Virtuous.com Portions of ticket sales will support the Maine Civil Liberties Union and The People’s Free Space.	Brett Dennen has a bare bones aesthetic, underpinned by a kind of unassuming, elemental funk. His band, beautifully locked in and occasionally augmented by the likes of Keb Mo and multi-instrumental wizard Greg Leisz, manages to transmit a stunning range of textures without sacrificing the music’s open spaces. Brett has been on the road playing with John Mayer, Sheryl Crow and Dave Matthews. Sara Bareilles has a sound that has been described as everything from Norah Jones to Joni Mitchell, Fiona Apple to Alicia Keyes. It is tempting to make comparisons but she’s much more than a carbon copy. In fact, she is anything but. Influenced by soul, jazz, rock, and pop-her writing is bold, honest, and edgy. Intelligent, unpredictable lyrics and melodies delivered courtesy of a truly soulful and powerful voice, Sara’s music is something that definitely sets her apart.
2.10.2007 \| Sat	Dead of Winter 8p, $5, 18+ Buy Tickets at Virtuous.com	A first in a series showcasing the talents of Portland’s songwriters. Dead of Winter will feature Joshua Loring (Cult Maze), Ian Page, Jeremy Alexander, Vince Nez, Kelly Nesbitt, Big Blood, Matt Rock, Kate Cox and more. A fireside vibe that will combat the blues of winter; bring your slippers, enjoy a hot drink and enjoy Portland’s best.
2.12.07 \| Mon	USM Philosophy Symposium Film Series: Amongst White Clouds 7:30p, $6, free for USM students and staff with ID Buy Tickets at Virtuous.com	A journey into the hidden lives of China’s forgotten Zen Buddhist hermit tradition, Amongst White Clouds is a look at the lives of zealot students, gaunt ascetics and wise masters living in isolated hermitages dotting the peaks and valleys of China’s Zhongnan Mountain range. These mountains have been home to recluses for five thousand years, and many of China’s most realized Buddhist masters attained enlightenment there. One of only a few foreigners to have lived and studied with these hidden sages, American filmmaker Edward A. Burger reveals to us their tradition, their wisdom, and the hardship and joy of their everyday lives. With both humor and compassion, these inspiring and warm-hearted characters challenge us to join them in an exploration of our own suffering and enlightenment in this modern world.
2.16.2007 \| Fri	Emilia Dahlin with Audrey Ryan 8:30p, $6, 18+ Buy Tickets at Virtuous.com	Emilia Dahlin has carved out her name as a unique songstress, and she kicks off a tour from Maine to Memphis tonight at SPACE. She weaves mesmerizing tales (complete with Greek myths, robotic messiahs, epic floods, and tax evaders) with raw, rootsy folk and dynamic jazz vocals. Her well-crafted songs sound as if they’ve been left outside where time and weather have worn cracks for the wind to whip through. Her sky-rocketing energy is delivered with honesty. Born in Bar Harbor, Audrey Ryan has been playing violin since age 7 and guitar since age 10. Her singing and songwriting started in middle school and have been impacted by her experiences traveling throughout Africa and Asia. As a fiddler she toured the country with several different jazz, bluegrass, and alt. country acts gaining experience before becoming a nationally performing singer-songwriter.
2.17.2007 \| Sat	SPACE for Kids 1 - 4p, free, All ages For more information contact VSA arts of Maine at (207)761-3861 or programs@vsartsmaine.org	VSA arts of Maine and SPACE welcome children of all abilities, ages 5-12 to come, explore and create using found objects and fibers at SPACE for Kids - Saturday, February 17th from 1pm-4pm. VSA artist of Maine and artist Abby Sadauckas will take you on a journey to explore free form felting, a collaborative sculpture project, weaving from nature and more fiber creations using found and natural resources of Maine.
2.20.2007 \| Tues	Documentary Film: Homemade Hillbilly Jam 7:30p, $6, All ages Buy Tickets at Virtuous.com View trailer here	Hillbillies haven’t died off; they’ve simply become neo-hillbillies. Three families of musicians in the Ozark Mountains of Southwestern Missouri give new meaning to the word “hillbilly.” Float down the backwaters, soak up some old time religion, savor a washboard duel, and bask in the neon lights of the pseudo-hillbilly showtown Branson. Lean back and merge into hillbilliness. Read a Q&A with director Rick Minnich
2.24.2007 \| Sat	The Slip with Phonograph 9p, $12, 18+ http://www.theslip.com/ http://www.myspace.com/theslipmusic http://www.phonographny.com/ http://www.myspace.com/phonographny Buy Tickets at Virtuous.com	Having recently finished a monumental 6-week tour through the US and Canada with My Morning Jacket, The Slip comes to Portland to share their contemporary avant-rock. Brothers Brad Barr (guitar, piano, vocals) and Andrew Barr (drums), team up with Marc Friedman (bass guitar) to blend rock, pop, avant-garde, americana, and their own rhythmic virtuosic soundscapes to produce music that is innovative, eclectic, and unique. The music ranges effortlessly from intimate, to thunderous, big-beat anthem sincerity, all the while telling a single intense and meaningful story. Massive Lennon-esque ballads give way to angular post-punk deconstructions and gently transition into intimate acoustic lullabies. Virtuosic surf-rock intros drift seamlessly into dusty, epic, headphone Americana: a new paradigm in wide-awake rock-realism. Phonograph is known for an alt-country aesthetic with a variety of instruments and instrumentation. The music is stripped down Americana with a healthy balance of interesting psychedelic sounds and good-old-wholesome-American-songwriting.
2.25.2007 \| Sun	The Telling Room presents an evening with Dave Eggers and Valentino Achak Deng Doors open at 6:30p, event begins at 7p $10, all ages SOLD OUT Read the NYTimes book review NOTE: This event has been moved to Hannaford Hall on the Portland campus of the University of Southern Maine. Directions here.	The Telling Room presents a night with celebrated writer Dave Eggers and Valentino Achak Deng, the subject of his latest novel, What is the What, which tells the epic story of a boy's flight out of the Sudan and his struggle to make a life in this country. This event highlights The Telling Room's own immigrant storytelling project, which is ongoing at three Portland high schools and will open at SPACE in the spring. In addition to writing four books, including the 2000 best-seller A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius, Eggers is the editor of McSweeney's, a quarterly magazine and book-publishing company, and the co-founder of 826 Valencia, a network of nonprofit writing centers for young people. Tickets will benefit The Telling Room, Portland's own nonprofit writing program, offering students ages 8 to 18 writing workshops, publishing projects, and access to real live poets and writers, free of charge. This event is also sponsored by Longfellow Books and the Salt Institute for Documentary Studies.


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