Doors open at 8:00pm, music starts at 8:30pm, $7, 18+

Force of Light is a series of songs recently released as an album on John Zorn’s Tzadik label. Inspired by the Romanian-Jewish Holocaust poet Paul Celan, these pieces were written by Barbez founder and guitarist Dan Kaufman and are performed by Barbez, Brooklyn’s avant-cabaret pioneers. Celan remade and reshaped the German language to try and encompass his suffering. His parents were killed in a concentration camp in Ukraine, and he spent nearly two years in a series of labor camps. In 1970 he committed suicide. Barbez will present Force of Light in its entirety and will feature Pamelia Kurstin on theremin, Dan Kaufman on guitars and lap steel, Peter Hess on clarinet and percussion, Andrew Jones on bass and sampler, and John Bollinger on drums.
http://www.barbez.com
http://www.myspace.com/barbez

5-8:00pm, free for members, All ages

Ken Gonzales-Day: The Wonder Gaze, an exhibition of photographs by the Los Angeles based artist that examines the history of lynching in California, a largely unknown chapter of the American West. While researching the omission of Latinos in California's published histories, Gonzales-Day discovered a large number of names mentioned in documents associated with lynching accounts. Sorting through newspapers, court records, periodicals, first hand accounts, historical photographs and souvenir postcards, he began to uncover a hidden legacy of lynching in California. Gonzales-Day identified over 350 separate occurrences of lynching in California, a number that was previously cited at 50. Featuring digitally altered souvenir lynching postcards, large-format color photographs of oak trees, and a full scale wallpaper installation of a historic lynching image.
http://www.kengonzalesday.com/

Doors open at 8:00pm, music starts at 8:30pm, $7, 18+

Wielding a voice that defies the size of her body and strong storytelling sensibilities, Emilia Dahlin 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. The members of Luminescent Orchestrii come from different scenes in New York City, yet come together through their love of Romanian gypsy melodies, punk frenzy, salty tangos, hard-rocking klezmer, haunting Balkan harmony, hip-hop beats and Appalachian fiddle, all eaten and spit out by two violins, resophonic guitar, bullhorn harmonica and bass.  Rife with lush harmonies, steady bass lines and a blurred sense of space and time, Mad Tea Party’s music is the kind that takes you on a journey. Collaborators Ami Worthen (vocals, ukulele), Jason Krekel (vocals, guitar, fiddle) and Joe Edel (vocals, bass) have managed to forge their own postmodern path, mixing elements of old-time jazz, early stringband styles, psychedelia and vintage rock 'n' roll to create something entirely unique.  
http://www.emiliadahlin.com/index
http://www.lumii.org/
http://www.themadteaparty.com/

Doors open at 8:00pm, music starts at 8:30pm, $7, 18+

San Diego's Castanets borrow from country, folk, and experimental rock and turn them into a sound that's equally moody and inspiring. The band, which features members of Pinback, Rocket From the Crypt, and Tristeza, revolves around singer/songwriter Raymond Raposa, who explored the U.S. for four years via Greyhound Bus after testing out of high school at age 15. This searching, traveling nature extends to his music, which he initially released as a series of CD-Rs, until he was picked up by indie label Asthmatic Kitty. Deer Tick began as the songwriting project of John McCauley, a singer/songwriter based out of Providence, Rhode Island. Deer Tick's first official release was released in September through Houston's Feow! Records. Entitled "War Elephant", the album represents the fearlessness of a young man who will play a set at a New England sports bar during a Red Sox championship game. McCauley takes his cues from legendary songwriters such as Townes Van Zant, Neil Young and Ritchie Valens, and big stage personalities like Sammy Davis Jr., and Tony Bennett.
http://www.myspace.com/castanets
http://www.myspace.com/deertick

Doors open at 7pm, film starts at 7:30, $6, $5 for SPACE members
Buy tickets at http://www.brownpapertickets.com

Directed and produced by Emmy®-winner Steven Cantor, WHAT REMAINS: THE LIFE AND WORK OF SALLY MANN follows Mann as she embarks on a new project, exploring the subject of death and inevitable decay. Her newest undertaking, the provocative photo series "What Remains," is a meditation on death that explores the way in which nature assimilates the body once life has left it, while directly confronting American attitudes towards dying. It includes: new photographs examining the scars left on her property after an armed fugitive was hunted down by the police and then shot himself; ominous landscapes from the Civil War battlefield of Antietam; a forensics study site showing the process of human decomposition; images of the bones and skin of a beloved, long since departed pet greyhound; and, in a closing, life-affirming gesture, close-up portraits of her children.

Presented with the Bakery Photo Collective. http://www.bakeryphoto.com
http://www.hbo.com/docs/programs/
what_remains/synopsis.html

Doors open at 8pm, $5, 18+

Wepushbuttons.com presents the First Annual WePushButtons Awards, celebrating Portland's hip hop and electronic music scene with "Best Of" awards in over 25 categories. Guest presenters and performances by Jason Keith, Kristina Kentigian, Labseven, Mike Clouds, Moshe, The Secret Weekend, Syn the Shaman, Vik44, and more!  Join us for the premier local music event of the fall!  Voting starts October 1st.
http://www.wepushbuttons.com/awards

Full details available here:
http://www.space538.org/pages/2007hrwff.php

Doors open at 9pm, event starts at 9:30pm, $5, 18+

Phoenix listings sorcerer Chris Gray says that Cult Maze is known for a dazzling blend of anthemic guitar licks and post-punk/math-rock undertones. Sure, they've got attitude, but they rock it without need for apology. Local DJ David Pence calles their sophmore album, 35,36 "a trove of beautifully constructed and feverishly constructed songs" and a "major work." Pence also comments on Gully, who also has a new recording to lay on us, calling them "an entertaining three-way tussle between loathing, longing, and self-doubt."
http://www.myspace.com/cultmaze
http://www.myspace.com/gullytheband

Doors open at 9pm, event starts at 9:30pm, $12, 18+

http://www.myspace.com/whokilledamandapalmer
http://www.jasonwebley.com

Doors open at 9pm, event starts at 9:30pm, $8, 18+

Fronted by twins Aku and Akwetey O.T., who learned music theory from jazz great Yusef Lateef, Dragons of Zynth mash familiar styles into intriguing, irregular shapes, with melancholy psychedelia, romantic soul, itchy hip-hop, and frazzled hard rock all subjected to creative abuse. The echo-heavy production and cerebral arrangements sometimes suck the life from the songs, but the gorgeously sludgy "Closer" proves they can generate emotional heat without sacrificing weirdness.   http://www.myspace.com/dragonsofzynth

Doors open at 9pm, event starts at 9:30pm, $7, 18+