Thursday, October 14, 2010 / 6-9pm / $2 cover AS220 Youth Studios Elementary Showcase

Thursday, October 14, 2010 / 10pm / $6 Breaker, Holy Dirt, and Rota

Friday, October 15, 2010 / 5-7pm / Free NetWorks 2009/2010 Salon - Documenting Artists of Rhode Island At The Providence Athenaeum, 251 Benefit Street, Providence, RI 02903

Friday, October 15, 2010 / 9pm / $6 Blevin Blectum, Victoire, Ric Royer, and Lord FM

Sunday, October 17, 2010 / 1:30-4:30pm / Free NetWorks 2010 Video Premiere at RISD's Michael P. Metcalf Auditorium Chace Center, Rhode Island School of Design, 20 North Main Street Providence, RI

Saturday, October 16, 2010 / 4-7pm / Free Irish Traditional Music

Saturday, October 16, 2010 / 9pm / $6 Resistant Culture, Bog Of The Infidel, Misanthropic Noise, and Tongue Dynasty

Sunday, October 17, 2010 / 9pm / $4 Free Speech Sunday at AS220 featuring: Singer/Songwriter & Poet Open Mic

Monday, October 18, 2010 / 9pm / $6 Alec K. Redfearn & The Eyesores, Lac La Belle, and Joe Fletcher (of the Wrong Reasons)

Tuesday, October 19, 2010 / 6-8:30pm / $6 Life Drawing

Tuesday, October 19, 2010 / 9pm / $6 Dayton, Making Mountains, West Eddy Trio, and Mike G & Associates

Wednesday, October 20, 2010 / 5:30-7pm (seating at 5pm) / Free Action Speaks: What's Eating Us? - 1973: The First US Mobile Phone Call; 'Always within reach!'

Wednesday, October 20, 2010 / 9pm / $6 Area C, Bird Names, Eat Cloud, and KidVid & Use Other Door

Thursday, October 21, 2010 / 9pm / $6 Mad Happy, You Scream I Scream, Blue Eyed Fools, and The Awesome Something

Friday, October 22, 2010 / 11:15-12:30am 2010 Alliance Annual Conference (Registration through Alliance Annual Conference)

Friday, October 22, 2010 / 9pm / $6 JTO, Meccalily, Full Void, and Cosmic Sneeze

Thursday, October 14, 2010 / 6-9pm / $2 cover AS220 Youth Studios Elementary Showcase
Elementary Showcase - three hours of open mic time to hear from Rhode Island's young (16-21yrs), up and coming Emcees! Elementary Showcase is a hip-hop open mic dedicated to getting young performers on stage. We want everyone to get up and have a chance to rock-da-mic. Come early as the list fills up quick! For more information on the event, Contact Anjel at Anjel@as220.org http://www.as220.org/bss

Thursday, October 14, 2010 / 10pm / $6 Breaker, Holy Dirt, and Rota
• Rat Healer, an even uglier, sweatier, noisier, more antagonistic Jesus Lizard. formerly Talk Me Off, ex-Gunna Vahm. from the Sweden-based Ominous Recordings: "After listening to Rat Healer, you feel the need to wash your self. The dirt creeps into every crack. Earlier it was easy to imagine a Brainbombs that suddenly realized old, 90's norwegian Black Metal was the new shit, but tried to keep the filthy punk/rock vibe. But the new songs have left the more basic punk/rock filth and added more doomy/post-hardcoreish stuff into the fucked up mess that is Rat Healer. Screaming banshee Roardog's distorted vocals puts another layer of sludge on top of that cake!"
• Breaker (formerly To The Depths) is a hardcore band.

Friday, October 15, 2010 / 5-7pm / Free NetWorks 2009/2010 Salon - Documenting Artists of Rhode Island At The Providence Athenaeum, 251 Benefit Street, Providence, RI 02903
• In 2008, art collector Dr. Joseph A. Chazan and AS220's Artistic Director Bert Crenca, 5 Traverse Gallery, the Newport Art Museum, and others collaborated to document the work of 19 artists in RI, capturing their artwork, work processes, and artistic motivations via video and photographs; host a public viewing of the resulting photographs and videos; and present shows of the artists' work in gallery and museum settings, complete with a catalog. The 2008 endeavor led to another documentary series with a new group of artists in 2009, and another in 2010. Join us for a Salon featuring NetWorks producers, creators, and artists from the 2009 and 2010 series, in anticipation of the video premiere of the 2010 artists at RISD Museum's Chace Center on October 17th and an exhibit of artwork by the 2009 and 2010 artists at the Newport Art Museum, running November 6th 2011 through January 17th 2011. Free and open to the public!

Friday, October 15, 2010 / 9pm / $6 Blevin Blectum, Victoire, Ric Royer, and Lord FM
• Bevin Kelley (Blevin Blectum) makes electronic music/multimedia. Her performances are loosely narrative with live interactive electronic sound, manipulated field recordings, film, action and costume.
• Victoire is an indie classical all female quintet featuring strings, clarinets, keyboards, and low fi electronics. Led by composer/pianist Missy Mazzoli. New York Times described Missy as "among the more consistently inventive and surprising composers now working in New York".
• Lord FM explores ethereal guitarscapes and electronic rumblings.

Sunday, October 17, 2010 / 1:30-4:30pm / Free NetWorks 2010 Video Premiere at RISD's Michael P. Metcalf Auditorium Chace Center, Rhode Island School of Design, 20 North Main Street Providence, RI
• On Sunday, Oct. 17, The RISD Museum hosts the premiere NetWorks 2010, 12 new video portraits that are part of NetWorks, an ongoing enterprise showcasing and recording the profiles, work, and achievements of select contemporary Rhode Island artists. This year's two-hour screening is followed by a reception with NetWorks artists, filmmaker Richard Goulis, and the series producer, Joseph A. Chazan, M.D., a longtime patron of the arts. Now in its third year, the project was developed by Dr. Chazan and Umberto Crenca, artistic director for AS220. The RISD Museum, Newport Art Museum, AS220, Gallery Z, and the Providence Athenaeum are collaborating on NetWorks 2009-2010 programs, which include screenings, exhibitions, and special events at multiple locations. The premiere is followed by an exhibit of artwork by the 2009 and 2010 artists at the Newport Art Museum, on view November 6th through January 17th 2011 and a Gallery Z show running January 12th through February 26, 2011.

Saturday, October 16, 2010 / 4-7pm / Free Irish Traditional Music
• Hosted by Jimmy and Hannah Devine with Mark Roberts, Andrea Cooper, Teddi Scobi and Friends! Every Saturday from 4-7pm at the bar at AS220! No cover charge! A full menu of food and beverage will be available, so come in for a pint or make this your regular spot for dinner while enjoying some of the best traditional Irish music around!

Saturday, October 16, 2010 / 9pm / $6 Resistant Culture, Bog Of The Infidel, Misanthropic Noise, and Tongue Dynasty • Resistant Culture (CA) Tribal grinding crust with members of Terrorizer and Axiom.
• Bog Of The Infidel (RI) Immortal meets Dissection. First Providence gig in almost a year!
• Misanthropic Noise (CT) Low fi or die grindcore from manure lagoon CT.
• Tongue Dynasty (RI) Lurching droning metal battery. Members of Kintaan & SPVRS

Sunday, October 17, 2010 / 9pm / $4 Free Speech Sunday at AS220 featuring: Singer/Songwriter & Poet Open Mic
• Free Speech's Singer & Songwriter's Open Mic - now on 3rd Sundays! Come and play your songs in front of an appreciative, respectful Poetry Slam audience used to giving their full attention to performance art, at an event run by professionals who know how to maintain a listeners' environment and keep the show moving. The Sunday mic is open to all, but the focus is definitely on the music: Singers and Songwriters get 8 minute blocks, acapella poets get 3 minutes. For more info, contact them through myspace: myspace.com/providencepoetryslam

Monday, October 18, 2010 / 9pm / $6 Alec K. Redfearn & The Eyesores, Lac La Belle, and Joe Fletcher (of the Wrong Reasons)
• Alec K Redfearn is a musician, songwriter and composer based out of Providence, Rhode Island. He has composed music for dance, theater, and film. His primary instrument is the accordion. Most notable is his body of compositional work/songwriting for The Eyesores, a genre-bending ensemble of unorthodox instrumentation which spawned in the mid-1990s and whose music spans old-time Americana, Appalachian, folk and Eastern European music. He composed the soundtrack for and acted in a small role in Providence-based director Laura Colella's 2004 film Stay Until Tomorrow. In 2005 he was awarded the MacColl Johnson Fellowship from the Rhode Island Foundation. He has also developed a unique style of playing the accordion, introducing elements commonly associated with the guitar such as distortion, drone, and noise. He has performed on accordion and recorded in several ensembles of which he also composes for, such as Amoebic Ensemble, Barnacled, and Beat Circus.
• Joe Fletcher sings like he just woke up and can't remember the past week.
• Lac La Belle is an acoustic trio from Detroit, Michigan that juxtaposes the early decades of recorded rural American music with decaying Rustbelt aesthetic. A tradition is re-imagined- or maybe just resumed- in the 'future-rustic' swirl of mandolin, banjo,accordion, resonator guitar and double-bass. The instrumentation echos another era, but is employed for a folk music of now.

Tuesday, October 19, 2010 / 6-8:30pm / $6 Life Drawing
Every Tuesday bring your drawing utensils and paper to AS220 and sketch from a live model!

Tuesday, October 19, 2010 / 9pm / $6 Dayton, Making Mountains, West Eddy Trio, and Mike G & Associates
• Dayton is a two piece grime band from Cumberland.
• Making Mountains is a soft acoustic music.
• West Eddy Trio is acoustic rock music. They incorporate rock, folk, blues together.
• Mike G & Associates is solo acoustic roots rock music.

Wednesday, October 20, 2010 / 5:30-7pm (seating at 5pm) / Free Action Speaks: What's Eating Us? - 1973: The First US Mobile Phone Call; 'Always within reach!'
Panelists include:
William Powers: Author of "Hamlet's Blackberry: A Practical Philosophy for Building a Good Life in the Digital Age."
Sharon Kleinman: Professor of Communications and Media Studies and Quinnipiac University and editor of the volume "Displacing Place: Mobile Communications in the Twenty-First Century."
Katrin Verclas: Co-founder of the global activist network Mobile Active.

Wednesday, October 20, 2010 / 9pm / $6 Area C, Bird Names, Eat Cloud, and KidVid & Use Other Door
• From the fringe of pop music imagination comes BIRD NAMES. Long-time leaders of the Chicago experimental scene, Bird Names speaks in a voice totally unique in modern underground music. There is the yellow warmth of the soul and acid-bleached scribbles, there is terror and wonder. This is a truly original band. Recent releases on Dan Deacon's Wham City imprint and Upset! the Rhythm have been hailed as an "instant weirdo classic" (Ear Conditioned Nightmare) and (says Tiny Mix Tapes) "one of the most well-crafted, unique, and far-out pop albums in recent years."
• Eat Cloud is bossa nova kraut rock. Dulcimers, lap steel guitars, synth, samples, mouth harp.
• Area C is made up of Erik Carlson who is a composer, media artist, and architect. His work examines sound as an evocative presence, often acting as a marker in the physical and mental spaces we inhabit. In 2009 he received the MacColl-Johnson Fellowship in music composition and he is working on new commisions for the NASA RI Space Grant Consortium and LEF Foundation.
• KidVid & Use Other Door = ambient electronic beds and swirls fused with off-kilter electro-acoustic 'melodies' with absurd outbursts of noise.

Thursday, October 21, 2010 / 9pm / $6 Mad Happy, You Scream I Scream, Blue Eyed Fools, and The Awesome Something
• Rivka and Mike iLL formed Mad haPPy as a guy/girl electronic duo with a distinctive sound, blending electro, hip-hop, folk and pop. Drawing on a rainbow of influences, from Hasidic folk melodies to Public Enemy to Hank Williams, Nina Simone, Madonna and Sly Stone, they describe their eclectic sound as electro-world/hip-hop, the lyrics promoting tolerance and individuality. Bringing their community into the fold, Mad haPPy has developed to incorporate musical theater and music instruction, operating with the philosophy that "If you bring forth what is within you, what you bring forth will save you. If you do not bring forth what is within you, what you do not bring forth will destroy you." (The Gnostic Gospels) Both Rivka and Mike iLL came from devout religious families. Rivka's parents joined the Hasidic movement and she was the seventh of nine children sheltered from American culture in an enclosed Hasidic neighborhood in Brooklyn. In her early teens she left the community and became involved with the spoken word community in NYC. Mike's parents, an ex-nun and seminarian were active in civil rights work. He was raised in the diverse community of Hoboken, NJ. As a youngster he was introduced to free jazz, salsa and rock music, later making tracks into NYC studying electronic music and samba and becoming involved with the NoWave scene. Ultimately making a splash with his band Sweet Lizard iLLtet (Warner Bros.). Rivka and Mike iLL met in 1997 in a sweat lodge at Nature's Friends Farm in New Jersey. They got together for a musical project and ended up hopelessly romantically entangled in '98. The two have been doing over 200 live shows a year since 2002; Releasing two full lengths; "Feel Good Music" (Bar/None Records), "Renegade Geeks" (Mutiny Zoo Records), Produced with Chris Frantz and Tina Weymouth, a live DVD, "Desperate Living" (Mutiny Zoo Records) and "The Electro-Funk No Wave Hip-Hop Compilation" (Mutiny Zoo Records) and on top of touring with their dog Rags and daughter, Rinah, have been workshopping an original musical called Joys of Armageddon around the country with the help of James Rado (Hair).
• You Scream I Scream is fun rock music.
• The Awesome Something is electro jam with visual art improv.
Blue Eyed Fools are an ongoing investigation and simultaneous celebration chasing each other in a yin yang dance for the eyes, ears, and emotions of the observers and participants.

Friday, October 22, 2010 / 11:15-12:30am 2010 Alliance Annual Conference (Registration through Alliance Annual Conference)

Friday, October 22, 2010 / 9pm / $6 JTO, Meccalily, Full Void, and Cosmic Sneeze
• JTO is classic rock psychedelica.
• Meccalily adheres to a sacred and pristine mythos and they attempt to tap into the great • archetypal wisdom born from the process of becoming.
• Full Void is a three man band whose influences range from jazz to classic rock to classical.
• Cosmic Sneeze is a jazz rock funk band. Sax, drums, guitar, and bass.