Events for Thursday March 3rd - Friday, March 11th 2011*

All events are at AS220's 115 Empire Street Location on the ground floor, unless otherwise noted.

The Short of It:

Thursday, March 3, 2011/ List-7:30pm, Doors-8pm / $4
Free Speech Thursday at AS220 featuring: Providence Poetry Slam and Kim Johnson

Friday, March 4, 2011 / 9pm / $6
B Sharp Music Presents: The Hush Now, Aunt Martha, and more TBA

Saturday, March 5, 2011 / 4-7pm / FREE
Irish Traditional Music

Saturday, March 5, 2011 / 9pm / $6 Dan Liparini, Skinny Millionaires, South County Messenger, and The Real Makers

Sunday, March 6, 2011 / 4-7pm / FREE
Gallery Openings for Shows on View March 6th-26th at AS220
AS220 Main Gallery (115 Empire St): New Paintings by Michelle Dussault & New Work by Ed Mooney
Open Window (115 Empire St): New Works by Tom Anderson
Youth Gallery (115 Empire St, Floor 2): New Works by Carlos Santiago & Luis Urena
AS220 Project Space (93 Mathewson St): Color Fields: New Paintings by Amy Leidtke

Sunday, March 6, 2011 / 8pm / $8
The Empire Revue Providence's premiere variety show!

Monday, March 7, 2011 - Performance Space & Foo(d) Closed. The Bar at AS220 (now 7 days!) & Cottage Industries (i.e. the Printshop, Labs & AS220 Photo) are open their regular hours!

Monday, March 7, 2011 / 7pm / FREE
AS220 Photo Open Meeting (At the Mercantile Block)

March 7, 2011 / 6-10pm / $200
*Intro to Offset Lithography at the Community Printshop at the Mercantile Block First of Six Sessions: March 7th, 9th, 14th, 16th, 21st, 23nd from 6pm-10pm. Sign up at http://as220.org/shop

Tuesday, March 8, 2011 / 6-8:30 pm / $6
Life Drawing - Live Model Open Drawing Session

Tuesday, March 8, 2011 / 9:30pm / $6
Alphadelic, Scarlet, and Andre Harner/p>

Wednesday, March 9, 2011 / 7-10pm / $100
*Arduino and Stepper Motor Workshop (at the Mercantile Block) First of three sessions: March 9th, 16th & 23rd. Sign up at http://as220.org/shop

Wednesday, March 9, 2011 / 9pm / $6
Pink Flag, Kamchatka, Hemlok, and Kevin Williams & The Invisible Orphans

Thursday, March 10, 2011 / 8:30pm / $10
ACCO (The AS220 Criss Cross Orchestra), and Taina Asili Y La Banda Rebelde

Friday, March 11, 2011 / 9pm / $6
A Night Sky, Octopus Triangle, World 9, and Science/Fiction

The Long of It:

Thursday, March 3, 2011/ List-7:30pm, Doors-8pm / $4
Free Speech Thursday at AS220 featuring: Providence Poetry Slam and Kim Johnson
A Night of Free Speech: Providence Poetry Slam - open mic, feature, open slam. Providence is one of the most well known and exciting Poetry Slam scenes nationwide. The open mic is open to all performers--writers, poets, musicians, rappers, comedians, storytellers, etc. Poets competing in the slam earn a shot at the semi-finals and a chance at the national recognized Providence Youth and Open teams, who have performed and competed all over the country, making semi-finals and finals stage at Brave New Voices and the National Poetry Slam on multiple occasions.
The feature this evening is from Bay area poet Kim Johnson. After six years on the slam poetry and spoken word circuit. Kim has been a member of several slam teams and toured the US many times over, performing at slam venues, clubs, colleges and festivals. In 2010 she finished in the top ten at the Individual World Poetry Slam competition and completed her first European poetry tour with performances in Germany, Spain, Austria and The Netherlands. She was the co-coach of the 2010 San Francisco Slam team ranked third in the nation. A poet mentor for both Youth Speaks San Francisco and Lyrical Minded. Kim teaches writing and performance workshops at high schools and title one neglected schools, group homes and mental health facilities throughout the San Francisco Bay Area.
http://www.myspace.com/providencepoetryslam

Friday, March 4, 2011 / 9pm / $6
B Sharp Music Presents: The Hush Now, Aunt Martha, and more TBA
http://www.thehushnow.com
http://www.myspace.com/auntmarthaband
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Saturday, March 5, 2011 / 4-7pm / FREE
Irish Traditional Music
Hosted by Jimmy and Hannah Devine with Mark Roberts, Andrea Cooper, Teddi Scobi and Friends! Every Saturday free entertainment at AS220 Foo(d) & Bar! 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, March 5, 2011 / 9pm / $6
Dan Liparini, Skinny Millionaires, South County Messenger, and The Real Makers
Dan Liparini is a jazz folk experimental musician.
Skinny Millionaires use guitars, drums, keyboard and violin to create original indie and traditional Americana, Roots music.
South County Messenger is a subtle blend of yankee horror stories, American history, and politicizing, all wrapped up by two men with guitars.
The Real Makers are an original rock band with a backbone of blues and nasty funk.
http://www.realmakersband.com
http://southcountymessengerservice.bandcamp.com
http://www.myspace.com/danliparini
http://www.myspace.com/theskinnymillionaires

Sunday, March 6, 2011 / 4-7pm / FREE
Gallery Openings for Shows on View March 6th-26th at AS220
AS220 Main Gallery (115 Empire St): New Paintings by Michelle Dussault & New Work by Ed Mooney
Open Window (115 Empire St): New Works by Tom Anderson
Youth Gallery (115 Empire St, Floor 2): New Works by Carlos Santiago & Luis Urena
AS220 Project Space (93 Mathewson St): Color Fields: New Paintings by Amy Leidtke

Sunday, March 6, 2011 / 8pm / $8
The Empire Revue
Witness a raft of talented local performers the likes of which you have never seen at Providence's premiere variety show! The Empire Revue brings you sketch comedy, improv, musical interludes, burlesque, magic, and general devilment, on the first Sunday of every month. Featuring: sizzling music by Superchief Trio and your favorite funnybone fondlers, The Sparkling Beatniks: Richard Goulis, Hannah Devine, & Kate Lohman. Plus, special guest performers every month, unpredictable pre-show shenanigans, a talking squirrel and more! Empire Revue is sponsored by Empire Loan on North Main Street.
http://www.myspace.com/empirerevue

Monday, March 7, 2011 - Performance Space & Foo(d) Closed. The Bar at AS220 (now 7 days!) & Cottage Industries (i.e. the Printshop, Labs & AS220 Photo) are open their regular hours!

Monday, March 7, 2011 / 7pm / $FREE
AS220 Photo Open Meeting (At the Mercantile Block)
Come join the conversation and learn more about the new and improved photo program at AS220! Meetings are always free and open to all!

March 7, 2011 / 6-10pm / $200
Intro to Offset Lithography at the Community Printshop at the Mercantile Block
A couple of spaces still available! Come learn with Jacque Bidon how to run AS220's ABDick 9850 Offset Press - A commercial press capable of creating hundreds of prints in a matter of minutes. Publish your own colorful 'zines, newspapers, fliers, single-page artists' books, multiple-page book projects, and more. First of six Sessions: Mondays and Wednesdays, March 7th, 9th, 14th, 16th, 21st, 23nd from 6-10pm. Sign up at http://as220.org/shop

Tuesday, March 8, 2011 / 6-8:30 pm / $6
Life Drawing - Every Tuesday bring your drawing utensils and paper to AS220 and sketch from a live model!

Tuesday, March 8, 2011 / 9:30pm / $6
Alphadelic, Scarlet, and Andre Harner
Alphadelic is rock music.
Scarlet is an original band from Portsmouth RI. Alternative math rock.
Andre Harner is an acoustic guitar player.
http://www.myspace.com/apollosprophets
http://www.myspace.com/scarletri

Wednesday, March 9, 2011 / 7-10pm / $100
Session 1: Arduino and Stepper Motor Workshop (At the Mercantile Block)
This is a course that will cover the principals and use of stepper motors and a stepper program for the arduino (the program is one for testing and demonstrating the operation of stepper motors). Stepper motors are the small motors that can be precisely controlled, often down to 100 tenths of a rotation and up to thousands of rotations. First of three sessions: March 9th, 16th & 23rd. Sign up at http://as220.org/shop

Wednesday, March 9, 2011 / 9pm / $6
Pink Flag, Kamchatka, Hemlok, and Kevin Williams & The Invisible Orphans
Pink Flag : Comprised of Dork Flag, Lucky Flag and Sick Flag (Princess Ojiaku, Betsy Shane and Jessica Caesar), Pink Flag came together in a tin box in December of 2007, almost 30 years to the day after its namesake album was released. Pink Flag is more cult than band, more spice than sugar, more shout than whimper, but like the album, displays a method to its chaos, a virtuosity in its noisiness and a keen ear for hooks and song structure. They're a regular three girl rhumba dancing on the common ground of a love of early post-punk, riot grrl and top 40 of the 1990s. Their earnest approach to all subject matter and unabashedly aggressive live performances have been infectious for audiences. Pink Flag is devoted to good friends, good times and slumber parties and can't wait for you to become places and friends of PFLAG.
Kamchatka was formed in 2006. A community of players with various backgrounds in punk rock, free jazz, surf, and psychedelic music who strive to collaborate a fusion of various genres. Hemlok is prog, psychedelic music. Electric violin and bowed guitars, 3 part harmony, odd song structure. Ripe with shadow, texture, and atmosphere.
Kevin Williams & The Invisible Orphans are pop blues music. A strong live trio with highly positive energy, quality musicianship, and intense stage presence.
http://www.reverbnation.com/kevinwilliams
http://www.reverbnation.com/kamchatkatheband
http://www.hemlok.com
http://pinkflag.bandcamp.com

Thursday, March 10, 2011 / 8:30pm / $10
ACCO (The AS220 Criss Cross Orchestra), and Taina Asili Y La Banda Rebelde
Dance Party! The AS220 Criss Cross Orchestra (also known as ACCO) will be performing every second Thursday of each month. They will lift your heart with its polyrhythmic, jumpy, musical style which is based in the traditional rhythms of Ghanaian West African music. The group is directed by Obuamah Laud Addy, an award winning West African Ghanaian musician and composer. He is joined by many of the finest West African and New England musicians and ensemble performers. Criss Cross music is currently performed in Europe and Africa; it is defined as a crossing or combination of powerful traditional native African, American, Caribbean, Cuban, Latin American and European musical styles, and includes some of the tonality, improvisations, and other musical dynamics found in Jazz, Rhythm & Blues, and Hip Hop. Per Artistic Director of AS220 Umberto Crenca, ACCO is intended to demonstrate the compelling and powerful results of cross-cultural collaborations. What better way than through the creation of new music!"
Puerto Rican vocalist Taina Asili carries on the tradition of her ancestors, fusing past and present struggles into one soulful and defiant voice. Her newest artistic work is with la Banda Rebelde (the Rebel Band), a six piece international ensemble based in Albany, NY. This dynamic force brings love, resistance, and ancestral remembrance to venues, festivals, conferences and political events across the globe. Powerful vocals laid over an energetic fusion of Afro-Caribbean, reggae, rock, and hip hop sounds, the bands eclectic style represents the diversity of its members, who have origins in Puerto Rico, Sicily, Greece, Spain, Brazil and Ghana. Taina Asili's voice exudes strength of Spirit, filling its listeners with the fervor of freedom and inspiring audiences to dance to the movement of rebellion.
http://www.tainaasili.com

Friday, March 11, 2011 / 9pm / $6
A Night Sky, Octopus Triangle, World 9, and Science/Fiction
A Night Sky has been together and performing as a loud rock act for several years. Guitar, vocals and drums.
Octopus Triangle is hard rock. Neither aquatic nor geometric, but authentic in every other way.
World 9 is progressive metalcore. Heavy but fun.
Science/Fiction is a post-punk-freak-folk-psyche experience.
http://www.octopustriangle.com
http://www.myspace.com/wearesciencefiction
http://www.myspace.com/anightsky