Events for Wednesday, April 20th - Friday, April 29th 2011**

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

The Short of It:

Wednesday, April 20, 2011 / 7-10pm / $70 / At the Mercantile Block
*Intro to Laser Cutter - One Session Workshop Learn how to cut or etch wood, plastics, papers or textiles! Check availability and sign up at http://as220.org/shop

Wednesday, April 20, 2011 / 9pm / $6
Last Good Tooth, Ana Mallozzi (CD release), and MOGA

Thursday, April 21, 2011 / 6-10pm / $50 / At the Mercantile Block
*Intro to the Labs - One Session Workshop Basic training on the Lab's digital fabrication tools: laser cutter, vinyl cutter, milling machine and an overview of the design software, Inkscape. Check availability and sign up at http://as220.org/shop

Thursday, April 21, 2011 / 9pm / $6
Swirm, Laurie Amat, Shawn Greenlee, and Stephan Moore

Friday, April 22, 2011 / 9pm / $6
The Jesse Minute, Last One Out, Purple Nurps, and The Alarming Sound

Friday, April 22, 2011 / 11am-3pm / FREE
Arts In The One World 2011 6th Annual Conference:
Radicalizing Peace - The lines we will cross

Saturday, April 23, 2011 / 12-4pm / $75 / At the Mercantile Block
*Laser Cut a Pinhole Camera - Two Session Workshop Lasercut a Pinhole Camera then head to the darkroom to develop prints. April 23rd & 30th. Check availability and sign up at http://as220.org/shop

Saturday, April 23, 2011 / 4-7pm / FREE
Irish Traditional Music

Saturday, April 23, 2011 / 9pm / $6
It's A Mountain, People Of Color, KC & The Side Projects, and Chrisy Gavin

Sunday, April 24, 2011 / EASTER HOLIDAY! Closed for bunny huntin'!

Monday, April 25, 2011 / 7pm / FREE / At the Mercantile Block
AS220 Photo Open Meeting

Monday, April 25, 2011 / 9pm / $6
This Is A Movement, The Usual, and Joe Shlabotnik

Tuesday, April 26, 2011 / 6-8:30pm / $6
Life Drawing - Every Tuesday bring your drawing utensils and paper to AS220 and sketch from a live model!

Tuesday, April 26, 2011 / 9:30pm / $6
Giuseppe, 14foot1, and Dayton

Wednesday, April 27, 2011 / 7-10pm / $40 / At Empire St Floor 2
*Alternative Photo Processes Vol. 2: Van Dyke Brown - One Session Workshop Check availability and sign up at http://as220.org/shop

Wednesday, April 27, 2011 / 9pm / $5
Paint It Pink Presents: Cellar Doves, Menya, and Daniel Ouellette & the Shobojin

Thursday, April 28, 2011 / 9pm / $6
The Free Agents, Highbank, The Invisible Hours, and Christina Holmes

Friday, April 29, 2011 / 6-10pm / $25 / At the Mercantile Block
*Experiments in Monotype - One Session Workshop Check availability and sign up at http://as220.org/shop

Friday, April 29, 2011 / 9pm / $6
Brother Moon, For The Love Of Sloane, JTO, and Castle

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

*For info on Cottage Industry classes and events, check the workshop listings in our webstore and the Labs, Printshop and Darkroom pages via the links on the left!

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The Long of It:

Wednesday, April 20, 2011 / 7-10pm / $70 / At the Mercantile Block
*Intro to Laser Cutter - One Session Workshop
Learn how to use this tool to cut or etch wood, plastics, papers or textiles! From 1pm to 4pm we will cover the basics of using the laser cutter safely, techniques for working with different materials, and the software tools for preparing work for the cutter. This is a hands-on workshop; bring a project if you like!
This is a one session workshop. Check availability and sign up at http://as220.org/shop

Wednesday, April 20, 2011 / 9pm / $6
Last Good Tooth, Ana Mallozzi (CD release), and MOGA
Last Good Tooth is Penn Sultan(lyrics, singing, guitars) Arthur Kapp (drums) Kevin Sullivan (bass) and Alex Spoto (fiddle). Penn sultan is inspired by his parents and grandmothers home of the mountains of NC and the old Appalachian music from the blue ridge area, mixed with his love and hate of New York city. Penn and Kevin met in Providence, RI at the Rhode Island School of design where they liked art for a while so that they could play music for real. Then they met Spoto fiddlin' around Brown town. He's some sort of genius but no one understands when he explains what he studied there. Now: the perfect band mates- a love and happiness in the union along with Arthur, old-time-high-school-drummer-buddy-friend. They're driving around with the drums but parking the car will always be their biggest obstacle. Still mainly in providence, Last Good tooth is a heavily live show oriented band. -Fran
Ana Mallozzi is an acoustic folk blues performer. This is her CD release party!
MOGA mostly plays psychedelic rock/ ambient music.
http://www.myspace.com/anamallozzi
http://www.myspace.com/muchomoga
http://www.myspace.com/lastgoodtooth

Thursday, April 21, 2011 / 6-10pm / $50 / At the Mercantile Block
*Intro to the Labs - One Session Workshop
This item is for those who wish to enroll in the AS220 Labs course, "Intro to the Labs". This course will provide basic training on all of the digital fabrication tools (laser cutter, vinyl cutter, milling machine), and give an overview of design software, Inkscape used to print to the machines. No technical background required, all are welcome!
This is a one session workshop. Check availability and sign up at http://as220.org/shop

Thursday, April 21, 2011 / 9pm / $6
Swirm, Laurie Amat, Shawn Greenlee, and Stephan Moore
Laurie Amat's (Swirm). Laurie is based in San Francisco and is a vocalist on some Residents records.I nfo on Swirm members: San Franciscan / Providence native sound artist / vocalist Laurie Amat has been called "the voice on everyone's lips." Work includes modern chamber and opera, experimental structured and improvised solo and ensemble music, punk rock and popular song. She has performed in museums and galleries, symphony halls, cathedrals, castles, underground pubs, bunkers, tunnels, cisterns, and steel wine vats. She worked for many years recording with The Residents including the critically acclaimed "Residents' Freak Show" performed in Prague, CZ and "Ty's Freak Show" in collaboration with Todd Rundgren. Recent projects include performances in the International Looping Festival (Santa Cruz) and the Zero-1 Festival (San Jose). Her present projects include "Catharsis," voice based multitrack industrial recordings, collaborations with Swirm, and her work with computer music pioneer Max Mathews on the development of his experimental phasor filter system for voice and instruments. David Grollman is a percussionist from NYC who performs freely improvised music. He performs in art galleries, tiki bars, and venues of curious ambience made more curious by his mongrel sounds. David bows, scrapes, blows, slaps, rubs, caresses, abuses, and generally tests the limits of his instruments. Anything is game. Anything may be a participant if the musical conversation calls for it. Artist, instrument, audience, and environment become ambiguous terms, conspiring in a theatrical exploration of chance dynamics and serendipitous exchanges. Brad Henkel is a Brooklyn-based trumpet / improviser / composer. He was born in Southern California and in 2003 migrated to the East Coast to study at the Conservatory of Music at SUNY Purchase. Since relocating to NYC in 2007, he has performed in venues throughout NYC, the U.S., and Europe, including The Stone, Issue Project Room, Whitney Museum, Roulette, Boise Creative and Improvised Music Fest (Boise, ID), Heaven Gallery (Chicago), Project Lodge (Madison, WI), Canadian Music Festival (Toronto), Zaal 100 (Amsterdam). He was invited to be a featured performer in the recent Festival of New Trumpet, curated by Dave Douglass and Taylor Ho Bynum.
Shawn Greenlee is a composer and performer of experimental music. His work centers on freestyle performance with computer systems for both sound and image. Since 1992 Greenlee has been standing at the epicenter of Providence's panicked music scene, and is best known for his solo electronic music, under the moniker Pleasurehorse, as well as for founding and performing in the frenetic rock group Landed. Stephan Moore is a composer, performer, audio artist, sound designer and curator based in Brooklyn and Providence. His creative work currently manifests as electronic studio compositions, improvised solo performances, sound installation works, scores and sound designs for collaborative performance pieces, and sound designs for unusual circumstances. Evidence, his long-standing project with Scott Smallwood, has performed widely and released several recordings over the past decade. He is currently enrolled in the MEME program at Brown University. http://www.discogs.com/artist/Laurie+Amat
http://www.myspace.com/laurieamat/music/songs/swirm-5-mp3-73475577
http://www.myspace.com/laurieamat
http://www.myspace.com/bradhenkelmusic
http://bradhenkel.blogspot.com/
http://www.oddnoise.com/

Friday, April 22, 2011 / 9pm / $6
The Jesse Minute, Last One Out, Purple Nurps, and The Alarming Sound
The Jesse Minute is a five piece punk infected girl fronted act that takes its cue from archetypes like Letters to Cleo and Veruca Salt.
Last One Out is original pop rock music.
The Purple Nurps are a rock band with heavy wah pedal and a lot of distortion.
The Alarming Sound is a dedicated rock group comprised of members with various musical backgrounds and achievements.
http://www.thejesseminute.com
http://www.myspace.com/wearelastoneout
http://www.reverbnation.com/thepurplenurps
http://www.thealarmingsound.com

Friday, April 22, 2011 / 11am-3pm / FREE
Arts In The One World 2011 6th Annual Conference:
Radicalizing Peace - The lines we will cross
The limits of neutrality and the risks of partisan advocacy in sustainable art, public health and peace initiatives. This year marks our sixth annual Arts in the One World Conference, this year presented in collaboration with Africana Studies at Brown, and the Playhouse Theater in Derry/Londonderry, Northern Ireland. We are joined again by our partner in hosting: the Interdisciplinary Genocide Study Center (Rwanda) - where the Tutsi Genocide is researched, testimony is gathered, negationism is resisted, and social space for survivors is afforded. Last year's conference featured over a hundred panelists over 5 days, with participants from Armenia, Canada, China, Lithuania, Northern Ireland, Palestine, Rwanda, Singapore, Uganda, and all points across the US. AOW '11 will take place over a shorter period, and feature a narrower range of official speakers - promoting longer, slower conversation.
Our theme this year: Radicalizing Peace - The Lines We Will Cross... When is one beholden to intervene? And according to what criteria? How is the work of art/peace-building sometimes at the vanguard of progressive change, and sometimes manipulated? How does neutrality provide safe space, and when is it fatuous (called neutral, yet endorsing a particular status quo)? AOW is an annual gathering; this is our sixth convening. We draw together students, faculty, practitioners and activists across disciplines, from immediate and international communities, framing presentations and conversations open to the school and the general public. We explore various ways artistic, political, and historical purposes intersect (through reconciliation, the recovery of historical memory, and advocacy for justice).
We aim is to come out of the conference with new collaborations, new maps, new actions. Sessions this year are each built around meals, each meal hosted at a different site in Providence. We are looking to involve other schools, social service organizations, and personal spaces. Participants will sometimes have the opportunity to help prepare food and space, and to clean up. At other times we will be the cared-for guests. Email Erik for more info: shadowtackle@sbcglobal.net
http://www.brown.edu/Departments/Theatre_Speech_Dance/grad/aow2011.html

Saturday, April 23, 2011 / 12-4pm / $75 / At the Mercantile Block
*Laser Cut a Pinhole Camera - One Session Workshop
Learn to Laser cut your own, permanent Pinhole Camera! In this Cottage Industry Crossover class, get a ground level lesson in primitive photography using cutting edge laser technology! Students will learn to design and laser cut pieces to build their own Pinhole Camera in the first class session, and will spend the second class in the Darkroom developing their prints. Materials to build the camera and 5 sheets of photo paper to develop the prints are included in the cost of the class.
This is the first of two sessions: April 23rd & 30th. Check availability and sign up at http://as220.org/shop

Saturday, April 23, 2011 / 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, April 23, 2011 / 9pm / $6
It's A Mountain, People Of Color, KC & The Side Projects, and Chrisy Gavin
It's A Mountain is a four piece post rock jam band with a vast amount of other influences. People Of Color: from the ashes that have been swept off Satan's doorstep, comes a sound that the pope himself can't deny is a deadly sin.
KC & The Side Projects are bringing back old rock n roll style jazz and blues guitar. Chrisy Gavin is a musician who plays indie folk music. She has been in several bands including Slut Machine, Peter Rabbit, Jizz Jars, and Holly Electric Co. Her songs are full of emotion and heart.
http://www.myspace.com/itsamountain
http://www.myspace.com/browneyerecords
http://www.myspace.com/kcandthesideprojects
http://www.myspace.com/chrisy_gavin

Sunday, April 24, 2011 EASTER HOLIDAY! We are closed so we can all go hunt the Easter bunny.

Monday, April 25, 2011 / 7pm / FREE / At the Mercantile Block
AS220 Photo Open Meeting
Get an inside look at the photo program at AS220 and meet our instructors, key-members and staff people. Questions? Contact Krystal Grow: krystal@as220.org / 831-9327 x203

Monday, April 25, 2011 / 9pm / $6
This Is A Movement, The Usual, and Joe Shlabotnik
This Is A Movement is a band from Cumberland. They play punk/indie music along the liens of hot water music. They bring an energetic live show, and encourage crowd participation.
The Usual: Three piece hardcore/punk band hailing from Hagerstown, MD. They've released an EP and a split w/ Migrations. They are currenty writing for a full length record to hopefully be recorded in the spring by Michael York from the band Pianos Become the Teeth.
Joe Shlabotnik is three kids from Calvert County MD attempting to merge the Jackson 5, Bruce Springsteen, and Cap'n Jazz effortlessly into one musical conglomeration that will leave the masses rejoicing into the uncertainty of the future.
http://www.shlabotnik.bandcamp.com
http://www.myspace.com/usualthe

Tuesday, April 26, 2011 / 6-8:30pm / $6
Life Drawing - Every Tuesday bring your drawing utensils and paper to AS220 and sketch from a live model!

Tuesday, April 26, 2011 / 9:30pm / $6
Giuseppe, 14foot1, and Dayton
Giuseppe is experimental screamo.
14foot1 is an instrumental math rock band from all over RI.
Dayton is a four piece progressive death metal band from Cumberland RI.
http://www.myspace.com/lightsovertheatlantic
http://www.myspace.com/14foot1
http://www.myspace.com/daytonri

Wednesday, April 27, 2011 / 7-10pm / $40/ At Empire St Floor 2
*Alternative Photo Processes Vol. 2: Van Dyke Brown - One Session Workshop
Van Dyke Brown prints have been used since 1895. They are popular for their rich brown color and tonal scale, and are named for the Flemish Renaissance painter who used similar brown hues. Van Dyke Brown can be used to give photos and "antique" look and feel, like they came straight from Grandma's attic. All supplies and chemicals are included in this one night class.
This is a one session workshop. Check availability and sign up at http://as220.org/shop

Wednesday, April 27, 2011 / 9pm / $5
Paint It Pink Presents: Cellar Doves, Menya, and Daniel Ouellette & the Shobojin
Cellar Doves are avante garde postmodernism to memorable melodies that make crowds dance, trip and sometimes scratch their heads trying to figure out what made that sound.
Menya is catchy electronic music.
Daniel Ouellette & The Shobojin is a singer-songwriter with a wonderfully unique blend of New Wave, Techno-pop, and World Music. Themes of love broken apart, vampires, superheroes, Buddhist philosophy, and movie star icons.
http://www.myspace.com/menyamusic
http://www.myspace.com/sacredobjects

Thursday, April 28, 2011 / 9pm / $6
The Free Agents, Highbank, The Invisible Hours, and Christina Holmes
The Free Agents play indie alternative rock. A totally fun filled performance.
Highbank is a sweet mix of rock/blues guitar, funk/rock bass, hard hitting drums, and vocals that will keep you wanting more.
The Invisible Hours are rooted in the fuzz, echo, and the rolling percussive pulse of psychedelia while still remaining anchored by the songwriting approach.
Christina Holmes is a singer songwriter who loves music! Her main goal is to spread music to anyone who will be willing to listen, hoping to help change someone's day for the better.
http://www.myspace.com/thefreeagentsri
http://www.myspace.com/christinaholmesmusic
http://www.myspace.com/highbankband
http://www.myspace.com/theinvisiblehours

Friday, April 29, 2011 / 6-10pm / $25 / At the Mercantile Block
*Experiments in Mono-type - One Session Workshop
Join us for some Friday night experiments in the Printshop. We will guide you through a new technique applicable to Mono-prints or types. The ink and materials are up to us, you provide the paper and experimental spirit. There will be a demonstration each month followed by time for you to print.
This is a one session workshop. Check availability and sign up at http://as220.org/shop

Friday, April 29, 2011 / 9pm / $6
Brother Moon, For The Love Of Sloane, JTO, and Castle
Brother Moon is folk rock. Their music is full of energy, tension and momentum and vocals that are stark, honest and story driven.
For The Love Of Sloane is a four piece alt rock band.
JTO are psychedelic / classic rock.
Castle is a spoken word artist.
http://www.myspace.com/rifunkymusic
http://brothermoonrocks.wordpress.com
http://www.fortheloveofsloane.com
http://www.facebook.com/pages/castle-the-band/113616838706126