Events for Thursday, April 14th - crazy Caturday, April 23rd 2011**

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

Harry Whittier Frees Cat Photograph, Early 1900's

The Short of It:

Thursday, April 14, 2011 / 6-10pm / $120 / At AS220's Printshop at the Mercantile Block
*Advanced Intaglio: Aquatint - First of three sessions: April 14th, 21st & 28th. Check availability and sign up at http://as220.org/shop

Thursday, April 14, 2011 / 8:30pm / $6
ACCO The AS220 Criss Cross Orchestra

Friday, April 15, 2011 / 9pm / $6
Felix Lieter Jr, The Sugar Honey Iced Tea, Silicone Feelings, and Green Oedipus

Saturday, April 16, 2011 / 2-4pm / $3 individual or $8 family
Urban Barn Dance - A participatory dance with live traditional music played on guitar, fiddle and banjo.

Saturday, April 16, 2011 / 4-7pm / FREE
Irish Traditional Music - Eat, drink or just hang out and listen to some free Irish tunes!

Saturday, April 16, 2011 / 9pm / $6
B-Sharp Presents: Idiot Vehicle, Black Wine, Wet Friend, and The Curious Mystery

Sunday, April 17, 2011 / 5:15-7pm / FREE
Providence Poetry Slam presents: A Writing Workshop - A low-pressure writers' group to meet and share your work

Sunday, April 17, 2011 / 9pm / $6
Sunset Overbrooke, WERD, Unibrows, and Matt Hannigan

Monday, April 18, 2011 / 9pm / $7
Tor Johnson Presents: Siege Engine, Drain The Sky, humanbeast, Rivercity No Comply, Convulsions

Tuesday, April 19, 2011/ 6-8:30 pm / $6
Life Drawing - Every Tuesday bring your drawing utensils and paper to AS220 and sketch from a live model!

Monday, April 18, 2011 / 7pm / FREE / At AS220 Photo's Mercantile Block Space
AS220 Photo Open Meeting - Get an inside look at the photo program at AS220>

Tuesday, April 19, 2011/ 9pm / $5
Free Speech Tuesday at AS220 featuring: SemiFinal Slam No Open Mic this week!

Wednesday, April 20, 2011 / 7-10pm / $70 / At AS220 Labs at the Mercantile Block
*Intro to Laser Cutter - A one session workshop - learn to cut or etch wood, plastics, papers or textiles on the Laser Cutter at AS220's Fab Lab. 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 AS220 Labs at the Mercantile Block
*Intro to the Labs Basic training on all of the digital fabrication tools (laser cutter, vinyl cutter, milling machine), and an overview of the design software, Inkscape in 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

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 / Session one meets at the Labs, Mercantile Block
*Laser Cut a Pinhole Camera - Lasercut your own, permanent Pinhole Camera, then head to the Darkroom to developing your prints. DIY! Check availability and sign up at http://as220.org/shop

Saturday, April 23, 2011 / 4-7pm / FREE
Irish Traditional Music - Eat, drink or just hang out and listen to some free Irish tunes!

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

The Long of It:

Thursday, April 14, 2011 / 6-10pm / $120 / At AS220's Printshop at the Mercantile Block
*Advanced Intaglio: Aquatint (Session 1 of 3)
Previous basic knowledge of Intaglio required. Students will be introduced to aquatint which is the most common method of creating tones in etching, from a very subtle and faint tone to deep dark tones. An aquatint can be etched into the entire plate (creating various tones or a single one) or to a chosen area.
This is the first of three sessions: April 14th, 21st & 28th. Check availability and sign up at http://as220.org/shop

Thursday, April 14, 2011 / 8:30pm / $6
ACCO The AS220 Criss Cross Orchestra
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 poly-rhythmic, 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!"

Friday, April 15, 2011 / 9pm / $6
Felix Lieter Jr, The Sugar Honey Iced Tea, Silicone Feelings, and Green Oedipus
Felix Lieter Jr is a solo artist who sings and plays synthesizer. Very catchy, 80's influenced music.
The Sugar Honey Iced Tea is folk music. There is ukulele, banjolele, cello, banjo, mandolin.
Silicone Feelings are alternative magma rock. They just do what they love and want to share it with everyone.
Green Oedipus is a performance based show. Noisy waveforms, altered video game music, vowels, collaboration, laptops, etc.
http://www.myspace.com/siliconefeelings
http://www.myspace.com/thesugarhoneyicedtea

Saturday, April 16, 2011 / 2-4pm / $3 individual or $8 family
Urban Barn Dance
This is a participatory dance for the entire family. All ages and abilities are welcome. No partner necessary, all dances are taught and are child and adult friendly. We will be dancing to live traditional music played on guitar, fiddle and banjo. Come and help us build community through music, dance and song! "This event is funded in part by the New Leaders, Good Leaders Fund of the Country Dance and Song Society."

Saturday, April 16, 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 16, 2011 / 9pm / $6
B-Sharp Presents: Idiot Vehicle, Black Wine, Wet Friend, and The Curious Mystery
Idiot Vehicle is Gus, John, and Jamez. Totally amazing.
We are an indie/punk band from New Jersey along the lines of Dinosaur Jr, Mudhoney, Screaming Trees, and others. We feature ex-members of The Ergs and Hunchback, and are on Don Giovanni Records, home of Screaming Females and Shellshag, among others. We like cats and are very polite.
A junkyard band with a heart of dirt, smoke, and wires; the Curious Mystery blends Sixties-style psychedelia with American country-blues and garage experimental-ism . Cool night air, slow burning heaviness, impregnation by blackberry, Captain Beefheart, late night crawlers, native fowl, dinner, river blindness; these are some of the things the Curious Mystery bides its time thinking about. They began in 2005 in Seattle where Shana Cleveland, a Midwestern daughter of Blues and Country rock musicians met Nicolas Gonzalez; an experimental instrumentalist from Texas enamored with Polvo, Morricone, and Eastern drones. Today the band features Nicolas on guitar, vocals, and homemade instruments; Shana on vocals, banjo, guitar, and auto-harp; Bradford Button on the bass guitar; and Adam Kozie on drums. In 2008 they met up with Calvin Johnson and recorded an album; "Rotting Slowly", out on CD and vinyl. Our new album "We Creeling" hits the streets March 8th, 2011 on K Records!
http://www.theblackwineband.blogspot.com
http://www.myspace.com/thecuriousmystery

Sunday, April 17, 2011 / 5:15-7pm / FREE
Providence Poetry Slam presents: A Writing Workshop A low-pressure setting for writers of all genres to meet and share their work. On the fourth Sunday of the month For more information contact P.P.S. through their Myspace page: http://www.myspace.com/providencepoetryslam

Sunday, April 17, 2011 / 9pm / $6
Sunset Overbrooke, WERD, Unibrows, and Matt Hannigan
WERD is experimental rock.
Sunset Overbrooke is acoustic rock.
Unibrows are a three piece rock and roll band featuring the silky vocals and voracious guitar work of Marc Daniels, the boisterous bass of Steve Johnson, and mercilessly vicious beatings from Glenn Robinson. The 'Brows rely on catchy hooks with a fair dose of in our face rocking that would make any grandmother "pee right in their pants." They have received airplay on the nationally broadcast Howard Stern show.
Matt Hannigan is a songwriter and multi-instrumentalist with little to no sense of smell and a tendency to sleep all day. He plays experimental guitar.
http://www.myspace.com/WERD38383
http://www.myspace.com/matthannigan1
http://www.unibrowsnation.com

Monday, April 18, 2011 / 9pm / $7
Tor Johnson Presents: Siege Engine, Drain The Sky, humanbeast, Rivercity No Comply, Convulsions
Drain the Sky (ex His Hero Is Gone) Rivercity No Comply (on Goner records) Convulsions (never got to see Disembodied? See these guys!)
http://www.myspace.com/drainthesky
http://myspace.com/rivercitynocomply

Tuesday, April 19, 2011/ 6-8:30 pm / $6
Life Drawing - Every Tuesday bring your drawing utensils and paper to AS220 and sketch from a live model!

Monday, April 18, 2011 / 7pm / FREE / At AS220 Photo's Mercantile Block Space
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 / (401) 831-9327 x203

Tuesday, April 19, 2011/ 9pm / $5
Free Speech Tuesday at AS220 featuring: Semi-Final Slam No Open Mic this week
Free Speech's Singer-Song Writer and Singer/Songwriter's Open Mic takes place the third Tuesday of each month, but the open mic is on hiatus due to this special event - the Semifinal Slam! Providence is one of the most well known and exciting Poetry Slam scenes nationwide. Poets competing in the monthly slam have earned a shot in the semi-finals and a chance to join the nationally recognized Providence Youth and Open teams, who perform and compete all over the country. The PVD team has made the semi-finals and finals stage at Brave New Voices and the National Poetry Slam on multiple occasions.
http://www.myspace.com/providencepoetryslam

Wednesday, April 20, 2011 / 7-10pm / $70 / At AS220 Labs 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 AS220 Labs 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. info 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 multi-track 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 ambiance 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 AS220 Labs 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