From neal at as220.org Thu Jul 10 14:16:11 2008 From: neal at as220.org (Neal T. Walsh) Date: Thu, 10 Jul 2008 14:16:11 -0400 Subject: [Events at AS220] SUNDAY Gallery Opening at AS220! Message-ID: Hello & happy hazy, hot, & humid July. Get out of the heat this Sunday and visit the new AS220 gallery exhibitions. Fantastic new show up in the galleries featuring photographs, paintings, collage, cast iron & glass! (& don't miss the Youth Gallery on the 2nd floor of Empire St. its 2 Wicked!) Opening is this Sunday from 4-7pm. Free! some light refreshments will be served. hope to see you! Eric Irving from the "monolith" series JULY 7?27, 2008 opening reception (free admission) Sunday, July 13, 4?7pm AS220 Main Gallery new paintings by Mark Doyle and photography by Eric Irving Open Window new work by Tim McCarthy Youth Gallery 2 Wicked: Randy Shapiro & Evan Owen- Stively AS220 Project Space Located at 93 Mathweson St. Enlace new work by Sarah Clover & Tree Study new installation by Jen Daltry Sarah Clover "Lace Circle Dome" cast iron For more info: http://www.as220.org/galleries/ peace, neal Neal T. Walsh Gallery Director AS220 115 Empire St. Providence, RI 02903 401.831.9327 neal at as220.org "The violets in the mountains have broken the rocks." Tennessee Williams sign the Declaration of Peace! http://declarationofpeace.org www.nealtwalsh.com -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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In case you missed the Fools Ball, there are pictures up on our flickr page ( http://www.flickr.com/photos/as220/sets/72157605898202314/ ) and T shirts still available in case you want to buy one! Just call the office and we can help you get suited up for success. There's some great stuff happening this week! So come on down and enjoy our air conditioning and uncensoredness. +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+ Thursday, July 10, 2008 Free Speech Thursdays at AS220 featuring: Poetry Tag & Writer's Workshop followed by BSS Elementary Showcase *7:30-9pm: Providence Slam: Poetry Tag & Writers Workshop!! This is a laid back chance to share page poems and practice reading out in a low pressure setting. All are Welcome! NO COVER. *9pm: BSS Elementary Showcase, $2 Come Experience: Great food Music performances Poetry readings Broad Street Sisters Presentation The Opening of AS220's Youth run gallery Broad Street Press publications Volunteer and info booths Broad Street Studio Showcase Goal: The goal of the Broad Street Studio Showcase is to present, document, and celebrate the work of the young people participating in the program to friends, family, supporters, local community members, funders, partners, like-minded arts and non- profits, and viewers like you! http://www.myspace.com/providencepoetryslam http://www.as220.org/showcase +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+ Friday, July 11, 2008 B Sharp Music Presents: Black Clouds, Sweet Thieves, Txoka Txoka, and Dirty Dirty 9pm $6 First-Fridays-from-B-Sharp. B SHARP MUSIC is a small independently- owned music shop located in providence, rhode island, that has been open since april 2003. we carry sweet-ass USED GUITARS, BASSES, DRUMS, and EFFECTS, and, most importantly, jaw harps. we BUY your old equipment, too! we specialize in FIXING YOUR STUFF. if you are sick of sending your guitars and amps away to unknown lands and unknown people through daddy's and guitar center, we can hook you up. our turnaround time for repairs is about a week, and you can actually talk to the person who is fixing your stuff. if you are sick of the sound of your amp or pedal, and want to make it better, we can do that, too. we do silver-face to black-face MODS, and we can basically make your tube amp or pedal sound like whatever you want. WE MAKE CUSTOM PEDALS as well. have an idea for an awesome pedal? let us know and we can make it for you! ::::::::::::::B SHARP MUSIC IS LOCATED AT: 265 broadway providence, ri 02903, (401) 223-2112, hours- mon- sat, 11-8:::::::::::::: +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+ Saturday, July 12, 2008 Bottle up and Go, The Lonesome State, Wrong Reasons, and Ben Pilgrim and the Free Union Band 9 pm $6 A night of Indie/Americana and religious healing! Wrong Reasons are not quite rockabilly or C&W and it's much too filthy to be roots, but take the best of those and you're getting close. A veteran of many a local band, Ben Pilgrim took his act solo in 2005. With a new love for folk and country blues and the punk of his teenage years still flowing in his veins, Ben would often be found in rock clubs and coffee houses alike, punching out catchy and thoughtful songs, aided only by his bluesy harmonica and heavy flat pick. In 2006, a chance meeting at a local hootenanny brought Ben Pilgrim together with the guitar genius of bluesman Blind Benny Tilken and the sweet harmonies of Mary Bee, both former members of the Bangor Beatles. Soon Blind Benny and Mary Bee summoned the rest of their former band mates. Upon their arrival, they all played songs for three days straight, ending with a drunken version of Woody Guthries Better World A-Coming. Stumbling again and again over the line We will all be union and we will all be free, the band was for evermore known as the Free Union. Since that day, Ben Pilgrim and the Free Union Band have spent their days and nights traveling around playing to excited crowds far and wide. LONESOME STATE: "The ability to tell a story; thats what sets apart the gifted singer/songwriter from a guy with a guitar. Zach Tremblay is a story teller. He possesses lyrical sensibilities firmly based in the Kerouac style, but with a fresh perspective. His voice, simultaneously raspy, yet tender, is the perfect compliment to his writing style. Weaving glimpses of intricate lives into three-minute doses, Zachs lyrics leave you feeling as if you know the people hes just sung about. You know where they live. You know their favorite pizza. You know their experiences because they have become your friend. That is Zachs gift to the listener. Zach Tremblay may be the most exciting singer/songwriter since Ellis Paul." from Thom Keith- Avant Coast Music. Bottle up and go: The floor is a bone pile. BOTTLE UP & GO is a chain gang. Their mouths are whiskey funnels. http://www.myspace.com/bottleupandgoband http://www.myspace.com/thewrongreasons http://www.myspace.com/zachtremblay http://www.myspace.com/benpilgrim +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+ Sunday, July 13, 2008 4-7pm FREE GALLERY OPENING In the galleries. OPENING RECEPTION SUNDAY 4-7pm Hours: 1-6pm Wednesday-Friday Noon-4pm Saturday and by appointment Providence Cutting Sessions: JAZZ PROGRAM 9 pm $5 Providence Cutting Sessions" is a new Jazz Program at AS220. It will run every second sunday of the month following the "Songwriters in the Round". The goal of this program is to inspire others to contribute to and support a growing jazz community. Students of all levels can contribute to this jazz community through performance, composition, and appreciation. Cutting Sessions took place in the 1930s and 1940s in many cities around the United States. Some of these cities included Kansas City, Milwaukee, Chicago, and of course, New York City. They were held in smaller clubs where jazz was played. Musicians would come to these sessions and join the band on stage to perform well-known songs of the time, or standards. One rumor of how the term cutting sessions came about is if the musician did not know the song, he/she would essentially be cut from the stage. While this may have been true of these sessions in their time, there is another belief in how these performances got the name cutting sessions, and this is more our vision of the program. Cutting sessions offered musicians the opportunity to cut their teeth. In other words, these sessions gave musicians a chance to get their experience in a real life situation of performing jazz on stage, with professionals, in front of an audience. The Providence Cutting Sessions is a program recently created by the Artistic Director of AS220, Bert Crenca, and a trio of local jazz musicians, Nick Sollecito, Mike Bernier, and Alex Chapman. This programs mission is two-part. First, to give jazz musicians a venue to display their art and talent; second, to compose a new repertoire of jazz standards. Providence Cutting Sessions will display new and original jazz compositions by local musicians. These compositions will mainly be in the style of the Real Book, which contains hundreds of well-known jazz standards. This program welcomes jazz musicians to come to performances and sit in with the house trio. All instruments are welcome. Original charts will be made available at performances and online in .pdf format (go to www.anglesideside.com for more info). Available charts have been transposed in keys C, B flat and E flat. We welcome composers to submit original songs to be performed (email providencecuttingsessions at gmail.com for more info). I hope this program will be of interest to jazz musicians through out the state. Please encourage students to get involved in this program. More info can be found on our website: www.anglesideside.com If you have any questions, please feel free to contact us at providencecuttingsessions at gmail.com http://www.provcuttingsessions.com/ +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+ Monday, July 14, 2008 Lazy Magnet, TxokaTxoka, Neckhold (Australia), and Frequency Control 9 pm $6 Neckhold are two brothers from Bisbane, Australia making fierce noise. TxokaTxoka:always changing sound jams Frequency Control is a 4 piece from Warren Lazy Magnet is totally your favorite electromagnetic force to be reckoned with!!! http://www.myspace.com/neckhold http://www.myspace.com/112503 http://www.myspace.com/frequencycontrol http://www.myspace.com/chacachaca +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+ Tuesday, July 15, 2008 Life Drawing 6-9pm $6 Come and draw from a live model. 14foot1, Neo Nouveau, and Dead Authors 10 pm $6 Neo Nouveau is a rock band who plays catchy, heartfelt pop/rock with indie, grunge, and roots rock influences. Dead Authors is a 1960's fuzz rock inspired project powered by the vintage guitars of Chris Kelley and occasional collaborators. 14foot1 is a mathrock band playing instrumental music in the vein of dilute, hella, and pele. http://www.myspace.com/neonouveau http://www.myspace.com/14foot1 http://www.myspace.com/deadauthors +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+ Wednesday, July 16, 2008 Geek Dinner 5:30-9pm FREE The goal of Providence Geeks is to help Rhode Island's digital innovators connect, collaborate, and ultimately make the City-State and its geeks info-technology leaders. Topics of conversation will vary as they will at any gathering of geeks, but many of us will be talking about AJAX, Mashups, Startups, and Web Services. It's totally casual. Wear whatever, bring whoever, arrive and vamoose whenever. And don't worry about eating or not. Come famished or full, eating is optional, and frankly, the least of the festivities. http://providencegeeks.org/ The Mae Shi, LLove, and The Awesome Brothers 9 pm $7 The Mae Shi are an experimental punk band from Los Angeles, California, formed in 2002.The band was formed by Tim Byron and Ezra Buchla, who had known each other for years, having spent time growing up in the Los Angeles suburb of Claremont together -- Jeff Byron and Buchla were classmates at Claremont High School and close friends.[2] Originally, Tim played guitar, Buchla played a collection of 30-year- old Buchla modules and sang, and varying drummers accompanied them. When Jeff graduated from college, he joined the band on guitar and Tim moved to bass. After a few months of practicing together, the three met Brad Breeck, who was studying at the California Institute of Arts with Buchla and had performed versions of John Zorn's "strategy game piece" Cobra in an ensemble led by Buchla. (The ensemble also featured future Mae Shi drummer Corey Fogel). Hello, we are the AWESOME BROTHERS. We make music for dancing and videos for watching. Our live performances include both music and videos, because everyone likes to dance but nobody likes to be watched while they dance. So, while you dance to the AWESOME BROTHERS, don't feel self-conscious. Nobody is watching you, they are watching our videos and dancing to our music. And if they are watching you, it's because you must be an amazing dancer. http://www.myspace.com/awesomebrothers http://www.myspace.com/themaeshi http://www.myspace.com/thedeathset http://www.myspace.com/llovemusic +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+ Thursday, July 17, 2008 Free Speech Thursdays at AS220 featuring: Musician & Poet Open Mic 8pm $4 THURSDAYS are WORDSDAYS, this week: Anything goes - Everyone is welcome - All forms of performance are encouraged - Come and share your stuff! On the third-Thursday of each month, the open mic arena at AS220 is in full force. Hosted by the lovely Sue Prouty and the fine folks of the Providence Poetry Slam. AN OPEN MIC NIGHT RUN BY FOLKS WHO KNOW HOW TO KEEP THE SHOW MOVING!! In a place where the bar is next door and a chance to perform in front of an attentive Poetry Slam audience used to respecting the mic. Open to ALL musicians and poets. Poets get 3 minutes, Musicians get 7 minutes. Everything must consist of all original material! Interested? Email SUSIE: haygib1 [at] yahoo [dot] com On THURSDAYS at AS220, FREE SPEECH is in full effect with a weekly program of SPOKEN WORD OPEN MICS, POETRY SLAMS, YOUTH SLAMS, HIP-HOP - OPEN MIC SHOWCASE (on 2nd Thursdays), MUSICIAN OPEN MICS, and so on and so forth. Come teach, share, and learn! The stage is open to writers, poets, rappers, comedians, professor's, ranters, and ravers; come down and keep the oral tradition alive! http://www.myspace.com/providencepoetryslam -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://www.as220.org/pipermail/events/attachments/20080710/c9fd1faf/attachment-0001.htm From shawn at as220.org Mon Jul 28 14:58:18 2008 From: shawn at as220.org (Shawn Wallace) Date: Mon, 28 Jul 2008 14:58:18 -0400 (EDT) Subject: [Events at AS220] Make and Break Electronics Workshops coming soon... Message-ID: First, a pop quiz... 1. Are you: a. obsessed with LEDs? b. trying to figure out how to build an effects pedal for your didgeridoo? 2. Have you ever: a. hooked an Arduino up to your cat's litter box? b. used a wok as an antennae? c. put contact mics in your rock tumbler? d. let the magic smoke out of your iPhone? If you answered YES to any of the above, or if you're just interested in learning and sharing information about electronics, read on... **Wednesdays Just Got Geekier** Starting in August, AS220 will be hosting Make And Break Wednesdays, a series of eclectic, hands-on electronics-making workshops. Workshops will generally be free and open to people of all skill levels and interests. In some cases we will ask for a fee to cover materials provided to participants, if necessary. Make and Break workshops will be held from 5:30-7:00pm on the Wednesdays that Geek Dinners and DC401 meetings *don't* happen. So, August and September will look like this: Wed. Aug 13th: Make and Break Wed. Aug. 20th: Make and Break Wed. Aug. 30th: Make and Break Wed. Sept. 3rd: DC401 Meeting Wed. Sept. 10th: (previously scheduled event) Wed. Sept. 17th: Make and Break Wed. Sept. 24th: Geek Dinner If you are interested in learning more, staying in the loop, or sharing your electronics and tinkering experience, join the new announce/discuss mailing list: electronics at as220.org! Just go to: http://www.as220.org/mailman/listinfo/electronics See you two Wednesdays from now! Shawn -- S h a w n P W a l l a c e http://www.as220.org/shawn/ 115 Empire St Providence RI