Seattle Twist

Come on down to the Tractor Tavern, August 20 for Sweetpea’s Birthday Shindig! Bring $6 to get in, some money for your favorite beverage, and a buck or two to put in my donation jar for www.purrfectpals.org if you can’t make it but want to donate anyway, please feel free to go to the purrfectpals.org site, or any other animal rescue site of your choice. Hope to see you there!

Don’t miss the Hazard Factory’s fantastic Power Tool Races this Saturday, June 26 -part of the fabulous Artopia arts extravaganza and Georgetown Music Festival from 2:00 to 10:00 PM.

Fantagraphics Bookstore curator Larry Reid created a demonic chainsaw-powered racer fashioned from an autographed 1991 Daniel Clowes-designed Corey O’Brian Santa Cruz skateboard.


Come cheer for racers (just don’t get too close), see dozens of bands (featuring Fantagraphics favorites the Tom Price Desert Classic right outside the bookstore), art exhibitions (including Megan Kelso’s wonderful new work inside the store), carnival games, aerial acts, food, drinks, and a special appearance by demented actor/comedian/filmmaker Bobcat Goldthwait. It’s all FREE!

More info here on the official ARTOPIA site.

Much like the Allahabad in India, where the sacred rivers Ganges, Yamuna and Saraswati meet to create one of the holiest places in Hinduism, the confluence called Triveni Sangam, this Thursday April 1st is a confluence of assorted art and music to create an unprecedented evening of culture.

The Moonspinners are at Bernards from 6pm till 9pm for a free show during Happy Hour.

Then, another fabulous free show, God’s Favorite Beefcake at The Moisture Festival, all around Georgetown, with a dozen other bands. Starting at 7pm, again, FREE. Oh, the humanity!

And don’t forget First Thursday:

There’s the Tree Show at Friesen Gallery.

Juan Alonso’s fundraiser for the Artist Trust EDGE Latino Visual Artists Scholarship Fund.

Rachel Maxi’s show at Some Space Gallery.

You’re So Cool at OHGE Gallery.

Troy Gua & The Collaborati : Meet Greet Rinse Repeat at Toshiro Kaplan building in Pioneer Square

Margot Quan Knight: Underphotos at James Harris Gallery

Then after the artwalk, stop by the City Arts: Artwalk Awards and After Party hosted by Joey Veltkamp from 8pm.

And then the frosting on the cake, the cherry on the sundae, Trainwreck at the Orient Express.

Join a Glimmer performer for a pre-show cocktail. Talk about dance and creativity. Talk about life. Talk about the weather. Anything goes. This opportunity is reserved for only 24 ticketholders per show (six per dancer). Get a group of friends together and shake up your regular pre-show routine.

How it works: Call ACT once you’ve purchased your tickets and tell the representative you’d like to sign up for a pre-show cocktail. (If other ticketholders will be joining you, let ACT know.) We’ll contact you directly as to where to meet. It’s a dutch date–you pay for your drink, we’ll pay for ours. From there, you and your performer will take a Seattle spring stroll over to ACT’s Bullitt Cabaret together.

Tickets: FREE with paid ticket to Glimmer performance
Reserve with ticket purchase, phone only (206) 292-7676
www.acttheatre.org

Pre-Show Cocktails with Glimmer Cast
Lingo’s version of a V.I.P. backstage pass
April 22-May 15, Thurs-Sat, 6pm (pre-show)

A Glimmer of Hope or Skin or Light
Commissioned by ACT Theatre’s Central Heating Lab
Presented by ACT, Seattle Art Museum and Lingo

In 2006, KT began investigating the relationship between audience and artist with the primary goal of creating a more tangible intimacy between the two. This search has led her to seek out more potent environments that ask the performer and the witness to confront each other as unique individuals who bring to the exchange their personal histories and desires. A Glimmer of Hope or Skin or Light, in all its forms, is an outcropping of this search.

TRAINWRECK: Thursday, March 4th at 9:30pm at the Orient Express.

Ambience: A collection of antique train cars (once ridden by FDR!)
Killer Dance Part: Featuring DJ Porq of “COMEBACK” fame!
Sexy Resident Dance Band: PUBERTY! (Secret side project of The Intelligence)
Chinese Food: Did we mention this is also a rad Chinese restaurant?
Delicious Drinks: Try a “Trainwreck!”
Make-Out Rooms: Meet a new friend? This party has nooks.
Fabulous Host: Seattle’s favorite trainwreck, KISSEE SIMMONS will be holding court!
PRIZES for the BEST/WORST DRESSED TRAINWRECK.

ALL THIS JOY FOR ONLY $6 at the ORIENT EXPRESS

Tickets available on Brown Paper Tickets or at the door.
Orient Express
2963 4th ave south
Seattle, WA 98134

It’s that time of the year again to dust off your platforms and get down to the to the beats of Sweden’s own mega band, ABBA!

Don your white sequined jumpsuit and attend the 2nd annual Absolut Vodka, Absolut Abba night at the Swedish Cultural Center.

Date: Friday March 5th
Time: Happy Hour 5-8; Dancing 8-12 pm
Dinner: From 6pm
Location: Swedish Cultural Center 1920 Dexter Avenue North
Cost: $5 for members, $10 for guests

If you’re feeling lonely or even if you’re lucky and have a loved one to celebrate with, you will want to attend Break a Heart at On The Boards which features some of Seattle’s most creative dancers and choreographers together tackling the theme of love (and heartbreak?), conveniently scheduled around one of the most unfortunate holidays of the year. The project features collections of talented local choreographers, including:

*Juliet Waller Pruzan/Stephen Hando
*Wade Madsen
*Crispin Spaeth
*Diana Cardiff
*Kristina Dillard
*ilvs strauss/Jody Kuehner
*Sara Jinks

Collectively these artists have experience performing with companies such as Pat Graney Company, d9 Dance Collective, Buttrock Suites, Re-bar Brown Derby Series, Big Red Dance, Ten Tiny Dances (Seattle) and Printer’s Devil Theater.

Tickets at On The Boards

Dancing on the Valentine is an annual benefit concert for the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society, the world’s largest voluntary health organization dedicated to funding blood cancer research, education, and patient services. The Society’s mission is to cure Leukemia, Lymphoma, Hodgkin’s Disease and Myeloma, as well as improve the quality of life for patients and their families.

DOTV 5 will be held the day before Valentine’s Day – Saturday February 13th, 2010…at The Crocodile

We are so excited to announce that DOTV 5 will be a David Bowie tribute night! We encourage everyone to dress up David Bowie Style.

Above text taken from the official website: dancingonthevalentine.com

STUDIES IN WHITE
EXPERIMENTAL ARTIST WORKING IN MOVEMENT & PERFORMANCE

Studies in White is an independent, full-day, event in Seattle. It
takes place 9AM–9PM on Saturday 16 January 2010 at COUNTERBALANCE PARK
in Lower Queen Anne. Artists will present studies lasting between half
an hour and 4 hours in length. Counterbalance Park in an open urban
area—clean, sparse and expansive. Artists presenting studies include
A. K. Mimi Allin, Danae' Clark, Vanessa Dewolf, Lainne Dexter, Kate
Freeman, Rudy Harper, Joan Laage, & Mylinda Sneed.

Studies in White is not an endeavor in finished, choreographed pieces.
It is a preparation for something else. Artists did not spend vast
amounts of time preparing, but rather envisioned and set into place
parameters for a STUDY and are partaking in those studies, publicly.

We welcome your participation:
(1) Waltzing in White at 5pm join in & dance your cares away in the park

(2) Writing in White at 6PM is an open writing exercise guided by

Vanessa DeWolf at Café Ladro
(3) Flashlight Chorus at 8PM is a participatory study with light in
the park. Bring a flashlight!

Thank you for your interest our studies. While we welcome your
presence, you should know we are filming, so entering the space
acknowledges your consent to be filmed.

Counterbalance Park after dark

Event agenda:
9AM Winter Field, A. K. “Mimi” Allin
10AM Winter Field, A. K. “Mimi” Allin
11AM Winter Field, A. K. “Mimi” Allin
12PM Winter Field, A. K. “Mimi” Allin
12PM White Wall, Joan Laage with Sheri Brown & Alan
1PM Winter Field, A. K. “Mimi” Allin
1PM Deconstructing Beatles' White Album, Lainne Dexter
2PM Danae’ Clark
3PM White Circle, Vanessa DeWolf
4PM Embossing, Kate Freeman
5PM Masks, Mylinda Sneed
6PM White Writing, Vanessa DeWolf
7PM White Writing, Vanessa DeWolf
8PM Flashlight Chorus (Conducted by Rudy Harper with support by Allin & Clark)

Join Local Bands Laguna and The Black Top Demons for a night of motor inspired mayhem!

Featuring DJ Vodka Twist (Studio 66) and DJ Ace Face (West Enders Scooter Club) on dancehall duty.

Inspired by the famous Summer ride for Seattle scooterists and bikers.

Tiger Lounge
412 S. Orcas
No Cover 21+

Trolloween is the Birthday celebration for Seattle’s famous Fremont Troll.

October 31st is the Trolls 20th Birthday!

It is held on his Birthday October 31st at 7pm sharp.
The celebration  starts with the Troll under the Aurora Bridge (Troll Ave & N 36th St), as he loves a good laugh and a great story.   Then revelers will be off for the annual Haunt of Fremont (a procession of costumed dancers & performers (& you) taking over the streets of Fremont.)

This 20th anniversary of the birth of the Fremont Troll, you’ll be experiencing the tale of  Dante’s Inferno. Many seasoned artists and performers will present their twisted and whacky version of this dark tale, known to us as: ‘Just a little lover’s spat ~ honey’.

Rain or dry, revelers will sing, dance, marvel, and laugh their way through the dark underbelly of Dante and Fremont.   This is an unsweetened and piquant family event with plenty of fun to scare the laughs out of any stoic kid or stogy adult.

Vamola

Come dressed as your favorite dead celebrity and take part in our costume walk across the final stage, under the Fremont Bridge, for the appreciation of your community.

If you can lend a hand to help pull off this fabulous piece of street theater, meet by the Troll at 6:30pm & check in with the volunteer coordinator to get a job.

p.s. Find your place in hell by taking this quiz: http://www.4degreez.com/misc/dante-inferno-test.mv

Lots of Creepy events this week at Cafe Racer!

Wednesday October 28: Matt Romero & Tim Tenson 9PM

mONDAY sAINT sIREN AND THE cORRESPONDENTS 9pm

For those with a predilection for things dark and heathen, it’s well worth a trip down to Portland for the Conflux Dark Arts Festival this Friday and Saturday. Last year’s event was very strong and varied in musical and visual performances and deserved even a larger audience than it had. This year’s event features steampunk favorites Abney Park and Seattle goth veterans Legion Within among many other performances.

For information and tickets see the Conflux MySpace page.

(For additional photos of last year’s event, see Pete’s Conflux flickr set.)

Prague’s “Kulture Magazine” says of Degenerate Art Ensemble, “They entranced the audience… the secret of their performance is perfect drama, gradation and splendid visuals, indescribable costumes and a punk-symphonic-garage-big-band style. Dynamic upheavals were turning into relaxing passages and everything was falling into place like wheels in a post-modernist clock machine.”

Friday and Halloween Saturday, Oct. 30 and 31, at the Moore Theater.

Purchase tickets online (you will need the coupon code SONIC )
Degenerate Art Ensemble web site

Seattle 60′s Night STUDIO 66 is at Lo-Fi this Saturday.
Live Music by The Tripwires and Goldie Wilson
Go-Go Dancing by The Tangerine Tonic Go-Go Troupe
Resident DJs Chrispo, Gort, Vodka Twist
Joined by Special Guest Agent Double-O S.O.U.L.
Two Rooms, Two Bars, Two Bands Four DJs = Eight Bucks

Saturday August First @
Lo-Fi Performance Gallery
429 Eastlake Ave E.

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Also Join Studio 66 Resident DJ’s Chrispo and VodkaTwist
at MOE BAR 1425 10th Ave E (next to Neumo’s)
Last Thursdays (July 30th, Aug 27th, Sept 24th +)

Experience Jim Henson’s Fantastic World at EMP|SFM’s Late Night Exhibitchin’, Saturday, August 1 from 9:00 pm – 1:00 am. EMP|SFM’s new afterhours dance party will feature live music, cheap drinks and super surprises throughout the evening and into the morning.

Start the night out right, and get your inner-Muppet on for an Animal drumming competition! Drums and sticks will be provided, animalistic tendencies—that’s all you, baby. Dance to music by local rap-pop-rock legends The Saturday Knights, the deliciously funky Eldridge Gravy & the Court Supreme and wunderkind spin master DJ Electro Wolf. Enjoy $3 beers and other drink specials throughout the night. Oh, and did we mention surprises? What’s a bitchin’ event without a little spectacle here and there?

Prizes for most-spazzy and most-snazzy Animal impersonations will be awarded. Save a place in the competition, send an e-mail to animalrocks@empsfm.org and get the low-down.

Last Thursdays MOE BAR hosts a night featuring resident STUDIO 66 DJ’s Chrispo and Vodka Twist who join special guests for a night of Sixties and Sixties inspired sounds: BRIT POP, GARAGE ROCK, VINTAGE SOUL & INTERNATIONAL POP

MOE BAR is the bar next to Neumo’s on 10th E Pike across from the Comet. Admission is always free and the place is always warm and friendly. MOE MOD has been going on for over a year and is a fun way to spend a Thursday night. 21+ 9PM-2AM