Performance


Event: Everything But The Kitchen Sink (or not) Cabaret
Venue: The Triple Door, 216 Union Street, Seattle, WA 98101
Time: door at 5:30PM, show at 7:30PM
Tickets: $22 advance, $25 day of show. Rated R (17+)
Ticket Contact: 206-838-4333, http://www.tripledoor.com/tickets
Tickets for all shows are on sale now!

 

This is my favorite circus and I'm taking my mom on Sunday nite at 7pm (they have a special kids show every Sunday...apparently some circus' have performances that aren't suitable for for kids my age....I can't imagine what they do) but I still love this show anyway!!!

http://www.circuscontraption.com/

 

  This is the coolest piece of theater to hit town since before I was born!

Take your mom!

I’m taking my mom Saturday night…we already have plans on Mother’s Day but if you don’t GO SEE THIS SHOW! They even have brunch on Sunday! Don’t miss it!

http://www.seattleinternational.org/seattle/performers/aurelia.html

Aurélia’s Oratorio

France


Special Pre-Festival Event May 7-11

In the twisted tradition of Shockheaded Peter, Tim Burton and Edward Gorey, Seattle International Children’s Festival, in partnership with Seattle Repertory Theatre, presents Aurélia’s Oratorio.  A dazzling display of stage illusion and circus theater spectacle. 

Aurélia’s Oratorio is inspired by European circuses and medieval drawings depicting upside-down and inside-out worlds with altered states. Nothing is as it seems as the impossible happens. Furniture has a mind of its own, trains go through people and, at times, the puppets are in charge.

Creator and performer Aurélia Thierrée has performed as actress and illusionist since early childhood, initially with her parents Victoria Thierrée Chaplin and Jean-Baptiste Thierrée, the pioneers of new circus in the famous Cirque Invisible (Seattle Rep, 1997) and Cirque Imaginaire, and more recently with Tiger Lillies Circus of Shockheaded Peter fame.

“Grab the kids — not too young — and treat yourself to 70 minutes of the most fun you’ll have in a theater this year.” –Post and Courier, Charleston  

“A magical slice of theatrical trickery”
Metro

“It is an absolute spellbinder”
Daily Telegraph

“It is a bewitching 70 minutes in which the nightmarish and the dreamy meet and disintegrate in a puff of smoke and the whistle of a train.”
The Guardian

http://aureliaoratorio.com/

Hula Luau in Seattle

Title:

Seattle Luau Time

Come and enjoy a traditional Hawaiian Lu’au meal and entertainment performed by the students of Hui O Nani Hawai’i. We will share with you the beauty of the hula and other dances from the islands. Come for the food…Come for the fun…Come for the friends…Come learn and experience one of Hawai’i’s most celebrated and timeless traditions…47 years in the making…
Sponsor: Hui O Nani Hawai’i
When: Saturday, May 3rd, 2008 (5:30 PM - 9 PM)
Where: Campion Tower
(Campion Ballroom)
Web site: http://students.seattleu.edu/clubs/hui/luau.htm
Contact: Blaise Baldonado,  baldonad@seattleu.edu,  

Ooh La La

May 1, 2008
Harbor Steps in Downtown Seattle
6:00 pm - 8:00 pm

On May 1, get swept off your feet with Ooo La La, a free interactive public performance spectacular!

Created by Lucia Neare & coinciding with First Thursday ArtWalk, Ooo La La creates a grand corridor of whimsy throughtout downtown. Follow the parade from Occidental Square, or board the Queen May at 6 pm on the Harbor Steps as she sets sail to Whimsy.
Music, dancing and suprises await throughout the evening.

Come dance the night away!

GGLO is proud to sponsor this May Day extravaganza with 4Cultue’s Site Specific Performance Network. This public performance art event celebrates GGLO’s commitment and ongoing work to create great civic places for public art and community.
Theatrical direction by Cathy Madden, musical direction by Matt Goodrich, technical direction by David Verkade, and choreography by Jessica Jobaris.

Theatrical Wonders

Puppetry of the Penis

After two spectacular Seattle engagements, PUPPETRY OF THE PENIS returns to wet and woody Seattle. And this time, Writer/Comedian Cathy Sorbo is on hand to whip the audience into a hysterical frenzy before this “Powerful Pair of Penises” makes their highly anticipated entrance. PUPPETRY OF THE PENIS (POP) settles into their new home at ACT Theatre from April 29th – May 4th. Cathy comments, “I first met the boys a few years back and I can’t wait to see them again. I’ll bet they’ve ‘eh hem’ grown a lot since then. I wonder if I’ll recognize them?”

Make no mistake, there are no sock puppets in this show! This eye POP-ing show is exactly what it pretends to be; two naked penis puppeteers on stage presenting the ancient Australian art of genital origami with an astounding series of penis installations.

Puppetry of the Penis, oh my!

Requiring astonishing stamina, an unbelievable stretch factor and an amazing level of testicular fortitude, PUPPETRY OF THE PENIS leaves women and men gasping with more than 40 heroic and hilarious penis installations including The Pelican, The Windsurfer, The Eiffel Tower, Loch Ness Monster, and the signature installation, The Hamburger. POP has made countless celebrity’s eyes pop’: Hugh Grant, Naomi Campbell, Posh Spice, Bono and Elton John to name a few. Join this star-studded list of POP supporters and see for yourself. PUPPETRY OF THE PENIS is a non-sexual adult show.

 

Show and ticket information can be found at: www.acttheatre.org

Box office phone: (12-7pm, closed mon.): 206-292-7676

Group Sales: (253) 839-4204

For more information visit: www.puppetryofthepenis.net

www.CathySorbo.com  

Circus Contraption

The circus band has been slaving away in the studio, and you’re about to hear why. Their fourth CD is nearly finished, so it’s time to celebrate with a CD release party.  Join them at Neumo’s on Saturday, April 26th to get your own copy.

Featuring: “Awesome”, Buttrock Suites, and the 15-year-old Johnny Cash sensation.$10 advance, 8pm door, 21 and over.Advance tickets available through TicketsWest.

Saturday April 26

Neumo’s, 925 East Pike

Circus Contraption

Make Magazine

I wrote an article for this months issue of MAKE Magazine (http://www.makezine.com/) about folk artist Martin Sanchez and the environment he created out of found objects (including a beer-bottle chapel) and I’m going to be featuring some of those photos with commentary this Thursday 4/10 at See Sound Lounge on 1st and Blanchard in Belltown at 6pm. 

Pecha Kucha Night was conceived in 2003 as a place for designers, architects and artists to meet, network, and show their work in public, and it has spread virally to over 100 cities across the world.

Give a mic to an architect or an artist and you may be trapped for hours.  The key to Pecha Kucha Night is its patented system for avoiding this fate. Each presenter is allowed 20 images, each shown for 20 seconds each - giving 6 minutes 40 seconds of fame before the next presenter is up. This keeps presentations concise, the interest level up, and gives more people the chance to show.

Pecha-Kucha

Pecha Kucha (which is Japanese for the sound of conversation) has tapped into a demand for a forum in which creative work can be easily and informally shown, without having to rent a gallery or chat up a magazine editor.

http://www.pecha-kuchaorg/cities/seattle

http://www.UnusualLife.com

Artists and presenters for the evening are Marlow Harris, Alex Steffen, Cameron Hall, Sage Saskill, Elizabeth Buschmann, Karen Lorene, Jesse Harris, Dawn Clark, Ross Leventhal and Michael Franz Horner

The Swedish Housewife Presents“Still Falling

Down Memory Lane

5 shows celebrating “21″ years of staggeringly delightful entertainment. April 9th - Joey Arias in “Strange Fruit” channeling Billie Holiday with Eliot Douglass on piano.Joey Arias’s first West Coast appearance after 2500 shows in a 4 1/2 year

Las Vegas residency in Cirque du Soleils “Zumanity”.  It’s been 18 years since The Swedish Housewife produced Joey’s

Seattle
debut at Re Bar, and as expected he has been dazzling the world with his beautiful voice.  From Carnegie Hall to the Edinburg Fringe Festival he is able to name and venue drop with the best of them. The Las Vegas Journal awarded Joey “Diva of the Strip” over Celine Dion. He has sung with David Bowie, collaborated with the late Klaus Nomi. Oh! and I forgot Andy Warhol, but let’s just leave it at that. Joey Arias is synonymous with and the definition of cutting edge, he reigned as Grande Dame Diva when there still was an underground scene and has gone on to woo the mainstream. Eliot Douglass is currently performing in

Las Vegas
as a pianist in the Cirque du Soleil’s hit Zumanity. As an original member, he has also composed and arranged material for the show. Eliot and Joey have worked together for more than a dozen years with concert dates on three continents and until recently together in Zumanity.
 In 2006 at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival with Joey, The Scotsman wrote that “Eliot’s rhapsodic stylizings and white hot improvisations were equal to the best” heard at that year’s jazz festival. The Los Angeles Times has called his music “quirky, angular and haunting,” twice the “Critics Choice” and ”Pick of the Week” by the

L.A.
  
The Triple Door,
216 Union Street, Seattle, WA

98101

 http://www.tripledoor.com/tickets.

Art Star

Fabulous supporter of actual artists, arts organization Artist Trust, bring arts patrons, collectors and artists together for one big night to support art at its source.    This rockin’ evening includes a silent and Live auction of over 200 artists, specialty cocktails and a festive buffet.  The live auction features KING 5 Evening Magazine´s John Curley and performances by Artist Trust grant recipients.

For a preview view the Online Catalogue.

Online ticket sales are closed, but call Call 206/467-8734 x18 and speak to Monica if you want to go. I’ll be at the door greeting guests the first few hours, so be sure to say Hello!

Real Estate DIva

Seattle real estate agent Sarina McDonald aka “Ravenna Black” stars in this week’s episode of the ABC reality show “Wife Swap”. The show takes two women — whose families have vastly different values — and asks them to switch places for two weeks. Each episode documents the drama that results when the husband and the kids are forced to adjust to a new matriarch in the family.

For this show, Sarina went to upstate New York to live with the Robarge family. They are involved in lumberjack competitions, and their family’s activities revolve around husband Wally’s professional lumberjack competitions, where the McDonalds’ lives revolve around Sarina’s trips around the country to burlesque events.

Sarina saw this as a great opportunity to highlight some of the charity work she does with The Pin-Up Angels.

Do you love this girl or what?

Wife Swap - Wednesday, January 30th at 8pm PST on ABC.

Agent fired for extra-curricular activities

Ravenna Speaks!

Real Estate and Sexual Politics

 Art Attack

Seattle’s colorful, industrial Georgetown neighborhood has drawn a lot of recent attention as the last outpost of a true blue-collar Bohemian arts community. In an effort to showcase the many accomplished artists and creative enterprises based in the neighborhood, the Georgetown Merchants Association is pleased to launch the first Georgetown Second Saturday Art Attack. The first of these lively monthly artwalks will take place on Saturday, February 9, from 6:00 to 9:00 PM.

More than two dozen galleries, studios, nightclubs, boutiques, and cafes will participate in the inaugural event. The work of countless local artists in a variety of media will be presented. As the delicate social ecology of the historic Georgetown district faces challenges posed by gentrification, it is hoped that featuring Georgetown’s delightful creative diversity will generate public sentiment favoring the preservation of this regional asset.

Among the many highlights of the Second Saturday Georgetown Art Attack:
The lively “Art Jam” at 9 Lb. Hammer where a dozen Georgetown artists create modern masterpieces live onstage to a pulsating urban sound mix; Open artists studios at the newly developed Equinox Studios, housing more than three dozen artists and craftsmen; Art exhibition and book launch party for cartoonist Ellen Forney’s provocative new title “Lust” at Fantagraphics Bookstore & Gallery; New works by the incomparable Rick Klu at Georgetown Tile Works; Open house celebration at the newly expanded Belle & Wissell studio gallery; Improvisational theater by Real Moment Players at Calamity Jane’s; A sneak peek at soon-to-open Full Throttle Bottles; A multimedia installation about the Georgetown Super 8 Film Festival at Bolte Creative and an opening at  the rechristened MIX (formerly Christoff Gallery); Exotic shopping, diverse dining, thirst quenching fun and limitless entertainment in the charming and challenging Georgetown industrial arts quarter.

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