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5.20.2008 | Tues | Creative Conversations
7:00pm, free
Creative Conversations is a way to connect creative individuals: to each other, to organizations, to information, to opportunities. Sponsored by the Portland Arts & Cultural Alliance this meeting, the first of a two part series focusing on writing and reporting on the arts, will provide an opportunity to meet the writers who cover the arts in our community and gain insight into what drives their choices of coverage. Ken Greenleaf (The Portland Phoenix), Avery Yale Kamila (The Maine Switch) and Bob Keyes (The Portland Press Herald) will join us for our discussion moderated by MECA’s Jessica Tomlinson.

6:30-10pm, $8 for Buy Local Members and Employees of Buy Local Members, $10 Advance Tickets, General Public, $15 Day of Ticket Sales, General Public Buy tickets at http://www.brownpapertickets.com
The First Annual Portland Indie Biz Awards will recognize the leaders among Portland’s vibrant independent business community and showcase the impact that independently owned businesses have on greater Portland and the state of Maine. The event will include live music by local musicians Sam James and Honey Clouds, a silent auction, and awesome food and drink from local businesses.

Doors open at 9:00, event begins at 9:30, $5, 18+
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You’ve most likely enjoyed the sound of Joe Lally’s bass guitar from his days in Fugazi. Since then he’s been releasing solo records on Dischord, but they’re never really solo, instead featuring collaborations with D.C. music scene friends using his bass lines as an anchor. He’s got friends with him for the tour, too. The Glorytellers are a indie supergroup featuring members of Karate, Secret Stars, Cul de Sac, Ida, Him and Mice Parade. How’s that for credentials?
5.28.2008 | Wed | Surfwise: The Amazing True Odyssey of the Paskowitz Family
Doors open at 7:00pm, event begins at 7:30pm, $7, $5 for members, All ages
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Like many American outsider-adventurers, Dorian “Doc” Paskowitz set out to realize a utopian dream. Abandoning a successful medical practice, he sought self-fulfillment by taking up the nomadic life of a surfer. But unlike other American searchers like Thoreau or Kerouac, Paskowitz took his wife and nine children along for the ride, all eleven of them living in a 24 foot camper. Together, they lived a life that would be unfathomable to most, but enviable to anyone who ever relinquished their dreams to a straight job. The Paskowitz Family proved that America may be running out of frontiers, but it hasn’t run out of frontiersman.
http://www.surfwisefilm.com
Review in the New York Times: http://movies.nytimes.com/2008/05/09/movies/09surf.html
Listen to one of the Paskowitz sons talk with Terri Gross on "Fresh Air"
5.29.2008 | Thurs | Time-Lag Presents: Kemialliset Ystävät with The Skaters and Cursillistas
Doors open at 8:30, event begins at 9, $8, 18+
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Local psych purveyor Time-Lag Records presents a rare opportunity to see a group from waaay across the pond. Finland's Kemialliset Ystävät work in short, spooling instrumentals, building layers and weaving ghosts of noise songs into huge tunnels of etherea with moldy acoustic instruments and almost broken electronics. The Skaters are a cosmic drone unit based in San Francisco and local favorite Cursillistas returns to wave their freak flag.
http://www.kemiallisetystavat.com
5.30.2008 | Fri | Mission For Burma: Cyclone Nargis Benefit Concert
Doors open at 7:30pm, event begins at 8:00, $5-20 Suggested Donation
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On May 2nd, Cyclone Nargis ripped through the country of Burma, leaving tens of thousands dead and millions more severely impacted by the storm's destruction and at risk of thirst, hunger and disease. Aid efforts by the humanitarian community have been largely blocked by the ruling military junta, threatening a situation of catastrophic proportions. SPACE Gallery, Peace Action Maine and the US Campaign for Burma present an evening of words and music by some of Portland's most talented musicians to generate support for the people of Burma. All door proceeds will go, under the US Campaign for Burma's direction, to reliable relief efforts within Burma. Performers include: Chriss Sutherland (Fire On Fire), Christopher Teret, Colin Gulley (Toughcats), Dave Noyes (Rustic Overtones, Seekonk), Doug Cowan (Bullyclub), Hanifa Washington, Jeremy Alexander (An Evening With), Josh Loring (Cult Maze, Brenda), Micah Blue Smaldone, Okbari, Phantom Buffalo, Samuel James, and Sara Cox.

6.6.2008 | Fri | Third Annual SPACE Gallery Polaroid Auction
5-8pm, free, all ages
You've probably heard the news that the Polaroid Corporation has decided to cease production of our favorite film, so who knows what future lies ahead for devotees of the beauty created with our beloved instant film? Come support SPACE at the third annual Polaroid Auction, where one of Maine's finest photography shows offers a chance at purchasing affordable art and supporting a needy nonprofit arts organization all at the same time. Sales via our silent auction format, with bidding to finish at 8:00pm.
6.10.2008 | Tues | Blake/e/e/e with Yeti
Doors open at 8:30pm, music starts at 9pm, $5, 18+
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Some say the dark folk music of Chicago’s Blake/e/e sounds like Sonic Youth on opium or the Staple Singers on acid. “The Beach Boys going to church if the church was a mutant disco” seems the most appropriate. These two Italians and two Americans are visiting to support their new record, Border Radio, out now on Freefolk Records. Yeti is a new project featuring members of Portland’s own Tempera with a krautrock groove and motorik beats that would make Amon Duul and Neu! proud.
http://www.blakeeee.com/

6.12.2008 | Thurs | The Telling Room Presents: I Carry It Everywhere
Doors open at 7:00pm, event starts at 7:30pm, $5, all ages
Buy tickets at http://www.brownpapertickets.com Dark green stripes of watermelon…the blood of someone lost…singing Egyptian music…a cranky soccer ball…living under water—these are some of the things that matter most to fifty of the over 400 young writers the Telling Room worked with this year in intensive workshops in schools and at their downtown writing center. Their writing is celebrated in the new anthology, I Carry It Everywhere. The book features a vivid collection of stories, poems, and startling photographs of fifty of these students holding statements about what really matters. For more information, go to:
http://www.tellingroom.org
6.13.2008 | Fri | Damon & Naomi with Helena Espvall and Masaki Batoh
Doors open at 9:00pm, music starts at 9:30pm, $8, 18+
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Damon & Naomi are going two decades strong taming melancholy with beautiful music. From their beginnings in the college-rock-band staple Galaxie 500 to their new album “Within These Walls”. Fans of Nick Drake, Leonard Cohen and Scott Walker take note. They bring with them distinguished guests Masaki Batoh from the seminal Japenese psych band, Ghost, and Helena Espvall from Espers.
http://www.damonandnaomi.com/
http://www.dragcity.com/bands/helenabatoh.html

6.19.2008 | Thurs | Maine College of Art MFA Lecture Series with Brian Conley
Doors open at 6:00pm, lecture starts at 6:30pm, free, all ages Brian Conley is Chair of the Fine Arts Department at California College of the Arts. In work ranging from large-scale sculpture to live-radio broadcasts and interactive sound installations, his projects focus on the relationship between art installation and scientific display, mixing fact and fiction to explore the human experience within a continuum bounded by technology and nature.
http://www.cca.edu/gallery/artist/191
http://www.meca.edu/newsevents/VisitingArtists.aspx
6.20.2008 | Fri | Brothers Unconnected: A Tribute To Charles Gocher & Sun City Girls with Fire On Fire
Doors open at 9:00pm, music begins at 9:30pm, $10, 18+
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Formed in 1981 by brothers Richard and Alan Bishop and percussionist Charlie Gocher, Sun City Girls rendered an eclectic mix of every musical style one can think of -- demented surf, Indian and Asian improvisation, free-form noise, fractured folk, you name it -- with doses of kabuki theater, shadow puppetry, and maverick guerilla stagecraft thrown in. Sadly, Charles Gocher passed away on February 19th, 2007 from a long battle with cancer. Brothers Unconnected will feature Charles' video experiments followed by Alan and Richard performing Sun City Girls songs as an acoustic guitar duet. This tour will most likely be the only time this show will be presented as such and is a tribute both to Charles Gocher and selected music from the 27 year legacy of Sun City Girls. Opening are Sun City Girls compañeros, Portland's own beloved Fire On Fire.
http://www.suncitygirls.com
http://www.myspace.com/fireonfiremusic

6.21.2008 | Sat | Grupo Esperanza - Summer Solstice Dance Party
Doors open at 9:00pm, music starts at 9:30pm, $8, 18+
Buy tickets at http://www.brownpapertickets.com Join Portland’s own Grupo Esperanza for this Summer Solstice Dance Party! The band, if you don’t know, is dance-powered: the more you dance, the better the night. Winner of the Phoenix’s Best World Music act for 2006,07, and 08, the newest evolution of this local Salsa orchestra is excited to share it’s new rhythm with the people on this the longest and sweetest night of the year.
http://www.myspace.com/grupoesperanza
6.23.2008 |Mon | Maine College of Art MFA Lecture Series with Jason Lewis
Doors open at 6:00pm, lecture starts at 6:30pm, free, all ages

Jason Lewis is a digital artist and technology researcher whose work revolves around experiments in visual language, text and typography. His other interests include computation as a creative material, emergent media theory and history, and methodologies for conducting art-led technology research. Lewis was trained in philosophy and computer science at Stanford University and in art and design at the Royal College of Art and is currently an Assistant Professor of Computation Arts at Concordia University in Montreal, where he founded and directs Obx Laboratory for Experimental Media.
http://www.thethoughtshop.com/
6.25.2008 | Wed| Gallery Opening: Patrick Corrigan
5:00 - 8:00pm, free, all ages Artist Patrick Corrigan is a local renaissance man, working out of his Bayside studio Fort Awesome on a variety of music projects, paintings, mixed media pieces, silk-screened prints, illustrations and hand-painted custom guitar pedals. Much of his work stems from collaborations with other artists, and this show involves Jenny Gardiner and Garry Bowcott (as the collective Doghaus), Crank Sturgeon, Chris Barry and Dave Noyes. In July we’ll host some related music projects, including the long-awaited release of Corrigan’s band Seekonk’s third album.
6.26.2008 |Thurs | Harry and the Potters - Unlimited Enthusiasm Expo!
Doors open at 7pm, music starts at 7:30pm, $10, all ages
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Harry and the Potters are pioneers of wizard rock, a form of indie rock with themes inspired by the J.K. Rowling book series and lyrics usually from the point of view of the fictional protagonist, Harry Potter. Last time this band rolled through town they played to a packed Portland Public Library so buy your tickets now! Joining the fun are friends-of-Hogwarts, Uncle Monsterface and MATH the band.
http://www.myspace.com/harryandthepotters
6.27.2008 | Fri | The Animation Show - 2 SCREENINGS!!
Doors open at 7:00pm for the 7:30 screening and at 9:30pm for the10:00 screening. $8, $5 for members, all ages (see note below)
Buy tickets at http://www.brownpapertickets.com Curated by Mike Judge (creator of “Beavis & Butthead,” and “King of the Hill”), The Animation Show visits Maine for the first time with an all new collection of the world’s greatest animated short films. It’s a ground breaking program of over two dozen hilarious adult animation from tomorrow’s generation of great animators, (and some seasoned vets like Bill Plympton, PES and Joel Trussell). This isn’t a dirty “adults only” animation show but the program does skew towards a mature audience with some explicit language and adult subject matter. Be warned. (80m)
6.29.2008 | Sun | Covered in Bees, Confusatron and Man-Witch
Doors open at 4:00pm, event starts at 5:00pm. $6, All ages
Buy tickets at http://www.brownpapertickets.com The Entertainment Experiment presents: Portland punk-rock veterans Covered in Bees will be teaming up with theatrical-thrash titans Man-Witch and robot prog-monsters Confusatron for the first in a series of long overdue all-ages rock shows here at SPACE.
http://www.myspace.com/coveredinbees
http://www.myspace.com/confusatron
http://www.myspace.com/rimeoftheancientmanwitch
6.28.2008 | Sat | You Can Get There From Here! Professional Development Workshops for Emerging Artists
9am - 5pm, $10 includes lunch for pre-registrants. Scolarships available. Program
Get Noticed: When to pursue grad school, grants, residencies, galleries, art fairs and museums
Working It: Building relationships in person and online
Getting Some: Lunch and speed networking on what's next for you
Get it Together: How to balance your studio work, day job, checkbook and calendar.
Pre-Register = Lunch on us! Lunch is included only for participants that pre-register. To register, contact Tina Mann at 207/287-2724 or [email protected] . Cost of the event will be paid at check-in.

Questions? Call Melissa Potter at 201/239-4521.

Application First Aid available. Bring your application for grad school, residency or grant to be reviewed.

A collaboration of the College Art Association, Maine Arts Commission , Maine College of Art , Portland Arts and Cultural Alliance and SPACE Gallery .

College Art Association's National Career Development Worksops are supported by a generous grant from the Emily Hall Tremaine Foundation.

Doors open at 9:00pm, music begins at 9:30pm, $10, 18+
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More info TBA.
http://www.myspace.com/boniver
http://www.myspace.com/bowerbirds