[atlantaprog] [eyedrum-announcement-list] September 13 – September 17, 2006

Eyedrum events September 13 – September 17, 2006


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This week’s events: (more info below or click on the link)

Wednesday September 13  7:30pm  $6 or sliding scale
Pink Eye Queer Film Series presents ‘Girl Gangs!’

Thursday September 14  9:00pm  $3
Info Demo Version 2.4:  ‘Little Things Mean a Lot’

Friday September 15  9:00pm  $6
Arthur Doyle / Ded Wilcox / Jamie Harrar, Konx

Saturday September 16  6:00pm – 8:00pm  Free
Small Gallery Opening Reception:  Alison Weldon – She’s a Beaut!

Saturday September 16   9:00pm   $5
Crumbling Arches, Sulfuric Acid Test

Sunday September 17   7:45pm  $7
Helvetica Hotline – Living in the Spoils of Freedom

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September 13  Wednesday

Pink Eye Queer Film Series presents:
Girl Gangs!
Film
7:30pm
$6 or sliding scale

An evening of fab movies about tough girls, plus Good‘N’Plenty burlesque, DJ Hawg-Tied, food by Ria’s Bluebird, beer and wine. Featuring hot girl gang movies: YoYo Gang by queercore pioneer G.B. Jones (Toronto), punk celeb-studded Gang Girls 2000 by Katrina del Mar (NYC), and burlesque-sploitation SuperStarlet A.D. by John Michael McCarthy (Memphis).


September 14   Thursday

Info Demo Version 2.4
“Little Things Mean a Lot”
Multimedia performance
9:00pm
$3

Good things come in small packages, but the Devil is in the details. Are you mired in minutiae? Have you been suckered by the small print? How did the Cooper Mini get so big? What about that little lie that turned into a huge argument? Or Jack’s little bean that brought giants down on his head? They all laughed at “Fantastic Voyage,” but with the advent of nano-technology, who’s to say that Raquel Welch won’t soon be driving her submarine into an artery near you? How many angels can dance on the head of a pin, and how can you get a camel through the eye of a needle?
(Only the God of Small Things knows.)

Christopher “Size Matters” Stevens and Terra Elan “Micro-Mini” McVoy, a.k.a.
The Info Demons, invite you to join them to explore the little things...

Presenters Include:

Birdy from Good n' Plenty doing a wee bit o' burlesque
Al Kaufman on being not-so-well-endowed
Amanda Burk giving us a walking tour through tinyisms
Deidra Currie on the importance of small things
Terra Elan McVoy on The Nutshell Studies of Unexplained Death

Musical performances!
Readings and poems!
Prizes!

INFO DEMO: A LITTLE OF THIS, A LITTLE OF THAT, A LOT OF FUN!


September 15   Friday

Arthur Doyle / Ed Wilcox / Jamie Harrar
Konx
Music
9:00pm
$6

One of our favorite saints of free jazz Arthur Doyle returns for his first show in Atlanta in....well, a long time.
In late 60s NYC Doyle skronked out the jams with sci-fi free no wave legends The Blue Humans. Perfect Sound Forever calls his sound "a mixture of African folk song delicacy and pure Albert Ayler overload." We would have to agree. For this performance Mr. Doyle will be collaborating with Ed Wilcox, head percussionist with Temple of Bon Matin, and multi media artist Jamie Harrar.

+ Robert Cheatam's jazznoise bastard Konx reunites, fuses, and explodes all over our stage just when we finally cleaned them up from 3 years ago.


September 16   Saturday

Alison Weldon:  She’s A Beaut!
Art opening reception
6:00pm – 8:00pm
Free

The images are derived from 1950s-era pin-up illustrations. The pieces exhibited are drawings created with pin and thread, traditional materials used in and for domestic tasks. By using these materials in conjunction with the images, I create a dichotomy between the traditional comfort of the models' beauty and the aggression inherent in the weapons they wield. This juxtaposition not only magnifies the power of the models' beauty, but also illustrates how their beauty, like the weapons they hold, can be used as a tool.

Through October 7th.

Then stick around for:

Crumbling Arches
Sulfuric Acid Test
Music
9:00pm
$5

Four knights set off in quest for the holy grail three years ago. They left on this forespoken quest from the deep dark holes of the Atlantian caverns, armed with only a few butter knives and spoons. Now, they continue their quest armed with new weaponry, and you can find them slaying dragons and wooing damsels with their newfound and powerful swords of theatrical rock in a venue near you.

Oh yea, and these knights have been recording a full length concept album for over a year, sign up for their mailing list and they'll give you updates on when and how the new tunes shall be released and where new shows will sprout up.

Crumbling Arches Myspace Page

Crumbling Arches website

SULFURIC ACID TEST: by Paul Stanley Kubrick & CyberCrunk
Asks the Question: “WHAT IS REAL”?…

By blurring the lines even further between entertainment, journalism, media, domestic and foreign policy-politics…the movement of the youth in music art and film remind the powers that be; that there always has to be a new and better way to live…yet today, much of the pop culture only promotes a blind pursuit of profits and an acceptance that violence is a necessity, with few other options.

WHY?, who profits from this?…

WHAT subjects are of lessor importance? economic and moral bankruptcy in our countries leadership?..

How does Sulfuric Acid Test approach this illustration of our media age environment? by pushing the definitions of what makes up a song?, and what is a songs purpose ?..what makes up a genre of music? And what are it values really saying?. Exploring the boundaries of “reprocessed-media”, who owns it? and when. If they sell it to us, and we pay for it, can we alter its original form into collage and sell it back?..Artists have wrestled with this question for as long as art has existed…

so, take the test yourself, take the SULFURIC ACID TEST. And ask yourself…

“”WHAT IS REAL””?…

SAT Myspace incl. video clips


September 17   Sunday

Helvetica Hotline – Living in the Spoils of Freedom
Performance
7:45pm
$7

This performance is produced by damusictheater
(crispin & mary mae)





In the Galleries:


Large Galleries:
"What Color the Dawn:
Breaking Silence on the 1906 Atlanta Race Riot"

Visual Artists Respond:
John Abner, Tony Bingham, Hermina Glass-Avery, Michael Harris, Theodore Harris, Daniel Hoover, Chea Prince, Karen Tauches

A listening station of oral histories by first and second generation witnesses will also be installed.

Curated by Kevin Sipp with Louise E. Shaw

September 22, 1906, white mobs poured into the Five Points area intent on racial violence. Inflamed by months of political rhetoric and newspaper sensationalism that fed racial fears and stereotypes, the violence against black citizens spread rapidly to East Atlanta, to Brownsville and Inman Park. In the end, at least twelve were dead, hundreds injured; fearful for their lives, many fled the city, their fates somehow erased from history. What Color the Dawn peels back the layers of this buried history in an effort to challenge our communities to re-view our shared history.

Through September 30th.




Miscellany

September’s Podcast available soon!

This month’s Podcast is now available! This month's show is now available and features performances by Jonathan Kane, Rising Appalachia, Bent Frequency, Daniel Clay, Tiptons Saxophone Quartet and others. The upcoming 5-day Table Of The Elements festival (Labor Day weekend) gave us a chance to play some Rhys Chatham, Tony Conrad and Sun Agustin. Finally, the Eyedrum visual arts crew came in to talk about art shows past, present and future, the Warhol grant, and the state of Eyedrum as a gallery in general. A special edition of this podcast that should not be missed!
If you don’t know what all the podcast fuss is about, a podcast is simply an audio file that you can listen to on your computer or portable mp3 player.
For those of you who are familiar with podcasting, please click on podcast. (http://www.eyedrum.org/radioshow.xml ) You can also just download the whole show (right click on "download") although be forewarned that the file is over 50 MB in size. If you’re having trouble, respond to this email… we can help!

July’s Podcast is still available…
July’s show is still available and features music from Dirty Projectors, Venus 7, Eastern Seaboard, Z-Axis, Shaking Ray Levis with Erik Hinds, Unbounded Sky and King Congregation, among others. If you're using iTunes or other RSS software, click here for the feed. If not, you can also just download the July show (right click on the link) although be forewarned that the file is 50 MB in size.




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