UPCOMING EVENTS
Bike Month: The Tired Press at The Farmer's Market Saturday 05.19.2012, Starts at 9:00 AM, Ends at 12:00 PM, Free!, All Ages The Tired Press is a mobile printmaking studio that focuses on the creation and production of site-specific postcards. It is a bicycle outfitted with a small relief press, pannier cabinets for supplies, a gallery for exhibition of prints made on the press, as well as a volunteer post office service. Come down to the Deering Oaks Farmer's Market from 9-12 and make some prints! Printers are encouraged to bring a print to SPACE to add to our Seek Alt Routes exhibition. Click here for a complete list of Bike Month events. |
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Sunday 05.20.2012, Doors at 7:00 PM, Starts at 7:30 PM, Ends at 9:30 PM, $7 / $5 for SPACE Members & Students with ID, All Ages Purchase tickets here. A story of friendship and life in the disappearing wilderness of the West, Low & Clear follows two formerly close friends who re-unite for one last fly fishing trip to British Columbia. Over the course of their time together they come to understand how much they’ve each changed and how these changes now threaten their friendship. Winner Audience Award for Emerging Visions SXSW Film Festival 2012 Q&A with filmmaker Kahlil Hudson. Presented as part of Camden International Film Festival's CIFF Selects series. |
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Blind Spots: Conversation with the artists Tuesday 05.22.2012, Starts at 7:00 PM, free, All Ages As we near the close of Blind Spots, we invite a conversation with the artists Meggan Gould and Billie Mandle about their work. SPACE members are invited to a pre-talk reception with the artists at 6:00 PM. Sponsored by Bangor Savings Bank. |
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Young Writers and Leaders Film Screening Thursday 05.24.2012, Doors at 7:00PM, Starts at 7:30PM, Ends at 9:30 PM, Free, All Ages The Young Writers and Leaders Film Project emerged out of The Telling Room's Young Writers and Leaders program when instructor and local hip-hop artist Sontiago recruited filmmaker David Meiklejohn to help fifteen students develop and produce their own three-minute video shorts. The honest and heartfelt works created from this collaboration take a magnified look at the teenage assimilation process and perception of American culture prior to, and after arrival. The project participants will be present at this public premiere of their works, followed by Q&A with attendees. |
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Post Provost Album Release with Pineries Friday 05.25.2012, Doors at 8:00 PM, Starts at 8:30 PM, $8, 18+ Buy tickets here or at all Bull Moose locations. Post Provost, a new Portland seven-piece exploration of lush pop and nuanced acoustic songwriting, releases their debut LP, Ancient Open Allegory Oratorio. Pineries, a trio of pals that create fiery spectrums of indie alt-pop, draw inspiration from the abandoned mills, playing kids, and urban gardens of their surroundings in Lewiston. A double-debut of new Maine sounds at SPACE! |
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Bike Month: Alley Cat Bike Race and After Party Saturday 05.26.2012, Starts at 2:00 PM, Ends at 12:00 PM, Race: $5/Party $3, free for riders, All Ages This isn't your typical Sunday ride. Local rebels Nick Reddy and Steve Tesh have come up with a fast and furious Alley Cat Race throughout the city that's not for the faint of heart. If you're unfamiliar with the Alley Cat race model, it's basically a messy scavenger hunt bike ride through the streets with obstacles, check points and prizes. If you're not up for the race, but still want to party, come to SPACE for the after party, where we'll be serving up a new bike themed beer from Bunker Brewing Co., dancing and giving away prizes to the Alley Cat winners. Alley Cat Race: 2:00-4:00PM Dance Party: 8:00PM *Please note: this ride is for experienced city riders. All participants will ride at your own risk. Click here for a complete list of Bike Month events.
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Thursday 05.31.2012, Doors at 7:00 PM, Starts at 7:30 PM, Ends at 9:30 PM, $7 / $5 for SPACE Members & Students with ID, All Ages Purchase tickets here. Best Undistributed Film of 2011 - Village Voice | Best Undistributed Film of 2011 – IndieWire The Color Wheel is the story of JR, an increasingly transient aspiring news-anchor, as she forces her disappointing younger brother Colin to embark on a road trip to move her belongings out of her professor-turned-lover’s apartment. Problem is, these grown up kids do not get along, and are both too obnoxious to know better. Chaos and calamity are not far behind her beat up Honda Accord. Too bad that nobody else in the world can stand either of them. Not Colin’s neglectful girlfriend, nor JR’s former high school friends, nor strangers they clash with at pretty much every step of their hopeless and increasingly infuriating voyage of frustration, failure and jerks. |
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First Friday Art Walk: Eyes Used for Tooth Support Friday 06.01.2012, Starts at 5:00 PM, Ends at 8:00 PM, Free, All Ages Crank Sturgeon melds minds with SPACE Gallery for a three week, on-site exploration in sound art, installation and performance. Working solo as well as partnering with longtime collaborators, Pat Corrigan and id m theft able, Crank will be getting dirty, transforming the gallery with interactive electronics and boxes of Sharpie markers, while performing micro-plays on demand. Join Crank for the Artwalk Fortified: video projection and live collaboration with id m theft able, HEXBeam, and Greg Kowalski. |
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SIX: Sunset Hearts / Foam Castles / Mai Mai / Glass Fingers / Altered Gee / Verla Saturday 06.02.2012, Doors at 7:30 PM, Starts at 8:00 PM, $10, 18+ Buy tickets here or at all Bull Moose locations. Six bands, two rooms. SPACE has teamed up with Portland mega-group Sunset Hearts to curate a mini-festival of some of the best new eclectic and electronic pop music in the vibrant, up-and-coming Portland music scene. In addition to the release of Sunset Hearts' hotly anticipated new EP, the night offers a veritable glut of pop, psych, glitch, stripped down rock and tousled jams: the ever-evolving indie-rock of Foam Castles, the textured chamber-pop of Mai Mai, the smooth touch of Glass Fingers, the warped electro-funk deconstructions of Altered Gee and Verla's bluesy no-wave. |
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Film: The Redemption of General Butt Naked Thursday 06.07.2012, Doors at 7:00 PM, Starts at 7:30 PM, Ends at 9:30 PM, $7 / $5 for SPACE Members & Students with ID, All Ages Purchase tickets here. Joshua Milton Blahyi --aka General Butt Naked --was a ruthless and feared warlord during Liberia's 14-year civil war. Today, he has renounced his violent past and reinvented himself as a Christian evangelist on a journey of self-proclaimed transformation. Blahyi travels the nation of Liberia as a preacher, seeking out those he once victimized in search of an uncertain forgiveness. But in the end, are some crimes beyond the pale of forgiveness? Followed by discussion with Libby Hoffman, Founding President - Fambul Tok. |
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Building Contact Microphones: Workshop with Crank Sturgeon Saturday 06.09.2012, Starts at 12:00 PM, Ends at 3:00 PM, $11-22 sliding scale, All Ages Join Crank Sturgeon for an afternoon session on building contact microphones. Similar to a stethoscope, a contact microphone is designed for picking up sound vibrations, and is used for amplifying acoustic instruments, objects, and environments. Crank will discuss safe and proper soldering techniques, materials, and the countless applications where these microphones can be used. Participants will be guided through all the steps of construction and have their very own microphone to take home! This workshop is open to all levels of experience. Admission is based on a sliding scale of $11-22 and is payable the day of the workshop at the door. Please reserve your spot here. For info on the Victorian synthesizer workshop click here.
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Portland Society of Architects' Drink n' Crit Monday 06.11.2012, Doors at 6:30 PM, Starts at 7:00 PM, free, All Ages The Crit is a staple of an architectural education. It's the final critique in an academic studio where you hang your designs on the wall, and stand and present your ideas in front a jury of your peers. It's a chance for public glory, brilliant theoretical discussion and slings and arrows if the work doesn't measure up. In normal life, this all ends once you leave school, but we're bringing it back to Portland for architects, landscape architects, interior designers and other design fans. Open to the Public. Sponsored by the Portland Society of Architects.
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Film: Beyond the Black Rainbow Thursday 06.14.2012, Doors at 7:00 PM, Starts at 7:30 PM, Ends at 9:30 PM, $7 / $5 for SPACE Members & Students with ID, All Ages Buy tickets here. Set in the strange and oppressive emotional landscape of the year 1983, Beyond The Black Rainbow is a Reagan-era fever dream inspired by hazy childhood memories of midnight movies and Saturday morning cartoons. |
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Friday 06.15.2012, Doors at 7:00PM, Starts at 7:30PM, Free, All Ages In this ever-popular series presented by The Telling Room, six writers, performers, and notable community members tell ten-minute stories to a live audience without notes or props. This Slant takes its cue from The Moment, a book published by SMITH Magazine, home of the Six-Word Memoir. Partnering with Larry Smith of SMITH Magazine, we will feature three authors from The Moment, who will adapt their stories for the stage, and three Mainers who will tell their own "Moment" stories. Longfellow books will be on hand selling copies of The Moment. Presented, as always, by The Telling Room, in association with the Maine Writers and Publishers Alliance, the Salt Institute for Documentary Studies, and SPACE Gallery. |
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State Theatre Presents: Jukebox The Ghost with Savoir Adore and Bright Moments Saturday 06.16.2012, Doors at 7:00PM, Starts at 8:00 PM, $11 advance / $13 day of show, 18+ Buy tickets here and at all Bull Moose locations. Originally formed during university in Washington D.C., Jukebox the Ghost (the name's an amalgam of Captain Beefheart and Nabokov references) won accolades for that first record, Let Live and Let Ghosts, which Spin Magazine called "a refreshing reminder that the lighthearted electricity of a fantastic pop song is still filled with live wires." The band – Thornewill, Siegel and drummer Jesse Kristin – jelled quickly, despite their disparate musical backgrounds in everything from classical piano to prog to indie to 80s Brit-pop. Collectively, the group delivered an unabashedly upbeat, playful sound with a sly dark streak. With fantasy-pop duo Savoir Adore and Bright Moments (Luaka Bop). |
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Wednesday 06.20.2012, Doors at 8:00 PM, Starts at 8:30 PM, $12, 18+ Buy tickets here or at all Bull Moose locations. North Carolina's Bowerbirds last appeared at SPACE supporting Bon Iver, their bare and beautiful Appalachian-tinged folk music capturing more than a few hearts in the audience. Now, after a period of sorrow and difficulty, the duo of Beth Tacular and Phil Moore have emerged with a vital and matured third album, In The Clearing, fuller in sound and bolder in approach. Light and darkness course through these eternal seeming songs, hard-won balm for a blistering world. Basia Bulat, enchanting songstress from north of the border, opens with breathless tales from the road.
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Friday 06.22.2012, Doors at 7:30 PM, Starts at 8:00 PM, $8 advance/$10 at the door, All Ages Buy tickets here or at all Bull Moose locations. Cinder Conk mixes frenzied, haunting accordion riffs and warm double bass counterpoint with a classic bardic lyricism. Drawing from the wellspring of music emanating from the Black Sea and Balkan regions, the duo of Matt Schreiber and Xar Adelberg bring these evocative sounds into the current moment, striking a fine balance between traditionalism and modern experimentation. Joining Cinder Conk for a special evening of two intertwined sets of music is violinist Ben Russell, whose virtuoso work has appeared on albums from Arcade Fire and Sufjan Stevens, to name but a few. An intimate, enchanting combination that will surely transport listeners to places afar. |
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Building Victorian Synthesizers: Workshop with Crank Sturgeon Saturday 06.23.2012, Starts at 12:00 PM, Ends at 3:00 PM, $11-22 sliding scale, All Ages Crank Sturgeon's noisy workshops continue with an instructional afternoon on building Victorian synthesizers. Easy to build and deliciously noisy, these synthesizers employ Victorian era technology (specifically, speaker cones & batteries) to mimic sounds produced by modern analog tone generators, minus the circuitry. Open to all levels of experience, Crank will direct participants through the basics steps of construction as well as offer techniques in performing with the synthesizer. While all the materials will be provided, participants are encouraged to bring their own (preferably used) speakers to the workshop: the bigger, the better! Admission is based on a sliding scale of $11-22 and is payable in cash the day of the workshop at the door. Please reserve your spot here. For info on the contact mircrophone workshop click here. |
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Soul Clap & Dance Off with Mr. Jonathan Toubin Saturday 06.23.2012, Starts at 9:00 PM, $6, 21+ Tickets on sale at all Bull Moose locations. Soul Clap returns! Maximum rock and roll party machine DJ Jonathan Toubin spins classic 45s - from Etta James to James Brown - and obscure soul gems to wild raucous crowds of folks young and old who want to dance and prove that they know how to shake their thing. It's always a notoriously fun dance party when Jonathan rolls into town. Later in the evening, the bravest, boldest, and baddest can choose to compete in the Dance-Off, grab a number, and compete for a $100 cash prize (and some serious clout). The competition winner is determined by a panel of local judges, a celebrity smorgasbord of some of your favorite faces in town. Come welcome Jonathan back to Maine and get down in style! |
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Film: Cure For Pain: The Mark Sandman Story Tuesday 06.26.2012, Doors at 7:00 PM, Starts at 7:30 PM, Ends at 9:30 PM, $7 / $5 for SPACE Members & Students with ID, All Ages Purchase tickets here. |
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Friday 06.29.2012, Doors at 8:30 PM, Starts at 9:00 PM, $10, 18+ Tickets on sale soon. The brain-child of Danish composer, producer and multi-instrumentalist Mikkel Hess, Hess Is More balances the spontaneity of a Brooklyn warehouse rave with the complex scope of an orchestra drawing comparisons to everyone from Erlend Oye and Jon Brion to CAN. Their 2011 Nublu Records release Creation Keeps the Devil Away is defies genre classification, a well-mixed cocktail of blithe vocals, giddy electronics, horns and percussions, disco beats, and an assortment of bells and whistles that support catchy folk-pop melodies. Vistas, the audio collaboration of Maine musicians Joshua Nagle and Owen Cartwright, never fails to impress with their deft melding of acoustic and electronic samples into something wholly magnetic. |
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Friday 07.06.2012, Doors at 9:00 PM, Starts at 9:30 PM, $8, 18+ Buy tickets here and at all Bull Moose locations. Toronto-based duo Trust is Robert Alfons and Maya Postepski. Their full-length debut TRST was released this spring on Arts and Crafts. Tales of lust, wax, and erotomania carry along on a dense black vapor of speed, space and tears. Trust is a pop hit factory buried deep in the mud. |
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The Sketchbook Project 2012 World Tour Wednesday 07.11.2012, Starts at 12:00 PM, Ends at 6:00 PM, Free!, All Ages The 2012 Sketchbook Project World Tour makes a stop a SPACE from July 11-14th. Come browse hundred of sketchbooks submitted by people from all over the world.
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Wednesday 07.25.2012, Doors at 7:30 PM, Starts at 8:00 PM, $10, 18+ Tickets on sale soon.
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Thee Silver Mt. Zion Orchestra Thursday 08.02.2012, Doors at 8:00 PM, Starts at 8:30 PM, $12, 18+ Tickets on sale soon.
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Saturday 08.18.2012, Doors at 8:00 PM, Starts at 8:30 PM, $10 advance / $12 day of show, 18+ Tickets on sale soon. |