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Wednesday 07.21.2010, Starts at 6:00 PM, Free, All Ages
Cassie Jones lives in Brunswick, Maine. She received her MFA in painting from the Rhode Island School of Design in 2008 and her BA from Bowdoin College. She has shown at Coleman Burke Gallery in New York, Art Chicago, Gallery 808 in Boston, the Portland Museum of Art, the Center for Maine Contemporary Art, and others. She has been awarded residencies at Yaddo, the Vermont Studio Center, and the MacDowell Colony.
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A Day With John Sinclair - Film and Q&A Saturday 04.24.2010, Doors at 4:30 PM, Starts at 5:00 PM, Free, 18+
John Sinclair is a “pure product of America”. Poet, political activist, cultural critic and archivist, recording artist, memoirist, lecturer, concert producer and a persistent crusader and gadfly of singular energy and unrelenting commitment. SPACE, Port Veritas, the North Star Café, Dimensions in Jazz, Near Sighted Productions and Club 86 co-present “A day with John Sinclair” starting at 5pm with a screening of Steven Gebhardt's "20 to Life". The film depicts the epic chapters of John Sinclair's life beginning with his Detroit roots as manager for the MC5 with appearances by John Lennon, Yoko Ono, Allen Ginsberg, Ed Saunders and more. The film will be followed by a short talk and Q&A session with Mr. Sinclair. This rare visit to Portland provides a not-to-be-missed opportunity for all those citizens interested in “The other side” of modern American history to hang out with one of its heroes and most eloquent spokesmen.
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Henry Rollins - Frequent Flyer Tour Thursday 03.18.2010, Doors at 7:00 PM, Starts at 8:00 PM, $30 general seating, $25 standing room, 18+
THIS EVENT IS SOLD OUT. Henry Rollins is an American singer-songwriter, raconteur, spoken word artist, writer, publisher, actor, radio DJ, and activist. More than anything, he embodies the idea of PERSONALITY. After joining the short-lived Washington D.C. band State of Alert in 1980, Rollins fronted the California hardcore punk band Black Flag from 1981 until 1986. Following the band's breakup, Rollins soon established the record label and publishing company 2.13.61 to release his spoken word albums, as well as forming the Rollins Band. Since Black Flag, Rollins has embarked on projects covering a variety of media. He has hosted numerous radio shows and television shows, such as The Henry Rollins Show, MTV's 120 Minutes, Sons of Anarchy and Jackass, along with roles in several films. Rollins has also campaigned for human rights in the United States, promoting gay rights in particular, and tours overseas with the United Service Organizations to entertain American troops. For this massive spoken word tour, Rollins plans to pontificate on recent events. Rollins says in characteristic dark humor that he, “like everyone else, [is] dealing with the changes America - and the world - is going through. I thought America would become a more peaceful place in 2009. I had no idea the country had so many lunatics. There’s a lot to remark upon, of course. There always is.”
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The 2010 Slow Food Portland Writers Night Wednesday 03.10.2010, Doors at 6:00 PM, Starts at 7:00 PM, $25, $20 for Slow Food Members., All Ages
This year Slow Food Portland moves their popular Writers Night to March to coincide with Maine Restaurant Week. Come join us for an evening of engaging food writing and delicious food from Maine’s land and sea. This years lineup covers Apples, Mushrooms, Moonshine and the influence of food on a local economy. |
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Thursday 11.12.2009, Doors at 6:30 PM, Starts at 7:00 PM, tbd, All Ages POSTPONED until further notice. From Iraq to New Orleans, this decade can be defined as the decade of the refugee- the ongoing struggle to return, redefine and recreate home. What is happening in Portland is a microcosm of the situation for refugees across the globe, yet Portland also is unique in its shared struggles and successes. Paul Chan is uniquely fitted to address this issue. Born in Hong Kong and raised in Omaha, Chan has allied and joined creative efforts to integrate art into the continued challenges, traumas and celebrations that define what it means to be a refugee. He will present a slide talk discussing the role of art and artists in the struggle for dignity and homeland. |
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Sunday 11.08.2009, Doors at 6:30 PM, Starts at 7:00 PM, Free, All Ages
Michael T. Fournier is the author of "Double Nickels On The Dime," an installment of Continuum Press's 33 1/3 series focusing on the 1984 double album of the same name by San Pedro, California punk pioneers the Minutemen. He taught History of Punk Rock at Tufts University from 2006-2008. Currently, he's working on his creative writing Master's Degree at University of Maine. Zeth Lundy writes about music for the Boston Phoenix, the Oxford American, and the Boston Metro when he's not pushing his new 33 1/3 book about Stevie Wonder's "Songs in the Key of Life". His work has also appeared in the Weekly Dig and PopMatters.com. He lives in Maine. They'll read from and discuss their books and we'll hear some Minutemen covers by Portland punks Huak. |
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Thursday 10.22.2009, Doors at 7:00 PM, Starts at 7:30 PM, Ends at 9:30 PM, free, All Ages What some view as trash, Linda and John Meyers see as raw material. Subscribing to the “reduce, reuse, recycle” ethos, this wife-and-husband team have perfected a design strategy that saves money, helps the planet, and provides hours of DIY fun. In their new book, Wary Meyers' Tossed & Found, they demonstrate their ingenious approach to seating (a chair made from pool noodles), lighting (a lamp from discarded pastry bags), storage (an un-seaworthy canoe painted like Blue Willow china), tables (a wall-mounted table from a rusty basketball hoop), and all manner of decorative objects (Astroturf pillows, a pickle-jar terrarium, a scrap wood mantel...). Tonight these clever authors share the ingenuity, imagination, and elbow grease that turns everything old into something new. |
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Saturday 10.17.2009, Doors at 2:00 PM, Starts at 3:00 PM, Ends at 5:00 PM, free, All Ages SPACE has invited New York artist Swoon to come to Maine for a talk about her work, from her beginnings as a street artist in New York to her creation of experimental, performative river trips on constructed rafts down rivers in the US and in Europe. She has shown in major galleries and museums around the world but it's her street art, wheatpasting woodcut prints and cutouts in neighborhoods around the world that remains central to her practice, working evidence of her interest in keeping art as democratic as possible. |
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A Celebration of Maine Poets From the Fishouse Thursday 09.10.2009, Doors at 7:00 PM, Starts at 7:30 PM, $5 suggested donation, All Ages From the Fishouse: An Anthology of Poems that Sing, Rhyme, Resound, Syncopate, Alliterate, and Just Plain Sound Great is an acclaimed new anthology that focuses on the balance of poetry on the page and poetry read aloud. From the Fishouse itself is a one-of-a-kind on-line audio archive based in Pittston, Maine and devoted to the oral and aural aspects of contemporary American poetry, and the print anthology is a jamboree of poetry at its acoustic best. Join co-editors Matt O’Donnell and Jeffrey Thomson, along with fellow local poets Adrian Blevins, Gibson Fay-LeBlanc, Douglas Woodsum, and Anthony Walton, for a reading to celebrate this new collection and the Maine-based poets who contributed to it. Visit www.fishousepoems.org. This event is also sponsored by The Telling Room, Greater Portland’s community writing center. |
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Saturday 06.06.2009, Doors at 5:30 PM, Starts at 6:00 PM, free, All Ages The Portland Arts and Cultural Alliance presents a lecture by artist Jean Shin, best known for her labor-intensive process of transforming exhaustive accumulations of cast-off objects into visually alluring, conceptually rich works. |
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Public Art Lecture - MTA Arts for Transit: Along the Way Friday 05.29.2009, Doors at 6:30 PM, Starts at 7:00 PM, free, All Ages Buy tickets here. |
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Found Magazine presents "Requiem for a Paper Bag" Sunday 05.10.2009, Doors at 7:30 PM, Starts at 8:00 PM, $5, All Ages Once a year, Davy and Peter Rothbart climb into their van with a trunk-load of magical finds and hit the road for a couple months to put on lively reading-and-music FOUND shows all over the country. They'll share their latest and greatest finds, the kind of notes and letters folks find on the ground and send in for publication in the super-famous FOUND Magazine. And if that wasn't enough, the bros. Rothbart welcome local filmmaker David Meiklejohn, who will screen exclusive footage about FOUND mag from his upcoming documentary, "My Heart Is An Idiot"! |
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Urban Gardening Fair at Cultivating Community’s Boyd Street Urban Farm Saturday 05.09.2009, Starts at 9:00 AM, Ends at 12:00pm, free, All Ages Takes place at Boyd Street Urban Farm (corner of Cumberland Ave and Franklin Arterial). A free, family-friendly event featuring a variety of demonstrations including garden preparation, composting, container gardening, rainwater collection and raised bed gardening. With live music, hands-on activities and plenty of opportunities to ask your gardening questions. |
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Saturday 05.09.2009, Doors at 7:00pm, Starts at 7:30pm, $8 or $6 for SPACE or MOFGA members, All Ages Eco chef, author, food justice activist, Bryant Terry works in many facets of food advocacy. He is currently a fellow of the Food and Society Policy Fellows Program and has worked to build a more just and sustainable food system and has used cooking as a tool to illuminate the intersections between poverty, structural racism, and food insecurity. |
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Food+Farm -- Ted Ames: Fishing Voices Thursday 05.07.2009, Doors at 7:00pm, Starts at 7:30pm, $6 or free for SPACE or MOFGA members, All Ages Buy tickets here. |
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Wednesday 04.08.2009, Starts at 7:00 PM, free, All Ages Join us for a discussion about the new exhibit: Carving the Floor. With Bowdoin Professor and Artist Anna Hepler, artist Andrea Sulzer and Bowdoin College students. |
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The 2009 Slow Food Portland Writer’s Night Thursday 01.29.2009, Doors at 6:00 PM, Starts at 7:00 PM, $25, $20 for Slow Food members, All Ages Come hear local and nationally known authors read and sample tastes of Maine’s soil and see. |
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Monday 10.06.2008, Doors at 6:30 PM, Starts at 7:00 PM, free, All Ages Tod Seelie’s life is an adventurous one, whether he’s floating down the Mississippi or Hudson River on art-raft journeys, shooting rogue taxidermy projects made from Chinatown garbage or touring on a veggie-oil converted bus. |
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Friday 10.03.2008, Doors at 7:00PM, Starts at , free, All Ages Tod Seelie’s life is an adventurous one, whether he’s floating down the Mississippi or Hudson River on art-raft journeys, shooting rogue taxidermy projects made from Chinatown garbage or touring on a veggie-oil converted bus. Seelie is the go-to photographer for bands like Japanther, Matt & Kim, The Death Set, and Parts & Labor, and for years he’s documented urban bicycle culture, namely the Black Label Bicycle Club, who practice philosophies of avoiding wastefulness, rejecting consumerism-as- identity, and using creativity as a means for improving one’s life. todseelie.com / www.suckapants.com / www.ofquiet.com / www.everydayilive.com |
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Maine College of Art MFA Lecture Series with Nina Katchadourian Monday 07.28.2008, Doors at 6:00 PM, Starts at 6:30 PM, Free, All Ages Nina Katchadourian spends a part of each year on a small island in the Finnish archipelago where she summered as a child. Her work exists in a wide variety of media including photography, sculpture, video and sound. |
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Maine College of Art MFA Lecture Series with Amy Yoes Monday 07.21.2008, Doors at 6:00 PM, Starts at 6:30 PM, Free, All Ages After years dedicated to painting, artist Amy Yoes has begun exploring multimedia environments in the form of otherworldly environments and idiosyncratic interiors created through photography, sculpture and video. A Village Voice critic described one of her installations as “a cross between a skateboard ramp and a fashion-show catwalk.” |
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Maine College of Art MFA Lecture Series with Karyn Olivier Monday 07.14.2008, Doors at 6:00 PM, Starts at 6:30 PM, Free, All Ages Karyn Oliver was born in 1968 in Trinidad, raised in Brooklyn and educated at Dartmouth where she studied psychology and the Cranbrook Academy of Art where she studied ceramics. She mines subjects such as childhood play, furniture and billboards to explore complex psychological and cultural riches in the form of disorienting sculptures and installations. She currently teaches at the Milton Avery Graduate School of the Arts at Bard. |
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Maine College of Art MFA Lecture Series with Mark Wethli Monday 07.07.2008, Doors at 6:00 PM, Starts at 6:30 PM, Free, All Ages The A. LeRoy Greason Professor of Art at Bowdoin College, Mark C. Wethli is a painter inspired by the tension between ideal platonic forms and creative origins. |
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Maine College of Art MFA Lecture Series with Caroline Jones Monday 06.30.2008, Doors at 6:00 PM, Starts at 6:30 PM, Free, All Ages Martha Buskirk is associate professor of art history and criticism at Montserrat College of Art. She is author of The Contingent Object of Contemporary Art (MIT Press, 2003), and she is currently pursuing work on a new book that examines intersections between museum history and contemporary artistic practices that evoke conventions associated with the collection, souvenir, relic, and archive. |
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Maine College of Art MFA Lecture Series with Jason Lewis Monday 06.23.2008, Doors at 6:00 PM, Starts at 6:30 PM, Free, All Ages Jason Lewis is a digital artist and technology researcher whose work revolves around experiments in visual language, text and typography. |
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Maine College of Art MFA Lecture Series with Brian Conley Thursday 06.19.2008, Doors at 6:00 PM, Starts at 6:30 PM, 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. |
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Read/Rock with Eugene Robinson, w/ Conifer and An Evening With Saturday 05.10.2008, Doors at 9:00 PM, Starts at 9:30 PM, $7.00, 18+ You may have heard Eugene Robinson singing for his San Francisco rock-group-cum-fight-club, Oxbow, but did you know he's a contributing writer for GQ, The Wire, and VICE Magazine? |