Doors open at 5:30pm, starts at 6:00pm, $5, all ages
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‘Smart Growth’ projects are reviving Maine’s historic downtowns with workspace and housing for Maine’s creative economy. GrowSmart Maine presents this social and informational For’Em for YOU to meet the architects, developers, and designers working to bring Maine’s “good bones” back to life. Featuring Paul Boghossian of Waterville’s Hathaway Creative Center, Kevin Mattson of Mattson Development and Saco’s Island Point Project, as well as a smattering of creative projects from local designers.
http://www.growsmartmaine.org

Doors open at 9pm, starts at 9:30 pm, $6, 18+
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Roy Davis & the Dregs bring a warming mix of alt-country and Americana pop-rock to SPACE Gallery in support of his new album, Deadweight. Think Bruce Springsteen’s lyrics over Neil Young & Crazy Horse after three beers. Though just 22 years old, Roy has shared the stage with internationally acclaimed acts Josh Ritter, The Everybodyfields, Ellis Paul and Slaid Cleaves. He’s joined by friends Tree By Leaf who write music of the soul like they’re taking you to church. "THIS JUST IN: Boston's favorite coverboys The Everyday Visuals make a last minute plan to play the concert with their friend Roy! Yes!"
http://www.roydavismusic.com/
http://www.treebyleaf.org/

Doors open at 7:30pm, starts at 8pm, $8, 18+
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We give the reigns over to Ron Harrity and his homegrown record label’s amazing lineup of talent from as close as Portland and as far away as Berlin.
Here's the planned lineup:
8:00 Chriss Sutherland
8:20 Dan Blakeslee (Boston, MA)
8:40 Nord Express (Baltimore, MD)
9:00 Honey Clouds
9:20 The Hands of the Wrong People (Berlin, Germany)
9:40 Dead End Armory
10:00 South China
10:20 Hearts by Darts (Baltimore, MD)
11:00 Brown Bird
11:20 Huak
11:40 Nathan Halverson
12:30 Cougars Kill Cobras

http://peapodrecordings.com

Doors open at , event starts at 5:00pm, free, All ages
 
On view for the month of September in SPACE’s entrance gallery is houseboat, a show of new drawings by Kyle Durrie. The works originated from a night Kyle spent with an atlas, tracing every single road she has traveled in North America.  Looking at the network of loops and lines, she began to consider how they suggested all of the possible ways she has come to be in each place. The drawings, ink and graphite on paper, are navigable aerials of orderly, imagined landscapes.  Clusters of buildings nestled closely together seem to multiply and pivot around the image plane, dispersing into the distance. Row houses, town houses, farmhouses, warehouses, windowless high-rises, towers and steeples – all these exist surrounded by space with no other city or town for miles.

Doors open at 9, event starts at 9:30pm, $8 , 18+
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Maybe you got a sneak preview of some of the tracks from Darien's new album when she last played here with her all-star band opening up for American Music Club, but now's your chance to catch the whole shebang. Darien Brahms has won too many awards to count with her brilliant music, stemming from a deep knowledge of rock and just-about-everything-else with a stage presence the Portland Phoenix says "is somewhere between Elvis and a Siamese cat." The Hot Tarts are (thankfully) back in action to open up the evening.
http://www.myspace.com/darienbrahms
http://www.myspace.com/thehottarts

Doors open at 7:00pm, event starts at 7:30pm, $7, $5 for members, all ages. Buy tickets here.

In the early 1990's a loose-knit group of likeminded outsiders, rooted in the DIY (do-it-yourself) subcultures of skateboarding, surf, punk, hip hop & graffiti, made art that reflected the lifestyles they led. Developing their craft with almost no influence from the "establishment" art world, this group has become a movement that has transformed pop culture. Featuring a selection of artists including Shephard Fairey, Mike Mills and Harmony Korine, Beautiful Losers focuses on the telling of personal stories...speaking to themes of what happens when the outside becomes "in" as it explores the creative ethos connecting these artists and today's youth.
http://www.beautifullosers.com

Doors open at 9, event starts at 9, $10 , 18+
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We've been saving our energy up for a good ol' fashioned SPACE party so let's get one thing straight: This is a SEMI-FORMAL dance, okay? No baggy jeans, and get a haircut young man! Spring for a corsage, dress to impress and dance the night away as it slowly devolves from an "Enchantment Under the Sea" style night in our makeshift gymnasium to a full-blown rager once the chaperones leave. Two supergroups, one led by Joshua Loring (Brenda) and the other by Spencer Albee (As Fast As) will perform some classic oldies along with dj sets by Nicka P, H++L, and Dj Jon. We'll make the punch.

Doors open at 9:00pm, music starts at 9:30pm, $6, 18+ Buy tickets here.

If the castaways from "The Lord of the Flies" had guitars and messed up keyboards, they would have formed Indian Jewelry. But they didn't. Some kids from Texas did and their music has been called anything from ethno-voodoo, industrial death disco or other dumb phrases that might bring to mind Suicide or Throbbing Gristle. New Hampshire's hidden gems Mmoss make their SPACE debut to share  their polished style of Syd Barrett-tinged jams. Planets Around the Sun, featuring members of the L'Animaux Tryst collective, will start the night out with a seance.
http://www.myspace.com/indianjewelry
http://www.myspace.com/themmoss
www.myspace.com/planetsaroundthesun

Doors open at 8, music starts at 8:30, $18 in advance, $20 at the door, 18+. Buy tickets at http://www.brownpapertickets.com

Melissa Ferrick returns to SPACE for a special, solo-acoustic CD release show  for her yet to be titled 8th album. Don't miss this opportunity to see this legendary singer/songwriter - as she has sold out the last three shows she has played in Portland. Growing in popularity alongside acts like Liz Phair and opening up for Morrissey, she's grown leaps and bounds, building up an agressive guitar sound over the edge of polite folk confines and suited to the sexual and personal confidence of her lyrics. Michelle Malone was born and raised in Atlanta by musician parents, is working on her tenth album, runs marathons for charity and was nominated for a Grammy. She opens with her high-spirited stripped down blend of rootsy acoustic slide, gritty electric blues and explosive vocals--rock with just enough blues edge to get the medicine down.
http://www.melissaferrick.com/
http://www.michellemalone.com/

Doors open at 7:00pm, event starts at 7:30pm, $7, $5 for members, All ages. Buy tickets here.

A powerful and often terrifying look at the science and politics of Lyme disease, interlaced with personal stories of those whose lives have been affected and nearly destroyed. From a few brave doctors who risk their medical licenses, to patients who once led active lives but now can barely walk, the film exposes a broken health care and medical research system. Under Our Skin also gives voice to those who believe that instead of a crisis, Lyme is simply an over-diagnosed "disease du jour."  Followed by panel discussion on Lyme disease.  Sponsored by Michael Alderson Restorations.
http://www.underourskin.com

Doors open at 6:30pm, event starts at 7:00pm, $5, free for members, All ages. Buy tickets here.

Gary Paul Nabhan, PhD., is a prize-winning essayist, lecturer, food and farming advocate, rural lifeways folklorist, and conservationist. His work has long been rooted in the U.S./Mexico borderlands region he affectionately calls “the stinkin’ hot desert.” Nabhan is the author of Coming Home to Eat and, more recently, Renewing America’s Food Traditions, Saving and Savoring the Continent’s Most Endangered Foods. He’ll stop at SPACE on his way to the Common Ground Fair for a reading and Q&A, and will be on hand to sign books afterwards.
http://www.chelseagreen.com/bookstore/item/renewingamericas#

Doors open at 9, event starts at 9:30, $8 , 18+
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Anticon’s WHY? are the kings of jangle-rap, equally at home sharing the stage with their hip-hop labelmates or touring with Yo La Tengo and Islands. They roll through town to support their third LP of hard rhymes and raw-spun songs, Alopecia. Also playing is local-boy-done-good, Alias, who has worked on remixes for My Brightest Diamond, John Vanderslice, Minus the Bear, Lali Puna, collaborated with Sage Francis, Will Oldham, Saul Williams, DJ Krush, and whose new record Resurgam is a celebration of his return to Maine.
http://www.myspace.com/whyanticon
http://www.myspace.com/alias

Doors open at 6:00pm, free all ages.

What's that? A free rock concert? The League of Young Voters partners with rockin' musicians and rollin' local organizations to bring you an evening of sweet tunes and everything you'd ever wanted to know about voting in Maine. Come sway your hips and expand your mind and reclaim your world. Featuring Dreamosaic, Brzowski, Denise Dill, Breaking Strings, Vanessa Torres and Touching Ground, and Rotundo Sealeg.
http://www.theleague.com/me

Doors open at 6:30pm, event starts at 7pm, free

The Portland Arts and Cultural Alliance and SPACE bring you another successful series of mediated discussions about the Arts in our personal lives, our local communities and beyond. This first in a three part series about the business aspects of artmaking will help both visual artists and musicians to understand and share options for sustaining their practice and making the bottom line work.

Doors open at 9pm, event starts at 9:30, $8 , 18+
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Kennebunkport raised Joel Thibodeau has come along way since he left these parts, now touring his band Death Vessel with the likes of Low, Jose Gonzalez, and Iron & Wine. The same growth can be said for Fire on Fire member Micah Blue Smaldone who's been honing his set all over Europe and the U.S. Both have new albums to share with us, and both show a maturation of songwriting that makes each song a universal folk song, simultaneously modern and antique. Death Vessel's new record on Sub Pop is called Nothing is Precious Enough for Us and Micah's is called The Red River.

Doors open at 7:00pm, event starts at 7:00pm, free, 18+
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Join Words and Images, the University of Southern Maine's literary journal, for a marathon evening of author readings and musical guests. The readers will include: Dan Domench, author of Hold Me Fast, whose fiction regularly appears in Portland Monthly; Mark Melnicove, poet, artist, and former editor/publisher of The Dog Ear Press and Tilbury House; and two talented young writers, Steve Gibbon and Zachary Mosher. Joining these writers will be local favorites Phantom Buffalo, and Brooklyn indie-rockers Akudama. This event is part of a week long series of readings hosted by Words and Images and USM, featuring Maine's Poet Laureate Betsy Sholl, Jessica Anthony, Brenda Edmands, and others.
http://www.myspace.com/wordsandimagesjournal
http://www.wordsandimagesjournal.wordpress.com

Doors open at 9, event starts at 9:30pm, $8 , 18+
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It's the return of the mighty Moses Atwood! He's been spending his days in Asheville, NC, but Portland's "heir apparent to Ray LaMontagne" can't seem to leave for too long, especially with good friends like Samuel James able to lend a hand with a concert. Moses is also bringing some new faces to meet us: Johnson's Crossroad with a self-proclaimed "bent acoustic country" sound and easy to hear influences of Townes Van Zandt and Bill Monroe. Moses, where'd your moustache go?
http://www.mosesatwood.com/
http://www.myspace.com/sugarsmallhouse
http://www.myspace.com/johnsonscrossroad

Doors open at 7:00pm, event starts at 7:30pm, $7, $5 for members, All ages. Buy tickets here.

The 11th annual Manhattan Short Film Festival is the largest short film festival in the world. It's stated mission is "to unite audiences around the world with the most creative short films in the world" and tonight, our SPACE audience will unite with viewers from Australia, Europe, North, South and Central America to watch and vote for the 2008 finalist.
http://www.msfilmfest.com

Doors open at 9, event starts at 9:30pm, $6 , 18+
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Brooklyn's These Are Powers are a group of future primitives that can't seem to stop touring and getting better at making noise-infused, madness invoking no-wave rock n' roll that brings to mind Deerhoof, Yeah Yeah Yeahs and The Boredoms. Featuring Pat Noecker from Liars and recently signed to the Dead Oceans imprint, These Are Powers are touring to support their debut LP, Terrific Seasons. We hope they won't trash the place TOO much... Local garage rock tidal wave The Rattlesnakes open.
http://thesearepowers.com/
http://www.myspace.com/therattlesnakes

Doors open at 9:00pm, event starts at 9:30pm, $10, 18+
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New Zealand's Liam Finn is going to be freakin' huge once he's done touring with Pearl Jam's Eddie Vedder. Get your ticket now so you can say you saw him before everyone's little sister got hooked on his infectious pop. The Veils are from London/Berlin and their Rough Trade LP Nux Vomica earned them instant critical acclaim as a scarier heir to The Smiths.
http://www.myspace.com/theliamfinn
http://www.myspace.com/theveils

Doors open at 8:30, event starts at 9:00pm, $12 , 18+
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Jonathan Richman has been writing songs, making records and performing live for most of his life, winning fans and making friends around the world with his guileless honesty and playfully catchy compositions.  He began playing guitar at the age of 15, and in the early 1970s formed the Modern Lovers, whose raw, minimalist sound and emotionally forthright songs helped to lay the groundwork for punk rock. Over the years, Jonathan's music has absorbed a multitude of influences, from doo-wop to country to a variety of international styles, without sacrificing the artist's effervescent personality.
http://www.vaporrecords.com/catalog/a_jon_richman.html