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Event Listings for December 2006
Fri.Dec.01
07.30.pm
Green Film Series: Transforming City Spaces and Landscapes
Presented by 911 Media Arts Center and the Hazel Wolf EFN
911 Media Arts Center
402 9th Ave N, Seattle WA
www.911media.org
"Transforming City Spaces and Landscapes" is the topic for the next Green Film Series, a monthly documentary showcase presented by 911 Media Arts Center and the Hazel Wolf Environmental Film Network. The December film night features Rick Bacigalupi's documentary A Lot In Common, an inspiring film about a handful of people turning a vacant BART lot into a blooming community garden. A Lot In Common will be presented along with a short film, Pomegranate Center, produced by 911 Media Arts Center. Pomegranate Center highlights the efforts of the Pomegranate Center to create meaningful community gathering spaces. The films will be followed by a panel discussion with representatives from the Pomegranate Center, Open Space 2100, and City Repair Seattle.
$5 Entry
Sat.Dec.02
07.30.pm
Akram Zaatari: Uncovering The Things We Have Concealed
Film Screening with Artist in Attendance: This Day [2003]
New American Art Union
922 SE Ankeny St, Portland, OR
web.reed.edu/gallery/
Cinema Project, Portland, Oregon, and the Douglas F. Cooley Memorial Art Gallery, Reed College are proud to co-present an evening with Lebanese artist and curator Akram Zaatari. Akram has created more than 30 videos and installations and is one of the founding members of the Arab Image Foundation—a Beirut-based organization that aims to promote photography in the Middle East and North Africa by locating, collecting, and preserving the region's photographic heritage. With that, much of Akram's video work is centered on examining the role of photographic representation. Through collecting and archiving images from his country, Akram focuses on historical issues relating to the Lebanese Civil Wars, resistance to and mediation of these conflicts, and male sexuality. Akram's recent feature length documentary This Day uses as its starting point archival images, from portraits of Bedouins in the desert to war-era Beirut, to ruminate on the role of the photograph's ability to convey truth.
Suggested Donation: $6.00 / Members: $3.00
Sat.Dec.02
02.00.pm
Aperture West Collaborative Series: Cultural Observances
William Christenberry
Henry Auditorium
15th Ave NE, Seattle WA
www.henryart.org
William Christenberry, known internationally as a pioneer in the field of color photography, talks about his poetic documentation of the vernacular landscape of the American South. A master of multiple visual media, he discusses his photographs, drawings, sculptures, and paintings.
FREE
Mon.Dec.11
08.00.pm
Open Screening
911 Media Arts Center
402 9th Ave N, Seattle WA
www.911media.org
Open Screening is an "open mike night" for video and digital media arts, an open forum for filmmakers and digital media artists ranging from amateur to professional. Discussion follows each screening. How it works: Bring your DVD or VHS disc/tape. Make sure it's cued, maximum ten minutes in length or less, first-come first-screened. Open Screening is held the second Monday of every month.
$2 Suggested Donation
Thu.Dec.14
07.00.pm
Upgrade! Seattle with Caleb Larsen and Brett Walker
911 Media Arts Center
402 9th Ave N, Seattle WA
www.911media.org
Upgrade! Seattle is a once a month event for new media artists working in the Seattle area. Every second Thursday of each month, Upgrade! Seattle invites artists/curators/thinkers/everyone to gather at 911 Media Arts Center to see and critically discuss new media work. Upgrade! Seattle is hosted by the 911 artists2artists group and is affiliated with the Upgrade! International network. Caleb Larsen will talk about his recent and current projects. Revolving around two central concepts, Language and Mapping, Larsen's current point of inspection creates intersections of digital and physical cultures by reinterpreting online information and community based websites. He is working on a suite of projects that use Google News headlines. The headlines are processed in realtime and produce simultaneous outcomes ranging from bizarre video montages to large generated associative word drawings. Seattle resident Brett Walker will also give a brief performative lecture on the use of life experiences as a mediator for his work. His artistic output encompasses a broad range of mediums, including enormous amounts of film and video work, photography, and paper-based explorations dealing with note-taking and reading.
FREE
Thu.Dec.14
07.00-10.00.pm
Take the Cake Closing Party
Henry Art Gallery
15th Ave NE, Seattle WA
www.henryart.org
Come help close out this celebration of local genius in style with an evening of screenings, performances, happenings, and nothings. The Henry Auditorium will screen favorite scenes selected by Genius filmmakers; Genius literary curator Matthew Stadler and Genius writer Rebecca Brown host a hands-on "defacing" party; Velocity Dance Center offers movement activating unexpected spaces; SuttonBeresCuller roll out their brand new Performance Pod; and the Sculpture Court transforms into a visual music lounge with special sound and image guests and brief lounge appearances from Geniuses Sarah Rudinoff, Gabriel Baron, Susan Robb, and others.
FREE to Henry Members / $5 General
Sun.Dec.17
06.00-10.00.pm
Open Lab
911 Media Arts Center
402 9th Ave N, Seattle WA
www.911media.org
Open Lab at 911 Media Arts Center, every third Sunday of the month from 6-10 pm. An informal lab for new media artists to meet, collaborate, share new works, and experiment together, the Open Lab gives access to 911's theater and large studio as well as available equipment such as cameras, video projectors, and a video mixer. Artists working in electronic and digital media are encouraged to bring their own equipment and add it to the mix.
$2 Lab Fee
Mon.Dec.18
06.00-08.00.pm
DocuTalk@911: Open Screening
911 Media Arts Center
402 9th Ave N, Seattle WA
www.911media.org
Join us on Monday, December 18, 6-8 pm for a special DocuTalk@911 meeting. Many of our regular DocuTalk participants have expressed interest in a works-in-progress screening to share their work. Your wish is our command: This meeting will be a special Open Screening. Attendees are encouraged to bring a 10-min (max) clip (DVD or VHS), cued and ready to go. Clips will be screened on a first-come first-served basis. So come early, bring a dish (it's a potluck), and hear what your fellow filmmakers and enthusiasts have to say about your work. DocuTalk@911 is held every third Monday of every other month.
FREE
Thu.Dec.21
07.30-10.30.pm
VJ Night with guest VJ Yuba
911 Media Arts Center
402 9th Ave N, Seattle WA
www.911media.org
Half social, half showcase, the VJ Night is both a regular meeting point for VJs, DJs, and everyone who is fascinated by this highly artistic medium and a showcase of some of the best work of local talents. VJing as an emerging art form has yet to find a home in Seattle (in the U.S. as a matter of fact) outside the regular club scene, and we have set out to change that. Every month we invite local artists to share their work and talk about their craft—what they do, why they do it, and how they do it. We are excited to provide a forum for audiovisual creatives to meet, share, and enjoy the art of VJing. The VJ Night is held every third Thursday of every month.
$5 Entry
