Real –Whirled with The Essential Quintet

Live/Whirled 2009-10

The Interactive Music Series @ Perishable Theatre

presents

Real –Whirled with Steven Jobe & The Essential Quintet

Sunday, February 7, 5:00 PM

The Live/Whirled Concert Series at Perishable Theatre will showcase the creativity and instrumental brilliance of The Essential Quintet, under the direction of renown composer Steven Jobe. The group performs arrangements of American and European folk music and original compositions inspired by traditional styles. Bringing perspectives from a variety of musical backgrounds, the musicians seamlessly weave innovative ideas and improvisational spontaneity throughout their concerts.

The Essential Quintet is:

Steven Jobe (viola, hurdy-gurdy),

Ellen Santaniello (voice, percussion),

Cathy Clasper-Torch (violin),

Catherine Hawkes (recorder, mandolin),

Seth Gruenwald (cello).

The Live/Whirled Series features an inter-active “Act 2,” that involves the audience in the process of music-making. For this concert, the band will teach any audience members willing, the steps and lyrics of a traditional medieval round dance.

Make the most of the year’s shortest month-- come drive the February cold away!

Tickets $10 / $8 students & seniors

available in advance from ArtTix @ www.arttixri.com,

or by calling 401-621-6123, or at the door.

Perishable Theatre is located at 95 Empire Street, Downtown Providence

Larry's Larry's Larry's @ The 201 - Friday, January 29th

Larry Invites you to his comeback to the U.S. nightlife. After a great return at the 201 a few months back, Larry realized his vision of world disco domination had finally come to fruition. Always ahead of the trends, and a pioneer of U.S. nightlife, Larry brings you another night of modern disco hits with exclusive appearances from his collective of globally diverse DJ's, including Kaiser Disco, Disco Khan, and Grand Master Gaddafi. As always, Larry's Gold Dancers will be there for all the world to see. Don't miss your chance to meet the one & only Larry of Larry's Larry's Larry's!

Friday, January 29th
10pm - 2am
The 201 (201 Westminster Street, downtown Providence)

Click here for the Facebook event page

Spring Comes Early at BSR

It might still be frigid and there may be snow on the sidewalk outside, but here in the BSR studios, spring is here. We're just about done with the first week of the spring season, and from what I've heard so far, it's gonna be a good one. Tune in on WELH 88.1FM between 9PM and 3AM, or stream our webcast on bsrlive.com anytime. Check out our website for the schedule, or scroll down to hear more and save a copy of the schedule to your computer to print out.

Between returning favorites and new ideas, there's something for everyone! For seasonally appropriate fare, try out A Veritable Smorgasbord of Scandinavian tunes Saturday at 7pm. Friday night on WELH stays strong, starting with mainstays Joanne's Theory of a Radio Show and Ampersand Theater, followed by the up-and-coming Archaeology of Crates. And you can once again keep your night bouncing with James Alderwood's late night Kitchen, coming on at midnight. Tuesday nights continue to be the place to be for the latest hip-hop hits, mixed live in studio, featuring DJs Tek, Lefty, Therion, and King Ecko.

And the spring marks the rebirth of Off the Beat, our (now biweekly) news show featuring all the news and views from Providence that you may not have heard. Off the Beat shares the 9PM Monday slot with our resident features program, The Radio Show.

Brown Student & Community Radio is an entirely volunteer run station, and is always looking for new members to help us make great radio. Not only is it a fun time, but it's a great experience. If making radio sounds awesome to you, contact us at volunteers@bsrlive.com to get involved!

duuude!!! buy your girlfriend some jewelry!!

For those of you not about to throw your money away into the void of hallmark.. or who haven't become amigos with José on Thayer St yet..... Here are a couple of my friends who make custom Jewelry from unique materials.

Designs by Violet

Connect the Dots

now remember there is a fashion show at the Dark Lady on Valentines day where you'll catch a couple other rad clothing designer friends of mine... stay tuned for details..

I'll be your DJ for the catwalk.

ARTSMASH Review: Elemental Theatre

Review of Elemental Collective
By Marianne Messina

Elemental Theatre Collective's three-play program entitled The Father, the Son and The Holy Go.Go specializes in well-rounded plots woven together by echoing themes. Making fluid transitions between "chillin'" and acting, the actors keep the program rolling through the interstices with audience singalongs accompanied on guitar by the Collective's Dave Rabinow and D'Arcy Dersham. The first half of the program presents two flash plays about couples, The Cabin (by George Brandt) and RedPop (by Alexander Platt), and most striking about these plays is their tight development. Even as each includes echoes from the other in its dialogue – for example, one partner in each couple is in awe of the trees; the other partner, not so much -- the plays accelerate very consistently toward a kind of punch line. Easily subtitled "The Secret Life of Women," both plays take place at the life-changing crossroads of early pregnancy -- which apparently comes in a ménage-a-trios package and calls for an exorcism of secrets. For these couples, at least, the moment is filled with relationship turmoil, doubts, and ghosts from the past.

Visit ARTSMASH RI for the full review.

Paper Eagles, The Hood Internet and Stegosaurus @ Jerky's Bar - Saturday, February 6th

Paper Eagles, The Hood Internet, and Stegosaurus at Jerky's Bar


9pm
$10 advance / $12 day of/ 18+

Click here for more information.

Jose Docen & Friends @ Local 121 - Wednesday, February 10th

The Speakeasy Music Series at Local 121 Presents:
Jose Docen & Friends

8pm/$6
Click here for more information.

Emily Smith @ Local 121- Friday, February 5th

The Speakeasy Music Series at Local 121 Presents:
Emily Smith

9pm
Click here for more information.

Paul Geremia @ Local 121 - Wednesday, February 3rd

The Speakeasy Music Series at Local 121 Presents:
Paul Geremia

8pm
Click here for more information.

Otis Read & The Lucky Band @ Local 121 - Saturday, January 30th

The Speakeasy Music Series at Local 121 Presents:
Rhode Island Food Bank Benefit Otis Read & The Lucky Band

9pm/$10 suggested
Click here for more information.

Leah Carlson & The Heartless CD Release Party @ Firehouse 13 - Saturday, February 6th

Leah Carlson & the Heartless CD Release Party at Firehouse 13
with guests

JR Gallagher from the Divorced
Global Crash
The Jesse Minute

Click here for more information.

Pistol Shot Gypsy @ Firehouse 13 - Friday, February 5th

Pistol Shot Gyspy at Firehouse 13

Doors 8pm/Music 9pm
$7/18+

Click here for more information.

AfroSonic JUMP! - New Year - New Venue - This FRDAY JAN 29th

The AfroSonic Collective is proud to present special guest:

IAN FRIDAY

(TEA PARTY MUSIC / NYC)

As we bring in the new year The AfroSonic Collective wishes to thank all of
you that have been with us and supported us through 2009!
Without you we surely wouldn't have been blessed with such an amazing
family of beautiful, diverse, soulful people !
The Providence Black Rep has always been the place we call home and while
they undergo changes in their organization
our plan is to continue to bring the best in

DEEP ROOTED MUSIK !


While we await our return to the Rep, we will be bringing you monthly doses of
that signature AfroSonic Sound @ STATE ULTRA LOUNGE.
STATE is one of providences premier nitespots.
Boasting a wikked soundsystem, warm atmosphere, and amazing drinks,
we are sure you'll feel right at home with us there.

ABOUT IAN:
Armed with a passion for the arts, Ian Friday is on a creative mission.
This New Yorker has been seen on stage and film and has performed throughout NYC as a poet.

In 1994 he founded a nonprofit arts organization called the Tea Party which provided a platform for upcoming and established artists such as Erykah Badu, Mos Def, Talib Kweli, Saundra St. Victor, Vernon Reid, Corey Glover, Saul Williams, The Antibalas and the Last Poets. The Tea Party also featured one of the hottest and well respected open mics in NYC as well as a party with Ian at the deejay helm.

Ian has spread his wings into the arena of music. He has worked closely with Blaze, remixing their song "We Are One" on King Street Records and produced their first mixed cd, "The Found Love Mix CD" on West End Records. His first release on West End Records entitled "The Island Life EP" features the now classic, "Carib's Leap".

Ian started Tea Party Music in 2006 to present quality global soul music. The first release, "Life Starts Today" (Byron Moore) has
received astonishing support from all the major soulful deejays.
This tune has become a staple in the sets played by the likes of Timmy Regisford, Louie Vega, Osunlade, Danny Krivit, Joe Clausell and Kevin Hedge, to name a few. The second release "Everything" (Ian Friday featuring Erro) has been met with similiar enthusiasm. The current release, "Theorema Del Faya"(Tea Party Vocal) - Anto Vitale has been heralded as one of the hits of the 2007 Winter Music Conference and can also be heard on "Lust: Art & Soul", a cd compiled by Louie Vega. With forthcoming productions featuring Manchildblack, Corey Glover, Kelli Sae and Shelley Nicole, Tea Party Music has quickly become a record label to be reckoned with. In the fall of 2006, Ian was rewarded with the Choice Award for "Best Emerging Talent" .

With good music abound, the deejay side of Ian Friday has been heard for years at major clubs in NYC and around the world. He has played several times at Louie Vega and Kevin Hedge's wildly popular weekly party, "Roots" at Club Cielo. He has also done several guest spots at Timmy Regisford's legendary "Shelter" party. He has a monthly residency at The Sapphire Lounge doing an event called "Libation".
This party has featured many visual artists msucians and guest deejays.
Out in the world Ian has played at Canvas, Herbal and AKAin London, Djoon in Paris, Billionaire Club in Italy, Yellow in Tokyo, Grand Cafe in Osaka to name just a few.

"The universality of art is the glue that binds the people of the world together." Ian Friday continues to do his part in building and broadening family and community by his art.

Craftopia @ Rhody Craft 100 - Sunday, April 11, 2010

Rhody Craft 100 announces CRAFTOPIA

Rhody Craft 100 is excited to announce CRAFTOPIA, it's first juried  
indie art & craft sale on Sunday, April 11, 2010 at Hope Artiste  
Village in Pawtucket, RI. Craftopia is a super-duper day of art,  
craft, food and music and will feature 65 artisans and food vendors.  
Applications are currently available at www.rhodycraft100.blogspot.com  
and must be submitted for consideration by Feb. 19, 2010.

RC100 is a seasonal shop at Hope Artiste Village, open every Saturday  
from Nov. through March, 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Everything available at  
RC100 is 100% local, 100% handmade and 100% delightful!

Click here for more information.

Waste Not Want Now and RISD 2nd Life Presents: Art Thirft Swap @ 15 West Main Lobby

FREE CLOTHES, BOOKS, ART SUPPLIES AND MORE!!! AT WNWN and RISD 2nd Life Artist's Thrift Swap!
Don't miss this opportunity to spring clean your dorm, apartment and studio of unwanted wares
and come away with some great FREE finds!
Swap your stuff! 12-5pm this Sunday January 24th in the main lobby of 15 West.
Any left over items will be re-donated to the HAITI appeal.
THIS EVENT IS FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC

Click here for more information.

ARTSMASHRI Review of 4:48 Psychosis at the Gamm Theatre

Review of 4:48 Psychosis
By Marianne Messina

Now at the Gamm Theatre, thru February 7, 2010

The Gamm Theatre production of Sarah Kane's play 4:48 Psychosis, makes clinical depression an in-your-face affair. In a tensile, mercurial performance by Casey Seymour Kim, "the Woman" in 4:48 Psychosis wakes every day at this same early morning hour in a state of dysphoria. A powerful aspect of the Gamm production is the way it deliberately inculpates the audience. Kim has no qualms about piercing the fourth wall, directing comments at her viewers. She singles out individuals in the crowd saying things like, "I beg you to save me!" But just as quickly, she's pointing and saying, "fuck you!" and "fuck you!" Because we aren't wired to roll so easily with contradiction, this production hurls a question at us, not so much how do we understand madness but how do we deal with it. Brought under the filtered scrutiny of the depressed Woman, the audience is thrown into parallel with the Woman's therapist, "Doctor" (Tom Gleadow). We observe, we sympathize, we keep our infuriating distance. It helps that the Gamm's 3-sided seating leaves us facing each other. As the Woman pleads an anguished "see me" and "no one touches me," members of the 3-sided audience can witness each other in the same state of passive (if not intense) observation as the Doctor, who infuriates the woman with his need to "cover his ass." This wonderful staging makes for skin bristling theater…

You can read full review at Artsmash RI

Participate in a discussion question at www.artsmashri.ning.com.

Click here for more information.

♥ ♠ ♣ events and announcements

I've posted an original track up for FREE DOWNLOAD on:

http://www.soundcloud.com/cellardoves

I've launched the facebook page for Cellar Doves now that there's a couple of finished tracks and remixes go check it out!
Become a fan and add the music to your page.
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Cellar-Doves/170436099201

In the works is: http://www.cellardoves.com
which currently re-directs you to
http://www.myspace.com/sacredobjects

In more tangible news the party continues at Local 121 on
The Third Thursday (TH!!! TH!!! TH!!!) with
dj's 11:11 and Damian David

http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=241010249862&ref=mf

This particular event will double as a BIRTHDAY/DANCE-PARTY for our good friend Alanna Bella's 28th earthly year and for that reason you can expect twice the nice and double the fun!!

Jan 21 2010 10:00P	love ♥ death ♠ disco ♣ @ Local 121 w/DJ 11:11 & Damian David	Providence, Rhode Island
Jan 29 2010 9:00P	Firehouse Thirteen w/Pan Optics, Menya, Diana Joy, Damian David dj set	Providence, Rhode Island
Feb 14 2010 8:00P	Waste Not Want Not Fashion Show @ The Dark Lady	Providence, Rhode Island
Feb 18 2010 10:00P	love ♥ death ♠ disco ♣ @ Local 121 w/Wayne Lopan & Damian David	Providence, Rhode Island

display your moves!!
drink and be merry!!
listen to great music!!

farewell ♥ ♠ ♣-ers

Extended Season @ Rhody Craft 100

Rhody Craft 100 Extends Season!

We're having so much fun that we're staying open for two more
months. That's right, you'll find the door open and the lights on,
every Saturday from 10a.m. -3p.m. through the end of  March at
Hope Artiste  Village {with the bustling farmer's market
right outside our door}.

Accompanying our expanded schedule comes a brand new look.
A swell new logo and the arrival of several new artists just in-time for  
Valentine's Day.

Our theme for February is Reduce, Reuse, Recycle, REJOICE!
New eco- friendly merchandise will arrive on Jan. 30,
but enjoy this sneak peek.

Thanks everyone, for your incredible support!
Click here for more information.

Kim Lamothe @ Local 121 - Wednesday, January 27th

The Speakeasy Music Series at Local 121 Presents:
Kim Lamothe Tree-Oh
Ian Fitzgerald opens.

8pm
Click here for more information

ARTSMASH RI Review: "Hues and Views" at the Warwick Museum

Review: "Hues and Views" at the Warwick Art Museum

By: Bob Dilworth, fine art curator, Artsmash RI

Being back at the Warwick museum for a January 8th opening of this two-person exhibition was much like seeing an old friend after many years of absence…

Greatly influenced by works by Wayne Thiebaud, Pierre Bonnard, and Antonio Lopez Garcia, the first artist on display (now through January 30) sees her paintings as a way of telling her story. Margaret Owen's pieces are small, no more than ten inches in height or width, but rich, succulent cakes, oranges, apples, and pomegranates convey a captivating tale of social easiness and charm. She asked herself many times, “Why paint oranges over and over?” The answer, “Because it’s my story of oranges, of life’s reflections, of interpreting how I feel, of how I see the world.” She has Thiebaud’s intoxicating brightness, his sunny California blindness. She has also captured Bonnard’s, and I might add Cezanne’s, passion for form and shadow. However, it’s harder to see the grit and rawness of Garcia’s influence. His no-holds-barred realism, his portraits, landscapes, and figures occupy a murkier world. But perhaps what she was referring to in our conversation about narrative had more to do with where she is going in her painting rather than where she is. If this is the case then Garcia is an exciting open door.

For the full article, visit ARTSMASH RI.

"Imagine That"- Exhibit in the Slater Mill

Slater Mill along with Amica Insurance and the Weavers Guild of Rhode Island Presents: "Imagine That"

"Imagine That" is now being shared throughout Rhode Island and southeastern Massachusetts, greatly broadening our appreciation and understanding of the fiber arts. The exhibit features the work of Bhakti Ziek, Marjorie Durko Puryear, Sarah Zachs, Barbara Herbster, Laurie Carlson and Suzi Ballenger, along with students from Rhode Island School of Design and the University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth.

On exhibit until Sunday, March 14th.
Click here for more information.

Hive O'Clock @ DownCity Diner - Tuesday, January 19th

It's almost that time!
Hive O'Clock @ DownCity Diner - Collaging with Text
5:30-7pm

In celebration of The Hive's upcoming In Your Face exhibition, our next Hive O'Clock Happy Hour Workshop will explore the concept of "self portrait" through collage. More specifically: collaging with TEXT! We'll provide magazines and newspapers to work from, but we also encourage you to bring some pieces of text from home to personalize your collage.

$10 covers appetizers, the project, and your supplies.
Click here for more information.

Call for Artists: The Wassic Project Artist Residency

The Wassaic Project Residency Program has been created to cultivate and support community for emerging and professional contemporary artists. Housed in a historic re-purposed livestock auction barn, the artists in-residence program offers 8 artists the opportunity to live and work in the heart of a rural community and offers 3 local artists studio space.

The Wassaic Project seeks a group of artist working in a diverse range of media, who want to produce, explore and challenge, and expand on their current art making practices, while participating in a grass roots, community-based arts organization. In the final month of the residency, artists will either complete an installation or contribute work to be included in The Wassaic Project Summer Festival 2010.

Applications must be received by Monday, February 1st.
Click here for more information.

love ♥ death ♠ disco ♣ events and announcements

I've posted an original track up for FREE DOWNLOAD on:

http://www.soundcloud.com/cellardoves

I've launched the facebook page for Cellar Doves now that there's a couple of finished tracks and remixes go check it out!
Become a fan and add the music to your page.
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Cellar-Doves/170436099201

And here we have the very beginning of the
love ♥ death ♠ disco ♣ blog (be the first fan - limited time offer)
http://www.lovedeathdisco.blogspot.com/

In the works is: http://www.cellardoves.com
which currently re-directs you to
http://www.myspace.com/sacredobjects

In more tangible news the party continues at Local 121 on
The Third Thursday (TH!!! TH!!! TH!!!) with
dj's 11:11 and Damian David

http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=241010249862&ref=mf

This particular event will double as a BIRTHDAY/DANCE-PARTY for our good friend Alanna Bella's 28th earthly year and for that reason you can expect twice the nice and double the fun!!

display your moves!!
drink and be merry!!
listen to great music!!

farewell ♥ ♠ ♣-ers

Art-O-Mat at OOP!

Art-o-Mat is a retired cigarette vending machine that has been converted into an art installation that vends art. Join the other 400 contributing artists whose work is currently being distributed in places like OOP!. Interested in being an Art-o-Mat artist? OOP! would like to have more local and statewide artists in their machine, so stop by OOP! at 220 Westminster St. to check out their Art-o-Mat and visit visit www.artomat.org for more information.

Click here for more information.