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Tuesday, September 28, 2010

DRUMMING FOR CLIMATE CHANGE - November 6, 2010

Three Traditions of Rhythm
Come Together to Beat Climate Change!

Saturday, November 6 — 7:00 pm

Emmanuel Church, 15 Newbury Street, Boston


Tickets Are Available Online.

Regular Admission: $20
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Student/Senior Admission: $15
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Advance Ticket Orders Are Accepted Until 3 pm on November 6. Orders received after Wednesday, November 3rd will be held at the door.


One of the most exciting concerts this year! Enjoy an evening of kinetic grooves, dazzling virtuosity and daring improvisation as three great drumming traditions join together to draw attention to the global climate crisis. Featured artists include: the solo performance of Hindustani tabla virtuoso Akshay Navaladi, the traditional Ghanaian repertoire of the Agbekor Drum and Dance Society, and the legendary Jazz master Rakalam Bob Moses. The music begins at 7:00 pm, at Emmanuel Church, 15 Newbury Street, Boston, MA. Tickets are $20; $15 students/seniors. All proceeds will go to the environmental organization www.350.org. For information, please call 781-396-0734 or go to the event website.


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About the Performers:

Rakalam Bob Moses

Rakalam Bob Moses is a living legend and one of the world’s greatest drummers. He began his immersion in the world of jazz as a small child, living in the same building as Max Roach, Abbey Lincoln, Elvin Jones, and Art Blakey. He was ten when he started drumming, and within a few years was playing duets with Charles Mingus; by seventeen he was gigging with Rahsaan Roland Kirk and playing with Jim Pepper in the Free Spirits, widely acknowledged as the first jazz rock band.

Over the past several decades, Moses has given his brilliant rhythmic support to scores of luminaries in jazz and contemporary music, including Dave Liebman, Pharoah Sanders, Sam Rivers, Gary Burton, Pat Metheney, Jack DeJohnette, the Brecker Brothers, Jaco Pastorius, Jim Hall, Terumasa Hino, Abbey Lincoln, Tsziji Munoz and countless more. His first large ensemble recording, “Bittersuite in the Ozone,” was released in 1975, and received five stars from Downbeat Magazine. It is still regarded as a masterpiece, and has been re-released on Billy Martin's Amulet Records. In the 1980s, he did some of his most important large ensemble works, recording “When Elephants Dream of Music,” “Visit with the Great Spirit” and the monumental double LP, “The Story of Moses,” all on Gramavision Records.


Moses 1

In the late 80's, Moses formed Mozamba, applying his unique compositional style to funk and world music influences, creating a music that is great for listening and dancing. Mozamba’s members have included Stan Strickland, Tiger Okoshi, Bob Mintzer, Bob Gay, Darren Barret, Jacques Schwarz-Bart, Miles Evans, Bryan Carrot, Duke Levine, Dave Fiuczynski, Kai Eckhart, Matthew Garrison, Billy Martin, Ben Wittman, P.J.Adamson, Sa Davis, Phillip Hamilton, Alvin Roberts, and many others. These days, Mozamba features turntable wizard, Mr. Rourke, and often sitting in is Moses' talented son, rapper, Rafael.

A widely respected teacher, Bob Moses is a faculty member at New England Conservatory of Music. His book “Drum Wisdom” is a near-legendary compendium of insights and suggestions.

Moses 2

The reviewers say:

About Bittersuite in the Ozone:

"A record so human, so goddamn bloody real, that you fully expect it to climb out of the jacket alone and lay down on the turntable for a ride. It is music that breathes, grunts, cries, sings, and laughs-it makes categories arbitrary and insignificant. Though the players involved are known for their jazz affiliations, the music made here is universal."
— John Sinclair, The Detroit Sun

About "When Elephants Dream of Music":

"Bob Moses has now emerged as the possessor of one of the grander imaginations in America's true classical music. No orchestral composer of this scope, mellow wit, and freshly distinctive range of colors has come along since Gil Evans."
— Nat Hentoff, Modern Recording and Music

About "Time Stood Still
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"Leave it to Moses, a multi-directional shamanistic groovilator, to put all the pieces together. On "Time Stood Still", another sprawling production of DeMille-ian scale, he seamlessly blends Monk, funk, tap, hip hop, bebop, big band, blues, Bahia, Tanzania, and the avant garde into one organic package while paying homage to the spirits of Gil Evans, Charles Mingus, Rahsaan Roland Kirk, and Jaco Pastorius."
— Bill Milkowski, Down Beat

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The Agbekor Drum and Dance Society

The Agbekor Society is a group of friends who have been studying, teaching and performing the music and dance of the Ewe tribe of Ghana, West Africa for the past three decades. Under the direction of Tufts Professor Dr. David Locke, the members of ADDS present an energetic and tightly synchronized blend of drumming, singing and dancing. While pieces like the intricate “Adzogbo” and “Yeve” are multi-part suites of extraordinary richness and complexity, “Gahu” and “Kinka” are vibrant and kinetic dance music that gets listeners up and moving.


The Agbekor Drum and Dance Society

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Akshay Navaladi

"Akshay has shown fantastic finger magic on the Tabla. By demonstrating his expert talent and exhibiting his own individual style, he won over the audience overwhelmingly."

"This Tabla thunder has truly made a mark for himself."

Eenadu, Andhra Pradesh, India


Born into a family of classical music lovers, Akshay commenced his music lessons at the age of 6 years. After a year of training on the keyboards, Akshay’s fascination for the Tabla drew him towards the instrument and he is currently a disciple of Ustaad Akram Khan of Delhi/Ajrara gharana.

Akshay was conferred the ‘Ugadhi Purashkar’ award for child prodigies by the Madras Telugu Academy at Chennai, in 2002 and he has competed and won several awards in and outside New Delhi, in inter-school as well as national level competitions such as the All India Competitions of Music and Dance organized each year by the Navya Nataka Academy at Hyderabad.He has performed on on Doordarshan, India’s national television network, and has performed with both Hindustani and Carnatic music artistes in India and abroad. Notable performances include percussion ensembles with Shri K.N. Padmanabhan, renowned Mridangam exponent, the renowned Bharatnatyam danseuse Srimati Komala Varadhan, and vocalist Ustaad Iqbal Ahmed Khan, the Khalifa of the Delhi Gharana. Akshay has also performed in a series of workshops on ‘Yoga through music’ with Dr. T.V. Sairam, at the Asian music festival held at Kyrgyzstan in 2002, and in France and Canada in youth exchange programs in 2003 and 2004. He is currently performing extensively in and around Boston, Massachusetts.

At "Drumming For The Planet" he will be accompanied by Sri Ravi Torvi on the Harmonium.

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About www.350.org and the number 350:


Co-founded by environmentalist and author Bill McKibben, 350.org is the hub of a worldwide network of over two hundred environmental organizations, all with a common target: persuading the world's countries to unite in an effort to reduce global levels of atmospheric carbon dioxide to 350 parts per million or less. Climatologist Dr. James Hansen says, "If humanity wishes to preserve a planet similar to that on which civilization developed and to which life on Earth is adapted, paleoclimate evidence and ongoing climate change suggest that CO2 will need to be reduced from its current 385 ppm to at most 350 ppm." (Dr. Hansen heads the NASA Institute for Space Studies in New York City, and is best known for his testimony on climate change to congressional committees in the 1980s that helped raise broad awareness of the global warming issue.) Activists involved in the 350 movement include Rajendra Pachauri (Chairman, Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change), Vandana Shiva (world-renowned environmental leader and thinker), Archbishop Desmond Tutu (1984 winner of the Nobel Peace Prize and a global activist on issues pertaining to democracy, freedom and human rights), Van Jones, Bianca Jagger, Dr. James Hansen, Barbara Kingsolver and many more.

(complete list of "350 Messengers here)

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Warren Senders is the contact person for "Voices Against Climate Change." He is one of thousands of concerned global citizens hoping to trigger positive change through social action and the arts. He can be reached at warvij@verizon.net or by telephone at 781-396-0734.

Thursday, September 23, 2010

LYNN PORTRAIT SHOW - SEP 17 - OCT 29, 2010

Contact: Susan Halter

781.598.5244


The Portrait Show at LynnArts
Time Warner Gallery
September 17- October 29

Selections from the Lynn Museum Portrait Collection
Willow Community Gallery
September 17- October 29

Featuring the work of more than 30 artists, this exhibition provides a multi-medium look at modern portraiture. The show includes photographic portraits, beaded portraits and images created entirely from buttons in addition to traditionally rendered images in oil and watercolor. Artists from throughout the North Shore are represented including:

Nina Fletcher


Essex

Kathleen Austin


Framingham

Mike Annese


Groveland

Andrea Maglio-Macullar


Ipswich

Amy Anderson


Lynn

Dominick Takis


Lynn

Isabell Van Merlin


Lynn

Kathleen Speranza


Lynn

Ray Gilbert


Lynn

Steve Negrón


Lynn

Ken Buck, Malden


Malden

Barbara Rafferty


Marblehead

Dick Buckley


Marblehead

Elaine Caliri Daly


Marblehead

Holly Aloha Jaynes


Marblehead

Judith Zorzy


Marblehead

Lisa Bohnwagner


Middleton

C-J Stevens


Natick

Virginia Fitzgerald


Natick

Dottie Doucette


Peabody

Wilson Hunt, Jr.


Roslindale

Philip MacKenzie


S. Lawrence

Leslie Fahn Rosenberg


Salem

Paula Beaulieu


Salem

Martin Whitkin


Swampscott

Robin Samiljan


Swampscott

David A. Lang


Wayland

Sarah J. Cooper


Windham, NH



The Portrait show was juried by Joseph Wardwell. Mr. Wardwell has exhibited widely in Boston including at the Allston Skirt Gallery, the Bernard Toale Gallery, the Rose Art Museum, the Mills Gallery, the Green Street Gallery and Hallspace. His exhibition at LaMontagne Gallery in Boston was named one of the city’s ten exhibitions of 2009 by both The Boston Globe and The Boston Phoenix. Mr. Wardwell is currently the Assistant Professor of Painting and Drawing as well as an Artist in Residence at Brandeis University in Waltham, MA.



Pairing with this show in the Willow Community Gallery is a collection of historical portraits from the Lynn Museum Collection.



LynnArts, Inc. is a private non-profit arts organization located in Lynn’s Central Square at 25 Exchange Street. The building houses two large and airy gallery spaces as well as a black-box rehearsal/performance space and several artist studios. The LynnArts office welcomes queries regarding artist exhibition proposals, membership, teaching opportunities, and rental of office and studio space. For more information please contact Susan Halter at 781-598-5244.

BOSTON SOUTH END OPEN STUDIOS - SEP 25-26, 2010

This weekend only, during South End Open Studios, Sept. 25-26, from 11 am. to 6 pm., all of my color and black & white prints, including prints of my Grandfather's photos of China, will be 25% off! If you have been thinking about ordering one of my photos, now is the time. And if you can't make it in this weekend, just call or email me with your order, or to ask any questions. I'll be happy to send you jpegs to help you make your decision. You are also invited to First Friday Open Studios the following Friday, October 1st, from 5-9 pm.; both events at 450 Harrison Ave., Studio 227, Boston, MA.

Having completely re-done my studio, I now have much more display space with new lighting and many new framed prints; I hope you'll come and see them. And for the next 2 months, I am proud and excited to also host the photography of Bruce Rathbun, a unique artist and craftsman (and my customer; I drum scan Bruce's 8x20 and 11x14 negatives). Bruce is showing 25 new Platinum Palladium prints during both weekends; these prints must be seen to be believed, just ask anyone who saw them last month!

H u b C a p S h a c k · Dushore, Pennsylvania © 2010 Bruce Rathbun

"Two Lanes Wide: Images From The Open Road."
"One image. One day. Seldom are second chances possible; many of the dilapidated barns, broken down cars and main street store fronts I shoot are by their very nature living on borrowed time. Using an old wooden 8"x20" view camera I set out each year and hit the small towns off the two lane roads across the country. Working with such a large camera is slow and methodical in nature. In the tradition reminiscent of the early days of photography, I print my images using the Platinum Palladium process, which dates back to 1804. With a long tonal range, the print takes on a three dimensional feel. Each contact print is hand-coated on Arches Platine paper; the prints are one of a kind and unique in nature. There is no other medium so rich and expressive as a Platinum Palladium print."
Bruce Rathbun: view@beRathbun.com; (617) 640-9174 ; www.beRathbun.com

Also this month, in addition to new prints from my personal collection, I will continue to feature newly restored photographs of early 20th century China from the archive of my Grandfather, William Leete. Finally, I will have new examples of client work, both photography and Fine-Art reproductions.
(Please scroll down to learn about my Printers and Computer for sale)

Entrance Hall, Longmen Caves, near Loyang, 1937; Photo William Leete; Restoration and Print ©2010 William Morse

As always during Open Studios, the building's 21 galleries and more than 70 artists' studios will be open. There is off street parking at 500 Harrison Avenue as well as on street parking. The MBTA Silver Line stop is East Berkeley, just one block away.

See you this weekend, and the following Friday!

Bill Morse

Wm. Morse Editions
A Fine-Art Printmaking Studio
450 Harrison Avenue, Studio 227
Boston, MA 02118

Bill@MorseEditions.com (617) 429-3298 http://MorseEditions.com

PS- As you probably know, I send out emails to many people, so if you are able to come in this month, please introduce yourself to me again, so that I can continue to connect your names and faces. And if you would consider forwarding this email to other friends or colleagues who would be interested, I would greatly appreciate it!

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Friday, September 17, 2010

MFA screenings of Male-to-Female Transsexual Documentary

THE BOSTON PREMIERE OF THY WILL BE DONE IS COMING UP IN SEPTEMBER AT THE BOSTON MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS!!!!


Friday evening, Sept 10th, 7:30pm

Saturday Sept 11 - 1:10pm

Sunday Sept 12 - 11:30am

Friday, Sept 17 - 5:30pm

Saturday Sept 18 - 11:30am


THY WILL BE DONE follows Male-to-Female Transsexual Sara Herwig in her path to ordination in the Presbyterian Church. Efforts have been made to block her ordination by the evangelical conservative groups who don't recognize her as female and question her fitness to be a Pastor..... but who also challenge her candidacy because she is in a same-sex relationship, with a woman. At issue is the organized Christian Church, with all its political and financial power, as one of the fiercest battlegrounds for LGBT rights and gender recognition.

For more information and to see a trailer: www.gfem.org (Click on search media database on left, and type in THY WILL BE DONE)

www.mineralkingproductions.com

Boston Museum of Fine Arts
Remis Auditorium
465 Huntington Ave
Boston, MA

for directions: www.mfa.org

Saturday, September 11, 2010

HONK! MUSIC FESTIVAL - October 8-10, 2010

Music Festival (free & open to all): save the date (variety of styles/activist street bands/unplugged DIY music)
September 2010 [for October 2010 event]
HONK! Festival Media Contact: Mary Curtin, 617-241-9664, 617-470-5867 (cell), marycurtin@comcast.net
[high res digital images, from HONK! Festivals past, available for download at honkfest.org/pr/ and
honkfest.org/pre-honk/; videos at honkfest.org/pictures-videos/]
Ongoing updates at www.honkfest.org and 617-383-HONK (4665).

HONK! FESTIVAL 2010

[HONK! photo by Ben Greenberg
as part of the current photo exhibition up in Davis Square]

FIFTH ANNUAL

this year featuring
[subject to revision]

~ What Cheer? Brigade (Providence, RI) ~
~ Veveritse (Brooklyn, NY) ~
~ Titanium Sporkestra (Seattle, WA) ~
~ Springville All Star Marching Band (Springville, NY) ~
~ Seed and Feed Marching Abominables (Atlanta, GA) ~
~ Rude Mechanical Orchestra (Brooklyn, NY) ~
~ Minor Mishap Marching Band (Austin, TX) ~
~ Leftist Marching Band (Portsmouth, NH) ~
~ Himalayas (NY, NY) ~
~ Extraordinary Rendition Band (Providence, RI) ~
~ Environmental Encroachment (Chicago, IL) ~
~ DJA-Rara (Brooklyn, NY) ~
~ Detroit Party Marching Band (Detroit, MI) ~
~ Bread and Puppet Circus Band (Glover, VT) ~
~ Brass Liberation Orchestra (Oakland, CA) ~
~ Black Bear Combo (Chicago, IL) ~
~ Barrage Band Orchestra (Baltimore, MD) ~

with locals
[subject to revision]

~ AfroBrazil ~
~ AMP (Activist Music for the People) Radical Marching Band ~
~ Bahamas Junkanoo Jumpers ~
~ Dirty Water Brass Band ~
~ Emperor Norton's Stationary Marching Band ~
~ Expandable Brass Band ~
~ Factory Seconds ~
and
~ Second Line Social Aid & Pleasure Society Brass Band ~

October 8-10

based
in
Davis Square, Somerville
&
Harvard Square, Cambridge

ALL
[EXCEPT FOR ONE VERY AFFORDABLE EVENT]
FREE AND OPEN TO ALL


(Somerville & Cambridge, MA) Born out of a need for street bands to celebrate their social activist side, the increasingly popular HONK! Festival is back for a 5th year with opportunities galore for participants and festival goers to enjoy themselves immensely. Rain or shine on Columbus Day weekend, October 8-10, the streets primarily in and around Davis Sq. and spilling out into Harvard Square will be teeming with bands raising a good time ruckus.

The confirmed HONK! band count is currently at 25, with one to two new ones being added weekly. But when the final count is in, this year up to 30, there’ll still be no stopping individuals who suddenly feel the need to jump in at the last minute. In today’s parlance, HONK! 2010 already has an app for that! Opportunities abound not only for festival invitees but for the spur of the moment merry maker, including a chance to play music with the October 10th impromptu “community band” made up of individual musicians, who are not affiliated with any of this year’s HONK! bands, but are interested in participating in the gigantic HONK! Parade to Reclaim the Streets for Horns, Bikes and Feet.

Festival updates can be found at www.honkfest.org, twitter.com/honkfest/, and www.facebook.com/honkfestival, or by calling 617-383-HONK (4665). Listed below is the festival schedule as it now stands:



2010 WEEKEND SCHEDULE:


Friday, October 8, 1-5 pm
HONK! In The Neighborhoods
Visiting HONK! bands will team up with their local counterparts to perform and interact at several Boston-area Boys and Girls Clubs, as well as at other non-profit venues or gatherings. At this writing the following clubs and organizations who will be participating are:
Yawkey Club of Roxbury, 115 Warren St., Roxbury; Charlestown Club, 15 Green Street, Charlestown; Blue Hill Club, 15 Talbot Ave., Dorchester; South Boston Club, 230 West Sixth Street, South Boston; Union Square Main Streets, Union Square, Somerville; Zumix, 260 Summer St., East Boston; and the Food Not Bombs gathering at Park St. on the Boston Common.
Many of these events are free and open to all.
For information: 617-383-HONK (4665), info@honkfest.org

Saturday, October 9, 12:30 pm-9 pm
HONK! On Davis Square
Up to 30 activist street bands, from near and far, will perform outdoors for free. An Opening Ceremony to be held at 12:30 pm in 7 Hills Park, Davis Square, Somerville. At this writing the following bands will be participating, listed in alphabetical order: AfroBrazil, AMP (Activist Music for the People) Radical Marching Band, Bahamas Junkanoo Jumpers, Barrage Band Orchestra, Black Bear Combo, Brass Liberation Orchestra, Bread and Puppet Circus Band, Detroit Party Marching Band, Dirty Water Brass Band, DJA-Rara, Emperor Norton's Stationary Marching Band, Environmental Encroachment, Expandable Brass Band, Extraordinary Rendition Band, Factory Seconds, Himalayas, Leftist Marching Band, Minor Mishap Marching Band, Rude Mechanical Orchestra, Second Line Social Aid & Pleasure Society Brass Band, Seed and Feed Marching Abominables, Springville All Star Marching Band, Titanium Sporkestra, Veveritse, and What Cheer? Brigade.
Davis Square, Somerville
[Conveniently located near the Davis Square stop on the Red Line and several MBTA bus connections.]
Free and open to all; rain or shine.
For information: 617-383-HONK (4665), info@honkfest.org

Sunday, October 10, noon-2 pm
HONK! Parade to Reclaim the Streets for Horns, Bikes and Feet
Led by the Mayors of Somerville and Cambridge, the parade will feature all the HONK! bands, plus the Bread & Puppet Theater, the impromptu “community band,” and many local arts and community organizations, such as Green Streets Initiative, Bikes Not Bombs, 350.org, Open Air Circus, Puppeteers Cooperative, Livable Streets, and Sprout. The parade assembles at 11 am, and the route starts in Davis Square, Somerville, at noon, making its way to Harvard Square’s Oktoberfest celebration in Cambridge. To participate in the parade or to volunteer as a parade facilitator, contact parade@honkfest.org.
[Conveniently located near the Davis, Porter, and Harvard Square stops on the Red Line and several MBTA bus connections.]
Free and open to all; rain or shine.
For information: 617-383-HONK (4665), info@honkfest.org

Sunday, October 10, 2-6 pm
HONK! at Oktoberfest
Several HONK! bands will be featured in Harvard Square’s Oktoberfest.
[Conveniently located near the Harvard Square stop on the Red Line and several MBTA bus connections.]
Free and open to all; rain or shine.
For information, visit www.harvardsquare.com, 617-491-3434, hsba@harvardsquare.com

Sunday, October 10, 8 pm-midnight
HONK! Blow-Out
Featuring all the HONK! bands, performing up to 10 minute sets each. At this writing the following bands will be participating, listed in alphabetical order: AfroBrazil, AMP (Activist Music for the People) Radical Marching Band, Bahamas Junkanoo Jumpers, Barrage Band Orchestra, Black Bear Combo, Brass Liberation Orchestra, Bread and Puppet Circus Band, Detroit Party Marching Band, Dirty Water Brass Band, DJA-Rara, Emperor Norton's Stationary Marching Band, Environmental Encroachment, Expandable Brass Band, Extraordinary Rendition Band, Factory Seconds, Himalayas, Leftist Marching Band, Minor Mishap Marching Band, Rude Mechanical Orchestra, Second Line Social Aid & Pleasure Society Brass Band, Seed and Feed Marching Abominables, Springville All Star Marching Band, Titanium Sporkestra, Veveritse, and What Cheer? Brigade.
Somerville Theatre
55 Davis Square, Somerville
[Conveniently located near the Davis Square stop on the Red Line and several MBTA bus connections.]
Ticket: $10 general admission.
For tickets and information: (617) 625-5700, http://feitheatres.com/somerville-theatre/

Leading up to this year’s Columbus Day weekend events, there are several preliminary events worth noting:

Through Thursday, September 30, 2010:
HONK! Photo Exhibit
Features 7 photographers: Greg Cook, Tiffany Knight, Mark Dannenhauer, Jesse Edsell-Vetter, Benjamin Greenberg, Chris Yeager & Akos Szilvasi. Their photos are inspired by HONK! Festival 2009.
The Inside-Outside Gallery (aka the CVS windows)
CVS Pharmacy
1 Davis Square, Somerville
[Conveniently located near the Davis Square stop on the Red Line and several MBTA bus connections.]
Free and open to all.
For more information, photoshow@honkfest.org.

Monday, September 13, 7-8:30 pm:
We Love HONK! Volunteers Meeting
Sign-up gathering to help in all the ways that make HONK! possible. Individuals and groups interested in participating in the parade, to be held from noon-2 pm on October 10th, are also encouraged to attend. Fun is guaranteed!
Somerville Public Library (West Branch)
40 College Ave., Somerville
[Conveniently located near the Davis Square stop on the Red Line and several MBTA bus connections.]
For more information, contact volunteers@honkfest.org.

Tuesday, September 21, 10 am-11 pm:
Flatbread Pizza For HONK! Benefit
All day, with a special 7:30 pm performance by the Second Line Social Aid & Pleasure Society Brass Band. Flatbread in Somerville is donating a portion of the cost of every pizza pie purchased during the day to the HONK! Festival.
Flatbread Company
45 Day Street, Somerville
[Conveniently located near the Davis Square stop on the Red Line and several MBTA bus connections.]
For more information, contact benefit@honkfest.org.

The HONK! Festival is a good idea coming to fruition. A need had been identified, not only on the part of musicians — of a particular persuasion — who have a penchant for gathering to raise a awareness about issues that need attention. But also a need is there on the part of the audience — not necessarily of any persuasion — to bask in the glow of this unusual phenomenon.


[HONK! photo by Mark Dannenhauer
as part of the current photo exhibition up in Davis Square]


As often as bands congregate to HONK in protest, they also perform to celebrate the causes and institutions they support: multicultural festivals, peace conferences, social forums, artists’ collectives, community gardens, block parties, neighborhood fundraisers, relief benefits and homeless shelters. In every case, the HONKers’ ultimate goal is to have fun, to relish the art of making fun as a form of individual and collective transcendence, and to encourage others to see and do the same.

The HONK! Festival Committee would like to give special thanks to the following for their support of this year’s HONK! Festival: City of Somerville, the Somerville Arts Council, RESIST, Harvard Square Business Association, Davis Square businesses, and last but not least, the local Davis Square community, whose support in terms of in-kind donations of food and public services, housing for upwards of 300 musicians, and cash contributions, is vital to keeping the HONK! effort going.

Wednesday, September 08, 2010

BOSTON AT NIGHT PHOTOGRAPHY SHOW - SEP 13 - NOV 5, 2010

Press Contact:
Susan Navarre, Executive Director
Brookline Arts Center
617-566-5715
www.brooklineartscenter.com

Photo one: Sean Molloy, Church and State, digital photograph
Photo two: Sean Molloy, Boston, digital photograph

Interviews available:
Sean Molloy

Sean Molloy Explores Night in the City
in the Brookline Arts Center’s Fall
Photography Exhibition Looking at the Night


(Brookline -- September 7, 2010) Sean Molloy started exploring the beauty of the city after dark when his father was ill with Alzheimer’s disease. “Most of my free time was after he had gone to bed, so I went into the city with a camera and it evolved from there,” says Molloy.

“After a while, I realized that I didn’t know how to use my digital SLR camera, so I took a class at the New England School of Photography, where I really got the technical training I needed for night shots. In fact, one of my teachers was a former NASA engineer from the Apollo program.”

Sean’s nighttime photos are on view at the Brookline Arts Center in an exhibition entitled Looking at the Night. The show features black and white photos of the Boston area at night. The show is open Monday, September 13 through Friday, November 5, 2010 from 9:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.

Other examples of Sean Molloy’s photographs are on view at the Brookline Public Library Main branch, in Attractions: New Art Coming to the Brookline Arts Center, a group exhibition organized by the Brookline Arts Center and the Brookline Public Library. Molloy is an employee of Brookline Bank, and is also a regular volunteer at the Franklin Park Zoo.

The Brookline Arts Center is located at 86 Monmouth Street, at the corner of St. Mary’s Street. The center is easily reached by public transportation on the Green line or the #47 and CT#2 buses. Admission to the exhibition is free. For more information, visit www.brooklineartscenter .com or call 617-566-5715.

Thursday, September 02, 2010

BOSTON GALLERY PHOTOGRAPHY EXHIBITION - Sep - Nov 2010

THIS SEPTEMBER
Heights of Observation | The Photographs of Vittorio Sella
Vittorio Sella
Vittorio Sella, Moraine Lake on the Baltoro Glacier above Urdukas, 1909

Panopticon Gallery is pleased to be exhibiting the work of Italian mountaineer and photographer Vittorio Sella from September 9 – November 8, 2010. This exhibition, curated by Tony Decaneas will showcase contemporary photographs printed from the artist's original glass-plate negatives.

Sella's photographs precede the majestic images created by Bradford Washburn and Ansel Adams. Washburn was once quoted as saying, "Sella was definitely my first inspiration in mountaineering photography. His photographs of the Mount Saint Elias Expedition of 1898 led by the Duke of Abruzzi were some of the earliest photographs that got my attention." Adams, who wrote the preface to Sella's monograph Summit, said, "Sella has brought to us not only the facts and forms of far-off splendors of the world, but the essence of experience which finds a spiritual response in the inner recesses of our mind and heart."

Opening Reception: Thursday, September 16, 2010, 5:30 – 7:30pm.

To read the Press Release click here.

IN THE PRIVATE ROOM
Keith Johnson | Recent Work
Keith Johnson
Keith Johnson, Mac Music, Chicago, 2010

On display from September 10th through November 8th is a selection of images by Panopticon Gallery photographer Keith Johnson. The prints will be on display in 'The Gallery', a private function room within the Hotel Commonwealth.

LATER THIS FALL
Neal Rantoul | Twenty Five Years (1980-2005)
Neal Rantoul
Neal Rantoul, Untitled, from the series Escalante, Utah, 2001

This November, Panopticon Gallery will be hosting an exhibition of work by the photographer and educator Neal Rantoul. We will be taking a look at a variety of his black & white 'series' work spanning a twenty-five year period (1980-2005). Copies of his monograph American Series will be available in the gallery through the run of the show.

GALLERY NEWS

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* » Panopticon Gallery is pleased to be representing the work of two new artists in the gallery: Eva Timothy and Roger Farrington.
* » This fall, VH1 and Gallery Books will be releasing Starting Over: The Making of John Lennon and Yoko Ono's Double Fantasy by Ken Sharp. This book will feature many of Roger Farrington's images from the recording sessions.
* » Keith Johnson will have an installation of Aerial Photographs included in the exhibition Earth Sky curated by Jennifer McCandless in the Morse Gallery at Loomis Chaffee School September 1–October 15, 2010.
* » Photographs by Eva Timothy appear in the upcoming exhibition, Created and Found Maps: Exploration of Self and World at the Houston Center for Photography from September 10-November 7, 2010.
* » NPR wrote a nice article about photographer Vittorio Sella called An Alpine Adventurer And His Mountaintop Darkroom.
* » Erik Schubert is hard at work on a new project called Annals of the Interior West. This project is comprised of multiple series of images and artist books.
* » A photograph by Suzanne Revy was juried into the Flight Show at the Vermont Photography Workplace/PhotoPlace Gallery. The juror was David Bram. Two additional photographs were juried into The Photo Review's 2010 Competition issue.
* » Keith Johnson's photographs appear in the Fall 2010 issue of Architecture | Boston Magazine.
* » Photo critic and curator A.D. Coleman is currently organizing a traveling retrospective for Panopticon Gallery photographer Harold Feinstein.
* » A limited edition of Lee Friedlander photogravures from the Neiman Center at Columbia University are now available at the gallery.

Panopticon Gallery
Inside Hotel Commonwealth
502c Commonwealth Ave, Boston, MA 02215
617-267-8929
Hours: Tue–Sat 10-5:30pm
info@panopticongallery.com

BOSTON AREA ART SHOW - September 2010

September 9th - November 28th, 2010

Heavy Metal

Meet the Artists: Sunday, November 14th, 1-3pm

Boston Children’s Museum
300 Congress Street
Boston, MA 02210

http://www.bostonkids.org/exhibits/coming_attractions.html





September 17th - October 3rd, 2010

MassArt MFA Graduate Show

Opening reception: Friday, September 17th, 8-10pm

Provincetown Art Association and Museum
Hawthorne Gallery
460 Commercial St
Provincetown, MA 02657

http://www.paam.org/





September 17th - October 3rd, 2010

MassArt MFA Graduate Show

Opening reception: Friday, September 17th, 6-8pm

Fine Arts Work Center
Hudson D. Walker Gallery
24 Pearl St
Provincetown, MA 02657

http://www.fawc.org/mfa/index.php





October 9th - November 13th, 2010

Still Life: Real to Surreal

Opening Reception: Saturday, October 16th, 7-9 pm

Gallery Seven
7 Nason St
Maynard, MA 01754

http://gallerysevenmaynard.com/gallery/

Click HERE to view the Premium Art Deadlines List.

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