September 10: The Writings on the Wall: Text-Based Interactive Art, Music, Poetry @ Launch Pad Gallery
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The Writings on the Wall
ONE NIGHT ONLY: Text-Based Interactive Art, Music, Poetry
September 10th – 25th, 2010
SECOND FRIDAY
September 10th, 2010
7pm-1am
FREE! ALL AGES!
Northern Soul 45′s lovingly laid down by DJ Asher Loverdi
WHAT IS IT??
Home-made Magnetic Poetry vs. Freestyling vs. Improvisation vs. Live Painting vs. Open Mic
We're having a happening Happening of sorts, because we believe that YOU, our art-loving public, have something to say, so we're taking a chance to experiment and providing the tools to make something unique and wonderful! We require YOUR HELP to make the art this month! Bring your FAVORITE WORDS to include in a gigantic text-based experiment in collaborative writing, music and art making.
HOW DOES IT WORK?
Come prepared with your thesaurus in tow, ready with ideas and images to share and work into a grand text masterpiece of our collective creation….
- We will provide hundreds of blank 3Ã-5 index cards, push pins and markers, along with 40 feet of empty wall and pre-made pronouns, prepositions and nouns- just basics, basically.
- YOU and your friends bring ideas along with your favorite adjectives, nouns, verbs. Feel free to bring poems of your own to translate onto the wall, but know that your words will hopefully be cannibalized into other peoples sentences, just like on the fridge.(you can pre-make 3Ã-5 cards with word on them if you'd like to get extra fancy!)
- Over the course of the night, the wall will change and evolve as musicians, artists, DJ's, MC's and poets integrate your words and ideas into their flow alongside, as well as performing their own original material.
- In between music acts, we will have OPEN MIC opportunities for YOU to share poems, stories and snippets that you have created during the night using the words on the wall.
LIVE PAINTERS
(Artists will sell the work they create through out the night via silent auction)
CHRIS HABERMAN
JENNIFER MERCEDE
LIVE MUSIC, IMPROVISATION & FREE-STYLING
CHILDISH
Poet & songwriter Rob Childish will be bringing original songs as well as lyrics and poems created on the fly
REED WALLSMITH & TIM DuROCHE
Improvisational Jazz
THE WORD ASSOCIATION
Featuring Variant & Pecos B.
Beats, rhymes and stories
NORTH VOID COLLECTIVE & START FIRES:
Featuring: Joe Cyrus, Wellis Fool, Daltonic, DMLH, DJ Shermstixx
Freestyling! Pass the mic….
September 11, 2010 at 13:21
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