"Young people from the Providence Youth Arts Collaborative (AS220 Broad Street Studios, Community MusicWorks, the Carriage House, New Urban Arts, and Providence ¡CityArts! for Youth) have joined forces to organize the first-ever youth arts day on the theme of Roots & Rituals at AS220, generously sponsored by the National Endowment for the Arts!
Join us for this FREE collaborative arts and media day where you can make cool stuff, learn about local youth arts organizations, and see expressive performances. Don't leave your personality at home, bring your SKILLZ, experience different art practices in workshops, or just hang out. There will be an open mic - show us what you got! Get ready for a day you won't soon forget! You will have an awesome time!
SATURDAY, MAY 22
DOORS 11:30 WORKSHOPS 12-2 PERFORMANCES 2-5
FREE FOOD!
Schedule:
12-1pm
Improv Workshop (sign-up)
Laser Cutter Workshop (drop-in)
Story Booth (drop-in)
Writing Workshop (sign-up)
Visuals Workshops (drop-in)
1-2pm
Dance Workshop (sign-up)
Laser Cutter Workshop (drop-in)
Story Booth (drop-in)
Movie in an Hour (sign-up)
Visuals Workshops (sign-up and drop in)
2-3pm
Youth Panel
Street Band
Free Food
3-4pm
Broad Street and Carriage House Dance Performances with CMW Rhythm Machine Video and Slideshow Screening (work from Broad Street, Carriage House, and CMW)
4-5pm
Roots & Rituals performances featuring CMW Fiddle Lab and Broad Street Studio Street Band finale
Plus ongoing youth gallery show and other surprises!"
Megan Plunkett's (Kingsboro Press) month long, Brooklyn-based shop, "Holiday", is up and running, like, right now! Go peruse the space now because it's only open for the month of May. The first two installments of AMIGOS are on display as well as countless other independent artists, publishers, zines, etc. GO!
Synchronicity Space asked small, independent companies and publishers to showcase an artist they were excited about. Independents present is an exhibition resulting in our request to these companies to group curate an exhibition. Synchronicity Space will host an opening reception Saturday, May 15 from 7 to 11pm. The exhibition will run from May 15th and close June 5th.
These companies and artists include:
Nieves presents artist, Jay Nelson
Nieves is an independent publishing house based in Zurich, Switzerland.
Founded in 2001, Nieves' focus is on publishing Artists' Books and Zines.
Ooga Booga presents artist, Maxwell Krivitzky
Ooga Booga is a store in Chinatown Los Angeles that specializes in artist books, art, music, and fashion. Since opening in 2004, they have also hosted concerts, film screenings, book launches, readings, mini-exhibitions, reading rooms, window installations in their space and in satellite projects around the world. The aim of Ooga Booga is to support independent creative culture in its various forms.
Drippy Bone Books presents artist, Shannon Keller
Drippy Bone Books is a publishing project run by artists Kristy Foom, Mario Zoots, and Keenan Marshall Keller out of Amsterdam, Denver and Los Angeles. Drippy Bone Books releases underground art zines, comix, and promotes the distribution of art multiples. The name, Drippy Bone Books, was inspired by the comic Oops Goops drawn by David Magdaleno and Brian Bamps of Los Angeles. Editions are curated by a single person and worked on by the group. Focusing on limited edition releases of explosively creative underground work; the artists involved are as diverse as the mediums they use. Treading the lines between the beautiful and the ugly, the intellectual and moronic, the optimistic and apathetic, the primitive and the modern...
Penny Ante presents artist, Jed Ochmanek
Penny-Ante is an independent book publishing company based in Los Angeles. Founded in 2005, Penny-Ante has since released three large volumes compiling art & literary works from a wide range of artists, writers, and musicians. Starting in 2010, Penny-Ante will be expanding its output to other forms of art-based product including limited run art prints, DVDs, vinyl records, and cassettes. Past contributors to Penny-Ante's "Book #1", "Book #2", and "Three" include Alice Bag (The Bags), Billy Bragg, Bill Callahan (Smog), Robin Crutchfield (Dark Day/DNA), Jad Fair (Half Japanese), Mick Farren (The Deviants), artist Terence Koh, Bettina Koster (Malaria!), Thurston Moore (Sonic Youth), and artist Jason Yates (Fast Friends, Inc.) to only name a few.
Kaugummi presents artist, Rasmus Svensson
Kaugummi is an independent publishing house and a label based in Rennes, France.
They publish and promote artist books, zines, and records focusing mainly on contemporary drawing, photography and psych sounds, since 2005. Kaugummi was created and is run by Bartolomé Sanson.
Narrow Books presents artist, Shawn Peterson
Narrow Books is an independent publisher headquartered in Los Angeles. Our most recent books include Hey Fudge, a sweeping collection of drawings, paintings, installations, and sketchbook pages by the artist Travis Millard; Eat Hell, a trio of stories by award-winning author Joseph Mattson; and Two Letters Vol. 2, our second anthology featuring dozens of contributors offering unique art and writing.
and Nick has finished Holeshot #7:
You can check out the deets of Girl Talk #9 here and Holeshot #7 here. Enjoy!
This saturday Sync Space in LA is hosting UNLEASHED: The First Annual Los Angeles Pet Art Show. The show, according to the gallery, is "an art show of your pets, by your pets and for your pets." The show, open to humans and their animal bffs, will be open from 12 to 11PM - you can check all the deets here. Amigos' pal/cat enthusiast Max Krivitsky, of The Catorialist fame, will have some work in the show so you should definitely stop by. XO
