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Body of War is an intimate and transformational feature documentary about the true face of war today. Meet Tomas Young, 25 years old, paralyzed from a bullet to his spine - wounded after serving in Iraq for less than a week.

Body of War is Tomas’ coming home story as he evolves into a new person, coming to terms with his disability and finding his own unique and passionate voice against the war. The film is produced and directed by Phil Donahue and Ellen Spiro, and features two original songs by Eddie Vedder. Body of War is a naked and honest portrayal of what it’s like inside the body, heart and soul of this extraordinary and heroic young man. (From BodyofWar.com)

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An interesting component of the website is its “Take Action” section that lists various ways we can show our discontent with the Iraq war, ranging from voting registration to the fight against war profiteering. Check it, and the film, out!

Body of War
Director: Phil Donahue,Ellen Spiro
Not Rated (NR)
Metro Cinemas
*check fandango.com out or your newspaper for local times*

Reviews:
TIME magazine
Washington Post

For you east-siders looking for a Friday night!

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“London Suite” at the Bellevue Civic Theatre

By Neil Simon

Directed by Rick May

Produced by special arrangement with Samuel French, Inc.

Following in the footsteps of last season’s Plaza Suite, this show takes you across the Atlantic to a lovely hotel in London where, once again, the audience gets a glimpse into the lives of the various people who check in and out of the same suite over a period of time. In his usual style, Simon creates hilarious situations that show how life can be humorous, but also bittersweet.

Student tickets: $15.00 at 425.235-5087 or http://www.bellevuecivic.org/BCTTickets.asp

Bellevue’s Meydenbauer Center

11100 NE 6th St., Bellevue, WA 98004

Wow. I do not know how to adequately describe the event that follows. All I have to say is, get to it folks! Then to cap off your evening, you can catch Jenna Jameson’s ‘Zombie Strippers’ playing at the Neptune on 45th. What a night!

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Living Dead is the unauthorized action adventure sequel to Hamlet put on by the Pork Filled Players! Blazing Kung fu action(tm)! The walking dead! The immortal Bard (that’s Shakespeare, folks)! A post-apocalyptic Denmark faced with an impending zombie invasion! All stuffed into a blender and set to puree! Only Lady Macbeth, Juliet and a really pissed off Ophelia have a chance at staving off this threat—but will they do or die (and maybe die again for good measure)?!

Student tickets: $10.00 at Ticket Window Online

May 1 - May 24, 2008

Thursdays 8PM
Fridays 8PM
Saturdays 8PM

Theatre Off Jackson
409 - 7th Ave S, Seattle, WA 98104

Exhibiting artists: Julia Bruk, Anna Czoski, Alexis Eggertsen, Mollie Fabric, Robert Gay, Kjell Hansen, Mi-Jong Jang, Daren Keck, Amber Manuguid, Michael McCrea, Toby McKes, Erik, Parr, Nathan Wade.

Education Lecture Series: Introduction to Cultural Landscape Preservation

Dunn Gardens hosts a presentation by Beth Dodrill, Dunn Gardens Board Member/Conservation Committee and Consulting Preservation Specialist.

Tuesday May 6th
10am-12pm
13533 Northshire Rd NW, Seattle, WA

From I-5 North or South:

Take Exit 175 - NE 145th Street (2 exits north of Northgate)

** Go WEST on NE 145th (if coming from the south, turn left; if from the north, turn right); continue across Highway 99 /Aurora Ave and Greenwood Ave N, then you will see the Seattle Golf Course on your right; continue on 145th until you get to a stop sign at 3rd Ave NW

Turn LEFT on 3rd Ave NW

Turn RIGHT on NW 137th

Turn LEFT on Northshire Rd NW, which is the second street on the left

Go past three houses on right, then turn RIGHT into our entrance marked by two brick pillars with an open white gate

Keep LEFT at the first fork, following the small green signs, LEFT at the second fork, then take the next RIGHT which loops in front of our grey two-story cottage.

Drive past the front door and garage and take a LEFT into the parking lot.

Lavinia, second wife of Aeneas, has only a line or two in Virgil’s Aeneid. Ursula K. LeGuin has decided to give Lavinia a voice of her own in this new novel- Lavinia published by Harcourt.

A few reviews:

Publisher’s Weekly

Los Angeles Times

Excerpt from Lavinia

It was a wonderful thing to be out on the hills and see a great stag come walking calmly from the forest, balancing his crown of horns. He would kneel and put his nose in Silvia’s hand, and folding his tall delicate legs under him, sit there between us while she stroked his neck. He smelled sweet and strong and gamy. His eyes were large, dark, and quiet; so were Silvia’s eyes. That is what it was like in the age of Saturn, my poet said, the golden time of the first days when there was no fear in the world. Silvia seemed a daughter of that age. To sit with her on the sunlit slopes or run with her on the forest trails she knew so well was the delight of my life. There was no one in all that country of our girlhood who wished us any harm. Our pagans, the folk of the plowlands, greeted us from their fields or the doorstep of their round huts. The surly bee-keeper saved a comb of honey for us, the dairy women had a sip of cream for us, the cowboys showed off for us, riding bull-calves or vaulting an old cow’s horns, and the old shepherd Ino showed us how to make piping flutes of oat-straw.

Sometimes in summer as the long day drew toward evening and we knew we should be starting home to the farm, we’d both lie face down on the hillside and push our faces right into the harsh dry grass and the hard clodded dirt, breathing in the infinitely complex smell, hay-sweet and soil-bitter, of the warm summer earth, our earth. Then we were both Saturn’s children. We leapt up and ran down the hill, ran home — race you to the cattle ford!

UW Bookstore
Wednesday April 30th
7pm

Take a vacation and relax next Friday with the popular Hawaiian duo. Additionally, Aumakua Records is a fastidious protector of the arts in Hawaii and by coupling local artists with music production, they are fostering a sense of cultural, musical growth long grown stagnant by the failing music education in today’s schools. Good cause, great music– can’t lose!

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Slack key guitarist Stephen Inglis and neo-classical pianist Shawn Livingston Moseley are joined by guest artist Lady Cindy Combs, also on slack key, performing a stylistic featuring the Hawaiian songs that have become popular since the renaissance of Hawaiian music in the 1970s. Presented by Aumakua Records.

Friday, May 2nd
7:30pm

Advance tickets $20/$18 Town Hall members & seniors at www.brownpapertickets.com or 800/838-3006. $24/$22 at the door.

Town Hall

Town Hall is conveniently located at Eighth Avenue and Seneca Street. Town Hall’s location offers easy access to and from the I-5 freeway. The best parking option is the Washington State Convention and Trade Center Main Garage, just 2 blocks north of Town Hall on 8th Ave.

After seeing such great art work on display at the ArtsExpo(sed) event this Friday, I know a few UW photographers would be viable competitors in this competition.

My favorite photo I saw on sale was this larger print of a young girl with a brunette bob-cut– she was almost out of the frame, walking to the right of the viewer. You couldn’t even see her face. In her hands were a bundle of the purest red balloons, also floating out of the frame. The beautiful colors of both her dark hair and the balloons subdued by the high grass that blurred the majority of the image.

So puzzling, yet enchanting.

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CALL FOR ENTRIES

The Photographic Center Northwest’s 13th Annual Photographic Competition Exhibition , Please Ring Bell, will be chosen by Rod Slemmons. Selected entries will be exhibited at the Photographic Center Northwest in Seattle from July 11 – August 28, 2008. First, second, and third prize winners will take home $1000, $750, and $500 respectively. PCNW gratefully acknowledges Getty Images for sponsoring the cash awards. The competition is open to all photographers, all photographic processes, and all themes. PCNW Faculty, Board Members and staff are allowed to submit entries, but are not eligible for the cash awards. The juror is looking for work that represents a larger, cohesive body of work and will be selecting a short series from each photographer chosen. A short artist statement is required. The entry fee is $40 for four jpegs. Additional jpegs will be accepted if accompanied by a seven dollar per jpeg fee, up to ten jpegs total. Entry fees are non-refundable. All entries must be received by Friday, May 9th, 2008 at 9:00 pm.

Juror: Rod Slemmons

Rod Slemmons has been the Director of the Museum of Contemporary Photography at Columbia College Chicago since 2002 where he has curated several exhibitions and teaches undergraduate photo history and graduate theory seminars. Slemmons previously taught at the U.W. in Seattle for 12 years. He was the National Chair of the Society for Photographic Education from 1990 - 1994. Slemmons was the Curator of Prints and Photographs at the Seattle Art Museum for 14 years, producing 35 exhibitions and numerous catalogs.

How To Enter

1. Submissions accepted via CD only. Must be readable on a PC. Jpegs only.
2. Images must be no larger than 720 pixels (or 10 inches) at 72 dpi in the longest dimension, and saved as jpegs.
3. Each jpeg must be titled with the correlating letter to match the entry form, the photographer’s name and the title of the image (for example: A_John Doe_Untitled.jpg)
4. An artist statement must be submitted on the CD in a word document file or pdf statement no longer than two pages. (do not send hard copy of the statement-it will not be used)
5. The CD and CD case must be labeled with the photographer’s name.
6. Notification: A list of accepted artists will be posted on our website: by June 2008, www.pcnw.org
7. Acceptance notice & materials will be sent only if a SASE with sufficient postage accompanies your entry.
8. Work submitted may not have been previously exhibited at the Photographic Center Northwest Gallery.

Submission information here: http://www.pcnw.org/gallery/entries.php

Join ArtsLink in the UW Quadrangle this Friday, April 25th for an all-day spectacular! Each arts department will be playing their part in individual tableaux, representing what makes their department unique to the UW arts community.

Everything from dance performances to poetry slams to student art sales, is at your fingertips all day Friday!

UW Quadrangle (’de Quad)
12pm-7pm
TICKETS: NONE! FREE! ZIPPO! NADA! (pick up some free stuff while you’re at it too!)

Spend your summer making money at one of the best art museums in Seattle!

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FRYE ART MUSEUM–Exhibitions and Collections Department Summer Internship

The Frye Art Museum ’s Exhibitions and Collections Department seeks an intern to perform general administrative duties, including but not limited to: filing, correspondence, processing and returning artist materials, creating power point presentations, assisting with artist and curatorial travel arrangements, and other duties as assigned.

This internship offers an introduction to all aspects of the exhibition process during an exciting period of growth at the Frye. It is an ideal opportunity for candidates considering future careers in museums, galleries, or arts organizations. Students in art and art history strongly encouraged to apply, students in a graduate program preferred; exceptional undergraduates will also be considered.

The ideal candidate is mature, detail-oriented, and self-starting, with a working knowledge of art history and office organization. The candidate should be able to type and use Microsoft Office products proficiently.

The internship pays $15/hour and requires a commitment of approximately 20 hours/week for a minimum of 3 months.

To apply, please submit letter of interest and resume by May 15 to:

Laura Landau

Curatorial Manager

Frye Art Museum

704 Terry Ave

Seattle, WA 98104