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This actor had quite the legacy in the nascent years of film. Check him out at his finest– only twelve bucks a pop for these films unavailable elsewhere!

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June 2, 2008: When the Clouds Roll By (1919);
June 9, 2008: Mark of Zorro (1920);
June 16, 2008: Robin Hood (1922);
June 23, 2008: The Gaucho (1927)

Start Time: 7:00 p.m.

Location: The Paramount Theatre / 911 Pine Street / Seattle, WA 98101

Website: http://www.theparamount.com

Unveiled for the first time, Dare alla Luce is Greer’s largest and most intricate artwork to date. The room-size installation is featured as part of a larger selection of works drawn from the artist’s last decade of activity. From Skin Tight (1999) to Small But Mighty Wandering Pearl (2006), this survey highlights Greer’s recurring themes of romantic love, eroticism, fetishism and motherhood.   

Greer’s exploration of the sensuality of life is reflected in the sensuousness of her medium. The materials mirror the body in its dual reality of emotional and corporal: soft vs. hard, vulnerable vs. strong, huge vs. delicate. Her formal realm is a soft one, made of crocheted and stitched fairy tales and archetypal myths, addressing the commonality of feeling and thinking of the human condition. Meaning is embodied in the narratives and yet embedded in the very material.

Mandy Greer is a Seattle-based sculptor and mixed-media installation artist, who has earned an MFA in ceramics from the University of Washington. Her work has been shown at the Tacoma Art Museum, Kirkland Arts Center, The Henry Art Gallery, 4Culture Gallery, Soil Gallery, and the Tampa Museum of Art, FL, among other locations. (information from Bellevue Arts Museum)

Friday, June 6 • 6:30 - 7:30 pm • FREE
Free First Friday Lecture Series: Mandy Greer
fiber and mixed-media artist

Just blocks away from the U-District. Take a nice sunny walk and blow your mind.

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Dorsey Dunn’s
RESONANCES:
Performance + Sound Installation

Jack Straw Productions presents Resonances, a sound installation that begins with a live electro-acoustic improvisational performance in the gallery and continues as an extended aural ‘dying-away’ of the event itself over the course of the exhibition. Music and sound captured during the opening will slowly disappear in a long series of disintegrating reverberations, from an intense beginning to a final period that is spare and minimal. Dorsey Dunn, based in Los Angeles, works in sound, text and image in the form of installations, performances, and written and recorded works.

4261 Roosevelt Way NE
Seattle, WA 98105-6999
Phone: (206) 634-0919

Jack Straw New Media Gallery Hours:
Monday-Friday, 10am - 6pm

I love it when the actors are visibly drunk on stage. Late night improv is like the little window into the theatre world that is usually carried on unsuspectingly backstage. Pranks, shenanginans, drugs/alcohol, and of course– fabulous acting! Thus, I wholly support this event and give it my praises:

“GO FORTH!: An Improv Adventure”
A brand new show created by Darrell Olson and Danny Walter
New grads, fathers and all those who love them, beware! Life is full of discoveries, challenges, failures and triumphs. In this improvised tale of adventure, Taproot’s actor’s use the audience’s suggestions as the building blocks for a performance of epic (and hilarious) proportions!

Fridays, May 23-June 13, at 10:15 p.m.*
Late-Night Improv will start around 10:15, or 15 minutes after the Mainstage show ends.

Ticket Prices
Tickets are just $10, or $8 with your ticket to Over the River and Through the Woods.
Call Taproot Theatre’s Box Office at 206.781.9707 to purchase your tickets.

Seattle Arts & Lectures and Seattle International Film Festival present:
John Waters

Tuesday, June 3, 2008, at 7:30pm

The films of cultural juvenile delinquent John Waters see beauty and truth in trailer-trash junkscapes and the outrageous, disgusting doings of polite society’s outcasts. From his earliest movie, Hag in a Black Leather Jacket (1964), to Pink Flamingos (1972) to Fruitcake (currently in production), his work has been driven by an us-versus-them, hip-versus-square dynamic in which being bad is good and the minority outsiders who embrace their “neuroses and obsessions” are the cool ones who emerge as winners. Over the past four decades, Waters has been a cinematographer, film editor and composer. He has written and directed 16 films, acted and appeared in 100 films and TV shows, published eight books, and exhibited his photography worldwide. Join Seattle Arts & Lectures, SIFF, and the smiling man with the pencil-thin mustache for an original talk and an unforgettable evening.

Note: Also on June 3, as part of the 2008 Seattle International Film Festival, John Waters will be presenting a revival of his comedy, Cecil B. Demented, at the Egyptian Theatre. Tickets can be purchased HERE.

Ticket Information:

For tickets, visit www.benaroyahall.org or call 206-215-4747.

Tickets are available at the following levels:
Divine - $100 (includes a fabulous after-party with John Waters at the W Hotel (purchasers at this level should expect a separate invitation for the after-party in the mail from Seattle Arts & Lectures approximately 2 weeks before the lecture))
Mink Stole - $50
Beehive - $35
Polyester - $25

However, Brophy’s quirky wit ensures that his paintings playfully upend traditional notions of regionalism and point outward with references to romantic painting. On the one hand, his paintings clearly celebrate the Northwest’s natural beauty, capturing the sublimity of mountaintop vistas and endless green. But in numerous paintings of clear-cut timber stands, he portrays our forests as sites of desolation, rather than idyllic landscapes. (information from http://www.portlandmercury.com/portland/Content?oid=35468&category=22127)

G. Gibson Gallery
300 S. Washington St.
Seattle, WA 98104

The G. Gibson Gallery opened in Seattle, Washington in August, 1991. The gallery exhibits contemporary painting, sculpture and installations, works on paper, and continues an emphasis on mid-20th century and contemporary fine art photography. The owners’ collective history include backgrounds in art history, painting, photography, and approximately 26 years of gallery experience. We have participated in art fairs in Los Angeles, San Francisco, New York, and Basel, Switzerland. We love the work of exhibiting and representing interesting artists of regional, national, and international reputation, and hope to do this for the rest of our lives.

We are also members of the Seattle Art Dealers Association and the Association of International Photography Art Dealers.

Hours in the gallery: Tuesday through Friday 11 to 5:30 & Saturday 11 to 5. (we are open by appointment on Monday, & closed Sundays)

Location: At the corner of South Washington & Third Avenue South in the Pioneer Square neighborhood of Seattle. For driving directions, enter your address below:

‘Fight Club’ is a classic and his wide-array of similarly darkly-humored novels marks Mr. Chuck’s off-putting, important role in the literary world over the last decade. Love him or hate him, come hear this twisted author read from his new novel, Snuff, this coming Thursday. 

Thursday May 29th
7:30pm
Town Hall
1119 Eighth Ave.
Seattle, WA 98101

From the master of literary mayhem and provocation, a full-frontal Triple X novel that goes where no American work of fiction has gone before…. Cassie Wright, porn priestess, intends to cap her legendary career by breaking the world record for serial fornication. On camera. With six hundred men. Snuff unfolds from the perspectives of Mr. 72, Mr. 137, and Mr. 600, who await their turn on camera in a very crowded green room. This wild, lethally funny, and thoroughly researched novel brings the huge yet under-acknowledged presence of pornography in contemporary life into the realm of literary fiction at last. Who else but Chuck Palahniuk would dare do such a thing? Who else could do it so well, so unflinchingly, and with such an incendiary (you might say) climax?

“Style in the Aisle” exhibit on commercial flight attendants, their role in aviation and their uniforms from the 1930s to the 1970

Museum of Flight
9404 E. Marginal Way S.
Seattle, WA 98108

What happens when you venture into the forest? For many fairy tale characters, a journey through the forest functions as a test of character and affects their lives forever–for better or worse.

Three of Grimms’ fairy tales involving forest journeys will be performed by UW German students in an original theatrical adaptation. The tales are Hänsel und Gretel, Die drei Männlein im Walde (The Three Little Men in the Woods), and Der Räuberbräutigam (The Robber Bridegroom). The plays are in German; a synopsis in English is available to the audience.

Performances are on May 30 and 31 at 7:30 p.m. at the Ethnic Cultural Theater. Der Räuberbräutigam contains graphic imagery and may not be suitable for small children.