Check out the 12th annual program of cinema under the stars. Doors open at 7 pm with food and beverages available for purchase from Gracie’s, Aladdin’s Café, Brass Tacks Sandwiches, and Sierra Nevada Brewing Company. Music begins at 8 pm and films begin around dusk. Entry for advance ticket holders is guaranteed until 8:30 pm. Advance tickets ensure that you will not have to wait in the ticket purchase line but do not guarantee entry after 8:30 pm. A limited number of chairs are available on a first-come, first-served basis, so feel free to bring a chair, pillow, or blanket, along with a light sweater or jacket. Advance ticket holders who arrive after 8:30 pm but are not admitted to the screening (in the case of a sell-out) may exchange their tickets for another Top Down screening. There are no refunds or exchanges for arrivals after the film begins (c. 9 pm) or for entirely missed screenings. Please, no pets or outside food or drink.
Advance tickets are available at nwfilm.org: $10 general; $9 student/senior/PAM member; $7 Silver Screen Club Friend. Tickets at the door are $12 general; $11 student/senior/PAM member; $9 Silver Screen Club Friend.
Download a printable PDF of the Top Down schedule
Want a series pass to Top Down? Join the Silver Screen Club at the Supporter level or above before June 30th and bring along a guest for free! Learn more
Films:
A diverse trend setting lineup unfolds across six unique performance venues that feel more like alternate reality musical rides than stages. Pickathon makes a range of choices that sets it apart from today’s mainstream festival culture; purposely maintaining a low crowd density, enabling families to thrive, recruiting the finest food and drink purveyors in Oregon, free and abundant water, eliminating plastic and minimizing single-use items, no sponsor vinyl banners, and an unrelenting focus on eliminating festival hassles in general.
Full Pickathon lineup:
Jeff Tweedy, Wolf Parade, Beach House, Mac DeMarco, Yo La Tengo, Ty Segall &The Muggers, Black Mountain, The Oh Hellos, King Sunny Ade, Thao & The Get Down Stay Down, Patrick Watson, Thee Oh Sees, Alvvays, The James Hunter Six, Ibeyi, Fruit Bats, Dan Deacon, Julia Holter, BADBADNOTGOOD, Hurray for the Riff Raff, Protomartyr, Joseph, Yemen Blues, La Luz, KEVIN MORBY, Cory Henry, Ultimate Painting, Daniel Norgren, Boulevards, Mount Moriah, The Deslondes, Golden Rules, RY X, Moon Duo, Margo Price, FUTUREBIRDS, Cw stoneking, Ezra Furman, Adia Victoria, VHOL, The Cairo Gang, Lindi Ortega, Open Mike Eagle, My bubba, 10 String Symphony, Palehound, Kacy & Clayton, Foghorn Stringband, The Easy Leaves, The Wild Reeds, Sir Richard Bishop, I Draw Slow, The Woolen Men, Promised Land Sound, Town Mountain, Myke Bogan, Blossom, Caleb Klauder & Reeb Willms, Chanti Darling, and Western Centuries.
What's it like for people of color working in arts organizations? Real Talk builds off input from PEAL (Portland Emerging Arts Leaders) Equity Committee's last event, Why Are the Arts So White?: A Think Tank on Racial Equity in the Arts by featuring stories from arts administrators of color. Focusing on personal accounts of hiring, applying for work, job interviews, retention, and leaving as they relate to being a person of color in the field of arts administration, these stories will be read aloud to prompt discussion and brainstorm strategies for creating people of color-friendly arts organizations.
Register for Real Talk through Eventbrite here: http://tinyurl.com/RealTalkEvent
$5 suggested donation. No one will be turned away for lack of funds. Doors open at 6pm, and the event begins at 6:30pm. Light refreshments will be provided.
Have a story to share? PEAL is collecting stories from people of color who work or have worked in an arts organization at http://tinyurl.com/PEALrealtalk.
3-5 stories will be selected to be read at Real Talk. All stories will be archived as part of a permanent blog at pealrealtalk.tumblr.com.
The Synth Library is pleased to announce an improvisation workshop on July 31st, 2016 with Norwegian free-jazz musician Ingebrigt Håker Flaten. The workshop will include two performances from Flaten: one on electric bass & one utilizing a modular synthesizer. Each performance will be followed by personal reflections on his practice with the instrument in an improvisation & free-jazz context. The event will conclude with a Q&A with Ingebrigt and Alissa DeRubeis, Co-Founder of the Synth Library, and will focus on incorporating modular synthesis into an improvisational-based musical practice.
Norwegian bassist Ingebrigt Håker Flaten exploded on the Scandinavian avant-garde jazz scene in the mid-90s. By 2014, after his move to the US in 2006, he have become one of the hardest working bassists in jazz, constantly touring the globe and having appeared on more than 150 albums both as a sideman and as a leader. Ingebrigt has been listed in the Downbeat Magazine’s 60th, 61st, 62nd and 63rd Annual Critics Poll as a Rising Star on both acoustic and electric bass, in the 63rd edition he was also listed as one of the most important electric bass players of today. His work with his own bands The Young Mothers and IHF Chicago Sextet, as well as with The Thing, Atomic, Free Fall, Scorch Trio, Sun Rooms, Dave Rempis Percussion Quartet and in duo formats with Joe McPhee, Evan Parker and Håkon Kornstad have put him at the center of a large pool of improvisers with strikingly different modes of operation.
Enrollment for this class is a sliding scale for $15-20 for the one day 3 hour workshop on Sunday, July 31st from 6:00pm-9:00pm. Please follow the link to register: http://s1portland.com/workshops/ingebrigthakerflaten/
If you cannot afford this workshop, but would like to attend pelase write to s1portlandinfo@gmail.com
À reading featuring performances by Sidony O'neal, Juleen Johnson, and Tommy Pico!
Special guest host Julian Smuggles
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Music by
Coast2c http://soundcloud.com/coast2c
Daniela Karina http://soundcloud.com/danielakarina
Visuals by
Rachael Archibald http://rachaelarchibald.tumblr.com/
$5 - $15 sliding scale
More about the artists -
Born and raised in Mexico City, Sofia Acosta’s introduction to the music world started at university-based radio station Ibero 90.9 where she worked for Mercado Negro, a radio show about underground and independent music from Mexico. Her influences come from a wide variety of electronic genres including house, techno and deep basslines mixed with her favorite Latin American producers. She has been a resident DJ in many venues in Mexico City such as Cultural Center of Spain, Rhodesia, and El Imperial. In Portland she collaborates at the community radio station KBOO with “White Noise Radio” which focuses dance and experimental electronic music from around the globe as well as curating a monthly party Gran Ritmos, a night dedicated to Pan-American dance music.
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Daniela Karina finds inspiration in emerging transcultural sounds and reinvented ancestral rhythms. She is co-founder of Women's Beat League, a group of female and non-binary identified people interested in music production and DJing dedicated to skill-sharing, providing access to equipment and creating opportunities via hosted workshops, lectures and event curation.
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An important part of Rachael Archibald’s practice involves playing with the conventions of artistic categories and conforming them into an all inclusive art form through the use of digital technologies. Departing from traditional ways of making art, Archibald is more at home in the digital environment, an accessible and flexible space that allows her to explore an expanding range of creative possibilities and outcomes. With these digital processes at hand, trackpad and keyboard, her ideas can be produced rapidly, multiplied infinitely, and disseminated instantly.
Since completing a Bachelor in Fine Art from the Queensland College of Art, Rachael Archibald has established herself firmly within the global digital arts community. Although living and working in Brisbane, Australia, the majority of her work has been exhibited both overseas and online. Her foray into the online art community was in the 2014 New Digital Art Biennale - The Wrong, held at various sites across the web.
*Dinner music selections by Kathleen Hong
Find information about the dinner here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/converge-45-saturday-dinner-at-pnca-tickets-26184929830
Modern Ritual features music of the forward thinking and soulful kind. This months special guest is Francis Harris (Adultnapper, Frank & Tony, Scissor and Thread, NYC) who will be playing a very special open to close set, start to finish!
ABOUT FRANCIS HARRIS
https://www.residentadvisor.net/dj/francisharris
https://soundcloud.com/scissorandthread
https://www.facebook.com/Adultnapper
https://www.facebook.com/Frank.and.Tony
Founded by Laura Lynn and Cynthia Valenti (The Perfect Cyn)
Previous Guests Include: Ryan Crosson, Joyce Muniz, Solar, Galen, Woolfy, Tone of Arc, PillowTalk, Droog, Fat Sushi, Will Renuart, dAvi A, jeniluv, Tocayo and Jimmy Maheras
$10 door
www.theliquorstorepdx.com
A Performance
Daryl Seaver will perform solo. Her piece, “Twenty Regards for a 21st Century Adult” is based on recent studio work.
Over the years, Seaver has also recorded under the name Samantha Vacation. She has released records on L.I.E.S. Records and most recently Salon. Daryl studied music composition at The Hartt School of Music and mathematics at Smith College. She was born in Connecticut in 1987 and now lives in Portland, OR.
$10/Tickets at the door
The First Annual Portlandia Mermaid Parade is a grassroots artistic event aimed at showcasing and celebrating all things mermaid, and helping to bring magic, mythology, and joy to the City of Portland. The parade highlights the pageantry of Portland’s artistic communities, and recognizes how these communities have historically been eliminated via gentrification, and/or through the culture of business/corporate elitism. The parade is a revitalization of this artistic energy, and an opportunity for creatives to have a more public forum for fantasy based self-expression.
This is a secular, noncommercial, and non-specific political event. This means that there is no single cause or agenda that can represent the diversity of the participants in attendance, and no corporate sponsorship. However local and small businesses may sponsor if they so choose, and individuals and groups are encouraged to promote their secular--political, artistic messages which are in the general spirit of the event and its themes.
A Portland version of the summer-solstice celebration, this parade takes place in mid-summer due to the NW inclement weather pattern in June. As an artistic framework, the parade celebrates oceanic myths, legends, symbology, spirituality and the water festivals associated with many global traditions including but not limited to: Celtic, Nordic, Pagan, African, and Eastern cultures.
Although the event is NOT a protest, it is an organized gathering intended to promote artistic expression, a paradigm shift, culture gender, and body positivity, as well as other social concerns deemed harmful to a future of peace, artistic expression, and environmental well-being.
It is with this mission, The First Annual Portlandia Mermaid Parade invokes the following:
• Freedom to peaceably assemble
o Freedom from unreasonable bureaucratic or financial barriers which limit (either intentionally or unintentionally) the grassroots intention of said event; such barriers will be considered excessive and discriminatory based on the level of unequal impact it has on different organizing echelons within the community (as seen historically through business elitism, and gentrification practices)
o Freedom from city ordinances which are invoked as a means to deter, or suppress any of these State and Federal protected amendment rights
• Freedom of expression & personal creativity
• Freedom of speech
Vehicular floats, or motor assisted floats (NOT including disability personal assistance devices) are not permitted at this time. Smaller, hand push floats which easily fit within the size parameters of an average sidewalk width are ok, and encouraged.
Individuals or groups found to be in violation of the community agreements; who do not acquiesce to the requests of the parade peace team will be asked or required to leave.
Those who elect to go bare breasted may want to consider the use of shells, pasties or body paint to help decrease the risk of law officials interpreting the toplessness as lewd. There are no Portland laws regarding toplessness. Indecency laws in Portland specifically refer to the revealing of genitalia for the purposes of causing sexual arousal, or in matters of public sexual acts. Bare breasts have often not been interpreted as genitalia, but people should be aware that the matter is somewhat left to personal interpretation of law officials. Anyone ticketed or cited as a result of accused lewdness or indecency have been for-warned, and so the First Annual Mermaid Parade supports the freedom of artistic expression, however, the event and its associated organizers are not responsible for any fines or consequences that may arise as a result of people electing to express this freedom.
All parade participants should know that while there are no expected instances of danger, personal risk, or injury, this IS a public event being held outdoors, so there is always a certain level of risk present. The First Annual Portlandia Parade and its associated organizers are not responsible for any physical or financial losses, or personal injuries, which may arise as a result of acts of nature, inclement weather, accident, or terrorist attacks, or behaviors in violation of the community agreements.
Currently the framework for this event is just a parade. Vendors of any-kind who wish to sell goods, wares, or food must do so under their own license and permits in accordance with the City of Portland. The parade is not organizing or having any official vendors.
Please bring sunscreen, drinking water, and snacks for self care. This event will be happening mid-summer, and heat stroke is a reality.
Red Cube Presents
Green Velvet
Also with: Sean Majors // Gabriel Driscoll
Doors Open @ 10pm
21+ w/ Valid I.D.
Portland Psych movement/festival presents the 2nd Annual Portland Psychfest. From Chicago to Los Angeles, representing the most nascent and newly borne sounds conjured by those Stateside, fearlessly blazing the path struck upon by those in the Sixties, that self-same sindero luminoso tread also by Sixties of Other Pasts, but connected indeed with the Sixties of All Futures.
Performing Artists //
SPINDRIFT (http://spindriftwest.com/)
The Asteroid #4 (http://www.asteroid4.com/)
LSD and the Search for God (https://lsdandthesearchforgod.bandcamp.com/)
The Veldt (https://theveldtmusic.bandcamp.com/)
Cambrian Explosion (https://cepdx.bandcamp.com/)
Zodiac Death Valley (https://www.reverbnation.com/zodiacdeathvalley)
Plastic Crimewave Syndicate (https://pcwsyndicate.bandcamp.com/)
Howler
The Spiral Electric (https://thespiralelectric.bandcamp.com/)
The Young Elders (https://theyoungelders.bandcamp.com/)
Zozma (https://zozma.bandcamp.com/)
HAWKEYE (www.reverbnation.com/Hawkeye)
Down Dirty Shake (https://downdirtyshake.bandcamp.com/)
Lemat (https://sirlemat.bandcamp.com/)
Mosquitto (http://www.mosquittoband.com/)
HiHazel (www.hihazel1.bandcamp.com)
San DBabes
Jackson Boone (https://jacksonboone.bandcamp.com/)
Featuring DJ Sets
Entertaining for the 2nd year running, Portland's forever original and fantastically colorful dance troupe Bacchus' Boogiers dancing non-stop every minute to each of the bands performing...
In the meantime, avail yourself on the patio of the provocative and dumbfounding divinatory avenues of local tarot artist Holly Cole, of Crystal Seed Tarot, who will be issuing readings throughout the weekend on a donation basis.
$20 each day/$35 weekend pass/No weekend pass available days-of
Tickets for Day One:
http://www.ticketweb.com/t3/sale/SaleEventDetail?eventId=6772705&pl=dantes&dispatch=loadSelectionData
Tickets for Day Two:
http://www.ticketweb.com/t3/sale/SaleEventDetail?eventId=6772765&pl=dantes&dispatch=loadSelectionData
Light show by Trey Schultz
Poster art by Noritsugu Lockhart
The final installment of 2016’s Mississippi Records Music & Film Series, and we are ending it on a big bang! One of our favorite musicians – the Space Lady – will be here to play her ethereal music with films by Jean Painleve projected behind her.
The Space Lady was thrilling audiences on the streets of Boston and San Francisco all through the 80’s and 90’s. In 2000, she retired for awhile but has since made a triumphant return – touring the world and recording new material. Her music is driven by cosmic tones played on a synthesizer and her lovely echoing voice. She does grandiose sweeping covers of songs like Major Tom, I Had Too Much to Dream Last Night, Ballroom Blitz and many more that, in my opinion, bury the originals cold. (She also plays some great cosmic originals.) We are very honored to have one of our favorite contemporary musicians coming to Portland just for this show. This is a unique opportunity to catch her live.
The films of Jean Painleve are mesmerizing and unclassifiable – surrealist influenced dream works that are also serious science. The French filmmaker-scientist-inventor had a decades-spanning career in which he created hundreds of short films on subjects ranging from astronomy to pigeons to, most famously, such marine-life marvels as the sea horse and the sea urchin. This program will feature a “best of” his works.
It will be a beautiful night in the air-conditioned splendor of the Hollywood Theatre. Not to be missed at any cost!
-Eric Isaacson, Mississippi Records
One Flaming Arrow Film Festival will be kicking off on July 28th, 4 days of Native American and Indigenous Film in Portland.
Opening night will be at The Clinton St Theater, 2nd night will be at the Rainmaker Residency Gallery, and the 3rd and 4th night we will be screening at the Hollywood Theater.
You can find a detailed schedule on our website:
http://www.oneflamingarrow.com/#!program-1/tr192
:::There are a limited number of free movie tickets for clients of NARA, Red Lodge and NAYA Students and Community members. Please email Carlee@oneflamingarrow.com for more information.::
July 28th - Clinton Street Theater
Opening Night Shorts Program
Located at 2522 SE Clinton St
7:30 PM Tickets are $5-$10 Sliding scale
July 29th - Rainmaker Gallery
Experimental Film Program
Located at 2337 NW York St. # 201 Portland, Oregon 97210.
6:00PM Meet and Greet 7:00PM Screen time
Free
July 30th - Hollywood Theater
Third Night Shorts Program
Located at 4122 NE Sandy Blvd
7:00PM Tickets are $9 for adults $7 for Youth under 11yrs and Elders.
July 30th - Hollywood Theater
Feature Film - "Hunt for the Wilderpeople"
Located at 4122 NE Sandy Blvd
9:00PM Tickets are $9 for adults $7 for Youth under 11yrs and Elders
July 31st - Hollywood Theater
Youth Film Showcase Shorts Program
Located at 4122 NE Sandy Blvd
1:00PM Tickets are $9 for adults $7 for Youth under 11yrs and Elders
July 31st - Hollywood Theater
Youth Film Showcase Feature- "Indian Givers"
Located at 4122 NE Sandy Blvd
3:00PM Tickets are $9 for adults $7 for Youth under 11yrs and Elders
Check out the 12th annual program of cinema under the stars. Doors open at 7 pm with food and beverages available for purchase from Gracie’s, Aladdin’s Café, Brass Tacks Sandwiches, and Sierra Nevada Brewing Company. Music begins at 8 pm and films begin around dusk. Entry for advance ticket holders is guaranteed until 8:30 pm. Advance tickets ensure that you will not have to wait in the ticket purchase line but do not guarantee entry after 8:30 pm. A limited number of chairs are available on a first-come, first-served basis, so feel free to bring a chair, pillow, or blanket, along with a light sweater or jacket. Advance ticket holders who arrive after 8:30 pm but are not admitted to the screening (in the case of a sell-out) may exchange their tickets for another Top Down screening. There are no refunds or exchanges for arrivals after the film begins (c. 9 pm) or for entirely missed screenings. Please, no pets or outside food or drink.
Advance tickets are available at nwfilm.org: $10 general; $9 student/senior/PAM member; $7 Silver Screen Club Friend. Tickets at the door are $12 general; $11 student/senior/PAM member; $9 Silver Screen Club Friend.
Download a printable PDF of the Top Down schedule
Want a series pass to Top Down? Join the Silver Screen Club at the Supporter level or above before June 30th and bring along a guest for free! Learn more
Films:
The Oregon Brewers Festival is one of the nation's longest running and best loved craft beer festivals. Situated on the west bank of the Willamette River, with towering Mt. Hood as a backdrop, it is the ideal venue for anyone who loves craft beer. With a laid back attitude and scores of craft beers, the festival reflects the essence of the city of Portland.The Oregon Brewers Festival exists to provide an opportunity to sample and learn about a variety of craft beer styles from across the country.
Eighty-six craft breweries from the US offer more than 30 styles of handcrafted beers to 80,000 beer lovers during the five-day event; two taps are dedicated to gluten-free beer, and a tap is reserved for the OregonBrew Crew Collaborator homebrew project.
The International Beer Garden will feature six breweries from Japan, seven breweries from The Netherlands plus two breweries from Germany. The International Beer Garden was incorporated three years ago as part of a cultural exchange of ideas, knowledge and the celebration of craft beer.
The festival’s focus is craft beer, but there's more than sampling involved. The event also features live music, beer-related vendors, displays, homebrewing demonstrations, and an assortment of food vendors. The Crater Lake Root Beer Garden offers complimentary handcrafted soda for minors and designated drivers. Minors are welcome at the festival when accompanied by a parent.
Getting the band back together just in time to celebrate another dying Portland relic. Things are happening.
DUBAIS + Band
http://dubaispdx.tumblr.com/
MATTRESS
https://mattressmattress.bandcamp.com/
STRANGE BABES
https://www.facebook.com/Strange-Babes-388578777858689/?fref=ts
The first thing you notice is the voice. Haunting and sublimely other-worldly, it stops you in your tracks with the gentlest of touches, proving that sometimes the intoxicating simplicity of a single voice is all you need to make an impact. With Benjamin Francis Leftwich, that hypnotic, breathy voice is the reason for it all. It exposes his soul before anyone even hears the lyrics, letting the listener in to Benjamin's most intimate world in a way no interview or video ever could. It is the essence of his being, laid bare without regret for us to share. Not just your average singer-songwriter then.
Indeed, there's nothing ordinary about this startling new talent, who is just 21 and has yet to release his first album but who sounds like he already has a lifetime of experiences, hopes and shattered dreams invested in each song. He has, in fact, been waiting for this moment for years. At the age of 10, Yorkshire born Benjamin first stared playing guitar, ditching his teacher after just a couple of lessons and teaching himself from the records that inspired him instead. Growing up on a diet of Rolling Stones and Nina Simone, Benjamin discovered Bob Dylan and Elliot Smith in his teens and never looked back. By 15, he was writing songs and playing with a band on the York music scene, before starting work as a solo artist at 18 and beginning to write what now makes up his forthcoming debut album 'Last Smoke Before The Snowstorm'.
"A lot of the songs on there I wrote when I was about 17 or 18," Benjamin confirms. "I really wanted to get their sound right and I'm a bit of a perfectionist when it comes to writing and recording. I've been working on them ever since really."
The breathtaking results were well worth waiting for. Inspired by the likes of Ryan Adams, Bruce Springsteen, Arcade Fire and Sigur Ros, Benjamin took his time creating a sound that is truly his, that reveals a little more of himself with every single breath and moment. It's a sound that gives him the confidence to label himself simply, unpretentiously, as a singer-songwriter, untroubled by the confusingly negative connotations the term now seems associated with.
"That's what I am," he shrugs. "I don't think I'm folk, nor am I straight indie. I write songs and I play guitar and I think it's varied on the album and it will be in the future. That's what I feel like I'm making. The title singer-songwriter is appropriate. The term is usually applied to people like James Morrison and James Blunt, but really they play down-the-line pop. It's people like Elliot Smith, Bob Dylan and John Lennon that can be considered true singer-songwriters."
Unsurprisingly then, it made sense that Benjamin would release his material under his own full name. No gimmicks, no clever pseudonyms. This is him. Pure and simple.
"A couple of people seem to have an issue with it but it doesn't bother me.
There was one journalist who spent the whole interview expecting me to be an army major with a monocle because of my name. Obviously, I'm not."
Name obsessive's aside, Benjamin has already been stunned by the reaction to the material he has released so far, which has truly taken him by surprise. After releasing his debut EP 'A Million Miles Out' at the end of 2010, he quickly found himself on the most prestigious playlists around as Radio 1DJs Zane Lowe and Fearne Cotton fell for Benjamin's assuming charms. He was also added to XFM's Evening Playlist, while Jo Whiley made Benjamin's track 'Atlas Hands' one of her Tracks of 2010 and he was also asked to record a live session for Radio 2's Dermot O'Leary. Benjamin's version of 'Rebellion' by Arcade Fire has since been downloaded over 100,000 times.
On 6th March 2011 Benjamin's stunning second EP, 'Pictures', was released. This led to a tour support slot with Noah & The Whale, while the lead track from the EP was made 'Hottest Record In The World' on Zane Lowe's radio show and added to the Radio 1 'In New Music We Trust' playlist.
On July 4th, at long last, Benjamin's debut album 'Last Smoke Before The Snowstorm' was released going top 20 in the UK album chart. It was preceded by his first single proper 'Box of Stones', which Radio 1 DJ Greg James chose as his 'Record Of The Week'. Typically understated, it paired the fragile elegance of Benjamin's stunning voice with simple, inviting guitar lines, heart-breakingly delicate melodies and lyrics strained with emotion and was play listed by Radio 1
"A couple of people have described some of my songs as love songs but there's a level of ambiguity in them I think. I try not to ever focus on a central theme. I just bring together inspiration from around me and put it all into a song. Some songs are more direct, but there's always that level of ambiguity."
That summer Ben played a total of 26 festivals in the UK including, Glastonbury, Reading & Leeds, Green Man, Bestival, Camp Bestival and many more. In October 2011 Ben embarked on a massive 28 date sold out UK tour, and in November announced he would be playing a handful of headline full band shows in February in the UK. This would include a date at the prestigious Shepherd's Bush Empire in London.
'Pictures' was released on February 20th as a single, going onto the 'B' list at Radio 1 at prompting Fearne Cotton to invite Ben into the Radio 1 Live Lounge. He also performed a live session on BBC6 Music for Marc Riley and XFM for Mary-Anne Hobbs the same week. XFM added the single to their Daytime Playlist and Q Radio to their 'A' list. The video has achieved around 900k plays on youtube.
Following on from this success he has just announced a gargantuan 30 date headline tour of the UK, the largest consecutive running tour announced in the UK in 2012. This tour will commence on October 1st 2012.
There is at least one thing that seems certain . By the end of year, many, many more people will stumble upon a new singer-songwriter to believe in when they're stopped in their tracks by Benjamin's startlingly intimate voice. The unmistakeable sound of this year's most intriguing new talent.
Check out the 12th annual program of cinema under the stars. Doors open at 7 pm with food and beverages available for purchase from Gracie’s, Aladdin’s Café, Brass Tacks Sandwiches, and Sierra Nevada Brewing Company. Music begins at 8 pm and films begin around dusk. Entry for advance ticket holders is guaranteed until 8:30 pm. Advance tickets ensure that you will not have to wait in the ticket purchase line but do not guarantee entry after 8:30 pm. A limited number of chairs are available on a first-come, first-served basis, so feel free to bring a chair, pillow, or blanket, along with a light sweater or jacket. Advance ticket holders who arrive after 8:30 pm but are not admitted to the screening (in the case of a sell-out) may exchange their tickets for another Top Down screening. There are no refunds or exchanges for arrivals after the film begins (c. 9 pm) or for entirely missed screenings. Please, no pets or outside food or drink.
Advance tickets are available at nwfilm.org: $10 general; $9 student/senior/PAM member; $7 Silver Screen Club Friend. Tickets at the door are $12 general; $11 student/senior/PAM member; $9 Silver Screen Club Friend.
Download a printable PDF of the Top Down schedule
Want a series pass to Top Down? Join the Silver Screen Club at the Supporter level or above before June 30th and bring along a guest for free! Learn more
Films:
Dimensions is an underground electronic music festival at Fort Punta Christo, an abandoned 19th century fort on the Croatian seaside.
With a higher technical specification of sound systems, Dimensions hosts iconic artists from House, Techno, Hip-hop, Disco, Dubstep, Soul, Ambient, Jazz, Bass, Experimental among other electronic sounds.
Dimensions creates an idyllic space for music appreciation with its vibrant settings between daytime boat and beach parties, CDR workshops, and immense night sets and performances.
For further details, check out Line-up, Tickets, Travel & Accommodation pages.
More about the festival's fifth celebration can be found on Resident Advisor feature ‘Inside: Dimensions’:
www.dimensionsfestival.com/inside
home school is elated to announce the second class of Semester 2, Project Space Industrial Complex!
Project Space Industrial Complex de-centers and provokes the standard actions and motivations of independent art spaces. Co-taught by Chloe Alexandra, Carmen Denison, Eleanor Ford and Devin Ruiz, each class of PSID will present candid discussions of standard institutionalisms alongside experimental constructions of space and community building beyond the heteropatriarchal white supremacy of the status quo. The subject matter of each course will build upon the last, with a resultant expanded discourse that includes space construction, art markets, social/political structures and the function of ‘alternatives’ within white supremacist institutionalities.
The first class of Project Space Industrial Complex will focus on [the] art market(s), with topics including:
* the PDX –> NYC Pipeline
* social justifications of white supremacist institutionalisms
* manipulations of artists’ labor (esp. Artists of color)
* white feminism in arts institutions
* structural inequalities in economic centers (and how they are mirrored in economic peripheries)