[HvEXAS] the official unofficial troy night out afterparty + more! | fri. 01/25 from 9 pm to 3 am | rev. hall, troy, ny

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The Official Unofficial Troy Night Out Afterparty
(presented by Goodship)

Friday, January 25, 2008
9 pm to 3 am
Revolution Hall
425 River Street, Troy, New York
FREE / got to be 16 to get in (ID required)

If we at Goodship had to make just one New Year's resolution that
would really get 2008 split up the middle, it would have to be... "do
something awesome" (to quote our good friend lazer). And while it
would certainly be awesome to buy $240 worth of pudding and love it
until the cows come home, we decided instead to hit the ground
running with the first official unofficial YEAH of the year. Your
favorite residents have taken the much-needed time off to travel,
reflect, boycott hacky sack in all its hydra-like forms, and learn
way more tricks to better move and shake shake shake you all of you.
There are few more gifts under the tree, though, as both Seth Cluett
and We Are Architects are making their OUTNOA (i do love an abbrev.)
debuts, which should excite and stimulate the senses in the best
possible way. plus VJ fielderblank and DJ orangecookie are cooking
up a pre-show window serenade that will get that ball rolling like it
has rolled for the first time, unrolled and still unsullied. "And
this will be our year / took a long time to come"...

P.S. For those that are afflicted with the proverbial ants in the
pants and are in need of some prime time salve, come check out the
goodship crew + assorted scoundrels in the downstairs of Valentine's
in Albany at Feedback 2008, The Metroland's annual Food Pantries
Benefit and Local Music Bash on Saturday, January 19th. Awesome,
Awesome people with guitars upstairs, and then little old us
downstairs. Should be a gas - and a gas for a good cause (please
give those canned goods you usually throw at jenkins during his
extended acid jazz set to the door person for a discount on
attendance; i am sure you can find something else to throw at that
dude) is a gas worth checking out.

P.P.S. Keep your eyes peeled for smoke signals regarding Friday 02/15
at Rev. Hall - and make your Valentine's (the saint / holiday, not
the club in Albany) plans accordingly.

<ahem>

the lineup:

* Seth Cluett (detaching your collar - musically - is in his blood -
take a number a-sap)
* We Are Architects (and we are legitimately impressed and ready to
be rocked)

* face removal services (who knew my little buddy and my thesis
advisor could rock so freaking hard?)
* back from japan (he for real rolled a straight up 20 when the
attribute "throw-down-itude" came up - believe it)
* jenkins a.k.a. spit 'n polish a.k.a. dj flabbergasted (this dude
has chops - and his dj skills are not too shabby - what is shabby,
though, is the joke right inside this very parentheses)

* live video by skfl (allergic to allergies and words with "th" in
the middle), Blar (officially not allergic to the stupendous), and
maybe someone else (obviously allergic to skfl)

* a lovely pre-show window serenade from 5:30 to 9 pm by rise set
twilight (far too awesome to sully with small words other than
"sully" - and maybe "defenestrate")

* decor by the unbeatable team of percival l. mumford + captain
lemonade lampleg (martha stewart needs three quotes to even dream
about these dudes)

whew.

+ For more information on The Official Unofficial Troy Night Out
Afterparty, please visit http://www.goodship.net/blog

+ For more information on Troy Night Out, please visit http://
www.troynightout.org
+ For more information on Revolution Hall, please call 518.274.0553
or visit http://revolutionhall.com

+ For more information on Seth Cluett, please visit http://
www.onelonelypixel.org
+ For more information on We Are Architects, please visit http://
wearearchitects.net
+ For more Information on face removal services, please visit http://
www.faceremoval.com
+ For more information on Blar, please visit http://www.vimeo.com/
user264437/videos
+ For more information on VJ fielderblank + DJ orangecookie, please
visit http://www.mikebullock.com/rst.html

+ For more information on back from japan, please visit http://
www.myspace.com/backfromjapan
+ For more information on jenkins, please visit http://
www.myspace.com/jenkinsdj
+ For more information on skfl, please visit
http://popsalvation.com/video/ekologic2006.html (it might take a
second to load)

Thanks.

P.S. my other secret new year's resolution this year to is grow
chops like that freaking tambourine player in the brian jonestown
massacre documentary - look out, vladimir.

__._,_.___

[HvEXAS] radio koln

For those who might be interested

My (Al Margolis) work commissioned by WDR Koln's Studio Akustische Kunst-
"It Never Rains in Mexico"

will be broadcast Saturday, Dec. 22, 2007 at 5:05 PM New York time (23.05
Koln time)

if you go to this link:

http://www.wdr.de/radio/wdr3/

And then press the button with the loudspeaker symbol underneath
"Programmvorschau" and next to the question mark, it takes you directly to
the live stream!

thanks for any interest

best

al

Jan 24th & 27th Short Plays Inspired By Large Paintings From Current HVCCA Exhibit

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:

12 December 2007

The Hudson Valley Center for Contemporary Art

Announces Size Matters: Image & Script in collaboration with the

Hudson Valley Writers Center

and stage directors Mara Mills and Tom Kramer

Thursday, January 24th, 2008 and Sunday, January 27th, 2008



HVCCA Contact: Paul Brewer, Executive Director, 914.788.0100, paulbrewer@hvcca.org


Peekskill, N.Y. In a collaboration between the Hudson Valley Center for Contemporary Art, the Hudson Valley Writers' Center and stage directors Mara Mills and Tom Kramer, IMAGE & SCRIPT presents five to six 5-10 minute short plays inspired by paintings in Size Matters: XXL, an exhibition of monumental size works by 31 international artists. Featuring works by winning playwrights William Coyle, Barbara Fischer, David Fox, Ron Frankel, Theodore D. Kemper and Joshua A. Kashinsky.

Each respective painting serves as a backdrop for the plays. The audience will move from one painting to another as the performance progresses. Audience is limited to 30 people a showing. Additional performance times will be added by demand. There will be time after the performance to view the entire exhibit. Seating is on the floor or standing.

ABOUT THE EXHIBIT SIZE MATTERS: XXL

Featuring 31 artists from 9 different countries, XXL presents work in which large-scale plays an essential role in the success of the painting. These works occupy nearly the entire visual field of the viewer and demand attention. They range from brash and confrontational (Meese) to quiet and elegiac (Khedoori). They include self-portraiture (Pei-Ming), pure abstraction (Kowski), landscape (Kroner), minimalism (Buren), allegory (Rauch), and representation (Henning). The exhibition investigates the range of some of the best painting today

Thursday, January 24th, 2008 with wine & cheese reception to follow
Time: 8:00PM Admission: $16 HVCCA & Hudson Valley Writers Center members, $20 non-members

Sunday, January 27th, 2008
Time: 3:00PM Admission: $12 HVCCA & Hudson Valley Writers Center members, $15 non-members

For Tickets: Call 914.788.0100 or email info@hvcca.org

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ABOUT HVCCA

The Hudson Valley Center for Contemporary Art opened to the public in 2004. Founded by the Marc and Livia Straus family, the not-for-profit center is dedicated to the development and presentation of new art, exhibits and interdisciplinary programs that enrich our understanding of contemporary art, its contexts, and its relationships to societal issues. The Center is committed to the enrichment of Peekskill, a multicultural community that has recreated itself as a major center for art and culture. HVCCA operates a 12,000 square foot exhibition space in Peekskill and is the primary sponsor of the Peekskill Project, an annual, city-wide exhibition of site-specific artwork. Saturdays and Sundays from 12 noon - 6pm and by appointment.


ABOUT HUDSON VALLEY WRITERS CENTER

Hudson Valley Writers' Center, Inc. is a not-for-profit organization founded in 1988 with a mission to advance the art and craft of writing by encouraging writers and readers at all levels to participate in and enjoy the literary arts. It offers classes for professional and amateur writers, presents public readings by well-known and emerging prose writers and poets, does outreach work in several community sites, and publishes at least one book of poetry each year under the imprint Slapering Hol Press. Programs and events at The Hudson Valley Writers' Center are made possible in part by grants from the Bydale Foundation, the David G. Taft Foundation, the Orchard Foundation, and the Thendara Foundation; and with public funds from the New York State Council on the Arts, a State Agency, the National Endowment for the Arts; and by the Basic Program Support Grant of the Westchester Arts Council with funds from Westchester County Government.


ABOUT MARA MILLS

Mara Mills has been a professional storyteller, stage director, producer and arts educator for more than twenty years. She is the author of Rites of Passage, an integrated curriculum on script writing (National Middle School's Association Journal, February 1990), and a chapter on children as storytellers in the text Integrating Curriculum through the Arts, as well as a book of poetry, Ashes and Tea. Recently, she worked with Domestic Abuse Survivors to create a choral script. Mara created Drama Departments for The Mead School in Greenwich and The Learning Community in Westport and was the Artistic Director of the successful Herbert Mark Newman Theatre from 1991 - 2004. She received the 1996 award for outstanding service to theatre from the national theatre association and the 2007 Cab Calloway award for her work in theatre in Westchester.