Heady Mugs Opens @ Nudashank December 11

Ryan Riss, Nice Day, Ink on Paper 20inx20in

An overwhelming show of psychedelic portraits and trippy faces featuring work by:

Henry Gunderson

Michael Skattum
Luke Ramsey
Benjamin Edmiston
Shaun Flynn
D'Metrius Rice
Lesser Gonzalez
Eric Shaw
Bill Dunlap
Robby Rackleff
Ryan De La Hoz
Matthew Feyld
Bill Fick
Lizz Hickey
Nick Mann (Doodles)
Edward Max Fendley
Ryan Riss
Christian Herr
Caitlin Cunningham
Jordan Bernier
Felipe Goncalvez
David Ubias
Marcello Velho
Mike Bull

Benjamin Edmiston

Heady Mugs

Opening Reception: Friday Dec. 11th, 7-10pm

Exhibition runs from Dec. 11th through Jan. 1st

Nudashank

H&H Arts Building

405 W. Franklin St.

3rd Floor

Baltimore, MD 21201

Magic Eye presents "Passerine" @ Load of Fun

MAGIC EYE presents “Passerine”
Sunday, December 6th – 8pm - $6
The Lof/t at Load of Fun (120 W. North Ave)

Magic Eye is pleased to present Raha Raissnia and Kenny Wollesen on their Baltimore debut. They will premiere a sound / performance collaboration titled "Passerine".

Raissnia is Brooklyn-based expanded cinema artist. Influenced by the work of Harry Smith, Bruce Conner, Jim Davis and Paul Sharits, she incorporates painting, live projection and installation in her performances. Combining collaged and hand-painted 35mm slides with 16mm film projections, Raissnia’s projections produce a “slow-moving montage during which scenes are at once temporary and aleatory. The arrangement underscores cinema’s inherent paradoxical structure of manipulating stillness to conjure up the illusion of movement.” (R.R.)

Recent exhibitions include Miguel Abreu Gallery (NY), Kill Your Timid Notions Festival (Dundee, Scotland) and Xippas Gallery (Paris).

“My work in general aspires to music. Time dimension, like in music, structures the unfolding of my still images, whether they be paintings, drawings, or hand painted collaged slides and films. I am interested in producing synaesthesia effects. In my film performances I use my prepared projectors like musical instruments and incorporate improvisational techniques.” – R.R.

Drummer Kenny Wollesen is an artist of astonishing versatility, skill, and ingenuity. He has been one of the most active musicians in N.Y.C.'s downtown jazz and avant-garde scene. In the recent years he has been leading his own highly innovative and artistic bands: Himalayas and Wollesonic Laboratories for which he collaborates on making a variety of homemade instruments that are surreal, filled with subtlety and ingenuity. These bands tend to perform in unusual settings and events and evolve and morph with time. The members of these bands include such artists as Dalius Naujo, Jonas Mekas, Jonathan Haffner, Jeniffer Harris, and many more.

Kenny has long been collaborating with John Zorn and is a member of his band Masada. He has been touring and recording extensively with Bill Frisell and the band Sex Mob.

BRING BACK LIFE! Variety Show @ Copycat Theatre

BRING BACK LIFE!
Performance Variety Show Pt. IV
@ The Copycat Theatre – B-403 – 1511 Guilford Ave
Saturday, December 5th - Eight Thirty – Free Show
www.myspace.com/copycattheatre
414-429-3314

Join us for a night of performances, music, dance, video, burlesque, show tunes, poetry, and puppetry. The Performance Variety Show showcases new, experimental performance work by artists from the Baltimore community. These shows desire to bring into proximity performers and social groups that seldom cross-fertilize. To create a nest for performance work that is a safe space of incubation and is as supportive as the niche of the music community. This event is for everybody. Come support those who wish to perform for YOU!

The Copycat Theatre is a new DIY experimental theatre located in the Copycat warehouse, focusing on building community and dialogue through theatre and performance. We aim to alter traditional conventions of space, movement, tension, language, and sound through theatre and collaborative experiences. We are currently interested in creating a total experience for the senses, instilling magic in possibility!

Performers -Dec. 5th

Marla Parker
Freeky Deeky
Joseph Schroeder
Ryan Dunn
Josh Van Horn
Hoesy Corona
John Bylander
Dan Allende
Tumpy Tunkins
Lexx
Monica Mirabile
"Mountain Top Removal"
a special presentation...

Artwork by Hoesy Corona and John Chae
TV Installation by Will Toulan

Holiday Heap 2009 @ 2640 Space

Holiday Heap - a FREE indie and alternative craft fair featuring a wide array of the country's best crafters - will take place on December 5th from 10 AM to 5 PM at St. John's Church, located at 2640 St. Paul St, Baltimore, MD 21218.

40+ vendors, juried from applicants nationwide, will include local favorites Bowerbox Press, Cotton Monster, HVM Designs, illegible ink, Kiss My Crafts, Phampersand Press, Pink Kiss Pottery, Pistol Designs, Red Prairie Press, Spaghetti Kiss Productions, Sweet Pepita, and many more! Local weaver Carlybird Weaves will be on hand with aMake-Your-Own Hula Hoop table! Red Emma's Coffee Shop will offer coffee & vegan snacks.

For a full list of vendors, information on the fair and more information on theCharm City Craft Mafia and its talented members, please click here.

Transmodern Fundraiser @ the H & H

TRANSMODERN 2010 FUNDRAISER
Saturday, December 5, 2009
8:30pm
FLORISTREE
H&H Building
405 W. Franklin Street
Baltimore, MD 21201

Pricing change!!!!
Regular
$12.00 ticket or - $20.00 ticket includes a copy of the 2009 Transmodern soft-cover book. We will hold the book at the door for you to take home when you leave the event.

Unemployed
$10.00 ticket or $18.00 ticket includes 2009 Transmodern book.

Student (with STUDENT ID)
$8.00 ticket or $16.00 ticket includes 2009 Transmodern book.

Additional copies of the 2009 Transmodern book will be $12.00 a piece.

This event will support the 7th annual Transmodern Festival, happening April 15-18, 2010 at the H&H Building. Each year Transmodern features the work of provocative cultural experimenters, performance artists, musicians, filmmakers, and more from Baltimore and the World. Come out and show your support!

Please join us for a night of eclectic performance culminating in a mass dance party lead by DJ Jason Willett and the Baltimore Westsiders Marching Band. We may have to hold the door at 300 people due to the space needed for the band to perform - so try to get to Floristree @ 10:00pm at the latest if possible.

We can barely contain our excitement about this event and luckily we have the two coolest MCs in town to guide us on our road to the ecstatic dance explosion:
Citizen Rahne Alexander & Wham City Best Man Connor Kizer.

Performers and Schedule:

Dina Kelberman & Lesser Gonzalez
Fantastic dada/absurdist short films and "Double-Blind Comics"

Angie Head
Singer Songwriter Extraordinaire joining us from the vibrant Wash. DC Af-Am queer scene.

Andy Hayleck & Paul Neidhardt
Two of Baltimore's finest sound experimenters present a sonic duo on amplified gong and Neil Feather's Nondo.

Polygons & Effervescent Dancers
Josh Atkins & Miguel Sabogal bring synth/electronic/groove improvised with excellent craft & imagination. The Effervescent Dancers are a corps of intellectual movement specialists using dance as medium to question consensus reality.

DJ Jason Willett & The Westsiders Marching Band
The Westsiders will perform LIVE several special works for the evening and will then provide drum corp and dance routine accompaniment to songs specially chosen by Jason for the night