Tag: Hallwalls
wednesday may 16th 2007
Old School Goths Represent!
Break out the eyeliner and Docs -- we're about to have a Continental flashback. Aging hipsters (ahem) that the "South Park" goth kids were probably modeled on will be thrilled with tonight's show at Hallwalls -- poet, playwright, scholar, critic, and labor activist Mark Nowak will be reading from his essay "'To Commit Suicide in Buffalo is Redundant': Music & Death in Zero City, 1982-1984". Cribbing his title from Michael Bennett's famous quote from A Chorus Line, the essay is featured in the forthcoming critical anthology, Goth: Undead Subculture, (edited by Lauren Goodlad & Michael Bibby, Duke University Press, 2007).
The show is presented by Hallwalls and Talking Leaves.... Books, who will have copies of the anthology available for sale and signing by the author (whereupon your ticket price will be refunded). To complete…
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tuesday may 8th 2007
Interkosmos: A Retro-Future Love Story in Communist Space
Hallwalls is bringing Buffalo another treat this month in the debut feature film by underground visionary Jim Finn. Interkosmos assumes a fictional reality in which East German Cosmonauts and their allies attempt to establish socialist colonies on the moons of Jupiter and Saturn during the ‘70s. With a wit as dry as paper, Finn spins his tale with an incredible attention to detail and an ability to mash faked retro propaganda into a visual fairy tale of East German concepts of space and infinity.
“I wanted the energy and idealism of the Marxist left to be a part of the film and to create a communist love story in the process, as well as a kind of funeral dirge for a 75-year-old experiment in social and economic engineering,” he says in his Director’s Statement.
Begun …
friday may 4th 2007
John Bacon at Soundlab
Tonight!
John Bacon and Multi-Jazz Dimensions announce the release of the CD "Boxing Day", featuring duo and solo performances by John Bacon on drums and percussion and Paul Bley on piano. This CD, recorded the day after Christmas in Rochester, New York, captures these two musicians collaborating spontaneously in the studio on a series of eclectic improvisations. Bley is a seminal contributor to the history of Jazz music through his exploration of free jazz, interactive piano trio and early electric improvisational music. Bacon has explored a variety of musical frontiers including avant-jazz with Roswell Rudd, new music with the Maelstrom Percussion Ensemble and Latin Jazz with Wendell Rivera. A Co-production of Multi-Jazz Dimensions, Soundlab and Hallwalls Contemporary Art Center. www.johnbaconjr.com
About John:
John Bacon, drumset and percussion, has been a mainstay of the m…
tuesday may 1st 2007
WNY Typo Fest: A Celebration of the Graphic and Typographic Arts
For two days in May, Buffalo will be focused on all things graphically oriented with the Western New York Typo Fest. (That’s typography, not typographical error.) The first evening of the event features some of Buffalo’s best graphic designers, including Shelly Bronson, Brian Grunert, Hero Design, Colin Kahn, Richard Kegler, Nicole Lecht; recent award-winner, Julian Montague; David Moore, and Kyle Schlesinger discussing their work in a Pecha Kucha format – participants get a 6 minute pitch to show 20 slides, which they can discuss for 20 seconds each. The next day features a studio visit to Paradise Press, with a hand-set metal type demo and tour. That event is capped by a showing of the new documentary Helvetica, by Gary Hustwit, who will be present for a Q&A after the showing. The movie celebrates the 50th anniversary of the typeface, and explores global visual culture. A…
