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Crazy Exes

$5 suggested donation
7 to 9 pm

Enough with the Valentine’s Day sappiness. We all know that most relationships end in shame, bitterness and humiliation. Got any crazy exes you want to tell us about? Are you a crazy ex and would like a chance to come clean? There will be no judgment on Sunday when we divulge the many entertaining ways love can go wrong.

Open to one and all to tell a true, five minute story without notes to a room of story devotees on the theme.

Local literary types at So Say We All present their pals from San Fran.

Bawdy Storytelling features real people sharing their bona fide sexual exploits in 10 minutes or less: think of us as a One Night Stand with the Moth & Savage Love.

Storytellers are an eclectic mix of authors, porn stars, comedians, sex educators and actors, along with a handful of real people just like you who submitted their stories online and were chosen for their panache and sense of misadventure. Each evening of true dirty stories features tales of carnal wins and epic fails with no scripts, no nets, and no holds barred. You may even go home with a few new tricks for your boudoir arsenal!

Saturday, Feb 25 2012
7:00 pm
$10 at the door
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Spring Season » Focus on New York

Fresh Sound is not stuck in any particular style of music but is dedicated to bringing to San Diego music that is new, and as we proclaim, fresh. We plan to lavish you with glorious sounds, therefore we’ll just say that the music will be composed and improvised, acoustic and electronic, contemporary and traditional; the concerts will include music which grooves and doesn’t, is really loud and very quiet, some familiar and often not. All of it will be delicious and will leave you hungering for more.

As Fresh Sound series consists of concerts that focus on a theme, the upcoming Fresh Sound music series will feature musicians from New York. Bonnie Wright, Director and Curator of Fresh Sound, recently returned from a six month sojourn in New York where she explored the city by attending 160 concerts, theater and dance events. Wright now wants to share with her fellow San Diegans some of the great music she experienced on her trip.

The first two concerts are March 6th and April 9th (see below for details). In May and June we hope to include New York musicians David Shively, percussionist; Mary Rowell, violinist and Eve Beglarian, composer, electronics; Evan Ziporyn, clarinets; and maybe Caleb Burham, violin; and Tristan Perich. – Dates to be determined, check back often.

Ticket Information
Please contact Bonnie Wright via email at bonniebwright@gmail.com or phone 619-987-6214

325 15th St. between J and K
Parking is easy: on the street and nearby $3.00 parking lots are located on Island between 14th and 15th and on K St. @ 14th. The big Padres parking lot is at K @ 13th.

Presents The San Diego Premier of the New Play From the Author of No Country For Old Men and The Road

THE SUNSET LIMITTED
By Cormac McCarthy

Starring
Anthony Hamm
John J. Pistone

Directed by Miriam Cuperman

March 2, 3, 9, 10, 16, 17 of 2012

7:00 pm
Tickets: $15 – $25
www.theuncastables.com

619-272-8332

Ticket Information
Please contact Bonnie Wright via email at bonniebwright@gmail.com or phone 619-987-6214
Parking is easy – on the street and at $3.00 parking lots very nearby.

Premiere performance, ever, in the history of the world: Ben Goldberg (San Francisco), clarinets; Jeff Parker (Chicago), electric guitar; and Ches Smith (New York), drums, playing Goldberg’s new compositions. He has been composing up a storm, both for his new group Ben Goldberg School, and getting ready for the world premiere of his Orphic Machine, based on the poetical writings of Allen Grossman – commissioned by Chamber Music America

Ben Goldberg
Clarinetist / Composer Ben Goldberg grew up in Denver, Colorado. He received his undergraduate music degree from the University of California, Santa Cruz, and a Master of Arts in Composition from Mills College. He was a pupil of the eminent clarinetist Rosario Mazzeo, and studied with Steve Lacy and Joe Lovano. In addition to composing for and playing in his new band Ben Goldberg School, he performs in the following groups: Go Home with Charlie Hunter, Ellery Eskelin, Ron Miles, and Scott Amendola, “A searching ensemble that welcomes lyrical improvisation while embracing the groove.” (The New Yorker); Tin Hat; plays Monk; Myra Melford’s Be Bread; Nels Cline’s New Monastery; Clarinet Thing; and Afterlife Music Radio, an electro-acoustic quartet. Ben’s group New Klezmer Trio “kicked open the door for radical experiments with Ashkenazi roots music.” (San Francisco Chronicle) Ben was named #1 Rising Star Clarinet in the 2011 Downbeat Critics’ Poll. Recent awards include a Chamber Music America New Jazz Works commission, and commissions from San Francisco Friends of Chamber Music, the French American Cultural Exchange, the de Young Museum of Art in San Francisco, and the Aaron Copland Fund for Music.

DRIVE

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It’s the rare film the burrows its way into the collective unconscious, but 2011′s neon-noir fairy tale/fever dream-of-a-film, Drive, the first American film by Danish director Nicolas Winding Refn, seems to have done just that.  The deceptively simple story of a stunt-driver-by-day/getaway-driver-by-night who finds himself embroiled in romantic notions-gone-wrong plays on Grimm’s Fairy Tale ideas of good vs. evil and the blurry line in-between, and has proven itself to be one of the most obssessed-over films of the past few years.  The film will be preceded by trailers for Refn’s other films as well as influences on the films, a brief introduction the film, and a post open-forum discussion for anyone interested.

Craig Oliver is lifelong film enthusiast and budding filmmaker, among other things.  After six years of hosting various film screenings and events at the Whistle Stop, Burn This Image marks his proper curatorial debut, in which he shares his obsession with film and its subconscious properties.

“The Cinema seems to have been invented to express the life of the subconscious, the roots of which penetrate poetry so deeply.”

-Luis Bunuel

*Next Burn This Image May 12. More details to follow.

More dates and details coming soon!

James Moore will perform a strange and beautiful program of new music for National steel string guitar, featuring new transcriptions of the music of Lou Harrison, premieres from Larry Polansky and Molly Thompson, and selections from John Zorn’s Book of Heads.

James Moore

Moore is a versatile guitarist with multiple musical personalities. Performing on a variety of acoustic and electric guitars, banjos, and home-made instruments, James combines the sensitivity and lyricism from his classical training with a healthy dose of improvisation, theatrics, and experimentation.

You may have found James in a variety of unique performance situations including the Wulf in downtown LA premiering amplified banjo compositions; at the Pompidous Center in Paris as an on-stage musician and speaker; at the Bang on a Can Marathon directing an orchestra of hearing deprived guitarists; at the Fringe Theater in Hong Kong presenting apocalyptic multimedia works; at the Performa Festival playing Fred Frith’s music for multiple table-top guitars; at the Kitchen performing alongside rock musicians Bryce Dessner, Sufjan Stevens and Glenn Kotche; at the Barbican Center in London playing the music of Michael Gordon with Alarm Will Sound; at the Whitney Museum performing the music of Christian Marclay with Elliott Sharp; at the World Financial Center performing on ukulele with the pop/chamber group Clogs.

James is a member and co-director of Dither, an electric guitar quartet that has been gaining international recognition for precision playing and creative programming. Other projects include the folk-noise group Oliphant, the experimental band Passenger Fish, and the conceptually extreme chamber music project Ensemble de Sade. His work for theater has brought him to perform with Jennifer Walshe’s absurdist botany and video game opera The Geometry, Jacob Cooper’s electronic pop-tragedy Timberbrit, and the European tour of Richard Maxwell’s otherworldly music-theater piece Neutral Hero. James also regularly performs with Object Collection, the resident experimental ensemble at the Incubator Arts Project, formerly playwright Richard Foreman’s Ontological Theater. Recent album releases include William Brittelle’s lip-synched pop collage Mohair Time Warp and Matt Marks’s Christian nihilist musical The Little Death, Vol 1 on New Amsterdam Records, and Dither’s self-titled debut on Henceforth Records.

James received his Master of Music in Guitar Performance from the Yale School of Music, and his Bachelor of Arts in Guitar Performance and Electronic Music from UC Santa Cruz. He grew up in the San Francisco Bay Area and currently resides in Brooklyn, NY

Color Blank Space is a dance performance series featuring work that exists in the nameless space between reality and fiction.  Utilizing both movement and spoken text, the work aims to leave the audience feeling more connected with themselves, to their immediate surroundings, and to the possibilities that exist in their imagination.

Alicia Peterson Baskel is artistic director and founder of the dance theatre company, Wallpaper Performance Co.  She has been making dances in San Diego since 2003 and received her MFA in Dance Theatre from UC San Diego in 2011.  Her choreographic work has been presented by numerous local presenters and recently, her work toured internationally to the Instituto de Clultura de Baja California in Tijuana, Mexico and the Prague Quadrennial of Performance Design and Space in Prague, Czech Republic.

First Performance: April 27, 28
Doors at 7 pm
Performance at 7:30 pm

More performance, dates, and details to follow