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Reel Grrls Showcase
- All Ages
A showcase of short films created this year at Reel Grrls, Seattle's award-winning filmmaking program for teen grrls. Reel Grrls empowers young women from diverse communities to realize their power, talent and influence through media production. Their mission is to cultivate voice and leadership in girls at a vulnerable age in their development. To find out more about Reel Grrls visit them online at reelgrrls.org. Come early to visit the galleries, doors open for the screening at 1:00pm and the screening will begin at 1:30 with a reception to follow.
Trimpin: The Sound of Invention
- All Ages
Trimpin: The Sound of Invention is a sonic journey through an eccentric world. This documentary follows the artist as he designs a 60-foot tower of more than 500 electric guitars; builds an ensemble of marimbas that convert real-time earthquake data into music; and collaborates with the Kronos Quartet on an array of toy instruments. This film will delight anyone interested in the mysteries, pitfalls, and sheer joy of creative experiment. Trimpin performs May 17 – 20 at On the Boards. Visit ontheboards.org for more information.
2012 MFA Opening
Celebrate with the 2012 MFA candidates! Join the artists, their friends, and families for a reception at the Henry Art Gallery commemorating this exhibition and the culmination of their graduate work in the University of Washington’s Division of Art.
Multi-Media Talk: Anastasia Yumeko Hill When Image Fondles the Tongue (and other experiments)
There must be a difference between imagining LSD and ingesting it, experiencing it through language and experiencing it through chemistry, as thought and as image. But what exactly is this difference? Through a live thought experiment - Imagining the brain closer than the eyes - Anastasia Yumeko Hill, artist, writer, and daughter of featured artist Gary Hill, explores the ambiguous borderlands between words and images, the touching and the touched, the bodily and the lingual found on exhibit in Gary Hill: glossodelic attractors.
Screening of 2501 Migrants: A Journey
- All Ages
2501 Migrants: A Journey is a full-length documentary that explores the relationship between art and the impact of global migration on Indigenous communities. It is the story of Alejandro Santiago, a renowned artist and family man from Oaxaca, Mexico. After a brief, self-imposed exile in France, Santiago returns home to his native Teococuilco and experiences the fact that Oaxaca has become one of Mexico's “leading exporters of human labor”. Inspired by this realization, he undertakes a monumental project: the creation of 2,501 life-size sculptures—his homage to each individual migrant who has left his village. Introduction from filmmaker, Yolanda Cruz.
Record Release Party
Celebrate the opening of The Record: Contemporary Art and Vinyl with an evening of art, music, and live performance! Be the first to see the exhibition and check out the B-Side in the Henry’s Test Site to learn more about vinyl record production and explore some of the work being produced by labels here in the Pacific Northwest. Enjoy live music performances from Slashed Tires and The Hive Dwellers and enter to win a free limited edition picnic plate recording of the evenings performances recorded LIVE to lathe by Mike Dixon.
Live to Lathe Live to Lathe
Got an original song, poem, or old audio recording laying around? Ever wanted to cut a record? Join Mike Dixon, from People in a Position to Know (PIAPTK), to find out more about the mechanics and history of record production from early cylinder formats to Hip Pocket Records to 45s. This talk will be followed by an afternoon of live to lathe record cutting demos. Bring in an MP3 player or your guitar and record your own record right in the gallery for only $5, first come first served.