BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//BOWERBIRD ::: MUSIC, DANCE, FILM ::: Philadelphia, PA - ECPv6.15.17.1//NONSGML v1.0//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH X-ORIGINAL-URL:https://www.bowerbird.org X-WR-CALDESC:Events for BOWERBIRD ::: MUSIC, DANCE, FILM ::: Philadelphia, PA REFRESH-INTERVAL;VALUE=DURATION:PT1H X-Robots-Tag:noindex X-PUBLISHED-TTL:PT1H BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/New_York BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20200308T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20201101T060000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20210314T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20211107T060000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20220313T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20221106T060000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20230312T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20231105T060000 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220824T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220824T210000 DTSTAMP:20260425T103743 CREATED:20220725T153817Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220829T140954Z UID:10001158-1661367600-1661374800@www.bowerbird.org SUMMARY:Kidlat Tahimik's Turumba DESCRIPTION:Commissioned by the German public service broadcaster ZDF\, Kidlat Tahimik shot this movie in Laguna in the Philippines in 1981 as a contribution to the ZDF teleplay series “Vater Unser” (“Our Father”). These comprised six 45-minute short movies by a group of international directors\, which interpreted key phrases from the lexicon of the Apostles’ Creed. Tahimik opted for the phrase “give us this day our daily bread”\, and shot a movie about a family in Pakil in Laguna\, a small town about 100 kilometers from the capital Manila reputed for its “Turumba” procession and its musical tradition\, which also play an important role in the film. The family earned their living producing paper mache figurines\, a handicraft for which the region is known nationwide. They sell the figurine-toys during the annual Turumba festivities and live off the proceeds throughout the year. An imperious\, German entrepreneur visits their market stall and commissions them to manufacture 30\,000 Olympic Waldi dachshunds\, the official mascot for the 1972 Munich Olympics. The family then embarks upon a quasi-industrial production of paper mache figures; suddenly\, time is money. Tahimik commented that Turumba is a movie about the “incursion of capitalism into a Philippine village”. \nTurumba / Kidlat Tahimik / 1981 / 95 min / 16mm \nCo-presented with Nightletter. \n\nThis is an “in person” event.   In consideration of the ongoing pandemic and the safety of those in our community\, Bowerbird is requiring all audience members\, staff\, and performers to show proof of Covid 19 vaccinations status *and* wear a mask while inside the venue (please note that musicians will have the option to perform without masks once on stage).  Proof of vaccination can be the physical ID card or a photo/copy (a photo on your phone is acceptable). URL:https://www.bowerbird.org/event/kidlat-tahimiks-turumba/ LOCATION:University Lutheran\, 3637 Chestnut Street\, Philadelphia\, PA\, 19104\, United States ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://www.bowerbird.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/Bowerbird-Main-Img-8.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220727T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220727T210000 DTSTAMP:20260425T103743 CREATED:20220602T181907Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220811T192230Z UID:10001156-1658948400-1658955600@www.bowerbird.org SUMMARY:Pat O’Neill’s Water and Power DESCRIPTION:NEW DATE \n\nPat O’Neill’s rarely-screened masterpiece of West Coast cinema is a dazzling synthesis of fast motion and superimposition\, appropriated footage and time lapse photography\, chroma keying and long exposures. Water and Power layers images drawn from urban Los Angeles\, its water source in the Owens Valley\, and an otherworldly interior space in increasingly complex permutations. What results is a fractured history\, not just of California and its environment but of the cinematic imagination. Through subtitles O’Neill also weaves a story of industrial expansion’s impact on the landscape from Sir Francis Drake’s exploration to situations that seem ripped from Golden Age Hollywood. \nIn the hands of O’Neill\, landscape becomes not just the industrial and natural world but the reflection of how humans have imagined it\, as the site of epics of silent film to ideal locations for resource extraction. The film abounds with visual rhymes\, becoming unclear where human architecture ends and nature begins. And this is to say nothing of the surreal dreamlike figures that litter O’Neill’s imagined Los Angeles. Shot on 35mm\, a rare luxury in experimental filmmaking\, and masterfully utilizing the optical printer\, Water and Power contains some of the most beautiful images in all of American cinema. \nWater and Power / Pat O’Neill / 1989 / 57 min / 16mm \nCo-presented with Nightletter. \n\nThis is an “in person” event.   In consideration of the ongoing pandemic and the safety of those in our community\, Bowerbird is requiring all audience members\, staff\, and performers to show proof of Covid 19 vaccinations status *and* wear a mask while inside the venue (please note that musicians will have the option to perform without masks once on stage).  Proof of vaccination can be the physical ID card or a photo/copy (a photo on your phone is acceptable). URL:https://www.bowerbird.org/event/pat-oneills-water-and-power/ LOCATION:University Lutheran\, 3637 Chestnut Street\, Philadelphia\, PA\, 19104\, United States ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://www.bowerbird.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/Bowerbird-Main-Img-6.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220714T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220714T210000 DTSTAMP:20260425T103743 CREATED:20220614T171801Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220707T174523Z UID:10001157-1657825200-1657832400@www.bowerbird.org SUMMARY:Wildflower Composers: Concert of Faculty Works with Arcana New Music DESCRIPTION:Bowerbird is pleased to present a collaboration between the Arcana New Music Ensemble and the annual Wildflowers Composer Festival to present works by the festival faculty. The festival is open to composers who identify as part of gender-marginalized communities\, which includes cis-women\, trans-women\, trans-men\, and those who are nonbinary or gender-nonconforming. The summer festival is intended for composers between the ages of 13 and 19 who have not yet started college. \nPROGRAM \ninti figgis-vizueta: to give you form and breath\nAndy Thierauf\, Emily Roane\, Travis Goffredo – percussion \ninti figgis-vizueta: INBHIR (many waters)\nTom Kraines – cello \nRajna Swaminathan: Consilience\nRajna Swaminathan – mrundangum\, piano\, voice \nFlannery Cunningham: We are the same as we have always been\nSean Bailey – clarinet \nFlannery Cunningham: Songs of myself//songs for myself\nAlize Rozsnyai – voice \nErin Busch: refract (world premiere)\nCarlos Santiago – violin \n\nThis is an “in person” event.   In consideration of the ongoing pandemic and the safety of those in our community\, Bowerbird is requiring all audience members\, staff\, and performers to show proof of Covid 19 vaccinations status *and* wear a mask while inside the venue (please note that musicians will have the option to perform without masks once on stage).  Proof of vaccination can be the physical ID card or a photo/copy (a photo on your phone is acceptable). URL:https://www.bowerbird.org/event/wildflower-composer-concert/ LOCATION:University Lutheran\, 3637 Chestnut Street\, Philadelphia\, PA\, 19104\, United States ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://www.bowerbird.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/Bowerbird-Main-Img-7.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220615T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220615T210000 DTSTAMP:20260425T103743 CREATED:20220524T150848Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220708T020341Z UID:10001155-1655319600-1655326800@www.bowerbird.org SUMMARY:Babette Mangolte’s The Cold Eye (My Darling\, Be Careful) DESCRIPTION:By the time Babette Mangolte began work on The Cold Eye (My Darling Be Careful)\, her first overtly fictional narrative film\, she was already deeply enmeshed in the artistic vanguard of two continents. She had served as the cinematographer for the early groundbreaking films by Chantal Akerman and Yvonne Rainer\, photographed and filmed the development of postmodern theater and dance\, and directed her own experimental works. With The Cold Eye seeing Mangolte operate in a semi-autobiographical mode\, how then would an artist with a lifetime spent behind a lens inhabit a character? Mangolte’s answer: by constructing a film entirely out of shots from the subjective point of view of her protagonist. \nWe see The Cold Eye through the lens of Cathy\, an avatar for Mangolte’s early experiences after moving to the United States. Cathy is a young painter\, deeply self-conscious and insecure\, developing as an artist in the midst of her sentimental education. And we follow Cathy as she considers her own work and reflects on the role of the artist. Strikingly we also inhabit her gaze as she talks to friends and members of the art world often while her (or perhaps our) attention wanders around the room and we are struck when they look at her\, or rather us\, directly in the eye. As we stare at these characters\, portrayed by dancers James Barth (who also co-wrote the screenplay) and Valda Setterfield\, painter George Deem\, filmmaker Ela Troyano\, and character actor extraordinaire Powers Booth among others\, Mangolte offers up one of the most daring attempts to capture on film what previously seemed the domain of novels\, to describe a central character not just through what they do and say but through their observation and understanding of others. \n\n\nThe Cold Eye (My Darling\, Be Careful) / Babette Mangolte / 1980 / 90 min / 16mm-to-Digital \nCo-presented with Nightletter. \n\n\nThis is an “in person” event.   In consideration of the ongoing pandemic and the safety of those in our community\, Bowerbird is requiring all audience members\, staff\, and performers to show proof of Covid 19 vaccinations status *and* wear a mask while inside the venue (please note that musicians will have the option to perform without masks once on stage).  Proof of vaccination can be the physical ID card or a photo/copy (a photo on your phone is acceptable). URL:https://www.bowerbird.org/event/babette-mangoltes-the-cold-eye-my-darling-be-careful/ LOCATION:University Lutheran\, 3637 Chestnut Street\, Philadelphia\, PA\, 19104\, United States ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://www.bowerbird.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/Bowerbird-Main-Img-5.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220521T200000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220521T220000 DTSTAMP:20260425T103743 CREATED:20211118T020751Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220524T203611Z UID:10001137-1653163200-1653170400@www.bowerbird.org SUMMARY:New Suns DESCRIPTION:Bowerbird is pleased to present vocal sextet Variant 6 in a concert celebration of their first full-length album\, New Suns. The album explores myriad universes of a cappella vocal music featuring works by Jeremy Gill\, Gabriel Jackson\, Joanne Metcalf\, Benjamin C.S. Boyle\, and Bruno Bettinelli. This album is a celebration of everything they love about the versatility and virtuosity of the human voice. \n\nThis is an “in person” event. All those attending must show proof of COVID 19 vaccination status (vaccination card or legible photo on your smartphone\, plus photo ID) and wear a mask during the entirety of the event. There will be no exceptions to this policy. Capacity will be limited – advanced tickets are strongly encouraged. \n\nABOUT THE ARTIST \nVariant 6 is a virtuosic vocal sextet that explores and advances the art of chamber music in the twenty-first century. The ensemble’s work includes concertizing throughout the United States\, commissioning substantial new works\, collaborating closely with other ensembles\, and educating a new generation of singers and composers. Variant 6 believes that the process of compromise achieved from the diversity of opinion and specialty of its six individual artists can create deeply impactful experiences for its audiences\, collaborators\, and students. URL:https://www.bowerbird.org/event/new-suns-variant-6/ LOCATION:University Lutheran\, 3637 Chestnut Street\, Philadelphia\, PA\, 19104\, United States ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://www.bowerbird.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/NewSuns_Main.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220520T200000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220520T220000 DTSTAMP:20260425T103743 CREATED:20220118T160636Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220524T202642Z UID:10001142-1653076800-1653084000@www.bowerbird.org SUMMARY:JJJJJerome Ellis DESCRIPTION:Bowerbird is pleased to present musician JJJJJerome Ellis and Philadelphia-based duo Jupiter Blue at The Rotunda. \n  \nABOUT THE MUSICIANS \nJJJJJerome Ellis is a blk disabled animal\, stutterer\, and artist. He prays\, reads\, gardens\, cycles\, wanders\, and plays. Through music\, literature\, performance\, and video he researches relationships among blackness\, disabled speech\, divinity\, nature\, sound\, and time. Born in 1989 to Jamaican and Grenadian immigrants\, he grew up and lives by a heron rookery in Virginia Beach\, USA. His diverse body of work includes: contemplative soundscapes using saxophone\, flute\, dulcimer\, electronics\, and vocals; scores for plays and podcasts; albums combining spoken word with ambient and jazz textures; theatrical explorations involving live music and storytelling; and music-video-poems that seek to transfigure historical archives.\n \nFrom the Sun Ra Arkestra’s engine room\, Jupiter Blue’s tone scientists DM Hotep and Jupiter Girl (Tara Middleton) emerge to reveal elements and precepts of another kind of language\, another tomorrow. Their collaboration is interstellar and unique\, granting passage through spacious\, jazz textured sonorties informed by Ra’s ever necessary mission of saving the world. \n  \nCo-presented with The Rotunda. \n\nThis is an “in person” event. Bowerbird is requiring all those attending to show proof of COVID 19 vaccination status (vaccination card or legible photo on your smartphone\, plus photo ID) and wear a mask during the entirety of the event. There will be no exceptions to this policy. Capacity will be limited – advanced registration is strongly encouraged. URL:https://www.bowerbird.org/event/jjjjjerome-ellis/ LOCATION:The Rotunda\, 4014 Walnut St\, Philadelphia\, PA\, 19104\, United States CATEGORIES:Free Events ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://www.bowerbird.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/Bowerbird-Main-Img-1.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220518T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220518T210000 DTSTAMP:20260425T103743 CREATED:20220317T151459Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220520T142430Z UID:10001153-1652900400-1652907600@www.bowerbird.org SUMMARY:Raúl Ruiz’s The Golden Boat DESCRIPTION:Over the course of a half century long career\, Chilean-born Raúl Ruiz established himself as cinema’s greatest surrealist this side of Luis Buñuel. And like Buñuel\, Ruiz was a vagabond\, making films wherever funds were available. After the establishment of Chile’s military junta under Augusto Pinochet in 1973\, Ruiz fled to Paris\, making films in France\, Portugal\, The Netherlands\, among other locales. The Golden Boat brought him to the U.S. for the first time while the director hones in on an artistic mecca\, the downtown New York art scene of the 1980s. Produced in collaboration with The Kitchen\, the film takes the form of one of our homegrown police procedurals crossed with a telenovela. The film wanders through Manhattan as a murderer and a philosophy-student rock critic pursue the object of the cut-throat’s affection\, a Mexican soap opera star. But the meandering plot is mainly an excuse for Ruiz to engage in his love of dreamlike black comedy where streets are populated by a veritable who’s who of no wave New York including Jim Jarmusch\, Kathy Acker\, Annie Sprinkle\, Vito Acconci—featuring a score by John Zorn. \nCo-presented with Nightletter. \n\nThis is an “in person” event. All those attending must show proof of COVID 19 vaccination status (vaccination card or legible photo on your smartphone\, plus photo ID) and wear a mask during the entirety of the event. There will be no exceptions to this policy. Capacity will be limited – advanced tickets are strongly encouraged. \n\nPROGRAM \nThe Golden Boat / Raúl Ruiz / 1990 / 83 min / 16mm-to-Digital URL:https://www.bowerbird.org/event/raul-ruizs-the-golden-boat/ LOCATION:University Lutheran\, 3637 Chestnut Street\, Philadelphia\, PA\, 19104\, United States ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://www.bowerbird.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/Bowerbird-Main-Img-4.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220507T200000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220507T220000 DTSTAMP:20260425T103743 CREATED:20211118T021720Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220517T200658Z UID:10001139-1651953600-1651960800@www.bowerbird.org SUMMARY:J. Pavone String Ensemble DESCRIPTION:Bowerbird is pleased to present the J. Pavone String Ensemble led by New York based composer and performer Jessica Pavone. \nThe foundation of Jessica Pavone’s recent ensemble compositions is research on the effects of sonic vibration on human physiology and emotional health. Sustained pitches and clusters of ensemble sounds generate specific physical and cognitive benefits intended to impact the audience physically and mentally\, existing within and beyond music’s canonical role. The compositional techniques borrow from and elaborate on traditional music notation. Pavone experiments with improvisatory techniques\, alternating between metered and time-based scores and improvised and notated instructions. The ensemble approach focuses on a vision of collective improvisation that prioritizes a collaboratively sewn musical fabric\, in contrast to the traditional improvisatory method that prizes the individuality and uniqueness of the soloist. The rehearsal method\, influenced by her solo work\, attends to how the body plays a role in sound and intention. \nIn 2019\, the string ensemble’s debut album\, Brick and Mortar\, was hailed by the Chicago Reader’s Peter Margasak as “the most assured\, bracing work of Pavone’s career.” Astral Spirits Records released their second\, Lost and Found\, in 2020 to critical acclaim from publications such as; The Wire\, The New Yorker\, NYC Jazz Record\, NPR\, Jazzwise\, and was named a “Best Contemporary Albums of 2020” by Bandcamp Daily. Chris Ingalls from Pop Matters described their music as “too stunning to lump into genres.” This tour celebrates the release of their third album\, …Of Late\, on Astral Spirits Records and features a new lineup consisting of Pavone on viola\, with Aimée Niemann on violin and Abby Swidler playing both violin and viola. \n\nThis is an “in person” event. All those attending must show proof of COVID 19 vaccination status (vaccination card or legible photo on your smartphone\, plus photo ID) and wear a mask during the entirety of the event. There will be no exceptions to this policy. Capacity will be limited – advanced tickets are strongly encouraged. \n\n\n  URL:https://www.bowerbird.org/event/j-pavone-string-ensemble/ LOCATION:University Lutheran\, 3637 Chestnut Street\, Philadelphia\, PA\, 19104\, United States ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://www.bowerbird.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/Pavone.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220421T230000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220421T235900 DTSTAMP:20260425T103743 CREATED:20211108T153930Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220504T011419Z UID:10001134-1650582000-1650585540@www.bowerbird.org SUMMARY:Bismuth Quartet DESCRIPTION:Bowerbird is pleased to present Liminal States\, a series of late night\, live streamed concerts intended to be listened to as you fall asleep. Aiming to center and calm\, the musicians will seek to lead listeners to that magic space between awake and asleep. Tune in and bliss out. The Bismuth Quartet will perform from their homes in Philadelphia. \nCo-presented with The Rotunda. \n\nAdmission to this online event is Free / Pay What You Wish. REGISTRATION IS REQUIRED. SPACE IS LIMITED. A link will be sent to you the day of the event. The performance will start at 11:00pm Eastern Time and will run approximately 45 mins. \nThis event is part of the Liminal States Series \n\n\n  \n\nABOUT THE ARTIST\nOne of Philadelphia’s hidden gems\, Bismuth Quartet takes the string quartet into new territory as performers\, composers\, collaborators\, and improvisers. Past and future projects include cross-disciplinary collaborations\, diverse programming\, and performing original compositions. Equally at home playing modern\, classical\, experimental\, and improvised music\, Bismuth has performed at notable venues such as the Mann Center\, Union Transfer\, and the Mütter Museum\, among others. The Quartet presents a unique experience to its audiences and has partnered on productions across Philadelphia performing on the Moon Viewing Platform as part of the 2019 Site/Sound Festival\, playing spectral music presented by Fire Museum Presents at the Icebox Project Space\, and collaboratively composing and performing scores to silent films alongside Not So Silent Cinema. Bismuth Quartet maintains active projects across the Philadelphia music scene at-large and has been featured with Jazmine Sullivan\, Arcana New Music Ensemble\, Philadelphia Jazz Project\, indie rock bands Whitney\, and Clap Your Hands Say Yeah\, with NYC-based performer/improviser/composer Anaïs Maviel\, and video artist/choreographer Nora Gibson aka CHROMA. Bismuth encourages the creation of new work and is in the midst of a commission in collaboration with composer Adam Berenson to be recorded in the fall of 2022. \nBismuth Quartet \nCarlos Santiago\, Gabe Miller – violins \nVeronica Jurkiewicz – viola \nCarolina Diazgranados – cello URL:https://www.bowerbird.org/event/bismuth-quartet-liminal-states/ LOCATION:Online Livestream CATEGORIES:Free Events ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://www.bowerbird.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/Bowerbird-Main-Img-2.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220415T200000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220415T220000 DTSTAMP:20260425T103743 CREATED:20220331T161105Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220503T210232Z UID:10001154-1650052800-1650060000@www.bowerbird.org SUMMARY:Sound Mechanic DESCRIPTION:Bowerbird is pleased to present a sneak preview screening of Sound Mechanic by Skizz Cyzyk about Baltimore native Neil Feather. \nNeil invents new musical instruments and sound making devices\, frequently incorporating bicycle parts\, bowling balls and sex toys. His inventions are then used in live performances and installations. This observational documentary feature gives the audience a chance to spend some time with Neil\, getting to know him\, seeing him working\, and watching his performances. \nNeil and his instruments have been featured on a number of Bowerbird events in the past and this documentary will include footage of Philadelphia performances. \n \nThis is an “in person” event. Bowerbird is requiring all those attending to show proof of COVID 19 vaccination status (vaccination card or legible photo on your smartphone\, plus photo ID) and wear a mask during the entirety of the event. There will be no exceptions to this policy. Capacity will be limited – advanced registration is strongly encouraged. URL:https://www.bowerbird.org/event/sound-mechanic/ LOCATION:The Rotunda\, 4014 Walnut St\, Philadelphia\, PA\, 19104\, United States CATEGORIES:Free Events ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://www.bowerbird.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/Bowerbird-Main-Img-13.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220413T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220413T210000 DTSTAMP:20260425T103743 CREATED:20211101T163635Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220503T205928Z UID:10001128-1649876400-1649883600@www.bowerbird.org SUMMARY:Trans-Pacific Partnership: Japanese Fluxus DESCRIPTION:Although founded in early 1960s New York\, the pioneering interdisciplinary art community Fluxus included participants from around the world\, notably several from Japan. Born out of the influence of John Cage and the Dada movement\, the loose group included composers\, conceptual artists\, filmmakers\, video artists\, sculptors\, and performance artists and resulted in new forms of visual and sound art. The names of the western members are in greater currency\, but the Japanese contingent\, most famously Japanese émigré Yoko Ono\, freely intermingled between the Tokyo avant-garde and the New York downtown art scene resulting in a number of arresting films. \nNever formally a Fluxus member\, Takahiko Iimura nevertheless collaborated with many Fluxus artists on both sides of the Pacific and shared roots in a Neo-Dada outlook. His first film Kuzu (Junk) features the trash strewn everywhere on Tokyo Bay to the music of Fluxus composer Takehisa Kosugi. Iro (Color) and Onan both feature collaborations with fellow Fluxus composer Yasunao Tone to explore abstract color and erotic desire respectively. And Ai (Love) breaks down sex and the body in extreme close up alongside the vocal experiments of Yoko Ono. Ono herself made numerous films\, most fruitfully as part of the Fluxfilm anthologies organized by Fluxus godfather George Maciunas. One\, the fourteenth film in the Fluxfilm series\, is an extreme slow motion record of a match striking in close up and a visualization of “Lighting Piece” from her classic book “Grapefruit”. Bottoms is perhaps Ono’s most famous film\, and is constructed solely out of the buttocks of artists and friends in her circle including Carolee Schneemann. The program will end with Cut Piece\, a documentation by Albert and David Maysles of Ono’s most influential performance in which she invited audience members to cut off articles of her clothing\, exploring issues of gender\, power and violence. \nCo-presented with Nightletter. \n\nPROGRAM \nKuzu (Junk) / Takahiko Iimura / 1962 / 12 min / 16mm\nIro (Colors) / Takahiko Iimura / 1962 / 10 min / 16mm\nOnan / Takahiko Iimura / 1963 / 8 min / 16mm\nAi (Love) / Takahiko Iimura / 1963 / 10 min / 16mm\nOne / Yoko Ono / 1966 / 4 min / digital\nBottoms / Yoko Ono & Anthony Cox / 1966 / 6 min / digital\nCut Piece / Albert & David Maysles / 1966 / 8 min / digital \n\nThis is an “in person” event. All those attending must show proof of COVID 19 vaccination status (vaccination card or legible photo on your smartphone\, plus photo ID) and wear a mask during the entirety of the event. There will be no exceptions to this policy. Capacity will be limited – advanced tickets are strongly encouraged. \n\nTakahiko Iimura “Kuzu” (low res excerpt) \n\n  URL:https://www.bowerbird.org/event/trans-pacific-partnership-japanese-fluxus/ LOCATION:University Lutheran\, 3637 Chestnut Street\, Philadelphia\, PA\, 19104\, United States ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.bowerbird.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/JapanFluxus.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220410T230000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220410T235900 DTSTAMP:20260425T103743 CREATED:20211110T215352Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220411T141324Z UID:10001135-1649631600-1649635140@www.bowerbird.org SUMMARY:Sarah Hennies DESCRIPTION:Bowerbird is pleased to present Liminal States\, a series of late night\, live streamed concerts intended to be listened to as you fall asleep. Aiming to center and calm\, the musicians will seek to lead listeners to that magic space between awake and asleep. Tune in and bliss out. Composer and performer Sarah Hennies will perform from her home in New York. \nCo-presented with The Rotunda. \n\nAdmission to this online event is Free / Pay What You Wish. REGISTRATION IS REQUIRED. SPACE IS LIMITED. A link will be sent to you the day of the event. The performance will start at 11:00pm Eastern Time and will run approximately 45 mins. \nThis event is part of the Liminal States Series \n\n\n  \n\nABOUT THE ARTIST\nSarah Hennies is a composer based in upstate New York whose work is concerned with a variety of musical\, sociopolitical\, and psychological issues including queer & trans identity\, love\, intimacy\, psychoacoustics\, and percussion. She is primarily a composer of acoustic chamber music\, but is also active in improvisation\, film\, and performance art. She presents her work internationally as both a composer and percussionist with notable performances at MoMA PS1 (NYC)\, Monday Evening Concerts (Los Angeles)\, Le Guess Who (Utrecht)\, Festival Cable (Nantes)\, send + receive (Winnipeg)\, O’ Art Space (Milan)\, Cafe Oto (London)\, ALICE (Copenhagen)\, and the Edition Festival (Stockholm). As a composer\, she has received commissions across a wide array of performers and ensembles including Bearthoven\, Bent Duo\, Cristian Alvear\, Claire Chase\, R. Andrew Lee\, Talea Ensemble\, Thin Edge New Music Collective\, Two-Way Street\, Nate Wooley\, and Yarn/Wire. URL:https://www.bowerbird.org/event/sarah-hennies-liminal-states/ LOCATION:Online Livestream CATEGORIES:Free Events ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://www.bowerbird.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/SarahHennies.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220330T193000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220330T213000 DTSTAMP:20260425T103743 CREATED:20220304T140354Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220410T161807Z UID:10001147-1648668600-1648675800@www.bowerbird.org SUMMARY:Alash Ensemble DESCRIPTION:Philadelphia favorites Alash return to The Rotunda for a FREE concert. Alash are masters of Tuvan throat singing (xöömei)\, a remarkable technique for singing multiple pitches at the same time. Masters of traditional Tuvan instruments as well as the art of throat singing\, Alash are deeply committed to traditional Tuvan music and culture. At the same time\, they are fans of western music. Believing that traditional music must constantly evolve\, the musicians subtly infuse their songs with western elements\, creating their own unique style that is fresh and new\, yet true to their Tuvan musical heritage. \nPresented with The Rotunda. \nThis is an “in person” event. All those attending must wear a mask during the entirety of the event. There will be no exceptions to this policy. Capacity will be limited – advanced reservations are strongly encouraged. URL:https://www.bowerbird.org/event/alash-ensemble-2022/ LOCATION:The Rotunda\, 4014 Walnut St\, Philadelphia\, PA\, 19104\, United States ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://www.bowerbird.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/Alash2022.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220323T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220323T210000 DTSTAMP:20260425T103743 CREATED:20211213T161920Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220410T160530Z UID:10001140-1648062000-1648069200@www.bowerbird.org SUMMARY:Sons of Jack Smith DESCRIPTION:When Jack Smith transitioned from his relatively brief career as a director headlong into experimental theater in the late 1960s\, he already had multiple scandals and groundbreaking films under his belt and had appeared in many more as a muse to Andy Warhol\, Ken Jacobs\, and Ron Rice. These films capture Smith in amber as he pioneered an intellectually serious approach to camp performance and a low-budget trash aesthetic. But within a few years of his exit\, trends in experimental film shifted away from Smith’s obsession with artifice and performance toward something much more austere and theoretical. \nBut Smith’s transgressive\, baroque influence runs far deeper than as a shooting star or as a forefather of cheapo “cult classic” cinema. And it continued to be felt even while some of his contemporaries became more staid and cerebral. This program traces Smith’s immediate progeny in experimental filmmaking who followed his enthusiasm for gender performance and costuming\, the tension between trash and classical beauty\, and pre-assimilationist gay life. \nBill Vehr\, whose films starring Smith have entirely vanished\, leaves us with Avocada\, a decadent subversion of Hollywood that Smith himself praised as “possessed of gilded glamour.” José Rodriguez-Soltero’s Jerovi is a self-consciously homoerotic low-budget portrait that becomes an onanistic reverie of the body reminiscent of Smith. Takahiko Iimura’s Face is another body-study\, this time focusing on three faces in ecstasy to highlight the artifice of performance on screen and the gendered costuming and makeup of the actors\, including one of Smith’s great discoveries\, Mario Montez. Steven Arnold\, one of Smith’s clearest inheritors in the hippie generation\, directed The Liberation of the Mannique Mechanique as a dream of surreal androgyny\, with impeccable costuming and production design. \nCo-presented with Nightletter. \n\nThis is an “in person” event. All those attending must show proof of COVID 19 vaccination status (vaccination card or legible photo on your smartphone\, plus photo ID) and wear a mask during the entirety of the event. There will be no exceptions to this policy. Capacity will be limited – advanced tickets are strongly encouraged. \nPROGRAM \nAvocada / Bill Vehr / 1966 / 37 min / 16mm\nJerovi / José Rodriguez-Soltero / 1965 / 12 min / 16mm\nFace / Takahiko Iimura / 1969 / 21 min / 16mm\nThe Liberation of the Mannique Mechanique / Steven Arnold / 1967 / 15 min / 16mm URL:https://www.bowerbird.org/event/sons-of-jack-smith/ LOCATION:University Lutheran\, 3637 Chestnut Street\, Philadelphia\, PA\, 19104\, United States ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://www.bowerbird.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/Bowerbird-Main-Img-6.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220317T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220317T210000 DTSTAMP:20260425T103743 CREATED:20211118T021150Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220303T174617Z UID:10001138-1647543600-1647550800@www.bowerbird.org SUMMARY:I Heart Artemis DESCRIPTION:Bowerbird is pleased to present Variant 6 performing “I Heart Artemis”\, a new\, evening-length work by Wally Gunn and Maria Zajkowski performed at the Maas Building. \nIn the time before time\, Athena and Artemis meet\, fall in love\, and live a brief eternity of passion. But their paradise can’t last. On earth\, men wage war\, indulge their lusts\, and exploit the land. Athena and Artemis watch in horror as the world falls apart\, and must unite to defend what cannot defend itself. Is time running out? The deities are watching.‘I heart Artemis’ is a story about a mythological love and a very real crisis\, which asks the most pressing questions about humanity’s future. \n\nThis is an “in person” event. All those attending must show proof of COVID 19 vaccination status (vaccination card or legible photo on your smartphone\, plus photo ID) and wear a mask during the entirety of the event. There will be no exceptions to this policy. Capacity will be limited – advanced tickets are strongly encouraged. \nFor this performance members of Variant 6\, who are vaccinated\, will be performing unmasked. The performers will be 6 feet away from audience seating \nThis performance will be recorded and available on-demand in the near future. Ticket holders for the live event will also receive a link for this video. Tickets for the video only will be available at a later date. \n\nABOUT THE ARTIST\nVariant 6 is a virtuosic vocal sextet that explores and advances the art of chamber music in the twenty-first century. The ensemble’s work includes concertizing throughout the United States\, commissioning substantial new works\, collaborating closely with other ensembles\, and educating a new generation of singers and composers. Variant 6 believes that the process of compromise achieved from the diversity of opinion and specialty of its six individual artists can create deeply impactful experiences for its audiences\, collaborators\, and students. URL:https://www.bowerbird.org/event/i-heart-artemis-variant-6/ LOCATION:Maas Building\, 1325 N Randolph St\, Philadelphia\, PA\, 19122\, United States ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://www.bowerbird.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/IHeart_Main.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220313T230000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220313T235900 DTSTAMP:20260425T103743 CREATED:20211101T174041Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220318T032347Z UID:10001130-1647212400-1647215940@www.bowerbird.org SUMMARY:Bhob Rainey DESCRIPTION:Bowerbird is pleased to present Liminal States\, an ongoing series of late night\, live streamed concerts intended to be listened to as you fall asleep. Aiming to center and calm\, the musicians will seek to lead listeners to that magic space between awake and asleep. Tune in and bliss out. Musician Bhob Rainey will perform from his home in Philadelphia. \nCo-presented with The Rotunda. \n\nAdmission to this online event is Free / Pay What You Wish ($20 suggested). REGISTRATION IS REQUIRED. A link will be sent to you the day of the event. The performance will start at 11:00pm Eastern Time and will run approximately 40 mins. \nThis event is part of the Liminal States Series \n\n\n  \n\n\nABOUT THE ARTIST\nBhob Rainey works with sound\, both acoustically and electronically. He\, like a lot of people\, is interested in quite a few things\, but he is especially invested in matters relating to consciousness – its possibilities\, limitations\, absurdities\, threats and futures – how to “think” climate change\, how to “think” the nonhuman stuff that makes us. As a result\, ideas from philosophy\, technology\, psychology\, and the plain old grind worm their way into his work. Rainey has spent a lot of time in recent years working with theater company New Paradise Laboratories\, and with with choreographer JungWoong Kim creating the site-specific installation / performance\, SaltSoul.  Past collaborations include Nmperign with Greg Kelley and the Boston Sound Collective. \n  URL:https://www.bowerbird.org/event/bhob-rainey-liminal-states/ LOCATION:Online Livestream CATEGORIES:Free Events ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://www.bowerbird.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/Bhob-Rainey.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220313T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220313T170000 DTSTAMP:20260425T103743 CREATED:20220128T140530Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220318T032231Z UID:10001144-1647180000-1647190800@www.bowerbird.org SUMMARY:Xenakis: Persepolis DESCRIPTION:In 1971 composer Iannis Xenakis (1922-2001) was commissioned to create a piece for the opening day of the fifth edition of the Shiraz Festival. This edition commemorated the 2500th anniversary of the founding of the Persian Empire. The opening event took place at the ruins of Persepolis\, the ceremonial capital of the Achaemenid Empire (~550 – 330 BCE)\, situated about 45 miles northeast of the modern city of Shiraz. Specifically for this site\, Xenakis created an open-air spectacle called “Polytope de Persepolis”. The performance included a 55-minute long 8-track electroacoustic composition distributed over 59 speakers\, two laser beams\, army searchlights\, a choreography of 150 children carrying torches and several large bonfires on the surrounding hills facing the ruins. \nResearcher and Xenakis expert Daniel Teige will give a presentation into his recent research about the “Polytopes” and “Persepolis” and will include many unpublished archival documents. Following his talk will be a screening of “Iannis Xenakis\, Persépolis” (1971\, dir Pierre Andrégui)\, a fascinating and rare documentary that focuses particularly on the premiere of “Persepolis” in 1971 at the Shiraz-Persepolis Arts Festival. \n\nThis event is part of Beyond Borders: The Shiraz Festival \nPictured above: Iannis Xenakis in preparations for the premiere of “Persepolis” music and light spectacle\, at the ancient ruins of Persepolis\, 1971. (World Premiere\, festival commission for the opening event); Courtesy Les Amis de Xenakis / Archaeology of the Final Decade Archives \n \n\nPROGRAM \n2:00pm: Talk: “Dead or alive. Aspects concerning the performance and interpretation of Xenakis’ polytopes today” with Daniel Teige\n3:30pm: Screening: “Iannis Xenakis\, Persépolis” (1971\, dir Pierre Andrégui)\n*All times are Eastern Standard Time (EST)\, UTC -5* \nAdmission to this online event is Free / Pay What You Wish. REGISTRATION IS REQUIRED. (Use ticket link). A link will be sent to you the day of the event. \n\nABOUT THE SPEAKER \nDaniel Teige works as a researcher and audio scenographer on large-scale projects in contemporary music\, and sound art. He studied communication science and electronic music at the Technical University in Berlin with David Behrman\, Gerhard Eckel\, Gottfried Michael König und Hans Tutschku\, as well as musicology with Helga de la Motte-Haber. He is a renowned expert and performer of the electronic music of the composer and architect Iannis Xenakis. He has staged and directed numerous Xenakis concert performances in collaboration with ZKM\, EMPAC\, MASS MoCA\, Akademie der Künste Berlin and others. He has worked with contemporary music ensembles like Klangforum Wien\, Asko Schönberg Ensemble\, Kammerensemble Neue Musik Berlin and others. His research on Xenakis Polytope de Persepolis and Polytope de Cluny has been published in “Xenakis Matters” @ Pendragon Press. Over the last decade Daniel has been invited to teach at numerous Universities around the globe. As an audio scenographer and creative director at his company POLYTOPE Agency\, he has designed innumerable multichannel audio diffusion and interactive audio systems across Europe and the Middle East for EXPO 2010 & 2021\, Qatar Museums\, Dubai Future Foundation\, MASS MoCA\, and others. \n\nThis event is part of Beyond Borders: The Shiraz Festival \n\n\nMajor support for BEYOND BORDERS has been provided by The Pew Center for Arts & Heritage. Presented in collaboration with Slought. URL:https://www.bowerbird.org/event/xenakis-persepolis/ LOCATION:Streaming Online ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://www.bowerbird.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/Shiraz-Xenakis-2.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220306T200000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220306T230000 DTSTAMP:20260425T103743 CREATED:20220308T173634Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220907T010302Z UID:10001152-1646596800-1646607600@www.bowerbird.org SUMMARY:The Hip-Hop Waltz of Eurydice DESCRIPTION:The Hip-Hop Waltz of Eurydice (1990) 96 minutes. \nWriter/Director: Reza Abdoh\nCamera/Film Editor: Adam Soch\nVideo documentation of live performance presented at Los Angeles Theatre Center.\nCourtesy Reza Abdoh and Adam Soch \nReza Abdoh (1963 – 1995) was an Iranian-born American director\, and playwright\, founder of the theatre ensemble Dar a Luz\, known for large-scale\, site-specific experimental theatrical productions. His work often confronted issues such as race\, class\, and the AIDS crisis. He belonged to the next generation of Iranian theatre-makers who followed on from the legacy of the Festival of Arts\, Shiraz-Persepolis. He died from AIDS in New York in 1995. \nIn this piece\, Abdoh\, adapts the myth of Orpheus and Eurydice. In the original\, Orpheus journeys to Hades and persuades the Lord of the Underworld to let his wife\, Eurydice\, go. The condition is that Orpheus mustn’t look back at her as they’re leaving. But he does . . . and loses her. \nAt the time labelled “a gut reaction to systemic repression and erosion of freedom”\, it is the director’s first production that was presented outside of the US. \n“What Reza’s done is tell a myth about the force of faith – faith in love – in a time of repression and fear\,” said LATC’s new dramaturg\, Morgan Jenness\, who came to LATC in September from New York\, where she had been literary manager at the Public Theatre. “Orpheus and Eurydice have a forbidden love\, and the Lord of the Underworld is a sort of fascist symbol. There are undertows of the Jesse Helms situation\, the connection of love and sexuality\, the fact that sex is (treated as) a bad thing.” \n– Janice Arkatov\, L.A. Times\, 9 December 1990. \n\nTrailer: \n \n  \n\nTHIS FILM IS AVAILABLE ON DEMAND \nAdmission to this online event is Free / Pay What You Wish. REGISTRATION IS REQUIRED. You will receive a link to view the film after registering online. \n\nThis event is part of Beyond Borders: The Shiraz Festival \n\n\n\n\nMajor support for BEYOND BORDERS has been provided by The Pew Center for Arts & Heritage. Presented in collaboration with Slought. URL:https://www.bowerbird.org/event/the-hip-hop-waltz-of-eurydice/ LOCATION:online CATEGORIES:Free Events ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://www.bowerbird.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/Bowerbird-Main-Img-12.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220306T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220306T230000 DTSTAMP:20260425T103743 CREATED:20220308T172354Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220907T010320Z UID:10001151-1646553600-1646607600@www.bowerbird.org SUMMARY:The Color of Pomegranates DESCRIPTION:The Color of Pomegranates (1969) 78 minutes \nWriter/Director: Sergei Paradjanov\nEditors: Sergei Parajanov\, M. Ponomarenko\, S. Yutkevich\nCinematographer: Suren Shakhbazyan\nCourtesy Parajanov-Vartanov Institute. \nSergei Paradjanov (1924 – 1990) was a Soviet film director of Armenian descent who made a substantial contribution to Soviet cinematography through Ukrainian\, Armenian and Georgian cinema. He pioneered his own cinematic style by stepping outside socialist realism\, which was the only sanctioned art style within the USSR. His filmmaking and controversial lifestyle meant he was persecuted with his films regularly banned by Soviet authorities between 1965 and 1973.  \nThe Color of Pomegranates is based\, in part\, on the life and poetry of the eighteenth-century Armenian poet\, Sayat Nova (‘The King of Song’). Sergei Parajanov writes\, directs\, edits\, choreographs\, designs and creates every aspect of the film. It remains a masterpiece of cinema on account of being devoid of dialogue or camera movement and for its alluring imagery. The film was not seen internationally until 1977 due to Soviet censorship. It was screened at the Festival of Arts\, Shiraz-Persepolis in 1976 and subsequently smuggled to Paris where it was received to great acclaim. \n\n\n  \n\nTHIS FILM IS AVAILABLE ON DEMAND \nAdmission to this online event is Free / Pay What You Wish. REGISTRATION IS REQUIRED. You will receive a link to view the film after registering online. \n\nThis event is part of Beyond Borders: The Shiraz Festival \n\n\n\n\nMajor support for BEYOND BORDERS has been provided by The Pew Center for Arts & Heritage. Presented in collaboration with Slought. URL:https://www.bowerbird.org/event/the-color-of-pomegranates/ LOCATION:online CATEGORIES:Free Events ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://www.bowerbird.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/Bowerbird-Main-Img-11.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220306T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220306T230000 DTSTAMP:20260425T103743 CREATED:20220308T171330Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220907T011531Z UID:10001150-1646553600-1646607600@www.bowerbird.org SUMMARY:Reza Abdoh - Theater Visionary DESCRIPTION:Reza Abdoh: Theater Visionary (2015) 104 minutes. \nDirector: Adam Soch\nCo-Producer: Sandy Cleary\nExecutive Producers: Alan Mandell\, Diane White\, Marta Holen\, Anita Durt\, John McDuffie\nAssociate Producers: Daniel Mufson\, Sid Montz\, Sarah and Peter Mandell\nCourtesy Adam Soch \nAdam Soch is a producer and director\, and long-time collaborator and video archivist of Reza Abdoh. His film Reza Abdoh: Theater Visionary is an intimate portrait of the world and work of Abdoh and his company. It features excerpts from Abdoh’s most important productions alongside interviews with Abdoh himself\, his collaborators\, critics\, friends\, and family\, including: Peter Sellars\, Alan Mandell\, Diane White\, Morgan Jenness\, Anne Hamburger\, Norman Frisch\, Tal Yarden\, Tony Torn\, Tom Fitzpatrick\, Ken Roht\, Peter Jacobs\, Sabrina Artel\, Tom Pearl\, Anita Durst\, Alix Hester\, John Jahnke\, Laurel Meade\, Alyson Campbell\, Sid Abdoh\, Salar Abdoh and other close collaborators. The film illuminates Abdoh’s legacy\, his ground-breaking work\, and his visionary\, theatrical genius.  \nSoch is award-winning filmmaker and producer who fled communist Eastern Europe in 1980 to seek creative freedom in the United States. He has worked on projects on Placido Domingo Jessica Lange\, Vanessa Redgrave\, Desmond Tutu and Mikhail Gorbatchev. He is a co-founder of the television channel Classic Arts Showcase.  \n  \n \n\nTHIS FILM IS AVAILABLE ON DEMAND \nAdmission to this online event is Free / Pay What You Wish. REGISTRATION IS REQUIRED. You will receive a link to view the film after registering online. \n\nThis event is part of Beyond Borders: The Shiraz Festival \n\n\n\n\nMajor support for BEYOND BORDERS has been provided by The Pew Center for Arts & Heritage. Presented in collaboration with Slought. URL:https://www.bowerbird.org/event/reza-abdoh-theater-visionary/ LOCATION:online CATEGORIES:Free Events ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://www.bowerbird.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/Bowerbird-Main-Img-10.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220306T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220306T230000 DTSTAMP:20260425T103743 CREATED:20220308T170205Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220907T011516Z UID:10001149-1646553600-1646607600@www.bowerbird.org SUMMARY:Desert Equations: Azax Attra DESCRIPTION:Desert Equations: Azax/Attra (1986) \nPerformers: Sussan Deyhim & Richard Horowitz\nProducers: Sussan Deyhim & Richard Horowitz\nAlbum Released by: Crammed Discs \nSussan Deyhim (1958 – ) is an Iranian American composer\, vocalist\, performance artist and activist. Deyhim is internationally acclaimed for creating a unique sonic and vocal language imbued with a sense of ritual and the unknown\, encompassing music\, theatre\, dance\, media and film. Deyhim’s career began as an intern at the Festival of Arts\, Shiraz-Persepolis and training with the Iranian National Ballet Company before joining the Bejart Ballet School\, Mudra. Deyhim’s early iconic work Desert Equations: Azax/Attra combines her sublime voice and solo performance and the electronic wizardry of US composer Horowitz\, wonderfully blending the duo’s multiple sources\, including their experiences at the epicentre of New York’s early ‘80s avantgarde music and theatre scene. The haunting and futuristic Azax/Attra album prompted writer Paul Bowles to wonder: “Was this composed under the influence of Majoun?”. It led to a series of music/theatre performances including Desert Equations: Azax/Attra at New York’s important experimental La MaMa Theatre. In 2010\, the LA Times critic Mark Swed called Deyhim “one of Iran’s most potent voices in exile for the simple reason that she possesses a marvellously potent voice.”  \n\nTHIS FILM IS AVAILABLE ON DEMAND \nAdmission to this online event is Free / Pay What You Wish. REGISTRATION IS REQUIRED. You will receive a link to view the film after registering online. \n\nThis event is part of Beyond Borders: The Shiraz Festival \n\n\n\n\nMajor support for BEYOND BORDERS has been provided by The Pew Center for Arts & Heritage. Presented in collaboration with Slought. URL:https://www.bowerbird.org/event/desert-equations-azax-attra/ LOCATION:online CATEGORIES:Free Events ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://www.bowerbird.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/Bowerbird-Main-Img-9.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220306T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220306T210000 DTSTAMP:20260425T103743 CREATED:20220308T163907Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220907T011015Z UID:10001148-1646553600-1646600400@www.bowerbird.org SUMMARY:The First World Festival Of Negro Arts DESCRIPTION:The First World Festival of Negro Arts (1968) 40 minutes  \nWriter/Director: William Greaves\nProducer: Motion Picture and Television Service of the United States Information Agency\nCinematographer: Georges Bracher\, William Greaves\nCourtesy William Greaves Productions  \nWilliam Greaves (1926 – 2014) was a Harlem-born American documentary filmmaker\, writer\, producer and a pioneer of African American filmmaking. His film The First World Festival of Negro Arts is a Black history treasure and documents the landscape of the seminal performance festival held in Dakar\, Senegal\, in 1966\, one year prior to the inauguration of Shiraz-Persepolis. The festivals at Dakar and Shiraz-Persepolis shared a similar decolonising ethos. The film was officially commissioned to document the events that attracted over two thousand writers\, artists and performers from Africa and the African diaspora\, including: Duke Ellington\, Langston Hughes\, Alvin Ailey\, Aime Cesaire\, Leopold Senghor and other artists\, performers and dignitaries from thirty countries.  \nGreaves began his career as a Broadway actor and a member of The Actor’s Studio. He later served as executive producer and co-host of the Black Journal television programme for which he was awarded an Emmy in 1970. His recent film\, Ralph Bunche:  An American Odyssey (2001)\, documents the life and historic achievements of Dr. Ralph Johnson Bunche (1903-1971) the legendary African American Nobel prize-winning\, scholar turned statesman who contributed to international diplomacy\, decolonization\, peacekeeping\, and human rights in pre-civil rights America. His film From these Roots (1974) provides an in-depth study of the Harlem Renaissance. \n\n\n\n\n\nTHIS FILM IS AVAILABLE ON DEMAND \nAdmission to this online event is Free / Pay What You Wish. REGISTRATION IS REQUIRED. You will receive a link to view the film after registering online. \n\n\n\nThis event is part of Beyond Borders: The Shiraz Festival \n\n\n\n\nMajor support for BEYOND BORDERS has been provided by The Pew Center for Arts & Heritage. Presented in collaboration with Slought. URL:https://www.bowerbird.org/event/the-first-world-festival-of-negro-arts/ LOCATION:online CATEGORIES:Free Events ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://www.bowerbird.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/Bowerbird-Main-Img-8.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220227T230000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220227T235900 DTSTAMP:20260425T103743 CREATED:20211103T182837Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220224T175844Z UID:10001133-1646002800-1646006340@www.bowerbird.org SUMMARY:Parker Kitterman DESCRIPTION:Bowerbird is pleased to present Liminal States\, a new series of late night\, live streamed concerts intended to be listened to as you fall asleep. Aiming to center and calm\, the musicians will seek to lead listeners to that magic space between awake and asleep. Tune in and bliss out. Organist Parker Kitterman will perform from on the pipe organ at Christ Church Philadelphia. \nCo-presented with The Rotunda. \n\nAdmission to this online event is Free / Pay What You Wish ($20 suggested). REGISTRATION IS REQUIRED. A link will be sent to you the day of the event. The performance will start at 11:00pm Eastern Time and will run approximately 40 mins. \nThis event is part of the Liminal States Series \n\n\n  \n\n\nABOUT THE ARTIST\nParker Kitterman is a keyboardist\, composer\, conductor and collaborative musician. Since 2010 he has served as Director of Music and Organist at Christ Church\, Philadelphia\, where he oversaw the installation and dedication of a splendid new pipe organ\, C.B. Fisk’s Op. 150. As soloist and accompanist\, Parker has performed with a wide range of artists\, including the International Contemporary Ensemble\, the Chamber Orchestra of Philadelphia\, and Singing City Choir. He holds degrees from Duke University\, the Yale School of Music/Institute of Sacred Music\, and the Brussels Conservatory\, where he studied on a Fulbright Fellowship. A recent winner of the King’s Singers New Music Prize for his setting of Malcolm Guite’s poem “The Singing Bowl\,” Kitterman is a composer with wide-ranging interests and influences. His writing is born out of a studied approach to improvisation\, a literary sensitivity\, and an ongoing commitment to providing fresh\, relevant material for musicians and audiences alike. One large-scale work\, Requiem for the Charleston Nine was described as “producing a seamless fabric in which plainchant\, modern classical\, and jazz styles not merely co-exist but come together to proffer a whole greater than the sum of their individual parts.” (Chestnut Hill Local) URL:https://www.bowerbird.org/event/parker-kitterman-liminal-states/ LOCATION:Online Livestream ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://www.bowerbird.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/Bowerbird-Main-Img-1.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220218T200000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220218T220000 DTSTAMP:20260425T103743 CREATED:20220112T125410Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220223T172423Z UID:10001141-1645214400-1645221600@www.bowerbird.org SUMMARY:Franck Vigroux & Ulrich Krieger DESCRIPTION:Bowerbird is pleased to present Franck Vigroux and Ulrich Krieger performing Dodécaèdre\, a new piece for electronics and amplified-processed saxophone at The Rotunda. Made of tectonic tensions\, beats\, and electronic textures the new work is a very personal approach to sonic exploration. Opening the evening will be a solo set by Philadelphia-based multi-instrumentalist Julius Masri. \n\nABOUT THE ARTIST \nUlrich Krieger is well known as a saxophone player in contemporary composed and free improvised music as well as a composer of chamber music and electronic music. His recent focus lies in the experimental fields and fringes of contemporary Pop culture: somewhere in the limbo between Noise and Heavy Metal\, Ambient and Silence. His original compositions go back and forth between Just Intonation\, Silent Music\, Noise\, Instrumental Electronic\, often asking for elaborate amplification\, and works in the limbo of Rock culture – not accepting stylistic boundaries. Krieger developed his own\, often amplified style of saxophone playing\, he calls ‘acoustic electronics’. He uses refined acoustic\, quasi-electronic sounds\, which then get processed\, the saxophone often becoming more an ‘analogue sampler’ rather than a traditional finger-virtuoso instrument. By amplifying his instrument in various ways\, he gets down to the ‘grains of the sounds’\, changing their identity and structure from within. \nFranck Vigroux is a multifaceted artist whose works range from experimental electronic music to modern composition and music theatre. Franck Vigroux‘s music is made of tectonic tensions\, beats\, electronic textures and a very personal approach to sonic exploration. He is equally prolific as a solo artist and as a collaborator\, he has worked with musician such as Elliott Sharp\, Mika Vainio\, Reinhold Friedl\, Ars Nova… Vigroux’s uniqueness comes from his artistic approach that integrates new media and performance arts. He designs transdisciplinary shows and audiovisual concerts\, collaborating with visual artists such as Antoine Schmitt and Kurt d’Haeseleer. \nJulius Masri is a Philadelphia based multi-instrumentalist\, performer and composer for the city’s dance community at large. His music focuses on improvisatory methods and syncretic/ linguistic/ somatic exchanges within various musical languages including Jazz\, Metal\, AfroCuban\, Experimental Noise\, and Arabic music. Born in Tripoli\, Lebanon\, he moved to the States in 1990 and began studying with Philadelphia instructors Carl Mottola\, Elaine Hoffman-Watts\, and as an undergraduate at Bard College\, with AACM’s Thurman Barker\, Richard Teitelbaum\, and Joan Tower. Julius plays drums\, circuit modified Casio keyboards\, Oud\, Kamancheh (aka Rabab\, Spike Fiddle)\, and various other instruments. In November 2021\, Julius released the album “The Arabic Room” under the project name Mephisto Halabi\, garnering international praise in music publications and websites including WIRE Magazine (Dec2021)\, PopMatters\, Radio al-Harra\, Foxy Digitalis\, and many others. \n\nThis is an “in person” event. Bowerbird is requiring all those attending to show proof of COVID 19 vaccination status (vaccination card or legible photo on your smartphone\, plus photo ID) and wear a mask during the entirety of the event. There will be no exceptions to this policy. Capacity will be limited – advanced registration is strongly encouraged. \n\n \nDodécaèdre / the island has been made possible through Jazz & New Music\, a program of Villa Albertine and FACE Foundation\, in partnership with the French Embassy in the United States with support from the French Ministry of Culture\, Institut français\, SACEM (Société des auteurs\, compositeurs et éditeurs de musique) and the CNM (Centre National de la Musique). URL:https://www.bowerbird.org/event/franck-vigroux-and-ulrich-krieger/ LOCATION:The Rotunda\, 4014 Walnut St\, Philadelphia\, PA\, 19104\, United States CATEGORIES:Free Events ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://www.bowerbird.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/Bowerbird-Main-Img-3.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220210T230000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220210T235900 DTSTAMP:20260425T103743 CREATED:20211103T180216Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220214T193604Z UID:10001132-1644534000-1644537540@www.bowerbird.org SUMMARY:Lea Bertucci DESCRIPTION:Bowerbird is pleased to present Liminal States\, a new series of late night\, live streamed concerts intended to be listened to as you fall asleep. Aiming to center and calm\, the musicians will seek to lead listeners to that magic space between awake and asleep. Tune in and bliss out. Composer and musician Lea Bertucci will perform from her home in New York. \nCo-presented with The Rotunda. \n\nAdmission to this online event is Free / Pay What You Wish ($20 suggested). REGISTRATION IS REQUIRED. A link will be sent to you the day of the event. The performance will start at 11:00pm Eastern Time and will run approximately 40 mins. \nThis event is part of the Liminal States Series \n\n\n  \n\n\nABOUT THE ARTIST\nLea Bertucci is an artist\, composer and performer whose work describes relationships between acoustic phenomena and biological resonance. In addition to her longstanding practice with woodwind instruments\, her work incorporates multichannel speaker arrays\, radical methods of free improvisation and creative misuses of audio technology applied to field recording and sampling/collage techniques. She has performed extensively across the US and Europe with presenters such as The Museum of Modern Art New York\, Blank Forms\, Gagosian Gallery\, Pioneer Works\, The Kitchen\, The Walker Museum\, Tempo Reale in Florence\, Muziekgebouw Amsterdam\, Museo Reina Sofia Madrid\, Sound of Stockholm Festival\, ReWire Festival\, Borderline Festival\, and Unsound Festival Krakow. \n  URL:https://www.bowerbird.org/event/lea-bertucci-liminal-states/ LOCATION:Online Livestream ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://www.bowerbird.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/LeaBertucci.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220116T230000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220116T235900 DTSTAMP:20260425T103743 CREATED:20211101T175108Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220120T185500Z UID:10001131-1642374000-1642377540@www.bowerbird.org SUMMARY:Chaka Benson DESCRIPTION:Bowerbird is pleased to present Liminal States\, a new series of late night\, live streamed concerts intended to be listened to as you fall asleep. Aiming to center and calm\, the musicians will seek to lead listeners to that magic space between awake and asleep. Tune in and bliss out. Electronic musician Chaka Benson will perform from his home in Philadelphia. \nCo-presented with The Rotunda. \n\nAdmission to this online event is Free / Pay What You Wish ($20 suggested). REGISTRATION IS REQUIRED. A link will be sent to you the day of the event. The performance will start at 11:00pm Eastern Time and will run approximately 40 mins. \nThis event is part of the Liminal States Series \n\n\n \nModular Excursions from Chaka Benson on Vimeo. \n\n\nABOUT THE ARTIST\nChaka Benson grew up on a diverse diet of Philly music ranging from Schooly D to Sun Ra.  The Philly streets thrum and echo with improvisation and DIY spirit.  This simple aesthetic informs his music and artistic approach.  He uses modular and video synthesis to execute his take on this vision. His live performances are well known on the local experimental electronic music scene; each having a new patch and an original improvisation. URL:https://www.bowerbird.org/event/chaka-benson-liminal-states/ LOCATION:Online Livestream CATEGORIES:Free Events ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://www.bowerbird.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/Chaka-Benson.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20211219T230000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20211219T235900 DTSTAMP:20260425T103743 CREATED:20211101T170003Z LAST-MODIFIED:20211223T174819Z UID:10001129-1639954800-1639958340@www.bowerbird.org SUMMARY:Helena Espvall DESCRIPTION:Bowerbird is pleased to present Liminal States\, a series of late night\, live streamed concerts intended to be listened to as you fall asleep. Aiming to center and calm\, the musicians will seek to lead listeners to that magic space between awake and asleep. Tune in and bliss out. Musician Helena Espvall will perform from her home in Lisbon\, Portugal. \nCo-presented with The Rotunda. \n\nAdmission to this online event is Free / Pay What You Wish ($20 suggested). REGISTRATION IS REQUIRED. A link will be sent to you the day of the event. The performance will start at 11:00pm Eastern Time and will run approximately 40 mins. \nThis event is part of the Liminal States Series \n\n\n  \n\n\nABOUT THE ARTIST\nHelena Espvall started to play electric guitar as a bored teenager in northern Sweden\, and went on to take cello lessons and was never bored again. After having played in rock bands\, a silent movie orchestra\, an Arabian ensemble and being inspired to play free improvised music by a shocking Eugene Chadbourne performance\, she went on to live in the US between 2000-2012\,  where she performed with dancers\, recorded and toured with folk psych band Espers\, sang Swedish traditional songs\, played concerts at the Philadelphia Fringe Festival\, the High Zero Festival of improvised music in Baltimore\, MD\, at the Improvised and Otherwise Festival in Brooklyn\, NY\, at Big Sur experimental festival in California and at Terrastock among others. Espvall has received grants for artist residencies in Mojacar\, Spain\, at CESTA in Tabor\, Czech Republic\, and at Binaural / Nodar\, Portugal\, and she was the recipient of an Individual Arts Award from Pennsylvania Council on the Arts. She has worked with Lukas Ligeti\, Fursaxa\, Damon & Naomi\, Bert Jansch\, Masaki Batoh (Ghost)\, Vashti Bunyan\,  Marissa Nadler\, Pauline Oliveros and many more. Now residing in Lisbon\, she has collaborated with musicians like Norberto Lobo\, Manuel Mota\, Sei Miguel\, and Vitor Rua\, among others. She currently plays with the improv collective Lantana\, that has collaborated with Lula Pena\, and performed at Lisboa Soa Festival in the Estufa Fria\, at the Jazz Ao Centro Festival in Coimbra\, and at Jazz 2020\, Gulbenkian. She is also a member of the band Beautify Junkyards that released an album this year on British label GhostBox.  Espvall has done solo performances at Out.Fest\, ZDB\, Bar Irreal\, Damas and the Panteão\, and invited by Culturgest\, she recently created a solo piece for acoustic guitar\, as a part of the project Abrindo o Livro dos Sons\, a tribute to German composer Hans Otte. URL:https://www.bowerbird.org/event/helena-espvall/ LOCATION:Online Livestream ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://www.bowerbird.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/Helena_Espvall.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20211208T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20211208T210000 DTSTAMP:20260425T103743 CREATED:20211101T152817Z LAST-MODIFIED:20211208T160952Z UID:10001126-1638990000-1638997200@www.bowerbird.org SUMMARY:Nam June Paik: Ridiculous Technology DESCRIPTION:This event is SOLD OUT. There will be no tickets available at the door. \nAfter moving from his native Seoul\, first to Germany to study music alongside the likes of Karlheinz Stockhausen and John Cage\, and then to the United States\, Nam June Paik lived what seems like the romantic archetype of the post-war New York artist. He drifted easily between avant-garde music\, film\, and fine art and helped in turn to create two new disciplines: video art and video installation. By 1962 he was a member of Fluxus and would collaborate with a litany of bright lights from Cage and Charlotte Moorman to Shigeko Kubota and Jud Yalkut. \nRidiculous Technology collects some of Paik’s most important early works\, with special emphasis on his connection with the burgeoning experimental music scene. In Beatles Electroniques\, Paik distorts imagery of the Beatles using a video synthesizer alongside an electronic soundtrack by Kenneth Werner composed of Beatles loops. Video Tape Study No. 3 critiques Lyndon B. Johnson to a score by David Behrman. Electronic Fables is one of Paik’s more visually beautiful and minimal productions featuring the voices of Marcel Duchamp\, John Cage\, Allen Ginsberg\, and Moondog\, among others. Waiting for Commercials features found footage of international commercials originally used as part of a Charlotte Moorman performance. Global Groove is perhaps Paik’s single-channel masterpiece\, a collage of original video\, his past work\, commercials\, dance\, popular music\, and contributions by Cage\, Stockhausen\, and Moorman. Taken together\, these works begin to scratch the surface of one of the most wide-ranging artists of the 20th Century. \nCo-presented with Nightletter. \n\nThis is an “in person” event. All those attending must show proof of COVID 19 vaccination status (vaccination card or legible photo on your smartphone\, plus photo ID) and wear a mask during the entirety of the event. There will be no exceptions to this policy. Capacity will be limited – advanced tickets are strongly encouraged. \n\nPROGRAM \nGlobal Groove​ / Nam June Paik & John Godfrey / 1973 / 29 min / Digital\nBeatles Electroniques / Nam June Paik & Jud Yalkut / 1969 / 3 min / Digital\nVideo Tape Study No. 3 / Nam June Paik & Jud Yalkut / 1967 / 4 min / Digital\nElectronic Fables / Nam June Paik & Jud Yalkut / 1965 / 10 min / Digital\nWaiting for Commercials / Nam June Paik & Jud Yalkut / 1966-1972 / 8 min / Digital \n\nNam June Paik – Global Groove (low res) \n\n  URL:https://www.bowerbird.org/event/nam-june-paik-ridiculous-technology/ LOCATION:University Lutheran\, 3637 Chestnut Street\, Philadelphia\, PA\, 19104\, United States ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.bowerbird.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/Paik.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20211128T230000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20211128T235900 DTSTAMP:20260425T103743 CREATED:20201223T042332Z LAST-MODIFIED:20211202T222755Z UID:10001116-1638140400-1638143940@www.bowerbird.org SUMMARY:Tatsuya Nakatani DESCRIPTION:Bowerbird is pleased to present Liminal States\, a series of late night\, live streamed concerts intended to be listened to as you fall asleep. Aiming to center and calm\, the musicians will seek to lead listeners to that magic space between awake and asleep. Tune in and bliss out. Percussionist Tatsuya Nakatani will perform multiple bowed gongs from the desert near his home in New Mexico. \nCo-presented with The Rotunda. \n\nAdmission to this online event is Free / Pay What You Wish. REGISTRATION IS REQUIRED. A link will be sent to you the day of the event. The performance will start at 11:00pm Eastern Time and will run approximately 45 mins. \nThis event is part of the Liminal States Series \n\n\n  \n\nABOUT THE ARTIST\nTatsuya Nakatani is an avant-garde percussionist\, composer\, and artist of sound. Active internationally since the 1990’s; Nakatani has released over 80 recordings and tours extensively\, performing over 150 concerts a year. His primary focus is his solo work and his large ensemble project\, the Nakatani Gong Orchestra. With his activity in the new music\, improvisation and experimental music scenes\, Nakatani has a long history of collaboration. He teaches master classes and lectures at universities and music conservatories around the world. Originally from Japan\, he makes his home in the desert town of Truth or Consequences\, New Mexico. Nakatani creates his distinctive music centered around his adapted bowed gong\, supported by an array of drums\, cymbals\, and singing bowls. In consort with his hand carved Kobo Bows\, it is an instrument he has spent decades developing. Nakatani approaches his orchestral project (NGO) as an arrangement of formations of vibrations\, incorporated in shimmering layers of silence and texture. Within this contemporary work\, one can still recognize the dramatic pacing\, formal elegance and space (ma) felt in traditional Japanese music. URL:https://www.bowerbird.org/event/tatsuya-nakatani-liminal-states/ LOCATION:Online Livestream CATEGORIES:Free Events ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://www.bowerbird.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/TatsuyaNakatani_LiminalStates.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20210906T230000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20210906T235900 DTSTAMP:20260425T103743 CREATED:20210524T152414Z LAST-MODIFIED:20210916T164701Z UID:10001123-1630969200-1630972740@www.bowerbird.org SUMMARY:Chris Powell DESCRIPTION:Bowerbird is pleased to present Liminal States\, a new series of late night\, live streamed concerts intended to be listened to as you fall asleep. Aiming to center and calm\, the musicians will seek to lead listeners to that magic space between awake and asleep. Tune in and bliss out. Electronic musician Chris Powell will perform from his home in Philadelphia. \nCo-presented with The Rotunda. \n\nAdmission to this online event is Free / Pay What You Wish ($20 suggested). REGISTRATION IS REQUIRED. A link will be sent to you the day of the event. The performance will start at 11:00pm Eastern Time and will run approximately 40 mins. \nThis event is part of the Liminal States Series \n\nABOUT THE ARTIST\nChris Powell (aka Pow Pow) is a self-taught rhythm scholar\, producer\, and electronic music-maker living in Philadelphia\, PA. As a main contributor in the Philadelphia art and sound collective Need New Body\, which fused improvisation with popular song structures\, Powell began a career of international recording and performance\, creating music at the nexus of art and entertainment. Since 1999\, he has collaborated\, recorded\, and toured worldwide with a diverse spectrum of artists and musicians\, including the Sun Ra Arkestra\, Yoko Ono\, and the Boredoms. Powell’s work in the eclectic and high energy Philadelphia band Man Man has helped focus his talent as a leader in the live performance context. Powell’s body of work has most recently expanded to solo modular synth performances as well as creating instruments with NYC/Philly based synthesizer company Critter & Guitari. URL:https://www.bowerbird.org/event/chris-powell-liminal-states/ LOCATION:Online Livestream CATEGORIES:Free Events ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://www.bowerbird.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/Powell_LS.png END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR