Save the Date …
Green Galactic’s 20th Anniversary Celebration
At Grand Performances in Los Angeles
Featuring Live Sets by Electronic Music Innovators
pole, John Tejada, and Plaid

WHEN:
Sunday, June 30, 2013
7:00-10:00pm
https://www.facebook.com/events/185705058248108 

COST:
Free

WHAT:
Green Galactic’s 20 Year Anniversary Celebration at Grand Performances with Live Performances by pole, John Tejada, and Plaid

Dive into a pool of richly hued sights and sounds as innovative arts and culture promoter Green Galactic celebrates 20 years in business with live-sets by three of the world’s most respected electronic music artists.  The evening features the dubby complex rhythms of Berlin-based pole, visceral experimental soundscapes by Plaid from the UK, and the melodic handcrafted techno of LA’s own John Tejada.  On a past visit, Plaid was featured at the Walt Disney Concert Hall in the LA Philharmonic-presented Concrete Frequency series (… and Tejada has also performed at Disney Hall twice!)

Live Sets (in order of appearance):
• pole (pole) – http://pole-music.com
• John Tejada (Palette, Kompakt) – http://www.paletterecordings.com
• Plaid (Warp) – http://www.plaid.co.uk

With:
• Opening DJ set by Barbara Preisinger (Slices of Life) – http://www.slicesoflife.de
• Projection art for the evening will be provided by Plaid and Charlene Boehne

Presented by:
• Green Galactic – http://www.greengalactic.com
• Grand Performances – http://www.grandperformances.org


WHERE:
Grand Performances at California Plaza
Marina Pavilion
350 S. Grand Avenue
Los Angeles, CA 90071

Map/Directions – http://www.grandperformances.org/en/gp/visit/directions.html
Concert Line – 213-687-2159

ABOUT:

pole –
Stefan Betke, aka pole, was born and raised in Düsseldorf and currently lives in Berlin.  For over a decade, he has been working as a label owner, publisher and mastering engineer, contributing his experience to the development of electronic music.  His releases operate in the margins between electronic club music, urban dub, and avant-garde – blurring the line between dubstep and techno.  In 1999, Betke and Barbara Preisinger started their label ~scape, which became an imprint for unique electronic music made by artists such as Jan Jelinek, Deadbeat, Kit Clayton, pole, and many others.  In 2011, he launched his new artist label, “pole,” with a series of 12” releases, called Waldgeschichten, and a digital reissue of his full back catalog including classics such as 1, 2, 3, Steingarten, and Steingarten Remixes.  pole has performed live in clubs all over the world as well as at festivals like Bestival (Isle of White), Bloc Festival (UK), CTM Festival (Berlin), Mutek (Montreal & Chile), and Unsound Festival (Krakow & New York), just to name a few.  His nom de plum derives from a sound-processing device (the Waldorf 4 Pole Filter), which generated the creaks and crackles that characterize his early music.

John Tejada –
For the last 18 years, Austrian-born, Los Angeles-based John Tejada has released his signature brand of electronic music on some of the world’s most respected labels, as well as starting his own label, Palette Recordings, in the fall of 1996.  He is well-known in international electronic music circles for crafting subtle, melodic techno.  Tejada currently records for Cologne’s Kompakt label and has previously recorded for influential labels such as 7th City, Playhouse, and Pokerflat.  He has remixed the likes of The Postal Service, Bomb the Bass, and Telepopmusik.  Since 1997, Tejada has toured the world many times over visiting 30 countries and performing at such respected venues as Dance Valley (Netherlands), Decibel Festival (Seattle), DEMF (Detroit), Mutek (Montreal), Sonar (Spain & Tokyo), as well as internationally known spaces such as Fabric (London), Rex Club (Paris), Walt Disney Concert Hall (Los Angeles), Yellow (Tokyo), among many others.

Plaid –
Plaid is London-based electronic music duo Andy Turner and Ed Handley, whose visceral experimental soundscapes have been classified by many reviewers as post-techno.  They are two of the founding members of The Black Dog, releasing their first EP in 1989 and signing to Warp Records in 1991.  They have used many other pseudonyms including Atypic, Repeats, and Balil, but have focused on Plaid since 1995.  Through these various guises, they have released 15 albums, from 1991’s Mbuki Mvuki to 2011’s Scintilli.  They have also released records on the labels Clear, Peacefrog, Black Dog Productions, and Trent Reznor’s label Nothing Records.  Aside from their own material, Plaid has done extensive remix work for many other artists, including Red Snapper, Goldfrapp, and The Irresistible Force.  Their first film score was for Studio4c’s Tekkonkinkreet, which won the 2008 Japanese Academy Prize for Best Animated Feature.  They also worked with the same director, Michael Arias, on his second live action feature, Heaven’s Door.   They have collaborated with Bob Jaroc, Mara Carlyle, Nicolette, Felix’s Machines, Björk, Rahayu Supanggah, Random Dance, SARC, The London Sinfonietta, and others.



Barbara Preisinger –
Barbara Preisinger has been an integral part of the Berlin club scene for over a decade.  She began DJing in 1996, in her hometown of Munich, before moving to Berlin in 1998.  In 1999, she co-founded the label ~scape with Stefan Betke, aka pole.  Before long, Preisinger was a resident DJ at regular ~scape nights in Berlin, as well as performing across Europe, Japan, and North America.  As a DJ, her passion is to play for the dance floor – mixing kicking house and deep techno – often incorporating the music of close friends and related artists such Mike Huckaby, Baaz, The Mole, Daniel Bell, John Tejada, and others.  She has performed at prestigious locations around the globe, including festivals such as Benicassim (Spain), Club Transmediale (Berlin), DEMF (Detroit), Groove Parade (Spain), Mutek (Montreal), Sonar (Spain), and Unsound Festival (Krakow & New York).  In 2009, Preisinger started her own 12” vinyl imprint called Slices of Life.



Lynn Tejada, Green Galactic Founder –
For 20 years, GG Founder Lynn Tejada has been the go-to publicist in Los Angeles for alternative art and culture producers, representing clients on a local, regional, national, and international scale.  Growing up in the suburbs of Detroit, Tejada, an avid music and movie fan, created the firm on the foundation of electronic music/DJ culture.  First with Green House Record Pool, in 1993, she helped techno and house record labels disburse and promote their 12” vinyl records to the top DJs on the West Coast. Then, the following year, in 1994, she become a partner in Public Space, a “live ambient” club that would grow into a long-running home for live experimental electronic music concerts at various venues around Hollywood.  Since then, her promotional focus and client base have grown to include all things of interest to her including music beyond electronic, theater, art, film, restaurants, dance, fashion, books, and more.  Tejada is also drawn to helping charities and nonprofit clients – she currently sits on the board of nonprofit Linda Carmella Sibio’s Bezerk Productions.  She is also on the Honorary Board of Flea’s Silverlake Conservatory of Music.

Green Galactic –
Established in Hollywood, California in 1993, Green Galactic (GG) provides publicity and marketing consulting services primarily to arts, culture, and entertainment clients.  Specifically, GG develops strategic marketing campaigns, publicizes new initiatives, and builds audiences.  GG’s primary goal is to generate exciting media attention for its clients.  As a boutique lifestyle marketing firm, GG’s client focus is on innovative culture producers.  Within this niche, GG offers a full range of services guiding clients from the initial planning stage, through branding, all the way to media placement.  GG’s core strength is in building and maintaining diverse media relationships – nationally, regionally, and locally – in order to access desirable culture seekers including urban adventurers, theater & performance art fans, music lovers, art consumers, film buffs, foodies, the LGBT community, youth culture, affluent populations, and local creative industry professionals.  GG’s mission is to intelligently and enthusiastically promote cultural organizations and people who enrich the world, making it happier, healthier, and more interesting.  Since 2009, Tejada has been collaborating with her colleague, Marketing Consultant Charlene Boehne, on Green Galactic campaigns.

GG’s clients come from the world of arts and entertainment, frequently blurring the lines between fine art and popular culture.  In any given month, Green Galactic works with theater, music, art, film, food, dance, book, fashion, and circus arts clients, as well as charity and nonprofit organizations.  GG client projects are often labeled experimental, alternative, edgy, forward-thinking, and thought-provoking.

Early GG campaigns were for electronic music clients including 808 State, Amin Tobin, Aphex Twin, Derrick May, Lol Tolhurst of The Cure, Meat Beat Manifesto, Scanner, Underworld, Wolfgang Flür (Kraftwerk), and many others.  In the decade between 1994 and 2004, Green Galactic produced nearly 200 live experimental electronic music events featuring artists such as Alex Paterson, Autechre, Cluster, Daedelus, DJ Spooky, Dntel, Ed Rush & Optical, Herbert, Jasper (aka Juan Mendez/Silent Servant), Kit Clayton, Mouse on Mars, Steve Roach, and Thomas Fehlmann.  Event highlights included the 430 West show with Octave One/Burden Brothers, DJ Rolando, and Wild Planet; and the 9/9/99 event with Anthony “Shake” Shakir, Claude Young, Daniel Bell, and John Tejada.  GG was the first to bring many of these artists to Los Angeles, such as Autechre in 1996 and Pole in 1998.

A sampling of GG press campaigns over the years include:
- CD Baby when they paid their $1,000,000th dollar to an artist
- Best Buy when they took their business online
- Tribeca Film Festival’s inaugural event
- RESfest, the first digital film festival
- Jon Reiss’ global Graffiti documentary, Bomb It
- What We Do is Secret, Rodger Grossman’s biopic about The Germs/lead singer Darby Crash
- Wassup Rockers by Larry Clark
- The Michel Gondry/Leos Carax/Bong Joon-ho triptych, Tokyo!
- Joffrey: Mavericks of American Dance, the first documentary to chronicle the story of Robert Joffrey, Gerald Arpino and the history of the Joffrey Ballet
- Red Bull’s Thre3Style World Finals DJ competition and the Ugandan b-boy doc Bouncing Cats
- O-Lan Jones/Overtone Industries productions Songs & Dances of Imaginary Lands and The Woman in the Wall

- Living legend Rachel Rosenthal’s 83rd birthday bash, book, and improvisational theater ensemble
- Obie-winning Rattlestick Playwrights Theater’s first LA production, Slipping
- Cirque Berzerk’s 2008 and 2009 Los Angeles State Historic Park runs
- Contemporary art clients LA Freewaves, Track 16, Scion Installation LA, West of Rome/Trespass, ARTmageddon
- Cult horror comedies Re-Animator The Musical, Rocky Horror Picture Show 35th Anniversary
- Many “rave” documentaries including Better Living Through Circuitry, Modulations, RISE

For additional information on GG clients from the past five years, please see: http://www.greengalactic.com.   For background on earlier clients, please see: http://archive.greengalactic.com/clients-past.asp



Grand Performances –

Grand Performances (GP), Los Angeles’ premiere free outdoor summer performing arts presenter, is known for providing Angelenos with an eclectic mix of high quality performing arts by world-renowned artists across genres.  Now in its 26th year, Grand Performances presents a 10-week concert series every summer of shows in Downtown Los Angeles featuring music, film, theater, and live talks.  GP presents the best of global culture to inspire community among the diverse peoples of Los Angeles, reflective of the many cultural interests across the region.  All are welcome to enjoy GP’s unique, awe-inspiring venue nestled under the spectacular Downtown skyline, surrounded by water.  Green Galactic’s 20th Anniversary event will take place in Grand Performances’ amphitheater, Marina Pavilion, which seats 300 people comfortably (accommodating hundreds more standing-room only).  The venue is located right next to the Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA).  Grand Performances is a 501(c)(3) located on Bunker Hill.

For more information, photos, or to schedule an interview, please contact Green Galactic’s Lynn Tejada at 213-840-1201 or lynn@greengalactic.com.

The Societ

SASSAS Presents
Blast! [10]
Garden Party & Fundraiser
At a Private San Marino, CA Home
Sunday, May 19, 2013

Featuring Art & Live Music by Louise Lawler, James Welling,
Lari Pittman, Dani Tull, Dos, Killsonic +++

Los Angeles, CA – The Society for the Activation of Social Space through Art and Sound (SASSAS) is pleased to announce Blast! [10], the annual SASSAS garden party and fundraiser, on Sunday, May 19, 2013 from 4:00pm to 8:00pm.  With food, beverages, and a silent art auction, Blast! [10] will take place at the private home of the Hillenburg family in San Marino, CA. To celebrate its 10-year milestone, Blast! [10] will feature many of the artists and musicians who have made the event so successful over the years.  Works by notable artists such as Louise Lawler, James Welling, and Lari Pittman will be featured in the silent auction.  Live music will be provided by Dani Tull, Dos, and Killsonic.  Tickets for Blast! [10] are $50, $40 for SASSAS members, and can be purchased at http://www.sassas.org/blast.  A limited number of $30 student tickets are also on sale.  Event address will be provided privately to ticket purchasers.  For more information on upcoming SASSAS events, please call 323-960-5723 or visit http://www.sassas.org.

This summer, Blast! [10] comes to the San Marino home of the Hillenburg family, featuring music by Dos, the two-bass duo comprised of punk rock legends Mike Watt and Kira Roessler; LA’s avant marching band Killsonic; a raga and microtonal performance by artist and musician Dani Tull; and DJs frosty and Ale from the non-profit web-radio and creative collective dublab. The event also includes a silent auction featuring art by Chris Kallmyer, Louise Lawler, and James Welling, as well as exquisite corpse works that were produced specially for this event, including a combined Martin Kersels, Simone Forti, and Michael Smith work; a Taft Green, Alice Könitz, Stephanie Taylor work; and a Lari Pittman, Roy Dowell, Renée Petropoulos work.  In addition, Scott Benzel and Krystal Krunch will auction services.  Krystal Krunch (a.k.a. Asher Hartman and Haruko Tanaka) will provide an auction winner with a private reading given by this artist intuitive duo, and Scott Benzel will design a performance, derived from the site and history of the winning bidder. 

Tickets include food and drink, enjoyed in a beautiful San Marino 1959 post and beam modern, built by Buff, Hensman and Straub.  In 2007, it underwent a year-long facelift by the architecture firm Space International.  The gardens are by Kathleen Ferguson and are largely native or low water.  The house and the landscaping give a secluded feeling of floating in the tree tops.

More on Blast! [10] participants:
- Scott Benzel’s – work shows an ongoing fascination with the disjuncture between embodiments of popular culture – from the classical music score to photographic ephemera – and their accumulated meanings.
- Alejandro “Ale” Cohen – is the co-director of the Internet radio station and creative collective dublab.  Notable achievements as part of his work at dublab include creating dublab’s first film, Second Hand Sureshots, and producing a film series, dublab Vision Version.
- Dos - (Spanish for two, as in uno, dos, tres…) is Kira Roessler (Black Flag, Twisted Roots, Sexsick) on bass and vocals, and Mike Watt (Minutemen, fIREHOSE, the Stooges) on bass.  Dos develops conversations between two basses and creates a landscape of low-end dynamic.
- Roy Dowell – explores the overlap of meaning created by the confluence of seemingly diverse sources.  His collages combine painted forms with elements from printed materials to create compositions that are abstract in the whole, yet filled with recognizable detail.
- Simone Forti – In a program note from a recent performance, Forti writes, “We interweave the flickering, fluid vision of the world brought to us by the news media, the writings of pivotal thinkers from the past, and our own personal experiences.”
- frosty – co-founded dublab.com in 1999, a non-profit web radio station and creative collective based in Los Angeles.  Since then, he has been steering this collective towards helping spread positive music, arts and culture.
- Taft Green – Commenting on Green’s work in Artforum, Jan Tumlir writes, “There is no way for Green to premeditate it, it simply has to be done, and the doing of it – the process of thinking simultaneously backward and forward from each individual point, the leeway narrowing steadily as one moves toward resolution – has to be factored directly into the work’s meaning.”
- Chris Kallmyer’s – work deals with how sound can explore and articulate the dynamic between the natural and the built environment. Working with everyday things like cheese, lawnmowers, sheep, or car horns in site-specific contexts, Kallmyer aims to make pieces that explore the processes, customs, and environments through which humans have altered landscape and place.
- Martin Kersels’ – body of work ranges from collaborative performances with the group SHRIMPS (1984-1993) to large-scale sculptures such as “Tumble Room” (2001).  His interest in machines, entropy, sound, and dissolution has produced work that examines the dynamic tension between failure and success, the individual and the group, and the thin line between humor and misfortune.
- Killsonic –is an experimental orchestra featuring over twenty members on brass, saxophone, accordion, and percussion.  Frequently on foot and en masse, the motley musical gang performs guerrilla-style in high traffic areas throughout the city and in a variety of venues in the Los Angeles area.
- Alice Könitz’s – “work documents the years in which modernism in Los Angeles became grossly detached from its intellectual roots.  Reintroducing these forms and design motifs as a visual language, Könitz uses the same denigrated idioms to provoke a new consideration of the art that surrounds us,” writes Whitney Biennial Curator Trinie Dalton.
- Krystal Krunch – a.k.a. Asher Hartman and Haruko Tanaka, is a duo of artist intuitives who see and respond to energy in the body, the psyche, architectural spaces, and artworks – their intuitive readings are traveling to the Hayward Gallery in London this summer.
- Louise Lawler – In her art practice, Lawler examines the settings and details of the art arena that are not immediately apparent.  This focus on the margins of art serves to underscore a poignant look at the art works themselves, which transcend their surroundings.
- Renée Petropoulos – has created projects and exhibited internationally.  Most recently, she has embarked on the project Among Nations (Mostly) with a performance “Analogue” (2012), “Venice to Venice” (2013) as part of Hammer Museum’s Made in L.A., and “Women in Surrealism” for LACMA.
- Lari Pittman‘s – work incorporates a cacophony of color, the blending of figuration and abstraction, an intricate and multi-faceted surface, and an expansive and oscillating image field to create an idiosyncratic visual vocabulary rooted in, and in constant discourse with, the history of painting. A formal and conceptual tension is always at play.
- Michael Smith’s – work has centered on his extraordinarily prescient and sympathetic character, the naïve, and somewhat inept Everyman.
- Stephanie Taylor – draws from an archive of linguistic twists – puns, rhymes, and otherwise – as the basis of invented narratives that are realized as works in sculpture, print, video, and audio.
- Dani Tull – is an artist and musician. As a musician he has collaborated and worked with a variety of artists and musicians including Jim Shaw, Marnie Weber, Raymond Pettibon, Eric Avery, Tom Watson, Jad Fair, and Tracii Guns.  Tull has also played in many bands including Polarbear, The Spirit Girls, Mythter, and BoyGeorgeMichaelJacksonBrown.
- James Welling – has been questioning the norms of representation since the 1970s.  His work centers on an exploration of photography, shuffling the elemental components of the medium to produce a distinctly uncompromising body of work.  Welling is also intensely interested in cultural and personal ideas of memory in his work.

Funding from Blast! [10] allows SASSAS to build on the success of programming, such as sound. and soundShoppe, as well as to add new programming to transition from a seasonal to a year-round schedule of events.  This year’s sound. concerts have already included the Los Angeles debut of Rangda, on February 22, 2013, featuring Sir Richard Bishop (Sun City Girls), Ben Chasny (Six Organs of Admittance), and Chris Corsano (Bjork and many others), with additional performances by Blues Control and Crooked Cowboy & the Freshwater Indians.  In addition, SASSAS commissioned new work by internationally recognized experimental duo MURAL (Jim Denley from Australia and Kim Myhr from Norway), which will be performed at the Baldwin Hills Scenic Overlook on May 5, 2013.  Accompanying MURAL in realizing this new SASSAS commission were nine Los Angeles area musicians including Matt Barbier, Ted Byrnes, Archie Carey, Claire Chenette, Daniel Corral, Jonah Levy, Heather Lockie, Jake Rosenzweig, and Greg Stuart.  In addition to sound., SASSAS sponsored Ad Hoc #7 on March 14, 2013, featuring Bay Area electronic music luminaries John Bischoff and Anti-Matter.  sound. 2013 is curated by Cindy Bernard, Steve Elkins, Danny Gromfin, Kassandra Kocoshis, Gregory Lenczycki, Joseph Potts and Dawson Weber.

The Society for the Activation of Social Space through Art and Sound (SASSAS) is a 501(c)(3) charitable organization that serves as a catalyst for the creation, presentation and recognition of experimental art and sound practices in the Greater Los Angeles area.  Inspired by the resonance that occurs when experimental music is combined with unconventional performance environments, SASSAS seeks to foster new collaborations and improvisation to spark further exploration in the field.  Programs include the sound. concert series; soundShoppe, a monthly workshop for experimental musicians; Ad Hoc, a project supporting touring musicians seeking to perform in Los Angeles, online concert archives at www.sassas.org and www.youtube.com/sassasdotorg; and soundNet recordings, CD compilations drawn from sound. concerts.  The organization is supported in part through grants from the City of Los Angeles Department of Cultural Affairs, the Foundation for Contemporary Arts, the Good Works Foundation, the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors through the Los Angeles County Arts Commission, the Mike Kelley Foundation for the Arts, and the West Hollywood Arts and Cultural Affairs Commission.

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For more information, images, or to request an interview, please contact Green Galactic’s Lynn Tejada at 213-840-1201 or lynn@greengalactic.com.

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SASSAS Summer 2013 Calendar

Sunday, May 5, 2013, 5:00pm
sound. at the Baldwin Hills Scenic Overlook: MURAL
New work created for the Overlook by internationally recognized experimental duo MURAL (Jim Denley from Australia and Kim Myhr from Norway)  and performed by MURAL accompanied by 9 Los Angeles area musicians.
www.sassas.org/sound/2013

Sundays, May 12, June 9, July 14, and August 11, 2013, 1:00pm
soundShoppe
Free, monthly, unstructured sound workshop/jam for experimental musicians and sound artists at the Center for the Arts, Eagle Rock.
www.sassas.org/soundshoppe

Sunday, July 28, 2013, 7:00pm
Ad Hoc [8]: Wrack
Wrack will perform a new instrumental work, based on the fictional song lyrics peppered throughout Thomas Pynchon’s novels V., The Crying of Lot 49, and Gravity’s Rainbow, at the West Hollywood Library.
www.sassas.org/adhoc

Friday, August 16, 2013, 8:00pm
sound. at the Center or the Arts Eagle Rock: Aaron Dilloway and Jason Lescalleet
The first ever Los Angeles performance of underground experimental/noise duo of Jason Lescalleet (Maine) and Aaron Dilloway (Michigan) at the Center for the Arts, Eagle Rock.
www.sassas.org/sound/2013

SASSAS’ new schedule also features the debut of two new programs designed for children: The Kid’s Play Cage summer educational workshop program and a monthly children’s concert series, soundSpark at the West Hollywood Library.  

Create:Fixate Presents
Constellations
Celebrating 11 Years of Supporting Emerging Art Stars
At Lot 613 in Downtown Los Angeles
Saturday, May 11, 2013

LOS ANGELES, CA – April 18, 2013 – Arts organization Create:Fixate (C:F) presents Constellations on Saturday, May 11, 2013 at Lot 613 in Downtown Los Angeles. Beyond C:F’s signature blend of vibrant artwork and music produced by local talent this show captures the mixed-medium spirit that patrons have come to expect from these one-night-only exhibits. The excitement begins at 4:00pm with a three-hour gallery preview. The main event starts at 7:00pm and closes at 2:00am. Admission is $15.00 before 9:00pm and $20.00 for the remainder of the night. Lot 613 is located at 613 Imperial St., Los Angeles, CA 90021. For more information, including an image gallery of participating artists works, please visit www.createfixate.com. C:F can be reached by phone at 310-590-7199 for other inquiries.

The evening begins with a preview of the exhibit from 4:00pm to 7:00pm. There is a $5 suggested donation during this period however, kids twelve-years old and younger are allowed free entry. Parents are encouraged to bring the whole family during the preview hours and take advantage of the Kids Kreativity Zone. Overflowing with art supplies, the Zone provides a supervised space where youth can dive into their own expression while parents explore the exhibit. While all ages are welcome during the preview, attendees must be 21-years old or older to enter after 7:00pm.

In the mixed-medium presentation that Create:Fixate is known for, Constellations truly represents that spirit. Founder Michelle Berc further explains the motivation for the theme and her curatorial approach, “Working with emerging talent is essentially working with the living and breathing energy of today’s culture. Because of this, I always choose themes that challenge artists to think about who we are and who we are becoming. It’s exciting to see how each artist interprets the theme. Visit the website to learn more about this particular theme, which I think of as a telescope into our soul observing moments in time and our place in space. The place where we connect the dots, align our stars, and design our constellations.”

Constellations will feature a strong field of over 40 visual artists in the “Optical Lounge” – presenting a stunning array of painting, photography, multi-media, interactive installation, and performance art that will ignite hearts and minds.  The event features an emphasis on interactive light and sound installations.

Optical Lounge highlights include:

• Walter Robot – Walter Robot is the award winning creative team of artist Bill Barminski and director Christopher Louie. They work in various mediums including film, animation, art and sculpture. They have worked with several notable artists such as Death Cab for Cutie, Kid Cudi, Gnarls Barkley, Rob Thomas, and Modest Mouse.

• Nancy Tobin – Tobin’s sculptures take an often humorous look at the role of motherhood – reproduction, nurturing and sheltering – as they relate to herself and across the broader Designed natural world, often employing biomimicry construction techniques.

• Michael Hayden – Hayden creates luminous mixed-media paintings using melted beeswax (encaustic) in combination with wood, metal and various found objects. His use of texture and color field combined with found objects embedded in a horizon-like formation invoke both a contemplative and nostalgic mood.

• Swig Miller – Miller’s body of work consists mostly of leather masks that break free from their own limitations, with a strong power to invoke a myriad of emotions.  Miller is keenly aware that putting on a mask can be a gateway to an internal exploration, allowing opportunities for one to observe deeper aspects of their personality.  The exhibit will also feature a live photo shoot where patrons will be able to take portrait pictures wearing Swig’s creations.

The Audio Lab, otherwise known as the music portion of the evening, completes Create:Fixate’s vision.  Musical highlights for the evening include:

• John Tejada– melodic handcrafted techno by LA’s own “techno hero” [LA Weekly]

• OOFJ – performing live, you may hear references to Nico’s hypnotic gloomy 60s folk, techno’s minimalism and subtleties, Twin Peaks, the majestic symphonies of 20th Century composers, and rhythms and structures equally indebted to jazz and trip-hop

• Patricio Motta – drawing on the passion and soul instilled in him growing up in Buenos Aires, Argentina, he has broken out of the invisible confines of genres. Patricio’s sound has been known to be all over the musical spectrum but ultimately developed into a deep, more melancholic and moody side of house and techno

• Early Bird Circus – the band is collaborating with top LA artists to create an evening to remember, with special limited edition album art, and a beautiful music video for the song “Caught in a Dream.”

Create:Fixate is an arts organization that has now completed a decade of serving the emerging art and music community of Los Angeles.  The organization is best know for its signature blend of art and music, along with thousands of art lovers and party goers in massive – and at times intimate – warehouse locations and alternative spaces on a quarterly basis.  Founder Michelle Berc curates, produces and hosts these ambitious group art shows that present creative beings from around the globe with an emphasis on the local talent of Los Angeles.  The production team also includes Music Coordinator Andrea Giardina, and a core team of volunteers and dedicated advisory board members. Awe-inspiring painters, photographers, sculptors, and multi-media artists exhibit alongside an equally impressive array of Los Angeles’ finest DJs and musicians.  Each event’s aural artists are poised to create a soundtrack for the night that transforms this from a simple art show into one of the city’s most anticipated art events.

As part of Create:Fixate’s community outreach efforts the organization continues to empower youth through arts with its Young Creatives Art Program.  C:F has been working with A Place Called Home (APCH) throughout 2013.  There are sessions running through the month of April as Create:Fixate is working with APCH’s art students on a themed art project to be exhibited at the Constellations show.

APCH is a safe haven in South Los Angeles where underserved youth are empowered to take ownership of the quality and direction of their lives through programs in education, arts, and well being; and are inspired to make a meaningful difference in their community and the world.  http://www.apch.org

No Right Brain Left Behind (NRBLB) is a collective that mobilizes the best and brightest professionals in the creative industries to re-design creativity in education. By partnering with Verynice, Tatge+Lasseur, and other creative agencies, design schools, and creative professionals, they  seek to incubate new concepts as well as support existing entrepreneurs with a goal to enhance creative development through execution in and outside of k-12 classrooms. At the May 11th event they will present their latest prototype as an installation demonstration in the outdoor courtyard.

Optical Lounge

Adam Greener
In his large-scale loose-leafs, seemingly torn from the notebook of a distracted grade-schooler, Adam Greener explores the ways in which the youthful imagination processes the chaotic swirl of social and cultural imagery that seeks to shape, stimulate, and confine it all at once. As a kid, Greener spent most of every 56-minute class period doodling in his spiral-bound, visual wanderings that often landed him in detention, repeatedly writing “I will not…” With this series of ink illustrations, created on handmade “notebook” sheets, he taps into his memories of his early visual preoccupations and re-presents them with a witty and subversive not-so-grown-up eye. In Adam’s vision, movie monsters cast an ominous shadow over a pop quiz; Star Wars characters intrude upon the passage of a love note: All of early experience — cognitive, social, emotional — is circumscribed, for better or worse, by our cultural iconography.

Andrew Covell
Andrew Covell breaks his subjects down to their geometric essence. In the process the reality of the image is fractured and new meanings are revealed.  This can be the radiant energy of a bright shining moon, the ebullient feeling inspired by a beautiful sunset or the inner world of a portrait subject’s mind. Although his art is often reflective of the digital world, Mr. Covell does not rely upon digital tools in his process. He only uses computers in his work the way artists used photography in the pre-digital era. He began painting in 2002 a few years after graduating with a degree in film from Ithaca College, where he also minored in charcoal drawing.

Ben Encarnacion aka Benedigital
Ben Encarnacion aka Benedigital is a visionary mixed media artist from Los Angeles. Channeling his vision through the mixture of drawing, painting, and digital graphics. The evolutionary digital vision quest that Benedigital has created is a fusion of ancient revelations, spirituality, and electronic dance music. Embracing these energies, Benedigital is becoming a vital component in the visionary arts movement and a mainstay in the live painting community in Los Angeles.

Brett Woods
At the age of 13, Brett discovered the paintbrush, and has been developing his own techniques ever since.  His creative repertoire has been artistically influenced by a love for Music, Cinema, Journeys to exotic locations around the planet, Nature, Physics & the Psychedelic Arts. Born April 20th 1969, in Hillsborough, Oregon and raised in San Jose California.  Brett attended West Valley and DeAnza Colleges majoring in Art & Film. He then moved to Venice, California to pursue even bigger projects.  In the 16 years he has been in the LA area he has had over 50 Art show’s, completed several film projects, and has created his own Brand of “Buffalo” T-shirts.  Brett’s upcoming work in the film and animation world will further explore the themes he has set forth on canvas.

Christina Bullard
Christina Bullard is a Southern California based artist, motivated by thinking out side of the box and pushing the envelope of creative possibilities.  Her journey began with involvement in the West Coast underground community as a multi-disciplinary professional of mixed media sculpture, painting, glass, dance, theatre and circus arts.  Bullard is actively applying her education, direct experience and intuitive abilities into visionary art installations.

Christina Bullard’s newest creation, “Time Stand Stilts” is an expression of movement through music and color, while on three-foot stilts; painting with recycled paints, reclaimed objects, musical inspiration and personal passion to create time expressed through art.  Her modalities provide an entertaining way to tell stories through integrated action, intention and radical expression.

Christopher Alvarez
Maverick artist – photographer – designer – director, Alvarez’s photography merges a multitude into a single raw moment. His canvas, rich in natural light and setting, emotes visceral beauty in a singularity, where sexuality and sensuality meet the soul. Growing up in Minneapolis of Chilean American roots, Alvarez was rarely shy of controversy. Never ceasing to express his perspective, he ran with a punk esthetic in the early eighties, publishing his own fanzine when he was just 14. Alvarez attended Film School at NYU, ran his own design studio in Prague and now resides in Los Angeles.

Echo Lew
Echo Lew is a contemporary fine art artist who has adventured “Light Drawing” photography for six years. After several hours of preparation, he uses just a single shot to complete each image. During an exposure time of approximately one minute, he manipulates lights in front of the camera to create “light drawings.” Sometimes he inverts the positive image to a negative one on a computer but otherwise the “light drawings” are not manipulated.

Greg Auerbach
Greg Auerbach is an East-coaster living in Los Angeles. He’s been doing strange projects for as long as he could remember, and he’s always held the mindset that anyone who can go ahead and take a chance on an idea, crazy as it may be, is a step ahead and a cut above.

Jaime Becker
Jaime Becker is redefining and expanding on what collage means and is taking it to a new level. She utilizes two-dimensional reclaimed, upcycled flat images and forces them into a dimensional structure, which gives the viewer’s, psyche a sense of movement and depth. This is called “Structural Collage,” a term that was coined due to her work.

Miss Becker has been greatly influenced by the Impressionist Movement, Cubism and the Dada Movement.  She shows the viewer the big strokes of the idea of a cityscape, of a location, of an object and of a feeling.

Johnie Thornton
Johnie Thornton is a Southern California native and is currently living & working as an artist in Los Angeles.  His current work ranges from large format analog photography to photo realistic & pop painting. His work is largely influenced by sociology, masculinity, sexuality and their relationship to nature.

As a self-taught artist he draws inspiration from life experiences and has developed a unique painting style while experimenting with many different mediums both traditional and unconventional.  His work has shown at multiple locations in Southern & Northern California. His work & commissions have appeared in numerous television shows, movies & commercials.

Lindsey Carron
Through extensive travels and an insatiable need for adventure, Lindsay Carron has been inspired to use art to bridge cultural gaps, raise questions, and have a profound impact on those around her.  Her inspiration is sourced from the grit and decay of reality contrasted with the perfection and beauty of nature.  This causes her art to be raw with perception, and vivid in its capacity to affect the viewer.  The artist utilizes ballpoint pen to render life-size images of animals and humans.  According to Carron, the tedious, no-going-back approach of the ballpoint pen is both meditative and addicting.  It allows a time and space for contemplation and realization.  Carron is an art activist working and living in Los Angeles, California.

Lola Ramona Lanxinger
Lola Ramona Lanxinger’s drawings and paintings are inspired by her personal experiences, adventures, and observations. Lanxinger has lived in California, Georgia, New York, Massachusetts, Japan, Hawaii, and Texas. She has toured many times across the United States with a troupe of circus performers- The Cloud Seeding Circus of the Performative Object- and she was a popular burlesque performer in New York, where she received her MFA from the School of Visual Arts. The themes in Lanxinger’s work are layered with mythology, religion, science, pop culture, and fairy tale. Her subjects are filtered through narrative and metaphor that she uses to create an ‘emotional taxidermy’: a moment or a feeling that is simultaneously personal and universal, vulnerable and powerful.

Michael Hayden
Michael Hayden creates luminous mixed-media paintings using melted beeswax (encaustic) in combination with wood, metal and various found objects. Drawing inspiration from artists Jasper Johns, Mark Rothko, and Richard Diebenkorn, among others, Hayden’s explorations in the use of texture and color field combined with found objects embedded in a horizon-like formation invoke both a contemplative and nostalgic mood. Hayden says, “I’m always finding all sorts of unique things that are cast off or discarded. I believe these items become the soul of each individual artwork.”  Hayden’s paintings will be featured in the home of Cesar Millan and Jahira Dar on HGTV’s Celebrity Homes in 2013.

Mike Lanni
Mike Lanni believes that as an artist his primary responsibility is to reflect and further the experience of what it is to be human. He holds a Masters of Organizational Psychology, and has 8 years of postgraduate work in the study of Transformational Leadership. Implementing this in his artwork, Mr. Lanni co-founded a world peace project called We Will Build A Tree, working to create interactive, interconnected peace monuments worldwide. As an artist he reflects the human being as a part of a greater universal living organism – demonstrating the organizations, the relationships with the natural world, and the building blocks of our reality. Presenting coffee mixed to different concentrations and oil paintings on wood reliefs and panels – every piece is created to achieve the moment of wonder, revealing the breathtaking beauty of the natural world that is seen and unseen. Using bold, striking contrast, Mr. Lanni works in partnership with nature to create pieces that will halt, provoke, and energize; allowing the processes of evaporation, gravity, and sediment to direct his materials to their natural forms.

Owen Maigret
“If any visual artist captured the ethos of the San Francisco house music scene during it’s ’90s salad days, it would be Owen Maigret.” – Darren Keast – SF Weekly – Oct 25, 2006

Though painting and drawing since he could hold a brush or pen,  Maigret didn’t even consider himself an artist until his 20s and the word ‘owenart’ was common in the Bay Area underground dance scene. During his teens watercolor and ink gave way to oils and stone, but it was still just a hobby to his thinking, definitely not a direction in life. But an artist is not something one chooses to be, a true artist is born one… Thankfully the blooming of that particular scene at that exact time allowed him to show his art to large groups of people, who’s response changed his path.

Patrick Hammerlein
While working in the entertainment photography world for 9 years, Patrick was polishing his creative talents as a fine artist. During that time he gained great exposure showing his work through the underground art scene in Los Angeles. Now his work is represented in galleries across the United States. Using only photographs he took, Patricks Hammerlein work explores themes of Nature Vs Industry and how then can coexist or clash.

Patrick McPheron
Patrick McPheron is an LA based photographer. His work is a retrofuture universe made up of intriguing architecture, beautiful humans, and exquisite aliens, all bathed in its eternal aurorae. He is working on his first solo show later this year.

Paula Izydorek
Paula Izydorek is a Los Angeles based painter known predominantly for her work with acrylic inks on birch panels. Izydorek’s artistic inspiration derives from the law of conservation of energy; memoir; and urban landscape. Her current body of work integrates line based pattern systems, developed directly from the natural grains of the birch panels, with abstract vivid color systems, which are based on a palette of urban hues.  Izydorek borrows the pin-up form to portray her exploration of visual memoir; intertwining sensuality and strength while revealing her internal struggle between responsibility and desire.

Born in the small town of Caro, Michigan in 1970, Izydorek spent her formative years in Southern California.  After studying fine art at Santa Monica Community College, Izydorek completed a BFA specializing in Interdisciplinary Arts from the San Francisco Art Institute in 1997.  Her studio is located in Santa Monica.

Rhonna del Rio-Ascolese
Rhonna del Rio-Ascolese is a Los Angeles base, Filipino-American designer and artist with background work and degree in Architecture.  For years, she has been working with still life art (buildings) via architecture mostly depending on computer drafting. In 2011, her yoga practice brought to life the desire to draw, organically and emotionally, thoughts from within. She revives recycled materials such as; small coffee filters and large paint drop cloths canvases and integrates them as the foundation for her drawings and paintings. What you see is the birth of a new creativity for Rhonna del Rio-Ascolese. A creative freedom; finally connected to her soul and spirit.

Swig Miller
Swig Miller’s artist wonder is borne from his spiritual evolution.  He is passionately in love with the act of creation and filled with awe when one of his creatures comes to life.  As a self-taught artist, he opts to live an adventurous life, typically setting aside society’s conventional views to follow his heart and do what he feels authentically true. Miller’s body of work consists mostly of leather masks that break free from their own limitations, with a strong power to invoke a myriad of emotions.   As someone focused on spiritual and emotional growth, Miller is keenly aware that putting on a mask can be a gateway to an internal exploration, allowing opportunities for one to observe deeper aspects of their personality.

Professionally Miller has also worn many hats, he has worked at the Santa Barbara Museum of Art, sold sculptures, trained dolphins, worked with horses, written a book, has worked in the healing arts for the past 11 years, and is currently a very prolific artist.  In his first year of leather sculpting, Miller has produced over 60 pieces, ranging in size from 6” by 12” to 30” by 36”, which have been included in several photo shoots and featured in two recent films: Knight of Cups by Terrence Malick and a documentary about the ‘the electronic masks of our current society’.

Vincent Mattina
Born in St. Louis, Vincent Mattina began his love affair with art at a very early age. When he was first able to hold a pencil he knew he loved drawing. Since then he now uses the computer to create his dream paintings sometimes incorporating his own drawings and photography layering each idea to evoke a new mythology. His richly detailed works transports you to an alternate reality in which science, nature and spirituality evolve. Each series often consists of multiple works, grouped around specific themes and meanings. Often times themes are combined into a collage of technology juxtaposed with old world imagery. He is Consistently researching varied topics creating new areas of interest from which arises the next body of work.

Walter Robot
Walter Robot is the award winning creative team of artist Bill Barminski and director Christopher Louie. They work in various mediums including film, animation, art and sculpture. Their animation and short-film work has been nominated for several awards and featured in various festivals; including the Los Angeles Film Festival and Sundance Film Festival. Their artwork and sculptures have been featured in several galleries including the famed street art POW Gallery in London. In 2012 they had an exhibit at Bergamot Station in Santa Monica, CA called THIS SIDE UP.

They have worked with several notable artists such as Death Cab for Cutie, Kid Cudi, Gnarls Barkley, Rob Thomas, and Modest Mouse. Their commercial clients include MTV, American Express, Nokia, Hasbro, Wendy’s, and Absolut Vodka.

Live Video Mapping Installation

Diatom
Diatom aka Thomas Williams is a multi-faceted artist with interests ranging from painting and sculpture to 3D animation, visual effects and interactive real-time graphics. He studied fine art and philosophy at Cornell, creating abstract, organic paintings, sculpture, and experimental film. He then moved to San Francisco during the 90s, where he immersed himself in visual effects, real-time 3D and performance visuals, creating light shows for acts including Crystal Method, Eminem, Bon Jovi, and Ornette Comeman. During that time he worked on many hybrid technology projects, including a Microsoft sponsored VRML project that presented at Siggraph 1997, and a real-time 3D search engine for excite created while working at Razorfish. He later built a motion graphics company in San Francisco, called REVfx. After moving to Los Angeles, he worked for several years doing visual effects for television and movies. He enjoys making hybrid art, sculptural paintings, painted sculptures, technology-enhanced art, including several interactive video art installations at Burning Man festival. His new passion, projection mapping sculptures, brings all of these skills together. Visual music is one of his greatest loves, and he has made several abstract music videos, which bring music into the visual and special dimension. He has recently shown work at Young Projects in the Pacific Design Center.

Nancy Tobin
Looking both inward and outward, Nancy Tobin’s sculptures take an often humorous look at the role of motherhood – reproduction, nurturing and sheltering – as they relate to herself and across the broader Designed natural world, often employing biomimicry construction techniques.

Pushing the limits of the found and inexpensive everyday materials drives each work; through accumulation, re-appropriation of function, and intensity of application, the meaning of the materials becomes simultaneously charged and deconstructed. Throughout Tobin’s construction process, perfection is questioned and rejected, openly revealing all of the happy accidents and low-tech tricks that occur during the evolution of the work, blurring the line between work and play.

Stilts Stand Still aka Christina Bullard
Christina Bullard is a Southern California-based artist, motivated by thinking out side of the box and pushing the envelope of creative possibilities.  Her journey began with involvement in the West Coast underground community as a multi-disciplinary professional of mixed media sculpture, painting, glass, dance, theatre and circus arts.  Bullard is actively applying her education, direct experience and intuitive abilities into visionary art installations.

Christina Bullard’s newest creation, “Time Stand Stilts” is an expression of movement through music and color, while on three-foot stilts; painting with recycled paints, reclaimed objects, musical inspiration and personal passion to create time expressed through art.  Her modalities provide an entertaining way to tell stories through integrated action, intention and radical expression.  http://arttraveler.tv/episodes/episode-8.html

Fashion / Jewelry Designers

Delevo Designs
After graduating from Columbia College, Deborah Vogt became a founding member of The Conjugate Projekt, Transamoeba Studios and The Chicago Art Department, participating in the creation of many collectives, multitudes of events and performance art installations throughout Chicago. She began creating her line of jewelry, Delevo Designs, in the year 2000, even traveling to Bali to Teacppowntown. She now divides her time between curating and singing in her band, Early Bird Circus. Her jewelry is hand-crafted, elegant and simple, using fine woods, sterling silver and gold, precious and semi-precious stones and recycled materials to create universal and distinctive designs.

Drew Bird
Exotic, elegant, and inspiring are the words that first come to mind upon meeting Drew Bird. At first her direct gaze and baldhead are disconcerting, but her lighthearted whimsical smile soon puts one at ease. Her creative world is an intoxicating journey that is at times, uncanny and futuristic, beautifully ancient, and at other times tribal and stimulating. Her self taught millinery skills are a delight, stemming into neck pieces, wrist wings, and other exotic accessories, for the well dressed earthling.

Fahmina
Topanga eco-designer Fahmina is tarnishing the thought that leather can’t be green. Fahmina, the Bangladeshi New Yorker model reconstructs gorgeous, handmade leather accessories from reclaimed and pre-cycled leather. 100% of the leather we use is pre-consumer waste, salvaged from factory cutting tables. Mixing colors & textures fearlessly…. she creates elegant design that is chic, urban & utilitarian, hand made with excellent quality.

HeadPeace
Inspired by mystic beings, crystal energy, and the spirit of a warrior woman, HeadPeace creates handcrafted jewelry made with love. Designer and creator of HeadPeace, MacKenzie Chorba, channels her inner goddess through shape, movement and design. Her ultimate achievement is making each woman that she adorns, feel like a true warrior priestess shining her light from within.

Kucoon
Kucoon Designs is a popular women and men’s clothing line based out of Los Angeles, California. Kucoon started as a cathartic passion project by designer Andrea Spratt.  She got her start by making costumes for a circus-troupe called Clandestino. From there her popularity grew in a cult following which eventually led to her leaving her day job and pursue her passion project full-time. And thus with the support of an incredible community of friends, Kucoon Designs was born out of a bedroom in 2006.

The idea behind Kucoon Designs is simply to create clothes that are both comfortable and unique. Taking the ordinary and turning it into extraordinary. Kucoon’s clientele is typically an artist with an adventurous spirit who craves clothes that suits their busy lifestyle as well as allowing them to express their individualism.

Marvel Candy
For the past ten years, Melissa Nackel has designed jewelry that has enhanced the fashion sense of folk all over the world.  Utilizing the healing properties of precious and semi-precious stones, Melissa weaves a unique one-of-a-kind piece of jewelry that might include shells, bone, crystal, silver or gold.  In addition to her jewelry talent, she enhances the lives of youth through her counseling skills at Mount Gleason Middle School in Los Angeles.

ORG by Vio
Eco Fashion Designer, Lover of Culture, People & Planet, Violeta Villacorta works with indigenous Amazon artisans to generate a sustainable economy for the stewards of the Forests. Violeta is the Founder & Designer of the ORG by vio® brand. ORG by vio was created as an umbrella for selling high quality Amazon jewelry, accessories and fashion, creating a market for Amazon artisans, while promoting the protection of the Amazon and its cultures.

Streetlightspeople
Actress/Producer Dana Pupkin was inspired to create her jewelry line, streetlightspeople, after designing and gifting an intricate feathered tribal necklace to a friend headed to Burning Man. Although the streetlightspeople Spring 2013 collection is more vintage-inspired than tribal, Dana continues to experiment with playful, inventive designs.  Her sterling silver capped vintage vacuum tube necklaces have garnered much attention, winning a featured spot in a Maybelline commercial. One-of-a-kind druzy rings and geode pendants, vintage chains and large earthy stones dominate Dana’s creative production. When she isn’t designing, she is having living room dance parties with her toddler and husband.

 Audio Lab

John Tejada (Kompakt, Palette)
For the last 18 years, Austrian-born, LA-based John Tejada has released his signature brand of electronic music on some of the world’s most respected labels, as well as starting his own label, Palette Recordings, in the fall of ‘96. Tejada currently records for Cologne’s Kompakt label and has previously recorded for influential labels such as 7th City, Playhouse, and Pokerflat and has remixed the likes of The Postal Service, Bomb the Bass, and Telepopmusik. Since 1997, Tejada has toured the world many times over visiting 30 countries and playing at such respected venues as DEMF, Sonar, Dance Valley, Decibel Festival, Mutek, as well as internationally known spaces such as Fabric (London), Yellow (Tokyo), Rex Club (Paris), Walt Disney Concert Hall (Los Angeles) and many more. www.paletterecordings.com

OOFJ
Recorded with the Prague Symphony Orchestra, OOFJ’s ambitious debut Disco To Die To is ten darkly-tinted, downtempo movements of pop noir that simultaneously manage to reference disparate touchstones and inspirations: Nico’s hypnotic gloomy 60s folk, techno’s minimalism and subtleties, Twin Peaks, the majestic symphonies of 20th Century composers, and rhythms and structures equally indebted to jazz and trip-hop. Often all in the same song.  Debut album out April 29, 2013.

GRiDWORK (LA)
Ryan Aicklen from Los Angeles formed The Collab Project and soon found himself touring the country, including the Muddy River Jam Festival alongside Alex B, scoring late night gigs for the Disco Biscuits, raging renegade sets at Rothbury, and lots more. His most recent collective began in 2010 and features current Headtron artist jOBOT. The collaboration, dubbed Continuum Live are to release their second EP late 2013 and continue to play at music festivals and clubs around the country. GRiDWORK is the premiere solo project and production work of Aicklen, and he’s just released his debut EP, Meld, in February of 2013.  He has played the main stage at festivals such as Stilldream, Five Points Gathering, Lunacy Music Festival, and Lucidity Music festival, along with an expanding tour schedule spanning the country. Aicklen also works with two time Grammy nominee, Carmen Rizzo, as a remixer, tech, and producer.

Patricio (the do lab, space island)
Patricio has been forging a style of his own since the first time he stepped behind the turntables in 1992. Sharpening his skills spinning vinyl at small clubs in LA, Patricio’s experience in the early 90’s behind the decks converted into a profound knowledge of what people want on the dance floor.  Drawing on the passion and soul instilled in him growing up in Buenos Aires, Argentina, he has broken out of the invisible confines of genres. Patricio’s sound has been known to be all over the musical spectrum but ultimately developed into a deep, more melancholic and moody side of house and techno, layered with beautiful melodies and a driving bass at all times. His sets are always fueled by the never-stopping energy that characterizes him and have been known to last longer than 8 hours at time.

Early Bird Circus
Early Bird Circus is excited to announce the release of their much anticipated forthcoming 10” vinyl EP Smitten Psalm this summer. True to form, the band is collaborating with top LA artists to create an evening to remember, with special limited edition album art, and a beautiful music video for the song “Caught in a Dream.”

EBC is described as, “… a surprisingly fresh and absolutely lovable classy rock band formed through many late nights/early mornings in the Downtown LA gallery d i a l e c t, with guitarist Christian Wunderlich and vocalist/lyricist Deborah Vogt working out ideas amidst the beautiful works of cutting edge artists after shows.”

EBC features members from the band The Makers, all seasoned musicians playing with various world touring acts including Mayer Hawthorne & the County, HoneyHoney, Zee Avi, Andy Grammar, Stephan Jacobs, Love & Light, etc.  The sound is a full, intoxicatingly sensual energetic emotional ride and their live shows are truly remarkable blast of wonderfully wild energy.

DJ NIXON (TecYes, Shaboom Records)
Producer DJ and Multi Media Artist Robin Nixon is a recognized name in the electronic music scene.  His eclectic mix of soundscapes have been enjoyed in the underground clubs of Ibiza, London and his hometown Los Angeles. Robin’s commitment to music and passion for the arts has earned him a place on the Board of Governors at the Grammys.

AquaVee (Hale, Createfixate)
Andrea Giardina Graham aka DJ AquaVee has been DJing since 1992. After inspirations by such LA clubs as Flammable Liquid and Sunday Love, She started her electronic vinyl journey. From 1999 until 2003 she was a buyer at Beat Non Stop. AquaVee currently holds a DJ residency at EF(Universal) and has been the Music Coordinator for “Createfixate” since 2001. www.djaquavee.com

Bambi + Felix
Bambi + Felix made their debut on the Sonos stage at the South By Southwest music festival in Austin, TX in March 2013. The duo consist of Amber Morse (Bambi) on guitar/vocals and Jessamyn Cuneo (Felix) on drums. Morse and Cuneo met while working on another project, Whirling Dervish, where Morse plays drums and Cuneo sings.

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For more information, photos or to schedule an interview, please contact Green Galactic’s Lynn Tejada at 213-840-1201 or lynn@greengalactic.com.

Rattlestick Playwrights Theater

Rattlestick Playwrights Theater Announces
Wyatt Fenner to Join the Cast of
Slipping
Beginning Sunday, April 21, 2013
At the Lillian Theatre in Hollywood, CA

LOS ANGELES, CA – April 16, 2013 – Rattlestick Playwrights Theater announces that Wyatt Fenner (The Whale, Misalliance, Next Fall) will take over the lead role of Eli in Slipping starting Sunday, April 21, 2013.  Fenner will replace Seth Numrich (Broadway’s War Horse, Golden Boy), who will travel to London to star with Kim Cattrall in the upcoming production of Tennessee Williams’ Sweet Bird of Youth at the Old Vic.  Fenner has received rave reviews for his performances, including his most recent role as 19-year-old Mormon missionary Elder Thomas in The Whale, at South Coast Rep.  Slipping, written and directed by Daniel Talbott, runs through Sunday May 5, 2013 at the Lillian Theatre in Hollywood, CA.  Elephant Stages’ Lillian Theatre is located at 1076 Lillian Way, Los Angeles, CA 90038.  For additional information, please visit www.Rattlestick.org/rattlestick-LA.

From left, cast members Maxwell Hamilton and Seth Numrich perform in Daniel Talbott’s Slipping.
(Photo credit: Ryan Miller/Capture Imaging; see more production stills here.)

Numrich, for whom the role of Eli was created, performed in Rattlestick’s 2009 critically acclaimed New York production of Slipping, reprising his part this year in Los Angeles.  In addition to Numrich’s upcoming performances at London’s Old Vic, the rising star has also recently signed on as one of the leads in AMC’s pilot, the period drama Turn, which tells the story of an unlikely group of spies who turn the tide in America’s fight for independence.

Slipping is the coming-of-age story of Eli.  
Alone, numb, and friendless after the death of his father, high school senior Eli moves with his English professor mom from San Francisco for a fresh start in Iowa.  A new relationship with a boy at school exposes him again to the possibility of closeness and the danger of being swallowed by it.

The cast of Slipping is MacLeod Andrews (Slipping in New York, Too Much Memory at piece by piece/Rising Phoenix Rep); Wyatt Fenner (The Whale and Misalliance at South Coast Rep, Next Fall at the Geffen); Maxwell Hamilton (professional stage debut, UCLA productions of RENT and Neon Boneyard); Seth Numrich (Golden Boy, War Horse, The Merchant of Venice on Broadway, Iphigenia at Signature, the New York production of Slipping); Wendy vanden Heuvel (Resurrection Blues by Arthur Miller at the Guthrie Theater, Counting The Ways/Talk To Me Like the Rain… at the Magic Theatre, A Movie Star Has to Star in Black and White at Signature).  The Eli alternate is Brett Donaldson (professional stage debut, college and community theatre credits include Angels in America, Harvey, and Auntie Mame).

Wyatt Fenner
(Photo courtesy of Rattlestick Playwrights Theater)

Wyatt Fenner is thrilled to be joining the cast of Slipping with Rattlestick LA.  Recently seen as Elder Thomas in the West Coast premiere of Samuel D. Hunter’s The Whale at South Coast Repertory, other credits include playing Luke opposite playwright Geoffrey Nauffts in Next Fall at the Geffen, Bentley in Misalliance (also at South Coast Rep), Beethoven in the Los Angeles premiere of Dog Sees God, Horace in Anita Bryant Died for Your Sins, as well as performances at The Ahmanson, Ford’s Theatre, Folger Theatre, The Shakespeare Theatre Company, Williamstown, the Perry Mansfield Theatre Festival, Arena Stage, Kingsmen Shakespeare Festival, The Antaeus Company, Rorschach Theatre, Theatre @ Boston Court, Ensemble Theatre Company, Havok Theatre, and A Noise Within, among many others.  Television credits include Veronica Mars and Bones.  Fenner received a Bachelor of Fine Arts from USC.

Rattlestick Playwrights Theater –
Based in New York’s West Village, Rattlestick Playwrights Theater presents diverse, challenging, and often-controversial plays that otherwise might not be produced, in order to foster the future of American theater.  The multi-award-winning company – which produces both at its home on Waverly Place and at the historic Cherry Lane Theatre just a few blocks away – is the recipient of the 2007 Ross Wetzsteon Memorial OBIE Award, which recognized the organization for its work and mission: developing and producing innovative new plays.

Well-known as one of the most-respected off-Broadway theater companies, Rattlestick is a playwrights’ theater that seeks out unique voices and excellence in the craft.  The organization’s focus is on getting bold new works up and out to the public.  Rattlestick is interested in stories that are human and honest – stories that provoke audiences to think.  By guaranteeing a second production, Rattlestick gives its playwrights permission to take chances and, potentially, even to fail.  In creating an atmosphere that fosters risk-taking, Rattlestick encourages playwrights to challenge themselves to realize their full creative potential.

Rattlestick’s current season features daring new works by Adam Rapp, Jon Fosse, Jesse Eisenberg, Jonathan Tolins, Mando Alvarado, Jessica Dickey, and Lyle Kessler.  Currently running in New York at Rattlestick on Waverly Place is Jonathan Tolins’ Buyer & Cellar starring Michael Urie, and at the Cherry Lane Theatre is Rattlestick’s production of Eisenberg’s The Revisionist, in which he co-stars with Vanessa Redgrave.

Slipping is the first Los Angeles production of OBIE Award-winning Rattlestick Playwrights Theater.   The critically acclaimed, sold-out New York production was named one of the top ten plays of 2009 by The Advocate.  Slipping runs Thursdays through Saturdays at 8:00pm, and Sundays at 3:00pm and 7:00pm (visit ticket site for additions).  Tickets cost $34 (with discounts available for theater artists, students, and seniors) and are available through Brown Paper Tickets at http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/335220 or by calling 800-838-3006.  Slipping contains adult themes, language, and nudity.

Rattlestick and Slipping LA Links:
• http://www.rattlestick.org/rattlestick-la
• Rattlestick on Facebook – https://www.facebook.com/RattlestickPlaywrightsTheater
• Follow @RattlestickLA – https://twitter.com/RattlestickLA
• Slipping FB Event Page – https://www.facebook.com/events/140003636175880
• Slipping YouTube Trailer [:45] – http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XaInjmWIIIw&feature=youtu.be
• Slipping Soundtrack on Spotify – http://spoti.fi/Z92SI3
• Initial Press Release – http://www.greengalactic.com/2013/rattlestick-playwrights-theater-slipping-la

For more information about Slipping and Rattlestick in LA, press passes, photos, or to arrange interviews, please contact Green Galactic’s Lynn Tejada at 213-840-1201 or lynn@greengalactic.com.  For Rattlestick in New York, please contact Don Summa at 212-944 9444 or don@kornbergpr.com.

SASSAS Presents
sound. at the Baldwin Hills Scenic Overlook: MURAL
Featuring Internationally Recognized Experimental Duo
Jim Denley & Kim Myhr
In Collaboration with 8 LA Area Musicians
In Culver City, CA
Sunday May 5, 2013

Free Concert Features New Site Specific Composition
Inspired by the Overlook

LOS ANGELES, CA – April 11, 2013 – The Society for the Activation of Social Space through Art and Sound (SASSAS) presents sound. at the Baldwin Hills Scenic Overlook: MURAL, featuring internationally recognized experimental duo Jim Denley (Australia) and Kim Myhr (Norway) on Sunday, May 5, 2013.  MURAL’s site specific work will be inspired by the Overlook – the site itself will dictate the trajectory of the musical structures created in the space.  Accompanying MURAL in realizing this new SASSAS commission will be eight Los Angeles area musicians including Matt Barbier, Ted Byrnes, Archie Carey, Claire Chenette, and Daniel Corral.  The free concert begins at 5:00pm, ending right before sunset.  Street parking is available along Jefferson Blvd., but come prepared for a steep climb up the Overlook stairs.  Parking at the top of the hill is $6.00.  Carpooling is strongly encouraged.  Baldwin Hills Scenic Overlook is located at 6300 Hetzler Road, Culver City, CA 90232.  For more information on the venue, please visit http://www.parks.ca.gov/?page_id=22790.  For more information on SASSAS and this event, please visit http://sassas.org/ or call 323-960-5723.

Baldwin Hills Scenic Overlook
(Photo courtesy of California Department of Parks & Recreation)

MURAL’s Overlook commission is built on a tradition initiated in 2010 when SASSAS invited three composers to create new works commemorating the 25th Anniversary of the City of West Hollywood.  The concert further builds on a successful October 2011 event in which SASSAS commissioned William Roper, Alex Cline and Lady Noise to create indeterminate compositions based on field recordings made of the sound environment of the Overlook.

sound. at the Baldwin Hills Scenic Overlook: MURAL is made possible in part by a Culver City Art in Public Places Program Performing Arts Grant with support from Sony Pictures Entertainment, funding from the Good Works Foundation and in kind support from the City of West Hollywood.  SASSAS is partnering with The City of West Hollywood as a member of their new Resident Company Program in providing MURAL with rehearsal space at the Kings Road Park Pavilion.  West Hollywood initiated this new program to facilitate the process for nonprofit organizations to produce work in the City of West Hollywood and enhance opportunities for residents to attend quality arts and cultural programming in their local community.  MURAL will hold an open rehearsal on Thursday, May 2, 2013 from 12:00pm to 2:00pm at Kings Road Park Pavilion, 1000 N. Kings Road, West Hollywood, CA 90069.

The Baldwin Park Scenic Overlook –
The Baldwin Park Scenic Overlook is unique in the greater Los Angeles area and California State Park system.  A historically complex site, the Overlook offers 360-degree views of the Los Angeles Basin as it resides at the juncture of industry and parkland/preserve.  Adjacent to the location of the 1963 Baldwin Hills Dam break and just north of an active oil field, the park was the site of a decade-long development battle, which was successful in fending off a 230-home development, but failed to stop the flat topping of the hill.  Parts of the park have been regraded and, “in certain ways, the land still looks as though it’s recovering from the earlier violence.” (Christopher Hawthorne, Los Angeles Times).

MURAL –
Jim Denley (Australia) and Kim Myhr (Norway) first performed together as a duo in 2007, then soon after, in 2008, recorded their first CD together, Systems Realignment (either/OAR).  In 2010, they asked Ingar Zach (Norway) to join them in the trio MURAL.  For the performance at Baldwin Hills Scenic Overlook, MURAL will perform as a duo, without Zach, but enhanced by a selection of great local Los Angeles musicians.  Known for lush, contemplative music, MURAL incorporates a wide range of percussive, harmonic, and timbre elements for a transparent, improvising orchestra with a large sound spectrum.  Through numerous performances in locations around the world, the group has found various ways to interact with the spaces they play in.  SASSAS first worked with Denley and Myhr in October 2010, as a part of the AD HOC program for touring musicians.  Impressed by that performance, SASSAS invited them back for the Overlook commission.

The group released its critically-acclaimed Nectars Of Emergence CD on SOFA in 2010.  Andy Hamilton, writing in the modern music magazine The Wire, described the work as “a haunting world of breathtaking tumbril beauty.… an extraordinary creation.”  With Denley on flute and saxophone, Myhr on acoustic guitar, and Zach on percussion, the group created a site-specific improvisational work inspired by the Rothko Chapel, the legendary Houston sanctuary, also in 2010.  In 2011, the group returned to the U.S. for a tour of MURAL Live at the Rothko Chapel, released on Rothko Chapel Publications to critical acclaim.  The Wire listed the work as one of the top releases of 2011.  MURAL has toured extensively as a duo or trio throughout Europe, Canada, Australia, and Lebanon.  The group’s work together has helped create an Australian/Norwegian exchange in the area of experimental/improvised music.  Funding has been provided by the Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Norsk Jazzforum.

Jim Denley, MURAL –

Jim Denley is Australia’s foremost improviser of new music, with a career spanning over three decades.  An emphasis on spontaneity, site-specific work, and collaboration has been central to his work.  He was born in 1957 in the town of Bulli, New South Wales and began playing violin at age 5.  Denley studied at the NSW Conservatorium and, after leaving school, played jazz and commercial music to earn a living.  By the late 1970s, he was composing music and, a decade later, he began working in an improvisational mode and to integrate his voice into his instrumental work.  In the 1980s, he studied the shakuhachi flute music of Japan.  Then, in 1990, he was a member of Derek Bailey’s Company for a week of concerts in London.  Collaborations, his radio feature for the Australian Broadcasting Corporation, won the Prix Italia in 1989.  His CD, Through Fire, Crevice and the Hidden Valley, received an Honorary Mention in the Digital Musics category of the Prix Ars Electronica in 2008.  Denley also co-founded the electro-acoustic text/music group Machine for Making Sense.

In 2006 and 2007, he received a fellowship from the Australia Council for the Arts and is currently working towards a paradigm shift in the notion and perception of the saxophone; to establish its relevance to ancient and current traditions in Australian music, and to extend its range with the addition of innovative electronics and miking.  Denley has played throughout Australia, Europe, Japan, and the U.S. with artists such as Maggie Nichols, Carolyn Connors, Kari Rønnekleiv, Sidsel Endresen, Thembi Soddell, Natasha Anderson, Monika Brooks, Clare Cooper, Ami Yoshida, Amanda Stewart, Ikue Mori, Satchiko M, Rosalind Hall, Laura Altman, and Annette Krebs.  With MURAL, in 2010, he played the Rothko Chapel in Houston.  A CD of that concert was released in 2011.  With BLIP (Mike Majkowski), he released Dead Space on Boccian Records in 2012.  His passion is West Head Project – performances outdoors in Australia.  (Photo courtesy of SASSAS.)

Kim Myhr, MURAL –
Guitarist and composer Kim Myhr is an active voice of the creative music scene in Norway.  He studied at Berklee College of Music in Boston from 2003 to 2005.  Since then, he has embarked on an international career, performing new contemporary and improvised music throughout Europe, Australia, Asia, and North as well as South America.  In 2008, he received the JazZtipend (a cash prize of approximately $30,000) at the Molde International Jazz Festival, one of the oldest jazz festivals in Europe.

As a composer, Myhr wrote Stems and Cages for the Trondheim Jazz Orchestra in 2009, an ensemble featuring 13 improvisational musicians including Sidsel Endresen, Christian Wallumrød, and Jim Denley, among others.  Stems and Cages was released on CD in 2010 to wide critical acclaim.  Myhr wrote new music for the 2012 Ultima Festival orchestra, featuring the voice of Jenny Hval.  Myhr is also involved in different collaborative projects including Silencers, with Benoit Delbecq, whose release Balance des Blancs made Le Monde‘s list for Best of 2011 Jazz CDs. With MURAL, he initiated a project with the Rothko Chapel in Houston, which included a CD release in 2011 and several concerts in the legendry space. The trio will be back again in 2013 for a special 4-hour performance at the chapel.  Myhr’s first solo CD will be released in 2013.  His solo music explores the acoustic possibilities of the 12-string guitar and can remind the listener of early music of Ligeti and of Morton Feldman.  It also contains an energy and simplicity similar to American folk music.  (Photo courtesy of SASSAS.)



Los Angeles Artists’ Bios:

Matt Barbier, Trombone –
Matt Barbier is an LA-based trombonist and composer focused primarily in the field of experimental intonation and noise music.  Working collaboratively with composers such as Wolfgang von Schweinitz, Ulrich Krieger, and Marc Sabat, he engages with the emerging field of just intonation for brass instruments.  His work with von Schweinitz has been highlighted by widely performing JUZ, an expansive work for solo trombone and playback.  Barbier is also a founding member of Gnarwhallaby, a Los Angeles-based mixed quartet.  He also performs as a member of the critically-acclaimed new music collective wildUp!.  He received his education at the Cleveland Institute of Music (BM) and California Institute of the Arts (MFA).  Barbier guest lectures at CalArts and Simon Fraser University.

Ted Byrnes, Percussion –

Ted Byrnes is a drummer/percussionist living in Los Angeles.  An alumni of the Berklee College of Music in Boston, he comes from a jazz background and has since made his home in the worlds of free improvisation, electro-acoustic music, and noise.  Byrnes’ playing is often viewed as more textural or even melodic than rhythmic, and generally employs a ‘prepared’ drum kit.  He has performed in a variety of ensembles and ad hoc settings, with musicians and/or groups including Jaap Blonk, Charlemagne Palestine, John Wiese, Smegma, Airway, Han-earl Park, Gregory Lenczycki, and Tim Perkis, among others.

Archie Carey, Bassoon –
Archie Carey is a multi-instrumental performer/composer living in Los Angeles.  He is interested in writing music that is not only meditative for the listener, but also for the performer, in order to create a communal sense of timelessness inside a performance space.  In solo work and in collaborations with dancers and filmmakers, he has been experimenting with field recording, analog electronics, and aspects of performance art.  Carey has had the opportunity to perform at Carnegie Hall, Symphony Space, Alice Tully Hall, The HAMMER Museum, Saban Theatre, Zipper Hall, Highways Performance Space, Pieter PASD, The Wulf, Roy and Edna Disney/CalArts Theater (REDCAT), and various other art spaces across the country.  He has also toured China with the Manhattan Symphonie and Western Europe with the AMA Wind Ensemble.  Carey is currently a member of wildUp!, a modern music collective/chamber orchestra, and The Joshua Trio, a double reed and piano trio focusing on new works as well as classics.

Claire Chenette, Oboe –

Claire Chenette is a versatile solo, chamber, and orchestral musician particularly devoted to the performance of contemporary music on the oboe.  A native of the Midwest, Chenette is quickly gaining recognition in Southern California, performing in sold-out concerts with various projects, festivals, and ensembles such as the REDCAT Xenakis Festival, the American Youth Symphony, and the Center Stage Opera.  This past season has seen her performing as principal oboist with the American Youth Symphony at Walt Disney Concert Hall; recording with her band Three Thirds at Capitol Records; as well as performing with the San Diego Symphony, the Long Beach Symphony, Opera Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara Chamber Orchestra, wildUp!, and Orchestra Nova.  She also premiered commissions with her chamber ensemble, The Joshua Trio, and traveled around the world: working under Pierre Boulez for a third summer in residence at the Lucerne Music Festival; performing at Salle Pleyel in Paris, with the Spoleto USA Festival Orchestra; and as principal oboist with the Debut Orchestra on tour in China.  She received a BM in Oboe Performance and a BA in Religious Studies from Oberlin College and Conservatory of Music and an MFA in Oboe Performance from CalArts.  She is a faculty member at Cerritos College.

Daniel Corral, Accordion –

Daniel Corral is a composer and multi-instrumentalist born and raised in Eagle River, Alaska.  His music is a rich collusion of styles, blurring the boundaries between the familiar and foreign, mirroring the diasporic evolution of cultural identity in the 21st century.  His unique voice finds outlet in puppet operas, accordion orchestras, handmade music boxes, electronic collages, site-specific installations, chamber music, and interdisciplinary collaborations.  Corral’s music has been commissioned and presented by venues such as REDCAT, The Hammer Museum, The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles (MOCA), USC’s Thornton School of Music, CSUN’s Mike Curb College of Arts, Media and Communication, The Pianospheres Series, and the Santa Monica GLOW Festival.  He writes, arranges, and performs with numerous music groups, including Timur & The Dime Museum, Killsonic, Free Reed Conspiracy, and Tears of the Moosechaser.  Corral received his MFA from CalArts, where he studied with James Tenney, Anne LeBaron, and Morton Subotnick.

sound. 2013 is produced by Cindy Bernard in collaboration with the SASSAS Board of Directors and the SASSAS Programming Committee (Gregory Lenczycki, Joe Potts, Dawson Weber, and Kassandra Kocoshis).

SASSAS –
The Society for the Activation of Social Space through Art and Sound (SASSAS) is a 501(c)(3) charitable organization that serves as a catalyst for the creation, presentation and recognition of experimental art and sound practices in the Greater Los Angeles area.  Inspired by the resonance that occurs when experimental music is combined with unconventional performance environments, SASSAS seeks to foster new collaborations and improvisation to spark further exploration in the field.  Programs include the sound. concert series; soundShoppe, a monthly workshop for experimental musicians; Ad Hoc, a new project supporting touring musicians seeking to perform in Los Angeles; online concert archives at www.youtube.com/sassasdotorg; and soundNet recordings, CD compilations drawn from sound. concerts.

SASSAS is supported in part through grants from the City of Los Angeles Department of Cultural Affairs, the Foundation for Contemporary Arts, the Good Works Foundation, the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors through the Los Angeles County Arts Commission, and the Mike Kelley Foundation for the Arts.

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For more information, images, or to request an interview, please contact Green Galactic’s Lynn Tejada at 213-840-1201 or lynn@greengalactic.com.

Angel City Chorale

Angel City Chorale Celebrates
Its First Two Decades in Song With
Angel City Chorale 20th Anniversary Concerts
At the Historic Wilshire United Methodist Church in Los Angeles
Saturday, June 1 & Sunday, June 2, 2013

Featuring the West Coast Premiere of Christopher Tin’s Grammy-Winning
Song-Cycle Calling All Dawns in Twelve Languages
+ Angel City Chorale’s Greatest Hits

LOS ANGELES, CA – April 3, 2013 – Angel City Chorale (ACC) will celebrate its first two decades in song with special reunion concerts on Saturday, June 1 and Sunday, June 2, 2013, at 7:00 p.m.  The Angel City Chorale 20th Anniversary Concerts will feature the West Coast premiere of Grammy Award-Winning Composer Christopher Tin’s Calling All Dawns.  In addition to performing Tin’s highly acclaimed three-movement piece, which celebrates the circle of life in 12 languages, Angel City Chorale will also perform “The Best of ACC,” highlighting much-loved and crowd-favorite songs from the choir’s 20-year history.  The Greatest Hits portion of the program will include performances of Randy Newman’s Louisiana and Toto’s Africa with a choir-created thunderstorm.  Conducted by ACC Founder and Artistic Director Sue Fink, the concerts will be held at the historic Wilshire United Methodist Church (4350 Wilshire Blvd., Los Angeles, CA 90010).  The audience is invited to join the performers for a dessert reception after each performance.  General admission tickets are $30 in advance for adults, $27 for seniors, and $22 for children.  Advance tickets will be available starting April 18, 2013 via the Angel City Chorale website.  For additional information on ACC’s history, upcoming performances or tickets, please visit www.angelcitychorale.org.

“In developing the program for our anniversary concerts, we wanted to commemorate Angel City Chorale’s journey to date, as well as look to the road ahead,” says Fink.  “By performing our greatest hits from over the years, in conjunction with the West Coast premiere of Tin’s sublime work, Calling All Dawns, we celebrate the past, present, and future of ACC – the circle of life – in song.”

Composer Christopher Tin is working closely with ACC.  He has expanded the choral parts of Calling All Dawns and added special orchestrations for the West Coast premiere.  Tin has also been actively involved in preparing for the June concerts and will be rehearsing with ACC.  Additionally, he is busy working on the East Coast premiere of Calling All Dawns, which will be held in New York on April 7, 2013 at Lincoln Center.

Hailed by critics as a masterpiece, the song cycle includes songs of joy, mystery, sorrow, hardship and triumph – reflecting the complexity of our mortality.  Calling All Dawns contains 12 pieces in three uninterrupted movements – Day, Night and Dawn – corresponding to life, death and rebirth.  A tapestry of interconnected motifs, the melody of one song weaves into an instrumental interlude in another.  The last song fades back into the first, reflecting the cyclical nature of life.  Sung in twelve languages, from Swahili to Polish, French to Farsi, the lyrics are sourced from diverse texts including The Torah, Bhagavad Gita, The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam, Japanese haiku and Maori proverbs.  Vocal traditions include African choral music, opera, medieval chant, Irish keening and more.

Tin’s debut album, Calling All Dawns, won two Grammys at the 53rd Grammy Awards for Best Classical Crossover Album and Best Instrumental Arrangement Accompanying Vocalists for the song “Baba Yetu,” which made history as the first video game theme to win a Grammy.  The song was originally composed in 2005 for the theme song to the legendary Civilization IV video game.

“Calling All Dawns is a very personal piece to me, and I’m thrilled that it’s finally getting its Los Angeles premiere,” says Composer Christopher Tin, “and I couldn’t be happier with the fact that Angel City Chorale is giving the premiere!”

Performing with the choir during the first half of the concert, for Calling All Dawns, will be an expanded orchestral ensemble with strings, French horn, flute, oboe, harp, piano, and five percussionists.  Authentic sounds from the countries whose texts inspired Calling All Dawns will also be incorporated into the performance.  In the second half of the concert, during ACC’s Greatest Hits, the choir will be accompanied by the ensemble’s stellar rhythm section.

Adding a special touch to the weekend’s concerts, many ACC alumni will participate in two songs with the choir.  A historical slide show, illustrating many of ACC’s milestones over the past 20 years, will be projected during two of the songs.  Numerous reunion activities for visiting former members, and the choir at large, are planned as well.

Angel City Chorale (Photo credit: Linda Weiss)

Angel City Chorale (ACC) – 

Formed by Sue Fink in 1993 at McCabe’s Guitar Shop with 18 singers, today’s Angel City Chorale is a multi-cultural group that reflects the community spirit of Los Angeles at large.  Now comprised of over 160 members, ACC performs a diverse selection of musical material including classical, jazz, folk, gospel, and rhythm and blues.  ACC performs two concerts seasonally, spring and fall, to standing-room only crowds at the historic Wilshire United Methodist Church.  In addition to its scheduled performances, ACC has performed at venues throughout Los Angeles, including the Walt Disney Concert Hall, the former Kodak Theatre, the Nokia Theatre at LA Live, Staples Center and the Shrine Auditorium.

ACC was the only choir to sing at the 2000 Democratic National Convention, performing with Luther Vandross, Stevie Wonder and Mary Chapin Carpenter.  In December 2002, Angel City Chorale was selected by music director and record producer Frank McNamara to appear in the PBS Television special, The American Tenors, which was taped at the former Kodak Theatre in Hollywood.  In December 2003, ACC made its debut at the Walt Disney Concert Hall, in a holiday production of A Merry Mancini Christmas, singing Henry Mancini’s arrangements of holiday favorites alongside soloists Michael Bublé, Monica Mancini and Dianne Reeves, accompanied by the Henry Mancini Institute Alumni Orchestra.  ACC singers were also featured in the Hollywood Tree Lighting Celebration at the Grove, which aired on CBS in December 2005.  In February 2012, ACC joined Gustavo Dudamel, the Los Angeles Philharmonic, the Simón Bolivar Symphony Orchestra of Venezuela and other specially selected choirs for a performance of Mahler’s Symphony No. 8, “The Symphony of a Thousand,” at the Shrine Auditorium.

In addition to performing, ACC maintains a strong sense of community involvement, taking its holiday concert repertoire directly to service organizations and those most in need in Los Angeles through its annual Tour of Hope program.  ACC has also taken its music and outreach program to international audiences.  Most recently, ACC traveled to Cape Town, South Africa, in August 2011, to perform concerts benefiting the Amy Biehl Foundation, an organization working to bring sports, arts, music and education programs to the children of South Africa’s townships.  In 2013, ACC’s Tour of Hope will take place on Saturday, December 14.

ACC has also recorded four highly acclaimed CDs: Why Walk When You Can Fly (1999), Gift of the Angels (2001), A Chanukah Celebration (2004) and The Road Home (2008), all of which are available for purchase on CD Baby.  ACC donated a share of the net proceeds of The Road Home to Ocean Park Community Center, an organization serving homeless individuals, battered women and their children, and people living with mental illness.  In 2009, ACC partnered with the Los Angeles Regional Food Bank to provide both food and a portion of the proceeds from the Spring 2009 concert.  Angel City Chorale is a California Non-Profit Public Benefit Corporation and 501(c)(3) non-profit organization. www.angelcitychorale.org


Sue Fink, ACC Founder and Artistic Director –

As founder, artistic director and conductor, Sue Fink brings a dynamic energy to ACC that helps distinguish it from other choral groups.  While attending UCLA, Fink studied conducting and toured with internationally renowned musician and choral director, Roger Wagner.  She established the Oriana Renaissance Ensemble and the Los Angeles Women’s Community Chorus, serving as conductor for both groups prior to founding Angel City Chorale.  As a singer-songwriter she has toured extensively, released two CDs, and has won international songwriting contests.  She maintains a private voice studio in LA; composes and arranges for choral groups; and writes songs for television and movies.

Christopher Tin, Calling All Dawns Composer –

Chinese-American Christopher Tin is a two-time Grammy-winning composer.  His work covers diverse terrain: from thrilling fusions of orchestral and world music to brooding reinventions of 90s electronica, to award-winning scores for film, video games and commercials.  His classical crossover album, Calling All Dawns, was released in 2009.  The album won two Grammys at the 53rd Annual Grammy Awards: Best Classical Crossover Album and Best Instrumental Arrangement Accompanying Vocalists for the song “Baba Yetu.”  Tin’s music has been performed live by the National Symphony Orchestra, the Hollywood Bowl Orchestra, Philharmonia, Metropole Orchestra and hundreds of amateur ensembles around the world.  He currently lives in Santa Monica.  www.christophertin.com


Wilshire United Methodist Church –
Located at Wilshire and Plymouth in Los Angeles, the Wilshire United Methodist Church first opened its doors on May 24, 1925.  Its storied history is well-woven into the fabric of the Los Angeles community and the multi-ethnic ministries it serves.  Jeanette MacDonald and Shirley Temple each had marriage ceremonies in the church.  The church building, reflecting Gothic and Italian styles, has been designated as a historical monument by the Los Angeles City Council.  The facade was inspired by the Church of St. Francis at Brescia in Italy and the tower found its genesis in the Torracio of Cremona, near Milan.  www.ewilshireumc.org


Links –
Angel City Chorale – www.angelcitychorale.org

Angel City Chorale on Facebook – www.facebook.com/AngelCityChorale
Christopher Tin – www.christophertin.com & http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christopher_Tin
Wilshire United Methodist Church – www.ewilshireumc.org

For more information, photos or to schedule an interview, please contact Green Galactic’s Lynn Tejada at 213-840-1201 or lynn@greengalactic.com.

EmazingLights-iHeartRaves

EmazingLights-iHeartRaves

The World’s Largest Rave Retailer
To Open Fourth California Store

Its First in Northern California

Milpitas Grand Opening Event: Friday, April 5, 2013


Inspiring Creativity at Electronic Music Events & Beyond

LOS ANGELES, CA – March 29, 2013 – EmazingLights-iHeartRaves, the world’s largest rave retailer, is opening its first Northern California store in Milpitas, kicking off with a grand opening event on Friday, April 5, 2013.  The store will feature EmazingLights glove sets, light sticks, poi, orbits, and iHeartRaves dance apparel to inspire creativity at electronic music events, and beyond.  The company is also known for championing the dynamic new Gloving dance movement by organizing weekly, monthly and annual Gloving events.  For the Milpitas store grand opening event, regular store hours will be extended until 10:00pm; and the festivities will feature a Gloving 101 Workshop (6:00-7:00pm), Gloving teams in attendance from around California, and the first ever Northern California Friday Night Lights Gloving community social event (7:00-10:00pm).  All are welcome.  The grand opening event is FREE!  Regular store hours will be daily from 1:00pm to 7:00pm.  The new EmazingLights-iHeartRaves store is located at 100 Dixon Road, Milpitas, CA 95035 (855-EMAZING).  For more information, please see http://www.emazinglights.com.

“The electronic music scene in the Bay Area is incredibly vibrant with amazing audience participation and talented light show artists,” says EmazingLights-iHeartRaves Founder Brian Lim, “We’re very excited to open the new Northern California store in order to foster this intensely creative community.”

LED Anniversary 2013 – San Diego, CA.  (Photo courtesy of EmazingLights-iHeartRaves.)

• Milpitas Store Grand Opening Event Details •

WHAT:  Grand Opening Event with Gloving 101 Workshop & Friday Night Lights Social Event

WHO:  Electronic Music Fans & Gloving Celebrities from Northern and Southern California

WHEN:  Friday, April 5, 2013 from 1:00pm to 10:00pm:
- 6:00-7:00pm – Gloving 101 Workshop
- 7:00-10:00pm – Friday Night Lights Gloving Community Social Event

WHERE:  EmazingLights-iHeartRaves, 100 Dixon Rd, Milpitas CA 95035

COST:  FREE!

EmazingLights-iHeartRaves Milpitas Store –

The new 1,700-square foot Milpitas store features a 3,000-watt sound system, multiple TVs with video games, free WiFi, and a staff that features top Bay Area light show artists.  In addition to selling EmazingLights light show products and iHeartRaves dance apparel product lines, the outlet will also sell tickets to all Skills Northern California electronic music events.  The EmazingLights-iHeartRaves Milpitas store will also host Gloving competitions in the future (schedule to be announced).

Gloving –

The latest twist on light shows, an old rave tradition, Gloving is a dynamic new dance art form that first emerged in 2006 at an electronic music event.  Dazzling Gloving displays are now regularly performed at events across the country to the energized beat of electronic dance music, primarily by hands and fingers in gloves with LED lights on the fingertips.

  Back in the day, rave light shows typically featured a pair of frantically waved glow sticks.  Gloving has come a long way since those early days, growing into a legitimate art form.  In recent months, the underground phenomenon has received mainstream media attention as it was featured in performances on MTV’s America’s Best Dance Crew as well as on the Disney Channel’s Shake it Up.  Top Gloving videos on YouTube receive millions of views.  

Although Gloving has received attention across the globe, California is ground zero for the phenomenon, with many of the top performers, the most organized community, and regular competitive events.  Talented Northern California Gloving crews include UFL, Team Womp, Robo, and Ambience.



Brian Lim, IGC, EmazingLights-iHeartRaves Founder –

The Gloving scene’s most important promoter, a pioneering glover himself, Brian Lim started EmazingLights three years ago by selling Gloving sets and LEDs out of the trunk of his car.  He runs three EmazingLights-iHeartRaves retail stores in Southern California plus the new Milpitas store in Northern California.  He’s also in charge of the EmazingLights and IHeartRaves commerce sites.  Lim also organizes weekly, monthly and annual Gloving events including the International Gloving Championship (IGC).  Lim graduated from UCLA in 2009 with a BA in Economics.  He previously worked as a business technology consultant at Deloitte Consulting for two years, starting EmazingLights while working there.  Lim was born in LA and currently lives in West Covina, CA.

Skills –

The name Skills is synonymous with the best electronic music events in Northern California since 1997.  Whether its a club event or 15,000 plus massive, Skills guarantees quality world-class performers with a state of the art production, lighting, visuals and sound.  Skills has hosted many of the leading dance musicians in the world at its events such as: Tiesto, Armin Van Buuren, Paul Van Dyk, Ferry Corsten, Above & Beyond, Deadmau5, Infected Mushroom, Markus Schulz, and many more.  http://skillsdj.com/



EmazingLights-iHeartRaves –
EmazingLights-iHeartRaves’ mission is to inspire individual creativity at music events and beyond.  EmazingLights is the international leader in premium lightshow products, selling glove sets, light sticks, poi, orbits, and apparel.  iHeartRaves is a one-stop shop for dance apparel including a variety of rave wear and accessories to encourage fashionable free expression at electronic music events.  The company’s team includes many well-known light show artists who practice the art form every day.  Only light show products that are sound and personally used by the team are featured in the company’s inventory.  

EmazingLights is passionate about ushering in the future of Gloving, actively promoting this emerging underground art form by organizing Gloving competitions, workshops, and showcase events.  EmazingLights’ and iHeartRaves’ media-rich sites also feature educational, fashion, and event videos. 

 In addition to the EmazingLights and iHeartRaves commerce sites, the company operates four outlets in California (West Covina, Anaheim, Harbor City, and now in Milpitas).  EmazingLights-iHeartRaves also participates onsite at Ultra, IDentity, Lights All Night, and many other festival events.

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Links:
EmazingLights Site – http://www.emazinglights.com
EmazingLights Facebook – https://www.facebook.com/EmazingLights
EmazingLightsTwitter – https://twitter.com/EmazingLights
EmazingLights YouTube – www.youtube.com/user/EmazingLights/
iHeartRaves – http://www.iheartraves.com/
Official IGC Site – http://glovingchampionship.com/

View performance video of Northern California Glovers JayFunk and Fiasko Daniels at
http://youtu.be/hgx1DwpwU2k.
(Video courtesy of EmazingLights-iHeartRaves.)

Photo credits (above):
Above Right: Glover Skills performing in EmazingLights gloves.
Above Left: Raver Blossom models iHeartRaves apparel and accessories.
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 New York’s Rattlestick Playwrights Theater
Presents the Los Angeles Premiere of
Slipping
Written and Directed by Daniel Talbott
At the Lillian Theatre in Hollywood, CA
Thursday, April 4, 2013 through Sunday, May 5, 2013

Opening Now Set For Saturday, April 13, 2013 [DATE CHANGE]
First LA Production for Rattlestick

LOS ANGELES, CA – February 28, 2013 – New York’s Rattlestick Playwrights Theater announces the Los Angeles premiere of the critically-acclaimed play Slipping, written and directed by Daniel Talbott, which will begin previews Thursday, April 4, 2013 at the Lillian Theatre in Hollywood, CA. The five-week limited engagement, which was previously scheduled to open the first weekend of April, will now open on Saturday, April 13, 2013 due to scheduling conflicts and run through Sunday, May 5, 2013. Considered one of off-Broadway’s most respected companies, the OBIE Award-winning Rattlestick is proud to be presenting its first Los Angeles production. A coming-of-age story, Slipping features Seth Numrich (Broadway’s War Horse, Golden Boy), in the lead role of Eli, a gay high school senior. Elephant Stages’ Lillian Theatre is located at 1076 Lillian Way, Los Angeles, CA 90038. For additional information, please visit www.Rattlestick.org/rattlestick-LA.

Slipping will run Thursdays through Saturdays at 8:00pm, and Sundays at 3:00pm and 7:00pm.  The seven preview shows will run from Thursday, April 4th through Friday, April 12^th. Tickets for preview performances are $24. Regular performances cost $34 (with discounts available for theater artists, students, and seniors) and are available through Brown Paper Tickets at http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/335220 or by calling 800-838-3006.  Slipping contains adult themes, language, and nudity.

Slipping is the coming-of-age story of Eli. 

Alone, numb, and friendless after the death of his father, high school senior Eli moves with his English professor mom from San Francisco for a fresh start in Iowa.  A new relationship with a boy at school exposes him again to the possibility of closeness and the danger of being swallowed by it.

“It is a play about love and how it is so hard for so many of us to face it, to stare it in the face, to know what to do with it,” writes playwright, activist, and Slipping fan Larry Kramer in the play’s foreword, “Especially when we are young, but not only then.”

The cast of Slipping is MacLeod Andrews (Slipping in New York, Too Much Memory at piece by piece/Rising Phoenix Rep); Maxwell Hamilton (professional stage debut, UCLA productions of RENT and Neon Boneyard); Seth Numrich (Golden Boy, War Horse, The Merchant of Venice on Broadway, Iphigenia at Signature, the New York production of Slipping); Wendy vanden Heuvel (Resurrection Blues by Arthur Miller at the Guthrie Theater, Counting The Ways/Talk To Me Like the Rain… at the Magic Theatre, A Movie Star Has to Star in Black and White at Signature).

The Slipping set design is by John McDermott; costume design is by Rachel Myers; lighting design by Leigh Allen; sound design by Janie Bullard; video and projection design is by Kaitlyn Pietras; property design is by Timm Carney. Slipping’s Los Angeles casting director is Mark Bennett; assistant director is Sarah Haught;  producing for Rattlestick in LA are Addie Johnson-Talbott and Gaalan Michaelson. Jeanie Hackett is Rattlestick’s Los Angeles consultant.

Slipping, which was originally workshopped and developed at London’s Royal Court Theatre and Rattlestick, received its world premiere at Chicago’s The Side Project, directed by Adam Webster. For its New York premiere at Rattlestick Playwrights Theater under the direction of Kirsten Kelly it featured MacLeod Andrews, Adam Driver (currently starring in HBO’s Girls), Meg Gibson, and Seth Numrich. The critically acclaimed, sold-out New York production was named one of the top ten plays of 2009 by The Advocate.

“We’re excited to bring Slipping to the West Coast and believe Los Angeles audiences will really respond to this material,” says David Van Asselt, Rattlestick artistic director and co-founder. “Despite it being his first play, Talbott’s writing is vital, wise beyond its years and unafraid to give us characters who are fierce, passionate, and yet with an underlying core of honesty and sincerity in an age when jaded cynicism is de rigueur.”

Rattlestick Playwrights Theater –

Based in New York’s West Village, Rattlestick Playwrights Theater presents diverse, challenging, and often-controversial plays that otherwise might not be produced, in order to foster the future of American theater. The multi-award-winning company – which produces both at its home on Waverly Place and at the historic Cherry Lane Theatre just a few blocks away – is the recipient of the 2007 Ross Wetzsteon Memorial OBIE Award, which recognized the organization for its work and mission: developing and producing innovative new plays.

Well-known as one of the most-respected off-Broadway theater companies, Rattlestick is a playwrights’ theater that seeks out unique voices and excellence in the craft. The organization’s focus is on getting bold new works up and out to the public. Rattlestick is interested in stories that are human and honest – stories that provoke audiences to think. By guaranteeing a second production, Rattlestick gives its playwrights permission to take chances and, potentially, even to fail. In creating an atmosphere that fosters risk-taking, Rattlestick encourages playwrights to challenge themselves to realize their full creative potential.

With a core operational focus of launching mainstage off-Broadway productions, Rattlestick has produced over 60 world premieres in the past 17 seasons. Now in its 18th season, Rattlestick continues to introduce new writers. Playwright and artist mentors have included Edward Albee, Jon Robin Baitz, Zoe Caldwell, Arthur Kopit, Craig Lucas, Joe Mantello, Terrence McNally, Marsha Norman, and Adam Rapp. Highly acclaimed past productions include: Volunteer Man (OBIE Award), Saved or Destroyed (OBIE Award), Faster, The Last Sunday in June (GLAAD Award nomination), The Pavilion (Drama Desk Award nomination for Outstanding Play of 2005) God Hates the Irish: The Ballad of Armless Johnny (Drama Desk Award nomination), Lady (Drama Desk Award nomination), That Pretty Pretty; Or, The Rape Play, The Amish Project, Slipping, Killers and Other Family, Post No Bills, and The Aliens (OBIE Award).

Rattlestick’s current season features daring new works by Adam Rapp, Jon Fosse, Jesse Eisenberg, Jonathan Tolins, Mando Alvarado, Jessica Dickey, and Lyle Kessler. Currently running at New York’s Cherry Lane Theatre is Rattlestick’s production of Eisenberg’s The Revisionist, in which he co-stars with Vanessa Redgrave.

Rattlestick in Los Angeles –
In bringing Slipping to Los Angeles Rattlestick is exploring the potential for long-term creative collaboration with the local theater, film, and television communities. “Rattlestick is not only thrilled to bring some of its innovative New York productions to Los Angeles audiences,” says Rattlestick Artistic Director David Van Asselt, “but we are also seeking to collaborate and intercross with the remarkable entertainment communities in Los Angeles.” He continued, “Los Angeles is a vital city – open to experimentation and full of creative mavericks. We are very interested in exploring that, opening up a line of communication, tapping into it… seeing what’s possible.”

Daniel Talbott is an actor, director, playwright, producer, literary manager of Rattlestick Playwrights Theater, and artistic director of Rising Phoenix Rep (recipient of the 2007 NYIT Caffe Cino Fellowship Award).  His most recent play, Afghanistan, Zimbabwe, America, Kuwait, was commissioned by Rattlestick and Encore Theatre Company, was presented at A.C.T.’s Costume Shop in San Francisco this past summer, and is being further developed by both companies.  His play Yosemite premiered last season at Rattlestick, and other plays include Sam and Gus, What Happened When, and Slipping (published by Dramatists Play Service, named one of the top ten plays of 2009 by The Advocate, and a 2011 Lambda Literary Award finalist for drama).  His most recent work as an actor includes the Theatre for Oneproject in Times Square and around NYC, and a recurring role on The Big C for Showtime.  Recent directing work includes Follow(Balancin’ Productions), Afghanistan, Zimbabwe, America, Kuwait (Rattlestick/Encore), Much Ado About Nothing (Boomerang), Lake Water (Neighborhood Productions), Eightythree Down (Hard Sparks), Squealer (Lesser America at Theater for the New City), and The Umbrella Plays (the teacup company/FringeNYC, where it won the Overall Excellence Award for Outstanding Play; also presented at The Tank).  Recent producing credits include the off-Broadway productions of All the Rage, Elective Affinities with Zoe Caldwell, Too Much Memory, and the Cino Nights series.  He received a 2011 Theater Hall of Fame Fellowship and was named one of the 15 People of the Year 2006 by nytheatre.com.  He is a graduate of Juilliard and of Solano College Theatre’s ATP.

MacLeod Andrews (JAKE) has performed in a number of shows off-Broadway and off-off-Broadway, including Daniel Talbott’s Slipping at Rattlestick Playwrights Theater, Too Much Memory at New York Theater Workshop’s Jonathan Larson Lab, Somewhere in the Pacific, No End of Blame, and Hang Up through Potomac Theater Project’s residency at Atlantic Theater.  Also David Caudle’s The Common Swallow and The Sunken Living Room for the NYC HOWL! festival, Besharet by Chana Porter with Alivewire Theatrics, and The Umbrella Plays by Stephanie Janssen.  He is a proud company member of Rising Phoenix Rep, with whom he has performed in the shows Nobody by Crystal Skillman, and What Happened When by Daniel Talbott, in addition to Slipping and Too Much Memory.  He enjoys a prolific and lauded career narrating audiobooks.  Films include Found in Time, Split, They Look Like People, and Tuesday Morning.  He moved to Los Angeles in August 2011 and frequently returns to NYC and his hometown of Louisville, KY.  He earned his B.A. from Middlebury College.



Maxwell Hamilton (CHRIS) is a recent graduate from the UCLA School of Film, Theater and Television. While there, he performed as Roger in RENT at the Freud Playhouse, The Groom in Neon Boneyard and Polydeukes in Elektra. Other productions include the West Coast stage premiere of High School Musical where he played Troy Bolton, and Matt in the short film Glass People, with David Hoberman. He has also performed and produced multiple new media series with companies such as Treehouse Productions.

Seth Numrich (ELI) is excited to be reprising the role of Eli, which he originated at Rattlestick off-Broadway. In 2010, Numrich played Lorenzo in The Merchant of Venice at both the Public’s Delacorte Theater and on Broadway, and the next year starred as Albert, owner of the title colt in the Tony Award-winning War Horse. This season he starred in Lincoln Center Theater’s 75th anniversary Broadway revival of Clifford Odets’ Golden Boy. Numrich’s off-Broadway credits include Iphigenia 2.0 (Signature Theatre); On The Levee (LCT3); Gates of Gold(59E59); Dutch Masters (LAByrinth); Too Much Memory, Favorites, and Break My Face On Your Hand (all with Rising Phoenix Repertory); as well as Blind and Yosemite, both at Rattlestick. His regional credits include The History Boys (CTG/Ahmanson Theatre) as well as plays at Seattle Rep, Chautauqua Theatre Co., and the Guthrie Theater in addition to the Edinburgh Fringe Festival. His film and television work includes The Good Wife, Gravity (Starz, series regular), and Private Romeo. Numrich recently signed on as one of the leads in AMC’s pilot, the period drama Turn, which tells the story of an unlikely group of spies who turn the tide in America’s fight for independence. Numrich will play Benjamin Talmadge, an outspoken, impassioned young man who is running reconnaissance missions for General Washington. He has been a teaching artist for Artists Striving to End Poverty (ASTEPonline.org) since 2005 and is a proud member of Rising Phoenix Repertory. At 15, Numrich was admitted to Juilliard, the youngest person ever accepted into the prestigious performing arts conservatory.

Wendy vanden Heuvel (JAN), director of piece by piece productions in NYC, was honored in 2012 with The Barrow Group’s TBG Award for individuals who make outstanding contributions to the theater. As an actress she has performed in Law and Order, and the films The Undeserved, and East of Acadia (Brad Coley, dir.). Her theater credits include Resurrection Blues (Guthrie Theater, David Esbjornson, dir.), A Movie Star Has to Star in Black and White (Signature Theater), Mud (Magic Theater), Counting The Ways/Talk To Me Like the Rain… (Magic Theater, Joseph Chaikin, dir.), History: An American Dream, and The Lower Depths (Anne Bogart, dir.), Sex in a Coma (HERE Arts Center, Lee Breuer , dir.), Blood Orange (Cherry Lane Theater/Blue Heron Theater), The Thickness of Skin (The Barrow Group), Too Much Memory (Rising Phoenix Rep), and The Seagull (Lake Lucille Chekhov Project, Brian Mertes/Melissa Kievman). Wendy vanden Heuvel was a member of Jerzy Grotowski’s Objective Drama Project at Irvine, CA (1991), co-artistic director of The Other Theater with Rosemary Quinn (1994-1998), and she is a member of Rising Phoenix Repertory. She teaches acting at New York University’s Experimental Theater Wing and she is a proud longstanding, and sitting, member of The 52nd Street Project.

David Van Asselt, the artistic director and co-founder of Rattlestick Playwrights Theater, is a playwright (Dog Daze, Incident at Irving’s Pet Place [a radio play], A Trip to the Beach, Winning, and The Messenger) and director.  He has also led playwrights’ groups and taught playwriting, as well as designed and built sets.  His plays have been produced in New York, Washington D.C., Virginia, and Arizona.  Van Asselt holds a B.F.A. from NYU Film School as well as an M.A. in Philosophy from NYU.

Rattlestick and Slipping LA Links:
• http://www.rattlestick.org/rattlestick-la
• Like Rattlestick on Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/RattlestickPlaywrightsTheater
• Follow @RattlestickLA - https://twitter.com/RattlestickLA

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Press for the New York Production of Slipping

“Sensitive and touching.  Jake’s early, awkward encounters with Eli are a particular treat…their relationship plucks heartstrings.” – Time Out New York

“Smart, smoldering drama.”  – The Advocate


“Daniel Talbott has written a funny, dark, and gorgeous new play in Slipping.” – New York Press

“Beautiful, deeply felt, and very moving… gorgeous and wise, balancing teenage angst with an adult perspective that gives Slipping both emotional heft and universality.” – NYTheatre.com

“Well-observed and wise.… Compelling because of the specificity of character and emotional complexity of Talbott’s script.” – Backstage

“Raw energy.” – Village Voice

“A complex and engaging love story…. full of heartbreak and loss, but also of hope and love.” – TheaterMania.com

“A taut, fast-moving and totally riveting piece of theatre…. packs an intense emotional wallop.” – MusicOMH.com

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Devolver Digital

Devolver Digital Doubles Down!
Indie Game Champs Bring Their Chops to VOD Film Releasing

Devolver Actively Looking for Films at SXSW & Elsewhere
For Release Later This Year

AUSTIN, TX – March 7, 2013 – Devolver Digital, well-known as a leading champion in the production, marketing, and distribution of independent video games, today announced that they are adding independent film distribution and promotion to their repertoire. Citing a shortage of attractive options for independent filmmakers who want help promoting their cable VOD and digital releases, the notoriously spunky bunch from Austin, TX has added team members in Los Angeles and San Francisco to build its film effort, Devolver Digital Films, and navigate the rapidly evolving digital distribution landscape.

Co­-Founder and Partner Mike Wilson says his own experience as a filmmaker seeking distribution led him and his partners to the decision to expand Devolver Digital in to film. “It just seems a shame that often a filmmaker works so hard to complete the film, work the festival circuit for another six months to a year, and then hopefully is finally offered a cable and digital VOD deal…but then when it’s time to get the word out, they once again find themselves on their own. The filmmaker is exhausted by that point, as is their network… and most know all too well it’s not enough to just put your film on cable and other digital outlets if nobody knows it’s there. We hope to be that much needed second or third wind to truly find an audience for the film at the home stretch and finish line.”

Devolver Digital’s outspoken passion for indie games, developers and fans has earned them no minor measure of industry notoriety. With this expansion they aim to apply that same fiercely creative devotion to indie filmmakers and their projects.

Andie Grace joins Devolver Digital Films as VP of Acquisitions and “Head Cheerleader” from San Francisco, after a 13­year stint on the executive staff of Burning Man, where she ran the Communications Department, a role that included supporting hundreds of film and television projects’ production and distribution. A filmmaker herself with several production credits, Grace is eager to engage with films from a different side of the table and to put her PR and cultural expertise to work for independent filmmakers. “I’m excited to join Devolver precisely because their philosophy on supporting independents is one I truly share. Indie is where all the bravery and creativity happens, and that’s what I want to be a cheerleader for,” she says.

Devolver is also interested in working with traditional cable VOD and DVD distributors to bring their libraries to emerging “games-first” audiences, who might not be properly served anymore through these means.

Grace and Wilson will both be at SXSW Film in Austin starting on Friday, and are actively seeking completed and near-completed projects for release under the Devolver banner later this year. Filmmakers and distributors interested in discussing partnerships should contact films@devolverdigital.com. To learn more please visit http://www.devolverdigital.com.

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Devolver Digital Films Co-­Founder & Partner Mike Wilson with Andie Grace, VP of Acquisitions
photo credit: keithcarlsen.com

Theatre Raymond Kabbaz Presents
Two Nights of Contemporary Dance
By Compagnie Étant Donné
From France
• En Aparté on Wednesday, April 3, 2013
• TU on Friday, April 5, 2013
In West Los Angeles

LOS ANGELES, CA – February 18, 2013 – Theatre Raymond Kabbaz (TRK) presents two evenings of contemporary dance by Compagnie Étant Donné, with family show En Aparté on Wednesday, April 3, 2013 and TU, an exercise of view, on Friday, April 5, 2013. Étant Donné explores dance as a conceptual art form, with performances that interpret the world through gesture, incorporating elements of independent film, Dadaism, literary theory, and humor. Both shows start at 7:30pm. Adult tickets cost $25, with student tickets $15, available at https://www.vendini.com/ticket-software.html?m=241d6077b39728479d58e072170e1c6f&t=tix. Theatre Raymond Kabbaz at Le Lycee Francais de Los Angeles is located at 10361 W. Pico Blvd., Los Angeles, CA 90064 (310.286.0553). To learn more about Theatre Raymond Kabbaz, please visit http://www.theatreraymondkabbaz.com.

“In a nutshell, Compagnie Étant Donné explores concepts related to human communication,” says Pierre Leloup, Theatre Raymond Kabbaz Director, “These contemporary dance pieces are gestural interpretations of the playground that is life, from the ridiculous to the sublime.”

• Wednesday, April 3, 2013, 7:30pm
En Aparté (45 min.)
A duet for the whole family (ages 6 and up)
This family show explores the beauty, poetics, and inspiration in daily life. The work reveals the unique in everything around us. Through the bodies of the performers, movement becomes dance, noise becomes song. Household events, like a shower and the cacophony of dishes, are transported into the marvelous. En Aparté translates roughly to “in separate.”

En Aparté (photo courtesty Theatre Raymond Kabbaz)

• Friday, April 5, 2013, 7:30pm
TU (45 min.)
TU (or “you”) is an exercise of view. The piece features hooded dancers in a ghostly environment. Hoods hide the faces and expressions of figures who, ultimately, all walk the same path. An awakening reveals the differences behind everything that looks alike.

TU (photo courtesy Theatre Raymond Kabbaz)

Compagnie Étant Donné –
Founded in 1997 by classically trained dancers Frédérike Unger and Jérôme Ferron, Étant Donné blends elements of independent film, Dadaism, literary theory, and humor into contemporary dance performances. The Company, based in Rouen, France, is committed to staging conceptual movement that explores the world through gesture. At turns absurd and poetic, the works never forget life beyond the stage. Among the Company’s influences are Jim Jarmusch, Roland Barthes, Pierre Desproges, Sonic Youth, and Peter Handke.

Étant Donné (which roughly translates to “given”) takes its name from Marcel Duchamp’s last project, which he created in secrecy from 1946 to 1968. Generally credited as the first known art installation, Duchamp’s final work requires viewers to peek through peepholes to look at a plaster model of a naked woman in front of a waterfall. Étant Donné is supported by the French Cultural Ministry, the Région Haute-Normandie, the City of Rouen, and the Conseil Général de Seine-Maritime.

Theatre Raymond Kabbaz–
Theatre Raymond Kabbaz is a non-profit institution dedicated to the promotion of art and culture in the West Los Angeles area. This 220-seat theatre welcomes multidisciplinary and multicultural shows. TRK’s mission is to be an open window on French and international cultures, as well as to inspire and sustain a lifelong appreciation for the arts.

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