calendar of events: 2019
Bring along that favorite sweater now unraveled, those moth eaten socks or that shawl that caught on a nail/. We are going to have the pleasure of Marty Clark's guidance for some creative darning!
Please bring some darning needles if you have them. There
will be plenty of loose yarn to pull from.
All
ages welcome!
Artist Talk, Performance & Community Potluck
CONVIVIUM
/ POETRY / PERFORMANCE / POTLUCK
The
New Colossus, NUEVAS COLOSAS is a performance art
piece which explores immigration across Maine through
the spoken art of poetry. Performer Joshua McCarey and
Threadbare Theatre Workshop, in residence at The
Cannery at South Penobscot, will give a public talk
and performance of NUEVAS COLOSAS.
Inspired
by Emma Lazarus’ poem, NUEVAS COLOSAS quests to make
visible the contributions of immigrant women to Maine
society in the time since Lazarus’ poem was penned in
1883. McCarey will be joined by Kate Russell and
Esther Adams of Threadbare Theatre Workshop, whose
mission is to illuminate epics in a simple way through
the magic of resourceful storytelling; laying bare our
humanity so that we may thread more empathy into
existence.
Join us for this free community event, performance and
potluck.
Bring
a favorite dish if you can, all ages welcome!!
Celebrating the closing of the Sound Installation Festival, HOT ROT: Eulalia Zigman and Sarah Finn (movement, textiles and poetry) will offer a performance and Zine launch following their week long residency at the Cannery.
Eulalia Zigman / Sarah Finn
HOT ROT is a corporeal love letter to the compost
pile we cohabitate and tend to. This works in
process showing is a physical exploration of
disintegrations in revelation; an archive of
sensual emergence from de/composition. This
installation performance is the culmination of a
week long residency and submission-based
assemblage, where Zigman and Finn, dug into the
material of decay and disruption as the encounters
that bind us joyously, and in complex networks, to
one another. Eulalia Zigman and Sarah Finn invite
the public to join them in this exploration. Light
food and printed material to accompany this
showing.
Last
chance to view the works of our 2019 Sound
Installation Festival with works by Norton,
Ostrowski, Wright, Ross and Chessa!
Poetry READING & CONVERSATION: with award-winning poets Julia Bouwsma & Beatrix Gates. Bouwsma & Gates will present their approaches to creating an active conversation between personal experience and historical experience by investigating connections to and distance from histories in question. They will read from completed work and work-in-progress.
Julia Bauwsma
Julia Bouwsma lives off-the-grid in the mountains of western Maine, where she is a poet, farmer, editor, and small-town librarian. She is the author of two poetry collections: Midden (Fordham University Press, 2018) and Work by Bloodlight (Cider Press Review, 2017). Honors she has received include the 2019 and 2018 Maine Literary Awards; the 2016-17 Poets Out Loud Prize, selected by Afaa Michael Weaver; and the 2015 Cider Press Review Book Award, selected by Linda Pastan. Her poems and book reviews can be found in Cutthroat, Grist, The Ilanot Review, Poetry Daily, Poetry Northwest, RHINO, River Styx, Verse Daily, and other journals. She serves as Library Director for Webster Library in Kingfield, Maine.
Beatrix Gates
Beatrix Gates’ Desire lines will be published by Artifact in 2019. She has published five collections, including Dos and In the Open, a Lambda finalist. She received the Huntington Library Jutzi fellowship to research astronomer Henrietta Swan Leavitt and shared a Witter Bynner Award with Electa Arenal for Jesús Aguado's The Poems of Vikram Babu. A returning fellow at MacDowell & VCCA, hybrid work appears in Scotland’s MAP and A Radiance of Attention: Jane Cooper with poems & translations in The Kenyon Review, Tarpaulin Sky and Tupelo Quarterly. At Granite Press, she published the bilingual IXOK AMAR.GO, Central American Women Poets for Peace. A Goddard MFA faculty member, she has taught writing and literature for over twenty years at Colby, NYU, CCNY, and BC’s QUEST University. She lives in Brooksville, Maine. . Beatrix Gates
To celebrate and mark the occasion of the opening of Mathew Ostrowski’s summerland, a new installation for the 3rd (Not-Quite-Annual) Sound Installations Festival, there will be a concert double-bill: a Voice and Movement Performance by the duo Echo Den, and sound-artist Matt Ostrowski on laptop and electronics.
Matthew Ostrowski & summerland
The Summer Land: An inhabitable sphere or zone of spiritualized matter in space. Andrew Jackson Davis, 1867
summerland
is an installation for 24
antique telegraph sounders where
all sounds are derived from the
writings of Morse and
transcripts of Fox’s
communications with the Summer
Land. This work attempts to
seize from the ether the dead
voices of Samuel Morse and Kate
Fox, materializing language by
reducing it to streams of
particles, taking the form of an
electromagnetic seance. New York
City composer, performer and
installation artist Matthew
Ostrowski will perform
solo with laptop and electronics
for the opening of his piece.
Summerland is made possible
by the New York State Council on
the Arts with the support of
Governor Andrew M. Cuomo and the
New York State Legislature.
Carol Genetti & Asimina Chremos
Echo Den is the duo of Chicago-based experimental vocalist Carol Genetti and Philadelphia-based dance artist Asimina Chremos. The two have been performing together on and off for over 15 years, exploring a primal sisterhood through nuances of voice and gesture, sensitive improvisational practices, and deep inner listening.
Asimina Chremos multidisciplinary artist in dance, performance, improvisation, and fiber arts and veteran experimental vocal improvisor whose work extends to sound and visual art media. Carol Genetti are stopping for a concert on their Maine tour!
Carolyn Van Cise will guide us through some fundamentals of basket weaving. Some basic minimal materials will be provided --all contributions are welcome!
We
will also have some available
tools to share, but if you
have sharp snips, flat pliers
or other basket weaving tools
please bring them along too.
the lowest of winds
Janet Underhill / Patrick Crossland / Leslie Ross
Following
a short, collaborative
residency, Jane Underhill
(bassoon and
contra-bassoon) &
Leslie Ross (bassoon) will
share an evening of
improvisations and scored
pieces--to be joined by
returning guest,
trombonist Patrick
Crossland who wowed the
audience here last summer.
Haynes / Platz / Smith / Crane
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Stephen
Haynes cornet Jeff Platz guitar Damon Smith bass Matt Crane drums and percussion |
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The cooperative
quartet is a New
England-based
cooperative ensemble
steeped in the
traditions of Free
Music. Convened in
Providence, RI, the
group is a rare
example of a working
band, whose album -
Search Versus ReSearch
- was issued earlier
this year in the
Italian Setola di
Maiale label. Expect
the unexpected,
delivered with great
grace.
Stephen Haynes
Jeff Platz
Damon Smith
Matt Crane
Caitlin Cawley and Melinda Faylor, dynamic improvisors and composers will each offer a solo performances of new pieces before joining forces in a group improv.
Melinda Faylor
Brooklyn based pianist and multimedia collaborator/curator, Melinda Faylors’s Electric Kulintang Suite: Fantasy and Fugue is a work in progress and composed using recorded samples of the Kulintang ensemble gongs and drums of the Philippines manipulated live and complemented by prepared piano. This performance is accompanied by psychedelic images generated through the use of Google AI DeepDream
Caitlin Cawley
Caitlin Cawley, percussionist, improviser, educator and electronic musician based in Brooklyn, NY will present two pieces for speaking percussionist. The first is based on a short story by Sarah Turbin, David Bowie Finds his Umbrella in the Afterlife. The second is Introducing (object) by Carolyn Chen, for performer, recorded questions, and object.
Performance, Talk and Potluck
a joint benefit for Restorative Art Works and the Hancock County Community Reparations Board
All
proceeds
benefit R.A.W
and the HCCRB
Join performers and board members for a community potluck dinner after the show --bring a dish If you can!
Restorative Art Works
a theater and writing group comprised of current and former incarcerated residents who along with interested community members will present a spoken word piece on the theme of 'Justice' that invites audience response and conversation. The presentation will include an excerpt from a one man show 'FIRE' that examines issues and experiences associated with long term incarceration, poverty, violence, redemption and successful reentry into community.
Hancock County Community Reparations Board
will give a brief introduction to what is happening in Hancock County within the judicial system and with schools. Actively seeking new Board members, the HCCRB will discuss ways in which folks can get involved--from mentors to board members.
Board members and mentors will be available for discussion and questions at the potluck, after the performance.
Between Day and Night
Greg Kowalski / Dave Seidel / Geoffrey Koetsch
Between the
Day and the
Night is a
non-narrative
performance
inspired by
the found
footage of the
French master
Georges
Rouault
burning of 315
of his
paintings in a
factory
furnace in
1947. Devoid
of dialog, the
piece is an
audio-visual
poem in which
the performer
is immersed in
sounds and
images created
by his own
movements.
Interactive
apparatuses
trigger sound
and visual
events that
give a voice
to the old
footage and
the ashen
remains of the
canvases.
Gregory Kowalski
Dave Seidel
hours: Fridays 4–6 pm, Sundays 1–4 pm, and by appointment
Opening night -June 15, 7:30 pm- will feature an artist talk by Steve Norton on his composition Requiem and a live performance of Luciano Chessa’s installation #ooffoo #ffooff.
Installations
Luciano Chessa
#ooffoo #ffooff
Observe from a distance. Or get closer to the art: Framed art on the wall murmurs. The sound is shaped by increasing and decreasing light proximities, by proxemics.#00FF00 #FF00FF can be the resulting counterpoint of frequencies. Merging audiovisual installation and music instrument building, #00FF00 #FF00FF, encourages both action and contemplation. Flipping receiver's and transmitter's agencies, viewers and mirrored artworks become, intermittently, spectators and performers.
Steve Norton
Requiem
Requiem is an electroacoustic music composition whose topic is human-driven extinction and whose sound materials are exclusively the sounds of ten birds and two frogs—all species which have gone extinct during the era of recorded sound. Requiem enables us to hear them once again, ad aeternum. This is a unique moment in the history of life (and death) on earth, and the beginning of a new era.
Steve Norton
Leslie Ross
water harp
A sound construction that uses remains found in the old Penobscot Cannery--a discarded electrical factory box, can lids, metal ducts and unused canning cans--is concieved to hang on the façade of the building while using the flowing Winslow Stream which runs beneath it to sound the strings of the instrument.
Walter Wright
a multi-media portrait
Walter Wright’s installation is based on patterns and rhythms observed during his residency. He walked the area around The Cannery taking photos, recording video, and looking for textures, patterns and rhythms that are part of the natural and built environment. Rather than using traditional means of composition, he used these observations in creating the sound and video for the installation.
Walter Wright
water harp funded in part by a grant from the Maine Arts Commission, an independent state agency supported by the National Endowment for the Arts.
WALTER WRIGHT, During his residency Walter walked the area around The Cannery taking photos, recording video, and looking for textures, patterns and rhythms that are part of the natural and built environment. Rather than using traditional means of composition, he will use these in creating the quadrophonic sound and multi-channel video installation, and in preparing ‘scores’ to be performed by himself and guest musicians.
Walter Wright
is an
interdisciplinary
artist, his
practice
includes
computer
programming,
electro-acoustic
music, and
video
performance.
His focus is
on
"improvisation
as a way of
being present
in the world."
MICHAEL ROSENSTEIN, explores the interaction of acoustic and electronic sounds in collectively improvised settings and compositional frameworks. Process is central to his practice. This includes building and modifying sound-gathering devices, amplified surfaces, salvaged instruments, and simple oscillators. It extends to gathering recordings at ocean beaches, bogs, subways, city walks, and as part of architectural investigations utilizing microphones, photo diodes, contact microphones, hydrophones, and electromagnetic sensors. He develops these raw sonic sources, transforming, distressing, and combining them, and feeding off of the unstable sonic results.
AN&R
Trio, is NATE
ALDRICH
(recordings),
STEVE
NORTON
(reed
instruments
and
electronics)
and LESLIE
ROSS
(bassoon and
electronics)-
with nearly 90
years of
performance
experience
among them,
they have
played
experimental
and electronic
music together
since 2015.
AN&R
creates
improvised
sound
environments
using extended
instrumental
techniques,
electronic
processing and
field
recordings
that are rich
in texture and
subtlety.
A trio of visionaries, JILL BURTON, voice/movement (Gainesville),WADE MATTHEWS, electronics (Madrid), and ANDREW DRURY, floor tom (New York) with over a century of combined experience whose methods employ technology running from the Stone Age to the Digital Age but whose product is a timeless ritual of collective human imagination.
Daksha will guide us through an introduction to needle felting and it's possibilities from sculpture to jewelry to applique....
Please bring a household sponge (as large as you can find). Needles and roving and tea will be supplied, however certainly bring along any roving or yarn or wool fabric you might like to use or share.
RSVP encouraged so that we have an idea of how many might attend, but drop-ins are welcome.
South Penobscot Knitting and Craft Circle will hold its first community workshop. Guiding us through the process as we each get to make a set of candles, Cat McNeil will share techniques for hand dipping beeswax taper candles. Supplies, beeswax, wick and tea, are furnished, if you'd like otherwise to contribute, bring along an ounce of beeswax or nibbles to share.
Fridays
4–6 pm,
Sundays 1–4
pm, and by
appointment
*CYMBAL
BATHS
-- now offered
at the close
of
installation
hours:
Fridays
at 6pm /
Sundays at 4pm
*Tom
Hamilton’s "City
of Vorticity"
-- an ongoing
participatory
“aural score”
with an open
invitation
for any
individual
musician to
interact with
the soundscape
by performing
with it.
See
below for more
information on
the
Installations
and on Cymbal Baths.
and on Cymbal Baths.