$10-$20 Suggested Donation for Performances
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2024



The 5th and last of a series of live performances throughout the season
Compositions Five & Six
solo and group interpretation with
  Patrick Corrigan, Laura Cromwell, Bea Gates,  Chris Pirsos and The Asthmatic
Saturday October 12 -7PM

M P Landis' visual compositions series lay out a mosaic of 12 x 9 pieces. Each piece thought of as a note: the whole composition left to the performers to interpret how they may choose to.

Patrick Corrigan, co-founded The Apohadion Theater in Portland Me in 2009, and has performed in experimental groups with Crank Sturgeon, RJ Miller, Sam Seda, Aidia Rayne, David Yearwood and others. 
A drummer for whom the drums are an instrument of storytelling, Laura Cromwell has performed all over the world with boundary breaking musicians such as Laurie Anderson, John Zorn, Jamie Saft, and the Shaggs. As a self-taught musician and child of downtown NYC, she brings a wildcard aesthetic to free improvisation: anything is possible, expect the unexpected!  She is very excited to be performing at the Cannery with the work of MP Landis.
Bea Gates The Burning Key, New & Selected Poems (1973-2023) features new & uncollected poetry, letterpress editions, translations and selection from seven books. Gates has collaborated with printmakers, painters, weavers, and composers. Gates curates SIDELINES/ In Translation: Collaborations from the world at The Cannery where she serves on the Board. She has life-long roots in Maine, with significant time in NYC and San Francisco, and lives in Maine where she teaches in academic and community settings and works as a freelance editor.

M P Landis is an artist living and working in Maine. He's lived and worked in Provincetown, MA and Brooklyn, NY. In NYC along with his studio practice, he was very active in the NYC downtown music scene, photographing and painting both on and off the stage, and collaborating with musicians, writers, dancers and other visual artists. In 2015, he and his family moved to Portland.

Christopher Pirsos is a musician & composer based in Blue Hill, Maine. He grew up dancing to the clarinet music of Epirotic Greece in his grandparents' living room, which started his love of reed instruments, drones, & improvisation. He's from northern New Jersey originally, where he was lucky to receive a saxophone as a hand me down from his older cousin. Since then, he's enjoyed exploring sound by playing in barns, underneath railroad passes, and on islands.

The Asthmatic (Sigrid Harmon) is a Maine based singer/sound collage artist. She regularly performs avant cut-up vocal pieces that are entirely improvisational. She hopes to combine sounds from the animal kingdom with human cadences/phonetics, in turn creating dissonant, sweltering soundscapes.


The 4th of a series of live performances throughout the season
Compositions Five & Six
solo and group interpretation with
  Phillip Greenlief, Claudia La Rocco, Leslie Ross, and Meg Wolfe
Saturday September 21 -7PM

M P Landis' visual compositions series lay out a mosaic of 12 x 9 pieces. Each piece thought of as a note: the whole composition left to the performers to interpret how they may choose to.

Since his emergence on the west coast in the late 1970s, saxophonist/composer Phillip Greenlief has achieved international acclaim for his recordings and performances with musicians and composers in the post-jazz continuum as well as new music innovators and virtuosic improvisers. He has performed with Wadada Leo Smith, Meredith Monk, Rashaun Mitchell & Silas Reiner, and They Might Be Giants. Albums include two LANTSKAP LOGIC TRIO releases (w/ Evelyn Davis and Fred Frith), THAT OVERT DESIRE OF OBJECT with Joelle Leandre, ALL AT ONCE with FPR (Frank Gratkowski and Jon Raskin), and OH THAT MONSTER with LA punk pioneers Thelonious Monster.
M P Landis is an artist living and working in Maine. He's lived and worked in Provincetown, MA and Brooklyn, NY. In NYC along with his studio practice, he was very active in the NYC downtown music scene, phographing and painting both on and off the stage, and collaborating with musicians, writer, dancers and other visual artists. In 2015, he and his family moved to Portland.
Claudia La Rocco�s books include The Best Most Useless Dress: Selected Writings (Badlands Unlimited) and the novel petit cadeau, published in live, digital, and print editions by The Chocolate Factory. She was a critic for The New York Times, editorial director of Open Space, and now edits The Back Room at Small Press Traffic. Her poetry and prose are widely anthologized and her lectures and performance works have been presented by The Walker Art Center, On the Boards, The Whitney Museum of American Art, et al. Her collaborators include visual artist Anne Walsh, choreographers Rashaun Mitchell + Silas Riener, and musician/composer Phillip Greenlief, with whom she is animals & giraffes, an experiment in interdisciplinary improvisation.
Leslie Ross -bassoonist, composer & sound artist, sound installation artist & performer- took a plunge in the 80's into the dance and music improv scene of downtown NYC and has immersed herself in experimental music ever since. Leslie has presented solo acoustic and electro-acoustic programs, exhibited sound installations, worked with choreographers and played and toured with numerous musicians throughout the US, Canada and Europe at: Dance Space Project, PS 122, Jack Tilton Gallery, Lincoln Center Summer Stage, DIA, Roulette Intermedium, Experimental Intermedia, Issue Project Room, The Western Front, Skoll, Het Apolohuis, De Ijsbreker, LOGOS Foundation, Rote Fabrik among other places.
Meg Wolfe is a neuroqueer, interdisciplinary artist and landscape gardener living in Deer Isle, Maine since 2019. Prior to that she was based in Los Angeles and NYC. Wolfe works through an extended process across media, spaces, and practices that are choreographic and intuitive at their core. Her work has been commissioned and performed nationally and internationally and supported through various residencies and grants/awards. Wolfe was founding director of Show Box L.A.; created the residency program we live in space; produced the roving Anatomy Riot performance series; and was co-editor of itch dance journal. She has performed with Vicky Shick, Clarinda Mac Low, Sylvia Palacios Whitman, Susan Rethorst, Ann Magnuson and the Psych Out Dada GoGo Family Band, among others. .


The 3rd of a series of live performances throughout the season
Compositions Five & Six
solo and group interpretation with
  Kat Dobbins, Duane Ingalls, Al Margolis, and Steve Norton
Monday August 26 -7PM

M P Landis' visual compositions series lay out a mosaic of 12 x 9 pieces. Each piece thought of as a note: the whole composition left to the performers to interpret how they may choose to.

Kat plays the trombone, sings, screams, and sometimes uses garbage as a musical instrument. (Melrose MA)

M P Landis is an artist living and working in Maine. He's lived and worked in Provincetown, MA and Brooklyn, NY. In NYC along with his studio practice, he was very active in the NYC downtown music scene, phographing and painting both on and off the stage, and collaborating with musicians, writer, dancers and other visual artists. In 2015, he and his family moved to Portland.

"I'm a "downeast" Maine artist/educator who co-leads recording & performance 
groups and projects along with some ordinary musical entities and solo pursuits...  I'v enjoyed wondrous experiences with N. B. Aldrich & friends, Les Trois Etoiles, Joel Chadabe, The Field Guides, SPU & Milo, Jaap Blonk, & others, sometimes
at Xfest, Frantasia and Bread & Puppet Theatre."
Al Margolis was a leader in the 1980s American cassette underground through his cassette label
Sound of Pig Music and was co-founder of experimental music label Pogus Productions, which he
continues to run. Active under the name If, Bwana since 1984, making music that has swung between
fairly spontaneous studio constructions and more process-oriented composition.


Central Maine-based sound artist and musician Steve Norton has been performing and recording for over 35 years. His performance focus is on improvisation, which is filtered through a strongly compositional sensibility.


post-residency
Performance
with
  Harley Healy & Emma Jane O�Mara
Wednesday July 31 -7PM

Harley Healy and Emma Jane are arriving at The Cannery after a year and a half of collaboration. On their way here, they recorded impromptu performances (en route and at Denver union station, Washington DC union station, and Lake Michigan). Here, they are responding to themselves, in a performance which culminates on this evening. Their collaboration takes many forms including but not limited to dance, site specific building/unbuilding, writing, instrument construction, and shadow play. .



The 2nd of a series of live performances throughout the season
Compositions Five & Six
solo and group interpretation with
  Jason Gibbs, Harley Healy & Emma Jane O�Mara, and David Watson
Saturday July 27 -7PM

M P Landis' visual compositions series lay out a mosaic of 12 x 9 pieces. Each piece thought of as a note: the whole composition left to the performers to interpret how they may choose to.

Guitar player, improviser, field recordist, E.Jason Gibbs' compositions are built from field recordings, and explore the relationship between the built and natural worlds and how humans impose themselves on environments. His work for guitar is improvised (drawing on minimalism, noise, free jazz and fingerstyle).

M P Landis is an artist living and working in Maine. He's lived and worked in Provincetown, MA and Brooklyn, NY. In NYC along with his studio practice, he was very active in the NYC downtown music scene, phographing and painting both on and off the stage, and collaborating with musicians, writer, dancers and other visual artists. In 2015, he and his family moved to Portland.

David Watson is an experimental musician. He plays guitar and bagpipes, working inside and outside of traditions.

Harley Healy and Emma Jane O�Mara in residency at the Cannery are keen to participate in this evening of Compositions Five and Six. They will perform using made instruments, recorded sound, and found objects.
Stay Tuned for more information about their performance on Wednesday July 31!


The Cannery at South Penobscot is hosting a
Downeast Restorative Justice sponsored training with
Maine Boys to Men
July 16 & 17
Reducing Sexism and Violence Program
(RSVP)
The Training covers six topics over two days; Building Support & Safety � �Why boys?�; Gender Stereotypes; Empathy & Consent Beyond the Binary & Narrow Masculinity; Upstander Intervention; and Facilitation & Storytelling Techniques.
This training is ideal for educators, administrators, social workers, clinicians, parole officers, parents, domestic violence advocates, counselors, athletic coaches, facilitators, and volunteers� ideally, anyone working with youth!
Please visit RSVP for program information and the Training Institute for registration.
2-day training fee is $195. MB2M offers discounts or full scholarships to anyone who needs one.


Live performance of M P Landis'
Compositions Five & Six
solo and group interpretation with
Karin Spitfire, Anna Dembska & id  m theft able
Saturday June 29 -7PM
The 1st of a performance series throughout the season.
!Stay Tuned!

M P Landis' visual compositions series lay out a mosaic of 12 x 9 pieces. Each piece thought of as a note: the whole composition left to the performers to interpret how they may choose to.

This first performance is a prelude and eve of M P's opening (June 30) and show at Cynthia Winings Gallery in Blue Hill.
Composer, soprano, and improvisor Anna Dembska has been creating and performing concert music, music theater, and site-specific events and installations for over forty years.
These days her work is strongly influenced and inspired by the continuum of nature and taoist philosophy through the practice of tai chi, especially push-hands and its principals of responsiveness and patience, connecting, following, and adhering.

M P Landis is an artist living and working in Maine.

In 1989 Landis moved to Provincetown, MA to concentrate on making visual art, his intention since early childhood. Soon after he moved to Brooklyn, NY where along with his studio practice, was very active in the NYC downtown music scene, phographing and painting both on and off the stage, and collaborating with musicians, writer, dancers and other visual artists. In 2015, he and his family moved to Portland.
Since 1990 he has been in over 40 solo exhibitions and numerous 2-person and group exhibitions and is included in many publice and private collections.



id m theft able is a composer, improviser and performer that works within and without the realms of noise, avant-improvisation, sound poetry, performance art, et c. et c. et c.  using voice, found objects, electronics, and whatever else is available.
He has given over a thousand performances across 4 continents, in 40 countries in settings ranging from the scummiest of squats to the fanciest of festivals.
Karin Spitfire is an activist artist who uses whatever medium necessary to get her message across, ranging from performance to poetry, from artist books to sculpture.



April Sprouts: a Celebration!
A Craft and Knitting Circle(s) all day,
Friday April 26-9AM to Sundown
w/a potluck at 5pm
Open to all!
invite your children, grandchildren, elders, neighbors and friends!
also an invitation to share some sprouting seeds, beginnings of a project,
doesn't have to be a craft project!
...a sweater, a poem, a tune, a seed, a thought, a proposal for action...
Come by ~when you can~
for the day / for the potluck / to say hi / early & later / whenever
Bring a project that you are working on, or find inspiration here.
(limited supplies for basket weaving, spinning, sewing and knitting will be on hand)


2023



FROM WITHIN:
WRITINGS
closing event
DECEMBER 3
2:30 pm (prompt start)
Doors open: 1 pm

Live readings and conversation with two writers ZOOM'ing in from Maine State Prison.
(Zoom attendance option available, please inquire for link)
Moderated by poet, Bea Gates
Collin K, 2018
Poetry has always been part of Lalee's life. Introduced to poetry and to traditional oral story telling as a child in his native country (Somalia), and seeing poetry as an identity and a form of deeper communication with the universe and who/what it contains, Lalee only lately started exploring writing poems in English.
Leo has had a painful and complex relationship with writing over the course of his life. In recent time he has been able to use poetry as a cathartic means of capturing and processing moments of pain and reflection, giving him an avenue of artistic voice, unique from his public-facing, political, or scholarly works.
Last chance to visit (quick peek)!
FROM WITHIN exhibit
Friday 4-6 & Sunday 1-3
Through December 3



FROM WITHIN:
JUSTICE, AND CREATIVE EXERCISE
an Inclusive Community Conversation
NOVEMBER 19, 2 pm
JOIN US for a dynamic, invigorating discussion about the state of justice, inside and outside the system, inside and outside our own selves, and the powerful promise of the arts to effect change.
Facilitated by Larraine Brown and Norman Kehling of AIMe

AIMe - Artivism in Maine employs the arts and culture as powerful tools to effect social, economic and environmental justice throughout Waldo County and Maine. HIIT (Helping Incarcerated Individuals Transition) is a significant project sponsored by AIMe and founded by Norman Kehling. Mr Kehling was sentenced to forty four years and served thirty years at Maine State Prison, seven of those in solitary confinement. Both education and the arts are important in Mr Kehling's life as a free man. Most important is his commitment to work for the rights of those who are still incarcerated.
Ongoing FROM WITHIN exhibit Hours:
Friday 4-6 & Sunday 1-3
Through December 3



THE BURNING KEY
50 Years of hope as resistance
NOVEMBER 12, 5 pm
Poetry Reading/Talk
BEA GATES
From San Francisco Poet Laureate Tongo Eisen-Martin:
“Like witnessing a holy physics, … Gates makes all phenomena music. You will exit this collection transformed.”
In 1975, Bea Gates returned to Maine. Having designed and printed native tongue (hopalong press, 1973), she bound the edition at Gray Parrot’s Hancock bindery. In 1976, she moved hopalong press from the Berkshires to the Larson’s old canning factory in South Penobscot where she founded Granite Press (1975-1989) as poet, Book Artist & feminist publisher. There could be a book about moving equipment and building print shops, but Bea has written more poetry than prose, now surfacing in her new collection—The Burning Key, New & Selected Poems (1973-2023) from Thera Books featuring new & uncollected poetry, letterpress limited editions, selections from books including Lambda Poetry Finalist In the Open and award-winning translations.
Maine Arts Commission Poetry Awardee and MacDowell fellow, Gates taught writing & literature for over twenty years in the Goddard MFA. She has taught in undergraduates and graduate programs, including CCNY, Colby College, NYU, and continues to teach workshops and one-to-one for mixed generations, young adults, and lgbtq folk in rural & urban communities. She initiated SIDELINES: Poems in Translation in more than one language at the Cannery in 2018. Her mail still comes to Penobscot. One of two remaining Readings, out of eight in Maine! this year.



FROM WITHIN
a three-part exhibit featuring art by incarcerated individuals
OCTOBER 29, 2 pm
Opening Reception
3pm we will be joined on ZOOM by artist John Lanpher
Exhibit Hours: Friday 4-6 & Sunday 1-3
Through December 3
Check back for related upcoming events
(e.g. A community Conversation in Nov 19 w/special guests)



Canceled: due to hurricane Lee -stay safe everyone!
Duo Denum & CillaVee
an electroacoustic field of sound and motion
SEPTEMBER 15, 8:30pm
Al Margolis: clarinet, violin, objects, contact mics
Tom Law: Max/MSP, treble viol
CillaVee: movement, voice




Closing Concert & Reception
Featuring Aldrich, Norton & Ross
Saturday, July 8
doors open at 6 pm, music at 7 pm

Continued installation hours: Thursdays - Sundays, from 12:00 to 6:00 PM
A CRANBERRY ISLES SOUNDSCAPE

an immersive soundscape installation
by the Island Soundscape Project
ollaborative sense-making.
Saturday, June 10 - Saturday, July 8
hours: Thursdays - Sundays, from 12:00 to 6:00 PM

opening reception, featuring
 E. Jason Gibbs, in concert
Saturday, June 10
doors open at 6 PM / music at 7 PM

A Cranberry Isles Soundscape is a four-channel soundscape installation made from audio materials gathered on the five islands comprising the Cranberry Isles, a Maine township which lies just south of the much larger (and well known) Mount Desert Island. The project was undertaken with the support and encouragement of the Great Cranberry Island Historical Society, where it is part of their permanent museum collection. It was also made possible in part by a University of Maine Arts Initiative grant.

A Cranberry Isles Soundscape was researched, recorded and composed between May, 2022 and April, 2023 by the Island Soundscape Project. The Island Soundscape Project is N.B.Aldrich, Adriana Cavalcanti and Steve Norton, who wish to acknowledge invaluable contributions from research assistants Merrilee Schoen and Sabrina Sudol.

concert
 E. Jason Gibbs
June 10, 7 PM

Guitar player, improviser, field recordist, E.Jason Gibbs' compositions are built from field recordings, and explore the relationship between the built and natural worlds and how humans impose themselves on environments. His work for guitar is improvised (drawing on minimalism, noise, free jazz and fingerstyle).



2022

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