SPECTACLE

Awesome Tapes From Africa & Debo Band

admin — Wed, 16 May 2012 20:33:40 +0000

Wednesday, May 23, 2012 8:00pm The internet makes many rabbit holes deeper, and none is more fun to go burrowing in than the music blog that brings the exotic marvels of African cassette stalls straight to your desktop. Brian Shimkovitz runs the highly respected Awesome Tapes From Africa, and he’s coming to town to play [...]

ALL VISUAL BOSTON SLIDESHOW with Bill Burke

admin — Tue, 06 Mar 2012 04:01:29 +0000

Spectacle 128 Brookside Jamaica Plain Saturday, March 10, 2012 at 8:00pm ALL VISUAL BOSTON is a one-night only, digital slideshow projection of recent work created by local and international artists, curated by Trevor Powers. It includes photography, painting, drawing and video. Participating artists: Al Baio, Phil Bergevin, Laura Beth Reese, Rachel Boillot, Kelly Burgess, Jonathan Campolo, [...]

Mission Hill and the Miracle of Boston

admin — Tue, 28 Feb 2012 03:28:24 +0000

Join us for the kick-off of an indefinite occupation of Boston screens. Inspired by the Occupy movement, Cinematic Disobedience aims to bring people together for food and discussion and to present films that reflect in one way or another on the state of our economy, our public space and our society. March 1st Potluck at [...]

Goat of Arms, Berbere Superstar, Hurricane Hostetter

admin — Tue, 13 Dec 2011 03:01:31 +0000

Thursday December 15th 8pm. Goat of Arms (drums, accordion, and sounds) Berbere Superstar (electric violin over samples) Hurricane Hostetter (violin looper) Kate from the Whitehause/Peace Loving doing her solo style show & Jim Hobbs solo sax legend. All ages. Donations accepted.

Star Pupils 2: A student film program

admin — Tue, 15 Nov 2011 04:30:56 +0000

Spectacle. 128 Brookside Boston, MA Saturday, November 19 7:00pm. BYOB, Donations suggested. Unpredictably funny new video work by MassArt students Cooper Conley-Currier, Fred Soligan and Dillon Buss traverses from light to dark and strangely invasive shades in between.

Jaap Pieters: The Eye of Amsterdam

admin — Thu, 29 Sep 2011 20:52:00 +0000

October 13 2011. 8pm. Facebook invite “There is something inexplicable and strangely exquisite about the Super-8mm films of Dutch artist Jaap Pieters. A longtime icon of small-gauge filmmaking who has shown in cinemas, art spaces, and festivals throughout Europe, Pieters is often compared to Warhol because of his preference for single takes and a fixed [...]

Student Films: Star Pupils

admin — Thu, 15 Sep 2011 20:28:09 +0000

Friday September 23rd, Doors 8:30pm. Donations accepted. Curated by Brittany Gravely. A selection of recent student work from the Museum School (Daniel Alvarado, Eduardo Giralt, Paige Mazurek), MassArt (Michael Basta, Katie Giguere), and Harvard (Mich’ael Zupraner) focusing on the fluctuating spaces between our fictive selves and documentary selves according to the whims of memory, technology, [...]

To What Strange Place: Ian Nagoski

admin — Mon, 29 Aug 2011 16:12:14 +0000

Friday, September 2 · 8:00pm - 11:00pm To What Strange Place. Ethnomusicologist Ian Nagoski plays 78s of Greece, Turkey & Armenian music recorded by recent immigrants to the US about 100 years ago. Hear the sounds of the gone world. At the new Spectacle space. Just say the word if you need directions. Pt 2 of the East [...]

Distilled Motion I: A night of 16mm

admin — Mon, 20 Jun 2011 15:37:19 +0000

Distilled Motion I: A night of 16mm Organized by Radon Lake. Thursday, June 23rd, 2011, 8pm Spectacle 128 Brookside Ave, JP Allow your eyes to be hypnotized and your mind to be fooled into seeing things that never were. Thousands of individually rendered frames express movement not captured but merely implied. Some works possess a [...]

Jenny Graf, Childe Bride, Berglind Agustdottir, Duck That, Elks

admin — Tue, 24 May 2011 19:34:02 +0000

Friday May 27, 9PM. $5-10 suggested donation. Jenny Graf the other half of the duo Metalux intrigues with black lace vocals that mirror the beauty of the Appalachian Mountains meshed over a sound scape that includes sampled sounds and layered guitar riffs. Secondly, Childe Bride plays dark wave, ambience with haunting vocals over laying lo-fi [...]