The 14Karat Cabaret, Baltimore

The 14Karat
Cabaret
218 West Saratoga Street,
Downtown Baltimore
Maryland 21201
410-962-8565
cash only at the door

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JUNE 22, 2013 featuring THE BLASTERTHON An evening of readings, performance and music celebrating the life of Dr. “Blaster” Al Ackerman. Rupert Wondlowski of Shattered Wig Fame (MC/Reading) John M. Bennet (reading) Megan McShea (reading) Laure Drogoul (performance) Batworth (reading) John Eaton (reading) Courtney McCullough(stories) Francis Poole (reading) Music by Neil Feather, Bob Wagner, Eric Franklin, Dan Breen (AKA “The Dirty Dozen”) doors: 8:30pm showtime: 9:00pm $6 at the door(cash only) more info. about the entire Blasterthon event: https://www.facebook.com/events/521015217958995/?fref=ts The 14Karat Cabaret is an on-going series of performance, music, dance, film and video in an informal setting. The14Karat Cabaret is a program of Maryland Art Place supported by public admission and in-kind contributions of local businesses. The 14Karat Cabaret is located at 218 W. Saratoga Street, Baltimore, Maryland 21201 and is handicapped accessible. JUNE 16,2013 featuring TODD MARCUS JAZZ ORCHESTRA Todd Marcus Jazz Orchestra's special Father’s Day concert featuring acclaimed saxophonist and composer Gary Thomas. A veteran of bands by Herbie Hancock, Miles Davis, and Jack DeJohnette, Thomas is also the Director and Chair of Jazz Studies at Peabody Institute. This performance follows-up Marcus’ recent quartet album (named one of the top 10 jazz albums of 2012 by NPR) and celebrates his jazz orchestra’s 10 year anniversary with jazz standards and originals including his Middle Eastern suite Blues for Tahrir. The work chronicles the Arab Spring movement in Egypt and represents Marcus’ homage to his Egyptian-American heritage by merging jazz and Middle Eastern music. For more visit: www.toddmarcusjazz.com $35 show with dinner / $25 show only. cash at door only....or get tickets at: www.instantseats.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=home.venue&VenueID=444 Todd Marcus Jazz Orchestra Todd Marcus (bass clarinet) Gary Thomas (tenor sax) Alex Norris (trumpet) Alan Ferber (trombone) Russell Kirk (alto sax) Brent Birkhead (flute & alto sax) Alex Brown (piano) Jeff Reed (bass) Eric Kennedy (drums) Irene Jalenti (vocals) The 14Karat Cabaret is an on-going series of performance, music, dance, film and video in an informal setting. The14Karat Cabaret is a program of Maryland Art Place supported by public admission and in-kind contributions of local businesses. The 14Karat Cabaret is located at 218 W. Saratoga Street, Baltimore, Maryland 21201 and is handicapped accessible. MAY 3-5,2013 THE TRANSMODERN FESTIVAL The 10thAnnual Transmodern Performance Festival on May 2-5th, The TransmodernFestival presents FOUR days of radical, experimental, expectation-defying work from local and national artists. More info. about The Transmodern Festival and the schedule of events: www.transmodernfestival.com featuring Friday MARCH,29 2013 featuring An evening of readings and music hosted by RUPERT WONDOLOWSKI'S Shattered Wig Press! Featuring readings by Michael Kimball and Josh Fruhlinger Music by Wheatie Mattiasich and Mr. Mocassin MICHAEL KIMBALL Reads Your Lifestory on a Postcard. Michael Kimbal's latest publication is a book collecting life stories of real people that he condensed onto postcards. http://michael-kimball.com/ JOSH FRUHLINGER is a writer, editor, and comedian . He's the creator of the Comics Curmudgeon, a nine-year-oldcating strategies, post-industrial capitalism's claim on our emotions, and subways. WHEATIE MATTIASICH is a singer songwriter who plays a mean autoharp and guitar and is known to do haunting covers of John Jacob Niles. She's currently wrapping up a new vinyl lp. MR. MOCCASIN is led by Hanna Badalova, born in Baku, Azerbaijan. A poet, she sings sometimes in English and sometimes in Russian as moods change in the music. Their influences are Cocteau Twins, Throwing Muses, B-52s, and The Sugarcubes. Jared Fischer, Chris Martinelli (guitars) and Greg Hatem (drums) back Hanna up with rock, folk and punk. more info: https://www.facebook.com/events/426289444125217/?fref=ts MARCH,16 2013 featuring FLUID MOVEMENT Fluid Movement's variety show, Glitteracy: A Book Revue! Based on great, and not so great, works of literature. Featuring glittery interpretations of the literary masterpieces that you read the Cliff Notes to in school, including: Mary Shelley, F. Scott Fitzgerald, and Dr. Seuss Two Shows: 7:00 p.m. and 10:00 p.m. more info:. www.fluidmovement.org The 14Karat Cabaret is an on-going series of performance, music, dance, film and video in an informal setting. The14Karat Cabaret is a program of Maryland Art Place supported by public admission and in-kind contributions of local businesses. The 14Karat Cabaret is located at 218 W. Saratoga Street, Baltimore, Maryland 21201 and is handicapped accessible.
MARCH,5 2013 featuring MATMOS, HORSE LORDS, and JEFF CAREY in concert. Music, Telepathy, Delirium. Matmos (Drew Daniel and Martin Schmidt) in celebration of their new release: THE MARRIAGE OF TRUE MINDS. http://vague-terrain.com HORSE LORDS Horse Lords is Andrew Bernstein, Max Eilbacher, Owen Gardner and Sam Haberman. https://www.facebook.com/HorseLords JEFF CAREY Jeff Carey performs noisy computer music using a joystick and a gamer keypad and is dedicated to programming his own software instrument with hardware controllers for live performance: no safety net, no overdubs and no backing vocals. jeffcarey.foundation-one.org $10 at the door or tickets on sale at the The True Vine Record Shop $9 The 14Karat Cabaret is an on-going series of performance, music, dance, film and video in an informal setting. The14Karat Cabaret is a program of Maryland Art Place supported by public admission and in-kind contributions of local businesses. The 14Karat Cabaret is located at 218 W. Saratoga Street, Baltimore, Maryland 21201 and is handicapped accessible. FEBRUARY,15 2013 featuring CHRISTINE FERRERA Christine Ferrera is a painter, performer and video maker. Her work often combines media counter-posing live and video performance, satire and sincerity. In a self-reflexive tangle, she often blurts out her worst fears. Stellar Cellar is a radio show about wine. In Stellar Cellar, Christine guides the audience through the complex flavors of several wines while recounting historical and personal anecdotes about the noble grape. In this episode, Stellar Cellar will include call-in questions and special guests. EDWARD KNAPP Divination may be considered to be a form of applied storytelling, in which questions may be answered, insight achieved, and paths forward uncovered through the intermediary of an oracle and the correct choice of narrative. Tonight, bring a question that has not yet found its answer. You may find the story that holds its key. HIDEOUS PILE PUPPET THEATER Madison Coan, Mark Wadley and Ann Russell have joined forces to become Hideous Pile Puppet Theater. Their hilarious debut piece, Internet Dating, is about a couple on their first date as they learn the truth about each other offline. THE DANDY VAGABONDS The Dandy Vagabonds are a Baltimore based pair of curious artists who thrive on telling stories of whimsy, adventure, insight and balance thru performance art, circus arts, fiber arts, the tactile and the ephemeral. DAN MEYER CHOIR The Dan Meyer Choir dredges up old songs and stories about Baltimore and presents them in 4-part fabulousness. Tonight's show will be a Valentine to our beloved city including the 1914 ragtime composition "B-A-L-T Baltimore", the little known "Legend of Ed Gemere" and other Baltimore gems! BACK BY POPULAR DEMAND!!!! CHARLOTTE KENINGTON AND HANNAH BRANCATO Charlotte Keniston and Hannah Brancato's Cut Pieces - a Clothing Swap and Quilting Bee, in which participants can bring clothing they no longer use to swap with others. Garments can be traded and exchanged them for "new" pieces- so come prepared with your old clothes! Any clothing that is un-wearable because of stains or holes will be cut and pieced into quilts along with handwritten memories related to the garment. The 14Karat Cabaret is an on-going series of performance, music, dance, film and video in an informal setting. The14Karat Cabaret is a program of Maryland Art Place supported by public admission and in-kind contributions of local businesses. The 14Karat Cabaret is located at 218 W. Saratoga Street, Baltimore, Maryland 21201 and is handicapped accessible. JANUARY,25 2013 featuring DOMINIQUE ZELTZMAN Dominique Zeltzman is a choreographer, performer and aerialist, recently returning to Baltimore after 15 years in San Franscico. She is currently making videos and performance works, and is an MFA candidate in the Imaging and Digital Arts department of UMBC. This evening Dominique will be performing a work entitled CAREFUL. ADA PINKSTON Ada Pinkston performs Rituali Aquali. Rituali Aquali This performance is the second iteration of an exploration of the relationship that humans have to water using light, sound, and the body. After this performance you will be:Battesimo Bautismo. JOSH FRUHLINGER Josh Fruhlinger is a writer, blogger, and stand-up comedian who was deemed Baltimore's funniest Twitterer by the Baltimore City Paper. Since 2004 he has been writing, the Comics Curmudgeon, a blog about newspaper comics that has singlehandedly revived worldwide interest in Mary Worth and Mark Trail. CHARLOTTE KENISTON and HANNAH BRANCATO Charlotte Keniston and Hannah Brancato's Cut Pieces - a Clothing Swap and Quilting Bee, in which participants can bring clothing they no longer use to swap with others. Garments can be traded and exchanged them for "new" pieces- so come prepared with your old clothes! Any clothing that is un-wearable because of stains or holes will be cut and pieced into quilts along with handwritten memories related to the garment. UMAMI Umami is the duo featuring Scott Shuster on guitar and Melissa Ultra Sharlat on drums, both singing their hearts out to impossibly cute renditions with grit and twang. Singing and dancing along highly encouraged and unavoidable. The 14Karat Cabaret is an on-going series of performance, music, dance, film and video in an informal setting. The14Karat Cabaret is a program of Maryland Art Place supported by public admission and in-kind contributions of local businesses. The 14Karat Cabaret is located at 218 W. Saratoga Street, Baltimore, Maryland 21201 and is handicapped accessible. DECEMBER, 8 2012 AnArtKey MUSIC Vol. 1 An evening of music and madness hosted by FEMI THE DRI FISH and THE COMMISH. featuring CURU Lead Guitarist from Die-Hard Cafe https://www.facebook.com/diehardcafe JENNY HATES TECHNO Ghetto Punk Rock http://www.reverbnation.com/jennyhatestechno FEMI THE DRIFISH & THE OUT OF WATER EXPERIENCE Alternative Rock-Hip Hop http://www.reverbnation.com/thedrifish Chuck The Mad Ox on the 1's & 2's The 14Karat Cabaret is an on-going series of performance, music, dance, film and video in an informal setting. The14Karat Cabaret is a program of Maryland Art Place supported by public admission and in-kind contributions of local businesses. The 14Karat Cabaret is located at 218 W. Saratoga Street, Baltimore, Maryland 21201 and is handicapped accessible. NOVEMBER,30 2012 An evening of readings and music hosted by RUPERT WONDOLOWSKI'S Shattered Wig Press. Dedicated to Chris Toll. Featuring poets Heather Fuller and Cort Bledsoe and musical wunderkinds Nathan Bell and Omoo Omoo. featuring HEATHER FULLER Heather Fuller lives in Fullerton, Baltimore, of course, with a one-eyed dog and a band of feral cats (of course). The NYT called her third book (Startle Response) "jagged and terrific"; Publisher's Weekly described her second book (Dovecote) as "an empowering place to roost"; and in Witz, William Marsh cast work from her first book (perhaps this is a rescue fantasy) as "framed moments of resistance, whose language consistently threatens to dissolve or burst the frame." Fuller, a child of North Carolina, landed in Baltimore by way of D.C., where she ran with the avant-garde kids for more than a decade, collaborating on poetry/visual arts projects. She's honored to be one of five poets on the Women in the Avant Garde CD from Baltimore's Narrow House. CL.BLEDSOE CL Bledsoe is the author of the young adult novel Sunlight; three poetry collections, _____(Want/Need), Anthem, and Leap Year; and a short story collection called Naming the Animals. A poetry chapbook, Goodbye to Noise, is available online at www.righthandpointing.com/bledsoe . Another, The Man Who Killed Himself in My Bathroom, is available at http://tenpagespress.wordpress.com/2011/08/01/the-man-who-killed-himself-in-my-bathroom-by-cl-bledsoe/ . His story, "Leaving the Garden," was selected as a Notable Story of 2008 for Story South's Million Writer's Award. His story “The Scream” was selected as a Notable Story of 2011. His nonfiction piece “Thesis” was nominated for 2012 Best of the Net. He’s been nominated for the Pushcart Prize 5 times. He blogs at Murder Your Darlings, http://clbledsoe.blogspot.com/ Bledsoe has written reviews for The Hollins Critic, The Arkansas Review, American Book Review, Prick of the Spindle, The Pedestal Magazine, and elsewhere. Bledsoe lives with his wife and daughter in Maryland. NATHAN BELL Nathan Bell is a recent recipient of the Baker Artist Award. He plays guitar, banjo, bells and spirit and is frequently joined by cellist Kate Porter, theremin/electronics Playboy Eric Franklin and banjoist and enchanted warbler Liz Downing. His UK release "Colors" will be launched with the next space shuttle. OMOO OMOO Omoo Omoo is a rare beast worthy of one day entering the Fahey and Basho pantheon of wild-eyed primitive outside folk guitarists and occasional electronics explorer. His other influences are Harmonia, Ashra and Michael Rother. Here's a new song on Sound Cloud: http://soundcloud.com/omoo-omoo/hurricane SEPTEMBER,21 2012 BIKE SHORTS! AN EVENING OF FILM SHORTS AND PERFORMANCES ON AND ABOUT BICYCLES. in conjuction with Maryland Art Place's BIKE SHOW currently on view in the gallery. featuring many different short films and performance including: BRIOCHE Chansons on a bicycle by Ruth Pettus with Joanne Stato on accordian. JAIMES MAYHEW Jaimes Mayhew will present the most recent research from The Autonomous Energy Research Lab, an ongoing project that investigates the relationships between electricity production, social history, politics and land use. Jaimes recently spent 9 months in Iceland studying issues related to Iceland's use of hydroelectric and geothermal power using a bicycle powered mobile research lab. http://www.enginesofthefuture.com/ BICYCLE GANGS OF NEW YORK Written and directed by Cheryl Dunn, Produced by Julie Costranzo. This film blurs the line between docu and drama as it revisits each group for a chronicle the philosophies and activities of the hardcore bicycle gangs of New York City. more:http://www.cheryldunn.net The 14Karat Cabaret is an on-going series of performance, music, dance, film and video in an informal setting. The14Karat Cabaret is a program of Maryland Art Place supported by public admission and in-kind contributions of local businesses. The 14Karat Cabaret is located at 218 W. Saratoga Street, Baltimore, Maryland 21201 and is handicapped accessible. SEPTEMBER 14 & 15 2012 featuring FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 14 FOLIE á Deux: Folie á Deux, literally translated as "a madness shared by two", is the creative collaboration of writer, Dina Varsalone and experimental musician, Nicole Mazarakis. Using voice modification, text projection, shadows, video and sound, Folie a Deux liberates poetry from the page and from stuffy paper rustling readings, inviting the audience into the unique world of each poem through multiple media forms. ELEPHANTITANS: Elephantitans are Neil Feather and Eric Franklin in a duo of self-invented instruments featuring elastic metal strings and vibrators on flywheels. Over their years together, they have developed a unique language of phasing rhythms, absurdity, and surprise. Come witness the sonic equivalent of two motorcycles in a tango on a trampoline. Vroom & Boing. www.neilfeather.org FRED COLLINS: Baltimore's Fred collins has been a volatile front man with groups like The Motor Morons and the Pleasant Livers. Supported by musicians Charlie Chadwick and Dan Breen, Fred will perform a number of poems he has crafted over the years. Avoiding the traditional "Tea & Biscuit" style of poetry reading, the poems will have the atmosphere of a haunted funhouse. BIG PLASTIC FINGER: Big Plastic Finger is a New york quartet that plays electro-acoustic space-jazz with healthy doses of the Canterbury improv scene (Robert Wyatt, Derek Bailey), Sun Ra, and Ash Ra Tempel. Space noise psych core for lucid daydreams and grinding molecules. Beauteous, delirious, and illustrious! Featuring Bonnie Kane, Brian McCorkle, Scott Prato, and Mark McClemens. SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 15 CANCELODEON: Cancelodeon is the sonic trio of Dan Breen, Pat Breen, and Nicole Mazarakis with visuals from projectionist Fred Collins. They will present "Promises of Pleasant Moments". Spontaneous soundtrack composition for an assembly of images both familiar and strange. Family psychic energy band. THE PLEASANT LIVERS: Inveterate Baltimore trouble-makers, The Pleasant Livers, "are a bewildering and unique experience. Dense, abrasive, and ultimately rewarding." Props, stunts, riffs, earthquakes, and prizes. With Fred Collins, Charlie Chadwick, Jason Willett, Bob Wagner, Dan Breen and ??? BIG PLASTIC FINGER: Big Plastic Finger is a New york quartet that plays electro-acoustic space-jazz with healthy doses of the Canterbury improv scene (Robert Wyatt, Derek Bailey), Sun Ra, and Ash Ra Tempel. Space noise psych core for lucid daydreams and grinding molecules. Beauteous, delirious, and illustrious! Featuring Bonnie Kane, Brian McCorkle, Scott Prato, and Mark McClemens. The 14Karat Cabaret is an on-going series of performance, music, dance, film and video in an informal setting. The14Karat Cabaret is a program of Maryland Art Place supported by public admission and in-kind contributions of local businesses. The 14Karat Cabaret is located at 218 W. Saratoga Street, Baltimore, Maryland 21201 and is handicapped accessible. THE TRANSMODERN FESTIVAL The 9th Annual Transmodern Performance Festival on May18-19th at D:center and The 14Karat Cabaret, The Transmodern Festival presents FOUR days of radical, experimental, expectation-defying work from local, national and international artists! Maryland Art Place at 218 W. Saratoga Street, Baltimore, Maryland. More info about The Transmodern Festival and the schedule of events: http://transmodernfestival.com/2012/event-details/ FRIDAY MAY 18 2012 The Body X-tended The Body X-tended is a Fashion experience that celebrates the Other and revels in our un-sameness. Featuring an evening of the uncanny garment, absurd wearables and the performing object. From headwear to toe-wear and beyond, including performance, video and puppets. Expect the extended body in all its splendor. featuring Master of Ceremonies: Lexie Mountain Vincent Valerio Eric F. Avery Lurch and Holler Jacob Whayne Dillow Daniel Van Allen Seasonal Affected Disorder The Dandy Vagabonds John Flowers Naomi Davidoff Ginny Duncan Linda Franklin Ada Pinkston Fred Van Dyk Jenna Boyles SATURDAY MAY 19 2012 The Quiet Show The Quiet Show where language artists coo to you through headphones. featuring Adam robinson Lauren bender Bob O'brien Heather Romney Alicia Puglionesi * The 14Karat Cabaret is an on-going series of performance, music, dance, film and video in an informal setting. The14Karat Cabaret is a program of Maryland Art Place supported by public admission and in-kind contributions of local businesses. The 14Karat Cabaret is located at 218 W. Saratoga Street, Baltimore, Maryland 21201 and is handicapped accessible. FRIDAY APRIL 20,2012 LA GROSSE COMMISSION Written, produced and directed by DICK TURNER Associate producers : Arnaud Caquelard and Frédéric Moulin Baltimorean Dick Turner now lives in Paris . Over the years, he assisted his brother Henry Turner on several films, "Strangers", "Trashmonster", "Wilber Whateley's Sex Drive", "Gun to My Head/Gun to Your Head", and "Pym". "La Grosse Commission" is his directing debut. Dick Turner has presented many of his projects at The 14Karet Cabaret such as the Smile Machime 'Cerebration' and solo and musical performances. In Paris, in addition to his work as a film maker, he is a painter, has produced plays and is the lead singer and composer for "Traditional Monsters". He just finished a tour of France as the opening band for Herman Dune. The expression "La Grosse Commission" literally translated means "The Big Job" it is the French equivalent of the English expression "Number Two". The film was inspired by the references to excrement found in the writings of Thomas Mann, Joyce, Céline, Rabelais, Artaud, Freud and Norman O. Brown. Essentailly the film is an interrogation on the source of the continual pressure that life exerts on us and how one person decides to deal with it. La Grosse Commission (Shit Happens) is a biologic-philosophical comedy. In French with English subtitles Songs by Dick Turner and Traditional Monsters With Frédéric Moulin, David Noir, Valérie Thoumire, Richard Bartolini, Faustine Tournan, Zelda Rittner Paul-Alexandre Dubois, Matthieu Lourdel, Emmanuel Avena, Pauline Gervereau, Jean-Pierre Cormarie, Nicolas Sornaga and Valentine Carette. SYSTEM NUMLOCK Performance by RYAN DUNNE and NEVER BIRD THEATRE The System Numlock operates on simple voice commands provided which are spoken or shouted at the performers to make them do certain things, walk around, change emotions, speak, react, run away etc. Loosely based on keyboard commands for certain video games this performance allows the audience to have control over how the act turns out and to have fun learning what the commands mean. This performance was created to flesh out all the complexities that come from an age growing up in the virtual realm controlling other "people" to do your bidding and how it translates into real life. Never Bird Theatre will perform an improv movement/dance that interacts with Ryan Dunne's System Numlock Performance. Never Bird is a group of artists, musicians, performers and aerialists who work with the ideas of improvisation in many different disciplines. * The 14Karat Cabaret is an on-going series of performance, music, dance, film and video in an informal setting. The14Karat Cabaret is a program of Maryland Art Place supported by public admission and in-kind contributions of local businesses. The 14Karat Cabaret is located at 218 W. Saratoga Street, Baltimore, Maryland 21201 and is handicapped accessible. FRIDAY MARCH 23,2012 A cabaret in conjunction with D:center@MAP's exhibition:Women. The exhibit will open at 7pm in the D:center gallery and the performances will be in The 14KT Cabaret starting at 9pm. featuring THE DEGENERETTES The Degenerettes are a queer art rock power trio from Baltimore, MD. The all-girl group featuring Rahne Alexander, Kristen Anchor and Chrissy Howland, originally formed in a basement in 2005, bringing together three magnates of Baltimore's DIY art and music scenes. http://degenerettes.com/ REBECCA NAGLE Rebecca Nagle is a performance artist, educator and community organizer. Her performative, interactive and community art projects challenge the race, class, gender and sexual norms that limit people's lives. She is currently trying to make the world a more open, equitable and creative place through community organizing and radical performance art. http://rebeccanagle.com/ SANDY TRIOLO W.F.E.M 5 Min Video Sandylee Triolo is visual artist, educator, media guru and mentor, who works on collaborative projects in and around Baltimore. http://www.sandytriolo.com MIRANDA PFEIFFER Filmshorts by Baltimore artist and animator Miranda Pfeiffer VIOLET GRAY "What do you get when you combine standup comedy, Sci-Fi/Fantasy geekery, ADHD and just a touch political consciousness? You get Violet Gray! A veteran of the Baltimore comedy scene, gender-bending comic Violet Gray's bizarre brand of comedy aims to make you laugh, and then go "huh. I never thought of it that way." SELENA SCHREYER Reading * The 14Karat Cabaret is an on-going series of performance, music, dance, film and video in an informal setting.The14Karat Cabaret is a program of Maryland Art Place supported by public admission and in-kind contributions of local businesses. The 14Karat Cabaret is located at 218 W. Saratoga Street, Baltimore, Maryland 21201 and is handicapped accessible. SUNDAY FEBRUARY 26, 2012 featuring POETRY FOR THE PEOPLE WORDS DON'T DIE-Youth Poetry Event Poetry for the People Baltimore seeks to use poetry to heal, develop, and celebrate the creativity of the greater Baltimore community and beyond. showtime:6-9pm more info:pforp_bmore@hotmail.com * MONDAY OCTOBER 10,2011 featuring PAMELA Z Pamela Z is a San Francisco-based composer/performer and media artist who works primarily with voice, live electronic processing, sampling technology, and video. One of the pioneers of live digital looping techniques, she processes her voice in real time to create dense, complex sonic layers in her solo works that combine experimental extended vocal techniques, operatic bel canto, found objects, text, and sampled concrète sounds. KRISTEN ANCHOR Magical Movie Machine Be amazed! Once in a lifetime film experience! See an art-film produced, edited, scored, and destroyed right before your eyes! The only record is the mess and your memory. kristenanchor.com JIMMY JOE ROACH Jimmy Joe Roche is an American Visual Artist residing in Baltimore, MD. His videos have screened internationally in venues including the Royal Academy of Arts in London, Boston Institute of Contemporary Art, J. Paul Getty Museum, Incubate Arts festival in Holland, Rojo@Nova 2010 in Brazil, and Baltimore Museum of Art. www.jimmyjoeroche.com THE ACROCATS The aerial theatrics of Kristen Faber and Kerri Dougherty performing PETS -which their version of the Tom and Jerry cartoon episode of "The Flying Cat". LA HOSTESS Gloomy Chanson * The 14Karat Cabaret is an on-going series of performance, music, dance, film and video in an informal setting. The14Karat Cabaret is a program of Maryland Art Place supported by public admission and in-kind contributions of local businesses. The 14Karat Cabaret is located at 218 W. Saratoga Street, Baltimore, Maryland 21201 and is handicapped accessible. FRIDAY & SATURDAY SEPTEMBER 16-17,2011 featuring @THE_MOMENT: #5shortplaysonlifein2011 Are you plugged in? Hooked up? Turned on? Stressed out? Well, then, you must be a citizen of 2011! Salt Luck Arts, Baltimore’s newest arts group, presents @The_Moment: #5shortplaysonlifein2011, a night of original short pieces from some of Baltimore’s most exciting new talent (including Annelise Montone, Kevin Kostic, Rosemary Frisino Toohey and Brent Englar). In @The_Moment, they explore all that is wonderful and terrible about recent life. They'll present too-intimate relationships with smartphones, freak out over multiple birth explosions, get into political punditry, reveal tip-top government secrets and tweet ‘till they DROP-all in one night! more info: http://www.saltluckarts.wordpress.com Also on Friday September 16th only THE DAILY LION Dina Varsalone-Vocals/guitar Sam Wylie guitar/vocals Bill Engstrand bass/vocals Jim McShea drums. ETHER-CORE- sound reminiscent of The Velvet Underground, Yo La Tengo, and The Police. FRIDAY & SATURDAY MAY 6 and 7,2011 featuring LAB EXPERIMENTS: Festival for women in experimental media. A two day festival centering around women in experimental media an music. curated by Shana Palmer Artists perfoming include: Lexie Mountain, Family Underground, Susan Alcorn, Secret Secrets, Bonnie Jones, Jenny Graf, Stephanie Barber, Laure Drogoul, Ami Dang, BeastMaster, Berglind AgustDottir, Ayako Kataoka, Liz Merideth more info: http://labexperiments.org/ THURSDAY APRIL 28,2011 THE TRANSMODERN FESTIVAL The 8th Annual Transmodern Festival will open on Thursday, April 28th on the first floor of Maryland Art Place's building at 218 W. Saratoga St. and The 14Karat Cabaret with three distinct events. The night will begin at 6pm with Mediations, a video and performance program followed by performances starting at 8:00pm downstairs at The 14Karat Cabaret. Color Kiss, Dan Conrad's window installation will be on view at sundown. featuring NANCY ANDREWS Behind the Eyes are The Ears Film by Nancy Andrews Soundtrack Nancy Andrews and Zach Soares This mix of animation, found footage, and live action footage follows the research of Dr. Sheri Myes and her revolutionary attempts to expand our perceptions and consciousness. The filmmaker began the project by writing a song cycle, and then imagery was developed through a series of drawings. The film is influenced by classic “mad scientist” horror films like “Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde” and “The Man with the X-ray Eyes”. ! ANDREW ZUKERMAN Fleshtone Aura - A collage of sound fragments and synthesized nuances played on tapes, through tapes and on top/ about/ who is tapes. EXTREME ANIMALS Jacob Ciocci and David Wightman present short performances for video and live performers as well as perform live music soundtracks to a variety of their original video works. The short performance works range from absurd inspirational lectures to musings on contemporary internet culture to introspective meditations on metal guitar shredding technique, all couched within a lo-fi, intentionally awkward ‘performance art’ aesthetic. EVE HANAN In Eva/Aves, Eve Hanan creates an intimate dance setting in which one woman, Eva, corresponds with her absent husband in long, crowded letters sent over 20 years and two world wars. Messenger pigeons pass notes, twitch, flap, swarm, home, scavenge, and initiate Eva’s avian transformation into their flock. Sound design by Bob Hoehn. For more info on the festival check out the website The Transmodern Festival FRIDAY APRIL 29,2011 THE TRANSMODERN FESTIVAL Travesty at Hand: Poupées,Toupees and Dummies An evening of puppet/master manipulations, featuring film, performance, digital device, high drag, low drag, hand-cranks and puppets in their guise and glory. Expect the dis-embodied and the rearranged, the estranged and deranged, the fragmented and extended body object in all its splendor. featuring MARSIAN Marsian is a Los Angeles puppet artist, chanteuse, and high-art drag personality. As a writer, director, producer and puppet designer Marsian has been making work for adults audiences, teetering on the precipice of cute and abject, informed by breaking news, tabloid lore and popular culture. http://www.marsiandelellis.com/ PHILADELPHIA'S PUPPETYRANNY Puppetyranny is a committee (Leslie Rogers and Zac Palladino) of craftastic wrongdoers. Though based in Philadelphia, Puppetyranny also features tyrannical circus and annoyance arts from abroad. Talents include, but are not limited to: Puppetry, Stilting, regular old Acting, Trapeze, Garbage Making, and Animation. Prepare to be uncomfortably thrilled! Puppetyranny will be presenting a sequel to their popular MouthShow!, a spectacular set of vignettes told on the on a most intimate stage – the mouth! MARTHA COLBURN Martha Colburn‘s handcrafted animations explode with an energy, concentration and a rapid-fire torrent of ideas that push the medium to its very edges. Colburn’s past works have savagely lampooned pop culture, consumerism,and middle-class attitudes to delirious fantasies, but her most recent films bring more tragic dimensions to bear by focusing on war and icons of American history. Always startling in her use of disparate techniques and free association, Martha Colburn creates films unlike any other, and the screening spans 16 years of filmmaking with 16 films, including Dolls vs. Dictators (2010), Join the Freedom Force (2009), Myth Labs (2008), Triumph of the Wild (2008), Skelehellavision(2001), Spiders In Love: An Arachnogasmic Musical (2000), and Evil of Dracula (1997), among others. Her work has been shown at the Centre Pompidou, The Kitchen, the Whitney Museum, PS 1, MoMA, and numerous major international film festivals. www.marthacolburn.com ANNA FRANTS Anna Frants is an international new media artist and curator. Her interactive installations have been exhibited at venues across the world. Recent highlights from 2009-present include exhibiting in the St. Petersburg Biennial, Moscow Biennial and Polish Biennial, Kuoseino Sato Museum of Contemporary Art (Fukuoka, Japan), The Museum of Art and Design (New York, USA), The State Hermitage Museum (St. Petersburg, Russia), Chelsea Art Museum (New York, USA), RSProjects (Berlin, Germany), VAP / Gogolfest (Kiev, Ukraine) and Transmediale (Berlin, Germany) as well as participating in a 17-day expedition to The Arctic Circle with The Farm Foundation of Arts and Sciences. Frants is represented by Dam, Stuhltrager Gallery (Brooklyn, USA & Berlin, Germany) and Barbarian Gallery (Zurich, Switzerland). Frants is also a distinguished curator active in expanding and progressing the international field of New Media. She is co-founder of Cyland – a nonprofit that organizes an annual new media festival held throughout St. Petersburg, Russia’s top institutions including The State Hermitage Museum, The Peter and Paul Fortress and Sergey Kuryokhin Modern Art Center. Anna graduated from Baron Stieglitz St. Petersburg Academy of Art & Industry in Russia and Pratt Institute School of Advanced Studies in New York. She spends her time split between Russia and New York. Performance: Drumpainting Drumpainting is a collective Cyland project http://www.annafrants.net/cv.html SARAH JENNINGS Sarah Jennings is responsible for the care and feeding of an army of puppets. Sarah likes to go big or go home. Sarah is originally from Richmond, VA. Sarah is enthusiastic and excitable. Sarah drinks coca cola all day long. Sarah likes to have an excuse to wear a costume. Sarah works in a cubicle all day. Sarah throws dinner parties and likes to work in her workshop. Sarah is not very tall. Sarah wants you to check out Sarah’s videos: (search for PuppetSarah on Youtube) MARIANNE ROSS Dancer and puppeteer Marianne Ross has performed with Bread and Puppet Theater, Kids on the Block, The Puppet Company at Glen Echo National Park, and the DC Puppet Undergrund, among others. She is also the director of Concerts in the Country,(www.concertsinthecountry.org ) which produces outdoor multi-media festivals in the Washington DC area. Marianne Ross will present two short performances, including Emperor Ta Li’s Victory, a short parable by Bertolt Brecht on the crankie, and The Butterfly Effect, a commentary on war featuring a tin marionette and a finger puppet butterfly. POSSIBILITARIAN PUPPET THEATER There is a farm deep the mountains of the Northeast Kingdom of Vermont, where a paper mache cathedral houses Insurrection masses, and a sourdough Baker and Philosopher makes a living by corrupting capitalist youth and making them unfit for the jobs they are manufactured to perform. In Cleveland, OH, a cultural enterprise infected with this Sourdough Philosophy is determined to continue testing out this unreasonable, childish, idiotic practice called puppetry on the hum-drum, business-as-usual, sterilized, money-worshipping, techno-dazed world. Precisely due to the obvious impossibility of this enterprise they call themselves the Possibilitarian Puppet Theater. Possibilitarians say: “Yes we embrace possibility and celebrate it in the form of puppetry, which includes the arts in all forms: Music, Sculpture, Painting, Dance, Poetry, Performing, and even advanced cardboard and garbage engineering technology.” * The 14Karat Cabaret is an on-going series of performance, music, dance, film and video in an informal setting.The14Karat Cabaret is a program of Maryland Art Place supported by public admission and in-kind contributions of local businesses. The 14Karat Cabaret is located at 218 W. Saratoga Street, Baltimore, Maryland 21201 and is handicapped accessible.