Trail Off
Trail Off is an experimental living-room series that focuses on mysticism and nature in a cozy and intimate environment. It's being curated by Greg Jamie (The Oak and the Ax), and conceptualized and designed by Kelly Rioux (New Fruit) and Gil Corral (Hog Farm Studios).
It opens January 22nd in the SPACE annex at 534 Congress St.
Music: Lonesome Leash with Blood Warrior & The Orchards
Join us in the SPACE annex for the opening night of Trail Off, a two month-long installation that focuses on mysticism and nature in a cozy listening-room environment. Lonesome Leash is the nom-de-plume of troubadour Walt McClements, formerly of Dark Dark Dark, Hurray for the Riff Raff and Why Are We Building Such a Big Ship. The one-man-band project is an... MORE
Friday01.22.2016
doors at 8pm
in the SPACE annex
@ 534 Congress St
$8
Music: Ancient Ocean scores the short films of John Whitney
Brooklyn based soundscape artist Ancient Ocean (J.R. Bohannon) presents his improvised scores to the legendary short films of experimental filmmaker and father of computer animation, John Whitney. In the 1950's, Whitney built a mechanical analogue computer out of a WWII anti-aircraft gun to create motion-picture special effects that are still a high-water mark for... MORE
Friday01.29.2016
doors at 8pm
in the SPACE annex
@ 534 Congress St
$8
Music: Snaex, Micah Blue Smaldone and Asa Irons
Snaex is the limitless musical partnership of Chris Teret, Baltimore native and founder of Company, and Chriss Sutherland, life-long Mainer and common spirit of Cerberus Shoal, Fire on Fire, and Olas. On February 5th, they'll release In the Heart of the City on Pretty Purgatory, their third and most ambitious album to date. Over its eight songs, it tackles modern life in the throes of... MORE
Saturday02.06.2016
doors at 8pm
in the SPACE annex
@ 534 Congress St
$8
Music: Colby Nathan, Caethua, and Tom Kovacevic
Representing a three-generational and sonic cross-section of Maine-based outsider folk music, the lineup of Colby Nathan, Caethua, and Tom Kovacevic is destined to be one of the most unique triple bills of 2016. Tom Kovacevic is the oud-playing Arabic-music cognoscente, whose dream-like dirges are crafted with an expressive subtlety that is rare to find. His 2014 debut on Immune... MORE
Saturday02.13.2016
doors at 8pm
in the SPACE annex
@ 534 Congress St
$8
Artist Talk: Cory McAbee Artist Lecture
In 2012, writer/director/composer Cory McAbee began the international arts collaborative, Captain Ahab's Motorcycle Club, a project that integrates all mediums to create a globally generated feature film. CAMC has been developed in part through the Sundance Film Festival's New Frontier Story Lab. McAbee's lecture will feature highlights from the first 3 years of CAMC and... MORE
Music: Six Organs of Admittance with Tongue Oven
SPACE is proud to present a rare Maine appearance by psych-folk visionary Six Organs of Admittance, as part of our annex installation, Trail Off. Started as a solo outlet of Comets on Fire's Ben Chasny in 1998, Six Organs has released 16 full-length albums, ranging in styles from lilting, transcendent ragas to wildly impassioned free improv and noise. He's known world-wide for his long-running... MORE
Friday02.19.2016
doors at 8:00pm
in the SPACE annex
@ 534 Congress St
$8 advance / $10 day of show
Music: Hexadic System Workshop with Ben Chasny
Ben Chasny of Six Organs of Admittance will demonstrate the basic principles and methods of his Hexadic System, an entirely original music-composition system that utilizes playing cards to break guitarists out of habitual approaches and into unfamiliar tonal worlds. Participants will learn unique composing techniques, work on their own original pieces... MORE
Saturday02.20.2016
in the SPACE annex
@ 534 Congress St
Free (RSVP required)
Film: ROAR!
No animals were harmed in the making of this movie. 70 members of the cast and crew were.
An unprecedented––and wholly unpredictable––action-adventure, ROAR! follows wildlife preservationist Hank (The Exorcist producer Noel Marshall in his sole and career-derailing turn as an actor and director), who lives harmoniously alongside a menagerie of over 100 untamed animals, including cheetahs,... MORE
Wednesday02.24.2016
doors at 7:00pm
in the SPACE annex
@ 534 Congress St
$8
$6 For SPACE Members and Students w/ ID
Performance: First Friday Art Walk: Rare Birds of Pleasure
Brought to you by a collection of local artists who've taken time to explore indulgence, Rare Birds of Pleasure is a immersive five-hour experience that will pluck at the heartstrings of your senses. Come witness and take part in a forest bustling with human whims and habitual practices, find tender moments, and remember that we're all sensitive critters in this rapidly changing world.... MORE
Music: Tashi Dorji with Diva Cup and DesChenes Baldwin McLaughlin
Tashi Dorji grew up in Bhutan, on the eastern side of the Himalayas. Access to any music created outside the country is limited, as are most cultural options, given the geologically isolation of the country. Yearning for access to the world outside, Dorji pursued and obtained scholarship to a liberal arts school in Asheville, NC, in his early twenties. He’s since settled in there, after a... MORE
Saturday03.05.2016
doors at 8pm
in the SPACE annex
@ 534 Congress St
$8
Music: Tim Fite and BJ Snowden
Called a “cultural gadfly” by the New York Times and “ferally original” by the New Yorker, Tim Fite spends the bulk of his time cranking out genre-bending pieces of art and music. In addition to recent gallery exhibitions at Gallery Tom Blaess and The Beam Center of Brooklyn, Fite has toured internationally with wildly diverse artists such as Bonaparte, Phiharmonie Zuidnederland,... MORE
Thursday03.10.2016
doors at 8pm
in the SPACE annex
@ 534 Congress St
$8