Fri 1.18
12am
San Francisco based avant garde pianist Michael Dale performs some of the sacred music of George I. Gurdjieff. The evening event coincides with a talk and workshop given by William Patrick Patterson over the weekend.
Tickets $10, can be purchased in advance through An die Musik, or at the door. $5 may be applied towards a book, CD, or video from Gurdjieff Legacy that evening.
Fri 1.18
6pm
Members of SoWeBo Arts show more than 30 works in various media at the historic gallery home of Debbie and Bill Adler. Refreshments, mingling, and a chance to buy reasonably priced artwork.
Fri 1.18
7pm
REJECT THE GAZE features the paintings and drawings of local visual artists Lacey Anderson and Sylvia O.
What is the gaze?
In simplest terms, the gaze is the realization that one can be viewed and the power dynamic that subsequently occurs between the viewer and the viewed.
DATES AND TIMES
Pop-Up Performances
January 7 -18, Times to vary
@empcollective for announcements
Opening Party
January 18, 7-10PM
Featuring music, performance, and visual art
Suggested donation $5-$10
In REJECT THE GAZE, the artists are stylistically juxtaposed yet share a similar effect on the viewer: both Anderson and Ortiz turn notions of the flesh on their head and directly challenge the viewer’s gaze on the female form.
Anderson achieves this through suffocating the frame of the viewer with flesh that only begins to take shape and meaning with multiple viewings and in context with her other pieces. Ortiz, on the other hand, playfully transforms traditionally erotic parts of the female form and makes them shockingly asexual. Breasts become watching eyes that return the viewer’s gaze back toward them. In confronting and addressing the gaze, the works of both artists take steps to redefine and reject it altogether.
In addition to the works of Anderson and Ortiz, EMP is pairing with local writers and performance artists to create response pieces to the show that will pop up throughout downtown Baltimore in the weeks leading up to the show and its opening. Locations and times of pop-ups will be tweeted out (@empcollective) the day of each performance.
Fri 1.18
7pm
Black Veil Brides started in 2006 when 15-year-old vocalist, Andy Six, began seeking players to create a vision of a modern day heavy metal band, combining the theatrics and passion of Misfits, Motley Crue, and Kiss, with lyrical content that pertains to the downtrodden outcasts of society. The goal was to create songs that could be a rallying cry for the disenfranchised, and bring back the community and passion that was once so prevalent in rock and roll
Fri 1.18
7pm
SOLD OUT
PASSES WILL NOT BE ACCEPTED FOR THIS SHOW
Fri 1.18
8pm
This 9-piece a cappella group interprets traditional songs from the U.S., Bulgaria, Corsica, and the former Soviet Republic of Georgia. Their repertoire includes shape-note songs (a traditional New England song style), powerful gospel, haunting Appalachian folk, and a mix of sacred and secular pieces that demonstrate an incredible range of traditions from abroad. Mesmerizing all-woman vocal ensemble Orfeia opens with a special performance by group leader and Bulgarian vocal star Tatiana Sarbinska. Jan 18. 8pm. $15, $10 mbrs, stus. “THIS…is what music does to one’s cells and bones and spirit.” -Marytha Paffrath, Libana. Info and tix: http://www.creativealliance.org/events/2013/starry-mountain-singers