SAVE THE DATE: WEDNESDAY, JULY 23, 7:30PM

Akwidaa Mangroove

Kristi Engle Gallery

Todd Gray and Michael Grodsky take a stirring and meditative trip into a West African mangrove.

The performance combines images of African landscapes, Gray's private Shamanic performances and a vivid soundscape. Gray plays an African drum that synchs
and controls digital video projections while Grodsky adds guitar and electronics into this multimedia performance.

Gray maintains a studio in Ghana.

(feel free to bring your own pillow for seating)

Kristi Engle Gallery is currently hosting the group exhibition "Gravity and Transformation," curated by artist Suzanne Adelman. Todd Gray is a participating artist.

This exhibition presents the work of 14 artists from Los Angeles and New York working in drawing, painting, photography and sculpture. The artworks in this exhibition are viewed literally and metaphorically from the dual vantage points of gravity and transformation.

The dictionary definition of 'Gravity' refers to weight, the condition of being grave, earnest, ominous, lowness of musical pitch, terrestrial gravitation. 'Transformation' is defined as the process of changing, as to the condition, nature, or function of, changing the form of outward appearance and, any of the rules that derive surface structures from abstract underlying structure.

The artists in this exhibition are: Won Ju Lim, Anoka Faruqee, Steve Hurd, Todd Gray, Roger Dickes, Mark Dutcher, Hadley Holliday, Tracy Miller (NY), George Raggett (NY), Pilar Conde (NY), Shirley Tse, Rebecca Ripple, Suzanne Adelman, and Keith Walsh.

Kristi Engle Gallery
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Highland Park, CA 90042
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Culture Project invites you to special preview performances Expatriate!

EXPATRIATE is an electrifying exploration of black womanhood, sexuality, art and addiction, celebrating characters in the spirit of Nina Simone, Josephine Baker and the Hottentot Venus. A new play that combines poetic dialogue with realistic scenes and concert numbers, this all-vocal dramatic musical tells the story of two musicians who have to leave America in order to fulfill their American dreams.

Preview tickets are only $25 (normal ticket price $41)

Get $25 tickets to any performance of Expatriate when you use the code EXPCP26EB BEFORE JUNE 30!

Purchase tickets via www.cultureproject.org, or call the box office at (212) 925-1900.

Claudie and Alphine are sexy, sophisticated performing artists and oldest childhood friends. Fighting grief, homophobia and "the black glass ceiling," they flee to Europe to realize their dreams of musical stardom. They support themselves as performers on the streets of Paris, and soon rise to fame and fortune as singing group "Black Venus." But as Claudie and Alphine soon discover, for some Black artists living abroad, stardom comes at a steep price. With only a JamMan loop machine at their feet, real life rising stars Lenelle Moïse and Karla Mosley make playful and provocative music as they weave the story of Black Venus's rise to fame.

Directed by Tamilla Woodard

Choreographed by Nicco Annan

Written and composed by Lenelle Moise

Starring Lenelle Moise and Karla Mosley

We hope to see you there!

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Hello everyone - Trade&Row is a newly formed nonprofit organization started by Karin Pleasant and Aldo Puicon with the vision of raising awareness of current issues. Isabelle Lutterodt is on the BOD and we are hoping to build a network of like-minded people/organizations to encourage social change. Please check out our newly upgraded website at www.tradeandrow.org for details on our upcoming projects.


We will update you on details as they are confirmed for our performance series, Campaign Trail, which launches in July, and our film festival, We, the People, which will take place in October.

We appreciate your support!

Karin Pleasant
Co-Executive Director
Isabelle Lutterodt
President/Chair of the Board
Trade&Row

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Passing Strange
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May 1st - July 1st, 2007
The Public Theater
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New York City
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		Dear Friends and Colleagues: I'm just writing to say a basic hello and to invite you to check out some material I've put together to compliment my installation "New York is Now" in this year's Venice Biennial. My artwork is in the Africa Pavilion along with some of my favorite artists like Olu Oguibe, Ghada Amer, and Alfredo Jaar. Many of you know I started out as an artist, and I've always made it a point to have my material in galleries, museums, and all sorts of conceptual events because, hey... it's what I get a kick out of. I guess if you can have "art rock" you can have "art hip-hop" - right? I just wanted to highlight the point: Digital Africa is here, and has been here for a while. This isn't "retro" - it's about the future. For the Venice Biennial 2007 I decided to go through alot of my files of music from around the African Continent to make a mix CD called "Ghost World" to accompany my installation for the Africa Pavilion. I looked through my record collection for non cliche kinds of stuff like the Baka People who make drums out the way they play in water or the "Car Horn Orchestra" of Ghana which has a gathering of many taxi drivers who converge in downtown Accra to make a large symphony of honks from their taxis at the end of the work day or for funerals of drivers, to other styles like Masai hip-hop, Konono No 1's "Congotronics" - there's lots of different material. The CD will be given away at select events for the rest of the year. in peace, Paul aka DJ Spooky that Subliminal Kid >>FOR MORE INFO AND TO LISTEN TO THE MIX Electric Africa: Ghost World - A Story in Sound Dj Spooky Presents a Project for the Dokolo Foundation at the Venice Biennial 2007 "In Africa, when an old man dies, it is like a library burning to the ground" a quote attributed to Leopold Senghor Mega Mix! Por Por Akwaaba Welcome! Car Horn Orchestra of Ghana Intro: Lafayette Afro Rock Band "Darkest Light" mixed w/Max Roach and Abdullah Ibrahim "Streams of Consciousness" (NY and South Africa) Intro collage African Anarchist Radio Malcolm X "The Roots of Savagery" mixed w/ Max Roach/Abdullah Ibrahim "Streams of Consciousness" (NY/South Africa) Tony Allen "Crazy Afro Beat" w/scratches by Rob Swift Vs Dj Spooky (NY and Nigeria) X Plastaz "Msimu kwa msimu" (Tanzania) Alif "Douta Mbaye"(Senegal) K'naan "Soobax" (Somalia) Kelis "Trick Me" (dancehall mix) (USA) Fela "Kalakuta Show" (Mix Master Mike, Lateef and The Gift of Gab Remix) (Nigeria) Lotfi Doubla Kanon "Bled Miki" (Tunisia) MC Solaar featuring Ron Carter "Un Ange En Danger" (France/Senegal) Akon "Locked Up" mixed w/ Nelson Mandela "Moments in Black History (Brad Sanders)" (NY/Senegal/South Africa) Angola National Anthem - "Angola, avante!" Author: Manuel Rui Alves Monteiro (b.1941); Composer: Rui Alberto Vieira Dias Mingao Mixed w/Malcolm X "The Root of Civilization" Dj Spooky featuring Tapper Zukie "Revolution Dub" (NY/Jamaica) Yves La Rock featuring Roland Richards "Zookey" (France) Stewart Copeland "The Rhythmatist: Samburu Sunset" (Kenya) Frederic Galliano featuring Pancha Angola Frederic Galliano featuring Pinta Tirru "Entra No Roda" (Angola/France) Bunny Lee Meets King Tubby "African Roots and Reggae" - (Jamaica) Cesoria Evora - Angola (original + Carl Craig remix) -Dj Spooky remix (Cape Verde Islands/Detroit/NY) David Byrne and Brian Eno "My Life in The Bush of Ghosts: Vocal Outtakes" (New York/London) Fela "Zombie" (Nigeria) (remix) King Britt "Obafunke Theme" (Philadelphia) mixed w/ Interlude Idi Amin speaks (Uganda) Orson Welles "Citizen Kane" (L.A.) President Obasanjo "Move" by J Dilla (Detroit) Ryuichi Sakamoto "Riot in Lagos" mixed w/ Nigerian National Anthem (Japan/Nigeria) Baka Forest People of South East Cameroon - Water Drums (Cameroon) mixed w/ Foday Musa Suso "World Wide Funk" (DJ Spooky remix) (Gambia) Master Musicians of Jajouka featuring Talvin Singh "You Can Find the Feeling" mixed w/ Abdul Nasser "Independence Forever" (Morocco/Egypt/India) Duke Ellington "Afro-Eurasian Eclipse" (NY) Oum Kalthoum "Hob Eih" (Egypt) - Dj Spooky remix Mixed w/Tectonic "Heat Sensor" Charlie Dark "Afro Dreaming"(UK-Ghana) The Monks of Keur Moussa "Nous Te Louons, Pere Invisible" (Senegal) Ginger Baker/Tony Allen (UK/Nigeria) - drum solo mixed w/ Drexciya "Polymono Plexusgel" (Detroit) Zimbabwe Legit "Shadows Legit Mix" Dj Shadow remix (Zimbabwe/San Francisco) Soweto Gospel Choir "Rivers of Babylon" (South Africa) Konono No1 "Kule Kule" (Congo) Abdullah Ibrahim "Mindif" (Dj Spooky remix) (South Africa/NY) Venice Bienniale Dokolo Foundation
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UPCOMING EVENTS 6.23 Luxembourg: Philharmonie Luxembourg – End of Season Show http://www.philharmonie.lu 7.19 Austin, TX: The Parish DJ show http://www.theparishroom.com/default.aspx 7.20 Dallas, TX: The Société Anonyme: Modernism for America Exhibition Dallas Museum of Art http://dallasmuseumofart.org/ 7.28 Watermill, NY: Benefit for Robert Wilson's Watermill Center http://www.watermillcenter.org 9.08 San Francisco, CA: Power to the Peaceful Festival Golden Gate Park http://www.powertothepeaceful.org

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