It’s pretty simple: Bring your favorite Shel Silverstein poems to read! or just come listen! The folks from The Garage will be on hand to read their faves (and maybe even a bit o’ the play!), plus we’ll have some refreshments to take the edge off!

Please come enjoy an evening of super fun poetry with us!

Saturday, February 13 // 8-11pm // free

• Purchase a limited edition signed copy of the book I AM. YOU ARE.
Written by Kevin Staniec and Melanie Moore. Illustrated by Emilio Santoyo.

• Get a one-of-a-kind Valentine’s card drawn by artist Emilio Santoyo.

• Share your personalized I AM or YOU ARE to be posted on Valentine’s day.

Featuring performances by
The Dan Reckard Quartet (jazz)
Zak Salazar and the Western Junkyard (indie)

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I AM. YOU ARE. follows a series of successful projects including the Untitled Love book and traveling art showcase, the Good Things About America patriotic anthology and poetry tour, and the Instant Gratification, Polaroid 600 Series, tribute exhibition and upcoming instant film book featuring over 200 participating photographers from around the world.

Whether out of boredom or loneliness the book began when author Kevin Staniec decided to list his obvious inadequacies in an attempt to better himself. Somewhere along the way, these fragmented perceptions began to read like poems. He then invited San Francisco based writer Melanie Moore to respond with her opinions and asked Emilio Santoyo, a successful illustrator living in Los Angeles, to add color to their emotions.

8pm // $3

In Science Fiction, technology and scientific data become aesthetic tools for re-imagining the possible. Digital media readily interacts with traditional media, bringing the sleek language of technological production into close contact with the more visceral language of mark-making and sculpting. Wormholes, asteroids, and planets—entities that are at once familiar and foreign—recur as motifs, shooting through space, twisting in on themselves, or introducing an array of kaleidoscopic color.

Science Fiction takes the cosmos as its subject, but the exhibition is far more introspective than galactic. It surveys cosmic space in order to understand personal space, turning expansive images of galaxies and solar systems into intimate reflections of the human psyche.

A subtle thread of personal narrative runs through Science Fiction, prompting the private need for self-revelation to interact with a more gaping human need for order and understanding. Ultimately, Wysong portrays science as unreliable—not as unfounded, but as anxious, abstract, and uncertain, just like life in general. The work in Science Fiction is not melancholic, however. On the contrary, it’s optimistic. It suggests that, even if the ramifications of science elude us, visual explorations, seductively abstract images, playful interfaces, and eloquent rendering of peculiar spaces can bring us closer to understanding the mysteries of our own internal cosmic universes.

This event, curated by Menchie Caliboso, features a photo album of community, live performances by Feed The Feeble and Tiger Tank Euphoria, one-night art exhibits, artist networking and the release of the new EP from Feed the Feeble.

For our sixth anniversary, we’re featuring six new {open} t-shirt designs from six awesome {open} artists! From top left: Carolyn Pennypacker Riggs, Jeff Oonchitti, Gabo Gaete, Robert Pokorny, Greg Brown and Matt Maust.

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Carolyn Pennypacker Riggs Jeff Oonchitti Greg Brown Robert Pokorny Gabo Gaete Matt Maust

thurs, jan. 21 // 8pm // $3
Blackbird Raum + Whitman
w/ a short film by Charles Pieper
curated by Elaine Layabout (of KXLU’s Demolisten)

Tuesday, December 15 | 6:30pm | FREE