• Catwalk For a Cause, a Benefit Fashion Show
The Granada (1020 Massachusetts in Lawrence, KS)
Saturday, April 30, 6-10pm

From the organizers:
Celebrating SafeBar Alliance. Local Art. Local Fashion. Come and support a great cause while drinking, buying art, listening to music, watching a fashion show, and bring awareness to the SafeBar Alliance and sexual assault services!

All admission will go to GaDuGi SafeCenter, the rape crisis center here in Lawrence. (www.gadugisafecenter.org and check out the fan page for SafeBar Alliance to learn more). Budget cuts are always on the horizon and they need all the help they can get, so please come!

Doors Open at 6pm. Fashion Show is around 7pm featuring DJ Unknown Souldier, and MC Secily Rees. Performance by the band Dean Monkey and the Drop-Outs. Also, LOLA Craft Show, 10% of LOLA’s sales will be donated to Gadugi Safecenter.

Featuring local designers, stylists, and stores including Zeke Westerman, Wildman Vintage, Katrina Weiss, Chrissy Spencer, Betsy Hatch, Vintage Van, SSL, Vintage Dress, Plato’s Closet, and more! So Come, dance, drink, and help out on a great cause! Admission is $5.00, 18+ to enter.

• Adult Swim Carnival
Street Closure – between Mass. St. and New Hampshire St. (17 East 8th Street in Lawrence, KS)
Thursday, April 14, 6-11pm

From the Organizers:
Adult Swim is about to jollificate all over Lawrence. The Ragbag of Jollification features Bands! Prizes! Games such as Convict Escape! Flunko! and Balloonicorn Blowout! And it’s FREE! FREE! FREE!

Go to adultswimpresents.com to find out more.

Performance by Pusha-T featuring Rick Geez, and music by Nick Arcade.

Click the link below for our calendar events March 25, 2011 through April 1, 2011. Lawrence Final Fridays is this week, so make sure you check out all of the great art that will be up. This intrepid reporter will be checking out all of the new art throughout the rest of the month due to the KU basketball game going on smack in the middle of the opening of these Lawrence art shows. Also, the folks at Q5 will be doing their monthly show at Henry’s this week, and I am pleased to be a small part of the show courtesy of Adam Dorssom and his Backgammon Showcase. If he still will take my pieces!

Calendar link for events

Highlights:

• Lawrence Art Party
Hobbs Taylor Lofts (740 New Hampshire in Lawrence, KS)
Friday, March 25, 5-9pm

From the Organizers:
The March 25 Lawrence Art Party is going international this month! We’ll have Flamenco fusion guitar and dance, and dozens of amazing artists!

Music and dance will be by Ole Music and Dance of Spain. In addition to the flamenco dances such sevillana and bulerias, you will also hear Latin inspired rumba and tangos, as well as selections by guitarist Jarrod Stephenson in his own flamenco fusion style!

We have AMAZING,WONDERFUL ARTISTS, INCLUDING TWO KU GROUP SHOWS!!!!!!!!!!

KU GROUP SHOWS
Sculptor Matt Burke’s students as many as 30, will be showing wood boxes and drawings. I saw some of the wood works under development, and they are going to be fascinating!

Textile Design Students from KU – Six members of the KU Textile Club will show their work! The artists are Krista Mustain, Jennifer Hunt, Ren Doshier, Sarah Sullivan, Lauren Tweedie and Neil Goss.

INDIVIDUAL ARTISTS
Bill Bowerman, creator of unique and striking scan art.

Louis Copt has beautiful paintings and photographs in collections throughout the US. He is known worldwide for his prairie fire paintings, and has been showing new, innovative work at the Lawrence Art Party. Don’t miss a chance to see what Louis can do! http://www.louiscopt.com/original_art/prairie_fire/prairie_fire.php

Dan Dishman. Dan is a painter and photographer. His oil paintings are a ‘must see’ for art lovers. His facebook page is at
http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=62903066

Tony Frentrop. Tony loves working with wood, and it show – he will show furniture, sculpture, and more. Don’t miss his work!

Christoper Ford, creator of the “Urban Stump”, one-of-a-kind tables

John Hachmeister, KU sculpture professor and thermite wizard, will be accompanied by an 8 foot monkey! Check out some of his work at http://tinyurl.com/johnhachmeister

Emily Johnson. Emily’s mixed media pieces are very personal, lyrical, and touching.

Laura Jost. Laura makes wonderful tile art. You’ll think they are paintings. Check them out! http://www.lorajost.org/

Baker Medlock. The Robot Man, Baker also creates wonderful metal insects. Everything he makes is from scrap. Check out the wonderful robots he has for sale now, in the window of the Hobbs Taylor Gallery! One of them is 7 feet tall! http://www.facebook.com/album.php?id=149657781730480&aid=57603

Kaylyn Munro will be showing new works. Her still life paintings are amazing. I will send pictures next week. In the meantime, visit her blog at kaylynmunro.blogspot.com

Daryl Nickel will be showing his hand-made furniture, including a new piece…all curves!

George Paley George will show his new Jamaican Mask series. Under development for two years, with his first American showing at the Lawrence Art Party!!!! Pictures will be posted soon!

Frank Shopen. This will be Frank’s first Lawrence Art Party. I can’t wait to see his sculptures! https://sites.google.com/site/shopendesigns/

Celia Smith, Lawrence painter, will be showing at the Lawrence Art Party for the first time. I can’t wait to see paintings! For a preview, check out http://www.lawrenceartscenter.com/Artists/Celia_Smith/001.html

Gary Mark Smith, international street photographer. Gary just posted a great portfolio of photos from New Orleans. http://www.streetphoto.com/NewOrleans.htm

Garret Tufte, author and artist, will unveil a few of his pieces. Garret blends science, technology, and art in a very intriguing way!!!

New artists are always welcome at the Lawrence Art Party. If you are interested in showing your work and having a great time, just send an email to eric@whirledart.com, with the subject “artist request” (without the quote marks). You will receive an immediate response with more details.

Check out the two sets of photos from the February 25 party, by Kyle Rogers and Wes McCauley, at the Whirled Art Facebook site http://tinyurl.com/whirledart.

• Build This Cardboard Thing
The Lawrence Percolator (940 New Hampshire in Lawrence, KS)
Friday, March 25, 5-9pm (Ongoing until Apr. 30)

From the Organizers:
Cardboard Construction Workshops March 26 & 27 1 -5pm
Parade and Opening Reception Friday, April 1st at 6pm

Eric Farnsworth will be leading the workshops where you can participate in building creatures that will be apart of the parade and opening reception. Juniper Tangpuz will be showing his amazing works in the gallery.

• Valerie Skubal with Tangent Arc
Love Garden Sounds (822 Massachusetts Street in Lawrence, KS)
Friday, March 25, 5-9pm

Kansan Photographer Valerie Skubal will  have her photos on display along with a performance by the band Tangent Arc at 7pm.

Hamms by Barrett Emke

• Muscle Worship 7″ Record Release Show and Art Opening
Love Garden Sounds (822 Massachusetts Street in Lawrence, KS)
Friday, February 25, 6-10pm

From the Organizers:
Performances by Games at 8pm and Muscle Worship at 9pm.
Artwork on display by Barrett Emke, Christopher Trenary, Seth M. Wiese, and Ryan Hasler.
Bakesale by Blackbird Bakery.
Starting at 8pm we’ll be asking $5 at the door. You get the freshly released 7″ record with your entry fee!

From the Organizers:
This year’s Baroque By Candlelight program might easily be subtitled “Baroque Sacred and Profane”, especially when considering that those worlds freely intermingled in the eighteenth century!  We begin with the overture to Handel’s magnificent oratorio Theodora.  This story, set to music very late in the composer’s life, takes place in Rome during the fledgling period of Christianity, and tells the story of a young woman who refuses to yield either her virtue or her faith in the face of death.  Handel’s powerful overture opens both the oratorio and our concert with strength and severity.

Bach’s Concerto for oboe d’amore gives us a glimpse of the original creative impulse which Bach utilized when making transcriptions of  his own works for performance on the harpsichord. The majority of his harpsichord concertos were transcriptions from his own earlier compositions (mostly for violin or woodwinds), and our performance gives us the chance to hear what the original might have sounded like.  The oboe d’amore is an infrequent guest in orchestral programs, so our audience will have an opportunity both rare and unique. Oboist Margaret Marco is the soloist for this performance.

Telemann is documented as being the most prolific composer of the Baroque period, having written with great fluency, and in every conceivable form. In complete contrast with the story of the Handel overture heard at the beginning of our program, the subject of this extended overture “La Putain” is indeed a lady of dubious repute.  The sections of this piece provide musical portrayals of her many associates, places of visit, and activities; fortunately, not all of her exploits are described in the music! The overture is based on a popular song of the time, “I haven’t seen you in such a long time”, which is worked into many sections of the music.

The concert is concluded with the joyous Symphony in B-flat of William Boyce, an English composer and associate of Handel.  The first of eight such works, this symphony has no extra-musical story to tell, and is a fine representative of the English style of writing that was developing towards the end of Handel’s lifetime.  The music of Boyce makes a return visit to LCO audiences.
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• KAWR Live Concert Event
Liberty Hall (803 Massachusetts Street in Lawrence, KS)
Saturday, January 22, 4pm-2am

From the organizers:
Free Early Show at 4:00 pm. Doors for Evening Show at 6:30 pm.

KAWR Come Together… Over KAWR
$10 on the day of the show. All Ages!

Bands include:
Lonnie Fisher and the Mobile Spirits
Vera, Chuck and Dave
Uncle Dirtytoes
Rachel Anderson
The Latenight Callers
Ricky Dean Sinatra
Tinhorn Molly
Dismantle the Virus
Spooklights

Other performances by:
Loaded for Bear: A New Comedy Show from Some of the Writers of Victor Continental
Felt Puppet Show
The KAWR DJ’s CALL FOR VOLUNTEERS (AFTERNOON & EVENING): **great opportunity to earn volunteer hours
** email nickdormer@kawr.org
More news and information about this event @ www.kawr.org

• Unemployed Works: Amber Hanson and Nicholas Ward
Love Garden Sounds (822 Massachusetts Street in Lawrence, KS)
Friday, January 28, 6-9pm

Colony Collapse will play and there will be art on display. Who’s artwork? So far my Magic Eightball says, “Future is unclear, check again later”.

Update (From the Organizers):
New Paintings and 2 stellar musical entities? Yes! Hell, Yes!

Final Fridays has a number of other hosts in addition to Love Garden. There will be super solid openings at the Pig, Invisible Hand Gallery, Lawrence Art Center, and Wonderfair amongst others.
We are stoked to be participating in such an art saturated
night in Lawrence, Ks.

The Musical Guests on Late Night with Love Garden are:
7:15: Jordan Geiger Solo Set
8:00: Colony Collapse

Amber Hanson and Nicholas Ward

From the organizers:
Live Art, Live Music, and Gallery showcase! Ages 18+. A gathering of the genres and cultures for one night of collective creativity. Music performances by Cosmopolitics Antimosity & The Freedom Writerz, The Will Nots, and The Brody Buster Band.  Artists include Jordan Tarrant, Rick Dunwoody, Mike Hooper, Hunter MCcullough, Erok Johanssen, Kevin Smith, Eddie Reed, Curtis Yazza Jr., Hilary Robinson, Zray Brooke Henderson, Trey Coughenhour, Ian Graham, Tyler Waugh, and Bailey Hoffman.

Calendar link for events

There are few art events this week but for everyone that wants to heat up with the crowd in Lawrence, check out these music events.
Rooftop Vigilantes West Coat Tour at the Replay Lounge
E100 with the Magentalmen and the New Franklin Panthers at the Bottleneck
Christmas Eve Soul Shakedown at the Taproom

Highlights:

• Percolator Benefit Show
The Jackpot Saloon (943 Massachusetts Street in Lawrence, KS)
Friday, December 17, 9-12pm

From the Organizers:
A benefit for the Lawrence Percolator. Door prizes, stick your head in Perco-Painted photo booth thingy like they have at carnivals, and early special guests. Music by Kirsten Paludan, Danny Pound, and DJ Junco Partner.

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• Out of Dodge
The Invisible Hand Gallery (801 1/2 Massachusetts Street in Lawrence, KS)
Tuesday, December 21, 5-9pm (Ongoing until Dec. 30th)

From the Organizers:
For this show I have made a bunch of little drawings about Dennis Hopper. The actor’s recent passing awakened a personal interest in his life story, and this work recounts my discoveries. Clinton Ricketts is an artist and teacher. He lives in liberal Lawrence, KS with his awesome wife Cristina.