Title: DirectorReport2009-01-08.doc
Programming:
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120
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40
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30
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50
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50
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4
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16
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60
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6
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10
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40
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12
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50
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12
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24
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6
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Five Bands Five Bucks
The angelic voice and acoustic guitar of Gaetana Brown; dance music from I The Eye; the indie punk sound of Bunny Holocaust; the alternative lo-fi indie creations of Cemetery Blues and noise band UNUNI that plays music ranging from jazzy stuff to boredom to DNA to just pure madness. Produced by Mira.
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30
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30
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Lola Danza, voice; John Voigt, bass with Cecile Morvan, poetry.
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6
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6
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Angie Bruce & Mike Dailey are booking bands. They are doing a great job sorting through the flood of email from 18yr old neo-death-metal-punk-pop bands from Tewksbury and Woburn. They are producing a special Friday the 13th show this month. Jeanette R-C designed the flyer. They discovered an immersive, 3D sound marimba player. Looking forward to more varied and exciting bands in the future.
Soundscape – This coming week, Jed and I meet with Alex Case, Assistant Professor, Department of Music, UMass Lowell. Turns out he’s married to Jed’s cousin. Alex is very, very interested in the project. He indicated that he would contribute 1) recording equipment, 2) studio space and 3) graduate students. Now he just has to hire Jed as an adjunct to run the project 8^)
Things are looking up!
XFest 2009 – I have a press packet, which I will drop off next week at the SUN and COOL. Mira will mail the packet to the Hippo and the Phoenix. Gabriel Cruser, lowercasep, has offered to write a piece for the SUN. Dei designed a program. Next week I will contact the local artists to arrange places for the visiting artists to ‘crash.’
Cyberarts 2009 – I checked the website this morning, still no schedule. This makes planning difficult. Nevertheless, we are currently booking April-May. It would ‘behove’ us to work on our programming ASAP, assuming that George will have an opening party on Friday April 24 and a closing party on Sunday May 10. Peter ‘Zebbler’ is coordinating a 2-day video festival, Dead Video/Live Video, at MassArt on Sat-Sun May 2-3. It’s not on the Cyberarts website?
Fiscal Sponsorship:
Andy Jacobson and Suzzanne Cromwell are the Turbine House. The Turbine House is located on Merrimack Street behind the Lowell Community Charter School. It will be a café/music venue/theater. Andy is the commercial part of the project and Suzz the non-commercial part. Andy has a project spreadsheet covering the café. Suzz will be writing grants to develop programming and wants 119 Gallery to act as her fiscal agent.
This project seems ‘right up our alley.’
And, Jane-Sarah MacFarlane, “Do I look like a walrus?” is applying for a film production grant from LEF. Given a positive response to her letter of intent, she would like us to act as her fiscal sponsor.
Development:
It’s time to set up the Development Committee. I will chair. I’m looking for committee members!
Prepared by: Walter Wright, Executive Director
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