'Test Market' A Fundraiser for Create Denver - 11/20

YesPleaseMore pop-up store is hosting a fundraiser Saturday night in support of Denver Office of Cultural Affairs' (DOCA) Create Denver initiative.

Saturday, November 20 / 8:00 p.m

Glenarm Great Room (Ste. 262), Denver Pavilions

$15/$40 Purchase tickets at www.DenverMagazine.com/YesPleaseMore

Test the lip-smacking culinary craft of Foodie Call while dining with Denver's most infamous monsters, The Horndribbles (includes "Test Market" admission)

Questions? E-mail hello@yespleasemore.comYesPleaseMore POP-Up Store is a recent recipient of the Mayor's Design Award.

YesPleaseMore Pop-up Store in Denver

I love this place! www.yespleasemore.com is a brilliant local artists pop-up store located in The Devner Pavillions on the 16th Street Mall in downtown Denver. I couldn't decide between the clear resin cuff bracelet, the French writing graphics t-shirt, or the bicycle drinking glass, so I got all 3. Well, one is a gift for a friend. She will be psyched! Next week they are hosting an event to celebrate the final day of the 2010 Summer Camp:

8/25: The Fabric Lab Button Making + Theatre + PechaKucha #11

Closing day of Summer Camp 2010!

Bring the family to make buttons with The Fabric Lab! Professional actors will perform in-store at the top of every half hour starting at 5 p.m. Finally, the YesPleaseMore POP-Up Store hosts PechaKucha #11 featuring designers from the store! RSVP on Facebook by clicking here.

The Fabric Lab Button Making: 2-4 p.m.

In-Store Theatre: 4-8 p.m.

PechaKucha #11: 8:30-10 p.m. FREE

YesPleaseMore is located on the 2nd floor of The Denver Pavillions next to Barnes and Noble Bookstore.

AFROBLU for World Aids Day - 12/13, Denver

Join hostesses Peju Alawusa and Ashara Ekundayo for another one of their after hours dance rituals, AFROBLU - for WORLD AIDS DAY 2008 -www.myspace.com/afroblu.
This national NextAid fundraiser www.nextaid.com promotes aids education and financially assists the youth in Africa orphaned by AIDS. Come get wild at another soulful house, afrobeat party with guest DJ IVY, Blackridge and resident DJs RJ Duran & CES in the name and energy of our fellow African peoples!!! Located at Bar Standard in downtown Denver, expect sumptuous cocktails, high fashion, fabulous people and a fabulous time!

AFROBLU - Afterhours Dance Ritual Remix
for World Aids Day 2008
Bar Standard
1037 Boradway, Denver
9pm to 2am
$5 at the door / 21+
Additional donations are always accepted!

Trunk Show at The Fabric Lab 11/15

This week The Fabric Lab (www.fabriclab.com) presents a fashion designer trunk show called "Prototype". A small studio it is, but the union of the neighboring cupcake shoppe The Shoppe (www.theshoppedenver.com) , as well as the media sponsor FM Magazine (www.fm-mag.com), will make it another hip-to-be-seen art party with live music, cupcakes, and of course, PBR. I don't have much info on the designers but the scene is always super fun. Actually, the last time I was on east Colfax for an art party the boys in blue had helicopters overhead. It must have been The Denver Roller Girls fashion show on the storefront sidewalks that they couldn't get enough of - way extreme, but a good story none the less. See you there!!

The Fabric Lab
3105 East Colfax Avenue, Denver
Call to RSVP - 303.321.3604 or www.thefabriclab.com/prototype

Gimme Gimme Pillow Toast Friday Night!!!!

I LOOOOOOOOOOVE GIMME GIMME PILLOW TOAST! THEY SAY.......

It's for cosplay-ers and observers alike - everyone is welcome! Map and contact information at www.gimmegimmepillowtoast.comThere will be performance by Mr. Pacman’s Turbo Team – a high-action 16-bit spinoff of local 8-bit rockers Mr. Pacman. Also, Japanese/Panamanian Hip Hop artist Ichiban will showcase his rhymes in a special performance before his upcoming CD-release party. Check out his page.What is COSPLAY? It’s where anime otaku (fans) make costumes of their favorite anime, manga or video game characters. This contest is to get the fans geared up for the huge anime convention Nan Desu Kan in SE Denver in September.In keeping up with our party traditions, there will be a new cupcake invention: Pocky cupcakes! Other Asian snacks will be served as well as iced green tea and boba samples from Wystone's World Teas!There will be Japanese pop and rock music and a video screen with clips from Asian videos/movies and a showing of Mr. Pacman’s
Half-Hour of Power!Prizes for the best costumes (and some door prizes!) will include: $50 gift certificates for Gimme Gimme Pillow Toast, free dish at Snooze restaurant, free Pocky for a year, FOUR (4) passes to Nan Desu Kan (!), a membership to the Japan America Society of Colorado and several items from the new Wystone’s World Teas in Belmar, including a GIANT gift basket!Cosplay-ers: Here are the categories: Best male costume, best female costume, best group, best professional (not made by you) costume and best original character/costume.There is no advance signup, but you will be asked gather at 7:45 p.m. to let us know the name you go by and whom you are portraying so we can announce it. Feel free to bring a reference photo for the judges.

Gimme Gimme Pillow Toast

Belmar, Lakewood

8/7/08 - 6pm to 9pm

Communikey/MATMOS at the Boulder Theater - 7/15

Originally my blog was Boulder/Denver pARTies until I moved to Denver full-time and decided that my time was better spent going to Denver-based events. Fortunately, Communikey (Boulder) makes it here today because the things that they are doing in the progressive music/art community feel like they should be in the "big city". Communikey has hosted a few events since their big debut of the electronic arts festival this past April, (of which I had the pleasure of being a venue sponsor when I was the events director at BMoCA) but this one seems like another great festival-like contributer to the somewhat predictable Boulder music scene.

The duo of Matmos' cosmic pop, synthesized music will perform at The Boulder Theater on Tuesday, July 15th accompanied by the interactive, public, digital art installation phonografitti. Matmos, who has toured with Bjork, usually presents its audience with something like "contact microphones brushing human hair, the pages of a Bible turning, rock salt being crunched underfoot, aspirin tablets being thrown at a drum kit from the other side of a room, amplified crayfish nerve tissue and — oh yes — the very real sound of human fat being sucked through tubes during liposuction surgery." - Sound on Sound Magazine

Supposedly works from their new album, Supreme Balloon, will bring mostly tempered synthesizer tracks.

This show should bring you unique entertainment as well as the opportunity to meet and interact with some of the hippest people that live in the Boulder area. This all ages show is $15 and tickets can be purchsed at the door. I'd love for it to sell out but I don't believe that it will.

Boulder Theater

2032 14th Street, Boulder

303.786.7030

http://www.bouldertheater.com/

OPEN WALL 2008 @ BMoCA, May 8th

OPEN WALL @ BMoCA

Thursday, May 9th

7 to 10pm

FREE for members

$10 for the public

1750 13th Street, Boulder

303.443.2122

Join the Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art for their annual OPEN WALL event. Artists frmo the community are invited to hang one piece of work for the evening in the museum while dancing to tghe rockin' beats of a DJ with tasty libations and special treats. This event is FREE to members or to those who purchase a BMoCA membership at the door for $35.

The Line-Up:

Live music by DJ Dsern, Denver and DJ data:bass of Urban Allyance, Longmont

Video art by aeonchild

Cupcakes by The Shoppe, East Colfax, Denver

Beer by Avery Brewing Company

Tea by Pixie Mate

Communikey Festival of Electronic Arts @ BMoCA (4/18 - 4/20)

Electronic Arts Festival: A Collaboration with Communikey


The Communikey Festival of Electronic Arts is a three day event facilitating the exposure of global digital media to both local communities and traveling enthusiasts. Seven music performances held at a variety of Boulder venues, including the Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art, will showcase digital creativity in the form of visual art and music by diverse artists from around the globe. Coupling art and panel discussion, the festival hosts a full day of forums and five audio-visual installations to present an enriched cross section of artists who reflect the current horizon of digial media arts.

• Opening Night Artist Cocktail Party: Decibel Festival Spotlight

Friday, April 18th @ BMoCA 5:00 to 8:00pm
Tickets are $10
This opening night festivity will be held in the Union Works Gallery at BMoCA with live music by DJ Greg Skidmore, Jerry Abstract aka Former Selv, and Kris Moon. Please RSVP to (ME!) Keleigh Asbury, BMoCA Director of Special Events, at 303.443.2122 x18 for this private engagement.

• Black Box Theater Performance at BMoCA: Sound; Structure

Saturday, April 19th @ BMoCA
6:00 to 7:00pm Cocktail reception
7:00 to 9:30pm performance
Tickets are $30
Held at The Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art, in the classic black box theater, Sound; Structure explores relationships between our internal world and the structure of life. a very limited capacity will make for an exclusive engagement with Jamie Drouin and Karl Kleim presenting RMI/RMX, Shuttle358 and collaborative efforts of Greg Davis and The Wind Up Bird.

• Outdoor Music Event at Civic Plaza (next to BMoCA)

Sunday, April 20th 1:00 to 7:00pm
FREE!!
BMoCA is also hosting the FREE outdoor community event for the festival at the Civic Plaza (next to The Dushanbe Teahouse/next to BMoCA) the following day. Expect great live music performed by the various artists participating in the festival. The event is all ages and free to the public!

Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art

1750 13th Street, Boulder 303.443.2122

http://www.bmoca.org/
http://www.communikey.us/

Untitled #13 (RIFF) at the DAM 3/28

I have managed to go to the last three Untitled events and it's impressive how they are able to offer us something new and unique at each one. This month's Untitled #13 is (RIFF) and features:

• Live internet guitar lessons;
• The Bowed Piano Ensemble from Colorado College - a unique group of student, faculty and staff musicians exploring the direct sounds that strings make from a grand piano;
• Trumpet player Hugh Ragin performing live jazz;
• Denver's favorite Buntport Theater comedy performance of The Joan and Charlie Show;
• The Kaivalya Hoop Dancers from Boulder;
• A cash bar as always;
  
• AND 2-for-1 tickets to the Inspiring Impressionism exhibit.

These performances and activities do not all happen at once inside the DAM, so you can pick and choose at different times during the evening which ones to attend. (They happen throughout the museum.) Oh, and they always have snacks too!

Friday, March 28th - 6pm to 10pm
Tickets are $10 per person or FREE for DAM members.

The Denver Art Museum
100 E. 14th Avenue, Downtown Denver
720.865.5000
denverartmuseum.org

DAM's Untitled #12 (Anomaly) 2/29

This month's Denver Art Museum fifth Friday event, Untitled #12 (Anomaly), features a bit of the unusual in the usual location. From 6 to 10pm one can experience the fixated works in the existing galleries as well as:

• Live music by artists Andrea Ball, John Common, Britt Rodemich and BDRMPPL
• DJs Tim and (the original panytliner)
  
• Theatrical performances by Buntport Theater
• Cash bar and delicious snacks by Gourmet Fine Catering

Friday, February 29th
6pm to 10pm
$10; FREE to members

100 E. 14th Avenue, Downtown Denver
720.865.5000
denverartmuseum.org

ARTOPIA at VINYL 2/23

I honestly have to say that I know of NO other art event happening in Denver this week besides Westord's 12th Annual ARTOPIA being held at Vinyl nightclub this Saturday night, February 23rd. ARTOPIA looks to highlight the area's up-and-coming visual and performing artists, musicians, fashion designers, culinary masters and cocktails creators. ARTOPIA will also be awarding $4,000 EACH to 5 local artists in a ceremony being held during the event. I'm not sure about the quality of the entertainment quite yet, but they sure have brought a lot to the line-up:

Live music

• The Swayback
  
• Hearts of palm
• Bela Karoli
• Cocktail Revolution

Fashion

• Metroboom
• Unity
• Westside Sinners
• Sirens on Third

Food

• Theorie
• nine75
• Sushi Hai
• much more than I can post.....but those are the good ones!
  

Vinyl Nightclub
1082 Broadway, Denver
Saturday, February 23rd ; 7 to 10:30pm
$25 in advance;$35 at the door (Tix at www.westword.com)
*Postion of the ticket sales goes to Big Brothers and Big Sisters of Colorado

Untitled #11 at The Denver Art Museum 1/25

This months Last Friday mixed-media event at The DAM entitled Untitled #11 (You Are Here) features a more Buddhist approach to its late night parties. Guests will:

• be introduced to the meditative concept of flow
• learn about the interconnectedness of the local food movement
  
• read about the yogi book by RAM DASS (Be Here Now)
  
• hear live music performances by local bands Hot IQ's (lounge, fuzzed-rock, classic pop) and D. Biddle (folk, punk, pop)
• see the quirky comedies of the Buntport Theater Company (www.buntport.com)

The Denver Art Museum is doing a fantastic job with these events by creating new and very interesting themes to tantilze all of the senses AND by supporting local artists and businesses. For a museum of national ranking it's nice to see things localized!

Friday, January 25th
$10; FREE to members
6pm to 10pm

100 E. 14th Avenue, Downtown Denver
720.865.5000
denverartmuseum.org

FINAL ART EVENT EVER! at Capsule Gallery 1/4

A friend of mine from Boulder and I are heading to Denver tonight, after a quick stop at The Kitchen Upstairs for tasting hour (www.thekitchencafe.com), to the last night and hopefully unique and exciting art event at Capsule Gallery, 554 Santa Fe Drive at 7pm.

"Capsule Gallery specializes in showing the cutting edge work of emerging contemporary artists. We also run a monthly art festival, Art-O-Mart, have an on-site community screen printing shop, affordable artist's studios, have the occassional band play, and run professional development classes and seminars for artists. All that, and we throw a kick-ass party, too. We exist to support independent culture for independent people!" -Capsule