CHANNELING in SAN FRANCISCO is TONIGHT!
January 16th [Friday] / SAN FRANCISCO
8pm @
Artists’ Television Access
992 Valencia Street
http://www.atasite.org
$6 at the door
RSVP to this event on Facebook
CHANNELING in LOS ANGELES is TOMORROW!
January 17th [Saturday] / LOS ANGELES
8pm @
Echo Park Film Center
1200 N. Alvarado Street (@ Sunset Blvd)
http://www.echoparkfilmcenter.org
$5 at the door
RSVP to this event on Facebook
well, the Stud was a dud. i would love to regale you with fabulous stories and hot pictures of what went down last night, but alas, nothing of the sort occured. but no worries. the screening at ATA tomorrow night is looking pretty promising, we’ve been getting good press in the papers, and hey, it’s san francisco! record high temperatures all this week; it’s been absolutely gorgeous thus far, and clearly there’s no shortage of things to do. i’ve already made my pilgrimage to amoeba and picked up a bounty of sylvester records and $1.99 party jams. now it’s time to get out of this coffee shop and wander around the mission, stuff myself with tacos and get something fabulous from tartine. YES!
one quick announcement: CHANNELING is coming to kansas city! that’s right, we’ve added one more show to the end of this already extensive journey. here are the details:
January 30th [Friday] / KANSAS CITY, MO
8pm @
UCP’s La Esquina
1000 West 25th St.
http://www.charlottestreet.org
$3-6 sliding scale donation
RSVP to this event on Facebook
we made it into san francisco last night! very happy to be here, seeing old friends and enjoying AMAZING weather (record highs!). we finally have updated info for our albuquerque and austin shows–check the link to the right.
also, rumor has it that we’ll be adding a show in kansas city on the 30th and–get ready–a show across the pond this spring. OMG! details coming soon…
san francisco folks! don’t forget that we’re DJing tonight!
January 14th [Wednesday] / SAN FRANCISCO
FRUITBASKET DJs @ The Stud // benefit party for the CHANNELING tour
399 9th St // 9pm – 2am // $3
monday night’s show at DIVA in eugene went great! we had a fantastic turnout and it was lovely to chat with the folks who run the space–truly a fabulous place to have a screening. thanks to everyone at DIVA, our host josh faught, and josh’s students, who turned out in force!
that's our host josh facing the camera!
and here's the the lovely crowd!
hi folks!
sorry i haven’t been able to post very regularly thus far on the tour–a whole lot of things have transpired that have kept me from having the time and/or patience. the short version is that after two monster days of driving westward, from minneapolis toward seattle, we got stuck in ellensburg, washington, due to all the floods/mudslides/avalanches that were happening in that area, and missed our show at the northwest film forum in seattle.
before i get to all that, let me go back to the beginning.
MINNEAPOLIS
we pulled into st. paul, where we were staying with our kind and gracious host ira yonemura, about two hours before showtime. after grabbing a bite at the wedge co-op, we trekked over to the art of this gallery for the screening. the screening was organized dan and eric of the revolting queers, a twin-cities based collective, and their crew turned out in force! we had 35+ people turn out on a frigid sunday night–amazing! here’s a photo of the crowd (there were more folks crammed in along the edges), some revolting queers zines, and our host ira with latham:
the crowd in minneapolis
revolting zines
ira + latham
big thanks to everyone who came out, the great people who run art of this, and the revolting queers! and since it coincided nicely with the last piece in the program, (tell me why): the epistemology of disco, don’t forget to check out the minneapolis queer dance party PEGASUS on the 16th of this month–the theme is DISCO HEAT! sounds awesome.
GLOBAL WARMING SUCKS
the next morning we jumped in our nifty rental car and sped out across the great northern plains, crossing north dakota and making it to miles city, montana, after about 12 hours of driving. the next day, we made great time across montana before getting slowed down in the western mountain ranges that cross into idaho. heavy snow, slushy roads, and winding mountain passes at night made for a pretty hairy four hours, all of which led us to call it quits for the night in spokane, washington, figuring we’d get up the next day and slog through the last five or six hours to seattle.
little did we know that that very snowstorm would close all three of the east-west mountain passes, flood I-5 (the main route between seattle and portland), and close off every feasible alternate route. no, we thought we’d hang out in ellensburg, fork over the cash for an extra night at a local motel, and all would be right in the morning.
you should be able to guess by now that we were pretty damn wrong. i thought i’d found an alternate route that involved driving southwest, to portland, then up I-5 to the point where the floods had closed it, then around through some smaller state highways, so we jumped into the car, drove a good six hours to get around and entire mountain range, basically, only to be turned back some 15 miles into our supposed alternate route (yes, we did ignore the repeated offical broadcasts that said there was no detour).
see, all along the way we thought shit was totally going to work out because we saw about a dozen rainbows as we sped along the columbia river. i mean, what else could you want to signal that we were on the right path?
double rainbow on the columbia river!
anyway, the end result of this was that we missed our seattle screening at the northwest film forum. fortunately, we had sent them a DVD ahead of time, so the show went on without us. by all accounts, it was well-loved by the friendly people who made it out that night.
latham and i drove back to portland and began frantically calling everyone we knew who might be able offer us a place to stay. the wonderful megan holmes, who we’d been in contact with about trying to get a show in portland (and whom we’d never met in person, might i add) saved the day and offered to let us crash at her place. we grabbed a beer at a very interesting gay sports bar, dropped off our stuff at megan’s, munched on some tasty vegan food at bye and bye, and prayed to every queer spirit we knew that the highway would open so we could at least make it up to seattle to hang out the next day, as planned.
lo and behold, whatever we did worked. before taking off for seattle, we had brunch with vanessa renwick at vita cafe. it was really fabulous to get to hang out with one of our artists, and might i add that vita’s “country breakfast” is possibly the ideal combination of delicious marginally-healthy vegetarian breakfast foods. chicago brunch spots, take note.
alas, this is not the car we are driving. tragic.
so after a pit stop at reading frenzy and powell’s books (both pretty awesome), we drove up to seattle to visit the fabulous former chicagoan ben de la creme. ben was to host a brand-new burlesque show on saturday night called FABULUXE at sonya’s, so we absolutely had to make the trip up. it was, of course, a delightful evening that ended up with very memorable late-night pizza excursion. unless i am drastically mistaken, fabuluxe will be occuring monthly, so if you’re in seattle, do yourself a favor. and hey, thanks to the wonderfulness of “ChrisB in SEA” and flickr, you can check out some pictures from the show!
this is what happens on tour when you stop to drink....
...you sit around and take pictures across the table.
latham + ben de la creme
THE PRESENT MOMENT
yesterday evening we left lovely seattle and the still-sodden washington state for eugene, oregon, for our host and university of oregon prof josh faught’s comfy abode, and our next screening. latham presented his work in josh’s very interesting queer theory class this morning [course title withheld due to copyright concerns, wink wink], and we’re about to head over to DIVA for tonight’s screening. we’re only a couple hours away, so barring some sort of insane flash flood, it looks like we’ll make this one! if you’re in the area, we’ll see you there.
tomorrow we head to san francisco! check out this great recommendation in SF weekly!
we’d hiding out at a glorious chain motel in miles city, montana, having blasted through 1200+ miles in the past two days. we have 15 minutes to check out, but before we go i wanted to make a few announcements.
1) we’ve added a show in san diego!
January 19th [Monday] / San Diego
8pm @
Agitprop Gallery
2837 University Avenue
$5 suggested donation
RSVP to this event on Facebook
2) we’re DJing in san francisco!
January 14th [Wednesday] / SAN FRANCISCO
FRUITBASKET DJs @ The Stud // benefit party for the CHANNELING tour
399 9th St // 9pm – 2am // $3
3) i’ve added a link to the right where you can follow me on twitter! if i can figure out how to integrate it into the page i will, but for now, visit me @ethanawhite to read short updates on what’s going on, ridiculous roadway signage, mileage counts, etc etc.
proper update coming soon, with pictures from our fabulous first show in minneapolis and more!
Latham and I have just pulled into Minneapolis for the first stop on the grand 2009 tour of CHANNELING! OK, St. Paul, actually, which is where we’re crashing out. In just a couple of moments we’re heading out the door to the gallery where the screening is taking place, but we’re happy to post the nearly-complete schedule for the tour! Details on a few venues are coming through, and we’ll be adding at least two more shows (in San Diego and Albuquerque–you can guesstimate the dates).
Keep checking the “upcoming shows” page on the right for the latest details. We’ll be DJing at a couple of spots along the way, so look out for that info too–rumor has it that we’ve been turning straight people gay, and you definitely don’t want to miss that. Right?
And of course, keep checking this space for updates, silly anecdotes, ridiculous photos, and more! Now that we’re on the road, we’re going to post as much promotional gobbledygook and other nonsense we’re able.
XOX.ETHAN
+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
January 4th [Sunday] / MINNEAPOLIS
8pm @
Art of This
3506 Nicollet Avenue
http://www.artofthis.net
$3-$6 sliding
RSVP to this event on Facebook
January 8th [Thursday] / SEATTLE
8:15pm @
Northwest Film Forum
1515 12th Ave [at Pike]
http://www.nwfilmforum.org
$6 member
$9 general
RSVP to this event on Facebook
January 12th [Monday] / EUGENE, OR
7:30pm @
110 W Broadway
http://divacenter.org
$5-$10 sliding
RSVP to this event on Facebook
January 16th [Friday] / SAN FRANCISCO
8pm @
Artists’ Television Access
992 Valencia Street
http://www.atasite.org
$6 at the door
RSVP to this event on Facebook
January 17th [Saturday] / LOS ANGELES
8pm @
Echo Park Film Center
1200 N. Alvarado Street (@ Sunset Blvd)
http://www.echoparkfilmcenter.org
$5 at the door
RSVP to this event on Facebook
January 20th [Tuesday] / PHOENIX
8pm @
Soul Invictus
1022 NW Grand Ave
http://www.soulinvictus.com
$6 at the door
RSVP to this event on Facebook
January 24th [Saturday] / AUSTIN
Details coming soon!
January 25th [Sunday] / HOUSTON
8:30pm @
Domy Books
1709 Westheimer
http://www.domystore.com
Free Admission
Donations Encouraged + Appreciated!
RSVP to this event on Facebook
January 26th [Monday] / SHREVEPORT, LA
+ Group Art Show + DJ’ed Afterparty!
7pm @
Korner Lounge
800 Louisiana Avenue
http://www.thekornerlounge.com
$5 at door
RSVP to this event on Facebook
January 27th + 28th [Tuesday+ Wednesday] / NEW ORLEANS
9pm @
Zeitgeist Multi-disciplinary Arts Center
1618 Oretha Castle Haley Blvd
http://www.zeitgeistinc.net
donation –
$7 general
$6 students & seniors
$5 Zeitgeist members
RSVP to this event on Facebook
January 29th [Thursday] / ST LOUIS
@ Mad Art Gallery http://www.madart.com
friends and fans!
we’ve got some rad events lined up in our slowly frosting home city this weekend. please come out and support us as we try to raise money for our decadent 24K solid-gold motorcoach tour bus with diamond rims and holograms and stuff. or rice and beans cooked over an open fire. it’s up to you!
and just to prove it’s all true, check out this nifty lil feature on edge chicago: channeling latham zearfoss
this is your LAST CHANCE to see CHANNELING in CHICAGO!
CHANNELING @ The Nightingale
1084 N Milwaukee
Friday Nov. 21st @ 8pm
$5 – $10 sliding scale
a wonderful screening of this year’s best film + video from young chicago artists curated by alexander stewart, including a piece by none other than latham zearfoss himself!
Chicago & The Universe @ Roots + Culture
1034 N Milwaukee
Saturday Nov. 22nd @ 8pm and 10pm
FREE
and to wrap it all up and shake it all down, Latham and I will be DJing the hideout’s infamous saturday night dance party!
Fruitbasket @ The Hideout
1354 W Wabansia
Saturday Nov. 22nd @ 11:30pm – 3:00am
ALSO: check the upcoming shows page for an updated list of confirmed january tour dates! whoa!
we’re happy to announce that there will be one more chicago screening of CHANNELING in a couple of weeks! please spread the word–we know a lot of people here in our lovely home city want to see the program but haven’t been able to make previous screenings. also, this is your last chance to see the program before we head out on tour in January!
FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 21st @ 8pm!
(please note date change)
CHANNELING: an invocation of spectral bodies and queer spirits
The Nightingale Theatre, 1084 N Milwaukee, Chicago (near Division/Ashland Blue Line stop)
by the fabulous Aay Preston-Myint
hello everyone! it’s been an intensely busy couple of weeks for us electronic spirits. our mini-tour of the northeast was great fun and very successful; our sincere thanks to everyone who came out, especially the FOUR artists in the program who braved the crazy rains in new york: thanks shana, michael, elliot, and jillian! and of course, thanks to paige sarlin of magic lantern in providence and jack and peter of le petit versailles in new york, as well as michael o’neill (aka DJ LGBT) for bringing us to heathers bar for afterparty fun!
we also had a screening at the school of the art institute of chicago this past tuesday! many thanks to mark jeffery, faith wilding, and mike fleming for making our contribution to the performance department’s PROPOSITIONS series come off successfully. for all of our chicago friends who couldn’t make it, fear not–we will be having a local screening that is a) outside of the loop and b) does not require dealing with security guards very very soon!
AND NOW, we have some plans for your halloween weekend. by a curious cosmic coincidence, although we do not have what would be an appropriately spooky screening this weekend, we do have not one but TWO fun-fun-fundraising events!
TODAY. HALLOWEEN. fruitbasket (aka latham and ethan) will be spinning records at danny’s tavern from 10pm until 2am! wear something ridiculous and come ready to get down. we’ll be the ones dressed as kurt cobain and courtney love. zombie grundge disco nonsense. you love it.
SATURDAY NOVEMBER FIRST! the hideout is hosting a benefit show for CHANNELING! see the amazing poster above, created by aay preston-myint, whose work is also in the program. featuring golden birthday, mayor daley, magical, beautiful, and hearts of darkness. the show starts at 8:30pm and is a mere $8 (get tix here). we’re super excited–please come out and help us take CHANNELING on the road, and most importantly, pay our artists! crazy, right?
DUE TO EXPECTED HIGH WINDS AND THUNDERSTORMS
This place is right down the street from the original location.
We will still do the afterparty at Heather’s bar.
I hope to see many of you tomorrow!
Thanks,
Latham
CHANNELING: An Invocation of Spectral Bodies & Queer Spirits
curated by Ethan White and Latham Zearfoss
*Curators and Filmmakers In Person*
Saturday October 25th @ ABC No Rio
156 Rivington St.
FREE with donations accepted.
+ An AFTERPARTY @ Heather’s Bar afterwards
featuring the DJ duo Fruitbasket (Latham + Ethan) and DJ LGBT
Immediately after the screening
506 East 13TH Street
Between Avenues A & B
http://heathersbar.com/
