(SCENE) Metrospace

msu@scenemetrospace

2010-02-28T13:40:00.006-05:00

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Exhibition: msu@scenemetrospace

Opening reception: Friday, January 15th, 6-9 p.m., free, public welcome

SCENE Metrospace kicks off the 2010 exhibition season with a mixed media show featuring some of Michigan State University's finest. Exhibiting artists include Steve Baibak, Erika Birkhold, Deon Foster, A.M. Martens, Andrew Rieder, Grant Whipple and Andrea Wicklund.

Call for Submissions

2010-02-22T14:31:00.003-05:00

SCENE Metrospace is currently taking submissions for the following two exhibits: Pocket-sized, and, For Cheap's Sake: Photocopied. These exhibits will run concurrently in the gallery from March 12th until April 25th. Please continue reading for guidelines and specifications.
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The Pocket-sized exhibit is open to any media. We are primarily looking for 2D work that belongs on the wall, but 3D work will also be considered. Subject matter is open-ended. The only stipulation for 2D work is that the piece fit in a 6"x9" mailer/envelope; for 3D work that it roughly fit in the palm of your hand.

For Pocket-sized, please send images and bio/resume for consideration to scenemetrospace@gmail.com

DEADLINE FOR SUBMISSIONS: FEBRUARY 22nd
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For Cheap's Sake: Photocopied is a call for photocopy art, artwork in which the final product is a photocopy. Photocopies must be anonymous, and UNFRAMED. Subject matter and size are open-ended, though explicit, and/or offensive subject matter will not be considered.

No bio/resume or submission of images required for For Cheap's Sake: Photocopied. The gallery reserves the right to limit the number of participants included in this exhibit. No photocopies will be returned.

DEADLINE FEBRUARY 22nd

Please send photocopy art to the following address:

SCENE Metrospace
410 Abbot Rd
East Lansing, MI 48823
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Please direct questions to scenemetrospace@gmail.com

MSU Musicians

2010-02-04T09:19:00.003-05:00

the Scene&Heard concert series

beginning Thursday, February 4th

doors @ 7:00, concert @ 7:30

students $3, general public $5
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The Scene&Heard concert series' mission is to provide an alternative to traditional concert aesthetics.
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Come listen to music commenting on art, technology and culture at large--music that connects jazz, noise, pop, poetry, theater, tagging, YouTube and more.

Chase "Mic Write" Morris

2010-02-03T21:48:00.001-05:00

Spitfire Poetry Series features Chase "Mic Write" Morris on Wednesday, February 3rd.

Doors at 7:30; poetry at 8:00.

Students $3; all others $4.

Third Annual Folkfest

2010-01-29T10:00:00.001-05:00

Coming January 29th and 30th

Earthwork Music and Fox on a Hill Productions present

The 3RD Annual (SCENE) Metrospace Folk Festival

In celebration of the thriving Michigan folk music community, Earthwork Music and Fox on a Hill Productions will host a lineup of some of the most talented and sought-after singer-songwriters in Michigan.

Friday performers include Seth Bernard, Chris Dorman, Steve Leaf, and Gifts or Creatures.

Saturday performers include May Erlewine, Ralston Bowles, Drew Howard, Sam Corbin, and Jen Sygit.

The Music begins at 8pm.

Tickets are $10 each night and only available at the door.

Limited seating, first come, first serve.

Doors open at 7pm.

Fields of Industry, White Pines, Stargrazer

2010-01-22T16:44:00.001-05:00

Fields of Industry
White Pines
Stargrazer

Friday, January 22nd

doors @ 8:00, music by 9:00

$5

beats, rhymes and late nights

2009-12-15T08:32:00.001-05:00

Tuesday, December 15th

8-11

$5

New Exhibit: What Comes Naturally

2009-12-13T22:45:00.003-05:00

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(SCENE) Metrospace, 110 Charles St., will unveil its latest art exhibit, What Comes Naturally, at an opening reception on Friday, Oct. 30 from 6-9 p.m.

The opening reception is free and members of the public are welcome to attend. The reception will include a performance by We're Dead, a local duo that offers a cinematic approach to ambient electronic music.

What Comes Naturally features mixed media art by Andrea Eckert (working with poets Ann Delmariani and Amy Diehl), plant assemblage by Russell Arthur Bauer (working with Janel Schultz), portraits by Clare Gerber and lighted glass sculpture by Tiffany Norman Fieldhouse. The artists in the What Comes Naturally exhibition work with natural ingredients--nature itself, in some instances--or forms, such as portraiture, most commonly associated with the history of art.

The What Comes Naturally exhibit will run Oct. 30-Dec. 13.

(SCENE) Metrospace is East Lansing’s City-funded contemporary art gallery and performance space. It is located at 110 Charles St. in the colorful Division Street parking structure, next door to Georgio’s Pizza. Contact Tim Lane at (517) 319-6832 or visit www.scenemetrospace.com for more information about the space. Regular gallery hours are Thursdays from 2-5 p.m., Fridays and Saturdays from 2-6 p.m. and Sundays from noon-4 p.m.

You & Yourn, Secret Twin, Fields of Industry

2009-12-12T10:20:00.002-05:00

you & yourn
secret twin
fields of industry

saturday
december 12th
doors @ 8:00
music by 9:00
all ages
$5

Unsilent Night

2009-12-11T09:00:00.001-05:00

Unsilent Night 2009, the ambient holiday boombox symphony, is about to descend on the streets of East Lansing for the third year running on Fri., Dec. 11, 2009. What better way to count down the 12 days of Christmas? No singing required! What is this, you might ask?

Written by downtown NYC composer Phil Kline, Unsilent Night is an outdoor ambient music piece for an infinite number of boomboxes. When performed in the confines of a city, Unsilent Night reverberates off the buildings and streets, resulting in a drifting cloud of ethereal undulating sound. In effect, performers become a single element in a two-block-long stereo system. The Village Voice describes Unsilent Night as "a marvelously fluid, traveling spatial sound sculpture that disintegrates and reforms at nearly every stop light." Time Out calls the event "an electro-happening" and depicts the music as "a winter wonderland of shimmering sleigh bells, chimes and grand chorales."

In East Lansing, the Unsilent Night tradition has been carried on by a diverse collection of participants, anchored by the students of the MSU College of Music, and including participants from Lansing and Ann Arbor. This year, we’re looking to get lots more people involved from the MSU, and EL/Lansing/Okemos community. Want to get hip to the holiday spirit with our boombox symphony? Download your part of the music at unsilentnight.com/download (burn to CD or MP3 that you can play aloud on any ol’ contraption!). Also be sure to visit Scenemetrospace.com for further details, or contact the organizer, Geoff Deibel, for more information. Hoping to see everyone at our hometown gallery, Scene Metrospace in East Lansing on December 11 at 7 pm! We’ll take an hour to organize, hand out tapes/CDs and let people check out the great exhibits at Scene Metrospace. The parade begins at 8 pm sharp!! So dig your old boombox out of the closet, and bring it along! You can even play the music off your iphone!

Since its debut in 1992, Unsilent Night has become a cult holiday tradition in NY and around the world, drawing crowds of up to 1,500 participants. This year will see repeat presentations in San Francisco, Philadelphia, San Diego, Vancouver BC, Middlesbrough (England) and Sydney, Australia, as well as the first ever performances in Los Angeles, Santa Barbara, Baltimore, Charleston, Rochester, Milledgeville (Georgia), and Banff (Alberta, Canada). In February 2006, a new version of Unsilent Night was presented at the Winter Olympics in Turin, Italy, as part of a sound art festival in the Alps.

OMG Is Coming to SCENE

2009-12-05T20:00:00.003-05:00

Oh My God
with
The Continental Things

saturday, december 5th
doors @ 7:00
TCT @ 8:00
OMG @ 9:00
$8

Jeremy Cronk with Zach Vinson and Nick Van Huis & the Bone Jangles

2009-12-04T16:23:00.001-05:00

Jeremy Cronk
with
Zach Vinson
and
Nick Van Huis & the Bone Jangles

Friday, December 4th
doors @ 8:00
music by 9:00
$5

Sam Corbin CD Release Concert

2009-11-19T11:29:00.004-05:00

Sam Corbin
“Michigan’s Waltz” CD Release Concert
wsg Brian Westrin

Nov. 19th 2009
Doors at 7pm
$5.00 cover

Come join us for an evening of music with the release of “Michigan’s Waltz”, the second full length studio album from Lansing native Sam Corbin. In this Americana/Roots release, Sam writes about experiences of love, loss, traveling, and Michigan from it’s beautiful countryside to it’s struggling economy. This will be a rare full band performance with Jen Sygit, Mike Lynch, Drew Howard, Spencer Cain, Billy Harrington, and Brandon Foote.

Brian Westrin will be opening.

Scott Woods

2009-11-18T20:00:00.000-05:00

Spitfire Poetry Reading featuring Scott Woods

Wednesday, November 18th

doors at 7:30, poetry at 8:00

students $3, general public $4

Scott Woods is the author and editor of over nine books and has been featured multiple times in national press, including multiple appearances on National Public Radio. He is currently President of Poetry Slam Inc., which oversees the annual National Poetry Slam, the Individual World Poetry Slam, and the Women of the World Poetry Slam; and is the founder of the Writers’ Block Poetry Night in Columbus Ohio. In April of 2006 he became the first poet to ever complete a 24-hour solo poetry reading, a feat he bested in 2007 by performing for another 24 hours, but without repeating a single poem. He pens a monthly column for GotPoetry.com, entitled "Poetry is Doomed", is the founder of the Greatest Slow Jam Ever website, DJ's a PodCast called Scott's Groove Locker, and has been featured at an art show called "Traces" featuring his original paintings. In between all this he finds time to write poetry. He is Lex Luther meets Paul Roberson with a touch of Chuck D for Style Points.

Caribbean Night

2009-11-13T08:37:00.002-05:00

Come and experience the amazing culture of the Caribbean through an exciting evening of music, dancing and the best of Caribbean cuisine. The unforgettable event begins at 7 with a live band playing Reggae and Soca topped by a menu of mouth-watering Caribbean delights, from jerk chicken to beef patties. We switch gears, at 9 and showcase two talented DJs playing the hottest Reggae, Soca and Caribbean rhythms. Bring your friends and everyone you know to enjoy a slice of paradise in East Lansing.

Founded in 2006, the Caribbean Students Association CSA at Michigan State University represents students from over 30 countries in the Caribbean. The group aims to foster an awareness of the cultural, political and economic issues facing the Caribbean and its people. For more information contact us at: carib@msu.edu or visit us on our Facebook page: Michigan State Caribbean Students Association.

Loune/Theodore/Bird Dog

2009-11-11T15:55:00.002-05:00

Loune

Theodore

Bird Dog

Wednesday, November 11th

doors at 8:00/music by 9:00

$5

Brandon John Foote, Daniel Hoover, Doug Mains

2009-11-06T09:22:00.005-05:00

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In celebration of the thriving Michigan folk music community, Scene Metrospace and Earthwork Music will host a lineup of talented Michigan-based troubadours. The event will be held at Scene Metospace in East Lansing. Performers include Daniel Hoover, Brandon John Foote, and Doug Mains. Forged in the flames of Jackson, Michigan, Daniel Hoover lives his life today in a constant flow of musical majesty with words and stories that look forward in song. Armed with vintage guitar, Brandon John Foote shares stories about Harry Houdini, Michigan’s Upper Peninsula, William Booth and beyond. Doug Mains has wowed music-lovers throughout the state with his appealing twist on modern folk music.

The Earthwork Music Collective believes in the intrinsic and historical power of music to raise both community and self-awareness and serves to facilitate and encourage original music in the state of Michigan and beyond.

The Music begins at 9pm at Scene Metrospace in East Lansing. Admission is $5.

Poetry Reading

2009-11-05T15:48:00.002-05:00

echoes spoken word poetry reading

doors at 7:30/reading at 8:00

featured poets: zac buc/jon james/diana vashti/cat batsios

open mic to follow

donations appreciated

Halloween at (SCENE)

2009-10-31T23:47:00.002-04:00

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Costumes encouraged!

8-10 P.M.

Tuple Bassoon Duo

2009-10-22T20:50:00.002-04:00

Tuple

Thursday, October 22nd, 7:00

$5
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The bassoon may not be the first instrument that comes to mind when most people think about experimental music, but for Rachael Elliott and Lynn Hileman, the usually low-profile instrument is the perfect vehicle. The two bassoonists make up the chamber ensemble Tuple, and will present a concert of avant-garde music for two bassoons at East Lansing's (SCENE) Metrospace on Thursday, October 22 as part of their fall tour, which also includes appearances at the University of Michigan and Northwestern University.

Tuple's virtuosic repertoire—which includes music by Dutch composers Louis Andriessen and Chiel Meijering, Russian Sofia Gubaidulina, and Americans Michael Daugherty and Marc Mellits—spans a melodic, timbral and stylistic range of surprising breadth. The music is by turns edgy, humorous and transcendent, and makes extraordinary demands on the players in terms of technique, stamina and breath control.

The duo is used to the fact that most of their audience members have never heard two bassoons playing together outside of the symphony orchestra. Tuple is working to change that by performing in clubs, concert and art venues. They also challenge the notion that contemporary classical music is difficult for audiences to relate to.

“We may perform modern music, but that doesn't mean that an indie rock fan, a classical music lover or a die-hard metal-head won't each find something to connect with in our music,” said Hileman, who is Professor of Bassoon at West Virginia University in Morgantown and Principal Bassoonist of the Binghamton Philharmonic. “Two bassoons together have such a wide degree of flexibility and sonorities available. It’s a unique and unexpected sound.”

The North Carolina-based Elliott, who has toured widely throughout the U.S., Europe and Australia with her group, Clogs, has also appeared in rock/pop and improvised settings over the past decade as a guest with The National, My Brightest Diamond and Sufjan Stevens, among others.

“We’ve nearly exhausted the catalog of new music for two bassoons,” said Elliott. “Now we are working with composers to write for Tuple. We premiered new music by the Australian composer Padma Newsome last spring, and we are looking forward to presenting even more new pieces in the coming season.”

That’s not to say that they have tired of Sofia Gubaidulina’s Duo Sonata from 1977, the oldest piece on their program. In fact, the work has a special place in Tuple’s repertoire: it is the first piece that Hileman and Elliott performed as a duo, and one with deep spirituality behind the music. Gubaidulina, one of the "Great Three" of contemporary Russian composers and a devout Orthodox Christian, has described her approach to composition as one that juxtaposes the earthly realm (expressed by guttural trills, micro-chromatic pitches and grinding dissonance) with the heavenly realm (represented by pure intervals, simple melodies and meditative stillness). By setting up such audible oppositions, she offers the audience and performers a clear window into the piece and its emotional content.

SCENE hosting a display for Breast Cancer Benefit

2009-10-20T14:42:00.001-04:00

It's a Breast Thing: Champagne & Chocolate Breast Cancer Benefit at the Kellogg Center

Please direct questions to: thechocolatevent@gmail.com

The Hatch

2009-10-19T21:00:00.005-04:00

The City of East Lansing is gearing up to open a new student business accelerator - The Hatch - in downtown East Lansing this fall.

The Hatch, a program that will operate under the umbrella of the new East Lansing Technology Innovation Center (TIC), was developed in an effort to generate and advance the culture of entrepreneurship in the community and to expand the market’s knowledge-based economy. In essence, The Hatch will provide a creative, co-working environment for prospective student entrepreneurs to develop their business ideas and ventures.

“The Hatch will create a social and innovative working environment for students, offering many of the services we provide to our business startups in the TIC, while also serving as an exciting alternative to working out of a home, library or coffee shop,” said East Lansing Project Manager Jeff Smith. “Our hope is that student entrepreneurs will find The Hatch to be a place where they can not only work on their own projects, but also collaborate with other members to increase the probability of their venture’s success. We have seen the benefit of this type of collaborative working environment in the TIC and we expect to see the same with The Hatch.”

Members of The Hatch will share a common workspace in downtown East Lansing’s (SCENE) Metrospace, 110 Charles St., and will utilize services provided at the TIC, including access to conference rooms, office equipment, networking opportunities, business development support, training sessions, seminars and mentoring programs. Membership at The Hatch will also include access to high-speed wireless Internet and desk space in (SCENE), an alternative art gallery centrally located in downtown East Lansing, just steps away from the Michigan State University (MSU) campus.

The Hatch will be available to all undergraduate and graduate students in the area, whether they are attending MSU or another local institution of higher learning. Students interested in becoming a member of The Hatch can sign up for a monthly plan, which will include access to the space three days each week during its regular business hours. Upon opening, The Hatch will be available to members Monday through Wednesday from 10 a.m.-8 p.m. in the (SCENE) space. Membership is $50 per month for undergraduate students and $75 per month for graduate students.

Interested students can visit cityofeastlansing.com/hatch or call (517) 708-3801 to learn more about The Hatch and membership opportunities. The Hatch’s official opening will be announced at a later date.

Quick facts:
The Hatch Quick Facts:
Program of the East Lansing Technology Innovation Center
Offers desk space, high-speed wireless internet, and business development resources to its members

Student entrepreneurs from Michigan State University and other local colleges share a common workspace

Located in the (SCENE) Metrospace, in the heart of downtown East Lansing
Walking distance to many campus buildings

The Hatch Contact Information
City of East Lansing
Technology Innovation Center
325 E. Grand River Ave. Suite 300
East Lansing, MI 48823
Phone: 517.708.3801
Fax: 517.708.3754

Questions?
Call Jeff Smith at (517) 319 6861 or e-mail him at jjsmith@cityofeastlansing.com.

For more information visit:
cityofeastlansing.com/hatch

3 Cities in 3D

2009-10-18T00:27:00.004-04:00

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3 Cities in 3D will open on Friday, September 11th from 6-9:30 pm.

Ambient music by Matt Borghi and Michael Teager!

Arms & Sleepers w/Host Echo & RX Gibbs

2009-10-15T12:58:00.000-04:00

Arms & Sleepers
RX Gibbs
Host Echo

Thursday, Oct. 15th

doors @ 8:00

$5

Spitfire Poetry Series featuring BLAIR

2009-10-14T09:11:00.001-04:00

Wednesday, October 14th, Spitfire Poetry Reading Series featuring Blair:

Doors at 7:30, poetry at 8:00, $4 general public, $3 students

BLAIR is an award winning Urban Folk, Afro-Punk, Poet, Singer, Songwriter from Detroit, who has just been signed to the new start-up label, Repeatable Silence Records.

In the words of Metro Times journalist Melissa Giannini, BLAIR focuses his work on the hope that rises from the ashes of despair.

BLAIR is a National Poetry Slam Champion. He's been nominated for 7 Detroit Music Awards, including a 2007 nod for Outstanding Acoustic Artist. He's been named Real Detroit Weekly Readers Poll's Best Solo Artist and The Metro Times Best Urban Folk Poet. In 2007 He won Seattle, WA based BENT Writing Institute Mentor Award.

Blair teaches poetry and music classes in Detroit Public Schools, Hannan House Senior Center, the YMCA and lectures at universities, colleges and high schools across the country.

BLAIR has performed on bills with Stevie Wonder, Oscar winner Michael Moore, Mike Doughty, Bitch and Animal, Justin Bond, members of Sweet Honey in the Rock, Richie Havens, The Butchies, Tribe 8, Wilco, Cat Power and others.

BLAIR was the January 2005 HBO Def Poetry Jam Website Featured Poet. He currently studies privately with a poetry instructor as part of the writer's collective Write Word / Write Now.

BLAIR has toured the United States and Europe extensively and performed in South Africa both solo and as part of Walk & Squawk's The Walking Project of which he is a co-writer and cast member. He's performed at New York's historic CBGBs and The Knitting Factory, The San Francisco Public Library, at Miyagi's on L.A.s famed Sunset Strip, Detroit's Hart Plaza and Magic Stick and with a string section at the home of the Detroit Symphony Orchestra.

His new CD, The Line, was released in June 2009 on Repeatable Silence Records.