Cirque X-St. James Infirmary
10 Year Anniversary Benefit
Friday, June 5th, 2009
9pm to 3am
Paradise Lounge, 1501 Folsom Street, San Francisco
St. James Infirmary is the first Occupational Health & Safety Clinic for Sex Workers and their partners in the United States. On June 5th, we will be celebrating our 10 year anniversary with a carnival of decadence – “Cirque X!”
PERFORMANCE ART:
Kirk Read & Sadie Lune
VIP ROOM:
Lusty Lady dancers (www.lustyladysf.com)
XXX SF male porn stars & dancers
Spankings by Kitty Stryker
Advance Tix: $15 General Admission; $35 VIP
Available at: www.stjamesinfirmary.org
Door: $20 General Admission; $40 VIP
21 and over; No cameras please!
SPONSORS:
San Francisco Bay Guardian
SFLGBT Pride Celebration
Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence
Raging Stallion
Dorkbot 7 year Anniversary Party June 20th
Presenting:
Greg Solberg & Keith Johnson
How to bake an electric cupcake, Tesla Roster, and the Marriage Wrecker.
Greg Solberg’s Bio: Greg has an undergraduate degree from UC Berkeley and thirty years of programming experience. Fifteen years ago he got involved with electric vehicles. Encouraged by a complete lack of knowledge on the subject he took on the task of converting his Honda Del Sol to electric propulsion. Four years later the Del Sol was running. Since then he has created a number of amusing electric art car vehicles (Electric Couch, Pink Bunny Slippers, and Cupcake Cars). Currently he has landed his dream job at Tesla Motors where he spends much of his time extracting the last little bits of performance out of the Tesla’s AC induction motor drive.
Keith Johnson’s Bio: At Stanford University, Keith wrestles with thorny issues around preserving very-long-term access to digital information-from esoteric research data to the digital photographs we’re all making now. For fun, he tinkers with anything mechanical or electronic, especially cars. Five years ago, encouraged and assisted by Greg Solberg, Lisa Pongrace, and his wife Merrilee Proffitt, he built two electric cupcake cars. Last year, inspired to create something a bit bigger, he built a full-size, air-suspended, electric-powered, robotic horse- drawn carriage (without the horse) decorated briefly as an industrial- age Cinderella’s Pumpkin Carriage. Though the carriage fared well on the rough Playa, the pumpkin shell disintegrated, and the carriage found its name, the “Marriage Wrecker.”
Jon Sarriugarte
One or more of the following topics:
The Giant Iron Snail Car the Golden Mean
1928 Hogan Tesla Coil
Powertool Drag Racing
Volt-Aged Whiskey
Bio: Born and raised in Boise, Idaho, Jon made the trip out to California to create the metal furniture company Form & Reform in 1987. He has studied and worked as a blacksmith/ fabricator for over 25 years. He co-owns the Kraftworks building in West Oakland that houses over 20 industrial craftsmen and performance artists.
Not content to “merely” excel at work, Jon also believes in plain old fun. His entries in the Power Tool Drag Races have been featured on the Discovery Channel, and his work on Vortex generators were featured on the History Channel. He continues to be active in the Bay Area art group, Survival Research Laboratories.
Two years Jon and his wife Kyrsten Mate founded the Boiler Bar Theater. This Oilpunk group built an entire bar from a turn of the century oil town and along with a bevy of stage talent, has taken the show on the road as far away as Texas. The Golden Mean is the newest addition mixing Jules Verne and Dr Doolittle in a hot rod car from the past.
Mike Winter
Interrogation by Robot
Recently he created robots that hug, laugh,
interrogate, party, make up stories, remove free will and buy beer. Currently he is working on Artificial Personality projects. He will be talking about interrogation by robot, there will be a short video.
Bio: Michael Winter is co-founder of Stupid Fun Club, a Berkeley based think tank. Before that, he founded three successful technology companies. More importantly, he won the first Robot Wars with his flipper robot, X1.
Omega Recoil
Wireless Power Transmission: How did Nikola Tesla do it? By Omega Recoil
In the late 1800s Nikola Tesla began experimenting with transmitting power wirelessly via the earth’s crust and the ionosphere. He invented what we now know as the Tesla Coil; this device was capable of generating extremely high voltages, and was the pre-curser to radio transmission. What was Tesla doing? How was he doing it? Does wireless power work? The Omega Recoil team have been re-creating some of Tesla’s wireless power experiments, with interesting results.
Our presentation will include videos of our Tesla Coils running and power being transmitted wirelessly.
Bio: Omega Recoil is a team of Scientists, builders, engineers, showmen and industrial artists that have created extremely large sparks in the San Francisco Bay area since 1999. The members of the group began work with: Pyrokenetics, Dr. Megavolt, Flaming Lotus Girls, SRL, Firefall, SimNuke, and Acme Muffineering. Omega Recoil is the intersection where Mad Science meets Art and Education.
Pictures
Plus more!
After the speakers each of these topics will be presented in larger than life demos!
Details
June 20th 2009, 8pm-2am
2600 Magnolia at 26th street in West Oakland Map
Enter through the Parking Lot Gate
$10 donation to support the Boiler Bar
As always at the Boiler Bar: DJ’s, & ravers are welcome to talk and learn.
The Boiler Bar & Theater are gearing up for Maker Faire next week and looking forward to seeing everyone!
We are bringing the Boiler Bar, Boiler Bar Stage, and the Giant Iron Snail Car the Golden Mean.
Look for us near Oaks Hall behind the Mouse Trap
Show times for the Boiler Bar are: 1:30, 3:30, 7pm Sat. & 1:15, 4:15 Sunday
Wonderful photo’s from our last show by Taboo
Dorkbot Seven Year Anniversary Party at the Boiler Bar June 20th
A night of learning, making, & sharing of Electrical Science & Art!
Wireless Power Transmission: How did Nikola Tesla do it? By Omega Recoil
In the late 1800s Nikola Tesla began experimenting with transmitting power wirelessly via the earth’s crust and the ionosphere. He invented what we now know as the Tesla Coil; this device was capable of generating extremely high voltages, and was the pre-curser to radio transmission. What was Tesla doing? How was he doing it? Does wireless power work? The Omega Recoil team have been re-creating some of Tesla’s wireless power experiments, with interesting results.
Our presentation will include videos of our Tesla Coils running and power being transmitted wirelessly.
Bio:
Omega Recoil is a team of Scientists, builders, engineers, showmen and industrial artists that have created extremely large sparks in the San Francisco Bay area since 1999. The members of the group began work with: Pyrokenetics, Dr. Megavolt, Flaming Lotus Girls, SRL, Firefall, SimNuke, and Acme Muffineering. Omega Recoil is the intersection where Mad Science meets Art and Education.
Pictures
Also presenting:
Mike Winter
cofounder of SFC,llc. will be speaking about his cyborg arm.
Jon Sarriugarte
One or more of the following topics:
The Giant Iron Snail Car the Golden Mean
1928 Hogan Tesla Coil
Powertool Drag Racing
Volt-Aged Whiskey
Plus more!
After the speakers each of these topics will be presented in larger than life demos!
Details
June 20th 2009, 7pm-2am
2600 Magnolia at 26th street in West Oakland Map
Enter through the Parking Lot Gate
$10-20 donation to support the Boiler Bar
As always at the Boiler Bar: DJ’s, & ravers are welcome to talk and learn.
1996-2009
I first saw this show in 1996 in the middle of the desert and wondered who these people were. Over the years I’ve acquired many fond memories of Chicken John’s shows and manage to participate in a few myself. This is the 17th Lost Vegas show at CellSpace and I can guarantee you will have fun!
We make boats out of junk and have amazing adventures. Lost Vegas this year is a benifit to send junk boats to the Bienalle in Venice, Italy.
Lost Vegas is a dysfunctional casino environment with actual games and live entertainment. It’s got all the stuff the real Vegas has, only it’s right here… but only on Saturday April 11th. You get chips, to gamble on the games. There’s a wedding chapel with rings, for short duration marriages. Tango band. Trapeze arielist. The Secret Room where they will be filming the movie “The Sexy” starring the Wink and Yoni show, a washed up Hawaiian lounge band. There is also a photo studio where you can gets you photo taken on a bearskin rug in front of a fire. A Devo cover band that plays lounge versions of all the hits. The Cheese Puffs, Sparkle Motion, The Naked Fire Babes, Freaktronic… the list goes on and on …
The games this year:
The wheel of SMUT
Quantum Dating Game
Poke-her
Human Wheel of Death
Cockroach Racing
Rat Roulette
Crap
Short duration marriages
Showgirls
Live music
Boy rental
All gambling is real. You play with chips, that you cash out for valuable prizes. Ahem. This is less spectacle and more action-oriented. You place the bets! You race the roaches! You spill your drink! It’s all about you!!!!
Our headlining performer Otto Von Danger will jump the Ramp of Death (again). Inside CELL SPACE, Otto will jump on a real motorcycle over the Ramp Of Death over 20 NAKED CHICKS!!!!!!!!!!!!!! WOW!!!!
Mark Growden added to the bill!!!!!
Dress to the 9’s, and please support the boat project.
For more info on the boat project:
www.swimmingcities.org
link
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Come celebrate NIMBY’s 5 Year Anniversary in their new 64,000 square foot location.
Who can believe they have been doing it wrong for 5 years running?
March 28th
9 pm
$10 ‘donation’ to enter
The line-up
Life Size Mouse Trap
Esmerelda Strange
Rose Harden
Wink and Yoni
Fatwater
Live art by Jordan Fillers
Art by the Museum of Unnatural Selection
Brian Kenny Fresno
The Therm robots
Glen Meadmore Disgusting Spectacle
Art by Orion Fredricks
DJ Big Daddy
DJ Zeljko
Matt Wirth’s Popcorn Booth
Art by Janine Miller …….and more
8410 Amelia Sreet, E. Oakland
info and directions can be found:
www.nimbyspace.org
Neopagans unite for the International Workers Day Celebration of
May 2nd 2009
The Boiler Bar presents:
May 2nd 8pm till the flowers wilt.
Featuring
Snake Charming, CanCan Girls, Belly, Glass, Fire & May Pole Dancing, Burlesques, Balancing Acts, Old Timey Music by:
The Boiler Bar Performers
Denzel
Tanzee
Mareeshka
Solimeno
Gibson Pearl
Mitara
Holly Volatile
Miss Opportunity
Plus:
Room for cream; Jodi Waseca & JD Limelight
Sister Kate
Phat ManDee
One Man Banjo
And:
Dance Around the May Pole
Gods and Goddesses dress in your best May outfit and be Crowned May Queen and King
Break from the Toil of your Labour to wait in the Soup Line
Talk about the State of the Union
Drink handmade Hooch from the Boiler Bar
See May Spring Forth in Flaming Aerial Spectacles
Touch the Golden Mean the Giant Iron Snail Car
Delight in the Simplicity of Fire and Sand
Shocked by the smoothness of our Drinks
Yell Mayday in a crowd
With:
Black Smithing by Shawn Lovell
Art cars
Please let us know if you want to bring your car too!
The Golden Mean
Neverwas L B & O Trolley
The Marriage Wrecker
Details
May 2nd 2009, 8pm-2am
2600 Magnolia at 26th street in West Oakland Map
Enter through the Parking Lot Gate
$10-20 donation to support the Golden Mean & Boiler Bar Theater
Thanks to Lagunitas for sponsoring this event!
Please Note: DJ’s and Ravers are welcome to talk
Bring Your own cup, spoon and bowl, or a wasteful red plastic one will be provided.
The Boiler Bar’s very own Mitara will be there to show those girls how to play NICE!
Come One Come All!!!
Roller Derby is where it is at!!!!
This Saturday (3/14/09) is another amazing match up.
It will be a hard hitting bout between
Richmond Wrecking Belles vs the San Fransico Shevil Dead
It is a luck of the Irish SHAMROCK and ROLL kind of night, so
wear your green and come support your Local Derby Girls.
Come support a DIY organization, for the skaters by the skaters!
Commissioned by Stanford Lively Arts and Meyer Sound Labs
Please Join Us for the World Premiere of
The Paul Dresher Ensemble Production of
Schick Machine
Matt Heckert is a long time friend from SRL’s olden days. He has gone on to do some amazing sound installations. This should be an amazing bio mechanical performance.
Collaboratively created by:
Paul Dresher – Composer, Instrument Inventor and Builder
Steven Schick – Performer/Percussionist
Rinde Eckert – Director/Writer
Matt Heckert – Mechanical Sound Artist
Daniel Schmidt – Instrument Inventor & Builder
Tom Ontiveros – Lighting & Production Design
Gregory Kuhn – Sound Design & Engineering
The mysteriously-packed subterranean workshop of the (possibly mad, possibly genius) inventor, sound collector and audio philosopher Lazlo Klangfarben. His invention: the Schick Machine – an uber-algorhytm, a logic instrument made from a giant motorized hurdy gurdy that produces heavenly sounds, a deconstructed pipe organ played with electrical mallets, and indescribable metal machines that seem to be alive. You ask: “What IS this stuff?
Paul Dresher returns to Lively Arts with the World Premiere of an evening-length solo musical theater work for virtuoso percussionist Steven Schick. Noted for his ability to integrate diverse musical influences into a unique and communicative personal style, Dresher has invented and built large-scale musical instruments that will transform the stage of Dinkelspiel Auditorium into an environment in which every object and surface is sonically active. The composition synthesizes the latest percussion sounds, performance aesthetics, and instruments into a new realm of choreographic, sculptural, and theatrical engagement.
MARCH 7, 2009_SATURDAY / 8:00 PM_DINKELSPIEL AUDITORIUM
471 Lagunita Dr, Stanford University, PALO ALO
FOR TICKETS PHONE: 650-725-ARTS (2787)
Or on-line at http://livelyarts.stanford.edu
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This post was written by Form & Reform on March 3, 2009
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Well I’ve done my part by bending back the damage done to her at Robodock, now it’s time to get her out for the rest of you to see again! This wonderful sculpture will be in one place this weekend for 2 different events! Sad to say there will be no fire.
On Friday March 6th, the Serpent commands the floor at an all-night party hosted by Opulent Temple and featuring the world-famous DJ Carl Cox. That’s just the start.
5 rooms of music, The Deep End, the Hookahdome, Pete Hudson’t Homourborous, Art Cars, visual installations, fire dancing, and more .
Get discounted pre-sales here: www.opulenttemple.org
On Saturday March 7th, the Serpent will light up the Bay in an art opening gala reception from 7.00PM-midnight.
There has never been a sculpture like the Serpent Mother. . The warmth of her embrace and her coiling design create an atmospheric space in which over a thousand people can stand. Her 168’ long stainless steel spine coils around the massive space, while her 20’ long neck and head tower over her audience. The audience takes control, however, by directing her movement, raising her hydraulically- actuated neck and opening her fanged mouth. Full audience participation makes each installation a singular experience – come make it happen.
This magnificent installation of a 168′ skeletal stainless steel snake will be on display Saturday March 7th, on Treasure Island. We will open the Serpent for a gallery opening from 7 pm until midnight. We hope you will join us for this fun and free event.
Event Description
What: Serpent Mother Art Opening
When: Friday March 6th (all night party – see http://opulenttemple.org)
Saturday March 7th 2009 7pm-midnight – Free art reception
Where: 200 California Ave., Treasure Island, San Francisco, CA, 94130
