12
October
2006
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14:36 PM
America/Los_Angeles

weekend kultur shock: Living Liberally

[diggrz: an SVW tag for arts, culture, trends, and events in and around Silicon Valley- new from SVW] -

 By Maria Mouk for Silicon Valley Watcher

Diggrz weekend kultur shock.

Classics, anniversaries, clowns, and creative contemporary

dresden.jpgDid you catch the Dresden Dolls at Bimbo's? If not... they're performing again tonight, Friday the 13th at 8pm! Cabaret theatre at its finest.

This weekend also marks the official 1 year anniversary of the re-opening of the de Young. To celebrate the integration of art and architecture(or slow departure of a construction zone), and over 1.6 million visitors later, the First Anniversary Bash has been planned. 5 bucks gets you in. Five to midnight, with an array of music, dance and spoken word. There is a also a community-wide Free Day on Saturday, October 14.

Clap Your Hands Say Yeah, if you dig indie-rock, voted Best Band of 2005. They're performing on Friday at the Warfield (982 Market Street). Along with Melbourne hailing, Architecture in Helsinki and Takka Takka.

If you're reading from the right side(think New York), I recommend taking full advantage of the 10th annual DUMBO Arts Festival, going all weekend long in Brooklyn (Down Under Manhattan Bridge Overpass). Gallery openings, simultaneous projections, interactive art, water art, designers, architects, and an opportunity to explore New York's most fertile art ground(makes me wish I was inhaling car fumes all over again).

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Back in the Bay there's more burlesque and Balkan performance to catch. Portland's Vagabond Opera plays Saturday at the Accordion Apocalypse Repair Shop, and Sunday at Amnesia. Full of Eastern-Euro French Cabaret; stilt walking, accordionists, acrobalancers, and fire artisans, its sure to light and delight your evening.

Also on Saturday,CELLspace joins the anniversary rounds with their 10 year Anniversary Gala. CELLspace currently houses nine visual arts studios, a 10,000 square foot performance space, adult arts education programming, a visual arts gallery, a metal shop, woodshop, and a community flea and farmers market. It's well worth dropping $20 at the door to support this ambitious space.

Ladytron

Take Sunday to relax because Monday at the Filmore hails(my personal favorite) electro legend; Ladytron. And if you're in the mood for something a bit more intellectually stirring, UC Berkeley Center for New Media hosts "Recent Experiments in Modern Composition, Software and Stand-Up Comedy" with Cory Arcangel as part of their  "Art, Technology, and Culture Colloquium" at 7:30pm.

I will be in L.A. for their version of Burningman Decompression. I call it: necessary tra-vel-ution and dissemination of ideas! :)

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[diggrz refers to the nomadic lifestyle offered by mobile digital technologies and gadgets - creating a "nomadig" culture. The diggrz name is also a tip-of-the-hat to some of the ideas of the Diggers, a democratic group that arose in 1649, out of the English revolution .

The Diggers were a radical group that cultivated and protected common lands, and sought to create egalitarian, self-sustaining communities. The Diggers would have found  kindred spirits in today's software engineer culture,  and the focus on creating  commonly owned technologies through egalitarian open source community projects. - Tom Foremski]

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