Save the Ugly Music Festival
SAVE THE UGLY MUSIC FESTIVAL, features music, raffles, murals, a clothing swap, games, and lots of other wacky, experimental art activities and people.
SSB PRESENTS
BOOK TALK: Village Preservation
July 25th Zoom Webinar: “We Started a Nightclub” with Susan Martin and Kestutis Nakas moderated by Yael Friedman and hosted by Village Preservation.
Finale of Lisa Mezzacappa and Beth Lisick’s “The Electronic Lover” Premieres
The finale of Lisa Mezzacappa and Beth Lisick’s audio opera set in chatrooms at the dawn of the internet airs on June 1st.
A PYRAMID HOMECOMING at Baker Falls
The sold out show featured performances and readings by talented pioneers from the Pyramid’s heyday.
World Premiere of Mariel Roberts Sunder in New York
Sunder was commissioned by pianist Conor Hanick, regarded as one of his generation’s most inquisitive interpreters of new music whose “technical refinement, color, crispness and wondrous variety of articulation benefit works by any master.” (New York Times)
SSB Away Resident Lisa Mezzacappa
SSB Away welcomes bassist, composer, producer Lisa Mezzacappa from San Francisco to Casa Kama in Abiquiu. She’ll be taking advantage of the pristine landscape and silence to fine tune her serial audio opera The Electronic Lover.
Some Serious Business Presents the Portland Theatrical Premiere of “Tipping Point”
Some Serious Business Presents the Portland Theatrical Premiere of TIPPING POINT What The Portland Protests Tell Us About The State Of America Thursday June 15 / 8 PM / Alberta Abbey Filmmaker Q+A And Musical Performance by Mic Crenshaw TICKETS In 2020, following the murder of George Floyd, the largest civil rights protest in recent…
Linda Mary Montano’s “MA AND THE SEVEN CHAKRAS”
“Made right after Covid lockdown, my art gave me an opportunity to rejoice, grieve and sonically face impermanence via sounds and a Chicken Dance I’ve been performing for decades.”
Low and Slow in the New Year
A New Year’s offering by urban shaman Donna Henes discovered in the SSB Collection at the Archives of American Art.
Letter from Laurie Anderson, 1978
Laurie Anderson letter from 1978 discovered while foraging in the SSB Collection at the Archives of American Art illustrates her wit and storytelling chops early in her artistic trajectory.