Young artists in the area express their talents in a variety of ways. Featured Artist Chryshelle Jennings reenacts authentic selections of poems from her new book “Put Your Ears to My Heart“. Come out and be prepared to open up your ears and your hearts.

Featured Poetic Artis:   Chryshelle Jennings

Diverse Artists:   Warren Mcshan,  Trey Bryant,  Davious Dawson,  Bianna Ellis,  Chelsey Fountain,  Delia Caldwell,  Selena Davenport,  Janai White,  Brandon Johnson,  Brandon Fountain,  Kianna Washington,  Loni McCoy,  Taylor Martin,  Latasha Williams

Graphic Artist:  BNE Design Center

Culinary Artist:  Melvin Nelson

Visual Artist:  Ashley Dowden,  Nelson Flanagan,  Jordan Evans

Time:  Pre-show 7pm-8pm,   Lumpy Grits Show 8pm
Place: Minicine? Swampland, 846 Texas Avenue, Shreveport, LA 71101

Come and Enjoy Up and Coming New Talented Artists
Live Music  ~  Refreshments will be served

Saturday March 2  /  minicine?  /  846 Texas Avenue  /  Doors @ 7PM  /  $5

xmas under da ground is BACK! Every two years, minicine? celebrates local film, music and art in an open all-inclusive holiday blow out exhibition! This year the response has been through the roof (look out Santa) and the event will expand into two buildings! In addition to the fact over 30 filmmakers responded to the call for short films, there will be over 30 visual artists exhibiting in the gallery, and up to nine live music performances. Catering will be provided by GoGreenly , Lagniappe Foods, and minicine? pot-luck!

Let’s Dance!  It’s the 1st ever minicine? Dance Fundraiser!   $5 suggested donation (or whatever you wish to donate because this is a fundraiser after all)….   $10 to compete in the Dance Contest,  yes, you read it here, Dance Contest!

For those feeling the need to prove their dancing prowess – enter the Dance Contest. You could be crowned the King or Queen of the well-polished minicine? dance floor. No one’s ever done it before!

Super Awesome prizes will be awarded,  donated by generous sponsors: Chemistry Hair Salon,  Stir Tapas, Marilynn’s Place, Explore Yoga, The Robinson Film Center, GoGreenly, Rhino Coffee, Club Chicago, and Shreveport Hoop Group.

Maybe you’re thinking, “Gee whiz, y’all, I’m the worst dancer on the planet!” But, hey, we have something for you, too! We would be happy to award you with the Worst Dancer title.

Golly, it sounds so exciting! But wait, there’s more!
* Dress to impress and you could be deemed “Best Dressed” and win a prize that will ensure that you always look your best. After all, minicine? wouldn’t want our best dressed winner walking around town looking frumpy, now would would we!
* Remember all those awkward high school dance photo booths from the ’80s or from the ’80s movies you watched last year because that’s cool? Well, we wouldn’t want you to forget this night!
* What kind of sweet tunes are we gonna have, you ask? Only the best dance hits from our favorite DJs Chris Brown and Kern Courtney!

Come one, come all. This is going be like a high school dance from the ’80s. BUT BETTER!

And don’t forget your dollar bills! This is a fundraiser after all and you guys love minicine?!

minicine?  /  846 Texas Avenue  /  8 pm  /  $5 Suggested Donation…

A Film Series Without An Audience (AFSWA)

La Raison Avant La Passion – Joyce Wieland
1969, 80 minutes, Color, 16mm

La Raison Avant La Passion is a lyrical and eccentric commentary on the filmmaker’s home country, Canada. Wieland employs gentle parody and her own unique visionary artistic methods to explore space, place, and patriotism.

Joyce Wieland (06.30.31 – 07.27.98) was a Canadian born filmmaker and mixed media artist. Her work invokes and is informed by the tradition of female craft. Her films involve the manual manipulation of the film strip and her process as a mixed-media artist.

minicine?  /  846 Texas Avenue  /  8pm  /  Free  

The Media at Centenary College presents the 2nd annual Media Bash open to all Centenary Students!   Hop on a charter bus and come downtown to minicine?.  Live music will be performed by AJ Haynes and the Electric Dollhouse Groove Buggy!  Awesome Red Beans and Rice and Jambalaya will be provided by Marilynn’s Place and exquisite vegetarian tacos by GoGreenly.  Come and meet the Centenary Media, Learn, Join, Create!

KSCL 91.3 FM

Pandora

Conglomerate

Film Society

Yoncopin

We welcome you!!!!!

minicine?  /  846 Texas Avenue  /  6pm til 10pm  /  FREE

We get to celebrate the wonderful talents of the Renzi students!

This event will include:
• Song Premier – Featuring the song written and recorded by the “Frenzi Kids” (students in the Summer Band Camp, under the direction of Brittney Maddox)!
• Music Video Premier – Featuring the music video created by students in the Summer Music Video Camp (under the direction of Michael Futreal)!
• Art Opening – Featuring a display of original works of art by Renzi students. All pieces on sale for $5, and the artist gets to keep the money!

Twang Darkly   will be performing!  There WILL be popcorn!

minicine?  /  846 Texas Avenue  /  6pm  /  FREE !

From Paris, France, filmmaker Shazzula brings to Shreveport her film Black Mass Rising on its U.S. premiere tour. Set in two parts ranging from psychedelic imagery to dark, occult inspired atmospheres. A soundtrack made up of 22 bands with gloomy, hallucinatory tones, is a personal interpretation of themes such as apocalypse, mysticism, religion, and darkness without violence.

Shazzula will also be performing a solo set along with local bands John Calvin and Dankhdjinn.

Andrew Weathers is a young American composer and improviser originally from Chapel Hill, NC and currently based in Oakland, CA. His music exists in a space between improvisation and composition – equally influenced by the 20th century American minimalists and underground noise. He has a BM in Music Composition from the University of North Carolina – Greensboro, and is currently pursuing an MFA in Electronic Music at Mills College. Andrew performs rigorously in a variety of contexts, both composed and improvised.

In addition to the music, the evening will include a group exhibit of mono-prints from young and established artists from the North Louisiana Region, including Catherine Nelson, Joshua Chambers and Landry Debussy. Each print is unique and expresses an aspect of the artist’s experience with local culture, or life.

minicine?  /  846 Texas Avenue  /  8 PM  /  $5 Suggested Donation

minicine? invites you to a special performance by Dallas-based violinist, Daniel Hart, on tour with his debut album, The Orientalist.  Hart’s previous independent work was with the band, The Physics of Meaning.  In an interview with the Dallas Observer (December 2011), Hart revealed that in order to support his solo work, “I basically play with other bands to fund my own band.”   Some of the “other bands” and musicians Hart refers to include:  Broken Social Scene, Polyphonic Spree, St. Vincent, John Vanderslice, The Rosebuds and Andrew Bird.   Most recently, Hart joined Other Lives, an Oklahoma indie band, for a slew of opening performances as part of a spring 2012 Radiohead tour. For more information, check out this great article in D Magazine (July 2012).

Opening for Daniel Hart will be Shreveport based, GASHCAT.

minicine?  /  846 Texas Avenue  /  9 PM  /  $5 Suggested Donation

You are cordially invited to attend an exhibition highlighting the art and the artists who honor the timeless and often sacred tradition of tattooing.

The art of tattoos have been passed down from master to apprentice for thousands of years.  This exhibition seeks to draw a line in the sand and effectively illustrate the difference between the quality of art and tattoos produced by someone who has learned under the tutelage of a master and the art and tattoos produced by “tattoo” schools popping up left and right, effectively harming the quality and standards of tattoos while simultaneously insulting the artists who earned their stripes refining their styles and techiques over the years.

At minicine? on the night of Saturday, July 28th, there will be a collaborative showing of art by published, award-winning, professional tattoo artists, both local and abroad, with emphasis on the different styles associated with tattooing such as japanese tebori, traditional american, new school, etc. So please join us as we observe the ancient history and culture of tattooing. And bring your own ink to show too.

Artist: 

Fortune and Glory Tattoo Parlor
James Clements
John Bentrup,
Matt Grisham
Micah Harold

Skull and Bones
Levi Hilton
Colby Gillespie

Body Electric
Sizer Yerger

Shipwreck Tattoos
Bruce “Horikurohige” Morgan

Nakatosh Tattoo Co.
Maximalion Tucker

Let’s Buzz -Bergen, Norway
Sandy Brudvik – hometown Shreveport, LA
Christine Horvei
Jannike Weise-Hansen
Annalaug Maria Tolo

Music: 

Stolen Pills-Monroe, La
Dankhdjinn-Shreveport,LA

Performance:

Peter Fetterman-Fire Swallower

minicine?  /  846 Texas Avenue  /  8 PM  /  $5 Suggested Donation

A recently formed women’s art collective, OMEN ART, is preparing to present their inaugural exhibition, focusing on heart of young-womanhood and the female body-image. The event will take place at minicine? 846 Texas Avenue at 7p.m. and will include visual art, performances and installations. This unique collaborative event will serve as an introduction to the women of OMEN ART, who have been meeting and sharing ideas on a regular basis since April of this year.  The collective exists to support local women in their journey to work creatively alongside the community and serves as a platform for exchanging ideas and encouragement throughout the creative process.

The following artists will be presenting work at the show:

KELLY BERESKO, VISUAL/ INSTALLATION ARTIST

MALLORI BRANDON, VISUAL & PRINT ARTIST

SOPHIE BRIDEL, INSTALLATION ARTIST

LIZZIE DREXLER, VISUAL/VIDEO ARTIST

HANNAH HILMAN, VISUAL ARTIST

LESLI HILMAN, INSTALLATION ARTIST

CAMILLE GLADNEY, INSTALLATION/PERFORMANCE ARTIST

LIZ JACKSON, VISUAL/VIDEO ARTIST

CARRIE JONES, VISUAL ARTIST

CHRISTY KIRKLEY, INSTALLATION ARTIST

BRITTNEY MADDOX, INSTALLATION/PERFORMANCE ARTIST

KELSEY MCCLURE, VISUAL ARTIST

RACHEL MCDONALD, VISUAL ARTIST

DANIELLE MILLER, VISUAL ARTIST

AMY LYNN TREME, INSTALLATION/PERFORMANCE ARTIST

RAIVEN WILLIAMS, INSTALLATION/PERFORMANCE ARTIST

CHRISSY WISE, VISUAL/PERFORMANCE ARTIST

ERIN ZERBE, VIDEO ARTIST

ALLISON WEST, VISUAL ARTIST

Contact Info:

OMEN ART Presents: The Collective Debut

July 19th, 7PM at minicine? 846 Texas Avenue, Shreveport LA 71101

A suggested donation of $5.00 is greatly welcomed at the door, but no one will be turned away for lack of funds.

For more info, please e-mail:  omenfart@gmail.com

The nobrow.music.collective makes it’s Louisiana debut.

The n.m.c is a rotating cast of musicians founded/directed by Aaron Butler that presents contemporary classical, experimental and improvised musics in non-classical venues. Past performances have included works by Morton Feldman, Louis Andriessen, Steve Reich, Robert Ashley, James Tenney, Gavin Bryars, Julius Eastman, Tristan Perich, Nathan Davis, as well as original scores/improvisations for silent films such as Murnau’s Nosferatu, Duchamp’s Anemic Cinema, Eggeling’s Symphonie Diagonale and more.

http://soundcloud.com/nobrow-music-collective
http://nobrowsounds.bandcamp.com/
https://www.facebook.com/nobrow.music.collective

The program includes:
Cartridge Music|Duet for Cymbal: for amplified cymbal and laptop – Cage
One4 for solo percussion – Cage
Diving Bell: for triangles and laptop – Davis
Dorian Reeds: for melodica and laptop – Riley
Cobra – Zorn
In C – Riley

minicine?  /  846 Texas Avenue  /  7pm  /  $5 Suggested Donation

As slowly creeping drought disappears the last of spring’s life sustaining moisture, minicine? host a slew of  musical shamen to conjure a deluge of reinvigorating summer sounds…  Please join us for Romulus Remus, American Wilderness, chairs, and the RiverWolves.   Visual artists exhibiting will include;  Staveley Kuzmanov, Jack Joyce, Elizabeth O’Neal, Alex Hester, Larson McSwain, Reily Cook, Connor Dunlap and Zak Strezo.

Romulus Remus  -  The brainchild of Nathan Woods (Bass Guitar,Vocals), Romulus Remus, a trio, includes Kern Courtney (Guitar) and Lane Bayliss (Percussion).  Exploring new sights and sounds, Nathan derives through influences of The Cure, Peter Gabriel, The Beatles, Yes, XTC and combines those stylings with the tone-rich sound of late ’60s psych rock, the hollow rush of surf rock, blues inflections, and even an occasional nod to classic country.

American Wilderness  – minicine? first learned of American Wilderness when they were sighted performing to an audience of june bugs and fireflies on a warm summer’s eve in a person-less park of an abandoned downtown neighborhood.  Plugged into a ramshackle street pole electrical outlet where a full moon substituted for the shot-out street lamp…  their moody sound is the creative outpouring of Reily Cook, Connor Dunlap and Zak Strezo.

chairs – Defying description, chairs (Houston, TX) is guaranteed to turn everything upside down.  Rain will pour upward!  Rainbows will reverse arc as other planetary orbs approach.  chairs is, Invader Cass (Drums),  Dr.Finger-Q (the Key Holder, Electric Guitar) and Clubfoot Kreezerast (Electric Bass), awaiting the return of a mother ship, meanwhile having breached the fences to share fourth world sounds from a lone star border-state….

RiverWolves -  And as summer looms, simple pleasures rule the day…  watermelon on the porch,  a lazy dog, wearing that old shirt that you wore,  cool droplets down the forearm from a can of ice-cold…  late nights and pizza slices…  a fire to piss on at that secret swim spot…   The RiverWolves is Jacob Disedare, Melissa Disedare, Michael Bryant, John Martin, and Brett Roberts.  Their new release Columbia is mostly about cats and drinking…..

Romulus Remus              http://romulusremusmusic.com/fr_home.cfm
American Wilderness     http://soundcloud.com/theamericanwilderness
chairs  (Houston, TX)     http://chairsmusic.bandcamp.com/
RiverWolves                      http://riverwolves.bandcamp.com/

minicine?  /  846 Texas Avenue  /  Doors 7:30 pm  /  $5 suggested donation

JOHN BUTCHER + GINO ROBAIR + THOMAS LEHN

John Butcher’s work ranges through improvisation, his own compositions, multitracked saxophone pieces and explorations with feedback and extreme acoustics.

Originally a physicist, he left academia in 1982, and has since collaborated with hundreds of musicians – including Derek Bailey, John Stevens, Gerry Hemingway, The EX, Polwechsel, Gino Robair, Rhodri Davies, John Edwards, Toshimaru Nakamura, Paul Lovens, Eddie Prevost, John Russell, Mark Sanders, John Tilbury, Christian Marclay, Phil Minton, and Steve Beresford.

He is well known as a solo performer who attempts to engage with a sense of place. Thirteen Friendly Numbers, his first solo release (1992), also includes compositions for multitracked saxophones, whilst later releases focus both on live performance and amplification and saxophone-controlled feedback.
Resonant Spaces is a collection of site-specific performances collected during a tour of unusual locations in Scotland and the Orkney Islands.
He has toured and broadcast in Europe, Japan, North America and Australia, and was featured, playing solo, in the BBC TV programme Date with an Artist.

Gino Robair  has performed and recorded with Tom Waits, Anthony Braxton, John Zorn, Nina Hagen, Terry Riley, Lou Harrison, John Butcher, Derek Bailey, Peter Kowald, Otomo Yoshihide, and the ROVA Saxophone Quartet. He is one of the “25 innovative percussionists” included in the book Percussion Profiles (SoundWorld, 2001), as well as a founding member of the Splatter Trio and Pink Mountain. His opera, I, Norton, based on the life of Norton I, Emperor of the United States, has been performed throughout North America and Europe.

Thomas Lehn’s central artistical work, since the 1990′s, is live-electronic music, created on the basis of analogue sound synthesis. After a period of working with the Robert Moog’s minimoog synthesizer, since 1994 his main electronic equipment is the Synthi A modular analogue synthesizer combined with the DK-2 keyboard, both developed and produced by the British company EMS in the late 1960ies.

Thomas Lehn’s electronic music is instrumentally live-performed. Musical material, process and structure are created and performed in real time.

A wide spectrum of experiences in numerous musical and music contextual genres merge in his current musical creations: in the 1980ies he has been working as pianist widely in the fields of classical, classical modern and contemporary music, jazz, music theatre and mixed media performances. Throughout the 90ies up today the centre of his work became the contemporary forms of music, both as interpreting pianist and performer of analogue live-electronic music.

Rooted in this background, he has been developing an individual language of electronic music, which inner syntax often seem to be rather of an acoustic than electronic nature.

http://www.johnbutcher.org.uk/Biog.html

http://www.ginorobair.com/bio.html

http://www.thomaslehn.de/read/vita_e.html

TWANG DARKLY

Shreveport based, Twang Darkly plays original instrumental music, cinematic Appalachian jazz rock performed on mountain dulcimer, guitar, banjo, flute, harmonica, upright bass, and drums.  Twang Darkly is Michael Futreal, Joel Boultinghouse and Troy Messina.

http://www.twangdarkly.com

KEVIN KENNEDY

Kevin Kennedy is an associate professor at Louisiana Tech University where he teaches sculpture and studio courses. His work has received support through grants from the Louisiana Endowment for the Humanities, Louisiana Tech University and the Louisiana Division of the Arts including receipt of the Individual Arts Fellowship Award in 1997 and 2007.

Recent artist residency fellowships include the Edward F. Albee Foundation and the Ucross Foundation. His work is represented by Hodges Taylor Gallery in Charlotte, North Carolina. He currently lives and works in Shreveport, Louisiana.

https://sites.google.com/site/ksksculpture/

Saturday JUNE 2  /  846 Texas Avenue  /  8pm  /  $8 Suggested Donation

Why is PACE hosting the Shreveport premiere of “Outrage”?

“OUTRAGE is the Emmy-nominated documentary film that will have its Shreveport premiere on Wednesday, May 23rd at minicine, 846 Texas Ave. Doors will open at 7 pm; the screening will begin at 7:30 pm followed by a panel discussion including panelists who appear in the film and whose lives have been personally affected by events described in the film. “Outrage” features powerful closeted gay politicians whose anti-gay votes brought, and continue to bring, great harm to ordinary gay Americans and their families. There is a common miss-perception that the purpose of “Outrage” is to out these closeted gay politicians, but this is a very superficial way of looking at the film as all the politicians featured in the film had been outed very publicly years before the film was made. In fact, as is often the case, these politicians’ closets had doors that were wide open. Yet those closets confirmed to anti-gay members of Congress and the media that the closet was exactly where gay people knew they belonged.

The film’s real message is about the evils of the closet and the media conspiracy to enable the closet to persist. “Outrage” makes clear how the closet can lead people to commit shameful acts, and can even lead them to betray those closest to them and their own personal integrity for the perks of political power. For example, closeted politicians in “Outrage” turned a deaf ear to pleas from AIDS victims and activists, and repeatedly voted NO for HIV funding while half a million Americans died from AIDS. Closeted politicians voted NO to a federal law protecting gay people from job discrimination so that even today, gay people can be fired in 29 states and transgender people can be fired in 34 states even if they are star employees. Closeted politicians voted NO on openly gay service in defense of our nation which led to an outrage that our entire nation suffered. The 9/11 Commission Report stated that a backlog of untranslated documents was a contributing factor to the 9/11 attack due to a shortage of Arabic language translators. Yet our government had fired dozens of Arab language experts simply for being gay! Despite these shameful and outrageous votes, intrinsic homophobia throughout our society has resulted in the media’s protecting the private lives of closeted gay politicians while they very publicly bring great harm to the lives of ordinary gay Americans and their families. Even today in Shreveport, a media representative has criticized PACE for showing “Outrage” saying it’s time to just let this go, simply confirming that the media conspiracy continues. “Outrage” makes very clear that the fight for equality for gay Americans has no greater enemy than the closet which requires public policy makers to stigmatize and tell lies about their fellow gay Americans in order to hide the truth of their own lives.”  Text by P.A.C.E. 

http://pacelouisiana.org/

Wednesday MAY 23  /  846 Texas Avenue  /  7pm  /  FREE