AS220 performance space. St Jude, Dirty Dirty, LLove, Rare Form and

Icon Gallery perform! No cool clothes…no cool show—–sorry, but

thems the rules!! However if you show up around here at noon, learn

to crochet , and then wile away the afternoon fixing yourself up

something nice with the crafty folks at Crafternoon, I am sure you

could end up the belle of the ball or the prince of the party. There

will be a photo booth, lots of dancing, and stuff to consume. If it

wasn’t a great event…. there wouldn’t be a sequel would there??

New gallery shows at all of AS220′s galleries open this Sunday. Even

the youth gallery in the hall of Empire St.’s second floor has a new

mixed media group show up; don’t be shy about going up there to check

it out! This month, Empire St.’s ground floor exhibits new collage

paintings by Deb Hickey, paintings by Amy Ryan, and glass chandeliers

by Jenine Bressner and the AS220 Project Space at 93 Mathewson St

presents new sculptures by Christopher Thomas and “The Sunday Bullet”

an installation by S.W. Dinge. Wonderful way to recover if you attend

the aforementioned Punk Rock Winter Ball!

Thursday, February 26, 2009 HAPPENING RIGHT NOW!

Free Speech on 4th Thursdays at AS220: Providence Poetry Youth Slam -

Open Mic

Friday, February 27, 2009 9pm $6

Towers, Hanlon’s Razor, Trains Through the Countryside, and Islander

Friday

Saturday, February 28, 2009 Noon-1pm $10

Crochet Class with Michelle

Saturday, February 28, 2009 1pm -5pm FREE

Crafternoon! Bring your portable art project!

Saturday, February 28, 2009 9pm $6 (Formal Attire is Required for

Entry!)

2nd Annual Punk Rock Winter Ball with: St Jude, Dirty Dirty, LLove,

Rare Form, Icon Gallery

Sunday, March 1, 2009 4-7pm FREE

Gallery Opening Receptions for shows running March 1st-28th

Monday, March 2, 2009 9pm $6

Stone Leaf, The Valar, Coors Light, and Chris Aubin Band

Tuesday, March 3, 2009 6pm-9pm $6

LIFE DRAWING CANCELLED THIS WEEK

Tuesday, March 3, 2009 10pm FREE

Film Screening: The Grateful Undead

Wednesday, March 4, 2009 5:30pm -7pm FREE

DC401 Meeting

Wednesday, March 4, 2009 9pm $6

Cockslap, Total Bolsheviks, MeccaLily, and Holy Sheet

Thursday, March 5, 2009 8pm $4

Free Speech Thursdays at AS220 featuring: Providence Poetry Slam

OPEN MIC LIST GOES UP AT 7:30PM/DOORS OPEN AT 8PM

Thursday, February 26, 2009 8pm $4 — HAPPENING RIGHT NOW!

Free Speech on 4th Thursdays at AS220: Providence Poetry Youth Slam -

Open Mic

Youth Slam is for performers age 13-19 years of age.

On Thursdays at AS220, Free Speech is in full effect with a weekly

program of spoken word, poetry slams, youth slams, hip-hop open mics,

musician open mics, and so on and so forth. Come teach, share, and

learn! The stage is open to writers, poets, rappers, comedians,

professor’s, ranters, and ravers; come down and keep the oral

tradition alive! The Providence Poetry Slamis one of the most well

known and exciting Poetry Slams nationwide – The PVD team has made it

to the National Poetry Slam Tournament semi-finals for the last 5

seasons!

Friday

Towers was formerly Can’t FaceThe Falling with a new member.

Hanlon’s Razor is a three piece with members of Denimvenom and

Daughters. Their sound could be described as crushing and heavy

shoegaze rock.

This class will show you the basics of crochet. It will meet from

Noon-1pm every Sat. for the month of February. You will be taught how

to make scarves, hats, and gloves for the winter. It is a time to

learn a life-long skill and meet with others who share a similar

interest in creating your own wearable fashions. Get back to basics,

get away from the stress, make something that you can be proud of and

share it with others. The fee is $10 per class and includes a crochet

hook and yarn. If you are interested in registering for the class,

Join Crafternoon at AS220! Local art wizards spinning magical crafts!

Bring a project to work on with other crafty creatures! Every last

Saturday of the month!

Saturday, February 28, 2009 9pm $6 (Formal Attire is Required for

Entry!)

2nd Annual Punk Rock Winter Ball with: St Jude, Dirty Dirty, LLove,

Rare Form, Icon Gallery

Photo booth & Refreshments & Fun if you missed last years dont let

it happen again! Scope last years pics. Saint Jude plays their first

show in Six Months with Icon Gallery, a female fronted rock from

Pittsburgh ala La Fraction (Folks from Aphasia & The Test Patterns),

Dirty Dirty, LLove and Rare Form. A social event for the season.

Regular Hours: 1-6pm Wed-Fri, Noon-4pm Sat. and by appt.

AS220 Main Gallery @ 115 Empire St: New Collage Paintings by Deb

Hickey & New Paintings by Amy Ryan

Open Window Gallery @ 115 Empire St: New Glass Chandeliers by Jenine

Bressner

AS220 Project Space @ 93 Mathewson St: New Sculptures by Christopher

Thomas & “The Sunday Bullet” installation by S.W. Dinge

Witness a raft of talented local performers the likes of which you

have never seen at Providence’s premiere variety show! The Empire

Revue brings you sketch comedy, improv, musical interludes, burlesque,

magic, and general devilment, on the first Sunday of every month.

Featuring: sizzling music by Superchief Trio and your favorite

funnybone fondlers, The Sparkling Beatniks: Richard Goulis, Hannah

Devine, & Kate Lohman. Plus, special guest performers every month,

unpredictable pre-show shenanigans, a talking squirrel and more!

Empire Revue is sponsored by Empire Loan on North Main Street.

Coors Light is a can full of glowing and growing ambitions and

obsessions, void of explanations and tried and tired reconciliations.

A palace of bliss and a place of iron mountain and christmas, come

along for the ride of family sorrow and wallow and maybe you’ll be

happy again tomorrow.

Stone Leaf is a rock band. Started in October of ’07, Stone Leaf is

made up of 4 members. The band has been playing shows since January

’08 at clubs such as: The High Noon Saloon(CT.), Backstage Pass(CT.),

The Living Room, Jerky’s live music hall, Club Hell, As220 and

others. All Stone Leaf’s members have their own creativity to

contribute to the wide range style of music that the band plays. Now

with a new drummer and bass player the band plans on keeping most of

their previous songs but will also be writing more tunes. Keep your

eyes peeled because you never know when they will throw another song

up…maybe even a video!

The Valar is just a crazy bunch of kids trying to make some music.

Right now they are in the process of writing new material, that may be

recorded eventually (if they can afford it). Stay tuned for some new

music in the near future!

Chris Aubin is a singer/songwriter who has joined together with some

of his close friends to create a band that can portray the power of

good music without screaming volume or effects. Just good stories,

good melodies, and good fun.

Life Drawing cancelled due to Steven’s broken leg. Please, check back

every week for updates on when we will resume!

Tuesday, March 3, 2009 10pm FREE

Film Screening: The Grateful Undead

Two fatty fudgeslucks muck up the scene in this bean dream. Lose your

lunch and get on the bus before it’s too late to see… The Grateful

Undead. Made as an experiment to prove that first- time directors May

and Riley could shoot a feature in two weeks for under one thousand

dollars, The Grateful Undead is spontaneous, jarring and weird. A

cinematic affront to the egregiously expensive content that dominates

popular imagination. Features an original score by local musicians,

including the last recorded performance of the epic black metal band

Nefarious.

Wednesday, March 4, 2009 5:30pm -7pm FREE

DC401 Meeting

DC401 is the local Defcon Group for Rhode Island. DC401 is a gathering

for folks interested in the alternate applications of modern

technology, referred to properly as ‘hacking’. DC401 is not intended

to compete with any other computer group, such as Providence Geeks,

2600 or Linux User Groups, but rather to provide yet another gathering

place for the discussion of technology and security topics. DC401

meetings are open to anyone, regardless of their skill, age, job,

gender, etc. DC401 is here to help you learn new things, meet new

people, mentor others in areas you may be strong in, and provide some

cohesion within the hacker culture and it’s members. For more

Cockslap is part man, part machine – it’s what you’ve been waiting

for. Includes Harrison (A Troop of Echoes) and Justin (Banter/3.1)

plus oscillators, filters, and trucks to bring you the slap you didn’t

even know you needed. Since we know you’ll thank us for it, we’ll say

“you’re welcome”.

The Total Bolsheviks is a 2 piece avant rock band.

Teen Wolf is casio tone dance music.

MeccaLily has been friends since before one of our members was born.

Collectively, we have over twelve decades of experience playing in a

multidude of formats ranging from the indescribable to the slightly

well-known. Our name comes from two paths leading to the future. We

proudly adhere to a sacred and pristine mythos as we attempt to tap

into the great archetypal wisdom born from the process of becoming.

OPEN MIC LIST GOES UP AT 7:30PM/DOORS OPEN AT 8PM

On Thursdays at AS220, FREE SPEECH is in full effect with a weekly

program of spoken word open mics, poetry slams, youth slams, Hip Hop

Open Mic showcases (on 2nd Thursdays), musician open mics, and so on

and so forth. Come teach, share, and learn! The stage is open to

writers, poets, rappers, comedians, professor’s, ranters, and ravers;

come down and keep the oral tradition alive! Providence’s is one of

the most well known and exciting poetry slams nationwide – the team

has made it to the National Poetry Slam Tournament semi-finals for the

last 5 seasons!

In Honor Of Omar Reyes Birthday. We are having an extra Open Slam.

Come out this Thursday and watch our more “vintage” artists compete

for a coveted spot on the Adult Poetry Slam Team to represent

Providence. If you are at least 20 years old, you are welcome to

compete and everyone is encouraged to come and watch! Bring small

trinkets of love and affection for our soon to be retired Host! There

will be an Open Slam qualifier and an Open Mic, and a suprise for Omar!

Get in touch through our myspace page!