About me: The schedule for 7 DUDLEY CINEMA - films & live events at the SPONTO Gallery will also include the schedule for DOCUMENTAL - the Unurban Coffeehouse film series.
Links: www.myspace.com/sevendudleycinema,,,,,www.venicewake.org www.indiespace.com/pxlthis,,,,,http://www.puddingbench.com/suzy.htm,,,
The Sponto Gallery is located at 7 Dudley Ave. Venice , CA 90291.,,,,,
Between Speedway and the beach.,,,,,,,,,
DOCUMENTAL shows films at the Unurban Coffeehouse, 3301 Pico Blvd, Santa Monica, CA, 90404, 310-315-0056, free admission from 6-10pm on Mondays. More info: 310-306-7330
Who I'd like to meet: Sponto Gallery at 7 Dudley Avenue was the home of the infamous Venice West Cafe from the late 50's to the early 60's - an important birthplace for the Beat movement, much like North Beach in San Francisco, the Village in New York and the Left Bank in Paris. Sponto Gallery retrieves the explorations of Alan Kaprow's Happenings, Jack Smith's experimental films and the Fluxus art movement with its various film, poetry and comedy events. Visit 81x.com/7dudley/cinema AND myspace.com/sevendudleycinema for more information.
Poet Stuart Perkoff, who declared "All words are holy in the right mouth and right ears," wrote on the walls of the Venice West Cafe: "Art is Love is God." The Sponto Gallery community is developing ways of communicating that makes one aware of the processes and biases of communication. They stimulate the growth of subverting otherness, finding epiphanies and discovering redefinitions. The Sponto Family evokes Joseph Beuys resurrecting Black Mountain College with Sun Ra, Martha Graham, Bucky Fuller, Captain Beefheart, Sonia Sanchez, Lord Buckely and Luis Bunuel as instructors. They seem to be verbs: illuminate, demystify, unlearn, persevere, reinvent, question, interconnect, cross-pollinate, widen horizons, and make, match and mirror centers without margins.
Diane & Abraham Butler's CIRCLE OF COLOR summer and winter solstice shows at Sponto continue to transform art and music celebrations. Gallery owner Sponto and programmer Gerry Fialka believe in Albert Schweitzer's words: "Do something for others - something for which you get no pay but the privilege of doing it."
Hey Sponto Gallery! Miss Beatnik contest was allot of fun. Missed last nights screening, but really looking forward to the Bukowski films. Big Cheers, Patrick and Jezebel
A poem for your day:
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Rest In All Love Is
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I love you like this...
dark, i can barely see your eyes...
so dark my eyes are useless. My
heart opens wide its light on you
and your face brightens like the
static on a TV screen, or like the moment
we die and things begin to go all white
and
then
you're an angel laying before me...
the same one that has been there all along,
the one my eyes turned into something else and I
am ashamed I was deceived.
Then,
I see you, I see you like the energy that flows through my limbs,
now, like the breath that takes the universe and
gently creates another, now, like my feet walking
on glass, now, like I was never there.
I love you like I was never there. So gently, never there. In the dark
where I can barely see, and, rest in all that love is.
Our Ballyhoo preview is online and in print! We are thrilled. Welcome to our carnival! Come see the REINCARNATION NEWSFLASH! Exclusively playing at www.blackhillsfolkpress.com.
Kind vibes from the Black Hills!
Molly
I look at you my Friend and I see a child at play
frolicking in muddy streams, splashing rivers into
oceans and carrying each molecule gently
to the sky for another round like a child handing water to his Father
for the first time.
You are neither boastful nor meek.
You are not shy nor are you seeking attention
There is simply abundance and grace with you my Friend
and you ask nothing of me...save I am my self...fully...always... and
you ask without asking...lead without
leading...cause...effortlessly.
I fully endorse the upcoming event:
Apr 18 2007 7:00P
ORSON WELLES' MULTI-VERSE
And I will be there in spirit so everyone should attend!
Funny that title about the multi-verse because the film I just finished my "special consulting" work on is Flatland the Film - a work about multi-verses! What a coincidence!
This comment has been an RKO and Mercury Theater production.
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Seven Dudley, you started it all... dig, on Friday, March 30th we're doing a Beatnik Film Night at the Egyptian Theater on Hollywood Blvd, featuring Curtis Harrington's 1961 flick "Night Tide" (starring Dennis Hopper & Linda Lawson), two early-'60s shorts on the Venice Beat scene, plus our own one-hour slide show of Beatnik coffeehouses and Jazz joints from Topanga Canyon to Laguna Beach 1956-1966 (some Hollywood ones too). It's gonna be far out, hope you can make it. -- Domenic Priore
FINALLY ITS UP!
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Hi SevenDudleyCinema, just a quick hello from the Jazz Pistols - hope you are doing fine and can enjoy the last days of 2006. Wish you all the best for 2007 - thanks for being our friend and good luck for the things you do. Best regards - Christoph
Our Live-DVD will be released on the 1st of February 2007!
If you would like to hear more tunes of the Jazz Pistols you can check out our homepage and get the Jazz Pistols CDs in our own
