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This Week at McLeod Residence

Wednesday, August 1:

Conversation with the Artists: Maggie Orth and Joel Kollin
6-8pm, Hors d'oeuvres will be served

Please join us for a conversation with Maggie Orth and Joel Kollin to learn more about their work in our current Interactivity exhibition.

Maggie Orth is an artist, technologist, and entrepreneur who creates and invents interactive and electronic textiles. Orth is considered a pioneer in the emerging field of electronic textiles, interactive fashions, wearable computing, and interface design. Her groundbreaking work in electronic textiles has been published and exhibited in a range of venues worldwide.

Joel S. Kollin is a Ph.D. student at the University of Washington’s Center for Digital Arts and Experimental Media. Contextures is his series of work that engages the viewer’s visual system by challenging its ability to form a stable image.

Thursday, August 2: Indie Biz Night, 6pm-12am
Join Seattle's indie business community for an inspired evening of mixing and meeting other Seattle independent business people in a creative atmosphere.

Friday, August 3: Rock Lottery 03 Appreciation Celebration, 6pm-12am
Join the musicians of the Rock Lottery to reminisce and celebrate their achievements!

Saturday, August 4: Westcoast Kickball League (WKL) Play-offs Party, 6pm-12am
The Westcoast Kickball League "encourages deep, dark rivalries, intractable grudges, and an obsessive, unhealthy desire to achieve kickball supremacy." Sounds like fun...

Lounge events Thursday-Saturday are open to our members, their guests, and by invitation.  Please email us for an invitation.  We would love for you to join us.

This Week at McLeod Residence

Please join us:

Thursday, July 19, 10 p.m. - FREE

The Adventures of Bubble Girl and Accordion Boy (aka Shayne Eastin and Nate Lashes)

Saturday, July 21, 8:30 p.m. - $8 suggested donation

Dedicated to Chaos, a multi-media performance piece with live music and painting created by Jessica Lurie and Danijel Zezelj. The performance features Lurie on saxophone, accordion and voice and painting by Zezelj, with Will Dowd on drums and Paul Kemmish on bass.

Dedicated to Chaos is described as a visual and musical journey unfolding in slow-motion before the audience. The performance is built on a formal duality of music and painting, adding the dimension of space to music and the dimension of time to painting. The painting is done in black, white and red acrylic on boards or canvas, and the music is a combination of composed and improvised pieces rooted in energetic free jazz.

Our current exhibition, Interactivity, will be available for viewing.  Please come for these special events, or feel free to visit during gallery hours Tuesday - Saturday, 10 a.m. - 6 p.m.

Interactivity: A Success!

Thank you so much for attending the opening of our new exhibition, Interactivity!  If you have photos of the new show, please add them to our growing McLeod Residence Flickr pool. 

I know that many of you have questions about the new pieces, and I hope that I can help answer them.  We've added quite a bit of information about The Barbarian Group's Biomimetic Butterflies HERE, and we've also added this video:

More information about McLeod Mirror can be found on its own new site: www.mcleodmirror.com, which has a video starring our very own Rockstar McLeod.

If you HAVEN'T seen the new show, well... you MUST.  It is open until September 1st. Chris Weber and I will be around every Tuesday-Saturday 10am-6pm.  We will also be open late tomorrow for Seattle Net2 Tuesday and late Thursday for a special performance in the South Room: The Ghost of Kyle Bradford & Corridor.  Friday is Rock Night / Member Night as usual, but Saturday evening our member lounge will be closed for Chris Weber's Rock Lottery at Neumo's.  It's going to be fun -- join us?