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Friday, June 15, 2007
“Renegade Artists: The Swedish Los Angeles Connection”
An evening of slides, films, music, meatballs and drinks organized by Marnie Weber, featuring: Jeffrey Vallance, Liz Young, Marnie Weber, Christian Cummings and Michael Decker, Doug Harvey, and special guests from Sweden, Ride 1.

Ride 1: Ronny Hansson, Jonas Kjellgren and Stig Sjölund.
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Friday, June 1, 2007
Book release party for Parapet, from the TrenchArt series, by Les Figues Press, with readings by
Danielle Adair, Stan Apps, Alta Ifland, and Stephanie Taylor.

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Wednesday, May 30, 2007
Justin Veach is . . . talking . . .
“An unruly and digressive dialogue/lecture examining the role of the individual artist/thinker amidst the current cultural landscape…”
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Saturday, May 26, 2007
emily lacy, anna oxygen, laura steenberge, and heather lockie
+ a screening of looking for technology, a film by emily lacy (17 min).
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Sunday, April 22, 2007

An evening of film video poetry and performance featuring:

Marcus Civin
Jen Hofer
Viet Le
Miranda Mellis
Chris Nagler
Tuan Andrew Nguyen
Hong-An Truong
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Saturday, April 21, 2007
CalArts MFA Graduate Reading featuring: Danielle Adair, Emily Eklund, Nicholas Grider, Joe Potts, Beth S. McNamara and Molly McPhee.

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Thursday, April 19, 2007

Crazy for Jane (Berlin)
June Madrona (Olympia, WA)
Emily Lacy (LA)
Mad Gregs (LA)
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Thursday, April 5th, 2007
High Energy Constructs and Empty Room|Dance Projects present
Under the Radar I: Small Gestures, an interdisciplinary dance event offered by Rebecca Alson- Milkman, Alyson Cartagena, and Carol McDowell.
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Sunday, March 18, 2007
An evening of music film and performance organized by Heather Lockie featuring:
Mad Gregs

Anni Rossi
Listing Ship
F-Stop Serenade

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Saturday, March 17, 2007
An evening of music and performance organized by David Horvitz featuring:
Freddy Ruppert

Lucky Dragons

Grouper

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Saturday, March 10, 2007
A Reading and Performance
Celebrating the Release of Stan Apps’s newest book
Info Ration published by Make Now Press
with special guests, Emily Lacy and Ron Rudlong

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“The Day The Music Died”
Saturday, February 3, 2007

Psychedelic Light Swirls by Sly Robby and the Karl Stone

Experimental musical compositions by Mannlicher Carcano, Rick Potts, Steve Roden, Dani Tull, and others
A debut screening of LESS ART VIDEO ZINE

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Thursday, December 21, 2006
Friends and poets pay tribute to the life and spirit of kari edwards

in memory of kari edwards
(December 2, 1954 - December 2, 2006)
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Saturday, December 16, 2006
The Folk Summit, an evening of mountain and city songs featuring Emily Lacy
Jackson Fledermaus, Laura Steenberge, and Marshweed
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Saturday, November 11, 2006
11:11, an evening of poetry and performance by: Andrew Choate, Marcus Civin, David Hadbawnik, Jen Hofer, Mary Kite, Christopher Russell, and Mathew Timmons
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Saturday, October 21, 2006
“Many Happy Returns” Opening Reception
Maybell Explorer of the Overgrown Garden
a performance, installation, soundscape
by Juliacks and Ben Bigelow

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Friday, September 29, 2006
Fireworks, Dolphin Explosion, The Spirit Girls

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Saturday, September 23, 2006
DOUBLE IMPACT featuring
poets Michael Price and Kevin Opstedal
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Thursday, September 21, 2006
Crazy for Jane with Emily Lacy and Wreck of the Zephyr

As part of an ongoing series of music and performance events at High Energy Constructs: Wreck of the Zephyr churns out stripped-down acoustic chant-rants, Emily Lacy lures a new time folk with the lull of old time traditional banjo playing, and Crazy for Jane offers a sweet set of desperate serenades. Crazy for Jane is sister Josepha Conrad and brother Philipp Conrad. Their music is pop and folk and sometimes a little jazz. They are based in Berlin where the gloomy city of Brecht and historical upheaval inspires their songs. Crazy for Jane’s debut album “Desperate Serenade” was released in June 2006. For more info: crazyforjane.com
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Thursday, August 10, 2006
Wounded Lion with Fireworks, Falcon Eddy, and Noah

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Thursday, July 27, 2006
Let Me Know Your Thoughts Affectionately
An evening of song and projection featuring
DJ Doughy Vera, ing, Baker and Able, Fireworks, moldy slides by Doug Harvey, and a screening of “Dog Days” by Jimmy Chertkow & Raffi Kalenderian

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Thursday, July 6, 2006
An evening of song and perspective featuring
Fireworks with spatial guest(s)

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Saturday, June 10, 2006
“Cruel Summer”
A Reading by the Girls of Critical Studies
With a Performance by You Me and Iowa
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Saturday, April 15, 2006
BOAT SHOW Opening Reception
Musical performance by Listing Ship

(photo: j. ohnuki)

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Friday, March 3, 2006
San Francisco Poets: Micah Ballard and Cedar Sigo
Followed by a reception featuring DJ LASR

HIGH ENERGY CONSTRUCTS is pleased to present an evening of “the best minds” of a new generation of San Francisco poets, Micah Ballard and Cedar Sigo, who will read selections from their work.

Micah Ballard’s poems have appeared in a variety of publications. His recent books include: Bettina Coffin (Red Ant Press), Scenes from the Saragossa Manuscript (Snag Press), In the Kindness of Night (Blue Press), Emblematic (Old Gold), & Negative Capability in the Verse of John Wieners (Auguste Press). He is currently the director of the Humanities B.A. Program at New College of California; is working on a book of collaborations entitled Death Race V.S.O.P.

Cedar Sigo is the author of Goodnight Nurse (Angry Dog Press, 2001). His Selected Writings, published by Ugly Duckling Presse, was originally released in the spring of 2003, and a second edition was printed in 2005. His poems have appeared in The Poker, Yolanda Pipeline’s Magazine, New York Nights, The Blind See Only This World: Poems for John Wieners, 6×6 and Blue Book, among others. Forthcoming is a book of collaborations, Deathrace V.S.O.P. He has studied at the Naropa Institute’s Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics, and currently lives in San Francisco, where he is the editor of Old Gold Press.

Micah Ballard and Cedar Sigo, March 3, 2006 (photos: j. collins)