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Be prepared for an experience like no other. Coming up this Whether it’s Clara Bow’s flapper month, the Boston Butoh chic, Pam Grier’s ‘70s cool, or Festival has a Butoh Solos Alicia Silverstone’s hyper-stylized Boston has always been a long held bastion of punk and performance. Seven acts, eight hardcore. Though you can still catch scene legends like the FU’s valley girl, film and fashion have emerging Butoh artists, all at been symbiotic since the dawn of and the Proletariat ripping it up at the Midway or ONCE, the Green Street Studios in Central energy, authenticity, and power that they captured in the early cinema. And as much as film has Square in Cambridge. Think captured or influenced fashion of 80’s still permeates this city’s underground and the Democof it as a silent performance the moment, it’s also played a role racy Center is one of the flashpoints that provide a safe and where the dancers are painted welcoming space for everyone who calls the punk scene home. in exploring the furthest reaches of white and use imagery or sets what fashion could be, where boundaries bleed and blend and where Like a suddenly ruptured appendix, Boston’s highly political to communicate through their fashion becomes playground, exploration, and experiment: Marlene Pandemix burst onto the scene only a few short years ago. But photo of yuko kaseki bodies. This style emerged from by ben lenhart Dietrich’s tuxedos, Tim Curry’s punk-rock cabaret, and even Mulan’s with a prolific output of releases, the bands lyrics and semi-rare Japan after World War II and pushed suit of armor. In honor of film’s progreslive shows have made them a staple for anyone still intrigued against Western ideas of beauty. Butoh rejects the norsive fashion history and in harmony with by where punk can go nearly 50 years since its birth. Celebratmative, conditioned movements of traditional dance and the museum’s “Gender Bending Fashion” ing the relase of their latest full length LP “In Condemnation” motion. Performances explore taboo topics, from death exhibition, the Museum of Fine Arts will be the band is joined by a slew of bands from across the ever to eroticism. The first performance in 1959 arose from its screening movies that showcase groundexpanding punk spectrum including Crisis Actors who’s faced when: founders, Tatsumi Hijikata and Kazuo Ohno and has been breaking and boundaryless fashion. These 4/18 - 5/2 paced, direct approach recalls leader singer Jen McMahon and on the rise since. Though it took hold in the ‘70s, this comgender-bending movies—Liquid Sky, munity now spans the globe. This drummer Chris Stunk’s short lived summer project Baja Blatz. where: Colette, A Simple Favor, Black Panther, Salem’s Crimps bring a pop-driven joy mfa medium isn’t meant to comfort Orlando, and The Man Who Fell to Earth— punk to the mix alongside Cancer you or your senses; it’s actually when: represent a portion of the myriad of ways how much: season, a new project from members the opposite. Performers twist, 4/19 8-10PM that clothing can allow folks to express $13 ($10 for of Dump Him and Bicycle. This will when: turn and embrace the grotesque. themselves outside of conservative traditions also serve as your first chance to members) 4/13 7pm where: Each artist is different and aims to and expectations of style, showcasing how green st. studios catch Crawler, a completely reach the audience in some way. fashion can prove powerfully transformative where: new project featuring Kade The festival is presented by Mofor both the individual and society at large. Democracy how much: Thibby, Jack Kerwin, and bius, a nonprofit with a mission $15 -Nicholas Perry Center Nick Owen who’s sound LI to “generate, shape and test exE F T ES S TYLE WA promises to bring early 80’s perimental art.” Feeling intrigued? how much: Washington DC, to the DC. You’ll be able to hit up Green Street Studios the next day for $7-10 all ages No dogs, no drugs, no cops, no a Butoh workshop with director, choreographer, teacher and ages. Respect the flyer and respect Butoh dancer Yuko Kaseki. You do have to register in advance, the space. -Michael Achille so be ready to explore body awareness and hidden energy. There’s no wrong way to do it, so why not? -Claudia Chick T With Melanie Bernier HOW When I started working towards zero-waste in 2013, only a scant handful of blogs dedicated to the lifestyle existed. Though the concept had been around for a decades, ZW wasn’t widely recognized as a “lifestyle Our Taxes, choice.” Living this way, and sharing tips within a small internet community of dirt-kissing moms, felt radical. Our Choice But here we are in 2019, when you can hardly swing a dick without knocking It’s Neil Horsky here, longtime intermittent BRAIN collaboraover a twee ZW Insta-celeb and her precious collection of glass jars. tor. Been a while since I’ve addressed the Compass readerYes, it’s easier than ever to plug your garbage hole with the apple of ZW ship and I gotta say, I miss it! Some of you may remember knowledge. And though I’m indisputably the most relevant, successmy This Month in Boston Counter-Cultural History articles ful, and fashionable zero-waste columnist of our time (“Bernier is the exploring the role of the arts in creating social change in Carrie Bradshaw of garbage!” raves the New York Times), there are Boston’s past. I’m chiming in now to share a sequel of sorts, Holla!!!!! It’s SPRING TIME! Bear your ankles to the sun, put your many other ZWers waiting to plug your leaky trash hole with their bringing the topic of art for social change to the here and rock hard minds. Here are a few notable locals dedicated to the ZW dang shovels away forEVER and rip that life-saving plastic off your now (or to 2018 at least). windows. But when you are caught up in all that glee, let’s not hustle: The Elma Lewis 2018 Women in Community Arts Collectors forget: the world is still a huge mess. And now that we can reliably Boston Zero Waste, @bostonzerowaste, bostonzerowaste.com. Edition Trading Cards celebrate the oft-unheralded field of go outside for longer than 10 minutes at a time, it’s time to show Where do ZW Bostonians go for basics such as groceries and clothCommunity Art in Boston, and the essential and inspiraup for things that matter! Demonstrations, manifestations, protests, tional leadership role of women in the field. The ten women ing? BZW provides the local roadmap. honored in the set are putting their remarkable and diverse parades, rally, really whatever you feel drawn to as long as it’s not MIT Waste Alliance, mitwastealliance.weebly.com. Curious to know creative talents to the profound task of meeting our city’s “netflix and chill”. LET’S GET ACTIVE. And we don’t just mean going how waste works? The MIT Waste Alliance organizes field trips to most pressing social and emotional needs. An eleventh card for a jog, although that can be rad too. Since we are based down waste management sites and lectures from professionals in the field. Upcoming events include a tour of the Greater Lawrence Wastewa- here in Dorchester, we got 2 stellar recommendations for actions to commemorates Boston Community Arts legend, Elma Lewis. The printed trading cards format is a nostalgic, novel, and be taken in our neck of the woods. The first is on April 17 in Uphams ter Treatment Facility, and a chat with Siddharth Hande, entrepreaffordable way to hold and share this meaningful content. Corner, a Dorchester “TAX DAY” event organized by Dorchester neur working with waste pickers in India. Complete trading card sets are available for only $5 at People for Peace and many other rad organizations. Essentially, this My Sustainable Choices, @mysustainablechoices. But is ZW hard? Dorchester Art Project’s Frugal Art Collective Gallery and Sarah offers insights into the day-to-day realities of zero waste living. event is protesting the fact that over 60% of our taxes are given elsewhere soon. directly to military spending. We say NO. Meet in Uphams corner A launch party and meet-and-greet with some of the honorTIT REMEMBERS THE NEWLY EXTINCT ON EARF DAY, APRIL 22 at 4:30pm. March 5:30 down Columbia Road. And 6:30 meet for a ees will be held at 40 South vintage store, 40 South Street in community dinner at St. Mary’s Episcopal Church. Jamaica Plain, on Saturday, April 27th from 1:30-6pm. Come Animals Presumed Extinct in 2018: Po'ouli, passerine bird, enSECONDLY, 10 days later on April 27, our friends from Resonant buy a set or two, imbibe, chat, and get your favorite trading demic to Hawaii. Alagoas Foliage-Gleaner/Cryptic Treehunter, cards autographed by the celebrities themselves! Energy down the block in Codman Sq are organizing a “LOVE YOUR passerine bird, endemic to Brazil. Wild Spix's Macaw, endemic Peace. BLOCK: Earth Day Event!”. To showcase, celebrate and support the to Brazil (some still exist, only in captivity). -Neil Horsky green initiatives happening in Dorchester. (And maybe pick up some On Deck for 2019: Vaquita, porfree veggies! And do some green arts & crafts with us :) This event poise, endemic to the northwill be happening 9-2pm in Codman Sq. ern Gulf of California. Northern -Emma Leavitt White Rhino, endemic to East THIS PROGRAM IS SUPPORTED IN PART BY A GRANT and Central Africa. -Melanie Bernier FROM THE BOSTON CULTURAL COUNCIL, A LOCAL AGENCY
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Mon 4/1 Workshop: Contact Improvisation Sat 4/13 Closing Reception: The Endangered and Developmental Patterns @Green Street Species Project - New England @Harvard Ceramics Building - Allston 5PM - 7PM Studios 11AM - 1PM Tues 4/2 Artist Demo: #STITCHERS @Gallery Sun 4/14 Workshop: Video Projection Skillset with Callie Chapman @Studio 550 1PM - 3PM 263 6PM - 8PM Tues 4/2 Materials Lab Workshop: Anni Albers Wed 4/17 Neuroscience Paint Night @The MIT and Event of the Thread @Harvard Art Muse- Museum 6:30PM - 8:30PM $35 & 21+ um 1PM - 4PM Wed 4/17 Lecture: American Land Museum Thurs 4/4 Curator Tour: Eva Respini on Huma Places as Cultural Artifacts @Harvard Art MuseBhabha - They Live @Institute of Contempo- um 6PM - 7:30PM rary Art 6PM - 7PM Thurs 4/18 Artist Talk: Joiri Minaya-Gazing Back Fri 4/5 Reception: Keira Kolter "Spectrum" & @University Hall Gallery 6PM Harold Reddicliffe "New Paintings" @Gallery Fri 4/19+4/20 Elevate: A Triple Bill of Female NAGA 6PM - 8PM Choreographers @The Dance Complex 8PM Fri 4/5 DIY Radio Workshop with Jeff Thomp- 10PM son @Koppelman Gallery at Tufts 2:30PM 5PM (RSVP Required email artgallery@tufts. Sat 4/20 WaterFire Art and Craft Festival @WaterFire Arts Center - Providence RI Noon - 6PM edu) SOWA FIRST FRIDAY 4/5 - Here’s some stuff Tues 4/23 Lecture: Amanda Levete "Public Spacthat you’ll see around Thayer Street this es, Identity & Soul in Architecture” @MIT Department of Architecture 6PM - 8PM month! Altered Matter X 2 @Fountain Street Gallery Thurs 4/25 Artist Talk: Art_Latin_America: Against the Survey - Liliana Porter @Davis Muse5PM - 8PM um at Wellesley College 1:30AM - 12:30PM Instruments of Synesthesia with Katherine Mitchell DiRico @Abigail Ogilvy Gallery 6PM Fri 4/26 SAND - An Evening Length Dance Installation @Fountain Street Gallery 7:00PM - 8:30PM - 8:30PM $10 - $50 Julie S Graham: Unexpected Places @KingsFri 4/26 Opening Reception: Avatars @Nave Galton Gallery 5PM-8PM lery 7PM - 9PM Sat 4/6 Creating Your Vision Photography Workshop @Cambridge Art Association 4/27 The Movement: An Interactive Art & Hip Hop Experience @AfroCaribbean Museum 7:3011AM - 1PM 12:30 Free All Ages Sat 4/6 Salon for Experimental Sound and ImSat 4/27+4/28 Japan Festival @Bosotn Comage (SESI) @Mills Gallery 7PM - 10PM mons 11AM - 5PM Sat 4/6 Artist Talk: #STITCHERS @Gallery 263 Sat 4/27 SEEK + FIND Boston JP Flea @Eliot 2PM - 4PM School JP 10AM - 5PM Sun 4/7 Artist Talk and Demo: Papermaking with Michelle Samour @Society of Arts + Sun 4/28 Panel Discussion + Closing Reception: The Skin Has Eyes @Mills Gallery 2PM - 5PM Crafts 2PM - 3:30PM
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Mon 4/1 HIGH LIFE (2018) dir. Claire Denis @BRATTLE Come for Claire Denis, stay for space jizz Free preview screening! Director in person! Tue 4/2 LIZZIE (2018) dir. Craig William Macneil @ PARAMOUNT Lizzie Borden took an ax, and gave K. Stew forty kisses Discussion to follow Sat 4/6 SUMMER WARS (2009) dir. Mamoru Hosoda @HFA The digital world is in danger! Special $5 matinee - free w/ Cambridge library card! Sat 4/6 IN THE INTENSE NOW (2018) dir. João Moreira Salles @HFA Panoramic requiem for the spirit of ‘68. Director in person! Mon 4/8 BLACK MOTHER (2018) dir. Khalik Allah @ BRATTLE Songs and views across Jamaica’s pilgrim spectrum. Director in person! Presented by DocYard Mon 4/8 BLADE RUNNER: THE FINAL CUT (1982) dir. Ridley Scott @COOLIDGE Do androids dream of young Harrison Ford Intro by SOONISH host Wade Roush!
Fri 4/19 SUCH A MORNING (2017) dir. Amar Kanwar @HFA A mathematician retreats, and renews the world. Director in person! Fri 4/19 THE JUNIPER TREE (1990) dir. Nietzchka Keene @BRATTLE Björk, circa Sugarcubes, graces shoestring Grimm. New digital restoration! Screens through 4/21 Sat 4/20 JU-ON (THE GRUDGE) (2002) dir. Takashi Shimizu @COOLIDGE [35mm] The original Grudge is the best Grudge Mon 4/22 PRINCESS MONONOKE (1997) dir. Hayao Miyazaki @COOLIDGE [35mm] A legendary story as told by Miyazaki Mon 4/22 LIGHT PLAYS, FORM PLAYS: FILM EXPERIMENTS AFTER THE BAUHAUS @HFA Incredible artifacts for the movement’s centennial Intro by Laura Frahm Fri 4/26 ALL THAT HEAVEN ALLOWS (1955) dir. Douglas Sirk @VU High-octane weepie Sat 4/27 ALIEN: RESURRECTION (1997) dir. JeanPierre Jeunet @COOLIDGE [35mm] Ripley/Xenomorph mutant hybrids!
Thu 4/11 THE BUY ME, BOSTON VIDEO LOFT @ COOLIDGE Unearthed nuggets from the Boston TV underground Hosted by Brian Coleman
Sun 4/28 MATANGI / MAYA / M.I.A. (2018) dir. Steve Loveridge @ICA 58
Fri 4/12 SCANNERS (1981) dir. David Cronenberg @ COOLIDGE [35mm] Caution: exploding heads
Fri 4/12 Opening Reception: Paintings by Tina Feingold @Distillery Gallery 7PM - 9PM
Sat 4/13 AKIRA (1988) dir. Katsuhiro Ôtomo @ COOLIDGE Pinnacle of Japanese animation
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Fri 4/19 AUDITION (1999) dir. Takashi Miike @ BRATTLE Torture and revenge are on the menu! Screens through 4/24 (35mm on last day!)
Tue 4/9 LET THE SUNSHINE IN (2017) dir. Claire Denis @BRATTLE A woman’s quest for love
Fri 4/12 DEATH BECOMES HER (1992) dir. Robert Zemeckis @MFA [35mm] Isabella Rossellini grants eternal youth, a dream come true Fri 4/12 POLICE STORY / POLICE STORY 2 (1985/1988) dir. Jackie Chan @BRATTLE Jackie gets the Criterion treatment! Double feature! Screens through 4/14 Fri 4/12 TROPICAL MALADY (2004) dir. Apichatpong Weerasethakul @HFA [35mm] Jewel of the Thai new wave
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Thu 4/18 LIQUID SKY (1983) dir. Slava Tsukerman @ MFA Sex, drugs, aliens, and NYC club kids New digital restoration!
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Sun 4/7 Artist Talk: Fibers Inside and Outside Tues 4/30 Gallery Talk: Richard Lippold's World the Body @Eliot School of Fine Arts 3PM - 5PM Tree & Bauhaus Legacy @Harvard Art Museum 12:30PM - 1PM Mon 4/8 Panel Discussion with Artist Julie Mehretu @Aga Khan Program MIT Room 35- Ongoing Art Shows 225 6PM - 7PM The Skin Has Eyes: Animated Visions @ Mills GalWed 4/10 Sketch Session: Playing with Scale lery at Boston Center for the Arts 2/23 - 4/28 @MIT List Visual Arts Center 12:30PM - 1:30PM Tina Feingold @ Distillery Gallery 4/9 - 4/19 Thurs 4/11 Reception: Down Garden Paths, Flora and Photo Exhibition @Griffin Museum Claudia Olds Goldie and Leslie Wilcox @ Boston Sculptors Gallery 4/3 - 5/5 of Photography 7PM - 8:30PM
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RAD APPS: If you live in Boston, there are already a couple really convenient composting services such as Bootstrap Compost (which offers varying pickups per month). But if such a service is out of budget, or you want to make your own soil, there’s another way! Makesoil.org brings people together either as ‘soil makers’ or ‘soil supporters’; Makesoil connects people who are making soil with people with nowhere to compost. I’ve found the unfortunately prevalent attitude that composting is for crunchies; it is, but it’s also for everyone else too! The fact is, composting is super easy to do and there’s tangible returns: you get really good soil! If you’re putting food scraps, old fruits and vegetables, dirty napkins, coffee grinds, banana peels or anything similar in the trash, you’re missing a great opportunity for seriously dank soil. Whenever I’m done cooking or making coffee I just throw the leftovers in a plastic bucket (a bag works too) in my freezer to keep it from rotting until the bucket fills up. When the bucket is full, I bicycle my bucket over to the nearest ‘site’ and follow the site instructions, the site closest to me happens to be a lovely lady named Jennifer running a compost site in front of her house. If you make your own compost, other people can sign up to bring you compost too when you sign up as a ‘soil maker’. As I write this, there are few Soil Makers around Boston, and I’m hoping to change that. -DLM
It was 2005 and iTunes, Spotify, the return of vinyl records, were just a glint on the music biz’s eye. Napster had wreaked havoc on the industry, changing the way we consume it forever and because of this music executives and bloated rock stars were losing their shit. However one label, Sony/BMG, decided to take the matter into their own hands whether you liked it or not. Stealing some tricks from hackers, Sony placed a rootkit, which is essentially malware, on about 22 million cds. A rootkit is a piece of software that is designed to allow access to a computer where it’s not supposed to, such as a unauthorized user, while masking its existence. When you inserted the CD into your computer it would install software that disrupted your ability to copy the music on it. While doing this, it also stole personal information, made your computer slower and left it more vulnerable to other security threats. In addition, this software was incredibly hard to rid of. Even when Sony was initially caught they didn’t even stop putting it on CDs. Despite introducing software to “uninstall” the rootkit, it only un-hid the program, installed other hard to rid of programs, required an email address and still left your computer unsafe. Following several lawsuits and public pressure, Sony recalled some CDs, settled cases, and stopped the production of the anti-copying software. Funny how this mining of personal information seems so trivial now with how forced we are to surrender our personal information to technology. In 2005, facebook and google were just a glimmer in Sony’s XCP rootkit’s eye. -Zachary Fairbrother
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