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Ephemeral Public Art

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Current/Upcoming Events

January 30 through May 30, 2015
Shelved Art: Real Art in Real Books for Real Library Lovers

December 20, 2013 through December 20, 2015
City Speaks 2: three new poets

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Check out the recent Art4U video documentation.

past Events

November 2 & 3, 2013
Re-Imagining the Arroyo

June 23, 2013
Art 4 U - Part 2: Intimate Performance Adventures

June 15, 2013
Art 4 U - Part 1: Intimate Performance Adventures

November 10th and 11th, 2012
Hugely Tiny Festival 2012

August 14th, 2012
Gary Raymond's "Outside the Box"

July 27, 28 & 29, 2012
Knock Knock...Sonic Surprise

July 14, 2012
Sonic Gallery IV: Spontaneous Adventures

June 23, 2012
Reels on Reels: a Pop-up film screening "Put your film in our gate!"

June 22, 2012
TRANSITIONS: A Pop-Up Poetry Project

March 9th 2012
Untamed (Parking) Spaces
Nine artists transform buses, campers, and tents into unexpected art galleries

March 10, 2012
City Speaks 1 & 2
A sculptural poetry/sonic installation

November 5, 2011 at 8:30 PM
NewTown and SCREAM, (The Southern California Resource for Electro-Acoustic Music)
Present: SOUNDING IMAGES

Sept 2, 2011
PiKA PiKA! A Free Light-Animation Workshop

June 25, 2011
Projecting Adventure: Reels on Wheels No 5.5

June 18, 2011
Hallelujah/Aloha: A surreptitious intervention for six voices by Richard Amromin

June 3 & 4, 2011
Pop-Up Films

September 12 to January 9, 2010
Convergences: New Sculptural Media

May 25, 2010
Richard Myers' Marjory's Diary:
A Screening and Discussion with the Filmmaker

May 26, 2010
Blast Phemy #5: A Mid-week Music / Media Mashup

May 12, 2010
Blast Phemy #4: A Mid-week Music / Media Mashup

April 14, 2010
Blast Phemy #3: A Mid-week Music / Media Mashup

March 10, 2010
Blast Phemy #2: A Mid-week Music / Media Mashup

Feb 10, 2010
Blast Phemy #1: A Mid-week Music / Media Mashup

June 26, 2009 - UPDATED INFO!
Cams, Cranks, and Computers: New Machines, New Music

June 6-7, 2009
On the Trail of: A Half Mile of Al Fresco Installations, Sculptures and Performances

September 1, 2008
Angel City Jazz Festival: Rethinking Jazz

June 28-29, 2008
SoniTrek - A Half Mile of Al Fresco Sonic Installations and Performance

May 18, 2008
Noisy People - Film + Live performance! Tom Dill (tpt), Gino Robair (perc/electronics), Phillip Greenlief (sax), Tim Perkis (film/electronics)

February 9-10, 2008
The Hugely Tiny Festival

October 12 - December 30, 2007
NewTown's SKIN!

Jne 24 , 2007
Guitar Gods & Wizards, Tichard Pinhas & Friends

June 16, 2007
American Symposium

March 25 , 2007
Medical arts (SPECIAL PERFORMANCE AND MEDIA ART, MAY 12)

March 10, 2006 - February 15, 2007
NORTHWEST PORTRAITS

October 20, 2006
Speak/See - Spoken Word and Experimental Animation

September 9, 2006
On the Slab: A Cabaret Experience

November 11, 2005
Bike-in Movies - 10-year retrospective of animated works by (DADA)

October 15, 2005
An Evening of Kathak Dance - Megan Black/Kathak Dance, Ross Kent/Sarod, Gregg Johnson/Tabla

October 8, 2005
Sounding Images - An International Micro-Fest of Digital, Sonic & Visual Media

September 24 , 2005
Whose/Who’s California?, Part 3 - Golden State x10

August 12, 2005
Whose/Who’s California?, Part 2 - A Film and Video Drive-In

July 23, 2005
Whose/Who’s California?, Part 1 - My Own Slice of The State: Outsider Garden Tour

November 14, 2004
TEN! - opening with Miroslav Tadic

October 9, 2004
From Reich to Right Now

September 27, 2004
Betsy Bromberg Premiere

July 22, 2004
"Videoactave: EAR Unit & Media

November 29, 2003
Reels on Wheels 4: Home Movies

November 8, 2003
Trail Mix: A Mile of Art

September 20, 2003
Sex on The Lawn 2

April 5, 2003
Sonic Gallery 2 - Simultaneous perfomances by 10 improising musicians working off unifying compositional plan

January 25, 2003
Reels on Wheels 3: No Speed Limit - A multidisciplinary evening of car-related art

September 28, 2002
Trail Markers 2: What Desert - 20 water-themed installations along a 1.25 mile trail

May 10, 2002
Sonic Gallery: Adventures in Peripheral Listening - Simultaneous amplified performances

October 31, 2001
Wadada Leo Smith - An evening of music, film and poetry

September 29, 2001
Trail Markers

September 1, 2001
XX Films - An evening of recent experimental films by women

August 25, 2001
Sex on the Lawn - An evening of films, performances and installations exploring sex.

August 18, 2001
Best of Black Maria Film Festival - An evening of films chosen from winners at The Black Maria Film and Video Festival

May 11, 2001
And So It Went: Ephemeral Art

March 30, 2001
Look, Up in the Sky - A multidisciplinary evening in conjunction with Pasadena-wide arts shows on the cosmos. A gentle thumb in the eye

November 5, 2000
MacadamFest - An experimental film and video drive-in with sound via FM transmitter into cars radios

October 7, 2000
Art InTents - Site specific performances and installations along a 1.5 mile nature trail.

March 31, 2000
Swap 'n Shop - An event in which assemblage artists were each given $100 to shop at Pasadena City College Flea Market. Three months later works were sold at auction which included artists multiples and performances.

August 28, 1999
pool pARTy - An arts event in the disguise of a party, including media, music, installation, performance and food

August 14, 1999
Fervid Bus - A video-equipped bus visits quirky arts-related sites throughout area

July 31, 1999
Reels on Wheels - Films were projected on five different buildings in Pasadena. Sound transmitted via FM

September 12, 1998
In The Yard

August 30, 1998
On The Lawn

June 15, 1998
Gerry Hemingway Quartet

May 29, 1998
Reclamations

May 23, 1998
Reels on Wheels

March 20, 1998
Aural Abstractions

February 27, 1998
Oral Abstractions

July 19, 1997
Cinema on the Half Shell 2 - fundraiser with experimental animation, dinner,music & visual art

June 28, 1997
These Hands & You Better Work - documentary from Tanzania and performance by Lane/Guy/Dayo

June 14, 1997
Circumventions: Tools Under Attack

October 21, 1996
Mugwort - Direct films, music by Robert O'Neill, Visual art by Chad Kula & Edward Fella

August 16, 1996
New Windows on Old Pasadena

May 24, 1996
CageOn - Multi-genre public art

May 22, 1996
imusicircus - Multimedia spectacle based on works of John Cage and others

April 9, 1996
Jazz & The Moving Image with Vinny Golia - Experimental films and jazz

March 22, 1996
Betzy Bromberg's Divinity Gratis - world premiere screening

June 16, 1995
Cinema on the Half Shell - Films/performance/dinner

June 3, 1995
Charles Burnett's Killer of Sheep - Co-presentation with All Saints' COLORS Committee

May 27, 1995
Cultural Artifacts - Curated and with performance by Terry and Mary Cannon

May 20, 1995
Thank You Jesus For the Eternal Present - Films curated by Wm Scaff

May 6, 1995
Improvisations: Jazz & the Moving Image - Bobby Bradford Ensemble & experimental films