We're recording music, drawing, painting, dancing, installing, destalling, costuming and de-costuming, taking drugs and getting sober. This week's installation of Grosslords, will be like a lullaby. A strange, serpentine, diamond back reality show, where the host gets eaten by wild piranhas and Grosslords mutate. Invite your friends! Bring your disposable cameras!

7 PM to 10 PM  //  Eyeball Mansion  //  1872 Parker Street (at Victoria)  //  Vancouver, BC

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Seven PM to Ten PM  //  Wednesday, August 18, 2010  //  Beers $4, Coffee and Tea Provided  //  Hammock Residency  // 1923 Graveley Street  //  In the backyard if sunny, inside if rainy.

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Six PM to Nine PM  // August 11, 2010  //  Beers $4, Coffee and Tea Provided  //  Every Wednesday night in August!

Six hour session on September 6th, 2010 - an all day event! 

Ben Jacques is playing a music gig at the Astoria afterwards with Tom Whalen - let's posse up after Grosslords and see some music! Jacques has to set up at 8 or 9, but will go on to play at 11. 

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Natalie Doonan invites you to a SLOW Celebration this Saturday, August 7th, from 9-10pm at Floata Seafood Restaurant, 180 Keefer Street #400, Vancouver.  This will be a chance for all participants of SLOW Dating to meet, and for other forms of mingling to suit your proclivities.  This one-hour event is in keeping with the timeframe of The All-New Newlywed Game Show.  You are invited to witness the unfolding of a game that will test the compatibility of two of Vancouver’s favourite newlyweds, over food and drinks.

If you were to find an unattended box around the city, what would you think? A terrorist threat, perhaps -- a bomb! Well, consider Compartment’s Compartments (©) Poetic Terrorism.

An ever-expanding network of Compartments are being tucked here and there throughout the city, filled with treasures for you to take home, enjoy, then replace with your own goodies. Off the official grid, it’s a sub-economy of creative exchange in the city. We’re eking out what Hakim Bey calls "Temporary Autonomous Zones."

Drop by between 12pm - 4pm this Sunday to build your very own (©)! Then, stash a valued treasure inside, and hide it somewhere on your way home! 

We will provide all the materials you need for building a (©) -- all you need to do is bring whatever you want to stash inside of it!

Not sure what to bring? Here are some ideas:
- an inspirational or inflammatory text that changed your life
- your mother's homemade soup recipe that, as a child, seemed to possess magical healing powers
- a mixed tape that says everything about life and love that you could only ever clumsily articulate
- a map that leads to your most treasured place of respite in the city
- a work of art that you're extremely proud of or too shy to show to your friends. 
- or make something beautiful right there on the spot!
- The possibilities are endless...

Be a part of the founding network of Compartments this Sunday.......... it’ll be historic. 

An All Day Drop - In, from noon to 8pm.

A Basket Weaving Workshop....

People should bring:

- wire

- raffia 

- jute

- rag yarn

- grassy things

- ETC

Come and Mandy will skill-share her basket coiling ways with you! And then we can all skill-share with eachother and make baskets all day.

1923 Graveley Street, Vancouver, BC, Canada

Hammock Residency is very proud to host a very special concert, with OK Vancouver OK, IT KILLS (Halifax, NS) and Nathan Matthews. It will be evening time, the lights will be on, but not bright, and the music soft and gentle.

All are welcome: July 12, 2010, 7pm - A special performance for Mary Rothlisberger, who drove all the way up from Palouse, WA, USA to see Lisa Lipton (IT KILLS) and I to hear the music.

Yours,

Heidi Nagtegaal

Backyard Music Festival is a Music Festival in my backyard, celebrating independent, interdisciplinary culture. Run entirely on an ad hoc sensibility, Music Festival in my Backyard invites the would-be and established musicians in the fine arts community to perform in an intimate setting. Special focus is given to those with debut performances, crossovers to new areas of discipline and experimental practices. 

July 10, 2010 // 4pm - late // BBQ will be on, bring your own food to grill & share if you like // Bring money for booze + vegan treats! // Please bring an mp3 player with your favorite SLOW song to Backyard Music Festival at the Hammock Residency for a very SLOW and exciting encounter.

performers:

Ariana Barer and Nico Rivela - feminist raps by Ariana, guitar by Nico

David Blackmore - reggae songs

Eddie - spraypaint stencil installations

G. Amani - Plant Adoption

Francisco Fernando-Granados  - "best dressed refugee" performance

Haunted Beard - strange dance noise horror noise rock

Heidi Nagtegaal - paper chains + personal encouragement

Jenny Craig - an experiment in black light theatre

Jeremy Todd - acoustic folk set from 'Payday Millionaire'

Justin Patterson - Social Interventions

Karma Kids - a collaboration of hip hop + noise by Patrick Cruz + Francis Mantis

Lupe Martinez - new performance works

Manolo Lugo - new performance, durational

Mark Dahl - new solo works

Naomi Macdougall - long distance performance by proxy

Natalie Doonan - SLOW Dance

Nathan Matthews - old songs never been performed by 'bodies'

Patrick Cruz - installation / paintings

so you think you can sleep - 9 minute musical performance

Spectrum Interview - Frederick Brummer, Toby Carroll, Lee Hutzulak, David Leith - improvisational sound music

Stuart Hughes - mobiles, made for specific viewing situations & places

Tin Can Studio and The Association of Very Good Ideas - The Snack Bar and Booze Hole

Under The Sun - prOphecy sun + jen jones playing improvisational space opera

Frances McDonald lives with her mother on Commercial Drive. She has been drawing for most of her 13 years. The drawings on view at Hammock Residency are part of a series called Outside of Expectation. They explore the idea of spirits who do not have any human limitations.

Working with What is Left speaks to the detritus of the 2010 Vancouver Winter Olympics, both figuratively and literally. Figuratively, the promised addition of social housing and arts programming, two of the benefits pitched by the City of Vancouver prior to the referendum, that were considered left wing, were reneged while the developers were bailed out of their financial losses. And literally, the detritus, the blue visa sponsorship posters that were distributed and displayed in many downtown retail and restaurant windows. These plastic laminated, stiff cardboard posters are a perfect building material, and will be fashioned into individual, portable housing structures / pods that will simultaneously solve the problem created by the lack of funding for artist projects and low-income housing.

Researchers are asked to participate in one or many of the workshops outlined below. Find a category that appeals to you, and please join us in the Hammock between 6pm - 10pm on the following nights. 

In June, find Rina at the Hammock Residency (in the Tin Can Studio) at 1923 Graveley Street. 

Tuesday, June 1st, 6pm: Artist's Friends & Balcone Reading Group - Making It Critical

Thursday, June 10th, 6pm: Art Students - Making It Exciting

Thursday, June 17th, 6pm: Crafts Night Group - Making It By Hand

Tuesday, June 22th, 6pm: Geographers and Urban Planners - Making It Functional

Tuesday, June 22nd, 8pm: Landscape Architects - Making It Pretty

Thursday, June 24th, 6pm: No Fixed Address, Alternative Spaces, and Off-The-Grid Living - Making It Practical

Enquiries can be made by contacting the artist at:  liddlethought @ gmail dot com.

At the end of the research period, there will be a season of making, followed by an Open House at the Hammock Residency.

Keep posted for further Workshops by Rina Liddle in July 2010, at a variety of locations, both on and off site. 

For more about the artists, click here. 

The Continuous Map Project

Saturday, February 27 2010

2 - 5pm

202 - 175 East Broadway

(Corner of Main + Broadway)

Buzzer 202

Hammock Residency Presents:

Lois Klassen - Garden Gnomad, Video & Installation

Lupe Martinez - Backyard Project

One night only!  Looking forward to seeing you there!

On the afternoon of Wednesday, July the 29th, 2009, Lois Klassen will be bringing her Garden Gnomad project to the 1923 Graveley Street Garden.  Come around the back of the house at 2pm for a Garden Gnomad Intervention, with an intimate conversation to follow.

I hope you all are well, Heidi