Opening Thursday: SYNAPSE at 35 Channel Center

Kate Gilbert: SYNAPSE

Opening Reception: Thursday, November 1
5:30-7:30 pm at 35 Channel Center

This exhibit is a part of the Fort Point Arts Community's ongoing art lending program with our neighbors at 35 Channel Center.

The work is on display through January of 2013 and can be viewed by appointment. 

http://kategilbertstudio.com/blog/2012/10/29/opening-reception-111-530-730.html

Saturday: Holiday Wine and Spirits Tasting at Social Wines

Social Wines is having a tasting:

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A Pre-Holiday Season Tasting Event!

It's that time of year again when we start thinking about the holidays: Thanksgiving dinner, holiday parties, office functions, gift giving. Let us help you get a head start with a Holiday Tasting Event.

Date: Saturday, Oct. 27
Time: 2pm-4pm (part 1) and 4:30-6:30 (part 2)
Location: Social Wines, 52 W Broadway, Boston, MA

We've invited a bunch of our suppliers to set up tables in our tasting room and sample you on great wines and spirits.

• Pick wines to pair with holiday foods
• Explore ideas for festive cocktails
• Get a head start on your gift list

Each time block will include a different selection of libations so stop by for both parts!

Channel Center Park Charette, Saturday

CHANNEL CENTER PARK CHARETTE

 

The BRA, Boston Parks Department and  

Commonwealth Ventures Development Team

Is hosting a Planning Charette

 for the design/ implementation of

the New Channel Center Park

Saturday October 27th

9:00 AM- 12 Noon

10 Channel Center St.

2nd floor

Saturday at FPAC Open Studios

DancespotBoston.com

Better Living Through Levity

Made in Fort Point

Steven Muller

Inside/Outside, 5:15pm

Plenty more going on today (Sunday):

SUNDAY 10.21.12

Demonstrations
1pm Lisa Knox
Transforming a Simple Piece of Fabric into a Work of Art, a drawing demonstration 249 A Street, 4th floor

2pm Amy MacDonald
Animation: creating a frame by frame character animation using Adobe Flash 319 A Street

3pm Jenifer Stark
knitting machine and textile art demos 300 Summer Street, 4th floor

4pm Jacob Higginbottom
watercolor demonstration, Midway Studios, 3rd floor

Performance
3pm John Cremona & Friends
Psychedelic folk hymns 319 A Street Loading Dock

5:15pm  Inside/Outside featuring Cam Sawzin performing Cello Suite No. 2 Allemande in C Major by J. S. Bach Midway Studios Group Space Saturday&Sunday

http://www.fortpointarts.org/open-studios/

Fort Point Open Studios 2012

FPAC’s 33rd Annual Open Studios takes place October 19-21, 2012

 
Open Studios Events are free to the public, with FREE PARKINGin the Central Parking Lot on Binford Street off of A Street

Explore the historic waterfront warehouses that are home to painters, sculptors, ceramicists, jewelers, performance artists, fashion designers, printmakers, book artists, photographers, and more. Meet local artists and craftspeople, and get a behind the scenes look at where Boston artists create their work.Find established artists, and discover new emerging talents. Stroll, ponder, and browse. Buy original art from the people who make it.
Visitors to Open Studios can explore 10 buildings in the Fort Point neighborhood, plus galleries and creative design shops. All buildings are in easy walking distance of each other.
In addition to the more than 150 artists studios and galleries which will be open, Open Studios features a series of special events
•Artists’ Demonstrations
•Hands-On Activities
•Performance

As part of this year's open studios, there's a series of Dance Spots.  Be sure to check them out:

http://www.dancespotboston.com/index.html

Fort Point Open Studios 2012 ScheduleEvents


More details:
http://www.fortpointarts.org/open-studios/

FPAC Members' Show, Opening Receiption Tonight

In conjunction with Fall Open Studios, the FPAC Gallery presents the annual Group Show, with works in all media by more than seventy-five Fort Point artists.

September 28 - October 31
The FPAC Gallery
300 Summer Street
Monday-Friday 9am-4pm
extended hours for Open Studios weekend:
Friday October 19, 9am-7pm
Saturday and Sunday October 20 & 21, 12-6pm

Opening Reception, and kick-off to Open Studios: Thursday October 18th, 5:30-8:30pm

http://www.fortpointarts.org/posts/annual-members-show/

Deadline to register to vote is today!

If you haven't registered to vote, the deadline is today.  You just need to need to mail in this form (must be postmarked today):

http://www.cityofboston.gov/Images_Documents/2012-Voter-reg-mail-in_tcm3-33459.pdf

Live Sounds/Live Films, Thurs, 8pm

Live Sounds/Live Films

Thursday, October 18th at 8pm

Live sound performance by TAPS

 

followed by

16mm and Super 8 Films by Tara and Gordon Nelson

 

10 Channel Center St.

Boston, MA 02210

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Drums

Drone

Flicker

Film

$10 suggested donation

SOUNDS

TAPS is drums and drone performed live by Chris Strunk and Brendan Murray. TAPS will be performing with live projections by T&G Nelson.

FILMS

Scarecrow Man

16mm found footage by T&G

Old film, new narrative

Suzi and Sabina

by T

16mm dual projection

A homemade Warholian "screen test"

Snow

Super 8

by T

post-surgery film made under the influence of painkillers

Submerged

16mm by G

A Romance

Measures

Super 8 on 4 projectors

by T

LIVE SOUND made by the audience

Dolphin

16mm on 2 projectors by G

Films from the deep blue sea

In China

Super 8 on 2 projectors

A travel film edited live

Alaska

Super 8 by G

A travel film with live narration

Shadyside Fragments

Super 8 by G

Pittsburgh memories from the 1990s

60's Teen Dance Party

16mm by G

Psychedelic teenage freak outs

LIVE SOUND

Meeting on School Choice, 10/18

Thursday, October 18
6pm-8pm
Condon Elementary School
200 D St., South Boston
(Child care is available)


More information available at:

bostonschoolchoice.org

Complete the City of Boston's survey here:

http://www.surveygizmo.com/s3/1034429/BPS-building-better-options

Fort Point Needs Your Help!

 Fort Point Arts Community is looking for volunteers to help staff the Open Studios information booths Friday, Oct 19, Saturday Oct 20 and Sunday Oct 21. For more information please contact Margaret at volunteer.fpos@gmail.com Being a volunteer is fun, easy and only takes 3 hours of your time. If you have wanted to do something which helps our local arts community, here’s your chance. Afterwards spend the rest of the day walking around the neighborhood looking at amazing artwork!

Voter Registration Deadline - Don't Miss Out!

The Massachusetts voter registration deadline is Wednesday, Oct. 17, 2012 to vote in November for the Presidential National and Local/State elections

Boston residents who wish to vote in the 2012 presidential election and other federal and state races have five weeks left until the Massachusetts voter registration deadline.  The registration deadline is Wednesday, Oct 17. The Boston Election Department is located in City Hall, Room 241, and is open from 8:30 a.m. until 5:30 p.m. on the voter registration deadline day for in-person registrations. 

Residents can also download a mail-in voter registration form on the Secretary of the Commonwealth's website. 

http://www.sec.state.ma.us/ele/eleifv/howreg.htm

Once that form is filled out and signed, it must be mailed to the Boston City Clerk's Office (address above) and postmarked by Wednesday, Oct. 17 for you to be eligible to vote.

Massachusetts also allows voters to vote by absentee ballot, according to the Secretary of the Commonwealth's website, if they:

· Will be absent from their city or town on Election Day, and/or
· Have a physical disability that prevents them from voting at the polling
place, and/or Cannot vote at the polls due to religious beliefs.

Absentee ballot applications can be downloaded from the Secretary of the Commonwealth's website or picked up at the Boston Election Department's office. 

http://www.sec.state.ma.us/ele/eleifv/howabs.htm

The deadline to apply for absentee ballots is noon the day before the election, Monday, Nov. 5, although it is recommended to submit the application as soon as possible.  If you are voting from outside the United States, your completed absentee ballot can be received up until 10 days after the election, but must be postmarked on or before Election Day.

Southie Getting Its First Starbucks

Starbucks has applied for a license to open a new location on W Broadway, right next to the T stop: