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Next Wednesday, May 27, we delight in welcoming longtime USM professor 𝙍𝙖𝙮𝙣𝙚 𝘾𝙖𝙧𝙧𝙤𝙡𝙡, who 𝙍𝙚𝙖𝙙𝙨 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙉𝙚𝙬𝙨 with musical accompaniment from 𝘾𝙖𝙧𝙚𝙮/𝙃𝙖𝙧𝙧𝙞𝙩𝙮/𝙏𝙞𝙣𝙙𝙖𝙡𝙡, a bespoke improvisational trio of musicians 𝙋𝙖𝙩𝙧𝙞𝙘𝙠 𝘾𝙖𝙧𝙚𝙮, 𝙍𝙤𝙣 𝙃𝙖𝙧𝙧𝙞𝙩𝙮, and 𝙈𝙤𝙧𝙜𝙖𝙣 𝙏𝙞𝙣𝙙𝙖𝙡𝙡. Join us for the next edition of this public forum from 6:30-7:30 pm.

𝙍𝙚𝙖𝙙𝙨 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙉𝙚𝙬𝙨 is a new SPACE series where distinguished community members share and read selected news items, articles, nonfiction passages, reviews, or other material before a live audience, with musical or movement accompaniment. At a time when the news is both difficult to engage with and impossible to ignore, this program shifts the practice of media consumption from the private to the public.

𝙍𝙖𝙮𝙣𝙚 (aka Lorrayne) 𝘾𝙖𝙧𝙧𝙤𝙡𝙡 teaches and publishes in the areas of early American literature with a specialty in captivity narratives and indigenous studies. Her book, Rhetorical Drag: Gender Impersonation, Captivity, and the Writing of History was published by Kent State University Press. She is retired Associate Professor from the University of Southern Maine.

𝙋𝙖𝙩𝙧𝙞𝙘𝙠 𝘾𝙖𝙧𝙚𝙮 is a musician and programmer from Portland, Maine. His work focuses on abstract synthesis and contemporary computer music. He runs the Traced Objects record label and co-organizes the series.

𝙍𝙤𝙣 𝙃𝙖𝙧𝙧𝙞𝙩𝙮 is a graphic designer, audio engineer, photographer and musician in Portland, Maine. He plays in experimental rock band An Anderson, maintains a synthesis- and field recording-based solo practice, and also co-organizes the listening series.

𝙈𝙤𝙧𝙜𝙖𝙣 𝙏𝙞𝙣𝙙𝙖𝙡𝙡 is an experimental musician and audio engineer based in Portland, Maine. He records and performs as Dinky Mirage, and hosts Diamonds In The Dust Bin as Frothy Cascade on

May 27 • Wed 6:30-7:30 pm
𝙍𝙖𝙮𝙣𝙚 𝘾𝙖𝙧𝙧𝙤𝙡𝙡 𝙍𝙚𝙖𝙙𝙨 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙉𝙚𝙬𝙨 with //𝙈𝙤𝙧𝙜𝙖𝙣 𝙏𝙞𝙣𝙙𝙖𝙡𝙡
$5 advance and at the door

Stoked to report that Philadelphia-based psych/punk/alternative trio 𝙎𝙋𝙄𝙍𝙄𝙏 𝙊𝙁 𝙏𝙃𝙀 𝘽𝙀𝙀𝙃𝙄𝙑𝙀 returns to SPACE for the first time in nearly a decade. The band is still cruisin' on their 2024 record 𝘠𝘖𝘜'𝘓𝘓 𝘏𝘈𝘝𝘌 𝘛𝘖 𝘓𝘖𝘚𝘌 𝘚𝘖𝘔𝘌𝘛𝘏𝘐𝘕𝘎, and understandably so (it rips). Tickets are on sale now at SPACE538.ORG.

For the past decade, 𝙎𝙋𝙄𝙍𝙄𝙏 𝙊𝙁 𝙏𝙃𝙀 𝘽𝙀𝙀𝙃𝙄𝙑𝙀 have honed an aesthetic like no other. They’ve chopped up samples, chewed them up, spit them back out again, baby birded it. Across four albums and a smattering of EPs, Zack Schwartz, Corey Wichlin, and Rivka Ravede have fully solidified their stance as some of rock’s weirdest and best deconstructionists. 2018’s Hypnic Jerk was a study in noise punk sampledelia. It was a breakthrough for the band. Frank Ocean became a fan, spinning “fell asleep with a vision,” on Blonded Radio. 2021’s 𝘌𝘕𝘛𝘌𝘙𝘛𝘈𝘐𝘕𝘔𝘌𝘕𝘛, 𝘋𝘌𝘈𝘛𝘏 was nasty dream pop by way of K-Mart realism and hitting the channel search setting on an old TV set.

Their last release, 2023’s 𝘪'𝘮 𝘴𝘰 𝘭𝘶𝘤𝘬𝘺, explored the breakup between Schwartz and Ravede, setting the stage and emotional territory for the band’s fifth record, 𝘠𝘖𝘜'𝘓𝘓 𝘏𝘈𝘝𝘌 𝘛𝘖 𝘓𝘖𝘚𝘌 𝘚𝘖𝘔𝘌𝘛𝘏𝘐𝘕𝘎. This latest offering is the most crystallized version of the band’s aesthetic, a continued meditation on the end of relationships and the unsteadiness that follows. It is a meticulous, beautiful, and quietly heartbreaking collection of songs. More often than not, it sounds like listening to a walkman from inside of a hurricane, like the YouTube videos you’d watch in bed for 18 hours straight after you break your wrist from a skateboarding accident.

July 22 • Wed 8 pm, doors at 7:30

$20 advance, $25 day of show • $2 off for SPACE members

Screening May 13, 𝘽𝙖𝙧𝙗𝙖𝙧𝙖 𝙁𝙤𝙧𝙚𝙫𝙚𝙧 explores the films, archive, and ongoing cultural impact of experimental filmmaker Barbara Hammer, revealing her ingenious lifelong artistic effort to create and record le***an histories, personal and societal. Tickets available at SPACE538.ORG.

Through her own images and words, the film centers Hammer as a prism of the cultural ecosystems around her—through the feminist and q***r movements in 1970s San Francisco, the male-dominated New York art world of the 1980s, the New Q***r Cinema movement of the 1990s, and expanded LGBTQIA+ representation in art and culture in the 2000s.

Driven by her canon of over 80 films, a vast collection of unreleased archival materials—hundreds of hours of footage, personal photographs and ephemera, and extensive audio interviews—𝘽𝙖𝙧𝙗𝙖𝙧𝙖 𝙁𝙤𝙧𝙚𝙫𝙚𝙧 tells Barbara Hammer’s story through her own voice and visual perspective, making her the expert on her life, vision, and motivations. This exploration of both Barbara Hammer’s life, work, archive, and her ongoing legacy provides an urgent, necessary story of q***r life, feminist history, and American cinema.

𝘐𝘧 𝘸𝘦’𝘳𝘦 𝘦𝘹𝘱𝘦𝘳𝘪𝘮𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘸𝘪𝘵𝘩 𝘰𝘶𝘳 𝘭𝘪𝘷𝘦𝘴 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘸𝘢𝘺 𝘸𝘦’𝘳𝘦 𝘨𝘰𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘵𝘰 𝘭𝘪𝘷𝘦, 𝘰𝘶𝘳 𝘧𝘪𝘭𝘮 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘰𝘶𝘳 𝘢𝘳𝘵 𝘴𝘩𝘰𝘶𝘭𝘥 𝘢𝘭𝘴𝘰 𝘣𝘦 𝘦𝘹𝘱𝘦𝘳𝘪𝘮𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘢𝘭. 𝘐𝘵 𝘣𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘬𝘴 𝘵𝘳𝘢𝘥𝘪𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯, 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘮𝘢𝘬𝘦𝘴 𝘺𝘰𝘶 𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘬 𝘪𝘯 𝘢 𝘣𝘳𝘰𝘢𝘥𝘦𝘳 𝘸𝘢𝘺. 𝘐𝘵’𝘴 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘸𝘢𝘺 𝘐 𝘦𝘹𝘱𝘦𝘳𝘪𝘦𝘯𝘤𝘦 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘸𝘰𝘳𝘭𝘥. – Barbara Hammer

May 13 • Wed 7 pm, doors at 6:30
𝘽𝙖𝙧𝙗𝙖𝙧𝙖 𝙁𝙤𝙧𝙚𝙫𝙚𝙧 🎞️
dir. Brydie O’Connor
$10, $7 for SPACE members

📣 Sharing out this call to action from artists and fellow venues with .music.alliance about the Portland City Council vote on Monday, April 27. It’s another big one, voting on a proposal to increase the buffer zone between large entertainment venues to 750 feet.

Visit .music.alliance for more info about this major civic issue affecting Portland life! Plenty of available material about the parties involved, their track records, and their motivations.