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Come on down, grab some cake and sit down to one of the games we have set up and play. Different game featured each Saturday. Games get going around 9pm, and run till close…which is Midnight on Saturdays. For This weeks featured game text 206-910-2300

also check out Radio Bedlam, our open mic Tuesdays

September 8th at 6:45pm

“Conversations that matter” can take place anywhere: between friends, colleagues, even complete strangers. The conversation can be as fleeting as a mutual observation while waiting for the bus, or a lengthy discussion about making changes in our lifestyle, school, community, workplace, society, and the world. Through these conversations, we create a connection with others.

I host monthly conversation ’salons’ to help make sense of our place in the world - locally, nationally, and globally. Each month sees a different topic. Each salon lasts two hours.

During Conversations That Matter, we acknowledge one another as equals, and that everyone speaks from their own perspective. Everyone comes to a salon willing to listen, and to be curious about the diversity of experiences and ideas. We are intrigued by the differences we hear, we expect to be surprised, and we treasure curiosity more than certainty. We ask “what’s possible?” not “what’s wrong?” It’s not unusual to discover that creative solutions come from new connections or that listening without judgment moves us closer to each other.

There is no charge, although a $5 donation to cover admin costs and facilitator’s time is appreciated; you won’t be turned away for lack of funds.

http://www.meetup.com/Conversations-That-Matter-Seattle/

“Solitary Transcendence” (images of people alone)
Artist Statement;
Through random circumstance some years ago, I found myself in relationships with Filipiino or Pinay (the Tagalog term) cam girls alone in their rooms some 6500 miles away. Over time their lives and images combined with those of local people and graffiti to become the focus of this project.
Themes of distant emptiness, longing and survival naturally course through many of the images here, often with some Seattle graffiti overlaid on top.
All flashes of color came about from natural malfunctions in a very stressed printer. The images are collage on wood under epoxy resin with steel closet supports as the frames.
I have been doing art in Seattle for 15 years, used to live in SE Asia and in the recent past ran ERAC Galleria, an art collective for homeless/mentally ill in Belltown.

This week RadioBedlam will actually not be an open mic night, but a conversation night. Conversation that Matter will be holding their second Bedlam event. The poster below gives all the details, see ya there!

RadioBedlam will return to it’s normal OpenMic format next Tuesday, thanks

http://thepotentialcenter.com/

California artist Obi Kaufmann is coming to Seattle for a very special engagement and show of his new paintings and drawings. Obi has a rich collector base in the Northwest and because of it, the new work will be offered at Collector’s only prices. The engagement will coincide with Seattle’s Belltown Art Walk that occurs every third Thursday of the Month.

This is Obi’s second trip to Seattle to show at Bedlam. The first happened in November of 2009 and the paintings sold out. So come and and bring a beer and check out the work.

Obi’s paintings reflect a style he calls “Gothic Nouveau”. A dark style of neutral colors that invoke Romantic poetry and figurative expressionism. Raw and sprited, the work has been called by the SFChronicle “an apt mix of illustration and street art.” Obi would add Cave Art to that formula.

http://obikaufmann.wordpress.com/

–UPDATE
if you missed Obi, you missed big time…it was another complete sell out, every single piece he brought up flew out the door. Course that meant nothing was left on the walls at Bedlam, so I gathered up most of my Obi pieces from home and brought them down. So if you missed his show, you can still “see” some of his stuff here. None of which is for sale.

>RadioBedlam, an Open Mic night at Bedlam, every Tuesday starting June 8th
7pm-10pm
Come on down and share your unique voice.

Obi Kaufmann, arrived and departed all in one weekend, and oh boy what an impression he made, selling absolutely everything he brought for the show.

Well if you missed him, or saw him but missed a chance to snap up one of his pieces you’ve got another chance. Obi Kaufmann brings a whole new set of paintings that he’ll be selling on the spot, this is another pay and take event so get here early and bring cash…

Check out more of Obi at >
www.obikaufmann.com
www.oaklandsweetart.info

“An Auction To raise money for the First Annual Seattle Founders Day Festival in Belltown August 14th and 15th 2010
a little bit block party, a little bit street fair, a whole lot Belltown.
A theatrical event! Come meet the Seattle’s Founders in Person, check out some vaudeville, listen to some bands…buy some stuff.
Something so different is going on here.”

May 30th at 7pm
the Rendezvous/Jewel Box Theater,
2322 2nd Avenue
Seattle, WA 98121-1710
(206) 441-5823
$10 Cover
visit-seattlefounders.com for more details

I woke up every Saturday morning at 6:30 in a small cold farming town in South Dakota to watch cartoons. I grew up with the art of animation, Norwegian folk art, and Native American art. As a child, I made 3 pieces that foreshadowed my artistic career: a primitive pencil rendering of my friend Scott skating (6yrs), a pastel drawing of a mouse waking up on Christmas day (7yrs), and to top it off, a portrait of Red Cloud holding a gun (9yrs).

As a teenager the family I found most accepting was the Sioux Falls Community Playhouse in South Dakota where at the age of 15 I found myself on stage in the chorus of Scrooged. I volunteered at the theatre until I was 19. I graced the stage in 9 musicals including Hello Dolly!, Annie Get Your Gun, and Evita. I think I sang off key in all of them but no one told me so. I also painted sets, worked the house, ran the fly system, and loaded the touring shows.

At 17, I painted my first art piece - my saxophone with a angst-ridden teenage poem as its background. That painting was a pivotal point where I decided to drop the alto saxophone that I had played beautifully for 7 years and study theatre and art at the University of South Dakota.

I was educated in theatre under Tim Case at the University of South Dakota. I received my BFA in Theatre Design and Technology in 1997. In 1999 I started my working life as a visual artist. Since then I have painted hundreds of murals and commissioned art pieces that live in homes and offices. Most of my favorite and best work is directly on the walls of kids’ bedrooms. I thrive on the performance part of painting in someone’s home. Having the family watch and sometimes participate in the painting makes the piece even more personal and rewarding for all.

The inspiration for my work comes from the children and folks who light up when they see my paintings; from my parents and family; from the strangers I draw/paint in my studies of the world around me; from artists that have come before me like Alice Neel, Duncan Grant, Franz Marc, Toulouse-Lautrec, David Hockney, Egon Schiele, Picasso, David Wojnarowicz, Diego Rivera, Brett Cook, William Walker; and from countless children’s book illustrators.

client list

• Assumption St. Bridget Elementary School
• Bellini
• Blockbuster
• Becky & Dick Dudley
• Essential Baking Company
• Eyedentity
• GE
• Mike & Cathy Holmgren
• Kids on 45th
• Maddie’s Closet
• Morningside Academy
• Qwest Dex
• Rue De Lyon
• Sammamish Hills Preschool
• Sostanza Trattoria
• Tree Top Toys, Lake Forest Park
• University of Washington, Bothell Campus
• WMC Mortgage
• and hundreds of childrens’ room

custom painting

I’d love to paint:
• your portrait
• a portrait of your pet
• a still life for your kitchen
• a large painting for that huge empty wall in your living room
• a mural for your child’s room
• a mural for your place of business

http://codyblomberg.com/index.html

Bedlam
2231 2nd Ave
Seattle,Wa
www.bedlamite.com

http://www.zakalexander.com

Zak swoops in and saves Bedlam’s walls from emptiness just in time for Belltown’s Art Walk & More