SUNDAY MARCH 27TH @ 3PM

Musicians from all backgrounds are invited to this relaxed jam focusing on jazz and blues. Hosted by Jim Barrett and friends. Feel free to bring your Real Book, but we won’t be working with it exclusively.

Beginner to advanced musicians are welcome. A great opportunity to work on your skills, have some fun and network with other musicians.

Musicians can SIGN UP HERE!

The Jam is free. Feel free to visit The Soundry’s coffee bar for amazing espresso drinks and other mighty fine treats.

5-6PM

Anyone can join us on our evening walks on the W&OD trail for some exercise and conversation. Everyone goes at their own pace and we turn around at the 30 minute mark. Bring your pedometer to track your progress.  You can treat yourself to a skinny latte when we get back to The Soundry!

On December 12th, 2009 we celebrated our One Year Anniversary with the opening of our annual members-only art show, “The Chase II”.  Artists, dreamers, visionaries, “the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing, but burn, burn, burn, like fabulous yellow roman candles exploding like spiders across the stars”*, are all engaged in the chase for an idea, an ideal, a dream, an image, a perfect moment.  That’s what we celebrate at The Soundry, where we are all restlessly and relentlessly engaged in The Chase.

It was incredible to see the progress of some of our founding members who participated in “The Chase” for the second time.  It was also so exciting to see work by artists who have joined The Soundry family in the last year.  Here is the work that is presented in the show, as it appears as you walk through the space.  Congratulations to all the artist who participated!

Field Trip to The Phillips Collection!

March 20, 2010      11am-4pm

1600 21st Street, NW, Washington, D.C

Georgia O’Keeffe: Abstraction

(February 6-May 9, 2010)

Although painter Georgia O’Keeffe (1887-1986), a central figure in 20th-century art, is best known for simplified images of recognizable objects, her contributions to American abstraction over the course of her long career were radical. By magnifying and tightly cropping her images, a framing device used by photographers, she found the means to express simultaneously the vastness of nature, the immensity of her own response to it, and a powerful sense of being one with it.

Included in the exhibition are more than 100 paintings, drawings, and watercolors by O’Keeffe, dating from 1915 to the late 1970s, and 12 photographic portraits of her by her husband, Alfred Stieglitz.  In conjunction with Georgia O’Keeffe: Abstraction, co-organized by The Phillips Collection, Washington, D.C., the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, and the Georgia O’Keeffe Museum, Santa Fe.

Soundry members meet at The Soundry at 10:30 am to carpool.  We will either metro or drive to Dupont Circle.  Feel free to bring a guest or meet us there at 11am!  Tickets to the exhibit are $12 for adults, $10 for students.

Melding medium and message into a psychological substrate throughout which all meaning simultaneously flows, uninhibited. In this vacuum of time and space, devoid of the friction consciousness brings, awareness of one’s own awareness begins to take hold.

What will follow? Imagination, freedom. potential fulfillment, or life inside a crystal cage?

If you like this BS, you will love the impact of the 8×10 ft paintings by artists Jeff Duka, Matt Somma and Brian Legan as well as their smaller masterpieces.  After months of painting together in The Soundry studio, they put together this show.

Bring your wallets, fools. The preterreal experience is going home with you.

“A D.C. area native, I’ve always had a passion for the arts and try to branch out and experiment with different forms of art and media as much as I possibly can, be it digital or traditional. A lot of my work is influenced from obscure pop culture references, and street culture, however I’d like to think it has evolved to a point where it is a style which I can call all my own. More than anything I think it’s important to have fun when one creates, and to use an old and tired cliche, “Make Art, for Art’s Sake”.

Ivan’s Deviant Art Site

In Appreciation of Nature

pastels*etchings*oils

We would like to invite everyone to the Opening Reception

Saturday February 20th, 2010

4-6pm

Image: Maine Sunset, pastel on paper, 16″x20″

Light Industry at The Soundry offers a simple cinematic exhibition space for international, avante-garde, forgotten, local and independent films. We will also enjoy kinetic visual media and offer a forum for the discussion of moving pictures.

Light Industry is membership based. Just $15 per month!

*Guest passes just $5!  Limit one per month! *

Two screenings per week and free popcorn.  JOIN NOW!

March 18th Screenings:

Devil’s Playground

(d.Lucy Walker, 2002. Documentary. 80m)
Although the Amish live in traditional enclaves, beyond the influence of American society, they do have a time in their lives known as “rumspringa”: when an Amish child turns 16, before taking their adult vows within the church, they are released to interact with and take part in life away from their upbringing. This film follows a handful of teenagers from an Amish community in LaGrange, Indiana as they venture out into the “English” world.

Meet the Feebles

(d.Peter Jackson, 1989. Muppet Snuff. 90min)
This movie about the sordid activities of a stuffed acting troupe, to which Jackson referred in his 2004 acceptance speech for Best Picture as “wisely overlooked by the Academy”, was originally conceived for Japanese television and hastily rewritten as a single feature when it became clear the money was going to run out. For fans of Wonder Showzen.

March 25th Screenings:

Latcho Drom
(d.Tony Gatlif, 1994. Music/Documentary. 100m)
A journey from India to Spain through the nomadic Romani culture. Gatlif holds his camera on the elements of this life: water, the wheel, fire, animals, clothing – but most of all, music.

The Man who Saves the World

(d.Çetin İnanç, 1982. SciFi. 90min)

In the years following the American/Soviet proxy conflict in Turkey, American movies were virtually impossible to purchase or screen publicly. The key to screening films of the time was a combination of piracy, sequel, and remake. Widely known on VHS as “Turkish Star Wars” but far surpassing the original through the incorporation of wizards, skeletons on horseback, golden clothing granting superpowers, Soviet rocket footage, etc.

Join us in The Soundry coffee bar for an old school record party. Bring your favorite records and we will put them on the turn table.

Listen to music and meet other music junkies while enjoying some mind melding espresso. A chill evening for music lovers.