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Join us for an evening of incredible music, friendly faces, and refreshments to help raise funds for the Kindling the Blaze project.

Pre-sale Admission is $15 - available for a limited time via Paypal

General Admission is $20 and can be purchased here - https://www.artful.ly/store/events/1272
Please bring your printed ticket for admission, and include the names of each guest in your party at check out. We look forward to seeing you there!

More about the Kindling the Blaze project.
My purpose is to uplift, and edify the art of live performance and creative expression through music. In my experience as an after school music program coordinator, I witnessed firsthand the power of music to uplift and improve the lives of children. I became inspired to serve people in this way. I started pursuing a Masters degree in Education, and began my private voice instruction studio called Sing Your BEST Self.

 Plans are underway to expand my private studio, providing music programs in the community giving students opportunities to interact with industry professionals, receive lessons, make music friends, and perform with peers.

 Throughout my education, music programs were funded and readily available. They help budding musicians refine performance skill, learn to effectively communicate, build confidence, and sustain the culture of music. Despite the many benefits music programs provide, they are being eliminated in schools at the expense of our children.

Having been a participant of many music programs, I've grown confident in my musical gifts, and truly believe I can do something to ensure others will have opportunities to grow in theirs. I know I can positively affect future generations, and you can support my impact by donating to Kindling the Blaze. I am using everything I’ve learned to demonstrate the effort and positive values promoted to my students.

​ Kindling the Blaze is a sponsored project of Fractured Atlas, a non-profit arts service organization. Contributions for the purposes of Kindling the Blaze must be made payable to Fractured Atlas and are tax-deductible to the extent permitted by law.

Please visit the project page to donate and learn more about Kindling the Blaze at: https://www.fracturedatlas.org/site/fiscal/profile?id=8032

Fragmented, oblique and troubling, Why Are We In Afghanistan? weaves together visions of today's America into an uneasy patchwork of a continent by turns paranoid and oblivious.

The reading features Jeanne Taylor, Brian Carpenter, Paul Major, Allison Threadgold and Adalgiza Chermont.

Free admission. Unreserved seating.

Tret is currently touring her hit single, Blackberry Blues from her latest album, The Horizon, the title track of which debuted at #1 on the OutVoice website. A celebrated player in the Women’s Music movement in the early 80’s, Tret performed with and produced the most preeminent artists of the day, including the legendary CD, Meg & Cris at Carnegie Hall. Working as a duo with the venerable Cris Williamson throughout the ‘90’s, they toured worldwide and released 3 CDs together.

Now after 5 acoustic releases on her own label, Tomboy Girl Records, Tret has established herself as a solo artist in the folk world, winning the 2004 South Florida Folk Festival Singer/Songwriter Competition.

Women’s music legend Tret Fure continues to turn out marvelous album . . .  Gregg Shapiro, Chicago Free Press

Concert Tickets are $15 in advance and $18 at the door and can be purchased online at tretfure.com
A portion of the proceeds will be donated to the WAV.

INGLISH and LOUISE is a vivacious female folk duo comprised of two songwriters, both of whom are consummate musicians and powerful singers.

Erin Inglish is a native of the California Central Coast and plays solid Scruggs-style banjo giving her a unique and superb presentation of voice and banjo. Inglish has lived in India, Madagascar, Bulgaria and Serbia and her songwriting reflects her worldly travels and grounding passion for sustainability and social justice.

Gabrielle Louise hails from the rocky mountain state of Colorado. She is a nationally touring troubadour noted for her poignant lyrics and incredible, lush voice. Gabrielle is at one moment folkie and ethereal, the next moment a smoky jazz chanteuse. More soul than special effect, she gently entices her listener to release their grip on the status quo.

Over the years, these women have nurtured and maintained independent careers as musicians and activists, and are now coming together to present a strong, progressive folk duo.

Their show at the WAV promises to be filled with excellent original songwriting, packed tight with harmonies, and steeped with musical collaboration.

$10 at the door.

Montino Bourbon will be performing on a new instrument he invented,
accompanied by Greg Johnson on tabla.

Suggested Donation: $15

As part of First Friday on May 4th, watch playwright Kieron Barry work in an open rehearsal with some of LA's leading character actors.

Drop in to the WAV Gallery any time between 7 and 10pm to see this most fragile of art-forms try once again to solve the puzzles of the soul. Witness actors and director collaborate, experiment, and exercise the right to fail.

$5.00 Suggested Donation                             www.rubbernecklions.com

Some other fun:
Giant Canvas - Group Painting

Everyone in attendance will have a chance to paint backgrounds on a giant canvas. The canvas will then be cut into smaller pieces for each WAV artist to complete a painting for "The WÃV Summer Solstice Concert"

WAV is the home and workspace for 77 artists from 20 countries, who will display their art in their open studios for ArtWalk Weekend. A reception table in the Community Room courtyard will offer business cards and brochures representing all WAV artists. Pick up studio guides for self guided tours of artists' studios or sign up for guided tours throughout the day. Don't forget to visit the studios of our WAV musicians, dancers and writers.

BOB DeBRIS, Guest Photographer

Meet the Artist - Reception
Community Room Courtyard 4:00 pm

Bob DeBris studied film and photography at Banff Center, Humber College, Connestoga College, the College of Creative Studies at the University of California in Santa Barbara, and a brief unhappy stint at Cal Arts.

His work has shown in places as varied as The McCord Museum in Montreal, to the shopping carts of the Safeway in Santa Barbara.

He was recently the subject of a one-man traveling show, “20 Years of DeBris: A Wrecktrospective,”at the Contemporary Arts Forum in Santa Barbara and at Cal State Fullerton.

His photographs have been featured in Juxtapoz, Rolling Stone, The Oxford American, as well as book covers for Daniel and Daniel, Norton Press, and New York University Press.

DeBris Exhibit organized by Colin Gray

BOB BOLIVAR, October 16 - Community Room Courtyard

Bob Bolivar, magician extraordinaire, performing in the Community Room Courtyard 5:00 pm. One performance only - don't miss it!

A featured performer at the Magic Castle, Bolivar has won numerous performance awards and has been honored by the International Brotherhood of Magicians, the Society of American Magicians, Southern California Association of Magicians and the Pacific Coast Association of Magicians.

Specializing in Close Up and Parlor Magic, Bolivar has   been the top choice for corporate and private events for 25 years.

"Magic is my profession and I work very hard to be one of the very best."

Amazing slight of hand. My Perception of reality has changed forever . . . . . . Los Angeles Times

For more information about The Magic Castle

Amateur magicians will wander the WAV throughout the day. Look for them suddenly appearing before your eyes!

Magician performances organized by Sarah Kalvin

"MASS COMMUNICATION, A Dialogical Investigation"

WAV Retail Space Gallery

Artists' Reception - Community Room Courtyard at 4:00 pm

WÃV is proud to present “MASS COMMUNICATION, A Dialogical Investigation” - an art installation by Artists In Diaspora: Aaron Dadacay, Gladys Rodriguez, Olguin Tapia and David Lucas Bell.

“This Side Up, Human Trafficking Containers” by Aaron Dadacay - Wood, plastic, rubber bungee cords, paint. 6’x4’x3’.

Mass Communication organized by Paul Benavidez

CHUCUMITE

Various Locations

October 16 - Throughout the day

Chucumite is the name of the duet who play 'son Jarocho', the folk music of southern Veracruz state, on the Gulf coast of Mexico. John Robles plays the Veracruz folk harp, and Robert Perales plays ‘Jarana Jarocha’. The duet has been performing together for almost twenty years. These creative musicians belong to the Jarocho tradition but their music has been influenced by that which is happening around it.

Chucumite will be playing in various locations throughout the day. Listen for them in the Courtyard, At the WAV entrance on Ventura Avenue, and on the third floor bridge.

ARTWALK CONCERT AT THE WAV

ArtWalk Evening Concert at the WÃV - Community Room Courtyard - October 16 - Starting at 8:00 pm

Multiple band performances begins at 8pm at the WAV Theater/Gallery

GYPSY DEATH STAR

Community Room Courtyard

October 16 - Time: TBA pm

Gypsy Death Star is comprised of vocalist/lyricist Wyatt Hull and producer/composer Cesar Augusto, the essential musical force behind Hull’s signature emotive and howling vocals.

Augusto dials in down-tempo electronic pulses that drive a sound successful in evoking deep sonic content, while keeping a strong pop sensibility, from the dark side of ambient techno to the depths of post-punk and new wave. As the name implies, this power duo probably could actually destroy planets.

WE GOVERN WE

Community Room Courtyard

October 16 - Time: TBA

People say various things about We Govern We. Their local paper describes them as Shiny Toy Guns with a little BitterSweet, maybe it's La Roux touring with the Bad Seeds, but it doesn't really matter because how can you pigeonhole a band that, after paying tribute to the Pixies and Placebo, names both Duran Duran and Sigur Ross as influences?

Maybe it's their unconventional background as their members hail from places as far apart as Alexandroupolis, Greece and Minneapolis, Minnesota and reached California via Prague and Athens.

Thank you to the organizers of Fall ArtWalk 2010, they are: Facilitator, Larissa Strauss, and WAV Artists Colin Gray, Sarah Kalvin, Paul Benavidez, Marina Fliagina, John Leamer, Britten Barry, Taya Pocock and St. Pierre.

    WÃV Fashion Show & Jade Hendrix Concert - Community Room Courtyard - October 10, 2010 from 4pm to 8:30pm

The Main Event will include Wine Tastings, Fashion Shows, Loft Tours, Art Exhibitions, and Concert featuring Jade Hendrix, Elevator SKA, and other artists. Food and other vendors will be on site.

DRESS CODE: Black, White, or Black and White. It will be a well dressed event with a red carpet entrance for guests. Ventura's commitment to the arts was affirmed with the completion in 2009 of the WĀV (Working Artists Ventura), the first sustainable arts community in the world.

The WĀV artist village houses 77 artists representing 21 countries. Visitors can experience the filmmaker, painter, photographer, singer, sculptor, dancer and more, not only seeing the work, but meeting the artist.

PURCHASE TICKETS HERE

Tomorrow in the Battle.  A rehearsed reading of a new play by Kieron Barry.  With Alexander McConnell, Allison Threadgold and Kristen Lewis - WAV Gallery - Thursday, September 9 - 8pm

Playwright Kieron Barry was born in Stratford-upon-Avon, he is a three-time recipient of Peggy Ramsay Foundation awards. In 2009 he joined Kevin Spacey, Sir Ian McKellen, Sam Mendes and others, as a London Evening Standard Theatre Award nominee, and was also made a Norman Mailer Fellow. His most recent play, Stockwell, enjoyed sell-out runs at London’s Landor and Tricycle theatres last year.

More gripping than anything else to be seen in the London theatre . . . . . . The London Times

This devastating piece of theatre… will leave you bristling with anger, bewilderment and emotion . . . . . . The London Paper

Kieron Barry’s sharp, sleek script… attains the gripping, sickening momentum of a thriller . . . . . . London Evening Standard

Stunning… an important, resonant gem of theatre . . . . . . The Observer

Beautifully structured… a superlative ensemble effort . . . . . . The Daily Telegraph

Thursday, September 9th, 2010 - 8pm

Unreserved seating: $5 requested donation

www.RolandEganProductions.com

VOICES OF THE HOMELESS at the WAV Theater Courtyard, Saturday August 21, 2010 - 2:00 pm - Free to the Public

Where people who have experienced homelessness tell their stories backed by jazz improvisers.

Voices of the Homeless is an original performance piece made possible by a grant from the Ventura County Arts Council called Artist in the Community Partnership Grant. It asks artists to use their medium to partner with a non-arts group to help solve community problems.

It will showcase members of the homeless community telling their own stories while backed musically by jazz improvisers.

The hope of this performance concept is to educate the community to what homelessness really is and not merely what it looks like, to raise the level of self worth of those suffering from homelessness, and to expose the community to a new experience of musical improvisation.

Toni Jannotta, concept designer and producer, is a jazz vocalist, vocal instructor, and 13-year Ventura resident. Originally from Los Angeles, TONI has released three vocal jazz CD's, has taught and performed internationally, and plays regularly at local Ventura nightspots.

Thank you for considering attending this musical / storytelling event.

We believe you will find this performance uplifting and it will help dispel the myth that all who are homeless are the same.

For more information and to watch her YouTube interview click here