community + cultural info


* TONIGHT, PNME AT THE MF
* FRIDAY, JULY SKYSPACE VIEWINGS
* SUNDAY, MEMBER'S BRUNCH FOR JULY
* EVENTS IN THE MF GARDEN

MF AND PNME PRESENT SNEAK PREVIEW CONCERTS,
WORKSHOPS AND FREE SHOWS FOR MF MEMBERS!

MUSIC IN THE GARDEN
Thursday, July 24 & Aug 7 at 5:30 p.m.
Grab a FREE sneak preview of Pittsburgh New Music Ensemble's
upcoming concerts and enjoy free cocktails and appetizers in the
museum's Garden.

SOUND IN ART
Family Workshop:
Sunday, Aug 3
1-3 p.m.
$5 per person
Reservations suggested: education@mattress.org or 412.231.3169
Recommended for children 5 and Up
Bring the whole family to this fun, interactive experience of art,
music and sound at the museum.

FREE CONCERTS
FOR MF MEMBERS!
July 26 and Aug. 2 and 9
7:00 p.m.
Enjoy Saturday night PNME concerts at the Hazlett Theatre for FREE.
Call the box office and let them know you are a MF member or show your
membership card at the door. To order tickets call 412-889-7231 or
www.pnme.org.


SKYSPACE VIEWINGS

Opening Early and Keeping the Lights on Late
 Friday, July 25, 2003

The Mattress Factory will open early and keep the lights on late on
July 25 for visitors to enjoy one of the installation pieces in the James
Turrell: Into the Light exhibition. Skyspace, an outdoor piece built
for viewing the sky and atmospheric changes is most dramatic to view
during sunrise and sunset.

Friday, July 25, 2003
Sunrise viewing: 5:30 - 7:00 a.m.
Sunset viewing:  8:00 - 9:30 p.m.

No advance registration is required. Cost is suggested museum admission
($8.00 Adults; $5.00 Students/Seniors; FREE for members and children
under 12). Skyspace is the only artwork that visitors can access during
the extended hours. However, "admit one" passes will be distributed for
a visit to the museum.


MEMBERS BRUNCH

BRUNCH AT THE MF
July 27, 2003
11 a.m. - 1 p.m.

Members, enjoy a FREE member's only monthly brunch, from 11 a.m. to 1
p.m. the last Sunday of the month.

On view at this month's brunch will be videos from previous MF artists:

* Listen to Meg Webster talking about her piece at the Contemporary Art
Museum of Houston
* Experience the performance group Chrome, performing in downtown
Pittsburgh
* Enjoy artist John Latham's video work

EVENTS IN THE MF GARDEN

Makaku
By Kasa Panzu and Morgan Mitchell
Tuesday, July 29, 6:30 p.m.
Cost: FREE
Featuring drumming, singing and dancing by children from the Citiparks
Summer in the Congo Theater Camp at Jefferson Recreational Center on
the North Side.
Enjoy this African fable about the bravest monkey in the Congo, who
outsmarts an evil crocodile and saves his famine-struck village!  Family
Tours to follow the performance.

AMERICAN SHORTS READING SERIES #5 IN THE GARDEN
Thursday, July 31
 Doors open 7pm-reading begins at 7:30 (until 9:30)
Theme: SEX
$3.00 per person
Readers and Text:
Miss Jenny Luv reads Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been? by Joyce
Carol Oats and Tom Sokolowski reads "Adult Art" by Allen Gurganus
Also super short excerpts from: Henry Miller, Erica Jong, and Karen
Finley
Films: vintage burlesque
Light refreshments will be served, but please feel free to bring a
picnic dinner to enjoy under the stars with us!
www.americanshorts.org

PAPERRAD AND THE BEIGE PROGRAMMING ENSEMBLE
Summer of HTML tour
Wednesday, August 6
8 p.m.
These two art collectives will showcase digital music, videos, comics,
hacked nintendo cartridges, DJ skills, and dance routines in the form
of live HTML performances and lectures. Two-computer rock bands "the
8-bit construction set" and "the extreme animals" will perform along with
a live HTML multimedia extravaganza. More information can be found at:
http://www.paperrad.org/summertour/index2.html

JEFFERSON PRESENTS
Saturday, August 23
8 p.m. Total program length is approximately 120 minutes.
Cost: FREE
All films projected in silent 8mm film, in color and black and white.

Local experimental film exhibitors Jefferson Presents collaborates with
the Mattress Factory in assembling a very special outdoor free
screening of 8mm films by recently departed film legend Stan Brakhage
(1933-2003). Considered the most influential American experimental filmmaker,
Brakhage redefined celluloid film as a poetic artist's medium, about as
far removed from conventional Hollywood cinema as is possible. This
program will be projected in the original 8mm home movie format and will
feature many films from the SONGS cycle created in the mid-late 1960's.
Each of Brakhage's SONGS are miniature virtuoso cinema spectacles that
contain layered, exploding images of the filmmaker's family, friends and
landscape around his remote Colorado home and serve to construct a
personal mythology of the filmmaker's life.

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