Mark
Making and the Shaking Ray Levi Society present:
Dogma
Dance Off
Saturday,
October 21, 2023, 2 pm
Cherry Street Tavern
719 Cherry St.
Chattanooga, TN 37402
$10 donation at door
Now in its 5th year, returning after a 4-year pandemic
break, DOGMA DANCE OFF is an all-day
festival and celebration of the D.I.Y. spirit, bringing
the community together with fresh musical energy, a visual
art fair, and charitable activism.
This diverse all-day extravaganza at Cherry Street Tavern
and Cooper’s Alley will feature some of the region’s
brightest and newest sounds from local favorites and
emerging artists, including the propulsive rock of Psychic
Dungeon, off-kilter country/folk from Tennessee
Juba, the sinister electronic darkness of Red
Gene, and the hardcore/noise-rock/funk/Latin
amalgam of The Claw, the self-declared
“bravest band in Chattanooga.”
Dogma Dance Off has partnered with the
arts non-profit organizations Mark
Making and the Shaking Ray Levi Society, with
proceeds from the festival going to the mutual-aid
organization Chattanooga
Free Store.
Music acts:
Psychic
Dungeon
The Claw
Tennessee
Juba
Red Gene
Mada
Heaven
Lunch Meat
DJs:
Protogeist
Soweli
Camphetamine
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CoPAC and The Shaking Ray Levi Society present:
Saturday,
November 11, 2023, 7:30 pm
Barking Legs
Theater
1307 Dodds Ave
Chattanooga, TN 37404
$30 advance/door,
$10 students (door only)
As part of the month-long celebration of Barking
Legs Theater’s 30th anniversary, A Night of Bob
puts a spotlight on Bob Stagner
– beloved percussionist, teacher, co-founder of
the arts organization The Shaking Ray Levi
Society, and project manager of Wayne-O-Rama. A
native Chattanoogan, Bob formed the legendary
free improvisation group The Shaking Ray Levis
with vocalist/keyboardist Dennis Palmer over 35
years ago and has performed with an astounding
number of notable artists including Col. Bruce
Hampton, Rev. Howard Finster, Bob Dorough, Wayne
White and Derek Bailey.
Bob has curated what will be an unforgettable
musical extravaganza featuring some of the
region’s most compelling and innovative
performers:
● Powerhouse percussionist Kenito
Murray, a collaborator with Marshall
Allen (Sun Ra Arkestra) and member of Wolfpack
ATL and Visitors who was awarded “Best Local
Instrumentalist” by Creative Loafing Atlanta.
● The Heroes Are Horses, who
mix moody storytelling, acoustic folk and found
sounds (their “atmospheric anomalies”) to make
what the Chattanooga Pulse called a “laid-back,
somber grandeur that’s just a tiny bit woozy
from whiskey.”
● The mind-bogglingly creative, mischievous, and
unpredictable polymath Jon Brumit,
an instrument inventor, circuit-bender,
unconventional drummer, and visual artist (and
Kresge Fellow) who has exhibited around the
world.
Come early, between 6:30 pm and the 7:30 pm
showtime, to enjoy scrumptious Louisiana Hand
Pies (not included with admission) from Chef
Kenyatta Ashford (Neutral Ground), top winner on
the Food Network’s “Chopped.”
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CoPAC
and The Shaking Ray Levi Society present:
part
of Barking Legs Theater's month-long
30th anniversary celebration
Wednesday, November 15, 2023, 7:30 pm
Barking
Legs Theater
1307 Dodds Ave
Chattanooga, TN 37404
$20 advance/door,
$10 students (door only)
For over a half-century, self-taught
British saxophonist Trevor
Watts has been a
trailblazing pioneer of free
improvisation and has built a mighty
reputation for having a bold,
compelling voice on the sax. He
co-founded the legendary Spontaneous
Music Ensemble in the mid-’60s, which
included other heavyweights such as
Derek Bailey and Evan Parker, and has
recorded for noteworthy contemporary
music record labels including Emanem
and ECM Records. Watts also formed the
outfit Amalgam in the late ‘60s,
exploring blends of jazz, improv,
rock, and traditional music, and in
the ‘80s, he established the Moiré
Music ensemble, which merged jazz and
African music with an emphasis on
rhythm, and The Drum Orchestra, which
featured musicians primarily from
Ghana. Among his collaborators are
jazz giants such as Archie Shepp, Don
Cherry, and Steve Lacy.
British percussionist Jamie
Harris is an adept
performer on hand drums including
djembe, darabuka and congas with the
ability to be hypnotic, powerful and
fiery one moment and deeply expressive
and delicate the next. As a young
musician, Harris met Watts in 1999
which began a fruitful collaboration,
with Harris joining Watts's
Celebration Band and also playing in a
duo with Watts all over the world,
including Mongolia, Brazil and the
Dominican Republic. Together, they've
garnered praise for combining sax
improvisations, brimming with joy and
energy, with infectious rhythms to
make uplifting, inventive duets.
Come early, between 6:30 pm and the
7:30 pm showtime, for a demo and
artist talk in the lobby from Ghanaian
drummer Kofi Mawuko
(Ogya World Music Band).
“Watts
mixes jazz’s power of surprise with
a real musical openness.” - The
Guardian
"Trevor
Watts was fusing African drum
rhythms, jazz sensibilities and free
improvisation long before it became
a recognised oeuvre and he still
does so with integrity and
understanding, creating a truly
unique musical identity that distils
rather than dilutes these disparate
elements." - Avant
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History
Funhouse: The Wayne-O-Rama Story
July
27 - December 31, 2023
Chattanooga Public Library, Downtown location
1001 Broad St. - 3rd Floor
Chattanooga, TN 37402
Admission is free
History Funhouse showcases a selection of
three dimensional puppets created by artist Wayne White
for his 2016-2017 Wayne-O-Rama installation in
Chattanooga, Tennessee.
Visitors will experience the art of Wayne White –
including puppet heads, full-size puppets, and prototypes
– and learn the creative process and historical context of
each one through a series of narrative panels and an
exhibition of local history artifacts and archival
materials.
In the spirit of the original Wayne-O-Rama exhibition,
there will be a variety of immersive, interactive, fun,
and collaborative experiences.
Check the CPL's
History Funhouse page for the latest info about
related events.
Thursday, July 27, 2023
Opening
Reception
Location: Downtown Library, 3rd Floor
Time: 6:00 pm – 7:30 pm
Come get the first look at History Funhouse while you
enjoy hors d’oeuvres, refreshments and remarks from some
of the artists and exhibition supporters.
Friday, August 25, 2023
Meet
& Greet with Wayne White
Location: Downtown Library, 3rd Floor
Time: 6:30 pm – 8:00 pm
Come meet the man, the myth, the legend… Wayne White!
Plus, music by Heroes are Horses and refreshments from
Chattanooga Whiskey Co. and Chattanooga Brewing Co.
Saturday, September 23, 2023
Stop
Motion Animation with Skeleton Key featuring The
Bohannons
Location: Downtown Library, 4th Floor
Time: 4:00 pm – 6:00 pm
Come learn about Chattanooga’s own stop motion animation
studio, Skeleton Key! Creator Matt Eslinger will show and
tell his creative process, with special guests The
Bohannons!
Thursday, October 26, 2023
Beauty
Is Embarrassing Screening
Location: Downtown Library, 4th Floor
Time: 6:30 pm – 8:30 pm
Join us for a screening of Beauty is Embarrassing, the
exciting documentary film about Wayne White from
award-winning director Neil Berkeley. This screening is
open to anyone ages 16 and up.
Youth Program Series
The amazing Jennifer Crutchfield with National Parks
Partners presents: Are You As Smart As a 4th Grader? Every
week, join library and NPP for a fun program that explore
6 historical figures and sites featured in the History
Funhouse: The Wayne-O-Rama Story exhibition. Adults are
welcome to join their kids, tweens and teens! Click
here for dates.
Adult Workshop Series
This series of workshops will dive into the research,
creativity and collaboration behind Wayne-O-Rama.
Saturday, August 12, 2023
Workshop
#1: Primary Source Research for Creative Projects with
Local History
Location: Downtown Library, 3rd Floor
Time: 2:00 pm – 3:30 pm
Jessica Sedgwick, head of Local History, will show you how
to find and use historical sources for creative projects.
Saturday, September 2, 2023
Workshop
#2: It’s Alive! Constructing the Artist with Matthew
Dutton
Location, Downtown Library, 4th Floor
Time: 12:00 pm – 5:00 pm
Beloved artist Matthew Dutton will lead a workshop to
reconstruct the body of a full-size Wayne White puppet.
Come for the whole afternoon, or drop in for an hour.
CoPAC and
the Shaking Ray Levi Society present
Ahleuchatistas:
Shane Parish, Trevor Dunn, Danny Piechocki
Wednesday,
June 21, 2023, 7:30 pm
Barking Legs Theater
1307 Dodds Ave
Chattanooga, TN 37404
$15
advance / $20 door / $10 students (at door only)
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Over the course of its 20-year history, Ahleuchatistas has
pushed the stylistic and technical boundaries of what an
instrumental power trio/duo can do. The
genre-defying instrumental juggernaut, led by guitarist Shane
Parish, features an all-new trio lineup with Trevor
Dunn (Mr. Bungle, Fantomas, John Zorn) on bass,
and Danny Piechocki (Terms) on drums – a
musical odyssey of pure imagination, combining tight-knit
composition with improvisation, and delivering powerful,
unforgettable live shows.
The group's 9th album, Expansion, is an
advancement of the band’s early radical approach: a
Situationist ethos that was overtly committed to sonic
disruption. The strategy was to play catchy epic melodic
riffs full of fist-pumping emotion, but then abruptly
switch to something seemingly unrelated, perhaps just as
catchy, before the listener has a chance to achieve any
kind of complacency-inducing catharsis.
This resulted in a frenetic and mesmerizing formula which
has delighted and bewildered an international cult
following of listeners for two decades. Adding the
virtuosic and singularly creative Dunn and Piechocki to
the mix has propelled Ahleuchatistas’ rhythmic and
compositional possibilities beyond anything they have
created prior.
“[An Ahleuchatistas song is] the kind of musical
tug-of-war that sounds as jagged as it is
graceful...remarkably tight, with the ability to turn
complicated and seemingly unrelated phrases on a dime.” -
Lars Gotrich, NPR
WHAT DOES "AHLEUCHATISTAS" MEAN? The
band’s name, pronounced “AH-LOO-CHA-TEES-TAS,” is a
portmanteau of “Ah-Leu-Cha,” the Charlie Parker song, and
“Zapatistas,” the Mexican revolutionary movement: “Musical
revolution and social revolution combined into a single
coinage.”
The Shaking Ray Levi Society celebrates over thirty
years of extraordinary and
challenging music and art in Chattanooga and
beyond.
"VSA Tennessee teaching artist, Bob
Stagner, recently completed an artist
residency at the Dawn School in Chattanooga
involving studying the relationship between music
and architecture. In this residency, the students
first had to comprehend two art forms, then begin to
understand advanced concepts for sound formation and
structures, and build a vocabulary with a variety of
percussion instruments. The students worked in
groups with electronic devises and building models
as well as with a variety of percussion instruments.
The stories below are shared by the teaching artist
with the permission of the students and their
families:
Adeline is a 6th grader at Dawn School with severe
depression and learning disabilities. She’s a
delicate, soft spoken young lady who rarely talks
above a whisper and remains part of the woodwork in
most classes. Our workshop included architectural
city shapes and their sound wave counterparts.
Adeline created wave forms using two Moog
devices, one for constant sound, the other for tone
manipulation: vibrato, tempo, rate, pitch, and
frequency. The result was a dynamic shift in
her mood as she turned each dial to a new setting to
match our cityscape of over 15 models. Her smile
showed pure joy as she retained the concept and
gained control of understanding wave/sound shape and
an architectural shape.
Victor is 6th grader at Dawn School with Autism. His
speech therapist felt our project would be ideal to
encourage speech. After our 1st week, it was clear
he would retain the exercises and gain confidence.
Victor’s mother has remarked how excited her son was
to be a valued group member. He has also shown more
focus with tasks/lessons at home. Victor seemed very
proud of new skills and has proved to be a strong
class leader.
Funding provided by a grant through the VSA offices
of the John F Kennedy Center for the Arts and the
Tennessee Department of Education."
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