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zoe | juniper Durational Performance An immersive environment with video projections and sound. September 26, 2015–January 10, 2016; durational performances September 26, November 5 and 12, December 3. Commissioned by the Frye Art Museum and funded by the Frye Foundation.

A free, informal talk in the galleries, led by exhibition curator Jo-Anne Birnie Danzker.

Award-winning author Jonathan Raban reads from his literary works.

Industrial Revelation 3–5 pm Rehearsal 7 pm Performance 9 pm Performance Celebrating their tenth anniversary as a band, and the release of their new album, Liberation and the Kingdom of Nri, Industrial Revelation is holding an open rehearsal in the Frye’s largest gallery before two premiere performances this same evening.

Literary Festival - Break the Genre Matt Briggs, Gary Groth, and John Olson Hosted by Paul Constant What are the boundaries and limits of genre? Readings are followed by a moderated panel discussion.

Becoming Something, Within Without Pacific Northwest Ballet This work aims to showcase the process, progression, and product of a new dance. Over the course of the work you will watch a new dance be created and performed. This work features Pacific Northwest Ballet Professional Division students and a selection of songs by musical group Animals as Leaders. —Ezra Thomson, choreographer

MIX/WORRY Chris Jeffries and Sarah Rudinoff The first two Genius Award winners in Theater, Chris Jeffries (2003) and Sarah Rudinoff (2004) will present a night of scintillating repartee and song, created especially for The Frye Genius / 21 Century / Seattle exhibition. Composer/lyricist Chris Jeffries and performer Sarah Rudinoff have 50 years of experience between them in every kind of medium from camp to the avant-garde. The performance will include original music, interpreted classics and as much truth and lies as can be held in one evening. —Chris Jeffries and Sarah Rudinoff

Literary Festival - Home by Dark Rebecca Brown and Ellen Forney Hosted by Sean Nelson Both of us have both lived in the dark and light of Seattle since the ‘80s. The neon gas flame sign that lit the night in South Lake Union was sacrificed to urban development in 2001, and we both miss it terribly. It stars in Ellen’s 1999 Stranger comic, “Seattle’s Erotic Landmarks”: “Far from the explicit erection-wielding or multi-breasted monuments to fertility common to certain other lands, denizens of American cities are forced to view with a creative and leering eye those landmarks around us that we may construe as suggestive. “Perhaps our most striking erotic landmark is perched atop the Puget Energy Building at 8th and Mercer. This 3-sided revolving sign, with its brilliant blue neon tubing and twinkling white bulbs, beams like a brazen beacon over Mercer’s crawling traffic. Spectacular from dusk ‘til dawn, it is commonly and affectionately known as ‘The Magic Pussy’ or 'The Nuclear Vagina’ (except by gay men, who simply call it 'the gas flame sign’).” —Rebecca Brown and Ellen Forney

The Mysterious Others Marya Sea Kaminski First they came to the office, snickering and spreading vicious lies. Then they started driving through his neighborhood at night, slowing down in sinister fashion and speeding off before he could catch a good look. Finally, they climbed inside the walls of his house and under the surface of his mind, scratching on the other side of sense. In this multi-media performance, Kaminski returns to the solo form, and uses text, video and nostalgia to conjure and then cast out the demons of her brother’s mental illness. After the performance, audience members will be invited to stay for a shared hour of quiet. —Marya Sea Kaminski

Practical Grant Writing On the Boards What really happens on a grant panel? What are funders looking for in a grant application? What makes them pay attention and—more importantly—help get your project funded? Go behind the scenes in this mock-grant panel. The panel is made up of people with decades of experience in writing and judging grant applications. We will take you step by step through the process as the panelists walk through grant applications in real time. Learn about the best way to describe your project and get it funded! The panelists will open up the session for a Q&A session after the mock panel process. You are encouraged to bring your own grant to ask specific questions. Panelists: Beth Raas-Bergquist, Development Director, On the Boards Lane Czaplinski, Artistic Director, On the Boards Jim McDonald, Deputy Director & Director of Programs, Grantmakers in the Arts Timothy White Eagle, Board Member, On the Boards Sarah Wilke, Managing Director, On the Boards

Future Seattle: A People’s Forum Cary Moon Cities make and remake themselves. Future Seattle: A People’s Forum is a big loud civic conversation, a pragmatic first attempt to understand Seattle’s current flux. The goal of the forum is to assemble a shared vision via moderated discussions around five key questions: how to make Seattle a city that is welcoming, diverse, inclusive, creative, and committed to shared prosperity. Cary Moon has organized eight sessions: two each on October 31, November 1, November 21, and November 22. In each session a group of thirteen invited guests, representing a diverse cross section of Seattle, will discuss in front of an audience how to achieve the shared vision of a better Seattle. The audience will not participate in the discussion but will listen and bear witness. Note takers for each group will record the discussion and provide the moderators with a detailed summary. At the end of each session, audience members may share ideas and observations with the group. Session 1 Participants Paul Niebanck, Amie Newman, Angela Gilliam, Walter Wittel, Carl Bailey, Georgia McDade, Susan Platt, Tim Lennon, Elijah Newman, Lulu Carpenter, Claudia Castro Luna, Sage Miller, Joaquin Navarro Session 2 Participants Lola Peters, Erin Jones, Paul Kunilholm Pauper, Andy Fife, Spencer Williams, Mares Asfaha, Jim Lauinger, Amanda Townsend, Nikki DeCaires, Don Blakeney, Shurvon Haynes

Future Seattle: A People’s Forum Cary Moon Cities make and remake themselves. Future Seattle: A People’s Forum is a big loud civic conversation, a pragmatic first attempt to understand Seattle’s current flux. The goal of the forum is to assemble a shared vision via moderated discussions around five key questions: how to make Seattle a city that is welcoming, diverse, inclusive, creative, and committed to shared prosperity. Cary Moon has organized eight sessions: two each on October 31, November 1, November 21, and November 22. In each session a group of thirteen invited guests, representing a diverse cross section of Seattle, will discuss in front of an audience how to achieve the shared vision of a better Seattle. The audience will not participate in the discussion but will listen and bear witness. Note takers for each group will record the discussion and provide the moderators with a detailed summary. At the end of each session, audience members may share ideas and observations with the group. Session 1 Participants Michelle Dunn Marsh, Dawn Mason, Crystal Anguay, Estevan Munoz Howard, Katharine Harkins, Harsimran Bagri, Kevin Lessig, Robert Francis Flor, Sandy Cioffi, Heidi Hughes, Yolanda Ho, Shetha Alaskar, Hollis Wong-Wear Session 2 Participants Frederick Yudin, Adam Hyla E. Holdorf, Hodan Hassan, Leilani Lewis, Deepa Bhandaru, Emilia Sanchez, Moni Tep, Morgan Beach, Johnny Underwood, Joaquin Uy, Joshua Farris

We were. zoe | juniper Durational Performance An immersive environment with video projections and sound. September 26, 2015–January 10, 2016; durational performances September 26, November 5 and 12, December 3. Commissioned by the Frye Art Museum and funded by the Frye Foundation.

Practical Lighting Design On the Boards Workshop Location: On the Boards Some of the most exciting live performance in the last decades has come from people who began as visual artists. And some amazing performances come from artists who needed a boost to realize their ideas. Lighting design is an integral part of live performance and should be considered from the inception of a piece. How does stage lighting work? How can you translate a visual idea to a 3-D live performance? OtB Technical Director Rich Bresnahan will teach lighting basics, terminology, effects, and how to communicate with a lighting designer. Bresnahan will lead a live demonstration with room for some hands-on experimentation from participants. —On the Boards About the Instructor Rich Bresnahan has been the Technical Director at OtB since fall of 2010. He enjoys baking for people, and often brings doughnuts. Rich is a lighting specialist and previously worked as a lighting technician with the Santa Fe Opera.

Literary Festival - The Embarrassment of Genius Yussef El Guindi and Heather McHugh Hosted by Christopher Frizzelle The embarrassment of genius—what did being described as genius do to you? A moderated panel discussion.

City Light John Osebold In lieu of a formal retrospective, John Osebold / Jose Bold put together a selection of music, theatrical moments, and video from his catalogue and re-arranged them, along with a few new bits, into a new work that showcases his penchant for unique arrangements, surreal humor, and Pacific Northwest imagery.

We were. zoe | juniper Durational Performance An immersive environment with video projections and sound. September 26, 2015–January 10, 2016; durational performances September 26, November 5 and 12, December 3. Commissioned by the Frye Art Museum and funded by the Frye Foundation.

Cherdonna Shinatra, Patron Saint of Velocity Velocity Dance Center with Cherdonna Shinatra Jody Kuehner will perform Cherdonna Shinatra, Patron Saint of Velocity—an early manifestation of a performance to premiere in June 2016 as part of Velocity’s 20th Anniversary season. This performance is part of a suite of queer, feminist dance performances by drag/dance bio-fem Cherdonna to be developed, in part, through Velocity’s Made in Seattle new dance development program. Cherdonna’s “action painting” performance is an homage to the feminist performance tradition of the female body as canvas and political territory for social change, rebellion, and personal expansion. The performance combines vintage feminist ideals with present day queer drag vision. Interwoven into the “action painting”, Cherdonna Living is a performance practice taking Cherdonna, as art project, off the stage and into mundane situations, activating one-on-one encounters at the intersection of the persona and the person of Cherdonna and her impromptu partners. Drag, born out of nightlife, elicits social confusion in daylight. Cherdonna, meeting and greeting Frye patrons, will utilize movement as communication and the awkward but beautiful tension between expression and social etiquette. —Velocity Dance Center

Strikethrough Seattle School Tariqa Waters. I Can’t Tonight, Gotta Wash My Hair: %100 Kanekalon – The Untold Story Dylan Neuwirth. NOTHING TO FREAK OUT ABOUT THE WORLD IS BURNING Strikethrough takes stock of art-making and art-consuming in the early 21st century—an era of ubiquitous marketing, hyper connectivity, over-documentation, and window-display lifestyles—and brings its inevitable conclusion to the here and now, 10-15 years early. Originally a year-long performance series that took place in 2008, Strikethrough asks artists to create an original performance work that will not be seen by any audience. The work is for the artists only. —Seattle School

The Intelligence Performance The Intelligence will be performing selections from their recently released album “Vintage Future” in the traditional Rock n’ Roll format (guitars, bass, and drums) and are still debating whether or not to wear suits.

In the Form of a Hummingbird Susan Robb Join Susan Robb for a listening party of her new sound work, In the Form of a Hummingbird. Robb will also ruminate on Wild Times, her 2014 new media project that included a 2,650-mile hike from Mexico to Canada on the Pacific Crest Trail. A limited number of the 7″ single (with original artwork) will be available. Frye Art Museum originally presented Wild Times in 2014.

Future Seattle: A People’s Forum Cary Moon Cities make and remake themselves. Future Seattle: A People’s Forum is a big loud civic conversation, a pragmatic first attempt to understand Seattle’s current flux. The goal of the forum is to assemble a shared vision via moderated discussions around five key questions: how to make Seattle a city that is welcoming, diverse, inclusive, creative, and committed to shared prosperity. Cary Moon has organized eight sessions: two each on October 31, November 1, November 21, and November 22. In each session a group of thirteen invited guests, representing a diverse cross section of Seattle, will discuss in front of an audience how to achieve the shared vision of a better Seattle. The audience will not participate in the discussion but will listen and bear witness. Note takers for each group will record the discussion and provide the moderators with a detailed summary. At the end of each session, audience members may share ideas and observations with the group. Session 1 Participants Ruth Eller, Alvin Eller, Cathryn Vandenbrink, Michelle Habell-Palan, Martha Tesema, Taylor Brown, Courtney Sheehan, Jonathan Konkol, Fern Renville, Paulina A Wilkowska, Tracy Williams, Jennifer Lynne Butte Dahl, Christopher Ross Session 2 Participants Sharon Arnold, Natasha Varner, James Gore, Monica Ng, Jill Lessig, Anita Yandle, Alana Bell, Stephanie Noren, Monique Franklin, Sonny Nguyen

Frye Art Museum/Yesler Community Center: Partnership for Youth Exhibition Opening Reception Why Not School? The exhibition Why Not School? explores challenges facing young people in King County’s school districts—juvenile detention, the school-to-prison pipeline, and the disproportionate numbers of youth from communities of color referred to juvenile courts. It poses the question: Why not invest in schools rather than in juvenile detention? Why Not School? was created by Beza Hailu, Intisar Kassim, Sumaya Mohamed, Emran Nuru, Nurham Nuru, and Nang Thang during twelve after-school sessions conducted by the Frye Art Museum and the Associated Recreation Council RecTech Program at Yesler Community Center. The six students received instruction in graphic design from Michael Ellsworth, Corey Gutch, Gabriel Stromberg, and Molly Derse of Civilization and in social media from Susie J. Lee and Maggie Tweedy of Siren. As voices for change in their communities, the students created graphic art and social media campaigns reflecting issues facing Yesler Terrace and surrounding communities. They gained a deeper understanding of the artistic process, acquired professional skills, and learned how to leverage social media to bring awareness to contemporary issues. Among these issues is the construction of a multi-million dollar juvenile detention center in spring 2016, which will be located less than a mile from Yesler Terrace. The exhibition is a 2015 Frye Art Museum/Yesler Community Center: Partnership for Youth program funded by the Frye Foundation, Seattle Office of Arts & Culture, the Associated Recreation Council, and Frye members and supporters.

Future Seattle: A People’s Forum Cary Moon Cities make and remake themselves. Future Seattle: A People’s Forum is a big loud civic conversation, a pragmatic first attempt to understand Seattle’s current flux. The goal of the forum is to assemble a shared vision via moderated discussions around five key questions: how to make Seattle a city that is welcoming, diverse, inclusive, creative, and committed to shared prosperity. Cary Moon has organized eight sessions: two each on October 31, November 1, November 21, and November 22. In each session a group of thirteen invited guests, representing a diverse cross section of Seattle, will discuss in front of an audience how to achieve the shared vision of a better Seattle. The audience will not participate in the discussion but will listen and bear witness. Note takers for each group will record the discussion and provide the moderators with a detailed summary. At the end of each session, audience members may share ideas and observations with the group.

Viscous Circle Eyvind Kang and Jessika Kenney A set of compositions for an ensemble of 10–15 players who are simultaneously instrumentalists and vocalists. Commissioned by the Frye Art Museum and funded by the Frye Foundation and the Hugh and Jane Ferguson Foundation. Frye Art Museum featured Eyvind Kang in Mw [Moment Magnitude], 2012 and presented a solo exhibition of work by Jessika Kenney in Anchor Zero, 2015.

We were. zoe | juniper Durational Performance An immersive environment with video projections and sound. September 26, 2015–January 10, 2016; durational performances September 26, November 5 and 12, December 3. Commissioned by the Frye Art Museum and funded by the Frye Foundation.

Drew Christie and Megan Griffiths The Genius Film Festival includes screenings and discussions with film makers. Program Producer: Courtney Sheehan; Program Consultant: Northwest Film Forum.

Ben Kasulke and Lynn Shelton The Genius Film Festival includes screenings and discussions with film makers. Program Producer: Courtney Sheehan; Program Consultant: Northwest Film Forum.

Pollen Lori Goldston Rehearsal A suite of three compositions offered as two open rehearsals and a culminating performance. Commissioned by the Frye Art Museum and funded by the Frye Foundation and the Hugh and Jane Ferguson Foundation.

Pollen Lori Goldston Rehearsal A suite of three compositions offered as two open rehearsals and a culminating performance. Commissioned by the Frye Art Museum and funded by the Frye Foundation and the Hugh and Jane Ferguson Foundation.

Jo-Anne Birnie Danzker and Erika Dalya Massaquoi, exhibition co-curators A free, informal talk in the galleries, led by the exhibition co-curators.

Pollen Lori Goldston A suite of three compositions offered as two open rehearsals and a culminating performance. Commissioned by the Frye Art Museum and funded by the Frye Foundation and the Hugh and Jane Ferguson Foundation.

David Russo and James Longley Location: Northwest Film Forum The Genius Film Festival includes screenings and discussions with film makers. Program Producer: Courtney Sheehan; Program Consultant: Northwest Film Forum.

Linas Phillips The Genius Film Festival includes screenings and discussions with film makers. Program Producer: Courtney Sheehan; Program Consultant: Northwest Film Forum.

C. Davida Ingram A discussion of work on view during Genius / 21 Century / Seattle and artistic practice in Seattle, led by artist C. Davida Ingram.

Film Flights Scarecrow Video Screening Let your senses soar and your imagination roam free as we take you on two distinct journeys through the wonderful world of film. Final Cut: Ladies and Gentlemen Director: György Pálfi, 2012. DVD, 85 minutes The journey begins with Final Cut: Ladies and Gentlemen. Films tell stories. This unique screening is comprised of countless film clips to tell one story-maybe everyone’s story, the universal story. This rare feature film is only available as a supplement to a textbook for a Hungarian film class. Due to the licensing rights for all the clips it sources, it is unlikely this film will ever be available commercially. In it we travel through time-from the 1920s to present day-and around the globe. We encounter familiar scenes and movies not yet explored. This film truly has something for everybody! During a brief intermission, one of Scarecrow’s cinematic experts will be on site to answer your questions about the films. Viva VHS! 2009. DVD-R, approx. 60 minutes Next we enter the bygone days, when VHS was king, in Viva VHS!. We’ve delved back into our archives to unearth more forgotten gems and mind-blowing revelations of magnetic mayhem for this special rewound and recut salute to this now-neglected medium. We celebrate the shining memory of mom-and-pop video stores and the vanishing magic of home videocassettes. Get ready to slip into a world of nostalgia and explore the cinematic oddities that can only be found on ½" videotape! —Scarecrow Video

Ishmael Butler and Nep Sidhu A discussion of work on view during Genius / 21 Century / Seattle and artistic practice in Seattle. Frye Art Museum presented Ishmael Butler in performance as part of Black Constellation in Mw [Moment Magnitude], 2012 and again during Your Feast has Ended, 2014. Nep Sidhu is one of three artists whose work was exhibited in Your Feast has Ended, 2014.