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What's Happening
The Pink House is going through big changes and we might be moving!
No matter what we will be open until July 2012 but we are having a lot of events to get ready for potential changes
Sarah and the boys are heading off to a intense nature immersion program in northern Wisconsin for 11 months and Claire is heading to Europe for a month of movement training and adventure. We have been in talks to sell or lease the building but nothing is set and we may... need help with our roof! We welcom,e anyone who has a com,m,iunity activity to share. Please call to create your events while yoiu can!
Pink House thanks you.
Up-coming Events:
TBA
Past Events:
Live music and silence for Film and Video
Live music performed by sax players Matthew Burtner and Michael Straus.
Film and Videos by
Jesse Burnter
Matthew Burtner
Ted Coffey/M. Houston?E. Knisley
Michael Walsh
Josh Weissbach
Transition Milwaukee Water Working Group permaculture/ rain water harvesting study circle.
Discussions will focused on aspects of permaculture that concern water and how it interacts with a soil landscape. Participants will learn techniques to collect rainwater within the local watershed and for later use during drought, using rain barrels, totes, bio swales, and rain gardens.
There are reading materials required so All interested participants must send an RSVP before attending to Christopher402@gmail.com The water group is using reading material from Bill Mollison's Permaculture Designer's Manual and Brad Landcaster's Rainwater Harvesting for Drylands and Beyond, Volume 1: Guiding Principles to Welcome Rain into Your Life and Landscape. ( http://www.harvestingrainwater.com/.) The permaculture reading material will be provided to all participants who confirm attendance for Jan 13, but we all need to buy a copy of Lancaster's book before attending the study circle.
If you are interested in organizing an event or film screening contact us!
CLUADE and Michael Rudnick
New Digital Videos from one of San Francisco's most renowned artists.
Local Film Makers
including 16mm films and digital works by
Kate Brandt, Steve Wetzel, Tony Balco, Kate Balsley, Michael Walsh,
Josh Weissbach and many more
Ladies Exchange Parlor
Exchange cloths;
“Something Old for Something New”
Do you have NEW Clothes (with tags), NEARLY NEW Clothes (worn only once or twice), GENTLY USED Clothing (worn, but still in very good condition?
If So.... *You can bring what you have and take what you love....
And get pampered!
• Note that all unclaimed items were donated to various local non-profits that provide clothing to people in need.
Screening with Tiffany Doesken
digital video w/ Japanese buddhist composer.
Tiffany Doesken was born in San Francisco, California. She studied
dance, music and theater arts before graduating with an MFA in film
...from the San Francisco Art Institute. Doesken lives and works in New York and San Francisco where her work employs film, video, writing,and sound; capturing the intimacy and remoteness of people, objects and surroundings. She looks for situations where darkness and light are braided together and emotion and aesthetic beauty play off one
another. She explores human comedy, sexual identity, intimacy, fears and autonomy, and the elegies in memory. Her films screen widely throughout the US and internationally. She has exhibited at the Mill Valley Film Festival, Athens International Film and Video Festival, Black Maria Film Festival, New Nothing Cinema, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, Artists’ Television Access, Pratt Museum and ISCM World New Music Days. She was awarded a residency at the Corporation of Yaddo in New York, where her friendship began with composer Koji Nakano. Doesken recently finished the film Scattered Clouds/Dramatic Sky, part of a trilogy with Koji Nakano. Doesken is currently working on several new projects in moving images, writing and music.
http://www.tiffanydoesken.com/
Writing from the Body Work Shop with Cheryl Pallant
Writing from the Body relies on our physical self to generate embodied writing and movement that arises from metaphor, sound, subtle energies, improvisation, the unconscious, and integrative awareness. Participants open to creative expression generated from the core of ourselves using somatic techniques, writing and movement. The aim is to bypass usual cognitive approaches to creativity and tap into primordial energy and flow. Participants access a deep, resonant expression that aligns with their unique self. The result may be poetry, fiction, nonfiction, journaling, performance, or a hybrid along with a heightened understanding.
Costs: $65 Saturday only; $85 for Saturday and Sunday; $55/$75 for students & seniors
Three Eightive with Michelle Hatfeild
Get ready to move and enjoy your body in this Workshop, Three Eightive is the collaboration of Michelle L. Hatfield and George D. Jones' diverse backgrounds in music, movement, poetry, visual art and theater. Their focus is to release participants from stress, inhibition and attachments through intuitive approaches to breathing, rhythm, energy listening, and movement. They are inspired by the mystics Hazrat Inayat Khan who said "Our mind governs the body; our mind should have every muscle, each atom of the body, under its command," and George Clinton who sang, "Free yo mind and yo ass will follow." An integral part of their workshops and performances is cultivating community through ritual and personal connections that celebrate the human spirit. Three Eightive honors spirituality from many regions of the world.
some high lights and workshops :
Redefining Relationships Workshop
Play With Your Food!- Vegan Raw Food Workshop with Chef Felisha Wild
Raising Radical Families Discussion and Action Group
Screen Printing Workshop
Family Friendly Community Potluck & Sunday Morning Dance Party! and more
check out their link to see the schedule of events
16 mm films of Rock Ross
Screening of legendary San Francisco underground film maker Rock Ross. Including his cult hit DR. HAWAII as well as other films never screened in Milwaukee. Hosted by Michael Walsh
Power Down Week 2010
The Pink House Studio is going to join Transition Milwaukee and other neighborhood groups and businesses individuals in week of going off grid and powering gown, Join us for cheap and free movement classes, outdoor solar showers, generator building, gardening, bike riding and more. The best Staycation you will ever have!
Dress up and Drawing with Thea Kovac
Life drawing and friends. All skill levels welcome. Great for professional artist to brush up on skills, fun for amateur to see what you can do, no pressure, only fun, beauty and friendship. For women only. We'll dress up our model and ourselves...and draw! Thea will lead us through warm-up exercises and longer studies that help us respond to the costumed model with our own inventive lines and smudges. Join us for a quiet and creative evening of make-believe and making marks. Open to all levels of experience
Please bring your own art supplies, including paper or other drawing surface (and drawing board if you have one). NO ink or paint. Also feel free to bring favorite pieces to add to the costume elements provided. Suggest you bring a camera too!
The Vagina Monologues. Open reading
We will share an informal reading of these powerful monologues. Come ready to read or just listen.
Please invite other women to this really is a powerful experience.
Three Eightive.
Get ready to move and enjoy your body in this Workshop, Three Eightive is the collaboration of Michelle L. Hatfield and George D. Jones' diverse backgrounds in music, movement, poetry, visual art and theater. Their focus is to release participants from stress, inhibition and attachments through intuitive approaches to breathing, rhythm, energy listening, and movement. They are inspired by the mystics Hazrat Inayat Khan who said "Our mind governs the body; our mind should have every muscle, each atom of the body, under its command," and George Clinton who sang, "Free yo mind and yo ass will follow." An integral part of their workshops and performances is cultivating community through ritual and personal connections that celebrate the human spirit. Three Eightive honors spirituality from many regions of the world.
Go With the Flow.
Dirty talk about clean living. A workshop and party for woman only. We will share hints and info about how to reclaim taking care of ourselves our bodies and our families sustainable. From the start of our cycles, babies, potty training and beyond!! games, snacks, drinks, dancing, talk and fun......
$5-10 donation for Transition Milwaukee and the Pink House Studio. ( No one turned away for lack of funds.)
Benefit for the Dialogue
International Healing Arts.
Story telling, oral arts and open mic
DIHA creates opportunities for artists living with mental illness to succeed. This is a new group but we have been really impressed with their talent and creativity. come enjoy and support!
Kirtan with Kaita, Wonderful communal call-and-response chanting in India's devotional traditions with inspiring mantras.
Story Telling Nights share or just to listen.
Sept 18th Poetry and performance night with Scott Zieher
Performance and music by Xav and Chuck
Poetry by Nick Cipollone, Kent Mueller, Joe Smith and Scott Zieher
Performance by Johhny Angel
Labor day Parade. The Pink House enjoyed being part of the ALL CITY PARADE now part of th Labor day Parade doing the "YES We CAN CAn" with Susanne Carter and other dancers. http://www.milwaukeepublictheatre.org/
The 50 Greatest Ladies and Gentlemen a new play by The Missoula Oblongata
Pink House Studios, Darling Hall, and Insurgent Theater welcomed
The Missoula Oblongata fourth full-scale touring production, The 50 Greatest Ladies and Gentlemen. As always, the company has created their own homemade lighting system—run from the stage by the performers, as well as an interactive set made of junk, and an original score played live by the composers-turned-actors.
The 50 Greatest Ladies and Gentlemen takes place just after the Treaty of Versailles. A veteran who is genetically predisposed to cowardice searches for his brother from whom he’s received a mysterious letter. When the veteran comes upon the town from whence the letter came, he finds that his brother (and the rest of the town) have been caught in a dance mania—a hysterical mass tarantism. With no one else around, the veteran befriends a spider—likely the one who is responsible for the tarantism, and together, they go up against the town doctor who believes that breakfast (and everything ordinary, for that matter) is beneath love.
Missoula Oblongata's 2 month tour with this show includes performances at Artscape (Baltimore), Whartscape (Baltimore), Bread & Puppet Theatre (Vermont), Bedlam Theatre (Minneapolis), Idiom Theatre (Bellingham, WA) and a 2 week run at the Ontological-Hysteric theatre in New York.
Contact: Ben Turk
Phone: 414 305 9832
Email: insurgent.ben@gmail.com
Riverwest 24- hour Bike Race the Pink House participated in by being bonus laps with massage circles, stretches for bikers and painting on the sidewalk about the Transition movement. participants came in tired and exhausted (some whining) and left happy and thankful. Transition Milwaukee
Salsa Leilani Ray, our salsa teacher, will be offering a free class with a live drummer form 3-4pm in Garden Park as the farmers market winds down. She will have more Salsa classes at the Pink House in the fall. Leilani Ray is offering Salsa Classes for couples and private parties! steps, moves, Leilani makes Salsa easy and fun. this is a great way to spice up a party, or a ladies night out. Couples enjoy enjoy learning to move together and finding your rhythm
Bush Bash:
Darling Hall benefit and celebrate the end of the Bush Years!
There will singing, dancing, skits, poems, freaking out and a Pinata that looks like....?
Jan. 17th 2009
Jennifer Morales
Allegra Wakest
Sarah Moore
Tommy Littmann
Jahmes Tony Finlayson
and others
Pinata By Michael Pettit
DANCE PARTY with DJ Paul Finger!
Art opening-Nature, Bodies and Imagination.
Continued from Nov 19th - We showed Claire's beautiful art work along with guest Tess Kenny. Water colors, collages and mixed media works ranging from purely ornamental to anatomical figures. a delight of color, texture and craft. The Riverwest Art Walk was a great way to spend the day.
Greenfolks Garden Seed Exchange and potluck, to benefit MUG.
Art Opening- April 13th, Figure and Concept- featuring the more complete work of Tess Kenny, multi media painting mixed with verse.
Earth Day Neighborhood Clean-up. April 19th, We had about 20 people come support the Green Folks Garden, the PHS, and clean up the remnants of winter trash that was cluttering our streets in a 2-3 block radius. We fill up multiple garbage bags!
Your Gardening Body workshop- We explored concepts of body awareness that can be applied directly when we are in the garden so we can "garden until we are 100," without pain.
Intro to Salsa Night - We were introduced to Latin dance be a most skilled instructor- Lielani Ray. She knows how to present movements with rhythms in a simple and straightforward way that was great for the novice "wannabe" dancer in all of us. We had loads of fun. She is now teaching ongoing. ( please see sched. for details.)
We co-sponsored a Natural Dying Workshop in Green Folks Garden. It was wonderful to watch the color from rose hips, coffee, and indigo, change the surface to make unusual patterns. A wonderfully creative process.
The first ever Riverwest's Solo District. happened on may 31st. A cross between an art walk and a pub crawl this family friendly event, participants received a treasure maps, and walked the Pirate Scavenger Hunt collecting items at said locations, and collecting cards for the Poker Run. Created to help promote the businesses in our area, we all had a chance to demonstrate our skills, and raffle out prizes. The Pink House dressed as sirens , beckoning wayward sailors for treats, sample massages, Salsa and smiles. They could collect custom designed poker cards, for a price. All participants were invited to the meet to dance at Club Timbuktu. The best hand won a special prize. We celebrated heartily. The Pink House is looking forward to next years event being a bigger and better event.
The Pink House has been getting in shape too! Our Facade Improvements are almost complete: painting (Thanks to John Fleese) new energy e-windows last fall, new railings from Badger Rail. Jason Ross Masonry did an awesome job for us too. Thanks also to the city of Milwaukee for helping us do this!! Next time you come by look at how beautiful we have become!
Here is the pink house before :
and after !!
