Turnin’ up the heat with two Dream Oven productions as we jive on into the summer.  Join us in the courtyard at little berlin for MUSIC and good vibes under the summer sky.

Shows are $5-$7 at the door to support the traveling bands.

SAT MAY 12th @8PM [FACEBOOK]
BLUE SABBATH BLACK FIJI  |  CAVE BEARS  |  DICK NEFF  |  GUILT

SAT MAY 19th @8PM [FACEBOOK]
UGH GOD  |  WEED  |  HONEY RADAR  |  SWIMMERS EAR

For the third year in a row little berlin will be at the Trenton Avenue Arts Fair!!  Join us for some fun-in-the-sun Kensington style as we celebrate our recent award for the Fairgrounds Project.

In addition to face painting and a photobooth, we’re inviting the neighborhood to help us construct some exquisite-corpse-style plant sculptures to install in the Fairgrounds – little berlin members and artists from the Viking Mill will instruct and assist, and we’ll have lots of materials for you to get your hands on.  A one-weekend-only exhibition will be placed in the Fairgrounds with the resulting sculptures that are built by the community, immediately following the festivities on Trenton Ave.

Stop by our booth to help us build something amazing, and hear more about our plans for the Fairgrounds!

An exhibition exploring data visualization and database aesthetics

We live in the age of information.  Data is everywhere, buzzing all around us at any given moment.  There is so much information, that the human mind can’t possibly comprehend it all at once.  Humans have developed various systems of organization in order to understand complicated data.  Data visualization is a way to organize information and “think with the eyes”.  Images help us to see relationships, causes and meanings that we would not normally be able to see in large masses of abstract information.  Data visualization is a way to describe abstract concepts that are not physical, and give a form to an object that has none.  This exhibition explores the concept of data visualization and database aesthetics.  Artists of diverse backgrounds and media have been asked to create a piece of work based on the visualization of information.
Featuring work from:

Alison Feldish  |  Alyssa Johnson  |  Beth Heinly  |  Dennis Towers  |  George Purkins  |  Jerry Kaba  |  Jessie Hemmons  | Lee Tusman

Curated by Angela McQuillan

May 4th-23rd 2012

Opens on First Friday May 4, 2012 6pm-10pm
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Curated by Alana Bograd

Presented as though emerging from a hiding place to view a wide variety of surprises, this special painting exhibition invites viewers to crawl out of their spaces and get to know the worlds of artists from Chicago, Dubrovnik, Los Angeles, New York City, and Philadelphia. Take a gander, have a look-see, peer and peek this one out, it’s perfect for viewing all day long.

Artists: Farrell Brickhouse, David Campbell, Marybeth Chew, Damien Crisp, Sarah Gamble, Jordan Graw, Selma Hafizovic, Todd Keyser, John Kilduff, Doron Langberg, Shanjana Mahmud, Matt Savitsky, Woohyun Shim, Keer Tanchak, and Ben Will

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Artists 
Aequitas – Warren Armstrong – Jeremy Bailey – Amir Baradaran – Wafa Borgès – John Cleater – Chris Diasparra –  Nick Douglas aka nickpixels – John Craig Freeman – 4Gentlemen – Lily & Honglei – Scott Kildall  – Patrick Lichty – Kristin Lucas –  Chris Manzione – Todd Margolis – Paul McLean –  Will Pappenheimer   – Geoffrey Alan Rhodes – Lalie Schewadron – Nathan Shafer  – Dan Loudfoot-Simons – Mark Skwarek – Alan Sondheim – Julia Sverchuk – Tamiko Thiel – Jack Toolin – Sander Veenhof

MORE ABOUT AROCCUPY MAY DAY

BITBY.tv and Little Berlin KICKSTARTER LAUNCH PARTY!!!!

This is the kick off event for our kickstarter project that we have partnered with Little Berlin to bring a community garden performance space to be known as “The FAIRGROUNDS” to the Kensington neighborhood and in the process release the first 13 bands from year 1 of bands in the backyard on vinyl together, with one song each from the actual backyard sessions, as a thank you to contributing to a great cause for the community as a thank you.

here are the plans for the fairgrounds, follow the project: http://lb-fairgrounds.tumblr.com/

performing live: (outside in the courtyard / inside if it rains)

PET MILK
ARC IN ROUND
WIGWAMS
ARCTIC SPLASH
SUMMER FICTION
ATTIA TAYLOR
PENROSE
HEYWARD HOWKINS (solo set)

plus LADY BAND BEAT djs all night.

Saturday May 5th (RAIN or SHINE!)
LITTLE BERLIN
$8 ALL AGES
6pm Doors
bands at 7pm
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Little Baby’s Icecream will be there too!

See you there!

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www.littleberlin.org
@BITBYPhilly

Philly Tech Week Signature Event 4.27.2012

little berlin will be an exhibitor during the Philly Tech Week Signature Event at Moore College of Art & Design.  Members of little berlin will give virtual ‘gallery tours’ of our most recent group-curated exhibition titled FLASHFL00D which is embedded in ‘Dead Drops‘ all throughout the city.  Digital artwork from the show will be displayed and the artists and curators will be on hand to share information and create context for this Philly-grown alternative curatorial project.

Low Lives 4: Networked Performance Festival 4.27 & 4.28.2012

Now in its fourth year, Low Lives is an international festival of live performance-based works transmitted via the internet and projected in real time at multiple venues throughout the world.

Join us for Philadelphia’s live event! Hosted by Jane Goodall and her newest BFF Donna Haraway, party down cyber-jungle style with Video Games, Tarot, Monkeys, Photo Booths, Food, and Beer! And at the height of the party around 11pm–leap across the Atlantic Ocean with Jane–to join the live performance with her Tanzanian lover–Superstar Scholar Dunstan Matungwa!

Friday 4.27.2012 8:30PM – 1AM right after the PTW Signature Event

****Bring your old techno junk to the party for grabbag surprises****

MORE INFO ABOUT LOW LIVES 4 in PHILLY »

Low Lives examines works that critically investigate, challenge, and extend the potential of performance practice presented live through online broadcasting networks. These networks provide a new alternative and efficient medium for presenting, viewing, and archiving performances. More on LowLives.net

LOW LIVES 4 in Philadelphia

little berlin and Mascher Space are partnering to present Low Lives 4 in Philadelphia – for two days little berlin gallery will be connected via livestream to co-presenting spaces all over the world.  Viewers are encouraged to come and go as you please, or tune-in online, performances start roughly every 20 minutes.

Low Lives 4 Philadelphia is an official Philly Tech Week Event !!

L I V E  P E R F O R M A N C E + P A R T Y

In addition to streaming performances from international presenting partners, little berlin gallery will host a live performance on one day of the festival which will be streamed out to the network of participating spaces.

Join us for Philadelphia’s live event! Hosted by Jane Goodall and her newest BFF Donna Haraway, party down cyber-jungle style with Video Games, Tarot, Monkeys, Photo Booths, Food, and Beer! And at the height of the party around 11pm–leap across the Atlantic Ocean with Jane–to join the live performance with her Tanzanian lover–Superstar Scholar Dunstan Matungwa!

Artists:
Dunstan Matungwa (Tanzania)
Britney Leigh Hines (Philadelphia)
Marcel W. Foster (Philadelphia)

Jane Goodall Speaks with a Native About Nature
Festival Day/Time TBD

Hyphen-Nation Arts joined forces with Marcel W. Foster and presented the “comic delight” (The Art Blog) of The Jane Goodall: Experience. Join Jane once again as she leaps across the Atlantic Ocean with the help of her friend, the interwebs, to live-stream a conversation about the beauty and future of Africa with Tanzanian Environmental Historian—Dunstan Matungwa for the Low Lives 4 Festival.

Artist Bios
Dunstan Matungwa is a researcher based at the National Institute for Medical Research– Mwanza Research Centre, Tanzania, where he is the Qualitative Research Coordinator for the Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights (SRHR) Project. He graduated summa cum laude from the University of Dar es Salaam with a B.A and M.A. in Sociology, and his dissertation examined imperial motives of Euro-American conservation initiatives within the coastal region of Tanzania.

Britney Leigh Hines is a director, performer, and cultural organizer. Following many years of theater training Britney rediscovered dance while attending Dickinson College, and ever since then she has incorporated movement into her creative process. Today, she is a founder and co-director of Hyphen-Nation Arts, an experimental theater company based in Philadelphia, PA, and Hybridge Arts Collective.

Marcel W. Foster worked as a researcher for the Jane Goodall Institute’s Research Center for five years—and is committed to promoting the performing arts as a tool to rigorously explore and understand human-animal behavior. He currently works as the Director of Research & Coworking for CultureWorks Greater Philadelphia, Community Engagement Coordinator for Mascher Space Co-op, and will be curating/presenting Carbon Dance Theatre’s Science per Forms in October 2012.

Low Lives 4 is Co-Presented by Mascher Space: a home for new dance in Philadelphia

ESCAPEMENT  |  April 6th-21st 2012
Opening Reception, First Friday April 6th  [FACEBOOK]

Time exists so that everything doesn’t happen at once.

(Albert Einstein)

The human experience orders life into a linear narrative, dissecting events and placing them into a sequence in which one succeeds the next. Yet, the mechanics of the universe present time as an aqueous medium in which chronology dissolves and events move freely about one another rather than conforming to a linear track.

In Escapement, artists Nathaniel Mell and John Shoemaker present a number of works that find their commonality in a fluid notion of time and history realized through found and formed objects. Utilizing the figure as well as numerous cast and sculpted elements, Nathaniel’s work references an amalgamation of appropriated characters, narratives, and symbols with a common thread of wanderlust and disillusionment. Concurrently, John’s installations explore the mechanics of space and time through elementary machines, utilizing industrial and maritime aesthetics and materials in order to investigate the matter of objects and reveal the complexities of simple systems.

Opening Event on First Friday April 6th  |  6-10PM at little berlin

little berlin is proud to present an exhibit by Tyler School of Art Students Nathaniel Mell and John Shoemaker.

ESCAPEMENT  |  April 6th-21st 2012
Opens on First Friday, April 6th [RSVP on FACEBOOK]

“Time exists so that everything doesn’t happen at once.” (Albert Einstein)

The human experience orders life into a linear narrative, dissecting events and placing them into a sequence in which one succeeds the next. Yet, the mechanics of the universe present time as an aqueous medium in which chronology dissolves and events move freely about one another rather than conforming to a linear track. In Escapement, artists Nathaniel Mell and John Shoemaker present a number of works that find their commonality in a fluid notion of time and history realized through found and formed objects. Utilizing the figure as well as numerous cast and sculpted elements, Nathaniel’s work references an amalgamation of appropriated characters, narratives, and symbols with a common thread of wanderlust and disillusionment. Concurrently, John’s installations explore the mechanics of space and time through elementary machines, utilizing industrial and maritime aesthetics and materials in order to investigate the matter of objects and reveal the complexities of simple systems.