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All rights reserved. 601 Queen Anne Ave North, Seattle | toulousepetit.com | 206.432.9069 ©2014 Encore Media Group. Reproduction ad proofs.indd 1 601 Queen Anne Ave North, Seattle | toulousepetit.com | 206.432.9069 2/6/14 10:32 AM without written permission is prohibited. encoreartsseattle.com 3 TP 061713 kitchen 1/3s.pdf CONTENTS May 30–June 22, 2014 The Price A1 A-1 Title Page A-2 Welcome to ACT A-3 Coming Soon to ACT A-4 About the Play A-8 Who’s Who A-10 ACT Partners A-16 ACT Board & Staff ©Sebastien Scandiuzzi ES064 covers.indd 2 4/18/14 3:57 PM ENCORE ARTS NEWS FROM CITY ARTS MAGAZINE opened and you’re like, ‘When did that Seeing Green happen?’” Stone34 is the first Kinetic artist Casey Curran captures project in Seattle’s Deep Green Pilot a building’s eco-goals in brass. Program, which requires participating BY GEMMA WILSON buildings to reduce both energy and INSIDE CASEY CURRAN’S Capitol Hill studio apartment, intricate wire water usage by creations hang from the wall and sheets of brass, rolled like plastic 75 percent. The wrap, lay on an enormous worktable. At the center of the room, an building’s green array of plants—Northwest natives, foxgloves, dandelions and ivy—sit features include on low black tables, rendered in painstaking detail from cold-work rooftop rainwater Casey Curran in brass. Some shine under a dark, irregular patina, oxidized by a capture, public his home studio. combination of salt and ammonia. bike racks and Not only has each leaf and petal been crafted by hand, Curran has landscaping with also hand-made wire coils that bring power to the entire piece—his first edible plants like hops, lavender, thyme, blueberries, oregano, major commission and his largest, most complicated project to date. strawberries and kiwi fruit. In April, the 7-foot by 8-foot finished piece was installed in the A little over a year ago, the building’s developer, Skanska USA, lobby of Stone34, a new mixed-use building at the corner of N. 34th approached Curran and asked him to submit a proposal for an St and Stone Way in Fremont. Thick Corten steel wraps the building’s installation. “Casey reminded us of how nature is always going to be lobby, laser-cut to appear cracked open, with Curran’s flora bursting vibrant,” says Skanska development associate Marlene Bailey. “At the out. “Almost like when you’re walking on the sidewalk and a flower’s least opportunity it’s going to burst into life and breathe.” broken through,” he says. Curran also works full-time as the paint studio supervisor at Cornish Curran’s installation connects to the building’s power grid, College of the Arts (his alma mater), designs sets for theatre company programmed to slowly change the position of the flowers every 10–15 Saint Genet and is preparing for a show at Roq La Rue Gallery this minutes. When energy use is high, the flowers wilt. When energy-use summer. But he put in hundreds of hours over the last five months on minimums are met, they blossom. the Stone34 piece. “When you walk into the building, we don’t want you to really In the past Curran has created mechanical sculptures that move, but notice movement,” Curran says. “It should have that natural quality this time he worked with a programmer and an electrical engineer. “I’m to it, where you put a flower in the window and then an hour later it’s very analog,” he says. “They made it so I didn’t electrocute myself.” n MIGUEL EDWARDS MIGUEL 4 ENCORE STAGES Finally, my new “bathroom from the place we rented in Bali” bathroom. 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EIGHT YEARS AGO, Ana Maria Pinto da Silva I literally did not know one single person here. founded the Seattle chapter of PechaKucha My friend Paul had gone through my graduate 20x20, an inclusive presentation format that degree program with me at the Harvard School brings people together to share ideas in more of Design and he was good friends with the than 730 cities around the world. She’s since founders of PechaKucha in Tokyo; he founded orchestrated 52 free events on art, design, the San Francisco chapter. He was like, You inspiration, change—drawing recent crowds of should start a PechaKucha in Seattle. It’ll be a 300+. Pinto da Silva works by day as designer great way for you to get to know people. And it at Microsoft; PechaKucha is her labor of love. was true! LEAH BALTUS PechaKucha is a story about friendship, a story about community. It’s also a story about mischief How would you describe the format of and yes-ness. We had an event called Going PechaKucha? Rogue on my 40th birthday. The first presenter The end result of an evening of PechaKucha is was a burlesque artist who did a burlesque Under the Tents in Vanier Park, Vancouver, Canada that you feel like you went to a wonderful party. act while she was doing her presentation. The June 11 – Sept 20 Each person gets six minutes and 40 seconds audience was going nuts. The next presenter was 1-877-739-0559 • bardonthebeach.org exactly—20 slides, 20 seconds each. It doesn’t doing a presentation on cakes and quilts. You matter if you’re Bill Gates or Bill Gates’ intern— would have thought, cakes and quilts right after that’s exactly as much time as you get. a burlesque dancer? Her cakes were so insane, What’s amazing is that no one is good at so exquisite, her quilts were so fascinating that it. Very few people have that pattern down. she’s getting offers of marriage yelled out from Proven But what people are really curious about is the audience. each other. They want to know who you are. BardOnBeach SIFG14 1_6v.pdf PechaKucha presentations might be about You’re doing a poetry event in April. It’s RESULTS someone’s work or fascination with something, a great, diverse line-up. What are you but because the format makes you vulnerable, expecting? you have to be yourself. I have no idea! We’ve never Even people who are really done an all-poetry event. accomplished I never review people’s are human—and you can “Because the presentations. I invite them see yourself in that. You can and that’s it. I say yes. It’s their say, Hey! I could probably format makes six minutes and 40 seconds. I present! I have something trust them. that I’m working on that’s you vulnerable, I’m working with Kathleen worthy.