Bring clothes with you to contribute to a massive pile on the floor. After the event, the organizer, Montana Van Duijn, will pack up all the clothes with some help from her friends and they will be brought to Maine Needs and Preble Street, depending on Maine Needs’ capacity/demand.

A show featuring work from Mellifer (Sam Seda) playing harmonium and bowed 8-string bass guitar, Eleanora from Boston who will be playing harp, and Ashling Coviello. At the end of the show, the three musicians will be doing a joint set.

Bimonthly Dance party, being held at Jewelbox for October

$5-$25 Pay What You Can, run by Portland Drawing Group

Neon Amor, Big Trash, and Kafari come to make music at Silverfish

Fashion show, MC Vegadonna, featuring work from Frances Eder, Brooke Wentworth, Lucas of Loquat Shop, Grae Peters, and others. This event will be held at Apohadion Theater, and will be run as a takeover with Silverfish members staffing the event. After the runway fashion show, there will be a goth/darkwave dance party called GUSH in the same space. Stick around!

Doors at 7:30, show at 8, $10-$20 or PWYC

Slowcore

Doors at 7:30, show at 8, $10-$20 or PWYC

Doors at 7, Music at 8, $10-$20 or PWYC

Doors at 7:30, show at 8, $10-$20 or PWYC

Doors at 7:30, show at 8, $10-$20 or PWYC

Harsh Noise

Doors at 7:30, show at 8, $10-$20 or PWYC

Ambient music, guitar, singing and poetry

Come to see a darkened singer-songwriter showcase at Silverfish in Portland, Maine at 47 Portland St.

$10 suggested donation, PWYC

cryliner (aka spriggan), Annie Grizzle, Eileen Stillwell, Mere of Light

at Silverfish 47 Portland St. Portland, ME

$10 suggested donation , PWYC

Doors at 7pm (:

You are invited to an enchanting evening of stand-up comedy featuring: Cindianna Jones, Allen J, Caleb Theodore Sherman, Amanda Reynolds-Gregg, and Nikolai Lane. $5-$10 suggested donation

Donations toward libations from Garbo will go to the PCRF

We are thrilled to welcome trombone phenom Kalia Vandever(@kalia.vandever) back to Portland with new project Tilt(featuring Isabelle Crespo Pardo @oh.iiisa and Carmen Quill @carmenquill) in tow and help celebrate the release of their new record “something we once knew”, a monumental work of modern contrapuntal composition somehow rendered in totality without a single overdub.

Doors at 7pm - $10 to $20 sliding door fee or Pay What You Can

E. Jason Gibbs, Nat Baldwin, Annie Dodson

$10 suggested donation

Join Hana and Void for an afternoon of community ritual and sound healing on May 4th, from 4:30 to 6:30~ pm. The ritual will begin at 4:44 pm by offering a sharing on Beltane, followed by a guided elemental meditation with singing bowls. We will then share in a seed planting ritual, and end with a communal Maypole spinning which will unfold during a full sound bath. 

This is a BYO yoga mat, blanket, or meditation cushion event. Seeds, soil, and Maypole supplies will be provided by the ritual hosts. However, if you have a special ribbon you'd like to contribute to the Maypole, feel free to bring it! Space is limited, so please rsvp in advance via the brown paper ticket link in our bios. Tickets are $15-30 sliding scale per person, which can be paid at the door before or after the event. :) 

We look forward to sharing this space and special time

UPDATE: EVENT IS SOLD OUT AT CAPACITY

Are you interested in making zines, looking at zines or talking about them with others? Look no further, and come to Zine Club at Silverfish

No supplies necessary and free to attend!

Meetings are bi-weekly on Wednesdays starting on 3/20 - please email westendliberationfront@proton.me to rsvp!

Please join us for the the opening of the first in our series of Open Call shows! Together Wen and Neal will show their work for a month in Silverfish

RM Francis (@morton_failglob) is an artist based in Seattle working with computer-generated sound and language via recording, installation, and performance. He has presented work at the Mills College Center for Contemporary Music (Oakland), Gray Area (San Francisco), Kolonia Artystów (Gdansk), as well as clubs, auditoriums, warehouses, and galleries throughout North America. His practice foregrounds computation-based compositional strategies, focusing on methods that exploit discrepancies between human and artificial auditory systems. His current work exploits latent phonological data extracted from non-linguistic sound in order to generate the tonal, rhythmic, and semantic content of synthesized speech. The resulting subjective narration articulates the potentialities of speech decoupled from embodied human expression, navigating between abstract sound and uncanny characterological specificity. 

Asha Tamirisa (@asha tamirisa) is an artist and researcher primarily working with sound and video in performance and installation. Her work engages materiality, metaphor, history, archives, gender and technology. Asha holds a Ph.D. in Computer Music and Multimedia and an M.A. in Modern Culture and Media from Brown University, and has taught at Street Level Youth Media, Brown University, RISD, and Bates College. 

Annie Dodson (@aedodson) is an electroacoustic composer, sound artist, and cellist from Portland, Maine who studied Music Composition and Human Rights at Bard College. Their music focuses on ecology and the environment, sensitivity and reception, queerness and intimacy, with an emphasis on slow processes, gradual progression, and repetition. 

Void (@voidmusic_) A DJ set of portal opening techno from the entity behind SPRIGGAN.

flier art by @refulgentsepulchre