THE WHOLE CABOODLE (One-woman Performance by Sara Margrethe Oskal)

Norwegian Sámi actress Sara Margrethe Oskal’s one-woman performance, THE WHOLE CABOODLE, uses storytelling and yoiks (indigenous chanting unique to the Sámi) to give us three contemporary Sámi characters that provokes our intellect and tickles our conscience.

Sara Margrethe Oskal’s THE WHOLE CABOODLE tours North America from October 16 through October 30. Don’t miss this rare opportunity to see her perform her award-winning show in your area. For more information on Sara Margrethe Oskal and her show, visit her website here:

By and with: Sara Margrethe Oskal

Directors: Anitta Suikkari and Thea Stabell
Traditional yoiks and yoiks by: Karen Anne Buljo, Mathis A. Oskal and Nils Magnus Tornensis.
Costume: Berit Marit Hætta
Video editor: Silja Somby
Poster and technical support: John Rickard Valkeapää

Suitable for youth and adults.

Click Here for her October 2014North American Tour Details

 

THE WHOLE CABOODLE 2014 North American Tour is made possible by the generous support and collaboration of the Norwegian Government, Embassies, Consulates, the Sámi Siida of North America, Torpedo Factory of Art, Michigan State University, Falcon Ridge Middle School, Youngstown Cultural Arts and the Centre for Indigenous Arts. 

FIM at Old Style

In Store at Old Style

FIM
Robot Punk ‘n Swagger

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with Special Guest The Empire State (UK)

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Wednesday 24 October at 7:00 PM

Free Show, as Always

Old Style

(guitar shop)

 

510 North Hoover Street

Los Angeles, CA 90004

323 660 5700

oldstyleguitarshop.com

 

 

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OK BREATHE AURALEE on NATIVE AMERICA CALLING 2/3/12, 12pm CST!

“OK BREATHE AURALEE” is a film gracing audiences at this year’s Sundance Film Festival. It exposes some of the intricacies of Native life. Focusing on the themes of adoption and the life choices that follow, the film is in line with the current push to tell Native stories from a real life standpoint. When the whole idea of interpreting and understanding Native identity is thrown upon the silver screen, what is the reward? Guests include Native filmmaker Brooke Swaney (Blackfeet/Salish), and Native actress Kendra Mylenchuk.

We start the live broadcast at 11 a.m. Mountain Time (10 a.m. Pacific Time/ 12 p.m. Central Time/ 1 p.m. Eastern Time). We are broadcast on nearly 70 places on the dial across the United States. There is a listing of the stations where we can be heard on our website at http://www.nativeamericacalling.com

Native America Calling Airtime:
Monday – Friday 11 a.m.-12 p.m. Mountain time (1-2 p.m. Eastern)
CALL-IN number: 1-800-996-2848 or 1-800-99-NATIV
LISTEN ON-LINE: http://www.nv1.org Rebroadcast: 7 p.m. Eastern on http://www.nv1.org http://www.nv1.org/

KILLER WHALE PR+M RETURNS TO PARK CITY!

Park City, Utah – To start off the new year Killer Whale will be representing Blackfeet/Salish Brooke Swaney’s short narrative film “OK BREATH AURALEE”, The International Sámi Film Centre’s Indigenous Film Circle and the McBride College Bound Council at the 2012 Sundance Film Festival.

U.S. PREMIERE AT SUNDANCE FILM FESTIVAL “OK BREATHE AURALEE,” STARS NATHANIEL ARCAND & NEWCOMER KENDRA MYLNECHUK

Blackfeet/Salish writer/director and recent NYU MFA graduate, Brooke Swaney debuts at the Sundance Film Festival with “OK BREATHE AURALEE,” the first of four episodic pieces in a forthcoming feature film. The only short film to be selected for the Native Forum at Sundance 2012, “OK BREATHE AURALEE” features a talented cast including fresh face, Kendra Mylenchuk and Canadian celebrity Nathanial Arcand. In the film, Swaney tackles contemporary issues in Indian Country, focusing on adoption, identity and assimilation issues told in a subtle subtext and set in crowded New York City.

OK BREATHE AURALEE, competing in this years shorts competition, explores the story of a baby-crazed woman, Auralee, who finds herself drifting away from her baby-reluctant boyfriend, Colin and searching for something more.  The film is part of an overall feature-length character driven piece that focuses on Urban American Indians, the four elements (air, fire, water and earth) and the mystical in the quotidien (everyday life).  

In Brooke’s own words:
“I really wanted to make a movie that was kind of surreal with interesting (and not necessarily always likeable) characters. I have a bunch of female friends who have reached a point in their lives where they want to pop out a baby (and no, that’s not me), but I wanted to explore what that must be like.  Auralee is also adopted away from her Native community (like many people of a certain generation) and I wanted to do a story about that, but not have it be so over-the-top about identity politics, rather more quiet and character specific to really get into her experience.”

Screenings:
1/20/2012 12:00 PM @ Yarrow Hotel Theatre (Park City, Utah(
1/20/2012 9:00 PM @ Broadway Centre Cinema (Salt Lake City, Utah)
1/22/2012 3:30 PM @ Redstone Cinema (Park City, Utah)
1/26/2012 4:00 PM @ Holiday VIllage Cinema (Park City, Utah)

ELEVATING INDIGENOUS VOICES IN CINEMA THROUGH A GLOBAL NETWORK: THE INDIGENOUS FILM CIRCLE

One of the main objectives of the Indigenous Film Circle is to advise and facilitate an international film scholarship, “The Indigenous Film Fellowship” (IFF), that partners emerging indigenous film talent with notable and distinguished filmmakers worldwide in a two year program aimed at developing strong and compelling scripts and preparing solid marketing and financing plans before going into production.  The Indigenous Film Circle boasts an impressive group of filmmakers as their Fellowship Mentors. Mentors participating in the 2011 – 2013 fellowship include Donald Ranvaud, Chris Eyre, Heather Rae, Annie Nocenti, and Mikael Olsen.  The aim of the Indigenous Film circle is to create a lasting network and establish an Indigenous film fund to support emerging Indigenous film talents world wide.

The Indigenous Film Circle is made up of a group of representatives from cultural and media organizations from around the globe and is coordinated by the International Sámi Film Centre based in Kautokeino, Norway.

The Indigenous Film Circle also helps sustain the growth and connectivity for Indigenous films by bringing together individuals and organizations for continued dialogue through conferencing and digital resources on the Internet. Both the Indigenous Film Circle and the Indigenous Film Fellowship fulfill the International Sámi Film Centre’s mission to strengthen the Indigenous film network while also helping support and develop strong new talent within the film industry through the creation and growth of a permanent network for Indigenous filmmakers and supporting partners globally.

COLLEGE BOUND COUNCIL MARKETPLACE & LOUNGE AT SUNDANCE

At the 2012 Sundance Film Festival the College Bound Council is hosting a benefit marketplace and lounge by bringing the newest trends in products from jewelry, fashion, décor, technology and entertainment to the heart of Main Street in Park City.

~Receive a free gift bag for any purchase made with one of their vendors~

A portion of all proceeds will go to College Bound Council.  Founded in 1994, The McBride Foundation manages the College Bound Council which is an innovative program that uses college students to communicate the benefits of higher education to children in elementary schools.  Over 160,000 students have since learned about the importance of personal responsibility and the opportunities created by higher education.

Visit the Marketplace and Lounge
Friday, January 20 – Sunday, January 22, 11:00 am – 5:00 pm
and make a difference in a child’s life.

2012 Vendor List: SpiritHoods, G-Form, Over the Moon, Charley’s Toffee, N:F:P New Form Perspective, Engage Green, Quivvers, Sensorium AV, New West Knifeworks, Pop Phone, Sarinova, Élevée,  Shoot New Mexico, John Hung Ha, Heritage Jewelry, Gramicii

INDIE MUSIC SCENE & NATIVE AMERICA COME TOGETHER TO WELCOME ALTERNATIVE NORWEGIAN SÁMI BAND, ADJÁGAS, TO THE UNITED STATES FOR A TWO-WEEK MINI-TOUR

United States—The acclaimed alternative folk band from the Arctic of Norway, Adjágas, is set to have their introductory tour across the United States beginning July 3 and continuing through July 16. Supporting Adjágas are some of the best independent bands America has to offer, in part to welcome them here for their first tour across the States and also to show support for the culture of the indigenous people of the Scandinavian Arctic, the Sámi people. Along the way, Native American communities and musicians will also greet their European cousins to Indian Country. The two-week tour, which begins in Los Angeles and ends in New York City the first two weeks of July celebrates Adjágas ability to cross world-bridges in both culture and sound with the independent music scene and our indigenous heritages.

Adjágas is Sara Marielle Gaup and Lawra Somby—joikers (from the word joik, pronounced “yoik” and is a combination of singing and chanting) of Sámi origin from Norway. Both are backed by an experimental folk band. Joining Adjágas tour is Max Crawford on trumpet and banjo (of Poi Dog Pondering, the Archer Prewitt band and Wilco recordings). Joiking is an integral part of Sámi history, tradition and culture and bands as well known as The Sea & Cake,  Ethan Gold and Native musicians including Blackfire and Brent Greenwood, are coming together to support Adjágas by sharing double-billed acts in their hometowns.

On July 3, Adjágas will have a concert at the Hotel Café in Los Angeles with Ethan Gold whose recent album “Songs From A Toxic Apartment” received rave reviews from music journals such as Pitchfork and Glide magazines for his combined natural and electronic sounds including string sections and synthesizers. Opening for the main acts are Too Cute To Kill from Oklahoma, Willem Broad (of the FIM band) and Archer Black from L.A. The globally known Navajo punk rock band, Blackfire, will welcome Adjágas to their hometown of Flagstaff, Arizona where they will host a community event at the Taala Hooghan and again at the Navajo Nation Museum in Window Rock on July 7. Adjágas will then travel to Santa Fe and perform for an art installation project, “The Due Return” at the Center for Contemporary Art. In Oklahoma on July 10, Adjágas will share the stage with Oklahoma’s Deerpeople and Fiawna Forté, two bands that recently graced the 2011 SXSW Film and Music Festival as part of Oklahoma’s music showcase at the Buffalo Lounge. Ponca powwow singer, Brent Greenwood, Adjágas and Fiawna Forté will also have unplugged performances during Adjágas welcoming party at the This Land Press (Oklahoma’s first new media company) backyard, with teepee and all. Chicago’s favorite indie musicians, Archer Prewitt and Sam Prekop of The Sea and Cake, who have heavily influenced bands like Broken Social Scene and The White Stripes, will introduce them to their local scene on July 13 at the Empty Bottle. Adjágas will end their tour in New York City, opening for Jimbo Mathis & The Tri-State Coalition at Littlefield NYC in Brooklyn and have a solo performance with The Dust Diver Flash (Laura Ortman and Bee & Flower’s Dana Schecter)  in Manhattan’s Cine M Art space. Spy FM radio will have a special focus on the tour on his show The SPY’s Eye on NDN Country.

[SPECIAL NOTE: Adjágas tour is supported through the Norwegian government and Sámi cultural organizations and is a not-for-profit tour. If you would like to help provide additional support for the tour and thus help spread the beauty of the Sámi culture and music, click here: BRINGING ADJAGAS TO AMERICAN AUDIENCES. To submit to our 501(c)3 umbrella organization go here: and donate to a tax-deductible organization via PayPal click HERE.]

Integral to this tour are the friends along the way who have helped bring this together, Joe Kennedy of Ariel Pink’s Haunted Graffiti, Ethan Gold, Archer Prewitt of The Sea & Cake, Wes and Maura Studi, Julie Porter of The Oklahoma Film & Music Office, Jason Silverman and Filip Celander of the Center for Contemporary Arts in Santa Fe, Berta Benally of Blackfire, Jim Jarmusch and Carter Logan of New York, Smithsonian Institution National Museum of the American Indian, Kyle Reinhart at the Scandinavia House, Ferris O’Brien and D.G. Smalling of Spy FM Radio.

Adjágas is a well-known act and popular band in Europe, having opened the Glastonbury Festival in back in 2007 as well as performing at the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver in Canada. Adjágas’ music is based around the concept of the joik, a traditional musical form which describes something not with its words but its sounds. Each member of the band brings their own personal generational and cultural memory to the songs and collectively the band takes listeners on a journey into the heart of their legacy.

For current event schedule, see the EVENTS section at top. Additional tour dates may be announced and with detailed information on how to obtain tickets to the shows. For more information and updated schedules, please contact Killer Whale PR+M: Michelle Svenson (918) 810-2368, msvenson@gmail.com + Leah Studie (405) 762-2918, leahstudie@gmail.com, http://www.killerwhaleprm.org

Today’s FREE Listen: “Hás it!” from Adjágas latest album “Manu Rávdnji”

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EXTRA EXTRA! Listen to Ethan Gold‘s “Royal Flush” from his album “Songs From a Toxic Apartment”

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Adjágas and Killer Whale PR+M graciously thank the Royal Norwegian Consulate Generals in New York and San Francisco and the Royal Norwegian Embassy in Washington, DC. Additional support for Adjágas promotional and cultural exchange tour has been graciously provided by Sapmimusic and the Sámi Council.

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JIM JARMUSCH PRESENTS THE CLOSING NIGHT CONCERT FOR THE 2011 NATIVE AMERICAN FILM + VIDEO FESTIVAL FEATURING FAMILY DYNAMICS, THE NEKID BANDIT, ELISAPIE ISAAC, MARTHA REDBONE AND SPECIAL GUESTS DREW NIX AND GARY FARMER

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(Click on poster above to RSVP and forward event invite on Facebook)

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New York, NY—The Smithsonian’s 15^th Native American Film + Video Festival Closing Night celebration concert is presented by indie filmmaker Jim Jarmusch and will feature over four indigenous artists, local bands Family Dynamics and Martha Redbone, Canadian siren—Elisapie Isaac, Oklahoma’s The Nekid Bandit and special guest musicians, Drew Nix and Gary Farmer on Sunday, April 3, 2011 at Brooklyn’s Southpaw music hall. The evening’s free event is made possible by Four Directions Productions, Quebec Government Office in New York and Dutch Boy Burger.

NY independent filmmaker who directed what has been considered one of the best Native American films ever made, Dead Man, Jim Jarmusch lends his name again to the Closing Night Celebration Concert for the 2011 Native American Film + Video Festival (NAFVF). The 2009 NAFVF Closing Night featured over five bands and filled the 5,000 sq foot venue, Southpaw, which TimeOutNY Magazine has named one of the top five venues in all of New York City. The NAFVF is honored by Jarmusch’s kind support.

This year’s line-up for the 2011 NAFVF concert includes a wide variety and musical styles chosen to compliment each other and appease the diverse tastes of the over 100 guest filmmakers at this year’s festival.

New York’s Family Dynamics features White Mountain Apache musician Laura Ortman and creates a textural improvisational sound using electronics, voice and orchestral instrumentation. Family Dynamics features four members from the band Stars Like Fleas. In addition to the arty gigs of Family Dynamics and Stars Like Fleas, members have also played with a variety of talents, including: Björk, Rhys Chatham, Vincent Moon, John Zorn, Sean Lennon, Deerhoof, TV on the Radio & Thurston Moore. Click on the band’s full bio HERE.

To hear new tracks from Family Dynamic’s upcoming album, please contact Robert Cangiano. Press Only.

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The Nekid Bandit features Jef Johnston who takes on an Irish-like folk-rock rhythm and places forward vocal experimentation and crafty guitar work with electronic accents. Johnston, a Cherokee/Choctaw from Oklahoma, scored the award-winning film from 2007 by Sterlin Harjo (Seminole/Creek), Four Sheets to the Wind. NY Texan transplant, Drew Nix, whose music is also featured on Four Sheets to the Wind guests on The Nekid Bandit. Nix blends contemporary folk and country, sometimes with an upbeat and humoristic approach. Read The Nekid Bandit Bio HERE.

Listen to The Nekid Bandit’s “Point of You”:

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Inuk singer/musician Elisapie Isaac is rising on the Montreal new music scene and already has one Juno award-winning album from her collaboration project Taima. Her music, called “Arctic electric new cool” and “Polar Pop,” pulls the listener in with her dreamy vocals and spritely whimsicalness. Read her bio HERE.

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Listen to Elisapie Isaac’s “Inuk”:

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Closing the night will be Brooklyn’s Martha Redbone whom TimeOutNY has said “In our opinion Redbone deserves Alicia Keys level success. She has the deep funk to back up her soul queen image and live she brings a groove-heavy powerhouse of a band”. Martha’ new indie soul music will be joined with guest musician and actor Gary Farmer (yes, the same Gary Farmer from Jarmusch’s Dead Man and Chris Eyre’s Smoke Signals), who also splits his time between community activism, acting and with his blues band, Gary Farmer and the Troublemakers singing and playing a masterful harmonica. Read Martha’s bio HERE.

Listen to Martha Redbone’s “Skin”:

ADDITIONAL NY CONCERTS:

Two of the bands, The Nekid Bandit and Elisapie Isaac will also appear in New York the same week. The Nekid Bandit w/ Drew Nix will perform at Williamsburg’s Pete’s Candy Store, Saturday, April 2, from 11:00 pm to 12:30 am. Elisapie Isaac will grace Manhattan’s Lower East Side’s The Living Room stage for three nights starting at 7pm on April 4, 5 and 6.

The Native American Film + Video Festival is dedicated to indigenous production from throughout the Americas, designed to be a welcoming place for Native filmmakers and other participants in indigenous film.  In this year’s Festival more than 100 participants in Native film will be here from Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Canada, Colombia, Ecuador, Guatemala, Mexico, Peru, Suriname, and the United States. This provides the audience with an unparalleled opportunity to see great new films and to be part of conversations with creative people from so many Native communities.

The NAFVF11 Closing Night Concert will be held on Sunday, April 3, from 10 pm until closing at Southpaw, 125 Fifth Ave., Brooklyn, NY 11217. Tel: (718) 230-0236. www.spsounds.com. FREE ADMISSION. For more information on the festival, visit the Smithsonian’s National Museum of the American Indian Film + Video Center at www.nativenetworks.si.edu or call (212) 514-3731.

FOR PRESS ONLY: If you would like to hear more tracks by the featured artists, contact Robert Cangiano to send you the private Soundcloud link for the festival line-up.

For Band bios, click HERE.

WATCH & SHARE HBO DOCUMENTARY “SWEETHEARTS OF THE PRISON RODEO” BY SAVING IT TO YOUR NETFLIX QUEUE

(Image from ‘Sweethearts of the Prison Rodeo.’ Photography by Shane Brown.)

If you haven’t seen this compelling documentary about Oklahoma’s female inmates partaking in a break from prison life for a chance to compete in the state’s Penitentiary Rodeo, or if you have seen it but want to see it again or share it with a friend, save “Sweethearts of  the Prison Rodeo” on your Netflix queue and bring it that much closer to convenient viewing.

From the filmmakers that brought you ‘Okie Noodling,’ ‘Fearlesss Freaks,’ ‘Summercamp!’ and “The Creek Runs Red’ comes another heart-gripping journey into Americana life—the subculture of the Oklahoma penitentiary system and the modern-day Wild West: ‘Sweethearts of the Prison Rodeo.’

‘Sweethearts of the Prison Rodeo’ goes behind prison walls to follow convict cowgirls on their journey to the 2007 Oklahoma State Penitentiary Rodeo. In 2006, female inmates were allowed to participate for the first time. In a state with the highest female incarceration rate in the country, these women share common experiences such as broken homes, drug abuse and alienation from their children. Since 1940, the Oklahoma State Penitentiary has held an annual ‘Prison Rodeo’. Part Wild West show and part coliseum-esque spectacle, it’s one of the last of its kind – a relic of the American penal system. Prisoners compete on wild-broncs and bucking bulls, risking life-long injuries. For inmates like Danny Liles, a 14-year veteran of the rodeo, the chance to battle livestock offers a brief respite from prison life. Within this strange arena the prisoners become the heroes while the public and guards applaud.

“Freedom, family, forgiveness—these are human needs. Without ever loudly announcing its statement of purpose, while focusing on bulls and broncos and adrenaline, “Sweethearts of the Prison Rodeo” makes a plea for human dignity and compassion.” –Filmmaker Magazine

“SWEETHEARTS OF THE PRISON RODEO, (is) a gorgeous, insightful, hilarious, emotional look at tradition, criminal justice, hope and regret.  It’s as pure a piece of movie-making that you will see in nonfiction in 2009, commercial as hell, and certainly one of the best films of the year.” – A.J. Schnack, All These Wonderful Things

‘‘Sweethearts…’ is a story of gladiatorial desperation and hope, tied up with one whole lot of Oklhahoman heart – Hell yeah!” – Time Out London

For more information on the film or to buy it directly, visit the film’s website at: www.sweetheartsoftheprisonrodeo.com

HOW TO ADD “SWEETHEARTS OF THE PRISON RODEO” TO NETFLIX:

• Login to Netflix http://www.netflix.com.
• Search for SWEETHEARTS OF THE PRISON RODEO
• Once on the film title page for SWEETHEARTS, click “SAVE”
• Once you get a confirmation that it’s been added to your Queue, SWEETHEARTS OF THE PRISON RODEO will be that much closer to becoming available as a rental on Netflix.

 

WATCH THE TRAILER HERE:

“BIBLE & WINE,” OFF-BROADWAY PERFORMANCE FEATURING THE MUSIC OF ORCHESTRAL POP MAESTRO ERIC MATTHEWS JAN 31 thru FEB 16, 2011

Killer Whale PR+M has been a long time fan of musician/composer ERIC MATTHEWS, so we just had to share the cool news for a special event coming to New York City on January 31, 2011: An off-Broadway performance, BIBLE & WINE (we dig the name), that features the music of orchestral pop maestro, Eric Matthews. If you’re a fan like we are of Eric Matthews and/or Cardinal, you won’t want to miss this! See the event’s official page for more details. In brief, here’s our copy and paste:

“This extraordinary blend of music, movement, dance, story, and design uses the music of pop maestro Eric Matthews as inspiration for a meditation on history, faith, lust, and immortality. Loosely inspired by Chaucer’s masterwork The Canterbury Tales and the art of the high Middle Ages, Bible and Wine is a daring and unique event which combines director Frank Cwiklik‘s trademark immersive theater mindscapes with movement, dance, and performance with the music of one of the most engaging and exciting recording artists of the past twenty years.

As night falls on a museum of Medieval artifacts, the souls and spirits of the ancient past slowly materialize, embarking on a haunting pilgramage through the tattered remnants and haltingly reassembled fragments of the art and architecture that once surrounded and defined them. As we follow them through the halls of the quiet cloisters, their lives, loves, deaths, dreams, and desires once again become flesh and substance in a compelling and moving journey through time and faith. The Badass Record Collection series proposes to utilize pop and rock music as non-traditional theatrical text, exploring the forms of recorded music to create new and exciting theatrical works, and this production promises to be the most exciting and groundbreaking example of this concept. It’s dance, it’s performance, it’s lights and sound, it’s live performance and recorded sound, it’s everything theater can be, and should be, in one breathtaking event.

Most exciting of all is the inclusion of two exclusive new tracks from Mr. Matthews, recorded and prepared escpecially for the project, which will make their world premiere in this performance. These new works, full of the life, energy, theatricality, and musical muscle that define his extraordinary body of work will delight his fans, and entice audiences yet to encounter his compelling and distinctive style and vision.

Eric Matthews has been making music professionally since 1992 as a member of bands such as Belt Buckle, Cardinal, Brookville, and Seinking Ships. He has been releasing acclaimed solo recordings since 1995, first with the legendary Sub Pop label, which released the critically acclaimed “It’s Heavy in Here” and “Lateness of the Hour“. He has lent his sideman talents on records by such diverse talents as Tahiti 80, The Dandy Warhols, Spookey Ruben, and Pugwash. Since 2006, he has been producing other acts, mostly new bands and young songwriters on the rise and in need of veteran insights in helping to realize their own creative aspirations. His most recent releases include the 2008 classic “The Imagination Stage” and the recent debut CD of his newest band, Seinking Ships. For more info on Eric’s music, visit him at www.ericmatthews.net.

Frank Cwiklik is entering his second decade of creating immersive, eclectic indie theater in New York City. He has produced, directed, and/or appeared in over two thirty productions since 1999, including the influential Bitch Macbeth, the controversial political satire Sugarbaby!, and, with DMT’s American Shakespeare Factory, the recent cult smash Two Gentlemen of Lebowski. His eccentric, aggressive directorial style has earned him praise from Time Out New York, the Village Voice, NYTheatre.com, Backstage, The New York Times, and others, and has influenced countless directors both on and off-Broadway. His future projects include the ASF entries Hamlet and Taming of the Shrew, and his first original play in nearly five years, God’s Comic, a fantasia inspired by the life and work of the great silent cinema comedian and vaudeville legend Harry Langdon.

BIBLE AND WINE: THE MUSIC OF ERIC MATTHEWS

starring SAARA FALK * AZUMI FUKUMURA * SHILOH KLEIN * ERIK MAGNUS * HEATHER MEAGHER * RAYMOND MILLER * LARA JEAN MUMMERT * KEVIN ORZECHOWSKI * DENISE OZER * MARISSA STANIEC

props and special costume construction ELAINE JONES

Words and music by ERIC MATTHEWS

Scenario by FRANK CWIKLIK * Co-producer MICHELE SCHLOSSBERG

Choreographer/Dance Director SHILOH KLEIN

Produced, designed, and directed by FRANK CWIKLIK

January 31 thru February 16 2010 Mon thru Wed eves 8 PM * The Kraine Theater, 85 E 4th St btwn 2nd Ave and Bowery

Tickets available at SmartTix online or call 212 868 4444

SPECIAL PREVIEW/BENEFIT PERFORMANCE SUNDAY JANUARY 30th at 8 PM! INCLUDING LIVE ACOUSTIC SET FROM DYE VIOLETS, SPECIAL POST SHOW RECEPTION, AND A SCHEDULED APPEARANCE FROM ERIC MATTHEWS! MORE DETAILS COMING SOON! TICKETS ARE ALREADY SELLING — GET YOURS NOW!

NEW ALBUM RELEASE BY LAURA ORTMAN (DUST DIVE FLASH), “SOMEDAY WE’LL BE TOGETHER”

NEW ALBUM RELEASE  by THE DUST DIVE FLASH

“Opening Ceremony” from the Dust Dive Flash latest album, “Someday We’ll Be Together”

SOMEDAY WE’LL BE TOGETHER

Sweet Apache violin, heartbreaking nostalgia wrapped in slices of reverberated fleeting thoughts of the extraterrestrial, bares the light and multi-dimensionality of Brooklyn-based artist/composer Laura Ortman. Haunting and enigmatic, a soundtrack to your inner thoughts, Dust Dive Flash breathes innocent rays into complex dark worlds.

CD release (and Cassette Tape release parties) around the Nation, this holiday season! See EVENTS page for the DEC. 27th show with JEFF JOHNSTON (soundtrack for Sterlin Harjo’s FOUR SHEETS TO THE WIND) in Tulsa, OK.

THE DUST DIVE FLASH is LAURA ORTMAN of NYC’s Family Dynamics (formerly Stars Like Fleas), Silver Summit and the Dust Dive. She has performed with notable artists such as Martha Colburn, John Zorn and Samantha Crain. In 2008, Laura founded the first all-Native orchestra, The Coast Orchestra and performed to a sold-out audience at the American Museum of Natural History in NY and at the National Gallery of Art in DC. Her solo work is often soft and hynoptic, drawing landscapes and portraits with violin, electric guitar, piano, Apache violin, megaphone and pine tree branches. Her second solo album “Someday We’ll Be Together” was recorded by Martin Bisi (Sonic Youth, White Zombies, Herbie Hancock) in Brooklyn and is available at THEDUSTDIVEFLASH.BANDCAMP.COM and iTUNES. Visit her Myspace page HERE.

UPDATE : See the latest review and portrait of Laura Ortman by Tulsa photographer, Michael Cooper by clicking   on the ←photo to the left . (01/01/11)

KILLER WHALE PR+M PROUDLY INTRODUCES THREE NEW ARTISTS TO OUR MIX! MEET ACTOR KYLE CONRAD, PHOTOGRAPHER WESLEY LAW AND FILMMAKER PER-JOSEF IDIVUOMA

Killer Whale PR+M proudly announces three new artists that have joined our team, Actor Kyle Conrad, Photographer Wesley Law and Filmmaker Per-Josef Idivuoma! All bring something special and unique to our world and Killer Whale would be amiss to not show off their talents and contributions. So go ahead, read more about them here (or visit our page on “Artists We’re Talking About”).

KYLE CONRAD | Actor | USA

Kyle Conrad was born in Tulsa, Oklahoma in 1984. His displayed his love for acting early in life, running around his house, singing and acting out scenes from “Aladdin.” He attended a fine arts high school, Tulsa Central where he practiced various performing arts as well as baseball and kicking it up with his skateboard. When he was 18, the army called Kyle into action. He was part of the first invading unit to reach Baghdad where they set up relations with the local Iraqis. He had a brief stay back in the States and then another year long deployment in 2005 where his assignment was to drive throughout the country of Iraq completing weekly convoy missions. On his next return home, he did a year of Business Management at Oklahoma State University until he was called back to duty for the Oklahoma National Guard as a Detainees Operations Specialist. He last returned home in October 2008 and has spent over a year contemplating his years in service and the next steps of his life. He’s now renewing his passion for life by exploring and challenging his creative self through acting. He can easily mold himself into a variety of characters and his experience in war obviously lends well to action films. Ah, and he’s also a vampire freak! He would love to delve into the mystery and reveal the strengths and vulnerabilities of the vampire as they face the day to day of eternal life. His high observational talents attract him to films that explore the struggle between good and evil and the personal motivation behind so much power. Along with dramatic roles, he also enjoys bringing out his playful spirit through comedy. This class clown lists “Super Troopers” and “Grandma’s Boy” alongside his favorite dramatic films such as “Fight Club,” “Shawshank Redemption,” “American History X” and “Forrest Gump.” It is easy to come into the presence of Kyle and feel the sincerity, depth and acute awareness he brings to the world. Like Aladdin, Kyle too rises through adversity with the power of magic. Check out his modeling pix from a fun St. Louis photo-shoot with the great Wesley Law! Visit our “Pix” Page at the top.

PER-JOSEF IDIVUOMA | Filmmaker | Sweden

Per-Josef Idivuoma was born and raised in the village of Idivuoma in northern Sweden, and grew up in the woods. He was raised in a reindeer-herding family, and has a close relationship with both his family and the culture. Idivuoma’s strong tie to his reindeer-herding traditions is witnessed in his creativity as he aims to inject Sámi values, morality and lifestyle into his films. Per-Josef expresses himself best in humoristic styles, such as parodies, and he always has a bright and humoristic side to everything in life. If a story doesn’t have any humor in it, it’s not worth telling according to Per-Josef. Per-Josef Idivuoma has a Bachelor’s Degree in Sámi Journalism, and since 2001 he worked at the Sámi radio station in Sweden, but in 2010 he left radio for good to start making movies. His biggest hope is to make a Sámi action-comedy in the future, but first he has to make several more short movies of his twenty-something ideas. Idivuoma’s first movie Čalmmis čalbmái/Eye to Eye (2007) had its World Premiere at the Native Cinema Showcase in Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA, and was nominated for the Čorvoš Prize at Sámi Film Festival in Kautokeino, Norway. Čurte-Niillas – the (Short) Movie was also nominated for the Čorvos Prize in 2010. Per-Josef is also the co-director, producer and editor of Mollet’s new music video for the song “Mon, Mollet Ja Don” that’s was YouTube released in May 2010. He’s the frontman in the Sámi rock band Mollet which released an EP in 2007 and a 2008 pre-album release on the World Wide Web for the long awaited full length album “Dego Yeah!” that came out in June 2010. He is currently in pre-production for a skateboarding parody film to be shot in 2011 in Stockholm. You can find PJ on Youtube to the links on the right.

WESLEY LAW | Photographer | USA

And last but not least, we would like to introduce you to photographer, Wesley Law. His photographic career started in London documenting East Asian immigrants as they integrated into the European culture. Having won a grant from the Alexia Foundation for World Peace to complete the 1.5 year project, the resulting work has travelled all over the world in a 2006 group exhibit entitled, Eyes on the World. It has graced cities such as New York, London, Athens, Tokyo and Bejing and is met with wide acclaim. Wesley continues to expand his work as globally as he possibly can. Through recent trips to China he has amassed a collection of images of the incredible pace of progress the country has experienced in the past 10 years. From classic images of the Three Gorges before they were flooded to the furthest western city, Urumqi and the superhighway that now bisects the former village. Wesley’s vision has always been to show compassion to both viewers: those who have never been there and those who are from there. Wesley’s latest international travels have taken him as far as the borders of Russia in a country called, Estonia. A former soviet puppet state, Estonia has risen to be called one of the Baltic Tigers. Wesley traveled around the capital city of Tallinn with a 4×5 film camera and lighting equipment to capture striking large format portraits of the landmarks and the people who inhabit the land. Wesley’s images never intend to show the foreign nature of another culture but to display the compassion of difference. Wesley is himself multicultural as his parents are from China, settling in St. Louis to raise a family almost 45 years ago. He draws a lot of his compassion and perspective towards others from the unique experiences growing up Asian-American. Visit his website by either linking on his picture or in the link field to the right. Oh, and he took the fab new pix of Kyle! To see more from this great St. Louie photo shoot, check out our “Pix” page at the top.

Thanks for coming back and visiting us here at Killer Whale PR+M. After a long, trying and hot hot summer, we’re happy to bounce back with these three new talented and über groovy men. Stay tuned for exciting future updates we can’t tell you about just yet, but we promise, cool things are gonna start happening! Cheerios!