BOOMSLANG

On Thursday, October 8, Boomslang will host not one but THREE kick off events!

All of these events listed are free and open to the public.

6:30pm The Carnegie Center for Literacy and Learning
Presenting Stars with Accents: A Boomslang All-Star Literary Event.

Readers include Ed McClanahan, a Kentucky author who rode the bus with the Merry Pranksters back in the day, and Jan Isenhour, Executive Director of the Carnegie Center. Other readers include Katerina Stoykova, Rebecca Gayle Howell, Colin Watkins, Eric Sutherland, Donna Ison, Sherry Chandler, Jim Lally, Leatha Kendrick, David Musella, and James Vincent. Brought to you by the Cargengie Center for Literacy and Learning as well as by Accents, a Radio Show for literature, art & culture (WRFL 2-3 om every Friday!).

7pm – Hop Hop
Bomslang Art Gallery Opening Reception
Multi-media art from emerging local visual, film and installation artists! Films include Greg King’s ’Rotating Mirror’ (8 pm), which features a soundtrack by Rachel’s (incl. unreleased songs) as well as solo music by Rachel Grimes, Greg King and Jason Noble (of Shipping News). Affordable local art! Cash bar! Local DJs! What else could you want!? The art will be on display all weekend, so do stop by at some point if you can’t make the opening. Check back soon for a list of artists…

10pm – j.allen studio
Self Told Lies and the Cosmic Truth
“Self Told Lies” will be a performance piece lived out by four collective artists from the local super-groups Everyone Lives Everyone Wins and Ghost Affirmation. Created by the group for you, ‘Self Told Lies’ is an amalgamation of sensory over-load revealing the Universal True Self to the “self”… what we think we are.

This will be performed by utilizing the alchemy of sound and vision to create an atmosphere of terror, nothingness, and in the end overwhelming joy.

Please join us for an evening of healing vision via the performance of  ‘Self Told Lies and The Cosmic Truth’ at j. Allen Studio, S. Upper St. Lexington, KY, below Bleed Blue Tattoo.

Make noise and physically manifest visions.

10pm JEMINA PEARL at Cosmic Charlie’s (formerly Lynagh’s Club, at the plaza on Woodland and Euclid). Opener TBA. $5, 21+

So it’s not an “official Boomslang event” but there’s a really cool Thursday night show in Lexington – check it out after you hit up the art show/literary event/j. allen show:

Formerly of Be Your Own Pet, the Nashville garage punker has made recordings with Iggy Pop and Thurston Moore. She played a bill earlier this summer that included Mission of Burma (playing a Friday night Boomslang show at Buster’s!), Fucked Up and Ponytail.