Pandora's Trunk presents Visual Vaudeville & Built Burlesque, Thurs Dec 4th 6-11pm

Pandora's Trunk & Brava Theatre present
Visual Vaudeville & Built Burlesque

Thursday December 4th 6-11pm
Floor show at 8 & 10pm
2781 24th St (at York near Bryant) SF
FREE admission

Storytime Runway Show
Holiday Design & Craft Sale
Live Music and Entertainment
Refreshments
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Pandora is taking over this enormously gorgeous vaudeville theater and filling it with built burlesque - the freshest indie craft and design will be presented by its makers in the historic lobby. The beautifully restored theater itself will house a fashion presentation with live music and a theatrical twist: a storytime runway show at 8 & 10 pm.
Pandora is cooking up a fashion show turned on its head, a costumed storytime in high style. Drag performers and captured princesses mix with bad banker men and jeweled birds, set to viola, saw, and electronic music. Check out a fully produced stage show, performed to live music, and meet and greet with the clothing and costume geniuses behind it all. Buy the fashions that you see onstage off the rack, fresh from each designer's hot little hands.
Fashion designers in the floor show will include local design & performance powerhouses Bad Unkl Sista, Miss Velvet Cream, Medium Reality, Ghetto Goldilocks, and many more!! Wine by Patz & Hall, beer by Lagunitas.

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Pandora's Trunk presents Cabaret De(con)structiv Sat Nov 22 1-5pm

Pandora's Trunk presents
Cabaret De(con)structiv

Climate Theater * 285 9th St at Folsom SF
1-5 pm, Saturday, November 22nd
Free Admission * Live Performance * Free Refreshments

Cabaret De(con)structiv is a fashion show turned on its head, a costumed storytime in cabaret style. Drag performers and captured princesses mix with bad banker men and jeweled birds, set to viola and saw music. Check out a fully produced stage show, performed to live music, and meet and greet with the clothing and costume geniuses behind it all. Buy the fashions that you see onstage off the rack, fresh from each designer's hot little hands.

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Putting together a show like nobody's ever done before

What a funny feeling! Innovation is always dangerous, both to the status quo and to the innovator. So much could go wrong! You have to keep explaining what you are doing!

November 22nd Pandora's Trunk is going to be amazing. We are producing a runway show like nothing you've ever seen before - it's not just a series of talented designers, it's also a storytime fable narrated by a spooky awesome drag performer. December 4th will be that, x10.

Come on over!!

Pandora's Trunk presents
Cabaret De(con)structiv

1-5 pm, Saturday, November 22nd
Free Admission * Live Performance * Free Refreshments

Cabaret De(con)structiv is a fashion show turned on its head, a costumed storytime in cabaret style. Drag performers and captured princesses mix with bad banker men and jeweled birds, set to live viola and saw music. Check out a fully produced stage show, performed to live music, and meet and greet with the clothing and costume geniuses behind it all. Buy the fashions that you see onstage off the rack, fresh from each designer's hot little hands.


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Pandora's Trunk - SoMa - Octo 25th Saturday!

Pandora's Trunk
Indie Arts and Fashion: sale, salon, and performance!

October 25th, Saturday, from 2-8pm
BUS stop, 135 Dore off Folsom at 10th
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free admission
live music
free drinks

As the sun orbits away from the center of our city, keep the chill out of your bones with a brand new warm jacket and a story told by the visionary who made it! This fall and winter Pandora's Trunk is opening anew, letting loose a wandering group of designers. Like minstrels or troubadours, they are traveling from venue to venue with trunks and bins loaded full of clothing and secrets in equal measure. Events this fall will take indie arts to a whole new level, blending fashion runway, storytelling, drag performers, accordionists, chanteuses, clowns, musicians, fine art, functional objects. Indie arts producers will also be demonstrating, interacting, and showing their work.

Engaging performers, live music, free refreshments, indie arts & fashion sale. These shall be our watchwords. Check out the website to keep up to date on artists, performers, and mayhem.
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And while you're at it check the rest of Pandora's winter season:

November 22nd, Saturday, from 1-5pm
Climate Theatre 285 9th @ Folsom
Come and hear the makings of our tale at Cabaret De(con)structiv. Climate Theatre is giving us a cross between a runway and a cabaret stage. We'll look inside your pants and tell you where they came from... telling a story using our ideas and our artifacts.

December 4th, Thursday, from 6-11pm
Brava Theatre 2781 24th @ York near Bryant
Watch the magic of our whole splendid story! We will settle into a luxuriant restored vaudeville theatre, using its gilded proscenium to frame a fully produced fashion design storytale.

Back to Schoolish

This time of year is always for fresh beginnings, i think. Time to really buckle down and start a new year at ... well, what are you up to? Tell me all about it! Medium Reality is trucking along, showing clothes and gearing up for an event-packed fun-filled fall and winter season!

If you are looking for a retail clothes experience check out www.ragsf.com/ Resident Apparel Gallery, a co-op in Hayes Valley where Medium Reality is the newest member! You can browse and buy local artisan works to your heart's content.

If what you are looking for is a more heart-to-heart experience, or simply feel a burning need for clothes still warm from the sewing machine, check out these upcoming sale events. They are always so much fun for me, a chance to meet my audience and get feedback on what i am doing right and wrong! Please come out and let me know what works and doesn't work for you - I really do listen and use your advice in my work!!

Coming up:

Truffala Trunk
badunklsista.com/
THIS Wednesday Sept 24th 6-10pm
BUS stop gallery
135 Dore (off folsom at 8th)
San Francisco

Chillin
www.chillinproductions.com/
Saturday October 4th 8pm-2am
111 Minna
San Francisco

Check out my paintings at Cafe International while you still can!

July 11th Art Opening - New Visiting Artist at Pandora's Trunk

We are welcoming a new visiting painter at Pandora's Trunk! This month is all about the visual arts, as I'm also prepping to hang a show at Cafe International next week (stay tuned for news of an opening there) with Alfonso Kellenberger. Meanwhile I hope to see you Friday at Pandora's Trunk!

WHEN:
Friday, July 11th 7pm-10pm

this is the beginning of a new chapter...
come one, come all... say farewell to lara while saying hello to locally made art and clothing! an art soiree brought to you by the peeps at pandora's trunk, an artist co-op located in the lower haight.
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WHAT:
featured will be the colorful works of Marco Mejia, our new visiting artist.
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free admission
free drinks + nibbly things

music thrown down by --- moman and chango julius from the asiwouldsay family.
asiwouldsay.com

also, say good bye to Lara Grant, a resident artist who is moving cross country and must leave the bay bridge behind as she says hello to new york!
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WHERE:
Pandora's Trunk
544 Haight st. btwn Steiner and Fillmore
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store is open, which means that it's one big dress up party! all
things are for you to purchase, own and love.
+ please check out one of marco's amazing paintings
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thanks!
kiss kiss

Assignment Summer Fun

Summer is swinging into full gear and Medium Reality is your agent for fun! I hope that you are dusting off your shades and snatching some moments to recline in the grass. We have been going full bore at all of my studios to get ready for the busy summer fun season. I can guarantee that if you go to these sale events I am doing you will get a quick chance to snag the shirts that have been flying off the racks.... check out my newest laser graphics!

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Heavy Hearts / Asiwouldsay
Zine Release Party & Runway Show
Saturday June 14th
Space gallery, 1141 Polk St (@Sutter)
21+ $5 (free yummies!!)

This event features (not once but twice!) a runway show with all of Pandora's hottest designers, featuring Lara Grant (Reset, Heavy Hearts) and Danielle DeRoberts (Onerary, Heavy Hearts). I will be showing 4-6 outfits on the runway (including a rare women's wear appearance) as well as some paintings on the walls. More details below, including schedule for the evening and details on performers.

also coming up:
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BUS Stop Trunk Sale - Wednesday June 25th - 6pm to 10pm

One of only two trunk sales series I am doing all summer long, this is sure to be a good one stuffed full of gems. I went to the first trunk sale at this new community/performance space and had to pick my jaw up off the ground at all the amazing designers there... I am returning with a little fear for how my wallet will fare. Come and see this amazing space and get your last pass at some brand new shirts right before gay pride!

BUS Stop Gallery
135 Dore St
off Folsom between 9th and 10th
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Prepare for the Playa
Burning Man fashion & how-to extravaganza and dance party
Sunday June 22 1pm-1am at
Cafe Cocomo 650 Indiana Street, SF

1-8pm All Ages, 8pm-1am 21+
Free entrance 1pm-5pm $10 from 5pm-7pm; $15 from 7pm-1am
*benefiting Playa Artist Peter Hudson!
SAVE $5 off entry with RSVP on www.preparefortheplaya.com

What's the deal with this madcap event? You will have to check the website for all the details on performers www.preparefortheplaya.com but the lowdown dirty details: I will be vending from 1-7; there will be a blowout runway show at 8, and some guerilla sales right after where the racks from the runway will go on sale as soon as the models take them off.


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More info on the June 14th Heavy Hearts party:

The Zine comes alive Saturday, June 14th at Space Gallery. The spotlight is on Heavy Hearts, a SF fashion team made up of Danielle DeRoberts of Onerary and Lara Grant of Reset (both also of the Pandora's Trunk collective). These ladies are known for their theatrical fashion shows and huge hearts. Danielle and Lara, along with several other local SF designers (also of Pandora's Trunk), will be showing their unique clothing lines as well as a few pieces made specifically for asiwouldsay! If you're down with independent fashion, you don't want to miss this. The runway show will go down twice during the course of the night, see below for details.

That's not all. The evening will also feature Ms.Natalie Gelman, a performer whose style is a synthesis of dance that draws from a diverse arena, ranging from the winding melodies of the middle east to the driving Afro Brazilian rhythms of Bahia. Talented musicians, Mark Machina, Derek Wright, Eric Hoffman, and Avshine will accompany her with strings and percussion.

As far as music is concerned, all the asiwouldsay family will be representing hard! The night starts with The Nothing, a talented producer and DJ, spinning a set of original music and featuring Darren "The Golden Horn" Reed on Trumpet. The zine mix will be put down as always by Moman and Chango Julius, this time around also featuring Maria Remos (aka The Songbird) and Dilcia Gonzalez. And last, but certainly not least, is the return of our resident roots & culture DJ, Stepwise, from his four month tour of South America!

Oh yea, AND it's an asiwouldsay art show featuring many amazing visual artists, AND there's free, good food!
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the schedule of events.... (subject to minor changes)

8 - The Nothing feat. live trumpet (perfect art show music)
9:30 - Heavy Hearts Fashion Show Round 1 (with live DJ and visuals)
10 - Zine Mix (selected by Moman, featuring Chango Julius, Maria Remos, and Dilcia)
11:30 - Natalie & Co. (live dance performance)
12 - Heavy Hearts Fashion Show Round 2 (with live DJ and visuals)
12:30 - Stepwise... (roots, foundation music)

Funk n Trunk & Opel!

This week is a crazy week, and it's only monday! We are only three weeks away and counting down from Craft Con, the business conference I am hosting here in SF this April 4-6. Meanwhile I've been keeping busy by planning for these two good times:

Vessel, the Grant Building Designers and Nicole Presents...

Funk n' Trunk
Wed, March 19, 2008
5pm - 8pm

The Funk n' Trunk show is back after a one year hiatus! We're still featuring the best in local designs for men and women. We've moved our event to happy hour at Vessel, a brand new luxury boutique lounge in the heart of Union Square! Every 3rd Wednesday of the month, join us for a drink, order some gourmet hors d'oeuvres and see the most hip, fresh and innovative clothing designs, accessories and jewelry in San Francisco! Support your local designers. Cash and checks accepted. Full bar, food and drink specials. 5pm - 8pm, but you can stay for Vessel's club night afterward.

Vessel
85 Campton Place
betw Grant and Stockton, Post and Sutter


and

Opel VI
Saturday March 22nd
10pm-4am @ Temple
540 Howard & 2nd

www.opelproductions.com/archiv...237.php

The party: Opel was born from a desire to fuse the values of the intentional parties of the underground, with the talent and production assets of the overground. It was also designed to be a party infused with consciousness, in which the gathering is a vehicle to build community, plant seeds of hope and social change, and nudge us to look inward to grow and challenge our own pain and fear that prevents us from fully living. So it shall be.

Pandora's Trunk Bead, Button, and Materials Swap - Sunday!

What: Bead, Button and Material Swap

Where: Pandora's Trunk, 544 Haight St (btw Fillmore and Steiner)

When: Sunday Feb 17th, 1pm to 4pm

Why: Because we love to share

come come come

xx

Pandora's Trunk
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Pandora's Trunk Grand Opening Party

This weekend brings a special opportunity to celebrate
the opening of a sustainable local art & design space,
Pandora's Trunk. This shop turns retail on its head
with a visual and interactive experience you won't
want to miss!

PANDORA'S TRUNK
grand opening party
Saturday, December 8th
6 -10pm
544 haight btw steiner/fillmore
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Meet the Artists:
Alfonso Kellenberger * Architect G * Dida Jewelry *
Fati Beloved * Medium Reality * Miranda Caroligne *
Missing Piece * Nome Edonna * Onerary * Rachel Jordana
Jewelry * Swirlspace

Live Music:
BYOInstruments for an interactive jam at 7pm!
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Circus Clownery featuring members of the Hobo
Gobbelins
accordion, ukulele and juggling feats!
www.myspace.com/hobogobbelins
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Jesse Wilson on guitar
She is also our visiting artist this month, showing
paintings in the front window!
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moman
www.asiwouldsay.com
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TOTTER
"TT of Heavyweight Dub Champion & Cochrane Mcmillan"
www.myspace.com/tottermusic

Free drinks and edibles:
BYOCup to reduce waste!
Catered by Sterling
Interactive activities & antics galore!


Had fun at one of our events in the past but can't make it out for this one? Please forward this listing on to anyone who you think might be interested - we'd love to meet your friends!