Sunday, July 20, 4pm

White Rainbow Live!

"What fascinates me in all of this has always been the perpetual dialectic between enlightened spiritual purity and all-too-human melodrama."

Plus! A reading by poet Tom Blood (of Rob Walmart), author of The Sky Position (Marriage Records Publishing House 2007) Winner of the Oregon Book Award for Poetry 2007

Plus! Northwest teenage GNAR SHRED PUNK sensations WHITE FANG

PLUS!!!
ROB WALMART in the CUBE VAN-UE parked outside/nearby blasting the crazy improv crunkstep lo fi electronic disaster bass boom with tom blood on the mic over the top!!!

Sunday, June 29, 4:30

Double Literary Event!

McSweeney's and 826LA present:

Launch of the new issue of Re-Active Zine - A zine put together by high school students in collaboration with Echo Park's 826LA.

Read about the project:
http://swindlemagazine.com/issue08/zine-teens/
www.re-active.info

Followed at 7pm by:

Launch of Triple Canopy Magazine- Issue 2!

Triple Canopy is a new online literary magazine featuring many writers that appear on Family's shelves. Roberto Bolano, Rivka Galchen, Ed Park, Jon Kessler, Wayne Koestenbaum, and more.

On the night:
Gil Blank presents remote photography 

Andrew Maxwell reads literary product trials

Laura Steenberge shows slides of words

http://canopycanopycanopy.com/

Monday, May 26, 7:30pm

The great Gary Panter is coming to Family in conjunction with his long awaited mega tome from Picture Box.

Things kick off with a musical performance from Panter and artist Devin Flynn! Followed by a chance to get your copy signed by the man himself. But wait! After that, The Cinefamily is going to host a night of movies curated by Gary.

Gary Panter is, without a doubt, one of the most influential artists of the last 40 years, as cartoonist, designer, painter, musician, sculptor, and even light show maker. He helped define the aesthetic of punk rock with his work with Slash Magazine and numerous punk rock covers and posters, has won Emmy's for his design of Pee-Wee's Playhouse, has done light shows with Alan Licht, drawn some of the best comics ever made, and still made a career for himself as a fine arts painter who has exhibited all over the world (most recently in the joint Mocca/Hammer Masters of American Cartooning show). Hugely influential and ahead of the curve, Gary Panter has shaped the world you live in whether you know it or not. And, in his mid-fifties, is still going strong with the kind of artistic vigor that leaves artists half his age cowering in awe.
So Monday night, mark the date, come out for a rad night of books, music, and movies with a legendary artist!

Two shows in two days!

Tuesday, 20 May at 8pm

Triumph of Lethargy Skinned Alive to Death
&
The Cave Singers

Two bands all the way from Seattle!

Triumph of Lethargy:
"A sparse, cantankerous dirge continuously plows through emotional selvage with minimalist instrumentation and extraterrestrial sound effects. Sounds best when utterly, completely alone."

and:

"The Cave Singers make beautifully anguished acoustic music that has been compared to Townes Van Zandt and Fleetwood Mac (singer Peter Quirk sure does sound a lot like Stevie Nicks sometimes)."

Then on Wednesday, 21 May at 8pm

Pre-Cluster Party and Poster Art Show!
Featuring new posters for the Cluster tour by Rick Froberg, Jim Drain, Andrew Jeffrey Wright, and many more!

With live performances by:

Ariel Pink
&
Anavan

May 11, Sunday 8pm

Naked on the Vague (Sydney, Australia) Live
Guest TBA

"Diving deep into a world of apocalyptic pop and psychedelic weirdness, their disparate vocals grip onto stabbing keys and menacing hook-laden basslines, pushed on by an unrelentling drum machine far past the end of its warranty period. Essentially a ‘punk’ assault ranging from some almost dance-able short and sharp ‘hits’ to gloomy extended freak-outs. Taking direction from where the short lived 'no-wave' movement ended, expanding on what the imploded scene may have garnished had it not succumbed to its own fatalistic shortcomings."

May 1st, Thursday 8pm

Dark Hand and Lamplight-$10

Family presents at The Cinefamily: Toronto-based visual artist Shary Boyle aka Dark Hand and musician Doug Paisley aka Lamplight first came together as an opening act for Will Oldham's 2006 tour of California (under his Bonnie “Prince” Billie moniker.) For the project, Lamplight wrote a collection of new songs, which Dark Hand used as the basis for a new series of artwork. Then, Dark Hand created artwork that Lamplight next used as the basis for new instrumental compositions and improvisations. In a live setting, the duo’s collaborative performance features Lamplight singing and playing guitar while Dark Hand creates live drawings and animates pre-drawn images on an overhead projector. Choreographed to the lyrics and music, Dark Hand projects her artwork onto a screen, the wall, Lamplight, and other available surfaces. For the first time since their original tour, the duo return to California to give a rare performance including their original favorites and new, never-performed material.
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March 16, Sunday 3pm

Human Bell Live - Free

Human Bell is a duo with Dave Heumann, leader of Arbouretum, and Nathan Bell, bassist for Lungfish. They are currently on tour with the Boredoms, but come see them within the intimate walls of Family first.