January 12, 2010
This Thursday the first installment of DISKURS will debut at the West Bank Social Center. Each month a film will be followed by a discussion on a related topic. No need to be a film buff to join-in, the conversation will be as fast and loose as the people who attend, so please attend, and bring your own beverages. This Month: Madness via Werner Herzog’s film Woyzeck. 7PM!

This Thursday the first installment of DISKURS will debut at the West Bank Social Center. Each month a film will be followed by a discussion on a related topic. No need to be a film buff to join-in, the conversation will be as fast and loose as the people who attend, so please attend, and bring your own beverages.

This Month: Madness via Werner Herzog’s film Woyzeck. 7PM!

January 12, 2010
Tonight help us welcome artist Jeff Hnilicka back to Minneapolis for a short stint as somebody-in-residence at the West Bank Social Center. Over the next 20 days Jeff will be working in and out of WBSC, where he’ll be compiling a community-generated list of 20 ideas for the next decade. You can stop by tonight to help kick things off and to add your ideas to what will likely become a sprawling, ambitious list. Our plan is to try to record at least one idea per day here, on ye olde Tumblr, so stay tuned (and speaking of the future, does the phrase “stay tuned” even make sense anymore? Hmm…)! FORESIGHT IS 2020ideas for the next decade Kick-Off Pot Luck Dinner Tuesday, January 12, 2010 | 6pm arrival | 7pm dinner RSVP and other info here.

Tonight help us welcome artist Jeff Hnilicka back to Minneapolis for a short stint as somebody-in-residence at the West Bank Social Center. Over the next 20 days Jeff will be working in and out of WBSC, where he’ll be compiling a community-generated list of 20 ideas for the next decade.

You can stop by tonight to help kick things off and to add your ideas to what will likely become a sprawling, ambitious list. Our plan is to try to record at least one idea per day here, on ye olde Tumblr, so stay tuned (and speaking of the future, does the phrase “stay tuned” even make sense anymore? Hmm…)!

FORESIGHT IS 2020
ideas for the next decade

Kick-Off Pot Luck Dinner
Tuesday, January 12, 2010 | 6pm arrival | 7pm dinner

RSVP and other info here.

January 6, 2010
Minneapolis Art on Wheels 2010 Artist Residency Program // Call for Applications We’re incredibly excited to be involved in MAW’s new Artist Residency Program. If you have ANY interest in public performances and interventions, experimental audio-visual works, interactive mobile media experiences, novel open source software instruments or performance tools…you’re going to want to check this out.

Minneapolis Art on Wheels 2010 Artist Residency Program // Call for Applications

We’re incredibly excited to be involved in MAW’s new Artist Residency Program. If you have ANY interest in public performances and interventions, experimental audio-visual works, interactive mobile media experiences, novel open source software instruments or performance tools…you’re going to want to check this out.

December 15, 2009
Join MCTC ceramics students and instructor Lauren Herzak-Bauman for a Last Meal Dinner Party and Potluck this Thursday, December 17 from 7:30-10pm. After thinking about what they’d eat for their final meal, they’ve designed ritual table wear to serve the food, which might be steak, or gummi bears, or big jugs of wine…Come see their creations, share in their meals, and add a recipe card to our last meal cookbook. Bring an item from your last meal to pass.

Join MCTC ceramics students and instructor Lauren Herzak-Bauman for a Last Meal Dinner Party and Potluck this Thursday, December 17 from 7:30-10pm. After thinking about what they’d eat for their final meal, they’ve designed ritual table wear to serve the food, which might be steak, or gummi bears, or big jugs of wine…Come see their creations, share in their meals, and add a recipe card to our last meal cookbook. Bring an item from your last meal to pass.

December 14, 2009
Listen up Hulkamaniacs, come be a part of history as the West Bank Social Center writes the next chapter in the Saga of Hulk Hogan’s Pastamania! - Eat: spaghetti - Witness: the unveiling of something very special - Watch: a WBSC-curated Hulk Hogan video medley - Listen: to Hulk Hogan And The Wrestling Boot Band’s seminal 1995 Rock/Rap hybrid album “Hulk Rules” - Share: your best Hulkamaniac stories and memories - Eat: more spaghetti Like a phoenix from the ashes, Hulk Hogan’s Pastamania! will rise again! This is a one night only spaghetti-eating extravaganza you will not want to miss. More information here.

Listen up Hulkamaniacs, come be a part of history as the West Bank Social Center writes the next chapter in the Saga of Hulk Hogan’s Pastamania!

- Eat: spaghetti
- Witness: the unveiling of something very special
- Watch: a WBSC-curated Hulk Hogan video medley
- Listen: to Hulk Hogan And The Wrestling Boot Band’s seminal 1995 Rock/Rap hybrid album “Hulk Rules”
- Share: your best Hulkamaniac stories and memories
- Eat: more spaghetti

Like a phoenix from the ashes, Hulk Hogan’s Pastamania! will rise again! This is a one night only spaghetti-eating extravaganza you will not want to miss.

More information here.

December 7, 2009
The Incredible Saga of Hulk Hogan’s Pastamania! Chapter 1: Hulk Hogan’s Pastamania! opens at the Mall of America in Bloomington, MN. (Resources: Actual video from the grand opening. Promotional photograph.) Chapter 2: Hulk Hogan’s Pastamania! closes, shortly after opening at the Mall of America in Bloomington, MN. Chapter 3: An indeterminate amount of time passes. Chapter 4: The sign from Hulk Hogan’s Pastamania! resurfaces on the awning of an abandoned building in the West Bank neighborhood of Minneapolis, MN. (Resource: Tim Kiser’s photograph - seen above - and investigative reporting.) Chapter 4: The sign from Hulk Hogan’s Pastamania! disappears and said abandoned building is torn down. Minneapolis weeps…(Resource: Reid Priedhorsky’s documentation of the sign’s disappearance and said building’s demise, in reverse chronological order.) The End. Or so we thought… On Monday, December 14th, come be a part of history as the West Bank Social Center writes the next chapter in this most amazing of stories (and eats way too much spaghetti). This is a one night only event you will not want to miss. Like a pheonix from the ashes, Hulk Hogan’s Pastamania! will rise again! More information on Facebook. - Colin

The Incredible Saga of Hulk Hogan’s Pastamania!

Chapter 1: Hulk Hogan’s Pastamania! opens at the Mall of America in Bloomington, MN. (Resources: Actual video from the grand opening. Promotional photograph.)
Chapter 2: Hulk Hogan’s Pastamania! closes, shortly after opening at the Mall of America in Bloomington, MN.
Chapter 3: An indeterminate amount of time passes.
Chapter 4: The sign from Hulk Hogan’s Pastamania! resurfaces on the awning of an abandoned building in the West Bank neighborhood of Minneapolis, MN. (Resource: Tim Kiser’s photograph - seen above - and investigative reporting.)
Chapter 4: The sign from Hulk Hogan’s Pastamania! disappears and said abandoned building is torn down. Minneapolis weeps…(Resource: Reid Priedhorsky’s documentation of the sign’s disappearance and said building’s demise, in reverse chronological order.)

The End.

Or so we thought…

On Monday, December 14th, come be a part of history as the West Bank Social Center writes the next chapter in this most amazing of stories (and eats way too much spaghetti). This is a one night only event you will not want to miss.

Like a pheonix from the ashes, Hulk Hogan’s Pastamania! will rise again! More information on Facebook.

- Colin

December 6, 2009
Just in case anybody would ever want to look at such a thing, Troy found this super high-res image (click here) of our mixer/amp. Enjoy! - Colin

Just in case anybody would ever want to look at such a thing, Troy found this super high-res image (click here) of our mixer/amp. Enjoy! - Colin

December 6, 2009
(it was one of those nights)

(it was one of those nights)

December 3, 2009

Hey, everyone:

This Saturday, December 5, 9pm-?, bring the noise— audio and visual— to WBSC as part of “Communal Mixtape,” an event hosted by Sergio Vucci, co-curator of Common Room. We’re creating, and projecting, a YouTube mixtape playlist you can access anywhere with the interwebs. By we, we mean you. Show up and add a song to the playlist, mingle, have a beverage, watch, dance, repeat.
 
Rules:
1.    Find the perfect, or near perfect, YouTube song video to share
2.    Arrive
3.    Plug in your YouTube song
4.    Bask in the glory

Check out a possible WBSC entry up above. A local favorite!

Very much!  —Miranda

November 23, 2009
MNKINO #5: CUT / COPY / PASTE [ RSVP on Facebook ]Tuesday, November 24th; 8pm at the West Bank Social Center, of course! More info at MNKINO’s website — and don’t forget to check out last month’s entries! (photos, from top to bottom: J E Theriot, ~mary, Allen)

MNKINO #5: CUT / COPY / PASTE [ RSVP on Facebook ]
Tuesday, November 24th; 8pm 
at the West Bank Social Center, of course!

More info at MNKINO’s website — and don’t forget to check out last month’s entries!

(photos, from top to bottom: J E Theriot, ~mary, Allen)

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