THE CLOSING PARTY! WEDNESDAYS OPEN PLATFORM

THE CLOSING PARTY! WEDNESDAYS OPEN PLATFORM

June 24 / bar opens 6PM

Featuring JED ESCUETA’S Unknown A.D. with live performances by

The Beauty of Doubt / Granada / Todas / Republika de Lata / Pink Cow / Einstein Chakras

Sometimes, we never really realize that those feverish delirious bouts of spontaneity could ever reach their plateau. Perhaps the temptation to be divine and immortal are to blame. Or even the comfortable proximity of weekly debaucheries which keep us hopeful despite the throngs of the ordinary workforce, to whom we also belong, forcibly incorporated to compromise play in exchange of those seemingly safe Friday night outs. It is hard to imagine how we have managed to take over the reigns of Friday in exchange for our anarchic Wednesday-hump-day love affairs. And as far as love affairs (the same way little get away adventures) are concerned, we all know that they too eventually reach that unbearable lightness. Some get married and the others move on to other adventures.

What started out as spur of the moment let's do this out of boredom affair has grown into much loved and awaited weekly gathering. A million thanks to all of you: doers, talkers, voyeurs and hangers-on alike. Not to mention those newly initiated virgins who also made our sober nights interesting. It's almost hard to believe that it's over–but it is, we are approaching the end. Not with sorrow, regret, melancholia, sentimental cheesy songs nor relief but with a party! What else?!

So join us as we close Jed Escueta's Mama Don't Take My Kodachrome Away with his final project Unknown A.D., an arduous photo documentation of the all around Pinoy punk degenerate and underground scene accumulated over the years. And yes to bid Wednesdays-m-Love a final adieu. To all of you who have patiently followed it and to some of you who have never made it. Nevertheless, we will agree that the ride was indisputably a big one for the books. So we all better be there!!! Catch the live performances of The Beauty of Doubt, Granada, Todas, Republika de Lata, Pink Cow and Einstein Chakras. This is your last chance to make it. Never say die for tomorrow we drink!

The WOP Residency Progran is suported by Arts Network Asia. www.artsnetworkasia.org http://wednesdaysmnlove.blogspot.com

GREEN PAPAYA ART PROJECTS

41 T. Gener Street (corner Kamuning Rd.), Quezon City

Phone/Fax 7941628 Mobile 0926 6635606

greenpapayaartprojects@gmail.com

www.greenpapayaartprojects.org / http://papayapost.blogspot.com

w.o.p JUNE 17 | Jed Escueta MEDIA BLITZ

MAMA DON’T TAKE MY KODACHROME AWAY WEDNESDAYS OPEN PLATFORM
JED ESCUETA / Media Blitz
June 17 / bar opens 6pm

In the midst of the normal and the ordinary, the inevitable deviation is what matters. And it is inevitable-- we have all done something that becomes one for the books, where we pay homage to the rock star and his neon lights, sex, booze and rock and roll, shredding (not walking!) the edge, throttling life to a blinding height. But living fast and dying young is not so much the issue. What is being revealed is the individual's conviction to stray and to meander yet arrive at a resolution which poses as a seductive alternative to the norm. It is also a question of identity-- distilling oneself in a vast world surely makes use of some degree of rebellion, finding out what drives us, what makes us tick, how we innovate our victories, how we fall to our failures.

In Media Blitz, Jed Escueta revisits the roots of his practice through punk music and culture through a screening of a video documentary of the legendary punk band, The Germs. Is there only one way to be, one way to go about things? Whether music, religion or in this case, Escueta's practice, the existence of the possibility to deflect what is expected proves otherwise. So come and join us as we beat the midweek blues this Wednesday at Green Papaya for a movie and the usual chill out session to follow. See you there! (ZD)

The WOP Residency Program is supPorted by Arts Network Asia. www.artsnetworkasia.org http://wednesdaysmnlove.blogspot.com www.artsnetworkasia.org

GREEN PAPAYA ART PROJECTS
41 T. Gener Street (corner Kamuning Rd.), Quezon City Phone/Fax 7941628
greenpapayaartprojects@gmail.com info@greenpapayaartprojects.org
www.greenpapayaartprojects.org / http://papayapost.blogspot.com

OPEN CALL FOR CREATIVE MUSICIAN TO BE PART OF PROJECT ANAKATIRA!

OPEN CALL FOR CREATIVE MUSICIAN TO BE PART OF PROJECT ANAKATIRA!

The European based Explorer Dance Collective seeks a Cebu based professional musician to join the Anakatira! Project in Cebu. Dance artists Christina Jensen and Ylva Henrikson are leading a community based performance project with a group of young people in collaboration with Cebu City Task Force for Street Children. The production itself will last 5 weeks accumulating in a public performance by the participants. The project is funded by Hong Kong based environmentally friendly clothing company The Earth Collection.

We are looking for a creative individual who enjoys working collaboratively in a team, is interested in investigating how dance and music meet in the studio and in performance, but most importantly enjoys working with young people. The process will involve a lot of experimenting and will initially function as a workshop concerning movement, sound and rhythm. We are open to all styles or types of musicians/composers, for example even DJs could work for the process, what is important is an interest improvisational skills.

This is paid work and we are eager to find someone who is right for the project. Write to us explaining why you would like to get involved and what you can bring as an artist to the process. Please also include a biography about your past work/experience. If you have any links or websites we can look at that would also be great.

Please email the above requirements to:

Christina Jensen and Ylva Henrikson
anakatira@gmail.com

…and do not hesitate to contact us if you would like more information about the project or concerning our creative work!

w.o.p JUNE 3 | Jed Escueta SMELL HUSTLE

JED ESCUETA / Smell Hustle / June 3 / bar opens 6pm

"What interests us are the circumstances." Perhaps the innate curiosity of the familiar that sustain our motion towards the dreadful leap of faith in the known. A deliberate suspension of disbelief in order to give second, or even a third, life to the ordinary. For example, waking up in the same side of the bed whilst noticing the subtle shift in the incessant barking of the dogs next door. Or the newly painted jeep you take every morning to work. Perhaps even the new brew that sits on your breakfast counter. At times, what matter are these little seeming divinities plucked out of the unconscious brought to life by nothing else than circumstances. A collaborative work between god and the devil. And when walking a foreign street, our elders have repeatedly reminded us to trust your instincts and follow the scent that leads you. Its hard to ignore the compelling truth in age-old wisdom of the pagan who pays his respect to every tree, mound and living creature that crosses its path.

As we immerse in Jed Escueta's varied concerns in the photographic practice, he further takes us in to the privacy of his intuit: a day he woke up to a storm, mother's plants, the pet dog taking a piss break. Seemingly banal events that probably contain some David Lynch-ian anomaly to it. In Smell Hustle, the third installment of his WOP residency, Escueta pronounces the invisible boundaries of a photograph. Capturing the danger zones that we don't normally notice. As always and now with the rainy days back there is more reason to chill out and be cozy this Wednesday. Also to catch is the artist's weekly intoxicating brew. Join us as we jump start a heavy week of activities at Green Papaya.

The WOP Residency Program is supported by Arts Network Asia www.artsnetworkasia.org

Heads up: June 5-6 (Friday and Saturday), watch out for the continuing series of Open Studio Sessions of Gangan Ensemble with visiting Malaysian experimental sound artists Yong Yandsen and Kok Siew-Wai.

w.o.p MAY 27 | JED ESCUETA + ANDREA TERAN'S Monthly Period Readings

WEDNESDAYS OPEN PLATFORM, MAY 27 / BAR OPENS 6PM

JED ESCUETA’S FORGOTTEN NUTS TURN INTO TREES runs until May 30,
PIRATE SATELLITE of NU 107 spins for the evening

ANDREA TERAN’S MONTHLY PERIOD READING
features NICOLAS PICHAY and KHAVN DE LA CRUZ IN CONVERSATION

DAVID GRIGGS’ NEW YORK LONDON PARIS ROME MANILA CITY JAIL runs until May 30



Those ready to fill-in the blank notecards lying on top of the table have gathered enough dust to stand for years of memory accumulation. Along with the phone call missed, deadline that has passed, and unsent postcards. Perpetual motion covers up the little god-like details sitting in the feverish bed of habit and comfortable metaphors. Is there indeed no time to stop and smell the flowers? Or the freshly pressed morning coffee waiting in the kitchen? Like the mythical hunter occupied with capturing the horizon to take back home, time is a slippery animal to conquer yet also a nomad equally fascinated with predictable monotony. And its faithful followers determined to outrun it, only to be disappointed perhaps or mesmerized by the prey. Frozen, stuck in a moment but oblivious to its eventual end.

End is far from near but we hear it approaching as Jed Escueta approaches the second half of his residency his photo installation Forgotten Nuts Turn Into Trees is still up for those who have failed to catch it the previous week. And because we like quiet evenings that mutate into crazy evening gatherings, Pirate Satellite of NU 107 joins us to spin the evening away. If you thought that was all, there’s more! Andrea Teran’s Monthly Period Reading returns all dressed up, prim and proper. Then maybe not. Tomorrow catch filmmaker-maverick-indie-man-of-the-world artist Khavn de la Cruz and award winning playwright Nicolas Pichay in conversation with each other as they wrestle the world of narrative, drama, cinema or even each other. See you, see you its another Wednesday to be in love!

The Wednesdays Open Platform residency is supported by Arts Network Asia www.artsnetworkasia.org
David Griggs's residency and exhibition is supported by Asialink and The Australian Embassy in the Philippines

GREEN PAPAYA ART PROJECTS
41 T. Gener Street (corner Kamuning Rd.), Quezon City Phone 0926 6635606
greenpapayaartprojects@gmail.com info@greenpapayaartprojects.org
www.greenpapayaartprojects.org / http://papayapost.blogspot.com

w.o.p MAY 20| Jed Escueta FORGOTTEN NUTS TURN INTO TREES

JED ESCUETA / Forgotten Nuts Turn into Trees

Wednesdays Open Platform / May 20 / Bar Opens 6PM

It's just as well that any law for memory has been repealed. Perhaps they just change, as most things are inclined to do, funneled through every individual pair of eyes.

In this case, it is with Forgotten Nuts Turn into Trees that photographs serve not only as the quintessential time capsules that they are, but also move into the peculiarities of a time bomb, wherein 3...2...1 what was once just a picture, explodes into something beyond a memento and lands in the light of shifting perspective. On the other end of it is the rediscovery of what was left behind during those few seconds when the flash bursts, resulting in an unapologetically simple picture... luminous in its rawness. In the looking back that occurs, each piece of suspended time and reality sprouts into new life, whether through introspection or conversation, throttling and permeating ones consciousness.

This Wednesday, Jed Escueta mounts his second exhibition as artist-in-residence. For another round of non-linear rumination, we invite all the usual suspects (and then some) to help kick off May's second WOP offering. So come! Buried somewhere in the night's speeding headlights and the slow burning cigarette is space to draw out the past and let it spark yet again. Let us maneuver through and around both retrospection and reconstruction, amidst the vibrating engines and tires that careen upon the little street most of us have all come to make our pit stop for the week. And if you haven't had a taste of Papaya, make this your first! We'll be waiting! (ZD)

The WOP Residency Progran is suported by Arts Network Asia www.artsnetworkasia.org http:// wednesdaysmnlove.blogspot.com

David Griggs’ New York London Paris Rome Manila City Jail runs until May 30, 2009

GREEN PAPAYA ART PROJECTS

41 T. Gener Street (corner Kamuning Rd.), Quezon City Phone/Fax 632 7941628

greenpapayaartprojects@gmail.com info@greenpapayaartprojects.org

www.greenpapayaartprojects.org / http://papayapost.blogspot.com

w.o.p MAY 13| Jed Escuta MAMA DON'T TAKE MY KODACHROME AWAY

MAMA DON'T TAKE MY KODACHROME AWAY / JED ESCUETA
WEDNESDAYS OPEN PLATFORM
BAR OPENS 2PM

If you missed last week's W.O.P comeback then wonder no longer. Yes, anticipation rocked and shook the house as avid followers, fans and hangers on braved the rains to join in some good 'ol dancing to jumpstart Jed Escueta's WOP residency Mama, Don't Take My Kodachrome Away. Time passes by quickly when you're having fun as Coffeebreak Island chased it away with two straight hours of non-stop moves and tunes. It was of course also an added pleasure to have on view years of collected photographs and snapshots. Meanwhile, David Griggs' opening last Friday was equally met by boisterous though slightly subdued crowd.

Surely, the string of last week's events have left most of us nursing the occasional hella' of a hangover so it is with a little prudence that we continue on with Fool Fool Around ongoing until May 16. This Wednesday we opt for the rather quiet but potentially potent chill out and hanging around so do drop by to catch the current exhibitions on view.

New York London Paris Rome Manila City Jail by David Griggs ongoing until May 30, 2009