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[JRC]

(Is this pin worthy?)

For Immediate Release!
Trunk Space 5 Year Anniversary Party!
Friday April 17th!

$5.00 donation, but we won't bust yer chops about it

WHO: Us! The Trunk Space and our family of creative artists, performers, and musicians!
WHAT: A night to see some new talent, mingle with old friends, and celebrate our collective achievements.
WHERE: The Trunk Space, 1506 NW Grand Ave. 602-256-6006.
WHEN: Friday April 17th, starts at 6PM.
WHY: Its not every year an art gallery enters "kindergarten!"

Additional Info:
co-cowned by Stephanie Carrico and JRC (aka Jason)
http://www.thetrunkspace.com
http://www.myspace.com/thetrunkspace.

Special for this show will be:

Kepi Ghoulie (from THE GROOVIE GHOULIES!) http://www.myspace.com/kepighoulie

Plus, we're also hosting a special screening of a new documentary "To Be Named Later"
Which features many members of our community!
I haven't seen it, but I'm told in makes PHX look freakin' awesome!

Special Omlettes & Crepes cooked to order by our friend Chief Mario Etsitty.
(sorry, these won't be free but they'll be damn cheap, and worth every penny)

In the 5 years The Trunk Space has been open they have shown the work of over 75 artists and hosted over 1000 live events.
In addition to painting, photography and drawing, Trunk Space has also hosted special exhibits by Gregory Sale, a memorial retrospective for Sean O’Donnell, and the work of Arizona luminaries like Jeff Falk and Janet DeBerge-Lang among others.
Most of all, we are proud to have been the place where dozens of talented young and new artists have first shown their creative work to the world.

Among our live shows, we are pleased to have worked with people such as performance artist Wynn Greenwood (aka “Tracy & The Plastics”), Jeph Jerman, The Gadabout Traveling Film Fest, Quintron & Ms. Cat, Kimya Dawson, Ryan Avery, Matt & Kim, the 999 Eyes Circus Sideshow, Larry “Wildman” Fisher, Jason Anderson, and Jason Webley among many others.

For our 5 Year Anniversary party, we’d appreciate nothing greater then to have all of our community of friends come and share the evening with us, appreciating the art of:
Jayme Philip Lemperle from AZ ( http://www.myspace.com/jaymechild)
Landon Manucci from AZ (http://www.spraygrap...m/landonmanucci)
Jon Carling from Oakland,CA (http://www.myspace.com/joncarling)

[MikeyWretch]

KEPI!!!

[eraser]

Happy birthday, Trunk Space!

The anniversary party falls on the weekend of the Phoenix Improv Festival, so I will heartbreakingly and unfortunately be missing a good chunk of the celebration.

If you can make it, please party up for me when you're there.

The unnamed documentary is really good, fun, and, in parts, touching. There are a lot different folks that are documenting the amazing boom and success of downtown Phoenix arts, music, and culture in their photos, videos, publications, blogs & websites, and films and I think the film in question, even with its primary focus on a person and not the scene or the city will be considered one of the better entries into that pantheon.

A lot of the attention that the Trunk Space gets is centered around the music it features, and rightly so. The Trunk Space has become known by some of the most fun, innovative, interesting, and weirdest acts from around the country. While there are wide range of performers from diverse backgrounds that have come to consider Trunk Space their home when they stop in Phoenix, the one thing that really unites them is their intense passion for their art, to achieve the absolute pinnacle of their craft, and their desire to share that with people and to connect with these instant communities, made up equally of friends and strangers, that come together around these music shows.

I've been really lucky to travel across the country often in the past few years, and when I zero in on interesting musicians & performers mentioning Trunk Space, to let them know that it's an oasis in Arizona, in one of my first priorities. More recently, it's happens more often than not that they've already performed there or already know about it otherwise!

And, that's just the support that they've shown out of towners.

Trunk Space has become the de facto home for a lot of Phoenix's most talented and most relevant performers and musicians. There have been so many first shows, CD release shows, and final / farewell shows - in some cases, all for the same band!

The Trunk Space is really at the heart of a really unique community in downtown Phoenix, one that even draws folks in from Tempe, Scottsdale, and other outlying areas. I could go on and on, but I think you'd be hard pressed to find many venues, in Phoenix, or anywhere, that inspire folks to get tribute tattoos.

I'm glad that JRC mentioned some of the art that has been on TS's walls over the years - There have been some really amazing pieces of work that have been displayed!

Sean O'Donnell's memorial show was one of the most impressive and affecting exhibitions that I've had the honor of taking in. His talent, rendered in photography and intricate collages & found assemblages, was lovingly put on display through the efforts of his closest friends who spent countless hours piecing together a show that both mourned and celebrated him. The result was, in equal doses, beautiful and haunting.

Janet deBerge Lange and Jeff Falk are two of downtown Phoenix's earliest art scene pioneers. Their support and patronage of venues and other artists is as important as Falk's work in mixed medium and avant garde performance and Lange's found object works. In a very real way, the community they built when downtown Phoenix was closer to being the wasteland that some folks still think it is was the foundation of all of the exciting things going on in downtown today. Nothing is without precedent and the development and convergence of the art, music, and culture scene in Phoenix finally reaching critical mass stands on the shoulders of them and their peers whose efforts started out some 30 years ago.

Which brings me back to The Trunk Space on its 5th anniversary.

I've had the pleasure of knowing and becoming good friends with Steph and JRC - they're some of my best friends in fact. In this world, where it seems that people are constant in their cutthroat practices to get ahead even (and in some cases, especially) if it's at someone else's expense, I think one of the highest compliments you can pay to someone is to simply regard them as a good person. Steph and JRC are some of the best people I know.

Even if I didn't know them, though, the place and community that they have created and cultivated is a testament to the depth of their goodness. They've poured so much of their heart, soul, time, and energy into what they're truly passionate about, and it is truly appreciated because over the past five years, they've transformed the Trunk Space from just an idea to something tangible and, ultimately, to one of the cornerstones of the downtown Phoenix scene. The Trunk Space has become one of the vital pieces of the foundation, just like some of the artists & venues before it (even if they're not around anymore, they've contributed to what we have today - just like The Paper Heart, rip).

It's one thing to be merely the one of the centers of a social scene, but to grow into becoming an essential part of the cultural fabric of a city (love her as I do) that too often makes it too easy for good things to slip away without notice is more than anyone can hope for.

Thank you, Trunk Space, and much continued success - I love you!

[donald]

(Is this pin worthy?)

yes

[dharma_bum]

ViVa EL tRoNCo esPAciO

[JJames]

As if the day wasn't badass enough you decided to have crepes!

Fuck
Yeah

[JRC]

As if the day wasn't badass enough you decided to have crepes!

Fuck
Yeah

For those of you who used to come to FF when we first opened, for about the first 10 months, our buddy Mario would come out and make omelets and crepes to order.
THEY ARE FANTASTIC!
I should be forward though, while we're just asking donations for the party (no pressure), Mario does have to charge for the food.
Its always worth way more then he asks, so don't be afraid.
We'll have some other snacks too I think, and someone is working on a cake, so yea, hope that doesn't turn anyone off.

XO,
JRC--The Trunk Space

[MikeyWretch]

I cant be at this because i have some other crap going on but Happy BDAY TP!!!!!

SO AWEOSME!!!! here is to another 5!!!

CHEERS!

[Mary]

Only in Europe do people think the birthday boy/girl/art space should host and pay for the food at their own party.

We know better. Don't feel bad, TS!

[awesome]

too bad I'll be at an amazing house show instead :/

[JRC]

too bad I'll be at an amazing house show instead :/

You can always come by early, we'll be starting at 6.
Who's playing the house show anywho?

JRC

[awesome]

Dan Padilla, Turkish Techno, and Rumspringer. Plus tons of friends from California will be there or I'd way be supporting the TS.

[MikeyWretch]

We realize that we are dumb and well we would want to be at the TS and yes Kepi and well dang we suck!
There may be some folks that hit both up.

[Quezo]

Sounds like my friday will include commiserating with Trunk Space peeps, eating crepes and hugging my congrats, to be followed closely by a house party with bands, beer and hopefully debauchery.

I am the luckiest boy I know. sniff.

[TPStank]

Happy 5 years guys!


Trunk Space 5 Year Anniversary Party!
04/17/09 @ 6pm @ Trunk Space
with Kepi Ghoulie (from The Groovie Ghoulies!), Screening Of A New Documentary "to Be Named Later"