Wednesday
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Tickets are available half-hour before the show.
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Groundbreaker Short Films
Dimmer (short film)
By Talmage Cooley 12 MIN. DOCUMENTARY
Dimmer is a glimpse into the life of Mike, a blind teenager growing up with a gang of blind friends amid the decaying rust belt factories and neighborhoods of Buffalo, New York. Music by Interpol.
Man (short film)
By Myna Joseph 14 MINS 30 SECS.
Maggie and her sister forge an unusual bond during an encounter with a young stranger.
Recommended for mature audiences
The Second Line (short film)
By John Magary 20 MINS
In post-Katrina New Orleans, two cousins take what work they can get. After gutting the house of a strange couple, tensions come to the breaking point in this study of poverty and survival.
Pol Pot's Birthday (Short Film)
By Talmage Cooley 10 MINS
The office staff of the most brutal dictator on earth attempts to throw a surprise birthday party for their boss.
Groundbreaker shorts are showing Wednesday April 15, at 1pm; Friday April 17, at 4pm; Saturday April 18, at 1pm and 9pm
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Art//Fashion Fashion//Art
This discussion will feature the work of Elisa Jimenez and her approach to design, highlighting her methods for infusing love and art into her work. For more information, contact: R. Brooke Priddy 828-242-1378
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We kick off HATCHfest Music with our groundbreaker and mentor songwriters joining together to interact with young HATCHfest attendees to share their stories and lessons learned while pursuing a creative profession. After the panel, the songwriters will work together during an all-day songwriting clinic at Echo Mountain Studio.
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Innovation has become the catch word for the 21st century. But what exactly is innovation, really? Our panel of HATCH mentors who represent a diverse range of perspectives will explore the very nature of how we innovate and why innovation is important.
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Tickets are available half-hour before the show.
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Everything Strange and New
By Frazer Bradshaw
Already bent by the demands of his home life – fatherhood, a faltering marriage, and a submerged mortgage – a tradesman struggles to balance his own appetites and expectations with those of a friend in need. EVERYTHING STRANGE AND NEW is an intimate portrait of ordinary people and their longing for certainty in uncertain times.
Wayne is a carpenter, no longer young but uneasy with the emotional complexities of adulthood. Aimless hours spent with Leo, his newly-divorced drinking buddy, offer some relief to the heavy gravity at home, where his kids run roughshod over his increasingly unstable wife. Living between these worlds leaves Wayne feeling like a character in someone else's story. Ultimately, a violent spasm rouses him from this fevered American dream.
With its concise pacing and wider implications, EVERYTHING STRANGE AND NEW considers the proposition of living life with an economy of expression.
Showing Wednesday April 15, at 4pm; Thursday April 16, at 1pm; and Friday April 17, at 7pm
Recommended for mature audiences.
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"We are fortunate in this region to have a very strong community of photographers. This particular group is just a subset, one that, to my way of seeing it, has forged an especially devoted relationship to the medium’s strengths as described above. I have been fortunate in this opportunity brought about by HATCH Asheville and Blue Spiral Gallery to bring them together for this exhibition, and more fortunate indeed to have this chance to inject my own work into the mix." - Ken Abbott
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Good Dick
Good Dick is a modern fairy tale about a troubled, reclusive young woman and the persistent video clerk who draws her out of her claustrophobic world by starting up a unique courtship with her.
As they become closer, her sexual antipathy is met with his unflinching optimism, until finally her aggressive defenses overwhelm them both and the relationship bursts apart. Profoundly affected by his presence in her life, she finds that she has the courage to face her past.
Showing Wednesday April 15, at 7pm; Thursday April 16, at 4pm; Friday April 17, at 1pm; Saturday April 18, at 4pm
Recomended for mature audiences
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Come experience an intimate performance by the HATCHfest Songwriters at Bobo Gallery, one of the cozy epicenters of Asheville's creative renaissance. Mentors Benjamin Taylor and Gary Jules are joined by Woody Wood, Stephanie Morgan and Angi West. Limited seating, $10 cost. BUY TICKETS
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Thursday
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Hands-on Workshop for artists who are interested in patchwork, quilting, embroidery, collage, and painting
Two 2-hour sessions
Time: Thursday, April 16th 10am -12 and 1pm - 3
Location: The Asheville Arts Council located at 11 Biltmore Avenue in downtown Asheville
Materials Fee: $30
Pre-Register to reserve your seat in this workshop online at https://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/61513
Capacity: up to 25 participants
This workshop is inspired by a group of Japanese folk textile and clothing from the late nineteenth and early twentieth century, such as padded sleeping mattresses and comforters, fisherman’s coats, lumberjack’s vests, and other everyday wear. These were dyed in indigo and extensively patched and darned as necessary, utilizing regional resources to the limit.
In Ms. Wada's forthcoming book, she uses the Japanese term boro to define a new aesthetic and to bring new meaning to an alternative creative process, e.g., darning = healing, meditative action = marking time, reuse/repair = recording history. "Boro" represents the transformation of inconsequential material to something precious and valuable. Ordinarily, these tattered, castaway rags and the articles pieced together from them would be considered of little to no value. Boro, on the other hand, are viewed as beautiful in a way that defies convention. This type of imperfect beauty possesses a power that resonates with people almost like an emotional barometer. It points to an alternative value of "beauty" slowly coming to surface in our social consciousness.
Participants will learn about traditional Japanese common textiles made with boro (rags and fabric scraps) and will reinterpret this folk tradition by creating a fabric collage using layering, piecing, sewing and darning. Participants will also explore the use of water-soluble sheets to create open, lace-like structures in collage. Scrap fabrics will be provided by dosa inc. of Los Angeles (www.dosainc.com), and participants are also welcome to bring their own recycled, used, stained scraps or moth-eaten woolens to incorporate into their project.
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This will be a panel event, comprised of local professionals that will be available to field your questions on understanding and mastering the power of the media in promoting your art business.
Panelist Backgrounds:
Erin Scholze - Erin is the owner of Dreamspider Publicity and Events. Through her business
she does publicity for several bands and arts organizations; in addition, she also consults, plans,
promotes, and works for various artistic events.
Greg Vineyard - Greg’s professional background includes familiarity with all phases of graphic de-
sign for marketing, sales, logos, packaging, print, and production. Now on a visual arts path, his past
business experiences help him stay focused on opportunities that are in line with his art business.
Paul Van Heden - Paul was a Search Engine Optimizer and social networking consultant until he
got hired to handle marketing for the Asheville Transit System.
Karen Hemphill - Karen is the owner/operator of We Art the People, a social web networking
forum for artists which was launched 3 weeks ago and already has over 120 members.
Jenny Bowen - Jenny has participated in several creative campaigns on all levels that utilize the
effects of web marketing and social networking.
Jonas Gerard - Jonas, known for his creative thinking and leadership within the local arts community, has redefined a new approach to what art is. His work is about the fire within, the spontaneity and excitement of pure expression.
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Panelists:
Erin Scholze
Greg Vineyard
Paul Van Heden
Karen Hemphill
Jenny Bowen
Jonas Gerard
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Tickets are available half-hour before the show.
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Everything Strange and New
By Frazer Bradshaw
Already bent by the demands of his home life – fatherhood, a faltering marriage, and a submerged mortgage – a tradesman struggles to balance his own appetites and expectations with those of a friend in need. EVERYTHING STRANGE AND NEW is an intimate portrait of ordinary people and their longing for certainty in uncertain times.
Wayne is a carpenter, no longer young but uneasy with the emotional complexities of adulthood. Aimless hours spent with Leo, his newly-divorced drinking buddy, offer some relief to the heavy gravity at home, where his kids run roughshod over his increasingly unstable wife. Living between these worlds leaves Wayne feeling like a character in someone else's story. Ultimately, a violent spasm rouses him from this fevered American dream.
With its concise pacing and wider implications, EVERYTHING STRANGE AND NEW considers the proposition of living life with an economy of expression.
Showing Wednesday April 15, at 4pm; Thursday April 16, at 1pm; and Friday April 17, at 7pm
Recommended for mature audiences.
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The art of music discovery is drastically changing. Traditional gatekeepers like radio, Rolling Stone and MTV are losing their significance, and consumers are lost in a diverse landscape of fragmented and unending media choices. Thursday's Music Panel at the Innovator's Lounge explores the increasing importance of curation in music. You are invited to listen to our esteemed group of mentors who will share their experiences in how musicians will be discovered in the new paradigm. The panel consists of Ashley Capps (founder of Bonnaroo Music Festival), Sean Moeller (founder / producer of the Daytrotter blog) and Nate Douglas (Chief Curation Officer for Paste Magazine).
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Future of Performance Visuals for the Stage
A discussion on the current and future trends in the visual design industry as it relates to concert touring. Rob will be discussing new technologies that bring video onto the stage and off of the 4x3 flat surface. He will discuss VJing techniques and how they are influencing the professional industry. Followed by a Q&A session.
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$30 - limited seating
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Hands-on Workshop for artists who are interested in patchwork, quilting, embroidery, collage, and painting
Two 2-hour sessions
Time: Thursday, April 16th 10am -12 and 1pm - 3
Location: The Asheville Arts Council located at 11 Biltmore Avenue in downtown Asheville
Materials Fee: $30
Pre-Register to reserve your seat in this workshop online at http://www.hatchasheville.org/hatchfest/tickets/
Capacity: up to 25 participants
This workshop is inspired by a group of Japanese folk textile and clothing from the late nineteenth and early twentieth century, such as padded sleeping mattresses and comforters, fisherman’s coats, lumberjack’s vests, and other everyday wear. These were dyed in indigo and extensively patched and darned as necessary, utilizing regional resources to the limit.
In Ms. Wada's forthcoming book, she uses the Japanese term boro to define a new aesthetic and to bring new meaning to an alternative creative process, e.g., darning = healing, meditative action = marking time, reuse/repair = recording history. "Boro" represents the transformation of inconsequential material to something precious and valuable. Ordinarily, these tattered, castaway rags and the articles pieced together from them would be considered of little to no value. Boro, on the other hand, are viewed as beautiful in a way that defies convention. This type of imperfect beauty possesses a power that resonates with people almost like an emotional barometer. It points to an alternative value of "beauty" slowly coming to surface in our social consciousness.
Participants will learn about traditional Japanese common textiles made with boro (rags and fabric scraps) and will reinterpret this folk tradition by creating a fabric collage using layering, piecing, sewing and darning. Participants will also explore the use of water-soluble sheets to create open, lace-like structures in collage. Scrap fabrics will be provided by dosa inc. of Los Angeles (www.dosainc.com), and participants are also welcome to bring their own recycled, used, stained scraps or moth-eaten woolens to incorporate into their project.
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Human-Centered Vehicle Design for Space
This presentation will focus on creative human centered design solutions in relation to manned space vehicle design and development in the NASA culture. The talk will focus on design process, iterative prototyping, mockup building and user testing and evaluation. We will take an inside look at how new space vehicle concepts are developed and designed for real life exploration scenarios.
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Cheap and effective film technology is now available to a host of talented people who prevoiouslty would have never had the opportunity to make films. Hi-definition cameras that produce dazzling images, turnkey animation solutions and home suites create effects and animation once reserved for hollywood royalty. Editing suites, now in a spare bedroom rival what was once housed in an editing compound, composing suites with master composers and musicians are now replaced by off-the-shelf beat machines (and very good needle drop music), while technology, software and skills that were previously only available to those with the means and the training are now within the relative reach of many. What then lies in store for established filmmakers, animators, composers, editors and those that make their living around the process of big-time filmmaking? As the economy sours, are they scared of the growing DIY (Do It Yourself) movement? What are they doing to adjust? Given this trend, how do you stay relevant? Are gatekeepers and arbiters of taste going to have to find other employment?
How does this bode for future and fledgling filmmakers? Is the traditional path, from festival to stardom dead? Is it relevant? Does it matter? Further, as more and more people become authors of content, what in fact is viable cinema? What is cinema?!!
Join our trailblazers and the new generation of filmmakers as they discuss the state and future of film.
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Good Dick
Good Dick is a modern fairy tale about a troubled, reclusive young woman and the persistent video clerk who draws her out of her claustrophobic world by starting up a unique courtship with her.
As they become closer, her sexual antipathy is met with his unflinching optimism, until finally her aggressive defenses overwhelm them both and the relationship bursts apart. Profoundly affected by his presence in her life, she finds that she has the courage to face her past.
Showing Wednesday April 15, at 7pm; Thursday April 16, at 4pm; Friday April 17, at 1pm; Saturday April 18, at 4pm
Recomended for mature audiences
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CiTy-SCAN
This lecture proposes and presents methods that look inside the city, in real time, to understand human and city physiology as part of an intricate ecology. Working from a series of texts and discussions on temporality, public space and representation, and drawing from historical and contemporary references in architecture, film, cartography, photography, literature, medicine, urbanism, and biology a series of "Living Maps" of cities will be presented.
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The evening will feature work and works curated by the mentors, Elisa Jimenez, Yoshiko Wada, and Mary Gehlhar. The evening will also feature a a spontaneous couture fitting by Elisa Jimenez.
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Tickets are available half-hour before the show.
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Feature Film: Made in China
By Judi Krant and Dan Sumpter
Slinkys, Pet Rocks and Ant Farms … behind every great novelty item is a great Novelty Inventor.
Co-written and directed by Judi Krant (in her directorial debut), MADE IN CHINA is a comedy about one such inventor, Johnson (Jackson Kuehn), a self-styled novelty inventor from a small town in East Texas, who is determined to bring his big idea - "a humorous domestic hygiene product" - to the world.
Johnson's journey takes him to the Mecca of the novelty world: China, where anything is possible and everything has its price. Lost in the backstreets of Shanghai, Johnson discovers that it takes more than a million dollar idea to make it to the big time. It takes guts, determination, and a fist full of sneezing powder.
Showing Thursday April 16, 7pm; and Saturday April 18, 7pm
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Tickets are available half-hour before the show.
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Genghis Blues
By Adrian Belic
Paul Pena played blues with the greats T-Bone Walker, B.B. King, and Bonnie Raitt. In 1995, the blind bluesman became the first American ever to compete in an unusual contest of multi-harmonic "throatsinging."
The Autonomous Republic of Tuva, wedged between Siberia and Mongolia, for centuries has been isolated from the rest of the world by jagged mountains and Soviet restrictions. Only recently have the Tuvan art form of throatsinging become known to outsiders.
Pena discovered Tuvan throatsinging on a shortwave program of Radio Moscow twelve years ago. Multiple voices emanated from a single vocalist and the sounds gripped him like nothing he had ever heard. For the next nine years he worked to produce similar overtones with his own voice and to incorporate throatsinging into his blues music.
"Genghis Blues" is a film about exploration and friendship. It is the story of a man whose struggle in life is not defined by conformity and rules but by an unquenchable curiosity, and love of music. Pena's story is truly an inspiration to all.
Showing Thursday April 16, at 9pm
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Friday
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The Journalism discipline’s panel, on Friday, April 17, will welcome the public to a fast-paced, in-depth discussion of “The New Media Landscape: Challenges and Possibilities.” Our panel of veteran professionals from print and broadcast to online media, moderated by Journalism discipline coordinator Jon Elliston (see bio below), will share perspectives and ideas on the sea of changes in mass communication, from the decline of print media to the rise of the Web and other multimedia platforms. Underlying the discussion will be ways to survive and thrive as journalists amidst the information revolution, and new opportunities for collaborating with citizen journalists.
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Identity and Exposure
This discussion will focus on the creative process of developing a consistent vision and identity as an artist and designer. Topics will include how to best communicate that vision and explore powerful new mediums for exposure including influential fashion blogs.
Discussion featuring Mary Gehlhar
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Join Clemson architecture professors Doug Hecker and Martha Skinner and Kieran Timberlake principal architect David Riz as they discuss the role of new technologies, processes and media on structures and spaces. The panelists will discuss their unique focus on holistic designs with social, environmental and aesthetic values in the current state of affairs of architecture.
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Join Nick Hiatt as he demonstrates an elaborate live digital painting using a wacom Cintiq, computer, and projection. Explore shot creation as it is done for Feature Animated Film. In depth examples of Matte Painting and Concept Painting for film will be shown. Nick will explore his process and product, his experience in film, and answer your questions on the technical and creative aspects of his work.
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Good Dick
Good Dick is a modern fairy tale about a troubled, reclusive young woman and the persistent video clerk who draws her out of her claustrophobic world by starting up a unique courtship with her.
As they become closer, her sexual antipathy is met with his unflinching optimism, until finally her aggressive defenses overwhelm them both and the relationship bursts apart. Profoundly affected by his presence in her life, she finds that she has the courage to face her past.
Showing Wednesday April 15, at 7pm; Thursday April 16, at 4pm; Friday April 17, at 1pm; Saturday April 18, at 4pm
Recomended for mature audiences
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The creative process is a noble beast. Some days ideas bubble up fully formed and other times nothing seems to work. Our panelists give a candid perspective on their own challengest and triumphs as creative professionals and how they make their art. Hear what NASA industrial designer Evan Twyford, toy inventor Joe Wilcox, interaction designer Manuel Lima and video artists Scott Pagano and Robb Pope have to say about what makes an organization or a process "Innovative." Find out how we can be more creative, and how play leads to innovation.
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Blue: Angel’s Robe to Miner’s Pants
A Lecture with Yoshiko Wada
Following the use of mineral-based pigments as colorants for body, cave walls and fiber, indigo was one of the earliest dyes to color textiles. Ms. Wada will look at indigo textiles and the color blue in its social context, including class, religion, decorative processes, and fashion.
Indigo plants are one of the most prevalent sources of dye in the world. There are over 10 plant species that contain significant amounts of indigo, adapting to a wide variety of climate and soils, thus making the dye widely available. Different from other natural dyes, indigo dye is a mechanical bonding dye that interacts with any natural fiber and forms a kind of coating over the fiber, making a textile stronger though susceptible to the action of friction. Such is the attraction of denim jeans and blue Japanese folk textiles and clothing from the late nineteenth and early twentieth century made of plant fiber material and dyed in indigo, utilizing limited regional resources. The social, economic circumstances in which these textiles were created and the specific ways in which the textiles and clothing were made will be illustrated.
As textile production progressed, so did dye technology. Tannin-based colorants and a wide range of yellow as well as indigo blue were common; green was achieved only by over-dying yellow with blue, and purple could be achieved by over-dying red with blue. Indigo yielded a wide range of shades of blue, from pale azure to black-blue—all beautiful. The importance of the color blue throughout history and its fashion iconography will be explored and discussed in this lecture.
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Tickets are available half-hour before the show.
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Groundbreaker Short Films
Dimmer (short film)
By Talmage Cooley 12 MIN. DOCUMENTARY
Dimmer is a glimpse into the life of Mike, a blind teenager growing up with a gang of blind friends amid the decaying rust belt factories and neighborhoods of Buffalo, New York. Music by Interpol.
Man (short film)
By Myna Joseph 14 MINS 30 SECS.
Maggie and her sister forge an unusual bond during an encounter with a young stranger.
Recommended for mature audiences
The Second Line (short film)
By John Magary 20 MINS
In post-Katrina New Orleans, two cousins take what work they can get. After gutting the house of a strange couple, tensions come to the breaking point in this study of poverty and survival.
Pol Pot's Birthday (Short Film)
By Talmage Cooley 10 MINS
The office staff of the most brutal dictator on earth attempts to throw a surprise birthday party for their boss.
Groundbreaker shorts are showing Wednesday April 15, at 1pm; Friday April 17, at 4pm; Saturday April 18, at 1pm and 9pm
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Constructive Interference: A collision of image and sound
A presentation on the work of experimental digital filmmaker and motion designer Scott Pagano by the artist whose work spans a myriad of realms from fine art installations and music videos to environmental media and commercial design. Pagano will outline the trajectory of his career, from his early training in photography and the traditional arts to his current standing as a leading, critically-acclaimed spatial reconstructionist, and discuss the diverse influences he finds in architecture, modernist painting, cinema and the natural world which fuel his work. Pagano will share examples of his work and discuss his unique process for designing and creating the dynamic and lyrical collisions and interactions of image and sound that are the signature elements of his art. The artist will present a brief section of "destroy.rebuild", the new live audiovisual performance piece that he will be presenting in its entirety at the closing event of the festival on Saturday night.
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Re-imagining Masterbuilding
For over two decades, Kieran Timberlake has created beautifully crafted, thoughtfully made designs which are holistically integrated to site, program and people. The firm is recognized for its research-based practice that focuses on new materials, processes, assemblies and products. Using the much-lauded Loblolly House and Cellophane House projects as recent examples, David Riz will discuss how the firm has addressed current productivity and environmental problems that undermine the building industry. A restructuring of the supply chain and the creation of off-site fabricated integrated component assemblies are posed as part of the solution, as well as shifting the roles of builders into assemblers.
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Our mentors will be displaying their work and projects, along with an invited interactive display from Moog Foundation and an immersive dome experience with The Elumenati.
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Tickets are available half-hour before the show.
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Everything Strange and New
By Frazer Bradshaw
Already bent by the demands of his home life – fatherhood, a faltering marriage, and a submerged mortgage – a tradesman struggles to balance his own appetites and expectations with those of a friend in need. EVERYTHING STRANGE AND NEW is an intimate portrait of ordinary people and their longing for certainty in uncertain times.
Wayne is a carpenter, no longer young but uneasy with the emotional complexities of adulthood. Aimless hours spent with Leo, his newly-divorced drinking buddy, offer some relief to the heavy gravity at home, where his kids run roughshod over his increasingly unstable wife. Living between these worlds leaves Wayne feeling like a character in someone else's story. Ultimately, a violent spasm rouses him from this fevered American dream.
With its concise pacing and wider implications, EVERYTHING STRANGE AND NEW considers the proposition of living life with an economy of expression.
Showing Wednesday April 15, at 4pm; Thursday April 16, at 1pm; and Friday April 17, at 7pm
Recommended for mature audiences.
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Tickets are available half-hour before the show.
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Beyond the Call
By Adrian Belic
In an Indiana Jones meets Mother Teresa adventure, three eccentric middle-aged men travel the world delivering life-saving humanitarian aid directly to civilians and doctors in some of the most dangerous yet beautiful places on Earth.
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Saturday
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Nowadays you can make films for next to nothing, so what makes an independent film break through? It's on the page baby, it's the voice. So...what is voice? How do you cultivate voice in a googley, youtubey, cultural kleptomaniacal world? What is original voice anyway?
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Network Visualization in the age of infinite interconnectedness
VisualComplexity.com (VC) is a unified resource space for anyone interested in the visualization of complex networks. With over 600 projects, the goal is to glean a critical understanding of different visualization methods, across a series of disciplines, as diverse as Biology, Social Networks or the World Wide Web. This talk will leverage the existing pool of knowledge from VC to convey a current portrait of network visualization. It will illustrate some of its current trends and representation methods, and explore the reasons behind the recent outburst of interest in the field, while focusing on the key challenges of mapping complex networks.
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Third Coast Festival Listening Room
In the spirit of HATCHfest's dedication to creativity and innovation, Julie Shapiro, artistic director for Chicago Public Radio’s Third Coast International Radio Festival, will share unforgettable work, carefully selected from that festival’s extensive archives, that takes audio storytelling to new heights. Come out to hear everything from award-winning programs to sonic audio treats that will leave your ears ringing. (In a good way!)
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One theme that the FASHION genre will be focusing on is slow design. The slow design movement promotes design that looks at longer cycles of human behavior and sustainability and manufacturing with local/regional materials and technologies. Slow Designers support local industries, workshops and craftspeople. Manufacturing and sourcing from craftspeople, family run factories and fair trade sourcing are all ways of empowering impoverished women through creating a marketspace for their skills. There are too many "clothes" in the world right now and focusing on the "soul" of the product through the creative process, including sourcing and production ultimately will result in better product. Designers will enjoy commercial while buyers and customers seeking something special will have a story to help qualify spending during the current economic crisis. No one needs another pair of Made in China jeans right now. Panel featuring Mary Gehlhar, Elisa Jimenez and Yoshiko Wada. Also featuring local artisanal mill, Oriole Mills, and SewLink, an Asheville-based cut and sew operation.
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Architecture as Product: Speculation and Action!
By approaching architecture as a product rather than a service, Fieldoffice puts speculations out in order to attract partners to social and environmental projects that are left unaddressed by society. Fieldoffice "products" such as superABSORBER, Dry-in House, and SEED start as speculations that act as catalysts for asking questions and putting into action interdisciplinary teams (process) of education partners, community groups, students, industry partners and NGO's.
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Tickets are available half-hour before the show.
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Groundbreaker Short Films
Dimmer (short film)
By Talmage Cooley 12 MIN. DOCUMENTARY
Dimmer is a glimpse into the life of Mike, a blind teenager growing up with a gang of blind friends amid the decaying rust belt factories and neighborhoods of Buffalo, New York. Music by Interpol.
Man (short film)
By Myna Joseph 14 MINS 30 SECS.
Maggie and her sister forge an unusual bond during an encounter with a young stranger.
Recommended for mature audiences
The Second Line (short film)
By John Magary 20 MINS
In post-Katrina New Orleans, two cousins take what work they can get. After gutting the house of a strange couple, tensions come to the breaking point in this study of poverty and survival.
Pol Pot's Birthday (Short Film)
By Talmage Cooley 10 MINS
The office staff of the most brutal dictator on earth attempts to throw a surprise birthday party for their boss.
Groundbreaker shorts are showing Wednesday April 15, at 1pm; Friday April 17, at 4pm; Saturday April 18, at 1pm and 9pm
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As the mainstream recorded music business implodes and the number of independent artists releasing music and touring explodes, Asheville has become a hub for people working in the music industry. Join area veteran music professionals from the Rosebud Agency, Meat Camp Productions, Echo Mountain, Music Allies, Music + Art Management and more to learn more about the changing landscape of the industry and the opportunities for entrepreneurs at this exciting moment in music history.
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Panelists:
Sean O'Connell
Steve Cohen
Johnathan Fordin
John Lochen
Jessica Tomasin
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Creative IN-Powerment
How to launch a line and get your work out there on a budget using guerrilla tactics. This workshop will address grassroots methods for mobilizing your work. For more information, contact: R. Brooke Priddy 828-242-1378
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Free and open to the public
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Good Dick
Good Dick is a modern fairy tale about a troubled, reclusive young woman and the persistent video clerk who draws her out of her claustrophobic world by starting up a unique courtship with her.
As they become closer, her sexual antipathy is met with his unflinching optimism, until finally her aggressive defenses overwhelm them both and the relationship bursts apart. Profoundly affected by his presence in her life, she finds that she has the courage to face her past.
Showing Wednesday April 15, at 7pm; Thursday April 16, at 4pm; Friday April 17, at 1pm; Saturday April 18, at 4pm
Recomended for mature audiences
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The panel will include all lecturers and will be an informal candid discussion. Doug Hecker and Martha Skinner will speak about the exhibit that they were commissioned to build and display in the ADC. David Riz will have on display Kiernan Timberlake’s catalog of work and discuss some of their past projects and processes.
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This reception will begin immediately after the 5:30 pm Architecture panel.
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Tickets are available half-hour before the show.
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Feature Film: Made in China
By Judi Krant and Dan Sumpter
Slinkys, Pet Rocks and Ant Farms … behind every great novelty item is a great Novelty Inventor.
Co-written and directed by Judi Krant (in her directorial debut), MADE IN CHINA is a comedy about one such inventor, Johnson (Jackson Kuehn), a self-styled novelty inventor from a small town in East Texas, who is determined to bring his big idea - "a humorous domestic hygiene product" - to the world.
Johnson's journey takes him to the Mecca of the novelty world: China, where anything is possible and everything has its price. Lost in the backstreets of Shanghai, Johnson discovers that it takes more than a million dollar idea to make it to the big time. It takes guts, determination, and a fist full of sneezing powder.
Showing Thursday April 16, 7pm; and Saturday April 18, 7pm
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Don't miss this last chance to meet mentors and artists from around the world and from all over Western North Carolina!
Performers will include Asheville Aerial Arts, Cherokee Nation Warrior Dancers, and local DJ Trevor Baker. The event features the debut of an extraordinary immersive audio/video performance by HATCHfest mentor Scott Pagano entitled "destroy.rebuild: A meditation on the convergence of nature and technology."
$25 tickets in advance and at the door. Free Beer and Wine from 8pm - 9pm
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Tickets are available half-hour before the show.
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Groundbreaker Short Films
Dimmer (short film)
By Talmage Cooley 12 MIN. DOCUMENTARY
Dimmer is a glimpse into the life of Mike, a blind teenager growing up with a gang of blind friends amid the decaying rust belt factories and neighborhoods of Buffalo, New York. Music by Interpol.
Man (short film)
By Myna Joseph 14 MINS 30 SECS.
Maggie and her sister forge an unusual bond during an encounter with a young stranger.
Recommended for mature audiences
The Second Line (short film)
By John Magary 20 MINS
In post-Katrina New Orleans, two cousins take what work they can get. After gutting the house of a strange couple, tensions come to the breaking point in this study of poverty and survival.
Pol Pot's Birthday (Short Film)
By Talmage Cooley 10 MINS
The office staff of the most brutal dictator on earth attempts to throw a surprise birthday party for their boss.
Groundbreaker shorts are showing Wednesday April 15, at 1pm; Friday April 17, at 4pm; Saturday April 18, at 1pm and 9pm
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