The Placebo

We’re going to have the knitting club thingy — what do I have to do to get name suggestions, must there be prizes? — every 2nd Friday of the month. The general Art Hang thingies (at which, I hasten to add, knitting is welcome) proceed apace every Friday from 4-8pm.
(Except for the days directly before Arts Alive when the space just might be too full of E2 folks Hanging Art for there to be group harmony. I know that’s a tad confusing, so I’ll keep on posting notices here every week.)

To sum: This week? KNITTING (and whatever else people want to get up to. um… within limits which may be decided on the spot)

When: Friday, October 13 from 4pm till the Electric Melanoma show starts
Where: The Placebo / E2 - 47B W 3rd St, between A and Commercial (map)
Cost: Free! (but bring your own supplies) Donations, she is always welcome.

This Friday it’s another Art Hang!

You can always work on your own project or pastime, yeah? But here’re some support-the-scene ideas people have come up with:

• decorate The Placebo office - could use paint, or use your imagination
• make bean bag chairs - this is the only kind of furniture we have room to store. Requires canvas/vinyl, filling (like those non-biodegradable packing peanuts people use), and probably a sewing machine
• soundproof the walls - for which we need, duh, soundproofing (got any?)
• button making - for The Placebo or other bands/orgs that have paid us for materials - we have the stuff for this.
• paint Placebo signs - paint and plywood:
• general “this is the Placebo” sandwich board signs
• smoking/non-smoking area signs
• “these here are the rulez” signs

We are utterly open to other ideas. Show up and give us some!

When: Friday Sept 29, 4-8pm
Where: The Placebo / E2 - 47B W 3rd St in Eureka
Cost: FREE

Hah! I lied. September Fools! You’ll never know when the Yard Sale is from this website. Seriously folks, we’ve been looking for a site and a couple of places have fallen though. I don’t want to post any more scheduling disinformation here, though, so you and I will just have to look for the signs up around A-Town. The Placebo does still need Yard Sale donations. (They’re all tax-deductible, if you swing that way.)

Nope, we still don’t know where, but we do know when:

Saturday September 30th to Sunday October 1st, 9am to 9am.

That’s right, 24 Hours of Cheap Second-Hand Goodness brought to you in the form of a benefit for The Placebo. Poetry on demand, strange haircuts, random acoustic music and who knows what the H else. Somewhere in Arcata.

We seek donations of the non-disgusting kind; email gimme_info[at]theplacebo.net to arrange drop-off or, possibly, pick-up.

Come hang out before the USA is a Monster show. Bring music to listen to, eat snacks, hang out and do your artistic thing. A co-production of E2 and The Placebo.

When: Friday, September 22, 4-8pm
Where: E2 / The Placebo, natch.
Cost: Always free, but donations welcome. Bring your own supplies, tunes, etc.

We had to skip last Friday because E2 was actually hanging art for Arts Alive, but come down this Friday afternoon/evening to soak in the artistic ambience of E2 / The Placebo’s art & hangout space.

We’re having the 2nd meeting of the Placebo’s knitting circle thingy (no name yet; open to suggestions): learn how to knit, purl, switch yarn colors, etc. If you already know how, teach someone else or work on your own project. All ages and genders welcome!

Of course, if you just wanna hang out and talk or read/write/draw/dance/spin in circles till you get dizzy/etc., you can do that, too.

When: Friday September 8, 4-8pm
Where: The Placebo / E2 47B West 3rd St in Eureka (by the new Co-op)
Cost: Free! Bring your own supplies (beginning knitters can use our needles and yarn)

The Bummer Olympics have come to a close. Thanks to the volunteers and bands who made it happen and everybody who came out to support local music and The Placebo.

We’re totally in awe of Nancy Courtemanche’s contributions in memory of her son Robb Rierdan. She fed the bands, designed and funded the banners and let us display Robb’s amazing art. In case you didn’t hear, Nancy has also set up a fund to help deserving local bands go on tour. If you need (really need, cuz your request will be checked out) funds or equipment to get your band on the road, call her at 407-6968.

People who were at Bummerfest 2006: If you have any photos or wrote a review or something, we wanna see it! We can either put it up on our website or link to it, your choice. Comment here or send email to gimme_info[at]theplacebo.net (Let us know what name we should use to credit your stuff.)

Got something else to say? Talk about it on The Placebo Forums. There’s a Bummerfest thread for you to talk about what you liked, what you thought needed work, who rocked, who had the best dance moves, all that. You know we’re going to do this again next year, right? Get involved! It’s your scene, take care of it.

• Neptune (boston) Music you can almost dance to! Scrap metal instruments and homemade electronics = rock’n'roll + accident day at the ball bearing shop.
• RV Paintings Spencer Doran, Jon & Brian Pyle
• The Pipe of the Doctor of Witchcraft (from ucsb) (local, actually)
• PLUS Live Art from Empire Squared

When: Wednesday, August 30 at 9pm (Looks like this will be starting a bit later than usual. Sorry about any confusion.)
Where: The Placebo / E2 - 47B W 3rd St, Eureka (between A and Commercial) (map)
Cost: $3 with membership, $5 without

Looks like we’ll be making this a regular thing, kiddies. So come on down on Friday between 4 and 8pm and make you some art. Or just hang out, KNIT, read, listen to music, and/or simply be fabulous.
When: Friday August 25 4pm - 8pm
Where: The Placebo / E2 — 47B W 3rd St (between A and Commercial) in Eureka
Cost: Zilch, nada. But bring supplies for whatever you want to do.

It’s only a few weeks till the Bummerfest and it’s time to make the decorations. Meet Friday afternoon/evening at the Placebo and help out. Let us know if you need a ride (gimme_info[at]theplacebo.net) and we’ll try to get you set up. Oh, and if you just want to hang out and do your own low-key thing, that’s cool, too.

When: Friday, August 18 5-9pm
Where: The Placebo / E2 47B West 3rd, Eureka (map)
Cost: Free, baby. It’d be cool if you brought some art supplies/paper/etc. to contribute, though.

Come hang out and talk, watch E2 artists do their thang, knit, make your own art, or any other low-key thing you wanna do. Bring your own supplies. Cheap snackage available or bring food - we have a microwave.

• Open Workshop for artists
• The Placebo Knitting Club meets for the 1st time
• No pressure chilling space: talk with friends, read a book, listen to music, whatever.

When: Friday August 11, 4-8 pm
Where: The Placebo/E2, 47 B W 3rd St
Cost: FREE