Posts By Chad Frisbie
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The Arts
Gimme More SPACE! Portland’s Most Trafficked Gallery Expands
June 28, 2011 / / SPACE Gallery—or just “SPACE”—is a mainstay of the First Friday Art Walk circuit here in Portland, Maine. This downtown nonprofit arts organization also functions as a hub for the city’s most mind-blowing concerts.
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Living In Portland
A TED Grows in Portland: TEDxDirigo and the Art of the Audience
June 17, 2011 / / Lately I’ve noticed innovators across many fields working in the art of circumstance. These are people working with situations as the medium.
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The Arts
At The Telling Room, Portland Youth Write Down The Stories Of Their Lives
June 2, 2011 / / This winter I asked an eighteen year old Burundian, who recently emigrated to the USA and is seeking political asylum, to tell me the story of how he got here. He answered this heavy-handed question in shielded fragments I can’t disclose.
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The Arts
A New Literary Journal Looks After Today's Poets And Fiction Writers
May 25, 2011 / / The title choices of new literary magazines—like Guernica or Drunken Boat—have this artful potential to hint at the publication’s editorial leanings. Newer journals typically depart from the tradition of slapping the word “Review” to a University or place (Paris Review, Harvard Review, etc.
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Working in Portland
South Portland: The New Hollywood of Maine?
May 15, 2011 / / Will South Portland soon become a hotbed of Hollywood-like activity? Maine is a visual paradise—from its billboard-less highways to attractively zig-zagging coastline (which, when you stretch it to full length, measures longer than California’s). No wonder people came here to film flicks like In The Bedroom and The Cider House Rules.
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Living In Portland
Nomia and Annie Sprinkle Team Up to Arouse Our Sexual Selves
May 3, 2011 / / Last Thursday night at Portland, Maine’s SPACE Gallery, Annie Sprinkle guided guests on a slideshow tour of her monumental career, which was a rollercoaster ride to say the least: First a prude. Then a prostitute.
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The Arts
Maine's Poet Laureate and MWPA Bring Local Poems To Your Laps and Laptops
April 25, 2011 / / Today, poetry’s relationship with the public feels complicated. Its roots in English and American cultural history are massive and continue to sprout new offshoots, but poetry’s presence in our public literary consciousness over the past thirtyish years has sunk below the waves of prose.
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The Arts
Even When The Writing Gets Lonely, The Writers Are Not
April 17, 2011 / / Glitterati, the glitter-themed literary ball that took place last week at The Port City Music Hall in downtown Portland, Maine, offered guests a chance to wine and dine with some of the city’s major authors. As a young writer who moved here just last summer, I was amped to mingle with Portland’s literary greats, and I deeply enjoyed witnessing how friendly and approachable they turned out to be.