St. Patrick's Day
Tuesday, March 17th
noon to 1pm

Join us for a noontime St. Patrick's Day treat. We present a live 2 piece ensemble playing traditional Irish tunes.

Be Irish for a day and help support the OSU Campus Campaign.
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Thursday, March 19th
7 to 8pm

Stay downtown after work every third Thursday of the month and check out new sounds curated by local musician and international composer Larry Marotta.

This month we feature Joe Panzner.  Panzner is one-half of Scenic Railroads and is on top of tabletop electronics. Expect alternately sparse & aggressive laptop work and digital minimalism flirting with the dark side.

Panzner draws on the live electronic music of John Cage and David Tudor, the long-form memory experiments of Morton Feldman, and the digital extremism of Peter Rehberg, Florian Hecker, Zbigniew Karkowski, Dion Workman, and Julien Ottavi. He records and performs with scenic railroads (alongside Mike Shiflet), and has performed with David Reed and Larry Marotta.

Panzner works with live electronics and within an ethos of musical materialism, preferring visceral sound experience to representation. He uses treated natural and instrumental sounds, digitally processed analog synthesis, frequency extremes, acoustic and psychoacoustic phenomena.

This series is part of our after-work programing offered Thursday evenings. Before the show stop by Tip Top Kitchen & Cocktails and ask for the Urban Artists' Special: It's very special indeed and its only $3.

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Saturday, March 21st
2 to 4:30pm

Join Swing State director, Jason Zone Fisher and his father, Lt. Governor Lee Fisher, as they present the film and open the floor for community discussion.

Just how important is Ohio to Presidential elections? Find out in this feature-length documentary. Featuring interviews with Bill Clinton, Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama, John Edwards, John Kerry and Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. and many more, Swing State takes viewers behind-the-scenes of the 2006 Ohio Governor's race and its impact on today's Presidential elections.

Ohio has always been considered a battleground state for the presidency, and this compelling documentary showcases the inner workings of the lives of Congressman Ted Strickland and former Attorney General Lee Fisher and six months of their campaign for Ohio Governor and Lieutenant Governor. A hit on the festival circuit, Swing State was an official selection at the Cleveland International Film Festival and the New Orleans Film Festival. The film was co-directed by Jason Zone Fisher, John Intrater and H. Spencer Young.

Delving into the political drama of the 2006 gubernatorial race in Ohio, Swing State follows the family of Democrat Lee Fisher who is running for Lieutenant Governor in tandem with Ted Strickland who is taking on controversial Republican J. Kenneth Blackwell for the Governorship.  Scandal and mudslinging are all part of the plot as are real human emotions and triumphs.  Being filmed by his own son, the election is a personal comeback for Fisher as he lost the Governor's race in 1998.

Syracuse New Times: "A warm family movie in the best sense."

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