The Shaking Ray Levi Society will celebrate its 20th anniversary with two events in June.
The Tiptons Sax Quartet and Drums, and Hubcap City of Atlanta, will perform Friday, June 9, at The Chattanooga Theatre Centre at 8 p.m. Tickets are $10.
Review for the Tiptons Sax Quartet and Drums:
The Tiptons are an all-female sax quartet with percussion, based in Seattle. The group features Jessica Lurie and Amy Denio, original members and the lead composers of the internationally renowned Billy Tipton Memorial Saxophone Quartet (BTMSQ). They are joined by saxophonists Tobi Stone and Tina Richerson, and percussionist Elizabeth Pupo Walker.
All of the members share in composing and arranging and their dynamic repertoire includes some fabulous singing as well. With a repertoire that ranges from New Orleans jump groove to hip hop, punk to East European, klezmer and beyond, the Tiptons create some of the wildest sounds ever to come out of a sax quartet. Their unforgettable, playful concerts feature high-energy interaction between members, and a repertoire that touches on soulful music from around the world.
The world premiere of Anti-Arktikos (an animated film by local artist Judy Mogul), will be shown Thursday, June 15, on the main stage at The Chattanooga Theatre Centre. Shows will be at 8 and 9 p.m. Contact the CTC box office at 267-8534 for more information.
Anti-Arktikos is written and created by Judith Mogul, with cinematographer and editor Jarrod Whaley. Music and sound design is by Bob Stagner and Dennis Palmer
Combining live action and stop motion animation, puppets and children, Anti-Arktikos follows the adventures of a young girl named "Momo" and her penguin friend "Pipi" in a land first identified by Greek geographers. Believing that a large continent existed at the "bottom" of the world, to balance the land that they knew about, early Greeks named this place "Anti-Arktikos."
Constructed primarily of paper, Judith Mogul's puppets and sets are brought to life by the cinematography of Jarrod Whaley and the soundscape created by musicians Dennis Palmer and Bob Stagner.
Based on a dream by the artist herself, the film is set in a fantastical landscape of paper-sculpted glaciers--inhabited by demons, shamans, and a skeptical colony of penguins. Multiple layers of reality co-exist, as travel goes from two- to three-dimensional animation and storytelling.