ICE Announcements 1.23.07
http://ice.uga.edu
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1. ICE Grants Info Sessions
2. Shaping Silhouettes
3. ATHICA Benefit Concert
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1. ICE Grants Info Sessions

Friday, January 25 at 12 noon
Monday, January 28 at 2 PM
Wednesday, January 30 at 11 AM
Thursday, January 31 at 9 AM

ICE Studio, Tanner Building Room 101

Informal information sessions with Mark Callahan to learn about the current ICE Grants call for
proposals. Feel free to drop in and ask questions.
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2. *Please note corrected event time*
Lecture: Shaping Silhouettes, Shaping Women's Lives
Wednesday, January 23, 2008
5:30 p.m. M. Smith Griffith Auditorium, Georgia Museum of Art

Dr. Jose Blanco, assistant professor and historic clothing and textiles collection manager,
discusses how fashions of the 20th century reflect changes in women's lifestyles in America. The
program is being held in conjunction with the exhibition Shaping the Silhouette: A Glimpse into
20th-Century Fashion.
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3.

Following fast on the heels of the record-breaking opening of Ingest--300 folks enjoyed art last
Saturday--is the first-ever ATHICA Benefit Concert at the 40 Watt.

Please lend us your ears this Thursday, January 24.Doors open at 8:00 p.m., the first band begins
at 8:30. And the admission is only $6.00!

Below is the line-up followed by descriptions of the all the bands.

1. Ice Cream Socialists
2. The Pendletons
3. MISFORTUNE500
4. Warm in the Wake
5. Down with the Woo

ICE CREAM SOCIALISTS

Ice Cream Socialists play smart pop songs that remember how to have fun.
With anywhere from six to eight band members at one time, including
accordion, violin, and trumpet, the sounds that come out are always
surprising. Formed in the fall of 2005 and working on their second album,
Ice Cream Socialists "can't hold themselves back from rocking out, or from
throwing in harmonies that hit you like a stiff wind"

-Flagpole Magazine

THE PENDLETONS

"The Pendletons skirt the line between catchy indie pop and indie rock,
with a flavorsome retro feel that motors along on mixed timing and smartly
syncopated beats, incorporating both whimsical and engagingly heartfelt
vocal melodies. The band also delves into slightly more straightforward
garage rock that picks up an occasional surf-rock hook and/ or vibe. Think
of a slightly toned down Franz Ferdinand or a more exuberant White Stripes
sprinkled with the vibrant color of Ted Leo."

MISFORTUNE500
Similar to the raw energetic sound of alternative and post-punk bands such
as Chameleons, Adam Ant, and The Church you’ll find Misfortune500; a young
alternative rock band from Athens, GA who in the short span of a year and
a half, has been gaining an exceptional buzz throughout the Southeast.
Combining elements of an art-alternative perspective and civic/social
awareness, the band sends a message of relevance and global activism. They
make you want to dance, yet they emote a sense of the fatalistic. Live as
hard as you can.

WARM IN THE WAKE

"[The music of Warm in the Wake] begins like the opening credits to PBS's
Cosmos and then swoops into a groove that's like nothing so much as The
Smiths in their fighting prime, full of Johnny Marr worthy peels of
electric exclamation and fronted by a singer who knows how to flow....Like
My Morning Jacket (a Stateside kindred spirit), they betray very little of
their Southern roots, opting instead to soar far and wide, building
quivering bodies of lush, compelling sound. Their jangle stew bubbles with
enough flutter and wow to keep you putting this one on for months,
discovering a fresh thoughtful line, honeyed riff or beatific piano line
with each spin."

—JAMBASE.C

DOWN WITH THE WOO

 "Down with the Woo is the second coming of Eric Friar and Mandy Branch,
the duo who crafted the crystalline melodies and jarring angles of
Athens' now-extinct Heros Severum. As DWTW, Friar (guitar, vocals) and
Branch (guitar, keyboard, vocals), along with Winston Parker (bass,
saxophone), shed the immediacy and terse punk leanings of their past for
a spacey excursion into soul music, electro-pop and futuristic funk.
Minimal rhythms and computer-generated beats come together in each song
to form a web of sophisticated production and dance music that's both
slick and technology-obsessed without forgetting the organic ways of a
human body on the dance floor."

-Chad Radford
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at the University of Georgia.