Shadowbox Studio hosts film events, as well as live music and other arts events. Sometimes there’s a ticket required, and sometimes the events are free, but donations are always appreciated.
Shadowbox Studio is at 220-D Dominion Street, Durham, inside the Ample Storage complex.
You can find their events at shadowboxstudio.org/events/.
Upcoming Events
MJ Sharp artist talk: “Our Disappearing Darkness and Recreating True Night”
Wednesday, October 4, 2023
7 to 9 p.m.
Free
Until the advent of artificial lighting 200 years ago, darkness and night had been the universal human experience and the one for which we and all life on earth evolved. Recent excavations at some prehistoric sites in the UK have revealed evidence that megalithic stone monuments thousands of years old may have been visited at night or in low light. Recent studies have shown that the effects of rapidly increasing light pollution have deleterious effects on human, plant, and animal life.
Noted Durham photographer MJ Sharp will give an artist talk on her Fulbright year in Cornwall, which resulted in the photography project “Our Disappearing Darkness and Recreating True Night,” in which she used long-exposure techniques to photograph monuments around southwestern England in the dead of night.
A Night of Cello: BASrelief + Daniel Levin & Crowmeat Bob + Emma Dunlap-Grube
Saturday, October 7, 2023
8 to 11 p.m.
Free (donations appreciated)
A night of diverse cello music.
Charles Latham and the Borrowed Band video release party
Saturday, October 21, 2023
4 to 8 p.m.
Donations
Durham’s honky-tonk heroes Charles Latham and the Borrowed Band invite you to a happening as they present a new single and video, “Last Great Never Was”!
Featuring DJ sets by Craig Layabout, as well as a pre-performance sound bath from Jennifer Hansen of Ancient Song Therapy, the band will premiere the Shadowbox-shot music video (directed by Alex Maness!) and perform live.
This will be a donations-based event and attendees will have the opportunity to acquire limited-edition party favors!
Backchannel Cinema curated by Heather Anne
Tuesday, October 24, 2023
7:30 to 9:30 p.m.
Free (donations appreciated)
This mysterious monthly film series, where they don’t reveal the title of the flick ahead of time, continues! Free popcorn!
This month, Durham artist and Observable Universe visionary Heather Anne has picked a frighteningly underseen film that fires her imagination…and may have a connection to a certain holiday this month. Here are some clues:
- Rated “G” for green screen
- bb witch Nancy Downs
Movie Loft presents “Death Spa” and “Linnea Quigley’s Horror Workout”
Thursday, October 26, 2023
7 to 10 p.m.
Free (donations appreciated)
Movie Loft gets physical this spooky season at Shadowbox Studio with a late ’80s fitness horror two-fer!
Warm up at 7 with some zombie and nightie filled aerobic exercises courtesy of Scream Queen extraordinaire Linnea Quigley and pals. Her Horror Workout, from 1989, is a wonder of promotion, showering, raunch and yuks. Bring a mat if you want to join the workout!
After a break to fill up on hot dogs and Halloween records, settle back in for the supernatural slasher terror shred of 1988’s classic ‘Death Spa‘ (a/k/a ‘Witch Bitch’), from director Michael Fischa. Set in a chic computer-controlled LA gym and health club, the members and staff are absolutely dying to become fit. Get pumped on the neon sets, wildly bizarre gore, absurd plot and a host of songs you think you recognize. “You’ll sweat blood!”
FREE, donations appreciated. Frightening exercise-themed costumes certainly encouraged! BYO or sample what’s on-hand. This will be an indoor screening.
More Dead Than Live: A Halloween Horror Movie Montage with live soundtrack by Mike Isenberg & Crowmeat Bob
Friday, October 27, 2023
8 to 10 p.m.
Free (donations appreciated)
If scary films and weird improvised music are your thing, don’t miss this delicious witches’ brew from two titans of the Triangle’s avant-garde music scene, Mike Isenberg and Crowmeat Bob. They’ve compiled clips from the scariest and weirdest movies they know, and will amaze and delight with their spine-tingling and perhaps earth-shattering live score. BYO or sample what’s on hand.
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