upcoming events.

MSHR
May
12

MSHR

MSHR is an art collective that collaboratively builds and explores sculptural electronic systems.

Their performances and installations integrate electrical signals and human presence, weaving dense networks of causality to form audiovisual environments that babble with life-like current.

They explore intuitive and technical gradients between sonic and sculptural forms, using analog circuitry and open-source software to sculpt mutually resonant hyperobjects.

MSHR was founded by Brenna Murphy and Birch Cooper in 2011 in Portland, Oregon.

The name MSHR is a modular acronym designed to hold varied ideas over time. It can be pronounced as an acronym or like one who meshes.

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Currents of Motion: Sound, Movement & Collective Response w/ Drum Major Instinct and Katherine Young.
May
17

Currents of Motion: Sound, Movement & Collective Response w/ Drum Major Instinct and Katherine Young.

Saturday, May 17

Doors 7pm / Performance 7:30pm

Set 1: Drum Major Instinct x Katherine Young

Drum Major Instinct is an experimental music duo from Asheville, North Carolina. Jeff Arnal plays (mostly) percussion and Curt Cloninger plays (mostly) modular synthesizer. The Wire describes Jeff’s drumming as a “highly original concept” having “a balletic sense of time and imaginative deployment of colour;” and Byron Coley says Curt’s modular synthesis “moves like blocks of radioactive adobe being shifted around by architects in space suits.” But, of course, nothing is ever that straightforward. The resultant music is about waves of energy, patterns within patterns (within patterns), sounds from the natural world, and running the voodoo down. Their self-titled first release is on Mahakala Music (2022) and their latest 2025 LP (entitled "Almost Nothing") is on Haunted Apparatus.

For more on DMI and photos: https://lab404.com/dmi/

As a bassoonist and improviser, Katherine Young amplifies her instrument and employs a flexible electronics setup. She performs as a soloist, in ad hoc improvised groups, and with projects such as Beautifulish (duo with Sam Scranton) and Architeuthis Walks on Land (duo with Amy Cimini). Her debut solo album garnered praise in The Wire (“Bassoon colossus”) and Downbeat (“seriously bold leaps for the bassoon”). She has documented her work on numerous recordings, including her quartet Pretty Monsters self-titled debut, a duo recording with Anthony Braxton, and the multi-movement work "Diligence Is to Magic as Progress Is to Flight" (Parlour Tapes+) created with violinist Austin Wulliman of the JACK Quartet. Katherine is based in Atlanta, where she teaches composition, electronic music, and improvisation at Emory University. In 2021, she was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in Music Composition. As a scholar, she researches the incorporation of idiosyncratic electronics and improvisation in contemporary notated music.

For more on Katherine Young and photos: https://katherineyoung.info/

Set 2: Currents of Motion: Sound, Movement & Collective Response with movement by Alejandro (Alex) Abarca, Juana Farfan, Jimmy Joyner, Sue Schroeder, Sammy Spriggs, and Lori C. Teague with music by Drum Major Instinct and Katherine Young.

Alejandro (Alex) Abarca is an artistic alchemist from Houston, Texas. His artistic journey began when he started dancing in his grandmother’s living room at a family function. This later manifested into an interest in musical theater and led him to graduate from Houston’s High School for the Performing and Visual Arts as a theater major. He found his way back to dancing while studying at the University of Houston. He had the pleasure of working with many Houston area choreographers, and after graduation he moved to Atlanta to dance professionally for Core Performance Company from 2009-2012. During that time, he worked with many Atlanta dance-makers. He, then, continued his dance training at the NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts and earned his MFA in 2016. There he performed in the works of Sean Curran, Kay Cummings, Vita Osojnik, and Jose Limon. He is currently the Assistant Teaching Professor of Dance at Oxford College of Emory University. Additionally, he is still working professional artist. He has presented work, with his long-time collaborator Corian Ellisor, in NYC, Houston, and Atlanta. He has also had the pleasure of returning to his theatrical roots by being a puppeteer in Scottie Rowell’s SuperCello! (which was performed at the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington DC) and most recently in an immersive production of Pinnochio of 7Stages in Atlanta last year.

Juana Farfan is an independent artist and dance educator based in Atlanta, Georgia, originally from Bogota, Colombia. She has been creating and performing in the Atlanta dance community since 2002, as well as being an arts curriculum integration and dance teacher.

Jimmy Joyner is an Atlanta based performance artist and team member with Fly on a Wall who has worked as a dancer with Nashville Ballet, Ballet Nouveau Colorado, gloATL, Fly on a Wall, and staibDANCE. Jimmy has designed costumes for Ballet Nouveau Colorado, gloATL, staibDANCE, KSU, Terminus Modern Ballet Theater, ImmerseATL, Sean Nguyen-Hilton, and Fly on a Wall. They are a certified yoga instructor and hold an MFA from The University of the Arts. jimmyjoyner.com

In over 40 years of work in the arts, Sue Schroeder has created more than 110 original works at the intersection of movement/dance and visual art for theaters, museums, green spaces, architectural works, and water environments.  Her 
work has appeared throughout the United States, as well as Mexico, Israel, France, Germany,
 Poland, Georgia, Slovenia, Czech Republic, Iceland, United Kingdom, Sweden, Canada,
 Guatemala, and Hungary.  Her multidisciplinary vision has led to collaborations with
major voices in dance, music, spoken word, visual arts and design.

Additionally, she is recognized as a leading arts activist and mentor.  As a contemporary artist and dance maker, Sue focuses on the creative process, movement research, exploration, and dance-making as a catalyst for social change.

Sammy Spriggs (she/they) is an Atlanta based independent dance artist. Their choreographic work has been presented in Chicago, New York, Dallas, and Atlanta. She has presented research at the Society of Dance History Scholars/Congress on Research and Dance joint conference. Their choreography and teaching work emphasizes the intersections between performing arts and social justice. She believes that dance and arts education cultivate strength, confidence, empathy and provides the tools necessary to be a good human. Sammy is on faculty at Dance Foundry in Scottdale, GA, where she teaches Adult Ballet, and Modern Technique and Creative Movement to some very talented young movers. They are also the Chairperson for Bautanzt Here’s Board of Directors. 

Lori C. Teague, Associate Professor at Emory University, teaches contemporary technique, improvisation, choreography, Laban movement analysis, dance pedagogy, and somatic practices. She cultivates interdisciplinary approaches to extend embodied learning practices with Manuela Manetta, Mathematics professor. Teague earned an MFA from The Ohio State University. She is certified in Jacob Pillow’s Curriculum in Motion® Institute and Laban Movement Studies. Her choreographic research is concerned with human liberation and the actions we must take to sustain resources on this planet.  She develops material from improvisational scores that invite kinesthetic listening and excavate personal histories by exploring how we live in our body and how we inhabit spaces. These collaborative processes seek to empower each mover, build community, and relate to the natural world.  She is a Fieldwork and Critical Response facilitator.

About Core Dance

For more than four decades, Core Dance has embraced the human form, the creative process and the artist working within it. An award-winning contemporary dance organization with global impact, Core Dance creates, performs, and produces compelling original art that empowers communities to see the self in others. Amplifying the context for art making that is relevant, Core Dance makes Art to illuminate, Art to educate, Art to question. Core Dance is internationally recognized for its artistically driven research practices, the authenticity of its Art, its socially relevant creations and its work as an artistic incubator and convener.

Core Dance Artistic Director, Sue Schroeder, has convened the Dance Artists for this improvisational event at Eyedrum Art and Music Gallery.

coredance.org

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NO GUARANTEE FEST '25
May
24

NO GUARANTEE FEST '25

NO GUARANTEE FEST '25 is coming to eyedrum art & music gallery on Saturday May 24

Featuring sets from:
Camping in Alaska · /Hospitality/ · Taylor Swift · Open Carry State · Combat Evolved · Reason to Hate · Twenty Two Long Rifle · Lastima · thisisit.stalingrad · Arkestra · Ten Years an Outlaw · Dogfight · Pagegirl

Doors open 3PM / ALL AGES

TICKETS ON SALE HERE

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FAUST– A German Folktale silent film w/ live electronic score by The Nebulous Orchestra
May
30

FAUST– A German Folktale silent film w/ live electronic score by The Nebulous Orchestra

Join us May 30th, 2025 as F.W. Murnau's masterpiece of silent cinema, Faust - A German Folktale, gets an aural update courtesy of The Nebulous Orchestra--a collective of composers and musicians with a shared passion for experimental music and classic film. Featuring sensational visual effects and themes of love, morality, and temptation, Faust is as relevant and jaw-dropping today as it was nearly 100 years ago! And now, with a powerful electronic score performed live by The Nebulous Orchestra (Josh Washburn, Rob Sepanski, Nathan Brown, Aaron Hendrickson), you can experience this incredible, immersive film in a whole new way! One night only, at Eyedrum Art & Music Gallery (515 Ralph David Abernathy Blvd Atlanta, Ga 30312). Doors open at 7pm, film begins at 7:30. Admission $15"

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PLANNING FOR BURIAL w/ MALEVICH and Split Silk
Jul
14

PLANNING FOR BURIAL w/ MALEVICH and Split Silk

PLANNING FOR BURIAL returns with their first album in eight years, It’s Closeness, It’s Easy, out May 30 via The Flenser. Catch them live at eyedrum art & music gallery for a night of genre-blurring doomgaze, post-rock, and experimental metal. Special guests MALEVICH and Split Silk open the show - Advance tickets on sale now!

Doors open: 7:30pm
Music starts: 8:00
Admission: $15

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Darya Fard Solo Exhibit
Aug
2
to Aug 16

Darya Fard Solo Exhibit

Darya Fard is a multidisciplinary artist whose work examines universal connection by creating metaphorical, symmetrical, and symbolic mythical creatures inspired by Persian poetry, mythology, and psychological studies. Darya received her MFA degree in Drawing, Painting and Printmaking from GSU in 2022 and her MA and BA degrees in Iran, Tehran.

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PUFF PUFF PASS! A Queer 420 Dance Party
Apr
19
to Apr 20

PUFF PUFF PASS! A Queer 420 Dance Party

Throw it on ROTATION and set the dancefloor aBLAZE at PUFF PUFF PASS! A Queer 420 Dance Party happening Saturday, April 19th at 10PM at Eyedrum Gallery (515 Ralph David Abernathy Blvd, Atlanta, GA 30312). Come celebrate the holiday with HIGHly electric music & fun!

RSVP to the event here: sfqp.info/ppp419
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Featuring DJ sets by Suga Rice & Sick of Sim
PLUS vendors & a pop-up photobooth
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Doors at 9PM. Show at 10PM.
This event is 21+
This event is MASK SUGGESTED & provided.
This event has a $10-$20 sliding scale cover; no one turned away for lack of funds.
RSVP to the event here: sfqp.info/ppp419
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Flyer by Beaux Xavier (@thebeauxxavier).⁠
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PARKING: Parking can be found in front of the venue as well as across the street in an adjacent lot. West End MARTA Station is a 15-20 minute walk eest. We highly suggest you take Lyft or Uber.

ACCESSIBILITY: This event is seated. This event will have loud music. We will have sound limiting earbuds available for those who need them at the door and at the bar. There will be stage lighting at the event, but it will not be fast-paced. There will not be strobe lights. This event has stairs & ramped entrances & restrooms. This event is MASK REQUIRED & provided along with other PPE.

Southern Fried Queer Pride is an Atlanta based organization empowering Black & QTPOC-centered communities in the South through the arts! For more info, find us at: southernfriedqueerpride.com. For questions, email us at: contact@southernfriedqueerpride.com

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Hambear, Iconostasis, Cane Corso and Driver
Apr
4

Hambear, Iconostasis, Cane Corso and Driver

Pegleg Records Presents unleashes their first official show to the world with a sick and sonically diverse lineup on Friday, April 4th at eyedrum art & music gallery featuring Hambear, Iconostasis, Cane Corso, and Driver!

Friday, April 4th
eyedrum art & music gallery
Doors at 7:00 PM, music at 7:30 PM
$10 admission | All ages welcome

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A.M.P.S. / ATLANTA MONTHLY PLAYERS SESSION
Apr
1

A.M.P.S. / ATLANTA MONTHLY PLAYERS SESSION

A.M.P.S. / ATLANTA MONTHLY PLAYERS SESSION
Bring your instrument and make some sweet improvised music with us!

HOUSE BAND 8:30ish followed by IMPROVISERS SESSION until 11:30p.m.

EVERY 1ST TUESDAY

HOSTED BY SCOTTY B., SAUDE, AND JARRED PEPPER

@eyedrum

551 RALPH DAVID ABERNATHY BLVD

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KBC’s 21st Birthday Bash
Mar
20

KBC’s 21st Birthday Bash

As if the KBC Birthday Bash at eyedrum art & music gallery wasn’t stacked enough, we just added an ATL force of nature known for their chaotic live shows, appearing under the alias Goofy Goobers! They’ll be unleashing new songs from their highly anticipated third album, dropping this fall. You can probably guess who they are.

Goofy Goobers play at midnight after Ipek Eginli & Kebbi Williams + the Exploding Brass Ensemble blow the roof off. Don’t miss this.

Featuring:
Goofy Goobers
Exploding Brass Ensemble
Ipek Eginli & Kebbi Williams
Harmonic Continuum
Sneezing in Reverse
Iriamu
Kenito
Mark Warren
Real Live Ghost
Ben Garden
Foie Gramen
Erich Netherton
Colin Bragg
Butterknife

Thursday, March 20
Doors open at 8PM
The program begins at 8:30PM.

Admission: Free

This program is funded by the Fulton County Board of Commissioners and supported in part by the City of Atlanta Mayor’s Office of Cultural Affairs. Additionally, it receives partial funding from a grant provided by the Community Foundation for Greater Atlanta and Georgia Council for the Arts.

WHEN: Every 3rd Thursday of the month from 8–11:30PM

WHERE: eyedrum art & music gallery, 515 Ralph David Abernathy Blvd, Atlanta, GA 30312 - eyedrum.org

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Splinter/ed Closing Performance and Reception
Mar
2

Splinter/ed Closing Performance and Reception

Jessica Blinkhorn + Splinter/ed Closing Performance and Reception
Jessica Elaine Blinkhorn is an Atlanta-based Interdisciplinary Artist—Blinkhorn’s work advocates for the LGBTQ+, disabled, and aging communities.

• Jessica Blinkhorn will perform in the eyedrum performance space from 5-6pm;
• Followed by a closing reception from 6-9pm in the gallery next door.

Blinkhorn’s work advocates for the LGBTQ+, disabled, and aging communities. Blinkhorn, who uses a powerchair, focuses her work on acceptance through acknowledgment of difference, body positivity, disability education through experience and exposure, human sexuality, and story-telling. More on Jessica can be found at her website jeblinkhorn.com.

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JON MUELLER + TOM LECKY: ALL COLORS PRESENT - A sound and visual meditation
Mar
1

JON MUELLER + TOM LECKY: ALL COLORS PRESENT - A sound and visual meditation

ADVANCE TICKETS HERE

JON MUELLER + TOM LECKY: ALL COLORS PRESENT

A sound and visual meditation
w/ opening set by: Ipek Eginli

Jon Mueller’s singular performance idiom is an awe-inspiring display of elegant athleticism, preternatural focus, brute restraint, and ecstatic, monastic reverie. Paired with Tom Lecky's photographs, it becomes a deliberate focus on form, shape and detail. It requires and demands a state of inner quietude from witnesses. Yet, from this seemingly metronomic exercise blossoms every possible tint and hue of infinite spectral sound. 

 Renowned percussionist and drummer Jon Mueller is celebrated for his uncommon technique, rigor and virtuosity. Mueller’s aim has been to move drums, percussion and rhythm from its anticipated backbeat to a central musical focus, something more intuitive and natural than usually imagined. Audiences throughout the United States, Canada, Europe, Japan, and the United Kingdom have experienced this idiosyncratic point of view as, paradoxically, both ‘cathartic’ and ‘meditative’. Notable solo performances have taken place at the Guggenheim Museum, New Museum, Issue Project Room, SXSW, Big Ears Festival, Hopscotch Fest, and Witching Hour Festival. Beyond his solo work, Mueller has performed and recorded with Olivia Block, Aaron Turner, James Plotkin, Who is the Witness?, Mind Over Mirrors, Volcano Choir, Collections of Colonies of Bees and Pele.  www.rhythmplex.com  IG: @jonmueller

Tom Lecky has worked in photography, music (as Hallock Hill), the book arts, prose and poetry writing, and literary criticism. His creative work concentrates on memory, place, and environment, the work of the imagination, perception, and the intersections of abstraction and representation. He often interweaves appropriated texts and images with his own, evoking a conversation with the history of book design and illustration.
 
These creative pursuits are linked to Tom’s career as an internationally recognized expert in the field of rare and antiquarian books and manuscripts. He has worked in the auction world – notably in a 17-year run as a specialist and Head of Christie’s New York Books and Manuscripts Department – and as an advisor to collectors and institutions.He is the owner of Riverrun Books, and the founder of the rare book and manuscript appraisal and advisory firm Lecky Art Group. www.tomlecky.com 

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Jack Thorpe (saxophones) and Celeena Corbin (percussion) w/ RE: duo (Wilson Poffenberger and Elsie Bae Han)
Mar
1

Jack Thorpe (saxophones) and Celeena Corbin (percussion) w/ RE: duo (Wilson Poffenberger and Elsie Bae Han)

Local Atlanta musicians Jack Thorpe (saxophones) and Celeena Corbin (percussion) will be joined by RE: duo (Wilson Poffenberger and Elsie Bae Han) for an evening of exciting contemporary chamber music, ranging from eclectic new works to free improvisations. 

Saturday March 1, 2025
eyedrum art gallery space
Doors at 6:30pm
Show starts 7pm 
$10 suggested donation

RE:duo (“Reply Duo”) engages audiences with innovative programming that blurs the lines between artistic disciplines. Consisting of saxophonist, Wilson Poffenberger, and violist, Elsie Bae Han, the duo formed following an interdisciplinary collaboration exploring the intersection between sound and movement. RE:duo has since expanded its repertory to include works that feature performative elements such as theater, improvisation, movement, and speech. With a principal objective of elevating and connecting with other artists, both duo members founded and hold executive positions with New Music Mosaic, a new music collective dedicated to  promoting a more equitable musical community through the performance, creation, and dissemination of new music by artists of diverse backgrounds and identities. Through New Music Mosaic, RE:duo curates a series of concerts across the U.S. as a part of their open call for scores initiative. 

Celeena Corbin is a percussionist, educator, and author active in the southeast. Before all else, she is an artist musician capable of working in a wide range of styles from new art music, to classical, to pop/rock and jazz. The breadth of her skillset is broad and commanding-Celeena is as comfortable in the concert hall as she is in the pop music venue. Her ability to bridge styles, genres, and percussion disciplines with ease and fluidity is nothing short of remarkable. Whether on drum set or hand drums, behind marimba or timpani, or delivering soulful solo performances on vibraphone while she sings, Celeena’s musical presence is authoritative.

Celeena is currently the Director of Percussion Studies at West Hall High School in Oakwood, GA. As an educator, Celeena has worked with high school, university, and Independent World WGI marching ensembles, percussion ensembles, and concert groups by providing engaging, effective, and efficient instruction. Additionally, her writing and arranging for marching and concert percussion ensembles is interesting, musical, and instructional-facilitating successful/competitive performances for the ensembles for which she composes.

Celeena completed her Masters in Percussion Performance in 2021 at Middle Tennessee State University and studied with Lalo Davila, Julie Davila, Brian Mueller, and Russell Wharton. Celeena also received her B.A. in Performance from University of North Georgia in 2018. Celeena is a proud endorser of Innovative Percussion.

Atlanta-based saxophonist Jack Thorpe currently serves as Artist Affiliate of saxophone at Georgia State University. As a soloist and chamber musician, Thorpe has performed throughout the United States, Japan, and Spain and is a frequent masterclass clinician at colleges and universities. He has performed with ensembles including the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra, Bent Frequency, and New Music Mosaic. As an educator who is passionate about community engagement, Thorpe coordinates Atlanta Saxophone Day, an annual event that attracts middle school through collegiate students from across the southeastern US. With funding from the Presser Foundation, Thorpe recently commissioned six solo and electroacoustic works for saxophone, which were recorded and released as his debut album, Illusory Dreams in 2023. He has performed as a concerto soloist at institutions including Berry College, the University of Illinois, Stephen F. Austin State University, and Georgia State University.


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WEEPING w/ Clot and Malefic
Feb
26

WEEPING w/ Clot and Malefic

WEEPING will be raiding eyedrum with their depressive death metal assault on February 26th. They will be supported by Atlanta’s channelers of negativity CLOT and Atlanta death metal veterans MALEFIC. Endless suffering and merciless revenge beneath the uncaring eye of god.

Doors open: 7PM
Admision: $10
All Ages

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Splinter/ed Artist Talks
Feb
21

Splinter/ed Artist Talks

Join us for an artist led tour of Splinter/ed

Exhibiting artists will deliver brief talks explicating their works. With:
Angela Bortone | David Robinson | Hanna Newman | Shanequa Gay | Jessica Caldas

Hospitality and viewing at 6:30pm;
Tour and talks start at 7

Splinter/ed Artist Talks at eyedrum
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KBC presents: RYOSUKE KIYASU
Feb
20

KBC presents: RYOSUKE KIYASU

ADVANCE TICKETS AVAILABLE HERE

February’s KBC delivers a night of experimental brass, deep drones, dark ambient soundscapes, and total noise obliteration—culminating in an explosive and highly anticipated avant-garde solo snare performance.

Featuring:
RYOSUKE KIYASU (solo snare)
It’s About Time
tONY cURTIS
RARALALA
Alexandria Smith & Klimchak Duo
The Language of Men Dying
Leviathans of Black Hollering
MOMM
Lilith Smith - solo tuba

Thursday, Feb. 20
Doors open at 8PM, the program begins at 8:30PM. 
Admission $10
ADVANCE TICKETS AVAILABLE HERE

This program is funded by the Fulton County Board of Commissioners and supported in part by the City of Atlanta Mayor’s Office of Cultural Affairs. Additionally, it receives partial funding from a grant provided by the Community Foundation for Greater Atlanta and Georgia Council for the Arts.

WHEN: Every 3rd Thursday of the month from 8–11:30PM

WHERE: eyedrum art & music gallery, 515 Ralph David Abernathy Blvd, Atlanta, GA 30312 - eyedrum.org

Ryosuke Kiyasu, the provocative Japanese snare drum soloist celebrated for his thought-provoking avant-garde performances, will make his Atlanta debut on Thursday, February 20, 2025 as part of #KirkwoodBallersClub at eyedrum art & music gallery.

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Newgrounds Death Rugby w/ Bummer Hill, Buckshot Mouthwash, Page Girl
Feb
9

Newgrounds Death Rugby w/ Bummer Hill, Buckshot Mouthwash, Page Girl

Newgrounds Death Rugby is back at eyedrum with support by Bummer Hill and Buckshot Mouthwash and Page Girl! Don't miss out on this in-person event that promises to be legendary. Grab your friends and come join us for an unforgettable experience!

Doors open: 7:00PM
Admission $12 advance / $15 at door!

All ages welcome

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SWEET TEA, Atlanta’s longest running queer variety show!
Jan
30
to Jan 31

SWEET TEA, Atlanta’s longest running queer variety show!

Your thirst has been quenched! SWEET TEA, Atlanta’s longest running queer variety show, is back! Happening Thursday, Jan 30th at 10PM at Eyedrum Gallery (515 Ralph David Abernathy Blvd, Atlanta, GA 30312), come enjoy a lovely mix of live music, burlesque, drag, and more.

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Featuring performances by:⁠
Amaia Wake
Flossie Monroe
Jungle Cat
Kolor the Rapper

Hosted by TAYLOR ALXNDR⁠
Featuring DJ sets by wav_maker

Doors at 9PM. Show at 10PM.
This event is 18+.
This event is MASK REQUIRED & provided.

This event has a $5-$20 sliding scale cover; no one turned away for lack of funds.

RSVP to the event here: sfqp.info/sweettea130

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Splinter/ed
Jan
25
to Mar 2

Splinter/ed

Artists: Jessica Blinkhorn, Angela Bortone, Jessica Caldas, Shanequa Gay, Melissa Huang, Hanna Newman, David Robinson

Gallery hours Friday and Saturday, 12 - 4pm, and by appointment.

Closing Reception, March 2, 6 - 9pm

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KIRKWOOD BALLERS CLUB
Jan
16

KIRKWOOD BALLERS CLUB

Join us for the first installment of #KirkwoodBallersClub for 2025—the avant-garde monthly forum held every 3rd Thursday at eyedrum art & music gallery.

From delicate piano improvisations and loop-based sound collages to harsh noise rituals, this month’s lineup invites you to experience music beyond the ordinary.

Featuring:
Jaycie Carver
Ipek Eginli with Killick Hinds
Aileen Loy & Ann Delay
Iriamu
Frank Schultz
laclaire
Kenito
Wizard Hotel
SOOTHSAYER
Guri Guri
Miracle Curse
Brandon Beachum

Doors open at 8PM, the program begins at 8:30PM. Admission Free.

Established in 2004, KBC takes place every 3rd Thursday at eyedrum art & music gallery from 8:00–11:30PM.

In its various incarnations over the years, Kirkwood Ballers Club has created an environment where generations of avant-garde musical energy and talent have flourished throughout periods of existence and inactivity.

During its early years at Lenny’s Bar, a parade of local punk, hip-hop, jazz, and indie rock musicians would sign up to perform, including everyone from garage punks and experimental musicians Cole Alexander of the Black Lips, Janelle Monáe, and Bradford Cox of Deerhunter to Grammy-winning saxophone player Kebbi Williams of Tedeschi Trucks Band. All utilized the format to create music in-the-moment that expanded upon their typical repertoires.

“The Kirkwood Ballers Club was always a place of pure freedom. I learned from KBC at Lenny’s Bar and from the scene at Eyedrum how to be free. I saw some of the most original and provocative things at the KBC, and it totally affected my life as an artist.” – Kebbi Williams

This program is funded by the Fulton County Board of Commissioners and supported in part by the City of Atlanta Mayor’s Office of Cultural Affairs. Additionally, it receives partial funding from a grant provided by the Community Foundation for Greater Atlanta and Georgia Council for the Arts.

WHEN: Every 3rd Thursday of the month from 8–11:30 PM

WHERE: eyedrum art & music gallery, 515 Ralph David Abernathy Blvd, Atlanta, GA 30312 -eyedrum.org

Explosive scene captured during the first Kirkwood Ballers Club at Eyedrum’s new West End location. Filmed on October 21, 2021 by Willow Goldstein and featuring performance artist Nathan Emerson.

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RESPITE 16
Dec
21

RESPITE 16

Please join us for the 16th edition of Respite, your locally-sourced evening of solace, focused on warm climes, relaxing sounds, and friendly company. This year boasts another unique lineup! In alphabetical order:

Anagrams - sax-er Jeff Crompton and guitarist/electro-guy Dan Walsh delight with jazzful instrumentals and ambient great-scapes!
https://anagramsband.bandcamp.com/album/blue-voices

Dubb Normal - back to woo us with his distincive brand of visual radicalness!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kw7u5tVjmPs

Stuart Gerber/Katherine Young - percussion and bassoon/electronics duo that blends modern classical astuteness with stellar in-the-moment-ness!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XGGIRDI01DA

In a Kythe - Athens based Lydian Brambila cross-county travels to deliver lush cello-based ambient scapes !
https://lybram.bandcamp.com/album/brides-of-the-mystery

Ipek Eginli/Nathan Brown/ Rob Sepanski - a slew of like-minded racketeers in a new improvising trio!
https://weirdcry.bandcamp.com/.../field-recording-in-a...
https://themosquitogang.bandcamp.com/album/1

George Trotter/Frank Schultz - visual artist/guitarist and lap steel wiz will enlighten with video installation work and beautiful improvisations!
https://gtmusic1.bandcamp.com/.../subsequentattemptsmadew...
https://frankschultz.bandcamp.com/album/blots

Weatherly - Weatherly Knighton enchants with lush environmentals and gauzy vocals!
https://weatherlymusic.bandcamp.com/track/there-is-an-echo

Nadya Zeitlen/Sammy Spriggs - local movement experts bring a touch of site-based dance!
https://www.bautanzt.art/

DOORS OPEN: 8PM
MUSIC STARTS: 8:30PM
ADMISSION: $10

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W8ing4UFOS, Flea Circus, Okapi
Dec
16

W8ing4UFOS, Flea Circus, Okapi

Yearning for a musical adventure off the beaten playlist? Make plans to visit eyedrum on Monday, Dec. 16 for a triple bill guaranteed to lead you astray. By now, everyone recognizes W8ing4UFOs as Atlanta’s preeminent no-fucks-to-give chamber rock ensemble. One of the fun factors about seeing the band of misfit boys and girls led by Bill Taft in person is that, due to life’s vagaries, you can never be certain what the instrumental lineup will be. Here’s hoping the whole crew shows up at eyedrum including that weirdo guitarist from Athens. Every time I’ve seen Flea Circus, they’ve honed their trippy jazz-rock thing to an ever keener edge. Can’t wait to hear how sharp they are this time around.

An okapi is an endangered mammal native to the Democratic Republic of Congo, which looks like a cross between a giraffe and zebra. It’s also the name of a duo featuring cellist Lindsey Miller and contrabassist Scott Gorski who play intricately composed, intensely ruminative music, which they hope will “stimulate a universal confrontation with reality, with the hope of inspiring consciousness, healthy growth, and individual empowerment.” – Doug DeLoach

DOORS OPEN: 7:00
MUSIC STARTS: 7:30
ADMISSION: $10

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WOMEN OF NO WORDS MUSIC
Dec
6

WOMEN OF NO WORDS MUSIC

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Catch every amazing performance by original instrumental musicians (who happen to be women): From the revolutionary piano explosions of Ipek Eginli, Grammy award winning flautist Rasheeda Ali, Soul haunting artist Aileen Loy, Improvisational guitarist Ann Delay, Ambient trumpeter, Alexandria Smith, and Improvisational flute and clarinet duo by Al Yasha & Priscilla Smith.

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KIRKWOOD BALLERS CLUB
Nov
21

KIRKWOOD BALLERS CLUB

Thursday, Nov. 21 is the final edition of #KirkwoodBallersClub for 2024—the avant-garde monthly forum held every 3rd Thursday at eyedrum art & music gallery. Don’t miss this month’s packed lineup!

Featuring:
𝑲𝒍𝒊𝒎𝒄𝒉𝒂𝒌
𝑹𝒐𝒈𝒆𝒓 𝑹𝒖𝒛𝒐𝒘
𝑲𝒆𝒏𝒊𝒕𝒐
𝑷𝒂𝒖𝒍𝒂 𝑽𝒂𝒏 𝑮𝒐𝒆𝒔
𝑵𝒂𝒕 𝑹𝒆𝒆𝒅
𝑩𝒓𝒚𝒄𝒆 𝑬𝒊𝒎𝒂𝒏
𝑩𝒆𝒏 𝑮𝒂𝒓𝒅𝒆𝒏
𝑶𝒓𝒂𝒏𝒈𝒆 𝑳𝒂𝒘𝒓𝒆𝒏𝒄𝒆
𝑪 𝑲 𝑷 𝑰 𝑻 𝑺
𝑯𝒀?𝑵𝑶
𝑭𝒍𝒐𝒖𝒏𝒅𝒆𝒓
𝑴𝑶𝑴𝑴

Doors open at 8pm, the program begins at 8:30pm. Admission Free

Established in 2004, KBC takes place every 3rd Thursday at eyedrum art & music gallery from 8:00-1130pm.

In its various incarnations over the years, Kirkwood Ballers Club has created an environment where generations of avant-garde musical energy and talent have flourished throughout periods of existence and inactivity.

During its early years at Lenny’s Bar, a parade of local punk, hip-hop, jazz, and indie rock musicians would sign up to perform including everyone from garage punks and experimental musicians Cole Alexander of the Black Lips, Janelle Monáe, and Bradford Cox of Deerhunter to Grammy-winning saxophone player Kebbi Williams of Tedeschi Trucks Band. All utilized the format to create music in-the-moment that expanded upon their typical repertoires.

"The Kirkwood Ballers Club was always a place of pure freedom. I learned from KBC at Lenny’s Bar and from the scene at Eyedrum how to be free. I saw some of the most original and provocative things at the KBC, and it totally affected my life as an artist.”- Kebbi Williams

This program is funded by the Fulton County Board of Commissioners and supported in part by the City of Atlanta Mayor’s Office of Cultural Affairs. Additionally, it receives partial funding from a grant provided by the Community Foundation for Greater Atlanta and Georgia Council for the Arts.

WHEN: Every 3rd Thursday of the month from 8-11:30pm

WHERE: eyedrum art & music gallery 515 Ralph David Abernathy Blvd, Atlanta, GA 30312 - eyedrum.org 

SAVE THE DATE:
Registration for the next KBC on January 16, 2025, opens on Friday, December 20 at 10 AM. Come back then to fill out the questionnaire here and submit it for the event selection process.

PRINT THE KBC PARTICIPATION GUIDE AT HOME!

Explosive scene captured during the first Kirkwood Ballers Club at Eyedrum’s new West End location. Filmed on October 21, 2021 by Willow Goldstein and featuring performance artist Nathan Emerson

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