** GET HERE EARLY. FIRST 50 GETS A GIFT BAG & 10% DISCOUNT ON THE ENTIRE PURCHASE**

What: Poketo $5-$10 Warehouse Sale / Cupcake Social
When: May 10, 2008 10am - 5pm
Where: Poketo Studio - 510 S. Hewitt Street #506 Los Angeles, CA 90013

For the first-time ever, the Poketo Warehouse will open its doors for a massive spring cleaning sale to make room for our new season’s goodies. Just in time for summer, all of your favorite Poketo products, including wallets, t-shirts, plates, stationery, and even some one-off and archived items, will be on sale from $5-10 join us for cupcakes, tunes and discounted goodies. And for those of you who missed the First Editions Prints Show, here’s your second chance to check it out! Perfect time for any last minute Mother’s Day shopping, too!

Good to know that Hot and Cold is back!! Issue 2, only one left. Here are the details for tomorrow launch:

opening
friday may 9th, 2008
6-8pm

musical performances by:
soft circle
the urxed
car clutch

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For the first-time ever, the Poketo Warehouse will open its doors for a massive spring cleaning sale to make room for our new season’s goodies. Just in time for summer, all of your favorite Poketo products, including wallets, t-shirts, plates, stationery, and even some one-off and archived items, will be on sale from $5-10 join us for cupcakes, tunes and discounted goodies. And for those of you who missed the First Editions Prints Show, here’s your second chance to check it out! Perfect time for any last minute Mother’s Day shopping, too!

** GET HERE EARLY. FIRST 50 GETS A GIFT BAG & 10% DISCOUNT ON THE ENTIRE PURCHASE**

What: Poketo $5-$10 Warehouse Sale / Cupcake Social
When: May 10, 2008 10am - 5pm
Where: Poketo Studio - 510 S. Hewitt Street #506 Los Angeles, CA 90013

A little late for the reception due to the time difference, but, the show will be up until June 3rd. Our friend Gina is out there on a Fulbright Scholarship, this is her first solo exhibition there. In each of her lush, mostly large-scale photographs, Gina Osterloh treats the body and its surrounding environment as symbiotic physical and psychological spaces. In many of her photographs, the room itself is treated as a second skin, created through hundreds of paper cuts. In Blind Rash, the room is constructed from hundreds of pink skin-scale or camera shutter like shapes.
GREEN PAPAYA ART PROJECTS
124A Maginhawa St., Teachers Village East, Quezon City

Five Thirty Three is proud to present, “Fall in, Fall out, Fall down, Get ready!” a new collaborative exhibition of visual artworks by the musical collaborative, OJO. OJO is six independent thinkers who pursue individual interests yet converge to ‘play’ together. Their work (or play) seeks to reach out to the public as they negotiate the hurdles of live audience injected performance. For this project OJO will present individual visual works that are written, drawn, painted, constructed, erased, built, embossed, recalled, spoken, sung, conducted, engraved, poured, obliterated, sampled, looped, bombed, and peeled.

The opening night event will be a simultaneous opening of OJO’s visual work and include performances by Paper Legs from San Francisco, Collapsible Mammals, and OJO.

Five Thirty Three is located at 533 Los Angeles St., 2nd Floor, in downtown Los Angeles between 5th and 6th Streets. The exhibition opens on Sunday April 27th until Saturday May 24th. An opening reception for the artists will be held on Sunday April 27th from 7-10pm. The Gallery is open from Monday to Friday from 7-10pm and Saturdays from 11am-5pm.

At SWG3 warehouse, after the 1990s performed, it was a great dance party. Norman Blake spun records and Rebecca Davies, one of the Poketo wallet artists, planned a dance to perform with collaborator, Duncan. They made these rad matching, black triangle shirts and masks and had choreographed moves. Pretty hot. Here is a not so good video. And other videos on the Poketo YouTube Channel.

Our friend, artist Eamon Ore-Giron has a collaborative work with Julio Morales at Phantom Sightings: Art After The Chicano Movement at LACMA. He’s got some info and behind the scenes on his blog here. More, more….read the LA Times> article.

That’s right, we will be part of the Glasgow International Art Festival in conjunction with our friends at Hitherto Gallery in Glasgow. As part of the Glasgow International Festival, Poketo and Hitherto will release artist series wallets featuring some of the best and the brightest Glasgow artists, Marc Baines, Rob Churm, Rebecca Davies, Emily Robertson, Eilidh Weir, Stuart White and Annabel Wright.

In celebration of the festival and the series release, an evening of activities is planned for April 17th, featuring a musical set by Stevie Jackson of Belle & Sebastian, followed by performances at SWG3 Studio Warehouse by Gummy Stumps and 1990s!!

“Glasgow Series”
April 11-17, 2008
Hitherto@Tinderbox
McIntyre Hogg Building, Unit 4
141 Ingram Street
Glasgow, G1 1EJ1

Launch Event: Thursday, April 17, 2008, 5:00 pm - 7:00 pm
Performance by Stevie Jackson of Belle & Sebastian
Admission: free & open to the public.

SWG3 Studio Warehouse Event: Thursday, April 17, 2008, doors @ 8:30 pm
Performances by Gummy Stumps and 1990s
Admission: £8 per person. Advance booking essential - tickets available @ Hitherto.