YES OUI SI

YES OUI SI

What: YES OUI SI is a two day multi-sensory exhibition of art, music, and performance.

WHO: GreatFruit Productions is a Boston based collective of visually and aurally inclined creators, founded in Autumn of 2006. What started as a group of young artists has since flourished into an organized collective. We coordinate moments and facilitate situations of collaboration through a fusion of multimedia art shows and kaleidoscopic music concerts.

WHERE: 270 3rd st. Cambridge, MA 02142

WHEN: May 8th and 9th 12am-10pm

The Greatfruit Collective in collaboration with the Cambridge Arts Council presents YES OUI SI, an exhibition of over 30 artists from around the Northeast converging for a two day variety show.  Get lost in the mirror cube and find yourself in the baboon saloon with the back porch jugg funk of The Hogstompers, the bird songs of Nina Violet and the sea soaked ballads of troubadour Willy Mason.  Subject yourself to performance art and drown your senses in the underwater music room in celebration of Baby Brainwaves CD release.  Feast your eyes on multi-media installations spilling off walls and ceilings and inspect paintings, prints, drawings, sculptures and photographs culled from around the world.  Quit being so nervous and tip the burlesque dancers.

In Exhibition: Sculpture, Instillation, Painting, Photography, Collage, Music, Performance, Puppetry, Burlesque, Theater, Video, Animation, Prints

Participating Artists: Jaques Cazobron, Zach Lanoue, Miguel Horowitz, CAAT, Pat Wallace, Olivia Ives-Flores, Mike Potecha, Adrian Molina, Peter Calderwood,  Elizabeth Kavarsky, Melvin Zizik, Niko Ewing, Mike Schlenoff, Miguel de Braganza, Ellie Daucher, Alisa Javitz, David Gerson, Blaise Danio, Nick Gibney, Lena Gustafson, Sophie Bignet, Lucy Henderson, Hannah Rosenthal, Jason Bashaw, Adam Lipsky, Nina Violet, Colin Ruel, Willy Mason, Baby Brainwaves, The Hogstompers, Adam Howell, Angel Russell, Marciana Jones, James Sprang, Nate Sprague, Kevin Clancy, Dawn Simunovich and more. 

Adrian Molina / Zach LaNoue

Zach Lanoue

GreatFruit Family Y'Art Sale

this past saturday the greatfruit family staged a y'art sale in the parking lot behind our inman square flat.  everybody who came out was blessed with sunshine, sound, food, prints, photographs, pottery, recycled clothes,  and carnival games including ring, beanbag, and a mechanical rotating coin toss, ball hockey, and catch the painted plastic pumpkin on a hook 'n string.  there was hula-hooping and dancing and andrew melvin zizik conducting the loopy lulu lala zim zim mouth orchestra. the hogstompers performed a marathon 4 hour set of electrified jugfunk music 





and baby brainwaves followed with their giant psychedelic sea bird sound.  

the yar't sale was all in all a super great fun time and we even raised some funds for the vaudeville art show on MAY 8th and 9th.   i dont want to give it away yet because all the confirmations aren't in, but it looks like the musical line up is going to be FANTASTIC!!!!!  thank you so much to everybody who came out and to all those who helped in preparing the event. lets do it again soon.   

love, GFFP

GreatFruit Family on Parade

 

The first inklings of sunshine on St. Patty's day was just the spark needed to break out and celebrate. The mission of the day was to sprinkle color around the Cambridge commonwealth, turn up the volume and rustle up the banal routines of our fellow citizens. We painted flags and banners advertising FOOD! ART! MUSIC! FAMILY! FUN! and GAMES!

After the paint had dried, costumes coordinated, face paint applied, instruments and players rallied, we hit the street. It may have appeared slightly bazaar, surprisingly out of the ordinary, or even perhaps down right crazy, but the parade was simply GreatFruit's version of gorilla marketing. We were marching to raise awareness about our weekend Y'Art sale and lot party in Inman square. 

Our outrageous advertising scheme worked... the Y'Art sale was a fantastic success! We gathered quite the interesting crowd of people! Baby BrainWaves and the Hogstompers kept the music coming all day long..

Y'Art Sale

Come One Come All!

48 Beacon st. Inman Square (across from Food Master)

noon-ish till evenin'

 FUNK RAI$ER!

Y'ART SALE

FOOD and BEVERAGE

FACE PAINT

CARNIVAL GAMES

PRIZES

PHOTO BOOTH

ART and MUSIC

Music by the HogStompers and Baby BrainWaves

Baby Brainwaves Gorilla Performance in the Harvard Staircase

G.A.S.S.Y

Gorilla Art Shows Specially for You

Random Acts of Art

Out and About #1

The idea behind getting G.A.S.S.Y is a practice in inconspicuous spontaneity.

A reevaluation of conventional spaces, and an incentive to create informal artworks with the intention to share. 15th floor Staircase B in the Harvard Psychology Building was the location of our first impromptu debut. Baby Brainwaves secretly serenaded the worker bees in white lab coats from the stair shaft.

"Sheik Aiders"

"Bear Claw"

Baby Brainwaves play Bear Claw in stairwell B Floor 15 @ Harvard Univeristy

last friday afternoon olive and the bwaves took a field trip to harvard to install string, mirrors, and songs in a stairwell at harvard u as part of the 1st installment of greatfruit family's weekly guerilla series.  here's a song we played called bear claw.  if the weather clears later today we're gonna be playing at blaze's barbecue so come on by fir some grub 'n tunes!  on another tip the sounds we are capturing for our album are super satisfying and all the b-waves agree that wensley st. has bomb acoustic properties and that certain je-ne-sais-quois element.  i'm gonna post a couple other performances of the band from last month and another song from harvard guerilla day.  thank you all for coming out friday night to gay gardens, i/bwaves had a blast!!!!!
peace,
miguel
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Space 242 GET YOUR FREAK ON

In my opinion Space 242 is by far one of Boston's most radical Art Spaces. They consistently show a variety of awesome art with tantalizing themes. Step Right Up Step Right Up

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