21 Grand
449B 23rd St. Near 19th Street BART Oakland
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NOTICE -- FREE EVENT. . . Jim Ryan's survival party (CELEBRATING!!! 70 years on the planet, 27 years off the sauce)

3:00 to 10:30pm, bands, balloons, jim's famous chili (two kinds - veggi & full of meat) also jim's famous salad . . .also CD release for Forward Energy's Where Are They?

The Schedule:

3pm Hideous Dream with C.J.Reaven Borosque, feedback boxes, Rent Romus autoharp & electronics, Jim Ryan amped kalimba, hideous voice, electronics

4pm Forward Energy with Jim Ryan alto, tenor, flute, Carolyn Torrente alto, Lisa Mezzacappa contrabass, Peter Valsamis drums

5pm JIM'S FAMOUS CHILI both veggi and full of meat, also famous salad and trimmings

7pm THE LEFT COAST IMPROV GROUP with Ernesto Diaz-Infante guitar, Ron Heglin trombone/voice, Jeff Hobbs violin/cornet/clarinet/sax, etc., Bob Marsh multiple instruments & taps, Jim Ryan electronic kalimba rig, processed voice,
and flute, Karen Stackpole (gongwoman) gongs and percussion.

8pm unto the end more famous chili, eating, dancing, maybe jam band, balloons, streamers, computer projections by Thrall Visuals, surprises, and whatever else we can think up to amuse you . . . .

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