12.07.2006
SAN JOSE MERCURY NEWS
San Jose Arts Collective Throwing a Part With Fishbone
By Shay Quillen

The San Jose-based Pacific Arts Collective is throwing itself a fourth-birthday bash Friday at Santa Clara's Avalon nightclub, and it's bringing in one of the all-time great party bands, Fishbone, for the occasion.

The organization has come a long way since it started in 2002. In its early days, it would give unknown musicians a shot at small venues such as the old Barbarella boutique in Willow Glen. South Bay artists like post-rock band Day One Symphony and slam poet Mighty Mike McGee got valuable early exposure at such events.

These days, the collective's quarterly Cultural Xposure events at the San Jose Museum of Art draw about 1,000 people each, and its Collabo events at nightclubs feature such established acts as Digital Underground. But the concept -- bringing together a bunch of artists of all stripes and seeing what happens -- hasn't changed.

``What we've created is this whole scene where now the poet knows what the painter's doing, and the painter knows what the band's doing,'' says the collective's founder and curator Wil Rowan.

Along with Fishbone, Friday's Collabo will feature a slate of bands including San Francisco's out-of-this-world Phenomenauts, turntablists the Oakland Faders, various spoken-word performers (including Dr. Madd Vibe, the alter ego of Fishbone frontman Angelo Moore) and 20 visual artists doing their thing while you watch. $15; 8 p.m.-1:30 a.m.; Avalon, 777 Lawrence Expressway.

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