Yes!Lets Collective Presents "The Light/Dark Show: Isolating the Senses"

Online, March 13, 2012 (Newswire.com) - If green beer is not your cup of tea this Saint Patrick's Day, come to the Third Place Gallery for a unique art & music experience. Yes!Lets Collective, in partnership with The Third Place Gallery, is teaming up with an array of local, emerging visual artists, including Colin Kopp, Alfonso Fernandez, Bridget Blatzheim and Ali Rogers to present "The Light / Dark Show: Isolating the Senses."

In a time when we are constantly over stimulated by lights and sounds, images and advertisement, the Yes!Lets Collective invites you to this rare opportunity to isolate your senses for an evening of visual and audio art, themed Light / Dark at Wing Young Huie's Third Place Gallery on Saturday, March 17th from 7:00-9:00 p.m.

The event begins in complete silence, allowing participants to isolate their sense of sight to fully engage with visual art. Participants will then be guided into complete darkness, isolating their sense of hearing to fully engage with live music performed by members of Yes!Lets. Interactive elements and optional sensory isolation assistance, such as earplugs and blindfolds, will be available. The event will culminate in a discussion with the artists, followed by ping-pong and karaoke. Refreshments will be served. $5-10 suggested donation.

About Yes!Lets Collective:
Yes!Lets Collective is a cohort of Twin Cities musicians, artists and organizers; with an ethos of unwavering enthusiasm, the collective seeks to unite 'performer' and 'audience' through events
based on community building and collaborative art-making.

About the Third Place Gallery:
The third place is a term used in the concept of community building to refer to social surroundings separate from the two usual social environments of home and the workplace. Wing Young Huie builds community at Third Place Gallery with events that facilitate and foster broader, more creative interaction.

About the Visual Artists:
Colin Kopp is a photographer and videographer based in the Twin Cities. Since graduating from the Minneapolis College of Art and Design (2006), Kopp's work has been published in Rolling
Stone Magazine, Urb Magazine, Magnet Magazine, 10,000 Arts Quarterly and the Water Stone Review. He was the recipient of the 2007-2008 MCAD/Jerome Fellowship and a 2010-2011 Minnesota State Art Board Artist Initiative Grant. His work has been exhibited regionally at galleries including the Fox Tax gallery, the Minneapolis Center for Photography, IFP Minnesota, Central Lakes College, The Lab, Flanders gallery, Carbon Studio and the Minneapolis College of Art and Design.

Alfonso Fernandez describes his art as a hybrid of Street Art and Abstract Expressionism. His influences include hip-hop, punk music and general sociology (race, class, etc.). Through the use of symbols as icons and the incorporation of lettering, he weaves social commentary and reflections of the urban landscape into many of his pieces, mixing nature with urban. His work has been shown at Gallery 13, Quarter Gallery, Nash Gallery, Funky Town solo show at Stevens Square, and Music for Mother Earth Festival.

Bridget Blatzheim is an artist and educator. She says art brings her happiness. Through manipulation and invention, art bestows a voice to ordinary and otherwise silent objects. She believes creation is beautiful in its simplicity and is destined to be shared; in the course of sharing, comes community and interaction, spreading happiness and inspiration to others; visit
www.mnartists.org/bridget_blatzheim to view her work and creative process.

Ali Rogers is a Minneapolis based photographer with a passion for yoga, nature, and travel, as evidenced by her photographs ranging from scenic Minnesota to the wild and cultural lands of Madagascar and South Pacific islands; visit www.alirogersphoto.com for a glimpse into her world and images.