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May 17-18,  2009

SOLO WORK by Jasmine Orpilla.See the inception of one of my original pieces on the REDCAT Stage:

http://redcat.org/season/0809/the/studiospring.php

May 21, 2009

NINJAS’ HOMECOMING SHOW!

http://www.myspace.com/thesmell

June 19, 2009

NEW NINJAMAMALICKUM MATERIAL at the Pehrspace with NINJA ACADEMY!

http://www.pehrspace.org/

also playing, David Liebe Hart from Tim and Eric’s Awesome Show (Adult Swim).

June 20, 2009

NINJA ACADEMY. Free Show! SKATERS! Snakes! ART!
at Hangar 1018, Skate Shop Showcase   https://skateshopshowcase.wordpress.com Also playing: Brevi.

June 27, 2009

NINJAS ROCK THE BOAT! (Seriously. We’re playing on a sailing boat.)
http://ninjaacademy.com/news.php

The Rock-It-Ship  Party on a Boat!

423 Shoreline Village, Dock  7

Long Beach, 90802

21 and over. $10 cover.   Be on the dock early, the ship sails at 8:30, we play at midnight! Under the stars…

http://ninjaacademy.com/news.php

July 1, 2009

Ninja BallZ: Big Trouble in Little Tokyo….All Ninja Bands Battle!

Ninja Academy plays at 11pm. See flyer below for details…

2nd Street Jazz

366 E. 2nd Street, Los Angeles CA, 90012

July 23, 2009

Ninja Academy at

BOOTLEG THEATER

2220 Beverly Blvd.

Los Angeles, CA 90057

http://www.bootlegtheater.com

Aug 14, 2009

Ninja Academy: A Ninja Wedding Celebration!

Also Playing: the Mormons

Juanita’s Highland Park

5930 York Blvd.

Highland Park, CA 90042

(323) 254 4200

 

 

Aug. 20, 2009

Ninjamamalickum solo: Jasmine Orpilla with Urban Electronic Music

at the Steve Allen Theater! Visit: www.steveallentheater.com

4773 Hollywood Blvd.  Hollywood, 90027.   Doors open at 8 pm.

All you moog, noise and theremin lovers, come and vibrate! (or vice versa).

 

 

Aug 22, 2009

Ninja Academy exciting national radio production! Threshold Studios…secret future details tbd- (That’s me throwing the Wu Tang sign by the way.)

 

Thursday, August 27, 2009

Ninja Academy at Alterknit Lounge

Knitting Factory

7021 Hollywood Blvd.

Hollywood, CA 90028

11pm, $7

Order tickets: http://www.ticketweb.com/t3/sale/SaleEventDetail?dispatch=loadSelectionData&pl=&eventId=2153024

Also playing:  We Should Be Dead;  Junkface; A Louder Disaster!

 

 

Sept 4, 2009

Ninja Academy :  7″ Vinyl Release Party!

Friday night- We play at 11pm, $5 cover, +21.

Old Towne Pub - 
66. N. Fair Oaks Ave.
Pasadena, CA 91103
Friday night- We play at 11pm, $5 cover, +21.

 

 Sept. 12, 2009

Saturday night, 10pm.

I’m performing in ‘Mapping sound- SASSAS 10th Anniversary Concert’

10pm at Beyond Baroque,  681 NorthVenice, CA 90291. It’s a PARTY!

 

Sept. 20,2009

NEW MUSIC SUNDAYS at the Lounge of the Redcat (yup, not the mainstage this time but the lounge, meaning- the hallways! the carpet! the lobby! the drinking fountain!) With UEM; also playing, Tom McNalley and ensemble. Begins 2:30 pm.

 

Oct 3, 2009

Soundwalk, East Village Arts District in Long Beach, CA. I will be present in a different form. And this one will be interactive, everyone…UEM’s installation will require YOU.    www.soundwalk.org

 

Nov. 1-2, 2009

My performance piece entitled: The TYPHOON, THE ROPE AND THE SLIPPERS, was selected as part of REDCAT‘s Fall Studio series (second time this year). A video-audio evolution of my tapat-inspired work from last spring, now I will perform in a new dynamic with UEM. Proceeds and donations on my part go towards Typhoon Ondoy relief.

We are collaborating with www.peoplescore.net People’s CORE 501 (c)(3), KmB Pro-People Youth, and the Alliance for a Just and Lasting Peace in the Philippines (AJLPP) to request your support to aid our sisters and brothers in the Philippines through Sagip-Tulong sa Pilipinas Emergency Relief Fund. Donations, such as those integrated within UEM’s performance, are arranged with Ang Kalusugan para sa Pinoy Inc. (AKAP: Embracing with Care), a non-profit organization registered with the Securities and Exchange Commission with 21 health stations in Metro Manila.  AKAP is located at 7 Mulawin St., Mapayapa Village III, Capital Hills, Quezon City, tel. (632) 425-2576.

REDCAT Theatre

in Walt Disney Concert Hall

631 W. 2nd Street, Los Angeles 90012

Show at 8:30pm,  tickets between $12-$6 : http://www.redcat.org/event/studio-fall-09

 

Nov. 6-7, 2009

NINJA ACADEMY HOMECOMING CONCERTS!

Join Indo, Outdo, Gongis and Ninjamamalickum at:

The Old Town Pub, 66 N. Fair Oaks (enter off alley at Holly St.),  Pasadena, CA 91103. Also playing: San Francisco’s We Be the Echo and Clevis.  11pm, only $5 cover, 21+.

 

Nov 12, 2009

I will commit noise-crime! Invited by the amazing Kim Ye, I’ve arranged a set with Marianna Fox and UEM to play deep in the old and beautiful Farmers and Merchant Bank as part of downtown L.A.’s Artwalk, at The Annex LA, 401 S. Main Street, L.A. 90013.

We will attempt to break into the vault itself. Using our noise tools, of course. All in context of the art featured that night, (we will also be simultaneously broadcast by Darryl Kanouse on Redline Park’s online radio).     http://www.theannexla.com/

 

December 19, 2009

Super secret Ninja show. Seriously. Gotta get on a very secret list and everything. Just email me. Ninjamamalickum@gmail.com.  Shhh.

 

January 8, 2010

Just in! Doing an enormous Art Extravaganza, W.O.M. (Word of Mouth) downtown L.A. Nothing short of an artorgy, so many creatives involved! 2032 E. 15th Street, L.A. 90058 (park in back and catch shuttle). 8.30 to 3am y’all.

 

January 9, 2010

NINJA ACADEMY is participating in Experience L.A.’s ‘Los Angeles Arts Month’! We’re performing at the Smell, with a very special guest! We have some exciting new things for ya…

http://www.experiencela.com/Calendar/eventmore.asp?key=26630

The Smell

247  S. Main ave.

Los Angeles, CA 90012  (entrance through alley between 2nd & 3rd)  We play at 11pm.

http://www.thesmell.org/

 

Ninja Academy in Experience L.A./Arts Month 2010!

Also in January 2010

-Ninja Academy in San Francisco with the tremendous We Be the Echo! West Coast Mag presents, at the Hemlock Tavern.

 

-Breaking out with a brand new Jasmine-Orpilla-musical-conceptualization-upon-many-things-that-squeak-you’ll-love-it-just-come-on-out-it’ll-change-the-way-you-see-life-but-in-a-fun-way, show . Gallery details on the way.

 

January 14 & 21, 2010

Aaah! This just in! I wrote the original music for this cabaret I’m also performing in tonight as part of  January’s Downtown L.A. Artwalk. The cabaret’s called The Vault, in the Los Angeles Theatre Center, 514 S. Spring St. L.A. 90013. Pay-what-you-can by donation, show’s at 10pm

 

January 24th, 2010

Last minute add! I wasn’t gonna post this but I can’t help it! A sneaky preview of  my suggested future-doings going down Sunday night at the discreet Old Towne Pub, 66 N. Fair Oaks,  Pasadena, CA 91103.  Enter off alley at Holly St. Seriously. Or you won’t find it. (That’s how we roll if you haven’t noticed. )

For those with allergies, know that  slight latex will be  involved. I will be sitting in just a little, but it’s for good measure. Because  there will be more latex, I tell you – much, much more in the Spring. This concert  is just a tiny sampling. Just be there at 10pm.

 

January 30th, 2010

NINJA ACADEMY all together with me, the lovely Gongis, and also Shogun!

This one is going to be a very special, personal show, for personal reasons.  I will be giving it my all. As will Indo and Outdo-Ninjas, who are gonna be as mind-blowing as usual if not more. Probably more. Come out! Show is at:

The Wire, 247 N. 2nd Ave. Upland, CA 91786       $10, all ages. Doors at 9pm.

 

February 5-6, 2010

I will be making unfettered NOISE at Highways Performance Space, Santa Monica, CA. Did I say ‘unfettered’ ? Yes, I did.  http://www.highwaysperformance.org/

Sat & Sun, 8:30pm, tickets $15/$20

 

February 11, 2010

Staging new music during downtown L.A. Artwalk, at the Vault, Los Angeles Theatre Center, 514 S. Spring St. L.A. 90013. 10pm!

 

Feb 13, 2010

Performing for Chinese New Year in Downtown L.A. Chinatown (of course). I’ll be performing an excerpt of my 2010 work “SPLOTCH©: The Beauty of Skin Whitening,” a solo vocal performance piece,  featuring video collaboration with filmmaker Najaa Young. Evening begins 7pm.

Lili Bernard Art Studio & HABLA Underground
935 Chung King Road, Chinatown, Los Angeles, CA 90012  www.HablaUnderground.com

 

Feb. 24, 2010

Latex is back! I’m the featured guest with Balloon Bass Trio: the fabulous Addi Somekh, Pablo Calogero and Gabriel “Frontrow” Rowland. Also on the bill my friends, the fabulous Fish Circus! 9:30pm and on. Old Towne Pub, 66 N. Fair Oaks,  Pasadena, CA 91103.  (Hint: Enter off alley at Holly St.) There will be a couple Ninjas in disguise as normal people in disguise as Rod Serling and a schoolgirl with toys- I. Am. Not. Kidding.

March 11, 2010

In conjunction with Downtown L.A. Artwalk, I am doing the last VAULT VARIETY SHOW with my fellow Vaulters at the LATC. The last one, you guys. And as it is THE LAST, we will do a double bill. Step away from the artsy bustle of the streets and enter the LATC…

Go through the black curtains. If you see me as Imelda Marcos, or taste cherry pies, or hear my circus music/weird dirty house, you’ll know you’re at the right place:

LATC, 514 S. Spring St., Los Angeles, 90017.   Pay what you can. Shows at 9pm and 10pm.

 

 

March 13, 2010

I have the pleasure of performing with Alan Nakagawa (of Collage Ensemble Inc.; Department of Real Estate) as part of  Chinatown L.A.’s Art Night, Saturday 6-9pm! My Balikbayan-Beuys-y “Safety Box” meets his Oppenheimer-like “Iso Cube!” What will happen? WHAT will happen?!  Come and find out, along with us, at:

The Automat Gallery

936 Chung King Road, Los Angeles, CA 90012

Artnight is 6-9pm.

 

 

March 20, 2010

I was invited back to perform material from my Balikbayan Box and Tapat at Boston Court Theatre, for Pasadena Playhouse District’s ArtTalk 2010! Starts 11am. Click on link for details and flyer:

http://www.playhousedistrict.org/arttalk/index.html

Boston Court Performance Theatre

70 N. Mentor Ave.

Pasadena, CA 91106

ALSO

 

Saturday, March 20, 2010

Not to miss!  On the same day, I’m also performing with Steve Roden and Andy Featherston based on the 1968-1969 Scratch Orchestra Draft Constitution, as part of  “sound. at Fiesta Hall: Pilgrimage From Scattered Points (Luke Fowler),”  happening in West Hollywood! 4pm.

Tickets here: https://www.vendini.com/ticket-software.html?e=f444d4f8b552e863bca37d62a252abd9&t=tix

Flyer: Sassas-11×17-v1d

April 3, 2010

I’m performing my PIE and other hot goodies accompanied by my fellow brave Vaulters on Saturday night,  April 3rd for the downtown L.A. Hive Gallery 5th Year Anniversary Show! The theme: “Love in Hiveland.”  Hence, PIE.  If you come dressed fabulously in black and yellow, the cover is only $5 for you, my friend.

Party 8pm – 1 am:  The Hive Gallery, 729 S. Spring, Los Angeles 90014.

Secret password at the door: Ninjamamalickum & Friends.

Action goes down at 11pm.

 

 April-May 2010

I’ll be performing a rotating sampler menu of the Balikbayan ’Box, Splotch©, Safety Box, Tapat, Latex Toothbrush, Pie and others! Venue details will pop up when you’re not looking…! So check back in often!

April 16th Just in! I will be a guest on the live webcast ”Painting the Town”  with Alex Schaefer for the Los Angeles United Arts Scene. Tune in Fri 7pm (PST): www.unitedartscene.com

April 24th Surprise news! I will be performing a ”mystery set” for the Amor Fati literary magazine fundraiser at midnight…

 

 

April 27, 2010 Just in! I’ve been invited to perform on Llyn F oulkes’ Le Grand Pop, live webcast on L.A. Artstream. Tune in at 10pm (PST) to http://www.laartstream.com

May 3rd Inner posse musical performance for the Hollywood comedy circuit.  Pls email me for details…

 

 

May 27 -June 12, 2010

We are baaaack! (’cause Pie is delicious. Among other things. Many other things: Creepy robots, a giant syringe, Vicks Vaporub and an hommage to Gene Kelly. For instance. Oh yeah, and my Quinceañera.)

The VAULT:  At the Los Angeles Theatre Center, 514  S. Spring Street, 90013. Thursdays 8pm, Fridays 8pm and Saturdays double bill 8pm/10pm.  $20 general admission, $10 students- also check out Thursday Artwalk specials and more at: www.thelatc.org

 

 

June 19th, 2010

Ninjamamalickum & Friends performing hot classics for the Project Angel Food fundraiser at Siren Studios, Hollywood. Please email for entry details ninjamamalickum@gmail.com

 

July 8, 2010

Special sleek and shiny happening going down for Downtown Los Angeles Artwalk! Bring your vuvuzelas.  What else do you need them for at this point? At 9pm. www.latc.org.

July 28, 2010

Come see the fascinating work-in-process of the Latino Theatre Company’s production of La Victima. I cannot divulge the details of my participation in this work. I just need to you come and support socially-engaged theatre in downtown L.A., regardless, so just come out. 8pm. 514 S. Spring St., Los Angeles, 90017.

 

 

August 12, 2010

Not to miss! I will be sonically in charge of this special rendition of The VAULT at Los Angeles Theatre Center, Theater #4, 514 S. Spring St. L.A. 90013.

We play at 8pm. And I know that we WILL sell out. So do come early.

August 21, 2010

Performing at FILTER MAGAZINE’s Dream Art Explosion! In The Brick Building, 8870 Washington blvd., Culver City, CA this coming Saturday at 9pm. The event goes til 1am. Check it out:

 

 

September 2, 2010

Showcasing for Dopewood’s Change of Scene, at The Mezz! In The Alexandria, 501 S. Spring St., Los Angeles, 90014. 7pm-2am. 21+ over. Ticket sales: $10 in advance, $20 at the door. Events@dopewood.com

 

September 9, 2010

It’s downtown Los Angeles Artwalk at LATC! Get a tasty sampler of The Vault’s Fall season: at 8pm, 514 S. Spring St., L.A. CA 90014.

 

 

 September 25-26, 2010

Ninjamamalickum at Epicenter Twenty Ten  Music Festival, Fontana!! Find me this weekend performing with The HIVE in the JVC Perfect Experience ArtSpace, literally in between Kiss, House of Pain and Eminem. Gonna be The Bomb! (Seriously). Amazing fellow artist lineup- Chet Zar, Mear One, Clarke&Camille, Yuki Miyazaki, Van Sarno, Greg Gould and more! Here’s ticketing info: http://rockontherange.com/epicenter/artspace.html

 

Oct 7, 2010

I’m performing ‘Til Death Do Us Part‘ (Authentic Gender Power Play®) at the Crocker Club,  for Robert Vargas’ fashion event, Red Zebra. 11:30pm. Featuring fashion by Yuki Nishida and more. Also playing: The Makers. Address: Crocker Club, 453 S. Spring St., Los Angeles, CA 90013. +21, dress code.

 

 

 

 

 

 

October 9, 2010

 

NINJA ACADEMY.

Need. I.Say. More. Join us as we ravage Old Towne Pub Pasadena. 10:30pm sharp til the wee hours. For 21+. Also playing: Oedipus. Map of venue.

 

 

 

October 15-16, 2010

Ninjamamalickum plays the Hammer Museum!! Annie OKAY, by Asher Hartman! Wild and lovely and violent. Click for ticketing here:  http://annieokay.eventbrite.com/

 

 

 

 

October 28-November 20, 2010

The VAULT in the Los Angeles Theatre Center’s Fall 2010 season! All our irreverent shenanigans are a GO.  Buy your tickets here http://thelatc.org/seasons/face-of-the-world-2010/the-vault/

 

 

2011

 

 

 

January 13th 2011

THE VAULT  throughout 2011 at the Los Angeles Theatre Center. Back by popular demand!! Of course. Why stop? We got a good thing going here. And we had so much fun cramming everyone every which way into the theatre, Marx brothers style. Didn’t you love it? Come back. Or just come! New shenanigans. Hot musicalness by yours truly. Because THE VAULT now previews on a monthly basis at LATC in preparation of the Fall Season 2011! I love process! Part of Downtown Los Angeles Artwalk 2nd Thurdays.

We do a double show now: 9pm AND 10pm. Because it is a new year, I will be BRINGING PETS. So come on out and enjoy ‘them…’

 

January 20th 2011

I’m performing with SCSE at Open in Long Beach. Acoustic Paris meets Osaka meets Los Angeles in Long Beach. FREE. 9pm

  

 

This just in!!

February 2011 The Vault will be especially hosted at our neighbours’, The Company of Angels Theatre!! Showtimes 9m and 10pm. Theatrically funky sonic ‘snacks’ provided my me, in honor of YOU, trepidatious Downtown Artwalkers, you!

 

 

February 20th 2011

Join me and fellow  Southern California Soundscape Ensemble musicians Glenn Bach and Marco Schindelmann at the University of Redlands  Memorial Chapel as we participate in the program ”AIR,”centered around R. Murray Schaffer (the ‘Father of Acoustic Ecology”). Led by Nicholle Andrews. 8pm.

 

 

Februrary 26th, 2011

Opening the Rite of Passage for the Amor Fati ‘Spirit Animal’ Release Party! With the hot LA Samba School. Inner posse info by visiting http://www.facebook.com/group.php?v=wall&gid=189683915923

 

 

 

March 3rd, 2011 

Ninjamamalickum performs at the 2011 TED Conference! If you are not a fan of Bono nor Bill Gates nor Al Gore, at least tune in online to watch their reactions when I perform for them. OH! the sheer irony and beauty of it all… Tickets for this event, which are $3000. each, ARE SOLD OUT.  So just tune in online through the TED website. But- in what capacity will I be? Just tune in!  It’s meant to be a surprise. Hint #1: Deepest gratitude to L.A. Samba School AND my fellow Ninjas AND DJ Gouverneur. . .

Hint #2: Session 9, Threads of Discovery!

3/3 Update: Yo! MyTED rap was ’censored,’ yo! Mr. J*** Enriquez was oh-so-very kind to us but alas, no! What an honor. We rocked the mainstage, but all politically vocal vulgarity was left for J**** Mraz to cover for afterwards (ha!) FYI the session tickets cost $6000, with online viewing starting about $100-.  So let me just keep ya posted on links. They may not, however, show Mr. B***Gates getting down with us on the sweaty, booze-sticky dance floor of the Westin Hotel. (True story)

 

March 10, 2011

March Vault CANCELLED (damn!)

OK. Carnaval has sent the Vault downstairs to experiment in the Vault dungeon below the LATC. See what we do with it. Rotating the experiment around 9pm. Experiment, I said. Keyword: experiment.  As a consolation, I will do a double-take Panda intervention at the Amor Fati Animal Release party towards 11:00pm in Silverlake. With the most cheerful LA Samba School! (details: theamorfati.com)

 

 

March 14, 2011

          Doing slightly more personal experiments, this time Ninjamamalickum & Friends in Authentic Gender Power Play® at ANATOMY RIOT #39 in partnership with the Blankenship Ballet :

 Blankenship Ballet/ King Edward ballroom Alexandria Hotel
501 S. Spring Street, 2nd floor
Los Angeles, CA 90013. 8pm, tickets $10 (no reservations).

 

 

March 17, 2011

Awesome to play at my friend Hans Fjellstad’s ResBox series once again, at the Steve Allen Theatre. This time with the equally awesome SCSE! I will provide all safety and security. Doors at 8pm. Tickets $10.  Address: 4773 Hollywood Blvd.  Hollywood, 90027

 

 

April 7, 2011

Stay tuned for details on my musical collaboration with Asher Hartman at Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions! Hooray for gay comics! and the days of yore! LACE Musical tip: Michael Jackson meets Rip Taylor. (Because they do. Like, all the time.)

 

 April 30, 2011

The All Stars of Non-Violet Communication, back by popular demand! Lennie (aka me) throws down with his fabulous kazoo. 8pm. At Human Resources Gallery, 410 Cottage Home, Chinatown LA 90012!

 

May 12, 2011

The VAULT chez Company of Angels Theatre, in the luscious Alexandria, Spring St. at 5th, Los Angeles 90014. Yes, it is for Artwalk. Yes, I will be armed. (As usual.) 10pm show.

 

 May 15, 2011

Join me in SOUND at the Angels Gate Open Studios, Angels Gate Cultural Center, 3601 S. Gaffery st., San Pedro. I will be playing with the awesome Glenn Bach in an instantaneous soundscape of mine. Noon. Free!

 

 May 20-21, 2011

Ninjamamalickum & Friends! at Highways’ 22nd Year Anniversary: SMUTOPIA. Ahhhhhhh, the fun times. The joy and laughter. (Mature audiences only, please.)

 

 

June 11, 2011

 

It’s The Vault’s “first” big, shebangin party, THE JUMP OFF!  Fun fun funstuff til 3am. Music and dancing, in your FACE surprises: Oh yeaaaaah! At downtown L.A’s VORTEX, 2431 E. Olympic.

 

September 15- October 8

THE VAULT: Unlocked

BACK BY POPULAR DEMAND. Yours truly will literally be shapeshifting in magical ways. Enjoy Ninjamamalickum’s deeply visceral musical direction, together with the Vault Ensemble’s genre-bending antics, as they take to the mythic depths of downtown Los Angeles’ underground. Fall season 2011 at Los Angeles Theatre Center, 514 Spring st. LA, CA 90014.

We just received RAVE reviews from the LA Weekly for this show! I love that they dig my music and performance art! GO: http://blogs.laweekly.com/stylecouncil/2011/09/reviews_of_a_widow_of_no_impor.php

 

 

October 29, 2011

See me in LACE’s Debating Through the Arts: Contemporary Issues in Performance. Witness a fabulous circuit of 3 performances. 10am-6pm. Audience must RSVP: LACE 6522 Hollywood, 90028.

Nov-Dec 2011

Check in soon for updates on The Vault Ensemble as we hijack, I mean, tour various venues throughout Los Angeles, to spread the dowtown gospel about the impending Hipster Apocalypse.

 

March 2012

Performing at Machine Project, directed by Asher Hartman, juicy details coming soon!

 

 

-Check back in often for regular updates-

 

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