Agenda

Icepack

There's a line in "Why Bother" that sums up what Allison Weiss is all about. Maxfield Gast has played saxophone on recordings with Philly jazzbos (Puzzlebox), ska heads (Public Service!) and elegant world musicians (Bebek). None of those things prepare you for what a clear and concise ax man he is. If you wrote off Of Montreal for being just too unbelievably freaking precious (guilty!), well, OK, they're still unabashedly affected. It's a Siltbreeze triple feature!

The project has 20 artists in 20 communities — in Philadelphia and abroad — collecting visuals and interviews to share stories of local change dealing with everything from gentrification to health. As long as the audience decides that what goes on behind the screen is more interesting than what's actually on it, Casaburdan Productions has succeeded. The only problem is, Jack thinks Q is a New Age therapist, not a cold-blooded killer. Participants in Linda Dubin Garfield's regular self-portrait workshops learn to tell a life story through their own image. Louis DeVaughn Nelson's multidisciplinary media satire asks one major question: What has this world come to? Spill expresses anger, fear and loss through intense bodily contortions.