And Safe // Sound concludes its summer series at Ashmore Gallery tonight with Saskatchewan, The Cretin Girls, and Sauna Heat. From the Facebook invitation:

Our final show in the series brings three bands of diverse musical inclinations to produce a night of melodic “Swinging”. Our headliner, Saskatchewan, a dream-pop outlet from Orlando, Florida will tease you with their smooth and haunting tunes, but also get ya’ swaying across the floor.

The Cretin Girls: synth-driven garage punk, this is the side project of Gainesville, FL band Thee Holy Ghosts, who are bound to get a little raucous, and really show us what “Ghetto Bleach Punk” means.

Sauna Heat: Savannah locals, these boys are sure to turn it up with their garage-punk antics and good ol’ Rock and Roll mentality.

Here’s Saskatchewan:

And Thee Holy Ghosts:

And Sauna Heat:

Tickets are $7 at the door.

A good night of music around town.

It’s a remarkable trip through the sketchbooks of 122 artists — mostly quite young ones, primarily including some SCAD students or recent graduates, along with artists and illustrators from around the world and around the country.

Given the course work at SCAD, I’m sure there are many sketchbooks out there filled with perspective studies, gesture drawings, and other more academic work, but most of the Sketchbook Show!!! doesn’t fit neatly into those categories.

Some are subtle, some bawdy, some vulgar, some finely detailed, some obviously created roughly and quickly, some striking in incomplete ways — like one would expect from ideas being worked out playfully and informally.

I ended up buying pieces by Xavier Robles de Medina, Jon Taylor, and Emily Quintero.

Highly recommended.

There are myriad things going on this weekend, but I just wanted to post a reminder about two notable ones going on tonight: The Sketchbook Show!!! opening tonight at Ashmore Gallery at 412 MLK and Seersucker Live at 7:30 p.m. upstairs at The Sparetime at Congress and MLK.

Seersucker Live is a reading and performance series that has thrown fuel on the increasingly vibrant literary scene in Savannah. From the event Facebook page:

Kick off your Friday night with Brand New Writing and Performances by:

Stephen Corey
Poet & Editor of The Georgia Review

Liza Wieland
Author of Quickening & A Watch of Nightingales

Alice Friman
2012 Georgia Author of the Year in Poetry

Hosted by:
Christopher Berinato & Zach Powers

With:
Joseph Schwartzburt & Erika Jo Brown

Music by:
Brian Dean

The action starts at 7:30pm sharp, bar open at 6:30

Tickets:
$10 ($5 with student I.D.)

This is the second year for the Sketchbook Show!!!, which features a ridiculously long list of artists — a total of 122 — whose sketchbook pages will be plastered throughout the three-story Ashmore Gallery, right next to Creative Approach on MLK.

Click here for the Facebook invite with the full list of contributors, many of whom are SCAD students.

Click here for Jason Kendall’s recent interview with show curator Justin Harris.

A few images of last year’s show at the former Little Beasts Gallery — a much smaller space than Ashmore:

And one of a 1,000 or so pieces you’ll see tonight — or later in the week. The show runs through next week with a closing reception next weekend.