ArtBeat at night: Fri., July 20th

6:00-7:30pm — A Beastly Parade Workshop

Bring your children and join Jen Flores to create a beastly mask for the ArtBeast parade on Sat. at 11:30, staging at Seven Hills Park.

Music and Mixed-Media in Seven Hills Park

6:00pm — Bullock Brothers

The Bullock Brothers have been singing and performing gospel songs since 1950 throughout New England and beyond. Now many of the sons of the original members have joined the group, making them a gospel legacy. The group’s repitoire includes classic songs such as “Go Down Moses” and “Swing Low Sweet Chariot.”

6:45pm — Bennett Dance Comapany performs “Ladder Dances”
Bennett Dance blends modern dance with sculpture, photography, martial arts and original music, and discover and reveal a sense of poetry and power beyond mere technique or physicality. For ArtBeast, Bennett Dance will perform “Ladder Dances,” inspired by their work with looming rope nets. Here dancers Christine Bennett, Nicole Dagesse, Mary McCarthy, and DeAnna Pellecchia hover, float and weave their way to 16 feet above the ground against an urban landscape.

7:15pm — Young Republic
The Young Republic comprises 8 Berklee College of Music students who compose songs that blend folk, rock, and classical styles—with instruments like upright bass, violin, flute, and trumpet complementing traditional guitars and drums. The indie orchestral ensemble draw comparisons with the Arcade Fire and Belle & Sebastian, and with over 100 shows behind them and an upcoming UK tour that includes the famed Glastonbury Festival, the band has finely honed its live performance.

8:15pm — Bon Savants
These local indie rock upstarts, dubbed “Boston’s best indie band by Spin.com,”are on the brink of national success. Recently band members quit their day jobs, embarked on a national tour, and released “Post Rock Defends the Nation,” a cd lauded by national press including Magnet, Billboard and the L.A. Times. Their songs range from elegant space rock to infectious pop gems—yet they always retain an idiosyncratic tang, with lyrics that speak to loss, love and science (singer and MIT grad Thom Moran is a rocket scientist, afterall).

9:15pm — Beastly Film Shorts
Curated by SAC board member Kathryn Ostermier, this collection of short films includes “Fable” by Dan Sousa, an animated work that focuses on a solitary hunter and a house-bound woman, set amid a lyrical world of magic and transformation. “Ape,” by Julie Zammarchi is a surrealistic film depicting a grouchy couple’s de-evolutionary nightly ritual as they battle over their nightly dinner—a cooked monkey. In “Echoes of Bats and Men,” by Jo Dery, we learn about Rhode Island’s industrial evolution through the midnight flight of a little bat and his many friends. Finally, in Karen Aqua’s “Nine Lives,” a fortune teller’s cards lead the viewer on a journey through time and collective memory, using the metaphor of a cat’s multiple lives.