A Brief & Personal History of Alternative Space in the 80s & 90s written & performed by Ron Ehmke. A site-specific event for Hallwalls Contemporary Arts Center based on the monologue trilogy The Dark Times with new, never-performed-before material, featuring dance music from the 80s & 90s from DJ Paul Szp and visuals by VJ Ron D M Key.

Road to Nowhere is akin to a found-art collage or a DJ remix of an earlier song, in which material from The Dark Times is lifted out of its original context (the main narrative thread that unites the three monologues will be excised, for instance) and joined by other elements both old and new, shifting the focus to an examination of "alternative space" as that abstract notion was forged in the 1960s and 1970s and ultimately commodified in the 1990s.

Musician and artist Paul Szpakowski, a prominent figure in the vibrant art and music scene of Buffalo in the 1980s, will provide dance music before and after the monologue. "Paul Szp," as he is often known, will be playing tunes created by local artists of the era as well as some of the music of the period that has largely been forgotten in the mythology of "I Love the 80s" and related nostalgia. In the second DJ set, Ehmke will be reviving his popular DJ persona, Ron-D.M. Key, as a new-school VJ.

7-8 pm: DJ set, 8-9:30 pm: Road to Nowhere, 9:30-11 pm: DJ/VJ set

For more information on Ron Ehmke's work, visit www.everythingrondoes.com.