September 18 Stay Wild or Beginner's Luck at IPRC

Artist Justin "Scrappers" Morrison talks creative strategy. Make art and make a living! He also wins the copywriting award of the month: "Some themes he will discuss: staying wild, exploiting your cultural significance, brands are personalities with a message, everyone is an artist, the importance of doing it your damn self, optimistic losers always win, not keeping all your eggs in one basket, getting to the point, fun is sexy, and being resourceful". It's all part of the closing reception for his book - show at IPRC CAMP, which he self published. At IPRC 917 SW Oak #218 www.iprc.org 7PM free

September 14 City Dance

A free thing is a collaboration between modern dancers and 21st century music. Local dance designers Linda Austin, Linda K. Johnson, Tere Mathern and Cydney Wilkes have wrangled dance movers Jess Bollaert, Chane Gilbert, Julie Katch, Paige McKinney, Kaj, Anne Pepper, Rikki Rothenberg, Noelle Stiles, Jennifer Camou, Fawn Williams, Emily Stone, Karen Alexander, Heidi Diaz, Taryn Johnson, Lena Sradnick, Dina Colosimo, Kathleen Keogh, Lily Gael, Elizabeth Longphere, Lizzie Karr, Amit Bohara, Hannah Downs, Esther LaPointe, Faith Levine, Tere Mathern, Jim McGinn, Keely McIntyre, Eric Nordstrom, Mike Barber, Tracy Broyles, Meshi Chavez, Jenn Gierada, Carla Mann and Lucy Yim. The Third Angle Music Ensemble has selected music from Morton Subotnick, Pauline Oliveros and Terry Riley. Randy Gragg provides writing and research.

All of this is a meditation on the collaboration of seminal modern dancer Anna Halpern and her landscape architect husband, Lawrence Halpern. The sites are the fountains and plazas designed by Lawrence Halpern in Portland. The music has been selected from composers who collaborated with the Halperns on their dance "happenings" in the 1960's. The event kicks off at the Keller Fountain, between SW Market and Clay. 3rd and 4th. Then it migrates South along the 3rd street to the other Halpern fountains. Repeats twice 1PM-3 and 4PM-6 and it's free!

September 12 Slavery Film and Indian Musics

Call+Response is a documentary on the outrage of the continuing existence of slavery around the world today. Yes, it is depressing that there may be more slaves in absolute numbers today than in the past. The film combines interviews with Madeleine Albright and Nicholas Kristof, a current soundtrack and pop figures into a volunteer-funded, virally distributed film with an email vacuuming website which would make Howard Dean and David Plouffe proud. It's a model any organizer can learn from. The film opens later in the month in theaters, but you can see it tonight in the community room at Milepost 5. www.milepostfive.com 7PM


In a epic example of misscheduling, there are three classical Indian music concerts this evening.

Kalakendra presents the Mishra Brothers, Sajan and Rajan. The esteemed vocalists have won the Padmabhushan, awards from Sangeet Natak Academy, Kumar Gandharva, Snageet Bhushan and Sangeet Ratna. Everyone knows the special character of siblings singing together. The Mishras will be accompanied by Subhen Chatterjee, deciple of Swapan Chowdhury. Chatterjee has collaborated with many Western musicians. Sanatan Goswami accompanies on harmonium. www.kalakendra.org At the First Congressional Church 1126 SW Park 8PM $25 ($75 for a year of concerts)

Up the street, Shubhendra Rao, disciple of Ravi Shankar, performs on sitar. Rao will be accompanied on tabla by Ty Burhoe, disciple of Ustad Zakir Hassain. Rao also performs as a duo with his wife, the Dutch cellist Saskia Rao-de Haas, though not tonight. The event is organized by some of the people responsible for music at Yoga Shala and takes place at the First Baptist Church, SW 12th and Taylor 8PM $25

At PCC Rock Creek in Beaverton, Raskia has a master class, essentially an informal concert in music speak, by violinist brothers Dr. Mysore Manjunath & Mysore Nagaraj accompanied by Srimushnam Rajarao on Mridangam. Info at www.raskia.org Event PCC-Rock Creek 7:30 Free

September 10 Sudenly Milepost 5

Reed's Coolley Gallery mounts serious and challenging shows. I once saw an installation with live sheep in the gallery. Their current show, Suddenly, is mediation on cites in the form of collage.

Milepost 5 is experiment in non- and for-profit development of artist space. Reed's Coolley has established an instantiation there.

Smart talks, installation, art and sound inagurate the space tonight on the 4th floor deck. Anthropologist-traveler Colin Beattie opines on greater Beaverton, which encompasses Guatemala and the Sonoran Desert in it's mini-melting pot. Mike Merrill™, the man who is a free market corporation presents his latest projects. Michael McManus has a sound installation; Shawn Records, photographs and Gary Wiseman, famous for his collaborational-explorative tea parties and Kitchen Sink installation projects is up to something new.

At Milepost 5 www.milepostfive.com 900 NE 81st (go by MAX) 7PM Free

September 7 Urban Edible Art Gym

Urban Edibles is your local guide to stalking the wild asparagus. All food plants were once wild. Yes, maybe they have improved for the better by millennia of cultivation and breeding. But maybe they have not. Many medicines too are derived from plants and there are many more yet to be rediscovered.

Urban Edibles leads a plant discovery walk, identifying edible and medicinal plants in Northwest yards and Forest Park. Plus you get a nicely designed guide with useful factoids like "Wild Carrot - Use with caution, looks similar to poisonous hemlock. Root can be eaten like a carrot. Historically used as a contraceptive." Their zine, 10 Weeds You Can Eat! is available at Reading Frenzy

Meet at the corner of Wallace Park, NW 25th and Pettygrove. A bonus is navigating some of the secret hill stairs in the neighborhood. 2PM Free



The Art Gym is a gym repurposed to gallery at Marylhurst College in Lake Oswego. That means high ceilings. The school has a good art program, in approach more akin to Evergreen College, meaning self designed and directed, and with many returning students. The school is quite a distance down Route 43/McAdam Blvd., and once on the campus, the gallery is not the easiest to find. It's worth it though, as they have been curating shows of accomplished regional artists and documenting them with catalogs for 28 years. They have a knowledgable curator, who primarily seeks mid- to late-career artists, though sometimes emerging artists may be found in group shows.

This month sculptor Christine Bourdette shows Riddles, Bunnyheads and Asides. Bourdette was in the Art Gym's first show in 1981 as an emerging artist. She was the first winner of the Bonnie Bronson Fellowship. If you are designing your art career, artists like this can be a guide.

At the Marylhurst College Art Gym. 17600 Pacific Highway (Hwy 43-McAdam Blvd.) The gallery is in the top floor of building A. Reception 3PM-5 Free

September 6 Classical Indian Violin

Dr. L. Subramaniam's considerable creative art spans the Carnatic music of India, Western classical music, world fusion music and collaboration with noted western jazz musicians. He is also a medical doctor. He performs, with a team of percussionists, for the ten year anniversary of local Indian music presenter Rasika. At the Northwest Children's Theater Building 1819 NW Everett 7PM $20,25,35 or advance at the website. If you become a member, all the concerts are included.

September 5 Eastside Art Openings and 24 Hour Repair Project

Pancake Clubhouse Historic Township and Activity Destination for the Living Arts cordially invites you to a new Neighborhood Project! 24 hour artist-handyman in residence, Brian Merkel, requests you to bring objects in need of repair to the Clubhouse. Of course, the definition of "repair" is entirely up to the whims of the artist! Really, could it be any other way? It begins with a reception at 6PM. At 9PM Merkel will knock down a wall in the house. You can pick up your "repaired" items at a performance -ceremony Sunday. I guess you just have to come to see the results. There will be an installation by Urban Edibles and tasty refreshments too. The Social Practice Group is hijacking TBA, they will distribute their own supplemental TBA catalog at the event. At 906A NE 24th 6PM-9 Free


Some of the most interesting shows have already opened, but that doesn't mean that they can't open twice. Included are:

The New American Art Union has a camera obscura show by Ethan Jackson. Orbis Viridis Obscurus is more than I expected and worth the time to hang out in the camera obscura (the more daylight, the better) and see what he has done with video. At New American Art Union www.newamericanartunion.com 922 SE Ankeny 6PM-9 Free

Volume is a group show curated by Jeff Jahn at Worksound. See artists Sean Healy, Nathan Shapiro, Joe Thurston, Salvatore Reda, Laura Fritz, Stephen Funk, Ellen George, Arcy Douglass, Jesse Hayward, Josh Smith, Adam Sorensen, Karl Burkheimer, Stephen Slappe, Damien Gilley, Stephanie Robison and Philippe Blanc. At Worksound 820 SE Alder


In the 811 Block Redux has Ryan Berkley's Dream Circus and Grass Hut continues Andrew Brandon.


The brother, Stewart Harvey, of the accidental entrepreneur who converted a wild irreverent Cacaphony Society desert campout into the money making Burningman festival of 50,000 shows photos of Burningman at 23Sandy. There are plenty of photographs of the surreal event about, but the vast blankness of desert space and neutral density filter eating glare, to say nothing of mechanism-hostile alkaline dust, makes capturing good images more of a challenge than it looks. www.23sandy.com 623 NE 23 at Sandy


Newspace Photo shows two photographers dedicated to chemical processes. Maro Vandorou shows platinum prints of a very old cemetery in her native Greece. Kay Denton shows gold toned prints imaged with a very good focal plane - 8x10 inch film - but through vintage lenses, back before lens design became good. At Newspace Photo www.newspacephoto.org 1632 SE 10th

September 4 Westside Art Openings

Sean Healy shows wall sculptures at Elizabeth Leach. Healy has long been known for work incorporating large numbers of similar elements in cast materials. Tonight these elements include colorful miniature teardrop camping trailers and his take on picket fences. Another body of work are skeletal dyptic tracings of wild animals paired with quilts and lace. Healy has been successful at bringing his work to Europe and creating public art commissions. He is also represented at the Volume show at Worksound. www.elizabethleach.com 417 NW 9th


"Blurring the Line: the art of thread" are modern extrapolations made with fabric and thread. Artists Hildur Bjarnadottir, Diem Chau, Linda Hutchins and Jen Pack produce minimalist work with just enough complexity, elegance and mystery. At Pulliam Deffenbaugh www.pulliamdeffenbaugh.com 929 NW Flanders early close 8PM


Portland sculptural artist Hillary Pfeifer creates agglomerations of handmade elements. Sometimes they remind of toys, or bugs or some microscopic creature rendered large. This work is perfect for Ogle which often fills its space with grand sculpture or arte povera-feeling work. www.ogleinc.com 310 NW Broadway early close 8:30PM


Tad Savinar is a smart Portland artist with a smart conceptual bent, often word centered. Some of his work falls into the realm of information aesthetics. Along with sculptures by Goldsmiths-minted Seattle sculptor Victoria Haven. At PDX Contemporary Art www.pdxcontemporaryart.com 925 NW Flanders early close 8PM


P:EAR is an art program for homeless youth. Each kid is different and some are reached by making art. P:EAR pairs the kids monthly with a local artist and they all make coinspired work which is shown in the gallery. They have moved from their old decrepit building with flooding and a failing roof to new digs with a larger gallery space opening tonight. Artists Hayley Barker, Irana Douer, Maureen Gubia and Nicole Erika Smith share the walls with the kids. At P:EAR www.pearmentor.org 338 NW 6th


"All I can do is dream" is a show of dream inspired work by Lisa Beyer, Kristie Louderbough, Meg Peterson and Shanon Schollian at a new gallery, the Fontanelle. www.fontanellegallery.com 205 SW Pine


For an art history moment, see prints by Catalan surrealist Joan Miró at Augen www.augengallery.com 716 NW Davis early close 8:30


You have to admire the scale of Dutch-now in Portland artist Henk Pender's work. They are grand realist works with a rough surreal edge. I haven't seen this show, his edge may be tapering. At Laura Russo Gallery www.laurarusso.com 805 NW 21st


Don't forget the other Desoto block galleries including the Manuf®actured show at the Museum of Contemporary Craft. The show, curated by ID Magazine editor Steven Skov Holt and art historian Mara Holt Skov, encompases work made from repurposed mass manufactured objects. Sort of a crafty take on artists like Choi Jeong Hwa. This is an excellent example of where the Museum of Contemporary Craft wants to take the discussion of craft aesthetics. Yes! At the Museum of Contemporary Craft www.museumofcontemporarycraft.org 724 NW Davis


The Everett Station Lofts are recommended, as always - bounded by NW Everett, Broadway, Flanders and 6th.

August 30 Butoh on Vashon

A friend is living at a beautiful Indonesian temple on Vashon. (That is not my picture, thanks whoever took it though!) A successful Seattle importer disassembled it in Indonesia then brought Balinese craftsmen to reassemble it here. A dream linking islands.

Tonight another dream unfolds linking islands.

Butoh originated in Japan. Initially all the performers were men. Women performers soon added their own inner body history. That is the story tonight.

Three performers, Jyl Shinjo Brewer, Maureen Freehill and Bridget Scott have all studied butoh and Zen in Japan for several years. Two started their training with Joan Laage, who studied with Hakutobo, an all woman group created by the founder of Butoh, Hijikata, in the last phase of his artistic development. So the lineage of the three is special and this night too.

This evening they present 3 Ways To Change.

The spot is small and private, so if you know me, contact me and I can provide more details.

On Vashon Island, Washington. 7:30PM $10

August 30 Pump up the Volume

Volume is a group show with artists Sean Healy, Nathan Shapiro, Joe Thurston, Salvatore Reda, Laura Fritz, Stephen Funk, Ellen George, Arcy Douglass, Jesse Hayward, Josh Smith, Adam Sorensen, Karl Burkheimer, Stephen Slappe, Damien Gilley, Stephanie Robison and Philippe Blanc. Should be good. Curated by Jeff Jahn. At Worksound 820 SE Alder 7:00PM-9:30 Free

August 30- September 1 Anime Festival

Portland is far from Japan but has a special relationship. Some say Hood resembles Fuji.

Anime is one of Japan's most successful exports. Some lands here with Kumoricon, Portland's anime festival. This mostly all ages event features cosplay chess, anime jeopardy, an AMV iron chef competition, karaoki cosplay, gaming, anime showings and outtakes, dance events, workshops, pirates vs ninjas and the Ramen Fire Bowl Attack! All too dificult to explain, but you can get the flavor at www.kumoricon.org At he Lloyd Center Doubletree Hotel. Saturday, 8:00AM-2:00AM; Sunday, 8:00AM-2:00AM; Monday, 8:00AM-5:00PM $20-35

August 29 Art on the River

Gallery Homeland continues their yearly art installations and performances on the Willamette River. There will be installations and/or performances by Dan Anderson, Josh Arseneau, Paul Dahlquist, Marc Dombrosky, Tim DuRoche, Shannon Eakins, Chris Haberman, Chris Held, Chris Hudson, Ashley Neese, Lisa Radon, Cyrus Smith, Amy Steel and Gary Wiseman. Better Homes and Gardens plays at 7. More details on the larger context at www.portlandriverfest.org. The event is on the East Bank Esplanade, easily accessed at the foot of SE Main. 6PM-dark Free

August 28 Making Politics Fun

The Bus Project registers new voters. They have neither a Democratic or Republican orientation - their motto is "not left, not right, but forward". They are focused on young voters with a hope and passion for the future, a better future. By 2015 it's estimated a third of voters will be young. There is a lot to do for democracies adapting to a changing world. Opportunity. Challenge. Voting creates optimism essential for getting into that psychic state termed by some "the zone". Voting for psychic survival!

The Bus Project is fun too, it's events include a mix of irreverence and play, balancing out the heavy lifting.

Tonight they convene at Roots brewery to watch the Democratic Convention finale. At 7 is Obama's acceptance speech. There will be games such as their phraseology bingo. Here's a bet that easy gridpoints will be the words "hope" and "change". Prizes!

One of the other Bus Project activities is training young people to run for office, or work as political/ government staffers. Their placement rate is excellent. They are always looking for volunteers! They have buses, which allows them to move the organizer party, now one of their buses in in Denver filled with costumed political activists learning how the convention works from inside. They are also selling their famous Vote F*cker! shirts, boxers and panties at the convention. Friends don't let friends not vote. Did I say they are having fun already?

At Roots Organic Brewery 1520 SE 7th x Hawthorne 6PM Free

August 23 The Writing's on the Wall at Disjecta

Diane Jacobs project The Writing's on the Wall is a great example of Disjecta's new art vectors. Jacobs piece is a meditation on incarceration in the United States. It's especially relevant as Oregon's prison budget is the 3rd fastest growing in the country, and due to some ballot measures, will grow even faster. Today 1 in 100 Americans have are jailed, 1 in 31 are jailed, on probation or paroled. The United States is number one in the world on all incarceration measures. All this has happened since 1980 and it is expensive. As has been said it's cheaper to send someone to Yale than it is to send them to jail for a year. So sad. This is Jacob's topic. Something to think about. At Disjecta www.disjecta.org 8371 N Interstate Right near the Paul Bunyan 6PM-9 Free

August 22-24 Project X at Milepost 5

Hand2Mouth Theater is easily Portland's most innovative. They run inexpensively too. Project X:You Are Here involves you telling stories which are recorded and listening to stories left by others. They are doing it around Milepost 5 this weekend. The project will also be in Seattle for Bumpershoot - it's designed for travel. Everything needed, except the theater group's facilitating actors, fits in a shipping container! It has some similarity to Swiss group EToy's Mission Eternity, though less techy. It could be something like The Electronic Cafe by Kit Galloway and Sherrie Rabinowitz. I never saw that project, however I do not think it has been equaled. The project would definitely fall into the open-source aesthetic realm, it's participatory and touches social practice art. So be (in) it. All this takes place at Milepost 5 www.milepostfive.com Friday 7PM-10; Saturday 2PM-5, 7PM-10; Sunday 2PM-5. $6/2 for $10

August 21 ArtSpark! on Landscape Design, Music and Modern Dance

Lawrence Halprin is a famous 20th century landscape architect. He is responsible for the Keller fountain at SW Market and 2nd by the Civic Auditorium, a favorite urban swimming hole. He also designed a series of fountains and spaces on the ped continuation of 2nd going South from Market. If you have not walked there, it is a secret retreat. Anna Halprin, his wife and collaborator, has been exploring the intersection of modern dance, dance therapy and landscape. She offers workshops on the deck at the Mountain Home Studio, a home they designed in Marin. She is still active at 86, commenting that “Aging is like enlightenment at gunpoint”.

As part of the PICA TBA festival, Portland dancers and musicians have collaborated to create a series of site specific works on Halpern's landscape. The Third Angle New Music Ensemble plays minimalist work from composers who collaborated with the Halprins' while local choreographers provide their interpretations of Halprin's movement, considered by some to be early experiments in postmodern choreography. Local writer, architecture and urban design critic Randy Gragg is also involved in the project. The performance itself takes place September 18 and is free.

For tonight's ArtSpark!, members of the Third Angle discuss the project and entertain questions from the audience. Details at www.artspark.com At the Living Room Theater Bar, SW Stark and 10th 5PM-7 Free

August 20 Camera Obscura @ NAAU

The New American Art Union opens Ethan Jackson's Orbis Viridis Obscurus. A camera obscura is a room as simple camera with you inside. A lens gathers an image from outside and projects it upside down on a wall of the space. Jackson has divided the light with mirrors to rearrange the image to his liking. There aren't too many trees nearby, maybe the artist intends a fresh interpretation of camera obscura. The images are best seen in daylight. At New American Art Union www.newamericanartunion.com 922 SE Ankeny 6PM-9 Free

August 8 Water Borne Art on Dry Land

Gallery Homeland has put on multi artist projects on and around the river in cooperation with the City. That project was Scratching the Surface. The show has had some exceptional work and also funny stories resulting from the intersection of public and art and water. The project returns in September at the river. To kick it off the gallery is showing participating artists Josh Arseneau, Marc Dombrosky, Shannon Eakins, David Eckard, Jesse Hayward, Sean Healy, Jo Ann Kemmis, Mary Mattingly, Mack McFarland, Adam Ross, Amy Steel, Gary Wiseman, Dana Vinger and John Vitale. At Gallery Homeland www.galleryhomeland.org 2505 SE 11th X Division 6PM-9 Free

August 7 Westside Art Openings

Recommended as always the Everett Station Lofts, corner NW Everett and Broadway.



Portland photographer Sarah Meadows has several established bodies of work in her quiver of arrows and now a PNCA degree. One body comprises seemingly casual snapshots, off framed, but affecting. That can be seen on her photoblog. She has a show at PNCA made in collaboration with Miranda Lehman. Artist's work to watch. At PNCA www.pnca.edu corner NW 13th and Johnson 6PM-8



Local painter Jessica Bronk makes warm landscapes in ochre, burnt umbers and blue. For best viewing, her show at Vino Paridoso is best seen in the early light before 8:30PM. At Vino Paridiso, www.vinoparadiso.com 417 NW 10th



Ex Portlander Anna Fidler, now in LA, has curated a show, some of which captures her sense of bright color and refined detail. Entitled Free Love Gods, there are a few notable pieces to see. At Pulliam Deffenbaugh www.pulliamdeffenbaugh.com 929 NW Flanders Early close 8PM



Blue Sky has unintentionally political work spanning geographies, fear and hope.

Donald Weber photographed the decaying Ukraine, wounded by the world's worst nuclear power accident in 1986, Chernobyl. Radiation was spread by wind worldwide, including to Oregon. Helicopter pilots made hundreds of flights to drop material to entomb the doomed reactor knowing they were exposing themselves to fatal radiation doses. The disaster and the dissolution of the former Soviet Union spawned criminal oligarchs and that social chaos is the subject of Weber's photographs in Ukraine, one of the "freed" republics (and also the home of the awesome Orange Revolution).

Ugandan expat Ntare Guma Mbaho Mwine photographed the unbelievable loads bikes in his home country carry. Portland bike culture is learning with pedicabs multiplying like rabbits and exceptional work by Portland's cargo bike movers, even meals and food delivered by bike.

At Blue Sky Gallery. www.blueskygallery.org 122 NW 8th



New York Underground is a window into the scene (which never stops) in NYC in the 1960's to the 1980's. If that interests you you can see it at Augen. www.augengallery.com 817 SW 2nd 8:30PM close


The times I've stopped I've liked City Hall exhibitions. It's a minor thing in the commissioner-mayor's city art offensive. It's especially good when you know the artists or consider them part of your art sphere. This month is photography.

Photographers David A. Barss, J Swofford, Rosanna Tam, Marne Lucas, Sadie Kenzier, Clara Seasholtz, Joshua Seaman, Christopher Rauschenberg, Alica J. Rose, Angela Cash, Thomas Le Ngo, Ann Ploeger, Brian Lee, Meredith DeLoca, Michele Motta, Alma Sanchez, Richard Schemmerer, Tom Patterson, Brienne Steckly, Thomas Lauderdal, Kali Coles, Brian Foulkes, Matt Flagg, Gigi Grinstad and Nate Padavick show.

Early. Portland City Hall 1221 SW 4th. 5PM-7



Muybridge. His multiimages of animals in motion are iconic. A curiosity. His life harks to the 19th century when photography was more an evolving science than an art, the West was wild and entrepreneurs like George Eastman and Leland Stanford made their mark. I will not reprise the biography here. His work may have been the first scientific photography, now an important tool from streak cameras and ultrafast photography to the images in cloud chambers. Muybridge's patron was Leland Stanford who made millions (billions today) building railroads, including illgotten gains by collecting higher fees from the federal government for track built on the flat he claimed mountains. His son died unexpectedly at an early age. As a result, Stanford endowed the university and its beautiful lands bearing his name.

Photography began its struggle to be recognized as art with Stieglitz. That debate persists with photography's omnipresence and social ubiquity, including on the web. Central to that question is the hand of the maker and limited supply. One problematic area are the unknown quantities of essentially offset prints Muybridge made of his tens of thousands of negatives in the day, come of which may have derived from bound editions of 1000 cut to pieces. Caveat emptor.

Nonetheless the show is interesting as a touchpoint for a curious person's life in a curious time, making groundbreaking work. Who are those artists here and now? At Charles Hartman Gallery www.hartmanfineart.com 134 NW 8th

August 2 Ten Tiny

Ten Tiny Dances makes short dances on a small stage in unusual locales. That means more dance can be made and more seen by more people. In some ways it would be like mass customization. Tonight Ten Tiny Dances instantiates in the South Waterfront as part of their public art program. Dancers Mike Barber, Cydney Wilkes, Linda Austin, Tere Mathern, POV Dance, Hand2Mouth Theatre, Sojourn Theatre, Hot Little Hands, Ko & Co. and Rhiza A+D, perform at various locations on four foot square stages designed by architects. Stop by the project office and pick up a map before 4PM. Dances start at 4:15 sharp. South Waterfront art projects office 3623 SW River Parkway x Gaines in the John Ross Building. See the website for details. 4PM-7 Free