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The world premier of “Have You Ever Had a Beard?”, a new movie featuring Calvin Johnson of K Records/Beat Happening. “Have you ever had a beard?” is a study in contrasts, illuminating the lyric heavy songwriting of Calvin Johnson vs. the ebullient music journalism of Chris Estey. The film documents their first meeting ever, in which both men perform on the stage of a vintage 1910 theater, Columbia City – a Seattle theater that’s played host to everyone from Bessie Smith to Jimi Hendrix. The movie will be playing for just one night only in Portland. Calvin Johnson will be in attendance to perform and answer questions. Also in attendance will be Directors Kathy Wolf and Pat Thomas. This project is their co-production movie debut; Kathy Wolf is an aspiring screenwriter best known as “chickalou66” via her YouTube animation clips utilizing found footage and stop motion animation. Thomas is an A&R consultant for Light in the Attic Records as well as the author of a forthcoming book on Fantagraphics.