Literary & Arts Events, Conferences & Announcements
POETRY: Scroll down to see events: Poetry Project, Ugly Duckling Presse, Belladonna, Bowery Poetry Club Segue Series, First Tuesday's Reading Series, Tarpaulin Sky Press, Poets House
MUSIC: Luminescent Orchestrii
ART: Madame Talbot's New Posters
POETRY
New chapbook, Gothenburg, part of the larger manuscript, Three Geogaophies: A Milkmaid's Grimoire, by Arielle Guy, out now from ypolita press!
for Gothenburg, which made me see my heart was always in New York
Available at ypolitapress.blogspot.com.
Beautiful cover art by Michael Cowell.
NEW POSTERS FROM MADAME TALBOT!
A brand-new poster hot off the press, Dance Macabre, which you can see below:
And she has updated the Absinthe poster by reprinting it and adding a nice green to it. The green ties it all together very nicely!
In other news, she has one more new poster, which will be out in the Spring, Man's Ruin. A picture of the original artwork is below:
Man's Ruin (Lady Luck's evil twin) should be printed in about a week or so. Next year's posters are already lined up, Aleister Crowley, Edgar A. Poe, Elizabeth Bathory, H.P. Lovecraft just to name a few!
Her work, as always, is beautiful and unique. You can check out more at www.madametalbot.com.
POETRY
New downloadable book by Tim Lane : Pure Pop
Available at Revelator Press!
www.revelatorpress.blogspot.com
Book by John Keene + Christopher Stackhouse
Do ogle the NEWEST offering from 1913 Press:
Seismosis, a collaborative book by John Keene + Christopher Stackhouse
Order your copy directly from 1913 Press:
journal1913.org/seismosis.html
or via Small Press Distribution:
http://www.spdbooks.org/SearchResults.asp?AuthorTitle=seismosis
Seismosis by John Keene + Christopher Stackhouse
with a Foreword by Ed Roberson + an Afterword by Geoffrey Jacques
$19 / ISBN: 0977935108
Featuring line-drawings by Stackhouse & poems-as-essays by Keene—handed back and forth and back again, written and rewritten, drawn and redrawn—Seismosis penetrates the common ground between writing/literature and drawing/visual art, creating a revisioned landscape where much of the work is abstract, or abstracted, or both.
The multiform agreements the texts & the drawings make, from a brilliant & decisive center, are revolutionary, antilinear, and highly responsive. The result is a sophisticated call-and-response affair. A pioneering event between two African-American artists, Seismosis is a formal experience.
John Keene is a former member of the Dark Room Writers Collective, a graduate fellow of Cave Canem, and recipient of many awards and fellowships—including a 2003 Poetry Fellowship from the New Jersey State Council on the Arts and a 2005 Mrs. Giles Whiting Foundation Prize for fiction. Keene is the author of the acclaimed experimental novel, Annotations, from New Directions.
Christopher Stackhouse is the author of Slip (Corollary Press), a Cave Canem graduate fellow, a poetry editor at Fence magazine, and a New York Foundation for the Arts Fellow in Poetry for 2005. An MFA candidate at Bard College, Stackhouse is also an exhibiting artist whose canvases and works on paper have appeared in several New York City galleries.
To schedule an event with John Keene + Christopher Stackhouse, or to receive a copy for review, please contact 1913 Press:
1913press@gmail.com
1913 Press / Box 9654 / Hollins University / Roanoke, VA 24020
www.journal1913.org
THE POETRY PROJECT
WRITING WORKSHOPS AT THE POETRY PROJECT:
BASIC AND BOLD: LOGOS R US – PATRICIA SPEARS JONES
TUESDAYS AT 7PM: 10 SESSIONS BEGIN OCTOBER 9TH
Every writer finds a niche, a gesture, the thing that works in what they do. At some point it may become a style or convention. Sometimes it becomes a crutch. One way to break the mode is to be radical—that is, return to the roots. What brought you to poetry in the first place? This is a workshop for writers who want to re-look at how the structure and elements of poetry provide the wherewithal to make poems that are as ambitious, thoughtful and innovative as you want them to be. There will be in class writing, assignments, reading, and a revision project called —CAN THIS POEM BE SAVED?— in which you bring a poem that simply has not come to closure; seems to be stuck; or needs to be looked at by fresh eyes in the hope of finding what could make it work. This workshop is geared toward writers who have been seriously writing for some time. Please submit 5-8 pages of poetry and a brief description of what you’d like to accomplish in the workshop by September 28. African American poet, playwright and cultural commentator, Patricia Spears Jones is author of two collections, Femme du Monde and The Weather That Kills.
POETRY LAB: FORMS OF JOYFUL EXPERIMENTATION – TODD COLBY
FRIDAYS AT 7PM: 10 SESSIONS BEGIN OCTOBER 12TH
In this workshop we'll forge new paths to the poem by investigating how far a poem can depart from being “a poem” and yet still be a poem. We'll experiment with breath, heartbeat, movement, blogs, the alchemy of words, visions, letters to the editor, spontaneity, psychoanalysis, collaborations, appropriations and self-hypnosis, along with various traditional forms. The main objective is to create a supportive and inviting atmosphere in our joyfully experimental "Lab." A partial reading list will include: Hannah Weiner, Jacques Lacan, Gertrude Stein, Diane Williams, David Markson, Miranda July, Thomas Bernhard, Bill Knott, Arthur Rimbaud, Alice Notley, Mina Loy, Charles Olson, and Ludwig Wittgenstein. Todd Colby is the author of Tremble & Shine, Riot in the Charm Factory, Cush, and Ripsnort, all of which were published by Soft Skull Press.
WORLDLY AND INFINITELY DIMENSIONAL:
A WORKSHOP – RACHEL LEVITSKY
SATURDAYS AT 12PM: 10 SESSIONS BEGIN OCTOBER 13
In these times, the possibilities by which we may amplify, record, document, display, shape, formulate, and publish words increases daily. Although expanded media and its wide reach are in themselves a meaningful fact of our times, they don’t necessarily enhance a poetry’s resonance. How do we, and by we I mean both ourselves as ones and ourselves as groups, best construct and perform our poetries so as to be present in these particular times and yet open to the infinite possibilities of “projection,” “conception,” “performance”? Familiarizing ourselves with poets like Abigail Child, Julie Patton, Cecilia Vicuña, Bob Dylan, Linton Kwesi Johnson (some will be visiting the workshop), we will consider all means available and any means necessary to project living works into our world. Individually and collaboratively we’ll construct performances, visual works, sound events, improvisations, etc. Rachel Levitsky is the author of Under the Sun (Futurepoem) and is the founder and co-editor of Belladonna Books.
The workshop fee is $350, which includes a one-year individual Poetry Project membership and tuition for any and all fall spring and fall classes. Reservations are required due to limited class space, and payment must be received in advance. Please send payment and reservations to: The Poetry Project, St. Mark’s Church, 131 E. 10th St., NY, NY 10003. For more information please call (212)674-0910 or e-mail info@poetryproject.com.
MONDAY, September 24, 8pm
HETTIE JONES & JOAN LARKIN
Hettie Jones’s twenty books for children and adults include her memoir of the Beat scene, How I Became Hettie Jones; the poetry collection Drive, which won the Poetry Society of America’s Norma Farber Award; Big Star Fallin’ Mama, Five Women in Black Music, honored by the New York Public Library; and No Woman No Cry, a memoir she authored for Bob Marley’s widow, Rita. Just published are From Midnight to Dawn, the Last Tracks of the Underground Railroad (with Jacqueline Tobin), and a third poetry collection, Doing 70. Jones is the former Chair of the PEN Prison Writing Committee, and the editor of Aliens at the Border, a poetry collection from her workshop at the Bedford Hills Correctional Facility. Joan Larkin’s most recent collection is My Body: New and Selected Poems (Hanging Loose Press). Previous books include Cold River (which received a 1997 Lambda Award),and Sor Juana’s Love Poems (translated with Jaime Manrique). Larkin co-founded Out & Out Books during the feminist literary explosion of the 70’s. She has served as poetry editor for the queer journal Bloom and co-edits the University of Wisconsin Press autobiography series, “Living Out.” Her anthology of coming-out stories, A Woman Like That, was nominated for Publishing Triangle and Lambda awards for nonfiction. In her fourth decade of teaching writing, she teaches in the low-residency MFA program in Poetry at New England College.
WEDNESDAY, September 26, 8pm
LISA JARNOT & SPARROW
Lisa Jarnot was born in Buffalo, New York and now lives in Queens. She is the author of three full-length collections of poetry: Some Other Kind of Mission, Ring of Fire, and Black Dog Songs. Her biography of poet Robert Duncan is forthcoming from University of California Press. Her fourth full-length collection of poetry is forthcoming from Flood Editions. She is a teacher and a blogger. Sparrow is in the midst of his fifth campaign for President. He lives in Phoenicia, New York with his wife, Violet Snow, and his daughter Sylvia. Behind their house, an elderly rabbit named Bananacake resides in a rustic hutch. Sparrow writes the gossip column for the Phoenicia Times. (He invents all the gossip.) Sparrow's books are Republican Like Me: a Diary of My Presidential Campaign, Yes, You ARE a Revolutionary! and America: A Prophecy -- the Sparrow Reader (all on Soft Skull Press).
FRIDAY, September 28, 10pm
MASHA TUPITSYN & NORA, a film
Masha Tupitsyn is a fiction writer and feminist critic who lives in New York City. She received her MA in Literature and Cultural Theory from the University of Sussex in England. Her fiction and criticism has been published or is forthcoming in the anthology Wreckage of Reason: XXperimental Women Writers Writing in the 21st Century, Make/Shift, and Bookforum, among other places. Beauty Talk & Monsters, her first book, is a collection of film-based stories recently published by Semiotext(e). She is currently working on her new book, Showtime. Masha’s reading will be accompanied by a screening of Nora, a short narrative by Portland-based artists Holly Andres and Grace Carter, in which an afternoon encounter between two lovers plays out in an unusual fashion. The film examines gender roles in terms of sexuality, power, violence and commerce by using tools of the classic suspense/thriller genre, most notably Hitchcock's Psycho. Please visit them online at
www.hollyandres.com & www.gracecarterfilms.com.
The Poetry Project is located at St. Mark's Church-in-the-Bowery
131 East 10th Street at Second Avenue
New York City 10003
Trains: 6, F, N, R, and L.
info@poetryproject.com
www.poetryproject.com
Admission is $8, $7 for students/seniors and $5 for members (though now those who take out a membership at $85 or higher will get in FREE to all regular readings).
We are wheelchair accessible with assistance and advance notice. For more info call 212-674-0910.
First Tuesday's at REDHEAD
Coordinated and Hosted
by Christopher Stackhouse
at REDHEAD
Lower Manhattan Cultural Council
125 Maiden Lane 2nd Floor
New York, NY 10038
Phone: 212-219-9401
www.lmcc.net
contact Jeanne Gerrity @ Phone: 212-219-9401, ext: 108
Free Admission and Open to the Public
Doors open at 6p. Reading begins at 6:30p
Bowery Poetry Club
SEGUE READING SERIES @BOWERY POETRY CLUB
Saturdays: 4 PM-6 PM
308 Bowery, just north of Houston
****$6 admission goes to support the readers****
The Segue Reading Series is made possible by the support of The Segue Foundation.
These events are also made possible in part with public funds from The New York State Council on the Arts, a state agency.
Curators for the Winter/Spring 2007 season were:
Feb-March by Tonya Foster & Erica Hunt
April-May by Erica Kaufman & Tim Peterson.
OCTOBER
OCTOBER 6 JENNIFER MOXLEY and MAGGIE O’SULLIVAN
Jennifer Moxley is the author of four books of poetry: The Line (Post-Apollo 2007), Often Capital (Flood 2005), The Sense Record (Edge 2002; Salt 2003) and Imagination Verses (Tender Buttons 1996; Salt 2003). Her memoir The Middle Room was published by Subpress in 2007. Maggie O’ Sullivan is a British poet, performer and visual artist. She has been making and performing her work internationally since the late 1970s. Her most recent publication is Body of Work (Reality Street, 2007), which brings together for the first time all of her long out-of-print small-press booklets from the 1980s.
OCTOBER 13 ANDREW LEVY and BARRETT WATTEN
Andrew Levy is a contributing writer on President of the United States’ The Big Melt (Factory School, 2007), and he is the author of a dozen books of poetry, including Ashoka (Zasterle Books), Paper Head Last Lyrics (Roof Books), Curve 2 (Potes & Poets Press), Values Chauffeur You (O Books), and Democracy Assemblages (Innerer Klang). He is editor, with Roberto Harrison, of the poetry journal Crayon. Barrett Watten founded the Grand Piano reading series in 1976 and edited and published This from 1971. His most recent books are Bad History (Atelos, 1998), Progress/Under Erasure (Green Integer, 2004), and The Constructivist Moment: From Material Text to Cultural Poetics (Wesleyan University Press, 2003), which won the 2004 René Wellek Prize.
OCTOBER 20 K. LORRAINE GRAHAM and TAO LIN
K. Lorraine Graham is the author of three chapbooks, Terminal Humming (Slack Buddha), See it Everywhere (Big Game Books), and Large Waves to Large Obstacles (forthcoming from Take Home Project), and the recently released chapdisk Moving Walkways (Narrowhouse Recordings). She has just completed the extended manuscript of Terminal Humming. Tao Lin is the author of a novel, EEEEE EEE EEEE (Melville House, 2007), a story-collection, Bed (Melville House, 2007), and two poetry collections, You Are a Little Bit Happier Than I Am (Action Books, 2006), and the forthcoming Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy (Melville House, Spring 2008).
OCTOBER 27 ROB FITTERMAN and MEL NICHOLS
Sandwiched between Shell and Mobil gas stations, Robert Fitterman grew up in a pre-sprawl St. Louis suburb named Creve Coeur (broken heart). He is the author of nine books of poetry, including Metropolis 1-15 (Sun & Moon), Metropolis 16-29 (Coach House Books) and, most recently, War, the musical (Subpress, 2006) with Dirk Rowntree. Mel Nichols lives in Washington, DC, and teaches at George Mason University. Her chapbooks are Day Poems (Edge Books 2005) and The Beginning of Beauty, Part 1: hottest new ringtones, mnichol6 (Edge 2007).
NOVEMBER
NOVEMBER 3 CHRIS FUNKHOUSER and MADELINE GINS
Chris Funkhouser was awarded a Fulbright Scholarship in 2006 to lecture and conduct research in Malaysia, where his CD-ROM eBook Selections 2.0 was produced at Multimedia University. Prehistoric Digital Poetry: An Archaeology of Forms, 1959-1995, a history of pre-WWW computerized poetry, has just been published by University of Alabama Press. Madeline Gins: B-b-b-b-b-orn and intends never to die. Three of her eleven books: What the President Will Say and Do!; Helen Keller or Arakawa; Making Dying Illegal (co-author Arakawa). Three of five Arakawa + Gins’ built works: Bioscleave House–East Hampton; Site of Reversible Destiny–Yoro; Reversible Destiny Lofts–Mitaka.
NOVEMBER 10 SEAN COLE and BRANDON DOWNING
Sean Cole is the author of the chapbooks By the Author and Itty City and of a full-length collection of postcard poems called The December Project. He is also a reporter for public radio. In his spare time, he writes bios like this one. Brandon Downing’s books of poetry include LAZIO (Blue Books, 2000), The Shirt Weapon (Germ, 2002), and Dark Brandon (Faux, 2005). A new DVD collection, Dark Brandon // The Filmi, was just released, and he’s currently completing a monograph of his literary collages under the title Lake Antiquity.
NOVEMBER 17 BENJAMIN FRIEDLANDER and DANA WARD
Benjamin Friedlander is the author of several books of poetry, most recently The Missing Occasion of Saying Yes (Subpress, 2007). His edition of Robert Creeley’s Selected Poems 1945-2005 is forthcoming from the University of California Press. He is currently completing a book on Emily Dickinson and the Civil War. Dana Ward is the author of The Wrong Tree (Dusie, 2007), Goodnight Voice (House Press, 2007) and other chapbooks. OMG recently published an edition of For Paris in Prison with images by the artist Matthew Hughes Boyko.
NOVEMBER 24 NO READING–Happy holiday!
DECEMBER
DECEMBER 1 TYRONE WILLIAMS and SUEYEUN JULIETTE LEE
Tyrone Williams’s book, c.c., was published by Krupskaya Books in 2002; the chapbooks AAB and Futures, Elections were published in 2004; and the chapbook Musique Noir was published in 2006. A new book, On Spec, is forthcoming from Omnidawn in 2008. Sueyeun Juliette Lee currently lives in Philadelphia where she edits Corollary Press, a small chapbook series dedicated to new work by writers of color. Her chapbooks include Perfect Villagers (Octopus Books) and Trespass Slightly in (Coconut Poetry). Her first book, That Gorgeous Feeling, is forthcoming from Coconut Books next spring.
DECEMBER 8 JESS MYNES and ANTHONY HAWLEY
Jess Mynes is author of birds for example (CARVE Editions), In(ex)teriors (Anchorite Press) and Full On Jabber (Martian Press), a collaboration with Christopher Rizzo. His If and When (Katalanche Press), Recently Clouds, a collaboration with Aaron Tieger, and Sky Brightly Picked (Skysill Press) are forthcoming this year. Anthony Hawley is the author of The Concerto Form (Shearsman Books, 2006) and four chapbooks of poetry: Vocative (Phylum Press, 2004), Afield (Ugly Duckling Presse, 2004), Record-breakers (Ori is the New Apple Press, 2007), and Autobiography/Oughtabiography (Counterpath, 2007). His second book of poems, Paradise Gelatin, will be published in 2008.
DECEMBER 15 BARBARA JANE REYES and BHANU KAPIL
Barbara Jane Reyes is the author of Gravities of Center (Arkipelago, 2003) and Poeta en San Francisco (Tinfish, 2005), which received the James Laughlin Award of the Academy of American Poets. She lives with her husband Oscar Bermeo in Oakland. Bhanu Kapil teaches writing at Naropa University and Goddard College. She is the author of three full-length collections: The Vertical Interrogation of Strangers (Kelsey Street Press), Incubation: a space for monsters (Leon Works), and Humanimal (forthcoming from Kelsey Street Press).
DECEMBER 22 & 29 NO READING–Happy holidays!
JANUARY
JANUARY 5 JENNIFER FIRESTONE and LINDA RUSSO
Jennifer Firestone is the author of Holiday, forthcoming from Shearsman Books. Her chapbooks include Waves (Portable Press at Yo-Yo Labs), and from Flashes (Sona Books). She is the co-editor of the anthology Letters To Poets: Conversations About Poetics, Politics and Community, forthcoming from Saturnalia Books.Linda Russo is the author of MIRTH (Chax Press, 2007) and o going out (Potes & Poets, 1999), among other books. She has published essays on Bernadette Mayer & Hannah Weiner, ecopoetics, and Joanne Kyger, including the preface to Kyger’s About Now: Collected Poems.
JANUARY 12 TISA BRYANT and ROBERT KOCIK
Tisa Bryant’s work includes Unexplained Presence (Leon Works, 2007), and Tzimmes (A+Bend Press, 2000). She is currently creating [the curator], a meditation on identity, visual culture and the lost films of auteur Justine Cable, and Playing House, an exploration of work, writing and domesticity. Robert Kocik is a poet, essayist, builder, and eleemosynary entrepreneur. His niche, architecturally, is the designing/building of missing civic services. His most recent publications are Overcoming Fitness (Autonomedia, 2000) and Rhrurbarb (Field Books, 2007). He is currently researching the Prosodic Body—an exacting aesthetics based on prosody as the bringing forth of everything.
JANUARY 19 RACHEL BLAU DUPLESSIS and ANNA MOSCHOVAKIS
Rachel Blau DuPlessis’s two most recent books are Torques: Drafts 58-76 (Salt Publishing, 2007) and Blue Studios: Poetry and Its Cultural Work (University of Alabama Press, 2006). She lives in Philadelphia and teaches at Temple University. Anna Moschovakis is the author of a book of poems, I Have Not Been Able to Get Through to Everyone, and two chapbooks. She volunteers as an editor and designer at Ugly Duckling Presse, for which she recently co-edited The Drug of Art, the selected works of Czech poet Ivan Blatny (in English translation).
JANUARY 26 SUSAN HOWE and JAMES THOMAS STEVENS
Susan Howe’s most recent books are The Midnight (New Directions) and Kidnapped (Coracle Books). Two CDs, Thiefth and Souls of the Labadie Tract, in collaboration with the musician/ composer David Grubbs were recently released on the Blue Chopsticks label. A new collection of poems, as well as a re-print of her critical study My Emily Dickinson will be published by New Directions. James Thomas Stevens is the author of seven books of poetry, including A Bridge Dead in the Water, Combing the Snakes from His Hair, and Bulle/Chimere. Stevens is a 2000 Whiting Award recipient and a 2005 National Poetry Series Finalist.
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Bowery Poetry Club
308 Bowery (across from CBGB's)
F train to 2nd Ave. or 6 train to Bleecker
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Ugly Duckling Presse
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106 Ferris St., 2nd Floor, Brooklyn NY 11231
718-852-5529 / udp_mailbox@yahoo.com
Belladonna
enjoy BELLADONNA* reading series
Please note:
Belladonna has moved!
Belladonna*/Belladonna Books
925 Bergen Street, #405
Brooklyn, NY 11238
phone/fax: 718.398.9003
Don't miss the first reading of the 07/08 Season!
as always, enjoy
BELLADONNA*
with
Carol Mirakove &
Harriet Zinnes
Tuesday, September 11, 7:30PM
@ Dixon Place
(258 Bowery, 2nd Floor—Between Houston & Prince)
Admission is $5 at the Door.
Carol Mirakove is the author of two books of poems, Mediated published by Factory School, a collective concerned with the social and cultural reproductive function of the multiple media arts, and Occupied published by Kelsey St. Press, dedicated to experimental poetry by women. Additionally, she has authored two chapbooks, temporary tattoos and WALL, and she appears on the Narrow House spoken-word CD Women in the Avant Garde. Recent poems appear in The Brooklyn Rail, MiPoesias, and West Coast Line: Poetry and the Long Neoliberal Moment. She is currently at work on The Fiesta Project.
Harriet Zinnes is Professor Emerita of English of Queens College of the City University of New York. Her many books include Whither Nonstopping (poems), Drawing on the Wall (poems), My, Haven't the Flowers Been? (poems), Entropisms (prose poems), Lover (short stories), The Radiant ABsurdity of Desire (short stories), Ezra Pound and the Visual ARts (criticism), and Blood and Feathers (translations of the French poetry of Jacques Prevert). Forthcoming are a new edition of the Prevert and a new collection of poems called Light Light or the Curvature of the EArth. Zinnes is a contribuing editor of The Hollins Critic and as art critic a contributing writer of The New York Arts Magazine. Her poetry will be included in the September 2007 edition of Scribners The Best American Poetry.
UPCOMING READINGS
October 9, 2007--Stacey Levine & Maggie O'Sullivan
November 6, 2007--R. Erica Doyle & Tracie Morris
December 11, 2007--Fiona Templeton
January 8, 2008--Book Party: Lila Zemborain
February 12, 2008--Barbara Cole & Elizabeth Robinson
March 11, 2008--Jean Day & Kathy Lou Schultz
April 8, 2008--Dodie Bellamy & Kevin Killian
May 13, 2008--Book Party: Marcella Durand
@ Dixon Place
(258 Bowery, 2nd Floor—Between Houston & Prince)
Admission is $5 at the Door.
Founded as a reading series at a women¹s radical bookstore in 1999, Belladonna* is a feminist avant-garde event and publication series that promotes the work of women writers who are adventurous, politically involved, multi-form, multicultural, multi-gendered, unpredictable, dangerous with language (to the death machinery). In its eight year history, Belladonna* has featured such writers as Julie Patton, kari edwards, Leslie Scalapino, Alice Notley, Erica Hunt, Fanny Howe, Mei-mei Berssenbrugge, Cecilia Vicuna, Latasha Natasha Nevada Diggs, Camille Roy, Nicole Brossard, Abigail Child, Norma Cole, Lydia Davis, Gail Scott, Renee Gladman, Rachel Blau Duplessis, Marcella Durand and Lila Zemborain along with nearly 100 other experimental and hybrid women writers. The curators promote work that is explicitly experimental, connects with other art forms, and is political/critical in content. Alongside the readings, Belladonna* supports its artists by publishing commemorative chaplets of their work on the night of the event. Please contact us (Erica Kaufman, Rachel Levitsky, et al) at belladonnaseries@yahoo.com to receive a catalog and be placed on our list.
Dixon Place, a home for performing and literary artists, is dedicated to supporting the creative process by presenting original works of theater, dance and literature at various stages of development. An artistic laboratory with an audience, we serve as a safety net, enabling artists to present challenging and questioning work that pushes the limits of artistic expression. With a warm, nurturing atmosphere that encourages and inspires artists of all stripes and persuasions, we place special emphasis on the needs of women, people of color, youth, seniors and lesbian/gay artists. Dixon Place is a local haven for creativity as well as an international model for the open exploration of the process of creation. Please visit www.dixonplace.org for more information.
*deadly nightshade, a cardiac and respiratory stimulant, having purplish-red flowers and black berries
Belladonna* readings happen monthly between September and June. We are grateful for funding by Poets and Writers, CLMP, NYSCA, and Dixon Place.
Belladonna* readings happen monthly between September and June. We are grateful for partial funding by Poets and Writers, CLMP, NYSCA, and Dixon Place.
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"He believed if the woman on the right moved over to the left he could place her into the frame where a meadow lay beyond her. But it did not work out that way."
~Barbara Guest
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MUSIC
Luminescent Orchestrii
Check back for upcoming shows or check out the website below!
www.lumii.org
www.cyrobaptista.com
www.outernational .net
14th Street Y Events
Community Fair & Open House
Around Downtown in 80 Programs
SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 9
10:00 AM - 4:00 PM
FREE
Discover the wide range of services, programs, classes, and special events the 14th Street Y offers right in your neighborhood.
Save up to $99 on membership!
Activities include:
* Live Performances
* Homespun Merry Go Round
* Building Tours
* Yoga Class
* Belly Dancing
* Samurai Sword
* Ballroom Dancing
* Special appearance by Ms. JewSA
* Kids Arts & Crafts
* Rooftop Games & Playground
* Parenting Classes
* Face Painting
* Japanese Crafts
Don't miss other great events at the Downtown Community Center (197 East Broadway on the Lower East Side).!
Jewbilation! 2007
"Mr. & Ms. JewSA" Pageant 2007/5768
Sat, September 8 @ 8PM
at The Sirovich Center: 331 E. 12th Street
$10 Advance tix
$15 day of pageant
History of Sex and Sexuality on the Jewish LES Walking Tour
Sun, September 9 @ 1PM sharp
at The Educational Alliance: 197 East Broadway
$10 Advance tickets
$15 day of tour
Space is limited, pre-registration strongly recommended
Jewbilation! Downtown Entertainment of the Hebrew Persuasion 2007 is part of the HOWL! Festival of East Village Arts.
For more information, email Alyssa_Abrahamson@14StreetY.org.
Weekly & Upcoming Events
WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 12
Hidden Melodies Revealed
A secret celebration of Rosh HaShana
in song with The Sway Machinery
In partnership with the 14th Street Y
Employing musical traditions of the Jewish New Year with Afro-pop and the Blues, Hidden Melodies Revealed is an intersection of concert, theater, storytelling and film, and will unleash an all-out party that is both joyful and transformative. The Sway Machinery's all-star lineup features musicians from Antibalas, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Balkan Beat Box and Arcade Fire.
10:00 PM
Angel Orensanz Foundation: 172 Norfolk
(btw. Houston & Stanton)
FREE Admission - - Open Bar!
For more information, visit:
www.myspace.com/theswaymachinery.
Hidden Melodies Revealed is supported by The Six Points Fellowship for Emerging Jewish Artists, a partnership of Avoda Arts, JDub Records, and the Foundation for Jewish Culture, and is made possible with major funding from UJA-Federation of New York.
SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 15 - SATURDAY, OCTOBER 6
13 Playwrights, Inc. Presents
Have You Seen Steve Steven?
By Ann Marie Healy
Remember that one time when you played that one thing with that one friend you just loved? This is a play about everything that happens after...
14th Street Y Theatre (344 E. 14th Street)
Sept. 15 - Oct. 6, Wed - Sat: 8:00 PM
Opening: Mon, Sept. 17 - 8:00 PM
Special Added Performance: Mon, Sept. 24 - 8:00 PM
General Admission: $18
Y Discount: $15 (code 4YMHA)
WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 19
Baby Care Workshop
Come learn the ins and outs of caring for your new baby. Topics covered in class include parenting skills such as diapering, clothing, bathing, and feeding, as well as the adjustment to life with a newborn.
6:30 - 8:30 PM
M: $45, NM: $50 / COUPLE
PFC-301
Please pre-register
FRIDAY & SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 21 & 22
Yom Kippur Film Festival: 5768 Forgive Me Filmathon
An Alternative way to experience Yom Kippur
Forgive Me Filmathon provides a new pathway for people to experience Yom Kippur in a creative and alternative setting.
Presented by the 14th Street Y and Jewish Community Project.
Fri., Sept. 21, 2007
Two Boots Pioneer Theater: 155 E. 3rd Street
9PM - KIPPUR
Amos Gitai's masterful depiction of the battles of the 1973 Yom Kippur War
11PM - CRIMES AND MISDEMEANORS
Woody Allen deals with the questions of morality and divine intervention
$10/film
Saturday, Sept. 22, 2007
JCP: 146 Duane Street in Tribeca
1PM - THE SCHWARTZ DYNASTY
A dramatic comedy which takes a satirical look at modern Israeli society
3PM - Disney's THE EMPEROR'S NEW GROOVE
For the Family! A sorceress transforms an arrogant Emperor into a llama and seizes his mythical kingdom
5PM - ENTOURAGE: RETURN OF THE KING
The Episode where Hollywood agent Ari Gold attempts to cut a film deal on Yom Kippur - while attending services
6PM - IT'S ABOUT TIME
A riveting documentary dealing with what Israelis value most: time
$10/film
Post screening conversations with curator Isaac Zablocki and friends.
SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 30
Infant/Child CPR
Taught by a Certified American Red Cross, EMS Safety Service Instructor, this class is for anyone who cares for children. Learn how to recognize and respond to life-threatening emergencies. Participants practice on mannequins and take home practice materials. Rescue breathing, Heimlich training, preventive care, and baby-proofing hints included. Noncertifying class. Babies under 8 months are welcome.
1:00 - 3:30 PM
M / NM: $70/PERSON
PFC-303B
SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 30
Fourth Annual Sukkot Rooftop Celebration
Come celebrate Sukkot in our community-built sukkah. Program includes songs, games, and arts and crafts. Evening is topped off with a community BBQ. In the event of inclement weather, the program will be held indoors.
5:30 - 6:30 PM
M: $10, NM: $12
Children under 1 free
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For more information about 14th Street Y arts events go to www.14StreetY.org or email Alyssa_Abrahamson@14StreetY.org.
Sarah East Johnson’s LAVA
Check back for new LAVA performances or check the website below.
LAVA is a troupe of six women who develop and perform
artistic works that combine dance, theater and circus.
Founded in 1994 by Sarah East Johnson, LAVA has
developed seven original works that have dealt with
such topics as the formation of volcanoes, plate
tectonics, evolution, and the relationship between
science and faith. LAVA members teach a unique blend of
circus acrobatics and dance to children and adults at
their new home studio in Brooklyn.
For tickets go to www.theflea.org.
If you want to read more about LAVA, go to http://thebrooklynrail.org/streets/jan05/lava.html
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