Allegiance of the Drones, a libretto, Saturday, November 3rd at 8pm

Posted on October 21, 2012 by Splabman

PRESS RELEASE:

Allegiance of the Drones, a libretto (with Lori Goldston) AND Irrational Dude
by Robert Mittenthal & Nico Vassilakis

New City Theatre
1404-06 18th Avenue Seattle, WA 98122
(206) 271-4430

Saturday, November 3rd at 8pm

$12

Robert Mittenthal & Nico Vassilakis were part of the tenth anniversary WTOpera project. That project went belly up:

http://www.thestranger.com/seattle/the-greatest-of-failures/Content?oid=14655701

but the libretto they wrote for their part in it remains. “Allegiance of the Drones” will finally be realized in a pared down version on November 3rd at New City Theatre. Lori Goldston provides the sound; and Curtis Taylor the staging; Isaac Hanson on images. The evening will also include a reading of Robert & Nico’s collaborative text “Irrational Dude”, and a 16mm science education film with live accompaniment.

Starring Vida Rose as SHE; Greg Laynor as HE; and Nico Vassilakis as Canetti.

BIOS:

Nico Vassilakis is a poet living in Seattle. He can be found among a glassful of pencils.

Robert Mittenthal is author of Wax World (Chax, 2011), and various chapbooks, including Irrational Dude, a collaborative work with Nico Vassilakis. The last few years he has been working to induce collective thought via a series of related reading groupuscles, a project called autonomous university. He blogs at http://rmutts.blogspot.com/

Lori Goldston’s work as a cellist and composer travels freely and restlessly across borders that divide genre and geography, often in collaboration with bands, composers, film makers, choreographers and writers. Co-founder of the Black Cat Orchestra and Spectratone International, she made music for, with and/or in Earth, Nirvana. Mirah, David Byrne, Tactile, Broken Water, O Paon, Stacey Levine, Christian Rizzo, Karl Blau, Ellen Fullman, Jessika Kenney, Kane Mathis, Curtis Taylor, Jherek Bischoff, Vanessa Renwick, Lynn Shelton and many, many more. www.lorigoldston.com

Gregory Laynor’s poetry work includes a 913 mp3 reading of Gertrude Stein’s The Making of Americans and curation of a series of poetry events at the Hedreen Gallery in 2011-2012. He’s writing a dissertation at the University of Washington on poetry & musical theater.

Vida Rose is an interdisciplinary artist, mover and shaker. She works to bring movement into painting, stillness into dance, and to take all the preciousness out of the healing arts. She likes reading stories aloud and doing impressions of her grandpas.

Isaac Hanson attends West Woodland Elementary in Seattle. He has self published two comic books, “My Castle” and “The Unknown Team Strikes Back”.

Curtis Taylor uses theater to explore fossils of victory and defeat.
In Seattle he founded a performance-storefront named Vodvil. Under that shingle he created original murder-ballad operas and ballets. Mr. Taylor has received grants and awards from 4 Culture, the Mayor’s Office of Arts and Culture/Seattle and an Artist Trust Fellowship in theater. He recently was artist-in-residence at New City Theater in Seattle—which premiered his play The White Days in 2011.

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Out of the Shadows, Women and the Beat Generation

Posted on October 16, 2012 by Splabman

Anne Waldman

Dear all,

Attached is the CFP for the conference Out of the Shadows, Women and the Beat Generation at the University of Agder, Norway, September 2-4, 2013. The conference is organized in collaboration with the European Beat Study Network and welcomes papers in literature, art and film, with a particular focus on the female contribution.

Welcome!
Best wishes,

Frida Forsgren and Michael J. Prince

Frida Forsgren, associate professor PhD
University of Agder
Service Box 422
4604 Kristiansand

Tel: +47 38141898
Cell: +47 412 75257

Coordinator Multikul
Om MULTIKUL | Multikul

Women and the Beat Generation: Literature, Art, Film
Conference at the University of Agder, Norway, September 2-4 2013
Organizers: Frida Forsgren and Michael J. Prince
Keynote Speakers: Mary Kerr and Polina Mackay

Papers and panel proposals are sought for a three-day conference on women and the Beat Generation. We encourage submissions on all aspects of this topic, including the role of women writers in the Beat movement and the representation of women in the works of Beat authors. Submissions on art and film are especially welcome. Other suggested topics include, but are not limited to:

  • narratives of gender and sexuality in the work of women of the Beat Generation
  • the Beat movement and Feminism
  • the influence of female literary tradition on the Beat Generation
  • experimentalism in the work of female Beats
  • aesthetic dialogues between male and female Beat writers
  • visual culture and Beat women
  • the work of female Beat artists, filmmakers or photographers
  • the influence of art and film on the work of Beat women
  • the significance of life-writing
  • films by and about women of the Beat Generation
  • women and publishing, editing and non-fiction writing

The deadline for submission of abstracts is December 15, 2013. Please send your abstracts to Frida Forsgren at frida.forsgren@uia.no

RELATED:

We are pleased today to release episode 58 of the “PoemTalk” series – a discussion of Bernadette Mayer’s “The Tragic Condition of the Statue of Liberty” with Anne Waldman, Katie Price, and Julia Bloch.

http://jacket2.org/content/poem-talk

http://www.poetryfoundation.org/features/audioitem/3634

Al Filreis
http://writing.upenn.edu/~afilreis

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Lit Crawl/Seattle, Thursday October 18th

Posted on October 2, 2012 by Splabman

More information: litcrawl.org/seattle, facebook.com/litcrawlseattle 

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Seattle Lit Crawl/City Arts Fest 4 Hoarse Men

Posted on September 30, 2012 by Splabman
Seattle Lit Crawl
Public Event · By Lit Crawl Seattle
Thursday, October 18, 2012
5:00pm until 10:00pm in PDT
Seattle, WA
It’s a bar crawl with literature—where hundreds of literati get drunk on words! On the first official night of City Arts Fest, Thursday, October 18th, Lit Crawl Seattle will tour through First Hill and Capitol Hill for a roving night of readings and literary performances.
Schedule:
Happy Hour: 5 to 5:45pm
The Brazelton
HUB Space: The Skinner Building, 1326 5th Ave
Genevieve Brazelton (onbecomingahousewife.com) will be telling the story and demonstrating the development of a signature cocktail for her husband and how this is all part of being a good housewife.
Phase 1: 6-6:45pm
The Four Hoarse Men and Interrupture
The Hideout, 1005 Boren Ave: 21 and over
Fireside Room at Sorrento Hotel, 900 Madison St.
The Four Hoarse Men and Interrupture play each. While they run between venues, Susan Rich (The Alchemist’s Kitchen) stokes the Fireside and Lydia Swartz (zenpropaganda.com) strikes the Hideout.
University Book Store presents Funny Ladies
Town Hall, Downstairs, 1119 8th Ave. (Enter on Seneca)
Featured wits include Jennifer Worick (Things I Want to Punch in the Face); Jane Ganahl (Naked on the Page); Litsa Dremousis (Nerve, NY Magazine) and the ever-inappropriate Diane Mapes (How to Date in a Post-Dating World).
APRIL
Quarter Lounge, 909 Madison St: 21 and over
Two fiction writers and a poet walk into one of the finest dives in Seattle. APRIL presents readings from Matthew Simmons, Richard Chiem and visiting poet Megan Kaminski.
Phase 2: 7-7:45pm
Poetry+Motion
Saint Johns Bar, 719 E Pike St: 21 and over
Experience the power of your words translated into another medium. Poetry+Motion’s dancers will put choreography to your poem. Your voice will be the music!
Debut Lit
The Pine Box, 1600 Melrose Ave: 21 and over
DEBUT LIT presents a showcase of local debut authors, including Suzanne Morrison (Yoga Bitch), Nicole Hardy (Confessions of a Latter-Day Virgin), Lance Weller (Wilderness), Dan Coxon (Ka Mate: Travels in New Zealand), Jeff Bender (The Weight) and host Rebekah Anderson (Let the River Take It).
BENT
LGBT Library, 511 E Pike St.
Poets? Performers? AND Queer? What a magical combination! Bent Writing Institute is the only Queer Writing Institute in the Nation and aims to use writing as a vehicle for social change, laughter, and all around glittery goodness.
Carlos Andrés Gómez
Elliott Bay Book Company, 1521 10th Ave
Award winning actor Carlos Andrés Gómez performs work from Man Up: Cracking the Code of Modern Manhood (Gotham), a coming-of-age memoir that redefines masculinity for the 21st century male.
APRIL 
Babeland, 707 E Pike St: 18 and over
Risky, risque or risk-averse–all are welcome at Babeland, as APRIL presents work from Seattle’s Crystal Curry and a very special surprise guest.
Dark Coast Press
Spine & Crown Bookstore, 315 E. Pine St.
Join Dark Coast Press for six exciting readings from your favorite Dark Coast authors and some of our best friends, featuring: Gabe Blackwell, Jarret Middleton, John Hamilton, Elissa Washuta, Kristen Young, and Corinne Manning.
Phase 3: 8-8:45pm
James, Tolbert, Marin, and Mooney
Bluebird, 1205 E Pike St
Join Sybil James (The Last Woro Woro to Treichville: A West African Memoir), Anastacia Tolbert (www.anastaciatolbert.com), Natasha Marin (www.mikokuro.com) and Jessica Mooney for a night of poetry, stories, and conceptual art at Bluebird.
Tin House
Vermillion, 1508 11th Ave: 21 and over
Hailing from the NW’s cultural capital, Tin House travels up I-5 with a coterie of Portland literati, including Vanessa Vaselka (Zazen) and Pauls Toutonghi(Evel Knievel Days). David Shields (Reality Hunger) will be on hand to persuade those small-town kids of Seattle’s supremacy.
Seattle7Writers
Barca, 1510 11th Ave: 21 and over
Seattle7Writers celebrates LitCrawl with seven acclaimed authors each reading seven paragraphs from page-sevens and chapter-sevens and other seven-themed moments in their marvelous books. Authors include Dave Boling, Kevin O’Brien, Jennie Shortridge, Garth Stein, Laurie Frankel, and Sean Beaudoin.
Sasquatch Books presents Mark Baumgarten
Porchlight Coffee, 1515 4th Ave.
Come listen as Mark Baumgarten discusses his new book Love Rock Revolution: K Records and the Rise of Independent Music, accompanied by live covers of K artists’ songs.
APRIL 
Comet Tavern, 922 E Pike St: 21 and over
A headlining set from a man without a band to speak of. APRIL’s final selection of the night features a solo reading from poet Zachary Schomburg at the (in)famous Comet Tavern.
After Party: 9pm
Elizabeth Austen, Peter Mountford, Book-It, and After Party
Hugo House, 1634 11th Ave
Poet Elizabeth Austen and novelist Peter Mountford read, plus Book-It Repertory Theatre presents an excerpt from Denis Johnson’s “Jesus’ Son.” Then, we party like only writers can. Cash bar.
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