Thursday, December 27, 2007
Wednesday, December 26, 2007
Viva! The (tiny) book arts!
Tiny books. I love them. One of my Christmas gifts was a miniature book (pictured) from Sharon Tanovitz. While I publish chaplettes for the Poems-For-All Series mostly as computer output, Sharon continues to amaze me with her command of the craft of bookmaking which involves hands-on paper manipulation, sewing signatures, building bindings, etc. For anyone interested in the book arts, Sharon is a wealth of information (and inspiration.) You can see examples of her work both on display and for sale at her artshop Art Ellis, 2508 J Street, Sacramento.
bookbinding classSharon will be teaching a bookbinding class via the Learning Exchange in a day-long session on Saturday, February 2, 2008. Description: "Explore the art of making hand-bound books. Even with no prior art or bookbinding experience, create a unique and beautiful long stitch journal. In just one session, make a hard covered exposed stitched book embellished with beads on the spine. Learn about materials, equipment and various binding techniques. This class promises to pique your interest in making books and inspiring your creativity and uniqueness." The class is $59 with a $20 materials fee. For more details or to add the class go to the Learning Exchange (search: bookbinding.)
Saturday, December 15, 2007
Friday, November 30, 2007
FRIDAYS | Rocky Horror Returns to Sacramento
From: "Robert McKeown"
Subject: Friday: The 4th Dimension and a little surprise
Hi there!! First off, I want to plug something - on Saturday, December 1 - you ought to head on over to the YWCA of Sacramento at 1122 17th St in midtown (between 2 and 9 PM) for IndieSacramento. It's Sacramento's largest indie/alternative craft fair, and a great place to buy gifts for you or someone else for the holidays!
And if you go, you might have a chance to win free passes to Movies on a Big Screen!!! We'll also have schedules there. There's lots more going on, too, including live music, cupcake decorating classes and, well, lots of stuff - check it all out at www.indiesacramento.com
OK - so Friday. Before I go into The 4th Dimension, which screens at 7 PM, I want to let you all in on something that hasn't really been promoted due to a very odd week last week. We had planned to begin regular Friday 10 PM screenings of Rocky Horror. Then didn't spread the word. But ya know what?? We're gonna kick it off this week ANYWAY, even if not many folks are there for it. Feel free to tell friends, and we do plan to keep showing this if people show up (we won't base that on the first night's attendance :) ). So yeah - Friday, 11/30. 10 PM. Rocky Horror Picture Show. Admission for this will be $6.00 each week (rather than $5 - it's a little pricey to run). Audience participation, as it should be, will be encouraged.
PRIOR to that - at 7 PM (admission: $5.00): The 4th Dimension.
Jack (Louis Morabito) is a loner confined to a workbench in the back of an antique shop. When a mysterious woman presents him with a broken antique clock, unexplainable events begin to occur. After finding Albert Einstein's journal on his still unsolved Unified Field Theory, Jack becomes compulsive about analyzing time and theorizing its connection to his supernatural experiences, his surreal dreams, and his perception of reality, only to lead to the discovery of the biggest mystery of all - himself. Written and directed by Tom Mattera and Dave Mazzoni.
"An Alice-like rabbit hole of suppressed memories... Simmering with neurotic emotions and surreal dream states... Sustains a disturbing, somnambulistic mood."
Robert Koehler, Variety
“Kafkaesque…a densely etched portrait... Stylistically channeling David Lynch and Darren Aronofsky… Striking black-and-white cinematography and stark atmospherics set an intriguing tone”
Michael Rechtshaffen, The Hollywood Reporter
“Dark, brooding mood and tone are seductive and compelling.”
Ain’t it Cool News
Honorable Mention recipient from the Cinevegas Grand Jury. You might not want to miss this one... Oh and hey! December is all scheduled and will be emailed shortly! And it's gonna be a great month!!!
Of course - this at 600 4th St in West Sacramento. Corner of 4th & F in WEST Sacramento, near The Pyramid Building (so just over the river). And I am meeting PG&E there on Friday AM to see if we can get some heat going in the place!!!
Thursday, October 18, 2007
NOV 16 | Proust as Prompt | Weekend Writing Intensive
Weekend goal: To bring participants into the literary world (Proust’s world) of time, symbol, dream, memory and personal myth -- an author-guided tour to your own best and most authentic writing.
Lawrence Spann will facilitate a weekend writing intensive sponsored by the UC Davis Cancer Center’s Outreach Research and Education Program as part of its “Writing as Healing” project, Friday November 16 evening through Sunday November 18, 2007 in the Facilities Support Services Building, 4800 2nd Ave, on the UC Davis Health System campus in Sacramento.
Dr. Spann founded the Literature, Arts and Medicine Program in Sacramento. Group members write to a prompt, but are not limited to it, and read what they write to the group on a voluntary basis.
All writing is treated as fiction and is confidential. All comments are positive and uplifting. Dr. Spann writes and reads with the group and comments from a literary perspective. Literary figures will be integrated throughout the weekend with handouts and explanations.
Register by calling or sending an email to
Patti Robinson, 916-734-0823 or
patricia.robinson@ucdmc.ucdavis.edu
For more information, call Patti (916-734-
0823) or Marlene von Friederichs-Fitzwater,
Ph.D., Director, Outreach Research &
Education Program, UC Davis Cancer
Center (916-734-8810)
Lawrence Spann will facilitate a weekend writing intensive sponsored by the UC Davis Cancer Center’s Outreach Research and Education Program as part of its “Writing as Healing” project, Friday November 16 evening through Sunday November 18, 2007 in the Facilities Support Services Building, 4800 2nd Ave, on the UC Davis Health System campus in Sacramento.
Dr. Spann founded the Literature, Arts and Medicine Program in Sacramento. Group members write to a prompt, but are not limited to it, and read what they write to the group on a voluntary basis.
All writing is treated as fiction and is confidential. All comments are positive and uplifting. Dr. Spann writes and reads with the group and comments from a literary perspective. Literary figures will be integrated throughout the weekend with handouts and explanations.
Register by calling or sending an email to
Patti Robinson, 916-734-0823 or
patricia.robinson@ucdmc.ucdavis.edu
For more information, call Patti (916-734-
0823) or Marlene von Friederichs-Fitzwater,
Ph.D., Director, Outreach Research &
Education Program, UC Davis Cancer
Center (916-734-8810)
Thursday, October 11, 2007
OCT 11 |The Weakly Inch
Friends,
Another calendar, dispensed weakly, of great events in and around Sacramento. Peruse and you'll find that there's simply no reason to stay at home. (The cat doesn't like you, anyway.) Plenty of poetry, art, noise festivals and fluxus aktions to inspire and agitate. Go forth! --Richard
OCTOBER 12TH to 14TH
NORCAL NOISEFEST 2007
- - -
FRIDAY, OCTOBER 12TH, starting at 7PM: Lunas Cafe, 1414 16th St
SATURDAY OCTOBER 13TH, starting at 4pm: The Space, 2509 R St, (at 25th)
SUNDAY OCTOBER 14, starting at NOON: The Space, 2509 R St, (at 25th)
>> Presented by Northern California Experimental Music Festival and featuring approximately 50 bands from all across the north American continent. Admission $10 per day; $30 weekend membership includes all shows, T-shirt, CD, button, and earplugs Waffles & coffee (free with admission) at noon on Sunday. Advance tickets available via PayPal. More details and performance times at http://www.norcalnoisefest.com
OCTOBER 11TH to 13TH
16th ANNUAL SACRAMENTO INTERNATIONAL GAY & LESBIAN FILM FESTIVAL
- - -
Crest Theatre, 1013 K Street, (916) 442-7378, http://www.siglff.com
>> Individual Tickets (includes admission to one film program): $9.00. All Festival Pass (includes admission to all film programs): $30.00. Opening Night Reception at Chops Restaurant (includes appetizers and 1 drink): $25.00. $1 discount off Individual Tickets for groups of 10 or more.
FRIDAY, OCTOBER 12TH, 7pm
Poetry honoring
PHIL GOLDVARG
- - -
La Raza Galeria Posada, 1022-1024 22nd Street, Mid-Town Sacra. 446-5133. www.larazagaleriaposada.org
>> Los Escritores Del Nuevo Sol present an evening of poetry and stories Honoring Phil Goldvarg and local community leaders.
SATURDAY, OCTOBER 13TH, 6-10PM
14TH ANNUAL ALTAR SHOW
- - -
920 Del Paso Blvd, North Sacramento near the Globe Street Light Rail Station. Gallery Hours: Fri-Sun 12-5.
>> Hosted this year by the Phantom Galleries. Second Saturday opening reception; show runs through November 2.
SATURDAY, OCTOBER 13TH, 1pm to 4pm
Art workshop
PAPER-MACHE CALAVERAS, PART ONE
- - -
La Raza Galeria Posada, 1022-1024 22nd Street, Mid-Town Sacra. 446-5133. www.larazagaleriaposada.org
>> Paper Mache Calaveras, Part 1 workshop with Claudia Tapia
SATURDAY, OCTOBER 13TH, 7pm
Mezcla Exhibition:
THE ART OF STAN PADILLA
- - -
La Raza Galeria Posada, 1022-1024 22nd Street, Mid-Town Sacra. 446-5133. www.larazagaleriaposada.org
>> Second Saturday Reception.
SATURDAY, OCTOBER 13, 6-10PM
dRAW PiNKY
Celebrate Second Saturday with a rare performance by dRAW PiNKY at:
- - -
Galleria Tempest/Blooming Art, 1801 L Street, #40, 916-492-2702
>> Music from 7-9 PM. Free. Pink Toupee Collective announces the launch of Modus Memetica -- http://www.modusmemetica.org -- a one stop website for news about Pink Toupee Collective, dRAW PiNKY, Parakeet Bluff and other arts, culture and fluxus stuff!
SATURDAY, OCTOBER 13TH, 5-8pm
40 Acres Art Gallery Presents
CLAUDIA BERNARDI: Silence Was Hostile And Almost Perfect
- - -
40 Acres Art Gallery, 35th Street and Broadway, 456-5080.
>> Opening Reception with the Artist. With a special performance by Sacramento High School’s 34th Street Dance Company
SUNDAY, OCTOBER 14, Showtime approx. 4 PM
MANHOLE STEAM IRON Debut
- - -
Alley Cuts, 724 Merchant Street (between J and K, and 7th and 8th Streets, downtown Sac), 916-447-5212
>> Free. Featuring female members of PINK TOUPEE COLLECTIVE and other sister artistes, stepping up to celebrate The Art of Sisterhood. Details: Modus Memetica -- http://www.modusmemetica.org.
MONDAY, OCTOBER 15TH, 7:30PM
Sacramento Poetry Center presents:
VIOLA WEINBERG
The Space Theater, 2509 R Street, 25th & R Sts, www.sacramentopoetrycenter.org. (916) 451-5569.
>> The former poet laureate of Sacramento returns to read from her new book.
WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 17TH, 7:15PM
CAAC Goes to the Movies:
THE WAR ON DEMOCRACY
- - -
1640 9th Ave, East off Landpark Drive, 446-3304
>> A film Presented by the Central America Action Committee. Free.
FRIDAY, OCTOBER 26TH, 7:30PM
DIA DE LOS MUERTOS / DAY OF THE DEAD
- - -
La Raza Galeria Posada, 1022-1024 22nd Street, Mid-Town Sacra. 916-456-5323. www.escritoresdelnuevosol.com
>> The Escritores del Nuevo Sol/ Writers of the New Sun offer poetry and music for this annual Mexican-originated celebration, brought to the US by the Chicano movement, and which has become a meaningful time of remembrance for people of many backgrounds to honor with joy those who have passed from their earthly life. This is one of a week’s full of activities coordinated by La Raza Galeria Posada. Cost: $5 or free-will donation as you can afford.
WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 17TH, 7:15PM
CAAC Goes to the Movies:
THE WAR ON DEMOCRACY
- - -
1640 9th Ave, East off Landpark Drive, 446-3304
>> A film Presented by the Central America Action Committee. Free.
SATURDAY, OCTOBER 27, 7:30PM
Chaos, Anarchy, and Lucid Unreason:
UNHEIMLICH: ANTONIN ARTAUD & HIS DOPPLEGANGERS
- - -
The Book Collector, 1008 24th Street, between J & K Streets, Midtown Sacramento, 916.442.9295
>> GILBERTO RODRIGUEZ is the man who has reintroduced the concept of Doppelganger into the life of Sacramento. Along with ROB LOZANO, they give flesh to Antonin Artaud and His Dopplegangers. Maybe you'll laugh, perhaps you will cry and hopefully you will leave forever haunted by the unholy Doppelgangers of the Poetic Muses. SHERI ADEE, a master of atmospheres and soundscapes via Tibetan bowls, gongs, and multi-cuiti percussion instruments will be adding her unique interpretations of merging musics to the evening's performance. Unheimlich unfolds as a monthly presentation of poetry as you've never seen or heard it before. Featuring Artaud & His Doppleganger and a rotating roster of special guests. Unheimlich Theater re-emerges from the Bardo state at The Book Collector to inseminate a new myth of Chaos, Anarchy, and Lucid Unreason. Unheimlich is here not to raise consciousness, but to release the tide of the Uncanny. To breakout the underside of Pandora's hoary box and release the likes of Baudelaire, Rimbaud, Poe, Hoffmann, Holderline, Michaux, and especially Antonin Artaud in order to undermine a society that has allowed psychology & technology to be on a first name basis with the creation of it's imperious culture.
ELSEWHERE & OTHERWISE
- - -
CALIFORNIA LECTURE SERIES
Subscriptions are on sale now for their next six-lecture series ($150). Subscribe and get more info at: (916) 737-1300 or visit www.californialectures.org
SIX-LECTURE SERIES: Crest Theatre, Sacramento 7:30pm
YANN MARTEL Wednesday, October 24, 2007
HA JIN Thursday, November 15, 2007
SUE MILLER Thursday, January 10, 2008
GERALDINE BROOKS Wednesday, February 6, 2008
RICHARD POWERS Monday, March 3, 2008
TOBIAS WOLFF Thursday, May 8, 2008
WANGARI MAATHAI* Friday, September 21, 2007
(*SPECIAL EVENT: not included in the Six-Lecture Subscription Series)
WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 28TH, 6-8PM
POETRY CENTER'S ANNUAL BENEFIT
- - -
The Sacramento Poetry Center's annual benefit will once again be at the home of Burnett and Mimi Miller. Poetry by Victoria Dalkey and Quinton Duval!
Music by The Swing State! (aka Mary Zeppa and Bob Stanley.) Food, drink and fellowship! Watch the web -- http://www.sacramentopoetrycenter.org -- for details.
UPCOMING AT THE BOOK COLLECTOR
Bookstore. 1008 24th Street, between J & K Streets, Midtown Sacramento, 916.442.9295
- - -
NOV 14: TAYLOR GRAHAM (Rattlesnake)
NOV 17: JEFF KNORR (Poems-For-All)
NOV 24: UNHEIMLICH!
DEC 12: PATRICIA D'ALESSANDRO (Rattlesnake)
DEC 22: UNHEIMLICH!
JAN 25: (2008) BURNS NIGHT POETRY READING (Poems-For-All)
FIN
Another calendar, dispensed weakly, of great events in and around Sacramento. Peruse and you'll find that there's simply no reason to stay at home. (The cat doesn't like you, anyway.) Plenty of poetry, art, noise festivals and fluxus aktions to inspire and agitate. Go forth! --Richard
OCTOBER 12TH to 14TH
NORCAL NOISEFEST 2007
- - -
FRIDAY, OCTOBER 12TH, starting at 7PM: Lunas Cafe, 1414 16th St
SATURDAY OCTOBER 13TH, starting at 4pm: The Space, 2509 R St, (at 25th)
SUNDAY OCTOBER 14, starting at NOON: The Space, 2509 R St, (at 25th)
>> Presented by Northern California Experimental Music Festival and featuring approximately 50 bands from all across the north American continent. Admission $10 per day; $30 weekend membership includes all shows, T-shirt, CD, button, and earplugs Waffles & coffee (free with admission) at noon on Sunday. Advance tickets available via PayPal. More details and performance times at http://www.norcalnoisefest.com
OCTOBER 11TH to 13TH
16th ANNUAL SACRAMENTO INTERNATIONAL GAY & LESBIAN FILM FESTIVAL
- - -
Crest Theatre, 1013 K Street, (916) 442-7378, http://www.siglff.com
>> Individual Tickets (includes admission to one film program): $9.00. All Festival Pass (includes admission to all film programs): $30.00. Opening Night Reception at Chops Restaurant (includes appetizers and 1 drink): $25.00. $1 discount off Individual Tickets for groups of 10 or more.
FRIDAY, OCTOBER 12TH, 7pm
Poetry honoring
PHIL GOLDVARG
- - -
La Raza Galeria Posada, 1022-1024 22nd Street, Mid-Town Sacra. 446-5133. www.larazagaleriaposada.org
>> Los Escritores Del Nuevo Sol present an evening of poetry and stories Honoring Phil Goldvarg and local community leaders.
SATURDAY, OCTOBER 13TH, 6-10PM
14TH ANNUAL ALTAR SHOW
- - -
920 Del Paso Blvd, North Sacramento near the Globe Street Light Rail Station. Gallery Hours: Fri-Sun 12-5.
>> Hosted this year by the Phantom Galleries. Second Saturday opening reception; show runs through November 2.
SATURDAY, OCTOBER 13TH, 1pm to 4pm
Art workshop
PAPER-MACHE CALAVERAS, PART ONE
- - -
La Raza Galeria Posada, 1022-1024 22nd Street, Mid-Town Sacra. 446-5133. www.larazagaleriaposada.org
>> Paper Mache Calaveras, Part 1 workshop with Claudia Tapia
SATURDAY, OCTOBER 13TH, 7pm
Mezcla Exhibition:
THE ART OF STAN PADILLA
- - -
La Raza Galeria Posada, 1022-1024 22nd Street, Mid-Town Sacra. 446-5133. www.larazagaleriaposada.org
>> Second Saturday Reception.
SATURDAY, OCTOBER 13, 6-10PM
dRAW PiNKY
Celebrate Second Saturday with a rare performance by dRAW PiNKY at:
- - -
Galleria Tempest/Blooming Art, 1801 L Street, #40, 916-492-2702
>> Music from 7-9 PM. Free. Pink Toupee Collective announces the launch of Modus Memetica -- http://www.modusmemetica.org -- a one stop website for news about Pink Toupee Collective, dRAW PiNKY, Parakeet Bluff and other arts, culture and fluxus stuff!
SATURDAY, OCTOBER 13TH, 5-8pm
40 Acres Art Gallery Presents
CLAUDIA BERNARDI: Silence Was Hostile And Almost Perfect
- - -
40 Acres Art Gallery, 35th Street and Broadway, 456-5080.
>> Opening Reception with the Artist. With a special performance by Sacramento High School’s 34th Street Dance Company
SUNDAY, OCTOBER 14, Showtime approx. 4 PM
MANHOLE STEAM IRON Debut
- - -
Alley Cuts, 724 Merchant Street (between J and K, and 7th and 8th Streets, downtown Sac), 916-447-5212
>> Free. Featuring female members of PINK TOUPEE COLLECTIVE and other sister artistes, stepping up to celebrate The Art of Sisterhood. Details: Modus Memetica -- http://www.modusmemetica.org.
MONDAY, OCTOBER 15TH, 7:30PM
Sacramento Poetry Center presents:
VIOLA WEINBERG
The Space Theater, 2509 R Street, 25th & R Sts, www.sacramentopoetrycenter.org. (916) 451-5569.
>> The former poet laureate of Sacramento returns to read from her new book.
WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 17TH, 7:15PM
CAAC Goes to the Movies:
THE WAR ON DEMOCRACY
- - -
1640 9th Ave, East off Landpark Drive, 446-3304
>> A film Presented by the Central America Action Committee. Free.
FRIDAY, OCTOBER 26TH, 7:30PM
DIA DE LOS MUERTOS / DAY OF THE DEAD
- - -
La Raza Galeria Posada, 1022-1024 22nd Street, Mid-Town Sacra. 916-456-5323. www.escritoresdelnuevosol.com
>> The Escritores del Nuevo Sol/ Writers of the New Sun offer poetry and music for this annual Mexican-originated celebration, brought to the US by the Chicano movement, and which has become a meaningful time of remembrance for people of many backgrounds to honor with joy those who have passed from their earthly life. This is one of a week’s full of activities coordinated by La Raza Galeria Posada. Cost: $5 or free-will donation as you can afford.
WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 17TH, 7:15PM
CAAC Goes to the Movies:
THE WAR ON DEMOCRACY
- - -
1640 9th Ave, East off Landpark Drive, 446-3304
>> A film Presented by the Central America Action Committee. Free.
SATURDAY, OCTOBER 27, 7:30PM
Chaos, Anarchy, and Lucid Unreason:
UNHEIMLICH: ANTONIN ARTAUD & HIS DOPPLEGANGERS
- - -
The Book Collector, 1008 24th Street, between J & K Streets, Midtown Sacramento, 916.442.9295
>> GILBERTO RODRIGUEZ is the man who has reintroduced the concept of Doppelganger into the life of Sacramento. Along with ROB LOZANO, they give flesh to Antonin Artaud and His Dopplegangers. Maybe you'll laugh, perhaps you will cry and hopefully you will leave forever haunted by the unholy Doppelgangers of the Poetic Muses. SHERI ADEE, a master of atmospheres and soundscapes via Tibetan bowls, gongs, and multi-cuiti percussion instruments will be adding her unique interpretations of merging musics to the evening's performance. Unheimlich unfolds as a monthly presentation of poetry as you've never seen or heard it before. Featuring Artaud & His Doppleganger and a rotating roster of special guests. Unheimlich Theater re-emerges from the Bardo state at The Book Collector to inseminate a new myth of Chaos, Anarchy, and Lucid Unreason. Unheimlich is here not to raise consciousness, but to release the tide of the Uncanny. To breakout the underside of Pandora's hoary box and release the likes of Baudelaire, Rimbaud, Poe, Hoffmann, Holderline, Michaux, and especially Antonin Artaud in order to undermine a society that has allowed psychology & technology to be on a first name basis with the creation of it's imperious culture.
ELSEWHERE & OTHERWISE
- - -
CALIFORNIA LECTURE SERIES
Subscriptions are on sale now for their next six-lecture series ($150). Subscribe and get more info at: (916) 737-1300 or visit www.californialectures.org
SIX-LECTURE SERIES: Crest Theatre, Sacramento 7:30pm
YANN MARTEL Wednesday, October 24, 2007
HA JIN Thursday, November 15, 2007
SUE MILLER Thursday, January 10, 2008
GERALDINE BROOKS Wednesday, February 6, 2008
RICHARD POWERS Monday, March 3, 2008
TOBIAS WOLFF Thursday, May 8, 2008
WANGARI MAATHAI* Friday, September 21, 2007
(*SPECIAL EVENT: not included in the Six-Lecture Subscription Series)
WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 28TH, 6-8PM
POETRY CENTER'S ANNUAL BENEFIT
- - -
The Sacramento Poetry Center's annual benefit will once again be at the home of Burnett and Mimi Miller. Poetry by Victoria Dalkey and Quinton Duval!
Music by The Swing State! (aka Mary Zeppa and Bob Stanley.) Food, drink and fellowship! Watch the web -- http://www.sacramentopoetrycenter.org -- for details.
UPCOMING AT THE BOOK COLLECTOR
Bookstore. 1008 24th Street, between J & K Streets, Midtown Sacramento, 916.442.9295
- - -
NOV 14: TAYLOR GRAHAM (Rattlesnake)
NOV 17: JEFF KNORR (Poems-For-All)
NOV 24: UNHEIMLICH!
DEC 12: PATRICIA D'ALESSANDRO (Rattlesnake)
DEC 22: UNHEIMLICH!
JAN 25: (2008) BURNS NIGHT POETRY READING (Poems-For-All)
FIN
Saturday, July 21, 2007
JULY 28 | Unheimlich does Baudelaire
SATURDAY, JULY 28TH, 7:30PM
Unheimlich Theater presents:
THE POETRY OF CHARLES BAUDELAIRE
Read and performed by
LESLIE KRAMER
TODD MANN
FRANK ANDRICK
GILBERTO RODRIGUEZ
SHERI ADEE
The Book Collector, 1008 24th Street, between J & K Streets
(916) 442-9295.web: www.poems-for-all.com
This month's production of Unheimlich Theatre will be presenting the works of Charles Baudelaire featuring frank andrick, Todd Mann & Leslie Kramer and Sheri Adee and Gilberto Rodiguez In a combination of essay performance, poety reading and the uncanny theatrics and sounds of Gilberto and Sheri via the auspices of UnHeimlich Theatre.
FRANK ANDRICK -- aka francois drouin -- will present an performance /essay on the life, times, and works of the French poet Charles Baudelaire. It will conclude with an exposition of Baudelaires influence from his contemporaries, thru his influence upon modem art both literary and visual including Symbolism, Dada, Surrealism, the Beats Writers, Philip Lamantia, and now contemporary Sacramemto poets. The presentation will interpolate statement, poems and prose of Baudelaire and his 'echoes' of influence as it segues into sheer unadulterated performance UnHeimlich style of works by Baudelaire, Antonin Artaud, frank andrick, Henri Michaux, by ...
GILBERTO RODRIGUEZ: The man who has reintroduced the concept of Doppelganger into the life of Sacramento. This is a rare opportunity to watch frank andrick put his passion and facts where his mouth is. Maybe you'll laugh, perhaps you will cry and hopefully you will leave forever haunted by the unholy Doppelgangers of the Poetic Muses.
The evening begins with a reading /performance of Baudelaire Poetry presented by Todd Mann and Leslie Kramer working from various translations of the poet's poems and prose. Todd and Leslie are the poets and publishers who publish the poetry art journal Lit. Jar. A new fall issue of Lit. Jar will be available in September.
Sheri Adee, a master of atmospheres and soundscapes via Tibetan bowls, gongs, and multi-cuiti percussion instruments will be adding her unique interpretations of merging musics to the evening's performance.
Unheimlich unfolds as a weekly presentation of poetry as you've never seen or heard it before. Featuring Artaud & His Doppleganger and a rotating roster of special guests. Unheimlich Theater re-emerges from the Bardo state at The Book Collector to inseminate a new myth of Chaos, Anarchy, and Lucid Unreason. Unheimlich is here not to raise consciousness, but to release the tide of the Uncanny. To breakout the underside of Pandora's hoary box and release the likes of Baudelaire, Rimbaud, Poe, Hoffmann, Holderline, Michaux, and especially Antonin Artaud in order to undermine a society that has allowed psychology & technology to be on a first name basis with the creation of it's imperious culture. We invite you to the first performance of Antonin Artaud and His Dopplegangers.
FIN
Friday, July 20, 2007
JULY 19 | Weakly Inch | Supplemental
THREE UPDATES TO THE WEEKLY INCH:
1. Date Correction
2. Richard Favela Memorial Details
3. Marx in Soho
CORRECTION: Incorrectly listed as taking place on Saturday, July 21st, here's the correct information for this event:
TUESDAY, JULY 24TH, 7PM - 9PM
Summer Speaker Series: Decolonizing the Chicana Body
DRA ANNA SANDOVAL
La Raza Galeria Posada, 1022-1024 22nd Street, Midtown Sacramento, 916-451-1372.
Many Chicana visual artists and writers are re-imagining Mexican female symbols and images, such as La Virgen de Guadalupe, La Malinche, and La Llorona. Dra Sandoval will speak about alternative visions of mujeres presented in the work of Chicana artists.
ADDITIONS
In Yesterday's Inch we reported that a memorial service in Sacramento for Richard Favela was forthcoming. JoAnn Anglin was kind enough to forward the following information on the event:
Ricardo Favela's Memorial in Sacramento
From: Comunidad De Sacramento
Dear Friends,
This e-mail is to inform you that a Memorial for Ricardo Favela will take place at the opening of Dos Generaciones Art Exhibit on Friday, July 20th, 2007 at 7PM at the Toyroom Gallery located at 907 K Street in Downtown Sacramento.
There will an altar in his memory at the exhibit. You are welcome to bring ofrendas (offerings) to be added to the altar. In keeping with the tradition of Floricanto, feel free to bring poetry, music and palabras to be shared with our community.
The Brown Syndicate, a Chicano artist collective that Ricardo Favela advised, will be raising funds through the sale of a limited edition poster featuring the artwork by Ricardo Favela, Xico González, and Manuel Ríos. All proceeds will go towards establishing a scholarship in Ricardo Favela's name. The first recipient will be Rosita Favela, whom will be applying to college at the end of this year.
THURSDAY, JULY 26TH, 8PM
FRIDAY, JULY 27TH, 8PM
SATURDAY, JULY 28TH, 8PM
California Stage Presents
MARX IN SOHO
California Stage, 1723 25th Street (25th & R), 451-5822, www.calstage.org. $19 general, $15 Seniors and SARTA members.
Jerry Levy as Marx. Written by Howard Zinn. Produced by Ray Tatar
1. Date Correction
2. Richard Favela Memorial Details
3. Marx in Soho
CORRECTION: Incorrectly listed as taking place on Saturday, July 21st, here's the correct information for this event:
TUESDAY, JULY 24TH, 7PM - 9PM
Summer Speaker Series: Decolonizing the Chicana Body
DRA ANNA SANDOVAL
La Raza Galeria Posada, 1022-1024 22nd Street, Midtown Sacramento, 916-451-1372.
Many Chicana visual artists and writers are re-imagining Mexican female symbols and images, such as La Virgen de Guadalupe, La Malinche, and La Llorona. Dra Sandoval will speak about alternative visions of mujeres presented in the work of Chicana artists.
ADDITIONS
In Yesterday's Inch we reported that a memorial service in Sacramento for Richard Favela was forthcoming. JoAnn Anglin was kind enough to forward the following information on the event:
Ricardo Favela's Memorial in Sacramento
From: Comunidad De Sacramento
Dear Friends,
This e-mail is to inform you that a Memorial for Ricardo Favela will take place at the opening of Dos Generaciones Art Exhibit on Friday, July 20th, 2007 at 7PM at the Toyroom Gallery located at 907 K Street in Downtown Sacramento.
There will an altar in his memory at the exhibit. You are welcome to bring ofrendas (offerings) to be added to the altar. In keeping with the tradition of Floricanto, feel free to bring poetry, music and palabras to be shared with our community.
The Brown Syndicate, a Chicano artist collective that Ricardo Favela advised, will be raising funds through the sale of a limited edition poster featuring the artwork by Ricardo Favela, Xico González, and Manuel Ríos. All proceeds will go towards establishing a scholarship in Ricardo Favela's name. The first recipient will be Rosita Favela, whom will be applying to college at the end of this year.
THURSDAY, JULY 26TH, 8PM
FRIDAY, JULY 27TH, 8PM
SATURDAY, JULY 28TH, 8PM
California Stage Presents
MARX IN SOHO
California Stage, 1723 25th Street (25th & R), 451-5822, www.calstage.org. $19 general, $15 Seniors and SARTA members.
Jerry Levy as Marx. Written by Howard Zinn. Produced by Ray Tatar
Thursday, July 19, 2007
JULY 19 | The Weakly Inch
As you can see by this week's long scroll of events, July, my friends, is rich with cultural activities. Your indulgence for CSI:Miami can always be TiVOed: get out their and savor the arts! I was so enthusiatic last week about mentioning UNHEIMLICH Theatre's CHARLES BAUDELAIRE reading that I got the date wrong. It will be on Saturday the 28th instead of the 21st. The AUDIO WAFFLE has moved. Previously on Del Paso, it now takes up residence at the THE SPACE Theater at 25th & R, further expanding the cultural offerings located on that corner which is also home to the Poetry Center, HQ: Headquarters for the Arts, Asylum Gallery, Alliance Francais, and others. Note the appearance of the PINK TOUPEE COLLECTIVE in the calendar listings. Their FLUXUS AKTIONS are legendary. The CALIFORNIA LECTURE SERIES has announced their next series of lectures (details below.) At the bottom of the listings, a note from Xico Gonzalez on the passing of artist, teacher and Royal Chicano Airforce co-founder RICARDO FAVELA. --RH
JULY 20-22 and JULY 28-29
SACRAMENTO FRENCH FILM FESTIVAL
Crest theatre. http://sacramentofrenchfilmfestival.org/
Save the dates for the 6th Annual Sacramento French Film Festival which runs Friday through Sunday on two weekends in July.
FRIDAY, JULY 20TH
FRENCH FILM FESTIVAL : Opening Night
Crest Theatre
6 - 8 pm - Reception
8:30 pm - Les Témoins (The Witnesses)
SATURDAY, JULY 21ST
FRENCH FILM FESTIVAL
Crest Theatre
10:30am - Mon oncle (My Uncle)
1:05pm - Coeurs (Private Fears in Public Places)
3:45pm - Flandres (Flanders)
6:00pm - Mon meilleur ami (My Best Friend)
8:15pm - L'Armée des ombres (Army of Shadows)
SUNDAY, JULY 22
FRENCH FILM FESTIVAL
Crest Theatre
10:50am - Flandres (Flanders)
1:00pm - Mon oncle (My Uncle)
3:35pm - L'Armée des ombres (Army of Shadows)
6:40pm - Coeurs (Private Fears in Public Places)
9:15pm - Short Films: Program 1
SATURDAY, JULY 28TH
FRENCH FILM FESTIVAL
Crest Theatre
10:30am - L'Homme de sa vie (The Man of My Life)
1:00pm - Short Films: Program 2
3:05pm - Fanfan la Tulipe
5:20pm - Lady Chatterley
8:45pm - La Cité des enfants perdus (The City of Lost Children)
SUNDAY, JULY 29TH
FRENCH FILM FESTIVAL
Crest Theatre
11am - La Cité des enfants perdus (The City of Lost Children)
1:35pm - Lady Chatterley
4:55pm - L'Homme de sa vie (The Man of My Life)
7:35pm - Dans Paris
9:35pm - Champagne Party
FRIDAY, JULY 20, 7:00PM.
Shiny Object Film Screenings:
ELECTRIC PURGATORY: THE FATE OF THE BLACK ROCKER
Fools Foundation, 1025 19th St, off K St, between 19th & 20th next to the back end of Old Spaghetti Factory. Admission: $5.00. Digital projection on to a large screen. Seating is on folding chairs - feel free to bring a pillow or cushion - or even your own folding chair! web: www.shiny-object.com/screenings/
A documentary examining the struggles of black rock musicians and the industry's ambivalence towards them. Director Raymond Gayle spent the better part of a year traveling around the United States interviewing many of Black Rock's elite including Fishbone, Vernon Reid, Adam Falcon, Jimi Hazel and Cody Chesnutt. Distinguished journalists such as Flip Barnes, Darrell McNeil, Charlie Braxton, and Greg Tate, share their opinions and insight on the dilemma facing these artists. Also contains plenty of archival footage! We're working on some speakers for this night, too. We'll update if/when we're able to pull that together!
FRIDAY, JULY 20TH, 9PM
RADICAL LOVE FREQUENCY
Luna's Cafe, 1414 16th Street. Info: http://www.lunascafe.com or call (916) 441-3931.
John Staedler’s Band “Radical Love Frequency” (http://www.myspace.com/radicallovefrequency) will be performing with Madeline Roa (http://www.myspace.com/madelineroa)
FRIDAY, JULY 20TH, 7PM and 9PM
SATURDAY, JULY 21ST, 7PM and 9PM
Comedy (2 shows a day):
TEN WEST & KEITH LOWELL JENSEN
Fri-Sat, July 20-21
The Geery Theater, 2130 L Street. Tickets at www.SacActors.com. Info: www.tenwest.net
With guest "One Man Sketch Comedy Show In A Box" (aka Keith Lowell Jensen.) TEN WEST is the Los Angeles-based comedy duo of Jon Monastero & Stephen Simon, directed by Bryan Coffee. With a unique theatrical style of comedy inspired by clowning, vaudeville, and Commedia dell'Arte, the pair have received standing ovations and critical acclaim around the nation and Canada. Ten West is two-man comedy at its most inventive.
SATURDAY, JULY 21ST, 1PM - 4PM
Celebrating Xilonen
AURORA y CLAUDIA TAPIA
La Raza Galeria Posada, 1022-1024 22nd Street, Midtown Sacramento, 916-451-1372.
Aurora y Claudia Tapia will facilitate a workshop to make ofrendas for the annual Xilonen ceremonia that honors the rites of passage into womanhood.
SATURDAY, JULY 21ST
Youth and Community Mural Project:
JOSE LOTT & Students
La Raza Galeria Posada, 1022-1024 22nd Street, Midtown Sacramento, 916-451-1372.
An ongoing Art Exhibition July 21 to August 18, Presentation and Reception in August.
SATURDAY, JULY 21st, 7PM - 9PM
Summer Speaker Series: Decolonizing the Chicana Body
DRA ANNA SANDOVAL
La Raza Galeria Posada, 1022-1024 22nd Street, Midtown Sacramento, 916-451-1372.
Many Chicana visual artists and writers are re-imagining Mexican female symbols and images, such as La Virgen de Guadalupe, La Malinche, and La Llorona. Dra Sandoval will speak about alternative visions of mujeres presented in the work of Chicana artists.
SUNDAY, JULY 22, NOON
SACRAMENTO AUDIO WAFFLE #20
The Space, 2509 R Street, 25th & R Sts, www.norcalnoisefest.com/audiowaffle
Featuring THINGS FALL APART (Chicago), RAHDUNES (SF), EOH (Australia), LAKES (Australia), SHORT TO GROUND (Sacramento). All ages. Free waffles and coffee while it lasts. $5.
SUNDAY, JULY 22, 3:30pm
Lynne Cook & Janet LaDue Present:
THE FIRST LADIES OF CALIFORNIA
Time Tested Books, 1114 21st Street.
A reading from Lynne Cook & Janet LaDue's first book "The First Ladies of California," which sketches the lives and accomplishments of the thirty-five first ladies of that State. Copies of the book will be available for sale.
MONDAY, JULY 23RD, 7:30PM
Sacramento Poetry Center presents:
FRENCH POETRY NIGHT
HQ: Headquarters for the Arts, 1719 25th Street, 25th & R Sts, www.sacramentopoetrycenter.org. (916) 451-5569.
In collaboration with Alliance Francaise to help celebrate the French Film Festival July 20-29. Hors d'oeuvres and visual entertainment. After the featured readers, please join the open mic and read poems in French, in translation or about France. Hosted by Rebecca Morrison.
MONDAY, JULY 23RD, 8:30PM
INSTAGON
True Love Cafe, 2315 K Street, (916) 448-LOVE. www.instagon.com
Monday Night Morphine presents a special unplugged show of Instagon, an ever-changing, never-the-same musical/performance experience.
TUESDAY, JULY 24TH, 8PM
COMEDY & POETRY OPEN MIC
Butch-N-Nellie's, corner of 19th & I Streets, Downtown Sacramento. 548-8391.
The hue & cry for more open mic opportunities for poets has been answered. Butch-N-Nellie's now hose a weekly poetry and comedy feature with open mic. Support the businesses that support the literary arts.
FRIDAY, JULY 27TH, 8PM
SATURDAY, JULY 28TH, 8PM
THE PINK TOUPEE COLLECIVE
Cosumnes River College, Visual and Performing Arts Center, 8401 Center Parkway. Directions and map here: http://www.riverstage.org/directions.htm. Tickets are $7 and $5 for students. Reservations by phone at 916-691-7364. Order online at: seeaplay.com. Info: William Fuller, 916-451-7237, bill-fuller@comcast.net or Jane or Jack Hastings, 916-739-6105, industrial.idiotics@comcast.net
The Pink Toupee Collective will be presenting a staged reading with musical accompaniment of their work-in-progress "The Cobra and the Hare" as a part of the River Stage's Playwright's Festival of New Work, under the direction of Frank Condon. The Pink Toupee Collective is an extraordinary fusion of some of Sacramento's foremost creative talents. Drawing from music, theatre, spoken and written word, visual arts, dance, movement, performance art, popular, classical and international culture; they have created some of the Sacramento stage's most challenging and innovative works. With their unique blend of inspired madness and irascible brilliance, they have journeyed to Hell, gone down over the Pacific with Ameilia Earhart, run away with a carnival of lost souls and now, in The Cobra and the Hare, explore with equal parts absurdity, hilarity, gravitas and grace, the ragged and bloody border between pavement and pasture, life and death, damnation and redemption.
SATURDAY, JULY 28TH, 7:30PM
Unheimlich Theater presents:
THE POETRY OF CHARLES BAUDELAIRE: Read and performed by LESLIE KRAMER, TODD MANN, GILBERTO RODRIGUEZ, SHERI ADEE, FRANK ANDRICK
The Book Collector, 1008 24th Street, between J & K Streets, (916) 442-9295.web: www.poems-for-all.com.
Unheimlich unfolds as a weekly presentation of poetry as you've never seen or heard it before. Featuring Artaud & His Doppleganger and a rotating roster of special guests. Unheimlich Theater re-emerges from the Bardo state at The Book Collector to inseminate a new myth of Chaos, Anarchy, and Lucid Unreason. Unheimlich is here not to raise consciousness, but to release the tide of the Uncanny. To breakout the underside of Pandora's hoary box and release the likes of Baudelaire, Rimbaud, Poe, Hoffmann, Holderline, Michaux, and especially Antonin Artaud in order to undermine a society that has allowed psychology & technology to be on a first name basis with the creation of it's imperious culture. We invite you to the first performance of Antonin Artaud and His Dopplegangers.
SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 8TH, 10:30AM - 4PM
ART BOOK FAIR
Crocker Art Museum, 216 O Street. 264-5423.
Publishers from around the country will bring in their newest special art books, plus their classics on art. Children's readings. Lectures for the whole family.
SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 8TH, 3:30PM
SAN FRANCISCO MIME TROUPE
Southside Park, 6th & T Streets Bandshell. Music starts at 3:30pm; show 4pm. Free show in the park!
SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 15TH, 10AM - 5PM
ANTIQUARIAN BOOK FAIR
Scottish Rite Temple, 6151 H Street, 849-9248. jimkay@comcast.net
The fourteenth Central Valley Antiquarian Book Fair; books of all kinds and all price ranges. Dozens of dealers. $5.
ELSEWHERE & OTHERWISE
SAD NEWS: RICARDO FAVELA
by Xico Gonzalez
I write this letter with great sadness to inform you that our beloved teacher Ricardo Favela died on Sunday, July 15, 2007 in Dinuba, California of a heart attack. Favela was a great person, a great father and a great teacher and friend. Favela was a humble man that fought for civil rights with his artwork and community activism. Ricardo Favela was a founder of the Rebel Chicano Art Front aka the Royal Chicano Air Force (RCAF). The RCAF is a Chicano artist collective founded in Sacramento, California in 1969. Favela and the RCAF Supported the United Farm Workers Union (UFW) during the Civil Rights Movement. Ricardo was a faculty member at the California State University, Sacramento's Art Department were he taught printmaking and Barrio Art for over 10 years. Favela's students will miss him dearly and through the use of serigraphy, they will keep his vision of community empowerment alive. His memory and legacy will live through his wife Clara Cid and their children Margarita, Florentina, Manuel and Rosita. A Memorial in Sacramento is currently being planned.
FRIDAY-SUNDAY, JULY 27-29
SAN FRANCISCO INTERNATIONAL POETRY FESTIVAL
www.sfinternationalpoetryfestival.org
Hosted by San Francisco Poet Laureate Jack Hirschman. The festival will showcase 15 poets from around the world, reading together with poets from San Francisco's own literary community. This truly international group of poets represents a wide spectrum in the world of poetry, from recognized masters to emerging new talents, who are redefining the art in our evolving times. All events are free and open to the public.
CALIFORNIA LECTURE SERIES
Subscriptions are on sale now for their next six-lecture series ($150). Subscribe and get more info at: (916) 737-1300 or visit www.californialectures.org
SIX-LECTURE SERIES: Crest Theatre, Sacramento 7:30pm
YANN MARTEL Wednesday, October 24, 2007
HA JIN Thursday, November 15, 2007
SUE MILLER Thursday, January 10, 2008
GERALDINE BROOKS Wednesday, February 6, 2008
RICHARD POWERS Monday, March 3, 2008
TOBIAS WOLFF Thursday, May 8, 2008
WANGARI MAATHAI* Friday, September 21, 2007
(*SPECIAL EVENT: not included in the Six-Lecture Subscription Series)
FIN
JULY 20-22 and JULY 28-29
SACRAMENTO FRENCH FILM FESTIVAL
Crest theatre. http://sacramentofrenchfilmfestival.org/
Save the dates for the 6th Annual Sacramento French Film Festival which runs Friday through Sunday on two weekends in July.
FRIDAY, JULY 20TH
FRENCH FILM FESTIVAL : Opening Night
Crest Theatre
6 - 8 pm - Reception
8:30 pm - Les Témoins (The Witnesses)
SATURDAY, JULY 21ST
FRENCH FILM FESTIVAL
Crest Theatre
10:30am - Mon oncle (My Uncle)
1:05pm - Coeurs (Private Fears in Public Places)
3:45pm - Flandres (Flanders)
6:00pm - Mon meilleur ami (My Best Friend)
8:15pm - L'Armée des ombres (Army of Shadows)
SUNDAY, JULY 22
FRENCH FILM FESTIVAL
Crest Theatre
10:50am - Flandres (Flanders)
1:00pm - Mon oncle (My Uncle)
3:35pm - L'Armée des ombres (Army of Shadows)
6:40pm - Coeurs (Private Fears in Public Places)
9:15pm - Short Films: Program 1
SATURDAY, JULY 28TH
FRENCH FILM FESTIVAL
Crest Theatre
10:30am - L'Homme de sa vie (The Man of My Life)
1:00pm - Short Films: Program 2
3:05pm - Fanfan la Tulipe
5:20pm - Lady Chatterley
8:45pm - La Cité des enfants perdus (The City of Lost Children)
SUNDAY, JULY 29TH
FRENCH FILM FESTIVAL
Crest Theatre
11am - La Cité des enfants perdus (The City of Lost Children)
1:35pm - Lady Chatterley
4:55pm - L'Homme de sa vie (The Man of My Life)
7:35pm - Dans Paris
9:35pm - Champagne Party
FRIDAY, JULY 20, 7:00PM.
Shiny Object Film Screenings:
ELECTRIC PURGATORY: THE FATE OF THE BLACK ROCKER
Fools Foundation, 1025 19th St, off K St, between 19th & 20th next to the back end of Old Spaghetti Factory. Admission: $5.00. Digital projection on to a large screen. Seating is on folding chairs - feel free to bring a pillow or cushion - or even your own folding chair! web: www.shiny-object.com/screenings/
A documentary examining the struggles of black rock musicians and the industry's ambivalence towards them. Director Raymond Gayle spent the better part of a year traveling around the United States interviewing many of Black Rock's elite including Fishbone, Vernon Reid, Adam Falcon, Jimi Hazel and Cody Chesnutt. Distinguished journalists such as Flip Barnes, Darrell McNeil, Charlie Braxton, and Greg Tate, share their opinions and insight on the dilemma facing these artists. Also contains plenty of archival footage! We're working on some speakers for this night, too. We'll update if/when we're able to pull that together!
FRIDAY, JULY 20TH, 9PM
RADICAL LOVE FREQUENCY
Luna's Cafe, 1414 16th Street. Info: http://www.lunascafe.com or call (916) 441-3931.
John Staedler’s Band “Radical Love Frequency” (http://www.myspace.com/radicallovefrequency) will be performing with Madeline Roa (http://www.myspace.com/madelineroa)
FRIDAY, JULY 20TH, 7PM and 9PM
SATURDAY, JULY 21ST, 7PM and 9PM
Comedy (2 shows a day):
TEN WEST & KEITH LOWELL JENSEN
Fri-Sat, July 20-21
The Geery Theater, 2130 L Street. Tickets at www.SacActors.com. Info: www.tenwest.net
With guest "One Man Sketch Comedy Show In A Box" (aka Keith Lowell Jensen.) TEN WEST is the Los Angeles-based comedy duo of Jon Monastero & Stephen Simon, directed by Bryan Coffee. With a unique theatrical style of comedy inspired by clowning, vaudeville, and Commedia dell'Arte, the pair have received standing ovations and critical acclaim around the nation and Canada. Ten West is two-man comedy at its most inventive.
SATURDAY, JULY 21ST, 1PM - 4PM
Celebrating Xilonen
AURORA y CLAUDIA TAPIA
La Raza Galeria Posada, 1022-1024 22nd Street, Midtown Sacramento, 916-451-1372.
Aurora y Claudia Tapia will facilitate a workshop to make ofrendas for the annual Xilonen ceremonia that honors the rites of passage into womanhood.
SATURDAY, JULY 21ST
Youth and Community Mural Project:
JOSE LOTT & Students
La Raza Galeria Posada, 1022-1024 22nd Street, Midtown Sacramento, 916-451-1372.
An ongoing Art Exhibition July 21 to August 18, Presentation and Reception in August.
SATURDAY, JULY 21st, 7PM - 9PM
Summer Speaker Series: Decolonizing the Chicana Body
DRA ANNA SANDOVAL
La Raza Galeria Posada, 1022-1024 22nd Street, Midtown Sacramento, 916-451-1372.
Many Chicana visual artists and writers are re-imagining Mexican female symbols and images, such as La Virgen de Guadalupe, La Malinche, and La Llorona. Dra Sandoval will speak about alternative visions of mujeres presented in the work of Chicana artists.
SUNDAY, JULY 22, NOON
SACRAMENTO AUDIO WAFFLE #20
The Space, 2509 R Street, 25th & R Sts, www.norcalnoisefest.com/audiowaffle
Featuring THINGS FALL APART (Chicago), RAHDUNES (SF), EOH (Australia), LAKES (Australia), SHORT TO GROUND (Sacramento). All ages. Free waffles and coffee while it lasts. $5.
SUNDAY, JULY 22, 3:30pm
Lynne Cook & Janet LaDue Present:
THE FIRST LADIES OF CALIFORNIA
Time Tested Books, 1114 21st Street.
A reading from Lynne Cook & Janet LaDue's first book "The First Ladies of California," which sketches the lives and accomplishments of the thirty-five first ladies of that State. Copies of the book will be available for sale.
MONDAY, JULY 23RD, 7:30PM
Sacramento Poetry Center presents:
FRENCH POETRY NIGHT
HQ: Headquarters for the Arts, 1719 25th Street, 25th & R Sts, www.sacramentopoetrycenter.org. (916) 451-5569.
In collaboration with Alliance Francaise to help celebrate the French Film Festival July 20-29. Hors d'oeuvres and visual entertainment. After the featured readers, please join the open mic and read poems in French, in translation or about France. Hosted by Rebecca Morrison.
MONDAY, JULY 23RD, 8:30PM
INSTAGON
True Love Cafe, 2315 K Street, (916) 448-LOVE. www.instagon.com
Monday Night Morphine presents a special unplugged show of Instagon, an ever-changing, never-the-same musical/performance experience.
TUESDAY, JULY 24TH, 8PM
COMEDY & POETRY OPEN MIC
Butch-N-Nellie's, corner of 19th & I Streets, Downtown Sacramento. 548-8391.
The hue & cry for more open mic opportunities for poets has been answered. Butch-N-Nellie's now hose a weekly poetry and comedy feature with open mic. Support the businesses that support the literary arts.
FRIDAY, JULY 27TH, 8PM
SATURDAY, JULY 28TH, 8PM
THE PINK TOUPEE COLLECIVE
Cosumnes River College, Visual and Performing Arts Center, 8401 Center Parkway. Directions and map here: http://www.riverstage.org/directions.htm. Tickets are $7 and $5 for students. Reservations by phone at 916-691-7364. Order online at: seeaplay.com. Info: William Fuller, 916-451-7237, bill-fuller@comcast.net or Jane or Jack Hastings, 916-739-6105, industrial.idiotics@comcast.net
The Pink Toupee Collective will be presenting a staged reading with musical accompaniment of their work-in-progress "The Cobra and the Hare" as a part of the River Stage's Playwright's Festival of New Work, under the direction of Frank Condon. The Pink Toupee Collective is an extraordinary fusion of some of Sacramento's foremost creative talents. Drawing from music, theatre, spoken and written word, visual arts, dance, movement, performance art, popular, classical and international culture; they have created some of the Sacramento stage's most challenging and innovative works. With their unique blend of inspired madness and irascible brilliance, they have journeyed to Hell, gone down over the Pacific with Ameilia Earhart, run away with a carnival of lost souls and now, in The Cobra and the Hare, explore with equal parts absurdity, hilarity, gravitas and grace, the ragged and bloody border between pavement and pasture, life and death, damnation and redemption.
SATURDAY, JULY 28TH, 7:30PM
Unheimlich Theater presents:
THE POETRY OF CHARLES BAUDELAIRE: Read and performed by LESLIE KRAMER, TODD MANN, GILBERTO RODRIGUEZ, SHERI ADEE, FRANK ANDRICK
The Book Collector, 1008 24th Street, between J & K Streets, (916) 442-9295.web: www.poems-for-all.com.
Unheimlich unfolds as a weekly presentation of poetry as you've never seen or heard it before. Featuring Artaud & His Doppleganger and a rotating roster of special guests. Unheimlich Theater re-emerges from the Bardo state at The Book Collector to inseminate a new myth of Chaos, Anarchy, and Lucid Unreason. Unheimlich is here not to raise consciousness, but to release the tide of the Uncanny. To breakout the underside of Pandora's hoary box and release the likes of Baudelaire, Rimbaud, Poe, Hoffmann, Holderline, Michaux, and especially Antonin Artaud in order to undermine a society that has allowed psychology & technology to be on a first name basis with the creation of it's imperious culture. We invite you to the first performance of Antonin Artaud and His Dopplegangers.
SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 8TH, 10:30AM - 4PM
ART BOOK FAIR
Crocker Art Museum, 216 O Street. 264-5423.
Publishers from around the country will bring in their newest special art books, plus their classics on art. Children's readings. Lectures for the whole family.
SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 8TH, 3:30PM
SAN FRANCISCO MIME TROUPE
Southside Park, 6th & T Streets Bandshell. Music starts at 3:30pm; show 4pm. Free show in the park!
SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 15TH, 10AM - 5PM
ANTIQUARIAN BOOK FAIR
Scottish Rite Temple, 6151 H Street, 849-9248. jimkay@comcast.net
The fourteenth Central Valley Antiquarian Book Fair; books of all kinds and all price ranges. Dozens of dealers. $5.
ELSEWHERE & OTHERWISE
SAD NEWS: RICARDO FAVELA
by Xico Gonzalez
I write this letter with great sadness to inform you that our beloved teacher Ricardo Favela died on Sunday, July 15, 2007 in Dinuba, California of a heart attack. Favela was a great person, a great father and a great teacher and friend. Favela was a humble man that fought for civil rights with his artwork and community activism. Ricardo Favela was a founder of the Rebel Chicano Art Front aka the Royal Chicano Air Force (RCAF). The RCAF is a Chicano artist collective founded in Sacramento, California in 1969. Favela and the RCAF Supported the United Farm Workers Union (UFW) during the Civil Rights Movement. Ricardo was a faculty member at the California State University, Sacramento's Art Department were he taught printmaking and Barrio Art for over 10 years. Favela's students will miss him dearly and through the use of serigraphy, they will keep his vision of community empowerment alive. His memory and legacy will live through his wife Clara Cid and their children Margarita, Florentina, Manuel and Rosita. A Memorial in Sacramento is currently being planned.
FRIDAY-SUNDAY, JULY 27-29
SAN FRANCISCO INTERNATIONAL POETRY FESTIVAL
www.sfinternationalpoetryfestival.org
Hosted by San Francisco Poet Laureate Jack Hirschman. The festival will showcase 15 poets from around the world, reading together with poets from San Francisco's own literary community. This truly international group of poets represents a wide spectrum in the world of poetry, from recognized masters to emerging new talents, who are redefining the art in our evolving times. All events are free and open to the public.
CALIFORNIA LECTURE SERIES
Subscriptions are on sale now for their next six-lecture series ($150). Subscribe and get more info at: (916) 737-1300 or visit www.californialectures.org
SIX-LECTURE SERIES: Crest Theatre, Sacramento 7:30pm
YANN MARTEL Wednesday, October 24, 2007
HA JIN Thursday, November 15, 2007
SUE MILLER Thursday, January 10, 2008
GERALDINE BROOKS Wednesday, February 6, 2008
RICHARD POWERS Monday, March 3, 2008
TOBIAS WOLFF Thursday, May 8, 2008
WANGARI MAATHAI* Friday, September 21, 2007
(*SPECIAL EVENT: not included in the Six-Lecture Subscription Series)
FIN
Thursday, July 12, 2007
JULY 12 | The Weakly Inch
We open this week's inch with some sad news. Sutter Hospital has cut its Literature, Arts, and Medicine Program (LAMP). Please join the write-in campaign attempting to get Sutter Hospital to reconsider their unfortunate budget decision. Details can be found at: http://www.sacfreepress.com/2007_07_01_archive.html#6900836850302251428
This month is french-themed. The 6th annual Sacramento French Film Festival begins Friday, July 20th. Presenting French films over two weekends at the Crest theatre, the SFFF gets bigger and better each year. Tapping into the French Spirit, the Sacramento Poetry Center will host a French Poetry Reading on Monday, July 23rd. Read your favorite French poet during the Open Mic. And Gilberto Rodriguez has announced that his monthly poetry series Unheimlich! will feature an evening dedicated to Baudelaire on Saturday, July 21st.
FRIDAY, JULY 13, 7:00PM.
Shiny Object Film Screenings:
ROCK THAT UKE
Fools Foundation, 1025 19th St, off K St, between 19th & 20th next to the back end of Old Spaghetti Factory. Admission: $5.00. Digital projection on to a large screen. Seating is on folding chairs - feel free to bring a pillow or cushion - or even your own folding chair! web: www.shiny-object.com/screenings/
A funky, curiously philosophical cinematic love poem that examines the near mystical allure of the four-stringed underdog of the musical world and the recent surge of alternative, post-punk musicians on the American mainland who have taken up the instrument, and have incorporated the ukulele not just into their raucous and irreverent original compositions, but into a counter cultural, post-punk ethos. With introductory narration by Academy Award winner Holly Hunter. Featuring Carmaig de Forest, Songs From a Random House, Janet Klein, Ukefink, Robert Armstrong (who was also the creator of Mickey Rat), Travis Harrelson, Oliver Brown, Heinous Rynes, Uke Til U Puke, The Haoles, Williwaw, Frank Novicki, Robert Wheeler, King Kukulele, Pineapple Princess, The Rumble Pups, and Ian Whitcomb! The film was directed by William Preston Robertson, who has lent his voice to numerous Coen Brothers films, authored the book "The Big Lebowski: The Making of a Coen Brothers Film," and possibly most impressively, was the voice of the creepy mounted deer head (and other possessed objects) in "Evil Dead II." Best of all, the amazing William Preston Robertson will be in attendance at the screening for a Q&A!! Yes, you will have the chance to meet the famous voice from Evil Dead II and director of this hip and bizarre doc!! We also might have some live uke playing going on!
SATURDAY, JULY 14TH, 6PM - 9PM
2nd Saturday Reception: "Los Primos"
MACEO MONTOYA, TOMAS MONTOYA
La Raza Galeria Posada, 1022-1024 22nd Street, Midtown Sacramento, 916-451-1372.
SATURDAY, JULY 14TH, 7PM
Exhibition Closing party:
"VISEGRIP" THE ANTI THEME SHOW
Ongoing Exhibit: JUNE 15TH - JULY 14TH
Toyroom Gallery, 907 K Street, Regular Hours 11am till 7pm Tues-Sat / 12noon till 5pm Sun. Show will run from June 15 to July 14 - 2007. Closing Reception July 14th. Reception Hours 7pm till late.
Sacramento's premiere alt-sider gallery the TOYROOM will be presenting one hell of a show this June, when the art will be as warped as the heatwaves bouncing off the central valley blacktop! "Vise Grip" features John Bell, Mike Bell (related only in twistedness), Bruce Gossett, Kepi, and Rob Struven, a quasi-quintet (obviously one can short of a six-pack!) with five one-track minds: Create! Create! Like a whacked-out tribe of Dr. Frankensteins, these artists are obsessed with bringing their visions to life: Hot Rods, VooDoo, Cussed-Dumb Culture, the dark side of Pop Culture... you name it, they'll mame it! In the grip of their own vices, share the madness with a friend as you creep past the color, darkness, shadow and light that these five have presented, then pass your own judgement...innocent or guilty? Crazy or connected? No one can tell, and that's the fun! From the hot dirty race track to the seedy underbelly of society, from bad TV to even worse movies, it's the art of it all at the heart of it all that provides the motivation for these jerks-of-all-trades, and the inspiration springs (super?)naturally from the five wise guys to whom no rule applies! VISE GRIP...grab on to it!
MONDAY, JULY 16TH, 7:30PM
Sacramento Poetry Center presents:
SIBILLA HERSHEY, JENNIFER PICKERING, FRED STAAL, KIMBERLY WHITE, JEANINE STEVENS, JOANNE SCHOEFER, ANN PRIVATEER, JOHN CHENDO, REBECCA MORRISON
HQ: Headquarters for the Arts, 1719 25th Street, 25th & R Sts, www.sacramentopoetrycenter.org. (916) 451-5569.
SIBILLA HERSHEY: She was born in Riga, Latvia and came to the United States at the age of 16 as a WW II Displaced Person. Her poetry reflects this experience. Her poems have appeared in regional literary publications such as Poetry Now, Rattlesnake Review, The Yolo Crow, A Woman’s Place: An Anthology of Davis Women Writers, and on the Web in Writers Against the War. She lives in Davis, CA. JENNIFER PICKERING: Jennifer was born in California and grew up in the rural communities of Tierra Buena and Yuba City. She studied writing at University of New York at Buffalo and Sacramento City College and has an MA in Studio Art from California State University, Sacramento. River Poem was selected for the site specific, Open Circle, in Sacramento in 2006. In 2007 her art was selected for the cover of 13th Moon, Literary Magazine (SUNY, Albany). Her writing is published across the United States. FRED STAAL: Fred lives on the Sacramento Delta and writes that he is a “diplomat, brain surgeon, soldier of fortune, race car driver, Nobel prize-winning author, ...those are the other guys; I just hear words in my head and try to get them onto paper. Later I try to massage them a little, but I'm never sure if its helped or hindered.” KIMBERLY WHITE: Kimberly White's work has received awards from the Bay Area Poets Coalition and has been published in Rattlesnake Review, Comstock Review, Drumvoices Revue and other journals and anthologies. She is the author of two chapbooks, "A Reachable Tibet" and "Penelope," as well as two unpublished novels. She was recently involved in an ekphrasic project with visual artist Victoria Corona, which was produced by the Rice University Print Shop. She has lived in Sacramento since 1983. JEANINE STEVENS: “The grammar school I attended for eight years was named after the Indiana state poet, James Whitcomb Riley, so every holiday, and new season, we had “poetry assemblies.” I lived in the city, but many of the hardwood forest were still standing. I walked to the woods near Butler University watching for cardinals, jack-in-the-pulpits and violets. I purchased my first books of poetry when I was in my teens—a double volume of collected sonnets and lyrics by Edna St. Vincent Millay. She writes beautiful and striking images of the Maine coast and the gardens at her farm in upstate New York. Being in nature has always been inspiring and even though I now live just a few minutes from the American River, with hiking trails, deer, and wild turkeys, I find Cache Creek to be special. I’ve attended a number of writing workshops and enjoy the “free time” quietly watching the pond, waterfall, rocks, trees, or sitting on the ground with my back against the old barn waiting for an interesting leaf or bug to appear.” JOANNE SCHOEFER: She lives along the American River in Carmichael and it provides the inspiration for much of her work. ANN PRIVATEER: Ann has published poems in Manzanita, Poetry of the Motherload; Sacramento Anthology: One Hundred Poems; Rattlesnake; News & Review; and several other journals and newspapers. She is retired from teaching and has attended several Cache Creek Poetry sessions. JOHN CHENDO: John is a poet raised in the Garden State of New Jersey, cultivated hydroponically in Manhattan, sowed to the winds of Vermont and Colorado, rehabilitated in California. Editor of Union Seminary Quarterly Review, 1966-1969. Retired undefeated from some cases; still actively working to appeal decisions in the rest. Favorite T-shirt slogan: "My other shirt is clean." REBECCA MORRISON: She is the author of 3 chapbooks including Raining All Over, The Cook Inlet Poems, and Border Crossing. She is co-founder of the Third Sunday Writing Group and was one of the founding editors of Poetry Now. She has published in many local anthologies and is the editor of www.eskimopie.net. She graduated summa cum laude from UC Davis with a major in Modernism and a minor in Primate Evolution. She has performed her work many times on local radio and television stations and is one of the featured readers on the 2006 CD, I Began to Speak: An Anthology of Sacramento Poets.
http://www.cachecreekconservancy.org
TUESDAY, JULY 17TH, 8PM
COMEDY & POETRY OPEN MIC
Butch-N-Nellie's, corner of 19th & I Streets, Downtown Sacramento. 548-8391.
The hue & cry for more open mic opportunities for poets has been answered. Butch-N-Nellie's now hose a weekly poetry and comedy feature with open mic. Support the businesses that support the literary arts.
JULY 20-22 and JULY 28-29
SACRAMENTO FRENCH FILM FESTIVAL
Crest theatre. http://sacramentofrenchfilmfestival.org/
Save the dates for the 6th Annual Sacramento French Film Festival which runs Friday through Sunday on two weekends in July.
FRIDAY, JULY 20, 7:00PM.
Shiny Object Film Screenings:
ELECTRIC PURGATORY: THE FATE OF THE BLACK ROCKER
Fools Foundation, 1025 19th St, off K St, between 19th & 20th next to the back end of Old Spaghetti Factory. Admission: $5.00. Digital projection on to a large screen. Seating is on folding chairs - feel free to bring a pillow or cushion - or even your own folding chair! web: www.shiny-object.com/screenings/
A documentary examining the struggles of black rock musicians and the industry's ambivalence towards them. Director Raymond Gayle spent the better part of a year traveling around the United States interviewing many of Black Rock's elite including Fishbone, Vernon Reid, Adam Falcon, Jimi Hazel and Cody Chesnutt. Distinguished journalists such as Flip Barnes, Darrell McNeil, Charlie Braxton, and Greg Tate, share their opinions and insight on the dilemma facing these artists. Also contains plenty of archival footage! We're working on some speakers for this night, too. We'll update if/when we're able to pull that together!
SATURDAY, JUNE 21ST, 7:30PM
Unheimlich Theater:
A BAUDELAIRE EVENING!
LESLIE KRAMER, TODD MANN, GILBERTO RODRIGUEZ, SHERI ADEE, ROB LOZANO, DYLAN MORGAN and others to be announced
The Book Collector, 1008 24th Street, between J & K Streets, (916) 442-9295.web: www.poems-for-all.com.
Unheimlich unfolds as a weekly presentation of poetry as you've never seen or heard it before. Featuring Artaud & His Doppleganger and a rotating roster of special guests. Unheimlich Theater re-emerges from the Bardo state at The Book Collector to inseminate a new myth of Chaos, Anarchy, and Lucid Unreason. Unheimlich is here not to raise consciousness, but to release the tide of the Uncanny. To breakout the underside of Pandora's hoary box and release the likes of Baudelaire, Rimbaud, Poe, Hoffmann, Holderline, Michaux, and especially Antonin Artaud in order to undermine a society that has allowed psychology & technology to be on a first name basis with the creation of it's imperious culture. We invite you to the first performance of Antonin Artaud and His Dopplegangers.
SATURDAY, JULY 21ST, 1PM - 4PM
Celebrating Xilonen
AURORA y CLAUDIA TAPIA
La Raza Galeria Posada, 1022-1024 22nd Street, Midtown Sacramento, 916-451-1372.
Aurora y Claudia Tapia will facilitate a workshop to make ofrendas for the annual Xilonen ceremonia that honors the rites of passage into womanhood.
SATURDAY, JULY 21ST
Youth and Community Mural Project:
JOSE LOTT & Students
La Raza Galeria Posada, 1022-1024 22nd Street, Midtown Sacramento, 916-451-1372.
An ongoing Art Exhibition July 21 to August 18, Presentation and Reception in August.
MONDAY, JULY 23RD, 7:30PM
Sacramento Poetry Center presents:
FRENCH POETRY NIGHT
HQ: Headquarters for the Arts, 1719 25th Street, 25th & R Sts, www.sacramentopoetrycenter.org. (916) 451-5569.
In collaboration with Alliance Francaise to help celebrate the French Film Festival July 20-29. Hors d'oeuvres and visual entertainment. After the featured readers, please join the open mic and read poems in French, in translation or about France. Hosted by Rebecca Morrison.
SATURDAY, JULY 24TH, 7PM - 9PM
Summer Speaker Series: Decolonizing the Chicana Body
DRA ANNA SANDOVAL
La Raza Galeria Posada, 1022-1024 22nd Street, Midtown Sacramento, 916-451-1372.
Many Chicana visual artists and writers are re-imagining Mexican female symbols and images, such as La Virgen de Guadalupe, La Malinche, and La Llorona. Dra Sandoval will speak about alternative visions of mujeres presented in the work of Chicana artists.
SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 8TH, 10:30AM - 4PM
ART BOOK FAIR
Crocker Art Museum, 216 O Street. 264-5423.
Publishers from around the country will bring in their newest special art books, plus their classics on art. Children's readings. Lectures for the whole family.
SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 8TH, 3:30PM
SAN FRANCISCO MIME TROUPE
Southside Park, 6th & T Streets Bandshell. Music starts at 3:30pm; show 4pm. Free show in the park!
SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 15TH, 10AM - 5PM
ANTIQUARIAN BOOK FAIR
Scottish Rite Temple, 6151 H Street, 849-9248. jimkay@comcast.net
The fourteenth Central Valley Antiquarian Book Fair; books of all kinds and all price ranges. Dozens of dealers. $5.
FIN
This month is french-themed. The 6th annual Sacramento French Film Festival begins Friday, July 20th. Presenting French films over two weekends at the Crest theatre, the SFFF gets bigger and better each year. Tapping into the French Spirit, the Sacramento Poetry Center will host a French Poetry Reading on Monday, July 23rd. Read your favorite French poet during the Open Mic. And Gilberto Rodriguez has announced that his monthly poetry series Unheimlich! will feature an evening dedicated to Baudelaire on Saturday, July 21st.
FRIDAY, JULY 13, 7:00PM.
Shiny Object Film Screenings:
ROCK THAT UKE
Fools Foundation, 1025 19th St, off K St, between 19th & 20th next to the back end of Old Spaghetti Factory. Admission: $5.00. Digital projection on to a large screen. Seating is on folding chairs - feel free to bring a pillow or cushion - or even your own folding chair! web: www.shiny-object.com/screenings/
A funky, curiously philosophical cinematic love poem that examines the near mystical allure of the four-stringed underdog of the musical world and the recent surge of alternative, post-punk musicians on the American mainland who have taken up the instrument, and have incorporated the ukulele not just into their raucous and irreverent original compositions, but into a counter cultural, post-punk ethos. With introductory narration by Academy Award winner Holly Hunter. Featuring Carmaig de Forest, Songs From a Random House, Janet Klein, Ukefink, Robert Armstrong (who was also the creator of Mickey Rat), Travis Harrelson, Oliver Brown, Heinous Rynes, Uke Til U Puke, The Haoles, Williwaw, Frank Novicki, Robert Wheeler, King Kukulele, Pineapple Princess, The Rumble Pups, and Ian Whitcomb! The film was directed by William Preston Robertson, who has lent his voice to numerous Coen Brothers films, authored the book "The Big Lebowski: The Making of a Coen Brothers Film," and possibly most impressively, was the voice of the creepy mounted deer head (and other possessed objects) in "Evil Dead II." Best of all, the amazing William Preston Robertson will be in attendance at the screening for a Q&A!! Yes, you will have the chance to meet the famous voice from Evil Dead II and director of this hip and bizarre doc!! We also might have some live uke playing going on!
SATURDAY, JULY 14TH, 6PM - 9PM
2nd Saturday Reception: "Los Primos"
MACEO MONTOYA, TOMAS MONTOYA
La Raza Galeria Posada, 1022-1024 22nd Street, Midtown Sacramento, 916-451-1372.
SATURDAY, JULY 14TH, 7PM
Exhibition Closing party:
"VISEGRIP" THE ANTI THEME SHOW
Ongoing Exhibit: JUNE 15TH - JULY 14TH
Toyroom Gallery, 907 K Street, Regular Hours 11am till 7pm Tues-Sat / 12noon till 5pm Sun. Show will run from June 15 to July 14 - 2007. Closing Reception July 14th. Reception Hours 7pm till late.
Sacramento's premiere alt-sider gallery the TOYROOM will be presenting one hell of a show this June, when the art will be as warped as the heatwaves bouncing off the central valley blacktop! "Vise Grip" features John Bell, Mike Bell (related only in twistedness), Bruce Gossett, Kepi, and Rob Struven, a quasi-quintet (obviously one can short of a six-pack!) with five one-track minds: Create! Create! Like a whacked-out tribe of Dr. Frankensteins, these artists are obsessed with bringing their visions to life: Hot Rods, VooDoo, Cussed-Dumb Culture, the dark side of Pop Culture... you name it, they'll mame it! In the grip of their own vices, share the madness with a friend as you creep past the color, darkness, shadow and light that these five have presented, then pass your own judgement...innocent or guilty? Crazy or connected? No one can tell, and that's the fun! From the hot dirty race track to the seedy underbelly of society, from bad TV to even worse movies, it's the art of it all at the heart of it all that provides the motivation for these jerks-of-all-trades, and the inspiration springs (super?)naturally from the five wise guys to whom no rule applies! VISE GRIP...grab on to it!
MONDAY, JULY 16TH, 7:30PM
Sacramento Poetry Center presents:
SIBILLA HERSHEY, JENNIFER PICKERING, FRED STAAL, KIMBERLY WHITE, JEANINE STEVENS, JOANNE SCHOEFER, ANN PRIVATEER, JOHN CHENDO, REBECCA MORRISON
HQ: Headquarters for the Arts, 1719 25th Street, 25th & R Sts, www.sacramentopoetrycenter.org. (916) 451-5569.
SIBILLA HERSHEY: She was born in Riga, Latvia and came to the United States at the age of 16 as a WW II Displaced Person. Her poetry reflects this experience. Her poems have appeared in regional literary publications such as Poetry Now, Rattlesnake Review, The Yolo Crow, A Woman’s Place: An Anthology of Davis Women Writers, and on the Web in Writers Against the War. She lives in Davis, CA. JENNIFER PICKERING: Jennifer was born in California and grew up in the rural communities of Tierra Buena and Yuba City. She studied writing at University of New York at Buffalo and Sacramento City College and has an MA in Studio Art from California State University, Sacramento. River Poem was selected for the site specific, Open Circle, in Sacramento in 2006. In 2007 her art was selected for the cover of 13th Moon, Literary Magazine (SUNY, Albany). Her writing is published across the United States. FRED STAAL: Fred lives on the Sacramento Delta and writes that he is a “diplomat, brain surgeon, soldier of fortune, race car driver, Nobel prize-winning author, ...those are the other guys; I just hear words in my head and try to get them onto paper. Later I try to massage them a little, but I'm never sure if its helped or hindered.” KIMBERLY WHITE: Kimberly White's work has received awards from the Bay Area Poets Coalition and has been published in Rattlesnake Review, Comstock Review, Drumvoices Revue and other journals and anthologies. She is the author of two chapbooks, "A Reachable Tibet" and "Penelope," as well as two unpublished novels. She was recently involved in an ekphrasic project with visual artist Victoria Corona, which was produced by the Rice University Print Shop. She has lived in Sacramento since 1983. JEANINE STEVENS: “The grammar school I attended for eight years was named after the Indiana state poet, James Whitcomb Riley, so every holiday, and new season, we had “poetry assemblies.” I lived in the city, but many of the hardwood forest were still standing. I walked to the woods near Butler University watching for cardinals, jack-in-the-pulpits and violets. I purchased my first books of poetry when I was in my teens—a double volume of collected sonnets and lyrics by Edna St. Vincent Millay. She writes beautiful and striking images of the Maine coast and the gardens at her farm in upstate New York. Being in nature has always been inspiring and even though I now live just a few minutes from the American River, with hiking trails, deer, and wild turkeys, I find Cache Creek to be special. I’ve attended a number of writing workshops and enjoy the “free time” quietly watching the pond, waterfall, rocks, trees, or sitting on the ground with my back against the old barn waiting for an interesting leaf or bug to appear.” JOANNE SCHOEFER: She lives along the American River in Carmichael and it provides the inspiration for much of her work. ANN PRIVATEER: Ann has published poems in Manzanita, Poetry of the Motherload; Sacramento Anthology: One Hundred Poems; Rattlesnake; News & Review; and several other journals and newspapers. She is retired from teaching and has attended several Cache Creek Poetry sessions. JOHN CHENDO: John is a poet raised in the Garden State of New Jersey, cultivated hydroponically in Manhattan, sowed to the winds of Vermont and Colorado, rehabilitated in California. Editor of Union Seminary Quarterly Review, 1966-1969. Retired undefeated from some cases; still actively working to appeal decisions in the rest. Favorite T-shirt slogan: "My other shirt is clean." REBECCA MORRISON: She is the author of 3 chapbooks including Raining All Over, The Cook Inlet Poems, and Border Crossing. She is co-founder of the Third Sunday Writing Group and was one of the founding editors of Poetry Now. She has published in many local anthologies and is the editor of www.eskimopie.net. She graduated summa cum laude from UC Davis with a major in Modernism and a minor in Primate Evolution. She has performed her work many times on local radio and television stations and is one of the featured readers on the 2006 CD, I Began to Speak: An Anthology of Sacramento Poets.
http://www.cachecreekconservancy.org
TUESDAY, JULY 17TH, 8PM
COMEDY & POETRY OPEN MIC
Butch-N-Nellie's, corner of 19th & I Streets, Downtown Sacramento. 548-8391.
The hue & cry for more open mic opportunities for poets has been answered. Butch-N-Nellie's now hose a weekly poetry and comedy feature with open mic. Support the businesses that support the literary arts.
JULY 20-22 and JULY 28-29
SACRAMENTO FRENCH FILM FESTIVAL
Crest theatre. http://sacramentofrenchfilmfestival.org/
Save the dates for the 6th Annual Sacramento French Film Festival which runs Friday through Sunday on two weekends in July.
FRIDAY, JULY 20, 7:00PM.
Shiny Object Film Screenings:
ELECTRIC PURGATORY: THE FATE OF THE BLACK ROCKER
Fools Foundation, 1025 19th St, off K St, between 19th & 20th next to the back end of Old Spaghetti Factory. Admission: $5.00. Digital projection on to a large screen. Seating is on folding chairs - feel free to bring a pillow or cushion - or even your own folding chair! web: www.shiny-object.com/screenings/
A documentary examining the struggles of black rock musicians and the industry's ambivalence towards them. Director Raymond Gayle spent the better part of a year traveling around the United States interviewing many of Black Rock's elite including Fishbone, Vernon Reid, Adam Falcon, Jimi Hazel and Cody Chesnutt. Distinguished journalists such as Flip Barnes, Darrell McNeil, Charlie Braxton, and Greg Tate, share their opinions and insight on the dilemma facing these artists. Also contains plenty of archival footage! We're working on some speakers for this night, too. We'll update if/when we're able to pull that together!
SATURDAY, JUNE 21ST, 7:30PM
Unheimlich Theater:
A BAUDELAIRE EVENING!
LESLIE KRAMER, TODD MANN, GILBERTO RODRIGUEZ, SHERI ADEE, ROB LOZANO, DYLAN MORGAN and others to be announced
The Book Collector, 1008 24th Street, between J & K Streets, (916) 442-9295.web: www.poems-for-all.com.
Unheimlich unfolds as a weekly presentation of poetry as you've never seen or heard it before. Featuring Artaud & His Doppleganger and a rotating roster of special guests. Unheimlich Theater re-emerges from the Bardo state at The Book Collector to inseminate a new myth of Chaos, Anarchy, and Lucid Unreason. Unheimlich is here not to raise consciousness, but to release the tide of the Uncanny. To breakout the underside of Pandora's hoary box and release the likes of Baudelaire, Rimbaud, Poe, Hoffmann, Holderline, Michaux, and especially Antonin Artaud in order to undermine a society that has allowed psychology & technology to be on a first name basis with the creation of it's imperious culture. We invite you to the first performance of Antonin Artaud and His Dopplegangers.
SATURDAY, JULY 21ST, 1PM - 4PM
Celebrating Xilonen
AURORA y CLAUDIA TAPIA
La Raza Galeria Posada, 1022-1024 22nd Street, Midtown Sacramento, 916-451-1372.
Aurora y Claudia Tapia will facilitate a workshop to make ofrendas for the annual Xilonen ceremonia that honors the rites of passage into womanhood.
SATURDAY, JULY 21ST
Youth and Community Mural Project:
JOSE LOTT & Students
La Raza Galeria Posada, 1022-1024 22nd Street, Midtown Sacramento, 916-451-1372.
An ongoing Art Exhibition July 21 to August 18, Presentation and Reception in August.
MONDAY, JULY 23RD, 7:30PM
Sacramento Poetry Center presents:
FRENCH POETRY NIGHT
HQ: Headquarters for the Arts, 1719 25th Street, 25th & R Sts, www.sacramentopoetrycenter.org. (916) 451-5569.
In collaboration with Alliance Francaise to help celebrate the French Film Festival July 20-29. Hors d'oeuvres and visual entertainment. After the featured readers, please join the open mic and read poems in French, in translation or about France. Hosted by Rebecca Morrison.
SATURDAY, JULY 24TH, 7PM - 9PM
Summer Speaker Series: Decolonizing the Chicana Body
DRA ANNA SANDOVAL
La Raza Galeria Posada, 1022-1024 22nd Street, Midtown Sacramento, 916-451-1372.
Many Chicana visual artists and writers are re-imagining Mexican female symbols and images, such as La Virgen de Guadalupe, La Malinche, and La Llorona. Dra Sandoval will speak about alternative visions of mujeres presented in the work of Chicana artists.
SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 8TH, 10:30AM - 4PM
ART BOOK FAIR
Crocker Art Museum, 216 O Street. 264-5423.
Publishers from around the country will bring in their newest special art books, plus their classics on art. Children's readings. Lectures for the whole family.
SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 8TH, 3:30PM
SAN FRANCISCO MIME TROUPE
Southside Park, 6th & T Streets Bandshell. Music starts at 3:30pm; show 4pm. Free show in the park!
SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 15TH, 10AM - 5PM
ANTIQUARIAN BOOK FAIR
Scottish Rite Temple, 6151 H Street, 849-9248. jimkay@comcast.net
The fourteenth Central Valley Antiquarian Book Fair; books of all kinds and all price ranges. Dozens of dealers. $5.
FIN
Sutter Hospital cuts its Literature, Arts, and Medicine Program (LAMP); join the write-in campaign to save it.
Sacramento friends of poetry,
I have fond memories of a Jack Hirschman reading held in Sacramento in May 2005. He read with Agenta Falk in the intimate circumstances of the Sutter Hospital Resource Library. Not the typical poet-behind-podium affair; imagine instead a fireside chat kind of arrangement (sans fireplace.) They both encouraged the audience to ask questions and it was an evening that became a conversation; Hirschman and Falk poems read as punctuation marks between its sentences. It was beautiful. And it was all thanks to Sutter's Literature, Arts, and Medicine Program (LAMP) under the Direction of Lawrence Spann.
Now comes the sad news that LAMP is closing. Lawrence's letter below provides details and a possible recourse. Please consider taking a moment to do as he suggests.
As he points out, LAMP has done much for members of the program, but it has also been a remarkable asset to our larger poetry community. In addition to the Hirschman/Falk reading mentioned above, LAMP has put on a number of incredible readings, all open to the public. Jane Hirshfield, Luis Rodriguez, Ellen Bass, Naomi Shihab Nye are just some of the poets LAMP presented to Sacramento.
"I have always been impressed by the quality of the program and how much it helps people dealing with chronic or terminal health situations, mental or physical, their own or others," writes poet JoAnn Anglin in her own appeal to save LAMP. "Closing it would mean closing a unique source of help and healing for patients and the community."
This is a loss that will weaken our poetry community. Again, please consider taking the action suggested in the letter below.
Regards,
Richard Hansen
poems-for-all.com
Here is Lawrence Spann's letter:
From: "Spann, Lawrence"
Date: Fri, 6 Jul 2007 16:54:22 -0700
To: "Spann, Lawrence"
Subject: Sutterwriters Write-in
-- John Fox,nationally known Poetry Therapist
who recently visited LAMP & Sacramento
Dear Sutterwriters,
When I was told last week that LAMP was cut due to a budgetary crisis, I was in shock. We've come such a long way--the groups are full of committed and soul-searching writers. And there are now six other writing groups in the community based on this model. As for LAMP, I love that this is done in a hospital and open to everyone, as illness knows no race, religion or socioeconomic barrier.
I am sending an email to the entire mailing list to inform you that LAMP is closing.
Your voice needs to be heard. The only way this can be done is if you let your thoughts and feelings be known to Sutter Health administrators. A few sentences is enough, and email makes that easy. Please don't polish or search for words. This can be a simple 5-minute
write.
Please send your letters to Tom Gagen, CEO Sutter Medical Center, Sacramento and copy Sarah Krevans, Regional Executive Officer, and Patrick Fry, President and CEO, Sutter Health as below:
To: gagent@sutterhealth.org
cc:
krevans@sutterhealth.org ;
fryp@sutterhealth.org
It has been such a pleasure to work with each of you. The two hours became precious, a place to tell our truth through fiction.
Keep that lamp lighted in your heart,
Lawrence
Lawrence H. Spann, Ph.D.
Director, Sutter's LAMP
Literature, Arts, and Medicine Program
2800 L Street, Library
Sacramento, CA 95816
Phone: 916-454-6802
www.sutterwriters.com
I have fond memories of a Jack Hirschman reading held in Sacramento in May 2005. He read with Agenta Falk in the intimate circumstances of the Sutter Hospital Resource Library. Not the typical poet-behind-podium affair; imagine instead a fireside chat kind of arrangement (sans fireplace.) They both encouraged the audience to ask questions and it was an evening that became a conversation; Hirschman and Falk poems read as punctuation marks between its sentences. It was beautiful. And it was all thanks to Sutter's Literature, Arts, and Medicine Program (LAMP) under the Direction of Lawrence Spann.
Now comes the sad news that LAMP is closing. Lawrence's letter below provides details and a possible recourse. Please consider taking a moment to do as he suggests.
As he points out, LAMP has done much for members of the program, but it has also been a remarkable asset to our larger poetry community. In addition to the Hirschman/Falk reading mentioned above, LAMP has put on a number of incredible readings, all open to the public. Jane Hirshfield, Luis Rodriguez, Ellen Bass, Naomi Shihab Nye are just some of the poets LAMP presented to Sacramento.
"I have always been impressed by the quality of the program and how much it helps people dealing with chronic or terminal health situations, mental or physical, their own or others," writes poet JoAnn Anglin in her own appeal to save LAMP. "Closing it would mean closing a unique source of help and healing for patients and the community."
This is a loss that will weaken our poetry community. Again, please consider taking the action suggested in the letter below.
Regards,
Richard Hansen
poems-for-all.com
Here is Lawrence Spann's letter:
From: "Spann, Lawrence"
Date: Fri, 6 Jul 2007 16:54:22 -0700
To: "Spann, Lawrence"
Subject: Sutterwriters Write-in
-- John Fox,nationally known Poetry Therapist
who recently visited LAMP & Sacramento
Dear Sutterwriters,
When I was told last week that LAMP was cut due to a budgetary crisis, I was in shock. We've come such a long way--the groups are full of committed and soul-searching writers. And there are now six other writing groups in the community based on this model. As for LAMP, I love that this is done in a hospital and open to everyone, as illness knows no race, religion or socioeconomic barrier.
I am sending an email to the entire mailing list to inform you that LAMP is closing.
Your voice needs to be heard. The only way this can be done is if you let your thoughts and feelings be known to Sutter Health administrators. A few sentences is enough, and email makes that easy. Please don't polish or search for words. This can be a simple 5-minute
write.
Please send your letters to Tom Gagen, CEO Sutter Medical Center, Sacramento and copy Sarah Krevans, Regional Executive Officer, and Patrick Fry, President and CEO, Sutter Health as below:
To: gagent@sutterhealth.org
cc:
fryp@sutterhealth.org
It has been such a pleasure to work with each of you. The two hours became precious, a place to tell our truth through fiction.
Keep that lamp lighted in your heart,
Lawrence
Lawrence H. Spann, Ph.D.
Director, Sutter's LAMP
Literature, Arts, and Medicine Program
2800 L Street, Library
Sacramento, CA 95816
Phone: 916-454-6802
www.sutterwriters.com
Sunday, July 8, 2007
Thursday, June 28, 2007
JUNE 28 | The Weakly Inch
FRIDAY, JUNE 29, 7:00PM.
Shiny Object Film Screenings:
THE 10TH VICTIM
Fools Foundation, 1025 19th St, off K St, between 19th & 20th next to the back end of Old Spaghetti Factory. Admission: $5.00. Digital projection on to a large screen. Seating is on folding chairs - feel free to bring a pillow or cushion - or even your own folding chair! web: www.shiny-object.com/screenings/
This 1965 cult classic has inspired many films which followed, but more importantly, presaged the reality TV craze that currently permeates our culture.In the 21st Century, those with violent urges are allowed to enroll in a game of legalized murder wherein contestants hunt one another until only one is left alive. Ursula Andress, in all her stunning 60's glamor and beauty, as Caroline Meredith is set against Marcello Mastrianno in what will be for Caroline, her 10th and final victim. Along with her sponsor, the Ming Tea Company, Caroline plots out the perfect kill in front of TV cameras for the benefit of the viewing public. Rolling up romance, social satire and 60's Euro sex romp into one gorgeous pop culture retro cool stew with a soundtrack that Andy Warhol claimed to be one of his favorites, The 10th Victim is not to be missed. Oh, and did we mention Andress' S&M dance at the Club Masoch? That's worth the price of admission all on its own!
TUESDAY, JULY 3RD, 8PM
COMEDY & POETRY OPEN MIC
Butch-N-Nellie's, corner of 19th & I Streets, Downtown Sacramento. 548-8391.
Starting July 3rd, Butch-N-Nellie's, 3rd Eye Collective, and UBO Mag present LIFE SENTENCE, a weekly poetry and comedy feature with open mic.
FRIDAY, JULY 6TH, 7:00PM.
Shiny Object Film Screenings:
IN THE YEAR OF THE PIG
Fools Foundation, 1025 19th St, off K St, between 19th & 20th next to the back end of Old Spaghetti Factory. Admission: $5.00. Digital projection on to a large screen. Seating is on folding chairs - feel free to bring a pillow or cushion - or even your own folding chair! web: www.shiny-object.com/screenings/
Emile de Antonio's stunning Academy Award-nominated anti-war documentary from 1968 on the US in Vietnam, filmed at the height of our involvement. Upon initial release, reaction against it was so strong that theaters which ran it received bomb threats and had screens painted over. Interspersing footage from Vietnam with interviews of politicians, academics and military and intelligence personnel, the film traces the history of Vietnam and how it was manipulated by external forces, ultimately resulting in the Vietnam War. de Antonio shows mastery at simply allowing people to talk, and thus hang themselves with their own words -- a tactic which Michael Moore is also very adept at. Not only is this film important for historical reasons, but maintains much relevance given our current involvement in Iraq. Listening to some of the interviews in this doc seem very strangely familiar - as if you have very recently heard extremely similar statements supporting the reasons for the US being in Iraq...
FRIDAY, JULY 6TH, 7:30PM
Los Escritores del Nuevo Sol present
ZEUS & HERA, THE LATER YEARS
La Raza Galeria Posada, 1022-1024 22nd Street, Midtown Sacramento, 916-451-1372.
Writers of the New Sun/Los Escritores del Nuevo Sol are pleased to present a staged reading of a humorous new screenplay, by Natalia Mercado: "Zeus & Hera, The Later Years." $5 or as you can afford. Author: Natalia Mercado, a 29-year-old writer and English teacher at Luther Burbank High School in Sacramento, has previously had plays produced by Bakersfield Community Theater. Zeus and Hera is her debut screenwriting effort.
WEDNESDAY, JULY 11, 7-10pm
Asylum Gallery's:
ARTIST TRADE OFF
Asylum Gallery at HQ:Headquarters for the Arts, 1719 25th St, (25th & R Sts.) Cherie Hacker, 916-704-2909
Come to Asylum Gallery on lucky 7-11 and bring artwork and frames that you’d like to trade with other artists. Enjoy refreshing beverages and snacks while you mingle with other artists. Asylum Gallery is also accepting applications for member artists. The deadline for application is July 11, 2007. For an application, please email asylumgalleryathq@yahoo.com.
FRIDAY, JULY 13, 7:00PM.
Shiny Object Film Screenings:
ROCK THAT UKE
Fools Foundation, 1025 19th St, off K St, between 19th & 20th next to the back end of Old Spaghetti Factory. Admission: $5.00. Digital projection on to a large screen. Seating is on folding chairs - feel free to bring a pillow or cushion - or even your own folding chair! web: www.shiny-object.com/screenings/
A funky, curiously philosophical cinematic love poem that examines the near mystical allure of the four-stringed underdog of the musical world and the recent surge of alternative, post-punk musicians on the American mainland who have taken up the instrument, and have incorporated the ukulele not just into their raucous and irreverent original compositions, but into a counter cultural, post-punk ethos. With introductory narration by Academy Award winner Holly Hunter. Featuring Carmaig de Forest, Songs From a Random House, Janet Klein, Ukefink, Robert Armstrong (who was also the creator of Mickey Rat), Travis Harrelson, Oliver Brown, Heinous Rynes, Uke Til U Puke, The Haoles, Williwaw, Frank Novicki, Robert Wheeler, King Kukulele, Pineapple Princess, The Rumble Pups, and Ian Whitcomb! The film was directed by William Preston Robertson, who has lent his voice to numerous Coen Brothers films, authored the book "The Big Lebowski: The Making of a Coen Brothers Film," and possibly most impressively, was the voice of the creepy mounted deer head (and other possessed objects) in "Evil Dead II." Best of all, the amazing William Preston Robertson will be in attendance at the screening for a Q&A!! Yes, you will have the chance to meet the famous voice from Evil Dead II and director of this hip and bizarre doc!! We also might have some live uke playing going on!
SATURDAY, JULY 14TH, 7PM
Exhibition Closing party:
"VISEGRIP" THE ANTI THEME SHOW
Ongoing Exhibit: JUNE 15TH - JULY 14TH
Toyroom Gallery, 907 K Street, Regular Hours 11am till 7pm Tues-Sat / 12noon till 5pm Sun. Show will run from June 15 to July 14 - 2007. Closing Reception July 14th. Reception Hours 7pm till late.
Sacramento's premiere alt-sider gallery the TOYROOM will be presenting one hell of a show this June, when the art will be as warped as the heatwaves bouncing off the central valley blacktop! "Vise Grip" features John Bell, Mike Bell (related only in twistedness), Bruce Gossett, Kepi, and Rob Struven, a quasi-quintet (obviously one can short of a six-pack!) with five one-track minds: Create! Create! Like a whacked-out tribe of Dr. Frankensteins, these artists are obsessed with bringing their visions to life: Hot Rods, VooDoo, Cussed-Dumb Culture, the dark side of Pop Culture... you name it, they'll mame it! In the grip of their own vices, share the madness with a friend as you creep past the color, darkness, shadow and light that these five have presented, then pass your own judgement...innocent or guilty? Crazy or connected? No one can tell, and that's the fun! From the hot dirty race track to the seedy underbelly of society, from bad TV to even worse movies, it's the art of it all at the heart of it all that provides the motivation for these jerks-of-all-trades, and the inspiration springs (super?)naturally from the five wise guys to whom no rule applies! VISE GRIP...grab on to it!
JULY 20-22 and JULY 28-29
SACRAMENTO FRENCH FILM FESTIVAL
Crest theatre. http://sacramentofrenchfilmfestival.org/
Save the dates for the 6th Annual Sacramento French Film Festival which runs Friday through Sunday on two weekends in July.
FRIDAY, JULY 20, 7:00PM.
Shiny Object Film Screenings:
ELECTRIC PURGATORY: THE FATE OF THE BLACK ROCKER
Fools Foundation, 1025 19th St, off K St, between 19th & 20th next to the back end of Old Spaghetti Factory. Admission: $5.00. Digital projection on to a large screen. Seating is on folding chairs - feel free to bring a pillow or cushion - or even your own folding chair! web: www.shiny-object.com/screenings/
A documentary examining the struggles of black rock musicians and the industry's ambivalence towards them. Director Raymond Gayle spent the better part of a year traveling around the United States interviewing many of Black Rock's elite including Fishbone, Vernon Reid, Adam Falcon, Jimi Hazel and Cody Chesnutt. Distinguished journalists such as Flip Barnes, Darrell McNeil, Charlie Braxton, and Greg Tate, share their opinions and insight on the dilemma facing these artists. Also contains plenty of archival footage! We're working on some speakers for this night, too. We'll update if/when we're able to pull that together!
MONDAY, JULY 23RD, 7:30PM
Sacramento Poetry Center presents:
FRENCH POETRY NIGHT
HQ: Headquarters for the Arts, 1719 25th Street, 25th & R Sts, www.sacramentopoetrycenter.org. (916) 451-5569.
In collaboration with Alliance Francaise to help celebrate the French Film Festival July 20-29. Hors d'oeuvres and visual entertainment. After the featured readers, please join the open mic and read poems in French, in translation or about France. Hosted by Rebecca Morrison.
SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 8TH, 10:30AM - 4PM
ART BOOK FAIR
Crocker Art Museum, 216 O Street. 264-5423.
Publishers from around the country will bring in their newest special art books, plus their classics on art. Children's readings. Lectures for the whole family.
SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 8TH, 3:30PM
SAN FRANCISCO MIME TROUPE
Southside Park, 6th & T Streets Bandshell. Music starts at 3:30pm; show 4pm. Free show in the park!
SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 15TH, 10AM - 5PM
ANTIQUARIAN BOOK FAIR
Scottish Rite Temple, 6151 H Street, 849-9248. jimkay@comcast.net
The fourteenth Central Valley Antiquarian Book Fair; books of all kinds and all price ranges. Dozens of dealers. $5.
FIN
Shiny Object Film Screenings:
THE 10TH VICTIM
Fools Foundation, 1025 19th St, off K St, between 19th & 20th next to the back end of Old Spaghetti Factory. Admission: $5.00. Digital projection on to a large screen. Seating is on folding chairs - feel free to bring a pillow or cushion - or even your own folding chair! web: www.shiny-object.com/screenings/
This 1965 cult classic has inspired many films which followed, but more importantly, presaged the reality TV craze that currently permeates our culture.In the 21st Century, those with violent urges are allowed to enroll in a game of legalized murder wherein contestants hunt one another until only one is left alive. Ursula Andress, in all her stunning 60's glamor and beauty, as Caroline Meredith is set against Marcello Mastrianno in what will be for Caroline, her 10th and final victim. Along with her sponsor, the Ming Tea Company, Caroline plots out the perfect kill in front of TV cameras for the benefit of the viewing public. Rolling up romance, social satire and 60's Euro sex romp into one gorgeous pop culture retro cool stew with a soundtrack that Andy Warhol claimed to be one of his favorites, The 10th Victim is not to be missed. Oh, and did we mention Andress' S&M dance at the Club Masoch? That's worth the price of admission all on its own!
TUESDAY, JULY 3RD, 8PM
COMEDY & POETRY OPEN MIC
Butch-N-Nellie's, corner of 19th & I Streets, Downtown Sacramento. 548-8391.
Starting July 3rd, Butch-N-Nellie's, 3rd Eye Collective, and UBO Mag present LIFE SENTENCE, a weekly poetry and comedy feature with open mic.
FRIDAY, JULY 6TH, 7:00PM.
Shiny Object Film Screenings:
IN THE YEAR OF THE PIG
Fools Foundation, 1025 19th St, off K St, between 19th & 20th next to the back end of Old Spaghetti Factory. Admission: $5.00. Digital projection on to a large screen. Seating is on folding chairs - feel free to bring a pillow or cushion - or even your own folding chair! web: www.shiny-object.com/screenings/
Emile de Antonio's stunning Academy Award-nominated anti-war documentary from 1968 on the US in Vietnam, filmed at the height of our involvement. Upon initial release, reaction against it was so strong that theaters which ran it received bomb threats and had screens painted over. Interspersing footage from Vietnam with interviews of politicians, academics and military and intelligence personnel, the film traces the history of Vietnam and how it was manipulated by external forces, ultimately resulting in the Vietnam War. de Antonio shows mastery at simply allowing people to talk, and thus hang themselves with their own words -- a tactic which Michael Moore is also very adept at. Not only is this film important for historical reasons, but maintains much relevance given our current involvement in Iraq. Listening to some of the interviews in this doc seem very strangely familiar - as if you have very recently heard extremely similar statements supporting the reasons for the US being in Iraq...
FRIDAY, JULY 6TH, 7:30PM
Los Escritores del Nuevo Sol present
ZEUS & HERA, THE LATER YEARS
La Raza Galeria Posada, 1022-1024 22nd Street, Midtown Sacramento, 916-451-1372.
Writers of the New Sun/Los Escritores del Nuevo Sol are pleased to present a staged reading of a humorous new screenplay, by Natalia Mercado: "Zeus & Hera, The Later Years." $5 or as you can afford. Author: Natalia Mercado, a 29-year-old writer and English teacher at Luther Burbank High School in Sacramento, has previously had plays produced by Bakersfield Community Theater. Zeus and Hera is her debut screenwriting effort.
WEDNESDAY, JULY 11, 7-10pm
Asylum Gallery's:
ARTIST TRADE OFF
Asylum Gallery at HQ:Headquarters for the Arts, 1719 25th St, (25th & R Sts.) Cherie Hacker, 916-704-2909
Come to Asylum Gallery on lucky 7-11 and bring artwork and frames that you’d like to trade with other artists. Enjoy refreshing beverages and snacks while you mingle with other artists. Asylum Gallery is also accepting applications for member artists. The deadline for application is July 11, 2007. For an application, please email asylumgalleryathq@yahoo.com.
FRIDAY, JULY 13, 7:00PM.
Shiny Object Film Screenings:
ROCK THAT UKE
Fools Foundation, 1025 19th St, off K St, between 19th & 20th next to the back end of Old Spaghetti Factory. Admission: $5.00. Digital projection on to a large screen. Seating is on folding chairs - feel free to bring a pillow or cushion - or even your own folding chair! web: www.shiny-object.com/screenings/
A funky, curiously philosophical cinematic love poem that examines the near mystical allure of the four-stringed underdog of the musical world and the recent surge of alternative, post-punk musicians on the American mainland who have taken up the instrument, and have incorporated the ukulele not just into their raucous and irreverent original compositions, but into a counter cultural, post-punk ethos. With introductory narration by Academy Award winner Holly Hunter. Featuring Carmaig de Forest, Songs From a Random House, Janet Klein, Ukefink, Robert Armstrong (who was also the creator of Mickey Rat), Travis Harrelson, Oliver Brown, Heinous Rynes, Uke Til U Puke, The Haoles, Williwaw, Frank Novicki, Robert Wheeler, King Kukulele, Pineapple Princess, The Rumble Pups, and Ian Whitcomb! The film was directed by William Preston Robertson, who has lent his voice to numerous Coen Brothers films, authored the book "The Big Lebowski: The Making of a Coen Brothers Film," and possibly most impressively, was the voice of the creepy mounted deer head (and other possessed objects) in "Evil Dead II." Best of all, the amazing William Preston Robertson will be in attendance at the screening for a Q&A!! Yes, you will have the chance to meet the famous voice from Evil Dead II and director of this hip and bizarre doc!! We also might have some live uke playing going on!
SATURDAY, JULY 14TH, 7PM
Exhibition Closing party:
"VISEGRIP" THE ANTI THEME SHOW
Ongoing Exhibit: JUNE 15TH - JULY 14TH
Toyroom Gallery, 907 K Street, Regular Hours 11am till 7pm Tues-Sat / 12noon till 5pm Sun. Show will run from June 15 to July 14 - 2007. Closing Reception July 14th. Reception Hours 7pm till late.
Sacramento's premiere alt-sider gallery the TOYROOM will be presenting one hell of a show this June, when the art will be as warped as the heatwaves bouncing off the central valley blacktop! "Vise Grip" features John Bell, Mike Bell (related only in twistedness), Bruce Gossett, Kepi, and Rob Struven, a quasi-quintet (obviously one can short of a six-pack!) with five one-track minds: Create! Create! Like a whacked-out tribe of Dr. Frankensteins, these artists are obsessed with bringing their visions to life: Hot Rods, VooDoo, Cussed-Dumb Culture, the dark side of Pop Culture... you name it, they'll mame it! In the grip of their own vices, share the madness with a friend as you creep past the color, darkness, shadow and light that these five have presented, then pass your own judgement...innocent or guilty? Crazy or connected? No one can tell, and that's the fun! From the hot dirty race track to the seedy underbelly of society, from bad TV to even worse movies, it's the art of it all at the heart of it all that provides the motivation for these jerks-of-all-trades, and the inspiration springs (super?)naturally from the five wise guys to whom no rule applies! VISE GRIP...grab on to it!
JULY 20-22 and JULY 28-29
SACRAMENTO FRENCH FILM FESTIVAL
Crest theatre. http://sacramentofrenchfilmfestival.org/
Save the dates for the 6th Annual Sacramento French Film Festival which runs Friday through Sunday on two weekends in July.
FRIDAY, JULY 20, 7:00PM.
Shiny Object Film Screenings:
ELECTRIC PURGATORY: THE FATE OF THE BLACK ROCKER
Fools Foundation, 1025 19th St, off K St, between 19th & 20th next to the back end of Old Spaghetti Factory. Admission: $5.00. Digital projection on to a large screen. Seating is on folding chairs - feel free to bring a pillow or cushion - or even your own folding chair! web: www.shiny-object.com/screenings/
A documentary examining the struggles of black rock musicians and the industry's ambivalence towards them. Director Raymond Gayle spent the better part of a year traveling around the United States interviewing many of Black Rock's elite including Fishbone, Vernon Reid, Adam Falcon, Jimi Hazel and Cody Chesnutt. Distinguished journalists such as Flip Barnes, Darrell McNeil, Charlie Braxton, and Greg Tate, share their opinions and insight on the dilemma facing these artists. Also contains plenty of archival footage! We're working on some speakers for this night, too. We'll update if/when we're able to pull that together!
MONDAY, JULY 23RD, 7:30PM
Sacramento Poetry Center presents:
FRENCH POETRY NIGHT
HQ: Headquarters for the Arts, 1719 25th Street, 25th & R Sts, www.sacramentopoetrycenter.org. (916) 451-5569.
In collaboration with Alliance Francaise to help celebrate the French Film Festival July 20-29. Hors d'oeuvres and visual entertainment. After the featured readers, please join the open mic and read poems in French, in translation or about France. Hosted by Rebecca Morrison.
SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 8TH, 10:30AM - 4PM
ART BOOK FAIR
Crocker Art Museum, 216 O Street. 264-5423.
Publishers from around the country will bring in their newest special art books, plus their classics on art. Children's readings. Lectures for the whole family.
SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 8TH, 3:30PM
SAN FRANCISCO MIME TROUPE
Southside Park, 6th & T Streets Bandshell. Music starts at 3:30pm; show 4pm. Free show in the park!
SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 15TH, 10AM - 5PM
ANTIQUARIAN BOOK FAIR
Scottish Rite Temple, 6151 H Street, 849-9248. jimkay@comcast.net
The fourteenth Central Valley Antiquarian Book Fair; books of all kinds and all price ranges. Dozens of dealers. $5.
FIN
Friday, June 22, 2007
JUNE 21 | The Weakly Inch
THURSDAY, JUNE 21ST, 7:30pm
Six Ft. Swells Press Book Release Party:
ANN MENEBROKER, KATHY KIETH, LUKE WARM WATER, GENE BLOOM, BARBARA NOBLE, MATT AMOTT, TODD CIRILLO
Luna's Cafe, 1414 16th Street. Info: (530) 271-0662.
Six Ft. Swells Press presents the release of the third chapbook in the Cheap Shots Poetry Series: Cocktails & Confessions, a collection of poetry inspired by lust and libations. Free. Special guests.
THURSDAY, JUNE 21, 7:30pm
Poetry Flash @ Berkeley City College:
LYN HEJINIAN & CATHY PARK HONG
Poetry readings presented by Poetry Flash, A Review & Literary
Calendar for the West at Berkeley City College Auditorium, 2050 Center Street, one-half block from Berkeley BART. Parking garage next door.
For more info, call Poetry Flash: (510) 525-5476. Free admission. Lyn Hejinian, Berkeley poet, essayist, publisher, and translator is an acclaimed national poet. To touch on just a few highlights, her newest books of poetry include The Fatalist and A Border Comedy; her classic, My Life, has been reissued and updated; her most recent collection of essays is The Language of Inquiry; she's translated several books of the Russian poet Arkadii Dragomoshchenko. She's currently taking part in the ten poet experiment in collective autobiography, Grand Piano, three of whose projected ten volumes have been published. Lyn Hejinian is a Chancellor of The Academy of American Poets and a Professor at UC Berkeley.
Cathy Park Hong's new book, her second, is Dance Dance Revolution, selected by Adrienne Rich as the winner of the 2006 Barnard Women Poets prize. Rich says of it, "The mixture of imagination, language, and historical consciousness in this book is marvlous." Hong's first book is Translating Mo'um. This exciting postmodernist grew up in LA, attended the Iowa Writers' Workshop, and lives in Brooklyn, where among other things, she has worked for the Village Voice and Source magazine. Among her honors are a Van Lier Fellowship for Poetry and a Pushcart Prize.
FRIDAY, JUNE 22, 7-9pm
Summer Speaker Series:
JACK ALVAREZ
La Raza Galeria Posada, 1022-1024 22nd Street, between J & K Sts, (916) 446-5133, www.larazagaleriaposada.org, Hours: Wednesday to Saturday 12 noon to 6 pm, and Second Saturday 12 noon to 9 pm.
"Jack Alvarez: Between Worlds - Where We Live and Where We Live." Where we live is who we are, our perceptions, passions, and what drives us to be and do in relation to our arts. Jack will speak to this and present a selection of his art.
SATURDAY, JUNE 23RD, 7:30PM
Unheimlich Theater
ANTONIN ARTAUD & HIS DOPPLEGANGERS: GILBERTO RODRIGUEZ, SHERI ADEE, ROB LOZANO, DYLAN MORGAN
The Book Collector, 1008 24th Street, between J & K Streets, (916)
442-9295.web: www.poems-for-all.com.
Unheimlich Theater re-emerges from the Bardo state at The Book Collector to inseminate a new myth of Chaos, Anarchy, and Lucid Unreason. Unheimlich is here not to raise consciousness, but to release the tide of the Uncanny. To breakout the underside of Pandora's hoary box and release the likes of Baudelaire, Rimbaud, Poe, Hoffmann, Holderline, Michaux, and especially Antonin Artaud in order to undermine a society that has allowed psychology & technology to be on a first name basis with the creation of it's imperious culture. We invite you to the first performance of Antonin Artaud and His Dopplegangers. WITH A LUCID EXPOSITION OF ANTONIN ARTAUD BY FRANK ANDRICK.
SATURDAY, JUNE 23RD, 9:30pm
CoolCat Gallery Film Screening:
"WILD IN THE STREETS" 60s CULT MOVIE W/TUNES BY R. HAMMOND & GANG
CoolCat Gallery, 918 24th Street between J & I Sts. coolcatgallery.com
Come experience a live soundtrack to the 1960s cult classic "WILD IN THE STREETS." Two Sets. MUSIC SET TO FILM BY: TONY PASSARELL (SAX, NOISEMAKERS, KEYS), ROSS HAMMOND (GUITAR, BANJO, ELECTRONICS), ALEX JENKINS (PERCUSSION). Refreshments. ALL AGES. $5
FRIDAY, JUNE 29, 7:00PM.
Shiny Object Film Screenings:
THE 10TH VICTIM
Fools Foundation, 1025 19th St, off K St, between 19th & 20th next to
the back end of Old Spaghetti Factory. Admission: $5.00. Digital
projection on to a large screen. Seating is on folding chairs - feel
free to bring a pillow or cushion - or even your own folding chair!
web: www.shiny-object.com/screenings/
This 1965 cult classic has inspired many films which followed, but more importantly, presaged the reality TV craze that currently permeates our culture.In the 21st Century, those with violent urges are allowed to enroll in a game of legalized murder wherein contestants hunt one another until only one is left alive. Ursula Andress, in all her stunning 60's glamor and beauty, as Caroline Meredith is set against Marcello Mastrianno in what will be for Caroline, her 10th and final victim. Along with her sponsor, the Ming Tea Company, Caroline plots out the perfect kill in front of TV cameras for the benefit of the viewing public. Rolling up romance, social satire and 60's Euro sex romp into one gorgeous pop culture retro cool stew with a soundtrack that Andy Warhol claimed to be one of his favorites, The 10th Victim is not to be missed. Oh, and did we mention Andress' S&M dance at the Club Masoch? That's worth the price of admission all on its own!
FRIDAY, JULY 6TH, 7:00PM.
Shiny Object Film Screenings:
IN THE YEAR OF THE PIG
Fools Foundation, 1025 19th St, off K St, between 19th & 20th next to the back end of Old Spaghetti Factory. Admission: $5.00. Digital projection on to a large screen. Seating is on folding chairs - feel free to bring a pillow or cushion - or even your own folding chair! web: www.shiny-object.com/screenings/
Emile de Antonio's stunning Academy Award-nominated anti-war documentary from 1968 on the US in Vietnam, filmed at the height of our involvement. Upon initial release, reaction against it was so strong that theaters which ran it received bomb threats and had screens painted over. Interspersing footage from Vietnam with interviews of politicians, academics and military and intelligence personnel, the film traces the history of Vietnam and how it was manipulated by external forces, ultimately resulting in the Vietnam War. de Antonio shows mastery at simply allowing people to talk, and thus hang themselves with their own words -- a tactic which Michael Moore is also very adept at. Not only is this film important for historical reasons, but maintains much relevance given our current involvement in Iraq. Listening to some of the interviews in this doc seem very strangely familiar - as if you have very recently heard extremely similar statements supporting the reasons for the US being in Iraq...
FRIDAY, JULY 6TH, 7:30PM
Los Escritores del Nuevo Sol present
ZEUS & HERA, THE LATER YEARS
La Raza Galeria Posada, 1022-1024 22nd Street, Midtown Sacramento, 916-451-1372.
Writers of the New Sun/Los Escritores del Nuevo Sol are pleased to present a staged reading of a humorous new screenplay, by Natalia Mercado: "Zeus & Hera, The Later Years." $5 or as you can afford. Author: Natalia Mercado, a 29-year-old writer and English teacher at Luther Burbank High School in Sacramento, has previously had plays produced by Bakersfield Community Theater. Zeus and Hera is her debut screenwriting effort.
WEDNESDAY, JULY 11, 7-10pm
Asylum Gallery's:
ARTIST TRADE OFF
Asylum Gallery at HQ:Headquarters for the Arts, 1719 25th St, (25th &
R Sts.) Cherie Hacker, 916-704-2909
Come to Asylum Gallery on lucky 7-11 and bring artwork and frames that you'd like to trade with other artists. Enjoy refreshing beverages and snacks while you mingle with other artists. Asylum Gallery is also accepting applications for member artists. The deadline for application is July 11, 2007. For an application, please email asylumgalleryathq@yahoo.com.
JULY 20-22 and JULY 28-29
SACRAMENTO FRENCH FILM FESTIVAL
Crest theatre. http://sacramentofrenchfilmfestival.org/
Save the dates for the 6th Annual Sacramento French Film Festival which runs Friday through Sunday on two weekends in July.
MONDAY, JULY 23RD, 7:30PM
Sacramento Poetry Center presents:
FRENCH POETRY NIGHT
HQ: Headquarters for the Arts, 1719 25th Street, 25th & R Sts, http://www.sacramentopoetrycenter.org/. (916) 451-5569.
In collaboration with Alliance Francaise to help celebrate the French Film Festival July 20-29. Hors d'oeuvres and visual entertainment. After the featured readers, please join the open mic and read poems in French, in translation or about France. Hosted by Rebecca Morrison.
FIN
Six Ft. Swells Press Book Release Party:
ANN MENEBROKER, KATHY KIETH, LUKE WARM WATER, GENE BLOOM, BARBARA NOBLE, MATT AMOTT, TODD CIRILLO
Luna's Cafe, 1414 16th Street. Info: (530) 271-0662.
Six Ft. Swells Press presents the release of the third chapbook in the Cheap Shots Poetry Series: Cocktails & Confessions, a collection of poetry inspired by lust and libations. Free. Special guests.
THURSDAY, JUNE 21, 7:30pm
Poetry Flash @ Berkeley City College:
LYN HEJINIAN & CATHY PARK HONG
Poetry readings presented by Poetry Flash, A Review & Literary
Calendar for the West at Berkeley City College Auditorium, 2050 Center Street, one-half block from Berkeley BART. Parking garage next door.
For more info, call Poetry Flash: (510) 525-5476. Free admission. Lyn Hejinian, Berkeley poet, essayist, publisher, and translator is an acclaimed national poet. To touch on just a few highlights, her newest books of poetry include The Fatalist and A Border Comedy; her classic, My Life, has been reissued and updated; her most recent collection of essays is The Language of Inquiry; she's translated several books of the Russian poet Arkadii Dragomoshchenko. She's currently taking part in the ten poet experiment in collective autobiography, Grand Piano, three of whose projected ten volumes have been published. Lyn Hejinian is a Chancellor of The Academy of American Poets and a Professor at UC Berkeley.
Cathy Park Hong's new book, her second, is Dance Dance Revolution, selected by Adrienne Rich as the winner of the 2006 Barnard Women Poets prize. Rich says of it, "The mixture of imagination, language, and historical consciousness in this book is marvlous." Hong's first book is Translating Mo'um. This exciting postmodernist grew up in LA, attended the Iowa Writers' Workshop, and lives in Brooklyn, where among other things, she has worked for the Village Voice and Source magazine. Among her honors are a Van Lier Fellowship for Poetry and a Pushcart Prize.
FRIDAY, JUNE 22, 7-9pm
Summer Speaker Series:
JACK ALVAREZ
La Raza Galeria Posada, 1022-1024 22nd Street, between J & K Sts, (916) 446-5133, www.larazagaleriaposada.org, Hours: Wednesday to Saturday 12 noon to 6 pm, and Second Saturday 12 noon to 9 pm.
"Jack Alvarez: Between Worlds - Where We Live and Where We Live." Where we live is who we are, our perceptions, passions, and what drives us to be and do in relation to our arts. Jack will speak to this and present a selection of his art.
SATURDAY, JUNE 23RD, 7:30PM
Unheimlich Theater
ANTONIN ARTAUD & HIS DOPPLEGANGERS: GILBERTO RODRIGUEZ, SHERI ADEE, ROB LOZANO, DYLAN MORGAN
The Book Collector, 1008 24th Street, between J & K Streets, (916)
442-9295.web: www.poems-for-all.com.
Unheimlich Theater re-emerges from the Bardo state at The Book Collector to inseminate a new myth of Chaos, Anarchy, and Lucid Unreason. Unheimlich is here not to raise consciousness, but to release the tide of the Uncanny. To breakout the underside of Pandora's hoary box and release the likes of Baudelaire, Rimbaud, Poe, Hoffmann, Holderline, Michaux, and especially Antonin Artaud in order to undermine a society that has allowed psychology & technology to be on a first name basis with the creation of it's imperious culture. We invite you to the first performance of Antonin Artaud and His Dopplegangers. WITH A LUCID EXPOSITION OF ANTONIN ARTAUD BY FRANK ANDRICK.
SATURDAY, JUNE 23RD, 9:30pm
CoolCat Gallery Film Screening:
"WILD IN THE STREETS" 60s CULT MOVIE W/TUNES BY R. HAMMOND & GANG
CoolCat Gallery, 918 24th Street between J & I Sts. coolcatgallery.com
Come experience a live soundtrack to the 1960s cult classic "WILD IN THE STREETS." Two Sets. MUSIC SET TO FILM BY: TONY PASSARELL (SAX, NOISEMAKERS, KEYS), ROSS HAMMOND (GUITAR, BANJO, ELECTRONICS), ALEX JENKINS (PERCUSSION). Refreshments. ALL AGES. $5
FRIDAY, JUNE 29, 7:00PM.
Shiny Object Film Screenings:
THE 10TH VICTIM
Fools Foundation, 1025 19th St, off K St, between 19th & 20th next to
the back end of Old Spaghetti Factory. Admission: $5.00. Digital
projection on to a large screen. Seating is on folding chairs - feel
free to bring a pillow or cushion - or even your own folding chair!
web: www.shiny-object.com/screenings/
This 1965 cult classic has inspired many films which followed, but more importantly, presaged the reality TV craze that currently permeates our culture.In the 21st Century, those with violent urges are allowed to enroll in a game of legalized murder wherein contestants hunt one another until only one is left alive. Ursula Andress, in all her stunning 60's glamor and beauty, as Caroline Meredith is set against Marcello Mastrianno in what will be for Caroline, her 10th and final victim. Along with her sponsor, the Ming Tea Company, Caroline plots out the perfect kill in front of TV cameras for the benefit of the viewing public. Rolling up romance, social satire and 60's Euro sex romp into one gorgeous pop culture retro cool stew with a soundtrack that Andy Warhol claimed to be one of his favorites, The 10th Victim is not to be missed. Oh, and did we mention Andress' S&M dance at the Club Masoch? That's worth the price of admission all on its own!
FRIDAY, JULY 6TH, 7:00PM.
Shiny Object Film Screenings:
IN THE YEAR OF THE PIG
Fools Foundation, 1025 19th St, off K St, between 19th & 20th next to the back end of Old Spaghetti Factory. Admission: $5.00. Digital projection on to a large screen. Seating is on folding chairs - feel free to bring a pillow or cushion - or even your own folding chair! web: www.shiny-object.com/screenings/
Emile de Antonio's stunning Academy Award-nominated anti-war documentary from 1968 on the US in Vietnam, filmed at the height of our involvement. Upon initial release, reaction against it was so strong that theaters which ran it received bomb threats and had screens painted over. Interspersing footage from Vietnam with interviews of politicians, academics and military and intelligence personnel, the film traces the history of Vietnam and how it was manipulated by external forces, ultimately resulting in the Vietnam War. de Antonio shows mastery at simply allowing people to talk, and thus hang themselves with their own words -- a tactic which Michael Moore is also very adept at. Not only is this film important for historical reasons, but maintains much relevance given our current involvement in Iraq. Listening to some of the interviews in this doc seem very strangely familiar - as if you have very recently heard extremely similar statements supporting the reasons for the US being in Iraq...
FRIDAY, JULY 6TH, 7:30PM
Los Escritores del Nuevo Sol present
ZEUS & HERA, THE LATER YEARS
La Raza Galeria Posada, 1022-1024 22nd Street, Midtown Sacramento, 916-451-1372.
Writers of the New Sun/Los Escritores del Nuevo Sol are pleased to present a staged reading of a humorous new screenplay, by Natalia Mercado: "Zeus & Hera, The Later Years." $5 or as you can afford. Author: Natalia Mercado, a 29-year-old writer and English teacher at Luther Burbank High School in Sacramento, has previously had plays produced by Bakersfield Community Theater. Zeus and Hera is her debut screenwriting effort.
WEDNESDAY, JULY 11, 7-10pm
Asylum Gallery's:
ARTIST TRADE OFF
Asylum Gallery at HQ:Headquarters for the Arts, 1719 25th St, (25th &
R Sts.) Cherie Hacker, 916-704-2909
Come to Asylum Gallery on lucky 7-11 and bring artwork and frames that you'd like to trade with other artists. Enjoy refreshing beverages and snacks while you mingle with other artists. Asylum Gallery is also accepting applications for member artists. The deadline for application is July 11, 2007. For an application, please email asylumgalleryathq@yahoo.com.
JULY 20-22 and JULY 28-29
SACRAMENTO FRENCH FILM FESTIVAL
Crest theatre. http://sacramentofrenchfilmfestival.org/
Save the dates for the 6th Annual Sacramento French Film Festival which runs Friday through Sunday on two weekends in July.
MONDAY, JULY 23RD, 7:30PM
Sacramento Poetry Center presents:
FRENCH POETRY NIGHT
HQ: Headquarters for the Arts, 1719 25th Street, 25th & R Sts, http://www.sacramentopoetrycenter.org/. (916) 451-5569.
In collaboration with Alliance Francaise to help celebrate the French Film Festival July 20-29. Hors d'oeuvres and visual entertainment. After the featured readers, please join the open mic and read poems in French, in translation or about France. Hosted by Rebecca Morrison.
FIN
Friday, June 1, 2007
JUNE 1 | THE WEAKLY INCH | Upcoming Art & Lit events
FRIDAY, JUNE 1ST, 7:00PM.
Shiny Object Film Screenings:
DEAD END DRIVE-IN
Fools Foundation, 1025 19th St, off K St, between 19th & 20th next to the back end of Old Spaghetti Factory. Admission: $5.00. Digital projection on to a large screen. Seating is on folding chairs - feel free to bring a pillow or cushion - or even your own folding chair! web: www.shiny-object.com/screenings/
This Australian indie B flick from 1986 actually has a lot more to offer than just trashy action. Set in the future of 1994 in a globally unstable society, drive-ins are being used by the Australian government as defacto concentration camps in which the unemployed and undesirables are entrapped. Mixing violence, sex, and cheesy 80's synth with social critiques about government control, racism and unemployment? Yep, they did it with this. And while much of it may appear dated, the messages are just as pertinent today as they were then. Not an intellectual film by any stretch of the imagination, but it's always been an interesting cult film due to the collision of fun trash and important social commentary.
FRIDAY, JUNE 1ST, 5-8pm
MFA Art Exhibit, UC Davis:
XICO GONZALEZ, MARIAH HESS GABRIELLA SORACI
MU Gallery. UC, Davis.
From Xico: "This an invitation to all of you that love Xicano/political art to come and check out my MFA Thesis Exhibition which features artwork with overt political content on immigration and the current unjust wars in the Middle East (pro-immigrant and anti-war!!).There will be interactional pieces and posters for you to take home (como en la marchas!). So come to UCD and support the only Xicano in the MFA Art Program!" GOLD STAR: MFA THESIS EXHIBITION runs from JUNE 1 -22, 2007.
SATURDAY, JUNE 2ND, 11am
ESCRITORES DEL NUEVO SOL WRITING MEETING
La Raza Galeria Posada, 1022-1024 22nd Street, between J & K Sts, (916) 446-5133, www.larazagaleriaposada.org, Hours: Wednesday to Saturday 12 noon to 6 pm, and Second Saturday 12 noon to 9 pm.
Escritores del Nuevo Sol / Writers of the New Sun presents regular monthly potluck & writing meeting. No charge. Info: Graciela Ramirez (916) 456-5323.
MONDAY, JUNE 4TH, 7:30PM
Sacramento Poetry Center presents:
ROBBIE GROSSKLAUS, BILL CARR, JACKIE SCHAEFFER
HQ: Headquarters for the Arts, 1719 25th Street, 25th & R Sts, www.sacramentopoetrycenter.org. (916) 451-5569.
TUESDAY, JUNE 5TH, 7:30PM
UC-Davis Creative Writing Program Reading Series presents:
MOLLY GILES
126 Voorhies Hall, UC-Davis campus, 1st & A Streets, Davis.
Award-winning novelist and short story writer Molly Giles was nominated for the Pulitzer Prize for fiction for her first book, Rough Translations, which also won a Pushcart Prize, a Flannery O’Connor Award for Short Fiction, a Small Press Book Award, Boston Globe Award, Bay Area Book Reviewers Award, and PEN Syndicated Fiction Award. Her second collection of short stories, Creek Walk, was named one of the New York Times' most notable books of 1997.
FRIDAY, JUNE 8TH, 7-9pm
Summer Speaker Series:
ARTURO MUNOZ VASQUEZ, SONYA FE
La Raza Galeria Posada, 1022-1024 22nd Street, between J & K Sts, (916) 446-5133, www.larazagaleriaposada.org, Hours: Wednesday to Saturday 12 noon to 6 pm, and Second Saturday 12 noon to 9 pm.
Arturo Munoz Vasquez (author) with Sonya Fe (artist): "Publishing Children’s Stories." Together Arturo and Sonya explain how to blend art, literacy and technology into creating a story, publishing and promoting literacy and education
FRIDAY, JUNE 8TH, 7:00PM.
Shiny Object Film Screenings:
FROZEN
Fools Foundation, 1025 19th St, off K St, between 19th & 20th next to the back end of Old Spaghetti Factory. Admission: $5.00. Digital projection on to a large screen. Seating is on folding chairs - feel free to bring a pillow or cushion - or even your own folding chair! web: www.shiny-object.com/screenings/
Shirley Henderson ("Trainspotting," "Harry Potter," "Bridget Jones's Diary") plays Kath, a woman still haunted by the mysterious disappearance of her sister Annie two years earlier. When she steals a security camera videotape from the police that captures Annie’s last moments, Kath believes she finds a mysterious image on it. As she retraces Annie’s last steps, she has recurring visions of Annie in an otherworldly landscape. Whilst Kath becomes convinced that her sister is trying to reach her, those around her become increasingly skeptical of her claims. So has Kath really found a way to access the afterlife. Or is she losing her grip on reality? And what exactly did happen to Annie? Set in the stark beauty of Morecambe Bay, north west England, "Frozen" is a story about unresolved loss and the inherent danger of hope turning into obsession. Breathtakingly stark cinematography further the feeling of coldness throughout and provide a beautifully bleak feel to the film. Note: there are some fairly thick accents in this.
SATURDAY, JUNE 9TH, 7:30pm
Poems-For-All Second Saturday Series:
JONATHAN KIEFER, BILL PIEPER, JOSH FERNANDEZ, DEAN HAAKENSON
The Book Collector, 1008 24th Street, between J & K Streets, (916) 442-9295.www.poems-for-all.com. About the bookstore: http://www.sacfreepress.com/poems/blog/2006/05/book-collector.html
An evening of poetry, music and spoken word orchestrated by Jonathan Kiefer. With musical guest Dean Haakenson (Be Brave Bold Robot.)
WEDNESDAY, JUNE 13TH, 8pm
Reading & Signing at Time Tested Books:
"DISHWASHER" PETE JORDAN
Time Tested Books, 1114 21st Street, between K & L Streets,(916) 447-5696, books@timetestedbooks.net, timetestedbooks.net
It is with great pleasure that Time Tested Books welcomes our old friend Dishwasher Pete Jordan for a reading and signing of his new book, "Dishwasher." Published by Harper Perennial, Dishwasher is Pete’s tale of crossing the United States, washing dishes in dinner trains, country clubs, fish factory cafeterias, and bagel joints. But these aren’t just stories of a man and his sponge. Pete’s book is also one of self-discover as well as a great addition to American working class literature. While this is Dishwasher’s debut in book form, through the 1990s it was published as a zine. The writing is so good that Pete amassed a readership of close to 10,000, a mighty accomplishment for a self-published zine. He also landed a regular gig on National Public Radio’s This American Life. After fulfilling his mission to wash dishes in all 50 states (or coming close to it), Pete moved to Amsterdam, where he washes dishes no more.
FRIDAY, JUNE 15TH, 7:30pm
Escritores del Nuevo Sol / Writers of the New Sun presents:
ARACELI COLLAZO
La Raza Galeria Posada, 1022-1024 22nd Street, between J & K Sts, (916) 446-5133, www.larazagaleriaposada.org, Hours: Wednesday to Saturday 12 noon to 6 pm, and Second Saturday 12 noon to 9 pm.
Romantically beautiful in both appearance and presentation, the multi-talented Araceli has performed in Northern California, in Texas and in Mexico. Through words and music, in both Spanish and English, her performance is intensely riveting, yet touched by humor and vulnerability, and accessible to all. $5 or as you can afford. Info: Graciela Ramirez (916) 456-5323.
FRIDAY, JUNE 15TH, 7pm
Poetry in El Dorado Hills:
SUSAN FINKLEMAN, JOE FINKLEMAN
Our House Gallery & Framing, 4510 Post Street Suite 330, El Dorado Hills.
Susan and Joe Finkleman, accompanied by Fran Reitano and Sharon McCorkell, will be reading 2 voice poetry with a few surprises added. Directions: Come east on Hwy 50 past Folsom and over the first grade. At the bottom of the grade (El Dorado Hills), take the first exit (Latrobe Rd). Turn right (south), then immediately get in the left lane. Left at the stop light onto Town Center Blvd. Next left at the 4-way stop onto Post. St. Right at the next stop sign, then start angling through the parking lot toward Round Table Pizza. Our House is between Round Table and what used to be a Ralph's, now vacant.
FRIDAY, JUNE 15TH, 7pm
Poetry at the Beat Museum, San Francisco:
A.D. WINANS, GEORGE WALLACE
Beat Museum, 540 Broadway (at Columbus), San Francisco. (415) 399-9626. www.thebeatmuseum.org
Though arguably one of the best things in life, poetry isn't always free. But it is unfettered by commerce at the Beat Museum, where the next event in its poetry reading series features San Francisco poet A.D.Winans, winner of a 2006 PEN Josephine Miles Literary Award for "This Land Is Not My Land," and New York poet and editor George Wallace, host of the monthly Bowery Poetry Club. Free.
SATURDAY, JUNE 16TH, 7pm
La Raza Galeria Posada, Artist Talk:
MACEO MONTOYA, TOMAS MONTOYA
La Raza Galeria Posada, 1022-1024 22nd Street, between J & K Sts, (916) 446-5133, www.larazagaleriaposada.org, Hours: Wednesday to Saturday 12 noon to 6 pm, and Second Saturday 12 noon to 9 pm.
Art Exhibition June 16 to July 7: "Primos: The Art of Maceo Montoya and Tomas Montoya." Closing reception Saturday, July 7th, 6 to 9 pm
MONDAY, JUNE 18TH, 7:30PM
Sacramento Poetry Center presents:
JOSE MONTOYA
HQ: Headquarters for the Arts, 1719 25th Street, 25th & R Sts, www.sacramentopoetrycenter.org. (916) 451-5569.
Considered one of the most influential Chicano bilingual poets, José Montoya, has published many well-known poems, including his possibly most famous "El Louie" (1969), in anthologies and magazines. He has been Sacramento's poet laureate and is a co-founder of the Royal Chicano Air Force (RCAF). Making his start soon after the Korean War when he entered San Diego City College as an art student, Montoya later transferred to the California College of Arts & Crafts in Oakland, California. He graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in 1962. He began his career by teaching High School until he earned his MA in 1971, at California State University. He then taught for 25 years in the Department of Art Education at CSUS.
WEDNESDAY, JUNE 20TH, 7:30pm
Rattlesnake Press presents:
TOM MINER
The Book Collector, 1008 24th Street, between J & K Streets, (916) 442-9295. kathykieth@hotmail.com.
The reading marks the release of "North of Everything," a new chapbook of poetry from Rattlesnake Press by Tom Miner. Refreshments and read-around follow; bring your own poems or somebody else's.
WEDNESDAY, JUNE 20TH, 7:30pm
Escritores del Nuevo Sol / Writers of the New Sun presents:
ROSA MARTHA VILLARREAL
La Raza Galeria Posada, 1022-1024 22nd Street, between J & K Sts, (916) 446-5133, www.larazagaleriaposada.org, Hours: Wednesday to Saturday 12 noon to 6 pm, and Second Saturday 12 noon to 9 pm.
Rosa Martha Villarreal introduces The Stillness of Love & Exile (Tertulia Press), her contemporary novel of a spirited Mexican woman’s escape from entrapment in a loveless and abusive marriage. The author, a local teacher and writer, follows Lilia’s escape from a wrathful Mexican drug lord to a rural Mexican town where a series of events that started in Medieval Spain come to fruition, leading Lilia to her final journey of love and magic. The author is the co-founder of Tertulia Press, an online Magazine, dedicated to the tradition of independent, non-ideological discourse through art and written word. Rosa will answer questions about her writing and publication process. Her novel is available for sale. No charge for this event. Info: Graciela Ramirez (916) 456-5323.
FRIDAY, JUNE 22, 7-9pm
Summer Speaker Series:
JACK ALVAREZ
La Raza Galeria Posada, 1022-1024 22nd Street, between J & K Sts, (916) 446-5133, www.larazagaleriaposada.org, Hours: Wednesday to Saturday 12 noon to 6 pm, and Second Saturday 12 noon to 9 pm.
"Jack Alvarez: Between Worlds - Where We Live and Where We Live." Where we live is who we are, our perceptions, passions, and what drives us to be and do in relation to our arts. Jack will speak to this and present a selection of his art.
SATURDAY, JUNE 23RD, 7:30PM
Unheimlich Theater
ANTONIN ARTAUD & HIS DOPPLEGANGERS
The Book Collector, 1008 24th Street, between J & K Streets, (916) 442-9295.web: www.poems-for-all.com.
Unheimlich Theater re-emerges from the Bardo state at The Book Collector to inseminate a new myth of Chaos, Anarchy, and Lucid Unreason. Unheimlich is here not to raise consciousness, but to release the tide of the Uncanny. To breakout the underside of Pandora's hoary box and release the likes of Baudelaire, Rimbaud, Poe, Hoffmann, Holderline, Michaux, and especially Antonin Artaud in order to undermine a society that has allowed psychology & technology to be on a first name basis with the creation of it's imperious culture. We invite you to the first performance of Antonin Artaud and His Dopplegangers.
JULY 20-22 and JULY 28-29
SACRAMENTO FRENCH FILM FESTIVAL
Crest theatre. http://sacramentofrenchfilmfestival.org/
Save the dates for the 6th Annual Sacramento French Film Festival which runs Friday through Sunday on two weekends in July.
Shiny Object Film Screenings:
DEAD END DRIVE-IN
Fools Foundation, 1025 19th St, off K St, between 19th & 20th next to the back end of Old Spaghetti Factory. Admission: $5.00. Digital projection on to a large screen. Seating is on folding chairs - feel free to bring a pillow or cushion - or even your own folding chair! web: www.shiny-object.com/screenings/
This Australian indie B flick from 1986 actually has a lot more to offer than just trashy action. Set in the future of 1994 in a globally unstable society, drive-ins are being used by the Australian government as defacto concentration camps in which the unemployed and undesirables are entrapped. Mixing violence, sex, and cheesy 80's synth with social critiques about government control, racism and unemployment? Yep, they did it with this. And while much of it may appear dated, the messages are just as pertinent today as they were then. Not an intellectual film by any stretch of the imagination, but it's always been an interesting cult film due to the collision of fun trash and important social commentary.
FRIDAY, JUNE 1ST, 5-8pm
MFA Art Exhibit, UC Davis:
XICO GONZALEZ, MARIAH HESS GABRIELLA SORACI
MU Gallery. UC, Davis.
From Xico: "This an invitation to all of you that love Xicano/political art to come and check out my MFA Thesis Exhibition which features artwork with overt political content on immigration and the current unjust wars in the Middle East (pro-immigrant and anti-war!!).There will be interactional pieces and posters for you to take home (como en la marchas!). So come to UCD and support the only Xicano in the MFA Art Program!" GOLD STAR: MFA THESIS EXHIBITION runs from JUNE 1 -22, 2007.
SATURDAY, JUNE 2ND, 11am
ESCRITORES DEL NUEVO SOL WRITING MEETING
La Raza Galeria Posada, 1022-1024 22nd Street, between J & K Sts, (916) 446-5133, www.larazagaleriaposada.org, Hours: Wednesday to Saturday 12 noon to 6 pm, and Second Saturday 12 noon to 9 pm.
Escritores del Nuevo Sol / Writers of the New Sun presents regular monthly potluck & writing meeting. No charge. Info: Graciela Ramirez (916) 456-5323.
MONDAY, JUNE 4TH, 7:30PM
Sacramento Poetry Center presents:
ROBBIE GROSSKLAUS, BILL CARR, JACKIE SCHAEFFER
HQ: Headquarters for the Arts, 1719 25th Street, 25th & R Sts, www.sacramentopoetrycenter.org. (916) 451-5569.
TUESDAY, JUNE 5TH, 7:30PM
UC-Davis Creative Writing Program Reading Series presents:
MOLLY GILES
126 Voorhies Hall, UC-Davis campus, 1st & A Streets, Davis.
Award-winning novelist and short story writer Molly Giles was nominated for the Pulitzer Prize for fiction for her first book, Rough Translations, which also won a Pushcart Prize, a Flannery O’Connor Award for Short Fiction, a Small Press Book Award, Boston Globe Award, Bay Area Book Reviewers Award, and PEN Syndicated Fiction Award. Her second collection of short stories, Creek Walk, was named one of the New York Times' most notable books of 1997.
FRIDAY, JUNE 8TH, 7-9pm
Summer Speaker Series:
ARTURO MUNOZ VASQUEZ, SONYA FE
La Raza Galeria Posada, 1022-1024 22nd Street, between J & K Sts, (916) 446-5133, www.larazagaleriaposada.org, Hours: Wednesday to Saturday 12 noon to 6 pm, and Second Saturday 12 noon to 9 pm.
Arturo Munoz Vasquez (author) with Sonya Fe (artist): "Publishing Children’s Stories." Together Arturo and Sonya explain how to blend art, literacy and technology into creating a story, publishing and promoting literacy and education
FRIDAY, JUNE 8TH, 7:00PM.
Shiny Object Film Screenings:
FROZEN
Fools Foundation, 1025 19th St, off K St, between 19th & 20th next to the back end of Old Spaghetti Factory. Admission: $5.00. Digital projection on to a large screen. Seating is on folding chairs - feel free to bring a pillow or cushion - or even your own folding chair! web: www.shiny-object.com/screenings/
Shirley Henderson ("Trainspotting," "Harry Potter," "Bridget Jones's Diary") plays Kath, a woman still haunted by the mysterious disappearance of her sister Annie two years earlier. When she steals a security camera videotape from the police that captures Annie’s last moments, Kath believes she finds a mysterious image on it. As she retraces Annie’s last steps, she has recurring visions of Annie in an otherworldly landscape. Whilst Kath becomes convinced that her sister is trying to reach her, those around her become increasingly skeptical of her claims. So has Kath really found a way to access the afterlife. Or is she losing her grip on reality? And what exactly did happen to Annie? Set in the stark beauty of Morecambe Bay, north west England, "Frozen" is a story about unresolved loss and the inherent danger of hope turning into obsession. Breathtakingly stark cinematography further the feeling of coldness throughout and provide a beautifully bleak feel to the film. Note: there are some fairly thick accents in this.
SATURDAY, JUNE 9TH, 7:30pm
Poems-For-All Second Saturday Series:
JONATHAN KIEFER, BILL PIEPER, JOSH FERNANDEZ, DEAN HAAKENSON
The Book Collector, 1008 24th Street, between J & K Streets, (916) 442-9295.www.poems-for-all.com. About the bookstore: http://www.sacfreepress.com/poems/blog/2006/05/book-collector.html
An evening of poetry, music and spoken word orchestrated by Jonathan Kiefer. With musical guest Dean Haakenson (Be Brave Bold Robot.)
WEDNESDAY, JUNE 13TH, 8pm
Reading & Signing at Time Tested Books:
"DISHWASHER" PETE JORDAN
Time Tested Books, 1114 21st Street, between K & L Streets,(916) 447-5696, books@timetestedbooks.net, timetestedbooks.net
It is with great pleasure that Time Tested Books welcomes our old friend Dishwasher Pete Jordan for a reading and signing of his new book, "Dishwasher." Published by Harper Perennial, Dishwasher is Pete’s tale of crossing the United States, washing dishes in dinner trains, country clubs, fish factory cafeterias, and bagel joints. But these aren’t just stories of a man and his sponge. Pete’s book is also one of self-discover as well as a great addition to American working class literature. While this is Dishwasher’s debut in book form, through the 1990s it was published as a zine. The writing is so good that Pete amassed a readership of close to 10,000, a mighty accomplishment for a self-published zine. He also landed a regular gig on National Public Radio’s This American Life. After fulfilling his mission to wash dishes in all 50 states (or coming close to it), Pete moved to Amsterdam, where he washes dishes no more.
FRIDAY, JUNE 15TH, 7:30pm
Escritores del Nuevo Sol / Writers of the New Sun presents:
ARACELI COLLAZO
La Raza Galeria Posada, 1022-1024 22nd Street, between J & K Sts, (916) 446-5133, www.larazagaleriaposada.org, Hours: Wednesday to Saturday 12 noon to 6 pm, and Second Saturday 12 noon to 9 pm.
Romantically beautiful in both appearance and presentation, the multi-talented Araceli has performed in Northern California, in Texas and in Mexico. Through words and music, in both Spanish and English, her performance is intensely riveting, yet touched by humor and vulnerability, and accessible to all. $5 or as you can afford. Info: Graciela Ramirez (916) 456-5323.
FRIDAY, JUNE 15TH, 7pm
Poetry in El Dorado Hills:
SUSAN FINKLEMAN, JOE FINKLEMAN
Our House Gallery & Framing, 4510 Post Street Suite 330, El Dorado Hills.
Susan and Joe Finkleman, accompanied by Fran Reitano and Sharon McCorkell, will be reading 2 voice poetry with a few surprises added. Directions: Come east on Hwy 50 past Folsom and over the first grade. At the bottom of the grade (El Dorado Hills), take the first exit (Latrobe Rd). Turn right (south), then immediately get in the left lane. Left at the stop light onto Town Center Blvd. Next left at the 4-way stop onto Post. St. Right at the next stop sign, then start angling through the parking lot toward Round Table Pizza. Our House is between Round Table and what used to be a Ralph's, now vacant.
FRIDAY, JUNE 15TH, 7pm
Poetry at the Beat Museum, San Francisco:
A.D. WINANS, GEORGE WALLACE
Beat Museum, 540 Broadway (at Columbus), San Francisco. (415) 399-9626. www.thebeatmuseum.org
Though arguably one of the best things in life, poetry isn't always free. But it is unfettered by commerce at the Beat Museum, where the next event in its poetry reading series features San Francisco poet A.D.Winans, winner of a 2006 PEN Josephine Miles Literary Award for "This Land Is Not My Land," and New York poet and editor George Wallace, host of the monthly Bowery Poetry Club. Free.
SATURDAY, JUNE 16TH, 7pm
La Raza Galeria Posada, Artist Talk:
MACEO MONTOYA, TOMAS MONTOYA
La Raza Galeria Posada, 1022-1024 22nd Street, between J & K Sts, (916) 446-5133, www.larazagaleriaposada.org, Hours: Wednesday to Saturday 12 noon to 6 pm, and Second Saturday 12 noon to 9 pm.
Art Exhibition June 16 to July 7: "Primos: The Art of Maceo Montoya and Tomas Montoya." Closing reception Saturday, July 7th, 6 to 9 pm
MONDAY, JUNE 18TH, 7:30PM
Sacramento Poetry Center presents:
JOSE MONTOYA
HQ: Headquarters for the Arts, 1719 25th Street, 25th & R Sts, www.sacramentopoetrycenter.org. (916) 451-5569.
Considered one of the most influential Chicano bilingual poets, José Montoya, has published many well-known poems, including his possibly most famous "El Louie" (1969), in anthologies and magazines. He has been Sacramento's poet laureate and is a co-founder of the Royal Chicano Air Force (RCAF). Making his start soon after the Korean War when he entered San Diego City College as an art student, Montoya later transferred to the California College of Arts & Crafts in Oakland, California. He graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in 1962. He began his career by teaching High School until he earned his MA in 1971, at California State University. He then taught for 25 years in the Department of Art Education at CSUS.
WEDNESDAY, JUNE 20TH, 7:30pm
Rattlesnake Press presents:
TOM MINER
The Book Collector, 1008 24th Street, between J & K Streets, (916) 442-9295. kathykieth@hotmail.com.
The reading marks the release of "North of Everything," a new chapbook of poetry from Rattlesnake Press by Tom Miner. Refreshments and read-around follow; bring your own poems or somebody else's.
WEDNESDAY, JUNE 20TH, 7:30pm
Escritores del Nuevo Sol / Writers of the New Sun presents:
ROSA MARTHA VILLARREAL
La Raza Galeria Posada, 1022-1024 22nd Street, between J & K Sts, (916) 446-5133, www.larazagaleriaposada.org, Hours: Wednesday to Saturday 12 noon to 6 pm, and Second Saturday 12 noon to 9 pm.
Rosa Martha Villarreal introduces The Stillness of Love & Exile (Tertulia Press), her contemporary novel of a spirited Mexican woman’s escape from entrapment in a loveless and abusive marriage. The author, a local teacher and writer, follows Lilia’s escape from a wrathful Mexican drug lord to a rural Mexican town where a series of events that started in Medieval Spain come to fruition, leading Lilia to her final journey of love and magic. The author is the co-founder of Tertulia Press, an online Magazine, dedicated to the tradition of independent, non-ideological discourse through art and written word. Rosa will answer questions about her writing and publication process. Her novel is available for sale. No charge for this event. Info: Graciela Ramirez (916) 456-5323.
FRIDAY, JUNE 22, 7-9pm
Summer Speaker Series:
JACK ALVAREZ
La Raza Galeria Posada, 1022-1024 22nd Street, between J & K Sts, (916) 446-5133, www.larazagaleriaposada.org, Hours: Wednesday to Saturday 12 noon to 6 pm, and Second Saturday 12 noon to 9 pm.
"Jack Alvarez: Between Worlds - Where We Live and Where We Live." Where we live is who we are, our perceptions, passions, and what drives us to be and do in relation to our arts. Jack will speak to this and present a selection of his art.
SATURDAY, JUNE 23RD, 7:30PM
Unheimlich Theater
ANTONIN ARTAUD & HIS DOPPLEGANGERS
The Book Collector, 1008 24th Street, between J & K Streets, (916) 442-9295.web: www.poems-for-all.com.
Unheimlich Theater re-emerges from the Bardo state at The Book Collector to inseminate a new myth of Chaos, Anarchy, and Lucid Unreason. Unheimlich is here not to raise consciousness, but to release the tide of the Uncanny. To breakout the underside of Pandora's hoary box and release the likes of Baudelaire, Rimbaud, Poe, Hoffmann, Holderline, Michaux, and especially Antonin Artaud in order to undermine a society that has allowed psychology & technology to be on a first name basis with the creation of it's imperious culture. We invite you to the first performance of Antonin Artaud and His Dopplegangers.
JULY 20-22 and JULY 28-29
SACRAMENTO FRENCH FILM FESTIVAL
Crest theatre. http://sacramentofrenchfilmfestival.org/
Save the dates for the 6th Annual Sacramento French Film Festival which runs Friday through Sunday on two weekends in July.
Thursday, April 19, 2007
April 20 | Film | The End of Suburbia: Oil Depletion and the Collapse of The American Dream
Via: Robert McKeown, Shiny Object
Reminder!
Tomorrow, 4/20. 7 PM.
Admission: $5.00.
Location: Fools Foundation - 1025 19th St, Sacramento.
That's off of K St, between 19th and 20th, next to the back end of the Old Spaghetti Factory. Digital projection on to a big screen. Seating is on folding chairs - feel free to bring a pillow or cushion, or even your own folding chair!
"The End of Suburbia: Oil Depletion and the Collapse of The American Dream"
Just in time for Earth Day and the return of skyrocketing gas prices!
Since World War II, North Americans have invested much of their newfound wealth in suburbia. As the population of suburban sprawl exploded in the past 50 years, Suburbia became the American Dream.
But as we enter the 21st century, serious questions are beginning to emerge about the sustainability of this way of life. With brutal honesty and a touch of irony, "The End of Suburbia" explores the American Way of Life and its prospects as the planet approaches a critical era, as global demand for fossil fuels begins to outstrip supply. World Oil Peak and the inevitable decline of fossil fuels are upon us now, some scientists and policy makers argue in this documentary.
The consequences of inaction in the face of this global crisis are enormous. What does Oil Peak mean for North America? As energy prices skyrocket even more in the coming years, how will the populations of suburbia react to the collapse of their dream? Are today's suburbs destined to become the slums of tomorrow? And what can be done NOW, individually and collectively, to avoid The End of Suburbia?
Hosted by Barrie Zwicker. Featuring author and New York Time contributor James Howard Kunstler, Peter Calthorpe (urban planner, author and lecturer), Professor Michael Klare (contributor to The Nation, Scientific American and numerous others), Richard Heinberg (Peak Oil educator and research fellow at the Post Carbon Institute), Matthew Simmons (CEO of Simmons and Co, former energy advisor to George Bush and one of the world's leading experts on Peak Oil), Michael C. Ruppert (From the Wilderness), Julian Darley (founder, Post Cabon Institute), Colin Campbell (retired petroleum geologist for Texaco, BP, etc, and author of "The Coming Oil Crisis"), Kenneth Deffeyes (Princeton professor and former associate of M. King Hubbert), Ali Samsam Bakhtiari (Senior Expert in the Corporate Planning Directorate of the National Iranian Oil Co) and Steve Andrews(Denver-based energy consultant).
Dan Jacobson, Legislative Advocate for Environment California is scheduled to be in attendance to speak about related statewide issues and legislation.
Coming up next week, April 27, the experimental indie horror film "Hannah House"
May's schedule will be coming out next week, but here's a couple of previews:
Coming up on Saturday, May 19 - in addition to our regular Friday evening screenings, we will be holding a film-based fundraiser for Equality California, which will include a screening of the marriage equality documentary, "We the People." West Sacramento mayor Christopher Cabaldon is currently scheduled to be in attendance to speak with folks, and we are also working on at least one member of the State Assembly who is active in this issue! Ticket prices are still to be determined, as well as some other details, but they should be ironed out shortly. We also currently plan for advance tickets to be available for this very special evening.
Also coming in May - the exclusive Sacramento premiere of Curt Johnson's controversial new documentary, "Your Mommy Kills Animals," which aims to present a scrupulously-neutral portrait of the current state of the animal rights movement.
You can also always check http://www.shiny-object.com/screenings/
Thank you again, and we hope to see you tomorrow!!
Reminder!
Tomorrow, 4/20. 7 PM.
Admission: $5.00.
Location: Fools Foundation - 1025 19th St, Sacramento.
That's off of K St, between 19th and 20th, next to the back end of the Old Spaghetti Factory. Digital projection on to a big screen. Seating is on folding chairs - feel free to bring a pillow or cushion, or even your own folding chair!
"The End of Suburbia: Oil Depletion and the Collapse of The American Dream"
Just in time for Earth Day and the return of skyrocketing gas prices!
Since World War II, North Americans have invested much of their newfound wealth in suburbia. As the population of suburban sprawl exploded in the past 50 years, Suburbia became the American Dream.
But as we enter the 21st century, serious questions are beginning to emerge about the sustainability of this way of life. With brutal honesty and a touch of irony, "The End of Suburbia" explores the American Way of Life and its prospects as the planet approaches a critical era, as global demand for fossil fuels begins to outstrip supply. World Oil Peak and the inevitable decline of fossil fuels are upon us now, some scientists and policy makers argue in this documentary.
The consequences of inaction in the face of this global crisis are enormous. What does Oil Peak mean for North America? As energy prices skyrocket even more in the coming years, how will the populations of suburbia react to the collapse of their dream? Are today's suburbs destined to become the slums of tomorrow? And what can be done NOW, individually and collectively, to avoid The End of Suburbia?
Hosted by Barrie Zwicker. Featuring author and New York Time contributor James Howard Kunstler, Peter Calthorpe (urban planner, author and lecturer), Professor Michael Klare (contributor to The Nation, Scientific American and numerous others), Richard Heinberg (Peak Oil educator and research fellow at the Post Carbon Institute), Matthew Simmons (CEO of Simmons and Co, former energy advisor to George Bush and one of the world's leading experts on Peak Oil), Michael C. Ruppert (From the Wilderness), Julian Darley (founder, Post Cabon Institute), Colin Campbell (retired petroleum geologist for Texaco, BP, etc, and author of "The Coming Oil Crisis"), Kenneth Deffeyes (Princeton professor and former associate of M. King Hubbert), Ali Samsam Bakhtiari (Senior Expert in the Corporate Planning Directorate of the National Iranian Oil Co) and Steve Andrews(Denver-based energy consultant).
Dan Jacobson, Legislative Advocate for Environment California is scheduled to be in attendance to speak about related statewide issues and legislation.
"Foresees a very-near-future in which drastically reduced global oil and natural gas supplies have particularly disastrous consequences for a bedrock 20th-century American lifestyle. Convincing... Assembled with straightforward competence." -- Variety.
Coming up next week, April 27, the experimental indie horror film "Hannah House"
May's schedule will be coming out next week, but here's a couple of previews:
Coming up on Saturday, May 19 - in addition to our regular Friday evening screenings, we will be holding a film-based fundraiser for Equality California, which will include a screening of the marriage equality documentary, "We the People." West Sacramento mayor Christopher Cabaldon is currently scheduled to be in attendance to speak with folks, and we are also working on at least one member of the State Assembly who is active in this issue! Ticket prices are still to be determined, as well as some other details, but they should be ironed out shortly. We also currently plan for advance tickets to be available for this very special evening.
Also coming in May - the exclusive Sacramento premiere of Curt Johnson's controversial new documentary, "Your Mommy Kills Animals," which aims to present a scrupulously-neutral portrait of the current state of the animal rights movement.
You can also always check http://www.shiny-object.com/screenings/
Thank you again, and we hope to see you tomorrow!!
Small Press | Unfair Postal Hikes
Via: Jamie FitzGerald, Poets & Writers
Lopsided rate hikes for small magazines
Date: Wed, 18 Apr 2007
Please support efforts by AGNI and many other magazines and small presses to combat an unfair postal hike that promises to damage what’s left of a viable free press in this country.
from Bob McChesney:
On very rare occasions I send a message to everyone in my email address book
on an issue that I find of staggering importance and urgency. This is one of
those times.
There is a major crisis in our media taking place right now; it is getting
almost no attention and unless we act very soon the consequences for our
society could well be disastrous. And it will only take place because it is
being done without any public awareness or participation; it goes directly
against the very foundations of freedom of the press in the entirety of
American history.
The U.S. Post Office is in the process of implementing a radical
reformulation of its rates for magazines, such that smaller periodicals will
be hit with a much much larger increase than the largest magazines.
Because the Post Office is a monopoly, and because magazines must use it,
the postal rates always have been skewed to make it cheaper for smaller
publications to get launched and to survive. The whole idea has been to use
the postal rates to keep publishing as competitive and wide open as
possible. This bedrock principle was put in place by James Madison and
Thomas Jefferson. They considered it mandatory to create the press system,
the Fourth Estate necessary for self-government.
It was postal policy that converted the free press clause in the First
Amendment from an abstract principle into a living breathing reality for
Americans. And it has served that role throughout our history.
What the Post Office is now proposing goes directly against 215 years of
postal policy. The Post Office is in the process of implementing a radical
reformulation of its mailing rates for magazines. Under the plan, smaller
periodicals will be hit with a much larger increase than the big magazines,
as much as 30 percent. Some of the largest circulation magazines will face
hikes of less than 10 percent.
The new rates, which go into effect on July 15, were developed with no
public involvement or congressional oversight, and the increased costs could
damage hundreds, even thousands, of smaller publications, possibly putting
many out of business. This includes nearly every political journal in the
nation. These are the magazines that often provide the most original
journalism and analysis. These are the magazines that provide much of the
content on Common Dreams. We desperately need them.
What the Post Office is planning to do now, in the dark of night, is
implement a rate structure that gives the best prices to the biggest
publishers, hence letting them lock in their market position and lessen the
threat of any new competition. The new rates could make it almost impossible
to launch a new magazine, unless it is spawned by a huge conglomerate.
Not surprisingly, the new scheme was drafted by Time Warner, the largest
magazine publisher in the nation. All evidence available suggests the
bureaucrats responsible have never considered the implications of their
draconian reforms for small and independent publishers, or for citizens who
depend upon a free press.
The corruption and sleaziness of this process is difficult to exaggerate. As
one lawyer who works for a large magazine publisher admits, It takes a
publishing company several hundred thousand dollars to even participate in
these rate cases. Some large corporations spend millions to influence these
rates.Little guys, and the general public who depend upon these magazines,
are not at the table when the deal is being made.
The genius of the postal rate structure over the past 215 years was that it
did not favor a particular viewpoint; it simply made it easier for smaller
magazines to be launched and to survive. That is why the publications
opposing the secretive Post Office rate hikes cross the political spectrum.
This is not a left-wing issue or a right-wing issue, it is a democracy
issue. And it is about having competitive media markets that benefit all
Americans. This reform will have disastrous effects for all small and
mid-sized publications, be they on politics, music, sports or gardening.
This process was conducted with such little publicity and pitched only at
the dominant players that we only learned about it a few weeks ago and it is
very late in the game. But there is something you can do. Please go to
www.stoppostalrateh ikes.com and sign the letter to the Postal Board
protesting the new rate system and demanding a congressional hearing before
any radical changes are made. The deadline for comments is April 23.
I know many of you are connected to publications that go through the mail,
or libraries and bookstores that pay for subscriptions to magazines and
periodicals. If you fall in these categories, it is imperative you get
everyone connected to your magazine or operation to go to
www.stoppostalrateh ikes.com.
We do not have a moment to lose. If everyone who reads this email responds
at www.stoppostalrateh ikes.com, and then sends it along to their friends
urging them to do the same, we can win. If there is one thing we have
learned at Free Press over the past few years, it is that if enough people
raise hell, we can force politicians to do the right thing. This is a time
for serious hell-raising.
And to my friends from outside the United States, I apologize for cluttering
your inbox. If you read this far, we can use your moral support.
From the bottom of my heart, thanks.
Bob
Robert W. McChesney
www.mediaproblem.org
www.freepress.net
Department of Communication
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
There's an online petition for publishers here:
http://action.freepress.net/campaign/postal_publications?rk=rdxY8gE1VEcBE
And here's a quick rundown of what happened according to freepress.net:
Earlier this year, the Postal Regulatory Commission (PRC) rejected a postal rate increase plan offered by the U.S. Postal Service. Instead they opted to implement a complicated plan submitted by media giant Time Warner. (Click here to read the decision and click here for a timeline.)
Under the original plan, all publishers would have a mostly equal increase (approx. 12 percent) in the cost for mailing their publications. The Time Warner plan overturned this level playing field to favor large, ad-heavy magazines like People at the expense of smaller publications like In These Times and The American Spectator. It penalizes thousands of small- to medium-sized outlets with disproportionately higher rates while locking in privileges for bigger companies.
(With thanks to Adam Pieroni, Jill Patterson, and many others who have begun to mobilize against this rate change. Devised by Time Warner and adopted by the Postal Rate Commission? This smells like Dick Cheney’s energy policy ...)
Lopsided rate hikes for small magazines
Date: Wed, 18 Apr 2007
Please support efforts by AGNI and many other magazines and small presses to combat an unfair postal hike that promises to damage what’s left of a viable free press in this country.
from Bob McChesney:
On very rare occasions I send a message to everyone in my email address book
on an issue that I find of staggering importance and urgency. This is one of
those times.
There is a major crisis in our media taking place right now; it is getting
almost no attention and unless we act very soon the consequences for our
society could well be disastrous. And it will only take place because it is
being done without any public awareness or participation; it goes directly
against the very foundations of freedom of the press in the entirety of
American history.
The U.S. Post Office is in the process of implementing a radical
reformulation of its rates for magazines, such that smaller periodicals will
be hit with a much much larger increase than the largest magazines.
Because the Post Office is a monopoly, and because magazines must use it,
the postal rates always have been skewed to make it cheaper for smaller
publications to get launched and to survive. The whole idea has been to use
the postal rates to keep publishing as competitive and wide open as
possible. This bedrock principle was put in place by James Madison and
Thomas Jefferson. They considered it mandatory to create the press system,
the Fourth Estate necessary for self-government.
It was postal policy that converted the free press clause in the First
Amendment from an abstract principle into a living breathing reality for
Americans. And it has served that role throughout our history.
What the Post Office is now proposing goes directly against 215 years of
postal policy. The Post Office is in the process of implementing a radical
reformulation of its mailing rates for magazines. Under the plan, smaller
periodicals will be hit with a much larger increase than the big magazines,
as much as 30 percent. Some of the largest circulation magazines will face
hikes of less than 10 percent.
The new rates, which go into effect on July 15, were developed with no
public involvement or congressional oversight, and the increased costs could
damage hundreds, even thousands, of smaller publications, possibly putting
many out of business. This includes nearly every political journal in the
nation. These are the magazines that often provide the most original
journalism and analysis. These are the magazines that provide much of the
content on Common Dreams. We desperately need them.
What the Post Office is planning to do now, in the dark of night, is
implement a rate structure that gives the best prices to the biggest
publishers, hence letting them lock in their market position and lessen the
threat of any new competition. The new rates could make it almost impossible
to launch a new magazine, unless it is spawned by a huge conglomerate.
Not surprisingly, the new scheme was drafted by Time Warner, the largest
magazine publisher in the nation. All evidence available suggests the
bureaucrats responsible have never considered the implications of their
draconian reforms for small and independent publishers, or for citizens who
depend upon a free press.
The corruption and sleaziness of this process is difficult to exaggerate. As
one lawyer who works for a large magazine publisher admits, It takes a
publishing company several hundred thousand dollars to even participate in
these rate cases. Some large corporations spend millions to influence these
rates.Little guys, and the general public who depend upon these magazines,
are not at the table when the deal is being made.
The genius of the postal rate structure over the past 215 years was that it
did not favor a particular viewpoint; it simply made it easier for smaller
magazines to be launched and to survive. That is why the publications
opposing the secretive Post Office rate hikes cross the political spectrum.
This is not a left-wing issue or a right-wing issue, it is a democracy
issue. And it is about having competitive media markets that benefit all
Americans. This reform will have disastrous effects for all small and
mid-sized publications, be they on politics, music, sports or gardening.
This process was conducted with such little publicity and pitched only at
the dominant players that we only learned about it a few weeks ago and it is
very late in the game. But there is something you can do. Please go to
www.stoppostalrateh ikes.com and sign the letter to the Postal Board
protesting the new rate system and demanding a congressional hearing before
any radical changes are made. The deadline for comments is April 23.
I know many of you are connected to publications that go through the mail,
or libraries and bookstores that pay for subscriptions to magazines and
periodicals. If you fall in these categories, it is imperative you get
everyone connected to your magazine or operation to go to
www.stoppostalrateh ikes.com.
We do not have a moment to lose. If everyone who reads this email responds
at www.stoppostalrateh ikes.com, and then sends it along to their friends
urging them to do the same, we can win. If there is one thing we have
learned at Free Press over the past few years, it is that if enough people
raise hell, we can force politicians to do the right thing. This is a time
for serious hell-raising.
And to my friends from outside the United States, I apologize for cluttering
your inbox. If you read this far, we can use your moral support.
From the bottom of my heart, thanks.
Bob
Robert W. McChesney
www.mediaproblem.org
www.freepress.net
Department of Communication
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
There's an online petition for publishers here:
http://action.freepress.net/campaign/postal_publications?rk=rdxY8gE1VEcBE
And here's a quick rundown of what happened according to freepress.net:
Earlier this year, the Postal Regulatory Commission (PRC) rejected a postal rate increase plan offered by the U.S. Postal Service. Instead they opted to implement a complicated plan submitted by media giant Time Warner. (Click here to read the decision and click here for a timeline.)
Under the original plan, all publishers would have a mostly equal increase (approx. 12 percent) in the cost for mailing their publications. The Time Warner plan overturned this level playing field to favor large, ad-heavy magazines like People at the expense of smaller publications like In These Times and The American Spectator. It penalizes thousands of small- to medium-sized outlets with disproportionately higher rates while locking in privileges for bigger companies.
(With thanks to Adam Pieroni, Jill Patterson, and many others who have begun to mobilize against this rate change. Devised by Time Warner and adopted by the Postal Rate Commission? This smells like Dick Cheney’s energy policy ...)