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.
