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 ROCKERFools 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 FREQUENCYLuna'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 JENSENFri-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 XilonenAURORA 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 & StudentsLa 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 SANDOVALLa 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 NIGHTHQ: 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
INSTAGONTrue 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 MICButch-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 COLLECIVECosumnes 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 FAIRCrocker 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 TROUPESouthside Park, 6th & T Streets Bandshell. Music starts at 3:30pm; show 4pm. Free show in the park!
SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 15TH, 10AM - 5PM
ANTIQUARIAN BOOK FAIRScottish 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 & OTHERWISESAD 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)
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