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