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
Thursday, June 28, 2007
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 ...)
Wednesday, April 11, 2007
May 7th | Julia B. Levine and Jennifer K. Sweeney
The Other Voice presents Julia B. Levine and Jennifer K. Sweeney reading their poetry at The Unitarian Universalist Church of Davis, 27074 Patwin Road, Davis, California 95616, on Monday, May 7th, at 7:30pm. James Lee Jobe will host. There will be an open reading following the poets. This is a free event. Call 530-750-3514 for details.
---
Julia B. Levine has received numerous awards and grants in poetry, including the Discovery/the Nation award, the Tampa Review Prize in Poetry for her second full-length collection of poems, titled, Ask, and the Anhinga Prize in Poetry, for her first book, Practicing for Heaven. Her third book, tentatively titled, In the Mud Room of Existence, is due out this fall from University of Tampa Press. She received her Ph.D. from University of California at Berkeley in 1989 in clinical psychology. She lives and works in Davis.
---
Jennifer K. Sweeney is a teacher and writer in San Francisco. She won the 2006 Main Street Rag Poetry Book Award and her book, Salt Memory,was published last November. She holds an M.F.A. in Creative Writing from Vermont College. Her poetry has been published or is forthcoming in: Hayden’s Ferry Review, Barrow Street, Passages North, New York Quarterly, Puerto del Sol, RUNES, subtropics and elsewhere. She was recently awarded a Cultural Equities Grant from the San Francisco Arts Commission.
---
Bathtime at the Children's Shelter
by Julia B. Levine
and I'm trying to be brave, to dab his penis
with this towel, to unfold his twisted arm
and rub the inside dry.
Last week, they wanted me to say
whether it was better if a man or woman
held him down, while the doctor checked
how many times he'd been torn apart.
And sure I'm paid to live this close
to the dirt of what's been done,
but I don't know about these red scabs
exploding across this child's skin.
Or how he sits on the toilet, thin as a rail,
trembling from the cold, and speaks
as if he's fine. Go ahead,
he tells me cheerfully,
just let the good one help the bad,
and together we fish his crippled hand
through the pajamas his father gave to him.
Power Rangers, he says, and smiles.
Annie, I nearly said to his favorite aide,
But we don't talk
about how little is coming clean.
And though the good in me
seems a worn-out rag, I'm nodding
as he tells me his father wants him back,
and kneeling as I lift his legs, one by one,
into the pajama legs. And he's leaning, briefly
on my shoulder, trusting me to carry,
for just a moment, the blessed
and shaming lesson
we've been asked to live.
---
Of Gravity And Will
by Jennifer K. Sweeney
A baby was crawling out
a window this morning.
I stood beneath, ready to catch,
shouting to her in broken
Spanish. Finally, the mother
came and we were all saved.
The plump head, heavy
as a ripe mango on a branchlet,
stayed in my mind all day
and I kept running
to catch a falling book, a pencil,
a wadded up sheet of paper
sailing toward the trash.
When Justin shouted
Katie loves me!
in our kindergarten class,
I dashed to grasp the words
like yellow flowers
dropping from his grin.
At the end of the day
I slumped home,
my pockets packed
with voices and leaves,
and stood on the balcony,
the way I stand
outside my own life
shouting in Chinese
trying to catch poems.
---
Julia B. Levine has received numerous awards and grants in poetry, including the Discovery/the Nation award, the Tampa Review Prize in Poetry for her second full-length collection of poems, titled, Ask, and the Anhinga Prize in Poetry, for her first book, Practicing for Heaven. Her third book, tentatively titled, In the Mud Room of Existence, is due out this fall from University of Tampa Press. She received her Ph.D. from University of California at Berkeley in 1989 in clinical psychology. She lives and works in Davis.
---
Jennifer K. Sweeney is a teacher and writer in San Francisco. She won the 2006 Main Street Rag Poetry Book Award and her book, Salt Memory,was published last November. She holds an M.F.A. in Creative Writing from Vermont College. Her poetry has been published or is forthcoming in: Hayden’s Ferry Review, Barrow Street, Passages North, New York Quarterly, Puerto del Sol, RUNES, subtropics and elsewhere. She was recently awarded a Cultural Equities Grant from the San Francisco Arts Commission.
---
Bathtime at the Children's Shelter
by Julia B. Levine
and I'm trying to be brave, to dab his penis
with this towel, to unfold his twisted arm
and rub the inside dry.
Last week, they wanted me to say
whether it was better if a man or woman
held him down, while the doctor checked
how many times he'd been torn apart.
And sure I'm paid to live this close
to the dirt of what's been done,
but I don't know about these red scabs
exploding across this child's skin.
Or how he sits on the toilet, thin as a rail,
trembling from the cold, and speaks
as if he's fine. Go ahead,
he tells me cheerfully,
just let the good one help the bad,
and together we fish his crippled hand
through the pajamas his father gave to him.
Power Rangers, he says, and smiles.
Annie, I nearly said to his favorite aide,
But we don't talk
about how little is coming clean.
And though the good in me
seems a worn-out rag, I'm nodding
as he tells me his father wants him back,
and kneeling as I lift his legs, one by one,
into the pajama legs. And he's leaning, briefly
on my shoulder, trusting me to carry,
for just a moment, the blessed
and shaming lesson
we've been asked to live.
---
Of Gravity And Will
by Jennifer K. Sweeney
A baby was crawling out
a window this morning.
I stood beneath, ready to catch,
shouting to her in broken
Spanish. Finally, the mother
came and we were all saved.
The plump head, heavy
as a ripe mango on a branchlet,
stayed in my mind all day
and I kept running
to catch a falling book, a pencil,
a wadded up sheet of paper
sailing toward the trash.
When Justin shouted
Katie loves me!
in our kindergarten class,
I dashed to grasp the words
like yellow flowers
dropping from his grin.
At the end of the day
I slumped home,
my pockets packed
with voices and leaves,
and stood on the balcony,
the way I stand
outside my own life
shouting in Chinese
trying to catch poems.
Tuesday, April 3, 2007
October 24 - 29 2007 | Tomales Bay Workshops
Hello fans of Poems-For-All,
My name is Kate Asche, and I work for the UC Davis Graduate Creative Writing Program coordinating The Tomales Bay Workshops under director Pam Houston.
We want to make you aware of The Tomales Bay Workshops, which is an annual six-day writing conference held at The Marconi Conference Center ( www.marconiconference.org) on beautiful Tomales Bay, a little north of San Francisco. We have an extraordinary group of writers lined up to lead the workshops this year including Jack Driscoll, Cornelius Eady, Judith Freeman, Pete Fromm, Heather McHugh, and Howard Norman. Our keynote speaker will be the lovely and accomplished Joy Harjo. We think that some Sacramento Poetry Center members will want to join our talented and dedicated group of writers at the conference this fall, which will run from October 24 - 29 2007.
We are now accepting applications for general admission (due by June 15--but send now, because we fill up quickly!) but are also calling for applicants to our fellowship competition. Each year, we try to give away at least six full-ride fellowships; these pay the whole $1300 conference fee and include room, food, and workshop enrollment. **FELLOWSHIP APPLICATIONS ARE DUE APRIL 15** (applications arriving on Monday, April 16 will still be considered). Applications (and additional information) can be found in our brochure, which I have attached to this email, or on our website at http://extension.ucdavis.edu/unit/arts_and_humanities/ (scroll down to the bottom to "Featured Courses" and click "The Tomales Bay Workshops").
Please forward this email to anyone you feel would be interested in this fabulous writing and learning opportunity. (And please be sure to forward the brochure attachment with the note!)
Please do not hesitate to contact me at tomales.bay.workshops@gmail.com with any questions or concerns.
Thank you so much for your time and attention!
Sincerely,
Kate Asche
Conference Coordinator
~
The Tomales Bay Workshops
University of California, Davis
Creative Writing Program
My name is Kate Asche, and I work for the UC Davis Graduate Creative Writing Program coordinating The Tomales Bay Workshops under director Pam Houston.
We want to make you aware of The Tomales Bay Workshops, which is an annual six-day writing conference held at The Marconi Conference Center ( www.marconiconference.org) on beautiful Tomales Bay, a little north of San Francisco. We have an extraordinary group of writers lined up to lead the workshops this year including Jack Driscoll, Cornelius Eady, Judith Freeman, Pete Fromm, Heather McHugh, and Howard Norman. Our keynote speaker will be the lovely and accomplished Joy Harjo. We think that some Sacramento Poetry Center members will want to join our talented and dedicated group of writers at the conference this fall, which will run from October 24 - 29 2007.
We are now accepting applications for general admission (due by June 15--but send now, because we fill up quickly!) but are also calling for applicants to our fellowship competition. Each year, we try to give away at least six full-ride fellowships; these pay the whole $1300 conference fee and include room, food, and workshop enrollment. **FELLOWSHIP APPLICATIONS ARE DUE APRIL 15** (applications arriving on Monday, April 16 will still be considered). Applications (and additional information) can be found in our brochure, which I have attached to this email, or on our website at http://extension.ucdavis.edu/unit/arts_and_humanities/ (scroll down to the bottom to "Featured Courses" and click "The Tomales Bay Workshops").
Please forward this email to anyone you feel would be interested in this fabulous writing and learning opportunity. (And please be sure to forward the brochure attachment with the note!)
Please do not hesitate to contact me at tomales.bay.workshops@gmail.com with any questions or concerns.
Thank you so much for your time and attention!
Sincerely,
Kate Asche
Conference Coordinator
~
The Tomales Bay Workshops
University of California, Davis
Creative Writing Program
Saturday, March 31, 2007
Poetry Out Loud
Friday, March 30, 2007
Subway Stanzas | Poetry Posters on the Glasgow Subway
Since September 2006 (and until the end of March 2007), a new series of the Subway Stanzas poetry posters have been on display in the Glasgow Underground. This series has featured six poems by poets from countries in the Commonwealth, and the posters were put up in collaboration with Glasgow City Council, in support of Glasgow’s bid to host the Commonwealth Games in 2014.
‘Runner’, written by Robert Seatter from England, marked the Great Scottish Run. The poem comes from Travelling to the Fish Orchards published by Seren.
‘The jive’ by Mafka Gwala from South Africa celebrated the Big Big World Music Festival in October, and is published in Ten South African Poets published by Carcanet Press.
‘The Butterfly’ by Arun Kolatkar from India celebrated the Inspiration Children’s Festival in November and is from The Oxford India Anthology of Twelve Modern Indian Poets published by Oxford University Press.
‘I’ll wake up one morning’/’Dùisgidh mi aon mhadainn’ by Morag Montgomery celebrated Celtic Connections, Scotland’s biggest folk music festival, in January and is from An Tuil, An Anthology of 20 th century Scottish Gaelic Verse published by Polygon.
‘Falling Feeling’ by Finuala Dowling from South Africa celebrated Valentine’s Day in February and is from I Flying published by Carapace Press.
‘Folding the Sheets’ by Rosemary Dobson from Australia celebrated International Women’s Day in March and is from Collected Poems published by Angus & Robertson.
This series of posters was produced by the Scottish Poetry Library with the support of the Glasgow advertising company Non Stop Advertising, Strathclyde Public Transport, Primesight and Glasgow City Council. There has now been poetry on the Glasgow underground since 2005.
Gleaned from a news item on the Scottish Poetry Library website.
‘Runner’, written by Robert Seatter from England, marked the Great Scottish Run. The poem comes from Travelling to the Fish Orchards published by Seren.
‘The jive’ by Mafka Gwala from South Africa celebrated the Big Big World Music Festival in October, and is published in Ten South African Poets published by Carcanet Press.
‘The Butterfly’ by Arun Kolatkar from India celebrated the Inspiration Children’s Festival in November and is from The Oxford India Anthology of Twelve Modern Indian Poets published by Oxford University Press.
‘I’ll wake up one morning’/’Dùisgidh mi aon mhadainn’ by Morag Montgomery celebrated Celtic Connections, Scotland’s biggest folk music festival, in January and is from An Tuil, An Anthology of 20 th century Scottish Gaelic Verse published by Polygon.
‘Falling Feeling’ by Finuala Dowling from South Africa celebrated Valentine’s Day in February and is from I Flying published by Carapace Press.
‘Folding the Sheets’ by Rosemary Dobson from Australia celebrated International Women’s Day in March and is from Collected Poems published by Angus & Robertson.
This series of posters was produced by the Scottish Poetry Library with the support of the Glasgow advertising company Non Stop Advertising, Strathclyde Public Transport, Primesight and Glasgow City Council. There has now been poetry on the Glasgow underground since 2005.
Gleaned from a news item on the Scottish Poetry Library website.