Writing Writing Writing

a late afternoon reading with:

Will Alexander
Dmitry Golynko
Vanessa Place
Matvei Yankelevich

Hosted through PUBLIC ADDRESS LOS ANGELES VÍA PÚBLICA

Sunday, November 21, 2010 at 5:30pm

at Outpost for Contemporary Art
1268 N. Ave 50
Los Angeles, 90042

Doors open at 5:00pm, Reading starts at 5:30pm

FREE

Will Alexander is a poet, novelist, essayist, playwright, and visual artist. His latest book of poems, The Sri Lanken Loxodrome, was published by New Directions in 2009.

Dmitry Golynko was born in 1969 in Leningrad, USSR. He was guest professor for two years at Cheongju University (Slavic Department) in South Korea in 2004-5, and is currently Resident Researcher at Russian Institute of Arts History. He writes numerous essays on topics from the fields of contemporary art and literature, and is the author of many poetry collections, including Directory (2001), Concrete Doves (2003), and the English-language compilation of his poetic work to date, As It Turned Out (2008). Golynko has been nominated for the renowned Andrei-Bely-Award. He lives in St Petersburg.

Vanessa Place is a writer, lawyer, and co-director of Les Figues Press. Her most recent work is available in French by éditions è®e, as Exposé des Faits and in English by Blanc Press, as Statement of Facts.

Matvei Yankelevich’s books and chapbooks include Boris by the Sea (Octopus Books), The Present Work (Palm Press), and The Nature Poetry of Matvei Yankelevich (Knock-Off). His writing has appeared in Action Yes!, Boston Review, Big Bell, Damn the Caesars,Fence, Open City, Tantalum, Typo, Wobbling Roof, Zen Monster, and others. His translations from Russian crop up in Calque, Circumference, Harpers, New American Writing, Poetry, the New Yorker and in some anthologies. At Ugly Duckling Presse, he designs and/or edits many and various books and co-edits the periodical 6×6.

Recent environmental and social disasters in New Orleans and the Gulf South gained worldwide attention.  But the community-based response to those disasters is deeply connected to broader social movements around the nation: grassroots responses to environmental disasters, neighborhood-based planning, affordable housing, community organizing, and prison reform.

Journalist and New Orleans-based community organizer Jordan Flaherty will be in Los Angeles to discuss struggles for justice and liberation in New Orleans and the Gulf South, and to connect those struggles with those around the nation.

Jordan’s conversation is a part of the Community Resistance tour, which seeks to connect communities of liberation, and to build relationships between grassroots activists and independent media.  This tour is for anyone interested in issues of health care, education, criminal justice, housing, or the ways in which systems of racism, patriarchy and other forms of oppression intersect with these struggles.

Sponsored by Haymarket Books, PM Press, Left Turn Magazine, Community Futures Collective, PATOIS, and other radical and independent media projects from around the US, the COMMUNITY AND RESISTANCE TOUR is an exciting movement-building opportunity.

Jordan Flaherty is a journalist and community organizer based in New Orleans.  He was the first journalist with a national audience to write about the Jena Six case, and played an important role in bringing the story to worldwide attention. His post-Katrina writing in ColorLines Magazine shared a journalism award from New America Media for best Katrina-related coverage in the Ethnic press, and audiences around the world have seen the news segments he’s produced for Al-Jazeera, TeleSur, GritTV, and Democracy Now. His new book is called FLOODLINES: Community and Resistance from Katrina to the Jena Six. Jordan has appeared as a guest on a wide range of television and radio shows, including CNN Morning, Anderson Cooper 360, CNN Headline News, Democracy Now, Grit TV, and both local and nationally-syndicated shows on National Public Radio.

For more information on Jordan or his work, see www.floodlines.org.

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Sunday, October 17 — 8pm – 10pm Poetry, Music, Art and Conversation with Craig Santos Perez, Arturo Ernesto Romo-Santillano, Cat Lamb and Laura Steenberge

Craig Santos Perez comes to the Southland to celebrate publication of his second book, titled _from unincorporated territory [saina]_ (Omnidawn Publishing, 2010). Craig is a native Chamoru from the Pacific Island of Guahan (Guam), and has lived in California since 1995. He received his MFA in Poetry from the University of San Francisco and is currently a Ph.D. Candidate in Comparative Ethnic Studies at UC Berkeley. He is co-founder of Achiote Press; his first book, _from unincorporated territory [hacha], was published in 2008 by Tinfiish Press.

Arturo Ernesto Romo-Santillano was born in Los Angeles, California in 1980. His artwork, mostly mixed media and installation works, has been exhibited internationally, most recently in the exhibition Holy Jolina, at Tropico de Nopal Gallery and Art-Space in Los Angeles. His subject matter is influenced by conspiracy theory and alchemical texts, junkyards, sprawl architecture, terrorism and entheogenics. An overarching theme in his work is fluency and its folly; he sees his artwork as a companion multiplier to an already baffling, origamaic world. His art-making is inspired by explorations on the streets of East Los Angeles, which feed into an ongoing series of fake radio shows called The Recent Rupture Radio Hour, created with writer Sesshu Foster.

Catherine Lamb and Laura Steenberge started experimenting with sound vibrations together about a year and a half ago. Cat plays viola and Laura plays contrabass. Using their stringed instruments and their voices, they are interested in exploring how sound vibrations interact with each other, with a particular focus on the overtone series. To do this they make up exercises, etudes, and compositions. They are co-founders of the Singing by Numbers women’s choir.

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***IN BRIEF***
and always free

1. FRIDAY, OCT. 8, 2010 — Presentation by Dan S. Wang, “Illusions, East and West…and Realities Midwest”  8pm – 10pm

2. SATURDAY, OCT. 9 — !!!TWO EVENTS!!!
Brunchluck and Book Exchange
10am – 12pm
Conversation with Faith Wilding, “What Feminisms Continue to Do”
1pm – 3pm

3. WEDNESDAY OCT. 13 — Mark McBride’s Yo-yo Apocalypse
7pm – 10pm

4. SUNDAY, OCT 17 — Poetry Reading, Visual Presentation, and Public Conversation with poet Craig Santos Perez and artist Arturo Ernesto Romo-Santillano.

8pm – 10pm

****ALL THE DETAILS!****

1. FRIDAY, OCTOBER 8, 8pm-10pm, *Presentation by Dan S. Wang, “Illusions, East and West…and Realities Midwest”*
The “midwest radical culture corridor,” as both idea and possibility, is about connecting places in time and space, so as to better inform our creativity, cultural and political. Corridors connect two points, by way of many; corridors are traveled by people, ideas, money, images, objects, knowledge, materials. Along with a loose group of artists who sometimes work under the name Compass, Dan S. Wang has been identifying, experiencing, and trying to understand both the obvious and the hidden corridors that, start, end, or at some point cross the Midwest, the interstate region in which these Compass artists spend most of their time. In May of this year Dan went to Penglai, a small Chinese city on the southern coast of the Bohai Sea. Traditionally associated with fairytales, Taoist sages, and water-borne mirages, the historic but sleepy town now wakes to tourism, and is surrounded by a general economic boom. He also tells about being in Detroit a few weeks later for the US Social Forum and how other people arrived there through their own corridors. These pilgrimage/research journeys of his and others add strands to the web of corridors that renders apparent the relationships and senses of scale that are needed for re-spiriting the Midwest—and our planet Earth—with a radical future.

Dan S. Wang is a writer, printer, and artist who lives in Madison, Wisconsin. Along with seven others, he co-founded Mess Hall, an experimental cultural space in Chicago. He regularly collaborates with a range of art groups, activists, and researchers in creating exhibitions, publications, and events.
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2. SATURDAY, OCT. 9 — !!!TWO EVENTS!!!

*10am-12pm–Brunchluck and Free/Book Exchange*
Join us the second Saturday of every month as we spill out onto the sidewalk near the corner of York and Ave 50 to eat, chat, and give things away. Bring some food to share and anything you don’t need anymore that you’d like to give away — books, music, clothing etc. This is also a great time to get an event you want to host at Public Address on the calendar.

*1pm-3p–Conversation with Faith Wilding, “What Feminisms Continue to Do”*

“What Feminisms Continue to Do”
Faith Wilding in conversation at Public Address
Saturday, October 9th, 1pm

On October 9th, Faith Wilding will join keyholders of Public Address and others to share her thoughts on the role of feminism within arts pedagogy, institution building and the making of alternative spaces. Faith will present some brief histories before we move into a conversation on the present considering how the principles of feminism–and their impact on art, politics and education–continue to shape new spaces, practices, subjects, relations, and forms of critical thinking and action. Participants in the conversation will include Ava Bromberg, Michelle Dizon, Jade Thacker, Ashley Hunt, you, and whoever else you bring to join the conversation.
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3. October 13 — Mark McBride’s Yo-Yo Apocalypse – 7pm – 10pm

Yo-yos have come a long way from the piece of wood on a cotton string of 50 years ago. Come out and see how far they’ve gone with yo-yo pro Mark McBride. If you bring your own yo-yo he’ll even teach you tricks.

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4. Sunday, October 17 – 8pm – 10pm Poetry Reading, Visual Presentation, and Public Conversation with poet Craig Santos Perez and artist Arturo Ernesto Romo-Santillano.

Craig Santos Perez comes to the Southland to celebrate publication of his second book, titled _from unincorporated territory [saina]_ (Omnidawn Publishing, 2010). Craig is a native Chamoru from the Pacific Island of Guahan (Guam), and has lived in California since 1995. He received his MFA in Poetry from the University of San Francisco and is currently a Ph.D. Candidate in Comparative Ethnic Studies at UC Berkeley. He is co-founder of Achiote Press; his first book, _from unincorporated territory [hacha], was published in 2008 by Tinfiish Press.

Arturo Ernesto Romo-Santillano was born in Los Angeles, California in 1980. His artwork, mostly mixed media and installation works, has been exhibited internationally, most recently in the exhibition Holy Jolina, at Trpico de Nopal Gallery and Art-Space in Los Angeles. His subject matter is influenced by conspiracy theory and alchemical texts, junkyards, sprawl architecture, terrorism and entheogenics. An overarching theme in his work is fluency and its folly; he sees his artwork as a companion multiplier to an already baffling, origamaic world. His art-making is inspired by explorations on the streets of East Los Angeles, which feed into an ongoing series of fake radio shows called The Recent Rupture Radio Hour, created with writer Sesshu Foster.