Ruby & Nico at Oakland Museum August 1 July 31, 2008
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I am such an ill-Literacy fanboy. Check out Ruby and Nico of the ill-Literacy spoken word collective performing tomorrow night!
When asked if he’s performing at the Oakland Museum with Ruby tomorrow Nico said, “I think so…”
And honestly, considering that it’s summertime and we’re artists, that’s a pretty solid confirmation.
Oakland Museum of California :: 1000 Oak St. @ 10th St.
Friday August 1, 5-9pm (iLL-Lit @ 8!)
FREE
More info here.
Stories High 2008 opens today! July 31, 2008
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Two years ago I participated in Bindlestiff Studio’s Stories High production for new artists. Under the direction of the fabulous Samantha Chanse and Gayle Romasanta, I took part in their writing workshops which led to the production of my first play, Trainsong. Stories High is an amazing arts program that cultivates new art and artists in community. Now in its tenth season, the newest batch of work opens today and runs through August 16. Checkit. I know I will.
10th ANNUAL Stories High Showcase 2008!!!
After months of rehearsals, readings and rewrites, Bindlestiff Studio is proud to present the 10th Annual Stories High Showcase. Thursday through Saturday, July 31 – Aug. 16. All shows are at the Off Market Theater, 965 Mission Street (between 5th and 6th), San Francisco. Tickets will be sold at a sliding scale, $10-$15. The showcase highlights the achievements of this year’s crop of writing, acting and directing workshop participants and explores a variety of characters, themes and situations. A couple caught in a bitter feud. An insecure English teacher grappling with ghosts from the past. A young woman’s brush with her savior. The power of love, and the fight for it, during a dancing class. A soldier chooses between his family and his perceived country. A murderer commits his last act of violence. A confused boyfriend must decide between fidelity and guilty pleasure.
For more information, please visit www.bindlestiffstudio.org. If you would like to make a reservation, please email Susie@bindlestiffstudio.org with the show title, date, and number of seats you’d like to reserve. You can also purchase tickets online at http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/38741.
Mini-chapbooks whoOOAAH July 29, 2008
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This is one of the most brilliant guerrilla poetics I’ve ever seen. I am gonna have to try this out. From Barbra Reyes’s poeta y diwata:
At Flor y Canto, these awesome little one-poem chaps, which are a fantastic idea and fantastic production, were everywhere (organizers and volunteers were just handing them out and leaving them on people’s chairs)
These little chaps are 2.0 inches tall x 1.75 inches wide!
(For scale, see my lip gloss tube at the top of the pic)
Top Row: Nicholas Guillen, “Proposito,” and Jack Hirschman, “The Xibalba Arcane: No. 13.”
Middle Row: Roque Dalton, “Advice,” and Julia de Burgos, “To Julia de Burgos.”
Bottom Row: Jose Montoya, “Chicanos Before the War, Raza Before the War,” and Ernesto Cardenal, “Epigrama.”
micro poems!
infiltrate your life
leave you finding sun spot poems
floating slipped unexpected
in your pockets
SF Theater Fest Tomorrow July 26, 2008
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Theater in the park! I went to the festival last year, and I am juiced to check it this year — they have so much live performance going on every which way you may wet yourself. With several venues and performances going on simultaneously of all kinds, from hip hop theater to improv to children’s dance to musicals — this is a veritable FREE buffet of the latest and greatest theater going on in the Bay. One day only!
The 5th annual one-day theater extravaganza will be held on Sunday, July 27, 2008 from 11:00am – 5:00pm at beautiful Yerba Buena Gardens in downtown San Francisco, and at Zeum, the YB Center for the Arts, and the Metreon.
See 100 exciting theater groups and solo performers, including a great children’s program! Admission Free.
Featured at the 2008 festival:
- AfroSolo presents Angela Dean-Baham as Black Patti
- Amiri Baraka’s provocative plays of black experience, including his new play, “Sisyphus Syndrome”
- Lamplighters Music Theatre’s “The Mikado”
- Best of Playground’s one act plays
- Aleshia Brevard & Gina Grahame’s transsexual production of “One Damn Man!”
- Oh My Godmother, gay Cinderella
- Best of the Buddy Club, 16 great children’s shows
- Improv Groups: Blue Blanket, BATS, SPF7, Big City & Stagebridge’s Over-50 Improv
For a full schedule, visit the SF Theater Festival website.
Artist feature: adrizzle July 25, 2008
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Adriel Luis of ill-literacy is one of my heroes.
He’s in NYC now and recently seen with the likes of Kissey Asplund and poet grande Amiri Baraka at the Bowery Poetry Club. Yes I stalk. You should too cuz he’s cool like that.
Berkeley Kite Fest this weekend July 24, 2008
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The Berkeley Kite Festival is one of the most beautiful events you will ever witness. Giant octupi flying in the sky. Traditional Japanese kites. Choreographed kite shows. And vicious kite competitions that are fatal–for the kites that is (see Rokkaku on wikipedia).
Go see it. Bring your own kite. Have a picnic! That’s what I’ll be doing.
clearing google calendars July 14, 2008
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there is no category in my life called school anymore
whoa
East Meets West = awesomeness July 14, 2008
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East Meets West: A Night of Hip Hop and Comedy at Space 180 SF blasted last night. I had the opportunity to perform with the amazing talent of comedians Aivy Cordova and Emmanuel Romero, super songstress Golda Supernova, and New York talents, comedian Kevin Nadal and emcee Hydroponiks. The event’s proceeds went to the CANfit program, which aims to improve nutrition and health among Bay Area youth.
The crowd was warm and full of love and the sets provided a cool variety of comedy, poetry, and hip hop. Visiting New York comedian Kevin Nadal and emcee Hydroponiks most definitely rocked the stage and brought it for the East Coast.
These artists’ work speaks for itself so check out their websites for future appearances and performances!
Thanks all for a great event!
of life and literature and of dreams July 10, 2008
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jarrett bato recently wrote a post about the watchmen and life-changing literature. in responding to his post to make a recommendation i remembered one of the most life changing works i have ever experienced.
i need this again, art that changes everything.
my comment on jarrett’s post:
i read the watchmen. we should talk about it sometime. i anticipate that the movie will absolutely not do justice to the comic.
my favorite comic series–nay my favorite piece of literature–of all time is the sandman by neil gaiman. neil gaiman is a storyteller and literary genius. published from 1989-1996 it’s available in ten volumes these days (yes ten!). i read the entire series the summer of my fifteenth year and it changed my life.
i can’t promise it will do the same for you, it was probably the timing, it was probably what i needed in my life. but that does not reduce its creative genius.
if you have the patience i highly recommend it to you–a complex universe embedded in a literary and cultural history, illustration that is deserving of being plastered across the heavens, and characters so rich with emotial depth that your brain and heart will explode more than once.
the sandman for me is like a spiritual journey. it will take you time to get through, but if you are ready .. to believe in magic and the possibility of everything … then come, take the red pill.
-adrien
good July 10, 2008
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mornings
i spend
my first hour at work
eating toast
reading blogs and
the first pot of chinatown
golden throat
green tea
into me
