August 2010
Portable City Projects
Transforma Book Launch Thursday 12 August 2010, 7:00-10:00 PM Members of the Transforma Team Join members of the Transforma Team for an open house event to celebrate the release of the 96-page, color publication that documents Transforma's five years of activity in New Orleans. Transforma supported public and socially engaged creative practice through direct project support in the post-Katrina landscape, and also through broader resource development and knowledge transfer. Financial support was provided to New Orleans-based projects on large and small scales…
Find out more »WWW | World’s Worst Words: Engaging People in Social Change through Performance with Slanguage
WWW | World’s Worst Words: Engaging People in Social Change through Performance with Slanguage This workshop, led by Karla Diaz from Slanguage, asks audiences to engage in examining performance by guiding students to explore negative words in contemporary pop culture. Diaz will introduce drop-in audiences to a variety of performance techniques that Slanguage members use to critically explore content and context in an effort for social change. Participants will learn and practice performance techniques based on theater practices and spoken …
Find out more »Portable City Projects: Public Action – Supporting Public Libraries
Public Action 1: Supporting Public Libraries every day this week August 16 - 23, from 6-7 PM Take a moment to shout out on the Portable City audio blog, and to take action which will show your support of public libraries. Tell us why library doors should be kept open. This audio blog will become part of a week long action at LACE from Aug 16 - 23rd in front of LACE. Show your support of public libraries.
Find out more »Not Content: Performance 3
Not Content: Performance 3 with Johanna Drucker, Mathew Timmons, Yedda Morrison Johanna Drucker, Yedda Morrison, and Mathew Timmons performing from I AM WORDLE, DARKNESS and CREDIT! These three are the next writers, curated by Les Figues Press, to perform with Not Content, a series of text projects that investigate the ways in which language functions within public and private spheres and within the tenuous and transitory space between these real and imagined realms. Johanna Drucker is an artist and writer who…
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Artist Talk: Yedda Morrison Come speak with writer/artist Yedda Morrison regarding her work, DARKNESS, as part of the Not Content series by Les Figues Press. Yedda Morrison Writer and visual artist Yedda Morrison was born and raised in the San Francisco Bay Area. Her books include Girl Scout Nation (Displaced Press, 2008) and Crop (Kelsey Street Press, 2003). Darkness (A Biocentric Reading of Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness) is forthcoming from Make Now Press in Los Angeles. Her writing has…
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