POP MONTRÉAL presents PATHWAY TO PARIS:
Anne Waldman and Fast Speaking Music (Ambrose Bye, Devin Brahja Waldman)
Thurston Moore
AroarA
Brad Barr (The Barr Brothers) Sarah Pagé (The Barr Brothers)
Jesse Paris Smith
Rebecca Foon
+ more to be announced
Sunday, September 20th, 2015
Théâtre Rialto (5723 Parc)
Doors 7pm / Show 8pm
Tickets $25
More information to come….
Performing selected works with musical accompaniment by Roger Green, Marc Dalio, Farrell Lowe, Dave Willey, and Paul Riola
Tuesday, August 18, 6 – 9 pm
Syntax Physic Opera
554 South Broadway, Denver
$5 suggested donation
Final performance of the 2015 Naropa Summer Writing Program with
Thurston Moore
Thomas Sayers Ellis & James Brandon Lewis
Anne Waldman
Ambrose Bye
Naropa University
Performing Arts Center
2130 Arapahoe Ave.
Boulder, CO 80302
With Love to Hiroshima & Nagasaki: a concert for Disarmament
Saturday, May 2, 2015; 8 pm
Location :
The New York Society for Ethical Culture
2 West 64th St, New York
Doors open from 8 p.m.
* TICKETS *
http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/1117429
An evening of music and spoken word featuring performers:
• The Hibakusha Choir, Himawari with Fiorello LaGuardia High School for Music and Art & the Performing Arts Choir
• Eco philosopher and Buddhist scholar Joanna Macy
• Excerpt from Peace Symphony by Paul D. Miller aka DJ Spooky featuring members of the Nouveau Classical Project
• Brooklyn-based composer and musician Jean Rohe
• Multi-reedist and composer Sam Sadigursky
• Masaaki Tanokura, concertmaster, Osaka Symphony, & the Hiroshima Jogakuin hibaku (atomic bomb survived) violin
• Poet Anne Waldman with Fast Speaking Music
• Tim Wright, ICAN (International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons)
• Atomic bomb survivors Setsuko Thurlow, Shigeko Sasamori and Yasuaki Yamashita
Hosted by Clifton Truman Daniel, grandson of US President Harry S Truman
Directed by Linda S. Chapman
Projections by Pikadon Project and Amber Cooper Davies
Written and produced by Kathleen Sullivan and Robert Croonquist
US Media Contact: Carolina Soto //
dakini2000@mindspring.com // (917) 453-7036
Emilie McGlone, Peace Boat US //
emilie@peaceboat-us.org
Japanese Media Contact: Mitchie Takeuchi //
mitchiet@arcmedia.net // (917) 626-3090
$20 Tickets on sale through Brown Paper Tickets
Groups contact: Robert Croonquist rcroon@gmail.com
Produced by Youth Arts New York’s Hibakusha Stories New York initiative and the New York Society for Ethical Culture in collaboration with Peace Boat US
Annual Women of Naropa Reading featuring Anne Waldman
Naropa University’s Performing Arts Center
2130 Arapahoe Avenue
Boulder, CO 80302
Muse Times Two reading with Anne Waldman and Arthur Sze
Collected Works Bookstore
202 Galisteo Street
Santa Fe, NM 87505
Reading and Conversation
Apr 1, 2015, 6:30 pm
Martin E. Segal Theatre
Come celebrate five years of Lost & Found: The CUNY Poetics Archive Initiative with Ammiel Alcalay and Aoibheann Sweeney, along with long-time friends of the press: Thurston Moore, Anne Waldman, and Dorothy Wang. Each speaker will read from and comment on pivotal texts published by Lost & Found Series I-V, touching upon the works and impact of writers like: Kathy Acker, Amiria Baraka, Nancy Cunard, Diane di Prima, Edward Dorn, Robert Duncan, Langston Hughes, Helene Johnson, Lorine Niedecker, Chalres Olson, Jean Sénac, and Jack Spicer, among many others.
Over the last five years, Lost & Found has traveled to over 50 archives both in the US and abroad; published 35 chapbooks; released 5 books under the rubric of Lost & Found Elsewhere; curated 2 exhibitions of art and ephemera related to New American Poetry at Poets House; held numerous workshops, readings, and events, such as the powerful reunion of the Umbra Workshop in 2014; and made countless previously unpublished novels, poems, manifestoes, letters, and screenplays available for the first time to the public. But perhaps most remarkably, Lost & Found has built a sustaining and cross-disciplinary community of scholars, educators, writers, artists, activists, and presses around its radical and recuperative publishing efforts.
Lost & Found Series V— featuring chapbooks by Kathy Acker, William S. Burroughs, Langston Hughes and Jean Sénac—will be available at the event for pre-publication purchase!
Saturday March 14, 8 pm
Sunday March 15, 3 pm
At the Douglas Dunn Salon
541 Broadway, NYC
Text and vocals: Anne Waldman
Musicians: Daniel Carter, Ha-Yang Kim, Devin Brahja Waldman, Ambrose Bye
Choreography: Douglas Dunn
Images: Kiki Smith
In Anne Waldman’s Jaguar Harmonics, the voice of the Ayahuasca vine, a “person woven of sound” speaks to the poet and us: “now you are quick, soon you will be dead”; “you can’t just go around killing and conquering persons.” And the poet asks herself, can we hear the “mammal stealth” of these warnings? Her listening creates a tesserae of sound and language for “poetry, to blink you awake.” A masterful web that compels us to “put away the scriptures of doom” and “breathe in this world this time of cosmic night.” —Cecila Vicuna
“Here word and music combine to birth a brilliantly contemporary genre that straddles storytelling, opera, and a general free jazz kind of sound… Individual instruments express themselves with collaborative purpose. As a whole, the music creates an excellent atmospheric backdrop for the narrative, never crowding the recitation, rather supplementing, expanding it and drawing pictures for the mind. As such, the music is interpretational only in the positive sense that it enriches the word with wider expressive possibilities. At the album’s best, poetry is music, performative, rhythmic; music is poetry, a language in pure sound.”—echo!, Klara Du Plessis on Jaguar Harmonics
Saturday March 14, 8 pm
Sunday March 15, 3 pm
At the Douglas Dunn Salon
541 Broadway, NYC
Text and vocals: Anne Waldman
Musicians: Daniel Carter, Ha-Yang Kim, Devin Brahja Waldman, Ambrose Bye
Choreography: Douglas Dunn
Images: Kiki Smith
In Anne Waldman’s Jaguar Harmonics, the voice of the Ayahuasca vine, a “person woven of sound” speaks to the poet and us: “now you are quick, soon you will be dead”; “you can’t just go around killing and conquering persons.” And the poet asks herself, can we hear the “mammal stealth” of these warnings? Her listening creates a tesserae of sound and language for “poetry, to blink you awake.” A masterful web that compels us to “put away the scriptures of doom” and “breathe in this world this time of cosmic night.” —Cecila Vicuna
“Here word and music combine to birth a brilliantly contemporary genre that straddles storytelling, opera, and a general free jazz kind of sound… Individual instruments express themselves with collaborative purpose. As a whole, the music creates an excellent atmospheric backdrop for the narrative, never crowding the recitation, rather supplementing, expanding it and drawing pictures for the mind. As such, the music is interpretational only in the positive sense that it enriches the word with wider expressive possibilities. At the album’s best, poetry is music, performative, rhythmic; music is poetry, a language in pure sound.”—echo!, Klara Du Plessis on Jaguar Harmonics