Mega Jam Finale with Anne Waldman, Ambrose Bye, and Thurston Moore
The Jam will be introduced by a set of readings and music by the great poet Anne Waldman (USA), Ambrose Bye (USA) synth and great guitarist, Thurston Moore (USA), co-founder of Sonic Group Youth!
Going Vocal workshop with Anne Waldman & Ambrose Bye
The aim in the workshop is to experiment with ways our writing guides us to orality – to performative ideas in recorded composition. How do we want to hear ourselves and our writing? We will start with vocalization of selected texts of others in an ensemble experiment, and then create our own pieces (bi or multi-lingual a possibility) through a series of “experiments of attention” (dream, cut-up, travel, memory). We will invite collaboration with one another as writers, as voices, and as musicians. We will consider writing as score or libretto, work with spechstimme, and create a 4th dimension wall of sound. Ambrose Bye will be available to accompany us musically as well as record and edit/shape the work. And in-house performance at the last session.
Espace Darja
113 Avenue Mers Sultan, 6ème étage, Casablanca
April 30 & May 1, 2014
Going Vocal workshop with Anne Waldman & Ambrose Bye
The aim in the workshop is to experiment with ways our writing guides us to orality – to performative ideas in recorded composition. How do we want to hear ourselves and our writing? We will start with vocalization of selected texts of others in an ensemble experiment, and then create our own pieces (bi or multi-lingual a possibility) through a series of “experiments of attention” (dream, cut-up, travel, memory). We will invite collaboration with one another as writers, as voices, and as musicians. We will consider writing as score or libretto, work with spechstimme, and create a 4th dimension wall of sound. Ambrose Bye will be available to accompany us musically as well as record and edit/shape the work. And in-house performance at the last session.
Espace Darja
113 Avenue Mers Sultan, 6ème étage, Casablanca
April 30 & May 1, 2014
Featured Speaker at the Transitions and Transactions II: Literature and Creative Writing Pedagogies in Community Colleges Conference
Borough of Manhattan Community College in Tribeca, New York
The conference focus is to cultivate a community of teachers interested in improving their practice by sharing pedagogical questions, concerns, successes, theories, research and intellectual curiosities about the ways in which teaching and learning happens and does not happen in the community college literature and creative writing classroom.
Poets House presents A Painter and His Poets: The Art of George Schneeman.
On view April 22 through September 20, this exhibition is the first major retrospective of the painter’s collaborative works with prominent poets of the second-generation New York School, among them Ted Berrigan, Anne Waldman, Larry Fagin, Maureen Owen, and Michael Brownstein. A full-color brochure will accompany the exhibition, featuring new essays by Bill Berkson and Peter Schjeldahl as well as an excerpt from Alice Notley’s 1978 interview with the artist.
Curated by Bill Berkson and Ron Padgett, two of Schneeman’s close friends and collaborators, the exhibition gathers life-size portraits of poets on canvas, some of them nudes; collaborations using magazine clippings, handwritten poems, and a wide range of art materials; fresco portraits of Allen Ginsberg, Waldman, John Godfrey, and others; book covers; and other treasures from the artist’s estate.
Exhibition Events:
Tuesday, April 22:
• 6:00-8:00 p.m.: Opening Reception
Saturday, April 26:
• 3:00-4:30 p.m.: Poetry reading with Michael Brownstein, Larry Fagin, Alice Notley, Maureen Owen, Harris Schiff, Anne Waldman, and Lewis Warsh, introduced by Bill Berkson.
• 5:00-6:00 p.m.: Panel discussion with Bill Berkson, Larry Fagin, Alice Notley, Maureen Owen, Peter Schjeldahl, and Anne Waldman, moderated by Ron Padgett.
Publication:
A Painter and His Poets: The Art of George Schneeman
• Exhibition catalogue: 16 pages, full color
• Edited by Ron Padgett and Bill Berkson
• New texts by Bill Berkson and Peter Schjeldahl, with an excerpt from an interview with the artist by Alice Notley
William S. Burroughs Centennial Conference
CUNY Graduate Center: 365 Fifth Avenue, Room 9206-7, New York, NY
Oliver Harris
John M. Bennett
Jed Birmingham
Ann Douglas
Jan Herman
Barry Miles
Charles Plymell
Geoffrey D. Smith
Anne Waldman
Regina Weinreich
Held in honor of William S. Burroughs’s centennial, and the WSB@100 Festival in New York City scheduled for the entirety of the month of April, 2014, this conference will explore the life and myth of one of the most innovative and influential twentieth-century American writers and artists. Join us for a series of talks and roundtables by editors, artists, and scholars on a range of issues from the problem of gender in Burroughs’ work to his role in postwar-America little magazines, his still unpublished archive materials, cut-up experiments and novels, and his photography.
SCHEDULE, APRIL 25, 2014:
10 AM – Editing Burroughs
John Bennett
Geoffrey Smith
11: 00 AM – Burroughs and Literary Magazines
Jed Birmingham
Charles Plymell
Jan Herman
12:30 PM – Lunch
2:00 PM – Biography and Photography
Oliver Harris conversation with Barry Miles
3:30 PM – Gender Trouble
Anne Waldman
Regina Weinreich
Anne Douglas
5:30 PM – Keynote: On the Cut Ups
Oliver Harris
Cosponsored by the English Students Association, Lost & Found: The CUNY Poetics Document Initiative, the PhD Program in English, and the WSB@100 Festival.
New York’s month-long celebration of the 100th Anniversary William S Burrough’s Birthday
The Poetry Project: Sanctuary at St Mark’s Church in-the-Bowery
10th St & 2nd Ave, New York, NY
www.wsb100.org
Poets House presents A Painter and His Poets: The Art of George Schneeman.
On view April 22 through September 20, this exhibition is the first major retrospective of the painter’s collaborative works with prominent poets of the second-generation New York School, among them Ted Berrigan, Anne Waldman, Larry Fagin, Maureen Owen, and Michael Brownstein. A full-color brochure will accompany the exhibition, featuring new essays by Bill Berkson and Peter Schjeldahl as well as an excerpt from Alice Notley’s 1978 interview with the artist.
Curated by Bill Berkson and Ron Padgett, two of Schneeman’s close friends and collaborators, the exhibition gathers life-size portraits of poets on canvas, some of them nudes; collaborations using magazine clippings, handwritten poems, and a wide range of art materials; fresco portraits of Allen Ginsberg, Waldman, John Godfrey, and others; book covers; and other treasures from the artist’s estate.
Exhibition Events:
Tuesday, April 22:
• 6:00-8:00 p.m.: Opening Reception
Saturday, April 26:
• 3:00-4:30 p.m.: Poetry reading with Michael Brownstein, Larry Fagin, Alice Notley, Maureen Owen, Harris Schiff, Anne Waldman, and Lewis Warsh, introduced by Bill Berkson.
• 5:00-6:00 p.m.: Panel discussion with Bill Berkson, Larry Fagin, Alice Notley, Maureen Owen, Peter Schjeldahl, and Anne Waldman, moderated by Ron Padgett.
Publication:
A Painter and His Poets: The Art of George Schneeman
• Exhibition catalogue: 16 pages, full color
• Edited by Ron Padgett and Bill Berkson
• New texts by Bill Berkson and Peter Schjeldahl, with an excerpt from an interview with the artist by Alice Notley
Anne Waldman and Pamela Lawton
“Sweet-Voiced (Mutilated) Papyrus” — reading and discussion of their collaboration
Metropolitan Museum
Gallery 534 (Vélez Blanco Patio)
5th Ave & 82nd St
New York, NY
Limited to 45 people; tickets given out 15 min. prior
Anne Waldman reads with Thurston Moore on guitar in connection with the 100th anniversary birthday of William S. Burroughs.
8 pm and 10 pm
The Stone
Corner of Avenue C and 2nd
New York, NY