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SUMMARY:Poetry & the Senses: Readings by Indira Allegra\, Chiyuma Elliott\, and Lyn Hejinian
DESCRIPTION:Poetry and the Senses Program Launch + Celebration\nWith Readings by Indira Allegra\, Chiyuma Elliott\, and Lyn Hejinian\nTuesday\, February 4\, 2020 \n5:30 – 7:00pm: Readings + Conversation\n7:00 – 7:30pm: Reception + Celebration\nMorrison Library\, UC Berkeley (inside Doe Library) \nCo-sponsored by Arts Research Center and Engaging the Senses Foundation \n\nThe launch party for the Art Research Center’s new “Poetry and the Senses” 2-yr program\, generously sponsored by Engaging the Senses Foundation\, will include local poets Indira Allegra\, Chiyuma Elliott\, and Lyn Hejinian\, who will offer readings and comments followed by a conversation. How does poetry offer a model for engaging the world\, and how can we think of it as a political or ethical resource? \nThis event is free and open to the public\, seating first-come\, first-served until capacity is met. For more information and events\, please visit the Arts Research website at arts.berkeley.edu. \n\nIndira Allegra is re-imagining what a memorial can feel like\, the scale on which it can exist and how it can function through the practice of writing\, performance\, sculpture and installation. Her work has been featured in exhibitions at The Arts Incubator in Chicago\, John Michael Kholer Art Center\, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts\, Center for Craft Creativity and Design\, Mills College Art Museum\, Weinberg/Newton\, 808 Gallery\, The Alice Gallery and SOMArts among others. Her commissions include performances for SFMOMA\, de Young Museum\, The Wattis Institute\, City of Oakland and SFJAZZ Poetry Festival. Allegra’s work has been featured by BBC Radio 4\, Art Journal\, KQED and Surface Design Magazine. She was the recipient of the Artadia Award\, Tosa Studio Award\, Windgate Craft Fellowship and Jackson Literary Award and has received support from the Mike Kelley Artist Project Grant\, MAP Fund and Queer Cultural Center. Allegra is a former Lambda Literary Fellow\, her writing has been widely anthologized\, and she has contributed works to 2019 Lambda Literary Finalist Foglifter Magazine\, 2012 Lambda Literary Finalist Sovereign Erotics: A Collection of Two Spirit Literature\, Canal Magazine\, Cream City Review\, HYSTERIA Magazine\, make/shift Magazine\, and Yellow Medicine Review: A Journal of Indigenous Literature\, Art and Thought among others. \nChiyuma Elliott is an Assistant Professor of African American Studies at the University of California\, Berkeley. A former Stegner Fellow\, Chiyuma’s poems have appeared in the African American Review\, Callaloo\, the Notre Dame Review\, the PN Review\, and other journals. She has received fellowships from the American Philosophical Society\, Cave Canem\, and the Vermont Studio Center. She is the author of two books: California Winter League (2015) and Vigil (2017). \nLyn Hejinian teaches in the English Department at the University of California\, Berkeley\, where her academic work is addressed principally to modernist\, postmodern\, and contemporary poetry and poetics\, with a particular interest in avant-garde movements and the social practices they entail. She is the author of over twenty-five volumes of poetry and critical prose\, the most recent of which are Positions of the Sun (Belladonna\, 2019) and Tribunal (Omnidawn\, 2019).
URL:https://litseen.com/event/poetry-the-senses-readings-by-indira-allegra-chiyuma-elliott-and-lyn-hejinian/
LOCATION:Morrison Library\, UC Berkeley\, 2000 Carleston Street\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94720\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Ian Brennan in conversation with Kevin Army on Silenced by Sound
DESCRIPTION:Ian Brennan in conversation with Kevin Army about Silenced by Sound: The Music Meritocracy Myth at Moe’s Books in Berkeley\, CA on Tuesday\, February 4th at 7pm. \n“Silenced by Sound is a powerful exploration of the challenges facing art\, music\, and media in the digital era. It is “full of wisdom from someone who cares deeply about the power of real music.”—MOJO \nIan Brennan is a Grammy-winning music producer who has produced three other Grammy-nominated albums. He is the author of four books and has worked with the likes of filmmaker John Waters\, Merle Haggard\, and Green Day\, among others. His work with international artists such as the Zomba Prison Project\, Tanzania Albinism Collective\, and Khmer Rouge Survivors\, has been featured on the front page of the New York Times and on an Emmy-winning 60 Minutes segment with Anderson Cooper reporting. Since 1993 he has taught violence prevention and conflict resolution around the world for such prestigious organizations as the Smithsonian\, New York’s New School\, Berklee College of Music\, the University of London\, the University of California–Berkeley\, and the National Accademia of Science (Rome).
URL:https://litseen.com/event/ian-brennan-in-conversation-with-kevin-army-on-silenced-by-sound/
LOCATION:Moe’s Books\, 2476 Telegraph Avenue\, BERKELEY\, 94704-2322
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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