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LITERARY READINGS AND EVENTS
May 2008
The Carol Connolly Reading Series
Color Theory for the 21st Century: Beyond the Pure
Readings by Writers of Color
Thursday, May 8, 2008
7:00 PM at Patrick’s Cabaret
3010 Minnehaha Ave, Minneapolis
Hosted by Sun Yung Shin
Free
Featuring:
RODRIGO SANCHEZ-CHAVARRIA. As a poet and spoken word artist of Peruvian heritage, Rodrigo Sanchez-Chavarria is heavily involved with Palabristas, a local Latino poetry collective, and is an activist in the Latin@ community. He writes about fatherhood and the duality of two cultures in English, Spanglish and Spanish as well as issues pertaining to his community and life experiences. He takes the power of his work to local high schools in which he engages in conversation with students regarding the art of spoken word and how they can use it as tool of liberation. He was recently part of the poetry collective, “Found In Translation” for the Minneapolis MOSAIC and is one of the recipients of a 2005 VERVE Grant for Spoken Word artists. He recently released his spoken word album debut titled “Desconocidos” (The Unknown).
The Carol Connolly Reading Series, presented by Intermedia Arts, celebrates the rich diversity of voices that make up the Twin Cities community of writers, readers, and their audiences, offering public readings by both emerging and established local writers and poets. Funds for this activity are provided by the COMPAS Community Art Program through a grant from the McKnight Foundation. The Carol Connolly Reading Series is sponsored in part by The Banfill-Lock Center for the Arts, DreamHaven Books, Patrick’s Cabaret, SF Minnesota, and the University Club of Saint Paul.
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Friday, May 9, 2008
7:30 PM at Banfill-Locke Center for the Arts
6666 E River Rd, Fridley
Hosted by Anna George Meek
Free and open to the public
Featuring:
KATRINA VANDENBERG lives in St. Paul, Minnesota, and is the visiting writer in residence at the Minneapolis College of Art and Design. Vandenberg was a Fulbright fellow in the Netherlands in 1999—2000 and has held an artist residency at the Anderson Center for Interdisciplinary Studies in Redwing, Minnesota. Her poems have appeared in The Iowa Review, American Scholar, Poetry Northwest, Alaska Quarterly Review, and other journals.
JOHN RHEINHARDT
The Carol Connolly Reading Series, presented by Intermedia Arts, celebrates the rich diversity of voices that make up the Twin Cities community of writers, readers, and their audiences, offering public readings by both emerging and established local writers and poets. Funds for this activity are provided by the COMPAS Community Art Program through a grant from the McKnight Foundation. The Carol Connolly Reading Series is sponsored in part by The Banfill-Lock Center for the Arts, DreamHaven Books, Patrick’s Cabaret, SF Minnesota, and the University Club of Saint Paul.
For more information, call 612-871-4444 or visit www.intermediaarts.org.
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Speculations
Monday, May 19, 2008
6:30 PM at DreamHaven Books
912 W Lake St, Minneapolis
Hosted by Eric Heideman
Free and open to the public
Featuring:
WILLIAM ALEXANDER has published stories in Weird Tales and Zahir, and contributes regularly to Rain Taxi. He has been honorably mentioned in the two most recent Year’s Best Fantasy & Horror, was a Finalist for the Calvino Prize, and has been nominated twice for a Pushcart. He also attended the Clarion
Science Fiction and Fantasy Writing Workshop in 2006. In 2008 his work will appear in Postscripts 14 (Spring) & 16 (Autumn), Lady Churchill’s Rosebud Wristlet, and Fantasy: The Year’s Best 2008.
The Carol Connolly Reading Series, presented by Intermedia Arts, celebrates the rich diversity of voices that make up the Twin Cities community of writers, readers, and their audiences, offering public readings by both emerging and established local writers and poets. Funds for this activity are provided by the COMPAS Community Art Program through a grant from the McKnight Foundation. The Carol Connolly Reading Series is sponsored in part by The Banfill-Lock Center for the Arts, DreamHaven Books, Patrick’s Cabaret, SF Minnesota, and the University Club of Saint Paul.
For more information, call 612-871-4444 or visit www.intermediaarts.org.
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GLBT Reading Series
Wednesday, May 28, 2008
7:00 PM at Intermedia Arts
2822 Lyndale Ave S, Minneapolis
Hosted by John Medeiros and Andrea Jenkins
Free and open to the public
Featuring:
EMILY LLOYD is the author of the award-winning chapbook The Most Daring of Transplants* (Argonne House Press, 2004). Her poems and essays have appeared in Bloom, Court Green, Smartish Pace, Phoebe, McSweeney’s, The Bedside Guide to No Tell Motel, and others. The recipient of a spot in the 2007-2008 Loft Mentor Series, Emily works as a librarian with Hennepin County and teaches spoken word and storytelling at the Urban Arts Academy in Minneapolis.
THERESA BALLARD’s poems have appeared in Hunger Mountain, The Massachusetts Review, Mid-American Review, Pleiades, Poetry Northwest, The Drunken Boat, Paumanok Review, as well as other literary journals. She was chosen by the Mid-American Review as Editor’s Choice for The James Wright Poetry Award and as the Editor’s Choice for Best New Poet’s 2006 by Eric Pankey. She received a SASE/Jerome Grant from Intermedia Arts in 2007 and a Minnesota State Arts Board Grant in January of 2008. She been nominated three times for the Pushcart Prize and has finally finished her first manuscript of poetry.
The Carol Connolly Reading Series, presented by Intermedia Arts, celebrates the rich diversity of voices that make up the Twin Cities community of writers, readers, and their audiences, offering public readings by both emerging and established local writers and poets. Funds for this activity are provided by the COMPAS Community Art Program through a grant from the McKnight Foundation. The Carol Connolly Reading Series is sponsored in part by The Banfill-Lock Center for the Arts, DreamHaven Books, Patrick’s Cabaret, SF Minnesota, and the University Club of Saint Paul.
For more information, call 612-871-4444 or visit www.intermediaarts.org.
***************************************************************************************ABOUT THE CAROL CONNOLLY READING SERIES
The Carol Connolly Reading Series is Minnesota’s first and only ongoing series of public literary readings whose mission it is to provide a platform for writers historically excluded from traditional literary settings. It is vital that communities facing inequality of economic resources and under-representation in the arts have a place where their voices can be heard; where their stories can be told. The Carol Connolly Reading Series is that place in the Twin Cities’ literary community.
Each month, The Carol Connolly Reading Series, creates a safe space for GLBT writers and audiences to explore the day-to-day material of life without internal or external censorship; we allow writers of color to come together in celebration and support of one another; we re-define “literary art” by embracing genre writers in our Speculations reading; we provide powerful literary experiences to people with limited geographic access to the arts, and we build and strengthen the ties between all of these communities by not only linking them to one another, but also to the mainstream, traditional literary reading we hold at the University Club in Saint Paul, promoting broad cross-cultural communication and understanding among artists, audiences, neighborhoods and communities.
ABOUT INTERMEDIA ARTSIntermedia Arts is Minnesota’s premier multidisciplinary, multicultural arts organization. We engage the power of the arts to increase connections and build community between people from different social, economic and ethnic groups. Our mission is to be a catalyst that builds understanding among people through art. Our arts programs inspire people to make changes in their lives and communities. By stimulating broader civic dialogue and by giving voice to the issues and experiences of underrepresented communities, we contribute to a stronger, healthier society.
Intermedia Arts is a catalyst that builds understanding among people through art.
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