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« May 05, 2008 - June 04, 2008 »
 
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05 / 11
Start: 2:49 pm

Members of the Nonsite Collective at our last open meeting agreed to pursue a revision and re-submission of our 2007 grant proposal for Southern Exposure gallery's Alternative Exposure grant fund.

Any site users who would like to participate in the revision are encouraged to read the grant description by following the linked text above, and make changes/additions/excisions to the text of the grant proposal found on this new workbook page. We will call another in-person meeting on either Monday, June 2nd, or Monday, June 9th in order to review the editorial suggestions and arrive at a final text for the proposal. Revisions to the workbook page can be included in that review process as long as they are made by Sunday, June 1st.

Please bear in mind that this text should be very brief, and should emphasize our work with visual artists and visual arts communities, but does not need to restrict itself to this work exclusively. Items for particular editorial attention include the descriptions of planned events, which were almost all prospective when last year's version of the proposal was written.

Start: 7:00 pm
End: 9:32 pm

Sunday May 11 - 7pm pronto
@ David Buuck's
Oakland (email for address)
BYOB

Suki Bishop has most recently been published in Dirty Girls, Best Lesbian Erotica 2007, Painted Bride Quarterly, and Blithe House Quarterly. She was a finalist for the 2006 Rauxa Prize for erotic fiction and was nominated for a Pushcart Prize. You can check out her website: sukibishop.com for stories and upcoming events.

Christian Nagler is a fiction writer, translator, and performer. In 2005 he received his M.F.A. from Brown University. His work has appeared most often in the form of handmade artist's books. Recently, he has been performing with Anna Halprin's Sea Ranch Collective, and with Severine La Pan Vaux's Dance company in France, and translating the works of the Salvadoran philosopher and economist Alberto Masferrer. He teaches community art at San Francisco State and is working on a novel.

Mary Diaz is a San Francisco based artist, poet and performer. She most recently completed her MFA from the California College of the Arts. She has collaborated with dancers, actors and video artists on a myriad of projects and guerilla performances and her experimental play, Up in Arms: an Oratorio at Tense Borders starring Kevin Killian, was featured in this year's Poet's Theater Jamboree hosted by Small Press Traffic. She is currently teaching writing and math at San Quentin State prison, and finishing her thesis manuscript, Can't in Arms: Come Round

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Start: 6:00 pm
End: 9:00 pm

Please join us for a potluck, garden party and film showing of the documentary Venezuela: Revolution from the Inside Out by Clif Ross.

Sunday, May 18th at 6 pm
1039 Bancroft Way in Berkeley
(between San Pablo and 10th, 3 blocks south of University).

Clifton Ross is a poet and filmmaker who has been experiencing and writing about social movements in Latin America for over 25 years. He has edited many anthologies including: A Dream Made of Stars: A Bilingual Anthology of Nicaraguan Poetry. He is the translator of Quetzalcoatl by Ernesto Cardenal and his poetry has been published in the U.K. and Venezuela. Ross currently teaches English at Berkeley City College. He will be present to discuss his work.

please call Christy at 415-710-0187 for more info.

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05 / 24
Start: 7:30 pm
End: 9:00 pm

Artifact Reading Series
in collaboration with Nonsite Collective
hosts an evening of improvization, performance, and reading

by

Michael Basinksi, David Larsen, and Jeanne Heuving
Saturday, May 24th
6PM doors/6:30PM reading starts

at

The Oakland Art Gallery at Frank Ogawa Plaza
199 Kahn's Alley
Oakland CA 94612

Watch for related Nonsite events and curricular materials to be announced on this website soon!

05 / 25
Start: 7:00 pm
End: 9:00 pm

Sunday May 25th
7:00-9:00 p.m.

Please email Tanya Hollis for address
tanya@tanyahollis.com

Come meet Michael Basinksi, visual-performance-fluxus etc. poet and curator, in the wake of the May 24 Artifact reading.

Archival materials will be on display in Tanya's studio for your enjoyment--and you can touch them too! :)

Questions? Comment on this event!

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06 / 1
Start: 6:30 pm
End: 10:00 pm

<<Translation as Social and Aesthetic Practice>> continues with Tyrone Williams and Pat Clifford (both visiting from Cincinnati) speaking on:

"The Dynamics of History and Culture: 'Pale Approximations'... Who Can/May Speak?"

Sunday, June 1
Dinner 6:30
Talks 7:30
at Rob and Lee's home (in San Francisco's Mission neighborhood)
email for address and directions:
rob[dot]halpern AT gmail[dot]com

Pat Clifford examines the relationship between the Bengali poet Buddhadeva Bose and George Oppen, focusing in particular on Oppen’s arrangements of several of Bose’s poems, while Tyrone Williams discusses history as translation in the work of Somali novelist Nurridin Farah.

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Start: 7:40 am

The text of Tyrone Williams's talk, "The Dynamics of History and Culture: 'Pale Approximations'... Who Can/May Speak?," given as part of the collective's "Translation as Social and Aesthetic Practice" curriculum this past Sunday nite, is now accessible as a document on this site. See:

http://www.nonsitecollective.org/WilliamsDynamics

Start: 7:00 pm
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Erick Lyle at Get Lost Travel Books
June 4 at 7 pm
1825 Market Street in San Francsico
(betwn Valencia and Guerrero)

Erick Lyle's Scam 'zine is a classic. Documenting
squats and anti-war protests, creating art and music projects, Lyle
and his friends were definitely not passive observers of San
Francisco's recent history. With the publication of his book, "On the
Lower Frequencies: A Secret History of the City," Lyle's writings are
now collected and accessible. In his latest Scam #6, "In the Streets
of Buenos Aires" Lyle hangs out with and introduces us to some of the
best stencil and graffiti artists in Buenos Aires. At Get Lost, he'll
read from his book and Scam #6, and show images of some of Buenos
Aires' stencil art.

Erick Lyle started writing in the 1990s, though I only first heard of
him when I read his brilliant zine, Scam # 5 ½, "Hunt's Donuts, the
Epicenter of Crime." In just a few pages, Lyle brilliantly
historicized the old donut shop with the "Open 25 Hours" sign at the
corner of Mission and 20th Streets. From Mission Street's 1940s
hey-day to its economic decline around the time Mission Street was
torn up to lay the BART tracks, Hunt's fortune's followed that of the
street. By the time it closed, Hunt's, straddling the border between
the Norteño and Sureño gangs, was known more for petty crime than
donuts. Not only was his writing sharp and concise, but Lyle's
memories of hanging out at Hunt's was part of his history of Mission
Street. After Scam #5 ½, I read a couple older editions of Scam. What
became clear is that Lyle has a talent for making history while being
able to chronicle it. Whether in response to the dot-com boom, the
lead up to the Iraq invasion in 2003, or other events that affected
the life on the streets of San Francisco, Lyle and his friends
challenged the powers that be while creatively engaging with people on
the street. Lyle's writings are now collected in On the Lower

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