LOS SOLOS SERIES / HADIEH SHAFIE (Balto) KARA FEELY (NYC)

LOS SOLOS SERIES
presented by Bonnie Jones & Jackie Milad
Carriage House, 2225 Hargrove St., Lower Chas. Village
Friday, 11/7/08, 8:30pm, $6 sug.donation

HADIEH SHAFIE (Balto)
KARA FEELY (NYC)

baltimoreperformance.com/lossolos

KARA FEELY Kara Feely is a writer, director and designer for experimental theater and interdisciplinary performance. Her work draws inspiration from experimental writing and music composition strategies, and combines a variety of materials, from found text fragments and landscapes of objects, to recorded interviews and radio broadcasts.

HADIEH SHAFIE Hadieh M. Shafie was born in Iran and immigrated to the United States in 1983, leaving post revolutionary Iran at the height of war with Iraq and social/political unrest. The themes explored in Shafie's work are the temporary nature of memory, history and personal experiences related to otherness and loss.

17th Annual Baltimore Writers' Conference @ Towson

17th Annual Baltimore Writers' Conference

Saturday, November 8

Towson University's University Union

Registration opens at 8:30am. Keynote address at 9:00am.

KEYNOTE SPEAKER

Larry Doyle

Larry Doyle is the author of the novel I Love You, Beth Cooper, soon to be released as a film directed by Chris Columbus and starring Hayden Panettiere as Beth. He was a writer and producer for "The Simpsons" for four years and now writes for The New Yorker magazine. He recently won the Thurber Prize for American Humor.

Session topics include fiction, non-fiction, poetry, magazine and journals, agents and publishers, and blogging. Sign up the day of the conference for quick critiques to improve your stories, essays, and poems.

For more information or to register, go to http://www.baltimorewritersconference.org.

Registration includes continental breakfast, lunch, and reception. (Student registration rate available with valid school ID!)

Don't miss the area's premier day-long opportunity for literary artists to improve their craft, learn about the business, and network with industry professionals and other writers!

For more information, contact Geoffrey Becker at gbecker@towson.edu or 410.704.5196.

Gregg Wilhelm, CityLit Project

David Everett, Johns Hopkins University

Geoffrey Beck, Towson University

Salvage @ Gallery Imperato

SALVAGE
hair drawings by Youngmi Song
mixed media assemblage by M. Jordan Tierney
Gallery Imperato
921 e. fort ave. suite 120
Baltimore, md 21230

October 24 - December 6, 2008

Using recycled items in art has been seen many times before. However, never has it been presented with such intrigue and sophistication. Artists Youngmi Song and M. Jordan Tierney act as scavengers, salvaging items that would otherwise be disposed of and turning them into something both meaningful and beautiful. Loose strands of hair, found objects, and remains of 19th century houses are rescued, re-purposed, and given new life.

With fallen hairs from her own head, Youngmi Song painstakingly creates simple images on Korean mulberry paper. Images of furniture, trees and barns are impeccably and tediously rendered with individual strands of hair, giving the false appearance of drawings done with a
No. 2 lead pencil. While her early training focused on traditional Korean art, Youngmi began using mulberry paper in a contemporary manner while studying at MICA. Combining this historically used paper with the innovative use of that which her own body produces creates a connection between the past and present.

M. Jordan Tierney collects reclaimed timbers from renovated 19th century houses to create woodcarvings and constructions, an integral part of her work. She combines them with found objects such as old light fixtures, porcelain, furniture parts, tin tiles and other items to form three-dimensional assemblages. With their time worn surfaces, they seem to be relics of an event and appear to have accumulated naturally over time. By combining actual salvaged items with wood carvings fabricated to look like salvaged items, Tierney makes reference to the world as "a constantly shifting sedimentary process of alternating layers of natural and man-made systems".

Mirta Kupferminc - Saúl Sosnowski BORGES AND THE KABBALAH: SEEKING ACCESS @ The Art Gallery at University of Maryland College Park

Mirta Kupferminc - Saúl Sosnowski BORGES AND THE KABBALAH: SEEKING ACCESS
The Art Gallery
Second floor atrium
Art/Sociology Building
College Park, MD

Opening Reception

Wednesday November 12, 6-8 pm

The Art Gallery presents Borges and the Kabbalah: Seeking Access featuring prints and installations by Argentinean artist Mirta Kupferminc and text by Saúl Sosnowski. The exhibit is a dialogue between image and text and offers visitors a unique experience to enter a world of appearances, of truths, and of veiled secrets. The exhibition opens Wednesday, November 12, and continues through Saturday, December 20, 2008.

The exhibition is designed as a conceptual journey around a limited edition artist book, Borges and the Kabbalah: Paths to the Word. The book is an open conversation between texts by Sosnowski and images by Kupferminc in dialogue with writings by Argentinean Jorge Luis Borges (1899-1986) and Kabbalistic notions. Kupferminc met Sosnowski when a mutual friend brought him to visit her studio in 2002. Though she did not mention her interest in Jewish mysticism to Sosnowski at that time, upon returning to the U.S., he mailed her a book he had authored titled Borges y la Cábala : La Búsqueda del Verbo. From this exchange, she began to explore connections in the book and her interests in everyday visual inquiry, literature, and mysticism. Of their collaboration on Borges and the Kabbalah: Paths to the Word, Kupferminc stated, "It is very hard to explain what the book is. It has a world inside. It's a journey with so much energy and such a profound true connection..."

The book will be displayed in its entirety, along with several installations designed to surround the viewer in the texts and images from the book. In Seeking Access, the visitor is invited to step into a labyrinth installation formed in the shape of the Hebrew letter Aleph. Thirty two access possibilities guide to the center and the corridors showcase images and texts. In the Endless Universe, the viewer sees images repeat exponentially toward infinity.

Sosnowski writes about the collaboration: "In joining Borges and Kabbalah, it is imperative to recognize the distance that separates faith and theology from literature and art, as well as 'the Kabbalist' from those who promote it as spiritual self-help and indulge in exercises that plainly mark the passage of time. When cognizant of the difference, when suitably and spiritually trained to cut through material barriers, then, and only then, will the true seeker be empowered to discover and unveil alternate views of the world, and make inroads into the sobering chronicles of the Diaspora, where many of the Kabbalistic texts were written."

Talk:
Saúl Sosnowski in conversation with Mirta Kupferminc
Thursday, November 13, 5:00 pm
Room 2309 Art-Sociology Building

Euphoria @ Senator Theatre

Euphoria presented by Creative Alliance and Senator Theatre The Senator 5904 York Rd. Thu Nov 13 at 7:30 pm. & Sat Nov 15 at 2pm. $10 (Tickets available through The Senator) The genre-jamming film Euphoria by Baltimore producers/educators Lee Boot and Stacy Arnold is the focus this weekend. Euphoria begins by asking “are you happy?” and takes off on a journey through the American landscape—the one that surrounds us and the one inside us. Synchronized swimmers inhabit an underwater jungle of neurons; Teddy Bears hover in arcs of electricity, and real people share how their lives have been transformed by pursuing what is meaningful and engaging to them. As Boot untangles the elements necessary for emotional survival, the meaning in our own lives becomes refreshingly tangible. Co-sponsored by UMBC, The Institute for Integrative Health, MICA and The Center for Integrative Medicine.

Amanda Burnham: Denominator @ Loyola

Amanda Burnham: Denominator
Julio Fine Arts Gallery at Loyola College 
4501 N. Charles Street, Baltimore, MD 21210.
Gallery hours are Monday through
Friday 11am -5pm and Sunday 1-4pm.
(410) 617-2799.
Exhibition Dates: November 3 – December 10, 2008
Opening Reception: Thursday, November 6, 5 – 7 pm

An exhibition featuring the artist’s newest work on paper as well as an
installation drawing on site at the Gallery.

Burnham’s work offers a unique perspective on contemporary American
landscapes, reflecting ways individuals are affected by the
ever-increasing sense of shock and alarm in corporate culture.  Her
complex, multi-layered compositions depict cities and suburbs in which
nature is present but dominated by corporate brands, logos and graffiti.
In her work, the physicality of the natural world is blurred and
unclear, leaving the viewer immersed in an abstract illustration of
natural surroundings – the viewpoint of one desperately attempting to
escape from the alienating voices of commercial America.

Her work plays with the striking incongruity between what is real and
what is advertised in America.  Burnham explains, “I thought about the
false promise of advertising, as well as telling ironies exposed by
unplanned environmental juxtapositions such as glossy billboards
advertising luxury goods to speeding commuters planted in neglected
roadside urban spaces.”

Also on exhibit is a selection of Burnham’s constructed paintings, Front
Lines and Gulf, in which she constructs the pictorial landscape of
cities and suburbs haphazardly, utilizing saturated paint and cardboard
constructions to reflect on individual alienation in contemporary life.

Into the Light / Into the Dark

Into the Light / Into the Dark
School 33 Art Center
1401 Light Street Baltimore, MD 21230
school33@promotionandarts.com
410-396-4641
October 30 – December 13, 2008
Opening Reception: Saturday, November 1, 2008 6 – 9pm

Curated by Timothy Nohe as part of ’s Annual Open Call for Curators.
Featured Artists include: Phil Davis, Bonnie Crawford Kotula, John Sturgeon, and Christian Valiente Sound Concert Performance: Saturday, November 1, 2008 8 – 9pm in conjunction with opening reception.
The Everyday Instrument Workshop with Tim Nohe: Saturday, Nov. 8^th and 15^th 1 – 4pm ($10 pre-registration required)
Electronic Sewing with Bonnie Crawford Kotula: Saturday, November 22^nd 1 -4pm ($20 pre-registration required)
For more information or to reserve your spot please contact School 33 Art Center

Chris & Don: A Love Story- Press Release

The Film & Media Studies Program at Johns Hopkins University presents a special screening of Chris and Don: A Love Story, November 14, 7PM, Room 110, Hodson Hall, on the Homewood campus at 3400 N. Charles Street. The screening will be followed by a question and answer session with filmmakers Guido Santi and Tina Mascara, and portrait painter Don Bachardy, one of the subjects of the film. The event is co-sponsored by the Homewood Arts Program; Homewood Art Workshops; Department of English; Program for the Study of Women, Gender, and Sexuality; the Writing Seminars; and the Diverse Sexuality and Gender Alliance.

Stephen Holden, in the New York Times, described the film as a "tender, extremely touching . . elegantly structured documentary."

Robert Koehler, in Variety, called it "a particularly beguiling real-life gay love saga. Made with gentle grace and sensitivity . ."

Admission is free. Donations to the Christopher Isherwood Foundation are welcome. (www.isherwoodfoundation.org)

For more information, please contact the JHU Film & Media Studies Program at
410 516-5048
or
http://sites.jhu.edu/film_media/

A trailer for the film is available at: http://www.zeitgeistfilms.com/chris&don/

And a July 9, 2008 interview with Don Bachardy on WHYY is available at: http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=92343122

BALTIMORE PUBLIC ART COMMISSION TO MEET WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 22

BALTIMORE PUBLIC ART COMMISSION TO MEET WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 22
Wednesday, October 22 at 4pm

• The Baltimore Public Art Commission holds October meeting. The commission is responsible for the administering of the city’s 1% For Public Art Program, as well as the review and approval of all gifts of permanent public art to the City of Baltimore.

• Benton Building
  417 E. Fayette Street, 8^th Floor
  Phoebe B. Stanton Board Room

• Approval of 07/30/08 Meeting Minutes

• Proposed gift of public sculpture honoring William Donald Schaefer with a presentation by artist Rodney Carroll and landscape architect Carol Macht, followed by discussion and vote.
• Presentation by Bob Quilter of the Baltimore City Planning Department & Paul Dombrowski of the Baltimore Development Corporation of significant Baltimore City development over the next few years.

The members of the Baltimore Public Art Commission are Darsie Alexander, a curator; Charles Brickbauer, an architect; Alex Castro, a designer and architect; Walter Daly, an architect and master planner; Elford Jackson, an engineer; Anne Perkins, an attorney and civic leader; Jann-Rosen Queralt, an artist and professor; Ken Royster, a visual artist; and Steve Ziger, an architect.

GARY KACHADOURIAN; LIFE-SIZED PRINTS AND ASSORTED DRAWING PROJECTS

GARY KACHADOURIAN; LIFE-SIZED PRINTS AND ASSORTED DRAWING PROJECTS

October 27 through December 5, 2008
RECEPTION, November 1, 4-6pm
Gormley Gallery / Fourier Hall
College of Notre Dame of Maryland
4701 N. Charles St.
Baltimore, MD 21210
Gallery Hours, Monday-Friday, 8:30am-5:30pm
Call 410-435-0100 for weekend hours
www.ndm.edu/gormleygallery

Cliff Evans: E M P Y R E A N @ THE LIBRARY

Cliff Evans: E M P Y R E A N
October 17 - November 2

THE LIBRARY
1401 Light Street Baltimore, MD 21230

The Library (Baltimore, MD) and Curator's Office (Washington, DC)
are pleased to co-present Empyrean, a five-channel HD video projection
by noted New York based artist Cliff Evans.

Gallery Hours | Thursday - Saturday | 4 - 8 pm or by appointment

http://thelibraryproject.net/
http://www.curatorsoffice.com/

Part of Brushfire, a project organized by Provisions Library, Washington, DC

Sneak Preview Benefit and All-Star Cast Cabaret!! Jay Dreams @ Creative Alliance

Sneak Preview Benefit and All-Star Cast Cabaret!! Jay Dreams (Pancake, 2008)

Sat Nov 8 TWO SHOWS! 7pm &10pm. $20, $18 mbrs.

Creative Alliance at The Patterson

3134 Eastern Ave. Hi'town B'more

Info and tix: (410)276-1651

www.creativealliance.org

New 16mm short film from the director of Black Diamonds! Plus cabaret with Goddess and She, K Love, Reina Williams, Jai Brooks, Fyre and more!

Motorcycles, polyamory, strip clubs, tiny dogs, lipstick, dead-end jobs! The writing/directing team Jai Brooks and Catherine Pancake offer a hometown sneak preview of their sure-to-be-a-hit gender-bent and erotic brew of 16mm film, animation, and digital video dissecting the ups and downs of relationships in Baltimore’s African-American queer community with tragicomedy razor-sharp wit! Beautifully shot on 16mm film, Jay Dreams mashes lyrical eroticized imagery with deadpan haikus searing the B-more social scene. This film adaptation of Jai Brooks’ popular ‘dating haikus’ stars a who’s who list of the African American performance in Baltimore! Following the preview, a red hot cabaret with NYC queer celebs Goddess and She with luminaries of Baltimore’s African American queer scene (and film cast members!): K Love the Infinite, Reina Williams, Fyre, and Jai Brooks taking the stage with rap, soul, spoken word, and more!!

Catherine Pancake is a local award-winning artist whose nationally-distributed 2006 eco-documentary “Black Diamonds” won multiple national awards including a selection as part of the Documentary Fortnight at the Museum of Modern Art, NYC (moma.org.) She also curates Baltimore’s Transmodern Festival, is a founding member of the Charm City Kitty Club and performs in the local experimental music scene.

Jai Brooks is a local writer and humorist best known for his work on the stage at the Charm City Kitty Club. He has been writing and performing poetry for over 15 years with stage time in Baltimore, Washington DC, and Philadelphia.

God-des and She are a NYC based Hip Hop and Soul duo who have been touring the globe promoting there unique music for the past 7 years. Their hard work has paid off with appearances on Showtime”s “L Word” series, nomination for an MTV music award, and critical acclaim from Billboard magazine for their recent album distributed by international online label The Orchard.

http://www.god-des.com/ .

Narrrowhouse Reading / Verb Slap

Narrrowhouse Reading in D.C.

Verb Sap
Magus Magnus

 clearing without reverasl
Cathy Eisenhowe

Saturday, October 25
6:00pm - 9:00pm

Civilian Art Projects
406 7th Street NW, Third Floor
Washington, DC
www.civilianartprojects.com/

Narrow House says "we are super excited to have Magus Magnus' book out for the world to read. It’s a strange and beautiful book – and it took us way to long to spend that Maryland State Act Council grant on it. I’m doubly thrilled because we get to share the glory with Edge Books – one of the best poetry publishers in the US. Cathy Eisenhower's clearing without reverasl will debut on the same day. "

2ND Sunday Reading Series: Deanna Nikaido, Ian Hochberg, & Raven Baker

Deanna Nikaido

2^ND Sunday Reading Series: Deanna Nikaido, Ian Hochberg, & Raven Baker

MINÁS

815 W. 36th Street

Sunday, October 12 / 4:00 pm / $3.00

Deanna Nikiaido is the author of “Vibrating With Silence” (Writers Lair Books) and is a graduate of Art Center College of Design with a degree in Illustration. She has always loved the mystery of linking the inner world with outer world and looks for way to throw paint on the invisible. Her work has appeared in several journals and anthologies such as Family Pictures, Beltway Poetry and Urbancode Magazine. (http://www.deannanikaido.com)

Ian Hochberg’s poetry reflects the many uphill challenges he has faced in life. He is a member of the Maryland Writers Association and a member / volunteer of the Creative Alliance. He is a graduate of MICA and the proud father of two children.

Raven Baker grew up in that also-ran for the nation's capital, Havre de Grace, MD. These days she lives in Baltimore, covering arts and music for the City Paper, Beatbots.com and the U.K.'s Fact Magazine.

Hosted by Julie Fisher of poetryinbaltimore.com. An open reading follows.

MINÁS
815 W. 36th Street
Baltimore, MD 21211
410-732-4258
www.minasgalleryandboutique.com
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"Drawing Fusion" @ The Gallery / CCBC

Drawing Fusion
The Gallery at CCBC Q Building
Catonsville, Maryland
October 13 through November 15
10 a.m. – 5 p.m. Monday-Friday, 10 a.m. – 3 p.m. Saturday,
443-840-4246.

The Gallery at CCBC Catonsville presents “Drawing Fusion,” an invitational exhibit of contemporary drawing in fusion with self, ideas, space, culture, place, technology and varied media. The exhibit will be on display from Monday, Oct. 13 through Saturday, Nov. 15 in the Q Building at CCBC Catonsville, 800 S. Rolling Road. A reception with the artists will be held 6-8 p.m. Friday, Oct. 24 in the Gallery at CCBC Catonsville.

Curated by Diana Marta, the exhibit features the works of Y. David Chung, Espi Frazier, Emily Hunter, Gary Kachadourian, Craig A. Kraft, Nancy Linden, Erik S. Miller, James E. Murphy, Jr., Cindy Rehm, Hadieh Shafie and Richard Zandler. Robert Jason Fagan wrote the publication that accompanies the exhibit.

FREE screening of the Gary Hustwit directed documentary "Helvetica"

"HELVETICA"
The Charles Theater
Sunday, October 19 6 pm
Free

FREE screening of the Gary Hustwit directed documentary "Helvetica"
as part of the FREE FALL BALTIMORE series of events in October.

The screening and special panel discussion afterward will take place Sunday, October 19, at 6pm at The Charles Theater (1711 N. Charles Street, 410-727-FILM). Ticket information available soon. Check www.CityLitProject.org.

“Helvetica” explores typography, graphic design, and global visual culture. It looks at the proliferation of one typeface as part of a larger conversation about the way type affects our lives. The film is an exploration of urban spaces in major cities and the type that inhabits them, and a fluid discussion with renowned designers about their work, the creative process, and the choices and aesthetics behind their use of type.

Discussion After Screening

Jed Dietz, Director of the Maryland Film Festival and President of the Producer’s Club of Maryland

Ed Gold, Director, Ampersand Institute for Words and Images and Director, MFA in Integrated Design, University of Baltimore

Gregg Wilhelm, Executive Director, CityLit Project and Publisher, CityLit Press

Moderated by Aaron Henkin, “The Signal,” WYPR

For more information about this free screening, please call 410-274-5691.

ANGELO SOLERA: El Camino @ Minas

ANGELO SOLERA: El Camino

MINÁS
815 W. 36th Street

Saturday, October 4 / 5:00 pm / free

Angelo Solera reads from his autobiographical book El Camino (The Journey). The inspiration for the book came after walking a 400 -mile mystical pilgrimage journey to Santiago of Compostela.

"I did not write this book,” he says. I simply held the pen and pushed the tabs on my computer, listening through mu soul and writing the message coming from within ".

Solera is a local Latino community activist, health care advocate, former political candidate and now an author as well.

MINÁS
815 W. 36th Street
Baltimore, MD 21211
410-732-4258
www.minasgalleryandboutique.com
Hours:
Weds. - Sunday 11 - 6.
Mondays by Appointment
Closed Tuesdays.