An evening of poetry, prose, and projection
Kokoro Studio
682 Geary (@ Leavenworth) – map
San Francisco, CA
7:00 PM
Saturday, November 20
See our listings on Facebook and SF Station.
Featured Readers:
Lizzy Acker
Andrea Kneeland
Dana Teen Lomax
Dan Sanders
With a short film by Evangelo Costadimas and Syren Johnstone.
For fifteen years, as members of the Flat Earth Collective, Tom Andes, David William Hill, Jim Nelson, and Andrew Touhy have been doing their level best for literature. One year ago (almost) to the day, in the name of recapturing the sturm and drang of their youth, they decided to start a Rush cover band; somehow, they ended up with a reading series. On Saturday, November 20, they’ve invited four of their favorite writers and one filmmaker from the Bay Area and beyond to help them celebrate one year in the business that is no business. They hope you will join them in paving the way for gentrification in San Francisco’s most scenic neighborhood, The Tenderloin.
Lizzy Acker’s work has been published in Nano Fiction and Tramp Quarterly. She was the co-creator/curator, with Amira Pierce, of the San Francisco reading series Funny/Sexy/Sad. Her first book, Monster Party, a novella about boys, drinking, violence, and aliens, was recently published by Small Desk Press. She lives in San Francisco, where she writes short sentences for KQED and blogs daily at lizzyacker.com.
Greek/Italian, born and raised in Ethiopia, Evangelo Costadimas later moved to Canada and began photographing at age 12. He attended part-time photography studies at Niagara College, Algonquin College and Carleton University (all in Canada). He holds associate degrees in Telecommunications Technology and Computer Engineering from Niagara College, a Master of Fine Arts degree from the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology and professional certification in Exhibition Studies and Art Curatorship from the Hong Kong Art School. He now lives and works in Hong Kong as a photographer, artist and independent curator. Further information is available here http://www.costadimas.com/displacement3/
Syren Johnstone studied in Sydney (BA (Hons)), Oxford (MSc) and London (MA) and has multidisciplinary working experience covering arts, psychology, neuroscience, education, law and executive level management. He has published extensively in several of these fields including books and academic journals. A founding partner of NJP STUDIO, a design consultancy that brings inspiration to commercial and urban landscapes, Syren is also active in a variety of arts-related endeavors including motion picture production and screenwriting. A Visiting Fellow at the University of Hong Kong, Syren has lived and worked in Hong Kong since 1994. Further information is available here http://www.costadimas.com/displacement3/
Andrea Kneeland’s collection of short stories, The Birds and the Beasts, is forthcoming from Cow Heavy Press in 2011, and she is a web editor for Hobart. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in a number of different journals and anthologies, including American Letters & Commentary, 580 Split, Caketrain, Barrelhouse, Quick Fiction, Whiskey Island, NOO Journal, Smokelong Quarterly and Weird Tales.
Dana Teen Lomax is the author of Disclosure (Black Radish Books) Rx (Dusie), Curren¢y (Palm Press), Room (a+bend), and the co-editor of Letters to Poets: Conversations about Poetics, Politics, & Community (Saturnalia Books). She’s writing “Shhh! Lullabies for a Tired Nation” and editing an anthology of experimental work for children. She teaches at San Francisco State University and Marin Juvenile Hall and lives in San Quentin with her radical family.
Dan Sanders lives and writes near the lake in Oakland. He’s recently been featured as a tour guide on Invisible City Audio Tour’s Heliography. Mr. Sanders works in a non-writing capacity in an office building where he nods at people and writes a novel in the body of an email addressed to nobody. The novel is untitled and backed up in the “Drafts” folder in Microsoft Outlook. So far none of his bosses has asked why he types so much. At the moment, Mr. Sanders bio-worthy accomplishments are a bit thin but he’s working to rectify that. Please read his bio next year, it will be impressive.