“Under the Influence” Reading Performance Series | North Beach

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“Under the Influence” Reading Performance Series | North Beach

The Emerald Tablet in North Beach hosts a homegrown reading performance series, Under the Influence, co-created and hosted with Quiet Lightning‘s Evan Karp.

Four artists read works by some of their major influences, followed by original work performances created for the show that channels that influence. Artists have 15 minutes each to perform and will help select the following month’s performers, so that each show is inspired by the one before.

Approximately once a month an influence will be announced, and they will accept submissions of original work in response.

There will be complimentary food. Drinks are by donation.

Thursday, April 16, 2015
“Under the Influence” Reading Performance Series | North Beach

April 16, 2015 Lineup:

Michael Bucuzzo is a filmmaker, sound designer and graduate of film & video at Massachusetts College of Art and Design in Boston. He constructs his work with the understanding that lived space expands and recollects as does a living entity, and seeks to exaggerate its movements, fears, memories, dreams. Through the use of strong visual aesthetics and a layered non-diegetic soundscape, he depicts the fantasies and subjective realms of the inanimate, the unspeaking. He has screened work at The Boston Underground Film Festival, Binghamton Experimental Festival, Boston Cinema Census and screening spaces throughout the US.

Michael will be channeling the work of Luis Bunuel. You can watch a full BBC documentary on Bubel here, and you can check Micheal out with trailers to his films, Orion’s Belt and Eudora.

Kate Folk is a fiction writer from Iowa. Her stories have appeared in Word Riot, Colorado Review, Puerto del Sol, PANK, the Tin House blog, and elsewhere. She has held residencies at the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts and the Vermont Studio Center, and was a 2014 fellow at the San Francisco Writers’ Grotto.

Kate will be channeling Renata Adler, who you can read about here and here. Watch Kate reading a story about dating a somnambulist, and one about a pit that is definitely not a metaphor.

Originally from San Francisco, Tongo Eisen-Martin is a movement worker and educator who has organized against mass incarceration and extra-judicial killing of Black people throughout the United States. He has taught in detention centers from New York’s Rikers Island to California county jails. His work in Rikers Island was featured in the New York Times. He was also adjunct faculty at the Institute for Research in Africa-American Studies at Columbia University in New York. Subscribing to the Freirian model of education, He designed curricula for oppressed people’s education projects from San Francisco to South Africa. His latest curriculum on extrajudicial killing of Black people, We Charge Genocide Again, has been used as an educational and organizing tool throughout the country. He is also a revolutionary poet who uses his craft to create liberated territory wherever he performs and teaches. His latest book of poems is titled, someone’s dead already, and is being published by Bootstrap Press. He recently lived and organized around issues of human rights and self-determination in Jackson, MS.

Tongo will be channeling the poet Roque Dalton—check out this article on his murder, and here are three poems. Now watch Tongo perform his poem “Letter from Prison” to Randall Woolf’s “No Ax To Grind” as performed by Composers Concordance String Orchestra.

Candace Eros Diaz is a San Francisco Writer’s Grotto Fellow and a VONA/Voices alum. She is the Admissions and Student Services Coordinator for the MFA Program in Creative Writing at Saint Mary’s College of California where she also received her MFA in both creative nonfiction and fiction. She is a recipient of a Vermont Studio Center residency and her work has appeared in MARY: A Journal of New Writing, The East Bay Review, and Huizache, among others. She lives in Oakland, CA.

Candace will be channeling Sara Mumolo, and specifically her poem “Top Places to Breastfeed.” Watch Candace reading at Litquake, and at the MFA Mixer.

Deborah Steinberg’s writing has been published in Necessary Fiction, The Red Line, Monkeybicycle, Blood and Thunder, and other journals. She is a founding editor of Red Bridge Press and is the fiction editor of the press’s online journal Rivet: the Journal of Writing that Risks. Deborah facilitates writing workshops with a focus on healing, serves on the board of the literary reading series Bay Area Generations, and sings in the a cappella group Conspiracy of Venus. She also works as a freelance editor and writing coach.

Deborah will be channeling the influence of Ursula K. Le Guin! You better just goog Le Guin… you can be amazed as much as you want. Check Deborah out at QL and at the Bernal Yoga Literary Series.

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