“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, March 19, 2015
“Under the Influence” Reading Performance Series | North Beach

March 19, 2015 Readers:

Christina Kolozsvary was raised on the exotic sands of South Florida, where she was fed a healthy diet of dolphin murals, neon signs, and tanning oil. An indefatigable dreamer, she learned early that making films was a salubrious way to live in a world of pure fantasy. In moments of lucidity, she teaches film and digital media to the youth of tomorrow. Christina has exhibited her works internationally, and has received the Emerging Artist Fellowship at the Jacob Burns Film Center, and the Princess Grace Honoraria Award.

Joe Loya is an essayist, playwright, actor, and author of the critically acclaimed memoir The Man Who Outgrew His Prison Cell: Confessions of a Bank Robber. Besides writing the prison zombie apocalypse novel The Red Mile, he is now working on a second memoir about how prison prepared him for daddyhood, loosely titled, “Dada, Tell me A Zombie Story.” Loya’s most recent venture is producing and hosting a new podcast, The Allure of Crime.

Allison Landa is a Berkeley-based writer of fiction and memoir whose work has been featured in Salon Magazine, You and Me Magazine, Word Riot, Prick of the Spindle and Cease, Cows, among other venues. She has held residencies at The MacDowell Colony, Playa Summer Lake, Kimmel Harding Nelson Center for the Arts and The Julia and David White Artists’ Colony, and earned her MFA in creative writing from St. Mary’s College of California. Stalk her at allisonlanda.com or read more of her ramblings at allisonlanda.blogspot.com.

Peter Bullen by Ian TuttlePeter (Thomas) Bullen, a Berkeley hairdresser, started writing at 49, so will never be in The New Yorker‘s 30 under 30 collection. That may not be the only reason. However, he read at Barely Published Authors (a description he feels captures him perfectly) at LitQuake in 2014, and was a Quiet Lightning Neighborhood Hero that same year. He is either at work on a novel, or has finished it; how can you ever tell? His work has appeared in Sparkle and Blink and Blotterature, and his fiction excerpts, stray thoughts, and wishes can be found at wetriedourbest.wordpress.com.

Chris Peck has been recording and performing “hist-hop” and “song-rap” since his first cassette in 1994. His music has been featured on MTV UK, Current TV, the Wall Street Journal.com, and in his own purple videos. Projects include Ancient Baby, a homemade album to be released on vinyl; I Wish the King, his first novel; and LOAN, a band just getting started. Peck teaches guitar in San Rafael and can often be found crying a capella on the corner of 16th & Mission.

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