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

Featured Performers | February 19, 2015

Rashaan Alexis Meneses has work featured in New Letters, Kurungabaa, The Coachella Review, Pembroke Magazine, Doveglion Press, and the anthology Growing Up Filipino II: More Stories for Young Adults. A past recipient of the Jacob K. Javits Award, she’s received fellowships at The MacDowell Colony and The International Retreat for Writers at Hawthornden Castle, Scotland. Named a finalist for A Room of Her Own Foundation’s The Gift of Freedom Award and the Sundress Best of the Net Prize, she teaches as Adjunct Assistant Professor for Justice, Community and Leadership at Saint Mary’s College of California and is Bay Area based, where you can find her hiking the trails and paddling the waters any chance she can get.

Thaisa Frank, according to The New York Times, “writes with a tantalizing sense of indirection.” Her sixth book, Enchantment, was a Best Books for the SF Chronicle in 2012. Her novel, Heidegger’s Glasses 2010, was translated into 10 languages. She has won two PEN awards and is a three-time nominee for the Northern California Book Reviewer Association Award. She teaches in MFA programs and is an advisor to the Post-Baccalaureate Program at UC Berkeley Extension.

Patrick Newson precipitated from the Pacific Northwest and drips ink in the shape of text, image, and occasionally the human figure. Alongside writing, he has also worked as a caregiver, a vintner, a cook, a kayak guide, an orchardist, an ESL teacher, a bartender, a printmaker, a music and arts journalist, a psychiatric orderly, a wine steward, a vegetable farmer, a post-surgical aide, a builder (though it was mostly demolition), and a pilgrim. He received a BA from the University of Oregon and is currently an MFA candidate at the California College of the Arts.

Abbie Amadio worried about technological detachment, conspiracy theories, government set-ups, and whether things are funny or not. Her fiction (and nonfiction) has appeared in small literary (and nonliterary) magazines, and she’s currently working on a first novel. is a trans and queer intersectional poet and artist from nyc, now living in oakland. His work’s been featured in It’s Night in San Francisco, but It’s Sunny in Oakland, Lambda Literary‘s Poetry Spotlight, Shampoo, Gertrude Journal, Them: A Trans Literary Journal, among others.

Joe Stillwater is a director/writer/sound recordist and has been involved in the SF Bay Area film community for over 10 years. Films which he’s helped to create have screened on IFC and at Sundance, SXSW, Slamdance, Brooklyn International, Chicago International, Future States, Los Angeles Film Festival and Hi/Lo Film Festivals. He has made films in India, Chile, Hawaii, the United Kingdom, Colombia, Austria, the Netherlands and across the United States. His approach to film is in consideration of perspective, tone, texture, space and the unconscious world. He holds a degree in Film and Digital Media Production from UC Santa Cruz and lives in San Francisco, CA.

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