MAY 2 | Poetry | William Wantling

APR 26 | Booksigning | Arthur Winfield Knight

APR 18 | Poetry | Charles Curtis Blackwell

Friday, April 18th, 7:30pm
Poems-For-All presents
CHARLES CURTIS BLACKWELL
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The Book Collector. 1008 24th Street, between J & K Streets, midtown Sacramento. 916.442.9295. www.poems-for-all.com
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Poems-For-All is pleased to welcome Charles Curtis Blackwell back to Sacramento. Presently a poet and performer in the Bay Area, Charles once graced the Sacramento scene with his exceptional readings. He comes with a new book of poems, or rather, two vignettes of poetry in one book: "Is, The Color of Mississippi Mud and Lou Next Door." The book's publisher/editor Vincent Kobelt has also been invited to read.
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BIO
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Playwright, poet, performing artist et al Charles Curtis Blackwell has written such plays as "Is, The Color of Mississippi Mud," which was produced in both Washington D.C. and Sacramento, and "Im a Boxer, a love story" , has been published both nationally and internationally. His first book, "The Fiery Response To Love's Callings", was published in 1999. He's been published in Eugene Redmond's "Drum Voices Revue" and has produced three spoken word CDs--featuring Jazz drummer Billy Toliver. He was also affiliated with The William James Assocciation's Arts in Prison Program. Currently he resides in the San Francisco Bay Area where he has organized Writer's workshops and community Cultural Arts events ath the Faithful Fools Agency in the San Francisco Tenderloin.
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ABOUT THE BOOK
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"Otis Redding says, 'Try a little tenderness.' Charles Curtis Blackwell's "Is, the Color of Mississippi Mud" is tenderness laid across the page. It gives us a glimpse of the segregated South tucked next to the banks of the Mississippi ... It is as if he ran his fingers across the welts of American history." -- Vincent Kobelt.
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POEM
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The big-get-tree confronted
by Charles Curtis Blackwell

The moon is stiff, enough to journey up river
In light; the way into the river's
Meeting place
Golden leaves of Harper's Ferry fall smooth
To the touch of fear
So, so well it sits with the April song
Sung in memory of pain
Ropes twine, so; so well, it sits with thee
Prejudice overlapping the days
Venture out west Exodus
Starving the freedom of a new narrative
Sung in submission, to the grave
A wind-wing bird flies under ground
Over the call of gush and ghostly cries
Years in passing comes this haunting
Echo of a tune

"John Brown's ah body
lay ah buried in the grave
John Brown's ah body lay ah buried in dee grave"

The arched over ropes twine,
Gun powder spilled upon railroad tracks
For the asking, it's history to remind
The flutter of whirlwind war; so civil
Tears in crossing so cruel
"Bye-bye, I don't know you," speaks the
colored girl, handed down futuristic thought
We were once referred to as cheap labor/free labor/
even slaves
Drag the river bottom for your SELF;
Seeking historical fact so matter.
For in the eye you behold an illusion
It's so different now
The way the rope untwines
Love lace groans, as the slave of the daughter
Calls out, "Abolishment."
Ignored. Resurrection now in crusade of...
Lover come hither and ease this burden
Running through lily grass in the future.
"Speak to me," whispers the stiff moon,
In the Dark blue, echo/Blue ridge mountain
Escapes...all these words voice,
RUN
RETALIATE
FIGHT
FLEE
BATTLE
REALIZE
Words that rip across trusted barbed wire
Bloody and jaded too.

Poetry Month | Snapshot of events

Friends & poets,

Below is a quick snapshot of poetry & lit events this month in the area. By no means comprehensive, but an outline of possibilities.


APRIL 2008
POETRY MONTH EVENTS
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TUE 1 6pm The Bonefolders: Poems-For-All Building Party Book Collector
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WED 2 5pm Laureates Reading CA Poets Laureate Gathering State Library
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THU 3 9am Al Young CA Poets Laureate Gathering State Library
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THU 3 1pm Public Reading CA Poets Laureate Gathering Capitol
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FRI 4 7:30p Lisa Dominguez Abraham, Denise Lichtig, Catherine French UU Church, Davis
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FRI 4 6pm Jane Hirshfield, Camille Norton, Joshua McKinney SPC Conference
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SAT 5 4:30p Al Young, Quinton Duval, Ellen Bass SPC Conference
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SAT 5 7:30p Cornered: Five Years of SN&R's Poet's Corner Book Collector
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WED 9 7pm Ann Menebroker, Ted Finn RATTLESNAKE Book Collector
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SAT 12 2-4 Shanine Abercrombie, Yoke Breaker, vocalist Sidney Nicholas Culture Collection
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SAT 12 6pm The Bonefolders: Poems-For-All Building Party Book Collector
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MON 14 7:30p High School Poetry Contest Winners Sac. Poetry Center
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WED 16 9pm John Boe, Storyteller Bistro 33, Davis
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THU 17 10-6 POEM IN YOUR POCKET DAY Book Collector/citywide
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THU 17 7:30p R.D. Armstong Center for the Arts
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FRI 18 7:30p Charles Curtis Blackwell Book Collector
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FRI 18 7:30p Art Mantecón, James DenBoer Galleria Posada
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SAT 19 11am Cache Creek Nature Preserve's Day for the Arts
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SAT 19 7pm Brigit Truex, Lori Jean Robinson, Sidney Singleton, Sean King Underground Books
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SAT 19 7:30p John Amen, Brad Anderson Sac. Poetry Center
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MON 21 7:30p Sac City Ethnic Theater! Sac.Poetry Center
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SAT 26 2pm Arthur Winfield Knight Book Collector
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SAT 26 7pm Brigit Truex, Sean King , 3rd place Sac Idol vocalist Jessica Teddington The Show
MON 28 7:30p William O'Daly Sacramento Poetry Center


VENUES
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In Sacramento, unless indicated otherwise
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Bistro 33 -- 226 F Street, Davis -- 530.756.4556
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The Book Collector -- 1008 24th St -- 916.442.9295
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Center for the Arts -- 314 W. Main St., Grass Valley -- 530.432.8196
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Culture Collection -- 6391 Riverside Blvd in Greenhaven -- 916.208.POET
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Sacramento Poetry Center -- 1719 25th St. -- www.sacramentopoetrycenter.org
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The Show -- 2863 35 St. (off 35th & Broadway) -- 916.208.POET
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Underground Books -- 2814 35th St. (off 35th & Broadway) -- 916.208.POET

APRIL | Poetry Month events at the Book Collector | Updated

Some changes to the line-up. The SN&R event has moved to the 5th; the first bonefolder building party has moved to April 1st. -- Richard


APRIL 2008
POETRY MONTH EVENTS AT THE BOOK COLLECTOR
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1008 24th Street
Sacramento, CA
Between J & K Streets
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916.442.9295
richard@poems-for-all.com
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Tuesday, April 1st, 6 - 8pm
THE BONEFOLDERS: POEMS-FOR-ALL BUILDING PARTY
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Help us build the hundreds of poem booklets we want to put on the street for Poetry Month.
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Each little booklet made as part of the Poems-For-All (PFA) Series goes through the same ritual: Cut. Fold. Staple. Bonefolders are the small tools used to make a neat fold in paper. The Bonefolders are those kind souls willing to come out and help PFA build little booklets to be given away for free. Care to be a bonefolder? Join us anytime between 6 and 9 pm in the relaxed atmosphere of the bookstore. Come to fold poems or just hang out and enjoy the light refreshments. There are jobs for any skill level. Building little poem books is theraputic and you're welcome to take some with you!


Saturday, April 5th, 7:30pm
CORNERED: FIVE YEARS OF SN&R'S POET'S CORNER
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A celebration of five years of poetry in the Sacramento News & Review. Poetry Editor Kel Munger is putting together a line-up of poets from among those who've been published in the papers' weekly Poet's Corner.


Wednesday, April 9th, 7pm
RATTLESNAKE PRESS: FOURTH ANNUAL BIRTHDAY BASH
featuring ANN MENEBROKER, TED FINN
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From Rattlesnake publisher Kathy Kieth: "We will mark the Snake's fourth birthday by throwing the Fourth Annual Birthday Bash at The Book Collector on Wednesday, April 9, including a buffet at 7 PM, followed by a reading at 7:30 PM. That night, there will be three history-making releases: Ann Menebroker's new chapbook (Small Crimes); Ted Finn re-emerges with a new SnakeRings SpiralChap of his poetry and art (Damn the Eternal War); and Katy Brown inaugurates her blank (well, not really) journal series for our HandyStuff department with her MUSINGS: Photos and Prompts For Capturing Creative Thought. Please join us to celebrate four years of [your] poetry with fangs!"


Saturday, April 12th, 6 - 9pm
THE BONEFOLDERS: POEMS-FOR-ALL BUILDING PARTY
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Come out for Midtown's Second Saturday Art Walk and drop by the bookstore!
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Each little booklet made as part of the Poems-For-All (PFA) Series goes through the same ritual: Cut. Fold. Staple. Bonefolders are the small tools used to make a neat fold in paper. The Bonefolders are those kind souls willing to come out and help PFA build little booklets to be given away for free. Care to be a bonefolder? Join us anytime between 6 and 9 pm in the relaxed atmosphere of the bookstore. Come to fold poems or just hang out and enjoy the light refreshments. There are jobs for any skill level. Building little poem books is theraputic and you're welcome to take some with you!


Thursday, April 17th, All Day
POEM IN YOUR POCKET DAY
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The Academy of American Poets launches the first annual national "Poem in your Pocket Day" The idea is simple: select a poem and carry it with you (poem in your pocket) and unfold it with family friends and co-workers throughout the day. More details are available at their website: poets.org/pocket
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Throughout the day the largest selection of Poems-For-All booklets ever made available for distribution will at the bookstore for people to take and use as part of "Poem in your Pocket Day" Other activities during the day at the bookstore are in the works to help celebrate and promote this new national tradition.


Friday, April 18th, 7:30pm
CHARLES CURTIS BLACKWELL
VINCENT KOBELT (Invited)
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Poems-For-All is pleased to welcome Charles Curtis Blackwell back to Sacramento. Presently a poet and performer in the Bay Area, Charles once graced the Sacramento scene with his exceptional readings. He comes with a new book of poems, or rather, two vignettes of poetry in one book: "Is, The Color of Mississippi Mud and Lou Next Door." The book's publisher/editor Vincent Kobelt has also been invited to read.


Saturday, April 26th, 6pm
ARTHUR WINFIELD KNIGHT
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Poet, writer and editor of UNSPEAKABLE VISIONS, a literary journal of Beat Generation writing, Arthur celebrates the release of his latest Novel MISFITS COUNTRY.

AND INTO MAY...

Friday, May 2nd, 7:30pm
WILLIAM WANTLING IS DEAD
featuring
KEVIN JONES
GENE BLOOM
RICHARD HANSEN
Others
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May 2nd marks the anniversary of the death of mimeo era poet William
Wantling. Poet and Wantling Scholar Kevin Jones and others will read
their favorite Wantling poems and discuss his importance and impact as
a poet.

MAR 31 | Poetry | Zen Marxist Launderettes

Monday, March 31 at 7:30pm
Sacramento Poetry Center presents
ZEN MARXIST LAUNDERETTES
Laura Ann Walton, Emily Wright, Mira Kores, Sandra Senne, Margaret Burns, Erin Doyle, Ellen Johnson, Carolyn Schneider. Host: Frank Dixon Graham
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1719 25th Street at HQ for the Arts, at 25th & R Streets. www.sacramentopoetrycenter.org
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LAURA ANN WALTON is a poet, dramatist and social activist. In the past decade and a half, she founded Maryhouse, a center for homeless women and The Women's Wisdom Project, an arts program for disadvantaged women. EMILY WRIGHT may or may not be a professional model. MIRA KORES is a poet from Sacramento. SANDRA SENNE is a poet from Sacramento and is currently the treasurer of the Sacramento Poetry Center. ERIN DOYLE is someone whose first name means “peace” in Celtic, whose last name originates as a form of Dowall = Dougal/Dougall, whose personal power animal is the blue tit, and whose numerology number is “8.” ELLEN JOHNSON may or may not be the president of American Atheists. CAROLYN SCHNEIDER may or may not be the author of The Ultimate Consignments and Thrift Store Guide.
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SACRAMENTO POETRY CENTER: UPCOMING EVENTS
April 07: Nickole Brown, Gene Bloom
April 14: SPC High School Poetry Contest
April 19: (Special Saturday Session) John Amen, Brad Henderson
April 21: Sacramento City Ethnic Theater!
April 28: William O' Daly
May 12: Rebecca Foust, Elizabeth Krause
May 26: Chad Sweeney and Josh McKinney
June 09: F.D. Reeve, Al Garcia

MAR 28 | Film | The Six String Samurai (7pm) | Rocky Horror Picture Show (10pm)

Friday, March 28th
Movies on a Big Screen (MOBS) presents:
THE SIX STRING SAMURAI (7pm) -- $5
ROCKY HORROR PICTURE SHOW (10pm) -- $6
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600 4th St, West Sacramento. That's the corner of 4th & F in West Sacramento (just over the river from downtown near the Pyramid Building). Digital projection on to a large screen. Seating is mostly on folding chairs. Feel free to bring a pillow or cushion. www.shiny-object.com/screenings
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The Six-String Samurai is Buddy, a mysterious and powerful hero of the post-apocalyptic future, who must fight his way to Lost Vegas and ditch a bothersome orphan kid if he's ever to become the next King of Rock 'n' Roll. Along the way, they encounter bounty-hunting bowlers, a cannibalistic "Cleaver" family, a Windmill God and even the Russian army. Winding up at the gates of Vegas, Buddy finds himself in an epic battle with Death over the child's soul and comes to realize just what it means to be King.

"It's The Road Warrior with a rock 'n' roll beat, Buddy Holly doing his best Toshiro Mifune, a Sergio Leone gang picture set in a fantasy future, directed with the flash and panache of a Hong Kong action flick and the sleek style of a samurai film. Lance Mungia's high energy genre soup is a hoot, a low budget indie action film that embraces its limitations with a spare grunge-chic look spiced with flashy visuals, jazzy editing, and plenty of punk attitude." - Nitrate Online

And then at 10 PM (admission: $6.00): Rocky Horror!!

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Coming next Friday April 4 - the Sacramento premiere of "Honeydripper," John Sayles' newest film starring Danny Glover!! Admission for "Honeydripper" will be $7.00.

MAR 20 | Speaker | Delores Huerta

Thursday, March 20, 7:30pm
DELORES HUERTA
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Sacramento State. University Union Ballroom. www.csus.edu/union/unique. (916) 278-6997.
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Dolores Huerta, a civil rights activist for more than half a century, and co-founder of the United Farm Workers of America, will speak as part of the University’s Women’s History Month events. Her talk will focus on U.S. immigration policy and its impact on women. Huerta’s talk is presented by the University Union UNIQUE Programs, the Women’s Resource Center, Multicultural Center, California Faculty Association, Serna Center and ASI at Sacramento State.

Huerta, who first came to national attention when she organized a widespread grape boycott in the 1960s, remains active in causes supporting civil rights, women’s rights and farmworkers’ rights. She also chairs the nonprofit Dolores Huerta foundation, which trains community organizers to assist immigrants and the poor. In recent public appearances, she has stressed the importance of intense hands-on involvement in the political process.

April | Poetry Month events at The Book Collector

Here's a rough sketch of what we're doing at the bookstore for and during Poetry Month. I'll follow up with more details.

APRIL 2008
POETRY MONTH EVENTS
AT THE BOOK COLLECTOR
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1008 24th Street
Sacramento, CA
Between J & K Streets
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916.442.9295
richard@poems-for-all.com

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Saturday, April 5th, 6 - 9pm
THE BONEFOLDERS: POEMS-FOR-ALL BUILDING PARTY
- - -
Help us build the hundreds of poem booklets we want to put on the street for Poetry Month.
- - -
Each little booklet made as part of the Poems-For-All (PFA) Series goes through the same ritual: Cut. Fold. Staple. Bonefolders are the small tools used to make a neat fold in paper. The Bonefolders are those kind souls willing to come out and help PFA build little booklets to be given away for free. Care to be a bonefolder? Join us anytime between 6 and 9 pm in the relaxed atmosphere of the bookstore. Come to fold poems or just hang out and enjoy the light refreshments. There are jobs for any skill level. Building little poem books is theraputic and you're welcome to take some with you!


Wednesday, April 9th, 7pm
RATTLESNAKE PRESS: FOURTH ANNUAL BIRTHDAY BASH
featuring ANN MENEBROKER, TED FINN
- - -
From Rattlesnake publisher Kathy Kieth: "We will mark the Snake’s fourth birthday by throwing the Fourth Annual Birthday Bash at The Book Collector on Wednesday, April 9, including a buffet at 7 PM, followed by a reading at 7:30 PM. That night, there will be three history-making releases: Ann Menebroker’s new chapbook (Small Crimes); Ted Finn re-emerges with a new SnakeRings SpiralChap of his poetry and art (Damn the Eternal War); and Katy Brown inaugurates her blank (well, not really) journal series for our HandyStuff department with her MUSINGS: Photos and Prompts For Capturing Creative Thought. Please join us to celebrate four years of [your] poetry with fangs!"

Friday, April 11th, 7:30pm
CORNERED: FIVE YEARS OF SN&R'S POET'S CORNER
- - -
A celebration of five years of poetry in the Sacramento News & Review. Poetry Editor Kel Munger is putting together a line-up of poets from among those who've been published in the papers' weekly Poet's Corner.

Saturday, April 12th, 6 - 9pm
THE BONEFOLDERS: POEMS-FOR-ALL BUILDING PARTY
- - -
Come out for Midtown's Second Saturday Art Walk and drop by the bookstore!
- - -
Each little booklet made as part of the Poems-For-All (PFA) Series goes through the same ritual: Cut. Fold. Staple. Bonefolders are the small tools used to make a neat fold in paper. The Bonefolders are those kind souls willing to come out and help PFA build little booklets to be given away for free. Care to be a bonefolder? Join us anytime between 6 and 9 pm in the relaxed atmosphere of the bookstore. Come to fold poems or just hang out and enjoy the light refreshments. There are jobs for any skill level. Building little poem books is theraputic and you're welcome to take some with you!


Thursday, April 17th, All Day
POEM IN YOUR POCKET DAY
- - -
The Academy of American Poets launches the first annual national "Poem in your Pocket Day" The idea is simple: select a poem and carry it with you (poem in your pocket) and unfold it with family friends and co-workers throughout the day. More details are available at their website: poets.org/pocket
- - -
Throughout the day the largest selection of Poems-For-All booklets ever made available for distribution will at the bookstore for people to take and use as part of "Poem in your Pocket Day." Other activities during the day at the bookstore are in the works to help celebrate and promote this new national tradition.


Friday, April 18th, 7:30pm
CHARLES CURTIS BLACKWELL
VINCENT KOBELT (Invited)
- - -
Poems-For-All is pleased to welcome Charles Curtis Blackwell back to Sacramento. Presently a poet and performer in the Bay Area, Charles once graced the Sacramento scene with his exceptional readings. He comes with a new book of poems, or rather, two vignettes of poetry in one book: "Is, The Color of Mississippi Mud and Lou Next Door." The book's publisher/editor Vincent Kobelt has also been invited to read.

Saturday, April 26th, 6pm
ARTHUR WINFIELD KNIGHT
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Poet, writer and editor of UNSPEAKABLE VISIONS, a literary journal of Beat Generation writing, Arthur celebrates the release of his latest Novel MISFITS COUNTRY.


AND INTO MAY...

Friday, May 2nd, 7:30pm
WILLIAM WANTLING IS DEAD
featuring
KEVIN JONES
GENE BLOOM (Invited)
RICHARD HANSEN
Others
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May 2nd marks the anniversary of the death of mimeo era poet William Wantling. Poet and Wantling Scholar Kevin Jones and others will read their favorite Wantling poems and discuss his importance and impact as a poet. Poet GENE BLOOM who edited the little magazine ENTRAILS and published Wantling has been invited to attend. (I wish I had the cash to bring A.D. WINANS over from the Bay Area. His Second Coming Press put out a wonderful collection of Wantling poems...Fortunately, A.D. Winans will be reading at the bookstore in January 2009 in support of a forthcoming book to be published by Robert Grossklaus at Polymer Press.)

MAR 19 | Protests | Anti-War Demonstrations and Events in Sacramento (and beyond)

On the fifth year anniversary on the war in Iraq a list of anti-war demonstrations and events compiled by musician, journalist and friend Dan Bacher with the hope that the poets, musicians, writers and other creative souls who read this blog will add their voice and energy to ending the war in Iraq.

IN SACRAMENTO:
7:30-8:30am Demo at 3rd & J Sts. offramp, Sacramento. From here we will plan random demonstrations throughout the city, stopping at the 11:30 rally at the Capitol. Info: 916-448-7157

11:30am, 5th Anniversary Rally Against the War Iraq; North side State Capitol, L & 11th Sts, Sac, 916-448-7157; sacpeace@dcn.org

4 - 6pm, Anti-War vigil 15th & L, Sac, 916-446-5261.

4:30 - 6pm, 5 Years is Too Many: Demonstration to demand an End the U.S. occupation of Iraq. Bring signs. Howe & Fair Oaks Blvd. Sacramento, 916-481-6122.

7:15pm, CAAC Goes To The Movies: Retrospective on the 5th Anniversary of the Invasion of Iraq with Short Films. 1640 9th Avenue, FMI: 446-3304

7pm, Candlelight Peace Vigil & gathering on the 5th anniversary of the U.S. invasion of Iraq. Unitarian Universalist Society, 2425 Sierra Blvd., Sac, ernestsweet@aol.com; 916-481-6122

Please join with other opponents of this war, which is driving our country into the ground, and causing so much misery for so many.

IN SAN FRANCISCO:
5 - 8pm, No business as Usual March & Rally on 5th anniversary of the US invasion of Iraq. Civic Center, San Francisco. Carpools from Sacramento: 916-448-7157; sacpeace@dcn.org

FEB 25 | History of the Zapatista Movement

Raúl Salinas has died

The news circulates, and I am sad to send it, that poet Raúl Salinas has died. He was here, in Sacramento, in 2004; a part of Jose Montoya's Flor y Canto. There he conducted a sunday programme for Children. I remember fondly how he delivered a love of poetry to the kids; my little daughter among them. I'll remember Mr. Salinas this way, in how he made her smile.

FEB 21 & 22 | Poetry | Readings in Davis | Yosefa Raz | Susan Kelly-DeWitt Options

Thursday, February 21, 7pm
YESEFA RAZ
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Yolo County Library in the Blanchard Room, 317 W. 14th Street, Davis.
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Yosefa Raz is an Israeli-American poet, whose first book, In Exchange for a Homeland, was published in 2004 by Swan Scythe Press. She is a graduate of the U.C. Davis creative writing program, and now lives in Berkeley, where she is working on her doctorate. The reading is sponsored by Israel Peace Alternatives.

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Friday, February 22, 7:30pm
SUSAN KELLY-DeWITT
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The Avid Reader, 617 Second Street, Davis.
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Susan Kelly-DeWitt will celebrate the publication of her first full- length collection, The Fortunate Islands, at a readingThe author of six chapbooks and a letterpress collection, The Book of Insects, she has been the recipient of a Wallace Stegner Fellowship from Stanford University, and has won many national awards for her writing. Her poems have appeared in Poetry, Prairie Schooner, New Letters, North American Review, Rosebud, Cutbank, and Nimrod, among many other journals.

FEB 6 & 7 | Poetry | Readings in Davis | Mary Mackey | Joe Wenderoth Options

Wednesday, February 6, 9pm
MARY MACKEY
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Bistro 33, 226 F Street, Davis.
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Poetry Night hosts Andy Jones and Brad Henderson are pleased to announce that the esteemed poet, novelist and Sac State Professor Mary Mackey will be the featured performer at Poetry Night at Bistro 33 on February 6 at 9pm. Mackey has published five volumes of poetry, a novella, and eleven novels. Her works have sold over a million copies and have been translated into eleven foreign languages, including Japanese, Hebrew, Greek, and Finnish.
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Mackey's nonfiction and memoirs have appeared in various anthologies. She has reviewed books for The San Francisco Chronicle, the San Jose Mercury News, the American Book Review, and a variety of other publications; has lectured at Harvard and the Smithsonian; and has contributed to such diverse print and on-line publications as The Chiron Review, Redbook, and Salon.
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Poetry Night takes place on the first and third Wednesday of every month. After the featured performer, an open mic will give new and experienced poets and performers an opportunity to share their work. Admission is free, and all are welcome to join the evening of literary performance at 226 F Street in the old City Hall building. For more information, contact Bistro 33 at (530) 756-4556.

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Thursday, February 7, 2008, 8pm (sharp)
JOE WENDEROTH
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The John Natsoulas Center for the Arts, 521 1st Street, Davis.
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The heralded author of the poetry collections No Real Light, Disfortune, and It Is If I Speak; the epistolary novel Letters to Wendy's, and the collection of essays The Holy Spirit of Life: Essays for John Ashcroft's Secret Self, will perform his work -poems, songs, and short silent film clips--in the darkened third floor of Davis's most majestic gallery. The critic Ben Marcus has commented that "Joe Wenderoth is a brilliant writer, original and subversive, sensitive and strange. I read his work with awe and admiration." Come early to this unforgettable event. Viewer Discretion is Advised. No Host Bar.

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FEB 1 | Film | The Crazies (7pm) | Rocky Horror (10pm)

FRIDAY, FEB 1, 7:00PM
Shiny Object "Movies on a Big Screen" presents:
THE CRAZIES
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600 4th St, West Sacramento. That's the corner of 4th & F in WEST Sacramento (not downtown Sacto). Admission: $5.00. Digital projection on to a large screen. Seating is on folding chairs - feel free to bring a pillow or cushion - or even your own folding chair! web: www.shiny-object.com/screenings
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A government plane carrying a secret military bio-weapon crashes near a small town in Pennsylvania, leaking into the water supply. Violent insanity infects and transforms most of the town's citizens, and the army moves in to quarantine the town and restore order -- but have to avoid infection themselves. Filled with government paranoia and social statements, this oft-overlooked Romero classic from 1973 is about to be remade (shudder) and was a blatant influence on "28 Days Later."
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Do NOT forget, The Rocky Horror Picture Show plays every Friday at 10 PM. Admission for this is $6.00. Turnout has been picking up -- but we still need people coming out to continue screening this! Oh - you can also see the RHPS FAQ at our website.
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COMING ATTRACTIONS: Next week (2/8) a personal fave of ours -- the rarely seen film from Kids in the Hall director John Paizs, "Crimewave." And don't forget our Valentine's Day movie -heh- on 2/15: "Porn King: The Trials of Al Goldstein."


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ELSEWHERE & OTHERWISE
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CALIFORNIA LECTURE SERIES
Subscriptions are on sale now for their next six-lecture series ($150). Subscribe and get more info at: (916) 737-1300 or visit www.californialectures.org
SIX-LECTURE SERIES: Crest Theatre, Sacramento 7:30pm
GERALDINE BROOKS Wednesday, February 6, 2008
RICHARD POWERS Monday, March 3, 2008
TOBIAS WOLFF Thursday, May 8, 2008

FEB 2 | Music | Instagon at the Java Lounge

SATURDAY, FEB 2, 8PM
[Music]
INSTAGON LORDS OF OUTLAND
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Java Lounge, 2416 16th Street, Sacramento. www.thejavaloungeisrad.com
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You may know Lob as a poet. He's also the genius behind the annual Noise Fest as well as the unique noise-music-performance experience know as INSTAGON whose performers change every time it takes the stage. About the show, which celebrates Instagon's 15th birthday, Lob says: "Your support would be most appreciated.. It will be a fun show will lots of surprizes... BE THERE." Also playing, LORDS OF OUTLAND from the Bay Area who will be celebrating a CD release. More info: Lob ov Instagon


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ELSEWHERE & OTHERWISE
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FRIDAY, FEB 8, 5PM
ALEX ESCALANTE: POET-TRAITS
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Luna's Cafe, 1414 16th Street. (916) 441-3931.
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Poet Portraits of JOSE MONTOYA, PHIL GOLVARG, FELICIA McGEE and others. Readings by selected poets at 7pm. Complimentary wine and Hors d’oeuvres will be served.

FEB 4 | Poetry | Francisco X. Alarcón & Eve West Bessier

MONDAY, FEB 4, 7:30PM
Sacramento Poetry Center presents:
FRANCISCO X. ALARCÓN & EVE WEST BESSIER
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The Book Collector, 1008 24th Street, between J & K Streets. (916) 442-9295. www.sacramentopoetrycenter.org
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PLEASE NOTE THE TEMPORARY LOCATION CHANGE. SPC events typically happen at their location at 25th & R Streets, inside HQ: Headquarters for the Arts.
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Francisco X. Alarcón is an acclaimed poet and educator, author of ten volumes of poetry. Alarcón is the recipient of 1993 American Book Award, the 1993 PEN Oakland Josephine Miles Award, and the 1984 Chicano Literary Prize. In April 2002 he received the Fred Cody Lifetime Achievement Award from the Bay Area Book Reviewers Association (BABRA). He was one of the three finalists nominated for the state poet laureate of California. Alarcón was also awarded the 1997 Pura Belpré Honor Award by the American Library Association and the National Parenting Publications Gold Medal. He also received 2002 Pura Belpré Honor Award, Danforth and Fulbright fellowships, 1998 Carlos Pellicer-Robert Frost Poetry Honor Award by the Third Binational Border Poetry Contest, Ciudad Juárez, Chihuahua.
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Alarcón's most recent books are Sonnets to Madness and Other Misfortunes / Sonetos a la locura y otras penas (Berkeley: Creative Arts Book Company 2001) and From the Other Side of Night / Del otro lado de la noche: New and Selected Poems (University of Arizona Press 2002). He currently teaches at the University of California, Davis.
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Eve West Bessier is a author of poetry, fiction and non-fiction. She was born in the Netherlands and has lived in Davis, California for the past two decades. She currently works as a Certified Life Coach and Vocal Coach, and teaches writing workshops and residencies. She worked for The University of California, Davis for eighteen years in educational research, program development and evaluation. She holds a Master of Education from UC Davis and has done graduate course work in English and creative writing at California State University, Sacramento. She also holds a Bachelor of Arts in English and Creative Writing from San Francisco State University.
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She is a performing jazz vocalist, a visual artist and a promoter of community arts programs. She has received several literary awards including The Kathryn Hohlwein (2000), First Place for Poetry in The California Focus on Writers Contest (2000), and Second Place in the Sacramento News & Review's Short Story Contest (2001). Her poetry was nominated for a Pushcart Prize in 2003.. She has two chapbooks, Roots Music and Splash published by dPress, Sebastopol, 2002 and 2003.

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ELSEWHERE & OTHERWISE
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MONDAY, FEB 18, 7:30PM
Sacramento Poetry Center presents:
AFRICAN AMERICAN HERITAGE & HISTORY MONTH READING
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Sacramento Poetry Center, 1719 25th Street, 25th & R Streets, www.sacramentopoetrycenter.org
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Hosted by: Indigo Moor and Khiry Malik Moore. Headliners include: Emmanuel Sigauke, Dawn Dibartolo, Mario Ellis Hill, Terry Moore and Supanova.

JAN 12 | stranded and disbanded, busted and disgusted

Many will remember Tim Holt as the editor of The Suttertown News, Sacramento's alternative newspaper long before the News & Review opened up shop. Living in Dunsmuir now, Tim returns for an evening celebrating Woodie Guthrie and the American folksong. His talk and performance will be followed by a folk jam. Folk musicians from beginners to pros are invited to bring their acoustic instruments and join in. It all takes place at 2pm at The McClatchy Library, 2112 22nd Street, Sacramento. It's free, folks.

"The history of the American folksong is a people's history of thiscountry," Holt says.

From the ramblin' songs of Woody Guthrie ("from Oklahoma to CaliforniaI've been stranded and disbanded, busted and disgusted") to the old-time religious songs of a much earlier era, Tim Holt will explore thehistory of the American folksong--its origins in the British Isles andWest Africa, and the social context from which it arose.Along the way he'll sing songs that represent various facets of theAmerican folksong, including the preoccupation with sinfulness and thesinner ("Hard Ain't It Hard"), the old-time gospel ("LonesomeValley"), Guthrie's Depression-era songs ("Ramblin' 'Round"), songs ofthe westward migration ("Cumberland Gap" and "Sweet Betsy From Pike"), and the contributions of Charles Neblett, a courageous champion ofcivil rights in the 1960s ("If You Miss Me On The Back Of The Bus").

Tim Holt is a frequent contributor to the Sunday San Francisco Chronicle and the author of several books, including On Higher Ground and Songs Of The Simple Life (both available at The Book Collector).

JAN 7 | POETRY | Barbara Jane Reyes and Oscar Bermeo

MONDAY, JANUARY 7, 7:30PM
Sacramento Poetry Center presents:
BARBARA JANE REYES, OSCAR BERMEO
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1719 25th Street. 25th & R Streets,Sacramento
(916) 451-5569.www.sacramentopoetrycenter.org
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The Sacramento Poetry Center starts the new year with a reading featuring Barbara Jane Reyes and Oscar Bermeo. Hosted by Arturo Mantecon, count on it to be an exciting night of powerful poetry.
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Barbara Jane Reyes was born in Manila, Philippines and raised in the SF Bay Area. She is the author of Gravities of Center (Arkipelago,2003) and Poeta en San Francisco (Tinfish, 2005) which received the James Laughlin Award of the Academy of American Poets. Her other honors include an Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Fellowship and numerous Pushcart Prize nominations. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in Asian Pacific American Journal, Chain, New American Writing, North American Review, Notre Dame Review, among others. She lives with her husband, poet Oscar Bermeo, in Oakland.
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Born in Ecuador and raised in the Bronx, Oscar Bermeo is a BRIO (Bronx Recognizes Its Own) award winning poet, educator & literary events coordinator who now makes his home in Oakland, where he is the poetry editor for Tea Party magazine and lives with his wife, poeta Barbara Jane Reyes.
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Upcoming Readings at the Sacramento Poetry Center
January 14 [T]: Emmanuel Sigauke and Shevonn Blackshire
January 21[R]: Michael Cluff and Michael Garbarini
January 28 [B]: Frank Graham
February 11 [B]: Pat Grizzell and Alice Armstrong
March 3 [T]: Julia Levine and Rick Campbell
March 10 [B]: Edythe Schwartz

Host code: [T] Tim Kahl; [R] Rebecca Morrison; [B] Bob Stanley;
[A] Arturo Mantecon


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TL Coffeehouse is willing to help keep the coal out of your stockings

Viva! The (tiny) book arts!

Tiny books. I love them. One of my Christmas gifts was a miniature book (pictured) from Sharon Tanovitz. While I publish chaplettes for the Poems-For-All Series mostly as computer output, Sharon continues to amaze me with her command of the craft of bookmaking which involves hands-on paper manipulation, sewing signatures, building bindings, etc. For anyone interested in the book arts, Sharon is a wealth of information (and inspiration.) You can see examples of her work both on display and for sale at her artshop Art Ellis, 2508 J Street, Sacramento.

bookbinding class

Sharon will be teaching a bookbinding class via the Learning Exchange in a day-long session on Saturday, February 2, 2008. Description: "Explore the art of making hand-bound books. Even with no prior art or bookbinding experience, create a unique and beautiful long stitch journal. In just one session, make a hard covered exposed stitched book embellished with beads on the spine. Learn about materials, equipment and various binding techniques. This class promises to pique your interest in making books and inspiring your creativity and uniqueness." The class is $59 with a $20 materials fee. For more details or to add the class go to the Learning Exchange (search: bookbinding.)

JAN 19 | Birth Documentary / CA Midwives Benefit

FRIDAYS | Rocky Horror Returns to Sacramento

From: "Robert McKeown" View Contact Details Add Mobile Alert
Subject: Friday: The 4th Dimension and a little surprise

Hi there!! First off, I want to plug something - on Saturday, December 1 - you ought to head on over to the YWCA of Sacramento at 1122 17th St in midtown (between 2 and 9 PM) for IndieSacramento. It's Sacramento's largest indie/alternative craft fair, and a great place to buy gifts for you or someone else for the holidays!

And if you go, you might have a chance to win free passes to Movies on a Big Screen!!! We'll also have schedules there. There's lots more going on, too, including live music, cupcake decorating classes and, well, lots of stuff - check it all out at www.indiesacramento.com

OK - so Friday. Before I go into The 4th Dimension, which screens at 7 PM, I want to let you all in on something that hasn't really been promoted due to a very odd week last week. We had planned to begin regular Friday 10 PM screenings of Rocky Horror. Then didn't spread the word. But ya know what?? We're gonna kick it off this week ANYWAY, even if not many folks are there for it. Feel free to tell friends, and we do plan to keep showing this if people show up (we won't base that on the first night's attendance :) ). So yeah - Friday, 11/30. 10 PM. Rocky Horror Picture Show. Admission for this will be $6.00 each week (rather than $5 - it's a little pricey to run). Audience participation, as it should be, will be encouraged.


PRIOR to that - at 7 PM (admission: $5.00): The 4th Dimension.

Jack (Louis Morabito) is a loner confined to a workbench in the back of an antique shop. When a mysterious woman presents him with a broken antique clock, unexplainable events begin to occur. After finding Albert Einstein's journal on his still unsolved Unified Field Theory, Jack becomes compulsive about analyzing time and theorizing its connection to his supernatural experiences, his surreal dreams, and his perception of reality, only to lead to the discovery of the biggest mystery of all - himself. Written and directed by Tom Mattera and Dave Mazzoni.

"An Alice-like rabbit hole of suppressed memories... Simmering with neurotic emotions and surreal dream states... Sustains a disturbing, somnambulistic mood." ­
Robert Koehler, Variety

“Kafkaesque…a densely etched portrait... Stylistically channeling David Lynch and Darren Aronofsky… Striking black-and-white cinematography and stark atmospherics set an intriguing tone”
Michael Rechtshaffen, The Hollywood Reporter

“Dark, brooding mood and tone are seductive and compelling.” ­
Ain’t it Cool News

Honorable Mention recipient from the Cinevegas Grand Jury. You might not want to miss this one... Oh and hey! December is all scheduled and will be emailed shortly! And it's gonna be a great month!!!

Of course - this at 600 4th St in West Sacramento. Corner of 4th & F in WEST Sacramento, near The Pyramid Building (so just over the river). And I am meeting PG&E there on Friday AM to see if we can get some heat going in the place!!!

OCT 27 | Unheimlich No!

NOV 16 | Proust as Prompt | Weekend Writing Intensive

Weekend goal: To bring participants into the literary world (Proust’s world) of time, symbol, dream, memory and personal myth -- an author-guided tour to your own best and most authentic writing.

Lawrence Spann will facilitate a weekend writing intensive sponsored by the UC Davis Cancer Center’s Outreach Research and Education Program as part of its “Writing as Healing” project, Friday November 16 evening through Sunday November 18, 2007 in the Facilities Support Services Building, 4800 2nd Ave, on the UC Davis Health System campus in Sacramento.

Dr. Spann founded the Literature, Arts and Medicine Program in Sacramento. Group members write to a prompt, but are not limited to it, and read what they write to the group on a voluntary basis.

All writing is treated as fiction and is confidential. All comments are positive and uplifting. Dr. Spann writes and reads with the group and comments from a literary perspective. Literary figures will be integrated throughout the weekend with handouts and explanations.

Register by calling or sending an email to
Patti Robinson, 916-734-0823 or
patricia.robinson@ucdmc.ucdavis.edu
For more information, call Patti (916-734-
0823) or Marlene von Friederichs-Fitzwater,
Ph.D., Director, Outreach Research &
Education Program, UC Davis Cancer
Center (916-734-8810)

OCT 11 |The Weakly Inch

Friends,

Another calendar, dispensed weakly, of great events in and around Sacramento. Peruse and you'll find that there's simply no reason to stay at home. (The cat doesn't like you, anyway.) Plenty of poetry, art, noise festivals and fluxus aktions to inspire and agitate. Go forth! --Richard


OCTOBER 12TH to 14TH
NORCAL NOISEFEST 2007
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FRIDAY, OCTOBER 12TH, starting at 7PM: Lunas Cafe, 1414 16th St
SATURDAY OCTOBER 13TH, starting at 4pm: The Space, 2509 R St, (at 25th)
SUNDAY OCTOBER 14, starting at NOON: The Space, 2509 R St, (at 25th)
>> Presented by Northern California Experimental Music Festival and featuring approximately 50 bands from all across the north American continent. Admission $10 per day; $30 weekend membership includes all shows, T-shirt, CD, button, and earplugs Waffles & coffee (free with admission) at noon on Sunday. Advance tickets available via PayPal. More details and performance times at http://www.norcalnoisefest.com


OCTOBER 11TH to 13TH
16th ANNUAL SACRAMENTO INTERNATIONAL GAY & LESBIAN FILM FESTIVAL
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Crest Theatre, 1013 K Street, (916) 442-7378, http://www.siglff.com
>> Individual Tickets (includes admission to one film program): $9.00. All Festival Pass (includes admission to all film programs): $30.00. Opening Night Reception at Chops Restaurant (includes appetizers and 1 drink): $25.00. $1 discount off Individual Tickets for groups of 10 or more.


FRIDAY, OCTOBER 12TH, 7pm
Poetry honoring
PHIL GOLDVARG
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La Raza Galeria Posada, 1022-1024 22nd Street, Mid-Town Sacra. 446-5133. www.larazagaleriaposada.org
>> Los Escritores Del Nuevo Sol present an evening of poetry and stories Honoring Phil Goldvarg and local community leaders.


SATURDAY, OCTOBER 13TH, 6-10PM
14TH ANNUAL ALTAR SHOW
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920 Del Paso Blvd, North Sacramento near the Globe Street Light Rail Station. Gallery Hours: Fri-Sun 12-5.
>> Hosted this year by the Phantom Galleries. Second Saturday opening reception; show runs through November 2.


SATURDAY, OCTOBER 13TH, 1pm to 4pm
Art workshop
PAPER-MACHE CALAVERAS, PART ONE
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La Raza Galeria Posada, 1022-1024 22nd Street, Mid-Town Sacra. 446-5133. www.larazagaleriaposada.org
>> Paper Mache Calaveras, Part 1 workshop with Claudia Tapia


SATURDAY, OCTOBER 13TH, 7pm
Mezcla Exhibition:
THE ART OF STAN PADILLA
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La Raza Galeria Posada, 1022-1024 22nd Street, Mid-Town Sacra. 446-5133. www.larazagaleriaposada.org
>> Second Saturday Reception.


SATURDAY, OCTOBER 13, 6-10PM
dRAW PiNKY
Celebrate Second Saturday with a rare performance by dRAW PiNKY at:
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Galleria Tempest/Blooming Art, 1801 L Street, #40, 916-492-2702
>> Music from 7-9 PM. Free. Pink Toupee Collective announces the launch of Modus Memetica -- http://www.modusmemetica.org -- a one stop website for news about Pink Toupee Collective, dRAW PiNKY, Parakeet Bluff and other arts, culture and fluxus stuff!


SATURDAY, OCTOBER 13TH, 5-8pm
40 Acres Art Gallery Presents
CLAUDIA BERNARDI: Silence Was Hostile And Almost Perfect
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40 Acres Art Gallery, 35th Street and Broadway, 456-5080.
>> Opening Reception with the Artist. With a special performance by Sacramento High School’s 34th Street Dance Company


SUNDAY, OCTOBER 14, Showtime approx. 4 PM
MANHOLE STEAM IRON Debut
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Alley Cuts, 724 Merchant Street (between J and K, and 7th and 8th Streets, downtown Sac), 916-447-5212
>> Free. Featuring female members of PINK TOUPEE COLLECTIVE and other sister artistes, stepping up to celebrate The Art of Sisterhood. Details: Modus Memetica -- http://www.modusmemetica.org.


MONDAY, OCTOBER 15TH, 7:30PM
Sacramento Poetry Center presents:
VIOLA WEINBERG
The Space Theater, 2509 R Street, 25th & R Sts, www.sacramentopoetrycenter.org. (916) 451-5569.
>> The former poet laureate of Sacramento returns to read from her new book.


WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 17TH, 7:15PM
CAAC Goes to the Movies:
THE WAR ON DEMOCRACY
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1640 9th Ave, East off Landpark Drive, 446-3304
>> A film Presented by the Central America Action Committee. Free.


FRIDAY, OCTOBER 26TH, 7:30PM
DIA DE LOS MUERTOS / DAY OF THE DEAD
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La Raza Galeria Posada, 1022-1024 22nd Street, Mid-Town Sacra. 916-456-5323. www.escritoresdelnuevosol.com
>> The Escritores del Nuevo Sol/ Writers of the New Sun offer poetry and music for this annual Mexican-originated celebration, brought to the US by the Chicano movement, and which has become a meaningful time of remembrance for people of many backgrounds to honor with joy those who have passed from their earthly life. This is one of a week’s full of activities coordinated by La Raza Galeria Posada. Cost: $5 or free-will donation as you can afford.


WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 17TH, 7:15PM
CAAC Goes to the Movies:
THE WAR ON DEMOCRACY
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1640 9th Ave, East off Landpark Drive, 446-3304
>> A film Presented by the Central America Action Committee. Free.

SATURDAY, OCTOBER 27, 7:30PM
Chaos, Anarchy, and Lucid Unreason:
UNHEIMLICH: ANTONIN ARTAUD & HIS DOPPLEGANGERS
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The Book Collector, 1008 24th Street, between J & K Streets, Midtown Sacramento, 916.442.9295
>> GILBERTO RODRIGUEZ is the man who has reintroduced the concept of Doppelganger into the life of Sacramento. Along with ROB LOZANO, they give flesh to Antonin Artaud and His Dopplegangers. Maybe you'll laugh, perhaps you will cry and hopefully you will leave forever haunted by the unholy Doppelgangers of the Poetic Muses. SHERI ADEE, a master of atmospheres and soundscapes via Tibetan bowls, gongs, and multi-cuiti percussion instruments will be adding her unique interpretations of merging musics to the evening's performance. Unheimlich unfolds as a monthly presentation of poetry as you've never seen or heard it before. Featuring Artaud & His Doppleganger and a rotating roster of special guests. Unheimlich Theater re-emerges from the Bardo state at The Book Collector to inseminate a new myth of Chaos, Anarchy, and Lucid Unreason. Unheimlich is here not to raise consciousness, but to release the tide of the Uncanny. To breakout the underside of Pandora's hoary box and release the likes of Baudelaire, Rimbaud, Poe, Hoffmann, Holderline, Michaux, and especially Antonin Artaud in order to undermine a society that has allowed psychology & technology to be on a first name basis with the creation of it's imperious culture.




ELSEWHERE & OTHERWISE
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CALIFORNIA LECTURE SERIES
Subscriptions are on sale now for their next six-lecture series ($150). Subscribe and get more info at: (916) 737-1300 or visit www.californialectures.org
SIX-LECTURE SERIES: Crest Theatre, Sacramento 7:30pm
YANN MARTEL Wednesday, October 24, 2007
HA JIN Thursday, November 15, 2007
SUE MILLER Thursday, January 10, 2008
GERALDINE BROOKS Wednesday, February 6, 2008
RICHARD POWERS Monday, March 3, 2008
TOBIAS WOLFF Thursday, May 8, 2008
WANGARI MAATHAI* Friday, September 21, 2007
(*SPECIAL EVENT: not included in the Six-Lecture Subscription Series)


WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 28TH, 6-8PM
POETRY CENTER'S ANNUAL BENEFIT
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The Sacramento Poetry Center's annual benefit will once again be at the home of Burnett and Mimi Miller. Poetry by Victoria Dalkey and Quinton Duval!
Music by The Swing State! (aka Mary Zeppa and Bob Stanley.) Food, drink and fellowship! Watch the web -- http://www.sacramentopoetrycenter.org -- for details.

UPCOMING AT THE BOOK COLLECTOR
Bookstore. 1008 24th Street, between J & K Streets, Midtown Sacramento, 916.442.9295
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NOV 14: TAYLOR GRAHAM (Rattlesnake)
NOV 17: JEFF KNORR (Poems-For-All)
NOV 24: UNHEIMLICH!
DEC 12: PATRICIA D'ALESSANDRO (Rattlesnake)
DEC 22: UNHEIMLICH!
JAN 25: (2008) BURNS NIGHT POETRY READING (Poems-For-All)


FIN

JULY 28 | Unheimlich does Baudelaire

SATURDAY, JULY 28TH, 7:30PM
Unheimlich Theater presents:
THE POETRY OF CHARLES BAUDELAIRE
Read and performed by
LESLIE KRAMER
TODD MANN
FRANK ANDRICK
GILBERTO RODRIGUEZ
SHERI ADEE
The Book Collector, 1008 24th Street, between J & K Streets
(916) 442-9295.web: www.poems-for-all.com

This month's production of Unheimlich Theatre will be presenting the works of Charles Baudelaire featuring frank andrick, Todd Mann & Leslie Kramer and Sheri Adee and Gilberto Rodiguez In a combination of essay performance, poety reading and the uncanny theatrics and sounds of Gilberto and Sheri via the auspices of UnHeimlich Theatre.

FRANK ANDRICK -- aka francois drouin -- will present an performance /essay on the life, times, and works of the French poet Charles Baudelaire. It will conclude with an exposition of Baudelaires influence from his contemporaries, thru his influence upon modem art both literary and visual including Symbolism, Dada, Surrealism, the Beats Writers, Philip Lamantia, and now contemporary Sacramemto poets. The presentation will interpolate statement, poems and prose of Baudelaire and his 'echoes' of influence as it segues into sheer unadulterated performance UnHeimlich style of works by Baudelaire, Antonin Artaud, frank andrick, Henri Michaux, by ...
GILBERTO RODRIGUEZ: The man who has reintroduced the concept of Doppelganger into the life of Sacramento. This is a rare opportunity to watch frank andrick put his passion and facts where his mouth is. Maybe you'll laugh, perhaps you will cry and hopefully you will leave forever haunted by the unholy Doppelgangers of the Poetic Muses.

The evening begins with a reading /performance of Baudelaire Poetry presented by Todd Mann and Leslie Kramer working from various translations of the poet's poems and prose. Todd and Leslie are the poets and publishers who publish the poetry art journal Lit. Jar. A new fall issue of Lit. Jar will be available in September.

Sheri Adee, a master of atmospheres and soundscapes via Tibetan bowls, gongs, and multi-cuiti percussion instruments will be adding her unique interpretations of merging musics to the evening's performance.

Unheimlich unfolds as a weekly presentation of poetry as you've never seen or heard it before. Featuring Artaud & His Doppleganger and a rotating roster of special guests. Unheimlich Theater re-emerges from the Bardo state at The Book Collector to inseminate a new myth of Chaos, Anarchy, and Lucid Unreason. Unheimlich is here not to raise consciousness, but to release the tide of the Uncanny. To breakout the underside of Pandora's hoary box and release the likes of Baudelaire, Rimbaud, Poe, Hoffmann, Holderline, Michaux, and especially Antonin Artaud in order to undermine a society that has allowed psychology & technology to be on a first name basis with the creation of it's imperious culture. We invite you to the first performance of Antonin Artaud and His Dopplegangers.

FIN

JULY 19 | Weakly Inch | Supplemental

THREE UPDATES TO THE WEEKLY INCH:
1. Date Correction
2. Richard Favela Memorial Details
3. Marx in Soho


CORRECTION: Incorrectly listed as taking place on Saturday, July 21st, here's the correct information for this event:

TUESDAY, JULY 24TH, 7PM - 9PM
Summer Speaker Series: Decolonizing the Chicana Body
DRA ANNA SANDOVAL
La Raza Galeria Posada, 1022-1024 22nd Street, Midtown Sacramento, 916-451-1372.
Many Chicana visual artists and writers are re-imagining Mexican female symbols and images, such as La Virgen de Guadalupe, La Malinche, and La Llorona. Dra Sandoval will speak about alternative visions of mujeres presented in the work of Chicana artists.


ADDITIONS

In Yesterday's Inch we reported that a memorial service in Sacramento for Richard Favela was forthcoming. JoAnn Anglin was kind enough to forward the following information on the event:

Ricardo Favela's Memorial in Sacramento
From: Comunidad De Sacramento

Dear Friends,

This e-mail is to inform you that a Memorial for Ricardo Favela will take place at the opening of Dos Generaciones Art Exhibit on Friday, July 20th, 2007 at 7PM at the Toyroom Gallery located at 907 K Street in Downtown Sacramento.

There will an altar in his memory at the exhibit. You are welcome to bring ofrendas (offerings) to be added to the altar. In keeping with the tradition of Floricanto, feel free to bring poetry, music and palabras to be shared with our community.

The Brown Syndicate, a Chicano artist collective that Ricardo Favela advised, will be raising funds through the sale of a limited edition poster featuring the artwork by Ricardo Favela, Xico González, and Manuel Ríos. All proceeds will go towards establishing a scholarship in Ricardo Favela's name. The first recipient will be Rosita Favela, whom will be applying to college at the end of this year.



THURSDAY, JULY 26TH, 8PM
FRIDAY, JULY 27TH, 8PM
SATURDAY, JULY 28TH, 8PM
California Stage Presents
MARX IN SOHO
California Stage, 1723 25th Street (25th & R), 451-5822, www.calstage.org. $19 general, $15 Seniors and SARTA members.
Jerry Levy as Marx. Written by Howard Zinn. Produced by Ray Tatar

JULY 19 | The Weakly Inch

As you can see by this week's long scroll of events, July, my friends, is rich with cultural activities. Your indulgence for CSI:Miami can always be TiVOed: get out their and savor the arts! I was so enthusiatic last week about mentioning UNHEIMLICH Theatre's CHARLES BAUDELAIRE reading that I got the date wrong. It will be on Saturday the 28th instead of the 21st. The AUDIO WAFFLE has moved. Previously on Del Paso, it now takes up residence at the THE SPACE Theater at 25th & R, further expanding the cultural offerings located on that corner which is also home to the Poetry Center, HQ: Headquarters for the Arts, Asylum Gallery, Alliance Francais, and others. Note the appearance of the PINK TOUPEE COLLECTIVE in the calendar listings. Their FLUXUS AKTIONS are legendary. The CALIFORNIA LECTURE SERIES has announced their next series of lectures (details below.) At the bottom of the listings, a note from Xico Gonzalez on the passing of artist, teacher and Royal Chicano Airforce co-founder RICARDO FAVELA. --RH


JULY 20-22 and JULY 28-29
SACRAMENTO FRENCH FILM FESTIVAL
Crest theatre. http://sacramentofrenchfilmfestival.org/
Save the dates for the 6th Annual Sacramento French Film Festival which runs Friday through Sunday on two weekends in July.

FRIDAY, JULY 20TH
FRENCH FILM FESTIVAL : Opening Night
Crest Theatre
6 - 8 pm - Reception
8:30 pm - Les Témoins (The Witnesses)

SATURDAY, JULY 21ST
FRENCH FILM FESTIVAL
Crest Theatre
10:30am - Mon oncle (My Uncle)
1:05pm - Coeurs (Private Fears in Public Places)
3:45pm - Flandres (Flanders)
6:00pm - Mon meilleur ami (My Best Friend)
8:15pm - L'Armée des ombres (Army of Shadows)

SUNDAY, JULY 22
FRENCH FILM FESTIVAL
Crest Theatre
10:50am - Flandres (Flanders)
1:00pm - Mon oncle (My Uncle)
3:35pm - L'Armée des ombres (Army of Shadows)
6:40pm - Coeurs (Private Fears in Public Places)
9:15pm - Short Films: Program 1

SATURDAY, JULY 28TH
FRENCH FILM FESTIVAL
Crest Theatre
10:30am - L'Homme de sa vie (The Man of My Life)
1:00pm - Short Films: Program 2
3:05pm - Fanfan la Tulipe
5:20pm - Lady Chatterley
8:45pm - La Cité des enfants perdus (The City of Lost Children)

SUNDAY, JULY 29TH
FRENCH FILM FESTIVAL
Crest Theatre
11am - La Cité des enfants perdus (The City of Lost Children)
1:35pm - Lady Chatterley
4:55pm - L'Homme de sa vie (The Man of My Life)
7:35pm - Dans Paris
9:35pm - Champagne Party


FRIDAY, JULY 20, 7:00PM.
Shiny Object Film Screenings:
ELECTRIC PURGATORY: THE FATE OF THE BLACK ROCKER
Fools Foundation, 1025 19th St, off K St, between 19th & 20th next to the back end of Old Spaghetti Factory. Admission: $5.00. Digital projection on to a large screen. Seating is on folding chairs - feel free to bring a pillow or cushion - or even your own folding chair! web: www.shiny-object.com/screenings/
A documentary examining the struggles of black rock musicians and the industry's ambivalence towards them. Director Raymond Gayle spent the better part of a year traveling around the United States interviewing many of Black Rock's elite including Fishbone, Vernon Reid, Adam Falcon, Jimi Hazel and Cody Chesnutt. Distinguished journalists such as Flip Barnes, Darrell McNeil, Charlie Braxton, and Greg Tate, share their opinions and insight on the dilemma facing these artists. Also contains plenty of archival footage! We're working on some speakers for this night, too. We'll update if/when we're able to pull that together!


FRIDAY, JULY 20TH, 9PM
RADICAL LOVE FREQUENCY
Luna's Cafe, 1414 16th Street. Info: http://www.lunascafe.com or call (916) 441-3931.
John Staedler’s Band “Radical Love Frequency” (http://www.myspace.com/radicallovefrequency) will be performing with Madeline Roa (http://www.myspace.com/madelineroa)


FRIDAY, JULY 20TH, 7PM and 9PM
SATURDAY, JULY 21ST, 7PM and 9PM
Comedy (2 shows a day):
TEN WEST & KEITH LOWELL JENSEN
Fri-Sat, July 20-21
The Geery Theater, 2130 L Street. Tickets at www.SacActors.com. Info: www.tenwest.net
With guest "One Man Sketch Comedy Show In A Box" (aka Keith Lowell Jensen.) TEN WEST is the Los Angeles-based comedy duo of Jon Monastero & Stephen Simon, directed by Bryan Coffee. With a unique theatrical style of comedy inspired by clowning, vaudeville, and Commedia dell'Arte, the pair have received standing ovations and critical acclaim around the nation and Canada. Ten West is two-man comedy at its most inventive.


SATURDAY, JULY 21ST, 1PM - 4PM
Celebrating Xilonen
AURORA y CLAUDIA TAPIA
La Raza Galeria Posada, 1022-1024 22nd Street, Midtown Sacramento, 916-451-1372.
Aurora y Claudia Tapia will facilitate a workshop to make ofrendas for the annual Xilonen ceremonia that honors the rites of passage into womanhood.


SATURDAY, JULY 21ST
Youth and Community Mural Project:
JOSE LOTT & Students
La Raza Galeria Posada, 1022-1024 22nd Street, Midtown Sacramento, 916-451-1372.
An ongoing Art Exhibition July 21 to August 18, Presentation and Reception in August.


SATURDAY, JULY 21st, 7PM - 9PM
Summer Speaker Series: Decolonizing the Chicana Body
DRA ANNA SANDOVAL
La Raza Galeria Posada, 1022-1024 22nd Street, Midtown Sacramento, 916-451-1372.
Many Chicana visual artists and writers are re-imagining Mexican female symbols and images, such as La Virgen de Guadalupe, La Malinche, and La Llorona. Dra Sandoval will speak about alternative visions of mujeres presented in the work of Chicana artists.


SUNDAY, JULY 22, NOON
SACRAMENTO AUDIO WAFFLE #20
The Space, 2509 R Street, 25th & R Sts, www.norcalnoisefest.com/audiowaffle
Featuring THINGS FALL APART (Chicago), RAHDUNES (SF), EOH (Australia), LAKES (Australia), SHORT TO GROUND (Sacramento). All ages. Free waffles and coffee while it lasts. $5.

SUNDAY, JULY 22, 3:30pm
Lynne Cook & Janet LaDue Present:
THE FIRST LADIES OF CALIFORNIA
Time Tested Books, 1114 21st Street.
A reading from Lynne Cook & Janet LaDue's first book "The First Ladies of California," which sketches the lives and accomplishments of the thirty-five first ladies of that State. Copies of the book will be available for sale.


MONDAY, JULY 23RD, 7:30PM
Sacramento Poetry Center presents:
FRENCH POETRY NIGHT
HQ: Headquarters for the Arts, 1719 25th Street, 25th & R Sts, www.sacramentopoetrycenter.org. (916) 451-5569.
In collaboration with Alliance Francaise to help celebrate the French Film Festival July 20-29. Hors d'oeuvres and visual entertainment. After the featured readers, please join the open mic and read poems in French, in translation or about France. Hosted by Rebecca Morrison.


MONDAY, JULY 23RD, 8:30PM
INSTAGON
True Love Cafe, 2315 K Street, (916) 448-LOVE. www.instagon.com
Monday Night Morphine presents a special unplugged show of Instagon, an ever-changing, never-the-same musical/performance experience.


TUESDAY, JULY 24TH, 8PM
COMEDY & POETRY OPEN MIC
Butch-N-Nellie's, corner of 19th & I Streets, Downtown Sacramento. 548-8391.
The hue & cry for more open mic opportunities for poets has been answered. Butch-N-Nellie's now hose a weekly poetry and comedy feature with open mic. Support the businesses that support the literary arts.


FRIDAY, JULY 27TH, 8PM
SATURDAY, JULY 28TH, 8PM
THE PINK TOUPEE COLLECIVE
Cosumnes River College, Visual and Performing Arts Center, 8401 Center Parkway. Directions and map here: http://www.riverstage.org/directions.htm. Tickets are $7 and $5 for students. Reservations by phone at 916-691-7364. Order online at: seeaplay.com. Info: William Fuller, 916-451-7237, bill-fuller@comcast.net or Jane or Jack Hastings, 916-739-6105, industrial.idiotics@comcast.net
The Pink Toupee Collective will be presenting a staged reading with musical accompaniment of their work-in-progress "The Cobra and the Hare" as a part of the River Stage's Playwright's Festival of New Work, under the direction of Frank Condon. The Pink Toupee Collective is an extraordinary fusion of some of Sacramento's foremost creative talents. Drawing from music, theatre, spoken and written word, visual arts, dance, movement, performance art, popular, classical and international culture; they have created some of the Sacramento stage's most challenging and innovative works. With their unique blend of inspired madness and irascible brilliance, they have journeyed to Hell, gone down over the Pacific with Ameilia Earhart, run away with a carnival of lost souls and now, in The Cobra and the Hare, explore with equal parts absurdity, hilarity, gravitas and grace, the ragged and bloody border between pavement and pasture, life and death, damnation and redemption.


SATURDAY, JULY 28TH, 7:30PM
Unheimlich Theater presents:
THE POETRY OF CHARLES BAUDELAIRE: Read and performed by LESLIE KRAMER, TODD MANN, GILBERTO RODRIGUEZ, SHERI ADEE, FRANK ANDRICK
The Book Collector, 1008 24th Street, between J & K Streets, (916) 442-9295.web: www.poems-for-all.com.
Unheimlich unfolds as a weekly presentation of poetry as you've never seen or heard it before. Featuring Artaud & His Doppleganger and a rotating roster of special guests. Unheimlich Theater re-emerges from the Bardo state at The Book Collector to inseminate a new myth of Chaos, Anarchy, and Lucid Unreason. Unheimlich is here not to raise consciousness, but to release the tide of the Uncanny. To breakout the underside of Pandora's hoary box and release the likes of Baudelaire, Rimbaud, Poe, Hoffmann, Holderline, Michaux, and especially Antonin Artaud in order to undermine a society that has allowed psychology & technology to be on a first name basis with the creation of it's imperious culture. We invite you to the first performance of Antonin Artaud and His Dopplegangers.


SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 8TH, 10:30AM - 4PM
ART BOOK FAIR
Crocker Art Museum, 216 O Street. 264-5423.
Publishers from around the country will bring in their newest special art books, plus their classics on art. Children's readings. Lectures for the whole family.


SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 8TH, 3:30PM
SAN FRANCISCO MIME TROUPE
Southside Park, 6th & T Streets Bandshell. Music starts at 3:30pm; show 4pm. Free show in the park!


SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 15TH, 10AM - 5PM
ANTIQUARIAN BOOK FAIR
Scottish Rite Temple, 6151 H Street, 849-9248. jimkay@comcast.net
The fourteenth Central Valley Antiquarian Book Fair; books of all kinds and all price ranges. Dozens of dealers. $5.


ELSEWHERE & OTHERWISE

SAD NEWS: RICARDO FAVELA
by Xico Gonzalez
I write this letter with great sadness to inform you that our beloved teacher Ricardo Favela died on Sunday, July 15, 2007 in Dinuba, California of a heart attack. Favela was a great person, a great father and a great teacher and friend. Favela was a humble man that fought for civil rights with his artwork and community activism. Ricardo Favela was a founder of the Rebel Chicano Art Front aka the Royal Chicano Air Force (RCAF). The RCAF is a Chicano artist collective founded in Sacramento, California in 1969. Favela and the RCAF Supported the United Farm Workers Union (UFW) during the Civil Rights Movement. Ricardo was a faculty member at the California State University, Sacramento's Art Department were he taught printmaking and Barrio Art for over 10 years. Favela's students will miss him dearly and through the use of serigraphy, they will keep his vision of community empowerment alive. His memory and legacy will live through his wife Clara Cid and their children Margarita, Florentina, Manuel and Rosita. A Memorial in Sacramento is currently being planned.


FRIDAY-SUNDAY, JULY 27-29
SAN FRANCISCO INTERNATIONAL POETRY FESTIVAL
www.sfinternationalpoetryfestival.org
Hosted by San Francisco Poet Laureate Jack Hirschman. The festival will showcase 15 poets from around the world, reading together with poets from San Francisco's own literary community. This truly international group of poets represents a wide spectrum in the world of poetry, from recognized masters to emerging new talents, who are redefining the art in our evolving times. All events are free and open to the public.


CALIFORNIA LECTURE SERIES
Subscriptions are on sale now for their next six-lecture series ($150). Subscribe and get more info at: (916) 737-1300 or visit www.californialectures.org
SIX-LECTURE SERIES: Crest Theatre, Sacramento 7:30pm
YANN MARTEL Wednesday, October 24, 2007
HA JIN Thursday, November 15, 2007
SUE MILLER Thursday, January 10, 2008
GERALDINE BROOKS Wednesday, February 6, 2008
RICHARD POWERS Monday, March 3, 2008
TOBIAS WOLFF Thursday, May 8, 2008
WANGARI MAATHAI* Friday, September 21, 2007
(*SPECIAL EVENT: not included in the Six-Lecture Subscription Series)


FIN

JULY 12 | The Weakly Inch

We open this week's inch with some sad news. Sutter Hospital has cut its Literature, Arts, and Medicine Program (LAMP). Please join the write-in campaign attempting to get Sutter Hospital to reconsider their unfortunate budget decision. Details can be found at: http://www.sacfreepress.com/2007_07_01_archive.html#6900836850302251428

This month is french-themed. The 6th annual Sacramento French Film Festival begins Friday, July 20th. Presenting French films over two weekends at the Crest theatre, the SFFF gets bigger and better each year. Tapping into the French Spirit, the Sacramento Poetry Center will host a French Poetry Reading on Monday, July 23rd. Read your favorite French poet during the Open Mic. And Gilberto Rodriguez has announced that his monthly poetry series Unheimlich! will feature an evening dedicated to Baudelaire on Saturday, July 21st.


FRIDAY, JULY 13, 7:00PM.
Shiny Object Film Screenings:
ROCK THAT UKE
Fools Foundation, 1025 19th St, off K St, between 19th & 20th next to the back end of Old Spaghetti Factory. Admission: $5.00. Digital projection on to a large screen. Seating is on folding chairs - feel free to bring a pillow or cushion - or even your own folding chair! web: www.shiny-object.com/screenings/
A funky, curiously philosophical cinematic love poem that examines the near mystical allure of the four-stringed underdog of the musical world and the recent surge of alternative, post-punk musicians on the American mainland who have taken up the instrument, and have incorporated the ukulele not just into their raucous and irreverent original compositions, but into a counter cultural, post-punk ethos. With introductory narration by Academy Award winner Holly Hunter. Featuring Carmaig de Forest, Songs From a Random House, Janet Klein, Ukefink, Robert Armstrong (who was also the creator of Mickey Rat), Travis Harrelson, Oliver Brown, Heinous Rynes, Uke Til U Puke, The Haoles, Williwaw, Frank Novicki, Robert Wheeler, King Kukulele, Pineapple Princess, The Rumble Pups, and Ian Whitcomb! The film was directed by William Preston Robertson, who has lent his voice to numerous Coen Brothers films, authored the book "The Big Lebowski: The Making of a Coen Brothers Film," and possibly most impressively, was the voice of the creepy mounted deer head (and other possessed objects) in "Evil Dead II." Best of all, the amazing William Preston Robertson will be in attendance at the screening for a Q&A!! Yes, you will have the chance to meet the famous voice from Evil Dead II and director of this hip and bizarre doc!! We also might have some live uke playing going on!

SATURDAY, JULY 14TH, 6PM - 9PM
2nd Saturday Reception: "Los Primos"
MACEO MONTOYA, TOMAS MONTOYA
La Raza Galeria Posada, 1022-1024 22nd Street, Midtown Sacramento, 916-451-1372.


SATURDAY, JULY 14TH, 7PM
Exhibition Closing party:
"VISEGRIP" THE ANTI THEME SHOW
Ongoing Exhibit: JUNE 15TH - JULY 14TH
Toyroom Gallery, 907 K Street, Regular Hours 11am till 7pm Tues-Sat / 12noon till 5pm Sun. Show will run from June 15 to July 14 - 2007. Closing Reception July 14th. Reception Hours 7pm till late.
Sacramento's premiere alt-sider gallery the TOYROOM will be presenting one hell of a show this June, when the art will be as warped as the heatwaves bouncing off the central valley blacktop! "Vise Grip" features John Bell, Mike Bell (related only in twistedness), Bruce Gossett, Kepi, and Rob Struven, a quasi-quintet (obviously one can short of a six-pack!) with five one-track minds: Create! Create! Like a whacked-out tribe of Dr. Frankensteins, these artists are obsessed with bringing their visions to life: Hot Rods, VooDoo, Cussed-Dumb Culture, the dark side of Pop Culture... you name it, they'll mame it! In the grip of their own vices, share the madness with a friend as you creep past the color, darkness, shadow and light that these five have presented, then pass your own judgement...innocent or guilty? Crazy or connected? No one can tell, and that's the fun! From the hot dirty race track to the seedy underbelly of society, from bad TV to even worse movies, it's the art of it all at the heart of it all that provides the motivation for these jerks-of-all-trades, and the inspiration springs (super?)naturally from the five wise guys to whom no rule applies! VISE GRIP...grab on to it!

MONDAY, JULY 16TH, 7:30PM
Sacramento Poetry Center presents:
SIBILLA HERSHEY, JENNIFER PICKERING, FRED STAAL, KIMBERLY WHITE, JEANINE STEVENS, JOANNE SCHOEFER, ANN PRIVATEER, JOHN CHENDO, REBECCA MORRISON
HQ: Headquarters for the Arts, 1719 25th Street, 25th & R Sts, www.sacramentopoetrycenter.org. (916) 451-5569.
SIBILLA HERSHEY: She was born in Riga, Latvia and came to the United States at the age of 16 as a WW II Displaced Person. Her poetry reflects this experience. Her poems have appeared in regional literary publications such as Poetry Now, Rattlesnake Review, The Yolo Crow, A Woman’s Place: An Anthology of Davis Women Writers, and on the Web in Writers Against the War. She lives in Davis, CA. JENNIFER PICKERING: Jennifer was born in California and grew up in the rural communities of Tierra Buena and Yuba City. She studied writing at University of New York at Buffalo and Sacramento City College and has an MA in Studio Art from California State University, Sacramento. River Poem was selected for the site specific, Open Circle, in Sacramento in 2006. In 2007 her art was selected for the cover of 13th Moon, Literary Magazine (SUNY, Albany). Her writing is published across the United States. FRED STAAL: Fred lives on the Sacramento Delta and writes that he is a “diplomat, brain surgeon, soldier of fortune, race car driver, Nobel prize-winning author, ...those are the other guys; I just hear words in my head and try to get them onto paper. Later I try to massage them a little, but I'm never sure if its helped or hindered.” KIMBERLY WHITE: Kimberly White's work has received awards from the Bay Area Poets Coalition and has been published in Rattlesnake Review, Comstock Review, Drumvoices Revue and other journals and anthologies. She is the author of two chapbooks, "A Reachable Tibet" and "Penelope," as well as two unpublished novels. She was recently involved in an ekphrasic project with visual artist Victoria Corona, which was produced by the Rice University Print Shop. She has lived in Sacramento since 1983. JEANINE STEVENS: “The grammar school I a