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Readings/Performances/Parties: Friday, May 23rd 8pm Readings and Performance Location: Sem II, C1105 (Evergreen Campus) Readings: Laura Elrick Zhang Er Steven Hendricks Tung-Hui Hu Tom Orange Kaia Sand David Michael Wolach Saturday, May 24th 4pm Location: Recital Hall (Evergreen Campus) Performance: “The Key: Re-Visioning Bluebeard,” a play by Drue Robinson, directed by Kate Arvin Saturday, May 24th 8pm Location: Ward building (Downtown Olympia, 4th Street, Next to Jake’s on 4th) http://www.jakeson4th.com/ Readings, Performance, Afterparty: Rodrigo Toscano’s Collapsible Poetics Theater Jules Boykoff Roger Farr Kristin Prevallet Leonard Schwartz Mark Wallace Sunday, May 25th 7pm Location: Recital Hall (Evergreen Campus) Performance: “The Once American Dream: An Anti-Anti War Musical,” by Jais Brohinksy and David Cohen, directed by Kate Arvin Sunday, May 25th 9pm Location: Ward’s (Downtown Olympia, 4th Street, Next to Jake’s on 4th) http://www.jakeson4th.com/ Readings, Performance, Afterparty: Lindsey Boldt Combinatorics Theater Andrew Csank K. Lorraine Graham Holly Melgard Grant Miller Kate Robinson |
Panels/Workshops:
May 24-5th Saturday 9:30am-10am: Registration and Breakfast Location: C1107 Saturday 10-11: Opening Remarks and Welcome Location: C1105 Small Press Panels for Editors and Designers Location: C2107 Nicholas Hayes (of Ignavia) Sarah Mangold (of Bird Dog) Meghan McNealy (of Slightly West) Jack Morgan (of Stormy Petral) Rose O’Keefe (of Eraser Head) Editors of small presses and journals will join in a roundtable discussion about the politics and economics of publishing in a world dominated by large publishing conglomerates. What does the future hold for small presses? What are the challenges? What is at stake? Discussion will focus on DIY and independent publishing interventions. Olympia Activism: Immigration Rights, Unionism, and the Anti-War Movement after the Port Protests Location: C2109 Gabriel Coeli Ben Farr Crista Kilduff Steve Niva Christopher Rotondo Katie Waldeck This panel will reflect in creative and constructive ways on the strategic decisions made by Olympia activists and discuss avenues for future collaboration across activist groups. Mind Parasites Location: C3107 Tyler Bennett Daniel Brittain Kenneth Fairfield Nicholas Jackson Conceptualizing mind parasites is a way of drawing attention to ideas which control people. Disincarnate spirits, energetic entities, ghosts, angels, and other non-corporeal beings influencing the behavior of humans exist as pervasive cross-cultural myths. Larger manifestations of the phenomenon take form as fundamentalism, fascism, consumerism; concentrations of meaning which resist the natural flux of thought. The panel will be exploring some contemporary and not so contemporary perspectives on mind parasites considering the works of Bataille, Nietzsche, Carl Jung, G.I. Gurdjieff, Aleister Crowley, and the Nag Hammadi Library. Radical Storytelling/Radical Identities Location: C3109 Alejandra Abreu Khadija Anderson Kylen Clayton Erin Genia Erika Marquez-Santillan What power do stories hold over us? When underrepresented writers begin to tell their stories, how can they change the way we think about “storytelling” and its implications for social change as well as social continuity? Landscapes of Dissent: Guerrilla Poetry and Public Space Location: D2107 Jules Boykoff Kaia Sand This interactive workshop will present several ideas about poetry and its impact on public space, as well as several models for public space projects before moving the conversation toward a discussion of future actions. Saturday 1pm-3pm: Lunch Location: Longhouse Saturday 3pm-5pm: Second Session Libraries: Bridging Activist and Writing Communities Location: C2107 Karl Eckler Sara Medlicott Holly Maxim Randy Stilson As funding for public libraries continues to decline and all libraries face federal intervention in the wake of the Patriot Act, this panel considers what roles librarians, writers and readers play in defending the rights of library patrons. How do libraries weigh cost vs. need? How does the onset of new media impact the role of the library? Independent Media Location: C2109 Rafael Dwan, Free Radio Olympia Christopher Hord, KAOS FM, christopherhord.com Rick McKinnon The same technological advances that spur global media conglomerates to merge and devour each other also lower the bar to entry for independent practitioners driven by a personal passion for their subject areas. Audio and video “narrowcasters” challenge traditional broadcasting, while independent journalists establish themselves through websites, blogs, and multimedia. This panel will use participants’ own experiences as the springboard for a discussion of how independent media outlets can continue to contribute to their local communities and why they are needed now more than ever. The Unwritten Body Location: C3107 Jessica Baron Jennifer Bartlett Jessica Tourtellotte Larina Warnock Panelists will discuss the various ways we can employ physical and biological bodies in written work, through multiple media and forms, in order to give balance to our physical, emotional, and mental lives on the page. Anarchism, Poetics, Dissent Location: C3109 Roger Farr Jenny Paris-Cossu Victoria Larkin Nicky Tiso This panel will explore hierarchies within the culture industry as embedded linguistic practices. Through a critique of normative power structures within educational and artistic institutions from the perspectives of anarchism and left socialism, we hope to move towards a future poetics of collaboration, praxis, and imminent critique. Sunday 10am-11am: Registration and Breakfast Location: C1107 Sunday 11am-1pm: Third Session Feminist Poetics/Feminist Literature Location: C2107 K. Lorraine Graham Sarah Tavis Alice Templeton Amory Ballantine American avant-garde poets and text artists will give their perspectives on feminism in literature today. Coming from varying perspectives and schools of thought, the panelists will critically and creatively explore topics such as poetry's complicity in the violence it seeks to resist, contemporary women's writing, and postmodern femininity. The Rupture of Form: Everything You Can Do With Text And Haven't Yet Thought Of Location: C2109 Jennifer Burris Robert Gibbons Myrna Keliher Lionel Lints Meghan McNealy Kate Robinson This panel will explore textual interventions that defy normative description, categorization, and, potentially, commodification. Panelists will read from their work and discuss the politics of breaking accepted notions of form. Globalism In Literature and Globalization: Postcolonialism and Emergent Languages Location: C3107 Marie Alcaron Michael Palmer Laura Sández Mark Wallace Neoliberalism in both the arts and in the wider western cultural landscape has, in many ways, re-appropriated “the language of postcolonialism.” Some have argued that this re-appropriation is itself a re-colonization of non-Western cultural modalities, including the text arts. And yet globalization has led to the opening of conversation between poets and writers across borders, as evidenced by the enormous range of translation work being done today. Participants in this panel will discuss the effects of neoliberalism and postcolonialism from widely varying perspectives. Literary Prototypes: Negotiating Human and Machine Location: C3109 Nicholas Hayes Tung-Hui Hu Christopher Hord This panel will explore how emergent technologies have provoked evolution in the form and sociopolitics of text-based arts over the past decade. Discussion will be centered around the presentation of literary work that ranges from the combinatoric, algorithmic, and constructivist to more free-form work influenced by web-based technologies. The Art of the Book Location: D2107 Steven Hendricks Danny Kalen Alicia Minkel Jenny Paris Rebecca Taplin This workshop will involve a discussion and some demonstration of book arts by resident faculty and student artists. Evergreen has a long history of book-making and design work, with a print studio that houses the largest number of letterpresses of any college in the state. This interactive workshop will also involve a tour of the print studio. Sunday 1pm-3pm: Lunch Location: Longhouse Sunday 3pm-5pm: Fourth Session Writing from the other side Location: C2107 Bill Barr Barry Graham Jeff Konen An activist, an inner-city-raised Amish person and a stand-up comedian walk into a bar …er, into a cross cultural reading. And the panel says, “What's it like to write from the other side?” Plagiarism: Re-Appropriation of Language within Educational Systems Location: C2109 Andrew Fox Reg Johnson This panel will explore textual interventions that defy normative description, categorization, and, potentially, commodification. Panelists will read from their work and discuss the politics of breaking accepted notions of form. Liminal Poetics: From Darragh to Toscano, Writing at the Edge of Performance Location: C3107 Jason Conger Holly Melgard Tom Orange David Michael Wolach What are the political implications and efficacies of experimental poets moving into writing for theatrical performance? This panel will discuss the Collapsible Poetics Theater of Rodrigo Toscano on the heels of his featured performance from the previous night. Bringing a performer's, poet's and scholar's perspective to bear, Tom Orange describes the trajectory of Toscano's work from his early poetry into his CPT, including analysis of audio and video recordings. The panel will then consider the work of Tina Darragh, an older Language Poet who has also moved into theater writing, including a staged reading of one of Darragh's recent theater pieces for comparison and enjoyment. Ecopoetics Location: C3109 Andrew Csank Laura Elrick Nick Smith This panels seeks to build bridges between scientific and poetic discourses through the emerging techne of ecopoetics. It asks, can poetry intervene in the public sphere on behalf of the environment, and what would that intervention look like? Mad Libs from the Underground: Writing from _____ (adj) words Location: D2107 Sandra Yannone Victoria Larkin Inspired by a collection of snippets, we will create our own snippets, which we will then dissect and re-weave into larger collaborative works. |