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October 11th &12th

Each day from 12:00 pm – 3:00 pm  &  4:00 pm – 7:00 pm

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I’ll be participating in a live film narration program curated by konrad steiner (presented by L.A. Film Forum) in a piece written by Jen Hofer. I’ll be performing in Jen’s live film narration piece of the film Chinatown along with Douglas Kearney.

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Sunday October 5, 2014, 7:30 pm

Los Angeles Filmforum presents

The Cinema Cabaret: Re-takes on North American History

At the Velaslavasay Panorama, 1122 West 24th Street, Los Angeles CA 90007

Neelanjana Banerjee, Robin Sukhadia, Jen Hofer, Douglas Kearney, Nicole McJamerson, Janice Lee, Tatiana Luboviski-Acosta, Jen Nellis, Konrad Steiner, and Jackie Wang performing live!

Tickets: $10 general admission; $6 students (with ID)/seniors; free for Filmforum members.

Tickets available in advance at http://bpt.me/869109

For more event information: www.lafilmforum.org, or 323-377-7238

Tonight ten poet-performers take on the movies by writing scripts that re-tell scenes from seven feature films, using them to repackage aspects of the history of our continent. The practice of counter-dubbing films with alternate soundtracks became ubiquitous in the 20th century. But almost from the beginning of cinema live orators and narrators were available to mediate the image on the screen, either for documentary films without inter-titles, or for imported films whose titles were in a foreign language, or indeed in Japan where the film industry grew around the star status of the benshi narrators, creating films designed to be narrated live by the actors who wrote the tale and voiced the characters. Sometimes called “movie telling” or “neo-benshi” or glossed as performance art, the seven pieces tonight will take scenes from different feature films and torque them with sometimes comic, critical, or poetic interpretations, all relating in some way to the history, or alternate history, of North America. Short scenes from Robocop, Gravity, The Sound of Music, Chinatown and others will be retold

I’ll be participating in a live film narration program curated by konrad steiner (presented by L.A. Film Forum) in a piece written by Jen Hofer. I’ll be performing in Jen’s live film narration piece of the film Chinatown along with Douglas Kearney.

More information coming soon.

7pm / Oct. 5

@ the Velaslavasay Panorama, Los Angeles, CA

A new works-in-progress reading series that puts you in front of established writers–who may or may not be sober.

Each session two professional writers are invited to be “first responders,” giving feedback to our readers and facilitating a conversation with the writer and audience.

We’re calling it “Drunken Masters,” becuase we’ve bribed our professional writers with the promise of booze (or in some cases chocolate) to share with us their wisdom. It will be fun and laid back, so take a risk, and share with us that new story, poem, pitch or script you’ve been working on.

If you would like to sign up to read a 7-9 minute excerpt of a new work, email [email protected].

This installation features three of the most unique and innovative poets, writers, and artists in our community:

Jen Hofer

Janice Lee

Andrew Choate

5PM Sunday, September 7

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Things are different up here. We can’t quite hear the city. We can barely make out the lights through the valley. But something’s not right. Maybe this isn’t our house; maybe these aren’t our memories. It’s almost like we’re being monitored. Like we’re under surveillance by tiny machines or giant eyes. Is there a world outside anymore? Where is the glow from our windows leading us? What they say about a watched pot has never been true.

Come on up,

Diana Arterian // Sam Bloch & Mark Gerard // Andrew Choate // Claire Cronin & Meriwether Clarke // Stacy Elaine Dacheux & Danielle Sommer // Kate Durbin // Stephen Van Dyck // Emma Zakes Green // Brigitte Nicole Grice // Dan Hockenson // Jen Hofer & Yelena Gluzman // Jen Hutton // Emily Kiernan // Janice Lee & Laura Vena // UNFO (with Harold Abramowitz, Amanda Ackerman & Andrea Quaid) // Matias Viegener // Writ Large Press (with Peter Woods & Chiwan Choi)

Mount Washington, Los Angeles – Address will be sent to you before the event.

The event is free. RSVP here- http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/831481

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ENTER>text is a living literary journal, an immersive series of events where the audience is activated to seek out their own unique encounters with writers. We strive to explore the textual nature of our surroundings, always searching for new voices, histories and fictions.

Created and Directed by Henry Hoke and Marco Franco Di Domenico

Sunday, August 24 at 3:00pm

The Pop-Hop

5002 York Blvd,

Los Angeles, CA 90042

Hosted by Diana Arterian

Readings from:

Daniel Hockenson

Henry Hoke

Robin Coste Lewis

Allison Carter

Janice Lee (author of recently-published Damnation)

Music from Owen Stewart-Robertson

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Join Catie Disabato, Claire Cronin, Janice Lee, and Sam Bloch for a night of writing about television & horror.

a DTLAB #90for90 Super Fan Night event

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8PM

Traxx Bar – Union Station

800 N Alameda St

Los Angeles, CA

Jared Woodland and I were on Episode 16 of The People, with hosts Mathew Timmons and Ben White.

We talk about Bela Tarr, Satantango, slowness in cinema, the long take, and doom metal.

Listen to the podcast via itunes or Soundcloud.

We’ve been hearing strange things about you. We’re not quite sure what to believe. We think it would be best to discuss it in person, and even then, maybe not out loud. You have to catch these rumors early, right, clear things up before they spiral out of control.

Yours,

Karen Adelman // Diana Arterian // Sam Bloch // Andrew Choate // Sam Cohen // Claire Cronin // Kate Durbin // Emma Zakes Green // Jen Hutton // Emily Kiernan // Janice Lee // Joseph Mosconi // Jacqueline Suskin // Stephen van Dyck // Laura Vena // Emerson Whitney // Peter Woods

Come quietly.

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ENTER>text is a living literary journal, an immersive series of events where the audience is activated to seek out their own unique encounters with writers. We strive to explore the textual nature of our surroundings, always searching for new voices, histories and fictions.

Created and Directed by Henry Hoke and Marco Franco Di Domenico

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Saturday, May 17 at 2:00pm

Art Catalogues

5905 Wilshire Boulevard, Los Angeles, California 90036

Poets, artists, and architects read from the visionary writings of Madeline Gins at this event hosted by Matias Viegener, LACMA CEO and Wallis Annenberg Director Michael Govan, and the Poetic Research Bureau.

http://www.lacma.org/event/landing-site-madeline-gins

Vanessa Place

Anne Boyer

Aaron Kunin

Christine Wertheim

Janice Lee

Brian Stefans

Xárene Eskandar

Giovanni Singleton

Shannon Ebner

Laida Lertxundi

A Landing Site for Madeline Gins is a tribute to the late artist, architect, and poet who, together with her partner Arakawa, established the Reversible Destiny Foundation in 1987, a dynamic platform for collaboration across the sciences, art, and architecture. Gins started as a poet and published numerous books including Word Rain (or A Discursive Introduction to the Philosophical Investigation of G,R,E,T,A G,A,R,B,O, It Says) (Grossman, 1969), What the President Will Say and Do!! (Station Hill Press, 1984), and Helen Keller or Arakawa (Burning Books with East/West Cultural Studies, 1994). In 1997, Michael Govan presented the exhibition Arakawa/Gins—Reversible Destiny/We Have Decided Not to Die at the Guggenheim Museum of Art, and an exhibition about Arakawa is in the works, curated by LACMA’s Christina Yu.

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