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CECILIA VICUñA
Thursday FEB 16: Cecilia Vicuña Open Workshop
3:30 pm @ the Poetry Center, HUM 512, SFSU, free
5:00 pm @ Art History Lecture Hall, Fine Arts 193, SFSU
preview screening of her film “Kon Kon”, free
co-sponsored with SFSU Departments of Art and Cinema
6:00 pm @ Cesar Chavez Student Center Art Gallery,
informal reception for the artist, free and open to the public
Friday FEB 17: “Kon Kon” a film by Cecilia Vicuña
(HD video, 54 min, Chile, 2010)
West Coast premier, filmmaker in attendance
4:30 pm @ Roxie Theater
3117 16th Street, San Francisco, $10, $6.50
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PAMELA Z
Tuesday FEB 21: Pamela Z
solo performance of works for voice, electronics, and video
to celebrate the opening of “SmARTspace” exhibition, Fine Arts Gallery
5:00 pm @ Knuth Hall Theater, Creative Arts Bldg, SFSU, free
co-sponsored with the SFSU Fine Arts Gallery
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SAWAKO NAKAYASU AND MICHAEL CROSS
Thursday MAR 8: Sawako Nakayasu
reading & talking on translations from contemporary Japanese poetry
4:30 pm @ the Poetry Center, HUM 512, SFSU, free
co-sponsored with the Dilena Takeyama Center for the Study of Japan and Japanese Culture, SFSU
Saturday MAR 10: Sawako Nakayasu and Michael Cross
7:30 pm @ Meridian Gallery, 535 Powell Street, $10
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DODIE BELLAMY AND ALAN GILBERT
Thursday MAR 15: Dodie Bellamy and Alan Gilbert
Open Workshop
4:30 pm @ the Poetry Center, HUM 512, SFSU, free
Friday MAR 16: Dodie Bellamy and Alan Gilbert
7:30 pm @ The Green Arcade, 1680 Market St (at Gough), free
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OSVALDO SANCHEZ AND OMAR BARRADA
Wednesday MAR 28 : Osvaldo Sanchez and Omar Barrada
7:00 pm @ Art History Lecture Hall, Fine Arts 193, SFSU, free
vocation(s): a discussion about interdisciplinary practice
moderated by SFSU Cinema Professor Tarek Elhaik
co-sponsored with SFSU Departments of Art and Cinema
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KHALED MATTAWA AND RAVI SHANKAR
Thursday MAR 29: Khaled Mattawa and Ravi Shankar
Poetry Center Book Award Reading
4:30 pm @ the Poetry Center, HUM 512, SFSU, free
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FURTHER EVENTS
FOR APRIL-MAY 2012
TO BE ANNOUNCED
PAST EVENTS THIS SEASON
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KATHLEEN FRASER AND BRANDON BROWN
Thursday FEB 2: Kathleen Fraser in conversation
4:30 pm @ the Poetry Center, HUM 512, SFSU, free
Saturday FEB 4: Kathleen Fraser and Brandon Brown
7:30 pm @ Unitarian Center, 1187 Franklin (at Geary), $10
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A LETTER FROM THE DIRECTOR
11 December 2011
Dear Friend,
Entering the last weeks of 2011, what’s very evident is that this has been a year of great stirrings on the part of many people worldwide, working toward what each recognizes as necessary real change. At the Poetry Center, we are made even more aware that we are working within a public institution that arises from and benefits the public.
The extraordinary audiences we’ve seen this year are evidence that there is real desire for the articulations that poetry can bring about. Yesterday we hosted a talk by scholar Peter Nicholls on the late work of George Oppen, which addressed among many fine distinctions Oppen’s insistence that the work at hand is to regain “the commonwealth of parlance,” that “poetry must recover a place to stand.” The talk was capstone to a remarkable year.
In the Archives we are at work recovering dozens of recordings that are making their way onto the World Wide Web. Poetry Center Digital Archive was launched in April 2011, as a new next step in our throwing open the work of many years to free public access. Anyone around the world with an Internet hookup can now listen to what the poets have been up to over the past 58 years in San Francisco. We’re presently at work on the 1960s, with great surprises on the near horizon. We’ve been compiling another remarkable season to come of poets and writers presenting their unique works.
Can I ask you to join us in supporting the Poetry Center? As we are continually called to remember, the efforts of individuals do matter.
We greatly appreciate your contribution, and look forward to the coming year.
Sincerely,
Steven Dickison, Director
• POETRY CENTER DIGITAL ARCHIVE posted "50 from the '50s" at its April 2011 debut, with better than fifty original Poetry Center recordings from our American Poetry Archives. In preparation are 1960s recordings, plus feature selections, 1954 forward.
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The Poetry Center since 1954 has hosted what is likely the longest continuously running poetry reading series in the United States, presenting dozens of public programs throughout the year, both on the SFSU campus and at various public venues in San Francisco and vicinity.
Our American Poetry Archives houses over 4,000 hours of original audio and video recordings dating from 1954 to the present. POETRY CENTER DIGITAL ARCHIVE provides free public access to significant portions of the collection via the World Wide Web.
The Poetry Center is located on the San Francisco State University campus, in Humanities 511 (Offices) , HUM 512 (Reading Room),
and HUM 507 (Archives).
Programs supported by San Francisco State University College of Arts & Humanities, SFSU Instructionally Related Student Activities Fund, Grants for the Arts/Hotel Tax Fund (City of San Francisco), the Creative Work Fund, National Endowment for the Arts, the Fund for Poetry, and Friends of the Poetry Center.
YOUR DONATION
supports our programs.
Alternately, checks can be mailed to:
The Poetry Center
San Francisco State University
1600 Holloway Avenue
San Francisco CA 94132
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