Opening reception, Friday, May 25, 8pm: DONNA EVANS
Saturday, June 9, 4pm: JAKE ARAUJO-SIMON
UPDATE:
Sunday June 17, 3pm: ANNA BLUME
Sunday, June 17, 4pm: WILLIAM ALLEN and DAVID LEVI STRAUSS
Sunday, June 17, 5pm: CINDY CARR
Sunday, June 24, 4pm: KAY TURNER
Check back for additions to the Performance Schedule.
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Donna Evans: Visualize Your Opponent
Opening reception, Friday, May 25, 8pm
Donna Evans has performed with the WOW cafe women's theater and was a member of fierce pussy. She trained with Jose "Kid" Avila at Kingsway Boxing. She is a printmaker and lives in Brooklyn.
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Video of opening night performance:
______________________________ Jake Araujo-Simon is in the 7th grade at NYC Lab School in Manhattan. He likes chess, basketball and rock bands like Nirvana. He takes piano lessons at the Third Street Music School and lives in Brooklyn. =============================== =============================== ______________________________ Anna Blume is a professor of art history and philosophy at the School of Visual Arts and the Fashion Institute of Technology in New York City. She writes and teaches about the interaction of cultures. =============================== ______________________________ William Allen and David Levi Strauss: Reading =============================== =============================== ______________________________ Cynthia Carr was a columnist and arts reporter for The Village Voice from 1984 until 2003. Writing under the byline C.Carr, she specialized in experimental and cutting edge art—especially performance. Some of these pieces are now collected in On Edge: Performance at the End of the Twentieth Century, published by Wesleyan University Press. Her book, Our Town: A Heartland Lynching, A Haunted Town, and the Hidden History of White America, was published in 2006 by Crown, a division of Random House. She is now at work on a biography of artist David Wojnarowicz.
=============================== ______________________________ Kay Turner, a nine year resident of Williamsburg, teaches in
Perfprmance Studies at NYU and works as the Brooklyn folklorist at the
Brooklyn Arts Council. In 2003 she headed the Williamsburg Bridge 100th
Anniversary Celebration and is currently at work on Brooklyn Maqam, a
month long festival of Arab music to be held in March 2008. She holds a
Ph.D. in folklore and anthropology from the University of Texas at
Austin. Her publications include Beautiful Necessity: The Art and Meaning of Women's Altars (Thames and Hudson); Between Us: A Legacy of Lesbian Love Letters (Chronicle Books) and Baby Precious Always Shines (St. Martin’s Press), an edited selection of love notes between
Gertrude Stein and Alice B. Toklas. She curated HOMOHOME at Cinders
Gallery in Brooklyn in 2006. Currently, she is working on a long essay
concerning ephemerality and September 11th and a new book project Transgressive Tales: Queering the Grimms' Fairy Tales.
She is the co-founder of the lezzie rock band Girls in the Nose, based
in Austin, TX from 1985-1996. Her current musical projects include
NYC-based SNAGGLETOOTH with Carolyn Dinshaw and MEDUSABULLDOZER, a
group she works with in Athens, GA. 
Jake Araujo-Simon: Piano Recital: Debussy and Improvisations
Saturday, June 9, 4pm
Anna Blume: [Euphemism]
Sunday June 17th, 3pm
Sunday, June 17, 4pm
William Allen is a poet and painter who has shown at P.S. 1, MOMA, Momenta Art in New York, and Michael Solway Gallery in Cincinnati, and the Norton Sculpture Gardens in West Palm Beach, FL. His word art editions are published by Clay Street Press Graphics of Cincinnati, and can be seen at: www.patsfallgraphics.com. His poetry books include Sevastopol :On Photographs of War, Xenos Press (1997) and The Man on the Moon, New York University (1987). He has written for Flash Art and Parkett, as well as for a monograph on the sculptor Barbara Westermann. His unpublished poetry includes work on Francisco Goya, El Greco, Albert Pinkham Ryder, and Paul Klee. He lives and works in Providence, R.I., where he teaches writing. His art and poetry can be seen at http://www.ekphrases.com
David Levi Strauss is a writer and critic. He is the author of Between the Eyes: Essays on Photography and Politics (2003); Leon Golub & Nancy Spero:The Fighting Is a Dance, Too (2000); Between Dog & Wolf: Essays on Art & Politics (1999); Broken Wings: The Legacy of Land Mines (1997); Manoeuvres, poems (1980). His essays and reviews appear regularly in Artforum and Aperture. He written exhibition catalogues and monographs on numerous artists, including Martin Puryear, Ursula von Rydingsvard, Carolee Schneemann, Alfredo Jaar, Mike Bidlo, Raoul Hague and Robert Frank, Tim Davis, among others. 
Cindy Carr: Reading
Sunday, June 17, 5pm
Kay Turner: Music & Ritual
Sunday, June 24, 4pm
