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LINKS HALL PRESENTS
When Does It or You Begin? (Memory as Innovation)
Writing, Performance, & Video Festival
Curated by Amina Cain and Jennifer Karmin,
Links Hall Artistic Associates
Featuring local, national, and international writers and artists
January 9 – February 1, 2009
Weekend Performances: Friday & Saturday at 8pm, Sunday at 7pm
Tickets are $12 ($10 students, seniors, & working artists)
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 Teresa Carmody, photo by Harold Abramowitz
PERFORMANCE:
JAN 9-11
Individual Memory: A Celebration for Hannah Weiner
JAN 16-18
Collective Memory: Collaboration is Group Work
JAN 23-25
Memory’s Encounter: The Language of Position
JAN 30-FEB 1
Memory’s Place: Alternative Sites and Histories
Festival Opening Night Reception
January 9th
Post-show celebration with the festival artists
Festival Weekly Talkbacks
Friday nights led by local writers and performers
Festival Closing Event
1968/2008: The Inheritance of Politics and The Politics of Inheritance
Japanese American Service Committee of Chicago
4427 North Clark Street
Sunday, February 1, 3-5pm
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WORKSHOPS:
Butoh Workshop with Nicole LeGette
Saturday, January 10, 11am-3pm
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Workshop with Goat Island Performance Group
Saturday, January 17, 10am-4pm
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COMMUNITY EVENTS:
Anti Gravity Surprise Inauguration Party
at the Chicago Cultural Center, 78 E. Washington
Tuesday, January 20, 6pm
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Open House hosted by Laurie Jo Reynolds, artist
Thursday, January 29, 7-9pm
(Logan Square)
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Curators’ Statement:
When Does It or You Begin? (Memory as Innovation) explores the ways new forms of expression are created from the recollections of individuals, groups, positions, and places. Moving from subject to action, in between imagination and lived experience, the festival draws together writers and artists who take memory as a site of curiosity and absorption. Who are we when we remember?
—Amina Cain and Jennifer Karmin, Links Hall Artistic Associates
Curators’ Bios:
Amina Memory Cain is the author of I Go To Some Hollow, a collection of stories that will be published by Les Figues Press in January of 2009. Her work has appeared in journals such as 3rd bed, Action Yes, Denver Quarterly, and La Petite Zine, as a recording in the soundscape/hörspiel exhibition A Diamond in the Mud at Literaturhaus Basel in Switzerland, and is forthcoming in The Encyclopedia Project. With Jennifer Karmin, she co-founded the Red Rover reading series in 2005. She recently relocated from Chicago to Los Angeles.
Jennifer Karmin’s poems are anthologized in A Sing Economy, Come Together: Imagine Peace, The City Visible: Chicago Poetry for the New Century, and Growing Up Girl: An Anthology of Voices from Marginalized Spaces. She is co-founder of the public art group Anti Gravity Surprise. Her multidisciplinary projects have been presented at festivals, artist-run spaces, and on city streets including: the Urban Institute for Contemporary Arts, Woodland Pattern Book Center, and the Los Angeles Art Walk. Karmin works as a Poet-in-Residence for the Chicago Public Schools and teaches creative writing to immigrants at Truman College.
Jennifer Karmin
Learn more about the Links Hall Artistic Associates Program
When Does It or You Begin?(Memory as Innovation) was made possible with the support of the Columbia College Chicago English Department, Creative Writing-Poetry Program, the City of Chicago Department of Cultural Affairs, Kenning Editions, and Poets and Writers, Inc.
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