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Work in Progress—Reading Series 2/19 Line up!
On Sunday, February 19th at 7 O’Clock, in Williamsburg, Brooklyn,
Presents:
Scheduled to read:
Suzanne Guillette Author of “Much to Your Chagrin”
a writer and occasional storyteller, Suzanne’s work has appeared in Tin House,Self, O Magazine, Publisher’s Weekly, and Time Out New York, in addition to other publications. Suzanne teaches autobiography and memoir-writing. Suzanne Guillette
Cat Tyc
a poet/video artist/director. Her work has screened in galleries & festivals in Seattle, Portland, NY, Berlin and London and aired on MTVu and LOGO. Her poetry has been featured in various anthologies and zines. She is currently making a documentary about style and economy and adapting a narrative film script to the stage. Published in ShampooPoetry
JD Scott
a Brooklyn-based writer, poet, and designer. His work has appeared in Poetry Miscellany, The Albion Review, The North Central Review, and elsewhere. He is the Editor-in-Chief of Moonshot, a literary and arts magazine.
Moonshot | @moonshotmag |moonshotFB
Robert Anasi
(bio will be posted shortly) He will read from his upcoming book about Williamsburg, Brooklyn’s art and bohemia. Due out this August.
Douglas Turner
a freelancing Cultural Observer hungry to be of service to society. Curator—Impresario—Writer—Improv’r. Currently working on a book of essays, and short stories dealing with being the child of several generations of an otherwise predictable American experience—that is no longer so predictable.
A big thanks to Esther Bell for the use of the West… There’s no such thing as enough creative space!
The West is a Beer, Wine, & Espresso bar in East Willliamsburg|379 Union Ave., L train Lorimer Stop (across the street from our Barcade friends)
WRITERS: Where ever you are in your writing process, W.I.P., is a space for the experimental. More intent on being a creative space than exclusive—WiP is an “open-call” series. My intention is that this will be an awesome space to workshop. Sunday, February 19th at 7 O’Clock.
Featured Guests Scheduled To Read:
Suzanne Guillette
By Jordan Luftig "As with God, So with Money"—compelling look at #Occupy Movement
Jordan was one of my Professors at JFKU… he has a way of eloquently breaking down, what sometimes appear as conundrums. From loaded subjects like Phenomenology, POST-metaphysics, and the current state of the Occupy Movement.
As with God, So with Money? Luftig reminds us that Modern Revolutionaries dethroned the fear [the “rule”] of God, in its place came Capitalism. Inquisitions, [Monarchies], Holy Wars—the Founding Fathers had enough. In the New World would be free markets, [the demise of serfdom], and the rise of free minds.
There was a total rejection of a system of living—although elements of God and religion remain—but not with the omnipresent oppressive power of late.
Jordon closes the article with a rejoinder to criticisms that the Occupy Movement lacks direction and purpose. As with the Founding Fathers, so with the Millennials (et.al):
The Occupy movement has made a point of operating independent of existing institutions of power because it protests our entire institutionalized way of life. It rejects the materialistic values and the coldhearted, self-interested, you’re-either-a-winner-or-a-loser culture of business, politics, modern life. Period.
That the Occupiers have made no demands has prompted observers to criticize the movement for failing to offer a new vision. The confusion is understandable, and the critics can be forgiven. No demand is big enough for the Occupiers’ intention. The Occupiers envision a true revolution. Their movement has a mission: dethrone the corporate kings of modernity. Give birth to a new, post-modern age of humanity.
This is the real, incredible, unfolding story.
Change—Why we might fear it
The drive towards perfection has permeated our relationship to the experience of life. Have we forgotten, or ever really known, that all of this is only true upon mutual agreement? As the creator you are free to introduce any element to the story, and all of your creations are subject to judgement. Yet fear of judgement is no reason to halt or slow the process—it is the nature of this stage of manifestation’s perspective. We fear change because of its unknown qualities. Because in our familiarity with today we face a loss of navigation, if we change the status quo for tomorrow. As a society we have grown comfortable with a way of knowing life, and the kind of changes we need to make will require us to let most of that go and simply be with the uncertainty… the imperfection of learning to walk again.
In authentic truth and judgement there is pure uncertainty. Even at the very edges of the explosion that is continually giving birth to life, there exists no glance of future, only imagination. The explosion is the birth of time, and all else that follows. The only moment, for sure, is happening right now. Perfection is Nirvana. Yet if life is never-ending, Nirvana is limited only to our relationship to life—but life itself will always be imperfect. Embrace this, and embrace change.
