John Waters was so impressed he named "the filthiest person alive" after one of its characters. Sartre called the criminal-queer-novelist "Saint Genet". Foucault was definitely turned on.
We will be meeting in a dark alley ("Back Alley Sally's", MCVF). Refreshments will be served, a short film or two (maybe even a guest lecturer) and a whole lot of fierce conversation. Quarter the text, read as much as you can: but come prepared!
PROPOSED AGENDA FOR SECOND MEETING:
We will be reserving a lot of space/time for us to bring our own projects dealing with this month's CRIMINAL QUEERS theme. We will be selecting readers/performers to represent the group at our first official gig at MCVF April 3rd. So make sure to BringYourOwnShit!
There will still be time for food, film, discussion of the (now completed) mural and the rest of OUR LADY as well as the customary meet and greet--so look forward to another full night!
INTENTION FOR SPACE:
1. To foster creative text-based dialogue and collaboration in a non-threatening, dynamic, circle-process atmosphere (where we can actually take turns and hear each other think/speak without competing with loud music or crowds);
2. To remember our predecessors;
3. To make text and theory alive in the community in a performance-based non-academic setting;
4. To plot new strategies, identities and interventions for being Queer (not just as sexual orientation, but as way of life);
5. To heal the things that still, inexorably, BURN -- to discuss what has been BURNT, and what we'd like to see emerge from those ashes.
(and last, but not least, to hook up with other HOT LITERATE HOMONERDS)
Space is limited. If you want to participate please RSVP.
LEAGUE OF BURNT CHILDREN
Weekly Book Meetings and Monthly Situations at Mama Calizo's Voice Factory
THIS MONTH:
Jean Genet's 1943 "epic of masturbation"
"OUR LADY OF THE FLOWERS"
Second Meeting: March 23rd at 6pm.
It was written in a prison cell.
John Waters was so impressed he named "the filthiest person alive" after one of its characters. Sartre called the criminal-queer-novelist "Saint Genet". Foucault was definitely turned on.
We will be meeting in a dark alley ("Back Alley Sally's", MCVF). Refreshments will be served, a short film or two (maybe even a guest lecturer) and a whole lot of fierce conversation. Quarter the text, read as much as you can: but come prepared!
PROPOSED AGENDA FOR SECOND MEETING:
We will be reserving a lot of space/time for us to bring our own projects dealing with this month's CRIMINAL QUEERS theme. We will be selecting readers/performers to represent the group at our first official gig at MCVF April 3rd. So make sure to BringYourOwnShit!
There will still be time for food, film, discussion of the (now completed) mural and the rest of OUR LADY as well as the customary meet and greet--so look forward to another full night!
INTENTION FOR SPACE:
1. To foster creative text-based dialogue and collaboration in a non-threatening, dynamic, circle-process atmosphere (where we can actually take turns and hear each other think/speak without competing with loud music or crowds);
2. To remember our predecessors;
3. To make text and theory alive in the community in a performance-based non-academic setting;
4. To plot new strategies, identities and interventions for being Queer (not just as sexual orientation, but as way of life);
5. To heal the things that still, inexorably, BURN -- to discuss what has been BURNT, and what we'd like to see emerge from those ashes.
(and last, but not least, to hook up with other HOT LITERATE HOMONERDS)
Space is limited. If you want to participate please RSVP.
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