Event Archive for July, 2012
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Trash Myths: hippie trash pits and other things you can dig up
Tuesday, July 17th, 2012 at 8:00 pm
Tuesday, July 17th 2012 8pm FREE A lecture by Annie Danis. In 1968 Dennis Hopper asked the residents of the New Buffalo Commune in Taos, NM to film their back-to-the-land home for “Easy Rider.” The residents refused, shunning his offer of catered meals and trucked-in amenities for their usual bulk rice and beans. Or so [...]
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Jacqueline Waters and Daniel Tiffany
Saturday, July 14th, 2012 at 8:00 pm
Saturday, July 14th 2012 8pm FREE Jacqueline Waters’ One Sleeps the Other Doesn’t was recently published by Ugly Duckling Presse. She is the author of one previous collection, A Minute without Danger (Adventures in Poetry), and edits The Physiocrats, a pamphlet press. She will be reading work from One Sleeps the Other Doesn’t along with [...]
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Laura Steenberge
Thursday, July 12th, 2012 at 8:00 pm
Thursday, July 12th 8pm FREE Laura Steenberge will give a lecture-demonstration about how we perceive musical patterns and form using time-transcendening spatial metaphors. Helium balloons will be involved. This burgeoning science, while not based on any factual information whatsoever, will be informative to musicians and non-musicians alike. Special guest musicians Julianna Snapper, Heather Lockie, and [...]
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Pitch Battles
Friday, July 6th, 2012 at 8:00 pm
Friday, July 6th 8pm FREE In overlapping performances, Colin Dickey, Nicole Antebi and Chris Kallmyer will explore the difference between two rival pitches, 440 Hz and 432 Hz: Colin Dickey will trace the history of the war for correct musical tuning, a debate that’s raged for two centuries and has involved the Nazis, French government, [...]