Yvonne Liu (yl28172@yahoo.com)
Mon, 9 Nov 1998 09:24:35 -0800 (PST)
The conclusion of my CMJ weekend ?
Friday:
I went to the Vortex party at Wetlands
by Soundlab, Tygyr Records, & Caipirinha
( no Cormac, no one has learned to pronounce that ).
There were live PAs by:
Byzar
Somatic
( I could have sworn that the Asian guy
was in Soundlab’s Kee ... dunno. )
Sum
Dub Tribe ( wooo ... )
Organization Re-Information
( Really freaky three-piece unit in jumpsuits,
with taped-up Revenge of the Nerd glasses,
maniacally hacking out on computer keyboards
to play this sped-up happy hardcore. Odd. )
Plus DJ Gavin Newman.
Saturday:
I spent the early part of the afternoon with
Deryck Lee and his friend from down South
eyeballing the French collection at the uptown Guggenheim.
There was this incredible mural by Roberto Matta,
titled something like Xpace and the Ego,
painted in the 1940s.
Comprised of stick figures with Venus fly traps
for mouths and genitals in alternating states
of ecstasy and torment.
Afterwards, I went to the Brooklyn Museum of Art
for the first Saturday of every month series.
( I do believe that BMA will replace P.S. 1 in my heart
for Saturday afternoon and evening residency. )
There were performances by Quinbombo,
a jazz ensemble that played Afro-Cuban rhythms.
And the Bindlestiff Family Cirkus ( yay ! )
with music group Fresh Fish.
And a screening of ‘The Clowns’ by Federico Fellini.
And, last, the Mambophonic Juice Jam with Coati Mundi,
formerly Kid Creole, founder of Kid Creole and the Coconuts.
Wow.
Please scan the contents of the email
for further details about the next first Saturday,
December 5th, and performance details.
Afterwards, I headed on over to the Knitting Factory
for MUTINY’s one year anniversary with special guest
Talvin Singh ( yay ! ) live on tablas and electronics.
Talvin was accompanied by drummer Karsh Kale ( sp ? ),
classical vocalist Vishal Bakshim ( sp ? ),
MC Adju Nadhu ( sp ? ) - who had this weird dance sequence
with a monkey mask on, setting off tiny firecrackers in each hand.
DJ Rekha opened for Talvin.
DJ Siraiki ( I think ) closed the show.
Talvin was spinning for an hour after his live set.
I had much fun watching the turban-wrapped Sikhs boogie down.
I did nothing of CMJ-related interest yesterday,
but I had fun at a Chinese church service with grandparents
at Riverside Church last Sunday evening.
Old lavender ppl nodding off to an old pink minister.
I picked up nine cassette tapes of sermons by
Chinese ministers from all over world.
My grandparents were overjoyed when they saw my interest.
Little do they know of my plans.
I want to sample them into jungle beats.
Hoping that God ( or someone/thing ) will forgive me.
Onto business ...
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GEORGE ORWELL'S
1 9 8 4
Fifty Years After Its Publication
Performance by Surveillance Camera Players
at the subway entrance
of 14th Street and 7th Ave,
near the token clerk booth
and in between entries for the
1, 2, 3 and 9 trains and
the tunnel for the F train.
KRISTALLNACHT
Monday, Nov. 9th @ 8 pm
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come to a video screening, discussion and planning meeting
on the campaign to
S H U T D O W N
The School of the Americas
Tuesday, November 10th 1998, starting @ 7 pm
ABC No Rio, 156 Rivington St.,
2 blocks south of Houston St.
This event is free,
and was put together by collective members
of ABC No Rio.
Call 212 254 3697 for event info and subway directions.
The US Army School of the Americas has trained
60,000 Latin American soldiers in combat skills,
commando tactics, military intelligence, and torture techniques.
Hundreds of thousands of Latin Americans have been
tortured, raped, assassinated, "disappeared," massacred,
and forced into refuge by graduates of this "School of Assassins."
SOA graduates target educators, the poor, and those who work
for the rights of the poor.
In November, thousands of ppl will gather at Ft. Benning’s
main gate to say NO ! to the SOA. On November 22nd,
1,000 will "cross the line" into Ft. Benning in a solemn
funeral procession. With this act of civil disobedience,
the 1,000 will risk arrest to honor and speak for
our sisters and brothers who have been SOA victims.
Both those who remain at the vigil site and those
who cross the line will be one in calling our leaders
to close down the School of Assassins.
We will show ...
"Father Roy: Inside the School of Assassins ( 60 minutes )"
"School of the Americas: An Insider Speaks (18 minutes)"
For more info:
on regional anti-SOA organizing and rides
to Ft. Benning this November, call 718 238 3928
or email or email dp@panix.com.
For organizing materials:
contact SOA Watch at
POB 4566
Washington DC 20017
203 234 3440
http://www.soaw.org
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dumba and KILL ART NOW present
P U N K R A W K + P O E T R Y
Friday, November 13th 1998 @ 8 pm
All ages, $ 5.
dumba: 57 Jay St., Brooklyn
F train to York, 212 726 2686.
word + silence @ 8 pm
Sherisse Alvarez
Clara Herrera
Travis Jeppesen
Santana Vallejos
word + guitar @ 9 pm
Tribe 8
Ill Ease
Jewcifer
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Presented by the National Mobilization Against Sweatshops:
SWEATSHOPS ARE SCARY !
but on
Friday, November 13th 1998 @ 8 pm
it’s
B A D L U C K
to Sweatshops Day.
DJs
Videos
Tacky plastic giveaways.
Learn the frightening facts.
Don’t go alone !
( Bring your friends. )
$ 7 in advance, $ 10 at the door.
Resistance Theatre
190 Underhill Ave., Brooklyn
2, 3 train to Eastern Pkwy, 1st right on Eastern Pkwy.
Or D train to 7th Ave, 2nd right along Park Place.
718 633 9757 or email nmass@yahoo.com
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B L A S P H E M Y:
a sensual, surreal, mythical tale
of flesh, sacrifice and immortality.
A multimedia performance featuring
DJ CHROME of Steal This Radio,
COMBUSTIBLE KIVA of the Sinner’s Sideshow,
Formerly of the Sideshows by the Seashore in Coney Island, USA ( yay !
),
SARKA of Painproof Rubber Girls.
Four Saturdays:
November 14th, 21st, 28th and December 5th.
@ Baby Jupiter,
corner of Stanton & Orchard, NYC.
212 982 2229
Doors open at 10 pm,
Shows at 12 midnight and 2 am.
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Do you consider yourself "young?"
Are you interested in meeting other young social justice activists?
Do you want to work more effectively in the NYC area to create social
change?
If so, come to an area gathering on
Y O U T H A N D S O C I A L J U S T I C E
at the
Fellowship of Reconciliation
521 N. Broadway, Nyack, NY
914 358 4601
Saturday, November 14th 1998 from 2 to 6 pm.
Informal gathering from 2 to 4 pm.
Introductions / Discussion from 4 to 6 pm.
RSVP by November 12th to Jana Rumminger,
Youth/Nonviolence Training Intern.
Call for more details/specific directions.
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Saturday, November 14th 1998
P L E A S U R E P R I N C I P L E S
Public Displays of Asianness.
@ The Cooler
416 West 14th St.,
between 9th and 10th Ave.
Take the A, C, E to 14 St. and walk west.
Doors open at 9 pm, $ 10 at door.
performances by:
Jessica Hagedorn
Regie Cabico
Selena Whang
SLANT Performance Trio
DJ Siraiki
wax by:
DJ Joy
DJ Rekha
DJ Singe
video by:
Leith Gill Murgai
For more info on the PDA Conference,
contact 212 998 3700 or see
http://www.nyu.edu/pages/apa.studies/
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a place called CHIAPAS:
Eight Months Inside the Zapatista Uprising.
A 90 minute feature documentary.
At
Film Forum
209 West Houston St., NY.
November 4th to 17th, 1998.
Box office: 212 727 8110.
On January 1st, 1994, the indigenous Zapatista National
Liberation Army took over 5 towns and 500 ranches
in southern Mexico. Then they started sending their msg
to the world on the Internet. The Mayan Indians of Chiapas
were in cyberspace. The NY Times has called the Zapatista
uprising the world’s first post modern revolution.
Now in Chiapas there is a nervous ceasefire.
Nettie Wild travelled to the jungle canyons of southern Mexico
to film the elusive and fragile life of an uprising.
Her camera ended up framing the entrapment of a revolution.
In "A Place Called Chiapas," nothing is as it first appears.
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STEAL THIS RADIO ! 3rd Year Benefit
Wednesday, November 18th @ 7 pm to midnight.
Angel Orensanz Cultural Center, 172 Norfolk,
½ block south of Houston, near Avenue A.
Book Release and Musical Slide Lecture
"Street Posters and Ballads" by Eric Drooker
!Cenen & Congueiros! Ricanstruction Stephan Smith
Live Painting by FLY, Ed Hush, Seth Tobacman: Slide Performance.
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ADAM PURPLE’s psCycle-delic Garden Party !
A legal defense benefit party.
In Remembrance of The Garden of Eden.
Saturday, November 21st 1998
@ the HUB, 81 East 3rd Street
between 1st and 2nd Avenue.
Sliding scale $ 8 to $ 25.
8 pm: for screening of the film, Dirt.
Live music by Stephan Smith.
Photographic Exhibition
Continuous Slide Show
Olympic Sized Trampoline
trip on out to a psychedelic beat
night soilers welcome
If Purple is Your Fashion,
Get Down With Passion.
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EXECUTION LOOMS FOR MUMIA ABU JUMAL !
Award-winning journalist and political activist,
Mumia Abu Jamal is on Pennsylvania’s death row.
DEMONSTRATE !
Tuesday, November 24th 1998 from 5 to 7:30 pm
@ Park Avenue and 50th Street
International Press Freedom Awards
APPEAL DENIED !
October 29th: the Pennsylvania Supreme Court
rejected Mumia’s appeal for a new trial.
Governor Ridge has vowed to sign Mumia’s
death warrant as soon as the Court ruled.
Int’l Concerned Families and Friends of Mumia Abu-Jamal
215 476 8812
Free Mumia Abu Jamal Coalition
212 330 8029
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Saturday, December 5th 1998 at the BMA.
Free admission for all ages.
@ Brooklyn Museum of Art
200 Eastern Parkway
Brooklyn, NY
5 pm: Modern Voices
Arists, Curators and Critics Speak Out.
6 to 9 pm: The Gregory Tardy Trio
7 to 9 pm: Classical Persian Music
with Kayhan Kalhor.
9 to 11 pm: The Boricua Ensemble,
featuring William Cepeda.
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LIGHT LEAKS
I am a plastic camera,
Yvonne.
==
Hermit Thrushes are elusive
and tend to drift quietly
as we are doing now
( I too consider myself a demented drifter )
-- Franklin Rosemont, Penelope
( Chicago Surrealist Editions: 1997 )
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