{"id":780,"date":"2010-01-20T16:07:12","date_gmt":"2010-01-20T21:07:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lanternreview.com\/blog\/?p=780"},"modified":"2010-01-26T14:54:01","modified_gmt":"2010-01-26T19:54:01","slug":"friends-neighbors-weekend-roundup-jan-21-27-2010","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lanternreview.com\/blog\/2010\/01\/20\/friends-neighbors-weekend-roundup-jan-21-27-2010\/","title":{"rendered":"Friends & Neighbors: Weekend Roundup (Jan 21-27, 2010)"},"content":{"rendered":"

Lots of readings going on this week.\u00a0 Of note: Patrick Rosal at Cornell College; Monica Ferrell\u00a0and SULU series in support of Haiti (respectively) at Bowery in NYC, Lawson Inada in Oregon, performace poetry workshop at Stanford University’s Listen to the Silence Conference.\u00a0 Also worth checking out: KSW\/Kaya’s SF Thomassons Performance Tour.<\/em><\/p>\n

<\/em>Ashland, Oregon<\/strong><\/p>\n

Lawson Inada at William Stafford Celebration [reading his own works and Stafford’s]<\/a>
\nJanuary 21 | 7 PM
\nSouthern Oregon University
\nHannon Library, Meese Meeting Room #305
\n1250 Siskiyou Blvd
\n*Updated 1\/21; thanks to Jim Beaver for the information!*<\/p>\n

Los Angeles<\/strong><\/p>\n

Giant Robot Bienniale 2: 15 Years<\/a>
\nClosing reception: January 21 | 5-9 p.m.
\nJapanese American National Museum
\n369 East First Street
\nFREE<\/p>\n

Excerpts from Libby Emmons’ “The Girls from Afar” [Staged Reading]
\n<\/a>presented by East West Players \/ Coalition to Abolish Slavery and Trafficking
\nJanuary 21 | 7:30 pm
\nTateuchi Democracy Forum in the
\nNational Center for the Preservation of Democracy
\n111 N. Central Avenue
\nRSVP on Facebook<\/a>, or call 213-625-7000<\/p>\n

Mount Vernon, Iowa<\/strong><\/p>\n

Patrick Rosal at Cornell College<\/a>
\nJanuary 20 | 7:30 PM
\nShaw Conference Room
\nCornell College Commons
\nFREE and open to the public<\/p>\n

New York City<\/strong><\/p>\n

Monica Ferrell and others at Bowery<\/a>
\nPresented by Four Way Books
\nJanuary 24 | 2 pm
\nBowery Poetry Club
\n308 Bowery (btwn. Houston and Bleeker)
\nAdmission: $5<\/p>\n

SULU Series feat. Kitchen Cabinet, Sahra Nguyen, Maya Hatch, Cynthia Lin, Sheng Wang<\/a>
\nPartial proceeds to Haiti
\nJanuary 24 | 8 pm
\nBowery Poetry Club
\n308 Bowery (btwn. Houston and Bleeker)
\nAdmission: $8 General | $5 Student<\/p>\n

The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle [Multimedia Theatre Production of Haruki Murakami’s novel]<\/a>
\n[Through January 30] | Wed-Sat @ 8 pm, Sun @ 2 pm
\nOhio Theatre
\n66 Wooster St.
\nTickets: $18<\/a><\/p>\n

San Francisco Bay Area<\/strong><\/p>\n

KSW\/Kaya’s SF Thomassons Performance Tour
\n<\/a>January 23 | 12 noon to 2 pm
\nTour begins at 953 Mission St. @ 5th St (Mint Mall, lower level)
\nTickets:\u00a0 $10 in advance, $12 at the bus.<\/p>\n

Shahid Buttar Workshop: “Breaking the Silence with Performance Poetry”<\/a>
\n@ Listen to the Silence (Stanford AASA’s 4th Annual Asian American Issues Conference)
\nJanuary 23 | 2 to 3:15 pm
\nStanford University School of Education \/ Cubberly Auditorium
\n485 Lasuen Mall, Stanford, CA
\nRegister online here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Beautiful as Yesterday: a Novel<\/em> (book talk and signing by Fan Wu)
\n<\/a>January 23\u00a0| 2-4 pm
\nSan Francisco Public Library – Main Library (Latino\/Hispanic A)
\n100 Larkin St. (at Grove)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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