[Newspoetry] performance events this weekend:

[Sascha Meinrath]

Thought this might interest folks -- especially the free poetry
reading/discussion happening this evening at 7pm at the IMC.

--Sascha

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In conjunction with Crossroads in Cultural Studies, The Art Graduate
Student Organization and the Independent Media Center (UIUC Chapter)
invite you to a series of events investigating performance as cultural
resistance.  More information on the presenters follows:

Infecting the Sick Society: Cultural Resistance as Virus
Sunday, June 27th, 1 pm, Illini Union 214
a panel discussion with subRosa, Charles Frederick, and Lisa Fay

Reading The Cathedral Project: Poetry and the Aesthetics of Politics
Saturday, June 26th, 7 pm, 218 W. Main St, U
a reading and discussion with community animation artist Charles
Frederick

Mapping Biopower
Monday, June 28th, 3 pm, Morrow Plots
a guided walk with feminist art collective subRosa

About the performers:

subRosa is a reproducible cyberfeminist cell of cultural researchers
committed to combining art, activism, and politics to explore and critique
the intersections of the new information and bio-technologies in women's
bodies, lives, and work. SubRosa produces contestational performances,
activist campaigns and projects, publications, media interventions, and
public forums that make visible the interconnections of technology,
gender, and feminism and global capital; new bio and medical technologies;
and the changed conditions of labor and reproduction for women in the
integrated circuit. subRosa  practices a situational embodied feminist
politics nourished by conviviality, self-determination, and the desire for
affirmative affiliations and coalitions. Find out more about subrosa at
www.cyberfeminism.net, and in Domain Errors! Cyberfeminist Practices: A
subRosa Book (NY: Autonomedia, 2003) Current subRosa members: Steffi
Domike, Laleh Mehran, Lucia Sommer, Faith Wilding, Hyla Willis.

Charles Frederick is a writer and cultural activist, with particular
interest in cultural animation as an art and political form for community
empowerment and mobilization.  He has been active in many struggles in the
larger peace and justice movements for three decades on a grass roots
level with a constant emphasis on the cultural dimensions of, and
strategies for, organizing.  He served on the Board of Directors for the
national community arts movement, the Alliance for Cultural Democracy and
was an editor for its journal, Cultural Democracy.  During the period of
the Solidarity movements of the early 80s, he designed street
demonstrations as community performance forms and for a period of ten
years worked in the gay Catholic community in New York, leading AIDS
efforts and a cultural animation project called The Cathedral Project to
oppose the institutional Church's persecution of gay people.  Charles has
been an editor of several independent journals and has published poetry,
fiction and criticism.

Lisa Fay is a composing and performing movement-based theatre artist,
known for applying complex composed structures to ordinary human behavior.
Notated movement scores often accompany her productions. Her professional
history with her performance partner, Jeff Glassman, includes an NEA
Choreography Fellowship, tours and residencies since 1971 in the U.S.,
Eastern and Western Europe, Mexico and Cuba, and featured performances at
national and international festivals including the Copenhagen
International Theatre Festival in Denmark and the First International
Festival of Mime in Mexico. They appear at theatres and universities
around the US, on public television, and as selected roster artists of the
Illinois and Missouri arts councils. Awards include two Illinois Arts
Council Artists Fellowship Awards for Choreography.  Lisa Fay is the
coordinator of 'Inner Voices Social Issues Theater' at the University of
Illinois.

Charles Frederick's and subRosa's visits are supported by SORF.  For more
information, contact Sarah Kanouse at kanouse at uiuc.edu