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High Mayhem Emerging Arts
http://highmayhem.org/
*Word-Centric*
Sunday, February 20 at noon
2811 Siler Lane, Santa Fe NM
A celebration of the written and spoken word in two parts.
The first set will be performances by Tommy Archuleta, Valerie Martinez (the
former Santa Fe Poet Laureate), John Flax, Ginger Dunnill, and Michael
Smith.
The second act will be “These Are Real Brains” lead by poet and founder of
the Alzheimer’s Poetry Project, Gary Glazner, with Carlos Santistevan
(bass), Milton Villarrubia, III (percussion), Dino J.A. Deane (Sampler/Live
Sampling), Molly Sturges (vocals), and Chris Jonas (saxophone).
Performing and creating poetry with people living with Alzheimer’s disease
and related dementia inspire Glazner’s poem “These Are Real Brains.” Working
in the tradition of Dada, and Surrealist poets and drawing inspiration and
methodology from cut-up and found poetry techniques, collage, and
counterpoint, the poem looks at consciousness, attention span and the
effects of the cut and paste computer technology. The poem mixes Glazner’s
original work with well-loved classic poems. In speaking the lines of
Shakespeare the reader uses the same vocal cord, larynx, lungs and lips as
he did 400 plus years ago and brings that breath into the world. It looks at
cultural touch points of Presidential dementia and explores what it means to
love someone who no longer remembers that you are married. It speaks in the
voice of people living with memory loss. The poem acts as score and text for
improvisational performance and draws on the long history of poetry as oral
art.
About Gary Glazner
Gary Glazner is the founder and Executive Director of the Alzheimer's Poetry
Project, (APP). The National Endowment for the Arts listed the APP as a
“best practice” for their Arts and Aging initiative. NBC's “Today” show,
NPR's “All Things Considered” and Voice of America have featured segments on
Glazner’s work. Harper Collins, W.W. Norton and Salon.com have published his
work. Glazner is the author and editor of five books including: "Ears on
Fire: Snapshot Essays in a World of Poets," published on La Alameda Press,
the book chronicles a year abroad in Asia and Europe meeting poets, working
on translations and writing poems; "How to Make a Living as a Poet" on Soft
Skull Press, which features essays and interviews on creative ways to bring
poetry to the world and “Poetry Slam: The Competitive Art of Performance
Poetry,” on Manic D Press. In 2009, Glazner was invited by a group of poets
to launch the APP in Berlin and Marburg. In 2010, the U.S. Embassy is
funding a pilot project for the APP in Germany. From 2007 to 2010, Glazner
was the Managing Director of the Bowery Poetry Club in New York City.
[image: High Mayhem]
High Mayhem Emerging Arts
http://highmayhem.org/
*Word-Centric*
Sunday, February 20 at noon
2811 Siler Lane, Santa Fe NM
A celebration of the written and spoken word in two parts.
The first set will be performances by Tommy Archuleta, Valerie Martinez (the
former Santa Fe Poet Laureate), John Flax, Ginger Dunnill, and Michael
Smith.
The second act will be “These Are Real Brains” lead by poet and founder of
the Alzheimer’s Poetry Project, Gary Glazner, with Carlos Santistevan
(bass), Milton Villarrubia, III (percussion), Dino J.A. Deane (Sampler/Live
Sampling), Molly Sturges (vocals), and Chris Jonas (saxophone).
Performing and creating poetry with people living with Alzheimer’s disease
and related dementia inspire Glazner’s poem “These Are Real Brains.” Working
in the tradition of Dada, and Surrealist poets and drawing inspiration and
methodology from cut-up and found poetry techniques, collage, and
counterpoint, the poem looks at consciousness, attention span and the
effects of the cut and paste computer technology. The poem mixes Glazner’s
original work with well-loved classic poems. In speaking the lines of
Shakespeare the reader uses the same vocal cord, larynx, lungs and lips as
he did 400 plus years ago and brings that breath into the world. It looks at
cultural touch points of Presidential dementia and explores what it means to
love someone who no longer remembers that you are married. It speaks in the
voice of people living with memory loss. The poem acts as score and text for
improvisational performance and draws on the long history of poetry as oral
art.
About Gary Glazner
Gary Glazner is the founder and Executive Director of the Alzheimer's Poetry
Project, (APP). The National Endowment for the Arts listed the APP as a
“best practice” for their Arts and Aging initiative. NBC's “Today” show,
NPR's “All Things Considered” and Voice of America have featured segments on
Glazner’s work. Harper Collins, W.W. Norton and Salon.com have published his
work. Glazner is the author and editor of five books including: "Ears on
Fire: Snapshot Essays in a World of Poets," published on La Alameda Press,
the book chronicles a year abroad in Asia and Europe meeting poets, working
on translations and writing poems; "How to Make a Living as a Poet" on Soft
Skull Press, which features essays and interviews on creative ways to bring
poetry to the world and “Poetry Slam: The Competitive Art of Performance
Poetry,” on Manic D Press. In 2009, Glazner was invited by a group of poets
to launch the APP in Berlin and Marburg. In 2010, the U.S. Embassy is
funding a pilot project for the APP in Germany. From 2007 to 2010, Glazner
was the Managing Director of the Bowery Poetry Club in New York City.
Fronteras Assembled:
A workshop with Thollem McDonas
Saturday, February 27 from 1-5pm
Sunday, February 27 from 1-5pm
Performance on Sunday, February 27 from 7-8pm
High Mayhem Studio, 2811 Siler Lane, Santa Fe NM
Workshop Cost: donation to support High Mayhem
Performance Cost: $10 suggested donation at the door
This is a workshop for all levels of musicians.
Spaces are limited. To sign up, please email press(a)highmayhem.org
Workshop details
From his work with Estamos Ensemble in the U.S./Mexico and his
workshops on listening and large ensemble improvisation, Thollem
McDonas continues with Fronteras Assembled: structured improvisations
based on the social/political dynamics that all the various situations
of geo-political borders create. These are musical meditations on
real-life situations that are constantly affecting the way we perceive
and interact with our fellow human beings within and across the
borders of the world. They are also structures that create unique
musical challenges for large ensembles especially in an improvised
setting that can potentially lead to fresh discoveries of music-making
and relationships among individuals in an ensemble.
For further information regarding workshops: www.thollem.com/workshops
About Thollem McDonas
Thollem's extensive travels as a performer have covered much of the
North American continent and Europe. In the past 6 years he has added
20 albums to his discography on 9 different vanguard labels in 4
different countries. His music is diverse, approaching each album and
concert uniquely, often resulting in dramatically new and different
outcomes.
Not long after birth Thollem began studying the keyboard repertoire
from the medieval to the 20th century. After graduating with degrees
in both piano performance and composition he dedicated his time for
years in grassroots political and environmental movements before
returning to his own music with his full focus. He is currently
touring perpetually as a soloist, in collaboration with many other
individuals and groups as well as leading large ensemble free
improvisation workshops.
Thollem has performed in theaters, art galleries, universities,
elementary schools, concert halls, jazz clubs, rock clubs, festivals,
warehouses, house concerts, streets, forests, riots and on television,
radio and the internet. He has performed piano concertos with
symphonies, played in West African drumming troupes, Javanese gamelan
ensembles, punk bands, with hundreds of free improv groups, and as an
accompanist and a composer for opera and modern dance.
“Thollem’s keyboard flights unleash cascades of notes of seemingly
impossible velocity and no matter where he goes tonally, it always
seems right, fresh and satisfying.” – Terry Riley, 2010
Recent Awards: Meet the Composer: Creative Connections, 2007 Mid
Atlantic Arts Foundation: USArtists, 2009 - Estamos Ensemble, Director
American Music Center: CAP, 2010 - 'Stirring Awake' debuted at Yerba
Buena Center for the Arts
Duo partners from last couple of years not in order of importance:
Stefano Scodanibbio, Rent Romus, Alex Cline, Amy Denio, Faruq Z. Bey,
Arrington deDionyso, John Dieterich, LaDonna Smith, Vinny Golia, Ava
Mendoza, Eduardo Ricci, Tatsuya Nakatani, Jacopo Andreini, Gino
Robair, Joel Peterson, Ben Wright, Nicola Guazzaloca, Rick Rivera,
Marco Eneidi, Tim DuRoche, João Castro Pinto, Bruce Ackley, Theresa
Wong, Greg Saunier, Jad Fair.
Film makers he's worked with: Martha Colburn, Matthew Barney, Peter
Sparling, Tuia Cherici, Carlos Sandoval, David Latreille.
Dancers (dance companies) he's worked with: Germaul Barnes (Bitahkiz
Ayeli), Gary Masters, Limón West Dance Company, James Brenneman,
Viewsic Expressions, Black Bones Dance, Katja Irvin, San José
Cleveland Ballet
www.thollem.com
