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National Queer Arts Festival Press Releases
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Multimedia Lit Performance: Sini Anderson, Eileen Myles
(SAN FRANCISCO)—On Sunday June 10 at 8pm at SomArts, 934 Brannan St, performance poet Sini Anderson will be premiering new work in collaboration with local sound artist Kadet Kuhne and photographer Sara Seinberg. To perform with her, Sini has invited local hero and novelist Kris Kovick, and legendary East Village poet and novelist Eileen Myles. Admission is $15-$20 sliding scale.
By incorporating a live sound score and large projected images, Sini will encourage the audience to experience a wider range of imagination. In bringing to the stage with her some of the sounds and visuals that make up her writings, she brings the audience closer to her process of creation. Sini Anderson moved to SF from Chicago when she was 24 and became involved in the Cityıs spoken word community. In 1994 she cofounded Sister Spit with author Michelle Tea and began staging spoken word performances in SF bars. She has been performing her work across America for the past for the past decade. She does not write her material to be read but to be heard in live performance. She has been published in the Outlaw Bible of American Poetry (Thundermouth Press 99).
Sini will look at class, art, education, religion, and over-abundance of wealth in our country and city in six new spoken word pieces. Kris Kovick, a cartoonist and a storyteller who has written several books, including What I Love About Lesbian Politics is Arguing with People I Agree With will be reading from her new work, Americaıs Least Wanted, a psychobabbalogical murder mystery.
Eileen Myles will be reading from her novel Cool for You and her upcoming book of poems, Skies. Eileen, author of the cult classic Chelsea Girls, and numerous award-winning books of poetry, has been reading and performing her work locally, nationally and internationally since 1974. Currently, she writes about art and literature in Art in America, The Village Voice, and The Nation. Eileen was one of the major influences behind the creation of Sister Spitıs all-girl literary revolution.
The National Queer Arts Festival is a series of cultural events, exhibitions, performances and interpretive programs organized by The Queer Cultural Center and Harvey Milk Institute. For further information on any Festival event, please contact the National Queer Arts Festival at 415.552.7709 or visit the Web site at www.queerculturalcenter.org.
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