WHEN DOES IT OR YOU BEGIN? (MEMORY AS INNOVATION)
Festival of Writing, Performance, & Video
JANUARY 9 – FEBRUARY 1, 2009
Curated by Amina Cain & Jennifer Karmin
at Links Hall
3435 N. Sheffield Avenue
Chicago, IL
NEW LINEUP OF ARTISTS EACH NIGHT
8pm Friday & Saturday
7pm Sunday
tickets $12
$10 students, seniors, & working artists/writers
full schedule online http://www.linkshall.org/09-pp-jan.shtml
**WEEK ONE** January 9-11
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Individual Memory: A Celebration for Hannah Weiner – Lee Ann Brown,
Judith Goldman with John Beer, Roberto Harrison, Nicole LeGette,
Jenny Roberts, Timothy Yu, video by Abigail Child
January 9 opening reception & talkback with Laura Goldstein
January 10 butoh workshop with Nicole LeGette
**WEEK TWO** January 16-18
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Collective Memory: Collaboration is Group Work – Jen Hofer with
Dolores Dorantes and Patrick Durgin, Jennifer Karmin with 14 Chicago
writers (Mars Caulton, Joel Craig, Kathleen Duffy, Lisa Fishman,
Krista Franklin, Chris Glomski, Daniel Godston, Brandi Homan, A D
Jameson, Lisa Janssen, Toni Asante Lightfoot, Ira S. Murfin, Timothy
Rey, Lily Robert-Foley), John Keene with Christopher Stackhouse,
Laurie Jo Reynolds with Amy Partridge and Stephen F. Eisenman,
Tradeshow, video by Temporary Services
January 16 talkback with Terri Kapsalis
January 17 performance workshop with Karen Christopher & Bryan Saner
January 20 inauguration party with AACM, Anti Gravity Surprise,
Chicago Women’s Health Center, the Dill Pickle Food Co-op & Mess Hall
January 22 open house event with Judith Goldman
**WEEK THREE** January 23-25
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Memory’s Encounter: The Language of Position – Teresa Carmody, Karen
Christopher, Quraysh Ali Lansana with Preston Poe, Vanessa Place,
Nathalie Stephens (Nathanaël), Christine Stewart, videos by Gaelen
Hanson and Cecilia Vicuña
January 23 talkback with Ed Roberson
January 29 open house event with Laurie Jo Reynolds
**WEEK FOUR** January 30-February 1
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Memory’s Place: Alternative Sites and Histories – Tisa Bryant, Amina
Cain with Rachel Tredon, Duriel Harris, Miranda Mellis, ThickRoutes
Performance Collage, videos by Bryan & Jake Saner and Chi Jang Yin
January 30 talkback with Tony Trigilio
February 1 closing event with AREA Chicago writers