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Calendar of Events
2012
january 7, 2012
Volcano, HI: Poetry Performance
Join me for the opening reception for the Hawaii Volcanoes Observatory
exhibit that runs January 7 - February 19. The exhibit showcases
artwork inspired by Kilauea Volcano. I'll be performing poetry
inspired by Pele (as if I write any poetry that isn't, in some way,
inspired by Pele). It'll be a good night, I'm sure. Go to
Volcano Art Center
for more info, show is from 5-7pm.
january 16, 2012
Ainaloa Longhouse, Pahoa, HI: Poetry Feature
This is a gender-transition fundraiser for an amazing local poet, who will also be
hosting this evening's slam. (He's well up for it, and it'll be a great night!).
I'll do an intermission show and cheer the beauty of our queer island community!
Contact Nakoa for more info.
Ncnelson@Hawaii.edu
january 21, 2012
Volcano Art Center, Volcano, HI: Poetry Slam Emcee
Go to Volcano Art Center for more info
and directions, show is at 7pm. These crowds have been fabulously diverse AND entertaining. And usually
the place is packed -- come and down and see what it's all about...
january 22-March 16, 2012
Cal State San Marcos, CA: Social Advocacy
As every spring, it's my pleasure to be in Southern California to
teach in the graduate program in Sociological Practice. Check out the
program, if you're interested -- you too could be joining me for 8
half day workshops on Social Advocacy at some point in the future...
january 28, 2012
San Diego, CA: The Op Ed Project Core Training
I've been impressed with what I know of The Op Ed Project thus far, so
I'm taking the core training. Would you like to see more women's
expert voices in the news. Maybe you should learn more at
their website.
february 22-26, 2012
University Park, PA: Penn State School of Theatre, Cultural Conversations:
Dykeopolis: Queer Tales
and Travels in our Times
I had a wonderful time presenting Complicated Courtesies last year at this theater festival dealing with
themes of local and global diversity, and am excited to participate again!
Check the Cultural Conversations website
for more info ...
march 21-23, 2012
Cal State Summer Arts promotional presentations at San
Jose State and Cal State East Bay
It's that time again. Time for me to tell you how much your
creativity needs you as an advocate, nay, as an attentive lover. Time
for me to tell you that
Cal State Summer Arts is one of the best
programs for nurturing your creative soul with which I've ever had the
pleasure to work. And there's financial aid, and you don't have to
even be a student. And you'll get 3 units of undergrad/grad credit in
2 weeks time. Yes, I'll be discussing these possibilities as they
relate to my course: Solo Performance: Writing, Performing and Touring
a Solo Show. Download a flyer (pdf format, in
half sheet or
half sheet 2 up options)
and tell everyone you know. I shouldn't have to convince you. You know this is right.
Get in touch
if you'd like some of my time while I'm on the road anywhere between
Monterey and San Francisco...
march 26, 2012
Cal State Summer Arts promotional presentations at San
Jose State and Cal State East Bay
It's that time again. Time for me to tell you how much your
creativity needs you as an advocate, nay, as an attentive lover. Time
for me to tell you that
Cal State Summer Arts is one of the best
programs for nurturing your creative soul with which I've ever had the
pleasure to work. And there's financial aid, and you don't have to
even be a student. And you'll get 3 units of undergrad/grad credit in
2 weeks time. Yes, I'll be discussing these possibilities as they
relate to my course: Solo Performance: Writing, Performing and Touring
a Solo Show. Download a flyer (pdf format, in
half sheet or
half sheet 2 up options)
and tell everyone you know. I shouldn't have to convince you. You know this is right.
Get in touch
if you'd like some of my time while I'm on the road anywhere between
Monterey and San Francisco...
march 27, 2012
Cal State Summer Arts promotional presentations at San
Francisco State
It's that time again. Time for me to tell you how much your
creativity needs you as an advocate, nay, as an attentive lover. Time
for me to tell you that
Cal State Summer Arts is one of the best
programs for nurturing your creative soul with which I've ever had the
pleasure to work. And there's financial aid, and you don't have to
even be a student. And you'll get 3 units of undergrad/grad credit in
2 weeks time. Yes, I'll be discussing these possibilities as they
relate to my course: Solo Performance: Writing, Performing and Touring
a Solo Show. Download a flyer (pdf format, in
half sheet or
half sheet 2 up options)
and tell everyone you know. I shouldn't have to convince you. You know this is right.
Get in touch
if you'd like some of my time while I'm on the road anywhere between
Monterey and San Francisco...
may 12, 2012
UC Berkeley - it's my son's graduation!
::sniff sniff::: I'm so happy for him, and I'll be there to see it
happen...
may 26, 2012
Volcano Art Center, Volcano, HI: Poetry Slam Emcee
Go to Volcano Art Center for more info
and directions, show is at 7pm. These crowds have been fabulously diverse AND entertaining. And usually
the place is packed -- come and down and see what it's all about...
june 20-23, 2012
University of Alberta, Edmonton: Performance on fatness
This conference and art show spring from the Canadian Obesity Network, a rather
broad group representing some views I embrace and others I don't. I'm certainly on
board with their first strategic goal of reducing fat stigma. The art show aims to
complicate and expand views on obesity, and I'm thrilled to take part in that from
the body-positive perspective my writing offers. I'm looking forward to some
interesting discussions in Edmonton. Learn more at
obesitynetwork.ca.
july 13, 2012
San Francisco State University, San Francisco,
California: National Sexuality Resource Center
I'm the closing session for the NSRS
Summer Institute for 2012 - so looking forward to being there!
july 16-29, 2012
Summer Arts, California State University. Monterey
Bay: Solo Performance: Writing, Performing and Touring a Solo Show
Ah yes, it's Summer Arts again -- one
of my favorite programs. No
really. YOU should attend and there are scholarships available.
This year, my course on solo performance will
include the amazing Heather Raffo,
Bill Bowers,
Sharon Bridgforth and
Jude Narita.
Check back for further details
about this time in a small group, where we'll be teaching and interacting
with you for two whole weeks. Can I emphasize this enough? Come to
Summer Arts - it will be an amazing experience professionally and
personally too...
july 21, 2012
California State University. Monterey
Bay: Summer Arts Festival, 2pm
The amazing Sharon Bridgforth
and I will offer a performance/reading
of our work that looks at our thematic overlaps. Ticket info at
csusummerarts.org.
What will you expect? Love, Ritual, Daily Life, Queerness as Holy,
Queerness within African Diasporic history - fiction, non-fiction,
truth. I'm looking forward to seeing what unfolds...
august 2, 2012
Washington, DC: ATHE pre-conference workshop
I'm offering a pre-conference workshop this year too. Check the ATHE
website for details on registration. Here's the title and rationale...
Using spoken word performance and storytelling to expand student’s
performance, writing and innovation skills, strengthen civic
engagement, creative voice and collaborative ability:
We have a problem. Ok, it’s a social problem but it effects theatre
and the performing arts too. Diversity in our student populations
is a fact, and indeed, we’d be better off if there were more of it.
And yet, traditional theatre programs in which “the play” and “the
actor” are significant units of discussion and production often do
not adequately address the physical and experiential diversity of
the population. This workshop uses the language and currency of
theatre while adding more stories, more understandings, more ways of
being on stage in order to expand the reach and depth of the
performance experience. If performance is civic engagement, we need
to expand the performance toolbox beyond acting into creative forms
of advocacy, collaboration and learning. After all, some of the
best theatre artists are people who have cultivated a creative
presence outside of role. Luckily, it costs nothing to offer
additional tools for working with the body, the voice, the breath
and the dimensions of human story.
august 2 - 5, 2012
Washington, DC: ATHE
I'll be doing a session with the amazing
Domnica Radulescu,
Joan Lipkin,
Norma Bowles and
Deb Margolin called "Feminist Activism and
Social Revolutions through Comedy and Laughter." Dr. Radulescu has
assembled us, in part, because we each appear in her new book, Women's
Comedic Arts as Social Revolution. How exciting!
august 19 - September 16, 2012
Berlin Artist Residency
I'll spend a month at the
Institut fuer Alles Moegliche in Berlin.
That's the Institute for Everything Possible. Brilliant, no? I'm
so looking forward to finding out what's possible, and if you'd like
to schedule some of my time in Germany or other parts of Europe during
these two months, please get in touch
with Julie Mitchell.
There will be performances in Berlin up here soon...
november, 2012
Oakland, CA: NWSA
Yes, that's where I'll be! More details later...
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