this is the last time I will refresh this thread, your last time to go along to - (Sunday 13 April 2003) 2:00-3:45 Hip Hop Seder (CB's 313 Gallery, downstairs) The Socalled Seder is a passover service set to the toe-tapping rhythms of the modern teenager. It's a hop-hop Haggaddah with beats, raps, niggunim, and readings that rock the story of the Exodus from Egypt in a contemporary setting. Set to the whimsical, funky productions of Montreal's Socalled (Josh Dolgin), this performance of the Seder will feature Brooklyn singer/performer Aron Waxman and Philadelphia's klezmer trumpetess extraordinaire, Susan Hoffman Watts.
Performance: Spring Essence by John Balaban (American Museum of Natural History, Linder Theater-FREE with museum admission) Spring Essence, poems of an 18th century concubine from Vietnam, are presented by translator John Balaban with Ho Xuan Huong and Ngo Thanh Nhan.
3:00-3:45 Paired Reading: Donald Hall and Glyn Maxwell (Cooper Union, Wollman)
Open Mic: with Danny Shot of Long Shot Productions (Cooper Union, Engineering Building, Room 509) Sign-up sheets will be located on a table outside the classroom.
3:00-4:45 Performance/Lecture: Ballads Wisely Expounded (Bowery Poetry Club) A look at the Child ballads and other traditional ballads of the Anglo-American tradition. With Tony Barrand, Dianne Dugaw, John Roberts, and Heather Wood.
Reading: Walt Whitman's epic, Song of Myself by Galway Kinnell (Cooper Union, Great Hall) Acclaimed poet Galway Kinnell brings "Song of Myself," an excerpt from Walt Whitman's epic Leaves of Grass, to life with selected readings of this seminal work of American literature.
Open Mic: with Bruce Weber of ABC No Rio (Cooper Union, Engineering Building, Room 509) Sign-up sheets will be located on a table outside the classroom.
4:00-5:45 Reading: Yiddish Poetry (CB's 313 Gallery, upstairs) Organized and led by Itzik Gottesman with Chaim Beider, Sholem Berger, Leyb Borovik, Beth Anne Cole, Gella Schweid Fishman, Yoel Matveyev, Albert Rosenblatt, Mindl Rinkewich, Bella Schaehter-Gottesman, Aaron Taub, and Josh Waletsky. The event is co-sponsored by The Congress for Jewish Culture.
4:00-5:30 Film Screening: The Land Where the Blues Began (Two Boots Pioneer Theater) Produced and Directed by Alan Lomax, John Bishop and Worth Long, (USA, 1978, 60 min.) A penetrating and moving look at the land, culture and above all the people who gave the blues to the world. Filmed in churches, fields, porches and bars, with R.L. Burnside, Jack Owens, Sam Chatamon, Eugene Powell, Napoleon Strickland, and Lonnie Pitchford.
Oss Oss, Wee Oss (Two Boots Pioneer Theater) Produced and Directed by Alan Lomax with Peter Kenney and George Pickow, (1951, 30 min.) "Oss Oss, Wee Oss" is the cheer that rises from the crowd as the hobby horse dances through the streets of Padstow, Cornwall, England every May Day in an ancient celebration of spring.
4:45-5:45 Reading: Popol Vuh with Dennis Tedlock (Poets House) A look at the epic creation myth of the Maya.
5:00-6:15 Reading: World of Poetry (Bowery Poetry Club) With Ryoko Sekiguchi, a Japanese poet who writes in French and Japanese, and Stacy Doris, Sekiguchi's English translator. Organized by Carolyn Crumpacker. ($5, free for Gathering passholders.)
6:00-7:30 (FREE) Grand Finale Peace Reading (Cooper Union, Great Hall) This coda to The Gathering weekend brings together poets from across the festival and from all over the world. The convocation includes former U.S. Poet Laureate, Vénus Khoury-Ghata, Galway Kinnell, and many others whose poetry envisions alternatives to war. (FREE)