Please join us
on Thursday, September 26 at 8:00PM at WTF Cafe & Gallery (we have moved
back to our previous venue) for our next Bangkok Poetry event on the theme of
"Transformations."
Performers
include:
Jillian
Mukavetz
Leroy Jenkins
KJ Miner
Tipsuda
Chaichana
Brian
Blanchfield
Dhamiboo
Iris Abras and
Kenneth Nielsen
Mrigaa Sethi
John Gartland
Arrive early
to get a seat -- but we'll also be setting up speakers in the alley so folks
who arrive late can still listen in.
As you know, Opposite (our fantastic host venue) is currently being gutted, carpentered, and plastered into its new incarnation: the restaurant and bar Opposite Mess Hall. It's going to be awesome! And we're excited to be part of their series of re-opening events in early May -- more on that soon!
But, my friends, the muse cannot wait! So it's time for some emergency poetry (and fiction and spoken word and film and music and...).
Please join us on Thursday, March 28th @ 8:00PM for a special Bangkok Poetry at our old venue, WTF Cafe and Gallery (back across the alley from Opposite).The theme is, yes, "Emergency!"
Think O'Hara's "Meditations in an Emergency," or the "Emergency Sex and Other Desperate Measures" that UN relief workers get up to, or the sci-fi-but-sadly-not vision of "The Long Emergency" of climate change, or even Don Henley's "New York Minute" (..."somebody's going to emergency, somebody's going to jail.") Or think whatever ya damnwell please. But be creative, surprise yourself, and see what inspires you to create something new!
There will be only eight (8) performance spots available, 5-7 minutes each. So if you're interested in performing a poem, song, film, graphic novelette, musical amalgamation, or story, then email ASAP: bangkokpoetry@gmail.com .
If you've attended events at WTF before, you'll remember that the performance space is quite small, seating very limited. So it'll be an intimate, old-school, speakeasy, sidle-up-to-your neighbor kinda happening.
We're excited to be back at WTF for this special event, and hope to see you there!
James Yu
Danny Woody
Daniel Seward
Donald Quist
KJ Miner
Katie MacNicholas
Terrence Ho
Edwin Dillon
James Coon
Tipsuda Chaichana
Ian Burden
Iris Abras and Kenneth Nielsen
Check out a recent performance of spoken word and free improvisation by Iris and Kenneth ("Ed Jr. and Miss Rouge") at our recent Bangkok Poetry happening, "Dream Pop. "
Hello Bangkok poets, fictioneers, hip-hop kids, and graphic novelettists!
The theme for the next Bangkok Poetry at Opposite on Thursday, October 18 is "Dream Pop."
Our scheduled performers include:
Iris Abras and Kenneth Nielsen
Wesley Hsu
Rupert James
Kathy MacLeod
Mickey Mouse
Ekta Sharma
Danny Wood
James Yu
Boaz Zippor
We'll have two true, proper "open-mic" spots available on the night of. If you're interested in performing, get there early and track down the host and we'll get you on the list.
For this theme, performers may take a stab at entering some a poem, a fiction, a film, or a graphic novelette into this Morpheus-inhabited corner of rock n' roll, or take the image or phrase in some other direction entirely ("what's a dream pop?"). Or, as always, they are permitted to creatively ignore the theme, and read to us from The Great Thai Novel they've been penning these last twelve years...
Spread the word! Especially to that friend you know who does a mean cover of "Sunday Morning."
The next multimedia Bangkok Poetry happening (fiction, film, music, rap, and, indeed, poems) at Opposite will be held Thursday, August 30 @ 8:00 PM.
The theme is "My Tropical Malady."
For this happening, we are taking inspiration from the 2004 film by Apichatpong Weerasethakul, Tropical Malady. If you haven't seen it -- well, see it. But, until then: it's a romance set in rural Thailand that evolves into a haunting journey into the jungle, myth, and the self.
We're encouraging artists to engage in some creative, surprising way with Apichatpong's film: his story, his images, his characters, his landscape, his ideas.
To spur possible inspiration, here are a few clips from the film:
(Of course, the film's Thai name, สัตว์ประหลาด, is actually a bit different, so feel free to take on that as well....)
But if you've got a poem, film, or piece of fiction about some other sort of "tropical malady," either literal or metaphorical, of the mind or of the body, of course we'd welcome that as well.
If you're interested in performing, email us right away at bangkokpoetry@gmail.com -- spaces are going swiftly.
