Fusion City

Mon, May 8
8PM
$3-5 donation

Fusion City: In Celebration of N. California Book
Awards
Edinburgh Castle Literary Pub, Upstairs
950 Geary St. San Francisco, USA
415.886.4074

www.katebraverman.com/fusioncity

San Francisco, CA - Fusion City is a conceptual
literary and arts variety show for intellectuals,
queers, feminists, mfa students, writers and artists.
This event takes place the first Monday of the month
at the Edinburgh Castle Literary Pub. Each month a
diverse panel of artists and scholars explores a
literary theme from a variety of perspectives.
Beginning at 8 pm. on May 8th, 2006 (in celebration of
N. California Book Awards), Fusion City will host a
panel discussion of the book awards and the past and
recent winners. The show will feature performances and
presentations by:

Mimi Albert, M.F.A. (Columbia University, New York)
has published fiction and nonfiction all over the
world, in venues as different as Playgirl Magazine and
Women's Studies, Transatlantic Review (U.K.), Fiction
International, Alt fur Damerne (Denmark), Moxie
Magazine, the San Francisco Chronicle, The American
Book Review, and Poetry Flash. Current chair of the
Northern California Book Reviewers' fiction committee,
and instructor of two fiction workshops for UC
Berkeley Online, she has received a PEN USA award for
short fiction, a PEN/NEA Syndicated Fiction award, a
Yaddo Foundation grant, a grant from the New York
State Council on the Arts, seven California Arts
Council grants, and a nomination for one of the best
novels of 1994 from the NCBR. Her novel, The Second
Story Man, Fiction Collective, New York, is excerpted
in A Different Beat, Writings by Women of the Beat
Generation, Serpent's Tail Press, U.K. And Skirts,
Baskerville Publishers, Dallas, TX, was nominated for
a Northern California Book Award (previously Bay Area
Book Award) in 1995, and received many reviews and a
rating of 4.5 stars on Amazon.com. Sections of her
current novel, People of the Air, in a slightly
different form, were awarded a New York State Council
on the Arts (CAPS) grant in literature.

W. Kamau cites his comedic influences as Cracked
Magazine, Kentucky Fried Movie, and Malcolm X. He's
appeared LIVE as a frequent opener for DAVE
CHAPPELLE(including Dave Chappelle's Block Party Tour
w/ Mos Def and Erykah Badu) and IN 2005 at THE JUST
FOR LAUGHS FESTIVAL IN MONTREAL. He has also appeared
ON TV on CENTRAL'S PREMIUM BLEND, KRON's PORCHLIGHT,
and soon THE G4 NETWORK's show, FILTER. Currently you
can hear him ranting and/or raving ON RADIO as one
half of the movie review team "SISKEL & NEGRO" on LIVE
105. Kamau has been IN PRINT as an Artist on The Verge
in THE SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE and as a guest
columnist in THE OAKLAND TRIBUNE talking smack about
The Winter Olympics. Finally, he was honored to be
invited to contribute a piece to the new book WHAT
WOULD BILL HICKS SAY?

Barbara Lane is a longtime Bay Area producer, writer
and literary director at the Commonwealth Club of
California.

The show also includes Fusion City Host, acclaimed San
Francisco poet, novelist, essayist and author of a new
memoir, Frantic Transmissions to and from Los Angeles,
Kate Braverman who will be performing poems set to the
live music of Dr. G. and his band.
A renegade blend of artistic strategies and
discourses, Fusion City is a dynamic event open to
thinkers across disciplines.

Venue:

Edinburgh Castle Pub
950 Geary St
San Francisco

http://www.castlenews.com

Additional Info:


http://www.katebraverman.com/show