Indiegogo Campaign is LIVE

Hey hey hey all friends of Millay!

Do you know about our INDIEGOGO campaign and have you visited it yet?

http://www.indiegogo.com/projects/496388/emal/4385324

It is gorgeous! There is a film! You can support artists and the arts!

The rewards for giving -- beyond supporting FOUR artists who might not otherwise be able to nourish their careers and create new art with the assistance of a one-month residency at our gorgeous campus -- are incredible.

You can get tickets to our 40th anniversary party at Roulette in Brooklyn! 

You can get a manuscript review with Rebecca Wolff, editor of FENCE Magazine and FENCE Books

You can get a studio visit with major art critics, Barry Schwabsky or Martha Schwenderer

Annie Finch will write a poem just for you...

JOIN US!! JOIN US!!

Millay Alum Jibade-Khalil Huffman: Solo Exhibition in LA!!

JIBADE-KHALIL HUFFMAN The Four People You Meet at Every Drug Deal September 7 - October 26, 2013 Opening Reception: Saturday, September 7, 6-9 p.m. Jibade-Khalil Huffman, still from Lake Overturn, 2013.  3-channel video, sound, 29 minutes Samuel Freeman is pleased to present The Four People You Meet at Every Drug Deal,  a solo exhibition by Jibade-Khalil Huffman.  Huffman will present a multimedia exhibition comprised of a 3-channel video and sculptural installation, a multi-channel slide work, a color and text-based video, and still life photographs.  The exhibition will take place throughout the entire gallery. Huffman is an accomplished storyteller working in a variety of narrative systems.  In his poetry-based writings, Huffman has been recognized for his experimentation in syntax and style, while conveying a poignant, youthful sense of ‘what it means to be here, now’ – existentially, socially, culturally, and aesthetically.  Using history or certain traditions as a ground from which to deviate, Huffman brings “seemingly disparate subjects and objects into association without submitting to the ever-present temptation of over-determining their relationship…  And the poems certainly do deviate.”  In his book 19 Names for Our Band, “sentences don’t so much unfold as they do morph.  Often, a sentence will travel the entire length of a page more like a quickly-shifting river suddenly supplied with too much rain water, than a canal flowing through its pre-dug course.” Yet even with all his associative and syntactical shifts and jolts, “one can always follow the richness of the music.”  (Brett Price, Octopus Magazine #11) In his most recent work, Huffman explores both language and image-based structures, colliding poetry—whether written or performed—with the underlying, pre-ordained structures of cinema, photography, and other mediated forms of communication.  Infrastructural systems found in filmmaking, including title sequences, credits and musical cues, are coopted by Huffman as new sites or prompts for a more complicated narrative or aesthetic. ‘Catalogs of gestures’ such as zooms or flickering cuts are, in effect, performed in parallel by Huffman’s psychologically-charged protagonists, or are seen reverberating through the marked editing of his photographic still lifes, lending to an always-shifting sense of place and memory, an aesthetic of the edit, an element of the absurd, and an appeal for heightened perception. At the center of the exhibition, Huffman presents a newly expanded version of Lake Overturn, originally a 1-night live performance and video screening presented recently in a Hollywood industry screening room as a part of Pacific Standard Time Presents...  Both the film and live performance star Claire Titelman as a location scout whose emotional collapse is told through the imagery of formulaic Hollywood disaster films – ‘the only language she has left’.  As it plays out over the course of several days, Titelman’s location scout—performing improvisationally both inside the film and in front of it—ventures in and out of potential movie sites, contradicting and confirming any sense of place or time. Huffman’s new Lake Overturn incorporates a voice-over narration by Titelman’s character, additional video channels, a built construction with hung photographs, and newly shot locations within Los Angeles domestic interiors, further exploring the tension between ‘the frightening banality of the potential for disaster, and the poetic banality of the everyday’.  Huffman undercuts this binary, yet again, through a stream of contradictions found within the text and soundtrack. Jibade-Khalil Huffman (Detroit, 1981) is the author of two books of poems, 19 Names For Our Band (Fence, 2008) and James Brown is Dead (Future Plan and Program, 2011) as well as a forthcoming book, Sleeper Hold (Fence, 2014). His art and writing projects, spanning photography, video, performance and poetry, have been exhibited and performed at MoMA/PS1, Mt. Tremper Arts, and Scaramouche, New York; Machine Project, Public Fiction, Night Gallery, and Eighth Veil, Los Angeles; and Southern Exposure, San Francisco.  His work was recently included in the anthology The &Now Awards 2: The Best Innovative Writing (Northwestern University Press, 2013).  A graduate of Bard College and Brown University, he holds an MFA from the University of Southern California, and currently lives and works in Los Angeles. EVENT DETAILS JIBADE-KHALIL HUFFMAN: THE FOUR PEOPLE YOU MEET AT EVERY DRUG DEAL September 7 - October 26, 2013 Opening Reception: Saturday, September 7,  6-9 p.m. Gallery hours are Tuesday - Saturday, 11am - 6pm (or by appointment).  For additional information please contact us at gallery@samuelfreeman.com or call 310-425-8601

Diane Cameron in Troy

Millay Alum Diane Cameron to discuss politics, economics

and ethics of military trauma

 

          Troy, N.Y. – Diane Cameron, director of development at Unity House and an award-winning writer, will discuss her current work focusing on the politics, economics and ethics of military traumatic injury on Thursday, Sept. 19 at 6:30 p.m. at the Troy Public Library, 100 Second St. The topic of her discussion will be “Today’s Veterans and Military Trauma Across All Wars.”

Author of “Never Leave Your Dead,” a memoir and history of military trauma, Cameron has also written a very personal essay on the subject, “Iambic Pentameter and the Meter of War.”  The essay was published in the Bellevue Literary Review, a unique literary magazine that examines human existence through the prism of health and healing, illness and disease published by the Department of Medicine at New York University’s Langone Medical Center.

The event is open to the public and there is no charge.  Call 518.269.2255 for more information.

RUBY ANNIVERSARY PARTY October 28

Hello Dear Readers, Dear Bloggers, Dear Friends,

We know you will be SAVING THE DATE for The Millay Colony's 40TH ANNIVERSARY BASH on OCTOBER 28 at the amazing performance space ROULETTE in Brooklyn...

We will be celebrating with a Ruby Anniversary Benefit Party at Roulette, the legendary performance space in downtown Brooklyn.

When: Monday, October 28, 2013, 7:00- 9:30pm

What: The Millay Colony for the Arts celebrates 40 years of support for over 2,500 artists with a Ruby Anniversary Benefit Party, featuring auctioneering, dancing, live music, and encounter booths in which Millay Alums share fortune telling, silhouette drawing, and more.

Where:  Roulette, 509 Atlantic Avenue, Brooklyn, NY

Tickets: Available Starting September 23 on our IndieGoGo Site:
http://igg.me/at/MillayColony40thAnniversary

$50—VIP (Includes Encounter Booths, free specialty drinks, and a take-home goody)
$35—Advanced Ticket Price
$45—Day of Event Ticket Price


Experience the magic of The Millay Colony:

Live music & dancing with the Hungry Hollow Trio and Special Guests, led by Ralph Denzer
PLUS
Open Bar: Beer wine cocktails
PLUS
Food from Hawthorne Valley & Sahadi's Brooklyn
PLUS
Auctioneering by Col. Quince Mountain,
PLUS  Encounter Booths with mystical Millay Alums, featuring:
Tarot readings by poet Mark Wunderlich
Graphology by artist Selena Kimball
Fortune telling with artist Annabel Daou
Hypnosis by poet and hypno-therapist Kristin Prevallet
Silhouette drawing by artist Patte Loper
Palm Reading by poet Melissa Buzzeo
Love by Love Artist Kathe Izzo

TICKETS from 9/23 onward
on our IndieGoGo Site:
http://igg.me/at/MillayColony40thAnniversary

Come and Celebrate with us!!

We promise you a great time...

Find us on Facebook at Millay Colony

OR

Twitter at MillayCol


Love, your friends at The Millay Colony

NYC Weekend Workshop: Sept 21 - 22

NEW YORK CITY WEEKEND WORKSHOPS AT TRISHA BROWN STUDIO IN TRIBECCA: FALL

B[e]aring the Line, Free[k]ing Your Mind
with R. Erica Doyle
September 21 - 22
NYC

How can we find language for the unspeakable ecstatic, the disastrous? How can we counter exposition with composition? How can we distill spillage, leakage and carnage with an eye towards not only our own liberation, but the planet's? In this workshop, through exercises and readings, we will trouble and excite the writer inside and see what new moves we can make.

 

R. Erica Doyle was born in Brooklyn to Trinidadian immigrant parents, and has lived in Washington, DC, Farmington, Connecticut and La Marsa, Tunisia. Her book proxy is new from Belladonna* and her poetry and fiction have appeared in Best American Poetry, Our Caribbean: A Gathering of Lesbian and Gay Writing from the Antilles, Callaloo, Best Black Women's Erotica, Bum Rush the Page, Bloom, and From the Fishouse, among others. She has received grants and awards from the Hurston/Wright Foundation and the Astraea Lesbian Writers Fund, and she was a New York Foundation for the Arts Poetry Fellow. Erica is also a fellow of Cave Canem: A Workshop and Retreat for Black Writers. She received her MFA in Poetry from the New School, and lives in New York City, where teaches in the NYC public schools and facilitates Tongues Afire: A Creative Writing Workshop for queer women and trans and gender non-conforming people of color.

 

Weekend Workshop Schedule: We will begin each four-hour class at 10:00 with coffee, tea and a lot of ideas about a lively, focused, smart writing and art practice. Total workhop time is eight hours. Lunch is served at each class and the day ends at 3:00 PM.

 

Weekend Fees: $250 for a weekend class, $450 for two Weekend Workshops, $650 for three Weekend Workshops. Limited Scholarships, based on need, are available.
Millay Colony Alumni receive a 30% discount.

 

For more information please get in touch with Caroline Crumpacker at 518-392-4144 or director@millaycolony.org .

 

http://www.millaycolony.org/workshops

Ruminations

Hello there readers,

Today is a cool and foggy day at The Millay Colony and we are sitting back and preparing for the coming (Fall) season. A few things you might want to know...

We will be launching a spectacular crowd-funding campaign on the esteemed Indiegogo in late September. STAY TUNED...

We have an application deadline approaching: October 1m 2013 is the deadline for all applications in visual art, poetry, fiction, nonfiction, composing, playwriting, screenwriting...so, give us a shout...

To apply, visit www.millaycolony.org/apply

And we have a fabulous 40th anniversary Ruby Party at Roulette in Brooklyn on October 28.

Join us!

xoxo

Lovely Millay alum and friend Monica Byrne's What Every Girl Should Know at Fringe NYC, August 15-24...

TICKETS:  http://www.saintmargaretsanger.com/

Fascinating and chilling -The Indy Weekly
Powerful and Controversial -Triangle Arts & Entertainment