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LITERARY BUFFALO E-NEWSLETTER
08.31.09-09.06.09
EVENTS THIS WEEK
09.02.09
Just Buffalo/Center for Inquiry Literary Café
Gunilla Kester, Gary Earl Ross, Joyce Kessel
Literary Reading
Wednesday, September 2, 7:30 PM
Center For Inquiry, 1310 Sweet Home Rd., Amherst
09.05.09
Talking Leaves...Books
Ryan Grim
Reading/Signing: This Is Your Country on Drugs
Saturday, September 5, 7:00 PM
Talking Leaves...Books, 3158 Main St.
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WNYBAC WELCOMES JUST BUFFALO W/CHAMPAGNE BRUNCH!
SEE IT WITH YOUR OWN EYES!
Western New York Book Arts Center
&
Just Buffalo Literary Center
Invite you to see JBLC's New Space @ WNYBAC
Plus, view the "Writing Pictures" Exhibition
From the collection of Gerald Mead
Sunday, September 13, 12-2 PM
WNYBAC ("Winnie Back")
468 Washington St., at the corner of Mohawk St
RSVP by September 10
832.5400 or info@justbuffalo.org
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BABEL
"Most Innovative Arts Programming (Any Artform)"
Buffalo Spree Magazine's Best of Buffalo 2009 Award
INDIVIDUAL EVENT TICKETS GO ON SALE TONIGHT AT MIDNIGHT
General Admission: $35
Patron Admission: $100 (reserved seating area + author reception)
Student tickets: $10
In-person only. Can be purchased at the event or beforehand at Just Buffalo's offices. Call 716.832.5400 for more information.
NOTE: We expect the April 16, 2010 Salman Rushdie event to sell out, so get you tickets or subscriptions while you can.
SUBSCRIPTIONS ON SALE NOW!
Previous Subscriber: $85
New Subscriber: $110
These subscriptions include general admission seating at all 4 events.
Patron: $275
Patron Pair: $450
Patron level subscriptions include VIP reserved seating and admission to all 4 pre-event author receptions.
Purchase subscriptions now at www.justbuffalo.org/babel or by phone at 716.832.5400
NOTE: Subscriptions will be sold until October 9 or until any one of the events sells out, whichever comes first.
2009-2010 SEASON
October 9, A.S. Byatt
November 20, Ha Jin
March 5, Azar Nafisi
April 16, Salman Rushdie
MEMBER EVENTS
MEMBERS GO TO THE THEATER!
Just
Buffalo member's special preview of the premier of Buffalo
playwright Neil Wechsler's award winning play, Grenadine, at the Road
Less Traveled Theater on September 10, 7:30 p.m. The play was awarded the Yale Drama prize for 2008, chosen by Edward Albee. Just Buffalo, CEPA, Big Orbit and WNYBAC Members attend free and will be able to talk with the playwright after the performance. Please call 832.5400 to RSVP (required). Members can bring guests to this event for free, but all must RSVP.
Date: Thursday, September 10
Time 7:30 p.m.
Location: Road Less Traveled Theater, Market Arcade Film and Arts Center
Cost: FREE
Who: Members of Just Buffalo, CEPA, Big Orbit and WNYBAC
RSVP: info@justbuffalo.org or 832.5400
MEMBERS GO TO THE GALLERY!
Join
Albright-Knox Chief Curator Douglas Dreishpoon and Curator Heather
Pesanti on a guided tour of: WALL ROCKETS: Contemporary Artists and Ed
Ruscha. The cost for members is the price of admission to the
exhibition: $12. The guided tour with the curators is free.
Reservations required. Space is limited.
Date: Saturday, October 3
Time 1 p.m.
Location: Albright-Knox Art Gallery
Cost: $12
Who: Just Buffalo Members and their guests
RSVP: info@justbuffalo.org or 832.5400
WALL
ROCKETS: Contemporary Artists and Ed Ruscha, organized by Lisa Dennison
and originally on view at the FLAG Art Foundation in New York City, can
be defined simply as an artist and his sphere of influence. WALL
ROCKETS takes its title from a work by Ed Ruscha of the same title
depicting a majestic mountain range of snow-capped peaks amidst a deep
blue atmosphere. The words "WALL ROCKETS" cut through the center of the
image, exemplifying the artist's characteristically simple yet
confounding juxtaposition of image and text. Using this image as a
metaphor, the exhibition includes works by artists who have been
influenced directly by Ruscha, as well as those who share some of his
artistic tendencies, particularly his use of text and imagery and his
fusion of Minimalist, Conceptual, and Pop elements.
These
range from his friends (childhood friend Joe Goode, celebrity friend
Dennis Hopper) to artists similarly working with a conceptual use of
language (John Baldessari, Barbara Kruger, Keith Tyson), a sense of
humor (Tom Sachs, Joseph Grigely and Amy Vogel), an interest in
Surrealism (Robert Therrien, Aya Uekawa, Charles Ray), and many who
have explored and interpreted Ruscha's unique sense of the Los Angeles
landscape, both natural (Florian Maier-Aichen, Thomas Scheibitz) and
urban (Mark Bradford). These are just a selection of the many different
artists whose inclusion in the exhibition, combined with the artist's
own work, paints a complex and nuanced portrait of Ruscha's life and
work. For the Albright-Knox Art Gallery's installation, the exhibition
will be augmented by related works from the museum's Permanent
Collection.
BABEL TALKS AT BETTY'S
BABEL BOOK DISCUSSION
Prof. Rachel Ablow: Victorian Emotions & Possession by A.S. Byatt
Date: Monday, October 5,
Time: 7:00 PM
Location: Betty's Restaurant, 370 Virginia Street, (716) 362-0633
Cost: FREE for members, $10 for everyone else
Who: Just Buffalo Members and their guests
RSVP: info@justbuffalo.org or 832.5400
Join us for wine, cheese, coffee, dessert and book talk at Betty's Restaurant.
Professor Rachel Ablow will give a talk called, "Victorian Emotions," and lead a discussion on Possession by A.S. Byatt. Free for members of Just Buffalo and to Babel Subscribers. $10 admission for guests and the general public.
Rachel Ablow is associate professor of English at the University at Buffalo, SUNY. She is author of The Marriage of Minds: Reading Sympathy in the Victorian Marriage Plot and editor of a special issue of the journal Victorian Studies on "Victorian Emotions."
JUST BUFFALO MEMBER WRITER CRITIQUE GROUP
The member writer critique group meets 1st and 3rd Tuesdays at the Market Arcade.
Click here for more info:
http://www.justbuffalo.org/media/pdf/CritiqueGroup0409.pdf
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Michael Kelleher
Artistic Director
Just Buffalo Literary Center
www.justbuffalo.org
716.881.9965
JBLC @ WNYBAC
Just Buffalo Performance Space & Program Office
@ Western New York Book Arts Center
468 Washington St. ( Corner of Mohawk), 2nd Floor
Buffalo, NY 14203
Business Office
@ CEPA Gallery
Market Arcade Building
617 Main St., 2nd Fl.
Buffalo, NY 14203
Phone: 716.832.5400
Fax: 716.270.0184
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