Christ Like author Emanuel Xavier will be reading from his work at Giovanni’s Room in Philadelphia, August 14.
Date: Friday, August 14, 2009
Time: 5:30pm – 7:30pm
Location: Giovanni’s Room
345 South 12th Street
Philadelphia, PA
Thursday, June 11, 2009
7:00pm – 9:00pm
Housing Works Bookstore Cafe
126 Crosby Street
New York, NYA reading with poet, editor and spoken word artist Emanuel Xavier, to celebrate the 10th Anniversary release of his autobiographical novel, Christ Like, (Rebel Satori Press) This autobiographical novel is a quintessential New York City book filled with Santeros, transsexuals and voguing queens.
Housing Works Bookstore Cafe has established itself as a New York downtown institution and tourist destination for the last decade. Special events and a fully stocked cafe make this a great place to meet friends, relax and shop the best book, movie and music selection in New York City. Our one of a kind space is available for rental and all of our merchandise is donated. We are staffed almost entirely by volunteers and 100% of our profits go to Housing Works, Inc.
Queer Poets and Prose-ets Put Out
7 – 8 pm Sat. night at FAB – Faubourg Marigny Art & Books, 600 Frenchmen Street at Chartres Street – 8 Blocks Downriver from Jackson Square, Open Everyday Noon till 10PM, 504.947.3700
The most ecstatically inspired saints and the lowliest down-and-dirty sinners share their best stuff at the funky not-to-be-missed FAB, a queer gathering place, museum, gallery and bookstore. Featured Readers include Lethe Press’ Steve Berman and Rebel Satori authors Sven Davisson, Peter Dubé and Trebor Healey, along with poets Kyle Conner and Steven Reigns. Bring a poem to share!
Ashé contributor Jeff Mann will be speaking on a panel “Gay Regionalism through the Eyes ofAppalachia” with Jackson Tucker, Dorothy Allison, Julia Watts, and Aaron Smithat this week’s Associated Writing Programs Conference in Chicago. The panel is scheduled for Thursday, February 12th.Read Jeff’s poetry in the current issue.
Rebel Satori Press is actively seeking new and independent writers!We are looking for nonfiction works focussing on the general categories of personal spirituality, Buddhism, occulture, esoterica, personal growth and social issues. We list these broad categories as a first point of reference, but we will consider material across a very wide spectrum. Rebelious, revolutionary and experimental works welcomed!Areas we are particularly interested in: Buddhism Meditation Esoteric/Occult/Magick Kabalah Paganism Revolutionary Personal GrowthMore Information
On February 19 @ 7 PM, Ashé contributing editor Craig Gidney will be reading from and signing copies of his debut collection of short stories, Sea, Swallow Me at the DC Center (The DC Center, 1111 14th Street NW Suite 350, Washington DC) as a part of the Outwrite Author Series.
Sea, Swallow Me is a wonderfully original and eventful collection, whose stories range from the supernatural to the historical to the right-now moment. Craig Gidney combines an exceptional gift for prose poetry – often as dark and steely as it is beautiful – with an unerring sense of the preposterous and the horrifying. ( But add to that also occasional hilarity that should make a stone laugh aloud.) He breaks rules and remakes them, as many talented writers will, and is undaunted by the murks of society or psyche. Though inevitably ( and rightly ) he brings to his work the voices of Black and Gay Experience, what speaks most strongly throughout is the Human Experience – yes, even when confronted by a god of the sea. Here are elements of the young Ray Bradbury, of John Steinbeck, of Toni Morrison and James Baldwin and Angela Carter. But most of all it is the uniqueness of Gidney’s own take on life, clad in vivid, cunning and, in places, Dionysian language, that make this a must-read ( and read again ) collection. With new writers producing work of this caliber, the future of books looks bright. —Tanith Lee
a day of seminars featuring cutting-edge thinking
from pioneers in the field of magickal practice,
followed by an evening of rituals demonstrating Chaos Magick in action
Duncan Barford
White Hair and Brown Pants: When Magic Turns Paranormal
Alan Chapman
Magic with a K: How to Spell Correctly
Mary Hoptroff
Codes to the Heart of Power: a Shamanic Perspective
The Kite
The Colours of Wealth Magic
Dave Lee
YourSelves: The Grimoire of Selfhood, part 2
Susan Leybourne
Sex, Magick, and Getting What You Want
Peter Mastin
Life Sculpting
Soror Res
The Noosphere, the Biosphere and the Chaosphere: When Worlds Collide
Julian Vayne
Two Worlds and In-Between: the Changing Concepts & Use of Space in Modern Magick
Plus Special Guests…
Saturday 6th September 2008
Day session 1100 – 1800
Evening session 1900 – 2200
Conway Hall, 25 Red Lion Square, London WC1R 4RL
(nearest tube: Holborn)
Tickets £23 daytime, £10 evening, £30 day + eve
Online ticket sales (subject to booking fee) at www.accessallareas.org
Direct ticket link:
http://www.onlinestall.com/cgi-bin/stall2.pl?act=ep&id=3491
Tickets by phone (subject to booking fee) 020 7267 6148
Snail-mail tickets available – just send a cheque in favour of P. Mastin to
BM8482, London WC1N 3XX, UK
Ashé Arts Editor, Jason Kraley will be among the artists featured in an upcoming Philadelphia exhibition to benefit Calcutta House.
For the 3rd year in a row the Liberty Bears of Philadelphia are teaming up with cutting edge artists to celebrate life, art and raise money for local charity.
This year’s show will benefit the Calcutta House: “A special project of national significance and the only organization of our kind providing highly supportive housing and care to adult men and women with AIDS who have the least and need the most” which is located in center city Philadelphia.
So come celebrate life and art and see works from Rob Harmon, Angel Colon, Jonathan Blount, Ed Brosofske, Devon Palmer and Jason Kraley to help raise much needed money for the Calcutta House.
You can meet and mingle with the artists while enjoying cocktails and hors d’oeuvres on OPENING NIGHT, this thursday, April 17 from 7pm-10pm at the Bike Stop on the 3rd floor, 206 S. Quince St., Philadelphia.
Further viewing hours of this exhibition will continue April 18 and 19, 7pm-10pm.
$5 admission donation (will be donated to the Calcutta House).
The Saints and Sinners/New Orleans Literary Festival is just a month away… May 8-11.
Ashé editor and Rebel Satori publisher Sven Davisson will be among the presenters again this year. Other confirmed speakers include: Dorothy Allison, Mark Doty, Jewelle Gomez, Jim Grimsley, Aaron Hamburger, Stephen McCauley, Val McDermid, Tim Miller, Michelle Tea, and Elizabeth Whitney.
If you were ever looking for an excuse to visit New Orleans, this would be it!
For more information visit: www.sasfest.org
Joyce Ellen Weinstein one of the artists featured in the current issue will be having an exhibition at the Phoenix Gallery January 20-February 23.
PHOENIX GALLERY
210 11th Ave.
New York, NY. 10001
January 30-Feb. 23, 2008
Opening reception: January 31 6:00-8:00 PM