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SPECIAL EVENT! JUST ANNOUNCED! Junot Diaz and Dave Eggers in Conversation
A Benefit for Intersection for the Arts
June 27th, 4 PM
At Glide Memorial Church
330 Ellis Street, San Francisco, CA 94102
Tickets $20 to $50 Sliding Scale
Purchase tickets here>>>
Two of the country’s most ground breaking authors- Junot Diaz and Dave Eggers come together in support of Intersection for the Arts to talk about fiction, short stories and working with Intersection + Campo Santo to make new theatre for Bay Area audiences. The event includes the rare and special opportunity to experience and dialogue with two of most exciting and heralded writers in our Country and an added bonus live excerpt from the World Premiere of the Intersection and Campo Santo New Play new play Fukú Americanus created from Diaz’s Pulitzer Prize Winning Novel “The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao” The presentation will provide a glimpse into what Campo Santo and Diaz have created with the play – that has enjoyed a completely sold out 6 week run and is now into extensions (brownpapertickets.com for tickets.) This is a benefit for Intersection + Campo Santo and should not be missed- a one of a kind event bringing together two great writers for the first time at the historic Glide Memorial Church Sanctuary.
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About The Literary Series
The oldest independent reading series in California, Intersection's literary program is committed to expanding notions of literature, testing cultural and discipline based boundaries and traditions, cultivating written experimentation, encouraging discourse between schools of thought, and building audiences for live literary experiences.
"Passionate, provocative, intimate dialogues...Intersection is the place." bell hooks, cultural critic/author
About the Intergenerational Writers Labs
The 5th Intergenerational Writers Lab (IWL) 2008 is a unique program with two of SF's oldest arts organizations that challenges writers to thoroughly explore and develop writing. The IWL 2008 program takes place March 1 - July 16, 2008, and features workshops, public readings, and a chapbook publication. IWL workshops are led by playwrights Ricardo Bracho, poets devorah major and Truong Tran, creative nonfiction writer Bushra Rehman, journalist and music writer Jeff Chang, and journalist and blogger Annalee Newitz.
The goals of the IWL program include the following:
1) to provide local emerging writers with the opportunity to challenge, develop, and expand their writing by working with emerging and established writers in a variety of genres;
2) to contribute to the development of new literary forms and language that incorporate multiple forms of creative expression;
3) to provide emerging writers with the opportunity to connect and work with each other and with established writers in the literary world;
4) to provide the community with an opportunity to engage with new work and new explorations of form and language;
5) to contribute to the wealth of independent literary publications by publishing a new chapbook from KSW Press & Intersection for the Arts that highlights work by exciting new writers committed to exploring new forms and voices..
The 2008 Intergenerational Writers Lab is supported by a grant from the Irvine Foundation.
About the Collaborating Organizations:
Kearny Street Workshop is a multidisciplinary arts organization based in San Francisco's Mission District at KSW's exhibition and arts events space, space180. The mission of Kearny Street Workshop is to produce and present art that enriches and empowers Asian Pacific American communities. Our vision is to achieve a more just society by connecting Asian Pacific American(APA) artists with community members to give voice to our cultural, historical, and contemporary issues. For more information please visit www.kearnystreet.org.
Intersection for the Arts is San Francisco's oldest alternative art space (est. 1965) and has a long history of presenting new and experimental work in the fields of literature, theater, music, dance and the visual arts, and also in nurturing and supporting the Bay Area's cultural community through service, technical support, and mentorship programs. Intersection provides a place where provocative ideas, diverse art forms, artists, and audiences can intersect one another. For more information please visit www.theintersection.org
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