(scroll further down for adventures past)
(scroll further down for adventures past)
Coast Community Library provides displays that represent the interests and work of local members of the South Coast community. A wonderful example of such a display is Blake More's current presentation of her work as a poet, an artist, and Poet Teacher and Mendocino County Coordinator of the California Poets in the Schools program. Offering a selection of Blake’s creative journals, musical collaborations (including cds and lyrics for choral arrangements), published books, and mixed media story-word art, as well as youth publications designed and edited by Blake, the three long shelves in the glass counter behind the desk entice with life and expression. Every item on display is truly a creative work of art and a wonderful glimpse into this talented woman’s vast body of work. |
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| My latest chapbook, completed in Spring 2013. A collection of the poems since godmeat. View Table of Contents |
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Third Thursday Poetry - Ongoing
215 Main Street, Point Arena
7:30pm (open mic with feature to follow)
4th Monday Host Blake More with a new guest every month
Women's Voices on KZYX&Z Mendocino Community Public Radio
Cartwheels on the Sky
a poetry radio show, hosted by blake more
click here to listen to shows
more godmeat
to learn more, visit: www.godmeat.com
schedule of upcoming readings, visit: http://www.godmeat.com/readings.htm
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A RECAP OF PAST ADVENTURES
Friday, April 12 7pm "Grass & Weeds" |
Click Poster to view costumes for the 2012 SFMT Production: For The Greater Good
(blake more, costume designer)
Click Poster to view costumes for the 2012 YTP Show
(blake more, costume designer)
VOCA - Venice Ocean Front Art Gallery - ongoing
(more info)
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Featuring poems by Blake More, Karen Lewis, Xochil Goretsky and others |
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Friday, April 22nd cabaret seating for the pre-band entertainment, which will feature songs, comedy, poetry, $10 donation |
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5th Annual Poetry & Jazz 215 Main $5 donation |
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Youth Theatre Project 2011 Friday & Saturday, April 15 & 16, 7pm, Cellspace, SF "Not With a Fizzle, but With a Bang" |
Our Lady of Stupidity
for the big stupid show
Rhythmix Cultural Center, Alameda
March 8 to April 31st, 2011
Gualala Arts LocalEyes Series presents:
Friday, December 17, 2010 at 7:00 p.m.
Gualala Arts Center
On Friday, December 17, 2010, from 7:00 to 9:00 p.m., Gualala Arts will present a Christmas Show for your enjoyment. All of your favorite Christmas songs will be performed by local vocalists who just love to sing. You will recognize them from the various plays and musicals put on by both the Art Center Theater and the White Barn on The Sea Ranch. They've never been together on the same stage at the same time so be prepared to be awed. Some of the performers will be: Laurie Kreger, Cassy Grossman, Tony Ariola, Phil Atkins, Lynne Atkins, Sita Milchev, Olivia Harrison, Sabina Walla, Ellen Buechner, Elise Allen and Laura Leigh. A fabulous new trio will be entertaining you, "The Redwood Tree-O," which has finally come together after the original group disbanded over twenty years ago, featuring Sabina Walla, Tony Ariola and Sita Milchev. A skit, "A Showbiz Christmas Carol," written by Garrison Keillor, acted by Jim Riley, Mike Turner and some of the above vocalists, should put a big smile on your face. Lynne and Phil Atkins will bring us a lovely Christmas skit which hasn't been acted here for at least ten years. Jim Riley will give a rendering of "Twas the Night Before Christmas." When was the last time you heard anyone read this great old story? The Ernest Bloch Bell Quintet, a smaller group of The Ernest Bloch Bells (but the punch in sound is just as good) will play for your listening pleasure. That group consists of Tina Ballagh, Lucienne Allen, Gail Thompson, Jeanne Jackson and Sita Milchev. Blake More will be reciting a new Christmas Poem for all of us to ponder over. She is a well-known local performer and we're in for a treat. Mike Turner will read a piece written by Peter Arnott, "Gifts of The Season," explaining why we love Christmas-time so much. Don Krieger will be on keyboard. This show is for everyone in the family. Don't miss it! Come and share this evening of fun and joy. The performers will have a rousing time on stage and you're sure have a good time too! Tickets are $10 in advance, $5 more on the day of the performance. Youth 12 & under are admitted free. For advance purchase, go to Brown Paper Tickets or call them at 800-838-3006. To purchase in person, visit the Gualala Arts Center or Dolphin Gallery in Gualala. The Gualala Arts Center, located at 46501 Gualala Road in Gualala, CA, is open weekdays 9:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m., and weekends from noon to 4:00 p.m. Please call (707) 884-1138 for more information, or email info@gualalaarts.org. |
Coming to LIVE WORMS GALLERY
(1345 Grant, btwn Vallejo & Green, in North Beach)
is the PanOpticon! of 2010
opening Thursday, December 9th, 7pm to 11pm
continuing Friday, December 10th, noon to 9pm
Come to look, stay to enjoy. There will be art for every collector at this 8th annual, end-of-the-year, panoptic exhibition of 60 notorious artists at North Beach’s flagship gallery, with live music by Jerry Ferraz. Exhibiting will be… Agneta Falk, Aladin Stadlin, Alan Gellar, Alan Paxton, Alex Miloradovich, Anna Poole, Andrew Boyle, Anthony Aversano, Betty Fergusson, Blake More, Brent Hallard, Carrington, Catz Forsman, Constantina, Dreux Hansen, Elizabeth Ashcroft, Fanny Renoir, George Long, Gregg Martinez, Harriette Holmes, Howard Whitehouse, Jack Hirschman, James Cha, James Redo, Jane Rades, Jean Dierkes Carlisle, Jeff Grove, Jeffrey Thompson, Jerry Ferraz, Jessica Loos, Jessica Snow, John Norton, Jonathan Van Coops, Jurgen Trautwein, Katharine Snyder, Kent Vincent, Kevin Brown, Kim Haueter, Klara Bobaly, Leonardas Surgalia, Liam Casement, Lutzka Zivney, Lynn Alcorn, Marc Dierkes, Marcello Sarmiento, Mery Bernard, Michael Pedroni, Momo, Nancy Calef, Nikos Diaman, Proctor Jones, Rebecca Peters, Resh Sandhu, Richard ‘Luckey’ Perri, Robert Windle, Roger Strobel, Romalyn Schmaltz, Ronald F. Sauer, Rosemary Manno, Samantha Kopf, and Sara Schikedanz. a “Fly-By-Night” Production, presented by Ronald F. Sauer & Rebecca Peters. |
R youioofreaky nearly Halloween show
Dragon's Breath Theatre
Saturday, September 18, 2010
44800 Fish Rock Road
6pm
again and again
Eartha Karr goes to the
The West Coast's Largest Gathering of Art Cars!
October 8-10, 2010
| One hundred of the nation's best ArtCars will converge on the San Francisco Bay area & Sacramento this year for ArtCar Fest to demonstrate why art curator & writer John Beardsley called ArtCars the "quintessential public art of our time"(Christian Science Monitor 2/27/97). You may have seen ArtCars on the road, or in Harrod Blank's movies Wild Wheels (national PBS Special) and Driving the Dream (National Geographic Explorer); or read about ArtCars on the front page of the New York Times (4/20/97) |
for schedule and map information, click here
SFMT Youth Theater Program
The Marsh
1062 Valencia Street
San Francisco, CA 94110-2427
(415) 641-0235
Two Free Shows, Friday, April 16 (7pm) & Sat, April 17 (3pm)
for more info click here
8th Annual Redwood Coast Whale & Jazz Festival
Poetry & Jazz
at Think Visual Gallery
215 Main Street, Point Arena
Thursday, April 22, 7:30pm
Northern Element:
featuring Mendocino County Poets & Players
Poets Dan Barth, Devreaux Baker, Janet DeBar, Blake More, Crawdad Nelson, Dan Roberts,
plus high school poets Xochil Gorestky & Norma Orozco
Players Keith Abrams, Chris Campbell, Chris Doering, Harrison Goldberg
Saturday, April 24, 1pm in the Lowry Library Building
Mendocino College, 1000 Hensley Creek Road
Blake More reading with Dan Barth and Craig Cheffin
click here for more info
Mendo 420 Cabaret IV
Saturday, April 24
8pm door / 9pm show
donations at the door
Featuring Eartha Karr (among many other greats!)
(more info)
Saturday, Feb 27, 2010
The Arena Theater
9pm show
$15
Saturday, Jan 23, 2010
9pm show
$15
Love is in the air with
Blake More
featured
Mendocino Coast Poets Reading Series
Mendocino Hotel Media Building
Saturday, February 13
7 P.M.
Laissez Les Bon Temps Rouler at the Whale!
Be Our Guest Funderaiser for RCMS
7pm, Saturday, Feb 20th
Gualala Arts Center
(featuring Amanda, Ginger, the Be Our Guest Dancers, the Allen Girls, and
the return of the Naughty Nurse and Dreamy Doctor)
watch video of NN w the Incredible Amazette Dancers
Courtesy of Bill Lange
Rock Out at the Whale!
 Hey everybody, gussy up in your Halloween finery That’s right folks! the alt groove rock sensation the hardest working, rabble-rousing, sousaphone toting junkyard band & the late-nite, lovable, lecherous, loose-as-a-goose lounge lizards. Wink Payne and Yoni Wannalayya! $15 for members & guests cocktails, dancing, costumes |
 Lord Loves A Working Man Costumes, prizes, dancing Come out and dance to this 12 piece soul revue band (playing originals), and be swept away by their dynamic, accomplished, full throttled musicianship, guided by an amazing couple of singers. This is going to be an amazing show! Based out of San Francisco's Mission District, Lord Loves a Working Man is a 12-piece band inspired by the raw and emotive sound of the Southern Soul shouters and horn-driven Rhythm & Blues of the 1960s. Members of the band include: Pat Moran (music director/player/collective member of the SFMT), Freddi & Max of Rube Waddell (the Friday night band---pace yourself, it is going to be a great weekend) |
Godzilla vs Swan Blake
Yerba Buena Center for the Arts
Sunday, July 26, 2009
Soma Room, 2:25pm
details here
North Beach Poetry Series presents Blake More & Ronald F. Sauer
SF Public Library: North Beach Branch
2000 Mason St. (at Columbus)
Tuesday, July 21st,
7 p.m., free
Please join us for an evening of poetry
with poet and artist Blake More and poet, muscian, and artist Ronald F. Sauer,
with music provided by Jerry Ferraz.
Polyglot:
Expressive Media in Book Arts
June 13 to July 5, 2009
in the Jacob Foyer and Burnett Gallery, Gualala Art Center
details
Eartha goes to....the Seattle Art Car Blow Out
June 19-21st, 2009
details
Second Annual Centennial Tug-O-Rope
Point Arena Vs. Gualala
Sunday, June 28th, 2009 high noon at Schooner Gulch
Ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls, abs and urchins, here we are again…The very second annual centennial Point Arena/Gualala tug-o-rope!! Don’t miss this second in a century opportunity to pull for your community, show us where yer muscles is, and go down in historytwice! Show down is High Noon on Sunday June 28, 2008 at Schooner Gulch (low tide 10:15am). Come on out and lay it on the linehelp us keep the silly in celebration and the revel in rivalry. What to do? Show up (preferably in Costume). Think Strong. Pick an end, ZIP-code notwithstanding (cheerleaders encouraged). Carpooling is highly recommended as there is limited parking. Bring gloves, snacks, and fluids. Pack out what you pack in. And please let’s keep this between us locals. (No ringers!) Will Point Arena win again, or will Gualala upset the champions? See you there!! |
Independent Revue Two
Thursday, July 2nd, 8pm
At the Point Arena Theater
Independent, free 5-minute acts from our community and beyond
and for the 9th year in a row, costumes for the SFMT Youth Theater project
SFMT Youth Theater Program
The Brava Theater Center
2781 24th Street, SF
Two Free Shows, Friday, April 3 (7pm) & Sat, April 4 (3pm)
for more info click here
for costume pictures click here
Saint Stupid Day Parade 2009
Wednesday, April 1st, high noon at Justin Herman Plaza!
Be there or be dumb
click here to watch the CNBC Bay Area coverage that includes, Lois C. Denominator...someone i know well
4th Annual Redwood Coast Whale & Jazz Festival
Poetry & Jazz
at Gualala Arts Center
Friday, April 11th, 7:30pm
Poetry & Jazz continues the theme of International Flavors by presenting a selection of Japan's many poetry forms. Dressed in kimono, Mariko Kitakubo of Tokyo will perform her own tanka, and Linda Galloway will recite Amelia Fielden's translations, and Blake More will read poetry reflecting jazz's influence during her three year residency in Japan. Poets will be accompanied on the koto (harp) by Shirley Muramoto and Karl Young on the shakuhachi (bamboo flute). Though both musicians are classically trained, they have a spirited interest in jazz that will be revealed in their instrumental duet composed by Karl. Renee Owen will read her haibun and be accompanied by her husband, Brian Owen, on the shakuhachi. After intermission, the feature of the evening will be a butoh theater piece composed and danced by Don McLeod, master of a school for butoh training in Los Angeles, using the haiku of Basho as translated by Jane Reichhold. In coordination with the Poetry & Jazz event, there will be an exhibit of works combining Japanese poetry and art in the Coleman Auditorium from April 1st through April 29, in celebration of April as Poetry Month. Advance tickets are $20, and, if available, $5 more day of the performance and include sushi and plum wine, sake or tea for a completely Asian experience. Doors open at 7:00 p.m. Program begins at 7:30 p.m. |
Mendo 420 Cabaret III
a private party for Oddfellows and guests,
Saturday, April 18th, 9pm show
The "Bathing Suit Season" Show
At look at body image
Women's Voices on KZYX&Z Mendocino Community Public Radio
7pm Monday April 20th with Sherry Glasser
Youth Poets Read
from the 2007-08 Mendocino County Youth Poetry Anthology
Bird Words
4pm Saturday, April 25th, 2009
Four-Eyed Frog Bookstore
Cypress Village, Gualala
Mendocino County Youth Poetry Slam
4pm Tuesday, April 28, 2009
Mathison Performing Arts Center, Mendocino
free and open to the public
for more info click here
Friday, October 24, 2008
with Devreaux Baker, Toni Bernbaum, Lydia Rand
The Mendocino Hotel, 7:30pm
Odd Saints Day Cabaret
a private party for Oddfellows and guests,
so please invite those you would like to be there.
We are encouraging fancy dress and masks
(think scarier Mardi Gras)
Saturday, November 1st, 9pm show
Celebrating Point Arena's Poet Laureate
Fionna Perkins
Point Arena Theater Benefit & Community potluck
The Arena Theater
Friday, November 7th
5:30pm potluck (finger food only)
7:30pm Fionna Perkins reading
with open mic to follow
(one poem or 3 minutes each)
Wednesday, December 12, 2008
The Poet's Gallery
Caffe Cavalli, 1441 Columbus, SF, 7-9pm
"Lucky 13 and more"
Youth Create Multimedia Festival
10:30am & 1pm Tuesday, May 27th, 2008
Point Arena Theater, downtown Point Arena
for more info click here
Independent Revue
Thursday, July 3rd, 8pm
At the Point Arena Theater
| We want you...to help mark the independent, freedom-toting spirit that marks the Point Arena centennial at the Independence Revue at 8pm on Thursday, July 3 at the Arena Theater. Come marvel and amaze, entertain, whip your fellow-community members into sovereign frenzy with your independence, freedom and/or Point Arena-themed act. Music, dance, poetry, comedy, video and all forms of clowning welcome--maybe even a fashion show! Acts will be five minutes in length; and all preparation/practice will be up to the performers, in other words--no rehearsal, just a show. This is a true, old-fashioned, newfangled cabaret--come do your thing and stop fussing around! We'll have lights, sound, video projection capability. Now all we need is performers!
If you have an independent, freedom and/or Point Arena-themed five-minute act you want to share, please contact me. |
Twin Peaks Festival Tour with Nightsage
(featuring Nightsage & John Neff)
July 23 to July 28, 2008
http://www.twinpeaksfest.com/
KZYX&Z Mendocino Community Radio
host of Women's Voices
Monday, August 25th, 2008
Women's Voices Radio Program, 7-8pm
listen live
Dragon's Breath Theater
Anchor Bay, California
Saturday, September 20th, dusk
again and again
Eartha Karr goes to the
The West Coast's Largest Gathering of Art Cars!
Thursday, September 25 -- Sunday, September 28, 2008
| One hundred of the nation's best ArtCars will converge on the San Francisco Bay area again this year for ArtCar Fest to demonstrate why art curator & writer John Beardsley called ArtCars the "quintessential public art of our time"(Christian Science Monitor 2/27/97). You may have seen ArtCars on the road, or in Harrod Blank's movies Wild Wheels (national PBS Special) and Driving the Dream (National Geographic Explorer); or read about ArtCars on the front page of the New York Times (4/20/97) |
for schedule and map information, click here
and i'm in SF doing costumes for the SFMT Youth Theater project
SFMT Youth Theater Program
The Brava Theater Center
2781 24th Street, SF
Two Free Shows, April 11 (7pm) & 12 (1pm & 6pm)
for more info click here
for costume pictures click here
Mendocino County Youth Poetry Slam
4pm Tuesday, April 29, 2008
Mathison Performing Arts Center, Mendocino
free and open to the public
for more info click here
Saint Stupid Day Parade 2008
Doggie Diner Day
Featuring:
HEAD TRIP - a film by John Law & Flecher Fleudujon 2005 90 minutes
Buy tickets for Head Trip - the Doggie Diner Road Movie!
Screenings at 4pm and 8pm
Live performances from the stars between shows, including Ed Holmes & Blake More!
Join S.F.'s favorite roadside attraction The Doggie Diner DogHeads
and The Heavy Pedal Cyclecide Bike Rodeo
as they travel cross country on the way to a Laughing Squid sponsored gig at CBGB's in NYC.
see the trailer on You Tube!
Colored Horse Studios
reading from godmeat
780 Waugh Lane (btw Gobbi & Talmage), Ukiah
Thursday, January 31st, 7pm
The Four-Eyed Frog
reading from godmeat
39138 Ocean Drive
Cypress Village, Gualala,
4pm, Saturday, Feb 2nd, 2008
Moe's Bookstore
reading from godmeat
2476 Telegraph Ave, Berkeley
7pm, Tuesday, Feb 5, 2008
KZYX&Z Mendocino Community Radio
reading from godmeat
Monday, February 11, 2008
Women's Voices Radio Program, 7-8pm
listen live
Coast Community Library
launch of my new book "godmeat
7pm, Thursday, January 10th, 2008
Poetry Shuffle
in downtown Ukiah
Thursday, October 18, 2007
Venue 1: 5:30pm Mendocino Book Co, 102 S. School Street
Venue 2: 6:30pm TB Greene Gallery, 104 West Church Street
(Featuring: Mary Norbert Korte, David Smith-Ferri, Armand Brint, Theresa Whitehill, Vivian Poer,
Blake More, Nancy McLelland, Sandra Wade, Robin Rule, Erica Gonzalez, Valerie Warda, Jody Gehrman)
North Beach Library
poetry reading with Vince Storti
7pm, Tuesday, November 13th, 2007
Sushime at
The Ask Dr. Hal Show
Monday, October 8, 2007
12 Galaxies, 2565 Mission Street, SF
here's what Hal said:
"Sushime (Sushi Me)-- Breathtakingly nude poet/performance
artiste Blake More, ably assisted by her scantily-clad companions,
provides the centerpiece at a memorable sushi feast! Documentary
footage and animation document a provacative and sensual experience"
www.askdrhal.com
The Third Baby Beat Poetry Festival
Saturday Oct. 6th, 11AM - 5PM
The Humanist Fellowship Hall, 390 27th St. Oakland, CA
Free Admission
(featuring: Ivan Argüelles, Mel Clay, Blake More, Carl Weiner, Bob Randolph,
Sterling Bunnell, H.D. Moe, Neeli Cherkovski, Jerry Ferraz, Deirdre Evans,
Chris Trian,Jeanne Powell, Dale Jensen, Judy Wells, Kristyan Panzica, Marsha Campbell,
Mark Schwartz, Gary Bolstridge, David Seaborg, Jack & Adelle Foley, Geoffrey Cook,
Michael Kelly, Randy Fingland, Bill Varnaw, Walker Brents, Jehanah Wedgewood,
Jesse Beagle, Joie Cook, Bill Mercer & Janet de Bar)
A season in Hell, with John Hell
Monday, October 1st, 8:30 to 10
87.9fm in SF, and LA, 104.8fm in Berlin,
http://piratecatradio.com
I'll be interviewing poet, teacher, visual artist,
performance artist, dork and yoga instructor
extrordinare Blake More
click to download interview as mp3
once again
Eartha Karr goes to the
The West Coast's Largest Gathering of Art Cars!
Thursday, September 27 -- Sunday, September 30, 2007
| One hundred of the nation's best ArtCars will converge on the San Francisco Bay area again this year for ArtCar Fest to demonstrate why art curator & writer John Beardsley called ArtCars the "quintessential public art of our time"(Christian Science Monitor 2/27/97). You may have seen ArtCars on the road, or in Harrod Blank's movies Wild Wheels (national PBS Special) and Driving the Dream (National Geographic Explorer); or read about ArtCars on the front page of the New York Times (4/20/97) |
for schedule and map information, click here
for post-fest press links & pictures, click here
Dragon's Breath Theater
Anchor Bay, California
Saturday, September 15th, dusk
Dan Hicks & the Hot Licks
show opens with Blake More playing bendy stewardess Barb Dyer
Saturday, July 21st, Arena Theater
99th Annual Point Arena Independence Day Fireworks & Parade
"Go Green Theme"
Blake More officient, Mitch McFarland Grand Marshall
Sunday, July 8th, 12 noon Main Street, Point Arena
This summer, the Troupe serves up a new
play packed with more song and dance than a
Bush administration press conference!
and I'll be helping Keiko make costumes. Show opens 2pm July 4th in Doloras Park, SF
click for show schedule
COWBOY vs. SAMURAI by Michael Golamco (directed by Keiko Shimosato, costumes by Blake More)
July 5-22, 2007
Thu.-Sat. @ 8PM
Sun. @ 2PM
Thick House
1695 18th Street
San Francisco, CA
click for more info
3rd Annual
Youth Create Multimedia Festival
Arena Theater, downtown Point Arena
Thursday, May 24th 12:45 to 3pm
Free Admission
Saturday, June 2nd, 12pm in the Ukiah Little Theater
screening of Digital Poetry by Blake More and PAHS English Composition Class
click here for more info
Mendocino 420 Encampment Cabaret
featuring Douglass, Lavender Grace, Electric Mike
saucy reading by Liz, the Flying Haiku
short films by Doug Wellman & Blake More
live music to Kaledicia
Friday, April 20, 9pm
MENDOCINO COUNTY HIGH SCHOOL POETRY SLAM
(Ukiah, Willits, Point Arena, Fort Bragg, Mendocino)
4pm Thursday, April 24th
Mathison Performing Arts Center, Mendocino High School
click for results
2nd Annual Redwood Coast Whale & Jazz Festival
Poetry & Jazz
at CITYART gallery
Thursday, April 5th, 7:30pm
featuring QR Hand, Ronald Sauer and Rebecca Peters plus local poets Fionna Perkins, Janet DeBar, Leo Barton, Steve Hellman & Blake More (also MC) Harrison Goldberg (sax), Burton Segall (bass), Karl Young (shakuhachi) and chris campbell (drums) |
Saint Stupid Day Parade 2007
SFMT Youth Theater Program
Mission Cultural Center
Two Free Shows, March 30 & 31
for more info click here
Winter 2007
Be Our Guest
RCMS Fundraiser, Feb 17, 2007
featuring Amanda Amazon, Ginger Snatch, the Amazettes
with special guest stars the Naughty Nurse & Dreamy Doctor
imagine: two drag queens, a dancing duo and a couple of sexy health workers managed to help raise over 60K for a local hospital in a live auction/show complete with choreographed showtunes, elaborate costumes & sets, a health "hot" line, and medical haiku from the flying haiku (makers of sea ranch haiku, love haiku and other bad things) |
Fall 2006
so chris and i
bought a house
...and a little property
performance is slow
i am working
he is working
but stay tuned...
EARTHA KARR
At Laughing Squid: Decade 2
Oddfellows Variety Show
RIGHT GOD
Friday, October 13, 2006
Oddfellows Lodge
downtown Point Arena
8pm
click here for show pics
Dragon's Breath Theater
Anchor Bay, California
Saturday, September 23rd, dusk
performing "Right God"
featuring Blake More & Chris Campbell AS THE RIGHT REVERAND WILLY RUMPFELT AND SISTER MOLLY ESTER
LOVING LADY CHATTERY
A new play by Neal Metcalf
directed by Bob Cohen
THE ARENA THEATER
214 Main Street
August 15-20th
(7:30 curtain Tues-Sat, 2pm Matinee on Sunday the 20th)
| Arena Renaissance Company presents, Loving Lady Chatterley a new play by local playwright Neal Metcalf. Loving Lady Chatterley revolves around the coming-of-age of Barbara Weekley, Frieda Lawrence’s estranged daughter. Barbara, a young woman in the play, was abandoned by her mother as an 8 year old when Frieda ran off with D.H. Lawrence, whom she later married. During the course of the play’s action, Barbara learns about art and life, while establishing her own relationship with Lawrence as he writes Lady Chatterley’s Lover. We have a cast of five local actors: Sam Parsons (D.H. Lawrence), Margaret Nelson-Quin (Frieda Lawrence), Blake More (Frieda's estranged daughter Barbara Weekly), Chris Campbell (Aldous Huxley) and Amanda Stinson (Aldous’ wife Maria). The play is set near Florence, Italy and Bandol, France. In case you don't remember, Lady Chatterley's Lover was banned in America until 1960 and it is credited with affecting the moral climate of the 60s and 70s, both here and abroad. Loving Lady Chatterley is a well researched, historically literate play about a group of artists and the book that helped free the west of Victorian values. Mostly you’ll enjoy hanging out for an evening with five interesting and talented characters as they deal with issues of art and life. Neal is a long-term student and aficionado of D.H. Lawrence and his works. Years ago he had the good fortune of spending time with Aldous Huxley (Brave New World) who was a protégé and close friend of Lawrence’s. They were able to chat about the times Huxley, Lawrence and their wives shared together. The action of the play takes place during the period 1926 – 1930, which was a particularly productive time in Lawrence’s career. It included the writing of his earthshaking novel “Lady Chatterley’s Lover.” |
KTDE Coastal Interviews
with Fred Adler
LOVING LADY CHATTERLEY --- Director, Playwright & Actor
100.5 FM
Sun 8/6/06 @10:30am & Wed 8/9/06 @ 6:30 PM & Sun 8/12/06 @ 10:30am
Winter/SRPING 2005-06
the second annual YOUTH CREATE
MULTIMEDIA ARTS FESTIVAL
highlighting original video, music and spoken word
created and performed by youth
The Arena Theater
Friday, May 26th, 2006
1- 4pm
Youth Fashion Design ClassJune 26-30th, 2006
SomArts Cultureal Center
934 Brannan Street, SF
415-841-2215
www.outofsite-sf.org
KTDE Coastal Interviews
with Fred AdlerTHE CREATIVE LIFE OF BLAKE MORE 100.5 FM
5/7/06 @10:30am & 5/10/06 @ 6:30 PM
Whale's On Parade
Whales swim, of course. Who knew they could parade? Well, you can expect "Whales on Parade" in Fort Bragg. Fifty whales, cut from wood and decorated by Mendocino County artists, will be on display throughout Fort Bragg on Saturday, March 18 & 19 |
for more information, go to the Mendocino Chamber of Commerce website click here to see my whale!
SAINT STUPID'S DAY PARADE
PICTURES
APRIL 1, 2006
NORTH BEACH, CA
CLICK HERE
San Francisco Mime Troupe Youth Theater Project
Costume Design
Mission Cultural Center
2868 Mission Street (@ 24th)
8pm, Saturday April 1st
2pm, Sunday, April 2nd
Poetry & Jazz
8pm
Thursday, March 30th
Cityart Gallery, 284 Main Street
Point Arenago to the Whale & Jazz Festival website
see pictures in performance
Love For Sale
At Cityart Gallery
Disgusting Love Poetry
5-7PM, FRIDAY, FEB 10
284 MAIN STREET
POINT ARENA
click here for pictures
A New pupae At:
Oddfellows Variety Show
Sat, February 11, 2006
Oddfellows Lodge
downtown Point Arena
8pm
click here for show pics
Featured Reader
at
Cafe Prague in North Beach
183 Pacific
SF, CA
Sunday, December 18th
4 pm
Fall 2005
Eartha Karr goes to the
The West Coast's Largest Gathering of Art Cars!
Saturday, September 24 -- Sunday, September 25, 2005
| One hundred of the nation's best ArtCars will converge on the San Francisco Bay area again this year for ArtCar Fest to demonstrate why art curator & writer John Beardsley called ArtCars the "quintessential public art of our time"(Christian Science Monitor 2/27/97). You may have seen ArtCars on the road, or in Harrod Blank's movies Wild Wheels (national PBS Special) and Driving the Dream (National Geographic Explorer); or read about ArtCars on the front page of the New York Times (4/20/97) |
for schedule and map information, click here
Oddfellows Variety Show
Friday, October 14th
Oddfellows Lodge
downtown Point Arena
8pm
Art Cars At the
San Jose Museum
October 15 & 16
(details to come)
Dragon's Breath Theater
Anchor Bay, California
Saturday, September 17th, dusk
performing "Pupae In Auto Space"
featuring Blake More & Chris Campbell with Chuck Henderson on the Kaleidica
Summer 2005
Benevolent Billionaires For A Change
Peace Rally
12pm
Saturday July 2nd, 2005
Gather on Hwy 1, in front of Gualala Post Office
Come Celebrate Our Potential Humanity! There would be no war if we did not make people poor |
Featured Performer
at the North Coast Review
new issue salon
Live Worms in North Beach
Grant Street
SF, CA
Thursday, July 21, 2005
8 pm
Spring 2005
 |
Come participate in the first annual YOUTH CREATE
MULTIMEDIA ARTS FESTIVAL
highlighting original video, music and spoken word
created and performed by youth
The Arena Theater
Tuesday, June 14 th , 2005, 1pmScreen your original video
(on the big screen)
Speak your poetry and hip hop
(to music if you want)
Play your music
(both digitally pre-recorded and live ) So far, we have five original videos, four spoken word artists, and a video projector
(the projector works with a computer light animation program called Yantram,
which makes an interesting background for music)
We need youth musicians.
We need more youth created video.
We need more youth poets. How about making a music video to highlight your pro tools/garage band tunes?
How about putting together a band and performing some songs at the theater?
How about busting out your words for a crowd? Want More Info?
San Francisco Mime Troupe Youth Theater Project
Costume Design
Mission Cultural Center
2868 Mission Street (@ 24th)
8pm, Saturday April 23rd
KTDE Coastal Interviews
with Fred AdlerMendocino Youth Poetry 100.5 FM
4/16/05 @10:30am & 4/20/05 @ 6:30 PM
Point Arena Pirate Radio Fundrasier
sponsored by the OddFellows Hall
Saturday, April 9th
7pm
183 Main Street
Point Arena, CA
Redwood Coast Whale & Jazz FestivalPoetry Tribute to John Coltrane
w/SF Chamber Jazz QuartetSaturday, April 2nd
7:30pm
Gualala Arts Center
707-884-1138
www.redwoodcoastchamber.com
Mendocino County Youth Poetry SlamCoast High School Slam
(Anderson Valley HS, Fort Bragg HS, Mendocino HS, Point Arena HS)
4:30pm March 3rd at the Anderson Valley Grange, Highway 128, Philo County High School Slam
(Anderson Valley HS, Fort Bragg HS, Mendocino HS, Point Arena HS, Ukiah HS, Willits HS)
4:30 pm, April 7th at the Mendicono High School Performing Arts Center
Oakland East Bay Symphony & California Poets In the Schools
Words & Music ProjectFriday March 18th, 8pm
Paramont Theater, Oakland
Featured Reader
at
Cafe Prague in North Beach
183 Pacific
SF, CA
Sunday, March 20th
4 pm
Winter 2004 KTDE Coastal Interviews
with Fred Adler100.5 FM
1/26/05 6:30 PM
Bay Area Video Coalitions Digital Direction Adult Scholarship Training
January/February
FREE DIGITAL STORYTELLING CLASS
Wednesdays, January 19th through Febuary 23
2 to 4pm
The Arena Technology Center
255 Main Street, downtown Point Arena
TSUNAMI RELIEF BENEFIT7pm
Thursday, January 13, 2005
THE ARENA THEATRE
Main Street, downtown Point Arena, CA Live auction, Dysphunctional Species, Grupo Elucion, Rock Rose Belly Dancers
DJ SISTER YASMIN-CRUCIAL DANCE RIDDIMS, food & drink
Grand Opening of the Arena Technology Center
Thursday, January 6, 2005
2:30 to 6:30pm
The Arena Technology Center
255 Main Street, downtown Point Arena
click to visit Arena Technology Center website
| Come join us from 2:30 to 6:30 this Thursday, January 6th for the Grand Opening of the Arena Technology Center at the Huntley House (255 Main Street), next door to the Record in downtown Point Arena. Free food and tours of the technology we have available, including video & sound editing, web design, digital storytelling, graphic design, high speed internet, ROP classes, SRJC online, and a creative place to hang out. Make art. Make music. Make video. Share your voice with the community, locally and globally. |
Autumn
2004Featured
Reader
at
Pat's Cafe in North Beach
330 Taylor
SF, CA
Tuesday, October 26th
7 pm
Halloween
at The Arena Theater
Saturday, October 30, 9pm
Kelly
House Historical Gala
Brothels, Brew & Fun Guys
Saturday, November 13th
|
Visit historical brothel, bar and boarding
house sites in Mendocino, followed by a Gala Opening of Kelly House
Museum Historical Costume Display. Gala includes a talk on mushrooms
as aphrodisiacs by Eric Schramm, erotic mushroom poetry by Blake More
& Charmoon, brews by North Coast Brewery, a lingerie fashion show,
hor d'ouvres, raffle, |
9th
Annual
WATERSHED
Environmental Poetry Festival
Saturday,
October 3, 2004 • Noon to 5:00pm • Free
Martin Luther King, Jr. Park Civic Center Park • Berkeley
MLK Jr. Way at Center • One Block West from Downtown Berkeley BART
|
Each
year, the Watershed Festival explores the connection between the American
literary imagination and our landscape, natural history, and sense of
environmental urgency. This tradition typically stems from writers such
as Henry David Thoreau, John Muir, Robinson Jeffers, Kenneth Rexroth,
Wallace Stegner, Gary Snyder, and Terry Tempest Williams. While honoring
this tradition, Watershed also seeks to examine the current spectrum of
the American literary imagination. In addition to main stage readings
and performances, the Festival encourages involvement in local projects
via River Village, an area for interactive arts, all-ages nature activities,
and literary and grassroots organizations. Participants include Shorebird
Nature Center (sign up for Coastal Clean Up), California Poets in the
Schools (Words Take Flight poetry kites), Ecology Center (simulated restoration
of Strawberry Creek), Poetry Flash (poetry rubbing panels), East Bay Depot
for Creative Reuse (Critter Mascots masks), and River of Words (student
poetry and posters). |
Dragon's
Breath Theater
Anchor Bay, California
Saturday, September 18th, dusk
10am, Saturday, September 4th
live, from the Point Arena Theater in bucolic downtown Point Arena, CA
|
West Coast Live Entertains and Enlightens West Coast Live is a weekly two-hour radio variety show produced live-to-satellite Saturday mornings in front of San Francisco theater audiences and broadcast around the world. The show entertains and enlightens its audience with music, ideas and humor from a rich mix of writers, thinkers, comedians, and musicians, drawn mostly from the Pacific Rim and the Western United States, but also from further afield as feels right to do. Think Bill Moyers meets David Letterman, according to one reviewer. Our uniquely Western sensibility is conveyed not only by our guests, but also by remote broadcasts from Yosemite to Alaska, and by the sound of Bay water lapping against the piers that begins each show. Imagine the pleasure of watching a radio show come-to-life before your eyes, with the chance to be with world-renowned authors and musicians in an intimate setting of live performance and spontaneous interview. |
Flynn
Creek Circus
Navarro, CA
August 13th 9:30pm
1940's Hollywood glamour and sensuality
(glamourous and scandalous attire requested)
Tickets $25
(as this is a private event, email me blake@snakelyone.com if you want to attend)SUMMER
2004
come see EARTHA KARR...she's on display
with five other artcars at the
Towe Auto Museum
2200 Front Street
Sacramento, CA
916-442-6802 till June 11th, 2004Open 7 days a week, 10:00 AM - 6:00 PM
(last tour starts at 5:00 PM).
Featured Performer atMonday
Night Marsh
July 12, 8pm
$7
Ongoing
works-in-progress series features a variety of local emerging performers.
The
Marsh
1062 Valencia St. (Valencia @ 22nd)
San Francisco, CA 94110
Reservations: 415/826-5750
www.themarsh.org
Co-Featured
Reader (with Mark Schwartz)
at
Bird & Beckett
Diamond Street (in Glen Park)
SF, CA
Monday, July 5th
6-8 pm
Featured
Reader
in the
Poets & Writers sponsored
Spoken Interludes Poetry Series
at the Buena Ventura Gallery
Ventura, CA
Saturday, June 26th
7:30pm
Featured
Reader
in the
Poets & Writers sponsored
Grass Valley Poetry Series
Friday,
June 11th
7:30pm
at the
The
Center For the Arts
314
West Main Street
Grass Valley, CA
530-274-8384
Spring
2004
Head Trip
(rough cut – 90 minutes)
A film by John Law & Flecher FleudujonProduced by
Central Services & Truth Serum Productions
In association with:
Laughing SquidFriday, May 21st, 10 PM
Near San Pablo & Ashby Sts., Berkeley
Free – Donations optional
Call: 510-543-5054 for locationSaturday, May 22nd, 8:30PM
Artist Television Access, 992 Valencia St., S.F.
(along with Flechs’ early short piece, Chasin’ the Train)
www.othercinema.com
$5
510-543-5054 info
| San Francisco’s hometown icons The Doggie Diner DogHeads went to Manhattan on a lark last April. Hauled on a trailer behind the Cyclecide Bike Rodeo’s 1966 Gillig bus and accompanied by a dozen local performers, pranksters and unemployed types, this surreal assemblage stopped at many of America’s most notable monuments as well as less famous but no less impressive roadside attractions. Hot dog to hot dog, Golden Gate to Brooklyn Bridge, Pacific Ocean to Atlantic, Carousel Diner to Nathans at Coney Island: cross the country with Frisco’s finest. Heading for a Bike Rodeo show in Brooklyn and a Laughing Squid sponsored variety performance at the infamous CBGB’s club in Manhattan the crew and giant fiberglas icons encountered America along the way. Featuring some of San Francisco’s most singular bands. These showings are previews of the rough cut of this film. |
New
Literary Mag Launch
The Redwood Coast Review
contributor's performance June 3rd at
Live Worms Gallery
1345 Grant Street (between Vallejo & Green)
San Francisco
May 15, 2004
C lebrate the display of ArtCars (including Eartha Karr)
in the Towe Auto Museum
Noon to 3pm (tenative)
$7
at Towe Auto Museum
2200 Front Street
Sacramento, CAThen
6-10PM
Free
at Gallery
Horse Cow
1409 Del Paso Blvd. (at Arden Way)
Sacramento, CA
Costume
Designer, San Francisco Mime Troupe Youth Program
|
Over
the last six weeks, our studio has been filled with the enthusiasm, energy
and talent of 30 high school students participating in our 8th Annual
Youth Theater Project. TITLE: Break The Wall,
San Francisco Mime Troupe's Youth Theatre Project |
4th
Annual Mendocino County High School Poetry Slam, April 2ndSaint
Stupid Day Parade
April
1st
(click picture for pictures from the day)
Winter 2004
Poetry
Residency at the Arena Elementary School, March 9-19Trip
to Costa Rica, March 21-29Christina &
John's
leap into
lawfully recognized union
Nuptual Poems by the Right
Reverend Blake More
Pictures (courtesy of Scott Beal)REDWOOD COAST MEDICAL SERVICES
BE MY GUEST
ANNUAL FUNDRAISER
with MCs Amanda Amazon, Ginger Snatch & Cheri Tart"Words
& Music", phase II, with composer Ernie Mansfield
The Oakland East Bay Symphony
i am in the finals of the Oakland East
Bay Symphony Words & Music Project...
this means that a piece created by myself and ernie
mansfield (composer)will be performed by the Oakland East Bay Symphony on 2:30 pm, Sunday, January 11, 2004
at the
Crowden School
1475 Rose St, BerkeleyIt is a piece on peace and it will be
performed in excerpt form by 4 OEBS singers and an OEBS pianist.
The program is as follows:
1. Guillermo Galindo/Albert De Silver : Aviaria
Encinal
2. Erling Wold/ Dima Hilal: Raheel
3. Ernie Mansfield/ Blake More: Proem to Peace
4. Guillermo Galindo/ devorah major: Trade Routes
5. William Ludtke/ David Masumoto: Baachan
6. Melissa Hui/ Tony Seymour: Requiem for Civilizationthe symphony plans to commission two of
these works for the orchestra ArtSF PRESENTS THEIR 2ND ALL
WOMEN'S SHOW
"FEMALE 2 - WOMEN IN THE NEW MILLENNIA"
Performance at Balazo Gallery - 2811 Mission at 24th
Saturday, January 10, 2004 - 8pm-12am
ART
On DISPLAY FROM
January 9th until January 23rd
415-550-1108
For more information visit www.artsf.org or email: info@artsf.org
|
ArtSF is working to secure permanent space in San Francisco where emerging artists can produce and show their work. The organizations co-director, Kim Carlson (KC) says the mission is simple, "Keep Art in San Francisco".ArtSF works to secure outstanding space by inviting artists to hang their work, throwing huge events in collaboration with music and live performance - and does not require payment in return for the exposure the artists receive. This non-profit organization is entirely funded by donations at the door and those donations go directly to the future purchase of a permanent community space for San Francisco's artists.ArtSF is dedicated to the artists in San Francisco, emerging and established, in all mediums. Their next show, "FEMALE2", is an open entry exhibit with a common theme - Women in the new millennia. It promises to be an outstanding evening with film, photography, painting, sculpture, and mixed media by more than forty artists, including Kristin Grahn, Amy Yvonne Yu, KC Carlson, Amber Maclean, Anabella Pinon and Laura Jacobs. The show will also feature various stage performance and live music by Marisa Handler and Regina Fontillo and DJ Eva, plus spoken word. Please join us at the show. |
Film By:
Sumiko SaulsonPerformance By:
Camanda Galactica - performance art
Nitya Venkateswaran - classical Indian dance
Laurie Buenafe - performance art
Elizabeth Benson - performance art
Blake More- performance art
Yolanda Owens - spoken word
Yarrow Lutz & Mis Little - spoken wordDjs:
Eva
Amber PompeoMusic By:
Pamela VK
Marisa Handler
Regina Fontillo
GODzilla
verses Swan bLake
Upcoming
Dates & Venues for Poetry Play with Tony SeymourFall 2003
"Words
& Music", a project with the Oakland East Bay Symphony
September 19-21, 2003Art Car Festival
San Francisco, San Jose, Berkeley
September 25-29, 2003USA Today Press Release
artcarfest.com info &
schedule of eventsfest 2003 pictures
LA Roadtrip
September 30 through October 9, 2003
BurningMan Decompression
October 12, San Francisco Block Party, Indiana & Mariposa, 18th to 22nd
California Poets In the Schools
AC Conference
Westerbake Ranch, Sonoma CA October 12-15thSpring
2003Laughing
Squid Bus Tour
April 2003
(click
for pictures/details/links)
|
The
7th Annual |
Amsterdam
Summer 2002
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2002
pictoral
recap
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JUNE
2001a cyberbuss
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and Fremont Street Parade in Seattle
and on to Vancouver and some island hopping & beyond...my
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