And, I think this is a very important part of life–that people learn how to play, and that they make life a game, rather than a struggle for goals,
don't you know."
Eric Taylor is a sage musician, a lyrical genius and a master of the guitar. If you're familiar with the intricate Texas singer/ songwriter jigsaw puzzle, you probably already know a lot about Taylor. If you're not familiar with Taylor by name, you've probably heard his songs performed by people such as Nanci Griffith and Lyle Lovett. He has created a multitude of fans and devotees that are legends themselves in the singer/songwriter realm, artists who have long considered Taylor to be a teacher and a lantern bearer whose time is long overdue.
I’m always the opening act when I’m around Eric. I love his voice, and he has a great narrative quality and sense of detail. He sort of takes you out of your own reality and into the reality of his songs. It’s good writing no matter how you cut it. Lyle Lovett
He’s the real deal. Eric Taylor was one my heroes and teachers when I started playing around Houston in the early 1970s. Steve Earle
Sunday, May 4 @ 8.30 PM
Robert Swan gives a talk and a slide show.
Robert Swan is a polar explorer and environmental leader, he has earned his place in history alongside the great explorers and adventurers who have tested their physical and mental strength to the limit in the planet's most hostile environments.
By the age of 33, he had become the first person to walk to both the North and South poles. His 900-mile journey "In the Footsteps of Scott," across the treacherous Antarctic ice cap to the South Pole, stands as the longest unassisted walk ever made. The successful completion of his North and South Pole expeditions marked the beginning of a new phase in his life. He has dedicated his life to promote recycling, renewable energy and sustainability to combat global warming, and to the preservation of Antarctica. He will recount his epic journeys to the North and South Poles and outline his passion to motivate, engage and educate industry, business and youth on environmental protection.
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Saturday, May 10
Another great (((folkYEAH!))) presents @ HML
The Entrance Band returns to HML in Big Sur! www.folkyeah.com (Don't miss this site!)
4 pm - 10:30 pm
DJ in-between live sets and after E Band!
Get dinner and drinks @ the show!
Please Note: You can not bring in any food or drinks to the event.
JAMES HURLEY concert on the Library porch
Saturday, April 26 @ 4 PM jameshurleymusic.com
Anna Bentholm and James Hurley in Big Sur in January 2008.
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Travis Shane Brandon concert on the Library porch
Sunday, April 27 @ 3 PM
Travis has recently been a cable-car musician and entertainer for the tourists wating to board the "Fisherman's Wharf" cable cars. Since then, he has been performing at bars, coffee houses and restuarants in Oregon, Northern California, Los Angeles, Key West - and, now, in Big Sur.
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Sunday, April 13 @ 2 PM
Musical Garden Party with: Janni Littlepage,
Johan Seige
Robyn Landis
and Magnus Torén
Please bring a picnic and, if you like, a donation to the Henry Miller Library.
Janni Littlepage and Johan Siege at the 'Brett Perkins' Big Sur
Listening Room International Songwriting Retreat'
sponsored by the Henry Miller Library in February 2008.
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Saturday, April 5 @ 7 PM Book presentation and talk given by author and PAN member Mary Duncan
"Henry Miller is Under My Bed:
People and Places on the Way to Paris"
Mary Duncan will share some highlights of her adventurous memoir with us. She has known people as diverse as Hugh Hefner and IRA gunmen. The places extend from living in a church parsonage to being stranded in Tehran during the revolution to Simone de Beauvoir's Paris apartment. All of this was linked to Henry Miller and living in Paris.
Come and have a glass of wine, cup of tea, meet friends and hear stories about Mary's Shakespeare and Company Bookstore in Moscow, her journey to acquire original photographs, manuscripts, correspondence and audio tapes of Henry Miller's memoirs, “My Life and Times,” and “Insomnia.”
Books will be available for purchase and author inscription.
Saturday, Feb 2 @ 8 PM (door opens 7.30 PM) Performing songwriters from Denmark, England, Ireland, Mexico, Sweden and the US in a special presentation of the Listening Room Concert Series.
At the Lodge at Pfeiffer State Park in Big Sur.
(The concert will be by the fireplace in the new lobby).
Join us - it'll be fun and inspiring to listen to a group of good song writers from all over the world.
(if you are a song writer yourself you will probably learn something too!)
This event features participants from the 3rd Annual Big Sur Listening Room International Songwriters Retreat, held Jan. 27 - Feb. 2 at the Lodge in Pfeiffer State Park, produced in conjunction with Henry Miller Library, and includes LA Music Award winner Judith de los Santos (Mexico), Los Angeles based songwriter Mark Davis, who's most recent album was ranked among the Top 10 Independent Albums of the Decade by the Orange County L.A. Times.
Doors open at 7:30pm, with an 8:00pm show time. There will be a wine and beer available, free parking and a donation requested. Further info. at: www.listeningroomconcerts.com and by calling 831-667- 2574 ( The Library phone).
This special event is being hosted by Listening Room Concert Serires founder Brett Perkins, who moved to Denmark in 2004 and has since established the series as a monthly event in Copenhagen and Stockholm. Perkins has a long history in the US music scene since the early 80's, from four years as lead vocalist of 80's power pop band The Sneaks, to his later position as C.E.O. of the now defunct National Academy of Songwriters from 1995-96 (Hollywood, CA).
The Listening Room concert series ran from 1993 to 2005 in various venues throughout California.
The 'dedicated listening room event' features local, national and international songwriters, presenting their original works in fully acoustic performances individually, as well as in various configurations, presented along with the stories behind the songs.
Over 1000 artists have appeared on the Listening Room Concert Series since it's inception, with several going on to greater recognition, including Jonatha Brooke, Lisa Loeb, Ron Sexsmith, Teitur and Dar Williams.
The book release party for “These Are My Flowers: Raising a Family on the Big Sur Coast --- Letters of Nancy Hopkins” is set for Sunday, November 11, 7 pm at the Grange Hall in Big Sur. The evening will feature a short slide show of 1950s-era photos from the Hopkins Family Collection and a reading and book-signing by Heidi Hopkins, the book’s editor and contributor. Coffee, tea and dessert will be served. Proceeds from the sale of the books will benefit the Henry Miller Memorial Library, which Nancy helped establish in 1981. For information about the event call 831-667-2574. “These Are My Flowers” is based on letters Nancy wrote to her parents in Berkeley after she married Sam Hopkins and moved into their new home on Partington Ridge in 1948. As such, it offers a “slice of life” view of living in Big Sur in the 1950s, one woman’s view of her world and her time. Henry Miller and his wife Lepska, the children, Valentine and Tony, and later Henry's fourth wife Eve, were close neigbors of whom Nancy writes.
Following is an excerpt from the book:
Here Nancy Hopkins is talking about her neigbor Henry Miller:
"And also, very Henry-like, he describes his horror when someone...some progressive school teacher friend of his...approached him to purchase for Val* a book on sex-instruction for six-and-seven-year-olds and this book had "all the scientific terms for EVERYTHING... no euphemisms...just SCIENTIFIC WORDS! I WAS APPALED!! Teaching those words to children!!!
The rest of us had to chuckle gently, remembering that after all Henry has written books any paragraph of which would be enough to curl your hair, and yet he cannot bear the thought that his daughter should even be able to call the parts of the body by their correct names!"
* Henry's daughter Valentine.
Photo on the right by Sam Hopkins 1957
Buy the book! Please include a note if you like a signed copy. Books will ship asap after Nov. 11. Thank you! (Thanks to a very generous arrangement w/ the publisher/editor we are able to sell this for only $ 24.95. The book is very well put together, high quality paper, photos etc.)
Domestic customers here:
International address (outside continental US) please add $ 9.00 shipping:
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At the Ol'Factory Cafe
Friday, November 2 at 7.30 PM
The Henry Miller Library Presents: Ellis Paul @ the Ol'Factory Cafe in Sand City
Part of the proceeds benefit the Henry Miller Library.
$ 15.00 cover. Call 831-667-2574 for tickets.
Great food, wine and beer available - make a night of it! Ellis Paul's website Artist bio here.
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Saturday, November 3 @ 7 PM HA! Man is back. François LeRoux comes back with his amazing Cello, Loops and Dance!
$ 10.00 - 20.00 sliding scale
The HA!Man - a little known phoenix that whisks through the States, through Europe and Southern Africa every year - will be back at the Henry Miller Library on Sat Nov 3, for the third year in a row. Somehow he manages to plant seeds of inspiration everywhere he goes with his energizing electronic mingles of musical styles and sounds, with the closeness that he treats his cello and the wildness in his dances and ocarina playing. Who is the "HA!Man?" The name is Francois le Roux, a far-off descendant of the French Huguenots who settled in a small number in the Western Cape, South Africa, some 300 years ago. Perhaps he's got a little of that Franco flair left, but certainly Africa has invaded his blood, and perhaps this is what makes him so enticing: vigorous European playing and musical finesse, combined by the joy and warm-heartedness of the African plains. He'll be back with more - and fresh - recordings, more spontaneous expressions that makes every one of his more than 200 performances a year unique event. Come be part of this association of gutsy and creative music-making in the natural sanctuary of the the Henry Miller Library.
Cellist, pianist and organist by training, Francois le Roux has decided to make spontaneous creativity the basis of his career. This has shaped his performances into multi faceted creative events, a thorn when trying to describe it and an inspiring surprise to most who experience it.
Sunday, October 21 @ 7 PM Joel Zoss Joel Zoss has performed and recorded with a long list of artists including James Taylor, David Bromberg, Bonnie Raitt, John Hartford, Paul Butterfield, David Sanborn, Taj Mahal, Todd Rundgren, and Howling Wolf. Joel's website here.
“American dream songs called in from an area code as yet unspecified” –Rolling Stone
Joel’s songs have sold millions of copies, earning him two gold records, he is a National Endowment for the Arts Fellow of Creative Writing and a PEN short story award winner. Since 1994 Joel has been the annual recipient of a Special Music Award from the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers (ASCAP). His recordings are currently available on Rounder, Critique, DM, Arista/BMG Japan, and through the Smithsonian. His songs have been covered by many artists on many labels. Joel’s new album Lila was produced by June Millington, leader of the legendary group Fanny.
Details TBA - we will have some wine, cheese, fruit, snacks etc.
(((folkYEAH!))) presents (( 3D )) Picnic:A Music & Visual Arts Gathering Saturday, October 13th, 2007
High Noon ~ 11pm
2 Stages ::: Lots of Music Tickets $ 20.00 available at the door! .
Side Stage
1:30 7 come 11
2:35 Landy
3:35 Jeffrey Manson
4:40 Bird by Snow
5:40 Sean Smith
PLEASE carpool to this and all events @ The Henry Miller Library!
Please park to the south of the library grounds as another event will be occuring at the Hawthorne Gallery (just north of HML) at the same time.
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Thursday, September 20 at 7.30 PM
A Special Screening of the Feature Film: THE CALM AT THE EDGE OF THE SEA
7.30 Music by Mike West
8.00 The Film
Pop Corn, Coffee and Tea - FREE!
Welcome!
Synopsis
The Calm at the Edge of the Sea follows the course of Travis, a young man who leaves a troubled life in Los Angeles to live with an uncle and family he has not seen in years. Using raw and unforgettable imagery, the film delivers a turbulent wave of emotions and life-like situations, from the most intense love to the darkest of temptations; the film is a melancholy drama that faces difficult moral and social issues with modern relationship problems.
Saturday, August 25 at 3 PM Ramblin' Jack Elliott.
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Opening the show for Ramblin' Jack: Big Sur's own Mike West!
Mike West, a cowboy from New Jersey, has his feet firmly planted in the western american folk tradition. From Henry Miller Library Open Mic to the Big Stage! Come on time! Don't miss Mike opening up for Ramblin' Jack.
John Doe goes to the Venice poetry workshop and meets Exene. X band starts, records a single, gets popular, signs to Slash Records but soon the L.A. “punk-rock explosion” is all but over. X’s first two records have poetry and hard rock, X signs to Elektra, make five more LPs, some videos, tour the U.S. and Europe, appear on network TV, make a film (The Unheard Music), abuse body and soul, write about it, connect with more and more varied audiences and the critics move on to someone new. Now with musicians and singers at Dave Way’s Way Station in the hills of Los Angeles he sings and plays, with hardly any “fixes,” over-dubs or auto-tune, everything is given to the moment of the song and its players.
"This is the Muddy Waters record he always wanted to make. This is a record I think Bob Dylan would like. This is a record of songs that have the style of the blues and country w/out the self-conscious modernisms, show-off solos or purist traps." John Doe
As the leader of L.A.'s Plimsouls, Peter Case seemed like just another West Coast hook recycler whose band got signed to a major label during the post-Knack power-pop blitz. But even back then there was reason to believe that Case was capable of more; the most notable evidence of this was "A Million Miles Away," a melodic, romantic rocker of heartbreaking urgency. But Peter Case delivers far more than even the Plimsouls' finest moment ever promised. This album is not just an unusually strong solo debut, it's a pull-out-the-stops masterpiece, an Americanized Imperial Bedroom.
Backed by an eccentric cast of California players, including Roger McGuinn, Van Dyke Parks, John Hiatt, Mike Campbell and Jim Keltner, Case has crafted a stunning song cycle about (as he puts it in his stream-of-consciousness liner notes) "sin and salvation." Like the best work of the Band and Creedence Clearwater Revival, Case's artfully constructed back-roads narratives have a mysterious, timeless quality. Rolling Stone Mag. regarding Peter Case's CD "Peter Case."
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BOHEMIA FEST w/ Mike Beck
August 11 at 2 PM
Emith
Sex Farm
Mike Beck and The Bohemian Saints
Coast Ridge Boys.
$ 15.00 at the door
Emith - Recent press
"Emith... singer/songwriter/guitaristCarol Ann Ives and Stevie Gurr,
Cowboy Junkies atmosphere with the pop sensibilities of Fleetwood Mac and Aimee Mann, the up-and-coming duo Emith have created a winning sound and style that is equally thought-provoking and catchy. Building from a folk, pop and blues foundation, the versatile twosome wander easily from melodic, rootsy, organic creations to more ethereal, darkly cast ballads that dig into deeper emotional terrain."
"The group’s forthcoming full-length debut, 13 Seasons, offers a mixture of electric and acoustic soundscapes, with Gurr’s tasteful guitar and harmonica work never overpowering the subtler vocal dynamics of Ives."
"Gurr, who has toured with Elvin Bishop and Dr. John, plays guitar with the understated grace of Leo Kottke, infusing each selection with his own individuality while still working in service of the song. It’s not hard to see why Gurr and Ives have built a strong word-of-mouth buzz, particularly here in Southern California."
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Wednesday July 25 @ 8:30 PM, $20 adults, bring a date!
Tickets available at the door or by calling 831-667-2574.
Thursday July 26 @ 8 PM The Circus Contraption Orchestra will play music at our regular short film screening series evening. We look forward to a very special night of short films augmented by the multi talented and never-know-what's-going-to-happen - Contraption Band!
Their most recent full-circus show, “Grand American Traveling Dime Museum,” was a smash hit three years running in Seattle, San Francisco (2004) and New York City (2005 & 2006). Circus Contraption’s effect on the audience -- rousing, mesmerizing, and frequently unsettling—creates a deliciously unforgettable live experience.
"...moments of pure genius. DON'T MISS!" - Time Out New York
"Chances to see shows this fun come along rarely at best" - nytheatre.com
"An impressive array of talent, discipline and ingenuity" - Seattle P-I
"Unpredictable, almost unimaginable delight" - The Stranger
"Great finesse" - San Francisco Weekly
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PANDA - Live in concert
August 3 at 8 PM / $ 5.00 donation to the Library. "Panda is one of the most talented singers I've ever heard."
--Stu Cook, Bass Player for the Creedence Clearwater Revival "Panda's show is FANTASTIC!."
--Tuck Andruss (Tuck & Patti)
Picking up guitar on a whim, at the age of twenty, Wil 'Panda' Coffey immediately took to the art of song writing and within two and a half years was performing before live audiences. Classifying his music as “Soul Acoustic”, Panda’s style is rare in its compilation of Folk, Blues & Jazz with an unmistakable funk, making even popular cover tunes sound like original improvisations. He has had the opportunity to play on the same stage with acts such as; Taj Mahal, CCR, The Wailers, Tuck & Patti, Michael Hedges, Bela Fleck & the Flecktones, David Grisman Quintet and other accomplished performers.
Panda now lives in New Zealand . He is in the USA for a tour w/ a new CD release in the works...so stay tuned!
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SUNDAY, AUGUST 5th AT 2 PM
RUSHAD AND THE BUTT WIZARDS and PALO COLORADO
15$ at the door
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CIRCUS CONTRAPTION COMING BACK!! "Chances to see shows this fun come along rarely at best" - nytheatre.com
TWO SHOWS!! (and one with the Orchestra)
Tuesday July 24 @ 7PM, $20 adults, $10 children, all ages show.
Tickets available at the door or by calling 831-667-2574
Wednesday July 25 @ 8:30 PM, $20 adults, bring a date!
Tickets available at the door or by calling 831-667-2574.
Thursday July 26 @ 8 PM The Circus Contraption Orchestra will play music at our regular short film screening series evening. We look forward to a very special night of short films augmented by the multi talented and never-know-what's-going-to-happen - Contraption Band!
Their most recent full-circus show, “Grand American Traveling Dime Museum,” was a smash hit three years running in Seattle, San Francisco (2004) and New York City (2005 & 2006). Circus Contraption’s effect on the audience -- rousing, mesmerizing, and frequently unsettling—creates a deliciously unforgettable live experience.
"...moments of pure genius. DON'T MISS!" - Time Out New York
"Chances to see shows this fun come along rarely at best" - nytheatre.com
"An impressive array of talent, discipline and ingenuity" - Seattle P-I
"Unpredictable, almost unimaginable delight" - The Stranger
"Great finesse" - San Francisco Weekly
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Saturday, July 21 and Sunday July 22
Noon - 6 PM both days.
The 10th annual West Coast Poetry Slam Championship
Featuring: MC Jerry Quickley (see pict.) and Music by DJ Jedi
10 Poetry Slam teams from the Western US will slam in two bouts of 5 teams apiece for the chance
to become one of four finalists
to slam on Sunday for the chance to be the West Coast champs,
and win up to $2000 in cash prizes!
w/special guests:
Patricia Smith, 4 time National Poetry Slam Champ, author of
"Teahouse of the Almighty" Coffee House Press.
Joe Hernandez-Kolski, Actor, Poet, Playwright who will perform an excerpt from his critically acclaimed one man show "You Want A Piece of Me?"
Friday July 20 at 8 PM Conspiracy of Beards w/ Aaron Novik (solo clarinet)
followed by a screening of Short Films by C. Ryder Cooley, Robert Arnold, Malcolm Pullinger, Elaine Buckholtz and more, set to the music of Closer to Carbon.
Showtime 8 PM Tickets at $ 5.00 - 10.00, sliding scale, available by calling 831-667-2574
Conspiracy of Beards are a 30 member acapella male choir performing exclusively the songs of Leonard Cohen, their gritty, uplifting renditions of Cohen songs have been performed in front of enthusiastic audiences around the Bay Area including recently at San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Café duNord and on West Coast Live radio program. Conspiracy of Beards website
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Friday, July 13 and Saturday, July 14th ALMOST OBSCENE
The Big Event of 2007!
Both nights show start at 8 PM. TICKETS WILL BE AVAILABLE AT THE DOOR!
We are thrilled, and very thankful, to welcome MAD Magazine Senior Editor, Joe Raiola, in the west coast premiere of his acclaimed and controversial solo show, Almost Obscene. Hailed by Boston Magazine as “an incendiary combination of standup and performance art,” Almost Obscene is an evening of sharp-edged comedy that wages war on the status quo. A hit at the New York International Fringe Festival, the show’s been called “a comic rant against censorship, ‘decency,’ George Bush and God Himself, not necessarily in that order!” Come join us for a provocative evening of social satire! Proceeds benefit the Henry Miller Library.
The performances, which are being sponsored by the Living History Centre (of The Calif. Arts Council), the ACLU of Northern California, the Monterey County Chapter of the ACLU, New Directions Books, Grapes of Wrath Catering and our local radio station KUSP, will be staged on the Library outdoor stage under the stars and the giant redwoods. We will serve good snacks and bevarages. This is the event of 2007 you don't want to miss! Tickets are $ 25.00/person. (plus handling fee). Get yours early! Limited amount of tickets sold!
The Living History Centre of the California Arts Council
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Friday, March 16
(((folkYEAH!))) and The Henry Miller Library presents: Ian Svenonius (Weird War) reads from his Drag City Press book "The Psychic Soviet"
Free Admission 7:30PM - 8:30PM
Followed by this event that night at Fernwood:
Special Deejay Event with Selector Dub Narcotic (aka: Calvin Johnson of K Records, Olympia), Ian Svenonius (Drag City, Washington DC) starting @ 9:30PM at Fernwood.
November 1 @ 7 PM What We Worry?
MAD-Man - Joe Raiola at Miller Library. Limited seating, please RSVP here. We'll serve tea and coffee and some snacks.
Written and performed by Joe Raiola
Now more than ever our constitutionally guaranteed right of freedom of speech is under attack from fundamentalist Christians, the politically-correct left, big media conglomerates, well-meaning parents, special interest groups and the government itself.
In his critically acclaimed program, The Joy Of Censorship, MAD Senior Editor Joe Raiola takes an illuminating, offbeat and at times disturbing look at America's most hotly debated First Amendment issues, including the dramatic effect of 9/11 on free speech. He also sheds light on the endless arguments over the Patriot Act, Internet filters, flag burning, movie ratings, banned books, indecency and the true meaning of obscenity.
Finally, Raiola traces the unlikely and colorful history of MAD Magazine, from renegade publisher Williams Gaines' historic showdown with the United States Senate over comic book censorship to MAD's emergence as a revolutionary satirical force.
The Joy Of Censorship also includes a one-of-a-kind slide presentation spotlighting many of the MAD's most controversial, thought-provoking and outrageous covers and articles, followed with a lively Q+A and/or panel discussion.
A favorite on the lecture circuit for over a decade, Joe Raiola has brought The Joy Of Censorship to countless colleges and professional events around the country, including the American Library Association's National Conference, Yale University and Nassau Community College, where the show was captured live and broadcast nationally on C-SPAN's American Perspectives.
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December 1 - 3 10th (!) Annual Children and
Young Adult Writing Workshop.
This 10th anniversary will be special - Now open for registration! Click Here!.
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October 22 @ 7 PM Ha Man, Francois le Roux
From South Africa, Francois le Roux, gifted cellist, pianist, organist and composer, made spontaneous music the basis of his career. For something different of the highest quality, come and experience the HA!man.
September 8, 9 and 10 A landscape beyond the brink of I
A weekend of Poetry, Music and Workshops, open mic, movies, seminars, workshops.
Featuring Amalio Madueno, Joanne Kyger and Antoinette nora claypoole.
Workshops: ‘rivers in her eyes’ and ‘between sleeps’Please click here.
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September 2, @ 7.30 PM An evening with Kacey Jones
What They’re Saying About Kacey's latest CD: “Kacey Jones Sings Mickey Newbury”
"Mickey Newbury is one of the great American songwriters. Right up there with Stephen Foster. Of all the heroes and peers I admired and worked to emulate in my education as an artist, his music had the most profound and positive effect on my songwriting. We shared a mutual feeling for the sound of the language, the love of alliteration -- even when it broke the rules of normal sentence structure (e.g. "a merchant mad marine"). But the most significant thing I learned from Mickey was the importance of the melody in the attack on the emotions that is songwriting. It's a weapon poetry doesn't have and it goes straight to the heart. I can't hear "What Will I Do" without tears coming to my eyes. I'm leery of tribute albums, but this is a good one. It's nice to see an artist who understands and appreciates the soul of his songs honoring him like this. Thanks, Kacey.
---Kris Kristofferson
Kacey Jones has adopted the songs of Mickey Newbury and made them her own and the results are amazing.
---Delbert McClinton
Newbury’s lush lyrical talents lend themselves to Jones’ lush musical interpretations.
I’m not calling either of them a lush – just a union made in heaven.
---Kinky Friedman
“Anyone who pays tribute to the great Mickey Newbury is a friend of mine. One of the most prolific songwriters ever, his music will continue to touch the emotions of generations to come. Thank you, Kacey."
---Brenda Lee
Mickey Newbury was the wild card in the songwriter revolution in Nashville in the late 1960s and early 70s. Newbury always wrote the lyric you didn’t expect, the one that hit you straight in the heart, the one that stopped you dead in your tracks. I’m gratified that Kacey Jones is paying splendid tribute to some of Mickey’s best songs and keeping them alive and kicking. ---Chet Flippo
Friday Agust 25th 3pm - 12am
$10 in advance/ $15 at the door.
Buy tickets here!Tickets will not be shipped - you'll be on will call at the gate. An e-mail will be sent to you confirming your purchase.
Started in 2005 by sisters Kim and Zoe Vermillion of the band Vermillion Lies, the Twisted Folk Festival is a musical event to celebrate the art of people whose music could, but doesn't quite, fit into the genres of folk, blues, americana, and jazz. Mainly: genres that are/or were traditionally made by people without money or training.Most of the bands featured play 'found objects.' That is: objects that were never meant to be musical instruments but found themselves in the hands of musicians anyway.
Sunday, August 27 @ 1.30 PM “Henry Miller’s Battle with the Censors”
The Monterey County Chapter of the ACLU of Northern California and
The Henry Miller LibraryPresent
“Henry Miller’s Battle with the Censors”
a talk given by Magnus Torén, Executive Director, Henry Miller Library.
Free admission
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August 20 @ 3 PM Greg Graffin Latest recording: Cold As The Clay Tickets will not be shipped - you'll be on will call at the gate. An e-mail will be sent to you confirming your purchase. "Even though I am known as a punk rock singer and songwriter, a world apart from old-time music, the roots of my singing go back to my Wisconsin childhood and family gatherings in Indiana. For most of my life, the old-time music of rural America has served as one of the soundtracks to my life...cont."
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Sunday, Aug 13 @ 4PM - 10PM; Live Auction at 6PM J.Rocke Productions w/Bob Deford and Sofanya’s Gallery Presents:
“Falling Into Perfection”..an art installation performance film event.
Performances by Janice Rocke, Deanna Ross, Kim Chandler,
Sahra, Chuck Lessler, Brap and you (?)...
Experience a multi-sensory walk through an art installation of assemblages built with recycled wood and other materials imbued with “earth magic”. Some of these pieces are made to contain monitors upon which the artist/filmmaker has created short films reflecting various aspects of Life’s experiences related to the piece of art.
These pieces together create a surreal movie set patina. The audience will become the extras as camera men follow roaming actors, performance artists and musicians. Footage will later be edited for a feature film. A live auction of these art pieces will begin at 6 PM. Some proceeds go to Henry Miller Library. Sahra will perform at 5:00 and again at 7:30. When night falls the short films are to be shown on the big screen on the lawn.
The roaming performance artists will be led throughout the event in experimental movement and dance by This is NOW! founder Deanna Ross. Kim Candler, long time Pennisula actress/diector and one of the co-founders of The Big Sur Players directs two actors engaged in an extended improvisation game. Ambient music performed by local favorite drummer Chuck Iessler and electronic and experimental music of Brap. Please see the following additional info re the performers.
Janice Rocke is an artist-filmmaker, playwright & producer…and a single parent raising her two beautiful children. Her style is a multi-dimensional multi media palette which while engaging many senses at once, also delivers profound messages and Inspiration.
Sofanya is a favorite local artist whose work explores the subconscious dimensions of the mind and soul of humanity with surreal and beautiful imagery. Her exuberant love of Life is a constant inspiration to us all.
Our beloved co-producer, Robert Deford, has created numerous hours of programming at local Access Monterey Peninsula. You can usually find Robert wherever something interesting is going on. His documentary work explores anything and everything from eclectic artists to conspiracy theorists to spiritual and religious controversy.
Deanna Ross, who is a dancer, choreographer and teacher at Monterey Peninsula College where she has recently created a monthly arts exhibition called, “This is NOW!” Performance Salon. She brings with her dancers, Joseph Gilman Pikalek and Kerstin Stuart.
Kim Candler is one of the cofounders of “The Big Sur Players” and longtime actress/director will co-ordinate the improvisation and coach the actors.
Robert Patterson has been a professional auctioneer for over 20 years, selling everything from art to real estate with 250+ auctions to his experience. He will be conducting the live auction at 6PM.
Sahra, a local songwriter described by KPFA radio as "quirky, penetrating, a pleasant surprise for even the most jaded listener" has written and performed music for numerous political and philanthropic projects. Her music has also been featured in numerous films. Laurel Thumpson will accompany her on violin.
Chuck Lessler has been playing drums for many years in Big Sur. He has studied African, Middle Eastern and Brazilian drumming. He currently teaches East African Drumming weekly in Big Sur.
Brap has been making electronic music of various sorts for almost two decades. Sample based music allows a lot of room for experimentation..... from ambient to drum-n-bass to whosawhatsis-- sonic playgrounds are fun.
Music starts at 3pm
$ 15.00, get your ticket NOW! Click here:Tickets will not be shipped - you'll be on will call at the gate. An e-mail will be sent to you confirming your purchase.
Please Carpool
Friday, August 11, starting at 4 PM
The Henry Miller Library and ((((folkYEAH!)))) presents: Quiet, Quiet Forest Spectrum...
A song sharing ceremony curated by Nabob Shineywater
of BrightBlack Monring Light.
SUNROOF! (4:20 - 5:00) United Kingdom experimental sound scapes
GRASS (5:20 - 6:00) Members of Feathers & Espers RAMBLIN' SECRET COWBOY SURPRISE (6:20 - 7:40) HUAYLLIPACHA (8:00 - 9:30)
Tuesday August 8th 6:00 PM Big Sur Powerdown presents Richard Heinberg,
award winning author of six books including The Party's Over: War and the Fate of Industrial Societies. Heinberg, widely regarded as America's foremost Peak Oil educator, will discuss the most recent evidence regarding the timing of global production peak, its likely consequences, and what can be done at both the international and local levels to prepare for the event and mitigate the impacts. Free to the public, donations are gladly accepted for the Henry Miller Library, Refreshments will be served. This is an out doors event please dress warmly.
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Friday, July 28 @ 7 PM Join Big Sur Big Sur Powerdown!
Guest speakers series for Big Sur Powerdown. Our guest will be Brian Weller , co-founder of WELL (Willits Economic Localization)will share how Willits, a small town in Northern CA, is preparing its community for energy independence in the face of the inevitable Peak Oil realities. Brian will discuss the following key areas: Peak Oil, Climate Change, the Willits 'grass roots' emerging "adhocracy," creating economic localization in a community. This is a 60 minute PowerPoint presentation and will be highly interactive, including visuals and Q&A with the audience. Free to the public. Pot luck, call Linda Parker for more info 831-656-0664
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Sunday, July 30 @ 5 PM Holiday and the Adventure Pop Collective!
This will be one of the best! Join the party. "They call themselves Holiday and the Adventure Pop Collective. Their name hails every bit of their style. “It’s all over the place,” says lead singer/songwriter Derric Oliver. And he’s right. The music’s everywhere and so is the Collective. Their intricate appreciation for jazz, country, classical, art-rock and pop keeps fans on their feet everywhere from their hometown in Cali to Colorado.
The San Diego-based duo combines multi-instrumental talents of Derric Oliver (singer, songwriter, guitar, trumpet, tuba, piano) and Louis Caverly (singer, songwriter, violin, keyboard) to create an eclectic countrified indie pop that takes the listener on an unexpected adventure of optimism every time." Flagstaff Live (Leah Scharns) | March 9th, 2006
$ 10.00 donation at the door.
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July 15 and 16 - The 9th Annual
West Coast Championship Poetry Slam w/ host Jerry Quickley
Get Tickets here: Tickets/Registrations/Info This is probably the most talked about event at the Henry Miller Library.
If you've never been to a SLAM now's the time.
Teams from Seattle in the North to San Diego in the South duke it out in a two day extravaganza on the lawn.
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SaturdayJuly 8 @ 7.30 PM CJ Boyd Sexxxtet The CJ Boyd Sexxxtet pound out experimental chamber music for bass and celli. Primal and searching, they take minimalism back to the screen memory of all origins. They incorporate the full dynamic range of superb sex with all its adagios and allegros, pianos and fortes, staccatos and legatos, arias and cadenzas. This is Id-music for your super-ego. $ 10.00 at the door or by calling 831-667-2574.
Diane Cluck has partnered with Bianca Cassidy (Coco Rosie), to release her most recent album, Countless Times. Cluck has created a world wide stir with her quiet, yet powerful sound, and has recently gained acclaim for her work on The Enlightened Family Album, which includes Devendra Banhart, and Antony & The Johnsons, and Vashti Bunyan.
Press:
"I'm so happy to be alive at the same time she is because I get to see her perform" - Devendra Banhart
“Cluck has fashioned a set of songs both stark and haunting, intimate and plaintive - songs that draw the listener still-breathed-close in order to wind themselves tightly round the heart” - Mojo
Garrett Pierce, like Diane, creates a dark acoustic setting that draws the listener toward the lyrics. This San Francisco songwriter has been touring off his latest record, Like A Moth, which flows in and out of quiet compositions and lush instrumentation. The album features several bay area notables including Jolie Holland, and Safa Shokrai (The Drift).
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3 Patriots Celebrate the 4th of July
starting at 2 PM
Ric Masten Elliot Roberts Taelen Thomas
w/ guitarist Steve Mortensen.
Poetry, music, some snacks - there'll definitely be some good cheer mixed with serious carking over matters as they stand. Please join us!
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SaturdayJune 24 @ 3 PM - Midnight. Big Sur Bird Bash A fundraiser for the Big Sur Ornithology Lab.(BSOL)
Come frolic amongst the redwoods with the Ventana Wildlife Society, a local non-profit that has been conducting conservation ecology in Big Sur since 1977. The first two hours are dedicated to your little nestlings, with children’s storytelling, puppet-making, drawing, and face painting. Big Sur Coast Foods will be grilling up a storm, local vendors will display their wares, and there will be tons of raffle prizes. Watch sizzling dance performances by Jamaica and the Big Sur Natives, and groove to music by the Suborbitals, Samba a Go Go, and the Stanimals. You will also hear talks from VWS staff about their songbird monitoring and research, environmental education, and California Condor reintroduction.
Sunday, June 18, starting at Noon
FUN - RAISING for/by GAZEBO
Esalen Institute's Gazebo Learning Project invites you to an afternoon of FUN-raising and FUND-raising to benefit the Gazebo School Park, an early education program for children 1-6 yrs., that has served the Big Sur community for over 25 years.
Entertainment starts at 1pm
TICKETS: In advance - $12/adult,
At the door - $15/adult, $10/teens, 12yrs. & under FREE
(More info about tickets, call (831)667-3026)
ENTERTAINMENT: THE BANANA SLUG STRING BAND< target="_blank"/stro 1pm - Airy Larry & Doug Dirt of will do an interactive session with music and song on "Finding the Magic Outdoors" followed by - Live Auction, followed by - Jayson Fann and band of drummers with Cida Vieira who will lead us in some SAMBA dancing, along with a BELLY DANCING performance.
FOOD & BEVERAGES : A complete lunch, as well as, snacks, beverages, and wine, available for sale starting at 12pm - There will also be a baked goods table (Of course, we're a school)
We'll have clowns, face painting, a play area for children, photo exhibits, the sample film and a silent auction with many fabulous items and services to auction off.
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Friday June 23 @7:30 PM:
Join Sustainable Big Sur Coast!
Have you ever been wondering what you can do to help in preparing for a world with very, very expensive gasoline? Come find out. Guest speaker Jerry Mander, (this is very exciting!) author of Four Arguments for the Elimination of Television (1977) , In the Absence of the Sacred (1991) , The Case Against the Global Economy And For a Turn Toward the Local (1996). Admission free and open to all. More detail TBA (food, film, how you can volunteer etc.)
Please call Linda Parker at 831-656-0664 for more info.
May 26 @ 7 PM
Vermillion Lies/Cancelled/Not Happening
"Not An Evening of Music for People who Wear Hats"
with Vermillion Lies and DeatHat New CD "Separated by Birth" still new CD
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May 27 @ 3 PM Home Among the Swinging Stars : The Collected Poems of Jaime de Angulo.
Booksigning and reading with author and editor Stefan Hyner. A brand new book with an abundance of Jaime’s poetry Home Among the Swinging Stars includes the out-of-print Coyote's Bones, versions of Shaman Songs, translations of Federico García Lorca, and several previously unpublished poems.
The Old Coyote of Big Sur, Jaime de Angulo (1887-1950) was born in Paris of Spanish parents. He came to America in 1905, found work as a cowboy, and ended up in San Francisco the day before the Great Earthquake in 1906. He set up his homestead, Rancho de Los Pesares around 1915 high up on Partington Ridge, he was a medical doctor, psychologist, renowned linguist, and novelist. As a linguist, de Angulo contributed to the knowledge of many Northern Californian tribal languages, as well as ethno-musicological investigations. He lived among the tribes he studied and tried to become integrated into their daily lives. Much of his life and work exemplifies his recognition of the trickster wisdom in their native 'coyote tales'. Invited by Mabel Dodge Luhan to visit Taos, he turned out to be a vivid chapter in her artistic circle. Brilliant and eccentric, Ezra Pound called him 'the American Ovid'. Bohemian to the core, he was friend and colleague to poets, composers, and scholars such as Harry Partch, Henry Miller, Robinson Jeffers, Henry Cowell, Franz Boas, Carl Jung, D H Lawrence, and many others. Renderings of Pit River lore in his book 'Indian Tales' had a distinct influence on Beat literature, especially Gary Snyder and Jack Kerouac. Besides prose, there exists an abundance of poetry which is collected in 'Home Among the Swinging Stars' and includes the out-of-print 'Coyote's Bones,' versions of Shaman Songs, translations of Federico García Lorca, and unpublished poems.
Jaime’s radio program, Indian Tales, in 1947-48 was very popular and the Henry Miller Library now has an outdoor listening space where you can listen to the original under the redwoods. (We have the complete radio broadcast series and have had the sound of the old magnetic tapes refurbished) Jaime’s voice is wonderful and the tales he tells are timeless.
Author and editor Stefan Hyner was educated at the Universities of Heidelberg and Taipei where he studied Sinology and East-Asian art history. Author of numerous poetry books and translations from Chinese and English, Hyner is currently at work on the archives of Italian Swiss artist/poet Franco Beltrametti (1937-1995).
Saturday, May 13 @ 8 PM. A Giant Among the Redwoods! Henry Rollins in a benefit spoken word performance. Henry Rollins has recently floored the critics and the audiences in Europe and he loves Henry Miller! I bet this will be one for the record books! David Dildine will serve appetizers and some drinks starting at 7 PM. Please join the party, come early. Tickets are almost sold out so quickly call 667-2574 for yours.
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Friday May 19th 7:30 PM:
Join Sustainable Big Sur Coast!
Have you been wondering what the term Peak Oil means? Come find out. Guest speaker Pierre Chomat, author of “Oil Addiction” and co- founder of Sustainable Monterey County will give a talk and present the film “Peak Oil.” Followed by a discussion and refreshments. Admission free and open to all.
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Thursday, May 4 at 4 – 7 PM “My Life in Big Sur” book signing with Joe Caming. Joe, known to many in Big Sur as, “Joe The Woodcutter,” has written a short memoir of his life in Big Sur from the time he “tuned in, turned on and dropped out” in 1967 until he moved in 1997. He will be at the Miller LIbrary welcoming all for an afternoon of sharing stories and signing his book.
Stephen D. Edington
reading from
The Beat Face of God:
The Beat Generation Writers as Spiritual Guides
Stephen D. Edington is the minister of the Unitarian Universalist Church of Nashua, New Hampshire. He is also a devoted reader and student of the Beat writers who influenced him as a young man, Ginsberg, Kerouac, Snyder, Burroughs, Ferlinghetti, Corso, Whalen, and others in their circle. In his book, The Beat Face of God :The Beat Generation Writers as Spiritual Guides, Edington looks not only at the works, but also at the lives of the Beat writers, as serious spiritual quests for meaning, transcendence, and authenticity. “Thanks to Steve Edington we now have a book that tells about… how spirituality was a central part of our lives during an amazing time, and among an amazing group of people.”—David Amram
This book is an exploration of some of the underlying spiritual and religious currents found in the writings and lives of a loose constellation of writers and poets who came together in America after World War II, and came to be known as the Beat Generation writers. Among their more prominent figures were Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg, William S. Burroughs, Gary Snyder, and Lawrence Ferlinghetti, to name just a few.
Writing from the perspective of a liberal religious minister (Unitarian Universalist) and a Beat Generation scholar, Rev. Stephen Edington expands upon, and delves into, Jack Kerouac's contention that the Beat Generation was a religious generation. These writers and poets, each in his or her own way, were articulating and setting forth an "alternative spirituality" in the face of the prevailing cultural ethos of the America of the 1950s.
This is not primarily, however, a literary review of a group of writers from over a half-century ago. Their work is as powerful today as it was in their day, especially for those pursuing a spiritual path of their own. Edington weaves much of the spiritual journeys of the Beats into the evolution of his own spirituality.
Also, the ways in which the Beats challenged the culture and politics of America in the 1950s resonates strongly in today's post-9/11 America as well, as this book's concluding chapter demonstrates.
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Wednesday, October 5th @ 7.30 PM
The Y2K5 International Looping Festival
brings a special performance to the Henry Miller Library on Wednesday evening, October 5, as part of a weeklong series of events in Santa Cruz, San Francisco, and Big Sur. The concert, a benefit for the Henry Miller Library, will feature an international gathering of musicians from Japan, Switzerland, the UK and the USA. Each musician will employ Live Loop Recording, a technology that allows the musician to create multi-layered compositions in a live performance setting.
Please join us for a night of musical adventure and innovation, under the stars, and help out the Henry Miller Library as well. The show starts at 7:30 pm, the donation is $10 at the door, and no one will be turned awayfor lack of funds. For more information, check out, or call 831-458-9573.
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Friday October 7th @ 8 PM
SWEDISH SHORTS “Perhaps the most astonishing moments ever created in a Swedish film" Ingmar Bergman An evening of short films. We'll be screening 5 shorts, all made in, or by directors from, Sweden. A few of the filmmakers will be present during the night. (details TBA).
Passing Hearts - 14 min.
Johan Brisinger - Director
Audience favorite award (shared) Aspen Shorts Fest 2004
1st Prize: Chicago International Children’s Film Festival.
Special Jury Award and the Parents Choice Award at the New York International Children's Film Festival.Winner Berlin, Audience award
Winner Cleveland, Humanitarian award
Winner Deep Ellum, Best drama
Winner Aspen, Audience award, Best cinematography
Winner New York Int. Child Fest, audience award
Meeting Evil – 14 min Reza Parsa - Director
Disturbing and highly controversial - “Perhaps the most astonishing moments ever created in a Swedish film,” according to Ingmar Bergman. Meeting Evil was screened at the Cannes Film Festival. Reza is from Tehran and has been living in Sweden since 1980.
Changing Directions – 22 min
Maria Essen - Director
Premiere Magazine Audience Choice Award for Best Film
First Place Winner, Fort Lauderdale International Student Film Competition
Winner of Best Narrative, Next Frame Festival, Pennsylvania, 2000
Semi-finalist, Angelus Awards, Los Angeles
Semi-finalist, National Student Festival, New York
Faculty Selects, Columbia University
Nominated by Columbia University for the Directorís Guild Student Award.
Nominated for best short at Newport International Film Festival.
Marty & Sven - 19 min.
Mikael Forsberg - Director
By the director of Blue Caviar a film we screened at the Library in 2003. Marty and Sven is new from Mikael and recently screened at Palm Beach International Film Festival and Big Bear Lake Film Festival.
The Mistress - 12 min
Casey Clark - Director
Casey Clark lives in Stockholm, Sweden where he works as an actor/filmmaker. His film, Off Season won Best Directorial Debut and an HBO Award for Best Short Film in 2002.
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Saturday, October 15 @ 8 PM
Big Sur-realism: An evening of Film and Music
Film curators Liz Keim, Nicole Minor and Melinda Stone join forces with Mobius Operandi, an electro-acoustic sound sculpture ensemble, to create an evening of avant garde cinema and sonic improvisations. László Moholy-Nagy’s Lightplay; Black/White/Gray (1930), Anemic Cinema by Marcel Duchamp, and other tradition breaking films will be featured with the driving rhythms and collective clicks of Oliver DiCicco's sonic sculptures.
Films:
Ghosts before Breakfast (1928, film, 9 min.) by Hans Richter. In this early experimental film, clocks, legs, ladders, hats, and people undergo total irrational happenings in unusual settings. Men have beards magically appear and disappear before the viewer's eyes, hats fly around in the air, a man's head comes off and floats in the air, objects and characters move in reverse, and tea cups fill up by themselves.
Vespucciland: the Great and Free (1982, film, 3 min.) by Rock Ross captures a celebratory gathering of the clan of Vespucciland!
Light (2005, dvd, 2 min.) by Michael Rudnick reminds us that when the music’s over, it’s time to turn off the lights.
Diggins (2000, film, 3min) by San Francisco filmmakers Christian Bruno and Natalija Vekic is a hand processed love poem set in nature.
Explore the Endless Secrets of Nature (2002, 2 min. vhs) by Devon Damonte is a lightning speed, perceptual guessing game.
Things I’d Say if I Were Pope (1993, film, 4 min.) by Marion Wallace and Michael Rudnick, brings a pin screen to life in stream-of-conscience style animation.
Papillon d’amour (2003, vhs, 3 min.) by Nicolas Provost is a mesmerizing manipulation of the film Roshomon, expressing the horror that can lie in beauty and pure love.
Anemic Cinema (1926, film, 7 min.) by Marcel Duchamp features rotating images intercut with spinning words in elaborate and nonsensical puns, including a palindrome.
Lightplay; Black/White/Gray (1930, film, 8 min.) by László Moholy-Nagy is an exquisite meditative film that explores the luminescent qualities of light and shadow.
The Vampire (1945, film 9 min.), directed by Jean Painleve is an unconventional animal behavior film which describes the blood-sucking Brazilian bat and includes excerpts from Murnau's "Nosferatu." The first science film with a jazz soundtrack, "The Vampire" features Duke Ellington's "Black and Tan Fantasy" and "Echoes of the Jungle."
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Liz Keim and Nicole Minor are media arts curators from the Exploratorium, a museum of science and art located in San Francisco. Melinda Stone is a filmmaker and professor of Media Studies at the University of San Francisco.
Mobius Operandi is an electro-acoustic sound sculpture ensemble. The current members are Jason Reinier, Avidon Rose, Christie Winn, Pamela Winfrey, and the founder/sculptor Oliver DiCicco.
"...Mobius Operandi adapts their textres, drones, chimes, and hums to tunes that are at once accessible and bizarre... a band like no other on the pop or experimental music scenes." Derk Richardson, SF Bay Guardian
"...The music was both familiar and otherworldly...a refreshing and entertaining synthesis of musical styles, from the most contemporary idioms to ‘vernacular’ music, including jazz, blues, rock, and world beat...There is a playful quality to the music. Möbius’ levity, however, belies considered reflection and commitment to a very American tradition. Inventive, democratic, irreverent, humorous, and unpretentious, this is serious folk music and fun for the whole family..." Doug Quinn, Music Works Magazine
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Sunday, October 16 @ 8 PM
Robert Lloyd Webb,
An Evening at Sea with Robert Lloyd Webb
Deepwater songs and shanties, maritime history, art and poetry
Internationally recognized as "King of the Shanty," Bob has presented the history, music and art of seafaring under sail for nearly 30 years. Come listen to, and join, the shanties and "forebitters" once required to sail a square-rigged merchant ship.
Bob will also discuss the sea-painter Charles Robert Patterson, and sign copies of his new biography, Sailor-Painter: The Uncommon Life of Charles Robert Patterson. During the 1890s, Patterson sailed for seven years in merchant square-rigged ships. Before his death in 1958 he was hailed as the most important marine artist in the United States.
Robert Lloyd Webb's previous books include On the Northwest: Commercial Whaling in the Pacific Northwest 1790-1967,and Ring the Banjar!: The Banjo in America from Folklore to Factory. Formerly Curator of Maritime History for the Kendall Whaling Museum and curator of the Maine Maritime Museum, Mr. Webb developed the exhibition Patterson in Maine: Marine Art of Robert Charles Patterson.
The program will be free and open to the public. Refreshments will be served.
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Sunday, October 23 @ 7 PM
The Ha-Man
From South Africa, Francois le Roux, gifted cellist, pianist, organist and composer, made spontaneous music the basis of his career. As the HA!man he infuses new life into the classical style, creates magic with his improvisations and applies technology innovatively. His performance is regarded locally and internationally as one of the most creative and inspiring in existence. His music style is accessible, energetic and moving, and his technique exceptional. For something different of the highest quality, come and experience the HA!man.
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September "Open Mic"
There will be an open reading at the Henry Miller Library in Big Sur on
Sunday, Sept. 4th at 3:00 PM. Featured poets will include the "Three
Generations of California Poets," Jim, Geoff, and Maegan Cain; poet and
bohemian extraordinaire, Katrina Jensen; and anyone else who wishes to
sign up to read poetry, prose, or play some music .
Bring a poem, song, a manifesto, or just come by and enjoy an afternoon
under the redwoods of Big Sur at the Henry Miller Library. Arrive early
and sign up to read or play. Admission is free and refreshments will be
served.
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Sunday, August 21, 1:00 p.m.,
The ACLU of Monterey County and The Henry Miller Library present
Banned, Blocked and Besieged:
A Forum on Banned Books, Blocked Internet Access and Current Threats to Civil Liberties
followed by
A Reading of selections from banned books.
~Free admission.
~Bring a picnic lunch and a banned book.
~Open mic for audience members to read from banned books.
Panel Members and Readers include:
Jayanti Addleman, librarian--Monterey County Free Library Kim Bui-Burton, poet, public librarian William Rawson, librarian--Hartnell College, ACLU-MC Board member Elliot Ruchowitz-Roberts, poet, ACLU-MC Board Chair Maria Garcia Tabor, poet and fiction writer, editor Homestead Review, HML Board member Magnus Torén, Executive Director--HML
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The panel members will discuss the threats posed to the 1st and 4th Amendments by the banning of books, the blocking of access to the Internet, and the USA PATRIOT Act as well as ACLU involvement in these issues, the response of public and college libraries to them, and the banning of Henry Miller’s novels. The reading of banned books will include selections from a variety of sources, among them the novels of Henry Miller, Allen Ginsberg’s “Howl,’ and Maurice Sendak’s Where the Wild Things Are, as well works selected by audience members.
, Heat Signature : A Novel
and Dive : A Novel.
Sunday, May 4 @ 8.30 PM
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