An Art Party at The Home Of in Beautiful Gowanus
8pm, February 16, 2012
Free with free drinks
Please email contact@thehomeof.org to RSVP and to find out our secret location.

Featured Poets: Amy Lawless and Andrew Durbin
Video installation by Miao Jiaxin – http://www.miaojiaxin.com
Graphic poems by Gary Heidt
Wall hangings by Leah Schrager – http://leahschrager.com

And…

Along with what’s on the walls and our featured poets, this is a “Poetry in Performance” event. You show up, you drop your name in a hat to be a reader (if you want), and then if your name comes out of the hat you read one piece from our evening’s Performance Anthology, which will contain poems from each of the following:

Devin Doyle
Lee Barton
Jennifer Stella
Gary Heidt
Amy Lawless
Andrew Durbin
Kirk Wood Bromley
Stella Padnos-Shea
Darcy Golka
Spencer Everett
Eric Conroe
BC Edwards

The moon may be a harsh mistress, but your friends at Moonshot will keep you warm and cozy during our first annual holiday party. Drink your holiday spirits and stick around for a winter reading by four talented writers and poets.

Jessica Elsaesser is a brunette prose poet living in Brooklyn with a passion for small objects.

Miles Klee‘s writing has appeared in McSweeney’s Internet Tendency, The Awl, The Huffington Post, The New York Observer, Salon, The Millions, and many other publications, online and off-. His debut novel, Ivyland, is currently available from OR Books.

Nicole Steinberg is the editor of the literary anthology Forgotten Borough: Writers Come to Terms with Queens, as well as an editor at large at LIT magazine. Her poetry has appeared in H_NGM_N, No Tell Motel, BOMB, Gulf Coast, and other publications. She is the author of Birds of Tokyo (Dancing Girl Press, 2011) and founder of Earshot, a NYC reading series. She currently lives in Philadelphia, where she paints her nails.

Nicole Treska lives in Harlem and teaches writing and literature at The City College of New York. She turns up early to most things, and is rarely prepared for the weather. She is susceptible, and loud, and working on it.

Poetry by John Coletti, Corina Copp and Christine Kanownik.
Music by Nathan Bontrager and Julianne Carney
Monologues by Michael O’Brien, Jordan Coughtry and Catherine McNelis.
Art by Katya Grokhovsky, Leah Schrager, and Paige Taggart

Photos from the event:

BIOS
Visual Artists:

Katya Grokhovsky (video in yellow room) was born in Odessa, Ukraine and moved to Melbourne, Australia in 1992. She has an MFA (2011) from School of the Art Institute of Chicago, where she majored in Sculpture and minored in Photography and Performance Art. Grokhovsky’s work has been exhibited in Australia, USA, UK and Europe. She has traveled extensively, partaking in various residencies and performance art events and received awards and scholarships, such as Freedman Traveling Scholarship and SAIC Graduate International Scholarship. Most recently, Grokhovsky was an artist in residence at Robert Wilson’s Watermill Center, New York, where she was commissioned to create a major installation/performance project for the annual benefit and Open House. She is a director and founder of Art Space, The Bedroom, in Brooklyn, NY.

Leah Schrager (videos and phoems in white room) is an artist based in NYC. She is the resident choreographer for Inverse Theater and the resident videographer for The Home Of. She graduated from the University of Washington with the 2007 Dean’s Medal in the Arts. She is on staff at the Performance Club NYC. You can read and see all about her at www.leahschrager.com.

John Gideon (music in Be Story Free videos) has composed music for a number of theatrical productions, including seven traveling Broadway shows, as well as all the plays and musicals of Kirk Wood Bromley since 2003.

Paige Taggart (jeweler) is a poet and jeweler living in Brooklyn. She hails from Northern California, where she studied jewelry metalsmith at California College of the Arts. She was the sole employee of a jeweler in Williamsburg for 3 years, and now pursues her own business.She’s currently at work on a website, in the meantime she posts on mactaggartjewelry.blogspot.com.

Performers (in order of appearance):

John Coletti (poet) is the author of Mum Halo (Rust Buckle Books 2010),Same Enemy Rainbow (fewer & further 2008), and Physical Kind (Yo-Yo-Labs 2005). He recently served as editor of The Poetry Project Newsletter and co-edits Open 24 Hours Press with Greg Fuchs.

Catherine McNelis (monologist) has acted in five Inverse Theater productions. Apparently that means something.

Corina Copp (poet) hails from Lawrence, KS, Boulder, CO, and New Orleans, LA. She is most recently the author of the e-book, Carpeted (Faux Press, 2004) and Play Air (Belladonna* Books, 2005). Her poems and reviews have appeared or are forthcoming from Fence, The Germ, The Poetry Project Newsletter, Pom2, and Magazine Cypress. She was the Monday Night Reading Series Coordinator at the Poetry Project at St. Mark’s Church, and currently lives in Brooklyn.

Michael (Mick) O’Brien (monologist) – Recent NYC highlights have included playing Carl Jung in Carey Harrison’s Scenes From a Misunderstanding (UTC#61) in the Festival of Jewish Theater and Ideas and at the historic Byrdcliffe Theater in Woodstock, a concert reading of Stephen Schwartz’s Seance on a Wet Afternoon (American Opera Projects), the critically acclaimed Notes From Underground (The Brick – Michael Gardner, dir.), Scenes From an Execution, Mad Forest (Julia Beardsley, dir.), Antigone, and Arcadia (all QED Productions), World Gone Wrong (Gemini Collisionworks), Greed: A Musical Love Story (The Brick – Robert Honeywell, dir.), Nevada Territory (DM-Theatrics – Frank Cwiklik, dir.), and Dracularama (Alternative Theatre Machine).

Christine Kanownik (poet) lives in Brooklyn. Her poems, reviews and artwork have been featured in Little Red Leaves, 42Opus, Shampoo, Moria, Delirious Hem and Another Chicago Magazine.

Jordan Coughtry (monologist) has acted with a number of theater companies, including New Jersey Shakespeare and Hoi Polloi.

Nathan Bontrager (cellist): Nathan Bontrager is a cellist and educator. Currently based out of New Haven, CT, he performs frequently in the New York/New Haven area in addition to touring both nationally and internationally. He has collaborated frequently with composers and performers such as Carl Testa, James Ilgenfritz, Al Margolis, and others. Bontrager has also performed with Anthony Braxton, Michael Moore, the Tri-Centric Orchestra, Taylor Ho Bynum, Kyoko Kitamura, Hugues Vincent, and many others in venues such as the Stone, Roulette, Zaal 100, and Bab-ilo. He can be found at www.nathanbontrager.com

Julianne Carney (violinist): Julianne Carney is a violinist who has performed with Jay Z at Radio City Music Hall and at Royal Albert Hall, recorded with Sufjan Stevens for his album Illinois, and has appeared onstage with Beyonce, Jenny Scheinman, Bill Frisell, Adam Matta (beatbox), Ambitious Orchestra, Luminescent Orchestrii, My Brightest Diamond (formerly AwRY), & Duane Pitre/Pilotram Ensemble. She conducted a Thomas J. Watson Fellowship “wanderjahr” in Europe from August 2001 – July 2002 & received her Bachelor of Music in Violin Performance, Summa Cum Laude, at Lawrence University, in Appleton, WI. Julianne teaches violin at the Brooklyn Conservatory, where she is Director of the Suzuki Division, and at Brooklyn College Preparatory Center, and has completed extensive teacher training in the Suzuki Method.

Kirk Wood Bromley (writer of monologues) is a playwright and artistic director of Inverse Theater Company (www.inversetheater.org), co-curator of the The Home Of (www.thehomeof.org), co-operator of The Performance Club (www.theperformanceclub.org), and co-musician and lyricist for The New Cigarette (www.thenewcigarette.org). He can be reached at verseplays@gmail.com.

The Troubadour Struck By Lightning by Ed Malin will receive a staged reading at The Home Of.

The Troubadour Struck By Lightning tells the story of deviant medieval musicians who created love songs. What does the South of France have to do with the tan, man-positive Moors of Spain? How much fun is it to be a heretic? Prepare to be blinded by the light!

The cast will include Nat Cassidy, Jason Griffith, Tobin Ludwig, and James Rieser. The reading will be directed by DeLisa White.

Please email contact@thehomeof.org to RSVP and to find out our location.

Macgregor Card lives in Queens, teaches at Pratt Institute and programs Monday nights at The Poetry Project. A new chapbook, THE ARCHERS, is recently out from Song Cave. His first book,DUTIES OF AN ENGLISH FOREIGN SECRETARY, was published in December ’09 by Fence Books. With Andrew Maxwell, he was editor ofTHE GERM: A JOURNAL OF POETIC RESEARCH (archives up at http://germspot.blogspot.com).

Paul Legault is the author of two books of poetry: The Madeleine Poems (Omnidawn, 2010) and The Other Poems (Fence, 2011). He co-edits the translation press Telephone Books.

@ The Home Of

8pm on Saturday, October 1, 2011

The concert is free and will have complimentary drinks

Featuring Four Acts:

(click play button to hear or right click file link and select “save as” to download)

Act 1: Broadcloth: Anne Rhodes (voice), Nathan Bontrager (cello), Adam Matlock (accordian/recorder)

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Act 2: Constance Cooper (voice piano)

Connie

Act 3: Edward Schneider (saxophone) + Brian Baumbusch (electronics/keyboard)

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Act 4: Nathan Bontrager (cello)

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BIOS:

Brian Baumbusch began his formal musical training on the classical guitar at the Interlochen Arts Academy at age 15, where he studied flamenco guitar. During his studies, he traveled to Spain to study with a flamenco guitar teacher in Cadiz. Then he moved to Asheville, North Carolina, where he formed the Opal Quartet, now a leading quartet there. In 2006 he entered Bard College, where he performed in the Gamelan group and studied with the renowned microtonal music scholar Kyle Gann. His recent recording with the Opal Quartet of an arrangement of a Gamelan piece has attracted the attention of Kronos’s violinist, David Harrington; they are discussing the possibility of future arrangements. While at Bard, Brian was awarded an independent study grant to spend a semester in Argentina researching Argentinean folk music. His field recordings and video footage have been produced as a pilot documentary.

Cellist Nathan Bontrager performs improvised music ranging from the avant-garde to world folk styles.  While earning his M.M. at the University of Maryland, Bontrager began to focus more heavily on contemporary works and frequently played with local new music ensembles such as Mobtown Modern and the Great Noise Ensemble.  In addition, he co-founded The Experimental Music Performance Organization (T.E.M.P.O.), an ensemble committed to premiering new works which remains active.  Upon moving to Connecticut, Bontrager became increasingly active in the experimental music scene in New Haven (Firehouse 12, the Uncertainty Music Series), New York (the Stone, Evolving Voice Series), and throughout the Northeast and Mid-Atlantic.  In addition to Broadcloth, he can be found performing with the folk group Dr. Caterwaul’s Cadre of Clairvoyant Claptraps, Anthony Braxton’s Tri-Centric Orchestra, the American Baroque Orchestra, and the New Haven Improvisers Collective.

Constance Cooper received first prize in the 2002 Gustav Mahler Competition (Austria). Her reflections about string instruments led to her invention of new hand-positions and notation for Coming From Us, commissioned by the American Composers Forum (Cadence Recordings). Her Divertimento for String Quartet is available on the Princeton CD label. Amoroso for orchestra was recorded by Harold Farberman in 2001. Her improvisatory pieces for organ, synthesizer, and bass Repaying Sin-Driven Senators by Not Thinking About Them were completed during a residency at ArtOMI. She has appeared as composer, pianist, and singer at Lincoln Center Out-of-Doors and with the Princeton University Composers Ensemble, Continuum, and the American Microtonal Festival, and produced her own contemporary vocal recital series for 7 years. She received her PhD in composition from Princeton in 2003.

Accordionist Adam Matlock followed a path from a ground work of classical piano pedagogy and the African-American Spiritual tradition toward a wider range of folk, jazz and new music. After abandoning study of the piano in favor of playing keyboards in rock bands, Matlock formally returned to music while working on a B.A. at Hampshire College, which combined the study of music composition and fiction writing, teaching himself the accordion for the sake of performing Klezmer with the Valley Kapelye under the direction of Adrianne Greenbaum. Matlock composes electronic music under the moniker G. Zarapanecko, and neo-cabaret songs under the name An Historic, and approaches collective folk deconstruction and film scoring with Dr. Caterwaul’s Cadre of Clairvoyant Claptraps. He also performs with the Elm City Guitar Quartet +3, the Erasmus Quintet, and other groupings of the New Haven Improvisers Collective, and continues to devour most new types of music set in front of him, most recently as the accordionist for the Yale Tango Orchestra and Yale Klezmer Band.

Anne Rhodes holds a B.M. in Voice Performance from Boston University’s School for the arts and an M.A. in Music Performance from Wesleyan University, where she focused on experimental music, improvisation and collaborating with composers. She has performed withConnecticut Opera, Yale Opera, Portland Opera Repertory Theatre, the FLUX Quartet, New Haven Improvisers Collective, and the hip-hop duo Mirror Boiyz, and has premiered works by composers including Anthony Braxton, Neil Leonard, Taylor Ho Bynum, Mikael Karlsson, and Alvin Lucier. She is a principle singer in the Trillium Project, an opera company lead by and dedicated to performing the works of Anthony Braxton. Anne currently studies voice with Elizabeth Saunders. As a day job, she serves as Research Archivist for Yale University’s Oral History of American Music.

Edward Schneider is an improviser, composer, and educator currently living in Brooklyn, New York. Before his recent move to New York, Schneider lived in Minneapolis. During this time he co-founded the quintet Process is the Goal and was an active member of the Minneapolis Free Music Society. In 2009 Schneider received a Subito grant from the American Composers Forum to produce the compact disc (Again) Against/Because. . . That same year his new electronic composition, the tree that was a bird, was performed as part of the Conny Purtill performance at the Blinky Palermo puppet theater at the Pompidou in Paris. Recently, Schneider was the subject of a new documentary by the filmmaker Mark Nye.

Holidays for the Future:
A Series of Experimental Chamber Music
At . . . THE HOME OF . . .
The concert is free and will have complimentary drinks
8pm on Saturday, September 10th
Please contact@thehomeof.org to RSVP and to find out their location.

Featuring Three Acts:
Act 1: Constance Cooper (voice), Matt Goeke (cello), and Beth Griffith (voice).
Act 2: Brian Baumbusch (guitar/percussion/electronics).
Act 3: John Cacciatore (drum set), Constance Cooper (piano), Edward Schneider (saxophone), and Wendy Ultan (violin).

Constance Cooper received first prize in the 2002 Gustav Mahler Competition (Austria). Her reflections about string instruments led to her invention of new hand-positions and notation for Coming From Us, commissioned by the American Composers Forum (Cadence Recordings). Her Divertimento for String Quartet is available on the Princeton CD label. Amoroso for orchestra was recorded by Harold Farberman in 2001. Her improvisatory pieces for organ, synthesizer, and bass Repaying Sin-Driven Senators by Not Thinking About Them were completed during a residency at ArtOMI. She has appeared as composer, pianist, and singer at Lincoln Center Out-of-Doors and with the Princeton University Composers Ensemble, Continuum, and the American Microtonal Festival, and produced her own contemporary vocal recital series for 7 years. She received her PhD in composition from Princeton in 2003.

Matt Goeke, cellist, performs as soloist, chamber musician and orchestral player in a broad range of musical styles. Classical recordings include North/South Recordings and 4Tay, Inc. He has also recorded for Opus One Records, Polygram, Elektra, Tzadik and Koch International Classics labels. He performs and records with the bands GIANTfingers and Voltaire and with the experimental instrumental group Another Silent Day. He can be heard on Angelique Kidjo’s 2007 Grammy Award-winning album Djin Djin, and with David Bowie on Time Will Crawl. Matt is also a member of the di.vi.sion piano trio and the Glass Farm Ensemble. In addition to maintaining an active teaching studio, Matt is an adjunct lecturer at the Borough of Manhattan Community College/CUNY, works with the cello sections in Morningside, Turtle Bay and Carnegie Hill Orchestras of the Inter School Orchestras of New York, and coaches chamber music in the New York Youth Symphony’s chamber music program.

Beth Griffith has performed at the Warsaw Autumn, Cologne Triennale, Wien Modern, Numus Festival, RiAC, Donaueschingen Musiktage, Darmstadt Summer Courses, November Musi, Wittener Tage für Neue Kammermusik, ISCM and New Music America. She has guested with Musikfabrik, Collegium Vocale Köln, Paris Nouvelle Orchestre Philharmonique, Hamburg Opera, Kammerensemble Neue Musik Berlin, London New Music, and the Cologne Radio Symphony Orchestra. In New York. Beth has performed at New Company Brooklyn, Medicine Show Theater, DTW, Joyce SoHo, White Wave Festival, Ailey Theater, Roulette, International WOW Company, The Flea Theater and Medicine Show Theater.

Brian Baumbusch began his formal musical training on the classical guitar at the Interlochen Arts Academy at age 15, where he studied flamenco guitar. During his studies, he traveled to Spain to study with a flamenco guitar teacher in Cadiz. Then he moved to Asheville, North Carolina, where he formed the Opal Quartet, now a leading quartet there. In 2006 he entered Bard College, where he performed in the Gamelan group and studied with the renowned microtonal music scholar Kyle Gann. His recent recording with the Opal Quartet of an arrangement of a Gamelan piece has attracted the attention of Kronos’s violinist, David Harrington; they are discussing the possibility of future arrangements. While at Bard, Brian was awarded an independent study grant to spend a semester in Argentina researching Argentinean folk music. His field recordings and video footage have been produced as a pilot documentary.

Edward Schneider is an improviser, composer, and educator currently living in Brooklyn, New York. Before his recent move to New York, Schneider lived in Minneapolis. During this time he co-founded the quintet Process is the Goal and was an active member of the Minneapolis Free Music Society. In 2009 Schneider received a Subito grant from the American Composers Forum to produce the compact disc (Again) Against/Because. . . That same year his new electronic composition, the tree that was a bird, was performed as part of the Conny Purtill performance at the Blinky Palermo puppet theater at the Pompidou in Paris. Recently, Schneider was the subject of a new documentary by the filmmaker Mark Nye.

Wendy Ultan is a violinist who frequently employs electronics to expand 
the palate of her instrument. She has performed with William Parker, Bern Nix, Elliott Sharp, Evelyn Blakey, Dj Carnage, Valerie Naranjo, Alva Rogers, Charles Burnham, Rufus Cappodocia, Jemeel Moondoc, Ahmadou Ngom, and many others. Commissions include those by the Rockefeller Foundation, Minnesota Composers Forum, Intermedia arts, the National Gallery of Art, Canada, the Dia Foundation, and the Mcknight Foundation.

John Cacciatore has a hard time writing about himself, as many musicians do. He would, however, like you to know that he is a native New Yorker; that he attended the Westchester Conservatory of Music; that his first love is percussion, which continues to lead him into many different genres; and that the guitar, along with vocal participation in church choirs throughout Westchester, has also played a major part in his development. He is the singer-songwriter on a CD designed to comfort hospice patients, developing this repertoire while working with Calvary Hospital Hospice and local hospitals.
 

Featuring: Regan Good, Brian Young, Franklin Bruno, Claudia La Rocco, Jenny Mueller, Rosemary Griggs

August 8, 2011 at 8 pm

Free admission, free drinks, free snacks

RSVP to contact@thehomeof.org to reserve and receive our secret location

Brian Young is the author of two books of poems, Site Acquisition (Fence Books 2008) and The Full Night in the Street Water (University of Nevada Press 2003). He lives near St. Louis, Missouri.

Regan Good is a graduate of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop. She was a 2001-2002 poetry fellow at the Provincetown Fine Arts Work Center. Her poems and essays have appeared in Fence, Tin House, New Letters, Field, the Antioch Reviewand elsewhere. She lives in Brooklyn, New York.

Franklin Bruno‘s most recent chapbook is Policy Instrument (Lame House). A full-length collection, The Accordion Repertoire, will be published by Edge Books in 2012. Recent poems have appeared in The Brooklyn Rail, West Wind Review, and online in Sink Review. He is also the author of a book on Elvis Costello’s album Armed Forces, in Continuum’s 33 1/3 series; his essays and critical writing have appeared in The Nation, The Believer, and Da Capo’s Best Music Writing annuals. A native of Southern California’s “Inland Empire,” he now lives and writes in Jackson Heights, Queens.

Claudia La Rocco is a member of the Off The Park poetry press, where she is currently editing an anthology of poems by painters. She writes about performance for the New York Times and is an editor-at-large for the Brooklyn Rail. Her poems have been published in a variety of outlets, and she reads regularly in New York.

Jenny Mueller is this author of Bonneville, from Elixir Press. She lives in St. Louis, teaches at McKendree University, and occasionally publishes her poems in magazines like Colorado Review, Court Green, Fence, Interim, and New American Writing.

Rosemary Griggs is a Bay Area writer and actor. Her book Sky Girl won the 2003 Alberta Prize and was published by Fence Books. She’ll be screening a film of a poem from her new manuscript entitled Bless Me Baby Jesus I Have been so very Bad, which was made in collaboration with Film maker Tor Hansen and composer David Rhodes.

The BBQ will start at 6 pm and the Powwow will begin at 7 pm.

The Home Of presents a reading by four actors of a dramatized section of a new novel by Jon Bloom, entitled Hell Is Above Us. This historical mock reality fiction diary, told in the style of mid-20th century English mountaineering journals, recounts the story of two men racing to the top of the tallest mountain in the world – Mt. Fumu – whose status as such is a secret known only to the climbing world. And action.

June 18, 7 pm

FREE, and drinks will be served.

email contact@thehomeof.org for our location