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HOMUNCULUS

VenueLiterary Arts Boom [The LAB]

Date05/23/2013

Time7:30 PM - 9:30 PM

Event TypeReading

GenreMultigenre

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Cost $0.00
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Description and Reader Names: Poetry, fiction, and more! Literary Arts Boom [The LAB]'s Homunculus series of literary readings double as mini-fundraisers for the free youth programming we offer.

Nikki Allen, Ed Steck, Vanessa German, and Renée Alberts will read.

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Nikki Allen is a writer born in Ohio and currently living in Pittsburgh. She’s been getting on stages for over 11 years and scribbling poems on homework, in notebooks and all over cocktail napkins for most of her life. She is the author of numerous chapbooks, including 'Gutter of Eden,' 'My Darling Since,' and 'Quite Like Yes.' Her poetry has appeared in The New Yinzer, Crash, Natural Language Anthology for Carnegie Library, Open Thread Regional Review Vol. 2, [out of nothing], and Encyclopedia Destructica. Her latest collection of writing, 'said the goodbye cerebellum to the hobo heart' will be out in 2013. She’s also performed with beat boxers, bucket drums and the Incredibly Thin Collective. She lives to witness others doing what they love.

Ed Steck (MFA Bard College) is a writer from Southwestern Pennsylvania. He currently lives in Pittsburgh, PA. His work often focuses on surveillance and landscape through the direct confrontation with bureaucratic language in government, military, and corporate documents. He has collaborated on publications with David Horvitz, Marc Handelman, and Wintergarten LTD. Most recently, West in Den Haag published 'A Time Stream in Spaces: The Cultic Parody of Time-Induced Capital' as part of the 'Let Us Keep Our Own Noon' group exhibition. 'Field of Vision' was published by Reactor Press in 2012 as a limited edition chapbook. Ed is also published in Encyclopedia Destructica: Volume Coatlicue 2. His book of poetry, The Garden: Synthetic Environment for Analysis and Simulation, will be published by Ugly Duckling Presse in 2013.

Vanessa German is a multidisciplinary artist, sculptor, performance artist, actress, playwright, and designer based in Pittsburgh who has performed throughout the country and internationally. She is an inaugural fellow and founding member of the Theatre Ensemble at the August Wilson Center where she wrote and performed her spoken word opera 'root'. She has since performed 'root' at the Vineyard Playhouse in Martha's Vineyard and at Pittsburgh's Kelly-Strayhorn Theatre. Her spoken word operetta, 'love poem 4 water', was performed at the Pittsburgh branch of the American Jewish Museum, and she has been featured at TEDxPIttsburgh as well. Her sculptural work is in galleries, museums, and collections nationwide, including The David C. Driskell Center, the IP Stanback Museum, and The Progressive Collection. Vanessa was the 2012 Emerging Artist of the Year at Pittsburgh Center for the Arts.

Renée Alberts' poetry and visual art have appeared in print, dance performances, live radio shows and at least one tattoo. She is author of the poetry collections No Water and As They Fall and editor of Natural Language: Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh Sunday Poetry & Reading Series Anthology, a collection of writers featured in the series she founded. She guest hosts Prosody on NPR-affiliate 90.5 WESA-FM. With Cathie Coleman, she creates collages and jewelry as Animoon Workshop. For more information, please visit animalprayer.com.

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Address 15125 Penn Ave.

Address 2

Address 3

CityPittsburgh

StatePA

Zip15224

Days/Hours of Operationvisit www.literaryartsboom.org/calendar. The space is open during scheduled events.

Primary Contact PersonPaula Levin

Primary Contact Emailliteraryartsboom@gmail.com