ALIVE! @ the Bell Foundry

ONE NIGHT ONLY!
Thursday, March 31
8pm
The Bell Foundry
1539 N Calvert St
$5

ALIVE: The Story of Uruguayan Flight Number 571

Their plane crashed high in the Andes. Their only shelter was the plane’s shattered fuselage, their only supplies a little wine and some bits of candy. In the beginning, there were thirty-two survivors. Then, only twenty-seven; then, nineteen . . . and, in the end, sixteen.

This is their story---the greatest modern epic of catastrophe and human endurance.

A theatrical adaptation based on the novel Alive: The Story of the Andes Survivors by Piers Paul Read (1974) as well as the 1993 film.

Now bigger and better than ever!

WORMS--ALL JUVENILIA EDITION

Wednesday, December 8
Doors will open at 7:45.
Readings will begin at 8:15

The Bell Foundry
1539 N Calvert Street

In December, WORMS is going to be all juvenilia. Every writer will be performing work they created when they were much younger, more innocent, less worldly.

This month's readers include:

CRICKET ARRISON came to Baltimore in the heady summer of 2008 with a heart full of wonder and a song on her lips. Her dreams came true when she was recently installed as the third member of the Un Saddest Factory Theatre Company. She likes the White Mountains of New Hampshire a whole lot. If you tune your radio to 88.9 at 6:56 pm every Monday - Thursday evening, you will hear her name.

LAUREN BENDER is: 1/3 of Narrow House, 1/1 of curator of the Show&Tell series, and 1/2 of the Bender Twins.

AMY HARMON grew up young on Cape Cod, and moved to several other places after that. She received a BA in French, Art History, and Film Studies from the University of Massachusetts in 1999 and has been singing in the Lexie Mountain Boys for about 5 years now. She loves Baltimore real bad and spends the vast majority of her time thinking about joke chemistry, teaching, irrational fears, Weird Al, and that brief yet magical window of time that was "post-NOT" but somehow "pre-CORNHOLIO."

DINA KELBERMAN went to school at Purchase College, where everything came together. She now lives in Baltimore, MD and is a founding member of Wham City. She makes comics, draws stuff, paints cardboard, website, and routinely brings garbage into the house. She loves her friends dearly. She recently aquired the rank of 4th place for Tetris lines on NES on Twin Galaxies. Please contact her at your slightest whim.

RACHEL MONROE

MELANIE O'BRIEN is a baby that grew up. Originally known as Melanie "Hayes", she has been writing since very young. Currently she is working on a project of secret poetry intended never to leave the house, which includes letters to her unborn baby, records of her dreams, and little tiny poems on post-its. Melanie has a respectable job and lives in Baltimore with, among others, her husband and a hungry, growing child in utero.

LOLA PIERSON is an MFA candidate at Towson. She is a founding member of The Un Saddest Factory, a Baltimore based DIY theatre company, and lives at the Bell Foundry. She won third place in the citypaper's fiction contest this year and is the author of many hit plays.

ADAM ROBINSON Adam Robinson grew up in central New York and started writing in earnest after Mrs. Brown, his 9th grade English teacher, praised his story, "Devastatingly Unjust." Since then, he's published work in numerous journals and in two books, including Adam Robison and Other Poems which the Baltimore-based press, Narrow House, released this past spring. He plays guitar in Sweatpants, a rock band.

ED SCHRADER

KIM TABARA lives and works in Baltimore City. He writes for the online magazine Beatbots. He is a contributor to WYPR's Maryland Morning with Sheilah Kast. He will never win the City Paper's Annual Poetry and Fiction competition.


free and open to the public.

Wham City Lecture Series: A Panel Discussion: Memetics and Sustainability

A Panel Discussion: Memetics and Sustainability
Wham City Lecture Series
Wednesday, October 20
7:00pm - 10:00pm
The Bellfoundry, 1539 N Calvert

Memetics! Sustainability! Erin Gleeson! Keith Lea! Rjyan Kidwell! Cullen Stalin!Every combination of those words! How do the memes that make up the culture we reside in effect our sustainability? Are those memes themselves sustainable? What kind of memes are necessary for sustainability? What's up with the current sustainability meme? Let's keep the culture going!

WORMS in October

WORMS // Wednesday, 13 October 2010
7:45 PM // The Bell Foundry [1539 N Calvert Street]
Free // Open to All

LAUREN BENDER, 5'0", 110#. Co-director of Narrow House, curator of BOÎTE: Show&Tell (a new performance series at Minás), Feminine Arbiter of Phrases for the Performance Thanatology Research Society, all around good guy. Sporadic postings can be found at times-infinity.blogspot.com.


ERIN GLEESON is a writer, illustrator and co-creator of the touring puppet series Showbeast. Her work has been featured all across the country, and she recently co-wrote and co-directed videos for Dan Deacon and Beach House. She writes the blog letsbeselfsufficient.com, in which she explores sustainable living in an urban environment.


DYLAN KINNETT grew up in a small town you may have heard of, in West Virginia. While attending college in Tennessee, he wrote a novella in hypertext entitled To Win, Simply Play. He has also written a stage play about a street preacher, several published short stories, and the occasional limerick on a bathroom wall. Dylan is the founding editor of Infinity’s Kitchen, a graphic literary journal of experimental literature. He is also a co-author of the physicalist manifesto, a member of the Second Land audio-visual collective, a published art critic and an occasional slam poet. He has recently produced an album of sound and spoken word, at the Magnanimous Records studio, entitled Strange Punctuation. He lives and works in Baltimore.


RACHEL MONROE is from Richmond, Virginia but currently lives and writes in Baltimore. She loves both cities equally. She is interested in cults, true crime, and crazy women writers of the 1950s.


CHRIS TOLL is a poet and collagemaker who lives in Baltimore, Maryland. In 2011, his new book will come out. It will be called: Batgirl Marries Jesus Christ.

Visit wormsbaltimore.blogspot.com to peruse samples of their work!

Wham City Lectures continue tomorrow!

JoAnna Cosgrove- Beekeeping, Abe Sanders- a Trip to Nicaragua
Wednesday, October 6
7:00pm - 10:00pm
Bell foundry

For this installment we are visiting two cultures in peril, to Mesoamericans, and bees. What is the exciting beauty of these two worlds. Only the lecture serise can say.

The Wham City Lecture Series returns . . . for real this time!

RM Obrien on Bruce Spring Steen and Connor Kizer on a New Esoteric Order
Wham City Lecture Series
Wednesday, September 22
7:00pm - 10:00pm
Bellfoundry, 1539 Calvert
$2

A rescheduled magnificence! What you expected two weeks ago comes to glorious life, in what was then the future! Live the future now! Bob will tell you of this troubadour of the common man( or uncommon man), and Connor will ask you to help combat the erosion of meaning! Who will win??

Plus Cream Dream will make all your ice cream dreams come true.

WORMS!

The first WORMS of the season! Readers include Stephanie Barber, Chuck Green, Adam Robinson, Donna Sellinger, and Justin Sirois

Wednesday, September 15
7:30pm - 10:00pm
Readings begin at 8:10 PM
the Bell Foundry
1539 N Calvert St



STEPHANIE BARBER is a multi media artist who creates meticulously crafted, odd and imaginative writing, films and videos as well as performance pieces which incorporate music, literature and video.
Her small book poems was published in 2006 by Bronze Skull Press. Her lecture FOR A LAWN POEM was published in 2007 by Publishing Genius Press and her book these here separated to see how they standing alone or the soundtrack to six films by stephanie barber was published in May 2008 by Publishing Genius Press and is being reprinted presently. Included in this book is her experimental essay the inversion, transcription, evening track and attractor (the soundtrack for the video of the same name) which was nominated for a Pushcart Prize. Her work has also been included in magazines, journals and anthologies.
More information can be found at stephaniebarber.com

Since learning to read and write, CHUCK GREEN has undergone a vast transformation from communicating solely with sounds and crude drawings. Over the years he has developed his motor skills beyond that of an ape and has learned to operate the typewriter-style keyboard to the point where he has managed to publish many different zines, including his most recent work, Celebrities I Have Known. He is also the technical director of the Baltimore-based society of rock opera producers known as the Baltimore Rock Opera Society. He currently strives to live out his lifelong mantra, "Live Every Week Like It's Shark Week."
More information can be found at vagittarius.com

ADAM ROBINSON's first book, Adam Robison and Other Poems, was released by Narrow House in early 2010, and he self-published his second book, Say, Poem, in May. He operates Publishing Genius, a small press that has put out about 15 books and a couple dozen chapbooks. He plays guitar in Sweatpants, a rock band.

DONNA SELLINGER spends most of her time as one third of The Missoula Oblongata, a critically-acclaimed touring experimental theater company. When not doing that, she participates in the Baltimore DIY theater scene as bet she can. In early 2008, Donna directed The Wham City Players in They Should All Be Destroyed (A Jurassic Park Play). She also adapted a Tom & Jerry cartoon for the stage (playing Jerry) for the Annex Theater's Hanna-Barbera play festival and directed a musical called The Prettiest Place on Earth written by Lola Pierson with music by Alex Scally (of the band Beach House). Her play-in-a-box-for-an-audience-of-no-one, titled One Pair was included in the Wham City Box Set #1. More recently, she spent five weeks in Jordan and the West Bank teaching free shadow puppetry workshops to refugee and Palestinian youth. Donna received her MFA in Theater Arts from Towson University, a program that she highly recommends.

JUSTIN SIROIS is a novelist living in Baltimore, Maryland. His books include MLKNG SCKLS (Publishing Genius) and Falcons on the Floor (forthcoming, Pub G.) written with Iraqi refugee Haneen Alshujairy. His novel Black, Light, 1993 will be finished soon. He also runs the Understanding Campaign with Haneen and co-directs Narrow House. Justin received individual Maryland State Art Council grants in 2003, 2007, and 2010.


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