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[junenuad]

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[junenuad]

LAB-NOI lost in LOYKRATONG Festival💕 #fullteam #splab (at สีฐานเฟลติวัล)

[junenuad]

group of LAB-NOI💓 #fullteam #splab (at สีฐานเฟลติวัล)

[aprilfestseattle]

APRIL 2013 Schedule

Lost track of how much fun you had at APRIL 2013? Want to know what you missed? Have an obsession with calendars, independent publishing, and/or cheap beer? Here's the complete lineup from last year's fest!

- Benediction at Chop Suey, 3/25/13

readings from Summer Robinson, Matthew Dickman, and Rebecca Brown; performances from Jackie Hell and Punishment

- Happy Hour Reading no. 1 at the Quarter Lounge, 3/26/13

readings from Amber Nelson, Rich Smith, and Rebecca Bridge

- The Trees The Trees at Vignettes, 3/26/13

reading from Heather Christle; art from Jamey Braden, Eroyn Franklin, Adam Boehmer, Gala Bent, Zack Bent, Amanda Manitach, and Maggie Carson Romano

- Happy Hour Reading no. 2 at the Comet Tavern, 3/27/13

readings from Maged Zaher, Calvin Pierce, and Dave Thomas

- A Poet, a Playwright, a Novelist, and a Drag Queen at the Sorrento Hotel, 3/27/13

readings and performances from Cherdonna, Elissa Ball, Peter Mountford, and Neil Ferron

- Happy Hour Reading no. 3 at Vermillion Art Gallery and Bar, 3/28/13

readings curated by Pageboy Magazine. Featuring Greg Bem, Rachel Kessler, Emily Beyer, Jennifer Burdette, and Thomas Walton and Elizabeth Cooperman on ukulele

- APRIL Showcase at Richard Hugo House, 3/28/13

readings from Matthew Rohrer, Heather Christle, and Rauan Klassnik

- The Stranger's Verse-Chapter-Verse at Neumos, 3/29/13

curated by the Stranger. Featuring a reading from Sherman Alexie; musical performance by Fly Moon Royalty

- Small Press Expo at Richard Hugo House, 3/30/13

readings curated by SPLAB, The Furnace and the Bushwick Book Club, and Breadline

[socialpsychologylab]

Emcee Lazarus: Keep On

In this video The Good Brotha Lazarus Speaks about everyday struggles and how you must keep on keeping on. We shot it mostly on the street (mostly Longmarket street and other locations in the CBD) to try and capture the sense of everydayness and everyday life. When presented on film, the everyday and even mundane can assume extraordinary qualities, we can start to see the extraordinariness of everyday life

Dumisa

[socialpsychologylab]

Brotha Lazarus Speaks:

Hi SPLABBERS! For my presentation I want to explore with you some ideas and motivations for a short doccie that I want to shoot. It explores the everyday experiences of being a hip hopper for young South Africans. I want to look at the juncture of the ordinary and extraordinary in everyday life. This is a short clip on a talk given by The Good Brotha Lazarus in which he delves a bit into hip hop culture as an everyday experience

Dumisa

[aprilfestseattle]

This isn't your elementary school's book fair

Remember your elementary school’s annual book fair where you’d spend your lunch money on Goosebumps? We certainly do! We're excited to announce the almost complete line-up for our grown-up book fair (complete with a fully-stocked bar!), the third annual Small Press Expo, co-presented by Richard Hugo House, at Richard Hugo House on March 30, from 11 am – 4 pm. There you'll have the chance to buy books from great presses like Hobart (SF/LD Books), Future Tense, Featherproof, Jaded Ibis, Caktrain, Magic Helicopter, and more. Are you with a press that would like to be involved? We still have table space, so apply here.

But it will also be so much more than a book fair! All throughout the day we'll have readings and musical performances from:

12:30-1:30: SPLAB Poetry Bout: New Mexicans (Amalio Madueño and Nadine Maestas) vs. Cascadians (Stephen Roxborough and Anastacia Tolbert), hosted by Paul Nelson.

1:30-2:30: The Bushwick Book Club presents original music inspired by The Furnace, featuring Brad Loomis and Nancy K Dillon and others from the BBC.

2:30-3:30: Breadline March on an APRIL Afternoon, featuring Portland poet Michael Heald, and all-girl string trio "the Ink & the Echo." Hosts Greg Bem and Jeremy Springsteed will perform pieces with string accompaniment. 

3:30-4: Other People's Poetry & Prose: We're bringing back a favorite event from Pilot Books. Bring your favorite small or independent press title and read to us. 

Mark your calendars! It's going to be a great way to end the festival. And because we like you and want you to come, there's no entry fee and the first ten attendees will get an APRIL tote.

[nateslawson]

The other Seattle reading. The one where my hair was especially 1982 and I told a hypothetical story of a hypothetical story about fried chicken and read a ferocious poem that almost burned my sweater off.