On Thursday 4th May 2006, all the way from Portland, Oregon,
USA: Proprietress, Raconteur, and Chanteuse, Chloe
Eudaly, presents a selection of some of her favorite Portland
based authors, artists, and filmmakers. She will be speaking about
independently produced literature and her own role in that world
with her famous store, Reading
Frenzy.
The
event at London venue The Horse Hospital will be Chloe's first in
the UK.
Readings
by:
Bee Lavender,
whose stunning auto-medical-biography Lessons in Taxidermy
is a visceral blue collar tale of fighting cancer and car crashes,
without the predictably prescribed finding of faith, fortune and
neat endings.
"You
know how sometimes you read a book that's so powerful, you find
you keep flipping to the back to look at the author's photo? Lessons
in Taxidermy has that effect." - Time Out New York
[I
can personally say that this is the most gripping book I have read
in the last year. It is brilliant.]
Diswasher
Pete, whose fanzine Diswasher saw him
wash dishes in most of the states in the US and who has finally
hung up his dishrag and bottle brushes in order to have some perspective
on his journey after a bad experience on a Greyhound bus. He is
also a contributor to National Public Radio and a book version of
his journey through the sinks of America will be published soon.
Screenings:
A presentation of experimental short films made by various filmmakers,
co-curated by Vanessa Renwick of the Oregon
Dept. of Kickass
also
Acteon
at Home (Vladmaster)
This is a film made in ViewMaster format and shown on the little
hand-held devices more usually seen as a children’s toy.
Actaeon,
to the ancient Greeks, was a hunter unlucky enough to get a good
look at Artemis bathing naked amongst her nymphs. For his trespasses,
Actaeon was transformed into a stag and then devoured by his own
hounds. Our Actaeon, may or may not have anything to do with the
historical Actaeon. He is a small man in a room with striped wallpaper
and antlers and a typewriter and a collection of Currier & Ives
prints. Oh, also there is a train chase.
Chloe
will also be selling copies of cult clip art magazine Crap
Hound, of which she is now publisher. There will also be
some North West freebies for those attending. Music will be a selection
of sounds from the North West.
This
event is the follow up to The Reading
Frenzy booksale, which we organised at the Horse Hospital back
in September. Chloe is using the money raised for a break in England
and to help with bills for the ongoing healthcare of her son, Henry.
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