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Volunteers Needed for Artists & Models 2010!

Stimulus: the 2010 iteration of Artists & Models is coming on May 1 at Rock Harbor Yard. Hallwalls needs volunteers to make it happen. See this page for information about how you can help out!

Beyond|In Western New York 2010: ALTERNATING CURRENTS — Venues and artists announced
This biennial, multi-venue exhibition will present the work of outstanding artists from Western New York and Southern Ontario, responding to the regionally relevant theme Alternating Currents and its undercurrent of utopian power, both literal and metaphorical; reclamation or use of natural assets; visions of the future and the past; technological progress or intrusion; and the diverse demographic and social constructs of this region.

See our page for a listing of the venues and artists.
FROM THE ARCHIVES:
30 years ago at Hallwalls
Tue. Mar. 11, 1980
MANUEL DE LANDA
Three films by Manuel de Landa will be screened: RAW NERVES: LACANIAN THRILLER; ITCH SCRATCH ITCH CYCLE, and ISMISM
341 DELAWARE AVE.
BUFFALO, NY 14202
t: 716-854-1694
f: 716-854-1696
 
IN THE GALLERY:
From Mar. 6, 2010
through Apr. 9, 2010

Gallery hours:
Tues.—Fri. 11-6
Sat. 11-2
Sun. & Mon. closed

Josh Greene
Character Descriptions
A new project by a San Francisco-based artist who, over the last several years, has realized his work in many distinct iterations. Recent projects include Service-Works: a small foundation he created that awards grants—based upon his income as a waiter in fine-dining restaurant—to other artists, starting an unlicensed therapy practice, attempting to sell a museum curator and his museum office, a collaboration with his wife which involved hiring Danish actors to play the two of them in a video, and creating a small book based on his family members writing about their least favorite projects he has done.

Heather Layton
Preparing To Lose
In a culture addicted to win/win, "we're No. 1" scenarios, Heather Layton's Preparing To Lose drawings are imagined as counter-narratives to the cultural norm. Her ambiguous and unidentified characters are fragile, but not fear-ridden. They are part of a team that is not going to win, but persist in trying.

Thu., Apr. 1, 2010 at 7:00 p.m.
Hallwalls & Talking Leaves...Books presents
Mark Nowak
FREE

A poetry reading by the author of Coal Mountain Elementary (Coffee House Press, 2009)

A singular, genre-defying treatise from one of America's most innovative political poets, Coal Mountain Elementary remixes verbatim testimony from the surviving Sago, West Virginia miners and rescue teams, the American Coal Foundation's curriculum for schoolchildren, newspaper accounts of mining disasters in China, and full-color photographs of Chinese miners by renowned photojournalist Ian Teh.

"Coal Mountain Elementary is an imaginative and shocking reminder of what it means, in the most human and poignant terms, to be a miner, whether in this country or in China, or for that matter anywhere in the industrial world. It is also a tribute to miners and working people everywhere. It manages, in photos and in words, to portray an entire culture. And it is a stunning educational tool."—Howard Zinn

"Mark Nowak's vital poetry cleaves to the hard surfaces of working lives. There is an epic quality to the voices that cannot be dismissed by corporations or the state. Coal Mountain Elementary will move readers to indignation and action."—Aihwa Ong

Mark Nowak is the author of Coal Mountain Elementary (Coffee House Press, 2009) and Shut Up Shut Down (Coffee House Press, 2004). For the past several years he has been designing and facilitating "poetry dialogues" with Ford autoworkers in the United States and South Africa (through the UAW and NUMSA), striking clerical workers (through AFSCME 3800), Muslim/Somali nurses and healthcare workers (through Rufaidah), and others. Nowak's writings on new labor poetics have recently appeared in Goth: Undead Subculture (Duke, 2007)-from which he read his essay entitled "To Commit Suicide in Buffalo is Redundant: Music & Death in Zero City, 1982—1984" at Hallwalls on May 17, 2007—American Poets in the 21st Century: The New Poetics (Wesleyan, 2007), The Progressive, and elsewhere. A native of Buffalo, he currently works as Director of the Rose O'Neill Literary House at Washington College in Chestertown, Maryland.
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