There are two conferences happening in NYC this weekend that I’m planning on going to. Platform Cooperativism just got started this morning and runs through tomorrow at The New School. The Creative Time Summit is happening Saturday/Sunday, at a high school in Bedford-Stuyvesant. I’m not sure how I’ll juggle both events tomorrow, but Platform Cooperativism has a livestream going if you want to follow along from home.
Two Philip Levine poems
Here is a recording of a reading Philip Levine gave at the 92 Street Y called The Language of the Place.
There are two poems in particular, about Brooklyn and the Sierra Nevada mountains, that I enjoyed (they start about 17 minutes in).
Events for February 19-21, 2010
I’m kind of annoyed I missed the sold out Will Wright lecture last night. I had tickets and just totally forgot about it. But there’s a lot happening this weekend in my little sphere of interest, so maybe it’s good that I conserved some “going out energy.”
Friday, February 19
- Triple Canopy at the New Museum
- Flux Factory opening at their new space in LIC
- Bushwick galleries stay open late
Saturday, February 20
- A benefit party for the new home of Triple Canopy, Light Industry, and The Public School
- Homestead exhibition
- PechaKucha #9 with Zach Lieberman’s EyeWriter in the line-up
Sunday, February 21
- Sculpture Space: Utica’s Utopia (My friend Heather did a residency in Utica and there’s a video being screened about it.)
- The Phenomenal Handclap band is playing a free show at Brooklyn Bowl, which I’ll probably miss, but damn $2 Brooklyn lager!
And of course there are a few workshops with space left at Trade School including “Caviar: Demystified,” “Collecting amidst disaster” and “Accidental Pornographies: Developing Underground Health Magazines and Stealth Distribution Models.”
Matthew Coolidge speaking at Pratt
I’m not seeing this posted on Pratt’s website or at the CLUI or at Bomb, so I’ll just copy + paste the email announcement here.
Anthropogeomorphology Today: Current Programs and Projects of The Center for Land Use Interpretation
A Lecture by Matthew Coolidge, founder and director of The Center for Land Use Interpretation, part of Pratt Institute’s Spring Lecture Series
Monday, February 22, 6pm
Higgins Hall
60 St. James Place
(corner of Lafayette)
FREE
Listen to a BOMBLive! conversation between Matthew Coolidge and BOMB contributing editor and architect Deborah Gans after March 1 on BOMBsite.com.