REMINDER: High Mayhem Word-Centric Feb 20 matinee

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High Mayhem Emerging Arts
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*Word-Centric*

Sunday, February 20 at noon
2811 Siler Lane, Santa Fe NM

A celebration of the written and spoken word in two parts.

The first set will be performances by Tommy Archuleta, Valerie Martinez (the
former Santa Fe Poet Laureate), John Flax, Ginger Dunnill, and Michael
Smith.

The second act will be “These Are Real Brains” lead by poet and founder of
the Alzheimer’s Poetry Project, Gary Glazner, with Carlos Santistevan
(bass), Milton Villarrubia, III (percussion), Dino J.A. Deane (Sampler/Live
Sampling), Molly Sturges (vocals), and Chris Jonas (saxophone).

Performing and creating poetry with people living with Alzheimer’s disease
and related dementia inspire Glazner’s poem “These Are Real Brains.” Working
in the tradition of Dada, and Surrealist poets and drawing inspiration and
methodology from cut-up and found poetry techniques, collage, and
counterpoint, the poem looks at consciousness, attention span and the
effects of the cut and paste computer technology. The poem mixes Glazner’s
original work with well-loved classic poems. In speaking the lines of
Shakespeare the reader uses the same vocal cord, larynx, lungs and lips as
he did 400 plus years ago and brings that breath into the world. It looks at
cultural touch points of Presidential dementia and explores what it means to
love someone who no longer remembers that you are married. It speaks in the
voice of people living with memory loss. The poem acts as score and text for
improvisational performance and draws on the long history of poetry as oral
art.


About Gary Glazner
Gary Glazner is the founder and Executive Director of the Alzheimer's Poetry
Project, (APP). The National Endowment for the Arts listed the APP as a
“best practice” for their Arts and Aging initiative. NBC's “Today” show,
NPR's “All Things Considered” and Voice of America have featured segments on
Glazner’s work. Harper Collins, W.W. Norton and Salon.com have published his
work. Glazner is the author and editor of five books including: "Ears on
Fire: Snapshot Essays in a World of Poets," published on La Alameda Press,
the book chronicles a year abroad in Asia and Europe meeting poets, working
on translations and writing poems; "How to Make a Living as a Poet" on Soft
Skull Press, which features essays and interviews on creative ways to bring
poetry to the world and “Poetry Slam: The Competitive Art of Performance
Poetry,” on Manic D Press. In 2009, Glazner was invited by a group of poets
to launch the APP in Berlin and Marburg. In 2010, the U.S. Embassy is
funding a pilot project for the APP in Germany. From 2007 to 2010, Glazner
was the Managing Director of the Bowery Poetry Club in New York City.
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