Blog - The Project Room

July 31, 8:30pm to 11:30pm
Southgate Roller Rink, Seattle

Join us for Rollergate 2015, an evening of skating, music, and art. A portion of ticket proceeds will support The Project Room's podcast series, yipee! If you happen to be attendingAnastacia Tolbert's one-woman show 9 Ouncesthat night, Rollergate is providing free transportation after the showto theroller rink!

Getting Good: Interdisciplinary Artist Tameka Norris Artist Tameka Norris dives into issues of intellectual property, authorship, appropriation and her relationship to art history as she discusses the vulnerabilities encountered while building a legacy in our digital era.

Join us for the premiere performances of 9 OUNCES, A One-Woman Show

VIP DEBUTS: July 30 & September 10. Drinks @6:30pm. performance @7pm

FREE Public PERFORMANCES: July 31 & Aug 1, Sept 11& 12@ 7pm

Alice
Alice
Alice
Luna
Luna
Luna
Saraphina

Since October 2014, The Project Room has been following Anastacia Tolbert in the making of 9 Ounces, A One-Woman Show, staring Alice, Luna & Saraphina. Using the audience as mirror, epiphany and diary, three narratives crochet themselves around evolving frames. This unkempt, de-ribbon-ed braid dangling crooked parts is not to be missed.

All performances will be held @ The Project Room. General admission performances are FREE. Required tickets available NOW for VIP debuts & free July & August performances; age 16+ unless accompanied by a guardian. Click on the dates below to link to Stranger Ticket Sales.

VIP DEBUT Performances: $25

Thurs. July 30 & September 10, 6:30-9pm
Special Q & A with the artist after the performance. Wine and hors d'oeurvres will be served! $25 VIP tickets required via Stranger Tickets; available on 5/14/15. Doors open at 6:30pm, performance at 7pm. Seating is limited.

General Admission Performances: FREE

Fri. July 31 & Sat. August 1, 7-8:30pm
FREE tickets required via Stranger Tickets; available on 5/14/15.
Seating is limited.

Fri. September 11 & Sat. September 12, 7-8:30pm
FREE tickets required via S

This month, Director of the Project Room, Tia Kramer sat down with Seattle-based poet and artist Natasha Marin. Their discussion moved from her various works in poetry, performance, and visual art, to her upbringing in Canada and how the country's politics influences her work.

Thursday, May 14th, 7-8:30pm @ 10 degrees

A Toast to 9 Ounces is a special, one night only fundraiser for 9 Ounces: A One-Woman Show by Anastacia Tolbert.

LOCATION: 10 degrees, 1312 E. Union Street, Seattle, WA 98122
FUNDRAISER TICKETS: $25 via Stranger Tickets. All proceeds go directly to the artist.
http://www.strangertickets.com/events/24274537/a-toast-to-9-ounces

Since October 2014, The Project Room has been following writer and performerAnastacia Tolbert in the making of 9 Ounces: A One-Woman Show. During this preview event, Anastacia Tolbert will give the audience a special behind-the-scenes sneak peak into the three characters of her forthcoming production, 9 Ounces. Come meet Alice, Luna, and Saraphina as they are interviewed by TPR Editor, Tessa Hulls.This fundraiser-sneak-peek is sure to not be missed!

9 Ounces debuts at The Project Room this July 30, August 1-2, and September 10-12. Tickets for all performances available soon.

AnastaciaTolbertis a queer mix orsupershero& alphabet fairy godmother dust.Although she isn’t opposed to regular clothing, if she could she’d wear a cape & galoshes at all times.She is a Cave Canem Fellow, HedgebrookAlumna, Jack Straw Writer, EDGE Professional Writer, VONA alum, RagdaleAlum,creative writing workshop facilitator, documentarian and playwright. She is writer, co-director, and co-producer of GOTBREAST? Documentary (2007): a documentary about the views of women regarding breast and body image. Lately she’s been obsessed with the body(in parts)& the stories ith(old)s. Recently she has begun a year-long theatrical mixed-media project,9 Ounces: A One Woman Show. 9 Ouncesis an unkempt, de-ribbon-ed, narrative braid dangling with crooked parts.  Ityoga’s its way through the unexpected journey of a queer woman of color’s mid-life a-ha moment and extreme case of takotsubo’scardiomyopathy. Using the audience as mirror, epiphany and diary, three narratives crochet themselves around evolving frames. Her poetry, fiction & nonfiction have been published widely.

Tickets Available 5/14/15 @ Stranger Tickets

On May 5 from midnight to midnight, you can make a one-time online donation to TPR as part of the 24-hour fundraising marathon known as giveBIG! In return TPR will treat you with a super fly TPR hat, lots of love, continued amazing programing and eternal gratitude. Support TPR and learn more about the big day...

Monday May 4th, 6-7pm at The Project Room

Photograph by Christopher Felver

Denise Levertov was a great 20th century American poet who lived in Seattle from 1989 until her death in 1997. A convert to Catholicism, she wrote about faith, natureand the environment, politics and social justice.

Author Rebecca Brown, Poet Jan Wallace, and The Project Room will host this evening remembering Levertov by introducing her work, screening short films about her and sharing audio and video clips of Levertov reading.

Breathing The Water is part of a city-wide celebration of Levertov which culminates May 16th, Seattle's official Denise Levertov Day. Join the final celebration on May 16, 2015, when Coral Arts, a vocal ensemble in residence at St. Joseph Churchwhere Levertov was a parishioner, will present the world premiere of a setting of Levertov's poem "Making Peace."St. Joseph is also sponsoring the city-wide celebration of Levertov's legacy as poet, activist, and woman of faith. Concert tickets are available through Choral Arts.

Read more about Levertov in TPR's recent Off Paper Essay, "Bearing Witness" by Jan Wallace. Information about additional Levertov events online. Special thanks to Levertov event sponsors:

FULL SCHEDULE OF CITY-WIDE EVENTS

April 27 Introducing Levertov, St James Cathedral, 7 PM
May 4 Levertov films, The Project Room, 1315 E Pine, 6 PM
May 5 Homage to Levertov reading, Sorrento Hotel, 7 PM
May 7 Introducing Levertov, St Joseph Parish Center, 7 PM
May 9 Levertov gravesite visit, Lake View Cemetery, 11 AM
May 14 Levertov evening, Elliot Bay Bookstore, 7 PM
May 16 Choral Arts concert, St Joseph Church, 8 PM
preceded by preconcert conversation, 7:30 PM
Reception, St Joseph Parish Center, 6:15 PM

City of Seattle declares May 16 Denise Levertov Day

Rebecca Brown. Photo by Andrea Auge

Rebecca Brown is a writer, teacher and literary activist. She is the author of seven novels, includingThe End of Youth,The Terrible Girls, andWhat Keeps Me Here, and her short stories are widely anthologized. Her novelThe Gifts of the Bodywon a Lambda Literary Award and has been translated into several languages. Brown divides her time between Seattle and Vermont, where she is a faculty member in the Master of Fine Arts program at Goddard College.

Jan Wallace, poet and essayist, was a dear friend of Denise Levertov's. Her poems currently appear in Terrain, A Journal of Built and Natural Environments. Her work has also appeared in ARCADE, Fine Madness, Field and other journals. Read Jan's recent essay about Levertov, "Bearing Witness" in TPR's online journal, Off Paper.

If a Handful of Matches is Thrown to the Floor:

Exploring the parallels between the scientific method and divination with Artist Sierra Nelson.

MondAY, April 27, 7-8pm at The Project Room

Performance Artist and Poet Sierra Nelson invites us into a conversation questioning the roles divination, science, and artistic practice play in our understanding of the past and choices for the future. She’ll be joined by her longtime collaborator Rachel Kessler to bookend the conversation with some live experiments.

Photography by Rebecca Hoogs

Photograph by Rebecca Hoogs

Poet, performer, and text-based artist Sierra Nelson (co-founder of The Typing Explosion and Vis-à-Vis Society) is author of lyrical choose-your-own-adventure I Take Back the Sponge Cake (Rose Metal) made with visual artist Loren Erdrich and chapbook “In Case of Loss” (Toadlily Press). Earning her MFA in Poetry from U.W. (2002), she is a MacDowell Colony Fellow and Carolyn Kizer Prize winner, and she teaches in Seattle, Friday Harbor, and Rome, Italy.

On the divination side, she has written poems inspired by the patterns in tarot, created an interactive poetry installation inspired by Nordic runes using Icelandic lava stones ("Runasafn: Rune Library"), and most recently she has written a new interactive manuscript of poems, "I Change," inspired by the 8 elements in the ancient Chinese divination system the I Ching (a.k.a. The Book of Changes).

On the science side, she has written scientifically-vetted poems about fish in collaboration with ichthyologist Adam Summers' "Cleared" photographs of stained fish skeletons, both of which debuted at the Seattle Aquarium; she teaches and works with scientists at U.W.'s Friday Harbor Labs in the San Juan Islands; and science is a core inspiration for her performance and installation work as the Vis-à-Vis Society collaborating with Rachel Kessler under their poet-scientist personas, Dr. Ink and Dr. Owning.

Photograph by Rebecca Hoogs

Rachel Kessler (co-founder of The Typing Explosion and Vis-à-Vis Society) is a poet and essayist who works with comics, video, installation, and performance art. Her work has appeared in Open Daybook, Narrative Magazine, Poetry Northwest, The Stranger, The Frye Art Museum and elsewhere. She works as a teaching artist with Writers in the Schools, Path with Art, Richard Hugo House, and Centrum.

Sierra and Rachel have been collaborating for over 17 years.

Monuments, Durian, &Portable Toilets: Artist Jenifer Wofford Visual artist and educatorJenifer Wofford met with TPR editor, Tessa Hulls, in San Francisco to discuss the themes of monumentand memory and their presenceinJenifer's diverse body ofwork.