T.M.I. is happening Friday April 20!!!
(T.M.I. is a monthly literary performance series and open mic for queer and feminist people of all genders.)
Come sling your schlock and find your flock!
Please come support San Diego's most thrilling queer and feminist performance series and open mic, T.M.I. ("Too Much Information") Friday, April 20, 2007 featuring one of my favorite writers and people, Miranda Mellis, and the equally magnificent writer/person Christian Nagler.
Doors open at 7:30 PM, (Show at 8:00 PMish) at The Rubber Rose, a sexuality boutique 3812 Ray Street, San Diego (North Park) www.therubberrose.com. $5-$7 suggested donation - All proceeds go to the artists and to pay for the space. Hosted by Anna Joy Springer and Ali Liebegott, and organized with the enormous help of Meg Day.
Miranda Mellis is the author of The Revisionist (Calamari Press, 2007) and an editor at The Encyclopedia Project (encyclopediaproject.org), a journal of innovative and inter-genre writing that redefines the encyclopedia form. Considered a neo-fabulist by some of her many fans, she's deeply engaged with radical ethics on and off the page, and is a delightfully imaginative writer whose strange and and often humorous prose reflects her complex political, spiritual, and interpersonal values. Miranda Mellis' various writings have appeared between various pages, most recently those of The Believer, Post Road, Fence and Denver Quarterly, and soon in Harper's. She teaches at California College of the Arts.
Chris Nagler is currently writing a book of fiction about thearchitectural and geographic spaces where U.S. public policy is
produced. He is a magical woodland creature. His writing is both accessible and nuanced, but also heartbreaking and extraordinarily relevant to his liberatory politics. Chris Nagler is currently editing an anthology of artists' and writers' responses to environmental crises. He teaches community art at San Francisco State University and makes site-specific performance.
*T.M.I. is a word-performance show for homos, transfolk, hags, feminists, fairies, femme-ists, S.C.U.M. Manifesto Fan Club members, lesbos, queerpunx, womanists, polyamorites, tough old broads, baby-butches, lesbian schoolteachers, second-wavers, anarchist cheerleaders, bisexual plushies, bois, feminist guys, old-fashioned diesel dykes, and their friends who like perform word-based work and to watch writers and performers groove, live on stage. T.M.I. is not your average "Spoken Word" show. We don't encourage non-satirical use of "Poetry Voice," cover songs, or compulsive disclosure diary entries, but we do encourage performance of cross-genre, stylistically innovative, queered-to-the max, freaked-out literary pieces. We're ANTI-anti-intellectual, we LIKE "conceptual" work, and we have damn good attention spans.
5 Minute Readings - In addition to the featured performances audience-members will sign up to read and perform their original work. 5 Minutes or one poem/story, whichever is shorter. The whole show will last about two hours, which should give everyone time to flirt, have drama, and organize the revolution before and after the show.
T.M.I. started in Providence, Rhode Island in 2000, where it spawned an achingly hot woman-centered experimental writing and performance scene and a few writing groups and romances.
Join T.M.I.'s Myspace friendship bubble at www.myspace.com/tmiopenmic.