I ambled off to Octocon on Saturday after a good night out on Friday, where I had attended the 3rd Annual Fiction Slam put on by the local lit organisation, Over the Edge. I had no idea quite how it would go, but it was more or less like a poetry slam: that is, a…
Category: performance
Lumottu (Enchanted)
Tonight my play LUMOTTU will get a reading at the Arts Society of Kingston’s Playwrights’ Lab New Play Readings at 6:30 PM ARTS SOCIETY OF KINGSTON 97 Broadway Kingston NY 12401 Arja lives with one foot in this world and the other in the mythic world of ancient Finland. Her family has moved to the…
Publication: Finnish Charms
I had nearly forgotten about this: the Mythic Journeys folks have been going through some interesting transitions (which seems entirely appropriate) but the journal is back at last. I gave this paper at the Forging Folklore Conference at Harvard University in May 3-5 2007. Great conference! Peg and Hannah put together a terrific bunch of…
BitchBuzz: Sarah Angliss/Spacedog
Looking forward to catching some of these performances in London: I find her work absolutely fascinating. Sarah Angliss and “Spacedog” By K.A. Laity Musician, engineer, writer Sarah Angliss has embarked on a round of performances under the aegis of Spacedog. Her unique combination of nerdy science knowledge, inspired music and automata brings together technology, history and the…
Con-Eire: Now Available as an Ebook
Con-Eire: a comedy for voices Download: $1.83 “RADIO PLAY” SCRIPT is ideal for live performances at cons! It’s three days before the start of CON-EIRE, the best Irish-themed science fiction and fantasy con in the tri-state area, when a phone call sets the entire Convention Committee into panic mode. Is Big Name Writer going to…
Epiphanies and Inspiration
No column today: I’m not writing any this month as I’m just too swamped. Tonight’s the dress rehearsal for the Camerata’s production of Saint-Saëns’ Carnival of the Animals with me as narrator. Do join us tomorrow night for the performance if you can at 7:30 in the Picotte Recital Hall of the Massry Center. It…
Reading: Lumottu
I am very pleased to announce that my play Lumottu will receive a fully cast reading at the Arts Society of Kingston on May 31st. Casting will commence soon. As they make clear on the website, “These are workshops rather than productions, whose focus is on process, not product. It is the hope of the…
Weekend Round-up
Here’s Kipper showing why it’s so easy to find excuses not to write. Good intentions often get trumped by someone who really wants attention right now and will sit on your pad of paper to make sure he gets it. One of the things I was trying to do on that paper was try out…
Laurie Anderson’s ‘Delusion’ & Nowhere Boy
Friday I had the chance to catch a couple of fun things: Laurie Anderson‘s Delusion at EMPAC (my favourite local venue) and Sam Taylor-Wood’s Nowhere Boy at the Spectrum 8 (as usual). Of course there were several other things possible that night — among them, Nick Lowe sob! — but one can’t do everything (but…
Filament @ EMPAC
Thank you, thank you, thank you, Nippertown! I was planning to see some events at Filament, the weekend long fest at EMPAC, AKA the finest performing arts center in the region, but thanks to the free pass I won, I got to see a LOT. It was a gorgeous weekend — inside and out. Cool…