Dismantling the Corporate State / Get Your Band On / the Anhoek School

[Anne Elizabeth Moore]

Hello Friends,

Just a quick update in the midst of a crazy week—I'm working like a person whose pants are literally ON FIRE getting everything ready for the Book & Paper Center for the Arts Exhibition Dismantling the Corporate State and Other Amusements. (The delightful Goundswell Blog posted a note about it!) The opening is June 19 and features a delicacy known in some regions of the world as "pie." Have you heard of it? Come by and try it!

Last week I did a Media Geek interview with Paul Riismandel at WNUR now online about my recent ThreeWalls show, Holle Cambodia, and my project introducing self-publishing to young women in Cambodia. There were some technical difficulties that threw us both off a bit, but the story's all there, if you like stories.

Finally, I'll be attending an experimental graduate school in June with the amazingly coiffed Susan Sakash of Providence Rhode Island, and she has picked up on my perverse and inexplicable desire to unite the cities of Providence and Chicago through local events. Also, Saturday is her birthday. Her humungous birthday celebration—an all-band showcase that you can read more about below—will also include a fundraiser to get us both out to Texas, which I probably wouldn't make a big deal about if Susan were not collaborating with Jay Zeghenbot and Andrew Oesch on the poster. 

The interested should order one from Susan direct: susan....@gmail.com. The uninterested probably should too. Further convincing below and attached.

All I have time for now—so I hope you're enjoying Lilac season!

aem

Begin forwarded message:

From: Susan Sakash <susan....@gmail.com>

Date: May 14, 2009 12:10:28 AM CDT

To: Anne Elizabeth Moore <a...@anneelizabethmoore.com>

Subject: MAY 16, 2009 GET YOUR BAND ON GETS EVEN BETTER

Oh yes, this Saturday has gotten even brighter. How, you ask?  What could be brighter than celebrating the arrival of spring, the birth of a half dozen self-destructable bands, costume swaps and coffee  ice cream sodas?

Why not take it to the next level with the virtual spiritual presence of one Anne Elizabeth Moore, the bombastic "say it like you mean it" spitfire from Chicago.

On June 1st Anne and I will travel from our respective homes to Marfa, TX where we will enroll in an experimental education environment known as the Anhoek School for Women (www.anhoek.org). The school is tuition free but alas we still have to pay for airtravel and housing, which has proven to be a tight financial squeeze for 1) an AmeriCorps VISTA 2) a journalist.

As such, the birthday bandon party at Bldg 16 Saturday has been reconfigured as a dual celebration of mutual awesomeness during which we will be selling commemorative posters and aforementioned ice cream soders to pad our path towards bigger brains and sunburns.

If you can't make it on Saturday, maybe you will consider supporting the SusAnne Marfa Fund by ordering a poster, featuring the triple threat combo of seasoned Providence printmakers Jay Zeghenbot and Andrew Oesch and lil' old Susan. Whatever you can give will put a smile on our faces. If this isn't convincing enough, check out the little zine that Anne and I put together. (you can figure out how to print it out and put it together by checking out http://www.anneelizabethmoore.com/PDF/hotomakethiszine.pdf)

So yes, this is Susan and Anne at their most awesome. I promise we'll send you pictures from the airstream!

Much love on the eve of 31.

xo Susan

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Saturday May 16 @ Building 16
12:30pm-death do us part

Arrive at 12:30pm to throw your name in the hat.

You and your temporary bandmates will have the next 6.5 hours to make all your favorite notes into something resembling a song.  There will be audio confessionals, costume clothes swap (bring your goodies, please!) and pizza!

Epic all-band show will start at 7pm in the Building 16 parking lot.

Participating individuals must bring their own instruments, practice amps and booze. Food, practice space, agitation and a commemorative poster will be supplied by the Building 16 Committee for Bad Ideas.