Spring Update 2011
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There have been countless readings/panels for Al-Mutanabbi Street, both big and small over the last four years and the broadsides have also travelled to several classrooms in California. Poets, printers, writers, artists around the globe have joined the project and many kind supporters have organised events and shows for the broadsides since 2007.
Alise Alousi, Frans Baake, Tania Baban-Natal, Denise Brady, Evelyn Conlon, Annette Disslin, Katie Donlon, Michael Gallagher, Tom Leech, Jim Natal, Janet Rodney, Deema Shehabi, Casey Smith, Suzanne Vilmain and Salli Yule-Tsingas have all been helping to promote the broadsides in Europe and the USA this year.
Thanks to Dana Teen Lomax (a great poet with work in the anthology) some of the broadsides were taken by Beau into a Marin County California Juvenile Detention Center this April. Dana runs a workshop with incarcerated youth and is focusing this upcoming workshop meeting on writing and talking about the power of words in the lives of these young people. Al-Mutanabbi Street starts in many places.
Some of the previous shows have included the San Francisco Center for the Book in 2007, and Saratoga Library, Saratoga, California in 2008. In 2008, The Jaffe Center for Book Arts, at Florida Atlantic University exhibited the first 43 broadsides that were received as a result of our first call to letterpress printers. They now hold a complete set of the broadsides which they have generously put up on their website. John Cutrone and Seth Thompson at the Jaffe have both done so much for the project.
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An Inventory Of Al-Mutanabbi Street
We currently have 144 artists making books for An Inventory of Al-Mutanabbi Street, and you can join us until Sept 1st, 2011. Please download the PDF and contact us.
Beau Beausoleil - Curator (North and South America, Canada, The Middle East)
overlandbooks@earthlink.net
Sarah Bodman - Curator (Europe, The Middle East, and Asia)
Sarah.Bodman@uwe.ac.uk Book
Artists will have one year from the date they respond to the call to complete their work. Al-Mutanabbi Street Anthology 2011
We have raised 1,714 dollars towards the printing cost of the anthology al-Mutanabbi Street (our goal is 4,000 dollars). If you can help by making a contribution via Paypal (or cheque if you prefer, in the USA) of 25 dollars, or more if you are able, Beau Beausoleil would love to hear from you! Please email him
overlandbooks@earthlink.net
Many Thanks To These Coalition Members And Friends Of The Project For Their Donations:
Mario Laplante, Sas Colby, Susan Slyomovics, Laurie Szujewska, Liz Pollack, Aaron Cohick, Frans Baake, Ama Bolton, Sarah Bodman, Lilla Duignan, Kenneth Wong, Ahlrich van Ohlen, Andrea Hassiba, Julie Bruck, Lewis Buzbee, Jim Natal, Tania Baban-Natal, Esther Kamkar, Deborah Cowder, Loretta Cappanera, 23 Sandy Gallery, Susan Mortimer, and Jane Hirshfield, Dunya Mikhail, Emily Martin, Summer Brenner, Mary Risala Laird, Sarah Browning, Ruth Ginsberg-Place, Joe Lamb, Janet Rodney, Zaid Shlah, Bonnie Thompson Norman, Harry Reese, and Alise Alousi, Richard Harrison, Lisa Rouleau, Dana Teen Lomak, Carol Todaro, and Paul Goepfert.
If you would like to host an event/panel/reading or exhibition of the broadsides, or would like to host a future event from 2012 with the artists’ books and /or broadsides please contact us, we would love to hear from you:
Printers, Poets, Writers, Book Artists, and friends of the project - We are all in this together…
Recent Al-Mutanabbi Street Broadside Shows from 2010-2011 include:
2010
Reading and silent auction at Civilian Art Projects, DC, USA March 10th
Reading and panel discussion at Marymount Institute for Faith, Culture and the Arts, Loyola Marymount University, California, 24th March
The San Francisco Zen Center, San Francisco, California - April 1-30
Gould Library, Carleton College, Northfield, Minnesota - September 6th - October 24th
The Rooms Provincial Art Gallery, St John's, Newfoundland, Canada - September 15 - November 27
Florida Atlantic University, Schmidt Center Gallery, Boca Raton, Florida - September 18th - October 30th
Northern Print, Newcastle upon Tyne - United Kingdom - October 4 - November 28
Thoreau Center (Tides Foundation) Presidio, San Francisco - October 14-31
Bower Ashton Library - UWE, Bristol, United Kingdom - December 9 - January 30, 2011
Ink Spot Press - Brighton, United Kingdom - December 9 - January 10, 2011
2011
The Market House, Monaghan, The Republic of Ireland - February
Yavapai College Art Gallery, Prescott, Arizona - February 4th - March 26th
The Museum Joure, The Netherlands - February 19th - March 19th
New Mexico History Museum, Santa Fe, New Mexico - March 4th - May 1st
Undergraduate Library of Wayne State University, Detroit, Michigan - Mar 4th - April 24th
Central Library, Dublin City, The Republic of Ireland - March 14th-31st
A panel discussion at Dublin Central Library, the Ilac Centre on Saturday, March 19th, at 3pm, entitled Art as Reply, was introduced by the writer Evelyn Conlon who organised the broadsides exhibition. Chaired by Prof Michael Cronin, it included Helen Carey, curator of 1913 Forum on public art; the novelist Sean O’Reilly reading work from Iraq; and Hazim Alansary, an Iraqi artist living in Ireland.
The John Rylands University Library-University Of Manchester, United Kingdom - April 7th - June 26th
Conference on Book Destruction, Senate House, University of London, United Kingdom - April 16th
Santa Cruz Library, Santa Cruz, California - May 1st - June 30th
The 34th Annual Global Studies Conference will be held at the University of Nebraska at Omaha, 6-8 October 2011
If you would like to donate to MSF via the Al-Mutanabbi Street Coalition's events page, please visit: www.justgiving.com/al-mutanabbistreet
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