Cecil Castellucci's Blog, page 15
January 22, 2011
Rationality / performance piece by Andrea Kleine in NYC
Hello all! I will have a bit part in Andrea Kleine's new performance piece Rationality. If you are in NYC, you should totally go!
RATIONALITY
a new performance work by Andrea Kleine
FEBRUARY 5-6, 2011 at 8PM
Andrea Kleine presents her latest project, RATIONALITY, a performance work that re-creates an episode of a live, call-in, cable-access philosophy TV show that aired in Arlington, Virginia in 1992. The particular episode on the topic of "rationality" featured four philosophical symposers descending into crisis when one symposer argues that rationality is irrelevant – rationality cannot rationalize irrationality.
The performers attempt an exact remake of the episode, including a verbatim transcript, live callers, and technical glitches — all performed in Andrea Kleine's tiny Manhattan apartment — creating an intimate, voyeuristic experience replicating the proximity, scale, and environment of watching television.
Andrea Kleine has presented her interdisciplinary performance works at PS 122, The Kitchen, and The Walker Arts Center, among many other venues in the U.S. and abroad. She has received numerous commissions, grants, and awards including five MacDowell Colony fellowships, the New York Foundation for the Arts fellowship award, and a 2010 NYSCA independent artist commission. Her current project is a series of performance pieces about replication and re-enactment.
RATIONALITY
a piece by Andrea Kleine
performed by Henry Baumgartner, Jim Findlay, Kourtney Rutherford, Jason Schuler.
with Hajoe Moderegger, Bobby Previte, Raquel Cion, Cecil Castellucci.
EXTREMELY LIMITED SEATING
SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 5th at 8PM
SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 6th at 8PM
at a location in the Borough of Manhattan, City of New York
Tickets are free, but there is a $10 reservation fee. Your reservation fee will be refunded to you at the performance.
We will give you the address when you make a reservation.
MAKE A RESERVATION: http://www.andreakleine.com
EMAIL: rationality@andreakleine.com
This performance is supported in part with public funds from the Manhattan Community Arts Fund supported by the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs and administered by the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council. RATIONALITY is a production of Art of Franza, Inc.
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Andrea Kleine
January 11, 2011
January 15th *WriteGirl 10th Anniversary Book Launch!*
January 15th
*WriteGirl 10th Anniversary Book Launch!*
*Beyond Words*, the 10th anthology from WriteGirl, explodes with poetry,
stories, lyrics and essays of more than 100 teen girls and women writers.
You'll be shocked into laughter, provoked into thinking and transported by
the power of our words.
Margaret Stohl and Kami Garcia (*Beautiful Creatures* and
*Beautiful Darkness*), and Cecil Castelucci (*Boy Proof*) will be there to celebrate the release of will be *Beyond Words: The Creative Voices of WriteGirl*
Available for purchase at the reading, or at
http://www.writegirl.org/publications...
January 15th, 2011
2:00pm – 3:00pm
Borders Hollywood
1501 Vine St. at Sunset
Hollywood, CA 90028
Parking: Lot at Morningside & Sunset (1 block west of Vine)
A portion of the Hollywood Borders store sales on January 15th will be donated to WriteGirl: For in-store and online orders the benefit code is WRGR0115A.
To RSVP:
info@writegirlorg or call 213-253-2655
www.writegirl.org
*WriteGirl is the 2010-2011 California Nonprofit of the Year!*
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December 28, 2010
Pardon My Youth YA book club
Today, in the Wall Street Journal, there was an article about YA book clubs in NYC. For those of you looking to join a YA book club in Los Angeles, for almost two years I've been running one at Skylight Books (1818 N Vermont) called Pardon My Youth on the third Sunday of every month at 2pm. We meet in the bookstore, amongst the books and discuss all kinds of YA. Sometimes we are mixed ages, as in we have teens who join us in the discussion. It's always pretty wonderful. (Look, the LA Times even wrote about this and us last March!)
This January 16th at 2 PM we're discussing The Witch of Blackbird Pond by Elizabeth George Speare. Come join us!
you can always find out what book we're reading at our blog Pardon My Youth or you can join our facebook group.
December 19, 2010
wrapping at skylight for charity
Hello and Happy Holidays my fine friends.
This year, as I do most years when in Los Angeles for the Holidays, I will be wrapping at Skylight Books. The wrappers at skylight always wrap for a charity and I will once again be wrapping for the Jenesse Center, which is a Domestic Violence Intervention Program. This cause is very important to me. Last year I raised over $200 for them.
Won't you come buy books for gifts, support your local indie bookstore and help out victims of abuse to become survivors of abuse?
Here is my skylight wrapping schedule:
Monday, December 20 11- 2PM
Tuesday, December 21 11- 2PM
Wednesday, Deceber 22 5-8PM
December 13, 2010
Where'd you get that idea?
So many times when I go speak to writers at conferences and workshops or when I do school visits, people ask me, "Where do you get your ideas?" I have a million places where I get my ideas. But the idea for my first novel Boy Proof came from working a totally odd job. I was working for my friend Phil's Production Transcripts company doing as a Time Coder.
At first, I thought it was a miserable job. But in the end, even the dreary can be inspiring.
Before I was writing full-time, as I try to manage to do now, I made sure to clear as many weeks as possible to write. I always tried to make it a point to live by my motto: "All Art All the Time." This meant I took a lot of temp jobs — something that I could do for a set period of time, pay my rent, buy some groceries and then take a few weeks off to write some more.
You can read the rest of it over at aol as part of their funny series My Spectacular Odd Job.
December 1, 2010
Holiday Story Book / Vromans 12/5 @ 5 PM
My lovely friends.
This year for the holiday season Vromans Bookstore asked 6 YA authors to write an original holiday story and they are collecting them all and publishing them in a book available exclusively at Vromans.
My story is called Frost and The Mailman
This Sunday, December 5th, at 5 PM at Vromans the book will launch with us authors reading from our stories and celebrating the season! Won't you come join us?
The authors include: Amy Goldman Koss, Cylin Busby, Cecil Castellucci, Anna Hays, Sherri L. Smith, and Mark London Williams.
12/05/2010
5:00 pm
Vroman's Bookstore
695 E. Colorado Blvd
Pasadena, California
91101
November 26, 2010
This Weekend I'll be at Loscon
Won't you come and say hello?
LOSCON
November 26 – 28
A celebration of Urban fantasy , Steampunk and SF Noir
at the LAX Marriott in Los Angeles
Saturday 10:00 a.m. – Boston/Atlanta Media Science Fiction Conventions: How We Laugh at Ourselves A discussion of "Galaxy Quest," "Trekkies" and "Free Enterprise" and how fans can laugh at themselves through these films. Val Ontell, Cecil Castellucci, Mel Gilden, Linda Reid, Tadao Tomomatsu
Sunday 1:00 p.m. – Marquis 2 Science Fiction and Live Theatre Science fiction and the theatre don't seem to be the most obvious bedfellows, but science fiction has and continues to be presented on the stage from time to time. Every medium brings its own benefits and drawbacks. What are the challenges that face playwrights when creating science fiction? What can you achieve with the theatre that you can't achieve in any other media? Cecil Castellucci, Ed Green, James Kerwin, Tadao Tomomatsu
November 12, 2010
Scholastic asks Siobhan Vivian, Natalie Standiford and me 5 questions!
Watch here a fun interview that me, siobhan and natalie did when we were on our whirlwind tour for Scholastic!
November 2, 2010
In which I host 2 Events Next Week! 11/7 & 11/9
Hello my fine friends!
I'll be playing hostess with the mostess at two different LA Literary Events which makes me feel la la la fancy!
First! 11/ 7 at 8 PM
It's a very special YA night at Vermin on the Mount!
with:
Lauren Kate
Sonya Sones
Lauren Strasnick
Ned Vizzini
Then 11/9 at 7:30 PM it's the LIT THING at Skylight Books!
Where authors rant or rave about a book that they love or hate!
with :
Janelle Brown
Neal Pollack
Sherri L Smith
October 19, 2010
name that alien! raffle for KGB Fantastic Fiction Series
Hello!
I am participating in a raffle to support the KGB Fantastic Fiction reading series! For a mere $1 you can bid on a "tuckerization" in my new novel. Well, kind of! Instead of putting in your name as a character, I am offering the chance to name a species of alien and one alien trait in my new YA novel.
I suppose you could say that is a spoiler that my next YA is a Sci Fi novel! Hurrah!
Get a load of some of the other things you can get, too! Things like: Neil Gaiman's used key board! Three signed George RR Martin books! Your very own wormhole named after you! Art from China Mievelle! All for the low raffle ticket price of $1
Support cool Fantastic Fiction live readings!
Raffle ends October 25th (which is also, my birthday!)
I would love to get a wormhole, FYI.
