K.A. Laity's Blog, page 22
November 29, 2022
#Tarot #Noir: William Lindsay Gresham’s Nightmare Alley – Jan 25
TAROT NOIR: WILLIAM LINDSAY GRESHAM’S NIGHTMARE ALLEY It’s no surprise that Guillermo del Toro sought for years to make his own neo-noir version of Gresham’s novel. The heady combination of the occult, tarot, the carnival and grifters in the ‘spook racket’ made the original novel a bestseller and led matinee idol Tyrone Power to risk... Read More
Published on November 29, 2022 07:22
November 23, 2022
Review: Tár
I ran off to watch this on an afternoon when I was feeling poorly and annoyed and irritated. I didn’t know it was three hours long. When my ass in the chair told me it had really been more than two hours I checked my phone. So it’s not that it dragged at all. It... Read More
Published on November 23, 2022 10:27
November 22, 2022
Enchanted: Why Magic Persists
The OLLI Distinguished Speakers Series presentsProfessor Kathryn Laity on:Enchanted: Why Magic Persists Across Millennia
Published on November 22, 2022 08:30
November 14, 2022
Create: Joy
ART OPENING! Saturday November 19th 4-6pm Create Gallery, 398 Main Street, Catskill NY CREATE recently had a call for art that embodied the theme JOY, and I am happy to say my mask entitled ‘Meditation’ is going to be included in the show. There’s an opening event on November 19th. Hopefully a few people can... Read More
Published on November 14, 2022 02:00
November 10, 2022
A Year of Deep Listening: Listen to Birds
As a part of the Year of Deep Listening in honour of Pauline Oliveros, the Center for Deep Listening is giving daily meditations on the practice and this is my turn on the stage. Try it and see if you don’t feel different after.
Published on November 10, 2022 06:32
November 9, 2022
Surreal Noir: 9 Nov 2022
Tonight at 2100 UK/1600 NY it’s another episode of SURREAL NOIR! Drop over to the NoBounds Radio mix cloud page to listen live. This month you get a sneak peek at my MAPACA presentation on IVY starring Joan Fontaine, based on the novel by Marie Belloc Lowndes. Noirvember gets Gothic! Also music from Finnish mystic... Read More
Published on November 09, 2022 07:16
November 6, 2022
Deep Listening: The Story of Pauline Oliveros
DEEP LISTENING: THE STORY OF PAULINE OLIVEROS I will not even pretend to any objectivity about this film: I contributed to the fundraising and to my considerable surprise, I am ever-so-briefly in it during one of the Deep Listening workshops at RPI. Discovering Oliveros and her concept of Deep Listening transformed my life-long fascination with... Read More
Published on November 06, 2022 06:36
October 20, 2022
Art Opening: Secret Staircase
WHAT: Art/Performance/Film/Zines — including art by me and the fabulous QoE! WHEN: Saturday October 22, 2022 from 7-10pm WHERE: 165 State Street, New London, Connecticut WHO: Hosted by @magik_press and featuring all kinds of groovy stuff with a Creature Feature theme!
Published on October 20, 2022 12:38
October 11, 2022
Surreal Noir: 12 Oct 22
Tonight’s episode was inspired by the chaos of life, returning to international travel in a way I’ve not done for some time, other than a too brief visit home to Dundee (back soon). Trying to clear my phone so I could add hundreds more photos, as I knew I would I also moved a bunch... Read More
Published on October 11, 2022 21:50
October 4, 2022
Apocalypse with Leonora: Oct 13
October 13th: Apocalypse with Leonora Carrington's The Hearing Trumpet: A Talk with K A Laity
Published on October 04, 2022 06:23