My Wiscon schedule
The Moment of Change: Feminist SFF Poetry Open Mic Fri, 9:00–10:15 pm Michelangelos
Moderator: Rose Lemberg.
Come join the authors of the "The Moment of Change" for an open mic evening in celebration of the first-ever anthology of feminist speculative poetry! "The Moment of Change" is edited by Rose Lemberg and forthcoming from Aqueduct press, and includes poems by Ursula K. Le Guin, Nisi Shawl, Amal El-Mohtar, Delia Sherman, Vandana Singh. Bring your own feminist speculative poems to read, and join Rose Lemberg, Shira Lipkin, Sofia Samatar, and Alex Dally MacFarlene for an open mic extravaganza to celebrate the release of the anthology and feminist speculative poetry in general.
Note: THERE WILL BE COOKIES AND SUCH FOR the MoC READING ATTENDEES. PLEASE BRING YOUR FRIENDS!
Crossing boundaries and bending genres: Meet the Interstitial Arts Foundation Sat, 2:30–3:45 pm Caucus
Moderator: Larissa N. Niec. with Ellen Kushner, Rose Lemberg, Shira Lipkin, JoSelle Vanderhooft.
The Interstitial Arts Foundation (IAF) is a non-profit organization dedicated to the study, support, and promotion of interstitial art: literature, music, visual and performance art found in-between categories and genres--art that crosses borders. One of the specific goals of the IAF is to foster conversations among artists, academics, critics, and enthusiasts--conversations in which art of all types can be spoken of as a continuum, rather than as a series of hermetically sealed genres. Currently, the IAF is seeking to grow and develop new projects. In this town meeting-style session, we seek input from (1) artists and writers about ways in which the IAF might be of value to them as they seek to promote their boundary-crossing work, and (2) readers and enthusiasts about needs they perceive for the support of literature and other art forms that expand the conventional boundaries of gender and other restricting borders.
The Wild Ones reading Sat, 4:00–5:15 pm Conference 2
Rose Lemberg, Shira Lipkin, Alex Dally MacFarlane, Patty Templeton.
Q: "Hey Jane, what are you rebelling against?" A: "Whadda you got?" Rose Lemberg writes about liminal identities, naming magic, languages, and birds. Shira Lipkin will bring you to the home you never knew you'd lost. Alex Dally MacFarlane lives and works in London, where the foxes cross paths with her at night. Patty Templeton writes hellpunk in a hand-basket, full of ghosts, freaks, and fools. Join four women of varied writing styles for a ruckus of a reading.
Class Culture and Values in SF&F Sun, 1:00–2:15 pm Conference 5
Moderator: Debbie Notkin. With Debbie Notkin, Eleanor A. Arnason, Alyc Helms, ANONYMOUS, Rose Lemberg.
Class isn't just how much money you have or what work you do; it also involves cultural beliefs, values, and attitudes that are expressed in how you talk, what you do in your free time, and all sorts of less tangible elements. (See Barbara Jensen's book Reading Classes: On Culture and Classism in America, due out in mid-May.) The SF&F writing and fannish communities are mainly middle class folks, which makes the class values of SF&F works mostly middle class, too. What works and creators explore classes outside the mainstream, white, European, middle-class value systems? What class markers tend to show up most, or least, often? Do these works show the non-middle classes positively? negatively? realistically?
People, please recommend SFF books for me to read that would be great to discuss during the class culture panel. :-)
Moderator: Rose Lemberg.
Come join the authors of the "The Moment of Change" for an open mic evening in celebration of the first-ever anthology of feminist speculative poetry! "The Moment of Change" is edited by Rose Lemberg and forthcoming from Aqueduct press, and includes poems by Ursula K. Le Guin, Nisi Shawl, Amal El-Mohtar, Delia Sherman, Vandana Singh. Bring your own feminist speculative poems to read, and join Rose Lemberg, Shira Lipkin, Sofia Samatar, and Alex Dally MacFarlene for an open mic extravaganza to celebrate the release of the anthology and feminist speculative poetry in general.
Note: THERE WILL BE COOKIES AND SUCH FOR the MoC READING ATTENDEES. PLEASE BRING YOUR FRIENDS!
Crossing boundaries and bending genres: Meet the Interstitial Arts Foundation Sat, 2:30–3:45 pm Caucus
Moderator: Larissa N. Niec. with Ellen Kushner, Rose Lemberg, Shira Lipkin, JoSelle Vanderhooft.
The Interstitial Arts Foundation (IAF) is a non-profit organization dedicated to the study, support, and promotion of interstitial art: literature, music, visual and performance art found in-between categories and genres--art that crosses borders. One of the specific goals of the IAF is to foster conversations among artists, academics, critics, and enthusiasts--conversations in which art of all types can be spoken of as a continuum, rather than as a series of hermetically sealed genres. Currently, the IAF is seeking to grow and develop new projects. In this town meeting-style session, we seek input from (1) artists and writers about ways in which the IAF might be of value to them as they seek to promote their boundary-crossing work, and (2) readers and enthusiasts about needs they perceive for the support of literature and other art forms that expand the conventional boundaries of gender and other restricting borders.
The Wild Ones reading Sat, 4:00–5:15 pm Conference 2
Rose Lemberg, Shira Lipkin, Alex Dally MacFarlane, Patty Templeton.
Q: "Hey Jane, what are you rebelling against?" A: "Whadda you got?" Rose Lemberg writes about liminal identities, naming magic, languages, and birds. Shira Lipkin will bring you to the home you never knew you'd lost. Alex Dally MacFarlane lives and works in London, where the foxes cross paths with her at night. Patty Templeton writes hellpunk in a hand-basket, full of ghosts, freaks, and fools. Join four women of varied writing styles for a ruckus of a reading.
Class Culture and Values in SF&F Sun, 1:00–2:15 pm Conference 5
Moderator: Debbie Notkin. With Debbie Notkin, Eleanor A. Arnason, Alyc Helms, ANONYMOUS, Rose Lemberg.
Class isn't just how much money you have or what work you do; it also involves cultural beliefs, values, and attitudes that are expressed in how you talk, what you do in your free time, and all sorts of less tangible elements. (See Barbara Jensen's book Reading Classes: On Culture and Classism in America, due out in mid-May.) The SF&F writing and fannish communities are mainly middle class folks, which makes the class values of SF&F works mostly middle class, too. What works and creators explore classes outside the mainstream, white, European, middle-class value systems? What class markers tend to show up most, or least, often? Do these works show the non-middle classes positively? negatively? realistically?
People, please recommend SFF books for me to read that would be great to discuss during the class culture panel. :-)
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