Monday, April 15, 2013
Friday, June 29, 2012
AQLF at DBF 2012
We will be announcing the GLBTQ track at the 2012 Decatur Book Festival, happening Aug. 31-Sept. 2, very soon. Watch this space.
Tuesday, March 27, 2012
Spring 2012 Events
The Atlanta Queer Literary Festival in
conjunction with Charis Books and More, the Ponce deLeon Branch of the
Fulton/Atlanta Public Library and Atlanta Pride will co-sponsor two
poetry workshops and and an evening of poetry for the queer community to
celebrate April as National Poetry Month. For more about Charis: www.charisbooksandmore.com
The first workshop will be held on Saturday, April 7th in the conference room of the Ponce Library. The workshop is titled Poetic Catalyzation. Poets Don Perryman and Dustin Brookshire present a workshop and discussion to serve as a catalyst for new poems. Workshop attendees will participate in two generative exercises and leave the workshop feeling the words of Carl Sandburg, “Poetry is a packsack of invisible keepsakes.” The workshop will run from 1 to 2:30 and is free and open to all.
The first workshop will be held on Saturday, April 7th in the conference room of the Ponce Library. The workshop is titled Poetic Catalyzation. Poets Don Perryman and Dustin Brookshire present a workshop and discussion to serve as a catalyst for new poems. Workshop attendees will participate in two generative exercises and leave the workshop feeling the words of Carl Sandburg, “Poetry is a packsack of invisible keepsakes.” The workshop will run from 1 to 2:30 and is free and open to all.
Please pre-register via email: dustinvbrookshire@gmail.com
The second workshop will be held on Saturday, April 14th also in the conference room of the Ponce Library from 1 to 2:30 (it is also free and open to all). Alice Teeter will lead the workshop and prepare participants to be part of an ensemble that will read at Charis Books and More on Friday evening, April 20th. "We'll play with different ideas of ensemble and come up with a collaborative piece" Please pre-register via email: aliceteeter@mindspring.com. It is suggested but not required that to be part of the ensemble that will read at Charis that you participate in both workshops. You must participate in the second to be part of the ensemble (and you can choose only to participate in workshops if you prefer).
The second workshop will be held on Saturday, April 14th also in the conference room of the Ponce Library from 1 to 2:30 (it is also free and open to all). Alice Teeter will lead the workshop and prepare participants to be part of an ensemble that will read at Charis Books and More on Friday evening, April 20th. "We'll play with different ideas of ensemble and come up with a collaborative piece" Please pre-register via email: aliceteeter@mindspring.com. It is suggested but not required that to be part of the ensemble that will read at Charis that you participate in both workshops. You must participate in the second to be part of the ensemble (and you can choose only to participate in workshops if you prefer).
Friday evening, April 20th Charis Books and More will host the first Atlanta Queer Poetry Ensemble reading featuring participants of the Ponce workshops and hosted by Franklin Abbott. The evening will begin at 7:30 and is free and open to all.
Also on Tuesday evening April 10th Bound to Be Read Books will host Chicago poet Gregg Shapiro who will be reading from his new book "Gregg Shapiro 77." Joining Gregg will be Atlanta poet Dustin Brookshire. The reading begins at 7:30 and is free and open to all. For more about this and other poetry month readings: www.boundtobereadbooks.com
We'll have news about the 2012 Decatur Book Festival (Labor Day weekend) soon!
Thursday, October 13, 2011
AQLF Events for Autumn
AQLF has decided to end its annual weekend festival after five years. Instead, we will be hosting events year-round or partnering with other organizations to present LGBTQ programming to Atlanta. We have a very exciting calendar of upcoming events this fall. Check them out!
Thursday, October 20, 6 to 8:00 p.m.
AQLF Graphic Intervention Reading
Museum of Design Atlanta (MODA)
The Atlanta Queer Literary Festival partners with MODA as part the museum's Graphic Intervention: 25 Years of International AIDS Posters exhibition. Local poets will read poems inspired by posters on display. Expected to read are Cleo Creech, Franklin Abbott, Megan Volpert, Collin Kelley and more. MODA, 1315 Peachtree St. (across from the High Museum). www.museumofdesign.org.
Saturday, October 22, 1-6 p.m.
Athens Queer Literary Afternoon (AQLA)
Hendershot's Coffee Bar, Athens
This special event will feature Amanda C. Gable (Georgia's Author of the Year 2010) and Franklin Abbott (chairperson of the Atlanta Queer Literary Festival), Janine Aronson, Ben Hudson, Tricia Lootens, Alice Mohor (and Lois), Aralee Strange and Bellah Sparxx! Open Mic with Athens' own Avid Bookshop selling LGBTQ books of poetry, prose, fiction and non-fiction. UGA and community writers are welcome to read as well, published or unpublished. Hendershot's Coffee Bar, 1560 Oglethorpe Dr. For more information and directions, visit this link.
Saturday, October 29, 7:30 p.m.
Poetry Atlanta & AQLF Present VOICES CARRY
Philip Rush Center
Poetry Atlanta and Atlanta Queer Literary Festival present the seventh annual reading featuring poets Cecilia Woloch, Rupert Fike, Alice Lovelace, Franklin Abbott and Karen Head. Collin Kelley will host. Free! Philip Rush Center, 1530 DeKalb Ave. (same building as Radial Cafe).
Tuesday, November 8, 6:15 p.m.
Premiere of A Portrait of Peaches
Philip Rush Center
Queer folk have been the gatekeepers between the everyday and spirit worlds in myriad ways in many indigenous societies. How are are artists, poets and musicians queer shamans in our postmodern world? One question leads to another and another. On Tuesday evening, November, we will debut A Portrait of Peaches directed and produced by Taryn Lee Crenshaw and Jessica Burton. The evening will begin with a potluck and the film will be followed by a conversation on queer aesthetics. Philip Rush Center, 1530 DeKalb Ave. (same building as Radial Cafe).
Wednesday, November 9, 7:30 p.m.
An Evening of Spoken Word with Kimberly Dark
Bound to Be Read Books
Kimberly Dark’s spoken word shows have twice been named on Curve magazine’s top 10 performances of the year and, in 2010, Campus Pride named her one of the “Top 25 LGBT Favorites” on Campus Pride’s 2010 “HOT LIST!” – the ‘best of the best’ in LGBT actors, comedians, performers, and more – diverse, provocative, inspiring, and enlightening. Bound to Be Read Books, 481-B Flat Shoals Ave., East Atlanta Village. www.boundtobereadbooks.com
November 10-13
Tim Miller's Lay of the Land
7 Stages Theatre
Gay and human rights activist Tim Miller returns to 7 Stages with his all new queer tale. Lay of the Land is Tim Miller’s saucy, sharp-knifed look at the State of the Queer Union during a time of trial! Lay of the Land friskily gets at that feeling of gay folks being perpetually on trial, on the ballot, and on the menu. Call 404.523.7647 for reservations. Ask for the special AQLF price. 7 Stages, 1105 Euclid Ave. www.7stages.org
Saturday, November 12, noon
A Conversation on Race & Gender in Queer Culture
Auburn Avenue Research Library
A free event with some of Atlanta's notable members of the LGBTQ community on race and gender in queer culture. More details on panelists soon. The event is free and open to the public. 101 Auburn Ave. www.afpls.org
Thursday, October 20, 6 to 8:00 p.m.
AQLF Graphic Intervention Reading
Museum of Design Atlanta (MODA)
The Atlanta Queer Literary Festival partners with MODA as part the museum's Graphic Intervention: 25 Years of International AIDS Posters exhibition. Local poets will read poems inspired by posters on display. Expected to read are Cleo Creech, Franklin Abbott, Megan Volpert, Collin Kelley and more. MODA, 1315 Peachtree St. (across from the High Museum). www.museumofdesign.org.
Saturday, October 22, 1-6 p.m.
Athens Queer Literary Afternoon (AQLA)
Hendershot's Coffee Bar, Athens
This special event will feature Amanda C. Gable (Georgia's Author of the Year 2010) and Franklin Abbott (chairperson of the Atlanta Queer Literary Festival), Janine Aronson, Ben Hudson, Tricia Lootens, Alice Mohor (and Lois), Aralee Strange and Bellah Sparxx! Open Mic with Athens' own Avid Bookshop selling LGBTQ books of poetry, prose, fiction and non-fiction. UGA and community writers are welcome to read as well, published or unpublished. Hendershot's Coffee Bar, 1560 Oglethorpe Dr. For more information and directions, visit this link.
Saturday, October 29, 7:30 p.m.
Poetry Atlanta & AQLF Present VOICES CARRY
Philip Rush Center
Poetry Atlanta and Atlanta Queer Literary Festival present the seventh annual reading featuring poets Cecilia Woloch, Rupert Fike, Alice Lovelace, Franklin Abbott and Karen Head. Collin Kelley will host. Free! Philip Rush Center, 1530 DeKalb Ave. (same building as Radial Cafe).
Tuesday, November 8, 6:15 p.m.
Premiere of A Portrait of Peaches
Philip Rush Center
Queer folk have been the gatekeepers between the everyday and spirit worlds in myriad ways in many indigenous societies. How are are artists, poets and musicians queer shamans in our postmodern world? One question leads to another and another. On Tuesday evening, November, we will debut A Portrait of Peaches directed and produced by Taryn Lee Crenshaw and Jessica Burton. The evening will begin with a potluck and the film will be followed by a conversation on queer aesthetics. Philip Rush Center, 1530 DeKalb Ave. (same building as Radial Cafe).
Wednesday, November 9, 7:30 p.m.
An Evening of Spoken Word with Kimberly Dark
Bound to Be Read Books
Kimberly Dark’s spoken word shows have twice been named on Curve magazine’s top 10 performances of the year and, in 2010, Campus Pride named her one of the “Top 25 LGBT Favorites” on Campus Pride’s 2010 “HOT LIST!” – the ‘best of the best’ in LGBT actors, comedians, performers, and more – diverse, provocative, inspiring, and enlightening. Bound to Be Read Books, 481-B Flat Shoals Ave., East Atlanta Village. www.boundtobereadbooks.com
November 10-13
Tim Miller's Lay of the Land
7 Stages Theatre
Gay and human rights activist Tim Miller returns to 7 Stages with his all new queer tale. Lay of the Land is Tim Miller’s saucy, sharp-knifed look at the State of the Queer Union during a time of trial! Lay of the Land friskily gets at that feeling of gay folks being perpetually on trial, on the ballot, and on the menu. Call 404.523.7647 for reservations. Ask for the special AQLF price. 7 Stages, 1105 Euclid Ave. www.7stages.org
Saturday, November 12, noon
A Conversation on Race & Gender in Queer Culture
Auburn Avenue Research Library
A free event with some of Atlanta's notable members of the LGBTQ community on race and gender in queer culture. More details on panelists soon. The event is free and open to the public. 101 Auburn Ave. www.afpls.org
Sunday, August 28, 2011
Photos from Big Joy Salon
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| Julie Bloemeke and Cleo Creech |
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| Cal Gough |
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| A'Roara Thunder |
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| Brent Calderwood |
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| Julie Bloemeke |
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| Chad Shone and Griff Tester |
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| Don Perryman |
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| Rupert Fike |
Wednesday, August 24, 2011
Big Joy Salon Benefit & Reading, Aug. 26
AQLF is hosting a reading/screening/benefit for the Big Joy Project which is making a film about the late filmmaker, poet, playwright and faerie shaman James Broughton (aka Big Joy). Join us and lots of queer poets, radical faeries, sisters of perpetual indulgence and avant garde cinephiles for an evening of spoken word, film and faerie buffet. The event will be held at The Rush Center, 1530 DeKalb Avenue. Doors open at 6:30, the reading begins at 7:30 and after a dalliance the films begin around 9. $5 donation is requested (please give more if you can and less if need be). Feel free to bring food and bev for the buffet. Of course there will be door prizes, faerie dust and Big Joy blessings. For more on the film project go to www.bigjoy.org. The Rush Center is next to the Radial Cafe and across from the Candler Park Marta Station. Free parking.
Monday, July 25, 2011
Remembering Blair
We were stunned to hear of the weekend death of poet, singer and spoken word artist David Blair from Detroit. He was a past performer at AQLF, National Slam Champ and friend to us all. You can read more about him in this article in the MetroTimes. Below is Blair performing at AQLF 2010.
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