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Thursday October 17th: Rabbit Tales Reading and Salon Series "KEEP IT CURT!"

rabbitholeprojects — Tue, 15 Oct 2013 03:37:39 +0000

This Thursday! October 17! Rabbithole is proud to present:
Rabbit Tales Reading And Salon Series!

October 17, 2013. 8p
Rabbitholestudios
33 Washington @ Water in DUMBO, BK
$5 at the door (includes one drink ticket!)

Curated by Kate Hill Cantrill

Theme: "Keep It Curt"

Meg Tuite!
Robert Vaughan!
Travis Iutoro!
Kurt Blake!

Readers: (coming from far away on book tours! Reading Flash Fiction!)

Meg Tuite!

Meg Tuite's writing has appeared in numerous journals including MadHatter's Review, Epiphany, JMWW, One, the Journal, Monkeybicycle and Boston Literary Magazine. She has been nominated several times for the Pushcart Prize. She is fiction editor of Santa Fe Literary Review and Connotation Press, author of Domestic Apparition (2011) San Francisco Bay Press, Disparate Pathos (2012) Monkey Puzzle Press, Reverberations (2012) Deadly Chaps Press, Bound By Blue (2013) Sententia Books, Her Skin is a Costume (2013) Red Bird Chapbooks, won the Twin Antlers Collaborative Poetry award from Artistically Declined Press for her poetry collection written with Heather Fowler and Michelle Reale, Bare Bulbs Swinging, (2014). She teaches at the Santa Fe Community College.
Her blog: http://megtuite.wordpress.com/

Robert Vaughan!

Robert Vaughan leads writing roundtables at Redbird- Redoak Writing. His writing has appeared in hundreds of print and online journals. His short prose, "10,000 Dollar Pyramid" was a finalist in the Micro-Fiction Awards 2012. Also, "Ten Notes to the Guy Studying Jujitsu" was a finalist for the Gertrude Stein Award 2013. He is senior flash fiction editor at JMWW, and Lost in Thought magazines. His poetry chapbook, Microtones, is from Cervena Barva Press. His second chapbook is forthcoming from Deadly Chaps in October 2013, and his first full- length collection, Addicts and Basements from Civil Coping Mechanisms in February, 2014.

Music by:
Kurt Blake (aka Kaybee)!

Kaybee is Kurt Blake. Kurt has been writing songs since he was 13, performing where ever he can: on cable access shows, church auctions, municipal parking lots and amateur wrestling matches,
amongst several other venues. He also does freelance voice acting and writes short stories for the Pittsburgh independent magazine "Thorax". Originally from the Catskill mountain region, he has recently moved to Bushwick New York.
www.itsmekaybee.bandcamp.com

Doors at 7:30
Show at 8:00
$5 at the door (earns one drink ticket!)
33 Washington Street @ Water in DUMBO
RABBITHOLESTUDIOs

For additional information, please contact:
KATE HILL CANTRILL, CURATOR
kate@rabbitholeprojects.com
www.rabbitholeprojects.com

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Thu Apr 11: Rabbit Tales presents IN THE HOLLOW

rabbitholeprojects — Fri, 12 Apr 2013 19:32:20 +0000

Fergus J Walsh, from Hy-Brazal

Please join us for

IN THE HOLLOW

Rabbit Tales: Reading and Salon Series

Curated by Kate Hill Cantrill

Featuring presentations by

FERGUS J WALSH - claymation video
GERALDINE JOSEPH - reading
CRAIG WEBSTER - short film
ELIZABETH J HILL - artist talk

Fergus J Walsh is a puppet designer, builder and performer from Ireland, currently working in New York City. He creates puppets from many materials, matching the material to the requirements of each particular project. He is currently an artist in residence at the Museum of Arts and Design on Columbus Circle. Fergus has an MFA in Puppetry from the University of Connecticut and a BA in Psychology from Trinity College Dublin. His latest production Hy-Brazal, a web-series about creatures in a parallel world, will be shown in part tonight! Fergus was the lead puppeteer at the world premiere of The Wind Up Bird Chronicle at the Edinburgh International Theatre Festival in August 2011. He will be touring with the show to Singapore in May of this year.

Fergus recently built puppets for The Little Shop of Horrors at The Gallery Players in Brooklyn, The Ohmies at the Playwrights Horizons Theatre on 42nd Street, for The Indelible Mark on Edward Barron at the Jim Henson Carriage House, and is presently performing with Wakka Wakka in a production of Saga.

Recently Fergus received a Henson Foundation Grant to develop a project entitled Hippo, about a Hippopotamus who wants to become the next President of the USA. In the past his work has been supported by the Arts Council of Ireland, the Liz Marek and Bill Mack Award and the Connecticut Guild of Puppetry.

Geraldine Joseph is a writer, a mother of four, and a Registered Nurse. Although she's been writing since she was 5 she only recently formally studied at the Sackett Street Workshop here in Brooklyn. She is the daughter of Haitian immigrants, the youngest of 7 children, and was born and raised in Brooklyn, where being of Haitian descent was not, and in many ways is still not, cool. Geraldine writes about how her brothers and sisters had rocks thrown at them, how her mother wanted them to be more Europeanized and how even if the inside of the house was broken apart, the cupboards without any food, her mother kept the garden nice with brand new windows and door. Writing has always provided Geraldine with a free and safe place where she is hindered by nothing. She is here to read from here work-in progress entitled, Church Pants and Dress Shoes.

Craig Webster recently graduated from the film/video MFA program at the University of Iowa, where he created a number of short films and videos. These works emphasize that reality is full of dreams and fantasies and little things in-between that make what we think we see or "the external reality" not always so stable or else more curious than we normally give credit.

His films have screened at the Edinburgh, Buenos Aires, Hamburg (Germany), Brooklyn, and SXSW film festivals, among others. He lives in Sunset Park.

Elizabeth J Hill's art emerged from her background in nursing. Her sculptures have been exhibited and reviewed nationally and internationally. She's received numerous awards and grants, and taught in a variety of universities, graduate programs, and community settings. Ms. Hill lived in Scotland several years where her art became community-based. There, she facilitated community members in building giant puppets for pageantry. She experimented with the art of clowning, and created life-size dancing dolls with which she continues to perform. Ultimately, her art drew her back into service as a pediatric nurse, working in home care with medically fragile children. Today, her art and nursing merge as she embarks on creating custom therapeutic dancing dolls for people dealing with loss and grief. In all of her creative work, the focus has been the integration of arts into education, healthcare, and community-building.

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Thu Feb 14th: Rabbit Tales - There Is This Something Between Us!

rabbitholeprojects — Sat, 26 Jan 2013 18:33:01 +0000

Rabbit Tales celebrates Valentines Day!

Featuring:

MARTIN KLEINMAN

NICHOLAS BROWN

AMANDA TILLER

GABRIELLE O'NEIL

Doors at 7:30, show at 8:00
$3 at the door, $3 beer and wine

Curated by KATE HILL CANTRILL

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Rabbit Tales Reading and Performance Series!

rabbitholeprojects — Thu, 07 Jun 2012 19:56:33 +0000

Rabbit Tales Reading and Performance Series-June 14!
Theme: Finding Voice

Rabbithole Studios
33 Washington Street at Water in DUMBO
Doors at 7:30, show at 8:00
$5 at the door
Beer and wine for sale.

Readers/Performers:

Christine Leahy - Fiction and song
Jack Wilson - Poetry and Hip Hop
Ann McMahon Quintero - Mezzo soprano

curated by Kate Hill Cantrill

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Rabbit Tales February 9-- What We Hold

rabbitholeprojects — Wed, 01 Feb 2012 20:34:25 +0000

Rabbit Tales: February 9, 2012

Reader:

Holly Tavelis a Brooklyn-based writer/artist/musician whose fiction has appeared in, or is forthcoming from, Torpedo, Elimae, McSweeney's, The Brooklyn Rail, The Prague Anthology, Diagram and others. As the recipient of a Fulbright Scholarship in 2009, she moved to Prague, Czech Republic to research a novel-in-progress. Her visual work has been exhibited at Participant Gallery, NYC, and at Art Interactive in Boston. She played keyboards in two bands in the mid-90s and currently attempts to play the accordion while singing.

Reader:

Justin Petropoulosis the author of the poetry collection Eminent Domain, selected by Anne Waldman for the 2010 Marsh Hawk Press Poetry Prize. His poems have appeared in A capplla Zoo, American Letters & Commentary, Anemone Sidecar, Borderlands: Texas Poetry Review, Columbia Poetry Review, Crab Creek Review, Gulf Coast, Mandorla, MiPOesias, Portland Review, and most recently in Spinning Jenny. Justin co-curated Triptych Readings with poets Mary Austin Speaker and Anne Lovering Rounds from 2010 to 2011 and has been a guest blogger for Bryant Park’s summer poetry reading series, Word for Word. He holds an MFA from the Indiana University. Justin currently is the site director of an after-school program for elementary age children. He lives in Brooklyn, New York with his pet octopus, Siete.

Puppeteer:

Fergus J Walsh is a puppet designer, builder and performer from Ireland, currently working in New York City. He is currently an artist in residence at the Museum of Arts and Design on Columbus Circle. He has an MFA in Puppetry from the University of Connecticut and a BA in Psychology from Trinity College Dublin. His latest production Hy-Brazal, a web-series about creatures in a parallel world, will be released online in the coming months (www.hybrazal.com). He was the lead puppeteer at the world premiere of The Wind Up Bird Chronicle at the Edinburgh International Theatre Festival in August 2011. He will be touring with the show to Singapore in May of this year. He recently built puppets for The Little Shop of Horrors at The Gallery Players in Brooklyn, The Ohmies at the Playwrights Horizons Theatre on 42nd Street and for The Indelible Mark on Edward Barron at the Jim Henson Carriage House. He received a Henson Foundation Grant to develop a project entitled Hippo, about a Hippopotamus who wants to become the next President of the USA. In the past his work has been supported by the Arts Council of Ireland, the Liz Marek and Bill Mack Award and the Connecticut Guild of Puppetry. For more information please visit www.fergusjwalsh.com

Musician:

Julia Weldonis a prolific, New York City-based guitarist, songwriter, and composer.She headlines at reputable venues like the Knitting Factory and Mercury Lounge and plays up and down the east coast. Recent festivals include Chicago’s 2008 Decibelle Festival and the 2010 Women’s Experimental Music Festival in Brooklyn. Her first, self-titled album was a DIY project with intimate grit, but she is currently finishing a fully produced and realized 12-track album with a renowned producer, Saul MacWiliams. For more information please visit juliaweldon.com.

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12 JAN 12: Rabbit Tales - Ephemeral

rabbitholeprojects — Mon, 19 Dec 2011 21:01:18 +0000

January 12 Rabbit Tales:
Theme: Ephemeral
Doors @7:30, Show at 8
BYOB

Reader:
Rebecca Schultz is a senior at Yale double majoring in Art and English. Next year, she expects to be very impoverished and living in New York.

Storyteller/photographer
Jenna Salvagin Jenna Salvagin just graduated from the School of Visual Arts with a BFA in Photography. She takes photos of haunted places and likes to make jewelry out of bones. Jenna can be found at the dog park with her pit bull Daisy and is experienced in event photography but won’t edit your photos to have selective color. Email her at jennarotunda@gmail.com for more info.

Presenter:
Ben Pederson was born in 1979 in Grand Rapids Michigan and received his B.A. in Studio art from Aquinas College in 2003. He went on to obtain his M.F.A. in Sculpture from the University of Massachusetts, which he received in 2007. After graduate school, Ben moved to Brooklyn, New York, where he worked as an art handler and continued to make and show work. After two years back in the midwest, Ben’s back in Brooklyn, confused about the nature of existence and how to navigate reality, making work that both asks and answers his desperate questions.

Musician:

Elisa Flynn is a guitarist and songwriter who played in indie rock, punk, and Americana bands for the better part of the last two decades. After taking voice lessons from Shara Worden (My Brightest Diamond), she took her stronger voice and headed out with an acoustic guitar and a suitcase full of effects pedals. Her broodingly nuanced vocals shape haunting yet wry ballads into grand guignol. Her most recent EP, 19th Century Songs, was released in 2011 and features tales of shipwrecks, the Civil War, and the Donner Party. Website: www.elisaflynn.com.

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08 DEC 11: Rabbit Tales: Bumbling Along

rabbitholeprojects — Mon, 05 Dec 2011 21:16:04 +0000

Rabbit Tales December!
Doors at 7:30, show at 8:00.
$3 suggested donation
BYOB
Theme: Bumbling Along

Readers:

The son of a single mother nurse, Eric Nelson came of age in the
concrete jungle of New Jersey, eating iron ore and spitting outgrenades
of Mickey’s Malt. Nelson’s fiction and non-fiction hasappeared in Volume
1 Brooklyn, We'll Never Have Paris, ConstellationMagazine and Zine
World; and his book of short stories, The Silk CitySeries, was released
in 2010 by Knickerbocker Press. Nelson is alsoco-curator of the reading
series, Fireside Follies, in Brooklyn, and avolunteer at ABC No Rio, , and af
ounding member of the 1441 WritersCollective. He is currently trying to
sell his first novel and hasread up and down both Coasts.

Kate Hill Cantrill’s writing has appeared most recently in Mississippi
Review, Quick Fiction, Cake Train, Matchbook, Sleepingfish, The
Believer, Wigleaf, and others. She’s been awarded fellowships from
Yaddo, Jentel, VCCA, and the James A. Michener Fund. She curates the
Rabbit Tales reading series for Rabbit Hole Studios in Dumbo. She can be
reached at <rabbittalesdumbo@gmail.com>.

Artist/Presenter:

Born and raised in New England, Marcie Paper is an artist currently
living and working in Brooklyn.She makes both paintings and
stop-animated films that investigate the track and significance of
short-term memory.Marcie has a background in art therapy and has worked
in the mental health field as both a caregiver and art director for
people with mental illnesses.She received her MFA from the University of
Massachusetts, Amherst in 2006 since then she has attended a number of
residencies, and has shown her work nationally.

http://www.marciepaper.com

Musician:

Steve Espinola is a mostly-piano-playing singer-songwriter, though he
deviates to 19-string electric tennis racket and melodic shortwave radio
on occasion. He lives in Brooklyn, NY and tends to perform in New York
City. He is a home recording enthusiast, instrument maker, flash
animator, sound editor, neighborhood activist, and cat worshiper. He's
been writing, performing and self-releasing his music since the early
1980's. He is constantly humbled by inspired beginners. As a sideline,
he is recording and archiving current musicians live onto 78 rpm
acetates and plastic picnic plates, so that music lovers in future
post-electric generations may play them on hand-cranked Victrolas

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Pics from Thursday's "Comings & Goings"

rabbitholeprojects — Fri, 14 Oct 2011 15:33:00 +0000

Photos by Jenna Salvagin ( go to this LINK<< )

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13 Oct 11: Rabbit Tales "Comings & Goings"

rabbitholeprojects — Sat, 01 Oct 2011 22:52:19 +0000

READERS!

Gary Percesepe is Associate Editor at BLIP Magazine (formerly Mississippi Review), and a Contributor at The Nervous Breakdown. His short stories, poems, essays, reviews, and interviews have been widely published or are forthcoming in Story Quarterly, N + 1, Salon, Mississippi Review, Antioch Review, Pirene’s Fountain, The Millions, Atticus Review, Houston Literary Review, Westchester Review, The Nervous Breakdown, Rumpus, Pank, Bluestem, Bull, Word Riot, Moon Milk Review, Fogged Clarity, Necessary Fiction, Frigg, Twelve Stories, Negative Suck, and other places. He is the author of four books in philosophy and an epistolary novel with Susan Tepper, What May Have Been: Letters of Jackson Pollock and Dori G, (Cervana Barva Press). He recently completed his second novel, Leaving Telluride, set in Telluride, Colorado.

B.C. Edwards is the recipient of the 2011 Hudson Prize. He is the author of the forthcoming collection of fiction "The Aversive Clause" and the forthcoming collections of poetry "How to Mend Small Children," and "From the Standard Cyclopedia of Recipes." He is a regular contributor to BOMBlog and his work can be found in No Dear, The Sink Review, Mathematics Magazine, Hobart and others. He is also a Literary Death Match Champion and has the medal to prove it.

Lauren Belski writes fiction, poetry, and the occasional personal essay. Her work has appeared in Story Quarterly, J: New Writing on Justice, forte: a magazine of sound, Electric Literature's blog The Outlet, and other places where virtually unknown literary types still find a home. She teaches at Brooklyn College and the Gotham Writers' Workshop. She also bartends at 4th Avenue Pub and Washington Commons. She is married to Brian Russ of the band Backwords, and lives in a little hippie compound with the drummer from Backwords (John), her sister and bro-in-law, who are renegade landscape designers, and an ever-fluctuating number of cats.

PERFORMER!

Joshua Boone is a native of Portsmouth, Virginia and has a college degree! He was last seen on stage as CJ in the Fringe Encore Productions of Felony Friday. His favorite role to date is as the frontier man, Davy Crockett, in his 3rd grade summer school arts program, and he is currently looking for a girlfriend to spend this next NY Winter with...just the Winter! "Hey, don't judge me, it's getting cold outside!" Thanks to all!

MUSICAL GUEST!

Curtis McMurtry with some of his band the Friendly Strangers!
http://curtismcmurtrymusic.com/

Show photographed by Jenna Salvagin

Curated by Kate Hill Cantrill

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