Mixer Reading and Music Series
Wednesday, May 16, 7:00 p.m., FREE
with readings by
Sarah Schulman
Jillian Lauren
Chloe Caldwell
Music by Moonmen on the Moon, Man
with your hosts, Melissa Febos and Rebecca Keith
at Cakeshop
152 Ludlow St., bet. Stanton and Rivington
F, V to 2nd Ave., F, J, M to Delancey/Essex
https://www.facebook.com/Mixerreadings
Chloe Caldwell is the author of Legs Get Led...
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Wednesday, May 16, 7:00 p.m., FREE
with readings by
Sarah Schulman
Jillian Lauren
Chloe Caldwell
Music by Moonmen on the Moon, Man
with your hosts, Melissa Febos and Rebecca Keith
at Cakeshop
152 Ludlow St., bet. Stanton and Rivington
F, V to 2nd Ave., F, J, M to Delancey/Essex
https://www.facebook.com/Mixerreadings
Chloe Caldwell is the author of Legs Get Led Astray, (Future Tense Books, April 2012.) Her non-fiction has appeared in Nylon Magazine, The Rumpus, Chronogram, The Frisky, The Sun Magazine, SMITH Magazine, Jewcy, Mr. Beller’s Neighborhood, Vol 1. Brooklyn & Freerange Nonfiction. She writes a column for The Faster Times called Love & Music. She is the founder and curator of the Hudson River Loft Reading Series and has taught Creative Writing workshops at Omega Teen Camp in Holmes, New York, and the Hudson Opera House in Hudson, New York. Chloe splits her time living in upstate New York and Portland, Oregon.
Jillian Lauren is the author of the novel, PRETTY, and of the New York Times bestselling memoir, SOME GIRLS: My Life in a Harem, both published by Plume/Penguin. SOME GIRLS has since been translated into fourteen different languages. Jillian has an MFA in Creative Writing from Antioch University. Her writing has appeared in The Paris Review, The New York Times, Vanity Fair, Los Angeles Magazine, Flaunt Magazine, Opium Magazine, Society, Pale House: A Collective and in the anthologies My First Time: A Collection of First Punk Show Stories and Tarnished: True Tales of Innocence Lost. She has performed at spoken word and storytelling events across the country and has been interviewed on such television programs as The View, Good Morning America and Howard Stern. She was a featured dancer with the infamous Velvet Hammer Burlesque. As a performer, she has recently worked with directors as diverse as Robert Cucuzza, Steve Balderson, Lynne Breedlove, Austin Young, Michelle Carr and Margaret Cho. Jillian recently premiered her solo performance piece, Mother Tongue, at the Steve Allen Theater in Los Angeles. She regularly blogs at TODAY Moms and Jillianlauren.com. Jillian is married to musician Scott Shriner. They live in Los Angeles with their son.
Sarah Schulman is the author of the novels: THE MERE FUTURE, THE CHILD, SHIMMER, RAT BOHEMIA, EMPATHY, PEOPLE IN TROUBLE, AFTER DELORES and THE SOPHIE HOROWITZ STORY and the nonfiction books: THE GENTRIFICATION OF THE MIND: Witness to a Lost Imagination, TIES THAT BIND: Familial Homophobia and Its Consequences, STAGESTRUCK: Theater, AIDS and the MArketing of Gay America, MY AMERICAN HISTORY: Lesbian and Gay Life During The Reagan/Bush Years. Plus the plays Carson McCullers, MANIC FLIGHT REACTION and the stage adaptation of IB Singer's ENEMIES, A LOVE STORY. She is co-director with Jim Hubbard of The ACT UP Oral History Project (www.actuporalhistory.org) and co-producer of UNITED IN ANGER: A History of ACT UP, a feature documentary directed by Hubbard. Sarah is co-author with director Cheryl Dunye of two films: THE OWLS and MOMMY IS COMING, both selections of the Berlin Film Festival. She was co-ordinator of the First US Tour of Leaders of the Palestinian Queer Movement and the first LGBT Delegation to Palestine.
Moonmen on the Moon, Man currently plays regular gigs at NYC venues such as Cake Shop, Death By Audio, Cameo Gallery, Public Assembly, Bruar Falls (RIP), Silent Barn (RIP), The Gutter, Matchless, and bunch of homes. The band includes Andy Bodor (head booker and Co-Owner at Cake Shop), Isabel Martin (ex Yellow Fever, Robots Please), Jim Campbell (Paper Fleet), and Kelly Harris (ex Love or Perish, Winning Looks, and Little Victory). In January of this year, Time Out NY said, “Moonmen on the Moon, Man specializes in fizzy, super-concise garage punk—the kind that compels you to hop around like a caffeinated grade-schooler.” Check out their debut release of 8 songs, shot over the moon and now back with us here in our hot hands.
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