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Moksha
Sunday, 9 p.m. Humboldt Brews, 856 10th St., Arcata. Five-piece kick-ass, funk rock band that lets loose in a not-so-spiritual fashion. $10. 822-1220.
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Mechanical Menagerie
Today, 8:30 p.m. Redwood Raks World Dance Studio, 824 L St., Arcata. Whimsical all-ages animal-themed benefit for Nighshade Serenade. Music by Gunsafe, fire show, animal hijinx by Blue Angel Burlesque, bellydancing and silent auction. $10. E-mail megjclarke@hotmail.com. 832-8973.
STAFF PICK / events, art, outdoors, sports, for kids, free
44th Annual Kinetic Grand Championship Race
Tomorrow, Sunday, Monday, 9 a.m.-6 p.m. A 3-day, 42-mile kinetic sculpture race over land, sand, mud and water! LeMans start at the Noon Whistle on the Arcata Plaza. Follow the race through Manila, Eureka and into Ferndale on Memorial Day for the Glorious Finish. kineticgrandchampionship.com. 889-3024.
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Vidagua CD Release
Tomorrow, 9 p.m. Red Fox Tavern, 415 5th St., Eureka. Reggae-meets-Latin bilingual vocal duo Vidagua is celebrating the release of a self-titled CD. theredfoxtavern.com. 269-0282.
Nicholas Karavatos
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Poet Nicholas Karavatos and electronic guitarist Jeff Kelley will be performing in spontaneous collaboration on the Arcata Playhouse stage at 4:30 pm sharp on Sunday, August 1st at the Golden Road Music & Art Fair.
In this BENEFIT inter-media spoken word performance for the Ink People Center for the Arts, musician Jeff Kelley processes pitched signals layering sounds in conversation with poet Nicholas Karavatos reciting his poems.
NICHOLAS KARAVATOS is included in the anthology Punk Rock Saved My Ass (Ukiah: Medusa’s Muse, 2010) and the latest issue of West Wind Review (Ashland: University of Southern Oregon, 2010). In December 2009, Amendment Nine (Arcata) published his first book No Asylumhttp://www.amazon.com/dp/0984280006/ref=cm_sw_su_dp
Beat poet David Meltzer writes: “NICHOLAS KARAVATOS is a poet of great range and clarity. No Asylum is an amazing collectanea of smart sharp political poetry in tandem with astute and tender love lyrics. All of it voiced with an impressive singularity.” (from back cover)
At the No Asylum book launch at Arcata Theater Lounge in December 2009, spontaneously collaborating with poet NICHOLAS KARAVATOS in an inter-media spoken word performance were Art Brown (guitar), Edmond Dereadt (lights), Jeff Kelley (guitar), Mark Weston (percussion), & Shao Way Wu (bass). http://www.archive.org/details/NicholasKaravatos-2009December2-ArcataTheaterLoungeCalifornia
NICHOLAS KARAVATOS lives near Dubai, teaching literature and writing at the American University of Sharjah in the United Arab Emirates. He has been an Assistant Professor there since 2006. From 2001 he had taught general studies at a small private college in Muscat, Sultanate of Oman. http://www.aus.edu/
NICHOLAS KARAVATOS is a graduate of Humboldt State University where he earned his B.A. in English with a minor in Art History (1986), and of New College of California where he earned an M.F.A. in Poetics & Writing (1999).
Stick around or come back for more JEFF KELLEY, guitarist in The Miracle Show – the headline climax of the Golden Road Art & Music Fair.
When/where:
| Dates | |
| Time | 4:30 p.m. |
| Phone | 707-822-1575 |
| Venue | Arcata Playhouse |
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events / 8:30 p.m. Redwood Raks World Dance Studio, 824 L St., Arcata. Whimsical all-ages animal-themed benefit for Nighshade Serenade. Music by Gunsafe, fire show, animal hijinx by Blue Angel Burlesque, bellydancing and silent auction. $10. E-mail megjclarke@hotmail.com. 832-8973.
