For more event information please contact us at tic@talkimage.org. All readings are free and open to the public.

January 19, 2008
7:30 pm
“Duet Between the Dreamer and the World”
A Reading at Form+Content Gallery
210 2nd St North, Minneapolis

Duet” pairs poet Deborah Keenan and playwright-fiction writer Kira Obolensky in response to the show “Intimate Immensity” at Form+Content Gallery. Come see a duet between Keenan and Obolensky, between the spoken word and the artwork on the walls, between each author and philosopher Gaston Bachelard's concept of “intimate immensity.”

February 23, 2008
7 pm
"Gazing At Stars"
A Reading at The Susan Hensel Gallery
3441 Cedar Ave South
(612)722-2324

Jean Larson, Ace Moore, Alison Morse, Jeff Skemp and Charlotte Sullivan connect the stars in artist Karen Hanmer’s deep sky installation, “Celestial Navigation.”

June 14, 2008
8pm
“Meander Incorporated”
A Reading at The Soap Factory
518 2nd Street Southeast Minneapolis (Enter at the loading dock.)
(612)623-9176

Curated by Bethany Kalk, the exhibit “Meander” brings together 18 artists from the Twin Cities to make a single artwork that will stretch throughout The Soap Factory’s galleries.

In the spirit of “Meander,” poets Paula Cisewski and Tammy Wenberg and musician Peter Schimke collaborate with Alison Morse on a single stretchy evening of words and music called “Meander, Incorporated.”

August 22, 2008
8pm
“Closer and Prettier than Ever”
A Reading at The Soap Factory
518 2nd Street Southeast Minneapolis (Enter at the loading dock.)
(612)623-9176

Paul Dickinson, Melanie Hoffert, Beth Mayer, Jeff Smieding and the dance group Three Dances with poet Haley Lasché, respond to “Nothing at the End of the Lane,” the Soap Factory group show curated by Ben Heywood.

October 9-12, 2008
2-5pm, Spend time with the sculpture
October 11, 2008
7:30pm, The Reading

“Between Roots and Branches”
Sculpture, Stories and Poetry, hewn from local trees

at The Northrup King Building, Room 332, 1500 Jackson Street, Northeast Minneapolis
www.northrupkingbuilding.com

Picture a warehouse studio with leaded glass windows and the whine of woodworking saws. Picture an artist and writers gathered around a sawdusted table, engaged in discussion, passing between them blocks and boards of felled birch, walnut, and oak.

You are invited to the results of a unique year-long collaboration between a sculptor-woodworker and six writers. With trees salvaged from Midwestern backyards, the artist and writers were mutually inspired to create pieces that engage the natural world and challenge ideas of time, tools, decay, and renewal.

The sculptures will be on display along with broadsides and handmade books, designed by Allison Chapman from the Minnesota Center for Book Arts, that include the work of the participating writers.
Participating artists: sculptor-woodworker Seth Keller with writers Emily August. Michelle Janssens-Keller Jean Larson, Jen March, Alison Morse, Mark Rapacz

February 17, 2007 (see archive)
“Wish You Were Here: The Great American Family Vacation Show”
A Reading at The Susan Hensel Gallery
3441 Cedar Avenue South, Minneapolis
(612)722-2324

Jim Coppoc, Geoff Herbach, Haley Lasché, Beth Mayer, Ace Moore, and Alison Morse unpack stories and poems about that famous oxymoron, the family vacation, in response to Mike Elko’s sculpture, drawing, and print exhibit, “We Drove, We Saw, We Ate.”

Read Jim Coppoc’s Poem “Waiting For Godot.”

April 21, 2007 (see archive)
“Performing Words II”
A Reading at The Frank Stone Gallery
1224 2nd Street NE Minneapolis
(612)617-9965

Geoff Herbach, Haley Lasché, Katie Leo, Cory McCleod, Alison Morse, and Kira Obolensky perform comic, tragic, death-defying tricks with words in response to costume designs by theater artist Sonya Berlovitz.

Read Kira Obolensky’s story “The Madness of Ian Wakil.”

June 2, 2007 (see archive)
“Embedded With Mangoes in the Garden of Earthly Delights”
A Reading at The Soap Factory
518 2nd Street Southeast Minneapolis (Enter at the loading dock.)
(612)623-9176

Watch words collide with spoken artwork recolored by choreographers, in response to the Soap Factory show “This Mango Is Now An iPod.” With writer-performers Shá Cage, Carla Hagen, Julia Klatt-Singer, Haley Lasché, Sam Osterhout, Annette Schiebout, and special guests, Three Dances.

Read “What Happens Here Stays Here” by Julia Klatt-Singer.
Read "Palaces and Fountains" by Carla Hagen.

July 14, 2007
8PM
“Voicing Pride: A GLBT Reading”
A Reading at The Soap Factory
518 2nd Street Southeast Minneapolis (Enter at the loading dock.)
(612)623-9176

A stellar group of Twin Cities writers: Barrie Borich, Andrea Jenkins, Judith Katz, John Medeiros, and Emily Wharton; respond to the Twin Cities GLBT Pride exhibit at the Soap Factory.

August 4, 2007
7 PM
“Dreamcasting: A Response to Forest Walk”
A Reading at The Susan Hensel Gallery
3441 Cedar Avenue South, Minneapolis
(612)722-2324

Singular Twin Cities poet Sandy Beach responds to Mary Ellen Long’s sculptural interventions with the forest.

Read Sandy Beach’s poem "Detritus: Two Books"

October 6, 2007
8PM
”Para-Sites”
A Reading at The Soap Factory
518 2nd Street Southeast Minneapolis (Enter at the loading dock.)
(612)623-9176

Emily August, E.G. Bailey, Shelia Bland, Jim Coppoc, Alison Morse, and Annette Schiebout respond “Host,” an art show that invites personal responses to public places. Curated by Elizabeth Grady.