Two Piece Tuesdays presents “Surviving Utopia”

A monthly event featuring Poetry, Film and wild happenings. Enjoy Taropy with Miss Ginger and the cocktail stylings of Victoria Victrola. Poetry from 8 to 9pm. Film: Le Jetée. No Cover.

This month’s film will be La Jetée by Chris Marker. A seminal 1962 post-apocalyptic film told through stark images that was the inspiration for 12 Monkeys. http://chrismarker.org/chris-marker-2/la-jetee-j-g-ballard/
Film courtesy of our favorite local ~ Shannon Hubbell. http://www.shannonhubbell.com/

The wonderful poets who will be exploring this month’s theme ~ Surviving Utopia.
Our Feature: Natasha Dennerstein ~ Australian Natasha has had poetry published in Fourth Floor, Landfall, Snorkel, JAAM, Takahe, Bloom, Transfer and Red Light Lit as well as in several anthologies. Natasha is involved in performance poetry and is interested in creative writing as a therapeutic tool in psychiatric facilities and prisons.
http://www.natashadennerstein.com/

Darien Lencil ~ East Oakland Native and rising voice to be reckoned with.

Kurt ‘The Big Engine’ Schweigman ~
Kurt Schweigman is co-editor of Red Indian Road West: Native American Poetry from California (Scarlet Tanager Books, 2016). His poetry appears in Shedding Skins: Four Sioux Poets (Michigan State University Press, 2008). Kurt was a featured poet at the prestigious Geraldine R. Dodge 12th Biennial Poetry Festival and the first spoken word poet to receive an Archibald Bush Foundation artist fellowship in literature. Although retired from competition, he has won Poetry Slams across the United States and in Germany. Kurt has a Master of Public Health degree in Epidemiology from the University of Oklahoma. Born and raised in Rapid City, South Dakota, he now resides in Oakland and is an enrolled member of the Oglala Sioux Tribe.
http://poetrymagazine.com/editors_choice/spring2016day/kurt_schweigman_page1.html

Jeff Desira ~ He delivers hope and heartbreak with natural grace. Desira’s debut solo album, Weathervane, contains songs he wrote about his time in New York. It also includes “When I Let Go”, a piece recalling a life-changing accident in 2011 which rendered him unable to play guitar for four months.
A stalwart of the San Francisco singer-songwriter scene, Jeff has bolstered the music community by reaching out to other artists through collaboration and booking events at venues such as Amnesia, Milk, 50 Mason Social House, and several others. Throughout the Bay Area and internationally, he is known not only as a talented musician, but as a steadfast friend.
http://www.jeffdesira.com/

E.K. Keith ~ finds it just as comfortable to shout her poems on the street corner as to take the mic at a bar, coffee shop, or radio station. Her work appears in journals and anthologies on all three coasts and places in between including Sweet Wolverine, Haight Ashbury Literary Journal, and Nerve Cowboy. E.K. organizes Poems Under the Dome, San Francisco’s annual open mic celebration of Poetry Month inside City Hall. E.K. is also a public high school librarian which regularly presents opportunities for her to make the world a better place.

Ingrid Keir ~ Poet, performer and educator. She is co-founder of the WordParty, a San Francisco poetry and jazz open mic. She has been a featured reader at diverse venues in the Bay Area including the DeYoung Museum, The Beat Museum, City Hall, Quiet Lightning as well as many others. She lectured Creative Writing at San Francisco State University where she taught undergraduate poetry, fiction and playwriting while simultaneously engaging students with writers of the Bay Area. Ingrid also received both her M.F.A and B.A. degrees at San Francisco State University. She enjoys spontaneity whether it means reading with a jazz band, collaborating with artists, or creating visual poetry. She has been published in many literary journals including Two Hawks Quarterly, The Haight Ashbury Literary Journal, Sparkle and Blink and Out of Our. Ingrid has written several chapbooks: The Secrets of Like (2004), Toward the Light (2007) and her newest book of poetry called The Choreography of Nests is due out in September. . Please see www.ingridkeir.com for more info.

And More…..

Bonus: It’s a double bill this night with the Active Music Series doing a show in the main space at 9pm.
Active Music Series Presents: DunkelpeK, Rova Saxophone Quartet, William Winant/Marshall Trammell Duo
$5 – $15.
http://www.uptownnightclub.com/event/active-music-series/