Personally, think this is going to be really amazing. I have never seen an event of this kind in St. Louis, and I certainly can't think of a better way to spend your Monday evening. P.S. crossword depicted is not the actual crossword of Ben Segal...but we have to have some imagery here.
Open Lot's summertime rash of activities continues Monday, June 23rd, with
just the kind of interdisciplinary mash-up that we all crave. Does it have
physics demonstrations? Yes, yes it does. Literature via crossword puzzle?
Yes, most definitely. Maybe some music? Yup.
Intrigued? Come see Northampton Purple House Presents:
Jim Atkinson- Jim is a physicist working on quantum computing at the Amherst
College Physics lab. He'll be doing various (and totally safe)
science demonstrations. It's going to be kind of like Mr. Wizard or Bill
Nye. Also, he can talk to anyone about quantum mechanics if they're into
that. And you know you are.
Ben Segal's new experimental prose book is being released in late Spring by
No Record Press. The book, 132 Stories, takes the form of a crossword
puzzle. Ben filled in each of the white squares on a standard crossword
puzzle with paragraphs. Each paragraph acts as part of an across and a down
answer, as in a traditional puzzle. Each of these 'answers' functions as a
short narrative, creating a web of 132 such narratives over a 20 sq. foot
grid. He will present the book (which is published in the form of a
fold-out, like a map) and also possibly reading from a tour-only collection
of short stories that have been previously published in small journals.
For a sample of Ben's writing, please visit: http://www.wordriot.org/template.php?ID=756.
Plus trumpet solos by Peter Bonos.
Quantum physics chats + Trumpet solos + Radical crossword narratives =
Seriously, how could you not come?
Monday, June 23rd
9 PM at
Open Lot
1310 South 18th Street
Saint Louis, MO 63104
1.314.588.2192
www.openlot. org
www.openlotblog. blogspot. com
To follow more activities and adventures of Northampton Purple House, please visit their blog: http://northamptonpurplehouse.blogspot.com.
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