October 20: Ekphrasis!

Announcing! Friends! Denverites! Wyobraskoradans! Countrypeople!

Monday, October 20, 2008 @ 8:00 p.m. at the Larimer Lounge!

This is Not a Reading: Ekphrasis is just a phancy way of saying a picture is worth 1000 words!



Please join us for a phun-philled evening of not-reading, not-music, not-art, not-science and the opposite of all those where each presenter responds either directly or obliquely to the image above.

Our roster is quickly filling up, but if you'd like to participate, please contact us through this blog.

Reading Rainbow Reading Rocked!

Our inaugural event was full of music and laughter and political intrigue and cheap pbrs and winnie cooper and nostradamus and fed-exed penguins and a whole bunch of handsome people who came out to watch! If you were there, and you're handsome, thank you for coming! If you performed, thank you for performing! If you weren't there, please come play along on October 20th (more info to come)!

Thanks to everyone who helped make this happen.

Please click on the photos to see even more on our flickr page (I, Shawn, would like to apologize for the fact that there are not pictures of everyone who performed--I would remember to document things, and then I would get caught up in what was happening, and then I would remember to document things. . . . I'll be better next time.)

These People Will Not Be Reading @ The Larimer Lounge Monday, September 15 @ 8:30 P.M.

Travis McDonald

Louie Holwerk

Peter M.R. Bergman: As agent m[i]le[s] with distractions from his agent Jim HansonMensan -- aka "The Barnacle Protester" delivering an Emperor Wears No Cloths tale Entitled "Beware SHEEPLE". The tale is a being published in the October issue of Lumpen and is a prequel to: http://lumpentimes.blogspot.com/2008/08/post-2-covering-media-covering-media.html Also, providing acoustic trash can beats and spoken-spaz backing-tracks: Witches in the Wild (is agents Peter M.R. Bergman and L.C. Chappell.)


Andrew Wicliffe

Jess Wigent

Shawn Huelle

Edward Almost

Ian Tyson

Richard Froude

Dan Singer

what this isn't is

(image ganked from boston.com)

"This is Not a Reading" is (or will be shortly) a curated "reading" series. Each month a different person will set a theme, invite people to come along, and hopefully take volunteers as well.

What's important to know: This is not a reading (okay so it is and poems are wonderful and one-acts and flash (gordon) fiction too and collaborative works of all kinds oh my! will be read). Costumes are encouraged. If you play a musical instrument you should play a musical instrument. Live painting is possible and oh so swoonable. There will be sing-alongs. Play is the most serious endeavor.

What's importanter to know: The first event will be Monday, September 15th at 8:30 at the Larimer Lounge (tres awesome!), and the theme will be

"But you do have to take my word for it (motherfucker): A Reading Rainbow Event"

Bring your friends, your posse, your enemies (because you should keep them closer, remember?), and your love for LeVar Burton.

(If your love for LeVar Burton has got your gut in knots as you read this and you know, you know, you f-ing know you must be a part of this event (yay!), please send one of the organizers a brief proposal via email. One of us will get back to you ASAP.)

See you there!