REDCAT Presents A Reading Celebrating The New Anthology of Writing On Film LIFE AS WE SHOW IT 10/29

REDCAT (the Roy and Edna Disney/CalArts Theater) presents Life As We Show It: Writing on Film with Rebecca Brown, Myriam Gurba, Abdellah Taïa and Masha Tupitsyn on Thursday, October 29, 2009.

This can't-miss reading celebrates the publication of an important new anthology of writing on film: Life As We Show It, edited by Masha Tupitsyn and Brian Pera. The dynamic cross-genre collection of short stories, essays and poetry navigates the increasingly fine line between lived experience and representation in contemporary American culture.

Life As We Show It poses this question: If movie watching has become a primary way of assimilating the world, what kinds of movies are our lives imitating? Award-winning American film director Todd Haynes exclaims, "Life As We Show It shifts the creative prerogative from the producers of cinema to the imaginative life of its consumers& Roland Barthes would surely cheer."

Organized by the publication's co-editor Masha Tupitsyn and Maggie Nelson of the CalArts MFA Writing Program, four of Life As We Show It's contributors are on hand to read from their inspired work. Rebecca Brown is the author of a dozen books, including a recent collection of "gonzo essays," American Romances. She is joined by Myriam Gurba, author of Dahlia Season, which earned the Edmund White Award for debut fiction; Abdellah Taïa, a Paris-based Moroccan writer whose coming-of-age novella Salvation Army was published earlier this year; and Life co-editor Masha Tupitsyn, cultural critic and author of a book of film-based stories, Beauty Talk & Monsters.

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

General information about Life As We Show It on City Lights Publishers' website:
www.citylights.com/book/?GCOI=87286100680350

Life As We Show It's official Facebook page:
www.facebook.com/pages/Life-As-We-Show-It/69802253014?v=info

Co-editor Brian Pera's blog covering the making of Life As We Show It and more:
www.brianpera.blogspot.com

REDCAT
The Roy and Edna Disney/CalArts Theater, opened by CalArts in 2003, introduces diverse audiences, students and artists to the most influential developments in the arts from around the world, and gives artists in this region the creative support they need to achieve national and international stature. REDCAT is the newest partner in an international network of adventurous art and performance centers, which together are playing a vital role in the evolution of contemporary culture. REDCAT is a center for experimentation, discovery, and lively civic discourse.

REDCAT is located at the corner of W. 2nd and Hope Streets, inside the Walt Disney Concert Hall complex (631 West 2nd Street, Los Angeles, CA 90012).

For tickets and information, call the REDCAT Box Office at 213-237-2800, or visit www.redcat.org.

REDCAT sponsors include The Standard, Yamaha, Ovation TV, Los Angeles magazine and KCRW. For REDCAT acknowledgements, visit www.redcat.org/acknowledgements.

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