Fashionistas, Cohorts & Urban Explorers,
The summer is heating up and there is music in the streets, and fashion shows in the park... I hope all of you can come out for the BrooklynBest Festival and see your very own C. Spot Designs on the runway, holding it down with some of Brooklyn's favorite Indie designers this Sunday at Herbert Von King Park in Bed-Stuy!
http://www.brooklyn-usa.org/Pages/RSC/bbest06.htmOf course the BrooklynBest Festival isn't the only thing going on this weekend, so below you will find details for (all good things):
ART + MUSIC + FILM + FASHION + OCTAVIA
THURSDAY: June 1st, 5:30 to 8:30
in DUMBO: First Thursdays Art Walk
for more info, check:
http://www.dumbo-newyork.com
And don't forget to stop by Art in Chaos
and see one of my favorite local painters
http://www.artinchaos.com
and then starting FRIDAY: June 2nd
9th BROOKLYN International Film Festival (Enigma-9)
Festival runs from June 2-11, 2006 at Brooklyn Museum
All the info & schedules @
http://www.wbff.orgor even better, go to Antimart on FRIDAY:
Lost Film Festival; Movie Madness starts @ 7:30pm
Donations on a sliding scale...
http://www.lostfilmfest.comif you need some soul on FRIDAY:
Check out Professor Rockwell's SUPERSOUL
@ Company (10th & 1st Ave) from 10pm On & On
FREE
or if you need some Mental Notes on FRIDAY:
check out the CD Release Party at Baggot Inn
Starting @ 10:30pm (82 West 3rd and McDougal)
featuring Mental Notes Xpsiritmental Hip Hop Fusion
$10 cover with free CD
this SUNDAY: June 4th, 3pm
Come to the BrooklynBest Fashion Show, featuring Indie Brooklyn designers, including your very own C. Spot Designs!
...The show is in Herbert Von King Park between Marcy, Lafayette, Tompkins and Greene;
Take the C train to Fulton or G train to Myrtle-Willoughby
Featured Designers: Harriet's Alter Ego, Ashaka Givens, Embrace Da Boss, Michi Knitwear, & C. Spot Designs
All the info on the Festival @
http://www.brooklyn-usa.org/Pages/RSC/bbest06.htmMONDAY: June 5th, 7pm
Tribute to OCTAVIA E. BUTLER at the NYPL for the Performing Arts
...Writers and friends of Octavia E. Butler, who died in February, 2006, will gather to pay tribute to this internationally known science fiction writer whose evocative, often troubling, novels explore far-reaching issues of race, sex, power and, ultimately, what it means to be human. Publisher Dan Simon, actor Avery Brooks, publisher and editor Max Rodriguez, writer Harlan Ellison, Professor Sandra Govan, literary agent Merrilee Heifetz, poet Sonia Sanchez, writer Samuel R. Delany and special musical guests will honor Ms. Butler with reminiscence, music, and readings from her work.
...This event is co-sponsored by Seven Stories Press.
Please note: this event takes place at
THE NEW YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS
Bruno Walter Auditorium
(use Library entrance at 111 Amsterdam Avenue, just south of 65th Street.) Tickets for this event are free FREE
Reservations are required. Go to
smarttix.comor call 212-868-4444
About Octavia E. Butler
...Octavia E. Butler is the author of eleven novels, including Kindred, Dawn, Parable of the Sower, and, most recently, Fledgling (2005), and one collection of short fiction, Bloodchild. Butler received a MacArthur Foundation "genius" grant, science fiction's highest honors--the Nebula Award and the Hugo Award--and numerous other literary awards.
...According to her New York Times obituary, throughout Ms. Butler's career, the news media made much of the fact that she was an African-American woman writing science fiction, traditionally a white male bastion. But in interviews and in her work itself she left no doubt that her background equipped her spectacularly well to portray life in hostile dystopias where the odds of survival can be almost insurmountable. "I'm black, I'm solitary, I've always been an outsider," The Los Angeles Times quoted Ms. Butler as saying in 1998. Set in time periods ranging from the historical past to the distant future, Ms. Butler's books were known for their controlled economy of language and for their strong, believable protagonists, many of them black women. One of Ms. Butler's best-known novels, Kindred, told the story of a modern-day black woman who must travel back to the antebellum South to save the life of a white, slaveholding ancestor and, in so doing, save her own. Frequently assigned in black-studies courses, the book was rooted in the experience of the author's mother, who worked as a maid. "I didn't like seeing her go through back doors," Ms. Butler once told Publishers Weekly. "If my mother hadn't put up with all those humiliations, I wouldn't have eaten very well or lived very comfortably. So I wanted to write a novel that would make others feel the history: the pain and fear that black people have had to live through in order to endure." In an interview with The New York Times, Ms. Butler explained the deep appropriateness of her chosen genre as a vehicle for social commentary. "We are a naturally hierarchical species," she said. "When I say these things in my novels, sure I make up the aliens and all of that, but I don't make up the essential human character."
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Raynelle in her C. Spot T-Dress...
