homo-centric

Jan 27, 2012

Luis Alfaro Wins 2012 Joyce Award

Congratulations to Luis Alfaro for being a recipient of a 2012 Joyce Award! From the Theater Mania website:

"Playwright Luis Alfaro has won a 2012 Joyce Award. The annual prizes, which carry a $50,000 cast grant, are given to commission artists of color to help them create new works with cultural institutions. Worrking with Enrique Adyanthaya and Marlina Gonzalez, Alfaro will write a season of plays based on the ideas behind the fusion of Latino and Asian cultures, that will be created in collaboration with two Minneapolis/St. Paul theater companies, Teatro del Pueblo and Pangea. The plays will range from love stories of interracial couples exploring tensions between their two communities to a children's story adapted from a fable."

We did a Sunday video post about Luis just one day shy of being exactly one year ago (weird, huh?). The video explanation for the project the Joyce grant will fund is here. And below is a very cool video of Luis the storyteller. Enjoy. And take a minute to congratulate Luis. It's much deserved.

Dennis Cooper on Haring & Burroughs

Dennis Cooper reposted an article on his blog about a collaboration between Keith Haring and William S. Burroughs. You can read it here.

Cooper, Haring & Burroughs should be enough homo-centricity to power your entire day. Now go celebrate your inner radiant baby.

Jan 26, 2012

Philip Littell & Billy, the Kid in Broad Daylight

Never one to sit still, Philip Littell will be at the Bootleg Theater this weekend. I lifted the entire press release and planted it below. You can get tickets here.

January 26, 27 & 28 at 8:00 pm
Bootleg Theater Presents
Philip Littell (with Jesse James Rice and Glen Martin) in

A Song Without Music
& A Play With Songs (two too short pieces)

Broad Daylight (A Song Without Music) Broad Daylight was written at Suzanne Lummis' instigation and received its first hearing at Beyond Baroque during her Night And the City city-wide LA Poetry Festival event last year.

The memoir of a noir blonde: out of the past, the smoke, the mirrors, the shadows, a good time gal pulls up the blinds, opens a window and gives with the story. This is the truth and nothing but the partial truth, so help me god.

Billy, the Kid, and What He Did (A Play With Songs) Written by Libby Larsen and Philip Littell.

Billy, the Kid, and What He Did is a cool take on some bad breaks: dead guys, guns, guitars, and no girls. Aided and abetted by Jesse James Rice and Glen Martin, Littell and Larsen patrol the lawless border between this mean ol’ world and the next.

Doors open at 7:30 pm, Show at 8:00 pm
Tickets: General Admission $20 & Student/Senior $15

Poe-mo ho-mo pho-tos

Farzana Doctor

Here are a few photos by the lovely Ofelia Del Corazon from last week's Poe-mo homos. It was a terrific reading.

Dozens of people came out for the event, and everyone dispelled the January blahs by commiserating, breaking bread and shopping before the event. Stories even ran out of sandwiches!