Dear comrades near & far,
((field generator)), a new experimental reading series, launches next month at Tigermen Den in New Orleans.
Hosted by Jace Brittain, Stella Corso, Sean F. Munro, Leah Nieboer, & Rachel Zavecz, this monthly series seeks to create a collaborative field within our literary community, one that will get increasingly wild, saturated, & resonant with each event.
How this came about
For the past few months, in the wake of the New Orleans Poetry Festival & through the vagaries of rainy season, we—Jace, Stella, Sean, Leah, & Rachel—have been scheming & dreaming under the radar. We envisioned a new space for experimental compositions & collaborations, deep attention, reverberation, continuous listening, and, overall, more possibility in our literary community, here in the 504 and beyond.
After a few brainstorming sessions, a surrealist game, two margarita pitchers from Galaxie, and one particularly clairvoyant dream, we came to a point of clarity:
A new monthly reading series called ((field generator)).
Featuring 1-2 headliners whose work invites experimentation, ((field generator)) seeks to create an increasingly resonant, collaborative field within our community. Each month, the headliner will offer a “field generator” ahead of their visit—a prompt, statement, ritual, or other creative exercise that inspires their work & thinking. All writers & makers in New Orleans & beyond are invited to respond to the generator with their own original compositions. Anybody who attends the reading can throw their name in a hat for a chance to be featured reading those original compositions at the open-mic portion of each evening.
We enthusiastically invite you to help us generate the field. Together, we hope it will get ever, increasingly, saturated, risk-driven, funky, fugitive, transgeneric, multiplied, vibey, contaminated, liberatory, un/common, disorderly, & possible.
((field generator)) officially opens on August 15th, 6pm, at Tigermen Den in New Orleans, featuring writer-translator duo Víctor Rodríguez Núñez + Katherine M. Hedeen. More about these two & the launch event soon forthcoming.
xx,
((JaceLeahRachelStellaSean))
Find more info about all this on OUR SUBSTACK page.
Check out our extremely stellar fall line-up on our CALENDAR.
Get working with the monthly GENERATOR (i.e., make the field).
JOIN US for our launch event at Tigermen Den on August 15th, @ 6pm.
And STAY TUNED for more info on our first headliners this week.
“Only a couple of minutes have passed and things are getting really involved already.” - Software for People, Pauline Oliveros
I look forward to the field.
Looking forward to this !