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  Panel Discussion with Up-and-Coming Graphic Novelists Ariel Schrag, Miriam Libicki, Keith Knight & Jaime Cortez Tuesday May 20, 2008 at 7pm $5-$15/sliding scale, general admission Make a reservation here>> Join Intersection for the Arts and the Hub at the Jewish Community Center, San Francisco as we present a panel featuring four up-and-coming Graphic Novelists who will discuss their unique visions and share their work. Panelists include Ariel Shrag, Miriam Libicki, Keith Knight and Jaime Cortez. Ariel Schrag was born in Berkeley, California in 1979. She is the author of the autobiographical graphic novels Awkward, Definition, Potential, and Likewise, which chronicle her four years at Berkeley High School. Awkward, Definition, and Potential, originally published by Slave Labor Graphics, were repackaged by Touchstone/Simon & Schuster in Spring of 2008. Touchstone/Simon & Schuster will also publish Likewise, the final book of the series, for the first time, in 2009. Potential, which was nominated for an Eisner Award, is currently being developed into a major motion picture by Killer Films (Boys Don't Cry, I'm Not There, This American Life). Schrag wrote the screenplay adaptation and the movie will be directed by Rose Troche (Go Fish, The Safety of Objects). Schrag was a writer for seasons three and four of the hit Showtime series, The L Word in 2005-2006. Schrag is the editor of and a contributor to Stuck in the Middle - 17 Comics from an Unpleasant Age, an anthology of comics about middle school, published in May 2007 by Viking. Stuck in the Middle was selected for New York Public Library's Books for the Teen Age 2008. Schrag's illustrations and comics have appeared in publications such as The San Francisco Chronicle, Jane, Paper, and The Village Voice. She has done readings and multimedia presentations of her work across the country, and her original art has appeared in museums and galleries across the United States as well as in Austria, Spain, Canada, and the United Kingdom. Schrag is the subject of the short documentary film Confession: A Film About Ariel Schrag by director/producer Sharon Barnes. Confession has played in film festivals across the United States and Europe. It was also aired on PBS and was the winner of the 2004 NewFest Audience Award in New York City. Schrag graduated from Columbia University in 2003 with a degree in Literature. In 2004 she began teaching the course "Graphic Novel Workshop" in the writing department at The New School. She divides her time between Los Angeles and New York. Real Gone Girl Studios are a front for the Vancouver, British Columbia-based American-Israeli artist Miriam Libicki. She has been writing and drawing the self-published comic book, jobnik! since 2003. In 2005, she began pursuing editorial illustration, utilizing both her cartooning and figure drawing training. In her cartooning, she is influenced most by Dave Sim, Phoebe Gloeckner, and Terry Moore. Keith Knight was born and raised in the Boston area. Weaned on a steady diet of Star Wars, hip-hop, racism and Warner Bros. cartoons, Knight started drawing comics in grade school. After graduating from college with a degree in graphic design, Knight drove out to San Francisco in the early 1990s. It was in the Bay Area where Knight developed his trademark cartooning style that has been described as a cross between Calvin & Hobbes and underground comix. Knight is part of a new generation of talented young African-American artists who infuse their work with urgency, edge, humor, satire, politics and race. His art has appeared in various publications worldwide, including Salon.com, ESPN the Magazine, L.A. Weekly, MAD Magazine, the Funny Times and World War 3 Illustrated. Knight also won the 2007 Harvey Award and the 2006 & 2007 Glyph Awards for Best Comic Strip. Three of his comix were the basis of an award-winning live-action short film, Jetzt Kommt Ein Karton, in Germany. His comic art has appeared in museums and galleries from San Francisco (CA) to Angouleme (France). His work has been collected in six books so far: four collections of his multi-panel strip, the K Chronicles, and two collections of single panel strips & (th)ink anthologies titled Red, White, Black & Blue and most recently Are We Feeling Safer Yet?. He also co-wrote and illustrated The Beginner's Guide to Community-Based Art. His semi-conscious hip-hop band, the Marginal Prophets, will kick your ass. Their latest disc, Bohemian Rap CD, won the 2004 California Music Award for Outstanding Rap Album, beating out rap heavyweights Paris, Aceyalone, E-40, Too-Short, and Ice Cube's Westside Connection. Hip-hop music with a punk-rock aesthetic. Jaime Cortez is an artist, writer and cultural worker based in Oakland, CA. He was raised between Mexicali, Baja California and Watsonville, Alta California. His visual art has been exhibited at numerous venues including the Oakland Museum of California, Huntington Beach Center for the Arts and in San Francisco art spaces including Southern Exposure, The Lab, Intersection for the Arts and Galeria de la Raza. Jaime attended the University of Pennsylvania and received his MFA in visual arts at UC Berkeley. He has also performed at Theater Rhinoceros, Josie's Cabaret, the Cell, SomArts, the Grasshopper Palace, the CoCo Club, Brava Theater, the Glaxa Theater and Club Axis in Los Angeles. His writing has been anthologized in numerous collections including Besame Mucho, 2sexE and Queer PAPI Porn. He has edited an anthology entitled Virgins, Guerrillas & Locas for Cleis Press (1999) and is the author of a graphic novel, Sexile. Jaime has been a public high school teacher abroad (Japan), and an AIDS educator. |
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| About The Literary Series The oldest independent reading series in California, Intersection's literary program is committed to expanding notions of literature, testing cultural and discipline based boundaries and traditions, cultivating written experimentation, encouraging discourse between schools of thought, and building audiences for live literary experiences. "Passionate, provocative, intimate dialogues...Intersection is the place." bell hooks, cultural critic/author About the Intergenerational Writers Labs The 5th Intergenerational Writers Lab (IWL) 2008 is a unique program with two of SF's oldest arts organizations that challenges writers to thoroughly explore and develop writing. The IWL 2008 program takes place March 1 - July 16, 2008, and features workshops, public readings, and a chapbook publication. IWL workshops are led by playwrights Ricardo Bracho, poets devorah major and Truong Tran, creative nonfiction writer Bushra Rehman, journalist and music writer Jeff Chang, and journalist and blogger Annalee Newitz. The goals of the IWL program include the following: 1) to provide local emerging writers with the opportunity to challenge, develop, and expand their writing by working with emerging and established writers in a variety of genres; 2) to contribute to the development of new literary forms and language that incorporate multiple forms of creative expression; 3) to provide emerging writers with the opportunity to connect and work with each other and with established writers in the literary world; 4) to provide the community with an opportunity to engage with new work and new explorations of form and language; 5) to contribute to the wealth of independent literary publications by publishing a new chapbook from KSW Press & Intersection for the Arts that highlights work by exciting new writers committed to exploring new forms and voices.. The 2008 Intergenerational Writers Lab is supported by a grant from the Irvine Foundation. About the Collaborating Organizations: Kearny Street Workshop is a multidisciplinary arts organization based in San Francisco's Mission District at KSW's exhibition and arts events space, space180. The mission of Kearny Street Workshop is to produce and present art that enriches and empowers Asian Pacific American communities. Our vision is to achieve a more just society by connecting Asian Pacific American(APA) artists with community members to give voice to our cultural, historical, and contemporary issues. For more information please visit www.kearnystreet.org. Intersection for the Arts is San Francisco's oldest alternative art space (est. 1965) and has a long history of presenting new and experimental work in the fields of literature, theater, music, dance and the visual arts, and also in nurturing and supporting the Bay Area's cultural community through service, technical support, and mentorship programs. Intersection provides a place where provocative ideas, diverse art forms, artists, and audiences can intersect one another. For more information please visit www.theintersection.org |
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