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The Quicksilver Mine Co.
6671 Front St. (Hwy. 116)
Downtown Forestville

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Forestville, CA 95436

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Poetry, Music, & Art
at Quicksilver

Thursday, November 11, 2004

What happens when you mix image-driven prose poetry with music, drama, and visual arts? On Thursday evening, November 11th, 2004, join poets Leslie Cole and Richard Denner, visual artist and musician Claude Smith, and dancer Christine Ho for an evening of collaborative performance at the Quicksilver Mine Co. in downtown Forestville, and find out!

Writer and performer Leslie Cole and visual artist and musician Claude Smith will perform excerpts from her award-winning prose poem "Five Kinds of Surrender," as a long anticipated sequel to their first performance together at Quicksilver last year. Trained as a geologist, Cole remembers people by the kind of rock they might be, and last had a job lighting dirt on fire in a bucket before she secured a job teaching at Santa Rosa Junior College. She also swims a lot. Claude Smith has been collaborating with dancers, musicians and poets since 1977, was an artist in residence in the Across the Oceans international collaborations in the arts in Toronto, and has also gained attention for his community based collaborative art project at the Sonoma Museum of Visual Arts (now MOCA) in Santa Rosa. He is currently an artist in residence at Kala Art Institute in Berkeley.

The first half of the evening at Quicksilver will also feature Richard Denner, jack of all trades and impresario of dPress chapbooks, reading from his poem "Too Many Horses, Not Enough Saddles," accompanied by dancer Christine Ho. Mingling Buddhist and Native American cosmologies, and poetry as music itself, Denner and Ho illuminate the rich intersections that can occur when artists collaborate.

This evening of Poetry and Performance begins at 7 p.m. on Thursday, November 11th, 2004. It is presented as part of the Quicksilver Mine Co.�s ongoing series of cultural and performance events.

Donations are gratefully accepted.