Upcoming - Fall 2007

Schedule for October—December 2007
All evening events held at Space 7:10, 963 Bonifant St. downtown Silver Spring.

Friday, October 5, 7:10pm to 8:30pm
Live Music: Hurricane Howie Feinstein, Louisiana roots music

NEW! October 9 through November 12, 2007
PROPAGANDA! A youth-initiated mixed media campaign of the Silver Spring-based organization Gandhi Brigade, in which eight young people set out to determine if they could use public posters and a follow up video to change the way their community thought about the moral dimensions of immigration.

Friday, October 12, 6:30 to 8:30pm
Reception for the teen artists and community journalists involved in PROPAGANDA!

NEW! Friday, November 2, 7:10pm to 8:30pm
Dr. Kaung’s Book Shelf: an occasional series of book discussions led by Kyi May Kaung. To be discussed: Beasts of No Nation by Uzodinma Iweala

November 13, 2007 – January 4, 2008
Kanchan Balse and Laurie Breen, paintings and collages

Friday, November 16, 2007, 7:10pm to 8:30pm
Two Plays. Mr. Daniels, a new play by Chere Williams and excerpts from Sleepy Lagoon by Leon Levenson.

Friday, December 7, 6:30 to 8:30pm
Reception for Kanchan Balse and Laurie Breen

Friday, December 21, 7:10 to 8:30pm
NEW! Winter Mix. Short takes of poetry, dance, theater, and music performed by local artists. Audience comments and participation invited in this celebration of our community's talent. A “coffeehouse” style showcase of short pieces and in progress.

Dr. Kaung on Burma

Analysis on current situation in Burma, by Kyi May Kaung.

DanceAntonini at DC Improvisation Festival

VENUE CHANGE: DanceAntonini will present "Particles"

JFK Jr Memorial Library

901 G Street NW (downtown DC) as part of the 13th Annual DC Improvisation Festival on Sept. 29 at 4pm. Here's what Lou says about the new site specific piece:

The piece will take place within the entire block of the plaza space and within the public as they go about their normal routine at this merchant site. We took one of new choreographed works, and restaged it as a structured, site-specific improvisation for the plaza. The concept deals with the idea of "particles" that are moving around and about us all the time. Or are we the "particles"?

Women's Education in Uganda

Friday, September 28, 2007
7:10pm to 8:30pm (arrive earlier to meet and greet and to purchase organic, free trade coffee, pastries, gelato, and more)
Space 7:10 at Kefa Cafe

Dr. Kaung’s Salon: A discussion with Elaine Kessler about the work of Women's Education Project in Uganda.

"The most exciting thing about the children of Uganda is their conviction that they are the future of their country," says Elaine Kessler, president and co-founder of Educate the Girls. "That belief leads them to crave education."

Robin Hood in History, Legend, and Ballad

Dr. Kaung's Salon: Friday, September 14, 7:10pm* to 8:30pm
Space 7:10 at Kefa Cafe
in downtown Silver Spring

*Regulars, please note new official start time. Feel free to come earlier to greet, meet, and eat.

These days, the medieval English outlaw Robin Hood is mostly known through films and TV adaptations. Previous generations of English and American children know Robin from his appearances in books. Much earlier, Robin Hood was a character in English poems, songs, and plays that began to appear in the middle ages and were well known by the fourteenth century. In this presentation, Stephen Winick will discuss the weird, wild world of these Robin Hood ballads and plays: Robin's birth on the wrong side of a noblewoman's bed; his deeds both good and questionable; his savage battle with the bestial Guy of Gisbourne; his meetings with Little John, Friar Tuck, and Maid Marian; and his death, foretold in ancient Celtic fashion by a 'washer at the ford.' Steve will sing his own settings of several Robin Hood ballads, including a few that are almost never sung. Along the way, he'll discuss interpretations of these legends: some think they grew up around a historical figure, while others claim they have roots in pre-Chrsitian English myth. Are they both--or neither?

Dr. Stephen D. Winick studied medieval literature at Columbia University before earning his PhD in Folklore and Folklife at the University of Pennsylvania, and now works as the writer and editor for the American Folklife Center at the Library of Congress. A well-known music journalist in the field of British and Celtic folk music, he serves as a contributing editor to Dirty Linen magazine. Dr. Winick has presented workshops on Robin Hood at several Washington, DC area folk festivals, has attended the International Robin Hood Conference, and has published scholarly essays on the Robin Hood legend. A traditional-style folk singer, he sings mostly in pubs and informal sessions, but has appeared as a guest vocalist with The Poor Clares, Jennifer Cutting's Ocean Orchestra, and other Celtic groups, and has recently joined the Ship's Company Chanteymen.

Live Louisiana Roots Music

and a little talking with "Hurricane" Howie Feinstein. Friday, Oct. 5, 2007 at Space 7:10, Starting at or around 7:10pm. Regulars: note the new time we are starting performances! Feel free to come a bit early to purchase organic free trade coffee drinks, gelato, pastries, and such.

Catch him elsewhere around town in September:
Fri. 9/14, 7:00 pm: w/ drummer Jimi Jones, SALA THAI, 44640 Waxpool Rd. – Ashburn, VA and Wed. 9/26, 8:00 pm and Thurs. 9/27, 9:00 pm: Solo Keyboard, KRAMERBOOKS CAFÉ, 1517 Connecticut Ave., NW. For more info, khfeinstein@verizon.net