Three Rooms Press presents

DADA ON THE HUDSON

A Highly Eclectic Performance Event Hell-Bent on Blowing Minds 

CELEBRATING THE 

100th ANNIVERSARY OF THE DADA MOVEMENT

plus the Hudson Valley launch of

MAINTENANT 10: Journal of Contemporary Dada Writing and Art

Sunday, July 31, 2016 | 3:30–6:00 pm

at the former Church of the Sacred Heart

88 Station Hill Road, Barrytown, NY 12507

details: info@threeroomspress.com

Prepare for an afternoon of incredibly provocative, eclectic art and performance on as Three Rooms Press presents DADA ON THE HUDSON, featuring an array of contemporary dada performance and poetry by leading maverick artists. The event includes the Hudson Valley  launch of the internationally-renowned MAINTENANT 10: Journal of Contemporary Dada Writing and Art (2016, Three Rooms Press), featuring more than 150 visual and literary works by artists and writers from around the world, in full color. DADA ON THE HUDSON takes place Sunday, July 31, 3:30–6:00 pm at the former Church of the Sacred Heart at 88 Station Hill Road in Barrytown, NY. The church is recognized for its role as a performance outpost of the Fluxus movement. Costumes encouraged. Come as you aren’t.

Featured performers include renowned poet and essayist Charles Plymell, surrealist poet and writer Janet Hamill, NPR social commentator and poet Andrei Codrescu, editor and poet Djelloul Marbrook, neo-conceptual artist Heide Hatry, avant-garde poet and New York Group founder Yuriy Tarnawsky, photographer Phil Scalia, dada poetry scholar William Seaton, performance artists Franco Götte and Martina Salisbury, letterpress publisher/poet Bill Roberts, and performance poets Sophie Malleret, Ann Firestone Ungar, and Patricia Leonard. Three Rooms Press co-directors Peter Carlaftes and Kat Georges will host the event.

Admission is free. For additional information and reservations, please email info@threeroomspress.com.

NOTE: As a special added treat, Bill Roberts from http://www.bospress.net will have a letterpress printer ON-SITE and will print a special commemorative piece celebrating the 100th anniversary of Dada exclusively for those attending the event!

About Maintenant 10

Maintenant 10: A Journal of Contemporary DaDa Writing and Art (Three Rooms Press, 2016) is the most recent installment of an annual series published since 2005. The current issue features work by Andrei Cordrescu, Jerome Rothenberg, Anne Waldman, Charles Plymell, Mike Watt, Grant Hart, A.D. Winans, Mark Kostabi, Raymond Pettibon, John M. Bennett, S.A. Griffin, Claude Pelieu, Mary Beach, Jean-Jacques Lebel, Joel Hubaut, Philip Meersman, Renaat Ramon, Patrice Lerochereuil and many more. Copies will be available for purchase at the event.

About Three Rooms Press

Three Rooms Press is a fiercely independent New York-based publisher inspired by dada, punk and passion. Founded in 1993, it serves as a leading independent publisher of cut-the-edge creative, including fiction, memoir, poetry translations, drama and art. In addition, Three Rooms Press produces and promotes a variety of literary and cultural events in New York, London, Paris, Berlin, Brussels, Los Angeles, San Francisco, and more, including readings, plays, workshops and concerts. Three Rooms Press books are distributed in the U.S. and internationally by PGW.

Tonight 11/22: Grant Hart, Exene Cervenka, Charles Plymell, Legs McNeil headline JFK/NYC/OMG Conspiracy Event

On the 50th Anniversary of the assassination of JFK, Three Rooms Press presents "JFK/NYC/OMG," an examination of conspiracies on the 50th anniversary of the assassination of President Kennedy. Speakers include musician-philosopher Grant Hart, poet-novelist-publisher Charles Plymell, musician-writer-conspiracy therapist Exene Cervenka, Allen Ginsberg archivist Peter Hale, writer and Punk magazine co-founder Legs McNeil, and actor-writer Peter Carlaftes (channeling the spirit of Lenny Bruce). The event will take place Friday, November 22, 6 pm at Cornelia Street Cafe (29 Cornelia Street, between Bleecker and W. 4th), in the West Village. Tickets are $20, available at the door (arrive early to ensure admission). Additional information: info@threeroomspress.com. About the performers: Grant Hart s best known for his work as drummer and songwriter in the seminal punk band Hüsker Dü, as well as an extended career as a solo singer/songwriter, who recently released The Argument, a concept album based on John Milton’s Paradise Lost. Hart will speak and sing about how the assassination shaped the lives of his generation. Charles Plymell is a poet, novelist and publisher, best known for his underground magazines, including Zap Comix and The Last Times, and collaborations with beat authors Allen Ginsberg, William Burroughs, Herbert Huncke and Neal Cassady. His most recent book is Benzedrine Highway (Kicks Books). Plymell, will talk about reaction of the Beats to the assassination and the conspiratorial extension against the Kennedy clan. Exene Cervenka is lead vocalist for the LA-based bands X and The Knitters. In addition to her musical career, she has written several books, and has recently developed an online video series using the persona Christine Notmyrealname - Conspiracy Therapist. She will unearth the facts behind the conspiracies. Legs McNeil is a writer and rock music historian. He is the co-founder and a writer for Punk magazine, and a former senior editor at Spin, as well as the author of Please Kill Me: The Uncensored Oral History of Punk, and the forthcoming Tomorrow Is Cancelled: The Oral History of the JFK Assassination. Peter Hale is a poet, archivist and protégé of Allen Ginsberg. He looks after the late Ginsberg’s Estate, helping to preserve the truth and history of the Beat movement. He will read Ginsberg’s poem “Nov 23, 1963: Alone.” Peter Carlaftes is a writer, actor and co-director of Three Rooms Press. The author of four books and eight plays, he recently developed a one-man show, Lenny Bruce: Dead and Well, in which he portrays a reincarnated Lenny Bruce, examining the madness of current world from his unique inspired perspective.

JFK/NYC/OMG Examining Conspiracies on the 50th Anniversary of the Assassination of JFK Friday, November 22, 6 pm Cornelia Street Cafe 29 Cornelia Street (between Bleecker & W. 4th St.) Admission: $20 (one drink minimum) information: info@threeroomspress.com For those not in the NYC area, the performance will be streamed live at http://www.gander.tv/event/cornelia-street-cafe-three-rooms-press-presents-jfknycomg-1122-6pm-8pm