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SAN FRANCISCO ART AND POETRY CALENDAR

May 4, 1953 ~ British novelist, visionary Aldous Huxley (age 58) takes mescaline, his first psychedelic trip. Aldous Huxley wrote "Brave New World", which warned of a mindless, materialistic existence a modernized society could produce.

May 5, 1926 ~ Sinclair Lewis declines the 1926 Pulitzer, declaring that all such prizes tend to make writers "safe, polite, obedient and sterile." However, he does accept the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1930. Sinclair Lewis was the first American novelist so honored, His last best work was It Can't Happen Here, a speculative novel about the election of a Fascist as US President.
It Can't Happen Here (1935) can be read online.

Dylan May 12, 1963 -- Bob Dylan walks out of TV dress rehearsals for "The Ed Sullivan Show." CBS censors tell Dylan he cannot perform his "Talking John Birch Society Blues." When told the tune may be libelous, Dylan refuses to appear on the show.

May 14,1969
Police build fence around People's Park tonight in Berkeley, California.

NOT PEOPLE'S PARK
PEOPLE'S PLANET, CAN THEY
FENCE THAT ONE IN, BULLDOZE IT
4 A.M.?
...Diane di Prima,
Revolutionary Letter #38
~*~
"Fighting against the government
is like fanning the flames
of a dying fire."
... John Cage

May 16, 1717 ~ French poet and philosopher Voltaire (François Marie Arouet) suspected of writing subversive satire, is imprisoned for the first time in the Bastille. Voltaire by Clarence Darrow
Voltaire wikipedia.

May 16, 1893 ~ The first typewriter with results visible while typing is patented.

May 22, 1846 -- Adolphe Sax gets patent for inventing the Saxophone.
Read The Sax Bit by Ted Jones @ litkicks.com

HAPPY BIRTHDAY

May 1, 1830 -- Mother Jones (Mary Harris), is born in Cork, Ireland.
The Irish-American anti-war activist & labor organizer lived to be 100-years old. Mother Jones Bio (1837–1930)
The Mother Jones magazine was named in her honor.

"I live in the United States,
but I do not know exactly where.
My address is wherever there is a fight against oppression.
My address is like my shoes; it travels with me. I abide where there is a fight against wrong." said Mother Jones

May 1, 1923, born, American novelist, Joseph Heller. Best known for Catch-22, a novel about US servicemen during World War II. The title entered the English lexicon to refer to absurd, no-win choices, particularly in situations in which the desired outcome of the choice is an impossibility, and regardless of choice, the same negative outcome is a certainty.

May 3, 1919 Happy birthday Pete Seeger, Ninety three years old today ~ Radical songster Pete Seeger was born in Patterson, New York

...I heard the song
Of the world's last whale
As I rocked in the moonlight
And reefed the sail
It will happen to you
Also without fail
If it happens to me
Sang the world's last whale.
...Pete Seeger

May 7, 1840 ~ born, Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, Russian composer of the Romantic era who wrote some of the most popular concert and theatrical music in the current classical repertoire, including the ballets Swan Lake and The Nutcracker, and the 1812 Overture.
Tchaikovsky piano concerto No.1 - Van Cliburn 2001

May 8, 1861 ~ Rabindranath Tagore's Birthday~Prolific playwright, novelist, musician and poet, winner of the 1913 Nobel Prize for Literature (1861-1941)

May 8, 1930 ~ Born in San Francisco, Zen anarchist and one of the earliest
of the Beat Poets, Gary Snyder has been described as the "poet laureate of
Deep Ecology". He is all that as well as an essayist, travel writer, translator, award winner and educator, (U.C. Davis) for many years.

May 8, 1928, born, Dick ( Richard William) McBride, American beat poet, playwright and novelist ~ worked at City Lights Books & Publishers from 1954-1969.
Hear Dick McBride Dick McBride website

San Francisco" San Francisco

May 11, 1904 ~ Salvador Dali was born on this day. Salvadore Dali Dali videos

May 11, ~Happy Birthday! Jerry Ferraz, Troubador, poet, artist, musician ~
was born and grew up in Eureka Valley … a San Franciscan to the core… though a much broader expanse of time and geography reverberates through him…

May 12, 1828 ~ English poet, illustrator, painter and translator Dante Gabriel Rossetti was born on this day. His sister was the poet Christina Rossetti. Rosetti (1828-1882) was a founding member of Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, desirous of bring back a pre-Renaissance purity of style & aim to art. Neurotic Poets - Dante Gabriel Rossetti The Life of Christina Rossetti Elizabeth Siddel

May 13, 1950 ~ Steveland Morris Hardaway was Stevie Wonder born prematurely and
too much oxygen in the incubator left him permanently blind. Wonder showed an early gift for music, first with a church choir in Detroit, Michigan, and later with a bevy of instruments, including the harmonica, piano and drums, all of which he taught himself before age 10. Berry Gordy signed him to a record deal and In 1962, the newly renamed Little Stevie Wonder, released his debut album, Little Stevie Wonder the 12 Year Old Genius.

"Music, at its essence, is what gives us memories. And the longer a song has existed in our lives, the more memories we have of it." ~ Stevie Wonder

May 14,1265 ( Mid-May to mid-June)
Florence ~ Italian poet Dante Alighieri was born in Florence, Italy.(1265-1321). At the age of 9 he met eight-year-old Beatrice Portinari, who became in effect his Muse, and remained, after her death in 1290, the central inspiration for his major poems. Danti wrote De vulgari eloquentia, his path-breaking history and rhetoric of vernacular literature. Although he wrote concerning romance, politics, and literature, he is best known for "The Divine Comedy". Mere hours after finishing the Paradiso, Dante, 56,died in Ravenna of malaria in May 1321.

"The hottest places in hell are reserved for those who, in time of great moral crisis, maintain their neutrality."
~ Dante The World of Dante

May 14, 1935, Rogue Dalton Roque Dalton, was born in El Salvador. He was the son of one of the Dalton boys of Kansas, a notorious American outlaw family, who escaped to El Salvador.
Roque Dalton was one of Latin America's most compelling poets. He wrote satirical poetry in order to critique the cultural, political and economic inequalities of Salvadoran society during his life time and captured the spirit of a generation of intellectuals committed to the overthrow of the oligarchy in El Salvador.
Rogue Dalton was martyred by former comrades four days before his 40th birthday on May 10,1975.

When you know that I have died,
don't say my name …

Ah, poetry of today: with you
it is possible to say everything.

From Small Hours of the Night
I REMEMBER ROQUE DALTON
by Ernesto Cardenal
ROQUE DALTON: POET AND
REVOLUTIONARY
by Clarebel Alegría
'Like You' by Roque Dalton (Translated by Jack Hirschman)
The Assassination of a Poet Memories of Roque Dalton By Nina Serrano

May 14,1944 --Film producer, director, George Lucas was born on this day.

May 18, 1048 ~ born, Omar Khayyám (d. December 4, 1123; Persian poet, mathematician and astronomer.
In own time, he was well-known for his work in geometry which was so far ahead of its time that it was not used again until René Descartes built upon Khayyam's theories in 17th century France
. Khayyám's poetry did not surface until 200 years after his death ,when Edward Fitzgerald published an English translation of Khayyam's Rubaiyat ("Quatrains").

Come, fill the Cup, and in the fire of Spring
Your Winter-Garment of Repentance fling:
The Bird of Time has but a little way
To flutter -- and the Bird is on the Wing.

A few more of my favorite Quatrains
~ nicole, sfheart

Henri Rousseau Henri Rousseau (May 21, 1844 - September 2, 1910), French Post-Impressionist Painter, born in town of Laval in the North of France. Rousseau 's family came from the working class. For much of his life, Henri worked as a tax collector - He always drew, but in 1893,
at almost 50-years-old, de decided to devote himself to painting. Although he painted many exotic scenes, Rousseau never left France. Although he was ridiculed during his lifetime, the surrealist movement came to consider Rousseau as one of their forerunners.
Rousseau:Jungles in Paris Exhibit at the National Gallery

“What wisom can you find that is greater than kindness. ” - Henri Rousseau

May 22, 1845, born.Mary Cassatt, American Impressionist painter and printmaker. Mary Cassatt lived much of her adult life in France, where she first befriended Edgar Degas and later exhibited among the Impressionists. www.marycassatt.org

May 22, 1895 ~ born, Indian religious leader Jiddu Krishnamurti.

"Truth is a pathless land, & you cannot approach it by any path whatsoever, by any religion, by any sect. Truth, being limitless, unconditioned, unapproachable by any path whatsoever, cannot be organized; nor should any organisation be formed to lead or to coerce people along any particular path."

Sunny" Blount May 22, 1914 born ~ SUN RA , Ark-Angel, musician from Saturn, via Birmingham, Alabama
(1914-1993) SUN-RA
Sun Ra claimed that he was sent to earth from outer space to save humanity and bring harmony to the world. If you were lucky enough to catch Sun Ra's live show before he died in 1993, you probably believed him. jazzvisionsphotos.com/sunra.htm

In tomorrow's world, men will not need artificial instruments such as jets and space ships. In the world of tomorrow, the new man will 'think'the place he wants to go, then his mind will take him there. -- Sun Ra, 1956

May 24, 1941~ HAPPY BIRTHDAY! Robert Zimmerman.(Dylan)

May 25, 1950- San Francisco Poet Mike Asagi.

May 25, 1942 ~Happy Birthday San Francisco poet Bob Booker.

May 31,1819 ~ Happy Birthday Walt Whitman, American poet, essayist, journalist, andhumanist

http://whitmanarchive.org/

"To states everywhere,
resist much; obey little.
~*~
"Re-examine all that you have been told... dismiss that which insults your soul."
~*~
Beginners
by Walt Whitman

GONE BEYOND

May 6,1862 ~ Henry David Thoreau, American tax resister, anti-war activist, essayist and author, most famous for his book Walden, and his influential treatise (Civil Disobedience), which inspired Mahatma Gandhi and Martin Luther King. died on this day .

"The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation
is confirmed desperation."
... Henry David Thoreau, Walden

May 7, 2007 ~ Our friend Poet Ozzy died at midnight in San Francisco.

May 16, 1953 ~ Django Reinhardt died on this day in Fountainebleau, France.age 43.
Belgian-born Gypsy jazz musician Django Reinhard was a generous charming bon-vivant. Musically, he was gifted in a way that seldom has been seen before or since. His music and passion forever inspire other musicians. please see see May 18th @ Yoshis Django on youtube

May 22, 1885 ~ Victor Hugo dies in Paris. Mourned as a national hero & buried in the Pantheon.

CURRENT CALENDARS BALBOA THEATRE ~ VOGUE THEATRE CASTRO THEATRE ~ ROXIE Theatre ~ FOUR STAR PRESIDIO MARINA Landmark Films: Embarcadero Center Cinema ~ Clay Theatre ~ Opera Plaza Cinema - Landmark Film Club ) SAN FRANCISCO FILM SOCIETY CINEMALIT experimental films ~ SAN FRANCISCO MEDIA ARCHIVE (sfma) ODDBALL FILMS
TUESDAYS ~ 6:45 pm The Alliance Française of San Francisco 1345 Bush Street San Francisco French Cinema Class The Alliance Française of San Francisco offers a weekly Tuesday night class centered around a French film and conversation. The class takes place in their cozy theater with wine, refreshments and free popcorn. To help non-French speakers discover French cinema, all films are screened with English subtitles, $5 suggested donation Franco - German Film Series For the 50 Years Anniversary of the Elysée Treaty, the Goethe Institut of San Francisco (Bush Street 530) and the Alliance Française de San Francisco (Bush Street 1345) present a Film Series of six movies, on the theme of the Franco-German relationship. One film will be shown ternatively at the Alliance and at the Goethe every Tuesday. Make sure to go the right location! Information and trailers for the Films ♥~*~♥	CLAY THEATRE 2261 Fillmore St. San Francisco Scatter My Ashes at Bergdorf's Now audiences get a rarified chance to peek behind the backroom doors and into the reality of the fascinating inner workings and fabulous untold stories from Bergdorf Goodman’s iconic history . Offical website Tickets ♥~*~♥	NOW PLAYING Opera Plaza Cinema 601 Van Ness Ave. San Francisco BLANCANIEVES 2012 Director: Pablo Berger 1hr 44mins ~ Spain/France/Belgium Set in southern Spain in the 1920s, the Brothers Grimm-inspired Blancanieves is, much like The Artist, a loving tribute to silent films. (Fully subtitled) Official Web Site Roger Ebert's Chicago Sun-Times review... ♥~*~♥	Roxie Theater 3117 16th Street, San Francisco, CA (415)-863-1087 I WAKE UP DREAMING 2013: 99 44/100% NOIR This season's marathon features an astonishing THIRTY films, bona fide classics as well as the customary overflow of ridiculously rare rediscoveries that have come to brand the Roxie as San Francisco's premiere showcase for film noir! ♥~*~♥

CURRENT CALENDARS
BALBOA THEATRE ~ VOGUE THEATRE   CASTRO THEATRE ~ ROXIE Theatre ~ FOUR STAR   PRESIDIO   MARINA
Landmark Films: Embarcadero Center Cinema ~ Clay Theatre ~ Opera Plaza Cinema - Landmark Film Club )
SAN FRANCISCO FILM SOCIETY    CINEMALIT experimental films ~   SAN FRANCISCO MEDIA ARCHIVE (sfma)
  ODDBALL FILMS

TUESDAYS ~ 6:45 pm
The Alliance Française of San Francisco
1345 Bush Street
San Francisco

French Cinema Class
The Alliance Française of San Francisco offers a weekly Tuesday night class centered around a French film and conversation.
The class takes place in their cozy theater
with wine, refreshments and free popcorn.
To help non-French speakers discover French cinema, all films are screened
with English subtitles, $5 suggested donation

Franco - German Film Series

For the 50 Years Anniversary of the Elysée Treaty, the Goethe Institut of San Francisco (Bush Street 530)
and the Alliance Française de San Francisco (Bush Street 1345) present
a Film Series of six movies, on the theme
of the Franco-German relationship.
One film will be shown ternatively at the Alliance and at the Goethe every Tuesday.
Make sure to go the right location!
Information and trailers for the Films
♥~*~♥

CLAY THEATRE
2261 Fillmore St.
San Francisco
Scatter My Ashes At BERDORF'S
Scatter My Ashes at Bergdorf's
Now audiences get a rarified chance to peek behind the backroom doors and into the reality of the fascinating inner workings and fabulous untold stories from Bergdorf
Goodman’s iconic history .
Offical website
Tickets
♥~*~♥

NOW PLAYING
Opera Plaza Cinema
601 Van Ness Ave.
San Francisco
Balncanieves
BLANCANIEVES 2012
Director: Pablo Berger
1hr 44mins ~ Spain/France/Belgium
Set in southern Spain in the 1920s, the Brothers Grimm-inspired
Blancanieves is, much like The Artist, a loving tribute to silent films.
(Fully subtitled) Official Web Site
Roger Ebert's Chicago Sun-Times review...
♥~*~♥

Roxie Theater
3117 16th Street,
San Francisco, CA
(415)-863-1087

I WAKE UP DREAMING 2013:
99 44/100% NOIR
This season's marathon features an astonishing THIRTY films, bona fide classics as well as the customary overflow of ridiculously rare rediscoveries that have come to brand the Roxie as San Francisco's premiere showcase for film noir!
♥~*~♥

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This page last modified: Saturday, 25-May-2013 11:33:16 EDT
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