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In this sequel to Frankenstein (1931) both Henry and his monster have survived. The monster, thought to be dead by the local villagers, is found out when he attempts to save a young girl from drowning. He’s taken into custody but escapes into the woods where he meets a blind man who enchants him with his violin. Dr. Frankenstein meanwhile is forced to work with the mad Dr. Pretorius who has also been experimenting with the creation of life. When the monster eventually returns home Frankenstein and Pretorius create a woman to be his friend. It leads to disaster when she rejects him.

Since 1974 Small Press Trgramaffic Literary Arts Center (SPT) has been at the heart of the San Francisco Bay Area innovative writing scene, bringing together readers, writers, and independent presses to engage, create, present, critique and archive their work.

Program: a reading & conversation with
CECILY NICHOLSON
& TONGO EISEN-MARTIN

Our 3 Live Cinema artistes marvelously re-mediate excavations from the 19th, 20th, and 21st Centuries! Bernal genius Greta Snider graces our gallery with a premiere and two other meta-marvels: Retinal Rivalry is used to transformative effect in “Gloria”, a 35mm slide consideration of 40s starlet Gloria Grahame, while her “Rendition” layers photochemical on digital in a cross-platform outcry against state terrorism. AND another debut TBA. ALSO premiering is Kathleen Quillian’s “The Speed of Disembodiment”, a live multi-media meditation on Muybridge, time, and technology (gracias Solnit). PLUS two more on our weird Eadweard, by Ben Wood (in person) and Drew Christie, and a spotlight on early ‘puter muse Lillian Schwartz, comin’ atcha in ChromaDepth! Earlybirds catch Michael Winslow’s beat-box History of Typewriters.