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  • Strike Four Book Release Party

    S4_Cover_webUnpiano Books is pleased to announce the release of a book of collected writings from San Francisco author Mike McGuirk.

    Mike McGuirk has worked as a writer in San Francisco for more than 15 years. His writing has appeared in the San Francisco Bay Guardian, The Stranger, the Cleveland Scene and SOMA Magazine, and on Rhapsody.com. As an independent publisher, Unpiano Books aims to support and promote lesser-known work with specialized small-run releases both locally and across the country. Most well known for producing art and photo books, this is Unpiano’s first literary release.

    McGuirk’s voice takes many different forms, often wandering somewhere between the legacies of noted drunk Charles Bukowski and music journalist Lester Bangs. The work collected here comprises stories, reviews, rants and even box scores. Always insightful and often about more than what is written on the page, McGuirk’s writing helps us digest difficult topics with a wry sense of humor.

    Come celebrate the release of this new book with music and a drink. The author will be in attendance.

    7-10pm / Music around 8pm

    www.unpianobooks.com

  • Hannah Beck and Nathalie Brilliant performing “Blue PT II: Harmony in Contrast”

    Hannah BECK & Nathalie BRILLIANT Performing, BLUE PT II: Harmony in Contrast
    @ ATA Window, 992 Valencia St
    Saturday, May 21, 2-4pm
    Sunday, May 22, TBA
    https://www.facebook.com/events/1182179178473289
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    Blue Pt. II: Harmony in Contrast:
    This idea came to me when I was sewing a needle point of my nude onto a blue leotard. I was lying in bed next to my partner thinking about a conflict that had arisen between the two of us the day before. Each stitch i made binding my nude to the blue reminded me of the dialogues/misunderstandings leading up to the conflict and the gravity of it all. That day the misunderstandings had felt suspended between us. I continued to lay next to him, sewing my nude to the blue, and then, thought how beautiful it would be to sew on to someone a contrast and they sew a contrast on to me; making a dialogue visible. While this piece was birthed in the midst of residual uncertainty after a conflict, it isn’t necessarily about conflict. Blue Pt. II: Harmony in Contrast is about how we are with each other and how we leave time spent. REMEBER!! Its ALL about LOVE!

    Nathalie Brilliant and I, Hannah Beck, will be sewing contrast and showing dialogue accompanied by the wonderous aesthetics of Ravi Shankar.

    …. “how we are all tethered to people — sort of like exposing the social network of connection that exists within micro particles and atoms. Atoms exposed — neutrons protons electrons and the force that connects and repels. The string guides me to think of those connections made visual to the naked eye. So something else to maybe think about….”, shared by Nathalie before the first time we performed this piece.

  • ALL MY LIFE – Bruce Baillie Project Fundraiser

    All of my lifeJoin us for a night of films and friends celebrating Bruce Baillie’s work! The Bruce Baillie Project is a collaborative project to help share and preserve Bruce Baillie’s work. We are fundraising to publish a bi-lingual book about Bruce’s films and to organize an international 16mm retrospective of his work.
    Program:
    Quixote, Bruce Baillie, 43 min, 16mm
    One-year journey through the land of incessant progress, researching those sources which have given rise twenty years later to the essential question of survival.
    Study of a River, Peter Hutton, 16 min, 16mm
    The first part of a seasonal portrait of the Hudson River. This section portrays observations of winter over a period of two years.
    Little Girl, Bruce Baillie, 9 min, 16mm
    Academy Film Archive Restoration 2013
    sunflowers (study), Denah Johnston, 3min, super-8
    Stop-motion study of sunflowers in the Tuscan breeze mirrored by laundry on the line.

    All My Life, Bruce Baillie, 3 min, 16mm
    Caspar, California, old fence with red roses