3:00PM, October 16, 2011
@ District of Columbia Arts Center
MIA OLSEN
&
DREW GARDNER
Please join the In Your Ear Reading Series for a reading by Mia Olsen and Drew Gardner at 3PM on Sunday, October 16, 2011.
Emilia Olsen is an artist and poet represented by Transformer in DC. Recent exhibitions include Wish You Were Here 10 at A.I.R. Gallery (Brooklyn) and the (e)merge Art Fair in Washington.
Born in NJ, Drew Gardner spent his teenage years playing drums in a punk rock band. In the early ‘90s he lived in San Francisco, writing and working as a jazz drummer. Since 1996 he has lived in New York City, conducting and experimenting in extensive poetomusical collaborations with his Poetics Orchestra. He is a pioneering member of the Flarf Collective. His books include Sugar Pill (Krupskaya, 2003), Petroleum Hat (Roof 2005) and Chomp Away (Combo 2011). His CD, Flarf Orchestra, will be released in the fall of 2011 by Edge. He lives in New York City. Examples of his music/poetry performances can be heard on his Pennsound page: http://writing.upenn.edu/pennsound/x/Gardner.php/. Find him on Twitter @chompaway, or check out his blog: wwwdrewgardner@blogspot.com.
Admission is $5.00.
District of Columbia Arts Center is located at 2438 18th Street NW in Adams Morgan, Washington, DC, between the Dupont Circle and Woodley Park metro stations. For directions, see the DCAC web site at http://www.dcartscenter.org/plan_location.htm