Linda Mary Montano, "14 Years of Living Art": Interactivearama Book Launch

Exploring and dissolving the boundaries between art and life, Linda Mary Montano (lindamontano.com), a pioneer feminist performance artist, investigates the art/life relationship via intricate ceremonies, some of which last for seven or more years. She is interested in the way artistic ritual, staged as individual actions/interactions or collaborative workshops, can be used to alter and transform her birth story. Linda Montano: 14 Years of Living Art documents Linda's chakra explorations during 1984-1998. This 220-page portable book/archive published by C.X. Silver Gallery Press in Brattleboro, Vermont (cxsilvergallery.com/linda-mary-montano/), features Montano's journal writings during the 14 years of her chakras performances, 18 of her ecstatic tantric tales, 52 of her drawings, 119 photo documents of this endurance, 13 essays/interviews, and via Montano's instructions, an Art/Life recipe for the reader to practice making life a work of art.

Event Date: Sunday, May 27, 2018 - 1:00pm

Daniel Wolff and Mike + Ruthy (of The Mammals), "Grown-Up Anger: The Connected Mysteries of Bob Dylan, Woody Guthrie, and the Calumet Massacre of 1913"

A tour de force of storytelling years in the making: a dual biography of two of the greatest songwriters, Bob Dylan and Woody Guthrie, that is also a murder mystery and a history of labor relations and socialism, big business and greed in twentieth-century America—woven together in one epic saga that holds meaning for all working Americans today.

When thirteen-year-old Daniel Wolff first heard Bob Dylan’s "Like a Rolling Stone," it ignited a life-long interest in understanding the rock poet’s anger. When he later discovered "Song to Woody," Dylan’s tribute to his hero, Woody Guthrie, Wolff believed he’d uncovered one source of Dylan’s rage. Sifting through Guthrie’s recordings, Wolff found "1913 Massacre"—a song which told the story of a union Christmas party during a strike in Calumet, Michigan, in 1913 that ended in horrific tragedy.

Following the trail from Dylan to Guthrie to an event that claimed the lives of seventy-four men, women, and children a century ago, Wolff found himself tracing the history of an anger that has been passed down for decades. From America’s early industrialized days, an epic battle to determine the country’s direction has been waged, pitting bosses against workers and big business against the labor movement. In Guthrie’s eyes, the owners ultimately won; the 1913 Michigan tragedy was just one example of a larger lost history purposely distorted and buried in time.

In this magnificent cultural study, Wolff braids three disparate strands—Calumet, Guthrie, and Dylan—together to create a devastating revisionist history of twentieth-century America. Grown-Up Anger chronicles the struggles between the haves and have-nots, the impact changing labor relations had on industrial America, and the way two musicians used their fury to illuminate economic injustice and inspire change

Event Date: Sunday, May 27, 2018 - 3:00pm

Bob Dylan Birthday Celebration Bearsville Theater

http://www.bearsvilletheater.com/events-calendar/10th-annual-bob-dylan-birthday-celebration