Summer 2009 Events
A few events for the long summer, beginning just before the solstice
June 19, 09, 8pm Issue Project Room – Darmstadt series
ISSUE PROJECT ROOM, at the Old American Can Factory, 232 3rd Street, 3rd Floor, Brooklyn, NY 11215
Telephone: 718-330-0313
IPR - issueprojectroom.org and Darmstadt - darmstadtnewmusic.org
Either/Or plays Feldman's "Why Patterns?" and David Budin, piano, is playing Stockhausen's klavierstuck IX, and a longish set by Phill Niblock, including the NY Premier of “2 Lips aka Nameless”, commissioned and played by Laboratorium of Champ d'Action, Antwerp, Belgium
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Concert By Eric Letourneau, Katherine Liberovskaya and Phill Niblock
Paris (near) July 1, http://www.la-g.org
Three sets:
Eric Letourneau (sound/music) and Katherine Liberovskaya (live video)
Katherine Liberovskaya (live video) and Phill Niblock (mixed sound collage pieces) and
Eric Letourneau (sound)
Phill Niblock (music and images (video))
La Générale en Manufacture, 6, Grande Rue, F 92310 Sèvres, France
Métro ligne 9 - Station Pont de Sèvres; Tramway ligne T2 - Arrêt Musée de Sèvres
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Dampfzentrale Bern, Marzilistr. 47, 3005 Bern, Switzerland kultur@dampfzentrale.ch
2. Juli 2009, 21:00
Phill Niblock (USA) /Thomas Ankersmit (NL)
July 3, 4 & 5 Festival Architectones (http://www.architectones.net/) at Saline Royale d'Arc et Senans http://www.salineroyale.com and www.architectones.net
Concerts by Thomas Ankersmit, Katherine Liberovskaya and Phill Niblock on July 4
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XVI stazione di topolò · postaja topolove, dal 4 al 19 luglio 2009
www.stazioneditopolo.it/
A residency for the production of new work, by Phill Niblock and Katherine Liberovskaya,
July 10 to 19
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A residency for the production of new work, by Phill Niblock and Katherine Liberovskaya,
July 10 to 19
21 August, a three hour concert of the music and images of Phill Niblock, in a steel mill, featuring three works for orchestra. The first concert in the Ostrava New Music Days festival, August 21 – 29, in Ostrava CZ
Early Summer 2009 Events
LOGOS TETRAEDER, BOMASTRAAT 26, 9000 GENT BELGIUM
13 May 2009, Wednesday , 8pm www.logosfoundation.org
Work by Phill Niblock, Godfried-Willem Raes, Olivier Messiaen.
Kristof Lauwers realizes a new piece by Phill Niblock using Godfried-Willem Raes' robot / computer dirven instruments - "One Blue Rose", a premier
May 16 in Lleida, Spain, at Centre d'art La Panera, European Night of Museums 2009.
www.*lapanera*.cat
Concert with Ursula Scherrer, Katherine Liberovskaya, Phill Niblock and Barbara Held
Sessions at 9:30 and 10:30
Concert Sunday 17 May, 9PM
Hangar, Barcelona Spain www.*hangar*.org
Passatgedel Marques de Santa Isabel 40
produced by: www.lullcec.org/lullcec.cgi
A double concert - Ferran Fages and Dimitra Lazaridou Chatzigoga
and Phill Niblock, Music and Images (with Barbara Held, flute)
and Sandrine Robilliard (cello)
PHILL NIBLOCK CONCERT AT CAFE OTO, LONDON Sunday 24 May 2009- 8PM
Programme:
A record release event for Touch Strings - a 2CD set on the Touch label, with three new pieces by Phill Niblock:
"Poure" for cello, Arne Deforce;
"Stosspeng" for two guitars in stereo, with Susan Stenger and Robert Poss;
"One Large Rose", the Nelly Boyd Ensemble
Performed will be Poure - Arne Deforce, cello and Stosspeng - Susan Stenger and Guy De Bievre, guitars;
and with film
www.touchmusic.org.uk and www.phillniblock.com for info on previous releases
Cafe Oto www.cafeoto.co.uk 22 Ashwin Street Dalston, London, E8 3DL, +44 20 7923 1231
8 adv/10 at the door
Spring 2009 Events | A few more...
Phill Niblock, Gent Spring - an installation of music and film pieces -
April 24th -> May 23rd.
Opening on April 23rd at 8pm, with a concert of music by Phill Niblock featuring a performance by Kasper T. Toeplitz (F) playing live with PN's music; produced in collaboration with Odradek, De Witte Zaal, Posteernestraat 64, 9000 Gent, Belgium
www.wittezaal.be | www.odradek.net
April 24 in Leuven Belgium, at Stuk, the final edition of the NewNoise Festival sets by Carl Ludwig Huebsch & Jan Pillaert - bastubaduo; John Edwards & Peter Jacquemyn - contrabasduo; Ninh Le Quan & Tony Buck - percussieduo; and the final (Grote Finale) set by Phill Niblock in the StukCafe, joined by John Edwards & Peter Jacquemyn and the Zwerm Guitar Ensemble
Phill Niblock at OffOff artcinema
A programme consisting of six short films from the 60's, by Phill Niblock
April 27th at 8.30pm
Art Cinema OFFoff, Begijnhof ter Hoye, Lange Violettestraat 237, B-9000, Gent, Belgium
www.offoff.be in cooperation with Odradek & De Witte Zaal
May 24, Phill Niblock in a concert at:
Cafe OTO, 18 - 22 Ashwin Street, Dalston, London, E8
www.cafeoto.co.uk/
Current Activities | Spring 2009
Volker Straebel: "Technological implications of Phill Niblock's drone music, derived from analytical observations of selected works for cello and string quartet on tape", in: Organised Sound 13:3 (Dec. 2008), 225-235
http://journals.cambridge.org/action/displayJournal?jid=OSO
article available from the website (www.straebel.de)
Abstract: Four compositions for cello and string quartet on tape by American intermedia artist Phill Niblock originating from 1974 to 2003 are discussed.
The interdependence of compositional approach and available technology is considered, leading to the observation that the electronic music composers technique is considerably independent of the available technology. Where a dependence of artistic development on factors not originally musical has to be acknowledged, these nonmusical factors lie not so much in the technology
but in Niblocks interpretation of it. This is discussed within the context of philosophical observations on art and technology by Theodor W. Adorno, Martin Heidegger and Ernst Cassirer.
Feb 17, Antwerp, Laboratorium project with Champ d'Action Ensemble, recording/workshop for material to be used in a new commissioned piece for two orchestras, to be played March 28 in Antwerp, mix on the 18th; plus a talk, at the conservatory
Subtropics Festival, Miami Florida (Feb 28 to Mar 1) an installation of Soundworks by PN and others, and a set in a concert. And a collaborative performance with Katherine Liberovskaya, live video, and PN, mixing soundworks; and many other events www.subtropics.org
March 14 -The Hague, a Niblock-evening with films, music, the Trio Scordatura, and the Ensemble Klang, Dag in de Branding, eleventh edition, March 14th, 21h - Paard van Troje,
Prinsegracht 12, Den Haag, The Netherlands. Pieces to be played - Pan Fried 11, Three Orchids, Parker's Altered Mood, Disseminate
info@paard.nl www.dagindebranding.nl/ (www.ensembleklang.com)
(www.trioscordatura.com)
March 28, concert with a new PN piece commissioned by Champ d' Action, titled "Nameless" (22 minutes, scored, with the score realized in collaboration with Bob Gilmore) by Phill Niblock, performed by 'Laboratorium' of Champ d'Action at De Singel, Jan Van Rijswijcklaan 155, 2018 Antwerpen, Belgium
www.champdaction.be
Screenings, talks, produced by Andrea Lissoni at Gorizia University, Friuli Province, Italy, in collaboration with the videomaker Carlos Casas March 30 & 31, & April 1, as part of VII MAGIS International Film Studies Spring School
April 17 Hamburg, Germany, at Kampnagel, the Nelly Boyd Ensemble, of Hamburg, with the Trio Scordatura, of Amsterdam. Featuring a Performance of a new work by PN - "One Large Rose", soon to be released on a "Touch" label double CD. Other works by PN will be "Three Orchids" and "Tow by Tom". Three Orchids will be performed by Trio Scordatura; One Large Rose by the Nelly Boyd Ensemble, and Tow by Tom (for two orchestras) by both groups, each playing one orchestra, with multitrack recording. All pieces will be with playback of multitrack recordings and live musicians, and each piece is played from scores
www.nellyboyd.org www.trioscordatura.com
www.kampnagel.de/index.php?page=detail&cluster=428011
Phill Niblock, Gent Spring - an installation of music and film pieces - April 24th -> May 23rd.
Opening on April 23rd at 8pm, with a concert of music by Phill Niblock featuring a performance by Kasper T. Toeplitz (F) playing live with his music; produced in collaboration with Odradek De Witte Zaal, Posteernestraat 64, 9000 Gent, Belgium www.wittezaal.be www.odradek.net
Phill Niblock at OffOff artcinema
A programme consisting of six short films from the 60's, by Phill Niblock
April 27th at 8.30pm Art Cinema OFFoff, Begijnhof ter Hoye, Lange Violettestraat 237, B-9000, Gent, Belgium
www.offoff.be
in cooperation with Odradek & De Witte Zaal
Experimental Intermedia | March 2009
The Thirty-fifth Anniversary of EI performances at 224 Centre Street, The Fortieth Anniversary of the Founding of Experimental Intermedia, the Fortieth Anniversary of the 224 Centre Street loft, and, not least, The Nineteenth Annual Festival with no fancy name, Part Two (or B)
Phill Niblock, curator
Friday 6
Michael Thieke and Kai Fagaschinski (Berlin)
THE INTERNATIONAL NOTHING is the collective name, both composer / clarinetists are working exclusively on compositions (no improv), where both instruments melt into one sound, which sometimes sounds like more than two instruments through the extensive use of multiphonics and difference tones; their pieces have a delicate and slowed down quality and celebrate a unique and timeless beauty; they will present a collection of pieces developed between 2003 and 2009
http://kylie.klingt.org/
http://www.michael-thieke.de/
[With support by Goethe-Institut San Fransisco and Kulturverwaltung des Landes Berlin]
Monday 9
Andre Goncalves (Lisbon), Margarida Garcia (Lisbon, New York), Barry Weisblat (New York)
Goncalves works across the fields of visual arts, installation, music and performance; for this performance he will be using his semi-d i y analogue synthesizer and custom electronics - Garcia is interested in developing a
personal and open language in double bass playing - Weisblat is a sound artist and improviser using electronic devices
http://www.undotw.org/ctrl/index.htm (Goncalves)
Tuesday 10
Kato Hideki (USA/Japan) and Ursula Scherrer (USA/Switzerland)
Transforming the space into a labyrinth of sounds and images, Kato(acoustic and electric instruments) and Scherrer (on analog video mixer) use text as a key structure to follow (or not to follow), in order to create a constant dialog between them, the audience and the environment
www.katohideki.com
www.ursulascherrer.com
Tuesday 17
Screen Compositions 5
Curated by Katherine Liberovskaya - This year marks the 5th anniversary of Screen Compositions, the yearly evening dedicated to intersections of moving image with sonic art; a program of screen works representing dynamic two-way collaborations between video/ film artists and sound/ music artists specifically intended for single-channel projection with no live or performance component; featuring collaborations by: Tali Hinkis / Kyle Lapidus; Katherine Liberovskaya / Al
Margolis; Lillevan / Fennesz; Lillevan / Vladislav Delay; Van McElwee / Tom Hamilton; Marie-Helene Parant / Jim Bell; Leah Singer / Lee Ranaldo; Fred Barney Taylor / Bradley Eros; Els Van Riel / Julia Eckhardt; in addition, to celebrate this anniversary, Filmer la Musique Festival from Paris (www.filmerlamusique.com) has been invited to present a short program of
works selected from their previous editions
Wednesday 18
Thomas Buckner (U.S.A.) and Matthias Kaul (Germany)
This international duo has been performing together for the past few years; singer/improvisor Buckner will perform Kaul's "Silence Is My Voice", (text by Henri Michaux) using custom made low tech electronics; percussionist/ composer Kaul will perform a solo work, and the two will present a timbre exploring improvisation
www.thomasbuckner.com
www.matthiaskaul.de
Thursday 19
Zbigniew Karkowski (Poland, Japan) works in the fields of extreme computer music, noise and instrumental composition; in every concert that he performs, he presents a totally new piece
http://www.myspace.com/zbigniewkarkowski
Friday 20
Alexei Borisov (Moscow) & Jeffrey Surak (Washington DC)
One of the pioneers of Russian modern glitch-tech electronics - Borisov, meets veteran experimenter (and knighted by Ukrainian MTV "godfather of American noise") - Surak, (also known as *Violet*); as a duo they present a perfectly balanced mixture of deep meditative lo-fi analogue drones, electro-acoustic improvisations, numerous samples and concrete recordings, creating a complete, panoramic, hypnotizing impression, at times surprisingly calm, yet punctuated by sudden intense extremes, but never afraid to veer into slow and beautiful melodies showing an uncommon side of dark and noisy music
www.nbresearchdigest.com
www.myspace.com/alexeiborisov
http://zeromoon.com/violet
http://myspace.com/microk7
Saturday 21
David Daniell (Chicago)
The guitarist and minimalist composer will present a slow-moving long-form electroacoustic work of pre-composed textural elements overlaid with live processed guitar improvisation; the performance will include a quadraphonic realization of large portions of Daniell's album "sem", to mark the 10th anniversary of the premiere public performance of that work
www.daviddaniell.com
Our programs are supported by the New York State Council on the Arts, the Aaron Copland Fund For Music, and the Phaedrus Foundation
224 Centre Street at Grand, Third Floor, N Y 10013 9pm, $4.99
212 431 5127, 431 6430, www.experimentalintermedia.org and www.XIrecords.org
All of the EI March concerts are being streamed on free103point9 Online Radio; to hear the live stream during the posted events: www.comm.free103point9.org:8000/ei.mp3.m3u
Current Activities | Winter 2008
The Sixth . . . .
It was so busy, that I did not update either my websites (www.phillniblock.com and experimentalintermedia.org) or send out an email. So, here are two coming events, and a few past ones.
Phill
Two events by Phill Niblock before the end of the year:
Saturday 6 December 2008 at 9:00pm
Phill Niblock
LAMPO, 216 W. Chicago Ave. 2nd Floor, Chicago 60610
Admission open to all ages
Tel: 312-282-7676 Web: www.lampo.org
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Experimental Intermedia
Phill Niblock 6pm until midnight, Sunday December 21
So what's new?- well, after 75 years he can still do six hours of music and film/video
on the winter solstice, the longest night of the year
224 Centre Street at Grand, Third Floor, N Y 10013 www.experimentalintermedia.org
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Some other recent events, not previously posted on the website:
An Evening in Celebration of Phill Niblock's 75th Birthday at ANTHOLOGY FILM ARCHIVES
32 SECOND AVENUE NEW YORK, NY 10003; (212) 505-5181 fax (212) 477-2714
Wednesday, October 1 at 7:30; Organized by Katherine Liberovskaya with help from Al Margolis and Peter Shapiro.
An Art Forum review of this event, with pictures, at: http://www.artforum.com/diary/id=21243
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Issue Project Room, 232 Third Street , Brooklyn N Y; www.issueprojectroom.org
October 8th - October 11th - four concerts
Celebrating Phill Niblock's 75th Birthday and his contribution to Experimental Music
Organized with the help of Katherine Liberovskaya and Alan Margolis
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Live @ International House, 3701 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia PA 19104 www.ihousephilly.org
Sunday, October 12 at 8pm
Phill is 75 today!
2nd October 2008 is Phill Niblock's 75th birthday...
Happy birthday, Phill. Warmest congratulations from us all here at Touch.
Phill's next album with us, Touch Strings, a double CD, will be out in the new year.
If you would like to send him a message, please email him here
Current Activities & New Projects | April 2008
The Music of Phill Niblock
Crash Ensemble of Dublin, will be hosting a concert celebrating the music
of Phill Niblock this April 23rd at 7pm in Temple Bar Galleries, Dublin 2. The concert will feature guest appearances by Niblock specialists Susan Stenger and
Amsterdam based Trio Scordatura. The evening will be held in the presence
of the composer himself, featuring an interview by Bob Gilmore at the start
of the evening and live visuals and electronics by the composer during the
concert.
The concert program consists of: Hurdy Hurry (for hurdy gurdy); Sweet
Potato (for clarinets); G2-4,4 (for guitars); Tow by Tom (for two orchestras, both recorded parts and live parts by two ensembles); PK&SLS (for flute); Disseminate (for orchestra, recorded and two ensembles live)
IGNM - Internationale Gesellschaft fuer Neue Musik - Basel
"Dust" - Konzert der IGNM Basel
"Drone"-Konzert mit Phill Niblock und Kasper Toeplitz
Samstag, 26. April 2008, 19.00; www.ignm_basel.ch
Offene Kirche Elisabethen, Basel
Mitglieder des "Ensemble Phoenix Basel": Christoph Boesch, Floeten; Daniel Buess, Schlagzeug; Daniel Stalder, Schlagzeug; Maurizio Grandinetti, E-Gitarre; Juerg Henneberger, Orgel; Thomas Peter: Ton/Klangregie Program
Phill Niblock: STOSSPENG (2007) fuer zwei Gitarren in Stereo
Kasper Toeplitz: DUST RECONSTRUCTION (2007) fuer flexible Besetzung -
Fassung fuer Orgel, Floete, Schlagzeug, E-Gitarre, E-Bass und Elektronik
Kasper Toeplitz: UNFINISHED METAL WAVES (2006) fuer grosses Tam Tam mit 2
Spielern und Elektronik
Phill Niblock: a set of music and images - "Early . . . May"
http://www.ensemble-phoenix.ch/saison.html#
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April 29, 20:30 (8:30pm) - Les Trinitaires - Trintaires Street - Metz
[France]
Organized by FRAGMENT : info@fragment-asso.com / www.fragment-asso.com
with the festival Musique Action
Phill Niblock / Thomas Ankersmit [USA / Nederland]
Marc Baron / Bertrand Denzler / Jean-Luc Guionnet / Stephane Rives
[France / Switzerland]
Wednesday, 30 April 2008
Sets by Both: Phill Niblock und Thomas Ankersmit
Konzert im ZKM_Kubus, Karlsruhe, Germany, 20 Uhr
Music, Video: Phill Niblock
Electronics, Saxophon: Thomas Ankersmit
Eine Kooperation mit der Hochschule fur Musik Karlsruhe
A n g e l i c A 1 8 - festival in Bologna Italy, May 8 - 13, 16 - 17
on May 9, Friday, at Teatro Duse, Bologna, 9:30pm
Phill Niblock + Thomas Ankersmit (Stati Uniti, Olanda)
Incontri & Ascolti (a lecture/demo?):
sabato 10 maggio - ore 12 - Museo della Musica - Bologna
Phill Niblock
Plus - Alessandra Celletti + Hans-Joachim Roedelius / The Magic ID
(Germania) -Kai Fagaschinski clarinetto; Margareth Kammerer voce,
chitarra; Christof Kurzmann elettronica, voce; Michael Thieke clarinetto
/ La Monte Young & Marian Zazeela (Stati Uniti), played by Charles Curtis
violoncello, elettronica / Perlonex & Charlemagne Palestine (Germania,
Stati Uniti) - Charlemagne Palestine pianoforte; Ignaz Schick elettronica,
oggetti, giradischi; Joerg Maria Zeger chitarra, elettronica; Burkhard
Beins batteria, percussioni, ogge / Pierre Henry / Lawrence D. "Butch"
Morris / and others, and at other locations and other days
Experimental Intermedia | March 2008
You can find the March diary here
Current Activities & New Projects | February 2008
The continuing tour:
Phill Niblock Music and images by PN from the series "the Movement of
People Working"
Orfeus, Audiovisual Festival Prague, Intermedia Institut Prague (FAMU)
http://www.iim.cz
February 15th, 19.30 & 22.30 Uhr; Edith-Rus-Haus for Medienkunst,
Katharinenstrae 23, D-26121 Oldenburg, Germany; fon: +49 (0)441 - 235 32 08;
info@edith-russ-haus.de
www.edith-russ-haus.de curated by Jens Brand & Sabine Himmelsbach
MUSIC
15. February 2008, 19.30 n 22.30 Uhr, three sets
Sabine Schaeeffer & Joachim Krebs - "Sonic Lines niRooms" (1999) &
"TopoSonic Tunnel2 (2005); sonic work for 4 channels:
Sukandar Kartadinata - "Die By The Sword" (2007), Music for 2
Computersystem, Videogame, Forced Feedback Joystick and Live Electronics
Phill Niblock - Hurdy Hurry (1999); Harm (2003); Zrost (2004); Sethwork
(2003) and Films fom the "Movement of People Working" series and Feb 22 - Guy De Bievre; hans w. koch; Stevie Wishart
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23five Incorporated, San Francisco, presents Activating the Medium XI: The
Instrument
Feb 2 features ZBIGNIEW KARKOWSKI; JASON KAHN; TIM CATLIN and FRANCISCO
MEIRINO
February 22 (Friday, 5pm) is a free lecture at the San Francisco Art
Institute by PHILL NIBLOCK.
San Francisco Art Institute Lecture Hall, 800 Chestnut Street, San
Francisco, Free to public
February 23 (Saturday) PHILL NIBLOCK (New York) + THOMAS ANKERSMIT
(Netherlands), San Francisco Art Institute Lecture Hall, 800 Chestnut St,
San Francisco, 8PM www.23five.org
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Feb 27 - California Institute of the Arts, Valencia, California - a lecture
/ demo by Phill Niblock and Thomas Ankersmit , curated by Mark Trayle
24700 McBean ParkwayValencia, California 91355 www.calarts.edu
14 concerts throughout the month of February at Sound in Space Festival @
Sea and Space Explorations, 4755 York Blvd, LA, CA 90042
Some of the participants throughout the festival include Mark Trayle,
Ulrich Krieger, Michael Pisaro, Art Jarvinen, Clay Chaplin. Curators: Aaron
Drake, Clay Chaplin, Sara Roberts, and Lara Bank
February 27 - Phill Niblock and Thomas Ankersmit
http://www.soundinspace.org
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Thursday, February 28 at Beyond Baroque in Venice, California - Phill Niblock and Thomas Ankersmit; Mitchell Brown; Tom Recchion. A Hertz-Lion Production in Association with Beyond Baroque, 681 Venice Boulevard, Venice California 310 822 3006 http://www.beyondbaroque.org/
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Seven Concerts, Presented by Andrew Lafkas, Bryan Eubanks, and The TankFirst Thursdays at 10pm October of 2007 to April of 2008. http://www.rasbliutto.net/sevenconcerts
The Tank is located at 279 Church Street between Franklin and White
http://www.thetanknyc.org
March 6, Thursday, Phill Niblock, Music and Images
and ongoing:
Unnamable Name - January through March 2008 An installation within the
book-stacks organized by Ithaca/NYC based artist Todd Ayoung; Participating
artists include: Martha Rosler, Phill Niblock, Johan Grimonprez, Elizabeth Cohen, Jane Jin Kaisen, Ayisha Abraham, Greg Sholette, Rit Premnath, Kim Asbury, Buzz Spector, Dread Scott, Janet Koenig, Toby Greenberg, Katherine Liberovskaya, Kenseth Armstead, David Diao, Jacob Tell, Mierle Ukeles, Jenny Polak and Jeff de Castro with a Catalogue essay by Jelena Stojanovic and opening music by Chris White.
The opening reception will be held in conjunction with the Light In Winter Festival and take place from 3:30 PM to 6:30 PM on Friday, January 18th in the book-stacks and the Borg Warner Community Room, Tompkins County Public Library, 101 East Green Street, Ithaca, NY 14850 607-272-4557
http://www.tcpl.org/exhibits/unnamablename/index.html