Dialogues for the Ear and Eye
A monthly multi-disciplinary arts series
Curated by Joanne Pagano Weber and Bruce Weber
9W DINER, 3 Simmons Plaza, Saugerties, NY
Tuesday, May 6, 7-9PM
This Month’s Guest Artists
NINA SHENGOLD is a writer. Her books include Reservoir Year: A Walker’s Book of Days, River of Words: Portraits of Hudson Valley Writers, the novel Clearcut, and 14 theatre anthologies for Vintage and Viking Penguin. She won a Writers Guild Award for her teleplay Labor of Love and the ABC Playwright Award for Homesteaders. A founding organizer of Hudson Valley Writers Resist, Word Cafe, and Actors & Writers, she teaches creative writing at Vassar College.
JEN HICKS is a multidisciplinary artist. She is a visual artist and she has taught dance, performance art and fine arts for many years. She has exhibited and performed widely in such prominent settings as The Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, The School of The Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, CAVE NYC, The San Francisco Butoh Festival, and The Edinburgh Fringe Festival, to name a few. She was a Butoh dancer for over 30 years, yoga instructor, Trance Dance facilitator and director of her own dance company called Chimera Lab based in Boston. She was also a member of the Mobius performance collective in Boston for over 10 years. She participated in collaborations with Liars & Believers, a Cambridge-based theatre company. She is the founder and director of Jane St Art Center in Saugerties, New York.
JIM YANDA is a guitarist who creates music at the nexus of Jazz, New Music, Free Improvisation, Blues, Country and Folk traditions. He grew up the youngest son of a farming family near Anamosa, Iowa. His earliest professional experience included performing western swing music in regional dance halls. In high school, gigging garage Rock bands added to his stylistic influences, as Yanda fell in love with guitarists Jimi Hendrix, Eric Clapton, and Jimmy Page. He attended Coe College where he was introduced to jazz and avant garde 20th Century music by maverick trumpeter and university mentor, Paul Smoker. Yanda then spent several years on Chicago’s jazz scene before moving to New York to work with longtime collaborator Phil Haynes. Since then, Yanda has recorded his own music on Regional Cookin’ and Home Road and released recordings with Phil Haynes & Free Country, Damon Short, and Herb Robertson.
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Guests present their work for about twenty minutes each, followed by an open discussion/Q&A. Open mic sign-up – Three artists maximum – strict three minute limit per artist
Please note:
The 9W Diner is our host for Dialogues for the Ear and Eye
• There is a great menu, and a beautiful spacious side room where we will have our gathering. We suggest that you come before 7 and get situated in the performance room and order food or drinks early so that we can focus on the artists between 7 and 9. The restaurant closes at 9 but we are allowed to linger a bit.
• Covid awareness – please use discretion and sign in so if someone gets sick, we can notify you.
• You don’t have to register for tickets or prepay, just arrive!
• Our hosts kindly aren’t asking for a minimum order, but we encourage you to support the venue by enjoying their good food and beverages.
• Please be generous to the artists when we pass the hat. All money we collect goes to the artists. We suggest a donation of $10 or more, but leave this to your discretion..
