Art & poetry tonight: Fluxus A Go-Go at Art City features Kevin Carman, Carol Henry offers art, music, poetry + Arcade Series!

Tonight, Saturday April 16, Outlaw Conduit Gallery presents this month’s outsider art and electronic music event, Fluxus A Go-Go featuring artist and poet Kevin Carman and with live music by Stockboken at 9pm and Cybearg at 10pm followed by DJs Kevin C from Leftside Productions at 11pm and Dept and MossMen at midnight. Learn more about these Fluxus A Go Go artists here: http://artcityventura.wordpress.com/2011/04/05/fluxus-a-go-go-3-0/

The event is only $5 at the door; 21 and over, please. Art City is located on Ventura’s Westside near Vons on Main: 197 Dubbers off Olive and Rex. Gate closes at 11:45. BYOB–and bring a few to share with Russel the Rockseller! For more information, go to www.outlawconduit.com.

Also tonight, from 6-9pm, Effloresco! Celebrating spring at carolhenrystudio on April 16th! With the images of Imogen Cunningham, Rondal Partidge and Carol Henry plus musical guest Margaret Marston! 6-9pm, April 16th, Studio Channel Islands Art Center, Studio B1 and poetry– I’ve been invited to read my poem for Horace Bristol.

Also tonight, April 16 at 7pm,  Cathy Colman, Dan Gerber and Vanessa Johnson feature at the Arcade Poetry Series, Oxnard Carnegie Art Museum, 424 South C Street, Oxnard with host Jackson Wheeler. Continue reading for sample poems.

Arts and Crafts:  A Warning
 
by Cathy Colman

An instant jumped out of me
as if I were giving birth to time.  I realized
the past was gone and what remained?
Only salvage, a ghost-clutch
of fresh asphalt, steamy after summer rain,
love’s jump-start engine, and the coyote’s compromise-the look
of a kind dog-who-is-not-a-dog, like a lover I had
who smelled of goodness, who brought loaves
and fishes, change from other countries
that spilled across my dresser,
who decorated me
silver tracery, but who practiced
the piano on other women,
until my body flayed out and became
a table of musical triads.
I read an article that said once you used
glitter
it lodged in the floorboards, the rugs,
tracked everywhere in the house,
years later you’d still find a tiny skin-glint.
You can never get rid of it.

Cinema Verite by Dan Gerber

Often my life seems like a foreign film
through which I keep glancing down at the subtitles
to see how much of what the beautiful,
sad woman on the screen is saying
reflects what the beautiful, sad woman in me
would have her say.

Dan Gerber on David Starkey’s show Creative Community
http://vimeo.com/5378886

Coming to the Arcade May 14 is  Paul Gutherie and Melinda Palacio and the series closes for 2011 on June 18 with Patty Seyburn and Gaby LeMay.