GIVE A FIG BENEFIT AUCTION: READYMADE
Thank you to everyone who came out and made this year’s auction such a success!
GIVE A FIG
Les Figues Press’ Annual Fundraiser + Benefit Auction.
Emcees: Matias Viegener and Anna Joy Springer
Performances by Bhanu Kapil, Sarah Shun-lien Bynum, Christine Wertheim, and Laura Steenberge!
Food by Carnival! Drinks! Delicious Cupcakes! Other Treats!
September, 12, 2009
7:00-10:00 p.m.
Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions
6522 Hollywood Boulevard, Los Angeles, CA
Tickets: Buy online or call: 323-734-4732
It’s time for the Readymade. Ecology! Economy! Artists, writers and independent businesses donate dozens of renamed/recycled/ready-to-go items.
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• Marcus Civin makes prints of sentences donated from different sources. (Source #1: Ken Gonzales-Day; Source #2: Kenneth Goldsmith; Source #3: Eileen Myles; Source #4: Yvonne Rainer; Source #5: Kevin Killian & Dodie Bellamy; Source #6: Kara Tanaka; Source #7: Kathleen Hanna)
• Art by Connie Samaras, Stephanie Taylor, Audrey Mandelbaum, Betsy Seder, Molly Corey, Joey Morris, Dan Bayles, Mara Lonner, Ginny Cook, Douglas Green, Jenny Yurshansky, Shane Quentin, Phoebe Gloeckner, Candice Lin, Christine Wertheim (Institute for Figuring), Laura Greene, Fallen Fruit, Alex Forman, Debra DiBlasi, and more!
• A rare chapbook of opening sections from /Madeleine is Sleeping/, with cover paper handmade by author Sarah Shun-lien Bynum.
• A signed broadside of Stuart Dybek’s “Paper Lantern.”
• Cat behavior consultation with scientist (and poet) Jennifer Calkins.
• “The Other Me” — Hand-made perfume by Kim Rosenfield (as debuted at her reading at Small Press Traffic).
• Lynda Barry drawing, draft of cover for /100 Demons/.
• Gift certificates to local, independent bookstores: Skylight, Portrait of a Bookstore, Brand Books, Counterpoint.
• Teeth whitening/bleaching with dentist Dr. Cho.
• NOT AN OBJECT, a conceptual project by Rob Fitterman, “produced” for you, collaboration optional.
• Psychic palm reading by Bhanu Kapil.
• Gift certificate to the Alcove.
• Book packages, bundles of literary/art journals, the old poetics and the new (a chapbook collection).
• Facial with Kenya at Studio 41.
• LA Medusa t-shirt and painting, from Howard’s House of Fine Arts
• Cake baking commission by Charles Flowers.
• Plus more, including surprises from Sawako Nakayasu, Danielle Adair, Laura Vena, Rikki Ducornet, and More!
This fantastically fun event provides direct and critical support for Les Figues Press’ publishing projects.