JUNE:
[1] June 6, Sat, 8pm-10pm (and every first Saturday of the month).
Viento y Agua Café & Gallery, 4007 E 4th Street, Long Beach, CA. [562 434 1182, www.myspace/vientoyaguacoffeehouse]
Wander* Women Series, Gig 1—featuring Stella’s Notch, with Maggie Boles and poet Cathy Gruman and Marta Osborne as emcee.
*To be launched middle of July this summer, Wander is a Long Beach-based community publication that advocates a peaceful and non-violent consciousness and harmony and “connectedness” in cultural diversity. FREE (but donations are always blessed).
[2] June 28, Sunday, 7pm-10pm.
Josephine’s Bistro, 11305 183rd St., Cerritos CA 90703. [562 865 0300, www. josephinesbistroandbar.com]
Vagrant Wind Road Journey—featuring Stella’s Notch (www.stellasnotch.com), with Alyssandra Nighswonger, Matt Rivera, and Jigger Gaza. Pasckie Pascua emcees.
COVER: $10 (entitles ticketholder to plate of food or 2 beers). For advanced sales: Call Marta Osborne, associate producer, at 562 726 0873 or email bonfires_marta@yahoo.com. Tickets are also available at venue. Proceeds go to Traveling Bonfires’ Philippine-based nonprofit beneficiary (see Manila “Bonfires for Peace” event below)
NOTE: There might be a “global peace/anti-war” poetry reading and filmshow at Shades of Afrika in Long Beach in June but details TBA later.
JULY:
[1] July 4, Sat, 8pm-10pm (and every first Saturday of the month).
Viento y Agua Café & Gallery, 4007 E 4th Street, Long Beach, CA. [562 434 1182, www.myspace/vientoyaguacoffeehouse]
PERFORMERS TBA. FREE (but donations are always blessed).
NOTE: There might be a Gig 2 of Wander Women Series at Viento y Agua in July, TBA.
[2] July 9, Wed (Philippines time), 7pm.
Conspiracy Garden Café, Visayas Avenue, Quezon City (Manila, Philippines) [www.conspi.net or find it on google or Facebook]
Light My Fire: “Bonfires for Peace in Manila” (A Cultural Event for Peace and Justice), w/ Tag-Ani Performing Arts Society
PERFORMERS and COVER, tba
For more details, email Maryjane Alejo (ganja_blues@yahoo.com), associate producer. Proceeds go to DESAPARECIDOS, a Philippine-based coalition of family members of victims of enforced disappearances.
[3] July 11, Sat, 4pm to 10pm.
Pritchard Park, downtown Asheville, North Carolina
“*Bonfires for Peace at Pritchard Park, Year 6”
PERFORMERS TBA. FREE (but donations are always blessed)
[*Bonfires for Peace is the Traveling Bonfires’ centerpiece community project. From 2001 to 2006, the organization produced morning to nighttime concerts and similar “Vagrant Wind” events in Asheville NC—as well as in Baltimore, Washington DC, New York City, and other North Carolina towns/cities—and gathered performers/musicians/artists and peace-loving spirits from all over the US, with visitors from Haiti, the Philippines, France, Japan. A first “Bonfires for Peace” in California/West Coast was held at Huntington Beach in Oct 2008, in collaboration with community-based peace movements and organizations.]
For more details, email Chris Malz (chrismalza@aol.com), associate producer. Proceeds go to performing acts and DESAPARECIDOS, a Philippine-based coalition of family members of victims of enforced disappearances.
[2] July 18. House by-the-pool/garden party and poetry reading etc as part of Wander’s July community launch, “Under a Peaceful Blue Sky,” Details TBA. Definitely happening in Long Beach, California (Lisa Engelbrecht’s residence).
NOTE/s:
(a)As part of Wander’s month-long launch, there will be another event at a Long Beach-based venue on this month, possibly July 23. The Nomads of 4th Street (Daniel Romo, Pasckie Pascua) will be guesting, for sure; Cathy Gruman is emcee and associate producer.
(b)A “Bonfires for Peace” club gig in July is also upcoming in New York City (contact: associate producer Gino Inocentes—he’s all over Facebook), and San Francisco/bay area in August (possibly in Daly City, negotiations ongoing).
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JUST HANGIN’ OUT:
[1] Every Tuesday, except the last week’s, 8pm-10pm. Viento y Agua Café & Gallery, 4007 E 4th Street, Long Beach, CA. We hang out and read at Creative Sessions Open Mic hosted by TBonfires friend, Alyssandra Nighswonger.
AS ALWAYS the case with these “rock journeys and sublime madnesses,” MOST SHOWS ARE FREE. But it’d be really cool if you could spare a few dollars donation and then obtain copies of the performers’ chapbooks, CDs, and TBonfires/Wander merchandise. These gifts are better than caffeine and nicotine combined… For more details—and for those like-minded, spirit-paralleled poets and musicians who might want to join us perform—get in touch: Marta Osborne (562 726 0873, bonfires_marta@yahoo.com), Cathy Gruman (562 434 3951, igru2002@yahoo.com), or email pasckie.pascua@gmail.com.
For more infos (website, under construction):
[ ] http://www.mountainx.com/ae/2005/0112bonfires.php
[ ] http://www.mountainx.com/ae/2006/1213peacejones.php
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