May
15
“Pink”: a fort gondo publication
Posted by Fort Gondo on May 15, 2013 | Leave a Comment
fort gondo announces its first publication:
Pink
by Edo Rosenblith
An artist’s book
208 pages, 5 x 7 inches
Full color, with postscript by the artist and various contributors.
Book design by Dana Davis
Printed by Trio Printing Co., STL, MO
$30 (advance purchase price)
$35 after June 8, 2013
Purchase here.
about the artist
Apr
28
Thursday: “This Must Be the Place”
Posted by Fort Gondo on April 28, 2013 | Leave a Comment
This THURSDAY, May 2, 4-8 PM
THIS MUST BE THE PLACE
2276 Jefferson Avenue STL, MO
Marisa Adesman, Mara Cruvant, Becky Daniel, Raina Koller, Michael Osheroff, Annie Sayers, Zach Swanson, Kristie Wickwire, Rachael Tellerman
A one-night group exhibition organized by the Sam Fox School of Design and Visual Arts BFA painting majors (2013).
Apr
28
Saturday at Fort Gondo: “Contact” by Mike Newton
Posted by Fort Gondo on April 28, 2013 | Leave a Comment
SATURDAY at fort gondo:
Mike Newton
Contact
May 4 – June 1, 2013
Opening reception Saturday, May 4, 7-10PM
with a performance by the artist.
about the exhibition
Contact considers interpersonal communication as an analogy for greater struggles with unknowable systems, drawing upon psychological studies of autism, language and anxiety, especially as they relate to eye contact.
Apr
11
Tomorrow at Fort Gondo: Paul Foster Johnson & Idra Novey poetry reading
Posted by Fort Gondo on April 11, 2013 | Leave a Comment
TOMORROW
The fort gondo poetry series is pleased to present (its final reading of Season 2):
Paul Foster Johnson & Idra Novey
Friday, April 12 at 7 p.m.
about the poets
Paul Foster Johnson is the author of the poetry collections Study in Pavilions and Safe Rooms(Portable Press at YoYo Labs, 2011) and Refrains / Unworkings (Apostrophe Books, 2008), as well asQuadriga (2006), a chapbook he cowrote with E. Tracy Grinnell. From 2003 to 2006, he curated the Experiments and Disorders reading series at Dixon Place. He has served as a co-editor of Litmus Press/Aufgabe and is the current editor of The Poetry Project Newsletter.
Mar
16
Saturday at Fort Gondo: Mamie Tinkler & Zak Marmalefsky
Posted by Fort Gondo on March 16, 2013 | Leave a Comment
SATURDAY at fort gondo:
MAMIE TINKLER
March 23 – April 20, 2013
Opening reception Saturday, March 23, 7-10 p.m.
With a musical performance by Zak Marmalefsky
Mar
16
Friday at Fort Gondo: Matthew Henriksen & Aditi Machado poetry reading
Posted by Fort Gondo on March 16, 2013 | Leave a Comment
The fort gondo poetry series is pleased to present:
Matthew Henriksen & Aditi Machado
Friday, March 22 at 6 PM
(PLEASE NOTE CHANGE IN READING TIME)
Matthew Henriksen’s first book, Ordinary Sun, emerged from Black Ocean in 2011. He co-edits Typo, an online poetry journal, and currently lives and teaches in the Ozark Mountains, where he runs The Burning Chair Readings and edits Cannibal, a hand-bound poetry journal.
Mar
14
Easter Eggstravaganza 2013
Posted by Benton Park West on March 14, 2013 | Leave a Comment
Benton Park West Neighborhood Associations invites you and your family to our 8th Annual Easter Eggstravaganza.
DATE: Saturday, March 30, 2013
TIME: 10:00AM to 12:00PM
LOCATION: Gravois Park, Pavilion (3200 Potomac)
This free event is a great way to celebrate with your kids in a safe and fun environment.
Activities include:
- An egg hunt (bring your own basket please)
- Photos with the Easter Bunny ($1/picture)
- Snacks and refreshments
- Egg coloring
- Temporary Tattoos
- And more!
This event is for children ages new born to 10 and must be accompanied by an adult.
Feb
7
HEARding Cats This Saturday & Fort Gondo on Bad at Sports
Posted by Fort Gondo on February 7, 2013 | Leave a Comment
SATURDAY:
HEARding Cats Collective presents: Missing Link
February 9, 2013 at 8 PM
A poetry reading by K. Curtis Lyle,Anna Lum, Brett Underwood, Stefene Russell and Treasure Shields Redmond.
Music by Doc Mabuse & Zimbabwe Nkenya.
Click here for more info.
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fort gondo profiled on the Chicago-based national arts blog and podcast series BAD AT SPORTS:
http://badatsports.com/2013/identity-crisis-st-louiss-fort-gondo-compound-for-the-arts/
Thanks to Kelly Shindler, Assistant Curator at the Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis, for this thoughtful piece.
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On view: “All That Heaven Allows”
Benjamin Edelberg and Brandon Anschultz
Through February 23, 2013
Jan
22
Friday at Fort Gondo: Nick Demske & Stephanie E. Schlaifer poetry reading
Posted by Fort Gondo on January 22, 2013 | Leave a Comment
The fort gondo poetry series is pleased to present:
Nick Demske & Stephanie E. Schlaifer
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Friday, January 25, 2013 at 7 PM
fort gondo compound for the arts
3151 Cherokee Street STL, MO 63118
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Nick Demske lives in Racine, WI, and works at the Racine Public Library. His self-titled manuscript was selected by Joyelle McSweeney for the 2010 Fence Modern Poets Series Award and was published by Fence Books. Nick curates the BONK! performance series in Racine. You should visit him online sometime at his blog nickipoo.wordpress.com.
Jan
13
Saturday at Fort Gondo: All That Heaven Allows
Posted by Fort Gondo on January 13, 2013 | Leave a Comment
“All That Heaven Allows”
New work by Benjamin Edelberg & Brandon Anschultz
January 19 – February 23, 2013
Opening reception Saturday, January 19, 7-10 p.m.
“All That Heaven Allows” explores the intimate violence of assemblage as a
sculptural and two-dimensional approach that radically deconstructs
conventional materials. The exhibition’s title is taken from the eponymous
1955 Douglas Sirk melodrama that, consistent with Sirk’s filmmaking,
repurposed the tropes of romantic storytelling to describe a vividly coded
narrative of desire, anti-convention and social critique.
Nov
5
Friday at Fort Gondo: Joy Katz & Simone Muench poetry reading
Posted by Fort Gondo on November 5, 2012 | Leave a Comment
This Friday, November 9 at 7PM
the fort gondo poetry series is pleased to present
Joy Katz & Simone Muench
Joy Katz is the author of the poetry collections All You Do is Perceive, a National Poetry Series finalist (forthcoming from Four Way in 2013), The Garden Room (2006), and Fabulae (2002). She is also the co-editor of the anthology Dark Horses: Poets on Overlooked Poems (2007). She was educated at Ohio State, Washington University in St. Louis, and Stanford. Honors for her writing include a 2011 NEA fellowship, a Pushcart prize, a Stegner fellowship, and the Nadya Aisenberg fellowship at the MacDowell Colony. Her poems are anthologized in three volumes of The Best American Poetry, among other places, and appear in such journals as American Poetry Review, Notre Dame Review, Ploughshares,Cincinnati Review, and elsewhere. Her prose has appeared in The New York Times Book Review and The Village Voice. She has taught literature and poetry at The New School and NYU and currently teaches in the graduate writing program at Chatham University, Pittsburgh, where she lives with her husband and young son.
Oct
9
Friday at Fort Gondo: Joel Craig, Melody Gee & Marc McKee Poetry Reading
Posted by Fort Gondo on October 9, 2012 | Leave a Comment
is pleased to present a reading by
Joel Craig
Melody Gee
Marc McKee
This Friday, October 12 at 7 PM
fort gondo compound for the arts
3151 Cherokee Street
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Joel Craig is the author of The White House (The Green Lantern Press, 2012) and the chapbook Shine Tomorrow (Lost Horse, 2009). His poems have appeared in A Public Space, Boston Review, Fence,Iowa Review and Typo, among others. He lives and works in Chicago, Illinois where he also curates the Danny’s Reading Series and is the poetry editor for MAKE: A Literary Magazine.
Sep
11
THIS SATURDAY @ FORT GONDO: PETER PRANSCHKE
Posted by Fort Gondo on September 11, 2012 | Leave a Comment
FORT GONDO’S ALL-TIME, ALL-STAR ARTIST RETURNS!
PETER PRANSCHKE
I’M GLAD I DON’T KNOW YOU IN REAL LIFE
OPENING RECEPTION SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 15, 7-10 PM.
EXHIBITION RUNS THROUGH SEPTEMBER 30. GALLERY HOURS:
SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 23, 2-4 PM
SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 30, 2-4 PM
ADDITIONAL GALLERY HOURS AND APPOINTMENTS EMAIL INFO@FORTGONDO.COM
I’M GLAD I DON’T KNOW YOU IN REAL LIFE IS PART OF THE 2012 SERIES
IDENTITY CRISIS: 10 YEARS OF FORT GONDO. COMMEMORATING, CELEBRATING AND EXPLOITING A DECADE OF DIVERSE PROGRAMING.
Sep
11
Friday at Fort Gondo: Wayne Miller, Buzz Spector & Mónica de la Torre Poetry Reading
Posted by Fort Gondo on September 11, 2012 | Leave a Comment
The fort GONDO POETRY series
is thrilled to begin its second season with a reading by
Wayne Miller
Buzz Spector
Mónica de la Torre
Next Friday, September 14 at 7 PM
fort gondo compound for the arts
3151 Cherokee Street
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Wayne Miller is the author of three poetry collections, most recently
The City, Our City, (2011), which was a finalist for the William
Carlos Williams Award and the Rilke Prize. He also translated Moikom
Zeqo’s I Don’t Believe in Ghosts (2007), and co-edited New European
Poets (2008). Wayne lives in Kansas City and teaches at the University
of Central Missouri, where he edits Pleiades.
Aug
29
South Patrol Police Appreciation BBQ
Posted by Benton Park West on August 29, 2012 | Leave a Comment
What: South Patrol Police Appreciation BBQ
When: Thursday, August 30, 2012 (rain date 8/31) 11:00a.m. – 2:00p.m. and
4:00p.m. – 8:00p.m.
Where: Tower Grove Park, Sons of Rest Shelter (come in the east entrance)
Please come out to show appreciation for all the hard work the officers of our area have done over the past year to reduce crime and make BPW and our surrounding neighborhoods a safer place to live, work and play. Bring your appetites as the 1st, 2nd and 3rd Districts Police Business Partnerships are providing the food. The officers stop by during the day and evening on their shifts to have a bite to eat with the residents and neighbors. It is a time for fellowship and getting to know each other outside of the work.
Aug
16
THIS SATURDAY AT FORT GONDO: WALK ON ME
Posted by Fort Gondo on August 16, 2012 | Leave a Comment
TAKE A WALK ON THE WILDSIDE!
WALK ON ME
RUGS BY BRIDGET KRAFT
MUSIC BY DAVE STONE
OPENING RECEPTION SATURDAY, AUGUST 18, 7-10 PM.
WELCOME MAT PERFORMANCE BY THE GALEN CONCEPT
EXHIBITION RUNS THROUGH SEPTEMBER 2; ADDITIONAL GALLERY
HOURS AND APPOINTMENTS EMAIL INFO@FORTGONDO.COM
WALK ON ME IS PART OF THE 2012 SERIES IDENTITY CRISIS: 10 YEARS OF FORT GONDO. COMMEMORATING, CELEBRATING AND EXPLOITING A DECADE OF DIVERSE PROGRAMING.
READ RECENT STL MAGAZINE ARTICLE:
http://www.stlmag.com/St-Louis-Magazine/August-2012/Fort-Gondos-Identity-Crisis-Series-Celebrates-10-Years-on-Cherokee-Street/
Apr
23
Saturday at Fort Gondo: Nathaniel Farrell, Keith Newton & Matvei Yankelevich read
Posted by Fort Gondo on April 23, 2012 | Leave a Comment
The fort GONDO POETRY series is pleased to present:
Nathaniel Farrell
Keith Newton
Matvei Yankelevich
This Saturday, April 28 at 7 P.M.
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Nathaniel Farrell was born and grew up in Western Pennsylvania before moving to New York City, where he lived for fifteen years. A recent arrival in St. Louis, he is currently completing a dissertation on modern poetics at Columbia University and teaching at Washington University. A collection of two unpublished long poems—Newcomer and The Republic—is forthcoming on Ugly Duckling Presse.
Apr
9
Friday at Fort Gondo: Devin Johnston, Marni Ludwig & Peter O’Leary Poetry Reading
Posted by Fort Gondo on April 9, 2012 | Leave a Comment
The fort GONDO POETRY series is pleased to present:
Devin Johnston, Marni Ludwig & Peter O’Leary
THIS Friday, April 13 at 7 PM at fort gondo compound for the arts
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Born in 1970, Devin Johnston spent his childhood in North Carolina. He is the author of four books of poetry, the most recent of which is Traveler (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2011); and two books of prose, including Creaturely and Other Essays (Turtle Point, 2009), reflections on the natural world. He works for Flood Editions, an independent publishing house, and teaches at Saint Louis University in Missouri.
Apr
2
Saturday at Fort Gondo: PL/STL: A Celebration of Polish Poster and Visual Art 1900-Current
Posted by Fort Gondo on April 2, 2012 | Leave a Comment
Opening Reception: Saturday, April 7th at 7 pm
Fort Gondo Compound for the Arts
3151 Cherokee Street Saint Louis, Missouri 63118
Organized by Chris Smentkowski
Featured artwork by:
Ryszard Kaja, Andrzej Pagowski, Jakob Erol, Andrzej Klimowski, Jan Lenica, Franciszek Starowieyski, Stanisław Ignacy Witkiewicz (Witkacy), and more…
Films:
4/5/12 – The Double Life of Veronique (1991, Krzysztof Kieślowski) @ Moolah Mini Theater. 9 pm. 3821 Lindell.
4/12/12 – The Anthology of Polish Experimental Animation @ Apop Records. 9 pm. 2831 Cherokee.
4/14/12 – Summer Love (2006, Piotr Uklański) @ Fort Gondo. 8 pm. 3151 Cherokee. The 1st and only Pierogi-Western!!!
4/19/12 – The Hour-Glass Sanatorium (1973, Wojciech Jerzy Has) @ Apop Records. 9 pm. 2831 Cherokee.
4/26/12 – Knife in the Water (1962 , Roman Polański) @ Apop Records. 9 pm. 2831 Cherokee.
Mar
19
This Friday: Mary Jo Bang & Mark Bibbins read at fort gondo
Posted by Fort Gondo on March 19, 2012 | Leave a Comment
The fort GONDO POETRY series presents:
Mary Jo Bang & Mark Bibbins
Friday, March 23 at 7 PM
at fort gondo compound for the arts
3151 Cherokee Street
St. Louis, MO 63118
About the poets:
Mary Jo Bang is the author of six collections of poetry, including Louise in Love, Elegy—which received the 2007 National Book Critics Circle Award—and The Bride of E. She has been the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship and a Hodder Fellowship from Princeton University. Her translation of Dante’s Inferno, with illustrations by Henrik Drescher, is forthcoming from Graywolf Press in August. She is a professor at Washington University in St. Louis.