Friday, March 30th, 2007
at the Powel House

located at 244 South 3rd Street (between Walnut and Locust)

Featuring  
ERIC BAUS (Poet; Philadelphia)
SANDRA NEWMAN (Fiction Writer; New York City)
SARAH CHRISTMAN (Filmmaker, Philadelphia)

ERIC BAUS is the author of The To Sound (Wave Books) as well as several chapbooks including the forthcoming Tuned Droves (Katalanche Press). His poems have appeared in Hambone, Verse, Fascicle, and elsewhere. He lives in Philadelphia where he edits Minus House chapbooks.

SANDRA NEWMAN is the author of two novels, The Only Good Thing Anyone Has Ever Done, and Cake (forthcoming from Chatto & Windus, May 10) and various works of short fiction, non-fiction and radio talks. She is also co-authoring a manual on writing with Howard Mittelmark, How Not to Write a Novel, which has been called alternately the funniest and most offensive book ever written on writing. Her blog, 100 Autobiographies, containing the true story of how she aided Osama bin Laden in his escape from justice in the wake of 9/11, is now available at: www.100autobiographies.blogspot.com.

SARAH CHRISTMAN is a Philadelphia-based independent media producer.  Using film, video, and the web, she explores the personal and cultural impact of media in everyday life.  Her award-winning films (Bush for Peace, Dear Bill Gates) have screened internationally, including at the Rotterdam Film Festival and Resfest.  Sarah received her MFA in Film & Media Arts at Temple University.  She is the co-founder of Memory Bank Media, a post-production studio that specializes in the digital preservation of home movies and photographs. Sarah will be showing Dear Bill Gates, in which a simple correspondence evolves into a poetic visual essay exploring the ownership of our visual history and culture. Combining original and archival film, video and images from the internet, it draws unexpected connections among mining, memory and Microsoft.