Join us on August 15h for Summer Nights on Jupiter curated by Stephen Boyer and hosted by Le Petit Versailles. This August will feature readings and performances by Andrea Crespo, Lara Weibgen, Christopher Soto, Jackie Wang, Bett Williams and Unkle Yva Punkfaggot....
Rain or shine we'll be amongst the flowers.
About us:
Stephen Boyer is a novelist, poet, performer but would rather be on Jupiter, obviously.
Andrea Crespo is an artist based in NY.
Lara Weibgen is an organizer, poet, and se...
Join us on August 15h for Summer Nights on Jupiter curated by Stephen Boyer and hosted by Le Petit Versailles. This August will feature readings and performances by Andrea Crespo, Lara Weibgen, Christopher Soto, Jackie Wang, Bett Williams and Unkle Yva Punkfaggot....
Rain or shine we'll be amongst the flowers.
About us:
Stephen Boyer is a novelist, poet, performer but would rather be on Jupiter, obviously.
Andrea Crespo is an artist based in NY.
Lara Weibgen is an organizer, poet, and seeker living in Brooklyn.
Christopher Soto (aka Loma) is a queer latin@ punk poet who is concerned with dismantling patriarchy and white supremacy. They are currently curating Nepantla: A Journal Dedicated to Queer Poets of Color in collaboration with The Lambda Literary Foundation. They have work published in Columbia: A Journal, Acentos Review, Anti-, and more. They are an MFA candidate in Poetry at NYU.
Jackie Wang is a queer poet, essayist, filmmaker, performer, and prison abolitionist based out of Cambridge, MA. Her work has been published in LIES, Action Yes, Pank, Delirious Hem, DIAGRAM, The Brooklyn Rail, October, the Semiotext(e) Whitney Biennial Pamphlet Series, and other worthy outlets. She is currently working on a book or two. If you summon her, she will come: loneberry@gmail.com. Follow her on twitter @LoneberryWang.
Twenty years ago Bett Williams built a house that is like a boat in a New Mexico landscape that used to be the bottom of the sea. For the past few years she has been hosting ceremonies and gatherings along the theme of poetry, politics, architecture, plant medicines and as yet undefined mystic vocations. The author of "Girl Walking Backwards," and "The Wrestling Party," she is currently working on a book of stories called "The Wild Kindness."
Yva Las Vegass is punk-rock through and through. Born in 1963 in Puerto La Cruz, Venezuela to a musical, middle-class family, Yva earned a ticket to boarding school in the states as a result of teen rebelliousness—which suited her fine. “I'd just seen Porky's, so I really wanted to come to the US,” she laughs. After a series of educational mishaps (“No school would hold me,” she says), she ended up in Seattle and decided, with a friend, to try her hand at street performance. “We played for like five minutes and we had enough money to buy a Whopper,” she remembers. “We were so excited.” She was soon a staple around Seattle, and after a chance gig playing Krist Novoselic's birthday party the former Nirvana bass player invited her to jam. Impromptu sessions led to a proper band—Sweet 75, after a poem by Theodore Roethke—and, within months, a major-label record deal and opening slots for heavy-hitters like L7 and Dinosaur Jr. For whatever reason (take your pick: lackluster marketing, musical differences, the vagaries of the music industry, a listening public not ready for a queer woman of color who was also an unrepentant badass motherfuc#er) Sweet 75's debut album failed to find much success and the band fizzled out in the late 90s. The intervening years have found Yva Las Vegass living, loving and singing her heart out, honing her craft to razor-sharp precision. There's not much catering to the English-speaker on this album, the bulk of which is sung in Spanish, just as there's not much excuse for a 21st century American not to speak at least conversational Spanish. But the blood and sweat that are all over this record don't really need translation, either. Guaranteed, no one on this earth sounds like her.
Le Petit Versailles events are made possible by Allied Productions, Inc., Gardeners & Friends of LPV, GreenThumb/NYC Dept. of Parks, Materials for the Arts, and the NYC Dept. of Cultural Affairs. LPV Exhibitions are made possible with public funds from the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Andrew Cuomo and the New York State Legislature.