My pick? Poetry Festival: A Celebration of Literary Journals

Great event. You get to hear more than 20 poets (if you’re so inclined), or just spent time browsing through at least twelve literary magazines. All editors are on site, so it’s great for networking and making friends. If you have any inclination to submit work to local literary journals, I suggest checking out this event and getting a feel for the different flavors of different magazines.

Poetry events in and around Johnsonville for the rest of the month. Feel free to add yours at the bottom of the list…

When I think of “a rock band’s lead singer and his house,” I imagine a big house in the hills surrounded by other towering houses with a Cadillac parked in the driveway. However, as I pull up to the Kenneys’ place, home of the lead singer of A Clear Blurr, I see no mansions and certainly no hills. Tom Kenney’s house is on a dead end of a street with neighbors whose houses hardly resemble mansions and whose cars all look to have been made before I was born.

urator: Melissa Torro

Alfa Art Gallery is pleased to present Georgi Petrov’s exhibition “Facebook: Password Love”, a solo show featuring for the first time images from the artist’s internet exhibition by the same name. Through the universal language of painting, Georgi Petrov succeeds in depicting love and bringing the contemporary vision of his home in Bulgaria to the United States.

It started out as just a passionate conversation between two people about writing and the growing arts community in New Brunswick, New Jersey.

Christine Tran, 21, senior at Rutgers University, writes poetry and is active in the poetry community and local politics. Kevin Olitan, 22, recent graduate of Rutgers University is involved with the music community, local art organizations, and university-affiliated creative art programs.

She spent her summer in Berlin exploring the nightlife, architecture and art; he thought he was destined to write useless poetry and fiction and mindlessly play guitar in his room all day and night.

Upcoming Events:

March 26, (Friday) – 7pm-11pm – POLLIFAX at Alfa
March 27, (Saturday) – 2pm-4pm – “The Contemporary Relevance of the Renaissance Palette” – a lecture by Michael Price
April 2, (Friday) – 7:30pm-10:30pm – Vesselin Kourtev – solo exhibition
April 9, (Friday) – 7:30pm-10:30pm – “Uptown”, a Novel – Book promotion and signing

March 26th, 2010 – “Another Sunny Day” – POLLIFAX at Alfa

Currator: Julianna Ritter
Doors open at 7pm – …

A new exhibition at the Zimmerli exploring the preponderance of noses and overcoats in 20th century lithographs, available for viewing between March 12th and April 10th.

Thursday, April 8, 2010
This spring, Philadelphia is hosting Philagrafika 2010, a city-wide festival in about 80 museums and galleries throughout the city and region, celebrating the printed image through the work of 300 internationally acclaimed artists* from around the world.  The theme of the festival is “The Graphic Unconscious.”        Featured artists include Americans Eric Avery, Enrique Chagoya, Kiki Smith, Swoon, and many others, as well as numerous artists from around the world, including Christiane Baumgartner (Germany), Orit Hofshi (Israel), Pepon Osorio (Puerto …

The Jane Voorhees Zimmerli Art Museum at Rutgers features the latest body of work by the New York-based, Moroccan-born artist Lalla Essaydi in Les Femmes du Maroc from January 30 to June 6, 2010. Seventeen large-format color photographs will portray Moroccan women in tableaux based on famous examples of 19th-century European and American Orientalist paintings and covered in Arabic calligraphic script. A selection of Orientalist works from the museum’s extensive collections of European graphic art will also be on display to provide a cultural context for Essaydi’s work.

Opening Reception: March 12th, 7:30-10:30pm
Exhibition Duration: March 12th – April 2nd
Open Studio: March 27th, 2-4pm
Curator: Michiko Mull
Alfa Art Gallery is very pleased to present the recent works of New York-based British artist Michael Price in “The Immortal Spirit of Nature” on view from March 12th – April 2nd, 2010. After twenty years of strenuous research and experimentation, Michael Price has been able to revive the long-lost pigmentation processes of the Renaissance masters.