Lake Street Studios holds Arts Collage
From staff reports
On Sunday, July 29 at 8 p.m. the annual Arts Collage event will take place outdoors at the Studio Stage, located behind Lake Street Studios in Glen Arbor. The rain location is the Glen Arbor Town Hall. This year’s Arts Collage features guitarist Will Pearsall, poets Teresa Scollon and Anne-Marie Oomen and the Ann Arbor Film Festival.
Born in the steamy recesses of north Florida, raised on the mocha colored banks of the St. Johns River, Will Pearsall seems to sweat the word “dichotomy”. Swampy yet sophisticated, easy going yet wired with intensity, his music ranges from machine gun fire to molasses. His deep resonant voice envelopes the listener with lyrics that easily pass through the porous borders of literalism, all the while holding tight to their emotional roots. In his songs there are dark, sweltering nights of mystery, the ghosts of a gulfside hotel, howls of freedom, the subliminal heat of brewing lust. All are conveyed in the most simple and direct manner…voice, guitar and stomp board … as real as the thick evening air on the banks of that murky river.
Teresa Scollon and Anne-Marie Oomen team up to celebrate regional women artists with new poems inspired by the Art by Women exhibition held at Olvier Art center in Frankfort. The two poets chose art that inspired them and wrote poems based on the pieces. Accompanied by the images, and in some cases, the actual art, Teresa and Anne-Marie will entertain you with ekphrasis, the art-image connection.
Oomen is author of two memoirs, Pulling Down the Barn and House of Fields, both Michigan Notable Books, and An American Map: Essays (Wayne State University Press); and a full-length collection of poetry, Uncoded Woman (Milkweed Editions). She is also represented in New Poems of the Third Coast: Contemporary Michigan Poetry, and edited Looking Over My Shoulder: Reflections on the Twentieth Century, an anthology of seniors’ essays funded by the Michigan Humanities Council. She has written seven plays, including the award-winning Northern Belles (inspired by oral histories of women farmers), Wives of an American King, Whaddaya Give!, (a regional musical) and most recently, Secrets of Luuce Talk Tavern. She also adapted the meditations of Gwen Frostic in choral text for Chaotic Harmony, a choreopoem. She is founding editor of Dunes Review, former president of Michigan Writers, Inc. She serves as instructor of creative writing at Interlochen Arts Academy, ICCA Writer’s Retreat, and the Solstice MFA at Pine Manor College, Mass. She and her husband, David Early, live near Empire.
Scollon is author of To Embroider the Ground with Prayer, from Wayne State University Press, and the chapbook Friday Nights the Whole Town Goes to the Basketball Game from Michigan Writers Cooperative Press. She is a recent recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts fellowship, and an alumna and past writer-in-residence at Interlochen Arts Academy. She lives in Traverse City.
The Ann Arbor Film Festival (AAFF) is a pioneer of the traveling film festival tour and each year presents short films programs at more than 30 theaters, universities, museums and art house cinemas throughout the world. The AAFF is the longest-running independent and experimental film festival in North America, established in 1963. Internationally recognized as a premiere forum for independent filmmakers and artists, each year’s festival engages audiences with remarkable cinematic experiences. The AAFF is steeped in a rich tradition of ground-breaking cinema. Thousands of influential filmmakers have showcased early work at the AAFF, including luminaries such as Kenneth Anger, Agnes Varda, Andy Warhol, Yoko Ono, Gus Van Sant, Barbara Hammer, Lawrence Kasdan, Devo and George Lucas. Join us for an evening of films from the 2012 AAFF.
