Feb 6th, first Friday at Studio One

First Friday at Studio One Art Center is expanding in 2009. In addition to the poetry reading and live music, visual art is mounted all about the 2 floors of this beautiful gem of a building. Also, photo journalist and spoken word artist Jennifer Inez Ward, will give a talk on her new photo series in the theater (more info below), and in the ceramics studio, a studio instructor be doing demos, showing how clay takes shape on a wheel.


For the Reading Series: We start after 7pm, in the "Great Hall." Come hang out and listen to ...

LISA GSCHWANDTNER has attended writing workshops at The Writer's Center, in Bethesda, Maryland, and The Juniper Summer Writing Institute at The University of Massachusetts. She was an artist-in-residence at The Atlantic Center for the Arts, where she studied with George Garrett. She is currently getting her MFA in fiction writing at St. Mary's College of California, in Moraga. She lives in Berkeley.


Music from PAIGE HEIMSOTH...About Paige: born in Slidell, Louisiana and currently living in San Francisco, California in a tiny studio on a busy street. Recorded 3 albums so far at Hyde St. Studios in San Francisco. The first is self titled, the second is titled 'Whiskey Was The Medicine', and the third is titled 'Under Chandeliers'.. to be released soon. I sing back up vocals for the amazing blues singer/songwriter Chris Cotton. You can hear his new album, 'The Big Sea' @ www.myspace.com/cottonchris I am the singer, performer and co creator for the multi-media performance, 'Tango La Melodia'. A performance involving live Gypsy Jazz, Tango, and Blues music, silent films, cabaret and tango dancers all wrapped up in finger waves, gowns, and the 1920's. www.tangolamelodia.com I am the drummer for Hello Handsome. www.myspace.com/hellohandsome l plan on recording and performing music, album after album, until I'm old and gray

RICHARD MEIER is the author of Shelley Gave Jane a Guitar and Terrain Vague, both available from Wave Books. He lives in Chicago and is writer-in-residence at Carthage College in Kenosha, WI and plays guitar in James Fishman-Morren's band The Ja Na.



The reading series is donation based and is thankful for your generosity.

In the theater at Studio One for first Friday Oakland photographer JENNIFER INEZ WARD will be presenting her new urban photography and spoken essay project, "Outside In: A New Oakland View". The last few years have been one of hope, turbulence, pain, and frustration for the city. From the changing downtown landscape, to the Dellums administration, Chauncy's assassination, the garbage strikes and restaurant hold ups, Ward explores the nuances of Oakland. 7:30 TO 8:00PM

NEW ART WILL BE FEATURED ALL OVER STUDIO WALLS BY Visual Guest Artists Pam Fingado, Eva Greenstein, Lisa Greenstein, Susan Harvest, Malka Helfman, Shirley Parini, Anne Shulenberger, and Studio One Art Instructors / Lab Volunteers Darren Cockrell, José Constantino, Janet Hiebert, Jim Hornback, Moses LaSabra, Reddy Lieb, Shauna Rosenblum, Jennifer I. Ward, Mira M. White, whose art " Fluid Mastery Part 2", will remain in place through Fri. Feb. 27. Meet some of the artists who be hanging out from 6:30 to 9:00pm Also, a live ceramics demo will take place during this time.

MARY magazine's fall//winter volume--now online

Hi go read good poems here

from the BRL reading at Book zoo

Here is a pic of the audience booing Craig Santos Perez. Love boos.


Craig took a photo of me taking a photo.

Thanks to Craig for these photos. For more pics of that night, visit Craig's blog

Spring at Studio One

Feb 6th with Rick Meier and Lisa Gschwandtner. Music from Paige Heimsoth

March 6th with Donna de la Perriere, Joseph Massey & Jared Stanley. Music from Diana McCullough

April 3rd with Stephanie Young and K. Silem Mohammad. Music from Meklit Hadero

May 1st with Brandon Brown, Farrah Field & Stan Apps


All readings are donation based and start sometime after 7pm
come hang out!

Dont miss it

This Friday is the Studio One reading with Craig Perez, Opal Adisa and hello handsome. Look at all the cool fun we had in November below. Come be in a photo.






Thanks to D. Buckley for these photos

December 5th

Hi Everyone, this is the last reading of the year.
The first reading of 09 will be in Feb.
Keep an eye out for the spring announcements.

Entry to the reading is by donation
Wine starts at 7pm
Readings soon after



Craig Santos Perez, a native Chamorro from the Pacific Island of Guahån (Guam), has lived in California since 1995. He is the co-founder of Achiote Press and author of several chapbooks, including all with ocean views (Overhere Press, 2007) and preterrain (Corollary Press, 2008). His first book, from unincorporated territory, has just been published by Tinfish Press. His poetry, essays, reviews, and translations have appeared in New American Writing, Pleiades, The Denver Quarterly, Jacket, Sentence, and Rain Taxi, among others

hello handsome is the most recent project of singer/guitarist/songwriter sarah k. sarah has been playing since 2002, in bands such as The Black Diamonds (Olympia, WA) and The Parties (SF, Rainbow Quartz Records). She has also been active in the music community through her involvement in co-founding the Bay Area Girls Rock Camp, a nonprofit music camp for girls.


Dr. Opal Palmer Adisa, Jamaica-born, is a sought-after speaker who has lectured throughout the United States, South Africa, Ghana, Nigeria, Germany, England and Prague. An award-winning poet and prose writer Dr. Adisa has eleven titles to her credit, including the novel, It Begins With Tears (1997), that Rick Ayers proclaimed as one of the most motivational works for young adults. She has been a resident artist in internationally acclaimed residencies such as Binational Fulbright Institute ( Egypt), Sacatar Institute (Brazil) and Headlines Center for the Arts (California, USA). Dr. Adisa is a full professor of creative writing and literature at California College of the Arts. She has taught at several universities including, Stanford University and University of California, Berkley. Recognition of her work has come in the form of many awards and honors; among them a nomination as Poet Laureate for the State of California in 2002.



Also at the studio this first friday is an art walk and reception. Studio One artists will be around to talk about their displayed art and cool people will be there to look at it and buy it. The reception starts at 530pm. Join us!

@ spd