Rabbit Tales February 9-- What We Hold

Rabbit Tales: February 9, 2012

Reader:

Holly Tavelis a Brooklyn-based writer/artist/musician whose fiction has appeared in, or is forthcoming from, Torpedo, Elimae, McSweeney's, The Brooklyn Rail, The Prague Anthology, Diagram and others. As the recipient of a Fulbright Scholarship in 2009, she moved to Prague, Czech Republic to research a novel-in-progress. Her visual work has been exhibited at Participant Gallery, NYC, and at Art Interactive in Boston. She played keyboards in two bands in the mid-90s and currently attempts to play the accordion while singing.

Reader:

Justin Petropoulosis the author of the poetry collection Eminent Domain, selected by Anne Waldman for the 2010 Marsh Hawk Press Poetry Prize. His poems have appeared in A capplla Zoo, American Letters & Commentary, Anemone Sidecar, Borderlands: Texas Poetry Review, Columbia Poetry Review, Crab Creek Review, Gulf Coast, Mandorla, MiPOesias, Portland Review, and most recently in Spinning Jenny. Justin co-curated Triptych Readings with poets Mary Austin Speaker and Anne Lovering Rounds from 2010 to 2011 and has been a guest blogger for Bryant Park’s summer poetry reading series, Word for Word. He holds an MFA from the Indiana University. Justin currently is the site director of an after-school program for elementary age children. He lives in Brooklyn, New York with his pet octopus, Siete. 

Puppeteer:

Fergus J Walsh is a puppet designer, builder and performer from Ireland, currently working in New York City. He is currently an artist in residence at the Museum of Arts and Design on Columbus Circle. He has an MFA in Puppetry from the University of Connecticut and a BA in Psychology from Trinity College Dublin. His latest production Hy-Brazal, a web-series about creatures in a parallel world, will be released online in the coming months (www.hybrazal.com). He was the lead puppeteer at the world premiere of The Wind Up Bird Chronicle at the Edinburgh International Theatre Festival in August 2011. He will be touring with the show to Singapore in May of this year. He recently built puppets for The Little Shop of Horrors at The Gallery Players in Brooklyn, The Ohmies at the Playwrights Horizons Theatre on 42nd Street and for The Indelible Mark on Edward Barron at the Jim Henson Carriage House. He received a Henson Foundation Grant to develop a project entitled Hippo, about a Hippopotamus who wants to become the next President of the USA. In the past his work has been supported by the Arts Council of Ireland, the Liz Marek and Bill Mack Award and the Connecticut Guild of Puppetry. For more information please visit www.fergusjwalsh.com

Musician:

Julia Weldonis a prolific, New York City-based guitarist, songwriter, and composer.She headlines at reputable venues like the Knitting Factory and Mercury Lounge and plays up and down the east coast. Recent festivals include Chicago’s 2008 Decibelle Festival and the 2010 Women’s Experimental Music Festival in Brooklyn. Her first, self-titled album was a DIY project with intimate grit, but she is currently finishing a fully produced and realized 12-track album with a renowned producer, Saul MacWiliams. For more information please visit juliaweldon.com.