Stephanie Rearick, Natalie E. Illum, Sandra Beasley

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A Red Pine tree was planted at the corner of 212 Merry Street in the late 60s that evolved over the decades into a cooperative household. We are making it a place for comity and creativity; Clarity and the imagination; we change detritus of early 21st century late stage capitalism into art, shrine, paintings, music, sculptures, urban Permaculture and homesteading experiments. We appreciate the used, the worn out, ever crumbling and reassembling; as we all are all the time.
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Saturday, October 8, 2005

This is a special 'welcome home' show for Stephanie Rearick as she returns from a three week tour of the midwest and west coast. She will be joined by two poets that she met last year while touring the east coast.

Rearick is a pianist who's music is best described as pop/cabaret.

"Imagine Tom Waits reincarnated as Debussy, playing Joni Mitchell versions of Edgar Allan Poe poems on a 1920s era piano, and you get an approximate sense of the influences singer/pianist Stephanie Rearick channels on the way to making her very unique, idiosyncratic art pop." -- Berkshire Eagle

Natalie E. Illum is from Washington DC and is a founding board member of mothertongue which is a spoken word, poetry and creative writing women's organization. They are an all volunteer run nonprofit organization dedicated to providing women and young girls a safe space to be creative and empowered by the strength and courage of their own voices and experiences. She will read from her collected works.

Sandra Beasley is a writer, a photographer and a poet. She has had quite a few of her works published including one in the 2005 edition of Best new Poets.

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