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Kenny G at The White House Today

Our friend and collaborator Kenny G, aka Kenneth Goldsmith read his amazing poetry at The White House today, 11 May 2011. As well as being beautiful and engaging in its own right, Kenny’s work has been a gateway to understanding of so called “higher” forms of writing and reading to People Like Us and many other allies.

Watch and download the video archives here:
http://www.whitehouse.gov/photos-and-video/video/2011/05/11/president-obama-poets-white-house
and
http://www.whitehouse.gov/photos-and-video/video/2011/05/11/poetry-student-workshop-white-house
More inspiration:
Kenneth Goldsmith
And from the larger umbrella:
UbuWeb
A People Like Us & Kenny G collaboration:
Nothing Special (CD)

Induction Is A Draft Is A Gust Of Air (2009) on Vimeo.

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Watch and Listen to People Like Us Live on WFMU

Genre Collage – live on the internet and radio
Wednesday 4th May 2011 on WFMU at 11am, NY time
(broadcasting at 91.1 fm in New York, at 90.1 fm in the Hudson Valley, US)
and on WFMU.org

People Like Us will be performing a live video/audio feed of their current concert “Genre Collage” on Ken’s show on WFMU on the above date.

Ken’s show runs from 9am-noon NY time (that’s 2pm-5pm UK time) – and you can check Ken’s playlists and archives at www.wfmu.org/playlists/KF
Vicki co-hosted with Ken recently for the WFMU 2011 Marathon.

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More Soup and Tart, Barbican Theatre, London

More Soup and Tart
15 April 2011
Barbican Theatre

Tickets: £15–£25 ****SOLD OUT!!!!****
Includes food
Time: 7.30pm

For one night only! Over 30 of the most exciting artists working across visual art,
film, music, dance and theatre each give a two-minute performance that follows a
light dinner of soup and tart, in the spirit of Jean Dupuy’s legendary 1974-75
events at The Kitchen, New York.

Featuring:
Penny Arcade / Edwina Ashton / Vicki Bennett (People Like Us) / Simon Bookish / John Butcher / Rosemary Butcher / William Cobbing / Martin Creed / Jeremiah Day / Dog Kennel Hill Project / Tim Etchells / Marcia Farquhar / Stewart Home / Mikhail Karikis / Hilary Koob-Sassen / Andrew Kotting / Sam Lee / Christian Marclay / Frauke Requardt, Tai Shani / Holly Slingsby / Ryan Styles / Simon Vincenzi / Mark Aerial Waller / Jennifer Walshe and Tom Woolner and more. Plus a special film contribution by Michael Clark.

For more information, click here
http://www.barbican.org.uk/artgallery/event-detail.asp?ID=11727 .
Tickets £15-25, and includes a dinner of vegetable soup and apple tart, made by
Searcy’s restaurant.

Book now… http://www.barbican.org.uk/artgallery/event-detail.asp?ID=11727

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People Like Us at Satellite Vitrine Gallery, Covent Garden London

People Like Us will be showing films as part of the private view (only) at Replica, an exhibition by Satellite Vitrine Gallery at The Hospital Club, 24 Endell Street, London on

Friday 8th April 2011.
RELICA launches Satellite Vitrine Gallery, showcasing mixed media work by five artists: Edwin Burdis, Katherine Gardner, Ludovica Gioscia, Rennard Milner and Robin Kirsten. The show brings together works that use found media material re-imagined.

LAUNCH EVENT & Private View
Satellite Vitrine Gallery presents a series of screenings, performances and music. Works included use found media footage, creating montage from film clips, TV, lyrics and music; expanding the exhibition premise into time-based media.
Cinema at 5.30pm (30 minutes)

‘GLUE GUN’ Screening with works by Andrew Gaston, George Barber, Noah Angell and People Like Us; artists who use found film, TV or internet footage cut, pasted and re-wroked.

Games Room from 6pm
6 – 9pm: Private View & Performances by James Stopforth and Leah Capaldi happening intermittently.

9pm til LATE: Dean Brannagan and Natasha Rees will present a continuous, collaborative sequence of music, video and sounds that echo the themes of RELICA.

Curated by Alys Williams and Katherine Gardner.
satellite VITRINE GALLERY at The Hospital Club, 24 Endell Street, London, WC2H 9HQ

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People Like Us play and screen at Ambulante Film Festival, Mexico

Week beginning Monday 14th March 2011

People Like Us will be performing Genre Collage at Ambulante Film Festival in Morelia, Mexico. There will be also be a 12-city tour of short films by Vicki Bennett/People Like Us as part of the festival, but Morelia will be the only place where there will be a live performance and the other 11 cities will have film screenings alone.

Genre Collage will take place at the CMMAS on Wednesday 16th March at 8.30pm.
The film screenings will take place at various venues in various cities, and once again Vicki will be present for the screenings in Morelia – please check the Ambulante Festival site. http://www.ambulante.com.mx/

Please note – the film screenings are a 52 minute collection of short films, and “Genre Collage” is a 45 minute live set.

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Please Support WFMU

WFMU will be taking pledges to send Station Manager Ken aloft with helium balloons on Wednesday, December 8th, 11am-noon (pre-game show starts at 9am)! For every $1000 we raise, we’ll fill up a balloon and tie it to Ken’s lawn chair. If we’re successful, Ken will lift off! We’ll host a live video feed of the whole debacle, so you won’t want to miss out.

Help keep WFMU and Ken aloft by using the brochure that will be hitting your mailbox soon, pledging online, or over the phone on December 8th. We’ve got a brand new t-shirt and a baseball cap up for grabs, too!

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Prints of Darkness travels to Dundee

We are pleased to present Prints of Darkness at Matthew Gallery at DJCAD and
look forward to seeing you for a drink and chat at the preview on the 12th
November if you can make it.

Matthew Gallery, Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art & Design, 13 Perth
Road, Dundee.

More information on our print and record in the exhibition Prints of Darkness

http://www.edinburgh-printmakers.co.uk/gallery/44a.htm

PREVIEW/// 12 November, 5-7pm
EXHIBITION/// 13 November ­ 11 December
Andrew Cranston, Tommy Crooks, Malcy Duff, Duncan Marquiss, Lee O¹Connor, Christopher Orr, People Like Us, Norman Shaw, Edward Summerton, The Lonely Piper, Andy Wake, Mark Wallace.

This touring exhibition, which originated at Edinburgh Printmakers, celebrates the vinyl record as an abiding audio-visual artifact and recalls the golden age of the record cover in the thick of the post-psychedelic, goth-surrealistic, Art Nouveau, apocalyptic landscape explosion, now being revived in a current resurgence of collectable limited edition records with original artwork.

http://www.exhibitions.dundee.ac.uk/programme_coming_soon.html

Generator, the Dundee’s artist-led space, also has an exhibition preview
that night (7-9pm) which you could catch if you are in town: ‘BE THE HAMMER
OR THE ANVIL’, Rachel Adams, Solveig Einarsdottir, Mairi Lafferty, Rose
Ruane.