August 1: Lacey Jane Henson performs “Trigger”

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Save the date!

On August 1 at 7 pm at Hollow Earth Radio, we start our second season. Lacey Jane Henson will present her short story “Trigger.” Check out what Paul Constant wrote about us in the summer issue of The Stranger’s Arts & Performance Quarterly:

The Furnace Reading Series brings an outstanding author together with the weird aural hallucinations that sometimes appear on Hollow Earth Radio every now and again, just to see what happens. The resulting story is part radio play, part tone poem, and part memorable performance, and while they’re all archived online atthefurnaceseattle.wordpress.com, there’s something special about seeing the whole thing performed live. Tonight’s Furnace brings local author Henson to read her short story “Trigger.”

Listen to Kathlene Postma’s story Fetch at the Furnace

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In case you missed it or just want to hear it again, check out Kathlene Postma’s story on soundcloud. Go ahead an subscribe to the page while you are at it. We’ll be updating with other recordings soon. 

 

See you at the next Furnace on August 1!

From “Fetch” by Kathlene Postma

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Here’s a tiny taste of Kathlene’s gorgeous story “Fetch,” which she’ll read at Hollow Earth Radio in just one week!

It seemed as if she had been the one to die, so light she felt, so porous and open to the snowy sky. When the surgeon explained she was fortunate to still have her leg, she fixated on a hawk that hung every day over a nearby cornfield. It seemed frozen in the air.

The Furnace #4: Kathlene Postma

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We return Thursday, May 16 at 7 pm with fiction writer, poet, essayist and Silk Road Review editor Kathlene Postma. Postma will read her rich, riveting story “Fetch” as Portland-area musicians Cayla Davis and Margaret Schimming weave through the telling a “sound and fury” of instruments and voice. Set along the crackling, icy shore of Lake Superior, drawing on nautical terminology and their definitions, and featuring a mysterious sea beast, “Fetch” tells the haunting story of a car accident and its aftermath. Postma’s writing has appeared in Zyzzyva, Los Angeles Review, Willow Springs, and other magazines. As always, the event is free and open to the public.

The details again:

Thursday, May 16, 7-8 pm

Hollow Earth Radio performance space

2018 A E. Union St., Seattle, WA 98122

Or listen live online!

At APRIL: The Bushwick Book Club Seattle Presents Original Music Inspired by The Furnace

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Come see us at APRIL’s Small Press Expo this Saturday, 11 am-4 pm at Richard Hugo House. We’ll have a table full of chapbooks and CDs from previous performances, and there’ll be a whole slew of other wonderful small publishers to check out. Annnd, be sure to see our event in the Hugo House theater 1:30-2:30. Musicians from the Bushwick Book Club Seattle have written original music inspired by the three pieces we’ve featured so far.

The performers:

Bradford Loomis marries grit and melody to dig to the roots of American folklore and speak of the raw reality of the human condition with soul, passion, and hope. Bradford will perform original music inspired by Anca Szilágyi’s story “More Like Home Than Home.”

On her critically acclaimed 2010 album, ”Roses Guide to Time Travel”, Oklahoma native Nancy K. Dillon mapped the road West; the dusty highways that conjure up images like Kerouac’s road trips, traveling dustbowl carnivals, and free-spirited 70s hipsters. Inspired by Oklahoma/Texas troubadours Townes Van Zandt, Eric Taylor, and Kevin Welch, Dillon’s songs are short stories about the various characters that populate rural American life, as well as her own travels through the American West and beyond.  2013 will bring the release of Dillon’s latest creative sonic efforts in songs inspired by her exploration mapping her family’s origins throughout Scotland, Ireland, England and the New World on a brand new CD entitled “Game of Swans”. Nancy will perform original music inspired by Buffy Aakaash’s play “The Last Night at Manuela’s.”

Katrina Kope is a Seattle based singer/songwriter that has performed in and around the area for over 10 years as the Katrina Kope jazz Quartet, Soul/R&B with Soul Kata, and Reggae with Leisure Sounds and Roll:One. Currently, Katrina co-hosts the all improve “Sing it Live” Jam for vocalists at the Seamonster and is about to release an album with her pop/electronic band, Purr Gato. Katrina will perform original music inspired by Rae Diamond’s essay “Three Songs.”

Sneak Peak of January 16th Furnace

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Rae Diamond will read her essay “Three Songs” with vocalist Jessika Kenney. We know we are in for quite a sound experience, and Rae made us a recording that serves as a little taste.

 

Wednesday January 16th, 6 pm

2018 E. Union Street– Live! In house event.

Or listen on line: http://www.hollowearthradio.org

The Furnace #3

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Get ready for a pretty wild experience with sound and language!

 

Essayist and musician Rae Diamond with vocalist Jessika Kenney

January 16, 2013

Hollow Earth Radio

2018 A. East Union St. 

6-7pm

Congrats to Anca for her Made at Hugo House Grant!

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Very excited to announce that our first reader, Anca Szilagyi won a Made at Hugo House grant. She’ll be working on a collection of stories called “More Like Home than Home.” Take a listen to the title story from that collection.

 

Reasons

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It’s funny how the changes of the seasons go. In the summer it’s like work barely exists, we do the bare minimum, we party with friends, drink things in out door patios and look really good in sunglasses. In the fall people look real good in their sweaters and color coordination but we sure are busy. I know I felt like I got shot out of a cannon, but one of those really nice ones that lands you in a soft ball pit of readings and friends.

The Furnace is a week from today. That’s October 3 at 6 pm at Hollow Earth Radio. And it occurred to me that folks might need some encouragement to party and make it to a 6 pm event because here are the things that will happen:

• You’ll actually get the same amount of work done as you would have if you bumbled around at work until 6.

• Buffy Aakaash’s award winning play is beautiful and runs at about ten minutes, which means you get to go to all kinds of other events, like The Washington State Book Awards at Hugo House.

• It means that you get to wear a cute outfit, and I promise that if you wear a cute outfit I will say so during the opening comments and then the whole internet will know that y’all are sittin there looking cute as hell.

• This new book is going to have a yellow cover. Yellow is like the sun. The books, by the way, are available for sale at Elliot Bay, Left Bank Books and Bull Dog News. But if you make it to The Furnace on Wednesday October 3 you will get Buffy’s book first. You will have cred and bragging rights.

• What better reason  is there to look good or look regular, or shlubby and drink Hot Chocolate and see a radio play happen live?

I can’t wait. Maybe my purse will match the chapbook.

The Last Night at Manuela’s

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Our next event, Buffy Aakaash’s play “The Last Night At Manuela’s” will be a 2012 Arts Crush Featured Event. We’re really excited to be a part of this month-long celebration of art, literature, music, theatre, dance, film and interactive creative experiences. What we love, especially, is its focus on collaboration, experimentation, and encouraging folks to try something new. We’re all about that!

Join us for Buffy’s play on Wednesday, October 3, 6-7 pm, at  2018 E. Union Street in Seattle or at hollowearthradio.org, and check out ArtsCrush.org to see the dizzying array of events on offer. Over the coming weeks, we’ll be posting some of the other Arts Crush events we plan to check out over on our Facebook page and on Twitter. Stay tuned!