Friday 4/13 – Thursday 4/19
“It’s a flaming arrow aimed at the circled wagons of American justice,” says former National Geographic staff writer Harvey Arden about Leonard Peltier’s 1999 memoir, Prison Writings: My Life Is My Sun Dance. Arden edited the book for the imprisoned American Indian Movement activist, who was convicted in 1977 of killing two FBI agents during a 1973 shoot-out and whom Amnesty International and others consider a political prisoner. Arden, who has collaborated with Native American and aboriginal Australian writers on four other books, is currently developing a Web site (dreamkeepers.net) that will publish the stories of spiritual elders on-line. He’ll give a talk tonight at 7 at the Mitchell Museum of the American Indian, 2600 Central Park in Evanston. Admission is $10. He’ll do it again tomorrow at the same time (and for the same price) at the Oak Brook Terrace Park District’s Heritage Center, 1 S. 325 Ardmore in Oak Brook Terrace. Call 773-585-1744 for information on both events.
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17 TUESDAY “What I love about Rebecca’s writing is that she takes the very ordinary experience of loss of love and explodes it to almost mythic proportions–mutilations of the body, epic journeys, and resurrections. [It] condenses the experience into something more real than it was before,” says About Face Theatre’s Kyle Hall. He read Rebecca Brown’s 1992 lesbian love story The Terrible Girls last year (after a nasty breakup) and adapted it into a new play that promises movement, music, drumming, and a cast of eight “fierce” females. Brown will join cast members for a free reading tonight at 6:30 at Quimby’s Bookstore, 1854 W. North (773-342-0910). Brown will also give free readings tomorrow night at 7 at 57th Street Books, 1301 E. 57th (773-752-4381) and Friday night at 7:30 at Women & Children First Bookstore, 5233 N. Clark (773-769-9299). The play opens Thursday at 8 (and runs through May 27) at About Face Theatre, 3212 N. Broadway. Opening night tickets are $50 and include a postshow party at the Room, 5900 N. Broadway. Call 773-549-3290
