For Immediate Release
Contact:
City Art Director Joel Long: joeltlong@yahoo.com
Brian Kubaycz and Pamela Balluck to read at
City Art
Salt Lake Public Library Main Branch
210 East 400 South
Salt Lake City UT 84111
Wednesday May 1st, 7:00—9:00 P.M.
Writers
Brian Kubarycz and Pamela Balluck will
read from their works on Wednesday May 1st at the Salt Lake City Public Library
at 7:00 P.M. as part of the City Art Reading Series.
Brian Kubarycz teaches Intellectual Traditions for the
Honors College at the University of Utah. His writing has appeared in The
Quarterly, Puerto Del Sol, Black Warrior Review, Tarpaulin Sky, Unsaid, New
York Tyrant, Gigantic, PANK, and other literary venues. More recently, Brian
has begun to write songs and play guitar with a musical project, Totem and
Taboo. They are currently involved in the project "Of Meat and
Marrow," a year-long collaboration with the Stephen Brown Dance Company.
The two will be performing together at the Rose Wagner Performing Arts Center
on Saturday, June 15. Totem & Taboo will be performing as a rock band
without dancers at The Utah Arts Festival, on Sunday, June 23, at 2pm.
Pamela Balluck—in
another life, a struggling screenwriter, a Hollywood temp, and talent
agent—earned her M.F.A. and Ph.D. in creative writing and literature from the
University of Utah, where she currently teaches writing as an associate
instructor. Her fiction has won her various publication prizes, including the
Competition for Utah Writers, and non-publication prizes such as a month-long,
summer 2010 residency at the Vermont Studio Center. Her creative writing has
appeared in the Western Humanities Review,
The Southeast Review, [PANK], Freight Stories, Barrow Street, The Ocean State Review, New World Writing, among others, and has
recently been anthologized in Curbside Splendor’s multi-genre coffee-table
book, The Way We Sleep.
Most featured
readings are followed by an open reading.
City Art is
sponsored by the Utah Arts Council, the Salt Lake City Arts Council, Catalyst, the Salt Lake City Public
Library, Xmission, and the Zoo, Arts, and Park Fund.
The event is free and open to the
public. City Art is sponsored by
the Utah Arts Council, the Salt Lake City Arts Council, Zoo, Arts, and Parks,
X-mission, and audience donations.
April
3
Matt Mauch
Greg Brownderville
8th (Special Monday Reading at the Art Barn)
Kate Greenstreet
Janet Holmes10
Dawn Lonsinger
Tasha Matsumoto
17
Hilda Raz
Aaron Raz Link
May
15
High School Night
June
5
Final Open Reading
Joel Long