City Art
Presents Mike Dorrell and Harold Carr with Flavia Cervino-Wood
Salt Lake Public Library Main Branch
210 East 400 South
Salt Lake City UT 84111
Wednesday January 15th 7:00—9:00 P.M.
Writer Mike Dorrell and poet/musician
Harold Carr and Violinist Flavia Cervino-Wood will read and perform their work
on January 15th at the Salt Lake City Public Library at 7:00 P.M. as part of
the City Art Reading Series.
Mike Dorrell is originally from
Swansea, Wales. He has is the author of over a dozen produced plays, including
work for BBC Radio 4 such as PICTURES OF THE FLOATING WORLD, an examination of
the artistic and personal legacy of Frank Lloyd Wright, BURNING THE ARC, an
antidote to UNDER MILK WOOD and PENNY GAFFS AND ANGEL PLACES, a sound portrait
of the midlife crisis of Charles Dickens. Plays for the stage includes his
series of stories about his home town, TALKING WALES 1, 11, and 111 and IV for
Utah Contemporary Theatre which is designed for performance in non traditional
theatre spaces. In Britain, his plays include RISE OF THE OLD CLOUD for Paines
Plough, SONS OF THUNDER for Theatre Powys and EAST OF MAIN ST. for Avon Touring
Company. From 1999-2008 he was Dramaturg for Salt Lake Acting Company and in
that capacity he developed new work by Julie Jensen, J.T. Rogers and others.
Since leaving SLAC,
had written THE TOWERING DEAD, a play about Dylan Thomas, and three other new
plays. In the last few years he has turned to writing literary mysteries and
has completed THE HOUSE OF THE RAVEN’S WING, and THE SCRIMSHAW SKELETON, both
currently doing the rounds. Mike’s poetry has been published in small magazines
in the UK.
Mike was educated
at the University of London, studied drama, film and television at the
University of Bristol and holds an M.A. from the University of Utah. He has
taught there and is currently teaching a course in playwriting at Westminster
College.
Poet/bassist Harold Carr has performed and recorded with numerous
artists such as Bobby
McFerrin, Crystal Gayle, Lightnin' Hopkins, John
McCuen, Steve Lacy, Catie
Curtis and Matt Flinner. He has published
three books of poetry:
_Wekwomteks_, _Being Time_ and _Where You
Were_. Harold has been a
musician/poet-in-residence at the Banff
Centre for the Arts in
Canada, guest soloist at the Frutillar Music
Festival in Chile,
composer/soloist with the Guangdong Modern Dance
Company in Guang Zhou,
China, invited poet for the Utah State Governor
and commissioned composer/performer
at New Music America. He has
worked with the Windolls
Theatre of Images in Colombia, Hong Kong, San
Francisco and Seattle. He
has been a member of a number of popular
Utah-based bands such as
The Cowdaddies, The Jarman/Kingston Quartet,
Amnesia and Wood. He
currently works with the Mark Chaney Trio, Red
Rock Rondo, The Emily
Merrell Group and Good Grass.
Violinist Flavia Cervino-Wood studied music at the Conservatory of
music in Santiago Chile.
In Brazil she played with Milton Nascimento
and Grupo Agua. Her
first work in the U.S.A was with the to Brockport
Symphony in New York.
She lived in San Francisco for 19 years,
playing with many latin
artists such as Rebeca Mauleon and Michael
Spiro and latin bands such
as Sol y Luna (featured in the Oliver Stone
movie “The New Age”).
Flavia performed with Cecil Taylor at the San
Francisco Jazz Festival
and with Merce Cunningham Dance Company. She
was also an active member
of the San Francisco avant-guard scene. In
Utah Flavia plays with Red
Rock Rondo (who won two Emmys), the Emily
Merrell Group and the Salt
Lake Symphony.
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.
Joel Long