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Author Amanda Howland will read from and discuss her new book Mona Cost Returns to the Black House on Thursday, October 10th at 7:30 pm. with a performance by sound artist Kristen Ban Drake.Amanda Howland holds an MFA in fiction from the Northeast Ohio Master of Fine Arts program. Her stories can be found in various places, including Adanna Literary Journal. She is also the author of the novel Beasts and Creature. Amanda plays noise music and teaches yoga in Lakewood, Ohio.
A recipient of 2 OAC Individual Artist Grants, Kristen Ban Drake was active in the early 90’s as a performance/slam poet and sound artist in the Cleveland area. After taking time off to concentrate on family and deepen her studies and practice in the Buddha Dharma, she has returned to the sound scene using voice, analog synthesizers, and other electro-acoustic instruments in both solo (as Ann B. Klorox) and collaborative work with her husband Bob Drake and other artists in the current experimental/noise scene in Northeast Ohio. She is currently incorporating her background in dance and martial arts into collaborations with local dance and Butoh artists.
ABOUT MONA COST:
In the dead of winter, in the dead of night, Mona Cost pulls up to the Rosalie. She hopes her old friend Murder still lives in the building. Mona’s been on the road for three years, playing noise basements and sleeping on couches. Now she’s back in Cleveland, hoping to plant roots. Before she left town, Mona betrayed her friend Rocky. Maybe Rocky will forgive her and they can reform their band, Liver. Maybe they can create their own underground space run by and for artists.
Or maybe Rocky and Murder don’t live here anymore.
Event address:
1820 Coventry Rd,
Cleveland Heights, OH 44118
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1820 Coventry Rd, Cleveland Heights, OH, United States, Ohio 44118
