This event takes place in person at Charis and on crowdcast, Charis' virtual event platform. This event is free, but registration is required for virtual attendance. Click here to register to attend virtually. Please read the in-person event guidelines at the bottom of this page to be sure you can participate in the event.Charis welcomes Clement Goldberg in conversation with Gina Abelkop for a celebration of New Mistakes. Classic human follies of desire and ambition foreground a revelatory awakening the planet needs.
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UFOs in formation in the sky. Vegetation—from cranky houseplants to wise old conifers—telepathically transmit their complaints. A cat gone viral rebels against her influencer caretaker. In California, interconnected strangers find one another, drawn by messy threads of sex and art, their lives falling apart as an extraordinary new reality arises.
In this debut novel by Clement Goldberg, classic human follies of desire and ambition foreground a revelatory awakening the planet needs. By turns tender and hilarious, visionary and perceptive, New Mistakes wittily shows us how we live today, and how we might, astonishingly, live tomorrow.
CLEMENT GOLDBERG is an award-winning Multidisciplinary Artist, Writer, Director and Animator who is non-binary trans and queer. They work across disciplines to create satirical yet hopeful projects that center collective grief rooted in climate crisis, cultural erasure and extinction. Clement’s debut novel New Mistakes is forthcoming from DOPAMINE Press / Semiotext(e) September 2024. Their feature film project Let Me Let You Go received a 2022 Creative Capital Award.
Gina Abelkop is the author of the poetry collections I Eat Cannibals (co.im.press 2015) and Darling Beastlettes (Apostrophe Books 2012). Her writing has appeared in The Weird Sister Collection, Fence, and Lavender Review, amongst others. She is currently at work on a novel titled Strawberry World.
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184 S. Candler St. , Decatur, GA, United States, Georgia 30030
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