Bit Part - a play festival and carnival. May 14th and 15th. Belltown, Seattle
KNOCK brings out a play festival and carnival held at Freehold Theatre and the whole of the block where Freehold is located on 2nd Ave in Belltown, Seattle. KNOCK #13 - the all Play issue - will be released at the festival, and the issue is built on the 2010 KNOCK International Play Contest. Winning plays will be published in the issue and produced at the Bit Part Festival, produced by Ampere. Buy your ticket at Brown Paper Tickets.
Sponsored by Antioch University Seattle and Alphagraphics. Generous contributions by Freehold Theatre, Shorty's, Toys in Babeland, Mama's Mexican Kitchen, and JuJu.
KNOCK congratulates the finalists and semi-finalists for the contest. The top three winners will be announced on the first night of the Bit Part Festival.
Finalists: John Minigan, J. Stephen Brantley, Nick Stokes, Robert White, Patrick Cole, Karen M. Kinch, John Hayes, Barbara Lindsay, Lillian Mooney, and Judith Glass Collins.
Semi-finalists: Mark LaPierre, Renee Rankin, Deb Margolin, Lynda Crawford, Erica Slutsky, Stanley Toledo, Richard Goodman, Rey Dabalsa, Theodore D. Kemper, Kate McLeod, Brian Walker, and Joel Allegretti.
past events
Olio! Friday, March 26th, 7pm.
Olio! is an exhibition of theater props and original play posters. The event will be full of music, improv, and busking performances.
AND...All proceeds from this event will go to "Bit Part", a Belltown Carnival and Theater Festival scheduled for May 14th and 15th, and brought to you by KNOCK Magazine, Freehold Theatre, and Ampere. It is a festival of short plays that won the KNOCK International Play Contest, chosen by judges Dickey Nesenger, Maria Semple, and John Longenbaugh. The next issue of KNOCK - full of the winning plays - will be released at the festival. And on top of the festival, Ampere is blowing the Carnival out to be something bigger than a block party.
KNOCK #12 Release Party. The EX Issue. Friday, December 4th.
Jewel Box Theater - in the Rendezvous Bar - Seattle. 7 p.m. start.
See contributors including Dickey Nesenger, Monica Schley, and Jack
Johnston / editors Mae Emerick and Aaron Dietz / more suprises like
Seattle playwright Paul Mullin and novelist Jonathan Evison. Plus 2
bands - Sense of Solution and Gladiators Eat Fire - following the KNOCK
show.
KNOCK in a Literary Death Match
Seattle’s second-ever Literary
Death Match is a wild cross-disciplinary shootout, with readers
running the gamut from daring literary adventurers Stacey Levine (winner
of the PEN/West Fiction Award for My Horse and Other Stories) and
Aaron
Dietz (KNOCK advisory editor) to boundary-bending performers
Kelleen Conway Blanchard (playwright of Small Town) and Danbert Nobacon
(lead singer of Chumbawumba).
All-star judges Paul Constant (of The Stranger), Maria Semple (This
One Is Mine; ex-writer for Arrested Development), and Jonathan Evison
(All About Lulu) preside.
Hosted by Opium
Magazine founding editor Todd Zuniga.
Produced by Ben Blum.
Friday June 26th, 2009 at 8pm come to KNOCK Magazine's F***raiser
at Stone Soup's Downstage Theatre.
The event will be hosted by Seattle's Dane
Ballard and will include readings by Tom Hansen, Mae Emerick,
and KNOCK editor, Bryan Tomasovich. Plus performances by Adderstone
Bellydance, Tempest Burlesque, and many other artists..
Beer and wine will be served. You will also have a chance to participate
in our silent auction.
Suggested Donation of $10 will go to expanding the KNOCK national
distribution and a new KNOCK fellowship at Antioch.
We can't wait to share this smart and sexy event with you.
Stone Soup is located at: 4035 Stone Way N, Seattle, WA
KNOCK Magazine release party for issue #11. Friday, May 8th,
2009 Performances by Jonathan Evison, Paul Constant, Aaron Diets, Neil
McCrea, and Ben Loory. Issue #11 is an all-fiction issue edited by novelist
Jonathan Evison, author of All About Lulu. The
Jewlbox Theatre 2322 2nd. Ave. SeattlePreview
issue #11 now!
Friday. April 17, 2009.
KNOCK Magazine hosts a reading by Maria Semple.
Mae Emerick will open for her.
Maria Semple is the author of the recently released novel, This
One Is Mine, an L.A. book always wild and even more sincere and
incisive. Semple now lives in Seattle, after a move late last year
away from Los Angeles, where she wrote for TV such as Mad About
You and Arrested Development.
Mae Emerick will read from her book about pleasure, set for release
in 2010 by New York-based Emergency Press. Emerick is an Antioch graduate.
Friday, April 17th
7:00 p.m.
Antioch University Seattle
2326 6th Avenue
between Bell and Battery
The reading is free. Drinks provided. After reading party to be
announced at the show. And talked about for a long time.
November 14th, 2008
KNOCK releases The Dead Friends Issue
Full of writing and art from across America and beyond from the
likes of Marya Sea Kaminski, Christopher Grimes, Cait Willis, Tracy
Lang, Dan Raphael, Wes Lang, Eddie Martinez and an interview with
the Collateral Repair Project, the organization that provides relief
to Iraqi refugees.
Contributors to KNOCK # 10 - as well as advisory editors - will perform.
On-board already: Jonathan Evison (author of All About Lulu), Amy
Jones, Elizabeth Myhr, Paula Coomer, Mae Emerick, Mark Harlow, Glenn
Reed, Aaron Dietz, Tom Hansen, and Shane Noecker out of New York.
The KNOCK release party will be held at the Jewel Box Theater (in
the Rendezvous Bar) on Friday, November 14th, starting at 7:00 p.m.
The Jewel Box Theater is located at 2322 2nd Ave. (between Bell and
Battery). The event is free. 21+ with cocktail service.
KNOCK READS AT THE CLMP LIT MAG MARATHON WEEKEND IN NEW YORK
June 14th and 15th
EDITORS UNLEASHED!
New York Public Library's Periodicals Room, 5th Ave. at 42nd St.
Saturday, June 14th from 4–6:30 PM
The Magathon kicks off the weekend with a celebratory “marathon”
reading. Editors representing journals of different sizes and styles
will present favorite selections from their latest issues. Readers include
editors from American Book Review, Cider Press Review, Confrontation,
Eclipse, Fairy Tale Review, The Georgia Review, Haight Ashbury Literary
Journal, KNOCK, Lapham's Quarterly, Literal Latte, Mad Hatters' Review,
n+1, Opium Magazine, Painted Bride Quarterly, Parnassus: Poetry in Review,
Salt Hill, The Southern Review, Storyscape Journal, and Zeek.
All events are free and open to the public.
KNOCK Magazine hosts 13 Short Films on One Program
KNOCK and PepperSpray
Productions announce the premiere screening of "Disposable
Heroes" (a film featuring the 2007 protest “Fund the Wounded,
Not the War”) along with "The Leader #16." "The
Leader," an occasional compilation of short political documentaries,
examines issues of the day from the perspective of movements for social
change and justice. This collection, containing twelve short pieces,
is a multifaceted statement of the power of activism.
Friday, June 6th, 2008
Antioch University Seattle
Featuring work from filmmakers Patricia Boiko, Arianne Garden Vazquez,
Lila Kitaeff, Joe LaSac, Brian Liloia, Mahdy Maaweel, Lambert Rochfort,
Randy Rowland, and Suhki Sangera.
The program spans a variety of issues, including the struggle against
the transport of war materials in Olympia (Olympia PMR), the WASL (SYPP’s
Haunted High), immigration issues (Tacoma ICE), counter-recruitment,
Jobs With Justice, Rwandan reconciliation, the fight to save Cascade
People’s Center, equal access, the Oaxaca uprising and the role
of media (interview with film-maker Jill Freidberg), the ILWU, FCC hearings,
Reclaim theMedia, Students for a Democratic Society (SDS), and Iraq
Vets Against the War (IVAW). “Disposable Heroes” focuses on
the movement to “fund the wounded, not the war.”
PepperSpray Productions is an all-volunteer activist video collective
based in Seattle, Washington. The video arm of the Seattle Independent
Media Center, it gives voice to the voiceless, filling the silences
in mainstream reporting.
May 17th, 2008
KNOCK #9 Release Party - Local and national contributors to
KNOCK's Gestation Isssue. Ann Tweedy, Jonathan Evison, Aaron
Dietz, Nick Stokes, Emily Frey, Mary Coolidge, Tom Hansen, Glenn Reed,
and Mae Emerick. Also, Elizabeth Heffron's play, Foxy Populi, performed
by members of Annex Theatre.
December 11th, 2007 KNOCK #8 Release Party - Local and national contributors to KNOCK's
Hurt on Purpose Isssue. John Olson, Ann Tweedy, Jonathan Evison,
Kate Lebo, Tom Hansen, Aaron Dietz, and Charles Morrison.
Watch some performances from the KNOCK #8 release.
video: Dan Radel
July 24th, 2007
KNOCK #7 Release Party - See contributors to KNOCK's Attack
and Rescue Issue and KNOCK editors from Seattle to New York read.
Scheduled to read are John Olson, Scott Zieher, Gavin Tull-Esterbrook,
Amy Mahoney, Jack Johnston, Mark Hughes, Christin Call, Gleen Reed,
Tom Hansen, and Aaron Dietz.
July 15, 2007 KNOCK nominated Amy Mahoney for the Seatttle Poet Populist position.
She read with other Seattle poets nominated for the 2007 Poet Populist
position on Sunday, July 15th at 2:00 p.m. at the Seattle Central Library.
April 26, 2007
Steve Heller and Sheyene Foster Heller read at Antioch
April 22, 2007 Seattle Poetry Festival KNOCK presents performance poets Angela Martinez Dy, Katinka Kraft,
and Amy Mahoney.
February 17, 2007 (pro)text: An Independent Press Fair
All ideas and expressions contained herein represent the opinions of the authors whose
names appear on each contribution, not Antioch University Seattle or the staff of KNOCK.
