Steve Dalachinsky Memorial - Parkside Lounge NYC - 10/19/2019

A batch  of photos of the readers and performers remembering the late departed Steve Dalachinsky.

Too many people to name. If you want to add names in the comments, please do. It was an afternoon  of sharing memories, of consoling the bereaved and grieving together.

Steve, you are missed.

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Easton (PA) Book Festival - The Unbearables

There was a book festival in Easton, PA the weekend of  Oct 25-27, 2019. According to their publicity there were more than 200 readers at more than 22 venues.

The Unbearables read at two of these venues, on Saturday afternoon at the International Fusionism Museum and on Sunday at The Quadrant Bookmart and Coffeehouse. I was at both events and took a few photos of the readers.

At the IFM were Amy Barone, Bonny Finberg, Ron Kolm, Karen Lillis, Deborah Pintonelli, Philip Rostek Esther Smith and Carl Watson

The event was a major success and people were asking if this was the first, and when would be the second.

 At the Quadrant, it was , Amy Barone, Bonny Finberg, Ron Kolm and Deborah Pintonelli

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RIP Steve Dalachinsky - a poet and a prophet

My friend and collaborator Steve Dalachinsky passed away this weekend.
He was reading at a venue on Long Island At the end he complained that things were going dark.
He suffered a massive cerebral hemorrhage.
From what I heard, and I heard very little, he was transported to a hospital where the doctors told Yuko he had no chance of surviving.
He passed away peacefully that night or in the morning.

Rest in peace, Steve. I'll miss you too.

Here's two triptychs of photos I took of him at a reading upstate NY a few years ago.
If you haven't read him, you are missing something. If you never heard and saw him read, it's too late now but you really did miss a great reader of his own work.

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Queer Liberation March - Proud and resisting and fighting! Part 3

June 30, 2019 and YOU ARE THERE!

I took a lot of photos. And here I am posting a lot of photos. Imagine how long this would have taken me if I wanted to edit them instead of posting them pretty much as I got them, just converted from RAW to JPG and bang, here is the third part, with at least one more large group to come.

One thing occurs to me as I scroll through the three days worth of photos: it puts me back at the march, and back into it, which is perhaps one of the things I was aiming for. 

I hope you like them.

 

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