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<summary mode="escaped" type="text/plain" xml:base="http://www.well.com/~magdalen">This blog is being moved to www.magdalen.com . 

The info on this page may be out of date, so I hope you'll check out the new one.

Thanks,

Tiffany.</summary>
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<content mode="escaped" type="text/html" xml:base="http://www.well.com/~magdalen" xml:space="preserve">&lt;span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(102, 102, 102);"&gt;Seeking Help:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;Please email me directly if interested.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Transcriptionist (Contract), &lt;/span&gt;&lt;font&gt;Portland, ASAP. Please state rate (hourly or by word) in your email.&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Editorial &amp; arts intern, &lt;/span&gt;&lt;font&gt;Portland. Unpaid internship in Portland area beginning fall. I will sign for your college credit if applicable.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Editorial &amp; web intern, &lt;/span&gt;online and/or in Portland, to work on 2GQ.org. &lt;font&gt;I will sign for your college credit if applicable.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(102, 102, 102);"&gt;Upcoming Events: &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Annie Bloom's Books, Portland&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;July 12. Opening performance with Emily Stone, followed by a &lt;a href="http://annieblooms.com/NASApp/store/IndexJsp?s=storeevents&amp;eventId=324765"&gt;Edie Meidav &lt;/a&gt;reading.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Northwest Edge III Release Party, Portland&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;July 20. Reading/performance as Chiasmus Press presents the newest NW Edge anthology at &lt;a href="http://disjecta.org"&gt;Disjecta&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;The Richard Foreman Fest, Portland&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;August 11. Unbeatable ontological-hysteric hilarity at &lt;a href="http://performanceworksnw.org"&gt;Performance Works NW&lt;/a&gt;. I will perform in Friday's lineup only.&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Burning Man Festival, Black Rock City, Nevada&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;August 30-September 4. Look for the sparkling burqua and bare feet. That will be me.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Bold-Sky, Portland&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;September 27. Reading at Bold-Sky series, relocated.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(102, 102, 102);"&gt;Forthcoming Publications:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;"&gt;Northwest Edge&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;My short story "Jack &amp; Camaro" appears in the third Northwest Edge anthology from Chiasmus Press, out this month. The book includes a DVD as well.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Literary Cash: Writings Inspired by the Legendary Johnny Cash&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;I have a short story, "Reno," appearing in an anthology of works inspired by Johnny Cash and his writings (BenBella Books). &lt;a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1933771038/sr=8-1/qid=1151783147/ref=pd_bbs_1/002-9941627-7040064?ie=UTF8"&gt;Pre-order here. &lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(102, 102, 102);"&gt;Other Projects:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Plazm 28&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Jon Raymond, Joshua Berger, and I have made a nice treat for you. It's the 28th issue of &lt;a href="http://plazm.com/magazine/"&gt;Plazm magazine&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;"&gt;A Compendium of Miniatures&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I'm writing this book in collaboration with letterpress and book artist Clare Carpenter, to be published in limited edition by &lt;a href="http://2gq.org/"&gt;2GQ&lt;/a&gt; in late 2006/early 2007.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Statements &amp; Other Actions&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;February 2006 + ongoing. Series of actions and performed words ("Statements" series) in Oregon, Vermont, and elsewhere.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Visual Chronicle of Portland&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;The Regional Arts &amp; Culture Council (RACC) invited me to sit on their selection committee, so I've been viewing slides 2D, pdx-centric art with a bunch of lovely folks like &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=""&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;skate/graff artist/Zeitgeist founder Paul Fujita, painter Michael Brophy, and photographer Jim Lommasson. It's pretty wild being the selection committee's token non-visual-artist; I'll be there 3 years, and hope to see more submissions from a wider selection of Portland artists. Start planning now for next year, artists &amp; photographers. Details at &lt;a href="http://www.racc.org/publicart/collections.php."&gt;racc.org.&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt; &lt;/font&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;</content>
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<br/>hello, peeps! i'll be doing a short performance-thingy around 9:15, and a short reading later (say at 11?). for those volunteering in the performance bit: please show up at 9 pm, grab a beer, and wait for instructions from the stage. you'll be kneeling or sitting on the floor for a couple minutes, so miniskirts might not be the best idea. it will be swift, painless, and fun. and thank you!<br/>
<br/>Phase One (Words + Music)<br/>
<br/>Stacy Levine -- Tiffany Lee Brown -- Corrina Wycoff -- Deborah Woodard -- Robert Medina<br/>
<br/>Sunday  May 28  @ Towne Lounge<br/>"The Place with the Green Light"<br/>714 SW 20th Pl, just south of Burnside<br/>Portland, OR 97205  (503) 241-8696</div>
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<content mode="escaped" type="text/html" xml:base="http://www.well.com/~magdalen" xml:space="preserve">&lt;span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(102, 102, 102);"&gt;Upcoming Events: &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Literary Cafe (Radio broadcast + streaming)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;March 6, 9:30 pm. I'm among the women writers interviewed on this episode of the Literary Cafe. KMUN 91.9 FM Astoria, or online streaming at kmun.org&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Words &amp; Music at Towne Lounge, Portland&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;May 28. Performing words + music with Stacey Levine, Deborah Woodard, &amp;amp; Corrina Wycoff&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Bold-Sky, Portland&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;September 27. Reading at Bold-Sky series.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(102, 102, 102);"&gt;Forthcoming Publications:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;"&gt;A Compendium of Miniatures&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I'm writing this book in collaboration with letterpress and book artist Clare Carpenter, to be published in limited edition by 2GQ in late 2006.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;"&gt;Northwest Edge&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I expect to have two fiction pieces in the third Northwest Edge anthology from Chiasmus Press.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Man in Black&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;And a short story, "Reno," in an anthology of works inspired by Johnny Cash and his writings (BenBella Books).&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(102, 102, 102);"&gt;Current Projects:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Plazm 28&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Plazm magazine returns this spring! I'm editing a new issue in collaboration with Jon Raymond and art director Joshua Berger. Stay tuned for details.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Soapstone&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This month, I'll be on a residency at Soapstone, the women writers retreat founded by Ursula K. LeGuin. Here's to writing in the woods in near solitude!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;2GQ&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Performance, literature, local events, &amp; other good things are happening at 2GQ.org. Clare and I are also working on a book of our own work (see below).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Visual Chronicle of Portland&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;The Regional Arts &amp; Culture Council (RACC) invited me to sit on their selection committee, so I've been viewing slides 2D, pdx-centric art with a bunch of lovely folks like &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=""&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;skate/graff artist/Zeitgeist founder Paul Fujita, painter Michael Brophy, and photographer Jim Lommasson. It's pretty wild being the selection committee's token non-visual-artist; I'll be there 3 years, and hope to see more submissions from a wider selection of Portland artists. Start planning now for next year, art-peeps. Details at http://www.racc.org/publicart/collections.php. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;MFA-IA&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I've begun a Master's degree program and hope to earn my MFA in Interdisciplinary Arts within the next 2.5 years.</content>
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<span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">I was recently interviewed for <a href="http://www.kerribuckley.com/radio.html" target="blank">Kerri Buckley's</a> monthly show on Oregon Coast radio, the Literary Café. This month, Kerri features women writers in honour of Women's History Month. Broadcasting Monday, March 6th at 9:30 pm Pacific Time, the show can be heard </span>
<a href="http://www.kmun.org" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" target="blank">online at kmun.org</a>
<span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> or on the airwaves on KMUN 91.9 FM Astoria, KMUN in Wheeler and Manzanita at 88.9FM; and on KTCB in Tillamook at 89.5 FM.</span>
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<div xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">Writer, performer, editor, and interdisciplinary artist Tiffany Lee Brown will read Tuesday, February 21 at 7:30 pm in the Winklesky Literary Arts Center at Clackamas Community College. She will read  from two new works-in-progress and from her ongoing interdisciplinary project about bipolar disorder, CANDY BLUE.<br/>
<br/>Brown is currently the editor of 2GQ and is editing the spring 2006 issue of Plazm magazine, in collaboration with Jon Raymond. Her writing appears in periodicals including Utne, Bookforum, Tin House, and Venus, and in books and anthologies such as The Bust Guide to the New Girl Order (Penguin, 1999), The Clear Cut Future (Clear Cut Press, 2003), Northwest Edge: Fictions of Mass Destruction (Chiasmus, 2004), and Covert Culture (St. Martin's, 1996). Her performances have been presented at Performance Works NW, the Portland Rose Festival, Enteractive Language Festival, the Dark Arts festival, and Burning Man, among others.<br/>
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<br/>READING URL:<br/>http://depts.clackamas.edu/english/2006/02/tiffany-lee-brown-ccc.html<br/>
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<br/>DIRECTIONS:<br/>Clackamas Community College<br/>19600 South Molalla Avenue, Oregon City<br/>Winklesky Literary Arts Center<br/>Roger Rook Hall, Room 220<br/>
<br/>Campus Map: http://www.clackamas.edu/maps/campus/<br/>
<br/>Directions from Central Portlandia:<br/>* Take SE MARTIN LUTHER KING JR BLVD / OR-99E S. for 4.7 miles<br/>* Merge onto OR-224 / CLACKAMAS HWY / SE MILWAUKIE EXPY toward CLACKAMAS / ESTACADA. Drive 4.0 miles.<br/>* Merge onto OR-213 S (toward I-205 S / OREGON CITY / OR-224 / ESTACADA.)<br/>Drive 3.4 miles on 213.<br/>* Merge onto OR-213 / CASCADE HWY S via EXIT 10 toward PARK PLACE / MOLALLA. Drive about 4 miles.<br/>* Turn RIGHT onto MOLALLA AVE. Drive .1 miles.<br/>* The road inside the campus curves gently right. At the roundabout, take a right and park in the 2-hour lot.<br/>* Roger Rook Hall is the nearest building, due east.</div>
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<content mode="escaped" type="text/html" xml:base="http://www.well.com/~magdalen" xml:space="preserve">&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;     CANDY BLUE: Tongue&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt; &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;A performance piece by Tiffany Lee Brown&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;featuring Nurse Kitty as herself&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Friday, 25 November&lt;br /&gt;Liberty Hall, 311 N. Ivy St&lt;br /&gt;(1.5 blocks west of Vancouver Ave, 1 block south of N. Fremont)&lt;br /&gt;7-11 pm, all ages, FREE&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;     The Language of Con$umption&lt;br /&gt;     at the Enteractive Language Festival&lt;br /&gt;     Celebrate International Buy Nothing Day&lt;br /&gt;     with 2 Gyrlz Performative Arts&lt;br /&gt;     &amp; the Portland Cacaphony Society&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Performances by Micah Perry (Cliché au Lait)&lt;br /&gt;Make toys for the infamous SantaCon rampage&lt;br /&gt;Music with DJ Try My Cabbage&lt;span class="down" style="display: block;" id="formatbar_CreateLink" title="Link" onmouseover="ButtonHoverOn(this);" onmouseout="ButtonHoverOff(this);" onmouseup="" onmousedown="CheckFormatting(event);FormatbarButton('richeditorframe', this, 8);ButtonMouseDown(this);"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Confess your con$umer sins in exchange for Mmmm, Beer!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.2gyrlz.org"&gt;More about EL-fest: www.2gyrlz.org&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;CANDY BLUE&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;CANDY BLUE is an interdisciplinary exploration of bipolar disorder, also known as manic depressive illness. EL-fest 2005 sees the premiere of the second performative episode, "Tongue." The first episode, "Belly," debuted at Performance Works NW in Spring 2005. The spoken word and noise soundtrack for "Belly" will appear on Oakland-based Ubuibi Records compilation &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;Women Take Back the Noise&lt;/span&gt; this winter. In addition to future performances, the CANDY BLUE project will encompass a collaborative book with award-winning book designer Joshua Berger and an online performative publishing experiment.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;TIFFANY LEE BROWN&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Tiffany Lee Brown is a writer, performer, and interdisciplinary artist based in Portland. She has performed and presented collaborative work at Performance Works NW, PICA, the Portland Rose Festival, the Irish Drama Association Festival, the Burning Man festival, and in EL-fest every year since its founding. Her writing is published in The Clear Cut Future, Gargoyle, NW Edge: Fictions of Mass Destruction, Slow Trains, and Tin House, among others. The editor of 2 Gyrlz Quarterly (&lt;a href="http://2gq.org"&gt;2GQ&lt;/a&gt;), Tiffany is the recipient of the Mark Goodson Award for Distinguished Theatrical Talent, a grant from the City of Portland, and residencies to Caldera and Soapstone. She is bipolar.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;NURSE KITTY&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Nurse Kitty is an actual psychiatric RN who understands the asymmetry of the relationship between mental health providers and clients. She seeks to illuminate this dilemma by participating in "CANDY BLUE: Tongue." In real life, Kitty aligns herself and her practice with the client's goals, and seeks to compassionately care for her clients in all stages of life, health, and illness.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;BUY NOTHING DAY&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;International Buy Nothing Day is an informal annual day of protest against consumerism observed by some social activists, a day when participants refrain from purchasing anything during one day. It was founded by Vancouver artist Ted Dave and subsequently evangelised by the Canadian Adbusters magazine. The idea behind the event is to focus on the plight of the world's poor, and on what the organisers see as the wasteful consumption habits of the First World. Celebrants often observe the day not only by not buying things but through culture jamming activities like the Whirl-Mart and other forms of radical expression. In the US and Canada, Buy Nothing Day supporters celebrate on the day after American Thanksgiving. That day, often called "Black Friday", is one of the busiest shopping days of the year.</content>
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<content mode="escaped" type="text/html" xml:base="http://www.well.com/~magdalen" xml:space="preserve">I'm delighted to report that &lt;A HREF="http://www.soapstone.org/cabin.html" target="_blank"&gt;Soapstone&lt;/a&gt;, a residency retreat for women writers, has selected me for a residency in 2006. Thank you, Soapstone!</content>
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<content mode="escaped" type="text/html" xml:base="http://www.well.com/~magdalen" xml:space="preserve">&lt;u&gt;July 1:&lt;/u&gt; Performing improvisational music + words at &lt;b&gt;The Gone Orchestra&lt;/b&gt;'s reunion show on&lt;a href="http://www.kboo.org" target="blank"&gt;KBOO 90.7 FM&lt;/a&gt;, in Portland and streamed online. Midnight. (Portland + Internet)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;u&gt;Aug 12-13:&lt;/u&gt; &lt;a href="http://www.magdalen.com/blog/2005/06/richard-foreman-mini-festival.html" target="blank"&gt;The Richard Foreman Mini-Festival&lt;/a&gt; at Performance Works NW. "Some of the most adventurous talents of the Portland area create short pieces based on text from avant-garde playwright/director Richard Foreman...assigned only 10 days prior to the show! Participants include Linda Austin &amp; the Boris &amp; Natasha Dancers, Gregg Bielemeier, Kerry Sorci, Tracy Broyles &amp; Christine Calfas, Tim DuRoche &amp; Lisa Radon, Catherine Egan, Tiffany Lee Brown, Heather Perkins, Byran Eubanks, David Abel, Bonnie Merrill &amp; Merril Lynn Taylor. Katie Griesar &amp; Danielle Vermette, Angelle Hebert &amp; Phillip Kraft. Different show each night." I'll probably be on Saturday. (Portland)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;u&gt;Aug 28-Sep 6:&lt;/u&gt; &lt;a href="http://www.borg2.org" target="blank"&gt;Burning Man/BORG2&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;br /&gt;Various performances, solo &amp; with &lt;a href="http://www.soriah.net" target="blank"&gt;Soriah&lt;/a&gt;. (Black Rock City, Nevada)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;u&gt;Autumn,  date TBD:&lt;/u&gt; "Belly," a sound/music collaboration between &lt;a href="http://www.corporatecollapse.com" target=blank&gt;me-as-Passiflora&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;b&gt;Gail Buchanan&lt;/b&gt;, to appear on the &lt;a href="http://www.ubuibi.org" target="blank"&gt;Ubuibi Records&lt;/a&gt; compilation &lt;b&gt;Women Take Back the Noise&lt;/b&gt;, which includes exclusive tracks from &lt;a href="http://www.chrisandcosey.com" target="blank"&gt;Cosey Fanni Tutti&lt;/a&gt; and others. "Belly" is based on a performance text that is part of my ongoing &lt;b&gt;CANDY BLUE&lt;/b&gt; interdisciplinary piece about bipolar disorder.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;u&gt;Oct 27-Nov 27:&lt;/u&gt; The fourth &amp; final &lt;a href="http://www.2gyrlz.org" target="blank"&gt;Enteractive Language Festival&lt;/a&gt; (EL-fest). (Portland)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;u&gt;Nov 3:&lt;/u&gt; Celebrate First Thursday with &lt;b&gt;RE: Language&lt;/b&gt;, an EL-fest show produced by moi &amp; &lt;a href="http://www.2gq.org" target="blank"&gt;2 Gyrlz Quarterly&lt;/a&gt;. Participants include Lance &amp; Andi Olsen; more readers &amp; artists TBD. (Portland)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;u&gt;Nov 25:&lt;/u&gt; Debuting &lt;b&gt;"Tongue"&lt;/b&gt;, the second performance piece for my ongoing interdisciplinary work about bipolar disorder, &lt;b&gt;CANDY BLUE&lt;/b&gt;. Part of &lt;b&gt;The Language of Consumption&lt;/b&gt; and &lt;a href="http://www.adbusters.org/metas/eco/bnd/" target="blank"&gt;International Buy Nothing Day&lt;/a&gt;.</content>
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<content mode="escaped" type="text/html" xml:base="http://www.well.com/~magdalen" xml:space="preserve">&lt;u&gt;3-part Update:&lt;/u&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Water Line Press has just published &lt;b&gt;The Human Growth Experiment&lt;/b&gt;, a hardcover anthology collection featuring myself and 6 other Northwest women poets. It is currently available at Eagle Harbor Books on Bainbridge Island (call +1 206 842 5332). &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Also, thanks to all who attended &lt;b&gt;Cabaret Boris &amp; Natasha&lt;/b&gt; a few weeks back (and thanks for your very kind words about it). Debuting "Belly," Part the First of my &lt;b&gt;"Candy Blue"&lt;/b&gt; performance project was a bit scary, but I'm glad I could do it in a supportive environment with a full house.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Last up: &lt;b&gt;my tendonitis &amp; other health problems are preventing me from typing and writing&lt;/b&gt; at present. If you see no posts here, or I don't answer your email, that's why. I'm down to awful dictation software and some typing help from friends and 2GQ interns. (Thanks fer the help, kids!)</content>
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<content mode="escaped" type="text/html" xml:base="http://www.well.com/~magdalen" xml:space="preserve">This weblog is primarily devoted to flogging my own precious projects and publications, but I'll provide pointers to other stuff occasionally. Please see my &lt;a href="www.magdalen.com/blog" target="blank"&gt;Magdalen Sez&lt;/a&gt; website if you'd like to read regular rantings and ridiculous reflections.&#13;&lt;br /&gt;&#13;&lt;br /&gt;Anyhow: my charming &amp; talented Portlandia writer friends &lt;span style="font-weight:bold;"&gt;Kevin Sampsell&lt;/span&gt; and &lt;span style="font-weight:bold;"&gt;Charles D'Ambrosio&lt;/span&gt; have upcoming events you should know about. Kevin will tour the country with &lt;span style="font-style:italic;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:bold;"&gt;The Insomnia Reader&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;, which he just edited for &lt;a href="http://http://www.manicdpress.com/ target="blank""&gt;Manic D Press&lt;/a&gt;. Tour info is on &lt;A HREF="http://www.mcsweeneys.net/links/events/insomniacreader.html" target="_blank"&gt;McSweeney's&lt;/a&gt;; it kicks off Feb 10 in Portland at Powell's Hawthorne at 7:30 pm.&#13;&lt;br /&gt;&#13;&lt;br /&gt;Unfortunately, that's the same night Mr.D'Ambrosio will celebrate the publication of his knockout essay collection, &lt;span style="font-style:italic;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:bold;"&gt;Orphans&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;, by the delightful Northwest upstart &lt;a href="http://www.clearcutpress.com target="blank""&gt;Clear Cut Press&lt;/a&gt;. (By "essays," they mean gorgeous and hilarious meditations on life in the Northwest, life as a writer, life in the rain—wonderful stuff.) The party features readings by the author and &lt;span style="font-weight:bold;"&gt;Stacey Levine&lt;/span&gt;, films by &lt;span style="font-weight:bold;"&gt;Matt McCormick&lt;/span&gt;, and music by someone sekrit. 7:30 pm, New American Art Union, on SE Ankeny between 9th and 10th in Portland.&lt;span style="font-weight:bold;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;</content>
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<content mode="escaped" type="text/html" xml:base="http://www.well.com/~magdalen" xml:space="preserve">&lt;span style="font-weight:bold;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.2GQ.org" target="_blank"&gt;2 Gyrlz Quarterly&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;'s "Exquisite Language" issue is now available from &lt;A HREF="http://www.powells.com/cgi-bin/biblio?inkey=1-1141675145-0" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:bold;"&gt;Powells.com&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt; for a mere $6.95.&#13;&lt;br /&gt;&#13;&lt;br /&gt;Features exquisite corpses from dozens of musicians and writers: &lt;span style="font-weight:bold;"&gt;Poppy Z. Brite&lt;/span&gt;, Alan Sparhawk (&lt;span style="font-weight:bold;"&gt;Low&lt;/span&gt;), Jessica Bailiff, Nate Query (&lt;span style="font-weight:bold;"&gt;Decemberists&lt;/span&gt;), Douglas Wolk, &lt;span style="font-weight:bold;"&gt;Douglas Rushkoff&lt;/span&gt;, Alaura O'Dell (formerly of &lt;span style="font-weight:bold;"&gt;Psychic TV&lt;/span&gt;), Elissa Schappell, &lt;span style="font-weight:bold;"&gt;Julian Tulip&lt;/span&gt;, Rob Tannenbaum, Richard Speer.&#13;&lt;br /&gt;&#13;&lt;br /&gt;Plus &lt;span style="font-weight:bold;"&gt;Burning Man&lt;/span&gt;... DECLASSIFIED: &lt;span style="font-weight:bold;"&gt;free subversive art postcard!&lt;/span&gt;... Northwest festivals, new fiction by Susannah Breslin, interview with David Chandler (&lt;span style="font-weight:bold;"&gt;DJ Brokenwindow&lt;/span&gt;/Solenoid), reviews, more.&#13;&lt;br /&gt;&#13;&lt;br /&gt;Each issue features a letterpressed cover and was hand-bound by yours truly and a staff of gorgeous young nymphs. For more info, t-shirt sales, subscriptions, please see our site at &lt;a href="http://www.2Gq.org" target="_blank"&gt;2GQ.org&lt;/a&gt;.</content>
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<content mode="escaped" type="text/html" xml:base="http://www.well.com/~magdalen" xml:space="preserve">THIS WEEK, JANUARY 20: During the &lt;b&gt;Inauguration Day Protests&lt;/b&gt; in the streets of Portland, I'll be celebrating Emperor Bush's re-coronation by singing in a ritual performance based on the Tibetan &lt;span style="font-weight:bold;"&gt;Nechung Oracle Ceremony&lt;/span&gt;, with &lt;a href="http://www.soriah.net" target=blank&gt;Soriah&lt;/a&gt; and other performers. Go check out the parades downtown and in the North Park Blocks, late afternoon.&#13;&lt;br /&gt;&#13;&lt;br /&gt;SAVE THE DATE: Yrs truly is threatening to perform at &lt;b&gt;Cabaret Boris &amp; Natasha&lt;/b&gt; at &lt;a href="http://www.performanceworksnw.org" target=_blank&gt;Performance Works NW&lt;/a&gt; on March 4-5. Shows start early at 7 pm. I've also been asked to read at &lt;b&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.wordstockfestival.com/" target=_blank&gt;Wordstock&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/b&gt; April 23-24, though that's still tentative. </content>
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<div xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">I arrived home from India and Thailand before the tsunami hit. Thank you for your concerned emails. Though we all spent a week in a beach village that was wiped out, I and all my friends are safe. (Even the ones who were in Sri Lanka for the wave...)</div>
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<content mode="escaped" type="text/html" xml:base="http://www.well.com/~magdalen" xml:space="preserve">&lt;img src="http://www.well.com/~magdalen/images/nora-chandelier.jpg" align=left&gt;Among our performers were:&#13;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.well.com/~magdalen/images/haiku-inferno.jpg" target="_blank"&gt;Haiku Inferno&lt;/a&gt; &#13;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.well.com/~magdalen/images/dougher-chandelier.jpg"  target="_blank"&gt;Sarah Dougher&lt;/a&gt;&#13;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.well.com/~magdalen/images/linda-stairs.jpg" target="_blank"&gt;Linda Austin&lt;/a&gt;; also below, with WW review&#13;&lt;br /&gt;Nora McCrea, pictured left&#13;&lt;br /&gt;&#13;&lt;br /&gt;Our &lt;a href="http://www.well.com/~magdalen/images/tearoom-crowd.jpg" target="_blank"&gt;delightful patrons&lt;/a&gt; included &lt;a href="http://www.well.com/~magdalen/images/baby-balcony.jpg" target="_blank"&gt;a cute baby&lt;/a&gt;, a &lt;a href="http://www.well.com/~magdalen/images/balcony-audience.jpg" target="_blank"&gt;balcony full&lt;/a&gt; of splendid people, &lt;a href="http://www.well.com/~magdalen/images/raffle-winner.jpg" target="_blank"&gt;raffle winners &amp; raff-MCs&lt;/a&gt;, and that &lt;a href="http://www.well.com/~magdalen/images/baby2.jpg" target="_blank"&gt;cute baby &amp; friends&lt;/a&gt; again. Plus we created and read aloud &lt;a href="http://www.well.com/~magdalen/images/magpoetry.jpg" target="_blank"&gt;Magnetic Poetry&lt;/a&gt;.&#13;&lt;br /&gt;&#13;&lt;br /&gt;Our crew included the charming &lt;a href="http://www.well.com/~magdalen/images/tamara-raffle.jpg" target="_blank"&gt;Tamara&lt;/a&gt; reprising her duties as 2GQ's official Raffle Elf, 2 Gyrlz Quarterly consulting art director &lt;a href="http://www.well.com/~magdalen/images/josh-cocktails.jpg" target="_blank"&gt;Josh Berger&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://www.well.com/~magdalen/images/andrew-hansen.jpg"&gt;Andrew Hansen&lt;/a&gt; on sound with Technical Director Jonathan Wright, and Magnetic MC &lt;a href="http://www.well.com/~magdalen/images/tif-magpoetry.jpg" target="blank"&gt;Miss Tif Eye&lt;/a&gt;.&#13;&lt;br /&gt;</content>
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<content mode="escaped" type="text/html" xml:base="http://www.well.com/~magdalen" xml:space="preserve">&lt;img src="http://www.well.com/~magdalen/images/linda-head.jpg" align=left&gt;Dominic Luxford reviewed our show in the 11/10/2004 issue of &lt;span style="font-style:italic;"&gt;Willamette Week&lt;/span&gt;. Here it is, along with photographs taken by our own Steve Fritz. &#13;&lt;br /&gt;&#13;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:bold;"&gt;Performance Review: "Exquisite Language" &lt;/span&gt;&#13;&lt;br /&gt;&#13;&lt;br /&gt;Artistic boundaries were effectively overrun during last Thursday evening's "Exquisite Corpse" event, part of the monthlong Enteractive Language Festival put on by Portland's 2 Gyrlz Performative Arts. The term "exquisite corpse" refers to a project in which a group of artists collaborate to form a single piece of art—a poem, for instance—knowing only part, if anything of what the other artists are contributing. It's been called an attempt to reveal the "unconscious reality in the personality of the group," and is apt not only as a title for the event that occurred last Thursday, but a metaphor for the entire artistic genre-blurring EL-fest.&#13;&lt;br /&gt;	&#13;&lt;br /&gt;The event (performance? party?), which took place at the Heathman Hotel's exquisitely decorated Tea Room, was organized in part to celebrate the work of dozens of artists from around the world, who participated in the creation of exquisite corpse poems. On hand was a motley crew of artists and musicians and around 100 exquisitely dressed attendee-participants (peacock feathers, knee-high leather boots and oversized plastic pearl necklaces amid a small sea of black).&#13;&lt;br /&gt;	&#13;&lt;br /&gt;As we downed martinis and created art on magnetic poetry sets (one per table), we witnessed a steady stream of artistic ventures inspired by the concept of an exquisite corpse. Among them were Miss Murgatroid on accordion, Haiku Inferno providing crowd-pleasers such as "Fell in love with a ham sandwich/ Lord didn't say it's wrong!", and Linda Austin dancing with a Medusa head extended from her waist (for hair: phone cords attached to bells and plastic eyeballs). The evening was probably what philistines talk about when they talk about art, but maybe also what New York's art elite talks about. As much as anything else, the art was the event itself. (Dominic Luxford)&#13;&lt;br /&gt;</content>
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<div xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">Our Exquisite Language event at the Heathman was lovely. Thanks to all participants, performers, guests, and kind donors! We got a nice review in Willamette Week's current issue, too. I'm glad y'all got something out of the exquisite madness. The new issue of 2 Gyrlz Quarterly is available at Powell's, Q is for Choir, Laughing Horse Books, Broadway Books, In Other Words, and elsewhere around Portland. Mail order is available at <a href="http://www.2GQ.org" target="blank">2GQ.org</a>. I'll post photos when I get back from India next month.</div>
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<content mode="escaped" type="text/html" xml:base="http://www.well.com/~magdalen" xml:space="preserve">&lt;img src="http://www.well.com/%7Emagdalen/images/nora-sm.jpg" align="right" /&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(255, 204, 204);"&gt;Lately I've been focused on producing this event at the Heathman Hotel on November 6 involving exquisite corpse word collaborations:&lt;/span&gt;&#13;&lt;br /&gt;&#13;&lt;br /&gt;Lautreamont said "poetry must be made by all and not by one." The Surrealists took this quite literally by creating word games called "exquisite corpses," in which one writer would write a phrase, fold the paper to conceal part of it, and hand the paper off to the next writer to continue. More than just a game, this process was considered to tap into the unconscious reality of the group.&#13;&lt;br /&gt;&#13;&lt;br /&gt;In the spirit of immediacy, collaboration, and trust represented by the exquisite corpse, the third annual &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Enteractive Language Festival&lt;/span&gt; presents "&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Exquisite Language&lt;/span&gt;," an event of literary, musical, and performative exploits on November 4, 2004. Performers &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Sarah Dougher, &lt;font&gt;Amoree Lovell&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;font&gt;, Miss Murgatroid &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;(below left)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;, &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Linda Austin&lt;/span&gt;, Haiku Inferno&lt;/span&gt; (with &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Kevin Sampsell&lt;/span&gt;), &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Nora McCrea&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;(above right)&lt;/span&gt;, and&#13;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.well.com/%7Emagdalen/images/murga-sm.jpg" align="left" /&gt; &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Paul Ash&lt;/span&gt; will light up the Tea Room at the Heathman Hotel on SW Broadway and Salmon in Portland, Oregon, from 7-10 pm. The new issue of literary journal 2 Gyrlz Quarterly (2GQ) will also be launched. &lt;span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"&gt;Attendees are asked to dress exquisitely.&lt;/span&gt;&#13;&lt;br /&gt;&#13;&lt;br /&gt;Dozens of writers and musicians have joined in the creation of original exquisite corpses for this 2GQ benefit. Participants include musicians from bands like &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;The Decemberists, &lt;font&gt;Low&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;font&gt;, and &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;font&gt;Little Sue&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;font&gt;; writer/McSweeney's publisher &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Dave Eggers&lt;/span&gt;; performer/poets &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Beth Lisick&lt;/span&gt; and &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Leanne Grabel&lt;/span&gt;; novelists &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Poppy Z. Brite&lt;/span&gt; and &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Jonathan Raymond&lt;/span&gt;; poets &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Dave Memmott&lt;/span&gt; and &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Denel Bartsch&lt;/span&gt;; nonfiction authors &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Douglas Rushkoff&lt;/span&gt; and &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Douglas Wolk&lt;/span&gt;; and actor/writer &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Wiley Wiggins&lt;/span&gt;. &#13;&lt;br /&gt;&#13;&lt;br /&gt;INFO CONTINUES BELOW, OR SEE &lt;a href="http://www.2GQ.org" target=blank&gt;2GQ.org&lt;/a&gt; FOR ALL THE LATEST INFO ON THE EXQUISITE LANGUAGE PROJECT including benefit show, new issue of 2 Gyrlz Quarterly, and other fabulous stuff.&#13;&lt;br /&gt;&#13;&lt;br /&gt;Musical interpetations of their efforts will be performed by Amoree Lovell (Human Genome Project) &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;(below left)&lt;/span&gt;, Sarah Dougher (Cadallaca, The Crabs, The Lookers)&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;(right)&lt;/span&gt;, and Miss Murgatroid.&#13;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.well.com/%7Emagdalen/images/dougher-sm.jpg" align="right" /&gt;"Lovell's mordant cabaret-style repertoire triangulates Nick Cave, Kurt Weill, some more blackhearted '80s New Wave and Danny Elfman, her personal hero," wrote Zach Dundas in &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;Willamette Week&lt;/span&gt;. "Ms. Dougher sings as if she wants everything and expects nothing," observed Greil Marcus in the &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;New York Times&lt;/span&gt;, offering a rave review of her album The Bluff. Dougher accepted a month-long residency at the prestigious Knitting Factory in New York and has been honored as one of &lt;img src="http://www.well.com/%7Emagdalen/images/amoree-sm.jpg" align="left" /&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;Out&lt;/span&gt; magazine's "Out 100" Gay and Lesbian Americans. She is also known for her work with the Rock &amp; Roll Camp for Girls and Ladyfest.&#13;&lt;br /&gt;&#13;&lt;br /&gt;"Portland's Miss Murgatroid sings in a low, lush keen, and plays cryptic melodies on her accordion," &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;The Portland Mercury&lt;/span&gt; explained. "Her instrument sounds modern and artistic as it crackles through her amplifier, but also channels magical mystery and musty witchery, as if the instrument itself has an historic memory." In her other life as Alicia Rose, she is known for her photography, heading up the indie music bastion NAIL Distribution, and booking the Doug Fir lounge.&#13;&lt;br /&gt;&#13;&lt;br /&gt;Dancer, performer, and choreographer Linda Austin will interpret an exquisite corpse for the show as well. The co-director of Performance Works NW has performed in venues on both coasts to considerable acclaim. "Ms.Austin's powers of invention never failed her," said the &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;New York Times&lt;/span&gt; of her work.&#13;&lt;br /&gt;&#13;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.well.com/%7Emagdalen/images/haiku-sm.jpg" align="right" /&gt;Haiku Inferno &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;(right)&lt;/span&gt; will feature Kevin Sampsell, the founder of Future Tense Press and author of &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;A Common Pornography&lt;/span&gt;. "Haiku Inferno is a trio of haiku slingers delivering rapid syllables with a humorous edge," their bio proclaims. "Call it a power trio a la Superchunk or Run-DMC, but instead of guitar riffs and rhymes, they deliver short blasts of clever wisdom, anger, sadness, and dirty secrets. Elizabeth Miller, Frayn Masters, and Kevin Sampsell are doing for haiku what the Ramones did for rock-n-roll."&#13;&lt;br /&gt;&#13;&lt;br /&gt;Writer and performer Nora McCrea will present "All My Little Torch Songs." The evening will be closed with a piece from monologuist Paul Ash, author of &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;What I Think About When I Go to the Job&lt;/span&gt; and proprietor of Sniffy Linings Press.&#13;&lt;br /&gt;&#13;&lt;br /&gt;EL-Fest is a month-long festival of performance, music, visual arts, experimental film, and text-based performance occurring each fall in venues throughout Portland. It is produced by the 501(c)(3) non-profit organization &lt;a href="http://www.2gyrlz.org/" target="_blank"&gt;2 Gyrlz Performative Arts&lt;/a&gt;. The festival's partial preview calendar is online at &lt;a href="http://www.2gyrlz.org/festival/calendar" target="_blank"&gt;www.2gyrlz.org&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/font&gt;</content>
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<content mode="escaped" type="text/html" xml:base="http://www.well.com/~magdalen" xml:space="preserve">&lt;img src="http://www.well.com/~magdalen/images/tifgum-web.jpg" border=1px align=left&gt;&#13;&lt;br /&gt;&#13;&lt;br /&gt;&#13;&lt;br /&gt;&#13;&lt;br /&gt;Miss Tiffany Lee Brown is a writer, editor, and performer based in Portland, Oregon, a Blue State of the USA.&#13;&lt;br /&gt;&#13;&lt;br /&gt;&#13;&lt;br /&gt;&#13;&lt;br /&gt;&#13;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:bold;"&gt;Writing:&lt;/span&gt;&#13;&lt;br /&gt;Miss Brown's work appears in literary journals and periodicals including&lt;span style="font-style:italic;"&gt; The Utne Reader, Tin House, Bookforum, Slow Trains, Bust, The Organ Review of Arts, Art Access, Willamette Week, Wired, The Oregonian, The Portland Mercury, Venus,&lt;/span&gt; and &lt;span style="font-style:italic;"&gt;Gobshite Quarterly&lt;/span&gt;. She has contributed to books and anthologies including &lt;span style="font-style:italic;"&gt;The Bust Guide to the New Girl Order&lt;/span&gt; (Penguin, 1999), &lt;span style="font-style:italic;"&gt;The Clear Cut Future&lt;/span&gt; (Clear Cut Press, 2004), &lt;span style="font-style:italic;"&gt;Northwest Edge: Fictions of Mass Destruction&lt;/span&gt; (Chiasmus Press, 2003), and &lt;span style="font-style:italic;"&gt;How To Mutate &amp; Take Over the World&lt;/span&gt; (Random House, 1996). &#13;&lt;br /&gt;&#13;&lt;br /&gt;Tiffany recently won a Creative Economy grant from the City of Portland and a residency to Caldera Arts. Six of her poems will be published this year in &lt;span style="font-style:italic;"&gt;Human Growth Experiment&lt;/span&gt; (Water Line Press), an anthology of Northwest women poets, and her latest short story is set to appear in the next issue of the venerable Washington DC-based literary journal, &lt;span style="font-style:italic;"&gt;Gargoyle&lt;/span&gt;. &#13;&lt;br /&gt;&#13;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:bold;"&gt;Editing:&lt;/span&gt;&#13;&lt;br /&gt;Tiffany edits the non-profit journal of arts &amp; literature &lt;span style="font-style:italic;"&gt;2 Gyrlz Quarterly&lt;/span&gt;, and was formerly editor of Signum Press and &lt;span style="font-style:italic;"&gt;Anodyne&lt;/span&gt; magazine. She has also guest-edited isues of &lt;span style="font-style:italic;"&gt;Plazm, Too Much Coffee Man&lt;/span&gt;, and the &lt;span style="font-style:italic;"&gt;Fringe Ware Review&lt;/span&gt;. She also produced the inimitable 'zine &lt;span style="font-style:italic;"&gt;Hot Geeks!&lt;/span&gt;&#13;&lt;br /&gt;&#13;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:bold;"&gt;Performance:&lt;/span&gt;&#13;&lt;br /&gt;After pursuing theatre as an actor and director, Tiffany began performing live improvisational music, extemporaneous storytelling and lyric-making, and other acts of performance. She has performed at the Portland Rose Festival, Burning Man, the Richard Foreman Festival, the Enteractive Language Festival, the Astoria Dark Arts Festival, and Reed College Renn Fair, in addition to art galleries and club venues. Collaborators include Soriah, the gyrl grip, Miss Murgatroid, and Black Orchid. She has also done straightforward readings of her work at venues including Powell's City of Books in Portland, the West Side Y in New York, the Pacific Northwest College of Art in Portland, and the NW Book Fair in Seattle. She will appear at the &lt;a href="http://www.wordstockfestival.com" target=_blank&gt;Wordstock&lt;/a&gt; Festival in Portland, April 2005. &#13;&lt;br /&gt;&#13;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:bold;"&gt;Sources &amp; Appearances:&lt;/span&gt;&#13;&lt;br /&gt;Miss Brown has been interviewed and sourced by the &lt;span style="font-style:italic;"&gt;Wall Street Journal, World Art magazine, the Washington Post, The Oregonian, The Seattle Post-Intelligencer, I.D.&lt;/span&gt; magazine, and in books including &lt;span style="font-style:italic;"&gt;Rebel Yell&lt;/span&gt;, the handbook for independent writers, and &lt;span style="font-style:italic;"&gt;Jamming the Media&lt;/span&gt;, a guide to independent media. She's been a speaker, moderator, roundtable participant, and panelist for Modern Times Bookstore and the Digital Diner series in San Francisco, Austin's SXSW Interactive, and in Portland, the NXNW Music Conference, Portland State University, and the City of Portland.&#13;&lt;br /&gt;&#13;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:bold;"&gt;Events &amp; Community:&lt;/span&gt;&#13;&lt;br /&gt;Tiffany sees events as essential to the development of creative and literary communities, and believes passionately that words should live off the page--in performance, storytelling, spoken word, and readings--as well as on it. "Exquisite Language" is her most recent project, involving 70 writers from around the world such as Dave Eggers of McSweeney's, author/NPR commentator Doug Rushkoff, musician/lyricist Alan Sparhawk of the band Low, and renowned performance poet Beth Lisick. The work culminated in the publication of various exquisite corpses in 2 Gyrlz Quarterly's Fall 2004 and Spring 2005 issues, and an event at the Heathman Hotel as part of the Enteractive Language Festival. For the 2003 EL-Fest, she produced "The Language of Print" with La Palabra Cafe-Press, presenting readings from over a dozen Northwest writers and word/print-related works from nine visual, performative, and multi-disciplinary artists. Tiffany was previously an organizer for Drift Catalyst and for the dUdU International Art Conspiracy. &#13;&lt;br /&gt;&#13;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:bold;"&gt;Commercial &amp; Non-Profit Projects:&lt;/span&gt;&#13;&lt;br /&gt;Tiffany has worked extensively developing editorial content for commercial and non-profit projects in print and online. She is presently the Chairperson of 2 Gyrlz Performative Arts, a Portland based 501(c)(3) organization. Former Creative Director for musician Youssou N'Dour's "Joko" non-profit project based in West Africa and Senior Writer for the New York web development agency Organic, her clients have included the art college PNCA, the musician Sting, Lucent Technologies, and New Line Cinemas. Since 1992, she has been a participant and forum host for the pioneering online community The Well, formerly a non-profit and part of the Co-Evolutionary Quarterly and Whole Earth, currently owned by Salon.com. &#13;&lt;br /&gt;&#13;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:bold;"&gt;Education: &lt;/span&gt;&#13;&lt;br /&gt;Miss Brown graduated Summa Cum Laude from the University of California at Berkeley with a BA in Dramatic Art, in addition to studying at Trinity College in Dublin, Ireland, and at Harvard University. She worked with Tom Spanbauer and Joanna Rose at the Dangerous Writers workshop at Haystack, and with Whitney Otto at Tin House. She plans to begin an MFA program in the autumn of 2005. &#13;&lt;br /&gt;&#13;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:bold;"&gt;Contact Info &amp; Links:&lt;/span&gt;&#13;&lt;br /&gt;Miss Tif's personal information is online at &lt;a href="http://www.well.com/~magdalen"&gt;www.well.com/~magdalen&lt;/a&gt; ... the journal she edits is at &lt;a href="http://www.2GQ.org"&gt;2GQ.org&lt;/a&gt; ... her musical and improvisational work is represented at the &lt;a href="http://www.corporatecollapse.com" target=_blank&gt;Passiflora&lt;/a&gt; homepage, and her political rantings &amp; random links may be found on the &lt;a href="http://www.magdalen.com/blog"&gt;Magdalen Sez&lt;/a&gt; blog. Contact her as magdalen ( at ) drowningrat.com or 3439 NE Sandy Blvd #513, Portland, Oregon, 97232, USA.&#13;&lt;br /&gt;</content>
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