Women & Identity Festival event this Thursday

Jo Andres will screen her experimental film BLACK KITES followed by a discussion with the audience. Based on 1992 journals of Bosnian visual artist Alma Hajric who was forced into a basement shelter to survive the siege of Sarajevo, BLACK KITES is the outcome of a chance encounter between Hajric and filmmaker-choreographer Andres. Focusing on Hajric's inner landscape, it skillfully merges reality-based content with interpretive visual material to reveal the simple, sometimes beautiful, yet brutal truth of her existence. Non-linear, dreamlike and spectral, BLACK KITES is a testament to artistry, imagination and the resiliency of the human psyche. Features sensitive performances by Steve Buscemi, Mimi Goese and Mira Furlan, a prominent actress from the former Yugoslavia, as the narrator.

Jo Andres first became known on the kinetic downtown New York performance scene of the 1980s for her film/dance/light performances, shown to great acclaim at the reigning venues of the era, among them The Performing Garage, La Mama E.T.C., P.S. 122, St. Marks Danspace, and the Collective for Living Cinema.

As a filmmaker, Andres drew acclaim and awards for her own 1996 film, Black Kites which aired on PBS and played the world’s most prestigious film festivals, including Sundance, Berlin, Toronto, London and Human Rights Watch Film Festivals. Andres directed music and art videos, as well as her own film performance works.

Andres was a dance consultant to the acclaimed Wooster Group. She has been an artist in residence at leading universities, museums and art colonies, including Yaddo and The Rockefeller Study Center in Bellagio, Italy.

Donnaldson K. Brown is a fiction writer and screenwriter. An excerpt of her novel, LIZZIE’S GRACE, will be published later this year in the anthology, “The Reader”, and she is currently at work on a second novel. A short story, “My Ride’s Here,” will be published in next year’s edition of “The Reader.” Ms. Brown has participated in readings in New York City at Cornelia Street Café, Book Court and at Union Hall.

She has completed four screenplays: VINDICATION, based on the life of Mary Wollstonecraft, which is being developed with director, Erin Dignam; THE FORESEEABLE FUTURE, an adaptation of the novel by Reynolds Price, which was a finalist for the Sundance Film Lab. LOVE IN THE TIME OF PROZAC, an original romantic comedy/drama, which was selected for the Squaw Valley Screenwriters' Lab and was a finalist for the Sundance Screenplay Competition; and STRANGER'S BLOOD, a romantic thriller, co-written with journalist, Joan Oleck.

Ms. Brown worked in film production, including running the New York office of Wildwood Enterprises, Robert Redford’s film development company, for five years. During that time, she also served as the Topics Editor for a documentary series on the environment developed under the auspices of the Sundance Institute.

Ms. Brown is admitted to practice law in New York and Connecticut, with a specialty in trusts administration. She holds bachelor's and master's degrees in English literature. She is a member of New York Women in Film and Television, the New York State Bar Association, and the Institute for Private Investors. She lives in Brooklyn with her husband and son (and dogs).

Alexandra Enders is the author of the novel Bride Island. She graduated from Bryn Mawr College and worked in New York as a magazine editor and writer before getting an MFA in Writing from Vermont College. She has published short stories in BOMB, Hunger Mountain, and Critical Quarterly, and the anthology The Way We Knew It, edited by Christopher Noel, Susan McCarty and Kathleen Harding. Non-fiction articles have appeared in Poets & Writers, The New York Times Book Review, Elle, Food & Wine, Art & Antiques, House & Home, and Martha Stewart Living. She was a finalist in the inaugural cycle of the Rolex Mentor & Protégé Arts Initiative. She is also a member of Paragraph, workspace for writers in Manhattan, and tutors in the Paul McGhee Division at NYU.

Sarah French is a writer and performer. Her fiction has been published or is forthcoming in BOMB magazine, the new review of literature, The Massachusetts Review, and the Brooklyn Rail, and has earned her a Vermont Studio Fellowship. She is the editor of "Immediate Experience," a monograph of the artist David Salle (Gabrius, 2003), to which she also contributed her interview with the artist. Sarah is a member of Jef Johnson's Clown Lab in New York City. From time to time, she performs as a clown. She lives in Park Slope, Brooklyn.

Liz Gessner, former Fashion Editor of Women’s Wear Daily and W magazine, writes and consults on matters of fashion, beauty and design. Fascinated by the powers of illusion and glamour, she explores in her work the dimensions of magic and mystery at work between, below and beyond the façade we call reality. Liz lives in Park Slope, Brooklyn, with her long-time boyfriend, their four children and three dogs.

She is currently working on Fairy Stories. Equal parts fiction, fantasy and poetry, it is a creative non-fiction memoir.

Andrea Israel is the co-author of THE RECIPE CLUB: A TALE OF FOOD AND FRIENDSHIP (HarperCollins, 2009), which has been featured on Good Morning America, The View, and People Magazine. Foreign rights have been sold to Italy, Germany, France, and China. There have been readings of the book across the country. It is a novel-cookbook that tells the story of a lifelong friendship between two women. The book is comprised of emails, letters, third person narrative, illustrations, and more than 82 recipes. In addition to selling more than 10,000 copies to date, the novel has started a nationwide movement of Recipe Clubs in which people share their true-life stories of food and friendship. For more information, you can visit www.therecipeclubbook.com . Ms. Israel is currently working on a sequel to the Recipe Club, which will be published in 2011.

She is also working on another novel entitled LEAVING PARIS. This is the story of the legacy of bipolar illness on a family. It is told from the point of view of Paris, whom we meet when she is ten-years-old. Ms. Israel has read form LEAVING PARIS at Inquiring Minds Bookstore as part of the Memory, Secrets, and Immortality writing group.

Ms. Israel is the author of the non-fiction book, TAKING TEA (Weidenfeld & Nicohloson, 1987), a guide to the history and ritual of the drink. The book as sold more than 80,000 worldwide. Her non-fiction articles have appeared in major publications including Readers Digest where her story, “In Donald’s Eyes” first appeared. It has been optioned for a film.

When she isn’t writing fiction, Ms. Israel writes for television. She has been a television news producer/writer for more than 20 years for ABC’s Focus Earth and Good Morning America (which garnered her an Emmy Award), CNN’s Anderson Cooper 360, and NBC’s Dateline.

Ms. Israel has an MA in Creative Writing from NYU. She has been a resident at The Millay Colony for the Arts and Virginia Center for the Creative Arts. She lives in Brooklyn, New York with her partner and son.

Rachel Koenig is the co-author of Interviews With Contemporary Women Playwrights, William Morrow. She has published short fiction, literary criticism, and articles on holistic health in Kayak, The Women’s Review of Books, and The Huffington Post. Her editorial work includes, Lightening Holds My Hand, Croatia, Nile Night, and works by Dr Eva Fogelman and Dr Robert Lifton. She is the co-author of the first US Government manual on Holocaust Education. Her novel in progress, The Ravens’ Bridge, is set in Prague during three epochs. She has read from The Ravens’ Bridge at Women’s Mysteries, Woman of the Duat (2008), Deep Listening Institute’s Marathon of Dreamers, and at the Inquiring Minds Bookstore event Memories, Secrets, Immortality (2009).

Trudy Morse

Poet, Musician, Humanitarian, Diarist, Grandmother

Poet, world traveler and performance artist, Trudy Morse, creates other-world performances in the spirit of the legendary Sun Ra. Expect a cosmic, ritual happening. - Earshot, Seattle WA

Trudy Morse has lived in Chevy Chase, MD for some forty years. Her late husband, Malcolm S. Morse, a prominent scientist with the National Bureau of Standards, worked on dynamic thermo-physical measurements in space, before his death in 1986.

Most of her life she was a political activist working on national and international policies, at the same time active in her home and community, while raising six children. Retired from her professional career as a land consultant she spent from four to six months each year travelling the world.

Her interest in her husband’s research on anomalous phenomena has taken her to all five continents. She recalls with particular interest her travels in Africa, Australia, Europe, India, China and New Zealand.

She has traveled extensively in the USA on frequent camping trips, cross-country, in National Parks from the East to the West coasts, as well as in Hawaii and Alaska.

Since the death of Malcolm Morse, Trudy has been travelling with jazz pianist Cecil Taylor, in Europe, Japan, and the USA. While on the road, Trudy wrote poetry, which was later published by Hermes Press.

Aside from regular travel on the road with Cecil Taylor, for the past few years, Trudy has been concentrating on the poetry of the legendary Sun Ra and his Arkestra. Working closely with John Szwed, Chairman of Music and Anthropology at Yale, Trudy has been collecting Sun Ra poetry. She performed with Sun Ra right up until his death, being with him when he left the planet at Birmingham, Alabama.

Since his death, she has been planning and presenting Tributes to Sun Ra. She appears regularly on radio programs, reading Sun Ra poetry over the old Saturn records or new releases by Evidence.

Among many artists, she has most notably collaborated and performed with Kidd Jordan, Eddy Gale, George Russell, Anthony Braxton, Joe Maneri, Pozzi Escot, Pauline Oliveros, Ione, Stuart Dempster, George Lewis, Marshall Allen, India Cooke, Michael Monhart, Muhal Richard Abrams, Dave Burrell, Illuminati Big Band, Don Wherry Ensemble, Cosmic Krewe, Tone Scientists and Boris Raskin Trio.

The ubiquitous nonagenarian has 6 children, 22 grandchildren, 6 greats and even one great, great.

Regina Weichert is a non-fiction creative writer, poet, and performance artist who has appeared as "Queen of Self-Esteem" since 1999. Her chapter A QUEEN IN THE FAMILY was published in the anthology Women on Fire. In 2005 she founded the company "Queen of Self-Esteem LLC" to produce books, videos, and other innovative tools for helping people manifest self-esteem.


April 8, 2010	10th Annual Women & Identity Festival - NYC TONIGHT!
10th Annual Women & Identity Festival - Featured Artists DLI Ustream TV Broadcast SUPPORT DLI If you decide to donate without receiving the download you can donate through our Donation page "Maybe we can't stop the recession, but as a Friend of Deep Listening, you can help DLI build a sound economy." -David Felton, DLI President Deep Listening Institute, Ltd., is a registered 501(c)3 Not-for-Profit corporation founded in New York State in 1985. Your contribution is tax-deductible to the fullest extent of the law.	10th annual Women & Identity Festival is dedicated to the concept of women artists creating a vibrant and supportive community with each other. The festival offers a forum for women dedicated to the arts; including writers, filmmakers, painters, sculptors, musicians, composers, actors, playwrights, dancers and performance artists. The festival is an opportunity to view and discuss work while exploring what it means to be a woman artist working today. Ione, artistic director of Deep Listening Institute has curated the Women and Identity Festival since 1999 when roundtables and presentations took place at the Gallery at Deep Listening Space in the historic Rondout of Kingston, NY. During the Festival, women have the opportunity to cover a number of topics, ranging from the very personal to larger investigations of the socio-economic and political climate faced by women in the arts. The festival also features a vibrant virtual residency which includes discussion and performance via Deep Listening Institute's website. This Thursday, April 8, 2010 at 7:30 pm the Deep Listening Institute will be hosting the event Memory, Secrets and Immortality as part of the 10th annual Women & Identity Festival at the Emily Harvey Foundation, 537 Broadway, New York, NY. Hosted by Deep Listening Institute Artistic Director Ione, Memory, Secrets and Immortality will be an evening of women artists presenting written works and film with a Q & A to follow. Special performance by Woman of Honor, Trudy Morse, on the occasion of her 91st Birthday! This event will also be broadcast on our ustream channel Deep Listening Institute presents see below for instructions Artists presenting this evening include Jo Andres, Donnaldson Brown, Alexandra Enders, Sarah French, Liz Gessner, Andrea Israel, Rachel Koenig, Trudy Morse and Regina Weichert The Artists Jo Andres will screen her experimental film BLACK KITES followed by a discussion with the audience. Based on 1992 journals of Bosnian visual artist Alma Hajric who was forced into a basement shelter to survive the siege of Sarajevo, BLACK KITES is the outcome of a chance encounter between Hajric and filmmaker-choreographer Andres. Focusing on Hajric's inner landscape, it skillfully merges reality-based content with interpretive visual material to reveal the simple, sometimes beautiful, yet brutal truth of her existence. Non-linear, dreamlike and spectral, BLACK KITES is a testament to artistry, imagination and the resiliency of the human psyche. Features sensitive performances by Steve Buscemi, Mimi Goese and Mira Furlan, a prominent actress from the former Yugoslavia, as the narrator. Jo Andres first became known on the kinetic downtown New York performance scene of the 1980s for her film/dance/light performances, shown to great acclaim at the reigning venues of the era, among them The Performing Garage, La Mama E.T.C., P.S. 122, St. Marks Danspace, and the Collective for Living Cinema. As a filmmaker, Andres drew acclaim and awards for her own 1996 film, Black Kites which aired on PBS and played the world’s most prestigious film festivals, including Sundance, Berlin, Toronto, London and Human Rights Watch Film Festivals. Andres directed music and art videos, as well as her own film performance works. Andres was a dance consultant to the acclaimed Wooster Group. She has been an artist in residence at leading universities, museums and art colonies, including Yaddo and The Rockefeller Study Center in Bellagio, Italy. Donnaldson K. Brown is a fiction writer and screenwriter. An excerpt of her novel, LIZZIE’S GRACE, will be published later this year in the anthology, “The Reader”, and she is currently at work on a second novel. A short story, “My Ride’s Here,” will be published in next year’s edition of “The Reader.” Ms. Brown has participated in readings in New York City at Cornelia Street Café, Book Court and at Union Hall. She has completed four screenplays: VINDICATION, based on the life of Mary Wollstonecraft, which is being developed with director, Erin Dignam; THE FORESEEABLE FUTURE, an adaptation of the novel by Reynolds Price, which was a finalist for the Sundance Film Lab. LOVE IN THE TIME OF PROZAC, an original romantic comedy/drama, which was selected for the Squaw Valley Screenwriters' Lab and was a finalist for the Sundance Screenplay Competition; and STRANGER'S BLOOD, a romantic thriller, co-written with journalist, Joan Oleck. Ms. Brown worked in film production, including running the New York office of Wildwood Enterprises, Robert Redford’s film development company, for five years. During that time, she also served as the Topics Editor for a documentary series on the environment developed under the auspices of the Sundance Institute. Ms. Brown is admitted to practice law in New York and Connecticut, with a specialty in trusts administration. She holds bachelor's and master's degrees in English literature. She is a member of New York Women in Film and Television, the New York State Bar Association, and the Institute for Private Investors. She lives in Brooklyn with her husband and son (and dogs). Alexandra Enders is the author of the novel Bride Island. She graduated from Bryn Mawr College and worked in New York as a magazine editor and writer before getting an MFA in Writing from Vermont College. She has published short stories in BOMB, Hunger Mountain, and Critical Quarterly, and the anthology The Way We Knew It, edited by Christopher Noel, Susan McCarty and Kathleen Harding. Non-fiction articles have appeared in Poets & Writers, The New York Times Book Review, Elle, Food & Wine, Art & Antiques, House & Home, and Martha Stewart Living. She was a finalist in the inaugural cycle of the Rolex Mentor & Protégé Arts Initiative. She is also a member of Paragraph, workspace for writers in Manhattan, and tutors in the Paul McGhee Division at NYU. Sarah French is a writer and performer. Her fiction has been published or is forthcoming in BOMB magazine, the new review of literature, The Massachusetts Review, and the Brooklyn Rail, and has earned her a Vermont Studio Fellowship. She is the editor of "Immediate Experience," a monograph of the artist David Salle (Gabrius, 2003), to which she also contributed her interview with the artist. Sarah is a member of Jef Johnson's Clown Lab in New York City. From time to time, she performs as a clown. She lives in Park Slope, Brooklyn. Liz Gessner, former Fashion Editor of Women’s Wear Daily and W magazine, writes and consults on matters of fashion, beauty and design. Fascinated by the powers of illusion and glamour, she explores in her work the dimensions of magic and mystery at work between, below and beyond the façade we call reality. Liz lives in Park Slope, Brooklyn, with her long-time boyfriend, their four children and three dogs. She is currently working on Fairy Stories. Equal parts fiction, fantasy and poetry, it is a creative non-fiction memoir. Andrea Israel is the co-author of THE RECIPE CLUB: A TALE OF FOOD AND FRIENDSHIP (HarperCollins, 2009), which has been featured on Good Morning America, The View, and People Magazine. Foreign rights have been sold to Italy, Germany, France, and China. There have been readings of the book across the country. It is a novel-cookbook that tells the story of a lifelong friendship between two women. The book is comprised of emails, letters, third person narrative, illustrations, and more than 82 recipes. In addition to selling more than 10,000 copies to date, the novel has started a nationwide movement of Recipe Clubs in which people share their true-life stories of food and friendship. For more information, you can visit www.therecipeclubbook.com . Ms. Israel is currently working on a sequel to the Recipe Club, which will be published in 2011. She is also working on another novel entitled LEAVING PARIS. This is the story of the legacy of bipolar illness on a family. It is told from the point of view of Paris, whom we meet when she is ten-years-old. Ms. Israel has read form LEAVING PARIS at Inquiring Minds Bookstore as part of the Memory, Secrets, and Immortality writing group. Ms. Israel is the author of the non-fiction book, TAKING TEA (Weidenfeld & Nicohloson, 1987), a guide to the history and ritual of the drink. The book as sold more than 80,000 worldwide. Her non-fiction articles have appeared in major publications including Readers Digest where her story, “In Donald’s Eyes” first appeared. It has been optioned for a film. When she isn’t writing fiction, Ms. Israel writes for television. She has been a television news producer/writer for more than 20 years for ABC’s Focus Earth and Good Morning America (which garnered her an Emmy Award), CNN’s Anderson Cooper 360, and NBC’s Dateline. Ms. Israel has an MA in Creative Writing from NYU. She has been a resident at The Millay Colony for the Arts and Virginia Center for the Creative Arts. She lives in Brooklyn, New York with her partner and son. Rachel Koenig is the co-author of Interviews With Contemporary Women Playwrights, William Morrow. She has published short fiction, literary criticism, and articles on holistic health in Kayak, The Women’s Review of Books, and The Huffington Post. Her editorial work includes, Lightening Holds My Hand, Croatia, Nile Night, and works by Dr Eva Fogelman and Dr Robert Lifton. She is the co-author of the first US Government manual on Holocaust Education. Her novel in progress, The Ravens’ Bridge, is set in Prague during three epochs. She has read from The Ravens’ Bridge at Women’s Mysteries, Woman of the Duat (2008), Deep Listening Institute’s Marathon of Dreamers, and at the Inquiring Minds Bookstore event Memories, Secrets, Immortality (2009). Trudy Morse Poet, Musician, Humanitarian, Diarist, Grandmother Poet, world traveler and performance artist, Trudy Morse, creates other-world performances in the spirit of the legendary Sun Ra. Expect a cosmic, ritual happening. - Earshot, Seattle WA Trudy Morse has lived in Chevy Chase, MD for some forty years. Her late husband, Malcolm S. Morse, a prominent scientist with the National Bureau of Standards, worked on dynamic thermo-physical measurements in space, before his death in 1986. Most of her life she was a political activist working on national and international policies, at the same time active in her home and community, while raising six children. Retired from her professional career as a land consultant she spent from four to six months each year travelling the world. Her interest in her husband’s research on anomalous phenomena has taken her to all five continents. She recalls with particular interest her travels in Africa, Australia, Europe, India, China and New Zealand. She has traveled extensively in the USA on frequent camping trips, cross-country, in National Parks from the East to the West coasts, as well as in Hawaii and Alaska. Since the death of Malcolm Morse, Trudy has been travelling with jazz pianist Cecil Taylor, in Europe, Japan, and the USA. While on the road, Trudy wrote poetry, which was later published by Hermes Press. Aside from regular travel on the road with Cecil Taylor, for the past few years, Trudy has been concentrating on the poetry of the legendary Sun Ra and his Arkestra. Working closely with John Szwed, Chairman of Music and Anthropology at Yale, Trudy has been collecting Sun Ra poetry. She performed with Sun Ra right up until his death, being with him when he left the planet at Birmingham, Alabama. Since his death, she has been planning and presenting Tributes to Sun Ra. She appears regularly on radio programs, reading Sun Ra poetry over the old Saturn records or new releases by Evidence. Among many artists, she has most notably collaborated and performed with Kidd Jordan, Eddy Gale, George Russell, Anthony Braxton, Joe Maneri, Pozzi Escot, Pauline Oliveros, Ione, Stuart Dempster, George Lewis, Marshall Allen, India Cooke, Michael Monhart, Muhal Richard Abrams, Dave Burrell, Illuminati Big Band, Don Wherry Ensemble, Cosmic Krewe, Tone Scientists and Boris Raskin Trio. The ubiquitous nonagenarian has 6 children, 22 grandchildren, 6 greats and even one great, great. Regina Weichert is a non-fiction creative writer, poet, and performance artist who has appeared as "Queen of Self-Esteem" since 1999. Her chapter A QUEEN IN THE FAMILY was published in the anthology Women on Fire. In 2005 she founded the company "Queen of Self-Esteem LLC" to produce books, videos, and other innovative tools for helping people manifest self-esteem. 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