| THE MIND'S EYE
at
The Schoolhouse Center
August 10 at 8 p.m.
N I C K F L Y N N
Presenting BEI LING Narrowland Arts is pleased to present The Mind’s Eye at The Schoolhouse Center.
This summer’s residency at the Schoolhouse Center takes its form as a concentric curatorial, an episodic salon in which a group of seven participants have been invited not to perform but to invite. Each resident is asked to turn outward and enact his or her own contribution by choosing another artist to come and make an event in Provincetown. "In this way a series of readings, concerts, talks, exhibitions, and other happenings will proliferate, each contextualized by the interests of the instigating participant, but realized in the performance of the guest. In practice, then, the season’s visiting artist is not an individual, but a kaleidoscopic figure shaped by elastic accidents and long-standing
appreciations, the interconnections that generate what’s known as inspiration.”
On Friday, August 10 at 8 p.m. NICK FLYNN presents BEI LING. After leaving China at the end of 1998, Bei Ling was named writer-in residence at Brown University, and in 1994 he made his home in Boston, where he founded Tendency, one of the most important Chinese publications of literature and cultural criticism. In 1999, Bei Ling returned to China, and in August 2000 he was arrested and his magazine was confiscated. After an international protest was mounted on his behalf he was released and expelled from the country.
NICK FLYNN's first book of poetry, SOME ETHER (Graywolf Press, 2000),
won the PEN/Joyce Osterweil Award, and was a finalist for the L.A. Times Book Prize. His second book of poems, BLIND HUBER, will appear in 2002, also from Graywolf Press. A recipient of fellowships from the Library of Congress, The Guggenheim Foundation, and The Fine Arts Work Center, Flynn will be out of North America for a year starting October 2001, for parts unknown.
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