Voices of a People's History of the United States - May 14, 2008
Voices of a People's History of the United States
Live Event
Friday, May 16, 2008, at 8 pm
Portland, Oregon
Location: First Baptist Church
corner of SW Taylor St and 12th Ave
Portland, Oregon http://www.fbc-portland.org/
Featuring
Anthony Arnove
Eric Levine
Michael Ealy
Sarah Levy
Shontina Vernon
Staceyann Chin
Trevino Brings Plenty
Viggo Mortensen
Voices of a People's History of the United States
(http://www.sevenstories.com/Book/index.cfm?GCOI=58322100666900),
edited by Howard Zinn and Anthony Arnove, is the long-awaited
primary-source companion to Howard Zinn's best-selling A People's
History of the United States. It features the words of rebels,
dissenters and visionaries from our past -- and present.
The performance is sponsored by the Illahee Lecture Series and is a
benefit for Voices of a People's History of the United States, a
501c3 created to encourage civic engagement and to further history
education by bringing the rich stories of dissent and activism in the
United States to life through public readings. (More info at http://howardzinn.org/default/.)
For more information, contact Illahee:
Box office phone: 503-222-2719
email: info@illahee.org
web: http://www.illahee.org/lectures
Tickets: $20, $10 for students
It's finally published - February 19, 2008
Here is a new book. It's me and my buds.
Shedding Skins: Four Sioux Poets (American Indian Studies)
You can purchase it a powells.com, amazon.com or barnes and noble
Buy it and love it.
Synopses & Reviews
Publisher Comments:
Here's the myth: Native Americans are people of great spiritual depth, in touch with the rhythms of the earth, rhythms that they celebrate through drumming and dancing. They love the great outdoors and are completely in tune with the natural world. They can predict the weather by glancing at the sky, or hearing a crow cry, or somehow. Who knows exactly how? The point of the myth is that Indians are, well, special. Different from white people, but in a good way. The four young male Native American poets whose work is brought together in this startling collection would probably raise high their middle fingers in salute to this myth. These guys--and guys they are--don't buy into the myth. Their poems aren't about hunting and fishing or bonding with animal spirits. Their poems are about urban decay and homelessness, about loneliness and despair, about Payday Loans and 40-ounce beers, about getting enough to eat and too much to drink. And there is nothing romantic about their poetry, either. It is written in the vernacular of mean streets: often raw and coarse and vulgar, just like the lives it describes. Sure, they write about life on the reservation. However, for the Indians in their poems, life on the reservation is a lot like life in the city, but without the traffic. These poets are sick to death of the myth. You can feel it in their poems. These poets are bound by a common attitude as well as a common heritage. All four--Joel Waters, Steve Pacheco, Kurt Schweigman (who writes under the name Luke Warm Water), and Trevino L. Brings Plenty--are Sioux, and all four identify themselves as Skins (as in Redskins). In their poems, they grapple with their heritage, wrestling with what it means to be a Sioux and a Skin today. It's a fight to the finish.
June 9, 2007 Trevino played backing guitar for Hurtbird at The Someday Lounge.
You have to fast forward to the second band.
There are some heavy guitar licks.
Check it out and rock hard. Hurtbird at The Someday Lounge
Oh yeah, Quiet Countries and Loch Lomond performed the same night too.
Trevino L. Brings Plenty's latest summer project "Ballads of Larry Drake" has finished two albums so far. The first is titled "Cube the Cute" and the second is "High, Low." The third installment will be recorded the weekend of the July 13th.
News of Late - April 25, 2007
I have some poems in the anthology "To Topos" published by Oregon State University, edited by Allison Adelle Hedge Coke. Check it out. To Topos - Ahani: Indigenous American Poetry
Art Installation, show "Indian 3.0" is now available to watch. It's the promo video. Indian 3.0
You can now download my show from the Someday Lounge, March 17, 2007, under the music section of my website. Enjoy.
The Joy of Me - January 30, 2007
The Joy of Me
I like me. I did a vanity search on my name to find what is out there. I came across an article from "Art in America," Oct. 2006. It was about an exhibit I was part of at the Institute of American Indian Arts. All publicity is good publicity.
Check it and tell me what you think.
Indian 3.0 - November 17, 2006
Bently Spang, Mary Black Bonnet, Trevino Brings Plenty create "Indian 3.0" art installation in the Northcutt Steele Gallery, Montana State University - Billings.
Performative Poetry Reading on opening night.
Exhibit runs Nov. 17 - Dec. 15, 2006.
Drift - Bronx, NY - November 4, 2006
One video of Trevino Brings Plenty's is part of a "Drift" an art exhibit at the BRAC Gallery in the Bronx, NY. Nov. 4 - Dec. 2006.
Art in America - October 1, 2006
There is a a small write up Oct. 2006 in the issue of Art in America.
Montana Artist Refuge - September 2, 2006
Trevino Brings Plenty receives an artist residency to the Montana Artist Refuge for the month of Sept. 2006.
IAIA Relations: Indigenous Dialogue - September 1, 2006
Trevino Brings Plenty's art videos are shown at the IAIA Mesuem for the month of Sept. 2006.
Totem Triptychs - June 8, 2006
Trevino has written a poem to accompany a Triptych as part of a writers and artist project.
Title of painting: Native Travel.
Title of poem: Native Travel: Clothes Partially Make the Man
Moving Pictures - May 5, 2006
Lakota Jam 01 and Palani Kute Manipe, are artsy film shorts created using found footage. Music was composed/mixed by Trevino at the Going Down Studios.
Check it out. http://www.youtube.com/user/IktomiFilms
The Vinos have another song, Come On, included in a short film about Sandy Boulevard, Portland, OR.
Check it out and rate it.
Thanks Tracy from www.team-zoma.com
Poem Published - March 7, 2006
Trevino L. Brings Plenty's poem "Lakota Language Lessons with Benjamin" from the poetry collection, Removing Skin (2005), was just published in the literary journal Cold Mountain Review, Fall 2005.
Here are some links to and about the journal: http://www.coldmountain.appstate.edu/currentissue.html