Unwin-Dunraven Literary Ecclesia

Bethany Ides (née Wright) is a poet, performance-installation artist, teacher & independent curator, currently residing in Portland, Oregon. In 2005, she mounted versions of her solo video/vocal/textual performance piece, “Hark the Harbingers,” at the Brooklyn Museum of Art, PS122, and the Zieher-Smith Gallery in NYC, and at Nocturnal Gallery in Portland. From 2002-07, she co-edited FO (A) RM magazine, an interdisciplinary forum for arts & research. In 2006, she co-directed & curated the Gilded Pony Performance Festival in Troy & Valley Falls, NY. At present, she is collaborating with composer Micah Silver on a processional tentatively titled “Aleph of the Ingress.” Her poetic work has been published widely in journals such as Tarpaulin Sky, Fascicle, The Brooklyn Rail, and Octopus, and her fourth chapbook, “From Whence Undone” is soon forthcoming from Cosa Nostra Editions. Ides teaches time-based arts and art theory at the Pacific Northwest College of Art in Portland, OR, and lives happily ever into with Joseph Bradshaw, the Fearless.

Emily Kendal Frey lives in Portland, Oregon. Recent work is forthcoming from New York Quarterly, Spinning Jenny, and 42opus. Collaborative work with Sarah Bartlett will appear in Portland Review, Bat City Review, and the horse less press anthology New Pony. Poems from Something Should Happen at Night Outside, a collaboration with Zachary Schomburg, will appear in Pilot, Sir!, Diode, and Jubilat.

Musical Guest

Arrington de Dionyso uses performance as a vehicle for driving through the nameless territories held between surrealist automatism, shamanic seance, and the folk imagery of rock and roll. Arrington performs on the bass clarinet, jaw harps, and his voice with a distinctly multiphonic ability inspired by Tuvan throatsinging and the ecclesiastics of Albert Ayler and Don Van Vliet. Pushing the envelope between musicality and pure energy, between shamanic ecstacy and lunacy, he enwraps rooms with resonant sound. He tours constantly, and has performed and/or recorded with notable improvisers throughout the U.S.A., Canada, Italy, France, Israel and Lithuania. He presents workshops on improvising with the voice in conjunction with his travels around the world.