28 October 2008

Halloween Events from Hub-Bub

Masquerade Ball - 10/31/08 - Friday
9:00 pm - Midnight

The Devil's Cotillion Masquerade Ball

Friday, October 31st 9pm - Midnight at The Duncan Estate

Have a HUB-BUB Halloween!

This year, Halloween falls on a Friday. After the trick-or-treating is over, pull on your own costume and prepare to party the night away with the other unholy creatures at the Devil's Cotillion Masquerade Ball.
HUB-BUB's 4th Annual Halloween Party is set to take place October 31st at the historic Duncan Estate (840 Union St. near the main Duncan Park entrance), where the sweeping lawn and spacious rooms will become the setting for an evening of costume, intrigue, and good old-fashioned gettin' down on the dance floor. DJ Tony P will spin tunes for guests as they dance, chow down on heavy hors d'oeuvres, and enjoy complimentary drinks.

Traditional masquerade wear includes fancy dresses and tuxedos, and most importantly, a mask. While fancy outfits are not a must, masks and costumes are strongly encouraged.The attendance to this year's party is limited in two ways – first, tickets will only be sold to those over 21. Carpooling and designated drivers are encouraged.Second, only a limited number of tickets will be sold. $20 in advance, $25 at the door. The price of a ticket includes entrance and allows you to take advantage of the heavy hors d'oeuvres and complimentary drinks. Tickets can be purchased at the HUB-BUB offices, 149 S. Daniel Morgan Avenue, weekdays 10-5pm or at any HUB-BUB event. HUB-BUB representatives will also have tickets. Quantities are limited, so purchase in advance if possible.

Read up on the history of the Duncan Estate, built by Major David R. Duncan around 1897, at www.duncanestate.com. Once the home of a well-to-do lawyer, the Estate is now owned and managed for weddings and events by Spartanburg couple Danielle and Corey Sanders, who have restored it to it’s original glory. You may notice that there are no ghost stories associated with the Estate… yet.

Halloween Poetry Slam w/ Daphne Gottlieb - 10/28/08 - Tuesday
6:00 pm - 9:00 pm

Free and Open to the Public

The USC Upstate Center for Women's and Gender Studies presents Daphne Gottlieb returning to Spartanburg by popular demand to read from her newest collection of poetry Kissing Dead Girls. In the tradition of Anne Sexton’s poems in Transformations, Daphne Gottlieb revises the contemporary “fairy tales” that shape the public’s perspective on women’s lives in the contemporary United States. The Center for Women’s and Gender Studies hosts this Halloween poetry slam in order to look at the everyday terrors that women and girls continue to face in their lives, and in the media reflections of those lives.

According to the publisher, Kissing Dead Girls is a kisstorical romangling that investigates myth, history, gender and states of being. Beginning with the province of legend, Kissing Dead Girls uses poetic inappropriacies to touch historical paragons and examine what touches us in them in vignettes casting the narrator as the lover of Josephine Baker, Amelia Earhart, Anne Frank, Frida Kahlo, Jonbenet Ramsey, Sharon Tate, and Karen Carpenter. The "real" world fuses with the mundane as a liver is received in the mail by an unexpecting recipient; a woman replaces the moon with her heart; and a man finds himself a woman too dead to love. Gertrude Stein's work is co-opted and re-seen in an attempt to unpack the relationship between love and war; Walt Whitman makes a command performance in dismembered bits of forced formal verse; and "The Exorcist" and "The Devil in Miss Jones" are sutured together in an attempt to locate the true horror of desire.

About the Author: San Francisco-based Performance Poet Daphne Gottlieb stitches together the ivory tower and the gutter just using her tongue. She is the editor of Homewrecker: An Adultery Reader, as well as the author of three previous collections of poetry, Final Girl, Why Things Burn, and Pelt. Final Girl was the winner of the Audre Lorde Award in Poetry for 2003 from Publishing Triangle. Additionally, Final Girl was named one of The Village Voice's Favorite Books of 2003, and received rave reviews from Publisher's Weekly, The San Francisco Chronicle and The Village Voice. Why Things Burn was the winner of a 2001 Firecracker Alternative Book Award (Special Recognition - Spoken Word) and was also a finalist for the Lambda Literary Award for 2001. Recent press has praised Gottlieb’s work as "fierce," "unapologetic," "scorching" and "deliriously gutsy." Besides anchoring three national performance poetry tours, recently featuring with Maggie Estep, Hal Sirowitz and Lydia Lunch, Gottlieb has also appeared across the country with the Slam America bus tour and with notorious all-girl wordsters Sister Spit. She has performed at festivals coast-to-coast, including South by Southwest, Bumbershoot, and Ladyfest Bay Area. Gottlieb currently teaches at New College of California, and has also performed and taught creative writing workshops around the country, from high schools and colleges to community centers. She received her MFA from Mills College.

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