Poetry Reading & Dance Performance at Bushel, Oct 29

DELHI, NY—Bushel invites the public for an evening of poetry and dance by Sueyeun Juliette Lee and Jungwoong Kim on Saturday, October 29, 7–8:30 pm. Bushel is located at 106 Main Street, Delhi, ground floor. Doors at 6:30 pm; masks are optional but encouraged; seating is limited; $20 suggested per ticket. Please reserve your tickets in advance at www.bushelcollective.org/events.

This event celebrates the publication of Sueyeun Juliette Lee’s new book, Aerial Concave Without Cloud (Nightboard, 2022), which will be available for purchase and author signing. Lee will read from her new book, followed by a performance by dancer/choreographer Jungwoong Kim.

Sueyeun Juliette Lee lives in Denver, Colorado. Her books include Underground National (Factory School Press, 2010), Solar Maximum (Futurepoem, 2015), and No Comet, That Serpent in the Sky Means Noise (Kore, 2017). A former Pew Fellow in the Arts for Literature, she has held international residencies in video art and poetry, and presented work at the Denver Art Museum, Artworks Center for Contemporary Art, Chicago’s city-wide performance arts festival IN>TIME, and the Asian Arts Initiative. Her essays on race, contemporary poetics, trauma, and the avant-garde have appeared with Cambridge University Press, Iowa University Press, The Poetry Foundation, Entropy Magazine, and elsewhere. Find her at silentbroadcast.com

Born and raised in South Korea, Jungwoong Kim has been a dancer, choreographer, media artist, arts educator, and contact improvisation teacher for more than 20 years. He has extensive training in martial arts and Korean traditional dance and ritual, both of which strongly inform his artistic vision and aesthetic. He has done performances in contact improvisation and other dance styles with Katie Duck, Kurt Koegel, Hiekyoung Blanz, Kristie Simpson, Karen Nelson, Chris Aiken, Leah Stein, and Marion Ramirez, among others. As a resident artist at Philadelphia’s Asian Arts Initiative, he created and collaborated in a series of performance works dealing with catastrophic events and sudden human loss, including the 2014 Sewol Ferry disaster off the coast of South Korea. In connection with this body of work, in 2015 he was awarded a multi-year grant from The Pew Center for Arts and Heritage for SaltSoul, a multi-disciplinary, multi-site, durational performance project. Find him at aha-k-pro.org.

BUSHEL is a 501 (c) 3 nonprofit, volunteer-led, mixed-use space dedicated to art, agriculture, ecology, and action. It is located at 106 Main Street in Delhi. For more information, go to www.bushelcollective.org.

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