NWN/2 (New Works in the Nabe/the second)
8 p.m. - 11 p.m., Friday, January 27, 2006
The Hillside Club Concert Series
Hillside Club, 2286 Cedar St., Berkeley
www.hillsideclub.org/concerts
$15 general/$10 Hillside Club members/seniors/students
Admission includes attendance at a “Meet the Artists” reception after the
performance

The Hillside Club, one of Berkeley’s oldest cultural institutions, announces the second “New Works in the Nabe” (NWN), a cross-genre
showcase where working artists debut new material. Unique in the Bay Area, NWN is a recurring event where musicians, writers, actors, dancers, and filmmakers dress-rehearse their latest. An evening of juried performances, NWN gives talented local artists a space to try out their newest work in front an audience enjoying a historical Arts + Crafts venue with gorgeous acoustics.

NWN/1 featured novelist/artist Jonathon Keats; writer Susan McCarthy;
guitarist David Gans; pianist Ben Stolorow; and writer/performer Paulina
Borsook.

The January 27 2006 NWN/2 has in its lineup:
* San Francisco poet/comedian Whitman McGowan in the persona of Trungpa Bumbleche, channeling excerpts from the teachings of the Jura Lama;
* Oakland movement-artist Hilary Bryan dancing “Sacred Space”, a playful gryoscopic reimagining of Rudolf Laban’s formal theories of Space Harmony/Choreutics;
* Tiburon musician John Whitelaw playing transcriptions for bass instruments from the works of J.S. Bach;
* Santa Cruz writer Paulina Borsook presenting the spoken word/mixed media work “California on my mind/The things I’ll never write”

For more information, call Sylvia Paull at 510.527.0450

Artist bios:

Paulina Borsook (www.paulinaborsook.com), a Hillside Club member since 2004, is the curator of NWN.

Hilary Bryan (www.hilarybryan.com) is a dancer, musician, and movement analyst. Her choreographic work has toured internationally and she is a teacher of Laban/Bartenieff Movement Analysis. She is the founder and director of The Body At Work Movement Analysis and The Somatic Series workshops. “Sacred Space” forms part of the research for her MFA in choreography at UC Davis.

Whitman McGowan (www.whitmanmcgowan.com) aka Trungpa Bumbleche has been a poetry performer for decades, and has toured Europe several times in the company of rock bands. His spoken-word piece, “White Folks Was Once Cool Too”, is a cult classic. Upon meeting the exiled Jura Lama in the basement of burnt-out Swiss nightclub, he realized his true calling as a contemporary clairvoyant, bringing forth a gospel of nondenominational joy in the face of misery and doom. Returning home to San Francisco, he shared his revelations with local Buddhist hymnist Shaku Shinkoku, who gave him his new name, Trungpa Bumbleche. He has only just begun to publish and record under his new identity.

John Whitelaw, an accomplished electric bassist, has recorded with Texas rocker Roky Erickson, and has performed in a variety of venues, including gigs with the Ice Follies and jazz guitarist Barry Finerty.