Join us on the Third Thursday of the month for drinks, small bites, music, and art-related activities. Drop-ins welcome!
This month we welcome special guest Kevin Killian, author, poet, and co-curator of There’s a Dark Secret in Me: Precarity, Exposure, Camouflage, a presentation of works from di Rosa’s permanent collection, organized with his partner Dodie Bellamy, on the topic of surveillance for Be Not Still: Living in Uncertain Times. Killian will be reading his poetry and speaking about the works on view in Gallery 1, including how an installation by Colter Jacobsen is central to the exhibition.
Visitors will be able to view Gallery 1, have their face painted with anti-surveillance patterns to avoid face-recognition technology, and enjoy refreshments and small bites. Singer-songwriter Zak Fennie and Napa Valley’s Jealous Zelig will be performing live sets to round out the casual Thursday evening event.
$5 general / Free for members / all ages welcome
Questions? Call 707-226-5991 x22 or email us
About the Event Participants:
Kevin Killian is a poet, novelist, playwright, art critic, and scholar who lives and works in San Francisco. His poetry collections include Argento Series (2001), Action Kylie (2008), and Tweaky Village (2014). Most recently, Killian and his partner Dodie Bellamy released the anthology Writers Who Love Too Much: New Narrative Writers 1977-1997 (2017).
Zak Fennie is a performing solo artist and songwriter who blends elements of indie, pop, rock, emo, folk, and bluegrass along with the trials and tribulations of growing up into a powerful and emotive sound. He currently performs at venues around the Napa Valley and Bay Area.
Jealous Zelig emerged from Napa Valley living room hootenannies to beguile BottleRock 2014 and continues to delight and surprise Bay Area audiences with their original musical mash-up of jazz, soul, classical, rock and country genres.