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SUMMARY:Wings: a queer perfomance with CareOzen Météore
DESCRIPTION:PLEASE NOTE:\nThis event is a short performance by our current resident.\nLength: 15 mins.\nPLEASE BE ON TIME \nCareOzen Météore is a drag monster from the moon. He descends to Earth to offer love and tenderness when the world becomes too much\, then flies into a rage at the world being “too much.” He oscillates between poetic tenderness and fiery rage. His goal on stage is to give the audience the strength and support needed to burn away injustice. He brings a pink cloud and a golden flame… \nHis mediums are: words (whispered\, recited)\, circus acrobatics\, dance\, a bit of lip-syncing\, and dreamlike costumes & makeup.\nCare Ozen Météore performs in various corners of Brussels\, in the Belgian\ncountryside\, under circus tents\, in theaters\, in bars\, and now\, at Desperate Literature!\nHe looks forward to seeing you there <3 \nPresentation of the performance “Wings”\nTW: familial violence\, queerphobia\n“Wings” is a performance both intimate and political. Speech\, text\, music\,\nand gentle choreography blend together into a final dance of joy\, liberation\, and kinship.
URL:https://desperateliterature.com/calendar/wings-a-queer-perfomance-with-careozen-meteore/
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SUMMARY:The Yahoo Boys with Carlos Barragán
DESCRIPTION:“A nonfiction book which really knocked me out . . . It’s incredible . . . An extraordinary piece of reporting.”\n—Patrick Radden Keefe\, The Long Game podcast \n“What [Barragán has] produced feels miraculous: journalism that is simultaneously funny\, devastating\, wildly intimate\, and righteous without veering into moralism.”\n—Kate Knibbs\, Wired (Book Club Pick) \nAn astonishing work of immersion journalism about four young romance scammers in Lagos\, Nigeria\, exploring how and why they scam\, and the moral dilemmas they face. \nWhen his mother started emailing with a handsome American soldier who promised to send gold bars to her Madrid apartment\, the journalist Carlos Barragán came face-to-face with the human toll of online romance fraud. After tracing the emails to an IP address in Nigeria\, he set off on a journey to Lagos to try to find his mother’s scammer. There\, he uncovered a much bigger story: in the midst of Africa’s largest city\, he encountered a community of thousands of young men engaged in romance scamming. They call themselves “Yahoo Boys\,” and each year they catfish millions of dollars from lonely victims overseas\, building a dizzying local economy from their phones. \nIn this astonishing work of immersion journalism\, Barragán takes us inside the lives of four of the Yahoo Boys of Lagos. We meet Biggy and Chibuike\, each struggling with the temptations of fast money; Azeez\, a tailor’s apprentice caught between the lure of crime and Nigeria’s economic crisis; and Richie\, who is convinced that he’s responsible for the death of a woman in Kentucky whom he manipulated online for years. Some Yahoo Boys attain the status of folk heroes\, buying houses and cars with the money they make\, while others become dependent on drugs and “cash out”—successfully scam a victim—only to lose it all. \nThrough the Yahoo Boys’ twisting fortunes\, Barragán discovers the psychological tactics they perfect\, the brutal economic realities that drive them\, and the moral dilemmas they confront. A work of radical empathy\, The Yahoo Boys reveals the human face behind a global phenomenon\, showing how loneliness in the West and poverty in Nigeria are two sides of the same screen. \nCarlos Barragán is a reporter and researcher for The New York Times based in Madrid. He was formerly a reporter at El Confidencial before receiving his MFA in nonfiction writing from Columbia University. The Yahoo Boys is his first book.
URL:https://desperateliterature.com/calendar/the-yahoo-boys-with-carlos-barragan/
LOCATION:Desperate Literature\, calle de la cava baja 8\, Madrid\, Comunidad de Madrid\, 28005\, Spain
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SUMMARY:Self-Help from the Middle Ages with Peter Jones
DESCRIPTION:“a treat for the history glutton.”\n–Irina Dumitrescu.\n\nA tour through the medieval mind and culture.\nTerry and Inés will guide us into Peter Jones’s Self-Help from the Middle Ages\, and whether you need mental health advice from the mystics or a history lesson\, you’ll be in the right place. \nAbout the book:\nIn Self-Help from the Middle Ages\, Jones explores the seven deadly sine\, searching the hellscapes of Hieronymous Bosch and Giotto\, the intimate confessions of Dante and Margery Kempe\, and the personal struggles of Francis of Assisi and Catherine of Siena. Along the way he discovers a treasure trove of lost truths about temptation\, frustration\, addiction\, compulsion\, burnout\, rage\, fear\, anxiety\, and grief that still pulse with life. With beautiful illustrations drawn from medieval art and literature\, his book is a gift to all who love history and anyone who has ever sought wisdom from the past. \nPETER JONES received his Ph.D. in medieval history from New York University. He taught at the School of Advanced Studies at the University of Tyumen in Siberia\, where he was Chair of History. Today\, he is a Marie Curie fellow at Complutense University of Madrid.
URL:https://desperateliterature.com/calendar/self-help-from-the-middle-ages-with-peter-jones/
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SUMMARY:Casa Poética Open Mic
DESCRIPTION:SEE CLUBS PAGE FOR ALL WORKSHOPS AND BOOKCLUBS \nAlejandra Pizarnik: You write poems because you need a place where what isn’t may be. \nCan we hide in language? Can we use language to say the unsayable? What is it that cannot be said? This season\, we will enter the world of Alejandra Pizarnik (Buenos Aires\, 1936–1972) through a selection of poems in which language condenses\, meanings hide\, and the poet’s fight to speak will make us question the relationship between words and silence. \nCasa Poética is a literary community founded by poet and educator Irene Torra. Since 2022\, it has brought together more than 150 participants from over 30 countries around contemporary poetry through close reading\, collaborative discussion and live encounters with poets. \nFall dates:\nSeptember: 27\nOctober: 11\, 25\nNovember: 15\, 29 (with guest poet)\nDecember: 13 (open mic) \nTo join please fill in this FORM or contact Irene (on IG @casapoetica.madrid or via irenetorra.poesia@gmail.com) \n\nSingle session: 9 euros\nFull term (6 sessions): 45 euros\nOpen mic: 6 euros
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