PLACE

Leisure Practicum II: Literary Leisure?
August 13th @ Place
530p - 10p
Readings begin at 7:15


 
“[L]eisure in Greek is skole, and in Latin scola, the English ‘school’… ‘School’ does not, properly speaking, mean school, but leisure.” —Josef Pieper, Leisure: The Basis of Culture
 
On Saturday, August 13th Place invites you to cultivate your leisure practice, skolen agein, “to work your leisure.” During the second part of our two-part leisure practicum we will refine our leisure techniques and leisure skills, all the while developing our sense of what leisure is and what makes it so. Board games, magazines, yoga, sports, cocktails, conversation, music, dancing, lounging, crafting: is this leisure? How is leisure simultaneously activity and relaxation—a “non-work” activity—and as such, what’s its significance? Leisure, from the Latin licēre, means “to be permitted.” So, we invite you on August 13th to do whatever the fuck you want, but also, to do it with us, at Place, at your leisure.
 
w/ readings by
 
Dan DeWeese You Don’t Love this Man (Harper Perennial 2011); “The Sleeper” in Portland Noir (Akashic Books 2009); editor of Propeller Magazine
 
Cheston Knapp, “A Minor Momentousness in the History of Love” (One Story Issue #133, March 2010); managing editor at Tin House

Jessica Johnson, poems, reviews and short stories have appeared in The Burnside Review, The Kenyon Review, New Republic, New Prairie Schooner, Paris Review, Subtropics and The Harvard Review, among other journals

Kevin Edwards, MFA and MLIS from University of Washington; book librarian at Oregon College of Arts & Crafts

Music TBA

Excellent summertimefun home video screenings

Reading begin at 7:15

Rachael Wilson is currently pursuing her Ph.D. in the Department of English at NYU, and is also a member of the NYU Forum on Forms of Seeing. She studies modern literature and poetics, with abiding interests in visuality, aesthetics, and Marxism.