Beyond Baroque 40th Anniversary Reading: Ghasem Batamuntu And Will Alexander

Date: Friday December 11, 2009
Time: 7:30 PM
Price: Free
GHASEM BATAMUNTU is saxophonist, drummer, percussionist, and poet, and musician who leads the international ensemble NU NUVA COMPOUND. Having performed with the likes of Archie Shepp and Rasul Sadik, Batamuntu has led versions of Nu Nova Compound in New York, Amsterdam, San Francisco, and Los Angeles. WILL ALEXANDER is a poet, novelist, essayist, playwright, and visual artist. A Whiting Fellow and PEN Oakland Award winner, Alexander has performed and recorded his poetry with Nu Nova Compound in Amsterdam, New York, and Los Angeles. He is author of the recently published book of poems, The Sri Lankan Loxodrome from New Directions.