July 27, 2007
Time for Trivia with Poetry Scores
One of our own, Stefene Russell, is involved in the following note, so I'm betting that she's not going to toot the horn on this event. But Poetry Scores is hosting a trivia event in a couple weekends, with proceeds slated to help produce the latest CD and film from that nascent organization. Recently, the group offered up the CD and feature "Blind Cat Black"; next up will be Russell's "Go South for Animal Index" for similar treatment.
And does it seem that the trivia craze has slowed a touch? If so, get back in the game with this one:
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Sunday, August 12, 2-5 p.m.
Poetry Scores will host a trivia contest fundraiser upstairs at The Schlafly Tap Room, 21st and Locust Downtown. Original questions are being written now by the quirky gang at Poetry Scores on topics such as sex, beer, baseball and St. Louis.
Tickets for the trivia event are $10 per person, with tables of 10 preferred. You can contact any Poetry Scores board member (Robert Goetz, Jenna Bauer, Stefene Russell, K. Curtis Lyle, Charlois Lumpkin, Rookery T. and King) for tickets. King is at brodog@hotmail.com or 265-1435 and is standing by to take your order now.
Poetry Scores, formerly Hoobellatoo, is an arts group based in St. Louis dedicated to the translation of poetry into other media. The money will be used to fund the group’s fall release of Go South for Animal Index, an eclectic CD in the genre of “poetry score” – a long poem scored as one scores a film. Go South for Animal Index, scored to a poem by St. Louis poet Stefene Russell, will be released Friday, November 9 at Hoffman LaChance Contemporary (3100 Sutton in Maplewood), in conjunction with an Art Invitational of pieces that respond to the poem.
Poetry Scores’ previous releases, Crossing America and Blind Cat Black, have been featured on NPR, BBC Radio 3 and in many St. Louis media. The score to Blind Cat Black is now the subject of an independent feature film produced by Poetry Scores, starring Toyy Davis, Jason Wallace Triefenbach and Don Erickson which was recently featured as part of the St. Louis Filmmakers Showcase. http://www.myspace.com/blindcatblack