Thu May 29 - 9:00pm-10:00pm
SpeakEasy Lounge

Thursday, May 29^th, at 9pm  three unique and distinct cultures and languages—Chinese, German, and English—come to Artomatic in an exciting night of poetry.  Selected Chinese poems from across the Pacific and German poems from across the Atlantic will combine with typically American poetry as poets read selected works from the neighborhood collaboration Time Shadows, which showcases a changing display of poetry from these three cultures in storefront windows of DC’s Chinatown neighborhood. The poems will be read in their original language and in English.  Background information on the Time Shadows project and insight on the meanings of the poems will be included.  More information: www.timeshadows.org.

“Photographs freeze the action of a moment and preserve it.  They are literally shadows out of time.  But so are written records of events, and talk, and music.  If a picture holds the memory of movement, words hold the memory of sound. While pictures often grab attention faster, words sometimes have more lasting impact.  We may accept a picture at face value, unexplained, unquestioned - all it has to give us seems immediately clear, although of course this is an illusion.  But words - particularly written words - must always be interpreted.  The act of reading makes each of us an active partner with the writer.  We "hear" written words inside our head; adding context and meaning from our mind's own store of memory and fantasy and learning.”

-Courtesy of Lane Jennings