Artists Perform at Ministry

INSTALLATION/PERFORMANCE FRIDAY, 8-10PM, MINISTRY (36 EAST LORAIN)

Yvan Greenberg, performer, and visual artist Marianna La Rosa will give a two-hour installation/performance on Friday night, 8-10 p.m. at Ministry (36 East Lorain Street). Titled "On 5," the project is centered around five postcard-sized artworks La Rosa created in Germany during the month of January and sent to Greenberg.

Incorporating Kurt Weill's cabaret songs, slide projections, and a form of movement inspired by the postcard art that Greenberg describes as "dancetheater," the installation/performance aims to represent the artists' perception of German culture, as well as to address themes of translation and interpretation.

Michael Byers Set To Read Tuesday

Some of us might actually make it big. Oberlin alumnus Michael Byers did, by publishing his debut book, The Coast of Good Intentions with publishing heavyweight Houghton Mifflin, and winning the 1999 Sue Kauffman Prize for First Fiction from the Academy of Arts and Letters.

Byers will present a reading from The Coast of Good Intentions, which was first publised in 1998 and has since been heralded as "a wise un-Generation-X-like collection" by the Wall Street Journals Elizabeth Bukowski. Set in the Pacific Northwest the stories are complex and rich with what Charles Baxter calls "shadowy obsessive passions."

Byers will read on Tuesday, Feb. 22, at 7:30 PM in King 106. The event, hosted by the Creative Writing Program and the Alumni Association, is free and open to the public.

OCOW

Oberlin Community of Writers, OCOW, is the newly formed writers� organization. OCOW's purpose is to serve as a connecting base between writers and publications, departments, workshops, readings, teaching opportunities, among other resources, such as publishing and education.

General interest meetings are held monthly and a board of eight main organizers meet once a week to discuss projects. The board consists of the Chair, Workshop Coordinator, Events Coordinator, Publication Liaison, Creative Writing Department Liaison, Greater Oberlin Community Coordinator, Theater Department Liaison, and the Student Community Organizer/Resource Developer/Treasurer.

OCOW's goals for the semester are to create opportunities for monthly or biweekly readings and/or workshops, creative writing classes for children and/or Kendall residents in the community taught by students, to help playwrights get their plays performed, and to draw a closer connection between Oberlin publications and Oberlin writers. Elections for a Workshop Coordinator will be held at the next General Interest meeting, this Sunday at 2:00 February 20 in Wilder. Any persons interested should contact. OCOW hopes to become a chartered organization by next year.

Pump It up

Another installment of the Conservatory Organ Department's infamous Friday Night Organ Pump will take place Friday, Feb. 18 in Fairchild Chapel. The ever popular Organ Pump series, which usually is housed in Finney Chapel, moves to Fairchild because of the stage expansion project that has left Finney with no organ.

The benefits of the Fairchild move will be great, giving the notoriously spookey event an even spookier feel. With first-rate performances by seniors Daniel Brinson, Esther Crisculoa and sophomore Benjamin Schaffer will surly provide all of the spine tingling excitement of the Friday Night Organ Pumps of the past.