&Now 2019 Conference

WITH WAVES, an interactive collaboration hosted by Red Rover Series, will involve any writers at the &NOW festival who wish to participate.  Our goals are to foster innovative forms, aesthetic solidarities, and a multifarious performance with this year’s &NOW community so all have the opportunity to improvise in live space and time together.

1. Anyone can read or perform during this event.  All are welcome to participate! 
2. Enter the center of the room & read one to three lines of writing at a time.
3. Briefly overlap your lines with other performers.
4. After reading your lines, perform a small & quiet gesture anywhere.  Sit & repeat the cycle.  We are creating waves of language & moments of calm.
5. You may enter & exit the performance at any moment.  There will be several people reading & negotiating the performance simultaneously.  You may enter & exit multiple times in a sequence of repeating waves.

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Red Rover Series {readings that play with reading} is curated by Laaura Goldstein and Jennifer Karmin in Chicago, IL. Founded in 2005, the over one hundred events have featured a diversity of renowned creative minds. Each event is designed as a reading experiment with participation by local, national, and international writers, artists, and performers. Red Rover Series has also presented ensembles of writers improvising together at the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, the MLA conference, AWP, and the New Orleans Poetry Festival.