Volume 11: decidedly quirky

PECHA KUCHA NIGHT 11:

Friday June 4th, 2010
Steynberg Gallery, 1531 Monterey St. in San Luis Obispo
Conversations start at 7:01pm
Presentations start at (20:20) 8:20pm
$3 donation at the door


Presenters for PKN11 are:
:: Michael Hannon_poetry
:: Ron Ruppert_bare bones
:: Adrienne Allebe_painter
:: Heidi Freeman_"uterine anomalies"
:: Christine Moser + Sean Graff_dance
:: Bob Hill_Land Conservancy_conservation Aviation
:: Chris Allen_furniture design
:: Anne Stahl_painter + paired with Brynn Albanese of Cafe Musique

About Volume 11 Presenters

Michael Hannon

Michael Hannon was born in California in 1939, and began making poems sometime in 1959. He has been widely published in journals and anthologies, both here and abroad. He is the author of many limited letterpress editions, and four full-length collections. For many years he has enjoyed the friendship and collaboration of visual artists. Michael lives in Los Osos, California with his wife Nancy Dahl and is the father of three grown sons, Dylan, Jason and Colin. Kenneth Rexroth said of Hannon's work: "A very good poet indeed, and certainly one of the few Tantric writers in any language who is both profound and witty."

Adrienne Allebe

The mesmerizing topography of the central coast against the backdrop of encroaching development has been Allebe’s most constant source of inspiration. In her most recent body of work, she juxtaposes imagery from reality (the natural and constructed landscape) with imagery from her imagination. Allebe received a BA from UCSB and an MFA from Cal State Long Beach. She currently resides on the central coast where she works as an artist and teaches drawing, design, color, painting and art appreciation classes at Cuesta College, Allan Hancock College and Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo. Allebe loves what she does.
www.allebe.com

Dancers:

Christine Moser: Christine is a 5th year Architecture student at Cal Poly. She has been dancing in one form or another for most of her life, and discovered blues and lindy hop in 2007. Since then dancing, teaching and DJing the blues has quickly become her passion, and she travels nationally to DJ as well as teaching and DJing regularly at Drop Dead Blues in SLO.

Sean Graff: Sean is a 5th year Architecture student at Cal Poly. He was first introduced to dance with the Salsa club on campus three years ago, and since has enjoyed ballroom and most recently blues dancing. Though he has only been exposed to blues for a few months, it has quickly become his preferred style, and he has had the pleasure of enjoying the teaching and social dancing venue of Drop Dead Blues.

Heather Springer: Heather Springer is a 3rd year Business Management student at Cal Poly. She started swing and blues dancing at the beginning of her college career and has been dancing for almost three years now. She is currently the weekly lessons coordinator for the Cal Poly Swing Club and will take up the positions of Vice President and Booking during the next year.

Mark Carpenter: Mark is a recent Cal Poly grad receiving a BS in Software Engineering and a Minor in Theatre. He's been swing and blues dancing for 5 years now and teaching and dj'ing for almost as long.

Anne Stahl

Anne Stahl was born in Germany in 1968 and worked and lived in Dublin, Ireland. She moved to Los Angeles in 2000.

Stahl’s work distills the complex spirit of a landscape, and the infinitely sophisticated ecology that sustains it. Ultimately, each piece captures some fragment of the landscape’s power until the larger body of work coalesces to express its deepest essence.

www.annestahl.com

Brynn Albanese

Café Musique’s Brynn Albanese has toured and performed world-wide sharing her exhilarating style with audiences from Boston to the Netherlands. A graduate of the Peabody Conservatory of Music, her first musical endeavor was that of concertmaster for Maryland’s Annapolis Symphony Orchestra. She has also served as concertmaster and soloist for the Tanglewood Festival Orchestra, Boston Philharmonic, and as principal second and soloist of the Boston Pops Esplanade Orchestra. Brynn is a fearless musician unrestrained by a single discipline. She savors the opportunity to discover new musical experiences in all genres.

Christopher W. Allen

Christopher W. Allen is a LEED accredited designer at the San Luis Obispo firm of Kornreich Architects, and an award-winning furniture designer. Chris is a graduate of the Architecture program at Cal Poly and is currently working towards his architectural license. CWA Studios specializes in the design and manufacture of beautifully crafted modern furniture and custom cabinet systems for kitchens and other storage/display needs.
http://www.cwastudios.com/

Bob Hill

Bob Hill is the Executive Director at The Land Conservancy of San Luis Obispo County. He earned his Bachelor’s from UC Santa Cruz and a Master’s in City and Regional Planning from Cal Poly. Bob also attended Sierra Institute field school while in college, which both solidified a passion for the mountains and also fueled a growing feeling that a professional career dedicated to conservation would be both possible and necessary. Bob likes to hike, ski, bike, rock climb, and canoe as ways to peacefully experience the natural world. He lives on Terrace Hill in San Luis Obispo with his wife, Jaime, and their twin sons, Albert and Oscar.

Ron Ruppert

Ron Ruppert is chair of the biology department at Cuesta College. He also teaches courses in Human Anatomy, Natural History, Life Science and Desert Biology.

Ron was first introduced to Osteology (bones) at Chaffey College in Southern California. Transferring to CSU Fullerton he earned a Bachelor’s in biology, a teaching credential in science and a Master’s in biology specializing in herpetology (reptiles). He has a life-long interest in lizards and skeletons.

Ron is married to Shaunna Sullivan and has 4 children. They are ages 24 years to 16 years.

Dr. Heidi Freeman

Dr. Heidi Freeman has been a practicing OB/GYN in San Luis Obispo since 2004, and has owned her own practice, Seven Sisters OB/GYN, since 2006. She is currently the chief of French Hospital's Obstetrics & Gynecology Department and is a Board Certified Diplomate of the
American Board of Obstetrics and Gynecology. She lives in San Luis Obispo with her husband, Patrick, and two children, Abby and Cole.