Bushel, 106 Main Street, Delhi, will host a reading by Delaware County writer Jennifer Kabat, followed by her conversation with political organizer L.A. Kauffman, and a performance by sound artist G Lucas Crane, Saturday, Sept. 28, from 3–5 p.m. This event is open to the public; suggested donation is $10–$15.
Kabat will read from her new book, “The Eighth Moon,” a combination of a memoir detailing her move to the Catskills in the 2000s, and an essay on the mid-nineteenth-century Anti-Rent War.
“The book opens with a shootout in a corral in dresses and builds to a polytemporality where the past and present run together,” states Kabat. “Collapsing the two times together has been my way to understand the rise of political violence.”
Kabat’s reading will be the basis of her conversation with L.A. Kauffman, a political organizer who wrote a definitive history on protest movements, “Direct Action: Protest and the Reinvention of American Radicalism.” To round out the program, G Lucas Crane will perform a sound piece, incorporating audio recordings of present-day relatives of Anti-Rent protesters, reading their forebears’ letters and testimony along with songs from the uprising. Doors at 2:40 p.m.; program at 3.
