CANDY BLUE: Tongue premieres this week

CANDY BLUE: Tongue

A performance piece by Tiffany Lee Brown
featuring Nurse Kitty as herself

Friday, 25 November
Liberty Hall, 311 N. Ivy St
(1.5 blocks west of Vancouver Ave, 1 block south of N. Fremont)
7-11 pm, all ages, FREE

The Language of Con$umption
at the Enteractive Language Festival
Celebrate International Buy Nothing Day
with 2 Gyrlz Performative Arts
& the Portland Cacaphony Society

Performances by Micah Perry (Cliché au Lait)
Make toys for the infamous SantaCon rampage
Music with DJ Try My Cabbage
Confess your con$umer sins in exchange for Mmmm, Beer!

More about EL-fest: www.2gyrlz.org

CANDY BLUE
CANDY BLUE is an interdisciplinary exploration of bipolar disorder, also known as manic depressive illness. EL-fest 2005 sees the premiere of the second performative episode, "Tongue." The first episode, "Belly," debuted at Performance Works NW in Spring 2005. The spoken word and noise soundtrack for "Belly" will appear on Oakland-based Ubuibi Records compilation Women Take Back the Noise this winter. In addition to future performances, the CANDY BLUE project will encompass a collaborative book with award-winning book designer Joshua Berger and an online performative publishing experiment.

TIFFANY LEE BROWN
Tiffany Lee Brown is a writer, performer, and interdisciplinary artist based in Portland. She has performed and presented collaborative work at Performance Works NW, PICA, the Portland Rose Festival, the Irish Drama Association Festival, the Burning Man festival, and in EL-fest every year since its founding. Her writing is published in The Clear Cut Future, Gargoyle, NW Edge: Fictions of Mass Destruction, Slow Trains, and Tin House, among others. The editor of 2 Gyrlz Quarterly (2GQ), Tiffany is the recipient of the Mark Goodson Award for Distinguished Theatrical Talent, a grant from the City of Portland, and residencies to Caldera and Soapstone. She is bipolar.

NURSE KITTY
Nurse Kitty is an actual psychiatric RN who understands the asymmetry of the relationship between mental health providers and clients. She seeks to illuminate this dilemma by participating in "CANDY BLUE: Tongue." In real life, Kitty aligns herself and her practice with the client's goals, and seeks to compassionately care for her clients in all stages of life, health, and illness.

BUY NOTHING DAY
International Buy Nothing Day is an informal annual day of protest against consumerism observed by some social activists, a day when participants refrain from purchasing anything during one day. It was founded by Vancouver artist Ted Dave and subsequently evangelised by the Canadian Adbusters magazine. The idea behind the event is to focus on the plight of the world's poor, and on what the organisers see as the wasteful consumption habits of the First World. Celebrants often observe the day not only by not buying things but through culture jamming activities like the Whirl-Mart and other forms of radical expression. In the US and Canada, Buy Nothing Day supporters celebrate on the day after American Thanksgiving. That day, often called "Black Friday", is one of the busiest shopping days of the year.