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<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'>Writer <b>Deena Metzger </b>will
be one of the speakers at an evening of reflections honoring the life of Ana s
Nin, the writer who documented culture, artists, and her own emotional journey
in a daily diary started at the age of eleven. Participants will be speaking of
their relationship to Ana s Nin and reading from a section of her work.<br>
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The program - <i>Ana s Nin at 105</i> - features four speakers who knew Nin
personally: electronic music pioneer <b>Bebe Barron</b>; writer<b> Deena
Metzger</b>; architect E<b>ric Lloyd Wright</b>; and the founder of the Center
of Autobiographic Studies, <b>Tristine Rainer</b>.<br>
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The Feb. 12<sup>th</sup> event at the <b>Hammer Museum </b>in Westwood is
organized and hosted by poet <b>Steven Reigns</b>. The program starts at 7 p.m.
Admission is free. Seating is on a first-come, first-served basis. The museum
requests that those attending arrive at least 20 minutes before the event.<br>
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<b>Deena Metzger</b><i> </i>was a young woman when she became close friends
with Anais Nin, who mentored her as a writer. They were friends until Anais'
death, sharing a passionate interest in the dream and in interjecting the
woman's voice and vision into what was then a male dominated literature.<br>
<br>
Deena met Anaïs Nin in 1966 when she was the Literary and Arts editor of the LA
Free Press and first became familiar with her work by reviewing <i>Collages</i>.
They became close friends, sharing dreams, writing and their lives until Anaïs'
death in 1977. When the first <i>Diary</i> was published, Deena reviewed it and
they celebrated with a costume publication party at Deena's home: Come as one
of Anaïs' Characters. In turn Anaïs endorsed Deena's first book <i>Skin:Shadows/Silence:
A Love Letter in the Form of a Novel</i>.<br>
<br>
Since then the poet, novelist, playwright, essayist, healer has written many
works including <i>Entering the Ghost River: Meditations on the Theory and
Practice of Healing</i>; <i>From Grief into Vision: A Council</i>; <i>Tree:
Essays and Pieces</i>; and <i>Writing For Your Life: A Guide and Companion to
the Inner Worlds</i>. She co-edited <i>Intimate Nature: The Bond Between Women
and Animals</i>. Her novels include <i>The Woman Who Slept with Men to Take the
War Out of Them</i>, <i>The Other Hand</i>, <i>What Dinah Thought and Doors: A
Fiction for Jazz Horn</i>. Her most recent books of poetry are <i>Looking for
the Faces of God</i> and <i>A Sabbath Among The Ruins</i>. <i>Ruin and Beauty:
New and Selected Poem</i>s is forthcoming in 2008. Her plays include <i>Not As
Sleepwalkers</i> and <i>Dreams Against the State</i>. She is also known for her
exuberant "Warrior" poster that illustrates the triumph over breast
cancer.<br>
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<b>Bebe Barron </b>is, with the late Louis Barron, an American pioneer in the
field of electronic music. They are credited with writing the first electronic
music for magnetic tape and the first entirely electronic film score for <i>Forbidden
Planet</i>. The Barrons scored three of Ian Hugo's short experimental films
based on the writings of his wife, Anais Nin. The most notable of these three
films were <i>Bells of Atlantis </i>(1952) and <i>Jazz of Lights</i> (1954).<br>
<br>
<b>Eric Lloyd Wright </b>is an American architect and grandson of the famed
Frank Lloyd Wright. He is found of Wright Way Organic Resource Center in
Malibu, CA. He was the half-brother of Rupert Pole, Anais' second husband and
designed the home in the Silver Lake district of Los Angeles that the couple
lived in for the last years of Nin's life.<br>
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<b>Tristine Rainer, Ph.D</b>, is a pioneer in the fields of contemporary
journal writing and narrative autobiography, who was a friend and colleague of
Nin. Rainer is the founder and director of the Center for Autobiographic
Studies, a non-profit educational organization that encourages the creation and
preservation of autobiographic works. She is also the author of <i>The New
Diary, how to use a journal for self-guidance and expanded creativity. <br>
<br>
</i><b>The Hammer Museum <br>
</b>The Hammer Museum is located at the northeast corner of Westwood and
Wilshire Boulevards in Westwood Village, 3 blocks east of the 405 freeway's
Wilshire Boulevard exit. <b>Parking</b> is available under the Museum. Rates
are $3 for the first three hours with Museum stamp; $1.50 for each additional
20 minutes. Parking for people with disabilities is provided on levels P1 and
P3. The phone number is 310-433-7000. Information can also be found on the
museum's website at <a href="http://www.hammer.ucla.edu/">www.hammer.ucla.edu</a>.<br>
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