[Cwgrad-announcements] FW: Deena Metzger to speak at an evening of reflections on Anais Nin Feb. 12th at the Hammer Museum

[Amanda]

Writer Deena Metzger 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.

The program - Ana s Nin at 105 - features four speakers who knew Nin
personally: electronic music pioneer Bebe Barron; writer Deena Metzger;
architect Eric Lloyd Wright; and the founder of the Center of Autobiographic
Studies, Tristine Rainer.

The Feb. 12th event at the Hammer Museum in Westwood is organized and hosted
by poet Steven Reigns. 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.

Deena Metzger 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.

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 Collages.
They became close friends, sharing dreams, writing and their lives until
Anaïs' death in 1977. When the first Diary 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
Skin:Shadows/Silence: A Love Letter in the Form of a Novel.

Since then the poet, novelist, playwright, essayist, healer has written many
works including Entering the Ghost River: Meditations on the Theory and
Practice of Healing; From Grief into Vision: A Council; Tree: Essays and
Pieces; and Writing For Your Life: A Guide and Companion to the Inner
Worlds. She co-edited Intimate Nature: The Bond Between Women and Animals.
Her novels include The Woman Who Slept with Men to Take the War Out of Them,
The Other Hand, What Dinah Thought and Doors: A Fiction for Jazz Horn. Her
most recent books of poetry are Looking for the Faces of God and A Sabbath
Among The Ruins. Ruin and Beauty: New and Selected Poems is forthcoming in
2008. Her plays include Not As Sleepwalkers and Dreams Against the State.
She is also known for her exuberant "Warrior" poster that illustrates the
triumph over breast cancer.

Bebe Barron 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
Forbidden Planet. 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 Bells of Atlantis (1952) and Jazz of Lights (1954).

Eric Lloyd Wright 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.

Tristine Rainer, Ph.D, 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 The New
Diary, how to use a journal for self-guidance and expanded creativity. 

The Hammer Museum 
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. Parking 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 www.hammer.ucla.edu <http://www.hammer.ucla.edu/> .



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