Language Garden

Language Garden (Season 2)
A Season of Readings, Workshops, & Living Matters to take place in the Future Garden

Installment no. 4

Calla Henkel
Mandy Gutmann-Gonzalez
Sarah Grossman

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Saturday, August 3
6:30pm
at David Horvitz’s 7th Ave. Garden
1911 7th Ave., Los Angeles, CA

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Calla Henkel is an American writer, playwright, director and artist living between Berlin and Los Angeles. Her debut novel, Other People's Clothes, was a New York Times Book Review 'Editors' Choice'. She has staged plays at Volksbühne Berlin and the Whitney Museum of Art, and her artistic work with Max Pitegoff has been exhibited in museums and galleries worldwide. She currently operates a theatre in Los Angeles, called New Theater Hollywood. Scrap is her second novel.

Mandy Gutmann-Gonzalez is a Chilean poet and novelist working at the intersections of text, performance, archive, and translation. They are the author of La Pava (Ediciones Inubicalistas) and A/An (End of the Line Press). Their work has been supported by fellowships and residencies from The Bucknell Seminar for Younger Poets, Lambda Literary, The Center for Book Arts, TAKT Residency in Berlin, The Frost Place, Studios at MASS MoCA, and MacDowell. They teach creative writing at Clark University in Worcester, Massachusetts.

Sarah Grossman is a writer — her debut novel, A Fire So Wild, came out in February 2024. A former reporter at HuffPost, she covered the climate crisis and other social justice issues. Born and raised in New York City, she currently lives in Los Angeles.

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The Language Garden Reading Series is programmed by Corina Copp, Sophia Le Fraga, & Joseph Mosconi, with interventions/germinations from David Horvitz.