615 W. Kirkwood Avenue
First Sunday Prose Reading Series
Featuring Freda Love Smith and Jeremy Reed
Sunday, May 5, 2024
2-3:30pm
The Juniper Art Gallery 615 W. Kirkwood Avenue
Free and Open to the Public $5 suggested donation to the venue
The Gallery also has a full-service cafe! Please no outside food or drink.
Freda Love Smith is a writer and retired drummer. Her memoir, I Quit Everything, explores addiction, intoxication, and the twilight of her musical career. Her first book, Red Velvet Underground, documents a year of cooking lessons with her son and reminisces about drumming with bands including Blake Babies and Mysteries of Life. Freda grew up in Bloomington and currently lives in Evanston, Illinois.
Jeremy Reed is a PhD Candidate in the Indiana University-Bloomington Department of Folklore and Ethnomusicology. At this event you’ll hear him read some excerpts from his forthcoming dissertation on festivals and the public sphere in Jordan. If you think you’ve seen him before it’s likely that you have seen him running around as a production volunteer and former staff member at the Lotus Education and Arts Foundation; have seen him pull out a freshly baked loaf of bread from his bag; or have seen him zipping around on a bright orange bike. In an effort to prove that dissertations can be interesting, he’s selected sections that deal with him grappling with public rumors, a national festival, and the limits of what is and is not allowed to be said in public in Jordan.