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Live Entertainment
Julia B. Levine
Poet Laureate of Davis
Julia has published five full-length collections of poetry. She has won many awards, including the 2015 Northern California Book Award in Poetry for her fourth collection, Small Disasters Seen in Sunlight, a 2024 Pushcart Prize, the Wolfson Poetry Prize (for a chapbook forthcoming in 2025), as well as the Pablo Neruda Prize in Poetry.
Widely published and anthologized, Julia's poetry appears in The Southern Review, The Missouri Review, and Ploughshares, among other journals.
Currently, she is the Poet Laureate of Davis and a 2022 American Academy of Poetry Poet Laureate Fellow for her work in building resiliency in teenagers related to climate change through poetry, science, and technology. She holds a Ph.D. from U.C. Berkeley in Clinical Psychology and an MFA from Pacific University in Oregon. 🔗 Visit Julia's website (sites.google.com/view/juliablevine).
📅 Julia will present her poetry at near the start of our main event on Sunday at noon and at our Supporters' Reception.
Currently, she is the Poet Laureate of Davis and a 2022 American Academy of Poetry Poet Laureate Fellow for her work in building resiliency in teenagers related to climate change through poetry, science, and technology. She holds a Ph.D. from U.C. Berkeley in Clinical Psychology and an MFA from Pacific University in Oregon. 🔗 Visit Julia's website (sites.google.com/view/juliablevine).
📅 Julia will present her poetry at near the start of our main event on Sunday at noon and at our Supporters' Reception.
eggcorn
Indie Musician
eggcorn, the moniker of Bay Area singer-songwriter Lara Hoffman, refers to a word or phrase that sounds like and is mistook for another word or phrase.
On eggcorn's debut album, Your Own True Love (2022), Lara launched her introspective and deft songwriting into an intergalactic soundscape with indie rock, folktronica, and art pop influences. Recording in bed, Lara sang and scribbled over her miniature keyboard or guitar, gradually layering synths, beats, syncopated vocals, fuzz bass, and sentimental samples that constellate YOTL's darkly romantic and playful cosmos.
Since its release, she assembled her band, swapping synths and programmed beats for orchestral strings and live drums. eggcorn has steadily been recording solo and full-band repertoire, and mixing with Maryam Qudus. Learn more about eggcorn at eggcorn.info/music or follow via Instagram, YouTube, and Facebook (@justeggcorn). 📅 Lara will perform on Sunday in the mid-afternoon.
On eggcorn's debut album, Your Own True Love (2022), Lara launched her introspective and deft songwriting into an intergalactic soundscape with indie rock, folktronica, and art pop influences. Recording in bed, Lara sang and scribbled over her miniature keyboard or guitar, gradually layering synths, beats, syncopated vocals, fuzz bass, and sentimental samples that constellate YOTL's darkly romantic and playful cosmos.
Since its release, she assembled her band, swapping synths and programmed beats for orchestral strings and live drums. eggcorn has steadily been recording solo and full-band repertoire, and mixing with Maryam Qudus. Learn more about eggcorn at eggcorn.info/music or follow via Instagram, YouTube, and Facebook (@justeggcorn). 📅 Lara will perform on Sunday in the mid-afternoon.
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Sean O'Brien
Performing as Robert Ingersoll
Sean has for many years been performing, directing and teaching the art of acting in professional, community and educational theaters across the country.
Upon retiring from teaching, he began Every Corner Productions which boasts two one-man shows: "The Portable Poe Show" in which Sean performs dramatizations of Poe's poetry and short stories, and "Bob: The Words of Col. Robert Green Ingersoll" which is a composite of passages taken from Ingersoll's most memorable speeches.
Sean will perform as Robert Ingersoll, a lawyer, Civil War veteran, politician, and a very well known public speaker... often advertised as "The Great Agnostic."
📅 Sean will be orating at our Saturday evening Reception and on Sunday, both on stage in the mid afternoon and during the day near the sidewalk.
Andy Swan
Performing as Uncle Sam
It all began when Andy's oldest brother, George, taught him how to juggle back in 1966. At first Andy would visit the circuses just to see the jugglers, but once he saw what else the circus had to offer he fell in love. After high school he went off to join the DeWayne Bros. Circus in Oregon. During his year with them he learned just about everything there was to learn about circus life.
Andy will delight children and adults with juggling, balloon animals, magic, and all kinds of good-natured fun. Learn more about Andy from his website (sbcircus.com). 📅 Andy will be delighting our guests on Sunday in the afternoon, on the move through the crowd and exhibitor area.
Andy will delight children and adults with juggling, balloon animals, magic, and all kinds of good-natured fun. Learn more about Andy from his website (sbcircus.com). 📅 Andy will be delighting our guests on Sunday in the afternoon, on the move through the crowd and exhibitor area.
In Addition...
Our reception will also feature:
- Coming soon!