Sunday's Yak

A little recap:

We were originally scheduled to be in the Grand Tier part of the Center for the Arts. Well, Sunday morning, we all got an email saying how that spot had been reserved for a reception for the afternoon's recital. We were moved to a wing of the lobby, where chairs and a podium were provided. No microphone.

Turned out that the lobby is loud. Voices carry. We started the reading trying to have our readers shout, project, or otherwise individually attempt to enhance their volume. It didn't work. So, Bill Miller was kind enough to convince the CFA staff to let us into the big concert hall. Then, we had ourselves a reading.

It was kind of an intimidating space to occupy, but the sound was excellent, although I personally do prefer the intimacy of locations like Jazzman's, the Bistro, or other cafe-type venues.

Pictures should be going up on the website within the next day or so. And I apologize for the quality, my little Coolpix doesn't quite have the zoom capacity a space like the Concert hall requires.

Yak @ Fall for the Book--TODAY

Please join us at 5:00pm in the wing of the lobby of Center for the Arts for another spectacular Candid Yak performance.

Our readers will be:

Kevin "Jive Talkin" Stoy reading Poetry
Kati "Night Fever" Fargo reading Fiction
and Art "Boogie Child" Taylor reading Nonfiction

Come for the Candid Yak, stay for Tim O'Brien at 7:00--you don't even have to leave the building!

You can keep up with the Candid Yak and all our shennanigans at http://candidyak.gmu.edu./ Please email candidyak@gmail.com with any questions/concerns/compliments. Thanks.

One Yak Down

Well, the first Yak went very well for a first anything. The amplification system was a little bit late in its arrival to the venue, but overall, we had few hitches in the excitement. Here are some photos:


Brian Heston


Sara Henning


Wendy Bilen


Alexis Santi--the lone open mic reader

From this point forward, there will be a reader rotation, which means that each genre will take turns in each time position. Therefore, the order of readers listed on the main website schedule will not necessarily be the order in which they appear. When I'm doing the flyers, however, I am putting the readers down in the order that they will read. So, the flyer is right, and the website might not always be.

That is all.

The First Yak

To kick off the Candid Yak readings this year, we will have with us at Jazzman's Cafe in the basement of the Johnson Center:

• Brian Heston reading Fiction
• Sara Henning reading Poetry
• Wendy Bilen reading Nonfiction

Brian is a 3rd year MFA Fiction writer in the program. Sara Henning is a 2nd year poet, who has been published in several well-known journals. And Wendy is a 3rd year Nonfiction student and also teaches at NOVA.

We still have spots open for the Fall for the Book festival reading, which will be an excellent opportunity to reach an enthusiastic audience. Email us if you're interested!

We also still have room for Fiction and Nonfiction readers throughout the fall semester. If you don't feel up for doing a fifteen minute reading, come by the event and sign up for our open mic. There's one with every Yak.