Philippe Soupault

Parisian Dada Salon: Alan Bernheimer on Philippe Soupault, more

9 NOVEMBER 2016 — wednesday

"Lost Profiles: A Parisian Dada Salon": as part of the 2016 Dada World Fair, poet and translator Alan Bernheimer discusses his translation of the French literary classic with editor Garett Caples, Mark Calkins and Abigail Suski with presentations on the history of Parisian Dada, the program includes a special tribute by musician Amy X. Neuburg with a percussionist, Philippe Soupault's Lost Profiles: Memoirs of Cubism, Dada, and Surrealism; the classic book, appearing for the first time in English, is a first-person account of a crucial period in modernism, the transition from Dada to Surrealism through personal portraits of Joyce, Proust, Apollinaire, Reverdy, Cendrars, and more by the co-founder of the Surrealist Movement, co-sponsored by City Lights Books, The Mechanics' Institute Library, 57 Post Street, San Francisco, $15/members free, 6:00 (www.dadaworldfair.net)