Curated by Meagan Rust and Richard Harper, Translation aims to highlight the process of interpretation from the visual medium to text and vice versa by having a number of writers and visual artists interpret one another’s work. The opening reception for Translation runs from 6pm-9pm tonight, and the show continues Saturday, April 17th, from 12pm-5pm. It’s free, it’s all-ages, and there will be beer and wine available with ID.

More details from the horse’s mouth:

The curators of Translation have selected two poems, a sculpture, and a painting that are included in the show.  Visual artists were asked to create a response or interpretation to one of the written pieces, and writers are asked to create a response or interpretation to one of the visual pieces.  Translation features artwork and performance by James Perrin, Lauren Youngling, Charlie Rauh + Megan Harrold (Cultural Reflex Dance), James Ford, Jonathan Lisenby, Matt Jernigan, Sara Figel, Angelica Paige Ridley, Todd Hogue, and Meagan Rust, with prose and poetry by Jeff Hardin, Richard Harper, Claudia Overstreet, Declan Gould, Drew Maynard, Laura Elizabeth Faison, and Scott Metzger.

Once the art show winds down, Open Lot will welcome Dutch composer and lutist Jozef van Wissem to its space.

Jozef van Wizzem rocks the lute (Photo: Stuart Green)

Hailed by Rolling Stone for his “tender, minimalist picking and gold-spray overdubs” (and really, how many lutists ever get reviewed by Rolling Stone?), van Wissem will reinvent the lute before your ears and eyes from 9pm-11pm. Che Chen and Robbie Lee open. Price is $10 at the door, or $15 with an open bar. Mmmmmmm, open bar.

Open Lot is located at 1307 Jewell Street here in East Nashville.

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Greetings Fellow East Nashvillians,

My name is Nick Valentino and I want to thank the East Nashville Blog for letting me come here today and guest blog.

The reason for my visit is that I’m on a thirty day blog tour in support of my first published novel, a Steampunk story called Thomas Riley published by Echelon Press. (Today is day eighteen of the tour.)

If you don’t know what the Steampunk genre is, I like to describe it as a Patterson House-styled drink. Chill 1 part Jules Verne, mix with two parts Indiana Jones, add a mixer of H.G. Wells, and for flavor twist in a little Frankenstein. So if you’re into science fiction, alternative history or mad scientists with steam powered inventions, keep reading.

Here’s a little more about Thomas Riley:

For more than twenty years West Canvia and Lemuria have been at war. From the safety of his laboratory, weapons designer Thomas Riley has cleverly and proudly empowered the West Canvian forces. But when a risky alchemy experiment goes horribly wrong, Thomas and his wily assistant Cynthia Bassett are thrust onto the front lines of battle and forced into shaky alliances with murderous sky pirates in a deadly race to kidnap the only man who can undo the damage: the mad genius behind Lemuria’s cunning armaments.

As for me, I’ve lived in Nashville my entire life but I’m relatively new to East Nashville. When you make a move like I did, the places you visit regularly change. Instead of going to Fido or Starbucks to write, I don’t know what good places to write in the East are. So, let me know what you think the best places to write in East Nashville are. If you’re not a writer, where do you see people writing? Hm, it would almost be a good category for “Best of Nashville”.

You can find out more about Nick’s book at http://sirthomasriley.com. Signed copies are available for purchase at http://thomasriley.bigcartel.com/ or http://www.echelonpress.com.

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