 Teun Voeten's piercing photography and informed cultural analysis provides a framework for understanding and empathizing with this particular subset of our culture that as a society, we work very hard to marginalize and ignore. He turns his unblinking eye on these people's narratives to show us something about ourselves.
See his U.S. Book Tour Dates Below By the end of the millennium, thousands of homeless people roamed the streets of Manhattan. A small group of them went underground. Invisible to society, they managed to start a new life in the tunnel systems of the city.
Acclaimed war photographer and cultural anthropologist Teun Voeten gained unprecedented access to this netherworld. For five months in 1994 and 1995 he lived, slept and worked in a tunnel underneath Manhattan's posh Upper West Side. With him, we meet Vietnam veterans, macro-biotic hippies, crack addicts, Cuban refugees, convicted killers, computer programmers, philosophical recluses and criminal runaways. Voeten describes their daily work, problems and pleasures with humor and compassion. He also witnessed the end of tunnel life.
The tunnel people were evicted in 1996, but Amtrak and homeless organizations offered them alternative housing. Some succeeded in starting again above ground, while others failed.
In this updated version of the book, Voeten tracks down the original tunnel dwellers and describes what has happened in the thirteen years since they left the tunnels. Dates East Coast Book Tour
Tuesday, September 7th, 2010, 7 PM.
Official Book Launch at the Carlton Arms Hotel
Carlton Arms,
160 East 25th Street, New York City.
info: 212 679 0680
Wednesday, September 8th, 2010. 7 PM.
Reading at the Brecht Forum
451 West Street,
Meat Market District, New York City.
info: 212 242 4201
Thursday, September 16th, 2010, 6 PM.
Official Opening of the Photo Exhibition at Umbrage Gallery
The exhibit will be opened by Stephanie Cowles,
Associate Director at Project Renewal.
111 Front Street, Dumbo, Brooklyn, NY.
info: 212 796 2707
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Friday, September 17th, 2010, 7 PM.
Reading at Bluestockings Bookstore and Activist Center
172 Allen Street, Lower East Side, New York City.
info: 212 777 6028
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Saturday, September 18th, 2010, 7 PM
Reading at the Wooden Shoe
Wooden Shoe Bookstore,
704 South Street, Philadelphia, PA
info: 215 413 0999
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Sunday, September 19th, 2010, 4 PM.
Reading at Red Emma's Bookstore and Coffeehouse
800 Saint Paul Street, Baltimore, MD.
info: 410 230 0450
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Monday, September 20th, 2010, 3 PM.
Reading at the Fall for the Book Festival
English Department,
George Mason University
4400 University Drive, Fairfax, VA (near DC).
Exact room number will confirmed later.
info: 703 993 3986
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also Monday, September 20th, 2010, 7pm-9pm.
Book Launch at La Casa
3166 Mt. Pleasant Street NW
Washington, DC
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Saturday, September 25th, 2010, 3 PM
Readings and discussion in conjunction with the DUMBO
Arts Festival at Umbrage Gallery
Hosted by Jamie Wellford, Senior Photo Editor at Newsweek.
111 Front Street, Dumbo, Brooklyn, NY.
info: 212 796 2707
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Monday, November 29th, 2010, 7pm-9pm.
HalfKing Literary Bar and Restaurant
505 West 23rd St. at 10th Ave.
New York, NY
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Tuesday, November 30th, 2010
Fundraiser at the Madison Avenue Presbyterian Church
Madison Avenue Presbyterian Church,
New York
Fundraising Event to Construct Showers
in the MAPC Shelter
More information will follow
West Coast Book Tour
Friday, September 10th, 2010, 4 PM PST
Webinar organized by Stimulus TV
Worldwide Through Internet,
Live from Los Angeles....
info: 310 310 2238 or info@StimulusTV.com
Saturday, September 11th, 2010, 11 AM
Forum Discussion at West Post Digital Studios
Organiszed by Stimulus TV and Hint Mint Inc.
Special Guest: Becky Dennison,
Homelessness Expert from L.A. Community Action Network.
West Post Digital Studios,
1703 Stewart Street, Santa Monica, CA.
info: 310 310 2238 or info@StimulusTV.com
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Sunday, September 12th, 2010, 7:30pm-9pm.
Presentation and Reading at Pegasus Books
2349 Shattuck Avenue
Berkeley, CA 94704
info: 510 649 1320
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Monday, September 13th, 2010, 7pm-8:30pm.
Presentation and Reading at The Green Arcade
1680 Market Street
San Francisco, CA 94102
info: 415 431 6800
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Tuesday, September 14th, 2010, 1pm-3pm.
Reading/Discussion at UCLA
Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism
The Director's Forum, Room 207
3502 Watt Way
Los Angeles, CA
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European Book Tour
Thursday, October 14th, 2010, 4pm-8pm.
Photo Exhibition at V!P's Gallery
Spiegelgracht 8
1017 JR
Amsterdam, Netherlands
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also Thursday, October 14th, 2010, 7pm-9:30pm.
European Book Launch and film screening at De Verdieping
Projection
of the ultimate tunnel documentary "Dark Days".
Discussion with Special Guest Documentary Maker
Marc Singer
De Verdieping,
Former Trouw Newspaper Building,
Wibautstraat 127, Amsterdam, Netherlands
info: 31 20 4637788
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Wednesday, October 20th, 2010, 7pm-8:30pm.
Presentation and Reading at The Frontline Club,
13 Norfolk Place, London W2 1QJ.
info: 44 207 479 8960
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Friday, October 22nd, 2010, 8 PM
Presentation, Reading and Slide Show at
De Kunstmaan Herfstrevue
De Kunstmaan,
Stedekestraat 72, Tilburg, Netherlands.
info: 31 13 5441126
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November, 2010, exact dates to be set
Photo Exhibition
HOST Gallery
info: 44 207 253 8801
1-5 Honduras Street, London EC1 Y 0TH
early December, 2010, exact dates to be set
Photo Exhibition and Forum with Homelessness Experts
V!P"s International Art Galleries Rotterdam
Westelijk Handelsterrein
Van Vollenhovenstraat 15, Rotterdam
info: 31 10 225 11 20
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