Dumbarton Oaks

The Edenville Council: Brooklyn Addendum would like to acknowledge the importance and charm of Dumbarton Oaks in Georgetown. The EC:BA held their annual conference there over labor day weekend, 2008. A champagne toast was conducted in the lower garden after the convocation and reading of ancient babylonian texts.

Herbie (Mister Perfect): A Life Fulfilled

Those of you who knew the legend, personally or mythically, Herbie (mister perfect, big special, big perfect, mister mister, dinner kitty, nona or neu neu) passed away today after a short illness at age 15 and 10 months. He lived a long and very exciting life full of adventure and intrigue.
An orphan at birth, Herbie [...]

Requiescat in Pace: Joybubbles

The Blind Man who Spoke to the Telephone and It Answered Back.
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/12/30/magazine/30joybubbles-t.html?ref=magazine

Devon Costello at Taxter and Spengemann

The Edenville Council: Brooklyn Addendum would like to expound for a brief moment on the recent exhibition of Devon Costello at Taxter & Spengemann Gallery in Chelsea. This exhibit is important to the EC:BA because its whole ‘mies en scene’ correlates with the charter and core belief structure espoused by the Council.
In his solo exhibition, [...]

Cicero vs Catiline: A New Year’s Holocaust

In keeping with the Edenville Council’s annual new year readings and ‘burning in effigy’ event, the Council decided that this year’s theme will be Cicero’s Oration Against Catiline.
The evening will begin with general readings of classical texts and modernist masterpieces followed by the spectacular burning of an effigy of Catiline while reading aloud in Latin, [...]

Oliver is not a River in Egypt

(to woofie)
i had a dream and frank o’hara was in it.
and he told me
to send you that poem
because
that poem
well, it was really an avatar
of an olive leaf
deeply green and
falling from a tree
and of living my life
under free association
and living as variously as possible
leaving little left
but leaves and
leaves and leaves of grass
but you plus what with [...]

EC:BA Screens Pasolini’s Teorema

The Edenville Council: Brooklyn Addendum is pleased to announce the screening of Pier Paolo Pasolini’s 1968 film, Teorema. The EC:BA screens various Pasolini films throughout the year at their Brooklyn or Warwick, NY locations. Pasolini’s cinematic and poetic works are central to the canon prescribed by the EC:BA.
Teorema by Pier Paolo Pasolini
Terence Stamp plays a [...]

Announcing the Edenville Council on the Humanities: Brooklyn Adddendum

Located at 178 Ainslie street in the leafy Williamsburg section of Brooklyn, The Edenville Council’s Brooklyn Addendum (EC:BA) serves under the same charter as its parent organization.
The essential aim of the organization is to promote the Humanities and Arts in a manner distinctively affiliated to the Occidental Development Foundation International (ODFI) Whose noble and vaunted [...]