Zack Barowitz Reads the News
READS THE NEWS is a new SPACE civics exercise where distinguished community members share and read selected news items, articles, nonfiction passages, reviews, or other material before a live audience, with offbeat interdisciplinary accompaniment.
This episode of READS THE NEWS features Portland “flaneur” Zack Barowitz, with musical accompaniment by Jimmy Dority.
SPACE’s Reads the News program promotes collective meaning-making and play in a moment of information overload, political volatility, and burnout. At a time when the news is both difficult to engage with and impossible to ignore, this program shifts the practice of media consumption from the private to the public, allowing for critical reading, historical context and reflection.
Reading lists will be shared and sourced at the event.
Zack Barowitz is a flaneur.
Jimmy Dority is a Portland, Maine-based musician, composer, painter, educator, and faculty member at the Maine Academy of Modern Music (MAMM). A mainstay of the Portland music scene, Jimmy is a member of the band Modern Friendship. Hs 21-piece orchestra — Jimmy Do Right and the Pop Go Boom — made its first and only live performance 10 years ago right here on the SPACE stage.
