ARMISTICE DAY WAR POETRY READING

Australian soldiers in Ypres, Belgium, 1917

photo by Frank Hurley

At 11:00 on the eleventh day of the eleventh month of 1918, “The War to End All Wars” came to an end.

Designated Armistice Day, it is still commemorated as such in France and Belgium, as Remembrance Day in the UK and Commonwealth countries, as Volkstrauertag in Germany, and as Veterans Day in the United States.

In World War I, on the Western Front, a years-long stalemate between the German, French, and British armies would see millions of men die pointlessly in the living horror of trench warfare.

Out of this colossal tragedy arose poetry that is among the most beautiful, disturbing, and compelling poetry ever written.

“These men are worth your tears.”
--Wilfred Owen

Classic World War I Poetry

read by Radigan Neuhalfen

Mongolia, Ulaanbaatar, Cafe Amsterdam

2010 November 10, Wednesday

20:00 (8:00 PM)

Halloween Reading - H.P. Lovecraft - Mongolia

“I have an odd craving to whisper about those few frightful hours in that ill-rumored and evilly-shadowed seaport of death and blasphemous abnormality. The mere telling helps me to restore confidence in my own faculties; to reassure myself that I was not the first to succumb to a contagious nightmare hallucination. It helps me, too, in making up my mind regarding a certain terrible step which lies ahead of me...”

--H.P. Lovecraft, “The Shadow over Innsmouth”

Unnatural sex acts, a dangerous secret cult, and one very long night...

H.P. Lovecraft's

“The Shadow over Innsmouth”

read by Radigan Neuhalfen

Cafe Amsterdam

Wednesday, 2010 October 27

8:00 PM

In the shunned New England seaport town of Innsmouth, something is very much not right, as one unfortunate traveller discovers on one unforgettable night.

Written and published in 1936 during the worldwide Great Depression, this popular and provocative classic of cosmic horror treats themes of economic collapse and desperation, miscegenation, racism, fear of the foreign, and humanity's wilful though perhaps necessary misinterpretation of the nature of the universe and our own role within it.

The subject of ever-increasing academic and mainstream attention, H.P. Lovecraft (1890-1937) stands as the most influential American horror writer since Edgar Allan Poe.

Radigan Neuhalfen is the author of the novel The Steppe and the blog The Crush of All Things.

Cafe Amsterdam

Mongolia, Ulaanbaatar

Queens of Mongolia

"Jack Weatherford will give a talk entitled 'Queens of Mongolia' this coming Wednesday the 16th of June at 8pm.

"His presentation will focus on the daughters of Genghis Khan, their history and achievements and their place in Mongolia’s society. This is the story of his second book: The Secret History of the Mongol Queens: How the Daughters of Genghis Khan Rescued His Empire.

"Jack Weatherford is a professor of anthropology at Macalester College in Minnesota. He is a specialist in tribal peoples and the author of Indian Givers, Native Roots, Savages and Civilization, The History of Money, and Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World.

"Come early as this talk is expected to be exceedingly popular. See you all then!

"--Café Amsterdam"

www.Amsterdam.mn

First Lovecraft Reading in Mongolia

HALLOWEEN SPECIAL at Cafe Amsterdam in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia:
H.P. Lovecraft Horror Stories as read by Radigan Neuhalfen

"The oldest and strongest emotion of mankind is fear, and the oldest and strongest kind of fear is fear of the unknown."
--H.P. Lovecraft

Thrill to a selection of H.P. Lovecraft's sanity-shattering horror stories in a special Halloween live reading by Radigan Neuhalfen.

H.P. Lovecraft (1890-1937) is the most influential American horror writer of the Twentieth Century and the acknowledged heir to Edgar Allan Poe. Through his stories, which blended gothic horror with elements of science fiction, Lovecraft presented a stark and compelling view of the universe as something incomprehensibly and horrifyingly vast, within which great forces operate that are essentially indifferent--and perhaps even malignant--towards humanity, a view that has come to be known as "cosmic horror."

Everybody is welcome Wednesday October 28 at 8PM in Cafe Amsterdam for a very special and thrilling evening.

Cafe Amsterdam: Speed Dating -- Завгүй залуу та хайраа хайж байна уу?

"Cafe Amsterdam has decided to launch speed dating for Mongolians. The first event will be held on Friday 8th May 2009 at 7pm. We realize that many of our mailing list subscribers are non Mongolians but we would be very grateful if you would take the time to print the attached PDF file and put it up in your office or spread the word to your Mongolian co workers.

"Please feel free to forward the email to anyone you feel maybe interested.

"Завгүй залуу та хайраа хайж байна уу?

"Амстердам Кафе Монголд анх удаа ‘Speed Dating’ зохион байгуулж байна.

"5 сарын 8ны Ням гарагийн 19 цагт

"Гоёмсог хувцасаа өмсөж ирээрэй. Хүн бүртэй уулзаж танилцахад 3 мин л бий.
25-35 насны 25 залуу, 25 бүсгүйчүүдийг урьж байна.

"Үйл ажиллагаанд оролцохоо бүртгүүлэхийн тулд cafe(at)amsterdam(dot)mn нд нэр, нас, холбоо барих утасныхаа дугаараа имейлээр явуулна уу. Хамгийн түрүүнд бүртгүүлсэн 25 бүсгүй, 25 залууг эхний ээлжинд сонгон оруулах болно. Эхний ээлжинд оролцож чадаагүй бол санаа зовох хэрэггүй. Энэ үйл ажиллагааг 2 долоо хоног болгон зохион байгуулж байх болно.

"Бүсгүйчүүд сууцгаан, залуу бүртэй 3 минутын хугацаанд ярилцан танилцах болно. Уулзалт болгоны дараа залуу бүсгүй хоёр тухайн хүнтэйгээ дахин уулзах хүсэлтэй эсэхийг нууц хуудас дээр тэмдэглэх бөгөөд хэрвээ таны сонгосон хүн таныг мөн сонгосон байвал, бид та хоёрыг холбож уулзуулах болно.

"Таксны 10 000 төгрөгийн үнэнд нэг коктайл дагалдаж ирнэ."

--http://www.amsterdam.mn/speed-dating/42-speed-dating