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the louderARTS Project |
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2003 |
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2003 |
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Wednesday,
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synonymUS featuring Jane LeCroy with Tom Abbs |
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Monday,
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5th Year Anniversary CelebrationKicking off the new year with a free show featuring a live CD recording of a little bit louder (vol. I), with performances by Patricia Smith, Bob Holman, Cheryl Boyce Taylor, Suheir Hammad, Taylor Mali, Roger Bonair-Agard and many others. Hosted by Guy LeCharles Gonzalez and Lynne Procope. |
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Monday,
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louderEDGE: Willie Perdomolouder's favorite uncle returns to headline our newest format with an EDGE; plus, a surprise head-to-head slam between poetry heavyweights Roger Bonair-Agard & Taylor Mali. |
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Monday,
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SLAM THIS! Open featuring Lynne ProcopeThe one and only Elemental Woman headlines the first open SLAM THIS! of the year. |
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Monday,
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SLAM THIS! Open featuring Bernard Dolan
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Wednesday,
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synonymUS featuring Abena KoomsonAlways an open call for poets, dancers, singers, breakers, painters, DJs, musicians and filmmakers to participate in a live interactive performance art workshop. |
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Monday,
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InterCollegiate SLAM THIS! featuring Kate Makkai
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Monday,
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SNOWED OUT!
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Monday,
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SLAM THIS! Open featuring Sou MacMillan
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Monday,
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SLAM THIS! Open featuring Celena Glenn
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Wednesday,
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synonymUS featuring Jen AbramsAlways an open call for poets, dancers, singers, breakers, painters, DJs, musicians and filmmakers to participate in a live interactive performance art workshop. |
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Monday,
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SLAM THIS! Open featuring Alexis O'Hara
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Tuesday,
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Acentos featuring Guy LeCharles GonzalezThe prodigal son returns to the Bronx to kick off louderARTS' newest series. |
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Monday,
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louderEDGE: Morris Stegosaurus |
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Monday,
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SLAM THIS! Open featuring Eric GuerrieriLast open slam of the season! |
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Tuesday,
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Acentos featuring Edward Garcia... native New Yorker, well known throughout NYC's poetry venues. Ed's poetry is a melange of humor and emotion, which is the perfect vehicle for his social commentary. The Acentos crowd braces for "Peligro!" when Ed hits the Bronx! |
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Monday,
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UPPERCASE: Elana Bell, T'ai Freedom Ford, Raymond Daniel Medina, and Rachelle Street |
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Wednesday,
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synonymUS featuring Slanty-Eyed Mama (Kate Rigg & Lyris)Always an open call for poets, dancers, singers, breakers, painters, DJs, musicians and filmmakers to participate in a live interactive performance art workshop. |
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Monday,
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5th Anniversary louderJAMCelebrating 5 years of getting a little bit louder at 13 Bar Lounge with special musical guests, the semi-finals seeding lottery and the usual gang of idiots. |
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Tuesday,
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Acentos featuring Sabrina Hayeem-Ladani... Singer/Actress/Educator/Poet she is the total package of Spoken Word. Her dynamic performances have earned her an invite to this year's Calabash festival and bring her to the Acentos stage. |
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Saturday,
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Impossible Home
A louderARTS Play directed by Raymond Daniel Medina.
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Monday,
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SLAM THIS! Semi-Finals I featuring K-Swift & The ProjectSabrina Hayeem-Ladani, Dawn Saylor, Oscar Bermeo, Roger Bonair-Agard, and F. Omar Telan go head-to-head in a four round battle for the Finals. |
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Monday,
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SLAM THIS! Semi-Finals II featuring Karen RockowerMara Jebsen, Lynne Procope, T'ai Freedom Ford, Raymond Daniel Medina, and Shawn Randall go head-to-head in a four round battle for the Finals. |
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Tuesday,
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Acentos featuring Grisel... continuing her work at merging music, poetry and art, while at the same time inspiring her students to do the same as an English professor at Hudson County Community College and bringing it all to the Bronx's Acentos series. |
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Monday,
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SLAM THIS! Semi-Finals III featuring Maya AzucenaEdward Garcia, Marty McConnell, Shappy, Claudia Alick, and Ishle Yi Park go head-to-head in a four round battle for the Finals. |
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Monday,
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louderJAM featuring voodooluluMixing poetry & music, louderJAM features the best talent in NYC. voodoolulu is in the spotlight this week, with their "pleasure-ride approach to music [that] makes for a guaranteed freakfest." (TimeOUT NY) With special guests Farbeon, Omri and an excerpt from "Impossible Home." Hosted by Guy LeCharles Gonzalez & DJ Frank Rempe. |
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Wednesday,
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synonymUS featuring Angels with Attitude (Rachelle Street & Edward Clapp)Always an open call for poets, dancers, singers, breakers, painters, DJs, musicians and filmmakers to participate in a live interactive performance art workshop. |
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Monday,
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SLAM THIS! Grand Finale & CD ReleaseThe road to the National Poetry Slam starts right here! Roger Bonair-Agard, T'ai Freedom Ford, Shappy, Claudia Alick, Shawn Randall, F. Omar Telan, Marty McConnell, Lynne Procope and Dawn Saylor battle it out for Team NYC-Union Square 2003. Plus, the release of 5 PAST 13 (a little bit louder: volume 1) [link to CD page], a live CD recording celebrating 5 years of poetry at 13 Bar Lounge, featuring 22 tracks by Suheir Hammad, Patricia Smith, Bob Holman, Staceyann Chin, Cheryl Boyce-Taylor, Willie Perdomo, Dawn Saylor, Emanuel Xavier along with Elana Bell, Oscar Bermeo, Roger Bonair-Agard, Peter James Conti, Edward Garcia, Guy LeCharles Gonzalez, Sabrina Hayeem-Ladani, Stephen Maher, Marty McConnell, Raymond Daniel Medina, GinnaKarla Nicolas, Ishle Yi Park, Lynne Procope and Rachelle Street. Hosted by Guy LeCharles Gonzalez & DJ Frank Rempe. |
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Tuesday,
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Acentos featuring Emanuel XavierWith Americano, Emanuel Xavier considers what it means to be American--but Latino; Latino--but gay; Nuyorican--but Ecuadorian; revolutionary--but not an activist. Fresh off his HBO Def Poetry taping, Emanuel takes the 6 north to share his work at the Blue Ox Bar. |
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Monday,
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louderEDGE: Tony BrownWorcester, MA poet, Tony Brown steps out on the EDGE, combining principles of traditional Western form and structure with ideas borrowed from jazz improvisation, punk esthetics, popular culture, spiritual traditions from all over the world. Followed by a head-to-head poetry bout: Shappy vs. Guy LeCharles Gonzalez. Hosted by Roger Bonair-Agard & DJ Frank Rempe. |
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Monday,
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MEMORIAL DAY! No Show Scheduled |
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Monday,
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SLAM THIS!: The 1-2-3 Slam!
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Monday,
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louderEDGE: Cheryl Boyce-Taylorand in the Head to Head challenge: Tai Freedom-Ford vs. Celena Glenn in a head-to-head bout that's Bar 13's dreadlocked new brilliance vs. Urbana's dreadlocked strange genius, which is bigger than Freddy vs. Jason, than Mary Poppins vs. The Sound of Music, yes, bigger than Zest vs. Dial. So whether you prefer Jalapeño to Chipotle, come out because it's gonna be hot! |
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Tuesday,
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Acentos: Steven Bonafide RojasHosted by Oscar Bermeo |
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Wednesday,
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synonymUS featuring Sou Macmillan and Daily MouseAlways an open call for poets, dancers, singers, breakers, painters, DJs, musicians and filmmakers to participate in a live interactive performance art workshop. |
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Monday,
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louderJAM: KARL MARX featuring the talents of Ainsley Burrows.
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Monday,
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womanEDGE: featuring lyrical poet Mara JebsenPlus, don't miss the full-contact, wear your tiara, day of beauty, kiss my grits head-to-head bout between Lynne Procope and Dawn Saylor! and all night: open mic including short sex poems by women you know and should have loved. |
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Tuesday,
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Acentos: ToroHosted by Oscar Bermeo |
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Monday,
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louderJAM: Urban Folk artist Blair returns to NYC!We're not kidding when we say, you gotta see, hear, and get to know, Blair, newly signed recording artist and Detroit based poet/singer/songwriter and winner of this year's National Poetry Slam Team Championship with Team Detroit. Get your party started on Mondays! and of course, the OPEN MIC. |
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Monday,
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Slam This!: ROB NIELLand the Cover Slam |
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Tuesday,
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AcentosHosted by Oscar Bermeo |
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Monday,
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louderEDGE: Maria Mazzioti Gillanand the League of Undignified Commoners Slam! |
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Monday,
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Slam This!: Danny Solisand the Survivor Slam |
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Tuesday,
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Acentos featuring Cheryl Boyce-TaylorHosted by Oscar Bermeo |
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Monday,
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Slam This!: Aracelis Girmayand the New York City Regional Slam |
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Monday,
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louderEDGE: Rebecca HartTeam send off & louderAUCTION |
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Monday,
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louderMONDAYS: Team Union Square 2003
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Tuesday,
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Acentos featuring AnacaonaHosted by Oscar Bermeo |
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Monday,
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Woman Noise: RAC McKibbens
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Monday,
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upperCASE: Jai, Jayme del Rosario & Riuch Villar
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Tuesday,
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Acentos featuring Louis Reyes-RiveraHosted by Oscar Bermeo |
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Monday,
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Slam This!: REGIE CABICO & The Boyz R Not Magik Slam!
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Monday,
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louderEDGE: HAL SIROWITZ
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Tuesday,
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Acentos featuring Karen JaimeThe Nuyorican Slammistress proves that hard work behind the scenes can also equal to fierce delivery in fron of the mic. |
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Monday,
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Slam This!: ISHLE YI PARK
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Monday,
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GrooveNation: CAVE CANEM SHOWCASE
Cave Canem is a national community of emerging and established poets, a family of black writers who create, publish, perform, teach, and study poetry, and support each others' work. TONYA HEGAMIN, DANTE MICHEAUX, & RAINA LEON have studied with Yusef Komunyaaka, Marilyn Nelsom, Cornelius Eady, and others-- and have agreed to grace 13 Bar|Lounge with the results of their work. |
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Tuesday,
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Acentos featuring Jorge MonterossaJorge Monterrosa is a 21-year old first generation Salvadorean-American poet from the Culver City neighborhood of Los Angeles. A former National Teen Poetry Slam Champion, Jorge has performed in San Francisco, Ann Arbor, on MTV's "Rock The Vote", and at a plethora of venues throughout LA. He has won numerous prizes, including the $10,000 "Beating the Odds" educational scholarship sponsored by the Fulfillment Fund, the $1000 Housing Project talent show sponsored by the LA Housing Project Authority, and the "Sports and the Essay" contest sponsored by the Los Angeles Times. |
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Monday,
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Slam This!: TAYLOR MALIJoin the national slam champion, author, and spoken word maven as he celebrates the release of his new CD, CONVICTION, with us. Four-time national slam champion team member, author of "What Learning Leaves," star villain of SlamNation, two-time HBO Def Poet, Taylor has performed his work all over the world, from Alaska to Beijing and back again. Always entertaining, ever in demand, Taylor promises to bring his all to Bar 13 again. |
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Monday,
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WomanNoise: DAPHNE GOTTLIEBThe delightful Ms. Gottlieb is at the vanguard of dangerous lesbian literature. This one-woman faultline will shift the ground under your feet all night long. Women are encouraged to bring a poem or two for the open mic, and men are welcome to read a poem of their own along with one by their favorite female poet. |
Monday,
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louderMONDAYS: Smoking Lovely Book Launch PartyWillie Perdomo reads from his new book with guests Rich Villar, Jai, Jayme del Rosario, Guy LeCharles Gonzalez, John Rodriguez on the mic and DJ Center from the Open Thought Crew on the one and twos. |
Tuesday,
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Acentos featuring Raymond Daniel MedinaAcentos becomes synonymUS with music and poetry as the Bronx's favorite orchestrator of verse and notes shares his amazing talents with the Blue Ox Bar! Never one to travel alone, Ray promises to bring not only the magic of guitar strings, conga drums, trombone slides, and the melody of the Roland 505 but also some special surprise guests to provide vocal accompaniment. |
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Monday,
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Slam This!: JOHN S HALLHall has written originally and successfully in every genre and if now bringing his detachable poetry and his unique style to louderMONDAYS. Show up early to sign up for the Slam and the open mic. |
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Monday,
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Slam This!: J*METhis poet is the fine edge of where poetry could go if we pray to the right gods. Evocative, imaginative canon crossing work from a writer who has only just begun to thrill. |
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Tuesday,
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Acentos featuring MAHINA MOVEMENT
What do you get when you mix the raw uncut thruth of the Loisaida, add in the siren call of the Pacific, and the heat of a Southwest chipolte? The incredible ladies of Mahina Movement! A night of collaborative magic and powerful poetry served up special-- just for the BX! |
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Monday,
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Slam This!: GENEVIEVE VAN CLEVEThis Austin slam icon and hilarious feminist (yes, we said it -- she's funny AND smart) will MAKE you believe that Texans can articulate and write their own speeches. Yes, she is that good! Genevieve has rocked stages from Chicago to Amsterdam and back again. |
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Monday,
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Slam This!: SAMANTHA RAHEEMSomewhere between an MFA in poetry, a Cave Canem fellowship, and the Back Talk Poetry Troupe, we find Samantha, and she finds our stage! Warm up with some verbal sunshine from this Trini Floridian. |
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Monday,
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louderEDGE: SHANE KOYCZANThe 2000 National Slam Champ surrenders to our most daring format: a challenge to deliver brand new writing and submit to a probing interview. Do not miss the latest edition in the new tradition of forcing the best to top themselves; come hear all new and rarely-heard work by this internationally known, incredibly energetic, and reportedly prolific poet. |
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Tuesday,
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Acentos featuring Willie PerdomoThe 'Smoking Lovely' tour continues as Willie brings his Barrio verse just a bit north of 125th Street. Few poets can capture the truth of the Latino experience in such an honest, insightful voice that acknowledges our struggle while celebrating our victories. |
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Thursday,
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synonymUS FUNKtion: synonymUS JAMThis live improvisational format brings multimedia artists together with a focus on poetic narrative. Poets, musicians, dancers and painters hammer out collaborations in this audience-interactive workshop. Bring your instruments or use ours. All are welcome to perform and shape new work in Chashama's newest space. |
Friday,
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synonymUS FUNKtion: Ascension
Acentos brings new voices from the Blue Ox Bar of the Bronx to TIXE's stage: Catch the buzz of 'multiple personality folk-jazz-rock constellation,' better known as Rebecca Hart. Rebecca, master of songwriting, guitar and voice, will perform songs from her three albums. |
Saturday,
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synonymUS FUNKtionRhythm occillating like english on the edge of the Word, music becomes a necessary FUNKtion in the evolution of poetry. synonymUS and the louderARTS Project introduce the poets who can bring it with a beat! HBO Def Poet, Roger Bonair-Agard is joined for this one time event by Mara Jebsen, Grisel-Toro & Friends and Say Word's Farbeon and Rabbi Darkside. FUNKtion takes these lyric-tip artists on a trip to right side of rhythm. |
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Monday,
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Community~Word Project Fundraiser featuring FELICE BELL, RUSSEL G JONES and ISHLE YI PARK
Join a line-up of fantastic featured poets, check out the gorgeous murals painted by NYC kids, and support this great cause. |
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Tuesday,
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Acentos featuring FishThe man behind the scenes steps out of the shadows and into the spotlight sharing the stories, ruminations, and poems that have manifested one year after his upperCASE feature. A night so big we had to enlist the services of special guest host, Guy Le Charles Gonzalez, to handle the crowd! |
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Monday,
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Slam This!: Jason CarneyJason Carney, for the unaware, is the ultimately unlikely combination of riveting performer, fantastic poet, genuine redneck, reformed skinhead and dedicated activist for tolerance and acceptance. HBO Def Poet, member of four national poetry slam teams, and a Bar 13 favorite, Carney never fails to amaze onstage. |
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Tuesday,
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Acentos featuring Alixa Garica + Naima PennimanHosted by Oscar Bermeo |
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