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Started up in early 2010 by Kirstin Innes and Anneliese Mackintosh, Words Per Minute is a Sunday afternoon event combining spoken word, live music, film and performance. Everyone gets ten minutes to impress the audience - no matter how famous they are.
Past guests have included novelists such as Ewan Morrison and Alan Bissett, performers such as Martin O'Connor and Gary McNair, and live music from Swimmer One and DMC contender Big Tajj.
www.wordsperminute.org.uk/WPM/Home
Image: Neil Thomas Douglas.
Dr. Roberto Marquez thanking the audience for the Louis Reyes Rivera Lifetime Achievement Award at the 9th Annual Voices for the Voiceless Poetry Concert.
Jamaican-feminist poet, Donna Smith, in performance at the Women's Festival, Amphitheatre Backpackers, Bergville, South Africa.
Jamaican-feminist poet, Donna Smith, in performance at the Women's Festival, Amphitheatre Backpackers, Bergville, South Africa.
Tracie Morris
In Performance with a multi-media presentation!
Ottawa Premiere
8:00pm
Thursday, January 15, 2015
Ottawa Art Gallery
(Firestone Gallery)
Arts Court
2 Daly Avenue
Ottawa, Ont.
By donation - $5 to $10 suggested.
More info: abseries.org
Tracie Morris is a poet who has worked extensively as a page-based writer, sound poet, critic, scholar, bandleader, actor and multimedia performer. Her sound installations have been presented at the Whitney Biennial, MoMA, Ronald Feldman Gallery, The Silent Barn, The Jamaica Center for Arts and Learning, The Drawing Center, The Gramsci Monument with Thomas Hirshhorn for the DIA Foundation and other galleries and museums. She also leads her own eponymous band and is lead singer for Elliott Sharp's group, Terraplane. Tracie is the recipient of NYFA, Creative Capital and other grants, fellowships and awards for poetry and performance. Tracie presents her work extensively as a poet, performer and scholar around the globe and has presented, performed and researched in almost 30 countries and 37 US States. She has contributed to, and been written about in, several anthologies of literary criticism including I’ll Drown My Book: Conceptual Writing By Women, American Women Poets in the 21st Century, Eco-language Reader and An Exaltation of Forms. Her most recent poetry collection, Rhyme Scheme, (Zasterle Press, 2012) includes a sound poetry CD. She is also the author of Intermission (Soft Skull Press, 1998) Her next book, Eyes Wide Shut: A not-neo-benshi Read will be coming out in 2015 from Kore Press. She was recently featured on the experimental blues recording 4am Always, with Elliott Sharp’s band, Terraplane, She holds an MFA in Poetry from Hunter College, has studied classical British acting technique extensively at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art in London and holds a PhD in Performance Studies from New York University. She was also the CPCW Poetics fellow of the University of Pennsylvania. She is a member of the Modern Language Association, Associated Writing Programs, The Shakespeare Society and The Shakespeare Forum. In addition to working at VCFA, Tracie is Professor and Coordinator of Performance + Performance Studies at Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, New York.
Written by Kelly Zen Yie-Tsai
Produced by Nancy Kim, Ying Le and Kelly Zen Yie-Tsai
Directed by Jesse Y. Jou
Scenic Design by Chien-Yu Peng
Costume Design by Valérie Thérèse Bart
Lighting Design by Alan Edwards
Sound Design by Mike Skinner
HERE Arts Center
Photo by Rick Ngoc Ho
Jello Biafra, speaking (for a very, very long time) at the Arches, in Glasgow.
Top row, Jello brandishes a photograph of George and Laura Bush, sent to him by some wag in the Republican party. It's inscribed, "To Jello - Thanks for all your support".
Middle row, performing "A Message from our Sponsor".
Bottom row, reliving a bizarre telephone conversation with Al Jourgensen of Ministry.
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YouTube has an interesting clip of a 1979 TV news story about him running for mayor of San Francisco (he didn't win).
And here's a link to a Flickr set of Jello's photographs of New Orleans the year after hurricane Katrina.
46th Annual Smithsonian Folklife Festival CREATIVITY AND CRISIS: UNFOLDING THE AIDS MEMORIAL QUILT Program on the National Mall in Washington DC on Wednesday afternoon, 4 July 2012 by Elvert Barnes Photography
ARTISTS AGAINST AIDS
SPOKEN WORD
Mary Bowman, Spoken Word Artist, Suitland, Maryland
Red Hot Stage / Tent
3:30 - 4:15 pm set
Visit the 46th Smithsonian Folklife Festival 2012 CREATIVITY AND CRISIS: UNFOLDING THE AIDS MEMORIAL QUILT Program / ARTISTS AGAINST AIDS website at www.festival.si.edu/2012/creativity_and_crisis/artists_ag...
Visit Elvert Barnes 46th SMITHSONIAN FOLKLIFE FESTIVAL 4 July 2012 docu-project at elvertbarnes.com/46thSFF4July2012