Archive for June 23rd, 2016
Tyehimba Jess @ South Dallas Cultural Center
What: African Diaspora: New Dialogues
Who: Tyehimba Jess
Hosted by: Author Sanderia Faye
Where: South Dallas Cultural Center, 7:30 PM, April 6
Special Guests, courtesy of Dallas Poetry Slam: Javon Rustin and Don Juan
Admission is Free and Open to the Public!
TYEHIMBA JESS: Before reading his impressive bio, we want you to also know that we’ve seen Tyehimba in action and highly recommend his appearance as an entertaining as well as educational experience.
Bio: Detroit native Tyehimba Jess’ first book of poetry, leadbelly, was a winner of the 2004 National Poetry Series. The Library Journal and Black Issues Book Review both named it one of the “Best Poetry Books of 2005.” Jess, a Cave Canem and NYU alumnus, received a 2004 Literature Fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts, and was a 2004-2005 Winter Fellow at the Provincetown Fine Arts Work Center. Jess is also a veteran of the 2000 and 2001 Green Mill Poetry Slam Team, and won a 2000 – 2001 Illinois Arts Council Fellowship in Poetry, the 2001 Chicago Sun-Times Poetry Award, and a 2006 Whiting Fellowship. He exhibited his poetry at the 2011 TEDxNashville Conference. Olio, his second collection, is forthcoming from Wave Books in April 2016. Jess is an Associate Professor of English at College of Staten Island. Jess’ fiction and poetry have appeared in anthologies such as Angles of Ascent: A Norton Anthology of Contemporary African American Poetry, Beyond The Frontier: African American Poetry for the Twenty-First Century, Role Call: A Generational Anthology of Social and Political Black Literature and Art, Bum Rush the Page: A Def Poetry Jam, Power Lines: Ten Years of Poetry from Chicago’s Guild Complex, Slam: The Art of Performance Poetry. His poetry has appeared in journals such as American Poetry Review, Brilliant Corners, Ploughshares, Obsidian III: Literature in the African Diaspora, Warpland: A Journal of Black Literature and Ideas, Mosaic, American Poetry Review, Indiana Review, Nashville Review and 580 Split.
Sanderia Faye is an award winning writer, born and raised in Gould, Arkansas. She is the author of Mourner’s Bench (University of Arkansas Press, September 2015). Her work has appeared in various literary journals and in Arsnick: The Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee in Arkansas, edited by historians Dr. Jennifer Wallach and Dr. John Kirk. Faye is co-founder and fellow at Kimbilio Center for Fiction. She moderated a 2015 AWP panel and the grassroots panel for the Arkansas Civil Rights Symposium during the Freedom Riders 50th Anniversary. She is a recipient of awards, residencies, and fellowships from Hurston/Wright Writers Conference, Eckerd College’s Writers in Paradise Conference, Callaloo Writers Workshop, Vermont, Writers Studio, The Writers’ Colony at Dairy Hollow, and Martha’s Vineyard Writers Residency. Faye is also a PhD student in English at North Texas University. She received an MFA in Creative Writing from Arizona State University, and a BS in Accounting from the University of Arkansas at Pine Bluff. She was an instructor for The United States Navy-Navy College Program for Afloat College Education (NCPACE).
ABOUT SOUTH DALLAS CULTURAL CENTER
The South Dallas Cultural Center is a community center with a wide variety of programs inspired by the vibrancy and diversity of the African Diaspora. The SDCC seeks to educate and inspire through the visual, media, literary and performing arts. SDCC has presented some of the most dynamic visual and performing arts in Dallas. Harold Steward is the Manager of SDCC after retirement of Vickie Meek, whose decades of service to promote art and racial equity have profoundly influenced the cultural life of Dallas and the development of a whole new generation of African American artists SDCC hosts plays, readings, children and youth educational outreach, gallery exhibitions and musical performance year round. The South Dallas Cultural Center is located at 3400 S Fitzhugh Ave, Dallas, TX 75210. For more info on SDCC, please contact (214) 939-2787.
Sponsored by South Dallas Cultural Center, with partial support from Richland College.
In conjunction with African Diaspora: New Dialogues, Jess will also appear:
Where: Richland Literary Festival, Richland College, 12800 Abrams Rd, 75243
When: April 6, 11 AM – 12:20 PM
Hosted by: Dr. Sobia Khan
34th Annual Literary Arts Festival, April 4-6, 2016
Lago Vista Gallery, Richland College Library
SCHEDULE OF EVENTS:
Tuesday, April4
11:00 am– Sanderia Faye, author of Mourner’s Bench
12:30 pm– Joe Stanco Faculty Reading
Wednesday, April 5
11:15 am– Matt Lyle, playwright of The Boxer, Hello Human Female and Barbecue Apocalypse
12:20 pm– Student Readings
Thursday, April 6
11: 00 am– Tyehimba Jess, keynote presentation followed by a fruit and cheese reception. Jess is a nationally renowned poet, author of leadbelly and Olio
Dan Savage @ The Kessler Theater
Oh Boy! He’s Back!
In 2010, WordSpace was honored to present Dan Savage in one of the most profoundly thought provoking and simultaneously entertaining evenings we’ve ever experienced. His combination of wit, ability to think on his feet while drawing from an encyclopedic brain makes any chance to experience this brilliant pundit a MUST SEE EVENT. Ask anyone.
Thank you, Dan, for returning to champion equal rights and benefit WordSpace.
When: Thursday, May 11
Where: The Kessler Theater
TICKETS: $35 SRO – $800 (Box Seating for 8)
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Oral Fixation – Best of Season 5 @ DCPH
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WordSpace is honored to be a partnering sponsor of Oral Fixation, created, coordinated and hosted by Nicole Stewart Schlesinger.
Oral Fixation @ Dallas City Performance Hall 9.21
WordSpace is honored to be a partnering sponsor of Oral Fixation, created, coordinated and hosted by Nicole Stewart Schlesinger.
This month’s show is entitled: “Out From Under The Rug” with stories about abortion.
Brent Green @ Dallas Poetry Slam
When: Friday, November 17, 8 pm
Where: Heroes Lounge, 7402 Greenville Ave, Dallas, TX 75231
Hosted by: Candy, SlamMaster, Dallas Poetry Slam
Admission: $5 or Buy a VIP Season Pass
WordSpace Members Free: RSVP appreciated
Brent C. Green is a free verse novelist and spoken word poet from Bryan, Texas, who advocates radical thoughts and honest questions expressed in unconventional styles. He began his poetry career while still attending high school in 2009 at Mic Check Poetry in Central Texas. Since then he has become a staple of his scene and a member of the 2011 Mic Check youth slam team along with the 2012, 2015, and 2016 regional teams and is the organization’s current acting writing director. In 2014 he graduated with a creative writing degree from Texas A&M and will pursue an MFA in poetry at Brown University next fall.
Brent is known for his earnestly hopeful view of love along with a pure notion of romance and marriage that is self-aware and never naïve. These topics are contrasted and melded with his defiant calls to action against nebulous and entrenched societal institutions told through stories stemming from his years of activist organizing and direct action.
Whether touring alone or with orchestral accompaniment, you will find Brent with both of his punk- rock-arms outstretched, his left a raised fist staring down injustice, and his right palm held as a warm offer to anyone who desires a loving heart and voice to speak for them.
Brent has two published poetry chapbooks with a third forthcoming: Onus (2012), Protested Love (2015), and Revolutionary Heart (spring 2017).
Video performance references: The Gullible Gospel of Love: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RkkGQR049MQ&sns Grandfather: A World War II Poem: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6c5fyDLxl9E
WordSpace is honored to partner with Dallas Poetry Slam
to produce Feature Readers on 3rd Fridays of every month.
Wayne Henry @ Dallas Poetry Slam
WordSpace is honored to partner with Dallas Poetry Slam to produce Feature Readers on 3rd Fridays of every month at Heroes Lounge, 7402 Greenville Ave, Dallas, TX 75231.
Hosted by SlamMaster Candy
Admission: $5 or Buy a VIP Season Pass
WordSpace Members Free: RSVP appreciated
Wayne Henry is a poet determined to paint life through his pen. He was raised in Compton California, exposed to a melting pot of different cultures, which allows for him to have a broad canvas for his work. Wayne Henry is the passionate poet who pens each line to watch it come alive through poetry. He welcomes you to Wayne’s World!
Melania-luisa @ Dallas Poetry Slam
WordSpace is honored to partner with Dallas Poetry Slam to produce Feature Readers on 3rd Fridays of every month at Heroes Lounge, 7402 Greenville Ave, Dallas, TX 75231. Hosted by Slam Master, Candy.
Admission: $5 or Buy a VIP Season Pass
WordSpace Members Free: RSVP appreciated
Melania-luisa is a first generation American. Her first language was spanish, thanks to her Dominican parents. She is a poet, writer and founder of She-Is-Americana, A movement centered on intersectional feminism, culture and politics. To learn more go to www.sheisamericana.com or follow her on Instagram as the self-proclaimed @feministmami.
Dallas Poetry Slam @ Heroes 1.20
WordSpace is honored to partner with Dallas Poetry Slam to produce Feature Readers on 3rd Fridays of every month at Heroes Lounge, 7402 Greenville Ave, Dallas, TX 75231.
Admission: $5 or Buy a VIP Season Pass
WordSpace Members Free: RSVP
Imani Cezanne @ Heroes
Born and raised in San Diego, CA, Imani Cezanne is a passionate
poet, workshop facilitator, community organizer and slam coach. She just recently returned home from taking 2nd place at the Women of the World Poetry Slam in Austin, Texas. In the past four years Imani Cezanne has been on four National Poetry Slam teams (San Diego (2), Oakland and Da Poetry Lounge), three of which placed in the top six at the National Poetry Slam. Last season, along with two of her team members, she was invited to perform on the TV One network’s Verses and Flow, a cable television show dedicated to showcasing performance poets from around the country, all while obtaining a bachelor’s degree in Africana Studies from San Francisco State University. Imani has
continued to grow as an artist while working with some of the
country’s leading poets including Rudy Francisco, Ant Black, and
Natasha Miller and been coached by San Diego’s Chris Wilson (San Diego Slam Team) and Da Poetry Lounge’s Shihan Van Clief (Da Poetry Lounge Slam Team). Imani is also the founding President of S.P.E.A.K. (SpokenPoetry Expressed by All Kinds), San Francisco State University’s first poetry-centered organization. She organized and hosted S.P.E.A.K.’s bi-monthly open mics which has showcased nationally known artists such as Rudy Francisco, Prentice Powell, Marshall Jones and more. She
facilitates their monthly writing workshops and coached SFSU’s first ever poetry slam team to 5th in the nation at the College Unions Poetry Slam Invitational this year.
WordSpace is honored to partner with Dallas Poetry Slam to produce Feature Readers on 3rd Fridays of every month at Heroes Lounge, 7402 Greenville Ave, Dallas, TX 75231.
Admission: $5 or Buy a VIP Season Pass
WordSpace Members Free: RSVP
Ebony Stewart @ Heroes
Ebony Stewart is a touring performance artist and slam poet who
has been active in the central Texas slam poetry scene and theater
community for over a decade. She has coached participants in the
Austin Neo-Soul Poetry Slam, finished first and fifth, respectively,
at the National Poetry Slam and the They Speak Youth Slam, and
finished eighth in the world at the Brave New Voices competition. The only adult female three-time Slam Champion in Austin, Texas, recently voted Top Female Touring Poet. Her work has been published in the Texas Observer, For Harriet, and Teen Vogue. She is the author of the poetry collections The Queen’s Glory & The Pussy’s Box, Ricochet and Love Letters To Balled Fists. In 2015, she debuted her one-woman show, Hunger, for which she won Outstanding Lead Actress in a drama and in 2016 nominated and recognized by the Austin Critics” Table. Ebony Stewart aka The Gully Princess aka “She’ll eat your cupcake” – she, her, story of the black girl winning.
WordSpace is honored to partner with Dallas Poetry Slam to produce Feature Readers on 3rd Fridays of every month at Heroes Lounge, 7402 Greenville Ave, Dallas, TX 75231.
Admission: $5 or Buy a VIP Season Pass
WordSpace Members Free: RSVP18
