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Matt Bagley @ ArtSpeak
ARTSPEAK:
Matt Bagley
November 5, 9 pm
MFA GALLERY
WordSpace presents Randall Matt Bagley’s performative work in conjunction with his exhibition opening at Mighty Fine Arts on November 5 at 9 pm. MFA Gallery is located at 409A N. Tyler St., Dallas, Tx in historic North Oak Cliff neighborhood west of downtown Dallas.
ArtSpeak @ MFA Gallery
Who: Inferno Texino: Andy Don Emmons, Clay Stinnett, Jason Cohen, Brad Wthrd, Mark Martinek
What: ArtSpeak
When: Saturday, August 6th
Where: Mighty Fine Arts, 409A Tyler St., 75208
Wordspace presents Artspeak with the legendary post skills ensemble “Inferno Texino” featuring the reknown Andy Don Emmons, Clay Stinnett, Brad Wthrd, Jason Cohen and Mark Martinek. The Inferno Texino clan are known to subvert sounds and rhythm into a liberating miasma of sonic transendence, This is music that pushes beyond the avant garde in order to arrive at the raw and elemental. Can you dance to it? Damn straight! So get your ears inflamed and motivate your lower chakra with the Inferno Texino Experience! You will be blessed as your mind gets undressed!
ArtSpeak performances are in conjunction with exhibition openings at Mighty Fine Arts.
In this exhibition, “B.A.’s Co-Creational Vortex” features new work by Brett Ardoin. This show opens Sat. Aug 6 with a reception for the artist from 6-9pm and will run till Sunday Sept. 11. Mighty Fine Arts is located at 409A N.Tyler in Historic North Oak Cliff 75208. “Brett” Ardoin was evoked in the primordial back waters of South Louisiana where the infernal humidity seeped into his brainpan and simmered into a seething excess of imagination. His seminal years were filled with the usual sordid episodes of wanton youth, casual sex and substances, filtered through a swampadelic haze of cultural misappropriation. Somehow he managed to transport himself across the state line to Dallas in order to align himself with more appreciative sensibilities. His “unique” presence found receptive acclaim and he unveiled his bold aesthetic agenda. He has declared himself a Co-Creative Performance Art Improvisational Magic Vibrationalist (Ladies Beware!} The fruits of his labor are finally revealed here in his inaugaral exhibit filled with furious gonzo energy and exuberance that isn’t afraid of sensory overload or “good taste” or disquieting conclusions. Step into the realm of the “B.A.” and get steeped in the vortex of the Co-Creational.
ARTSPEAK
August 6, 9 pm
MFA GALLERY
WordSpace presents performative work in conjunction with his exhibition opening at Mighty Fine Arts on September 17 at 9 pm. MFA Gallery is located at 409A N. Tyler St., Dallas, Tx in historic North Oak Cliff neighborhood west of downtown Dallas.
ArtSpeak. Randall Garrett @ MFA Gallery
ARTSPEAK:
RANDALL GARRETT
September 17, 9 pm
MFA GALLERY
WordSpace presents Randall Garrett’s performative work in conjunction with his exhibition opening at Mighty Fine Arts on September 17 at 9 pm. MFA Gallery is located at 409A N. Tyler St., Dallas, Tx in historic North Oak Cliff neighborhood west of downtown Dallas.
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)
WordSpace Premium Members Code:
wordspace@wordspace.us, 214-838-3554
RESCHEDULED FROM FEBRUARY 23 TO MAY 11
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.
