Archive for the ‘Events’ Category
ArtSpeak – William Massey III @ MFA Gallery
When: Saturday, October 18th, 9 pm
Where: Mighty Fine Arts, 409A Tyler Street
Brian Allen Carr @ The Wild Detectives
WordSpace Presents:
A Reading with Brian Allen Carr, winner of inaugural Texas Observer Story Prize
& author of The Last Horror Novel In The History of The World
When: Thursday, December 4 @ 7 pm
Where: The Wild Detectives, 314 W. 8th Street (Bishop Arts District)
Brian Allen Carr (born 1979) is an American writer based in Texas. He is the author of the short story collection Short Bus (2011) and was the winner of the inaugural Texas Observer Story Prize as judged by Larry McMurtry in 2011. Carr was also a finalist for the Texas Institute of Letters Steven Turner Award for First Fiction, 2011. His stories have appeared in Annalemma, Boulevard, Fiction International, Hobart, Keyhole and Texas Review, among others.Vampire Conditions, was published by Holler Presents in 2012. His new book is entitled The Last Horror Novel In the History of the World. Visit his website here.
Read an interesting interview with Brian Allen Carr over at The Huffington Post.
Yoga & Poetry benefiting Next Generation Youth projects
What: Monday night yoga and reading
When: Every Monday night, 6:30-8 pm
Where: Atma Bhakti Yoga Center, 6315 Lindsley Ave, Dallas, TX 75223 in East Dallas, near Lindsley Park
Who: Karen X and You
Proceeds benefit WordSpace Next Generation programs.
Suggested Donation $5-15.
Atma Bhakti Yoga Center offers a weekly Monday night yoga class at 6:30 to benefit WordSpace Next Generation youth education projects.
Taught by an Experience Registered Yoga Teacher (E-RYT 500 hour), this gentle yoga class culminates with a writing exercise and open floor reading by participants. Or bring your own rigorously self-investigative poems to share.
WordSpace Next Generation Project
1st Saturdays: 4-6 pm @ Half Price Books, 5803 E. NW Highway
3rd Saturdays: 4-6 pm @ Oak Cliff Cultural Center, 223 W. Jefferson
Youth Poetry Workshops are a component of WordSpace Next Generation Project in support and development of young writers. WordSpace presents writing and performance workshops mentored by top Dallas poets and educators. The workshops are open to ages 13-19. Selected articipants also have the opportunity to appear in WordSpace Salons alongside experienced writers. Traveling writers visit workhops as special guests and young writers are given opportunities to submit their work to publications and performances.
Principle Funding is made possible by City of Dallas Office of Cultural Affairs and TACA. This program is created in partnership with Oak Cliff Cultural Center. 
