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WordSpace presents Dallas Poetry Slam @ Deep Ellum Outdoor Market
Who: Dallas Poetry Slam Featured Performers!
When: Saturday, August 18, 12pm
Where: Stage, Deep Ellum: Indiana and Malcom X
From noon-3, every hour on the hour, poets from the Dallas Poetry Slam pump up the jam Deep Ellum Outdoor Market with a 15 minute performance between music sets.
WordSpace Presents Dallas Poetry Slam @ Deep Ellum Outdoor Market
Who: Dallas Poetry Slam Featured Performers!
When: Saturday July 21, 12pm
Where: Deep Ellum: Indiana and Malcom X
From noon-3, every hour on the hour, poets from the Dallas Poetry Slam pump up the jam Deep Ellum Outdoor Market with a 15 minute performance between music sets.
WordSpace Presents Dallas Poetry Slam @ Deep Ellum Outdoor Market
Who: Dallas Poetry Slam Featured Performers!
When: Saturday, June 16, 12pm
Where: Stage, Deep Ellum: Indiana and Malcom X
From noon-3, every hour on the hour, poets from the Dallas Poetry Slam pump up the jam Deep Ellum Outdoor Market with a 15 minute performance between music sets.
Amy Sedaris
What: AMY SEDARIS
When: Thursday, April 19, 8 pm
Where: The Kessler Theater
Tickets: SRO–VIP seating/Meet the Artist
Best selling author, actress, director, creator, co-writer and cult heroine of Strangers with Candy comes to Dallas in a rare public appearance. Sponsored by Half Price Books and WordSpace with a lot of help from the Kessler Theater.
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Laney Yarber @ Tyler-Davis Block Party
Laney Yarber @ Tyler-Davis 2nd Saturday: “Claireoke Revue”
When: Saturday, May 12, Slam, 5pm, Laney Yarber, 8 pm
Where: WordSpace, 415 North Tyler St. (Map)
Texas’s most celebrated performance artist Laney Yarber brings her charismatic and free associative magnetism to the Tyler-Davis Arts District’s 2nd Saturday Festivals. Laney Yarber is an artist whose work and influence has had a important impact on the state’s cultural life. Her work is part history (personal-area-occult), part installation, often multi-media, with great mastery of the craft of theater, sculpture, spoken word, and visual special effects.She is the recipient of many awards and grants, studied with Robert Wilson, and is the sister of painter Robert Yarber, Laney leaves her fans and even her diva-to-diva antagonists crying for more. Never enough. Never enough.
Michael Helsem on Sylvia Plath
WordSpace Critics Circle: Plath and the Crisis of Our Time,
Presented by Michael Helsem
What: Plath and the Crisis of Our Time
When: Tuesday, May 22, 7 pm
Where: Private Residence, RSVP: wordSpace@wordspace.us or 214-838-3554
Admission: Members-FREE, Non Members $5
photo by J. R. Compton, courtesy Dallas Arts Revue
Michael Helsem is a Dallas writer, intellectual, painter, and author with multi-disciplinary knowledge and intersections of philosophy and imagination in art. He has kindly agreed to share his rich talents in a focus on Sylvia Plath. This is a an intimate salon setting at our WordSpace programs room. Space is limited. WordSpace Members Free. Non-Members, $5.
RSVP: WordSpace 214-838-3554
WordSpace Salon: Ben Fountain
WordSpace Salon: Ben Fountain
When: Thursday, April 5th, 7 pm
Where: Contact WordSpace 214-838-3554
Ben Fountain reads from his soon-to-be released new novel, “Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime Walk” published by Ecco/HarperCollins. Ben is the author of “Brief Encounters with Che Guevara” (Ecco/HarperCollins, 2006), which received the 2007 PEN/Hemingway Award and the 2006 Barnes & Noble Discover Award. His fiction has appeared in Harper’s, Zoetrope: All-Story, and the Paris Review, among other magazines, and has received an O.Henry Award, two Pushcart Prizes, two short story awards from the Texas Institute of Letters, and the McGinnis Ritchie Prize for Fiction. His nonfiction has appeared in The New York Times Magazine and New Letters. From 2004-2006 he served as fiction editor of the Southwest Review and past WordSpace Board President.
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Members Free! Non-Members $5
WordSpace presents the Dallas Poetry Slam @ Deep Ellum Outdoor Market
WordSpace presents the Dallas Poetry Slam @ Deep Ellum Outdoor Market
When: Saturday May 19th, 12pm
Where: Deep Ellum: Indiana and Malcom X
Dallas Poetry Slam heats up the hour every hour on the hour at Deep Ellum Outdoor Market. Visit the festival of arts and vendors created by Brandon Castillo for this special urban rejuvenation project benefitting the historic Deep Ellum District.
WordSpace presents the Dallas Poetry Slam @ Deep Ellum Outdoor Market
WordSpace presents the Dallas Poetry Slam @ Deep Ellum Outdoor Market
When: Saturday April 21st, 12pm
Where: Deep Ellum: Indiana and Malcom X
Community is where it’s at: Visit and shop the Deep Ellum Outdoor Market! Beginning at noon and every hour on the hour, the Dallas Poetry Slam performs, bringing the best solo performances around.
WordSpace Presents Dallas Poetry Slam @ Deep Ellum Outdoor Market
WordSpace Presents Dallas Poetry Slam @ Deep Ellum Outdoor Market
When: Saturday March 17th, 12pm
Where: Deep Ellum: Indiana and Malcom X
From noon-3, every hour on the hour, poets from the Dallas Poetry Slam pump up the jam Deep Ellum Outdoor Market with a 15 minute performance between music sets.
