Word Performances with poet Arisa White, Flamenco dancer Damien Alvarez, poet Maw Shein Win and electronic musician Amanda Chaudhary of Pitta of the Mind, poet Colleen McKee with vocal performance, writer and artist Zarina Zabrisky, writer and scholar Simon Rogghe, poet and performer Cybele Zufolo, wordsmith Todd Siegel with our special musical guest multi-instumentalist Daniel Berkman on West African Kora.
One Night only!
Doors at 7:30pm
Show at 8:00pm
Tickets at: http://ticketf.ly/1YE39...
Word Performances with poet Arisa White, Flamenco dancer Damien Alvarez, poet Maw Shein Win and electronic musician Amanda Chaudhary of Pitta of the Mind, poet Colleen McKee with vocal performance, writer and artist Zarina Zabrisky, writer and scholar Simon Rogghe, poet and performer Cybele Zufolo, wordsmith Todd Siegel with our special musical guest multi-instumentalist Daniel Berkman on West African Kora.
One Night only!
Doors at 7:30pm
Show at 8:00pm
Tickets at: http://ticketf.ly/1YE395g
$10 in advance and $15 day of show online and at the door.
Seating is first come, first served. We recommend you buy in advance but you can purchase at the door on the night of the show.
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Word Performances is a reading series of poetry, prose, fiction and memoir where words are the lead, music is featured and dance makes a cameo.
http://wordperformances.com
Damien Alvarez - flamenco dancer extraordinaire.
Arisa White - renowned poet and scholar.
Colleen McKee - beloved poet with music.
Daniel Berkman - musical guest, multi-instrumentalist on West African Kora.
Pitta of the Mind - Maw Shein Win and Amanda Chaudhary, electronic music and poetry collaboration.
Zarina Zabrisky and Simon Rogghe a Literary Collaboration.
Cybele Zufolo Siegel - Poet, actor, dancer, author.
Todd Siegel - Wordsmith, designer and satirist.
Arisa White received her MFA from UMass, Amherst. She's a Cave Canem fellow and the author of Black Pearl, Post Pardon, Hurrah’s Nest, and A Penny Saved. She's a 2013-14 recipient of an Investing in Artist Grant from the Center for Cultural Innovation and a BFA faculty advisor at Goddard College. Forthcoming from Augury Books in October 2016 is her third full-length collection, You’re the Most Beautiful Thing That Happened. See more at arisawhite.com
Colleen McKee - I am the author of Nine Kinds of Wrong (poetry, fiction, and memoir). http://ninekindsofwrong.blogspot.com/ Also: A Partial List of Things I Have Done for Money, a chapbook of poetry, memoir, published by JKPublishing. Also, My Hot Little Tomato, a chapbook of poems about food and the erotic, published by Cherry Pie Press (cherrypiepress.blogspot.com).
ABOUT PITTA OF THE MIND
Pitta of the Mind is the duo of Amanda Chaudhary and Maw Shein Win, combining poetry with abstract electronic music. Their highly theatrical performances each center around a theme that is explored via text, sound and visuals.
Amanda Chaudhary is a composer and performer specializing in contemporary and electronic music. Her solo work involves experimenting with innovative sounds via analog synthesis and custom software with computers and mobile devices as well as folk and toy instruments. Her other ensemble projects include Reconnaissance Fly, an art-pop band and composers collective; and Surplus 1980, a Bay Area post-punk band.
Maw Shein Win often collaborates with visual artists and musicians, and her latest poetry chapbook, Ruins of a glittering palace, with paintings by Mark Dutcher, was published by SPA/Commonwealth Projects. She is currently a poetry editor for Rivet: The Journal of Writing that Risks for Red Bridge Press, a freelancer at the San Francisco Writers' Grotto, and a co-publisher for Stretcher.
Daniel Berkman is a Bay Area electronic musician, composer, multi-instrumentalist, producer, looper and innovator of the Kora (a 21-stringed harp-lute from West Africa) and it's modern counterpart, the Gravikord. Daniel also has recordings under his electronic music moniker Colfax (also on Bandcamp). Instruments: kora, gravikord, guitar, handsonic, ukelin, synths, cello, uke, viol, keys and more.
Hola! My name is Damien Álvarez and I am a San Francisco native and Flamenco dancer. Dancing flamenco has been a part of my life since I was 7 years old. I first performed in Rosa Montoya’s annual show in 1992 and haven’t stopped performing since. My goal as a performer and teacher is to show any and everyone that we are all meant to dance, “tal y como somos” (exactly as we are)! Currently I dance flamenco all over the Bay Area. Check out the SHOWS page for the when and where information. Bienvenidos y Olé!
Simon Rogghe is a poet, writer, translator of French surrealism and Ph.D. in French literature at UC Berkeley. His work has appeared in thirty magazines including 3:AM Magazine, Gone Lawn, Literary Orphans, Paris Lit Up, and New Nietzsche Studies. He is an author of "Green Lions" (Numina Press). See more at www.simonrogghe.com
Zarina Zabrisky is the author of the short story collections Iron, A Cute Tombstone, Explosion (Epic Rites Press), and the novel We, Monsters (Numina Press). Her work has been published in seven countries. She is a three-time Pushcart Prize nominee, a recipient of a 2013 Acker Award and a co-founder of The Arts Resistance. See more at www.zarinazabrisky.com.Zabrisky and Rogghe perform their writing to music, driving and dancing around the world.
Cybele Zufolo is the author of Ocean Sounds in New York: Poems, Non-Fiction Prose, Essays and Memoir on Dance, Love, Family, Identity and Performance. She is a graduate of Columbia University Teachers College with a Masters Degree in English and a BA Degree in English/American Literature from UC Santa Cruz. Cybele is a grant recipient of the National Endowment for the Humanities. Cybele taught Literature and Poetry at the Borough of Manhattan Community College and the New York Institute of Technology. Cybele is a former young dancer with the New York City Ballet and student of the School of American Ballet. She danced in Japan and in off-Broadway plays. Cybele has also appeared in films and voice-overs. You can find her at: CybeleZufolo.com.
Todd Siegel crafts and performs idea satire poetry, and was called "the e e cummings of San Francisco tech culture" by Joel Landmine at Identity Crisis III. He co-produces the Word Performances series with his infinitely lovely wife Cybele. In perpendicular, Todd designs and prototypes user experiences and serves as a wordsmith for startups. He's represented by 10x Management, and was interviewed in The New Yorker about the future present of work.