Writers Guild Spoken Word Series
Schedule
Thu, 12 Dec, 2024 at 06:00 pm
UTC-05:00Location
Backspace Gallery, inside Bonne Fête, 112 West 6th Street, on the square in Bloomington IN | Bloomington, IN
BEER & WINE available for purchase
THURSDAY, DEC 12
6pm EST
featuring spoken word artists PDVNCH and Joan Hawkins
music by ORTET
open mic to follow
Sponsored in part by the Indiana Arts Commission, Bloomington Arts Commission, and the Bloomington Urban Enterprise Association
🎨PDVNCH👌🏾 [pee-dove-inch] is a spoken wordsmith and dramatic prophetic poetic storyteller who uses rainbows, and painting pictures to create vivid images with words, from multiple perspectives, giving voice to the unheard, with vocal tones that are rhythmic. As an inventor/originator, he is best known globally for his original iconic hair designs "Beads by DVNCH," fabulous frames, and his phenomenal passion for fashion. A Bloomingtonian, he is Director of Creative-Arts Productions for !ℵṧ℘!Իḙ-!ℵṧ℘!Իᾰт!✺ℵ-!ℵ!т!ᾰт!ṽḙ @ !3 studios. Through collaboration, his desire is to Inspire inspiration, and “Always be on Purpose”!
JOAN HAWKINS is Professor of Cinema and Media Studies at IU Bloomington. Her creative work and poetry have appeared in Sand, The Ryder, Avalanches of Poetry, Fevers of the Mind, Plath Profiles, n+1, and the Performing Arts Journal. Her book of short memoir pieces, School and Suicide, was published by Alien Buddha Press in 2022. With jazz-collage artist Kyle Quass, she released a spoken word and sound collage CD, Pragis. A chapbook of poetry, The Burroughs Hour, was published in 2023 by Grind Stone Press.
ORTET – “the wizards of Bloomington’s underground improvised music scene” – Ron Kadish, Ryder Magazine
feat. Marty Belcher, Tony Brewer, Norbert Herber, Chris Rall, Joe MF Stone. ortet.bandcamp.com
Where is it happening?
Backspace Gallery, inside Bonne Fête, 112 West 6th Street, on the square in Bloomington IN, 112 W 6th St, Bloomington, IN 47404-3910, United States,Bloomington, IndianaEvent Location & Nearby Stays: