ALOUD this friday.

ALOUD is improv allowed.
An evening of collaborative words,
music, paintings and the art of sign language,
The five-set lineup includes
hop frog kollectiv and blake,
paintings by Dana Bean,
a workshop performance by
poets Brendan Constantine, Mike the Poet, Emily Hay,
and A-Tribute Ensemble musicians
Ryan Tanaka, Chris Votek, and Melinda Rice)
with special guests Megan Fong and Andrew McIntosh,
as well as the debut of LA Deaf Punkz,
and an exquisite corpse to finish off the night.
Friday, November 9th, 9:30pm, doors open at 9:00.

ALOUD experimental collaboration improv:
the concept of this night was born
from my interest in translation between mediums.
the poet, the musician, the sign language artist,
the painter are all choosing specific forms
that reflect their particular talent
or interest to communicate.
this is a chance for them to collaborate
in different levels of improv together
reflecting, reverberating, reacting to each other...
we have not had a word speaking / poetry night here before,
and i love hearing people read,
but struggled with curating "readings".
with the help of melinda rice in rounding up musicians
i am proud to host these various artists
in an evening of experiment.