Poet-tree En Motion 2010 Spring Performance Series
Wednesdays March 3rd, April 7th, May 5th, + Friday; June 4th, 2010
This event series will present a diverse range of dance, live music/electronic sound-scapes, poetry/spoken-words/story-telling, performance~artistry & visual projections
Sign up for the open stage/open mic to close the night!
Each event will Highlight the work of Resident Performance Artist Gabrielle de Burke {Casella}/”PlumDragoness
featuring guest collaborators-the ELEMENTS:
Djo Fortunado, Elliott Levin, Andres Cisneros, Lady Mocean, Jake Klein (Histronica)
Visual Projections by Peter Brodhead & VJ Kevlar
Produced Beat Infusions & Live Instrumental Accompaniment TBA!
“PlumDragoness & The ELEMENTS” bring you dances with words, combine beats under rhymes, theatrical performances w/ a background of Visuals & Live instru~mental accompaniment
FEATURED GUEST ARTISTS:
MARCH 3rd : Nat’l Womyn’s Herstory Month
Barbara Zanelli
A visual artist, for this event she create her work in the moment w/ live painting through the duration of performances…
Lady Mocean
Urban tribal beats infused with abstract poetics & ambient melodics…
Bonnie MacAllister
an artist, author, and educator. Bonnie is a 2009 Fulbright-Hays awardee to Ethiopia, a 2007 Pushcart Prize Nominee and five time slam poetry champion in the United States and France. Publication credits include Black Robert Journal, Paper Tiger Media, Dead Drunk Dublin and Other Imaginal Spaces, and nth Position. MacAllister has most recently exhibited at the Utopian Library in Viareggio, Italy and in la Galería del MEC, Montevideo, Uruguay. Bonnie is an active member of the Plastic Club and the Philadelphia Chapter of the Women’s Caucus for Art and fundraises for Girls Gotta Run Foundation which sponsors Ethiopian girls’ running teams. Bonnie teaches French and British Literature at the new Arise Academy Charter High School for foster children in Center City. She is the webmaster for the Fulbright-Hays Ethiopia outreach website which offers teacher resources on Ethiopia.
Shara Dae
a Philadelphian poet, musician, songwriter, producer and advocate has worked with local artists such as Taylor McFerrin, the Disco Biscuits, the Side Show Prophets, Ryat and many more. She is now recording her debut album, If Only and her sound has been described as an acoustic and soulful testimony of a woman’s right to love. With levity, grace and a refreshing take on honesty Shara Dae uses her music as an urban commentary on love and life.
Yolanda Wisher
Born in Germantown and raised in North Wales, Pennsylvania, Yolanda received a B.A. in English/Black Studies from Lafayette College and a M.A. in Creative Writing/Poetry from Temple University. In 1999, she was named the first poet laureate of Montgomery County. Her work has been published in the journals Ploughshares, Meridians, Fence, nocturnes, and Chain as well as the anthologies Gathering Ground, The Ringing Ear: Black Poets Lean South, The Fence Reader and Lavanderia. A Cave Canem fellow, Wisher teaches English at Germantown Friends School and chairs the Germantown Poetry Festival. She is also the host of um®πvme (you-move-me), a poetry radio show on www.gtownradio.com.
APRIL 7th: Nat’l Poet-tree Month!
This event dedicates the stage to poets/poetry in & around West Philly! A few individual members representing different community groups involved with poetry in Philadelphia have been invited to bless the mic with word power; performers TBA!}
MAY 5TH: Beltane Fire Festivities meet Cinco De Mayo!
Industrial Death & PANadelphia (Philadelphia Art Network)
Here to present original beats & rhymes for the conscious freaks in a Myan Calendar minded & grinded music w/ live painting art party atmosphere (audience participation encouraged/paint brushes & markers provided)!
Philly Fire Arts/PEXie collective
Performing a series of vignettes set to carefully selected soundtracks; featuring everything from world beat-music to house-hip-hop-opera! Fire-eating/breathing, belly dancing, ballet, acrobatics, gymnastics poetry & movement, object manipulation, video, & theatrics are lit by custom fire sculptures.
An all-female multi-dimensional performance troupe combining dance, spoken word, various forms of yoga/martial arts, hula hooping and fire arts to present a dangerously exciting and sensual show. Our performance is comprised of a series of vignettes set to carefully selected soundtracks featuring everything from world beat-music to house-hip-hop-opera! Our usual show features fire-eating and fire-breathing, as well as belly dancing, ballet, acrobatics and gymnastics; embracing the arts through poetry & movement, object manipulation, video, sound and theatrics lit by custom fire sculptures (scenes including fire will be performed outside, permit pending).
FRIDAY, JUNE 4TH: Friends of PlumDragoness Project
This 2nd annual fundraiser for the Friends of PlumDragoness Projects will feature performances & silent auction items from local businesses (including antiques, estate jewelry, artists goods/services & handmade art) with refreshments provided by the Continental Café, DeBruno Brothers, Fresh Grocer & Whole Foods!
DJ Orbicles (Gaian Mind Collective)–spinning beats throughout the night.
When she’s not traveling the world collecting music and experiences, she’s home learning how to best share them with you. Melanie’s love of electronica started back in 1992, when she first became exposed to such seminal acts as The Orb, Aphex Twin, Moby, and other early pioneers of the nascent dance music scene. Eschewing traditional limits of what constitutes “chillout” material, Melanie’s djing style encompasses a broad cross section of musical styles, combining elements of trip-hop, dub, house, drum n’ bass, IDM, ambient, techno, and trance, with worldbeat and ethnic influences.
All events are free; donations are encouraged.
