Monday Nov. 17, 2014, Saturn Series Poetry Reading & Open Mike 8pm, at Shades of Green Pub & Restaurant Featuring: Godfrey L. Brandt and Steve Bloom A Night of Extraordinary Wordsmiths. Sign up to read your poetry in the open mike at Shades of Green Pub & Restaurant 125 East 15 Street, NYC Between 3rd Ave. & Irving Place... Train: 6NRQL to 14th Street Union Square • Saturn Series Poetry/Spoken Word Reading Every Monday Poetry Open Mike NYC, now in its 20th year. Starts at 8:00 pm to 10:30 pm, Sign up at 7:45. Open Mic plus 2 features. Open mike surrounds features. $3. donation requested plus a food/beverage purchase to support this great venue. Celebrating 21 years of Poetry Every Monday Night ............................................ About Godfrey L. Brandt... Author and Playwright, Brandt is a writer and arts management consultant interested in exploring human relationships and the socio-cultural dynamics of contemporary society. He is a former lecturer and programme director at Birkbeck University of London (Arts Policy and Management.) Having trained as an actor/director and teacher of Drama, language and speech at the Central School of Speech and Drama, Brandts credits include a number of plays, including Fugards Blood Knot in which he played Zach. A former head of Education at the Arts Council and Deputy Director General at the Commonwealth Institute with responsibility for education, the arts and cultural programming, Brandt has also been a theatre director (youth and fringe theatre) ; credits here include the Musical Oliver and the play Statements after an arrest under the immorality act. He has written work includes poetry, prose and drama as well as academic papers, and books. Brandt is the founding director of Couvade (Consultancy and artistic productions) and consultant development manager for Voice FM community radio in Southampton. About Steve Bloom... Steve Bloom is the author of three books of poetry and a Poetry CD. He has been the facilitator of the monthly Poetry for Social Activists workshop at the Brecht Forum in New York City, member of the board of the Southern Anti-Racism Network and active in the Campaign to Free Russell Maroon Shoatz. You can find his work at stevebloompoetry.net and scattered on other websites and in many print journals. Your writing has a way of setting me off on a journey I wont return from.—Boone Qwon, New York City composer/performer. He writes with an exacting eye and a generous heart—Pam McAllister, feminist author. If your average nature poem is like being forced to watch your great Aunts vacation slide show, then Steve Blooms Flower Plots is like watching Microcosm or Fantasia.—Vanessa Boyd, writer and performer. Steve Bloom is a poet worth listening to—Dennis Brutus, late South African poet and political activist. Steve Blooms poetry combines political commentary with consistent optimism and humanity, a genuine appreciation of what social change is all about (and what it is for)—Theresa El-Amin , founder and Director of the Southern Anti-Racism Network. Poetry with wit, humor, irony, perspicacity and revolutionary politics brought a warmth and smile during my weakest moments. I will never ever forget the therapy i received—Fred Ho, Cancer Warrior. Steve, keep talking in poetry—Cecile Charles King, food justice activist and food sovereignty advocate. ............................................ Read your poetry in the open mike Starts at 8:00 pm to 10:30 pm, Sign up at 7:45. Open Mic plus 2-3 features. $3.00 Donation Requested Please buy a drink or Food to support this great venue. Open Mike readers each have 5 minutes to perform their work Plase arrive on time. (if you arrive after the features start you may have only 3 minutes.) @ Saturn Series Poetry Sign up at 7:45 New start time 8pm open mike surrounds the features... UPCOMING FEATURES... Next Monday November 24 with TBA * Monday September 1 with Steve Bloom and Michelle Slater * Monday September 8 with Helen Peterson (birthday party) With musician Ras Moshe and Poet Amy Barone * Monday September 15 with Richard Fein and Bob Barci * Monday September 22 with Marthe Reed, Vincent A. Cellucci and Christopher Shipman (reading together) with Co-host Jonathan Penton * Monday, September 29 with Larissa Shmailo, Adeena Karasick, Jonathan Penton * Monday, October 6 with No Reading * Monday, October 13 No Reading * Monday, October 20 with Chocolate Waters and Kofi Forson at Shades of Green Pub & Restaurant * Monday, October 27 with Michael Visceglia/Francine Witte/Ron Price * Monday, November 3 with Claire Trevien (in from the U.K.) and Howard Pflanzer * Monday, November 10 with Sheryl Helene Simler and George Wallace * Monday, November 17 with Godfrey L. Brandt and Steve Bloom * Monday, November 24 with TBA and more....every Monday night ! Be the happiness you are today!
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