Stormwash: Climate Awareness Readings, Dance
STORMWASH is an inter-arts program presented by the Arts Alliance of Greater Bloomington, Artists for Climate Awareness, the Writers Guild at Bloomington, Windfall Dancers, Inc., and musicians Julian Douglas and Kyle Quass.
Tony Brewer, Zilia Balkansky-Sellés, Peter Kaczmarczyk, Ray Zdonek, Lara Tokarski, Walter Biskupski, and Arizona will perform climate conscious poems as spoken word with expressive dance accompaniment by Erin Strole, Joanne Shank, Maxime Werk, Corinne Jones, Kay Olges, Kara Lynn Hayes, and Nonie Daniels. Julian Douglas and Kyle Quass will provide musical interludes.
Thus the announcement. The event: The official debut of STORMWASH: ENVIRONMENTAL POEMS (see March 11, February 12, 5, et al.), courtesy of the Arts Alliance Center in Bloomington’s College Mall.
Spoken word performers, dancers, and musicians advance the goals of this year’s ACA opening program for the gallery show Depictions: Earth, Life, and Our Shared Responsibility, a guided meditation to elevate consciousness about earth’s vicissitudes, and our role in counteracting them through our personal practices of sustainability.
In STORMWASH: ENVIRONMENTAL POEMS (The Grind Stone, April 2024), 40 poets address the climate crisis and its various effects.
With me one of the poets with “The Drowned City,” a reaction to 2005’s Hurricane Katrina and the consequent flooding of New Orleans, originally published in THE MAGAZINE OF SPECULATIVE POETRY. Though, having not been matched with a dancer, one not read this night (as other poems — with dancers — but out-of-town poets or poets that couldn’t make it this evening had substitute readers. One does what one can).
For others, though, copies of STORMWASH were available at the Arts Center, and can be found on Amazon as well by pressing here. (Hint: my poem is on pages 27-28.)
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