Nu Ark Experiment: (Postmodern) Work Songs
(Postmodern) Work Songs, a celebration of experimentation uniting song, poetry and music. e. g. bailey and members of Arkology along with community poets and musicians will share work developed at the Wordshop: Shouting into the Storm, a spoken word workshop for poets and musicians, at the West Bank School of Music. The performance emerges from the Nu Ark Experiments, a series of spoken word performances seeking to explore the ways of uniting words (spoken, sung, written or shouted) and music of all kinds in live, sometimes improvisational performance.
The performance will take place on October 20th at 7:30pm at Gingko’s Coffeehouse located at 721 Snelling Avenue in St. Paul. It will include guest poets and musicians from the Wordshop spoken word workshop.
The Nu Ark Experiments is a series of spoken word performances aimed at showcasing the different ways spoken word can be presented. The series includes experiments with performance art, with improvisation, with film, with non-structural music and with visual arts.
Future performances include Side B, a collaboration with sound sculptor and visual artist Kitundu, finding the spaces between spoken word and visual arts, at Intermedia Arts on Nov. 17th.
This series is supported by a grant provided by the MN State Arts Board through an appropriation from the MN State Legislature. In addition, this activity is supported in part by a grant from the NEA.
And is co-sponsored by SASE: The Write Place, Intermedia Arts, KFAI Fresh Air Radio, KMOJ, the Powderhorn Writers Festival, Da X-Factor Newz and KFAI’s Write On RaDio! (Thursdays @ 11am). Call 288-9491 for more information.
