| 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18Events on April 18, 2014 Songs, Stories & Puppets Starts: 10:00 am Songs, Stories & Puppets Starts: 10:00 am Nous Bloomon en Francais Starts: 5:30 pm
| 19 | 20Events on April 20, 2014 Performetry: Old Poems, New Poems, Your Poems Starts: 6:00 pm Description: Performetry: noun \pə(r)-ˈfȯrm-ə-trē\, also \pə(r)-ˈfȯrm-i-trē\ : The act of giving body to sound and presence to poetry through performance.
This monthly performance series at BloomBars traverses generations of verse, focusing on the theatrical presentation of classical, contemporary, and musical forms of poetry. Each event includes the performance of a classic poem, featured works from a contemporary DC-area poet, an open mic, and live musical interludes. Performetry is sponsored by The Performing Knowledge Project with the generous support of BloomBars, and funded in part by the DC Commission on the Arts & Humanities, an agency supported in part by the National Endowment for the Arts.
$10 donation
(includes complimentary homemade refreshments)
This month features:
* Elizabeth Bruce
* Marianne Szlyk
* Sly "Abruvannamedsly"
* Suriya
* Open Mic
About The Performing Knowledge Project
The Sanctuary Theatre’s Performing Knowledge Project nurtures the space where performance and education meet. Founded by DC Writers/Theatre Artists Robert Michael Oliver and Elizabeth Bruce, the project produces a variety of performances and hosts writing, learning, and performance-oriented workshops on different subjects and writing styles. Performing Knowledge’s events seek new possibilities for expression and understanding. From the rhymed brilliance of classic poetry to the sweep of contemporary prose, their performances and workshops are dynamic, multidisciplinary explorations. http://performingknowledge.org/
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21Events on April 21, 2014 Harambee Starts: 9:30 am Folkloric Dance Fusion (Belly Dance) Starts: 6:45 pm The Garden Open Mic feat. Danielle Badra (hosted by Gowri K.) Starts: 8:30 pm Description: Join us for DC's only weekly variety open mic (poetry, music, comedy, storytelling, etc-ing) where the show is appropriate for all ages (please and thank you to performers).
Sign-up list opens at 8:30 pm
Show starts at 9:00 pm
$7 donation
Featuring: DANIELLE BADRA
Danielle Badra is an Arab-American poet and co-owner of a dog walking collective in DC, Brighter Days. She went to college for creative writing in her hometown, Kalamazoo, Michigan before moving to Washington D.C. She will be starting at an MFA Poetry program this fall. The selection of poems she'll read this evening comes from a series she's been writing titled, Dialogue with the Dead. She started writing the series after her older sister, Rachal, died suddenly of an undetected genetic heart disorder. When Danielle was sorting through her sister's possessions, she was surprised to find a folder filled with Rachal's previously unseen poems. This collection is Danielle's response to her sister's final words.
Hosted by: GOWRI K.
Gowri K. is a Sri Lankan Tamil American poet and lawyer. Her advocacy has addressed animal welfare, the environment, and the rights of prisoners and the criminally accused. She has co-authored two peer-reviewed scientific journal articles and her poetry has been published in Beltway Poetry Quarterly, Bourgeon, and Lantern Review. Gowri was a member of the 2010 DC Southern Fried Slam team and has performed at Lincoln Center Out of Doors, the Kennedy Center’s Millennium Stage, and the Smithsonian Folklife Festival. She hosts open mics at Busboys and Poets and BloomBars, where she serves as poetry coordinator, and is the senior poetry editor at Jaggery: A DesiLit Arts and Literature Journal. Gowri tweets on-the-spot haiku @gowricurry.
| 22 | 23Events on April 23, 2014 Arts Advocacy Day Co-training Starts: 3:30 pm Description: Arts Advocacy Day is a celebration of the DC arts community, and a day to focus attention on the role of the arts in our local community.
PLEASE INVITE YOUR FRIENDS!
Are you an organizer? Help run arts advocacy day! Come to a volunteer meetup Tuesday April 15th from 5-6pm at BloomBars on 11th Street in Columbia Heights.
Advocacy Co-Training
Come share your knowledge. Join advocates and arts leaders for a community co-training, Wednesday April 23, 3:30-5:00 at BloomBars (3222 11th Street, NW)
Arts Hearing April 29, 10am-2pm
Sign up to testify at the hearing for the Arts by emailing Ruth Werner with your contact info and request to testify at rwerner@dccouncil.us. The hearing will be held in the Wilson Building, hearing room 412.
Advocacy Day Meetings with Council members and Council staff
To sign up for a meeting email Robert <at> DCAdvocatesfortheArts.org and you'll be assigned a team and meeting based on availability. Priority is given to Partners and Members. Membership is free for those who can not afford it. To learn more about membership visit the DCAA website - http://www.DCAdvocatesfortheArts.org./
2013 Arts Advocacy Day Partners: DC Advocates for the Arts, the DC Film Alliance, the Humanities Council of Washington DC, Busboys and Poets, Institute for Policy Studies, Warehouse DC, Split This Rock Poetry Festival, Washington Area Lawyers for the Arts, the Smith Center for the Healing Arts, the Arts Club of Washington, the Pinkline Project, Project Create, East City Art, Day Eight, Double R Productions, Art Enables, DC Youth Orchestra Program, Ward 7 Arts Collaborative, Dance Place, Washington Sculptors Group, Women in Film and Video.
Interested in being a Partner for the 2014 Arts Advocacy Day? Email Robert <at> DCAdvocatesfortheArts.org Uno Dos Tres con Andres Starts: 5:30 pm Samba Class Starts: 9:00 pm
| 24Events on April 24, 2014 Harambe Starts: 10:00 am Yoga Share Starts: 7:30 pm
| 25Events on April 25, 2014 Songs, Stories & Puppets Starts: 10:00 am Songs, Stories & Puppets Starts: 10:00 am Nous Bloomon en Francais Starts: 5:30 pm
| 26Events on April 26, 2014 Harambee Starts: 10:30 am Harambee Starts: 11:30 am Touring Puppet Show w/Kevin Kammeraad Starts: 5:30 pm Description: Kevin performs, writes, draws, sings, make things, and wonders about possibilities. He is an award-winning artist, performer, and children's author of several books and CDs. The Cooperfly Puppet Troupe is a cast of puppet characters brought to life by Kevin and Justin. To keep things rolling along, Stephanie steps in to keep the guys focused. And that's pretty much how things work.
Read more about it: http://www.kevinkammeraad.com
Watch videos: http://www.kevinkammeraad.com/videos.html
Kevin's Bio
Kevin loves to perform, write, draw, sing, make things, and wonder about possibilities. He is an award-winning artist, performer, and children's author of many books and CDs who loves to collaborate with other artists.
Each year, Kevin brings his creativity and love of performing, writing, art, music, and reading to elementary schools, libraries, festivals, and conferences all over the state of Michigan and beyond. He performs regularly in Michigan, often throughout the Midwest, and has been as far as Canada, Hawaii, and Japan. His programs are dynamic, age appropriate, educational, and simply down right fun. Through puppetry, music, poetry, audience participation, multimedia, and humor, Kevin captivates people of all ages. Since the start of his career, Kevin has visited well over 1,000 elementary schools and offers many various presentations and shows.
Kevin has been a full time presenter/performer, artist, and children’s author since 1999, after graduating from Grand Valley State University in 1998 with a degree in Film and Video Production. He is the author and illustrator of The Tomato Collection and I Remember. He is the co-author of This is a Square and A Curious Glimpse of Michigan (a 2006 Great Lakes’ Great Books award nominee), a contributing illustrator of How Much Wood Could a Woodchuck Chuck?, and the co-producer of the music CDs The Tomato Collection: the Big Album (a 2002 Children’s Music Web Award Winner), A Curious Glimpse of Michigan: the Music, and ...and a Happy New Year (a Mom’s Choice Awards® Gold Recipient and winner of three other national awards). His newest CD,The Monkeys Go Marching (Simple Songs You Can Play Around With) is a 2012 Parents' Choice FunStuff Award Winner. In 2013, Kevin released his first "creativity book" called Can You Think It, Can You Dream It?
In the fall of 2010, Kevin was a part of an ArtPrize entry called Plan B. Headed up by the Beerhorst family, a group of artists created an imaginative, multi-medium, interactive, educational environment created entirely out of repurposed materials. Their efforts were rewarded with the 2010 Best Use of Urban Space Award.
In the fall of 2011, Kevin performed 114 shows over the span of 19 days for his 2011 entry into ArtPrize. "Puppeteer-cum-endurance-performer Kevin Kammeraad could be found day after day on the grass outside the Children’s Museum kicking, wiggling, shaking, and singing with an excited crowd of children and parents. His energy was infectious. Playful and educational, I loved what The Kevin Kammeraad and Friends Puppet Theatre added to daily life in the neighborhood of Hillside," said Nicole J. Caruth, a freelance writer and curator living in New York. She also selected Kevin's piece as one of her top 9 picks out of 1,582 entries (not directly affiliated with ArtPrize). For more information on that ambitious adventure check out this page or Kevin's entry at http://www.artprize.org.
In the fall of 2012, Kevin along with Justin Haveman performed Variety of Puppet Vignettes in G-Major for their 2012 ArtPrize entry. With this entry, Kevin and Justin pursued creating a new indoor puppet theatre including a multi-media screen and the introduction of multiple characters.
Most recently in the fall of 2013, Kevin and Justin performed eight hours a day for 19 consecutive days at ArtPrize 2013 with their entry Puppets and Pearl and Monroe.
In addition to Kevin's full touring schedule, he is currently performing regularly at Gymco's Discovery Preschool and the Grand Rapids Children's Museum. He is also one of the children's music worship leaders at Madison Square Church.
Kevin is a member of the Michigan Reading Association, the Society of Children's Book Writers and Illustrators, the Detroit Puppeteers Guild, and the Puppeteers of America. His programs are included on the Michigan Elementary and Middle School Principals Association's list of Recommended Assemblies.
Kevin grew up in Holland, Michigan and currently lives in Grand Rapids with his wife, son, daughter, cousin, a friend, two cats, and even two rats (they are quite cute in fact) in a home filled with books, music, recycle bins, homeschooling calendars, games, vegetarian recipes, toys, and tortilla chips.
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BloomBars is located at 3222 11th Street NW in Washington, DC’s historic Columbia Heights neighborhood.
