Monday, November 29th at 8:30 pm
We welcome poetry, music, comedy, story-telling, dancing, juggling, political rants, relationship tirades and other 
special talents as long as they are within the realm of human respect and dignity. BloomBars is an all all-ages, community-oriented art space, so please keep this in mind when deciding what to perform at BloomBars.
Sign-up list opens at 8:30 pm and the first performer goes on at 9:00 pm!
FEATURING… co-hosts Jonathan B. Tucker and Gowri K. performing each others’ work as well as collaborative poems and songs.
About Jonathan B. Tucker:
“I live and work in Washington, D.C., melding art and activism with my work as a performer and educator. Winner of the 2010 C.O.U.P. (Community Oriented Underground Poet) Award from the National Underground Spoken Word Poetry Awards, I’m very passionate about youth development and the use of the arts as a means to connect with people. I have represented Washington, D.C. at the National Poetry Slam for two years (2009 and 2010) on the Busboys and Poets 11th Hour Slam Team.
I frequently work in schools and community organizations leading workshops on spoken word performance poetry. I host a weekly open mic at BloomBars, a community arts space in Columbia Heights, and volunteer regularly with City at Peace DC, a theatre arts group that teaches nonviolent conflict resolution and cross cultural understanding to teenagers through the arts.
About Gowri K.:
I am a poet, singer, lawyer, and activist whose parents immigrated to the U.S. from Sri Lanka. My advocacy has addressed animal welfare, the environment, and the rights of prisoners and the criminally accused. I was a Lannan Fellow of the Folger Shakespeare Library and have been a featured poet at the Kennedy Center’s Millennium Stage, the Smithsonian Folklife Festival, Campus Progress’s Protest Through Poetry, Busboys and Poets, and Sulu DC.
My poetry has appeared in Bourgeon and is forthcoming in Beltway Poetry Quarterly, and I released my first chapbook, Still Beating, in 2010. I was a member of the 2010 DC Southern Fried Slam team and serve as the program director at BloomBars, a community arts space in Columbia Heights, where I host Poetry in the Morning and Poet-Tree in Bloom.
