December 14, 2010 at 8pm
"We want it so bad we might cry."
Open Mic: Come spit ya mouth off!
Featured Writers:
Jennifer Barone
Matt Blesse (2008 Grand Slam Champion of San Francisco)
Mitch Park performing "Dead Cities, Dead Streets"
Red Jordan Arobateau
Painters:
Chris Conroy
David Jung
Eskimo artists (and a writer) imported from the Bahamas:
Tracy Jones (host)
Noa-
Aaron Lawrence
Nolan Yelonek
John Felix Arnold III
Space Gallery
1141 Polk St.
San Francisco
First 50 heads get an original hand made silk screened 11x14 poster of the flyer by David Young V.
Jennifer Barone is originally from
Brooklyn, New York where she founded "the Word Party" in her living room. Due to an overwhelming number of creative friends and a few knocks on the door by the local police, she eventually had to branch out to venues in the
East Village and finally to
San Francisco where she now resides as host of "The Word Party Poetry and Jazz night."
Jennifer has been a featured poet at local readings and numerous venues in San Francisco including: The Randall Museum, The Red Poppy Art House, The Beat Museum, Bird & Beckett Books and Modern Times Bookstore. She was a winner of the SF Public Library's 2007 Poets Eleven city-wide contest. She was also featured as a "Tableux Vivant (living painting)" for the Frida Kahlo exhibition at the SF Museum of Modern Art where she performed original poems in her honor.
She is the author of two collections of poetry, Simple Language, 2003 and
Secret City, 2007 - a bi-coastal collaboration with her father's original artwork in response to her poetry. She is currently working on a new poetry and art collection about Italian food and love.
The Word Party
Matt Blesse is a spoken word poet, activist, and educator from the small California mountain paradise of Truckee. A member of two national poetry slam teams, Matt was the Grand Slam Champion of the city of San Francisco in 2008 and placed 3rd in 2009 at the National Poetry Slam. He has toured and taught cross-country for universities, festivals, non-profit trainings, artist collectives, and poetry venues, but still finds the most rewarding audiences to be the youth he works with in his current home, the Bay Area. There he teaches under the Lyrical Minded 415 program and is an active community organizer. He believes spoken word poetry is, at its most basic level, a conversation and, in the larger sense, a movement. As such, he seeks to keep his art relevant to and reflective of his experiences with oppression and transformation.
Straight out of the Haight
Mitch Park has been a poet and activist for the last 6 years in the San Francisco Bay Area. His first book "Dead Cities, Dead Streets" has just been published by Meridian Pressworks here in San Fancisco (C) 2010. His art is about more then the release of tension. Its meant to inspire a movement, a revolution, and a better world for all.
Red Jordan Arobateau is an elder, age 67. He is an artist-author and has written 90 books--novels, plays, short story & poetry collections, and journals. soon you will be able to follow his blog online, on blogger.com. Red is a fine arts painter in acrylic & oils He sells prints of his paintings online. Red lives & works in San Francisco. He has done many shows & open mic's around town.
Chris Conroy is a carbon based life form who enjoys drawing pictures with carbon based materials. He likes working to the infomercials and religious zealotry on late night television. At times he ponders just what the hell is going on, but is invariably interrupted.
David Jung
African-Italian poetry writer/Spoken Word performer based in 
