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October 2020- Stark Reality is back to trick or treat & all Souls Day

YOUR VOICE MATTERS!!!

STARK REALITY

OCTOBER 31st
2:00 PM to 5:00 pm
353 STUDIOS, 353 W.48th ST, 2nd FLOOR (BET. 8TH AND 9TH AVE.)
THIS SATURDAY 9/26 STARK REALITY OPEN MIC@353 STUDIOS, 353 West 48th St., 2nd Floor…2pm to 5pm
YOUR VOICE IS THE POWER!!

 AT 353 Studios, 353 West 48th St., 2nd Floor, ACTORS, POETS, SPOKEN WORD, BANDS, COMICS, MUSICIANS!! 6:30 PM SIGN UP . MORE BUCK FOR YOUR BANG!!AN OPEN MIC FOR THE OPEN MIND!!! IF YOU’RE NOT CLOSE TO THE EDGE YOU’RE TAKING UP TOO MUCH SPACE!!! CHAOS ARE US!! EXPERIMENT, EXPLORE, EXPLODE!! ..DON’T REST LIFE IS A TEST!!!!!!! MC/DJ VIV “THE BITCH WITH AN ITCH’!!

7:00 pm to 10:00pm GETS CROWDED!! PLEASE TRY AND COME ON TIME!! SIGN UP 6:30 PM
Special Guests and Artists in Residence
DEREKMUSIC57 WORLD CLASS LISTENING MUSIC
w/ DEREK JOHNSON
Special Guest and Artist in Residence
JOEY SLADE, Kamikaze Komic !! Slade sharp as a blade!!
FREDERICK TODD SMITH, the Amazing Connecticut poet/playwright/singer
353 Studios
353 West 48th Street, 2nd Floor · New York, NY

PASSION IS THE LAW OF STARK REALITY OPEN MIC!!

POETS/ SPOKENWORD/ MUSICIANS/EDGY COMICS

Arrive early or on time!!! it gets crowded!!!

At the Black Box Theater 244 W. 54th St. on the 10th floor  NYC

1st and 3rd FRIDAY EVERY MONTH!!

7:00 pm SIGN UP!!

EVERYONE PERFORMS!!

WIDE OPEN MIC! EVERYONE GETS

7 MIN. IN SONG, MUSIC, WORDS, DANCE, COMEDY, RAP !! GRAB THE MIC!!

7:00 pm sign up and show!!

MUSICIANS, POETS, SPOKEN WORD, DARING COMICS, SINGERS, ACTORS, PERFORMANCE ART IN ANY WAY YOU CONJURE IT!!

7:00 pm to 10:00 pm

Hosted by DJ VIV

 

 

 

 

 

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Fahrenheit Open Mic

Fahrenheit Presents Jane LeCroy & John S. Hall and You on the open mic! Sunday, November 1, 2020, at 7 pm

Join us for Fahrenheit’s virtual open mic to be held on Zoom. We are thrilled to announce that we will be featuring two outstanding poets, Jane LeCroy & John S. Hall. You must register through Eventbrite to get the Zoom meeting ID. All tickets are free. There will also be 15 five-minute open mic slots, 10 waitlist open mic slots, and general audience tickets available.

Please register for free by using the Eventbrite link below:

https://www.eventbrite.com/e/fahrenheit-presents-jane-lecroy-john-s-hall-tickets-125972183191

 

JANE LECROY is a NYC based poet, singer, performance artist and home-birthing mother of 3, who fronts the avant-pop band, The Icebergs, and the spontaneous experimental music project, Ω▽Ohmslice. She has toured with the SF based, all women’s poetry troupe, Sister Spit.  She also performs a featured character at Poetry Brothel NYC.  Among her many publications and recordings, her chapbook, Names, was published by the art-book house Booklyn, in the award winning, ABC chapbook series, that was purchased by the Library of Congress along with her braid!  Three Rooms Press published, Signature Play, a multimedia book of lyrical poems, including a nomination for a Pushcart Prize. The Icebergs and Ω▽Ohmslice, both on www.ImaginatorRecords.com  AVAILABLE everywhere you stream music; in fact, this summer, The Icebergs have released their 2^nd record, ADD VICE, it is available on your favorite streaming platform right now- go grab it! https://album.link/qw0hccffw3450 @janelecroy @the_icebergs_nyc

 

JOHN S. HALL is a poet/spoken word artist, musician (if ukulele counts) and singer-songwriter. He has released numerous albums of varying quality and popularity, including nine albums with various incarnations of his band King Missile.

John has appeared on Def Poetry Jam (HBO), The United States of Poetry (PBS) and Beavis and Butthead (MTV).  He has performed in Europe, New Zealand, Canada, and all over the United States.

He is the author of a collection of poetry (Jesus Was Way Cool) and a self-help parody (Daily Negations), both on Soft Skull Press, and more recently, over 100 unpublished children’s stories. He served on the board of directors of the Poetry Project at St. Mark’s Church from 2005-2016 and was its president for three years.

 

Host: Linda Kleinbub

Security: Phillip Giambri

Time Keeper: Madeline Artenberg

 

 

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Poetry Grows in Brooklyn Heights

Your host- Patrica Carragon

Park Plaza Restaurant

Poetry grows in Brooklyn Heights, and there’s an open mic as well. Come enjoy an afternoon of poetry and delicious food at this cozy family-owned restaurant.

For more directions:

Please check the MTA’s “The Weekender” for all transit updates. 

http://web.mta.info/weekender.html

$4 Donation – plus Food/Drink – Open-Mic

Curated by Patricia Carragon

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If it’s Sunday and it’s poetry in New York City, it must be the Parkside.

Hosted by Thomas Lawton & George Wallace.

Open mic, 2 drink minimum (alc/non), $2 donation

Great Weather for Media Spoken Word Sundays, takes place every week from 4-6pm at  the back room of The Parkside Lounge, 317 East Houston, New York, New York 10002 (bet. Clinton & Attorney). Directions: F train 2nd Ave and walk east 3 blocks. Great stage, great sound, and an amazing retro decor. What’s not to love? It’s free, but we encourage you to buy drinks with the wonderful waitresses,

Great Weather presents spoken word Sundays NYC @ The Parkside Lounge

 

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Up coming Reading date: Monday  Aug. 19   140 East 27th Street Between 3rd and Lexington Avenues near the 28th street 6 train 

Some additional essential links-

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Carol Vossler Bluseed Studios    http://bluseedstudios.org/
Dan Berggren       http://berggrenfolk.com/
Patricia Carragon       http://brownstonepoets.blogspot.com/

 Howard Thompson   http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Howard_Thompson_%28film_critic%29        (details included below)

The International Bar formerly THE COAL YARD  Corner of 1st Avenue & 6st. East Village NYC .The official Rubber Eden Bar is one that my Kid’s GF picked out for me on the lower east side one Fall. Must to check out the. No sound system (only a old juke box)  nice and dark, circular bar stocked with regulars, ill-regulars, beats, punks, hippies, left-overs, reheated souls and characters galore and aglow. Friendly bartenders, cheap beer (yea they have 3 buck High Life) and a killer court yard out back (as displayed here) to have a butt and talk in. Here’s a link for more info

http://yelp.com/biz/coal-yard-bar-new-york

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Essential Radio

Howard Thompson’s radio tour-de-force program entitled Pure  on WPKN 89.5 FM from Bridgeport, Connecticut can be heard the 1st & 3rd Friday of the month, 1-4pm. Not in Tri-State terrestrial broadcast area of Long Island/Conn/Mass ? Not to worry you can stream this excellent eclectic free-for all. Just no telling what you’ll hear from Howard’s incredibility voluminous encyclopedic discography, but always the very best of the best across the broad spectrum of expression from Rock n Roll to the aural sonic world beyond. Perfect way to kick off the weekend. Essential links below:

http://tunein.com/radio/WPKN-895-s21976/

or

http://stream.wpkn.org/

Miss a past program ? (there all very diverse & worthwhile)

http://archives.wpkn.org/show/profile/183

More background of the hosts extensive history in the music biz

http://archives.wpkn.org/host/profile/393

And addition is own internet radio station is highly recommend as well

http://northforksound.blogspot.com/

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We bring the familiar and strange to the open and curious. The web-site features exclusive photos, video and some original stories. There, you ‘ll also find  the week’s Top 20, the NoFoSo Album The Week, Legend Of The Month and the previous week, listener faves find it at  http://northforksound.com and feel free to comment there or send an email to  North Fork Sound On the Web:  North Fork Sound North Fork Sound

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All of my work is available at number of any number of on-line venues (just Google) However you can skip the middle men and deal w/ me directly. Faster and I’ll cut you a better deal. Previously released editions of the books/Cds, etc. are for sale directly through this website. Simply use the contact button (on the home page) to make inquiry. I can cut a better deal than the outside vendors. (Pay-Pal, money orders, cash, barter) And I’m not going to apologize for the shameless self-promotion here….yeah I know it’s all such small potatoes, but GD it those are my potatoes. So deep fry, bake or mash it, but put some starch in the Arts…. you cheap SOB