Monthly open mike storytelling competition sponsored by The Moth, the NYC-based nonprofit storytelling organization that also produces a weekly public radio show. Each month 10 storytellers are selected at random from among those who sign up to tell a 3-5 minute story on the monthly theme. The 3 judges are recruited from the audience. Monthly winners compete in a semiannual Grand Slam. Space limited, so it’s smart to arrive early. September theme: Nerds and Geeks. $8. Doors open, and sign up start at 6.
The UM School of Music Jazz Department is sponsoring this appearance by NYC percussionist/drummer William Hooker who will perform to Oscar Micheaux‘s silent film Within Our Gates (1920). Micheaux is considered the first major African American film director and producer. Mr. Hooker will also meet with RC Faculty Mark Kirschenmann’s improv. ensemble on Thursday evening the Sept. 24th, and will meet with students from DAAS on Friday afternoon, Sept. 25, at 2:00.
About the film – Within Our Gates – 1920 Black and white/Indie film 1h 19m.
In this early silent film from pioneering director Oscar Micheaux, kindly Sylvia Landry (Flo Clements) takes a fundraising trip to Boston in hopes of collecting $5,000 to keep a Southern school for impoverished black children open to the public. She then meets the warmhearted Dr. Vivian (William Smith), who falls in love with Sylvia and travels with her back to the South. There, Dr. Vivian learns about Sylvia’s shocking, tragic past and realizes that racism has changed her life forever.
RC students direct and perform this popular semiannual 90-minute program of short scenes on a variety of topics and in a variety of styles, many written by RC students. Also October 3.
RC students direct and perform this popular semiannual 90-minute program of short scenes on a variety of topics and in a variety of styles, many written by RC students.
Do you feel right at home with a microphone in your hand? Want the chance to find out? We want to hear your comedy routine, vocal talent, and slam poetry on the TCA stage! Last year’s winner went on to open for a national touring comedian right here in Tecumseh and host his very own show at Tecumseh Center for the Arts. You never know what doors your talent may open for you.
Monthly open mike storytelling competition sponsored by The Moth, the NYC-based nonprofit storytelling organization that also produces a weekly public radio show. Each month 10 storytellers are selected at random from among those who sign up to tell a 3-5 minute story on the monthly theme. The 3 judges are recruited from the audience. Monthly winners compete in a semiannual Grand Slam. Space limited, so it’s smart to arrive early. October theme: Guts. $8. Doors open, and sign up start at 6.
For those who have yet to witness the magic of “Red Eye,” it is a theatre experience where writers, directors, actors, and stage managers create and perform two one-act scenes all in the span of 24 hours.
Through the use of autobiography and cultural criticism, with a particular focus on his piece “Bill Cosby, Himself: Fame, Narcissism, and Sexual Violence,” RC Creaticve Writing alum Max Gordon explores the connection between racism, sexism, homophobia, and class in his work, and the challenges facing artists and activists in our age. Gordon has been published in the anthologies Inside Separate Worlds: Life Stories of Young Blacks, Jews and Latinos (University of Press, 1991), Go the Way Your Blood Beats: An Anthology of African-American, Lesbian and Gay Fiction (Henry Holt, 1996), and Mixed Messages: An Anthology of Literature to Benefit Hospice and Cancer Causes. He lives in New York City.
RC Creative Writing alum and professor Laura Kasischke is the recipient of the National Book Critics Circle Award for Poetry, 2012. Kasischke has published nine novels, three of which have been made into feature films—The Life Before Her Eyes, Suspicious River, White Bird in a Blizzard—and nine books of poetry, most recently The Infinitesimals. She has also published the short story collection If a Stranger Approaches You. She has received fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, as well as several Pushcart Prizes and numerous poetry awards and her writing has appeared in Best American Poetry, The Kenyon Review, Harper’s and The New Republic. Laura Kasischke is Allan Seager Collegiate Professor of English Language & Literature at the University of Michigan.
Monthly open mike storytelling competition sponsored by The Moth, the NYC-based nonprofit storytelling organization that also produces a weekly public radio show. Each month 10 storytellers are selected at random from among those who sign up to tell a 3-5 minute story on the monthly theme. The 3 judges are recruited from the audience. Monthly winners compete in a semiannual Grand Slam. Space limited, so it’s smart to arrive early. November theme: Gifted. $8. Doors open, and sign up start at 6.
