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Beyond Words: An Evening of Jazz + Poetry
Come experience an evening that stretches your literal imagination, when renown Bay Area poets fuse with jazz musicians in a synchronous overtone of musicality!
FEATURING
Bonnie Kwong, poet
Candy Shue, poet
DeWayne Dickerson, poet
Amos White, poet
Music: Dillon Vado (Music Director) and his Jazz Trio
Beyond Words – An Evening of Jazz & Poetry
Friday, September 2 at 8pm.
Doors open: 7:30pm
at The California Jazz Conservancy
2087 Addison St., Berkeley
Map: https://goo.gl/maps/
Bay Area impresario and haiku poet Amos White and CJC’s Dillon Vado present an evening that promises to stretch the imagination in musical expression.
Listen to “Time No Changes”
The Dillon Vado Trio featuring Amos White, poet
https://soundcloud.com/
BONNIE WAILEE KWONG – Bonnie’s first poetry collection is ravel, a finalist for the Many Voices Project by New Rivers Press, and the White Pine Press Poetry Prize. Her work in poetry and fiction has garnered several Pushcart nominations. She creates in many mediums and languages: English, Cantonese, Mandarin, Japanese, ruby, and javascript. She is currently artist-in-residence at Stanford University. Her website is:www.bonniekwong.info
DEWAYNE FRAZIER DICKERSON – One of the last unicorns known to man. Nevertheless, the proud Louisville native would be nowhere without support from the National Authors League, Radar Productions, or New York Foundation for the Arts. He lives in West Oakland with his daughter and Squishy, the turtle.
CANDY SHUE – Poet and prose writer. Candy holds a degree in Journalism from the University of Southern California and an MFA in Poetry from the University of San Francisco. Her work has been published in Washington Square, Drunken Boat, sparkle + blink, Works & Days Quarterly, Versal, and other journals, and she has received grants from Kundiman, the Provincetown Fine Arts Workshop, and the Vermont Studio Center. Her photography and poetry was featured in the 92nd Street Y’s #wordsweliveinproject and she currently serves as Chairman on the Board of Directors for the Bay Area Generations reading series. She has also collaborated with the composer Jerry Gerber on a musical poem, “Lucid: Dream For” for his recent CD release, Virtual Harmonics. You can find Candy at:www.invisibleadventure.com
DILLON VADO is an active professional drummer and vibraphonist in the San Francisco Bay Area. He grew up in San Jose, California and has performed in situations from high school band, to marching snare drum with the Santa Clara Vanguard, to playing and recording professionally with other professionals in the Bay Area. Dillon has performed with Art Lande, Marcus Shelby, Erik Jekabson, Jeff Denson, Alan Hall, Clifford Brown III and Marcos Silva. In 2014, Dillon won 1st place in the Jazz Search West competition on vibraphone. He is currently in his last year of the Bachelor’s Program at the California Jazz Conservatory in Berkeley.
AMOS WHITE is an awarded American haiku poet and author of The Sound of the Web: Haiku and Poetry on Facebook and Twitter (2012). His works have appeared in The Wittenberg Review, Oakland Review, Bones Journal, San Francisco BayView, Area 17, World Haiku Association Anthology amongst others. Amos serves on several literary and arts nonprofit boards, is Founder and Host of the Heart of the Muse creative’s salon, and produces Beyond Words: Jazz+Poetry show at the California Jazz Conservatory in Berkeley. www.about.me/amoswhite
IN THE NEWS
Poetry Flash
http://poetryflash.org/