Days of Wonder: it is time to be very tender with our grief
An immersive performance experience by poet Marty McConnell with film by Lindsey Dorr-Niro and music by Patrick Wojtak
Through language, music, and imagery, “Days of Wonder: it is time to be very tender with our grief” explores curiosity and interconnectedness as methods of moving into and through personal, societal, and global sorrow, survival, and co-evolution.
This event is free but space will be limited. Seating will be available on a first-come, first-served basis and include floor cushions, low chairs, stools, and standing space. If you have accessibility needs, please contact martyoutloud@gmail.com in advance. Please note the venue is located up one flight of stairs.
Please RSVP for Tickets:
June 21 -- https://DoW621.eventbrite.com
June 22 -- https://DoW622.eventbrite.com
About the artists:
Marty McConnell is a poet, educator, and performer based in Chicago. She is the author of “when they say you can’t go home again, what they mean is you were never there,” winner of the 2017 Michael Waters Poetry Prize; her first full-length collection, "wine for a shotgun," received the Silver Medal in the Independent Publishers Awards, and was a finalist for both the Audre Lorde Award and a Lambda Literary Award.
She is also a National Underground Poetry Individual Competition (NUPIC) Champion, competed in seven National Poetry Slams on teams representing Chicago and New York City, and appeared on two seasons of HBO’s "Def Poetry Jam."
YesYes Books published her first nonfiction book, "Gathering Voices: Creating a Community-Based Poetry Workshop” in 2018. An MFA graduate of Sarah Lawrence College, her work has appeared in numerous journals and anthologies including Best American Poetry, Southern Humanities Review, Gulf Coast, and Indiana Review.
Lindsey Dorr-Niro is an artist and educator living and working in Chicago, Illinois. She received her MFA from The Yale School of Art and BFA from The University of Wisconsin-Madison. Her work centers on installation, where she uses a full range of visual art modalities including sculpture, painting, and video/film to shift perception, thinking, and open viewers to new worlds of possibility. Her work insists on embodiment (direct perception) as a precursor to agency—specifically the embodied perception of the "constructed-ness" of reality.
Patrick Wojtak is a multi-instrumentalist (piano, guitar, drums), music producer, and technologist who understands the world first through sound. His passion is exploring sound frequencies and their effect on the body, but the list of curiosities expands to all the qualities that music and sound have on us and our environment. A frequent collaborator with movement artists and writer/performers, Patrick is also the Director of Tech Arts at Hairpin Arts Center.