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Healthy Rhythm Art Gallery presents "JON SANDS - POETRY IN MOTION (Performance & Workshop) :: LIVE AT HEALTHY RHYTHM" • Saturday, January 25, 2025, at Healthy Rhythm Art Gallery, 33 N. Uncompahgre Avenue, in historic downtown Montrose, Colorado!THE ARTIST
Jon Sands was born in Cincinnati, Ohio. He was a winner of the 2018 National Poetry Series, selected for his second collection of poems, It’s Not Magic (Beacon Press, 2019). He is the facilitator of the Emotional Historians workshop, a series of generative writing classes that you can find out more about on Instagram at @iAmJonSands, and is the author of The New Clean (Write Bloody Publishing), a co-host of The Poetry Gods podcast, and a curator for SupaDupaFresh, a monthly poetry series at Ode to Babel in Brooklyn. His work has been featured in The New York Times, published in The Rumpus, The Millions, Cortland Review, LUMINA from Sarah Lawrence College, Muzzle, Rattle, Hanging Loose, The Rattling Wall from PEN Center USA, and many others, as well as anthologized in The Best American Poetry. He has received residencies and fellowships from the Blue Mountain Center, the Brooklyn Arts Council, the Council of Literary Magazines and Presses, and the Jerome Foundation. He’s a MFA Graduate in Fiction from Brooklyn College, where his work won the Himan Brown Award for short stories.
He was a founding curator of Poets in Unexpected Places, a New York based artist collective that moved poetry into unconventional public spaces with free live literature performances featuring accomplished poets and an array of performance artists from varied backgrounds and aesthetics. They were commissioned to curate “Pop Up” exhibitions in college classrooms, federal banks, museums, and much more. He is a facilitator with the Dialogue Arts Project, a non-profit organization that partners with communities in order to help participants collaborate & communicate more effectively across lines of social identity and difference. He taught at Brooklyn College, Urban Word NYC, and for over a decade, facilitated weekly writing workshops for adults at Baily House, an HIV/AIDS service center in East Harlem and The Positive Health Project, a syringe exchange center in Midtown Manhattan. He starred in the award winning web-series Verse: A Murder Mystery from Rattapallax Films, and has represented New York City numerous times at the National Poetry Slam. He tours extensively as a poet, but lives in Brooklyn.
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PERFORMANCE
General Admission Performance is $25 per person. Purchase online at jonsands.com, healthyrhythm.net, or at Healthy Rhythm Art Gallery in Montrose, Colorado. Performance is a ticketless event. Doors open at 7:00 PM. Show starts at 7:30 PM.
WORKSHOP - EMOTIONAL HISTORIANS
January 25, 2025 • 1:30 PM (Doors 1 PM)
In the world of people, celebration is often laced with melancholy, joy is a border that surrounds sorrow, and fear is usually one doorbell away from bravery. So, how the fork can we construct poems that acknowledge a complicated and dynamic world? How do we avoid writing that transforms us into caricatures? How do we convey what it feels like to be us, alive at the onset of a new millennium? If the job of an artist is that of an emotional historian, then we must create poems that are as multi-dimensional and layered as the people who write them. If we’re to properly archive, we must ask ourselves not whether this is a great poem, but rather, is this today’s poem?
People who attend the Worksop and evening Performance pay $35. Workshop is limited to 20 participants.
We politely request that anyone who is unvaccinated for COVID wear CDC approved face coverings while inside the gallery. If you are showing any COVID symptoms, or sick in any way, please stay home and get better and we'll see you soon!
HEALTHY RHYTHM ART GALLERY
Healthy Rhythm Art Gallery (HRAG) is about Art and Music. The Gallery affords diverse individuals a user-friendly space to create, exhibit, and sell a variety of artwork. The Gallery, located in historic downtown Montrose, Colorado, also serves as an intimate Live Music Listening Room for nationally and internationally touring musicians.
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There are no refunds or exchanges for this concert. All sales are final. The only exception to this policy is if an event is cancelled. In the event of cancellation, purchases will be honored when the concert is rescheduled. If you are unable to attend the rescheduled event, your purchase will be refunded at the point of service minus any fees that may apply.
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Event Venue & Nearby Stays
33 N. Uncompahgre Avenue, Montrose, CO, United States, Colorado
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