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Join Mad Swirl this 1st Wednesday of April (aka 04.01.26) when we’ll be doin’ the open mic voodoo that we do at Barbara’s Pavillion!We will get things started with some musical grooves brought to you by our long standing house band Swirve! (Chris & Tamitha Curiel, Gerard Bendiks). Then, starting at 8pm, hosts Johnny O & MH Clay will set the stage for some open mic madness!
This month we will be featuring Mad Swirl Featured Artist, local DJ, photog, writer & poet Kasey Jones! Here’s a bit about Kasey:
Born in Dallas, TX in 1966, Kasey graduated from Lake Highlands High School where she lettered in five varsity sports. She played for the Sting soccer club from 1978 to 1985, winning four U-19 National Championships, including the Woman’s World Soccer Championship in Xian, China in 1984. The first Women’s World Cup where she was named MVP most valuable player and World Champion. After high school, she moved away from Dallas as fast as possible. College started at Univ. of N. Carolina on a full soccer scholarship, and then she moved to do her MFA at PRATT Institute in NYC.
Kasey holds a MFA Visual Arts from Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, NY and a BA Department of Dramatic Art from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill where she attended on a full woman’s athletic scholarship winning two NCAA National titles.
Kasey’s first encounter with art occurred when, at the age of three, her mother enrolled her in art classes at Southern Methodist University. Later that same year she entered two of the works in the Texas State Art Fair, where she won co-first prize with a ninety-three years old grandmother.
When asked why she chose art as a career, she had this to say: “In the obsession of the creative act itself, one is relatively warm and safe. Memory comes, not as a cloudy distraction, but as an enveloping otherness. In the dark, vague hallway to everywhere, we find the source of our pain, the causes of separations and the reasons for reconstruction. It is because of this need to reconnect that I make art.”
Come to participate…
(preRSVP at our Facebook event page or send a message to [email protected])
Come to swirlabrate…
(join us LIVE at Barbara’s Pavillion- located at 323 Centre St, Dallas OR watch us on Facebook LIVE)
Come one. Come all. Come to be a part of this collective creative love child we affectionately call… Mad Swirl Open Mic!
Here’s a sneak-peek at the remaining 2026 features:
May: Chris Zimmerly
June: MH Clay
July: Tammy Gomez
August: Tyler Malone
September: Tejana Cósmica
October: Trier Ward
November: 22 Years of Mad Swirl Open Mic Swirlabration
December: Holidaze Hijinx
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Event Venue
Barbara's Pavillion, 325 Centre St, Dallas, TX 75208-6505, United States
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