Name: There's A Lot to Unpack Here 12/15
Start: 2024-12-15T20:00:00-05:00
End: 2024-12-15T22:00:00-05:00
Location: Branded Saloon

$There's A Lot to Unpack Here 12\/15$

A NYC based poetry and interview reading series breaking the fourth wall and digging deep with poetry and poetic form.
About this Event

There's A Lot to Unpack Here is a NYC based poetry and interview series breaking the fourth wall and digging deep with poetry and poetic form.

Join us at Branded Saloon for a night of unpacking poetry!

This event is free with a 2 item bar purchase to support the venue!

SPECIAL GUEST

Elissa Matthews

FEATURED PERFORMERS

Jillian Richardson

Erika Fernanda

RŸN

Flannery Maeve Rollins

Cyn Grace Sylvie

Anna Szilagyi

This event we will be fundraising for Middle East Children's Alliance.

The Middle East Children’s Alliance (MECA) is a nonprofit humanitarian aid organization supporting children and families in Palestine, Iraq and Lebanon since 1988.

Amidst the ongoing attack on Gaza, MECA and their partners are providing emergency assistance to families who have fled their homes to seek shelter with relatives as well as procuring emergency medical supplies for hospitals and clinics.

Please consider donating to MECA through the show or directly on their site.

A critical aspect of safe spaces for art is that they provide marginalized groups with the opportunity to have their voices heard. There's A Lot to Unpack Here seeks to create spaces to empower individuals whose stories and perspectives have often been excluded or silenced, ensuring that their art is given the attention and respect it deserves.

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Who we are...

TALTUH invites poets, patrons of the art, and those who have said “I don’t understand what any of this means” alike to a space that facilitates sharing original work and the education of poetics through interviewing its readers before a live audience. Interviewing of the poets to “unpack” their work is informed by producers who work to create thorough questions based on the readers' pieces prior to the evening to allow for readers to fill in the blanks while being guided to delve deeper into what their work seeks to accomplish in both form and feeling. This kind of emotional navigation of the work to be explored in earnest by the reader and the listeners to begin a cultivation of understanding of what is traditionally read between the lines.

Shows are cast with the goal to break through the homogenous noise of traditional poetry readings by placing the utmost emphasis on diversity. Lineups are curated with poets who write slam, spoken word, villanelles or sonnets within the same show with the objective to edify an understanding of the vast spectrum of form or lack thereof in which poetry plays. In tandem with the commitment to literary multiplicity, the emphasis on the inclusion of and prioritization of diverse voices is what lies at the heart of the series.