What: First Hearings Who: Kelly Luce Where: The Wild Detectives, 314 West Eighth Street, Dallas, TX 75208 When: March 12, 2015. 7 PM Hosted by: Charles Dee Mitchell Charles Dee Mitchell curates and hosts the series First Hearings. Meet authors. Hear them read. Buy their books. Get their autographs. (And the bar will be open for business.) […]
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2014
2014 WordSpace Everywhere: DECEMBER Who: Brian Allen Carr When: Thursday, December 4, 7 pm Where: The Wild Detectives, 8th and Bishop Admission: Free Brian Allen Carr (born 1979) is a prize winning American writer based in Texas. He is the author of the short story collection Short Bus (2011) and Vampire Conditions. His new book is entitled The Last […]
WordSpace @ Tyler Davis Festival
All Day! Multiple Artists! Mighty Fine Arts, To the Ends of the Earth, Oil and Cotton, Ant Colony, and More. Founded in 1994, WordSpace presents over 50 annual programs with poets, prose writers, songwriters, playwrights, performance artists and scholars across the broadest possible spectrum. WordSpace is […]
Beat Poetry Festival Workshops with Chuck Taylor and Christopher Carmona
What: Dallas is the site of the 2014 Beat Poetry Festival. In conjunction with this free featival, WordSpace sponsors Chuck Taylor’s Memoir workshop and Christopher Carmona’s poetics workshop. Where: Lucky Dog Books, 633 W. Davis St. When: The festival begins on Thursday, November 6 and runs through Saturday night, November 8. The workshops are 10-12 for […]
Yoga & Poetry benefiting Next Generation Youth projects
What: Monday night yoga and reading When: Every Monday night, 6:30-8 pm Where: Atma Bhakti Yoga Center, 6315 Lindsley Ave, Dallas, TX 75223 in East Dallas, near Lindsley Park Who: Karen X and You Proceeds benefit WordSpace Next Generation programs. Suggested Donation $5-15. Atma Bhakti Yoga Center offers a weekly Monday night yoga class at 6:30 […]
Thor Johnson @ 2014 Visual Speed Bump Tour of Art
What: Thor Johnson (ArtSpeak Series) When: Saturday May 17th, 7:00 pm Where: Mighty Fine Arts, 409 N Tyler In conjunction with the day-long Visual Speed Bump Tour of Art Tour in Oak Cliff, WordSpace presents performance art with Thor Johnson. The notorious Thor Johnson direct from his recent acclaimed solo art show will seek to further enlighten and […]
Dallas Youth Poets & Randall Garrett @ Better Block
In conjunction with Better Block on Tyler Street and 7th, Mighty Fine Arts and WordSpace present: Inferno Texino: a spoken word/performance/street dance featuring the exquisitely gifted and talented Dallas Youth Poets, a chance to celebrate burgeoning geniuses! Also a rare performance by the notorious artist extraordinaire Randall Garrett, hoodoo pope of the late Plush Gallery, he will undoubtedly entertain, […]
Dallas Poetry Slam Youth Series
When: Every first Saturday at 4-6 pm Where: Half Price Books, 5803 E. NW Highway, Program Room Hosted by: Alexandra Marie and Joaquin Zihuatanejo WordSpace is honored to partner with Dallas Poetry Slam to bring Poetry and Slam outreach to area youth for workshops and performance.
2013
What: Richard Dobson When: May 5, 2013 at 5-7 pm Where: Lucky Dog Books, Oak Cliff 633 W Davis St., Dallas TX 75208 Bookstore Phone: 214-941-2665 Richard Dobson is a Texas singer-songwriter from Tyler and former roughneck who gamboled around Galveston and Houston, then Austin and Nashville, before spending the past 13 years living in […]
JANIS KEARNEY-Author, Publisher and Personal Diarist to President Clinton
SALON ON THURSDAY! RSVP: 214-838-3554 or wordspace@wordspace.us Janis Kearney-Author, Publisher and Personal Diarist to Presdent Clinton What: WordSpace Salon Who: JANIS KEARNEY When: Thursday, November 7, 7 pm Where: Private Residence, RSVP 214-838-3554 Hosted by: Sanderia Smith and Charles Dee Mitchell BONUS: Her new book Cotton Field of Dreams: A Memoir will be availble for purchase and […]