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WordSpace and their producing sponsor Half Price Books have three special events this spring at three of Dallas’s best venues for theater, music, and the arts.

Dagoberto Gilb

Dagoberto Gilb

FEBRUARY 28:  Author Dagoberto Gilb with special musical guest The Felix Flores Band. This evening of music and literature, introduced by Dallas City Councilwoman Delia Jasso and hosted by artist Celia Alvarez Munoz, starts at 8:00 at the Bishop Arts Theater, 215 South Tyler Street, Dallas 75208.

 

MARCH 28: Andrei Codescru at the Kessler Theater. This popular novelist, essayist, and raconteur will read, tell stories, and engage the audience in a Q & A led by Jeff Whittington, executive producer of the KERA program Think. When WordSpace was still a newacodrescu-ea65aba16ca0051097484182ccf329a91c76e4dc-s3 organization, well over ten years ago, Andrei was one of the first literary personalities we brought to Dallas. We are delighted to have him back for this event. The Kessler will open at 7:00 pm to serve drinks and food. The program begins at 8:00.

 

 

APRIL 17: Playwright Octavio Solis now lives in San Francisco, but he started his writing octaviosolis200career here in Dallas. HIs twenty plays have seen over sixty productions across the United States. His appearance for WordSpace at The McKinney Avenue Contemporary. takes place as The Kitchen Dog Theater prepares a production of his new play Se Llama Cristina to open May 24th.

Buy tickets now to support the literary arts in Dallas.

Tickets for all these events are available through links to Prekindle on the WordSpace homepage.

RONALDO WILSON AT WORDSPACE SALON — AT LAST

I became involved with WordSpace over three years ago, and I remember that multiple-wilson_ronaldoaward-winning poet Ronaldo Wilson was a name bruited about as a possible reader. So I guess you could say that his appearance at a WordSpace Salon on February 1, is an event three years in the making.

The “multiple-award-winning” description seems to fit most of the writers we bring in for these events. Wilson still stands out, however, in this category, winning a Cave Canem award in 2007, and both the Thom Gunn Award and the Asian American Literary Award in Poetry in 2010. Congratulations, Mr. Wilson. He appears regularly in magazines and online venues, and this year he will add to his list of published books with Farther Traveler: Poetry, Prose, Other, coming from Counterpoint Press.

You can find Wilson’s work online. Here is a selection from The Narrative of the Life of the Brown Boy and the While Man with the unbeatable title, “Brad Pitt, Kevin Bacon, and the Brown Boy’s Mother.” (Mature audiences only please.)

Since Salons are held in private homes we only give out the address when re receive RSVP’s. Full Details of Wilson’s reading this Friday can be found on the WordSpace website.

Enjoy this short reading by Wilson and we hope to see you Friday, February 1.