Oral Fixation @ Dallas Performance Hall
For its season finale, Oral Fixation (An Obsession with True Life Tales) has baked up something astonishing. Sweeter than chocolate and richer than cheesecake, “Icing on the Cake” is guaranteed to satisfy your appetite. Taking the Dallas City Performance Hall stage on Tuesday, May 10th at 8pm, our seven storytellers will mix it up and deliver the goods. From reality show adventures to road trip awakenings, creative cakes to birthday blues, cactus butts to bear caves, and human rights’ protectors to micro-preemie survivors, “Icing on the Cake” has every ingredient required to be amazing. Give your sweet tooth what it craves and follow this recipe: Do not miss this show! $25 tickets are on sale now! Keep an eye out for more details: storyteller profiles will be published in coming weeks.
MEET THE CAST
Former full-time trial attorney Bill Holston finds purpose in fighting for human rights. Through pink cake and pee, Megan Mayo’s well-organized plan for her husband’s birthday is dashed. On his birthday, Jacob Longoria is rejected, fired, and assaulted—can it get worse? Writer Penny Taylor’s life is layered thick with cakes, cupcakes, and creativity. On a crazy road trip with his sons, John Stanton gets more than he bargained for. Personal chef Alyssia Birnbaum wins big on a network cooking reality show. And when Valerie Stokes’ twins become micro-preemies, everything hangs in the balance.
SHOW DETAILS
All Season 5 shows are staged at Dallas City Performance Hall in the Arts District at 2520 Flora Street, Dallas, TX 75201. Valet and self-parking are available at One Arts Plaza, or park free at a meter on Ross. $25 individual tickets can be purchased at the door, by phone at (888) 454-4353, or online at http://oralfixation.prekindle.com/. Group and student discounts are available.
KEEP AN EYE OUT FOR SEASON 6 THEMES!
Season 6 themes will be announced over the summer. No writing or performing experience is necessary, but stories must be true and on theme. For details and deadlines, visit www.oralfixationshow.com. Follow us on Facebook and Twitter!
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Oral Fixation @ Dallas Performance Hall
WordSpace is honored to produce the 2015 – 2016 Season of Oral Fixation!
More details coming!
Oral Fixation @ Dallas Performance Hall
Oral Fixation @ Dallas Performance Hall
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In The Doghouse” will feature another great evening of great storytelling: This month tales of trouble in the “house”! Dallas’ ever-buzzier live storytelling series for adults, hits the big leagues with its 5th Season at the stunning City Performance Hall in the heart of the Dallas Arts District. The season opener, “Push the Envelope”, is a metaphor for the unconventional series itself. This entertaining evening will take you on an emotional rollercoaster ride exploring true life tales about breaking through the comfort zone. “
Oral Fixation @ Dallas City Performance Hall
Buy Season Passes and Flex Passes
Dallas’ ever-buzzier live storytelling series for adults, hits the big leagues with its 5th Season at the stunning City Performance Hall in the heart of the Dallas Arts District. The season opener, “Push the Envelope”, is a metaphor for the unconventional series itself. Get in on the action Wednesday, September 16th at 8pm. This entertaining evening will take you on an emotional rollercoaster ride exploring true life tales about breaking through the comfort zone.
MEET THE CAST:
Will Richey of DaVerse Lounge and the Festival of Ideas shares the story behind his passion for helping others express themselves. Dallas social change activist Christian Yazdanpanah reveals how his childhood struggle with poverty inspires him to push for educational reform. Mary Kreider faces her biggest fear in public speaking class. Suzette Drouillard deepens her relationship with her daughter by sending 28 cards in 28 days for her 28th birthday. Wayne Applebaum wanders far from his Orthodox Jewish upbringing in NYC to find his limits tested when his son develops leukemia. Donald Griswold falls deeply in love with the neglected Russian baby he adopts after a painful chapter in his life. And Justin Nygren of The Grove takes a huge risk professionally to keep his family afloat. This show features real-deal envelope pushers who will bravely share their truths on the massive City Performance Hall stage.
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Sanderia Faye In Conversation with Greg Brownderville
Who: Sanderia Faye / Greg Brownderville
What: First Hearings, A Conversation
When: October 22, 2015, 7:00 PM
Where: The Wild Detectives, 314 West Eighth Street, 75208
Hosted by: Charles Dee Mitchell
Sanderia Faye’s first novel, The Mourner’s Bench, takes place in Maeby, Arkansas. The year is 1964, and eight-year-old Sarah Jones feels it is time to take responsibility for her own sins. When a revival comes to The First Baptist Church, Sarah plans to take her place on the mourner’s bench and prepare to give her testimony. But things are changing in Maeby, Arkansas. Her own mother is a civil rights activist, the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee has come to town, and tensions are running high.
Sanderia Faye will read from The Mourner’s Bench on October 22 at The Wild Detectives. After the reading, award-winning poet Greg Brownderville will lead a discussion with Sanderia. Greg is Assistant Professor at Dedman College of the Humanities and Sciences at Southern Methodist University, and he comes from the same area of Southern Arkansas as Sanderia. They will talk about books, small Southern towns, race, and whatever other topics arise.
After the discussion, Sanderia will be signing books.
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Wordspace supports and celebrates the creative use of language, we sponsor over 50 events a year including: Author Readings, Book Signings, Poetry Slams, Performance Art and Songwriting.
Since 1994, WordSpace has presented programs with thousands of writers across a broad interdisciplinary spectrum. We are proud to support emerging writers and the Texas arts communities.
In addition to emerging writers, WordSpace have also presented such luminaries as Robert Creeley, Townes Van Zandt, Ray Wylie Hubbard, Jeffrey Liles, James Kelman, Dagoberto Gilb, Terry Allen, Ben Fountain, Ed Sanders, Andrei Codrescu, Dan Savage, Amy Sedaris, Nikki Giovanni, Sandra Bernhard, John Waters, Laurie Anderson, Johnny Dolphin, Anne Waldman, Philippines PEN award recipient, Edwin Cordevilla, Persian exiles-in-London poets, Abol Froushan and Ali Abdolrezaei, Korea’s Presidential Award recipient Tae Joo Jah, Our Summer Internship Program hosts young writers from universities around the country and we create programs to give voice and venue to area youth.
FIRST HEARINGS: JOE R. LANSDALE
What: First Hearings with Joe R. Lansdale
When: Thursday, July 2, 7:30 pm
Where: The Wild Detectives, 314 West 8th Street, Dallas 75208
Hosted by: Charles Dee Mitchell,
More Info: Contact WordSpace@WordSpace.Us, 214-838-3554
A recent reviewer said that it seems like Joe R. Lansdale has written about a thousand novels. That’s an exaggeration, but the man has written a lot of books — books that have earned him the reputation as the master of East Texas Gothic and gotten him compared to Mark Twain. And yes, he can make those two things work together.
Lansdale is best known for his crime novels featuring Hap and Leonard, two aging , East Texas good old boys who get into bad situations with very bad people. Those novels are funny, vulgar, and marked by outbursts of outrageous violence. In 2016, Hap and Leonard will appear in a six-episode series on Sundance Channel.
This new novel, Paradise Sky, is a sprawling Western that offers a highly fictionalized life of Nat Love, the African American cowboy who became famous as the dime-novel hero, Deadwood Dick. The action moves from Texas to Arizona, up to South Dakota, and back to Arkansas. Along the way, Lansdale takes on every major trope of the Great American Western and plays
them to hilt. Nat Love is an engaging narrator who brings to life his short stint as a Buffalo soldier, his time as a bouncer at the Gem Theater in Deadwood, South Dakota, his friendship with Bill Hickock, and his battle with a psychopathically vindictive enemy who pursues him halfway across the continent. And since this is a Lansdale novel, you can bet it is also funny, vulgar, and marked by outbursts of outrageous violence.
This will be a great summer evening at The Wild Detectives.
MasterPiece at Dallas Poetry Slam
When: December 18, 8 pm
Where: Heroes, Greenville Ave.
Hosted by: Dallas Poetry Slam, SlamMasters GNO & RockBaby
What: WordSpace Night @ DPS
Poet, actress, host, and entrepreneur MasterPiece is a 6 time award winning national Poet. She has performed in over 30 different cities across the U.S., starred in two major stage productions, and produces one of the most successful spoken word events in the DFW metroplex. The triple threat model, writer, and actress has shared stages with elite artists such as Tank, Malcolm-Jamal Warner, Tweet, Lalah Hathaway, Taalam Acey, Rudy Francisco, Aja Monet and many more. She is a featured Poet on All Def Poetry with over 23K views and endorsed by Russell Simmons himself. She is the first artist to grace a dual magazine cover for Spoken Visions Magazine and has been featured in local publications the Dallas Observer, Southern Dallas Magazine, and The Dallas Entertainment Journal.Book MasterPiece for any spokenword event by contacting info@masterpiecepoetry.com.
