I promised you a revival. And now it’s here.
If you’re into women, wine, spoken word, all of the above, or something completely different like good lighting, big living rooms, or warm sweaters you’re probably a human being built to go to THE REVIVAL, a salon-styled poetry tour that is actually happening potentially in a city near you!
Following their campaign, which raised over $5,000, the 9-day queer women’s poetry tour is hitting Toronto, Brooklyn, Chicago, Atlanta, DC, Durham, Detroit, and Cleveland. Honoring a queer tradition of demanding safe space, each event takes place in a local home. The works will explore sexuality, humanity – our lives.
“We are doing this because we have so many stories, and instead of begging the mainstream to tell them, we will tell them ourselves,” said producer Jade Foster. “That’s the point of a poet. To remind folks that they’re experiences, their trials and triumphs are real. That they matter. Just through the simple act of talking to each other, we become more than women, we become testament. That’s the point of the tour.”
You should probably buy your tickets sooner, and not later. And maybe bring tissues and a cigarette. Or a cute girl.
THE REVIVAL
Each Traditional Revival features light fare, a cash bar and a local guest poet.
+ October 5 – Brooklyn with Lambda Literary fellow Charan Morris
+ October 6 – Toronto with artist and activist Kim Crosby
+ October 7 – Detroit at LIV Resto Lounge
+ October 7 – Cleveland at Oberlin College
+ October 9 – Chicago at POW WOW Open Mic (with a workshop at Columbia College)
+ October 11 – Atlanta with Red Summer
+ October 12 – Durham with Mobile Homecoming Project’s Alexis Pauline Gumbs
+ October 13 – DC Welcome Home Concert with Rachel Eliza Griffiths & DC Youth Slam Team / Special Afterparty*
*Carmen Rios and Morgan McCormick are going to this, you know.
This looks awesome! Thanks for sharing. Definitely going to check out the Toronto event
The feeling of “OMG I TURNED DOWN THANKSGIVING IN TORONTO AND NOW I MISS ZE POETRY”
Aw no LA? Or even San Francisco! haha
this was my reaction!!
hey. I think both ,’the revival’ and ‘buy tickets here’, links are dead/not working.
this sounds great btw!
wish I’d live a little closer to pretty much every awesome event AS ever talked about.
DAMMIT DAMMIT DAMMIT the one fucking year that I’m not in Atlanta right now. FuckfuckfuckfuckfuckfuckfuckfuckfuckfuckFUCK!
Thinking about checking this out in Brooklyn tonight. If you’re going you should hit me up!
I want to go to the Toronto show here but the BUY TICKETS link isn’t working. And it isn’t working on their website either!!!
HELP
Whoops
Got a link to work “You should probably buy your tickets sooner, and not later” THANKS SO MUCH
UM I JUST GOT HOME FROM THIS AND IT WAS PROBABLY THE BEST THING I WENT TO ALL YEAR. B.STEADY FOREVER. CAPS LOCK.