Capturing Fire
presents
Bring in Da Rainbows: An Evening of Queer Poetry & Music
Hosted by Regie Cabico
Musical Direction by B.E. Farrow
Saturday, June 26, 2021, at 7:00pm
OPEN TO THE PUBLIC
$10 ACW members - $20 non-members
Tickets available at the door.
(price includes reception with open wine bar & hors d'oeuvres)
Description:
“When I say ‘POETRY’ you say ‘ROCKS’!”
“POETRY!”
“ROCKS!”
“POETRY!”
“ROCKS!”
...and with that cheer, your host Regie Cabico –called “The Fairy Godmother of Slam Poetry” by the Washington Post – takes you on a raw and raucous spoken word journey unlike any other. You are not just in the audience listening to Queer poets spit searing and sublime words of personal experience and universal emotions, you are an active participant in a show that encourages showing support of poets with clapping hands, snapping fingers, and shouts of approval!
Capturing Fire returns to the Arts Club with the fiercest DC poets including Tyler French, author of “He Told Me” (CapFire Press) and Ishanee Chanda, author of “Oh, These Wall, They Crumble” with more to be announced. All this against the backdrop of folk music infused jazz interludes by B.E. Farrow and his band. This is a night of original poetry and music that will get your toes tapping and soul buzzing.
Capturing Fire was founded by Regie Cabico and is Washington, DC's longest running queer slam poetry event. The first edition was held in 2010 with the support of Split This Rock featuring the amazing poetry of Sonya Renee, Chris August, Kit Yan, Tara Hardy, Andrea Gibson, and Baruch Porras-Hernandez. Now in its 10th edition, Capturing Fire has solidified its international reputation as a nurturing space that promotes and publishes trans and queer poets as well as encourages allyship, risk taking, and artistic career growth.
This event is supported by the Arts Club of Washington, Poets & Writers, CapFire Spoken Word Arts, Studio 3440, and Poets & Writers.
Show Run time is 90 minutes with one (1) intermission
Regie Cabico is a pioneer of spoken word having won the 1993 Nuyorican Poets Cafe Grand Slam, later taking 3 National Prizes in the poetry slams. Mr. Cabico is an inaugural 2019 playwriting fellow for Le Maison Baldwin Writer Residency at Saint Paul de Vence. Television credits include two seasons of HBO’s Def Poetry Jam, NPR’s Snap Judgement and TEdx Talk He is a recipient of a 2008 Future Aesthetics Arts Award Regrant from The Ford Foundation/Hip Hop Theater Festival, three New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowships for Poetry and Multidisciplinary Performance, The Larry Neal Awards for Poetry 2007, and several fellowships from the DC Commission for the Arts.
B.E. Farrow is a musician, educator, songwriter, and independent researcher who has a focus in reshaping and reflecting American's musical history through sharing stories, creative musical expression through popular/historic musical structures, and inclusive dialog. From touring with Grammy award winner Dom Flemons to giving talks at the Library Company of Philadelphia and running a music program in Greece with the refugees, Mr. Farrow forms a discipline in understanding the unspoken roots of music and exploring the impact of expression on cultural history. You can hear Mr. Farrow as a member of the Clara Barton Sessions, a recording of DC folk/traditional musicians who released an album commemorating the revitalization of the Clara Barton Museum, Elena y Los Fulanos' Volcàn, R&B Soul artist Dante Pope's After 5 Music, on Dom Flemons’ Grammy nominated album Black Cowboys under Smithsonian's Folkways label, the chart-topping album No Time for Enemies by Gangstagrass, or on his WAMMIE award winning EP Unsent Letters. Learn more at www.BeFarrow.com
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Online payments are non-refundable. Paid tickets can be canceled online for an account credit up to 48 hours before the event.
ACW Members can canceled their reservation without a penalty until the day before the event.
