Event Date

Thursday, February 11 2010 : 6:00pm – 9:00pm

Location

The Center

Description

Thursday, February 11, 2010
Reception 6PM, Program 6:30PM, $10
Poets and Playwrights presents Eroticism Unleashed

Join us for the sexy, theatrical and styled erotic spoken word performances by some of the sexiest, provocative, and most talented women in the City. You will find yourself captivated as our poets guide you through your inner most lustful thoughts and slowly excite and titillate your senses.

Our Spoken Word Artists will include Charan Morris, Renair Amin, Es'sence and Jessica Pelletier. Our sexy Emcee for the evening is the beautiful Ashley Brockington. 

The Emcee Extraordinaire
Ashley Brockington is a producer of small theater and hostess extraordinaire. She co-curates The Cabaret Cataplexy, a show that features performance art, costume design & music within a community of emerging and evolving artists. She is the creator of an annual performance project called Black Girl Ugly , a meditation on Black Girlness & self-esteem 

Part of the Rivers of Honey performance team, you can find her hosting these and other cabarets around New York City.Playwright, dancer, one of these days she’s gonna bust out as a chanteuse with a comedic twist. She is committed to local community theater and is proud to member of the WOW café Theater collective.

Spoken Word Artists Bios
Renair Amin
Philadelphia, PA native Renair Amin is no stranger to the arts. As an author, she has written for various print and on-line publications including Gay Black Female Magazine, SABLE Magazine and DEEP HUES e-zine. She has been featured on the Nghosi Books, Femme Noir, Sistahs for Sistahs, Soulful Pen Xpressions and Kuma.com websites. Her work also appears in the Nghosi Books anthology, Longing, Lust & Loving. Her short play, The Ride, was a featured staged reading at the 3rd Annual Potpourri’s Reading Festival. She also acted in Kimberly Q's "Erotica Monologues: Orchids" Play, and Wesley Curtis’ “Window in Harlem.”

As a spoken word artist, Renair has performed extensively, gracing stages in Atlanta , Rochester, Philadelphia and in New York City, where she hosts Speak Your Myne Harlem, a monthly open mic showcase of her creation. Just as passionate working behind the scenes, she has produced venues for Mo Beasley of UrbanErotika fame, James Saunders III, founder of Black Pride NYC, and performance artist Nhojj, among others.

Renair’s vast accomplishments have not gone unnoticed, garnering an appearance on The Best Shorts, a BETJ offering that profiles the best in African American short films. She has been a guest on the Spotlight on Jazz and Poetry radio show, Buddah’s Picks of the Week on Vocalized Ink Radio and the Black Authors Network Radio Show. Later, Renair joined the OutFM Collective as a host and associate producer on WBAI (99.5 FM) in New York. Renair Amin resides in Far Rockaway, New York.

Es'sence
A multi-talented artist, Es'sence is taking the artistic world by storm. In addition to modeling, dancing, and designing, she has now added spoken word to her list of talents. Es'sence began writing as a youth, but now has taken her words to the stage. Her goal is to inspire all people, through her work, to be whoever or whatever they want to be and to live free and authentically. She has performed at Mo Beasley’s Urban Erotica, Ainsley Burrow’s Freak Nasty Showcase, and Renair Amin’s Speak Your Myne Open Mic in addition to other venues. Es’sence recently joined the Punany Poets cast and has begun performing with Renair Amin as an erotic duo. Born in Queens, Es’sence claims Brooklyn as her home, which was instrumental to her evolution. She lives her life by the mantra:  “I’m not a perfect person, but I am perfect in my imperfections.”

 
Charan Morris
Charan P. is a poet/performer/educator transplanted from Chicago to New York.  Poetry takes its rightful place in her life--neck and neck with teaching.  She has featured in the 2009 Soundbites Poetry Fiestival, the 2008 Black Women's Arts Festival in Philly and in the Washington DC's Poetry Festival. In NYC she has featured at venues such as the Nuyorican Poets Cafe, the Bowery Poetry Club, The Ashford & Simpson's Sugar Bar, and others. Her work fuels public dialogue around the parasitic nature of racism by revealing the ways in which it weaves itself into the fabric of her family and personal histories. Of course sometimes her work is just about being human.

Jessica Pelletier
At an early age, Jessica fell in love with the art of poetry and has maintained a longtime affair with it since. Poetry and Spoken Word have become her outlet to express herself and preserve her creative voice. With a background in Sociology, Psychology, and Social Work she has developed an attachment to social advocacy, social service, and social equality. As a member and advocate of the LGBT community, Jessica has developed Voices of our City to assist homosexual youth in using spoken word as a tool to enhance their sense of self and to strengthen their coping skills in dealing with homophobia and prejudice.

Latonia Phipps
An artist who gives a new meaning to the phrase triple threat. Raised in Bed-Stuy, Brooklyn, LaTonia dove head first into the arts at the tender age of 10. Upon receiving her Masters Degree in Acting from Brooklyn College she went on to participate in the production of The Colored Museum at The Crossroads Theater as Woman 1 and Wait Until Dark, by Fredrick Knott at The Ivoryton Playhouse, playing the role of Suzy Hendrix. She was later introduced to a theater company for emerging artists and playwrights, Freedom Train Productions where she participated in two readings,"Black Tale" as Red and "Dirty Little Black Girls" as Chinara by Patricia Ione Llyold.Following this experience Phipps was instantly bitten by the playwriting bug.Fishing In Brooklyn (premiering at the Center), is her first debut into the world of playwrighting, which began as a childhood memory and then blossomed into a full-length play. She is currently working on a project titled, "She Who Struggles," A Two-Act play that follows JoAnne Chesimard before she becomes Assata Shakur, as she deals with issues of our time; Understanding Gentrification, War, Friendship, Lesbian Love and Lost.

 

Price

$10 General Admission

$20 VIP (Open Bar)

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Yojani Hernandez, yhernandez@gaycenter.org, 212-620-7310

 

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