Queering the Night - Friday, May 8, 2009
Posted by Insight Arts at 5/6/2009 5:45 PM 
Categories: Ongoing, Performance, Queer, Writing, Participation, Events and Premieres
Categories: Ongoing, Performance, Queer, Writing, Participation, Events and Premieres
Insight Arts presents “Queering the Night,” a monthly LGBTQI open mic that invites writers and performers to rant and rave about what it's like to be LGBTQI in a time of war and socio-economic crisis in the U.S. The event, happens every second Friday of the month, 7 - 9 pm at the Center for New Possibilities, 1505 W. Morse; it starts with an open mic that segues into a reading/performance of a featured local artist.
On May 8, Queering the Night features Rachel Goldberg, a creative individual who uses art as a therapeutic and intuitive process. On May 8 she will perform a series of poems that will demonstrate the interpersonal process that creative writing has been an agent for. Dealing with the topics of coming out, sexual scars, relationship woes, and general coming-of-age, these poems together, combined with Goldberg's retrospective insight, paint an integrative portrait of of one individuals journey.
Goldberg was part of Iowa City's 2005 national poetry slam team and hosted the Iowa City slam in 2007. She recently applied her tools of personal writing in a different arena as the instructor of a teen-empowerment program on the West side of the city through an organization called Step Up Women's Network. She is a professional in early childhood education and youth programming and is truly inspired by the children she is blessed to work with regularly; they remind her that imagination is closely linked to intuition, or our creative source. As of late, her creative endeavors include fire-performance, sculpture, and writing children's poetry. She hopes that what she has to share may serve as a catalyst within the journey's of others.
At the open mic, artists may share work that deal with race, class, gender, immigration, and other serious issues that contextualize a queer identity, but may also talk about family, love, relationships, sex, and other experiences that make for a full and exciting existence in a terribly homophobic world. Lani T. Montreal and Joey Flores host.
CENTER FOR NEW POSSIBILITIES at 1505 W Morse Avenue, is a safe and queer-friendly space coordinated by Insight Arts, a contemporary arts organization dedicated to increasing access to cultural work that supports progressive social change. Our unique organizational model allows us to engage in community based, regional and national work.
Rachel Goldberg was fierce. What a treat to have performance poetry that is unafraid of bringing the personal into the political and vice versa. Thank you for curating a brazen queer writer!
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