Women Out Loud! - Friday, July 24
Posted by Insight Arts at 7/20/2009 2:27 PM 
Categories: Ongoing, Performance, Women, Events and Premieres
Categories: Ongoing, Performance, Women, Events and Premieres
FEATURING MARS CAULTON & ASHLEY MOCOSA McPHREASH-WOLFORD
Insight Arts is proud to feature writer/spoken word artist Mars Caulton and writer Ashley Mocosa McPhreash- Wolford at Women Out Loud!
Mars Caulton delivers social analysis, dreams and blueprints for change through voice and other sporadic media. Schooled at “Lit-X,” a staple of Chicago’s spoken word scene in the early 1990’s, she wove her massroots activism and love of song with the poetry. Founding Poetic Service Announcement, she worked with other artists to present urgent political messages at settings including street corners, a benefit CD, and marching in several Bud Billikan parades. She continues to run Red Planet Productions, producing art/cultural projects that directly serve grassroots movements for social/political change, and in 2003 was awarded Insight Arts’ Cultural Activism award for her work as both an organizer and artist. Her past work in trip hop, improvisational and spoken word has recently shifted towards acoustic solo voice/experimental/alternative.
A political activist since the early 80's, Mars has fought against nuclear weapons, apartheid, lockdowns in public housing, the Gulf War, rape, police brutality, attacks on abortion, censorship, the KKK, the Promise Keepers, gaybashing, and the railroading of Mumia Abu-Jamal. Born in the radical 60’s in New England, Mars is an African-American, a degreed early childhood educator, an experienced b+w photographer, and a mother.
Ashley Mocosa McPhreash- Wolford is a 23-year-old Native American writer who writes “because I cannot sleep.” She is a student at Columbia College and a regular at Women Out Loud. Her rich writing comes from a deep place of understanding and resistance.
Women Out Loud, the longest-running open mic in Chicago for women and women-identified writers, happens every fourth Friday of the month. As always, men may applaud and cheer. $5 suggested donation, $3 for open mic participants.
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