Queering the Night - Friday, August 14
Posted by Insight Arts at 8/10/2009 4:02 PM 
Categories: Ongoing, Performance, Queer, Writing, Events and Premieres, Participation, Open Mic
Tags: Ongoing Queer Performance Poetry Participation Open Mic Events
Categories: Ongoing, Performance, Queer, Writing, Events and Premieres, Participation, Open Mic
Tags: Ongoing Queer Performance Poetry Participation Open Mic Events
QUEER SIZZLING SUMMER POETRY & STORIES
FEATURING EDWIN EVERETT & XAN SUTTON
Come share your sizzling summer poetry and stories at Queering the Night. Following the open mic are readings/performances from exciting new writer Edwin Everett and the fabulously talented spoken word artist Xan Sutton.
Edwin Everett is a chef first, then a photographer, and now a writer as well. After graduating from the Cooking and Hospitality Institute, there was a period in his life when food was his passion. He took mini cooking classes at the CIA (Culinary Institute of America) in New York, worked in four-star hotels and restaurants around the city, from prep-cook to exalted “Chef“ at La Salle Nation Bank and at the Doctor’s Hospital in Hyde Park. He rediscovered his passion as a photographer when he photographed a black woman with tattoos on her arms, who indicated her sexual preference. From that moment on, this African-American artist had been photographing the urban experiences of gay women, calling the unique project, “What Women Really Crave.”
Now, he is pleasantly conflicted, when after taking a writing class at Harold Washington College, he was inspired by his instructor to develop a story from a life experience. He wrote a piece of memoir called “Kabuki,” among others, and it was selected for publication in the Garland Court Review Number 5.
Xan was born in Chicago and have lived in 9 states and 15 cities. She has had the pleasure of performing on the West Coast, East Coast, and several places in between. "I was telling stories before I could write them!" She has hosted and performed at Queering the Night, and Insight Arts is delighted to have her back onstage.
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.
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