Women Out Loud! - Friday, October 23
Women Out Loud! is a venue where women can spit fiery words in anurturing space, and men are welcome to applaud and cheer.
On Friday, October 23,Women Out Loud! features poets Cristina Correa and Keli Stewart!
The Center for New Possibilities
1505 W Morse Ave.
7 to 9 PM
CristinaCorrea is working artist in the city of Chicago. Most recently, she hasbeen published in Latina Voices, Say What Magazine, Ghost FactoryMagazine and participated in a poetic and visual exhibition entitledConvergence. She graduated from the Columbia College Fiction WritingDepartment as an Alexandroff Community Scholar. She has taught creativewriting and advocated for the empowerment of young people in theChicago Public Schools and various community organizations since 2004.Her chapbook entitled this is the year. was published by Watch theSteps Press.
Keli Stewart is a west side of Chicago native whosestories and poems have appeared in numerous publications including,Meridians, Warpland Journal, Letters to Fathers from Daughters,Hairtrigger, Torch Poetry, and Calyx. Keeping Hands Busy and Making Do,an essay about single-motherhood, poverty and creativity is forthcomingin Hip Mama Magazine Issue #44. She has also self-published a chapbook,Womanish. Her debut play, House of Forks and Knives, explores identityand abuse in an African-American mother-daughter relationship. It isthe recipient of the Douglas Turner Ward/Alice Childress ScriptwritingPrize and also received the James Baldwin Award from the WORD!Multicultural Theater Festival. She is a double recipient of the ArchieD. and Bertha H. Walker Foundation Scholarship from the Fine Arts WorkCenter as well as a Voices of Our Nations Arts Foundation and CallalooSummer Writing Workshop alum. Keli was arts resident with the AugustaSavage Gallery’s Arts International Residency Program where she spenttime in New Mexico writing and living on a mesa.
Keli hasworked as Artistic Director of the Women of Color Leadership Network atUMass-Amherst, where she facilitated writing and theater workshops forwomen of color, culminating in Body Politics, an annual performanceabout issues facing women of color. She received her BA in FictionWriting from Columbia College in 2002 and is currently an MFA CreativeWriting Student at Chicago State University. Keli writes on thesteering wheel in between teaching writing part-time and raising twowonderful sons. She is currently at work on a collection of poems.
Comeand share your words, and/or just take a break from the week’s workwoes and listen to these fabulous women writers read. Open mic startsat 7 pm and is followed by the featured writer. $5 suggested donation,$3 for open mic participants.
The CENTER FOR NEW POSSIBILITIESlocated at 1505 W Morse Avenue, is a space coordinated by Insight Arts,a contemporary arts organization dedicated to increasing access tocultural work that supports progressive social change. Our uniqueorganizational model allows us to engage in community based, regionaland national work.
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