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The Blake Parker Roadshow: Poetry, Performance and Visual Art
Blake Parker was an extraordinary writer and performer that inspired many artists, dancers, writers, musicians and performers and left an incredible legacy of creative work. He was a prolific writer and continuously engaged in new creative projects.
The Roadshow will be an evening to celebrate creativity and improvisation in mixed media: spoken word, image, and music. The evening will celebrate not just Blake’s work, but also many of the people he collaborated with, those he inspired and other upcoming performance poets and multi-media artists.
Monica Carpendale will host the event, which will feature Laura Landsberg’s vocal work “Lines: Tracing an unconventional story through poetry and music”
For this special performance, Laura will be joined by two musical poets, Paul Landsberg & Steven Parish (formerly members of the Three Poets with Blake Parker), to share an intimate rendition of her Lines project.
The piece explores a child’s experience of the sixties and seventies with so many lost and wandering adults.
Readings, music, and videos will round out the evening. The Art Gallery will be opening with a new exhibit, “Shifting Perspectives”, featuring photography by Susan Faye, Jeremy Addington and Margaret Parker, and sculpture by Veronica Verkley. RARTS will host a snack and drinks bar.
