The official blog for the Poetic Arts Performance Project in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
Blend @ Blue Bananas Café
January 7, 2010
Featuring Ryan Eckes, John Todd, and Dan Schall.
Blue Bananas Café is located next to the Laff House, 223 South Street, Philadelphia PA.
PAPP Symposium Series: Venues
December 13, 2009
Featuring Crucial, Autumn Konopka , St. Skribbly LaCroix, Natalie Felix, and Ryan Eckes.
Blend @ Blue Bananas Café
December 3, 2009
Featuring Stephanie Durann Seymour and Sueyeun Juliette Lee.
Blue Bananas Café is located next to the Laff House, 223 South Street, Philadelphia PA.
PAPP Symposium Series: Identity, Community, Race, Ethnicity, Sex, Sexuality and Philly Poetry
November 9, 2009
Featuring Alyesha Wise/AKA Ms. Wise, Frank Walsh, Ashraf Osman, and Frank Sherlock. Hosted by Debrah Morkun.
Blend @ Blue Bananas Café
November 5, 2009
Featuring Peter Baroth and Mark Toxiclife.
Blue Bananas Café is located next to the Laff House, 223 South Street, Philadelphia PA.
PAPP Symposium Series: What is Philadelphia Poetry?
October 11, 2009
Featuring Debrah Morkun, CAConrad, Tamara Oakman, Sherod Smallman, and Michelle Myers. Hosted by Adam Meora.
The UCAL is located on Spruce Street in between 42nd and 43rd.
Blend @ Blue Bananas Café
October 1, 2009
Featuring Paul Siegell and Monica Mcintyre.
Blue Bananas Café is located next to the Laff House, 223 South Street, Philadelphia PA.
PAPP Performs at the Blue Grotto
September 8th, 2009 / 7:00pm
Hosted by the Mad Poets Society. Featuring St. Skribbly Lacroix, Adam Meora, Courtney Bambrick, Greg Bem, Ian Wolf, Ebony Collier, John Todd, and Frank Walsh with an open mic to follow.
The Blue Grotto Series takes place at the Community Education Center at 3500 Lancaster Ave in West Philadelphia.
Blend @ Blue Bananas Café
September 3rd, 2009
Featuring Sarah Heady, Aaren Perry, and Lilla Kultsár.
Blue Bananas Café is located next to the Laff House, 223 South Street, Philadelphia PA.
Summer of Slam: Part 3 @ UCAL
August 22nd, 2009 / Doors at 7 / $7.00 (5 w/student ID)
Featuring Spoken Soul 215, the Jus Words Family, the Unf*ckwittables, and additional special guests (TBA).
The University City Arts League is located at 4226 Spruce Street in Philadelphia, PA.
Blend @ Blue Bananas Café
August 6, 2009
Featuring Anna Evans and Michelle Garza.
Blue Bananas Café is located next to the Laff House, 223 South Street, Philadelphia PA.
July UCAL Slam Event
July 25, 2009
Featuring: The Fuze SLAM (representing Philly in the National SLAM competition) also, featuring Lady Sarkazym and GameFACE.
Arsenic Pizza: LeftoversBlend @ Blue Bananas Café
July 2, 2009
Featuring Angel Hogan and Isa Walker.
Blue Bananas Café is located next to the Laff House, 223 South Street, Philadelphia PA.
Summer of Slam
June 27, 2009
7:30-10:00pm at the University City Arts League
Featuring: the Philly Youth Slam Team as seen on HBO's Brave New Voices; Lillie Ruth Bussey; and Aflo. And spotlight open-mic will follow. Please visit http://www.ucartsleague.org for more information on the venue, and additional resources.
Blend @ Blue Bananas Café
June 4, 2009
Featuring Tamara Oakman and Nate Graham.
Blue Bananas Café is located next to the Laff House, 223 South Street, Philadelphia PA.
University City Arts League May Event
May 23, 2009
Doors are at 7:00pm; show starts at 7:30pm.
Featuring Iron Solomon, Yolanda Palacio Wisher, Ms. Wise, La Melodia, and Aquil, and other special guests!
The UCAL is located on Spruce Street in between 42nd and 43rd.
Arsenic Pizza: Leftovers Preview
Words that move walls: the Poetic Arts Performance Project is a collective dedicated to teaching, performance, and serving the Philadelphia community with poetic arts. The poetic arts (to them) include poetry, spoken word, creative writing, theater, music, visual arts, dance and film. We are an organization determined to promote collaboration and connection. We will also use our poetic gifts and those of artists from around the country and globe to help other charitable organizations in the Philadelphia area.
Director
Adam Naked Meora
Associate Director of Production
St. Scribbly La Croix
Associate Director of Education
Courtney Bambrick
Grant Coordinator
Amy Lawson
Web Director
Greg Bem
Core Members
Jane Cassady
Sydney Coffin
Ebony Collier
Quincy Scott Jones
Jennifer Kramny
Debrah Morkun
Tamara Oakman
Brian Sammond
Daniel Schall
Jon Todd
Alla Vilnyanskaya
Arthur Wendler
Ian Wolf
Aflo
Aquil
CAConrad
Jane Cassady
D.C. Edwards
Anna Evans
Gary the Storyteller
Chris Funkhouser
The Fuze
GameFACE
Ray Garman
Michelle Garza
Lisa Grunberger
Wes Gil
Leonard Gontarek
Nate Graham
Angel Hogan
Bob Holman
Hezekiah Jones
Ish Klein
Lillie Ruth Bussey
St. Skribbly Lacroix
Maintain
Alabaster McDougle
Patrick Lucy
Dan McGlaughlin
Mighty Flip Esq.
The Mighty Paradox
Philly's Brave New Voices Youth Slam Team
Tamara Oakman
Yellow Rage
Lady Sarkazym
Jesse Schurr
Hal Sirowitz
Misty Sol
Iron Solomon
Lamont Steptoe
Brittany Stitt
Isa Walker
Ms. Wise
Yolanda Wisher
Ian Wolf
