Events We Love :: Soon Come: Poems Painted & Spoken

The Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgender Community Center presents Soon Come: Poems Painted & Spoken, a multi-media art exhibit and poetry performance by Yvonne Fly Onakeme Etaghene. Soon Come: Poems Painted & Spoken will debut Etaghene’s visual art. Her art is acrylic and spray painted visual poems passionately splashed on canvas and wood surfaces in order to share the colors of her soul. The space will have life-size poetry hanging around you, video art as well as a loving, tender, soul-deep performance of Etaghene’s poetry spanning the last decade of her career. The poems shared will be about the revelry, magic, heartache and angst of love. Etaghene gives you these poems and paintings with open palms and heart, reaching to love you, ever more, ever deeper.

About the Artist
“Yvonne Fly Onakeme Etaghene’s verse is free, fierce, insightful, romantic, chatty, hilarious, confidential and confident. Her imagery is explosive and precise. In performance, she roars like a renegade, seductively stomps, suspends a moment of searching and always, always inspires. She is flight in progress, a dyke to watch out for, as striking as a butterfly.” –Lenelle Moïse, Poet, Playwright & Performance Artist

Etaghene is an Ijaw and Urhobo Nigerian dyke performance activist, poet, dancer, essayist, playwright and actress who was born with a mouth full of dynamite and sugarcane. She uses her poetry to chisel a verbal sculpture of her soul for listeners while addressing issues of race, ethnicity, class, gender, sexuality, war, imperialism, love, self-esteem and family. Etaghene has self-published three collections of poetry, toured nationally and performed in over 25 u.s. cities. She was interviewed by and is a Contributing Writer to None on Record: Stories of Queer Africa, a sound documentary project that collects the stories of QLGBT Africans from the African Continent and the Diaspora. Her one woman show, Volcano’s Birthright{s}, debuted in May 2009 in New York City. For more information about her work & future performances of her one woman show, please visit www.myloveisaverb.com. Her performative work can be found at:www.youtube.com/AfrocrownDiva.

Wednesday, June 23, 2010
Reception 6PM, Program 6:30PM

Poets & Playwrights presents

Soon Come: Poems Painted & Spoken

The Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual &
Transgender Community Center
208 West 13th Street (btwn 7th & 8th aves)

$8 online (http://www.gaycenter.org/node/5226)

$10 Door

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