Wendy Brown-Baez
Writing for Healing: words to light our way
Final Open Mic Night with feature Sagirah Shahid
Westminster Reading Series hosted by artist-in-residence 2023-2024 Wendy Brown-Baez
National Poetry Month celebrated at Westminster
created and directed by Wendy Brown-Baez
for her final project
as 2023-2024 Artist-in-Residence.
with music composed by Kenny Vigne
DANCER: Eve Schulte
MUSICIANS: Kenny Vigne and Bex Gaunt
POETS: Wendy Brown-Báez, Sreekanth Bhaskaran
and Sarah Degner Riveros
CANTOR: Robert Graham
Photos courtesy of Nazara Matos
Kick Off Open Mic on Jan 21 with featured poet
Michael Kleber-Diggs
Feb 19th 2nd open mic with featured poet David Mendez
March 8th: 3rd Open mic reading with feature poet Chavonn Williams Shen
photos courtesy of Orlando Diaz, Monica Del Castillo, Ned Haggard,
Laurie Benson, and George Colburn
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My performances cross the boundaries between cultures, between emotional
and transcendent states, between the spiritual and the sensual, and
between poetry and theater. In the Bay Area Express, Natasha Nargis wrote:
"She works the room with maximum theatricality, drawing those who are
transfixed on the drama before them into her vivid, vibrant world."
My style has been described by Stefen, a Berkeley muralist, as "more like a dance"
as I unfold my heart to show the world a reflection of its own beauty.
My hope is that we realize we are not alone,
and my inner landscape affirms that when I perform.
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Cuba and Jerusalem, bursting with life and history and humanity, seemed to erupt into the room. Others, about pain and grief and loss, sunk their hooks into us, touched something deep inside. The energy and empathy of her poems was infectious, and it got us all. --Gabrielle Santiago, Patrick's Cabaret
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Healing energy and love at 2016 POP UP readings with some of my favorite local poets, and flutist Chrisma
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Venus Rising with Marcia Starck 2004
with Word Dancers in Santa Fe 2009
MPLS: Publication party February 27th 2009 with Nadia Giordana
at Altered Aesthetics Gallery Exhibition
The Revolution Will Not Be Televised 2008