September 2, 2017
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Word Performances
Leg One | 5:00 PM - 6:00 PM | Ozumo

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Event Description

Word Performances is a series of poetry, prose, fiction, comedy, and memoir where words are the lead, music is featured and dance makes a cameo. Produced and Curated by Cybele Zufolo Siegel & Todd Siegel. 

Co-Curators: Cybele Zufolo Siegel & Todd Siegel

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Cybele Zufolo Siegel is the author of Ocean Sounds in New York. "This book is rare, it creates a genre of its own." Zarina Zabrisky. She is a grant recipient of the National Endowment for the Humanities and former dancer with the New York City Ballet. 

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Todd Siegel crafts and performs idea satire poetry, and was called "the e e cummings of San Francisco tech culture" by Joel Landmine. He was interviewed in The New Yorker about the future of work.

Event Readers

Aaron Kitchen

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Aaron Kitchen is a working actor from the Bay Area, recently in Twelfth Night at the Sacramento Theater Company. He acted in Othello, Three Musketeers, Comedy of Errors, Sense & Sensibility at Livermore Shakespeare and A Midsummer Night's Dream at UC Berkeley.

Nana K. Twumasi

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Nana K. Twumasi has appeared in Ballyhoo Stories’ 50 States Project, and the International Museum of Women’s Imagining Ourselves online exhibit. She is a co-editor of Monday Night: a Journal of New Literature (). 

Joshua Mohr

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Joshua Mohr is the author of five novels, including “Damascus,” which The NY Times called “Beat-poet cool.” and "Fight Song" a SF Chronicle best seller. His novel “All This Life” was recently published by Counterpoint/Soft Skull. ​

Pitta of the Mind

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Pitta of the Mind is the duo of Amanda Chaudhary and Maw Shein Win, combining poetry with abstract electronic music. Their theatrical performances center around a theme that is explored via text, sound and visuals. 


Jamey Genna

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Jamey Genna teaches writing in the East Bay. Her short fiction and nonfiction have been published in the Iowa Review. Her collection, Stories I Heard When I Went Home for My Grandmother's Funeral was a semi finalist for the Iowa Prize.

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