September 2, 2017
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Word Performances at the Beast Crawl
Leg One | 5:00 PM - 6:00 PM | 12. Ozumo

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Event Description

Word Performances is a reading series of poetry, prose, fiction, comedy and memoir, where words are the lead, music is featured and dance makes a cameo.

Curator: Cybele Zufolo Siegel

Cybele Zufolo Siegel is the author of Ocean Sounds in New York a collection of poetry, essays and non-fiction prose about dance, love and performance. She holds an MA from Columbia University, is an National Endowment for the Humanities grant recipient, former dancer with the New York City Ballet and has appeared in films and plays.

Event Readers

Tina D’Elia

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Tina D’Elia is an actor, writer, acting coach, and
consultant. In 2012, Tina had a successful three-week-run of her one-woman-show: The Rita Hayworth of this Generation at Shotwell Studios in San Francisco directed by Mary Guzmán and featured at Monday Night Marsh, David Ford’s Solo Performance class and The Air Space Residency Program which performed at the National Queer Arts Festival, (NQAF, 2010).

Sabrina Seidner

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As a graduate of Bryn Mawr college, I have a long standing love of books, writers and women who love to read and discuss literature of all sorts. I have always wanted to write my own book, and am thrilled to finally achieve that goal. My first novel, "The Scent of Roses, Book I: Revolution" is published on Amazon and featured in Kirkus Reviews.

Zarina Zabrisky

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 Zabrisky is the author of five books, including a novel "We, Monsters" and a short story collection "Explosion", forthcoming in 2015 from Epic Rites Press (Canada). Zabrisky's work appeared in six countries. Guernica Magazine called her writing "unapologetic and visceral."

Cybele Zufolo Siegel 

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Cybele Zufolo Siegel is the author of Ocean Sounds in New York a collection of poetry, essays and non-fiction prose about dance, love and performance. She holds an MA from Columbia University, is an National Endowment for the Humanities grant recipient, former dancer with the New York City Ballet and has appeared in films and plays. Cybele is the co-founder of Word Performances.

Todd Siegel

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Todd crafts and performs idea satire poetry, and was called "the e e cummings of San Francisco tech culture" by Joel Landmine at Identity Crisis III. He co-produces the Word Performances series.

Jeremiah Walton

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 Hi, I’m Jeremiah Walton. I’m a 19 year old poet and publisher from New Hampshire.  I run a traveling pop-up bookstore, and am father of indie presses Nostrovia! Poetryand W.I.S.H. Publishing.  I work intimately with Bottlecap Press, publisher of my collection #RuntRaccoonRevolution.  I am currently living in Tucson, Arizona, where Nostrovia! and I organize weird literary events to encourage others to drench themselves in their passion.

Nikola Printz

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Nikola Printz is an opera singer with the San Jose Opera singing title roles in Carmen, Nozze di Figaro, Falstaff and cabaret at Viracocha and Yoshi’s. Nikola was chosen to sing with the Han Yu orchestra in China. She recently sang with the San Francisco Conservatory Baroque Orchestra. She is a graduate of the San Francisco Conservatory of Music. 

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