Bar 13

Our Mission

The louderARTS Project is an arts organization committed to developing constructive and challenging spaces for artists to create, critique, present, and teach poetry.

Our Vision

The louderARTS Project seeks to:

• create a literary and artistic environment for both its artists and audience by expanding perspective, voice and critical vocabulary.

• sponsor literary arts programming in underserved communities.

• encourage experimentation and growth by its artists by creating opportunities to craft and present collaborative, cross-genre work incorporating mixed media, music, dance, and theatrical elements.

• foster a deeper understanding, within its artists and audience, of the oral and literary traditions which underlie today’s poetry.

• work in partnership with other organizations to maximize the strengths and expertise of each.

Tonight Bar 13′s Mariette Papic will be reading at 555 Hudson Street, a few excerpts from her first book Electric Bathtub Psalms. Following with be the Walt Whitman Open Mic.

So, come and be part of all the electrified fun.

Hosted by Isobel Shirley.

Doors at 6:30, reading 7:30.

Glassybaby, 555 Hudson Street, between W11th & Perry Streets.

Listen to Mariette reading Love Song.

Join us as we celebrate the work of women writers of all cultures and generations. Our feature will be the acclaimed poet, Marilyn Nelson.

At our Red Tent shows we we revel in the writings of female poets, inviting gents and ladies both, to join us on the open mic. Guys if you’d like to read, share a poem by your favorite female poet before reading your own. Women are invited to read two of their own poems or join the male poets on the mic in paying tribute to the works of their favorite female writers. Open mic list goes out at 7:00 SHARP, so get there early if you want to read.

Tonight, Monday the 28th, former louderARTS curator, Marty McConnell, joins us in a return engagement

as part of our celebration of Pride Month in NYC. Read the rest of this entry »