A Time For Action: Curated by Outspoken Bean

Blaffer Art Museum

An experimental inter-disciplinary micro-festival running for six nights at Blaffer Art Museum between May 23—June 5, 2021.

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Founded in 1973, the Blaffer Art Museum endeavors to further the understanding of contemporary art through exhibitions, publications, and public programs. Along with groundbreaking Exhibitions, engaging Public Programs, we also support unique performances

A Time for Action is necessary and now, confronting urgent political circumstances with an expansive performative language. This survey of performance across dance, theatre, music, spoken word, visual art, and trans-disciplinarity is organized by six intrepid guest curators: Aisha Tida Abbassi, Outspoken Bean, Rivkah French, Julia Barbosa Landois, Jake Sandridge, and Sixto Wagan.A Time for Action: Curated by Outspoken Bean on Saturday, June 5 features performance poets Outspoken Bean, Adriana Salazar, and Calvin King; visual art by Michael Blome; and music composition by Russell Guess.

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About the Performers: Outspoken Bean, 2021 - 2023 Mayor's Office of Cultural Affairs, Houston Poet Laureate. The New Jersey born, San Antonio raised, H-Town based military brat was introduced to the arts and world cultures at a very young age and has not let go of it. "An energetic pioneer for poetry, in all its different sizes and shapes, Bean is dedicated to making sure that poets get heard," Emily Hinds of Arts and Culture Magazine wrote of Bean. Bean uses poetry to engage different mediums and institutions to create new and engaging art, such as being the first poet to perform on Houston Ballet's main stage with their production "Play." He has also been commissioned to write and perform a national campaign on diversity for Pabst Blue Ribbon and VICE while creating/producing his own festival Plus Fest: the EVERYTHING plus POETRY Festival. In 2008, Bean helped develop Texas' largest youth poetry slam organization and slam team, Meta-Four Houston, with Shannon Buggs and DiverseWorks. In which he stills coaches and uses it as a vehicle today to mentor Houston's youth. He started performing spoken-word in 2005. Outspoken Bean is a true renaissance man and culture bearer through poetry, Bean willingly seeks, finds, collaborates, and creates new ways for people to experience poetry through multiple mediums.Adriana Salazar is a Houston based poet and student of abolition. Her work has been featured with Tintero Projects, Out of Hand Theatre, and UH CoogSlam— the University of Houston’s inaugural poetry organization. She is an Emerging Writers Fellow with Writers in the Schools, Open Mic Coordinator for UH CoogSlam, and a part of the leadership team for Mutual Aid Houston. She loves her plants, baking banana bread, and shouting praises for Houston’s BIPOC and queer artistic communities.Calvin King is a spoken word artist from Houston, TX. King's work emphasizes the importance of optimism in the face of life's challenges, the power of positivity, and family. The list of accomplishment for King includes being included on Houston's premier youth poetry slam team, Meta4Houston from 2019-2021, being an inaugural Writers in The Schools Emerging Writers Fellowship cohort, and representing Texas Southern University as their Mr. Residential Life and Housing from 2019-2021.

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