Applied Words: “A Night of Love”

THE GUILD LITERARY COMPLEX

and  CHICAGO DANZTHEATRE ENSEMBLE PRESENT:

“A NIGHT OF LOVE”

“There is a community of the spirit. Join it, and feel the delight of walking in the noisy street and being the noise…”

-Rumi

The Guild Literary Complex and Chicago Danztheatre Ensemble are pleased to present “A Night of Love”, an evening of performance, poetry, and visual art inspired by the poetry and mysticism of Rumi.  Join for an evening length event that includes a gallery of visual art performances by members of Chicago Danztheatre Ensemble and a poetry reading by poets selected by The Guild Literary Complex. Tickets can be purchased through www.danztheatre.org and are $15 in advance and $20 at the door. All tickets include dessert.

• Featured poets include: Senyo Ador, Bobby Biedrzycki, L’Oreal Patrice Jackson, Teresa Kuruvilla, and John Sacelli.
• Featured performers include: Jack Ryan, Wannapa P-Eubanks & Rachel Javellana, Ellyzabeth Adler, Lisa Leszczewicz, Amy Swanson, Steve Keller, Chicago Improv Productions, and Momar Ndiaye (Klou).
• Featured visual artists include: David Sarallo, Joshua Longbrake, Steve Juras, Kyle Fletcher, and Josie Davis.

Teresa Kuruvilla recently graduated from Loyola University Chicago with a B.F.A. in music performance. She recently played Bloom in the Literary Guild Complex’s Unnatural Spaces, directed by Coya Paz. Other Chicago stage credits include Disconnect (Victory Gardens Theater), El Stories: Brown Line (Greenhouse Theater), and the Bare Bones Theater Festival (Voice of the City). In addition to acting, Teresa frequently performs as a vocalist throughout Chicago. She’s a teaching artist for After School Matters, as well as the International Performing Arts Academy.

Bobby Biedrzycki is a writer, performer, poet, and activist who came to Chicago, IL from St. Paul, MN via the Bronx, NY. His stories and poems have appeared in numerous publications, and he has performed on stages and bar stools all over the city and country. Bobby is an adjunct faculty member of the Fiction Writing Department at Columbia College Chicago and a company member of the Chicago-based storytelling collective 2nd Story. He is also in love with love.

L’Oreal Patrice Jackson is an Artist rooted in theatre, music, movement and writing. Ms. Jackson hails from the east coast and graduated from the Philadelphia High School for Creative and Performing Arts, where she studied creative writing. In Chicago she received her Bachelor of Fine Art in Acting from The Theatre School at DePaul University and has worked as a professional actor in theatre, film, and voiceover. Chicago Theatre credits include; Unnatural Spaces with The Guild Literary Complex Tearing Down the Walls with ETA, The Final Word with Gorilla Tango, The Home Project with About Face Theatre, 365Days/365Plays at Silk Road, andVenus with The Mill. As an Arts Educator she teaches theatre performance, improvisation, storytelling, and multi-disciplinary art, She has worked with Steppenwolf, Columbia College of Chicago, Changing Worlds, The Beverly Arts center and Writers Theatre. Ms. Jackson also serves as the Artistic Director for Sankofa Theatre Company and as a youth leader for Soka Gakkai International (SGI) a lay buddhist organization dedicated to peace culture and education.

Senyo Ador – Writer, poet and magazine editor, Senyo_Twilight, comes with the most unlikely of backgrounds, being that he was once an electrical engineer. Raised between Accra, Ghana and Chicago’s western suburbs he was heavily influenced by Nikola Tesla, the pioneering electrical engineer, humanitarian, and showman from Austria. Senyo_Twilight is now using the power in his words to energize audiences the world over to act on causes both locally and remote.