Darian Dauchan Set For Next soloNOVA Arts Fest's ONES AT TEN Installment 5/15

terraNOVA Collective will present ONES AT TEN on Friday nights during THE 6TH ANNUAL soloNOVA ARTS FESTIVAL, celebrating solo arts into the wee hours with music, comedy, and spoken word. These late night parties extend the festival to encompass solo performers outside of the Mainstage solo shows.

"We are very excited to have all aspects of solo arts under one roof," said lead curator, James Carter. "People can come and see a Mainstage show at the DR2 Theatre and stay for drinks and music in the D-Lounge afterward. It's a great addition to the festival."

Friday, May 15 is Spoken Word Night and will feature performances by Darian Dauchan, Kelly Yie-Zen Tsai, Vanessa Hidary, and Patrick Rosal with Ruzzel D on the decks.

ONES AT TEN
Friday May 15
10:00pm
$10.00 Entry + 1 Drink Minimum
D-Lounge 101 East 15th Street
beneath the Daryl Roth Theatre
Just off Union Square

Darian Dauchan
Darian Dauchan - In the past 3 years Darian has embraced the art of Spoken Word and within his first three months had won slams at all three major poetry venues in New York City including the legendary Nuyorican Poets Cafe, Bowery Poetry Club and Bar 13. In addition he has competed as a semifinalist in all three venues, was a member of the 2006 Nuyorican Poetry Slam Team, was crowned the 2007 Grand Slam Champion for the Bowery Poetry Club's Urbana Slam Team, and was a 2008 Nuyorican Grand Slam Finalist. He has toured across the country at poetry venues, including the famous Green Mill in Chicago, and has also performed at colleges that include the prestigious Yale University and New York University. His popular Obama poem has received over 40,000 views on YouTube and counting.

KELLY YIE-ZEN TSAI
Spoken word artist Kelly Zen-Yie Tsai has been featured in 300 performances worldwide at venues including the Nuyorican Poets Cafe, the House of Blues, the Apollo Theater, Kennedy Center, Lincoln Center, and three seasons of the award-winning "Russell Simmons Presents HBO Def Poetry." The author of Inside Outside Outside Inside (2004) and Thought Crimes (2005) and the CD Infinity Breaks (2006), Tsai has shared stages with Mos Def, KRS-One, Sonia Sanchez, Talib Kweli, Erykah Badu, Amiri Baraka, and many more.

VANESSA HIDARY
Actress/Poet/Playwright/Native New Yorker Vanessa Hidary grew up on Manhattan's culturally diverse Upper West Side, graduating from LaGuardia High School of the Arts and Hunter College. Her experiences as a Sephardic Jew with close friends from different ethnic and religious backgrounds inspired her to write Culture Bandit, a solo show that chronicles Vanessa's coming of age during the golden age of Hip-Hop and her dedication to fostering understanding and friendship between all people. Culture Bandit, was originally produced by LAByrinth Theatre Company (Artistic directors; Phillip Seymour Hoffman and John Ortiz). It has since played as part of The Roar Theatre Festival at Nuyorican Poets Café, as part of The Downtown Urban Theater Festival, The Los Angeles Women's Theater Festival, PSNBC @ H.E.R.E. Arts Center, the 3rd Annual Hip Hop Theatre Festival in Washington, D.C, to name a few. She has aired twice on "Russell Simmon's Presents Def Poetry" on HBO, and is featured in the film The Tribe which has been selected for the 2006 Sundance Film Festival, and most recently for the upcoming 2006 Tribeca Film Festival in NYC. www.tribethefilm.com. Vanessa is a member of the troupe "Nice Jewish Girls Gone Bad" , which has been featured at various NYC venues including Joes Pub and Fez Café, and is currently touring the U.S. and Canada.

PATRICK ROSAL is the author of two full-length poetry collections, Uprock Headspin Scramble and Dive, which won the Members' Choice Award from the Asian American Writers' Workshop, and most recently My American Kundiman, which won the Association of Asian American Studies 2006 Book Award in Poetry as well as the 2007 Global Filipino Literary Award. Awarded a Fulbright grant as a U.S. Scholar to the Philippines in 2009, he has served as visiting writer at Penn State Altoona, Centre College, and the University of Texas, at Austin. He taught creative writing for many years at Bloomfield College and twice served on the faculty of Kundiman's Summer Retreat for Asian American Poets. In addition to conducting workshops in Alabama prisons through Auburn University, he has taught high school workshops through the Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation, Sarah Lawrence College's Summer Writing Conference for High School Students, and the Volume workshops in Ann Arbor, Michigan. His poems and essays have been published widely in journals and anthologies including Harvard Review, Crab Orchard Review, Indiana Review, North American Review, The Literary Review, Pindledyboz, Black Renaissance Noire, Brevity: A Journal of Concise Literary Non-Fiction, Columbia: A Journal of Literature and Art , and the Beacon Best. His work has been honored by the annual Allen Ginsberg Awards, the James Hearst Poetry Prize, the Arts and Letters Prize, Best of the Net among others. His chapbook Uncommon Denominators won the Palanquin Poetry Series Award from the University of South Carolina, Aiken.

terraNOVA Collective is a vibrant playground for artists devoted to innovative new and original theatrical works. Its multi-layered development process, solo arts festivals, and productions serve to nurture and liberate our community.

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