PERFORMANCE ANNOUNCEMENT!!! – Looks like mara & I are going to be on the bill for for the event “One Last Burkhart Underground” tomorrow evening (Sat Aug 14th) to help raise $$ for Fred So come out & see our SURPRISE exhibition along with all the other fun acts! Gunna’ be a great time! See ya there!

-Master Dvnt

The FaceBook Event Page is here -

http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=100816353310061&ref=ts

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SCHEDULE AND INFO:

As some of you know, Burkhart Studios is picking up and moving on…but before it does, Burkhart is opening up his home to us one last time. Unlike the benefit in July this evening is planned to more closely resemble the many Sunday nights Fred hosted his Coffee house/open mic on North Halsted Street before the powers that be turned that sanctuary into a Golf-tech store. No outdoor stage this time. (The only p…eace we’ll be disturbing will be our own!) Just music, spoken word, and a fairly loose adherence to Fred’s credo “No Alcohol, Tobacco or Firearms.”

To help Burkhart fight his battle against cancer and prepare for his move we’ll be selling CD copies of Fred’s inspired reading from July 10th. In case you missed it, this was an early-admission event featuring Burkhart reading words by his favorite scribes (Whitman, Beckett, Cohen, etc.) as well as his own work, accompanied by outstanding local musicians Bobby Lewis and Doug Bistrow.

This final night on Noble street will feature special performances by some of his newest and oldest friends:

BECAUSE SO MANY PEOPLE WANT TO BE A PART OF THIS LAST NIGHT AT BURKHART’S WE’RE DOING TWO INDOOR STAGES. FORTUNATELY, THERE’S EXTRA ROOM NOW, AS MUCH OF FREDS THINGS ARE IN STORAGE. TO ACCOMMODATE THIS MASSIVE BILL, PLEASE UNDERSTAND THAT MOST OF THESE SETS ARE GOING TO BE SHORT, SWEET GOODBYES TO THE UNDERGROUND.

UPSTAIRS:

7:00 – 9:00 poetry reading, hosted by Oz

Atis Spuris, Jasper Jones, Jodie Aranas, Mike Lebovitz, Nyx, Ozkr du Soleil

9:00-11:00:

poetry open mic: (sign up sheet;15 minute slots)

11:00:

Mark Bose, Feral Minette, Master Dvnt with slave maramoon

At Midnight:

Cabaret of the Nameless

DOWNSTAIRS:

7:00 – 11:00 music:

Ami Saraiya, Karlis Kandero, Shelley Miller, Steve Gilpin, Harrison Fried, Erik Cameron, Scottish, Colin/Rebecca

11:00:

Kenosis (formerly the Burkhart house band) special 7-year reunion

At Midnight: Evolving Beast

1:00 am to 3:00 am:

Open mic: (sign up sheet; 4 songs/15 minutes)

As always, the recommended donation is $5.

THERE IS NO GUEST LIST, AND EVERYBODY, PERFORMERS INCLUDED, WILL BE EXPECTED TO PAY 5 DOLLARS. THERE WILL BE NO “GREEN ROOM” AND OUR ONE BATHROOM IS NOT FOR PERFORMERS TO PREPARE IN OR OCCUPY INDEFINITELY WHILE APPLYING MAKE-UP. PLEASE SHOW UP AS READY TO PERFORM AS YOU CAN BE. THIS NIGHT IS ABOUT FRED….

Info on Burkhart: http://www.burkhartstudios.com/burkhart/who.htm

Info on the previous event: http://www.facebook.com/kandero?v=wall&story_fbid=113004698748959#!/event.php?eid=120315774678396