Ron Williams and Tom Swiss will be the featured performers for Mix It Up! on Tuesday, August 17th, 2010. This featured performer and open mic poetry / music event takes place once a month at Mixers on 6037 Belair Road, Baltimore, MD 21206. The event will be preceded by an open mic for poetry and acoustic music. Sign-up for the open mic begins at 8:00 pm. This event is free and open to the public.
Tom Swiss: dilettante, loudmouth, jackanapes, and adventurer. The tone and themes of his work range from the sacred to the profane, to the ridiculous to the outrageous - sometimes all in one piece. He's taught karate in Japan, programmed computers for NASA, performed music during a national crisis, run poetry workshops, hosted great parties, fought bravely, loved strongly, helped the lame walk, and sometimes lied about it all. His website is www.infamous.net.
Ron Kipling Williams is a socially conscious spoken word artist, political activist, educator, and freelance journalist. Williams continuously features in numerous social justice and human rights fundraisers and awareness concerts, and serves as a grassroots organizer on issues such as education, labor, youth, political, and civic engagement. In 1995, he received an African American Unsung Hero Award by Baltimore Mayor Kurt L. Schmoke for his work as an artist and activist. He won the 1998 Maryland State Arts Council Individual Artist Grant for Solo Performance for his one man show, If the World Were Like Fat Albert and the Cosby Kids, which received critical acclaim along the East Coast college circuit. His current multimedia one man show, Aware and Outraged, was launched in 2005. Williams has performed in major local venues such as ArtScape, Center Stage, the Baltimore Museum of Art, Theater Project, and the Baltimore Book Festival. He has made several radio, television, cable and internet talk show appearances throughout the mid-Atlantic region as a spoken word artist, political commentator and journalist, alongside such notables as storyteller Mary Carter Smith and activist/comedian Dick Gregory. As a thespian Williams has performed with the Arena Players, The Baltimore Theater Project, The American Theater Project in Washington, DC and the DC Coalition against Domestic Violence. In 2006 Williams founded the Radical Artist Movement or RAM, a sociopolitical edutainment band of spoken word artists and musicians dedicated to incite, inspire, inform and agitate citizens into collective action for fundamental change. In 2008 he joined Gimmie Shelter Productions, a collective of poets, musicians, painters, and dancers who through their work have been helping the underserved in Baltimore City for almost two decades. Williams lectures and facilitates workshops in Baltimore City Schools and community outreach programs focusing on journalism, youth apprenticeship and life skills training. In 2008, Williams launched Out of the Box, a workshop that focuses on holistic coping strategies geared toward academic, corporate, and other workforce environments. Williams writes with The Baltimore Times Newspapers and the Baltimore Indypendent Reader, a print and on-line media project that focuses on social justice and human rights issues in Baltimore. http://awareandoutraged.wordpress.com/about-ron-kipling-williams/
Mix It Up! is hosted and organized by award-winning poet, performer & actor M. S. Sanders, founder of PoetryInBaltimore.com Julie Fisher, and local poet Lawrence Leaf.
This event is presented by Mixers, www.PoetryInBaltimore.com and Concurrence Multimedia. For more information please visit www.PoetryInBaltimore.com or email concurrence.m.m@gmail.com.
With freshly-painted walls, new seating, flashy signage and a heated smoking patio, it’s no surprise that the Mixers’ dance floor stays packed with ladies every Friday night. And, with 2 for 1 domestic beers and rail drinks during happy hour (and the most expensive drink priced at $5!), it’s the perfect spot to wind down after work or get started early for a late night out on the town.
www.PoetryInBatlimore.com is Maryland’s premier online resource and interactive virtual community for literary news, events, reviews and discussions for Baltimore and beyond. www.PoetryInBatlimore.com also hosts, organizes and sponsors dozens of literary and multimedia events throughout the city and its adjacent communities.
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