Lauren Bender’s Live Writing Group is partially an homage to the writing group games of Blaster Al Ackerman and partially a real-time experiment in live collaboration amongst a group of Baltimore’s writers/artists/performers.There may be failure, terrible writing, and resentment between writers or from the audience when they are asked to participate. It is usually hilarious when we do this “in private” and over the years many gems have made their way into larger published works.

Featuring: Chris Mason, John Eaton, Rupert Wondolowsky, Adam Robinson, Linda Franklin and Lauren Bender(of course!).

This work records, preserves, and shares oral histories from communities throughout Baltimore City. The Pedicab Project utilizes a driver-passenger tricycle inspired by Filipino mass-transit to engage communities in dialogue about individual and collective identity.
In exchange for pedicab rides, conversations with my Baltimore passengers are digitally recorded, edited and shared with others – audio recordings are broadcasted from the pedicab in community and archived on a website accessible to the general public.

A short scene from “A Sorcerer’s Journey”. Carlos Castaneda’s controversial writings on mysticism captivated a following. Who was the man behind these writings, and what about them launched a movement? An all-new original journey from Single Carrot Theatre.

Including, Maddie Hicks, Ryan Dunne, Heather Lewis, and Alix Fenhagen

In The Mock Turtle’s Academy in Lewis Carroll’s Alice’s’ Adventures in Wonderland, a course was taught in “Reeling, Writhing and Fainting in Coils.” This was Carroll’s way of poking fun of the staples of education for young girls in well-to-do families of Victorian England: Reading, writing, and painting in oils. In their collaborative performance work, dancer Asimina Chremos and sound/text artist Bonnie Jones conduct a similarly unlikely English lesson for the 21st century. Pages become screens on which live, improvised writing is projected. Reading and writing are intertwined and come alive for audience and performer. The canvas is a body and sound the paint transforming the space in which that body moves. Chremos and Jones offer audience members a space in which they can “read” a confluence of movement, text, and sound. A book of the future where changing lines of an illuminated text are stretched and displaced by a dancing body that “writhes” in the space between projector lamp and the wall/screen.