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writing, performance art, music, gay women, burlesque, bellydance, modern dance, tap, jazz, video art, short films, the arts, drumming, GWGs, punk rock, hip hop, poetry, et. al.
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8 Inch Betsy, Actor Slash Model, Bitch & Animal, The Butchies, Ripley Caine, Marlene Dietrich, Deep Dickollective, Ani DiFranco, Melissa Ferrick, Scott Free, The Gossip, Indigo Girls, Gravy Train!!!, Ubaka Hill, kd lang, Le Tigre, L7, Ma Rainey, Ellen Rosner, Bessie Smith, Stewed Tomatoes, Team Dresch, Three Dollar Bill, Jinx Titanic, Amy Winehouse, X-Ray Spex, and more.
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But, I'm a Cheerleader, High Art, Madchen en Uniform, Suddenly Last Summer, Moulin Rouge, anything by John Waters, Jack Smith, Andy Warhol, Sadie Benning,
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The L Word, Queer as Folk, Project Runway, ANTM
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About me: Dyke Mic is on semi-permanent hiatus. In the meantime, support JT's other venture: Girlie-Q Productions. If it's performance and music you want (sans nakedness), see Cake Chicago, Sappho's Salon & Homolatte, three of Chicago's fine queer music and poetry ventures.
Dyke Mic 2.0 was the newest incarnation of the queer girl open mic created by Newman in 2001. Originally produced at the Bailiwick Arts Center, Dyke Mic ( 1.0) ran for three years in an open run at the venue. When life intervened, Newman put the show on the shelf for four years.
The concept behind Dyke Mic was simple then, and it still is today. Featuring the best and brightest old and new talents in the queer community, the Mic's mission is to promote queer lady arts. With an interdisciplinary approach, a keen curatorial eye, and an interest in blending artists with varying styles and approaches to their crafts, Dyke Mic is always exciting and unexpected. Dyke Mic is a place where the audience can and artists can try new work and get seen (maybe for the first time).
What they said (press) about Dyke Mic 2.0:
"This venerable poetry-music-performance series, founded in 2001 and formerly housed at the Bailiwick Arts Center, now makes its home in the sumptuous building on the northern fringe of Boystown and, if the night that I attended is any measure, looks to settle in for a long run."
--Windy City Times review, August 2007
Want to perform as a featured artist? Drop us a link to your online work sample at dykemic@gmail.com.
Host Bio:
Jeanne Theresa Newman is a Chicago-based writer, videomaker and performer. She began her life's work (building community through the arts) at the age of seven with her cousins in suburban Hoffman Estates. Roller Skate Play! (a musical) as it has now come to be known in her family, had a run of four hourly shows that day. But seriously, Newman has presented her visual work throughout the country at venues such as the International Media and Design Association's visual arts show and at the Mattress Factory in Pittsburgh. She has performed at Ladyfest Philly, Ladyfest Midwest, Estrojam, and the PAC/Edge Festival, to name a few. Her written work has appeared in BUST magazine, Windy City Times, Nightspots, and on dykediva.com and centerstage.net. She was the founding producer/director of the The Girlie-Q Variety Hour and the director of last year's Red Hot Dames! A Chicago Burlesque show. She is currently the producer/director of SmartMouth, a new queer spoken word show and was recently cast in Beastwomen, a new performance show for, by and about women, which will premiere this fall at Peter Jones Gallery. She holds an MFA in Interdiscipinary Arts and Media from Columbia College Chicago.
Who I'd like to meet: lesbians, dykes, biwomen, transfolk, audience members, friends of Dyke Mic 1.0, singers, dancers, poets, dyke-friendly gay men and breeders, queers, queens, performance artists, lezboz, lezzies, big homos, leather dykes, FTMs, MTFs, drag artists, prose writers, burlesque dancers, friendly people...really, anyone with $10 to spare and a desire to be a part of the fruition of a queer arts community.
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