Calisthenics for Shrapnel: CRUSH November 14, 2010

Curated by Artistic Associate Marty McConnell, 'CRUSH' deals with gender and sexuality and will be headlined by Dorothy Allison, award-winning author of 'Bastard Out of Carolina' and poet. 'Calisthenics for Shrapnel' is a two-weekend festival offering audiences and performers the opportunity to "work it out" over two of the most volatile issues in our lives and our world. Through poetry/spoken word, humor, movement and sound, 'CRUSH' confronts topics relating to gender and sexuality. Each weekend, a poet esteemed for work in print, another for work in performance, a youth poet, and an all-ages slam bring the intensity, communal, high energy, and highly competitive world of the rapidly evolving poetry slam to Links Hall in rapid fire world duels that break through each individual audience members separate peace.