Equilibrium

I attended my first Loft event in 2008. It was fun going back after a two-year break...but it made me sort of sad looking around and seeing so many familiar things...where the table was set that was selling t-shirts from a local artist...where the cashier took your money before entering the room...where the crowds of people stood...and yet so many things were different. Me being one of them.

Anyway.

This is the description that is posted on the Loft events page:

Saturday, April 26, 8 p.m.

EQULIBRIUM SPOKEN WORD SERIES

ISHLE PARK

Ishle Park is a Korean American woman who is the former Poet Laureate of Queens, New York. She has performed her unique blend of poetry & song across the United States, Cuba, New Zealand, Singapore, and Korea. Her first book, The Temperature of This Water, is the winner of three literary awards including the PEN America Beyond Margins Award for Outstanding Writers of Color. Ishle has opened for artists such as KRS-One, Ben Harper, De La Soul, and Saul Williams. The New York Times wrote, "Ms. Park has an angelic face and the soul of a rock star."

$5/$3 Loft members and students

There were other artists there...so I'm not sure why they weren't mentioned on the events page.

I'll have to try to make it to more of these types of events...although I find that my mind can't stop spinning afterwards and then I feel so exhausted all weekend.