Dancing Poetry

Winter 2013

Artists Embassy International is a nonprofit organization dedicated to promoting intercultural understanding and peace through the universal language of the arts.  Founded by Althya Youngman in 1951, AEI has continuously promoted individual and group artists working in many media, offered venues, publication opportunities, poetry  contest, prizes, festivals, conferences, classes, exhibitions and many other opportunities for the promotion of artists and their work throughout the United States and the world.   Membership dues, $30 per year, include quarterly newsletters, advertisements of events, opportunities and contacts for international events and reports on your personal artistic work.  Send dues, newsletter articles and information to AEI for inclusion in the next publication.     

For more information about AEI, please visit www.dancingpoetry.com

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January Alameda Art Show

   Meet the Artists Reception

Upcoming events

Dancing Poetry rules

Dancing Poetry Festival Opens

Submissions accepted January 1-May 15 (postmark date)

Our Dancing Poetry Festival Poetry Contest opened January 1, 2013 and closes with a postmark date of May 15, 2013. Our contest offers over $1000 in prizes, with 3 Grand Prize Winners choreographed, costumed and performed at the Dancing Poetry Festival at the glorious California Palace of the Legion of Honor’s Florence Gould Theater in San Francisco’s beautiful Lincoln Park overlooking the Golden Gate Bridge.

Prizes include 3 Grand Prizes with $100 each, 6 First Prizes with $50 each, 12 Second Prizes with $25 each and 30 Third Prizes with $10 each. All prize winning poets will be invited to read their prize winning poem at the podium. If the rules to the contest have been misplaced, then please look on our website at www.dancingpoetry.com.

When a poem really strikes our fancy, sometimes it becomes the premier piece for Natica Angilly’s Poetic Dance Theater Company for the year, with credits to the poet of coarse. We have taken Grand Prize Winning Poems around the world to Greece, China, Nicaragua and many more countries. We also perform on both the east and west coasts of the USA, and sometimes in between.

In 2012, the poem, Artist Statement by Tanya Joyce of Emoryville, CA, became the theme of the year. We have performed this prize winning poem at Rakkasah East in New Jersey in November and again for the January Alameda Art Show at the Alameda Museum in January, 2013. Artists’ Statement became the theme of the Artists Embassy January Art Show at the Alameda Museum this year. The poem and the story of the development of the choreography was featured in Open Exchange Magazine, Oct.-Dec., 2012, issue, complete with color photos, including the photo above.  We hope to continue to feature this act during the rest of the year.

Please enter your poem and perhaps it will be featured in 2014 when we go to Japan. Who knows?

Artists Embassy International’s  Alameda Museum Art Show, 2013

January 19, 2013, 11:30-3:30 was the time and date for our get-the-year-started Meet the Artists Reception and Gala at the Alameda Museum in Alameda, CA. And a Gala it was! We had artists telling us about their art, poets from Artists Embassy International, Alameda Island Poets and Poets of the Vineyards and Alameda Community Learning Center recited, and performances by three dance groups, one duet and one marvelous impromptu dance rendition of a recited poem. Food was served throughout the afternoon. Food for eyes, thought, soul and spirit was abundant everywhere you turned. For luminous color photos from this afternoon, please visit www.dancingpoetry.com to relive this extravagant and friendly afternoon.      Artists Embassy International is proud to announce that our performers of poets, artists and dancers included people ages 13-89 (that we know about.) Artists were mostly from the Greater San Francisco Bay Area, but we also had artists from China and Canada displayed. Artists were from Artists Embassy International membership plus invited guests from Alameda Island Poets, National League of American Pen Women. Dancers included Dancers of the Pharoahs, Banat El Hogar, Natica Angilly’s Poetic Dance Theater Company, a mother/daughter duet with Eco Spirit Project, and an impromptu dance to Katherine Wilson’s poem by Jan Dietrich.

Artist Statement poem by Tanya Joyce, performed by Natica Angilly’s Poetic Dance Theater Company, amid the art of the Artists Embassy International January Art Show at the Alameda Museum, Alameda, CA.

“I am a crazy quilt / A pattern of crackle glazes / Filled with electric charge / Behind spring flowers./

I I am scraps of velvet, / Snippets of desire / Joined in ragged shapes, / Edged with scallops, / Fingering my life...”

This is what filled our afternoon of poetry, dance, art, friends, contacts, food and enjoyment.

Tanya Joyce, far left, tells of her art, the Labyrinth (large piece left) and the dancers (brown background ). She and Natica have an “Artists’ Statement” workshop scheduled for January 26 in this Gallery. Some of Judy Hardin Cheung’s Artist as Art exhibit can be seen on the posts, some of Natica’s masks are between the Labyrinth and Tanya’s Dancers. Between the two Dancers is the exhibit showing the Artists Statement article in Open Exchange with copies for those who wanted.

 

For more photos, please visit www.dancingpoetry/AlamedaArtShows/Alameda Art Show 2013.com.  Photos were taken by Judy Hardin Cheung

     Thank you to all of the performers, staff, and organizers of the Artists Embassy International January Art Show for presenting such a colorful, varied afternoon program of uplifting intercultural, multi-genre entertainment.

Upcoming Events and Dates to Remember

Sponsored by AEI or endorsed by AEI with AEI members in leadership roles

***For further information and additional activities, please contact Natica at naticaaei@aol.com and visit www.dancingpoetry.com.

 

March 17: Rakkasah’s presents Natica’s workshop: Secrets of Timeless Expression, Sensual Essentials, Gypsy Combos, Mask and Tambourine Dancing ( masks and tambourines provided) on opening day of the famed week long workshops.  Sign up now at Rakkasah.com   Classes are at Sportsman Hall, 5220 Glenn Ave., San Pablo, CA.

March 22-24: Rakkasah Middle Eastern Dance Festival and Bazaar, Richmond Auditorium, 413 Civic Center Plaza, Richmond, CA, 94804. Please visit www.rakassah.com for more info. Sales booth for AEI fundraiser.

April:  Look for our National Dance Week Celebrations

April 5: Close of dance performance proposals for the Dancing Poetry Festival for performing duos & companies.

May 15: Dancing Poetry Festival Poetry Contest closes with thanks for your much appreciated entries!

1515 Poplar Ave., Richmond, California 94805

DANCING POETRY CONTEST
Deadline May 15, 2013

  Over $1,000 in prize money to be awarded

All DPF prize winners will receive a prize certificate suitable for framing, a ticket to the Dancing Poetry Festival 2013, and be invited to read their prize winning poem at the 2013 Dancing Poetry Festival, time and location to be announced.
Three Grand Prizes will receive $100 each plus the poems will be danced, and videotaped for you.
Each Grand Prize Winner will be invited onstage for photo ops with the dancers and a bow in the lime light. 

Six First Prizes will receive $50 each 
Twelve Second Prizes will receive $25 each
Thirty Third Prizes will receive $10 each

CONTEST RULES
Line Limit: 40 lines maximum each poem. No limit on number of entries
Send TWO typed, clear copies of each entry
Show name, address, telephone number, e-mail and how you heard about us on ONE copy only
(The anonymous copy goes to the judges. Judges decisions are final.)
Poems must be in English or include English translation
Entry Fee: One poem for $5 or 3 poems for $10
Make checks out to Artists Embassy International
Poets outside the USA, please send an international postal money order in US dollars or US currency
No poems will be returned.

Send all entries and fees postmarked by May 15, 2013, to
AEI Contest Chair, Judy Cheung
704 Brigham Ave.
Santa Rosa, CA 95404

     Winning a grand prize includes your permission for Artists Embassy International to publish your poem in print or on-line with your credits for publicity involving the Dancing Poetry Festival. All other rights remain with the author.
     Judges are members of AEI and represent poets, dancers, artists, and musicians with international credits.
Winners will be announced by August 1, 2013.

Early submissions are appreciated by the staff. Thank you. We look forward to seeing your work.

Please look at photos on www.dancingpoetry.com to see our 2006-2012 Dancing Poetry Festivals to see the vast diversity of poetry and dance we present each year. We always look for something new and different including new twists to old themes, different looks at common situations, innovative concepts for dynamic, thought provoking entertainment.  We look forward to reading your submissions. Thank you.

                    Calendar Highlights of Upcoming Artists Embassy International Events

For further information and additional activities, please contact Natica at naticaaei@aol.com and visit www.dancingpoetry.com.

Our schedule is always having new and exciting events added to it.  Don’t miss out on the fun and opportunities.

The listed events are put on by AEI or are produced by  similar organizations that promote art and culture.

Ongoing; Dance Poetics classes  are open – Mondays at 5:45  Call Natica: 510-235-0361 – dancingpoetry@aol.com

Ongoing: Visual Art Shows: Natica Angilly’s Poetic masks, tambourine intrigues and unique abstract canvases. New installations by Natica  and other AEI artists continue at Cafe Arrivederci Galleries 11 G Street, San Rafael. 

Every Monday Night: “Salons For Your Imagination, Wow!”  5:30-9:00: Cafe Arrivederci, 11 G Street, San Rafael, CA, hosted by Angar Mora  For upcoming presentations and reservations please call Angar Mora at 415-492-8870.

 January 1,  YOUR POETRY WELCOMED - THE 20TH DANCING POETRY CONTEST IS OPEN! Please send your excellent and wonderful  poetry so that your poetry might be acknowledged and honored.  We again seek  highest praises for the 20^th Dancing Poetry Festival Poetry and appreciate all who enter their poems!

February    Dances of the Winter Moon: Rakkasah event  

 Feb. 23: Redwood Empire Chinese Association’s Chinese New Year Celebration & Fundraiser in the Santa Rosa Vet’s Memorial Building. Visit www.recacenter.org. For tickets, contact Judy Cheung, 707-528-0912, jhcheung@comcast.net.

March 17: Rakkasah’s presents Natica’s workshop: Secrets of Timeless Expression, Sensual Essentials, Gypsy Combos, Mask and Tambourine Dancing ( masks and tambourines provided) on opening day of the famed week long workshops.  Sign up now at Rakkasah.com   Classes are at Sportsman Hall, 5220 Glenn Ave., San Pablo, CA.

March 22-24: Rakkasah Middle Eastern Dance Festival and Bazaar, Richmond Auditorium, 413 Civic Center Plaza, Richmond, CA, 94804. Please visit www.rakassah.com for more info. Sales booth for AEI fundraiser.

April:  Look for our National Dance Week Celebrations

April 5: Close of proposals for performance at DPF - dancing  poetry dance submissions for performing duos &companies)

May 17-June 14: Art exhibit by Judy Hardin Cheung with poetry and photography at Café Arrivederci, 11 G Street, San Rafael, CA

May 15: Dancing Poetry Festival Poetry Contest closes with thanks for your much appreciated entries!

May thru September – Discovery, Excitement and Planning for our 20^th  Dancing Poetry Festival

please see:  www.dancingpoetry.com for updates or call Natica at 510-235-0361

Join the celebration:

SEPTEMBER 14:  YOUR PRESENCE IS REQUESTED AND MUCH APPRECIATED at our 20th

   DANCING POETRY FESTIVAL at the California Palace of the Legion of Honor                                                          Your support of this unique AEI event is always very much appreciated!

          Thanks again for your interest and ambassadorship in the arts!

Early Announcement: 2014 March 25-29: United Poets Laureate International’s 23^rd World Congress of Poets will be held in Osaka, Japan. Please visit www.upli-wcp.org for more information. The committee working on the Congress in Japan is optimistically enthusiastic for a wonderful event in Osaka, Japan, during cherry blossom time, 2014.