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Top-Ten Superpowers of All Time
This show is part of the 2022 Asheville Fringe Arts Festival. The Top-Ten Superpowers of All Time is an exploration — in poetry, music, and performance art — of heroic ability. Humanbeings are miraculous and flawed. Being human is an exercise in bold imagining and dashed hopes. We long for grace, dexterity, and bravery to…
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Fantastic Ekphrastic
The Fantastic Ekphrastic Writing Workshop Instructor: Alli MarshallMarch 22-April 19, Tuesday evenings 6:00-8:30 Ekphrastic art is work made in response to another piece of artwork. It can be a poem jump-started by a painting, a song inspired by a sculpture or — to paraphrase a cliche — a dance about architecture. In this class, we’ll…
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Geometry of Stardust
This spoken word/theater piece is inspired by the 2009-2011 collection titled Geometry of Stardust by Black Mountain College alumna Dorothea Rockburne. Dorothea is an abstract painter whose work explores mathematics and astronomy, but is also evocative (through titles, shapes, materials, textures, etc.) of narrative. Spoken word artist Alli Marshall and playwright / musician Ryan Glass…
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AFAF award!
Alli Marshall was named “Artist whose work pushed the boundaries of storytelling” for her multimedia project MER/made at the 2021 Asheville Fringe Arts Festival.
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MER/made at Asheville Fringe Arts Festival, Jan. 21 + 23
MER/made, by spoken word artist Alli Marshall, is a multimedia exploration of sinking and swimming, and water as metaphor for change. The nonlinear narrative is presented through a series of videos that incorporate imagery, spoken word, music, and fantastical characters. The 16-minute film will be presented as part of a triple bill at the 2021…
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The Black Asheville Storytelling Experience
I recently had the privilege of working on the first installment of videos for the Black Asheville Storytelling Experience, an interview series hosted by Roy Harris and filmed at the YMI Cultural Center. Being part of Hamilton Media Design, the crew that filmed and edited these videos, gave me the opportunity to hear the stories…
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MoogerFooger meets spoken word
I recently created a spoken-word set for Carolina Poets‘ online series, #poetrygoesviral. The four-piece performance includes a sampler, a looper, and three MoogerFooger pedals, on loan from my friend Dave Hamilton. Find three more videos from this performance here, here, and here.
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Media kit services
I’m offering media kit services to performance artists across genres. More details in the video below and at FIVERR. Contact me for pricing and personalized packages.
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Spoken-word mixtape, now available on Bandcamp
Happy solstice and eclipse! I’m starting summer with a spoken-word mixtape, Bury the pennies and hoard the rain. It’s available for listening, sharing, and purchasing on Bandcamp. The collection explores themes of environmental decline, questions of identity, shifting landscapes, love, loss, age, hope and (hopefully) humor. I created the beats and loops through beatboxing, household…
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Smoke Break video podcast with Spaceman Jones
I was recently invited by Davaion Bristol, aka Asheville-based hip-hop artist Spaceman Jones, to be a guest on his video podcast “Smoke Break.” We talked about creative writing, journaling, meeting the shadow self through artwork and self-inquiry, and … wrestling. Watch to the end for a poetry slam like you’ve never seen poetry get slammed…