NEWS: In Partnership with Open Books, Bridge Launches “Open Readings” Live Lit Series and Open Mic

Written By Michael Workman

NEWS

In Partnership with Open Books, Bridge Launches “Open Readings” Live Lit Series and Open Mic

The first edition of the new Bridge Open Readings series and Open Mic will take place at the Open Books Pilsen store, 905 W. 19th St. on Saturday, February 18th from 2-4pm. Readings and open mics will be recorded and archived in the Bridge Live Readings Archive (free account required to access). Readers for our inaugural edition are:

Meghan Lamb

Amanda Goldblatt

Joel Craig

Hosted by Michael Workman

Readings from 2-3pm; walk-in readers welcome from 3-4pm

More information is available on the Bridge Events page here.

Michael Workman

Michael Workman is a choreographer, language, visual and movement artist, dance and performance artist, writer, reporter, and sociocultural critic. In addition to his work at the Chicago Tribune, Guardian US, Newcity magazine, WBEZ Chicago Public Radio and elsewhere, Workman is also Director of Bridge, an artistic collective and 501 (c) (3) publishing and programming organization (bridge-chicago.org). His choreographic writing has been included in Propositional Attitudes, an "anthology of recent performance scores, directions and instructions" published by Golden Spike Press, and his Perfect Worlds: Artistic Forms & Social Imaginaries Vol. 1, the first in a 3-volume series, was released by StepSister Press in October 2018 with a day-long program of performances at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago. Most recently, two of his scores were accepted for publication in a special edition of the Notre Dame Review focusing on the work of participants in the &NOW Festival of Innovative Writing.

https://michaelworkmanstudio.com
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