BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//wp-events-plugin.com//7.2.3.1//EN TZID:America/Chicago X-WR-TIMEZONE:America/Chicago BEGIN:VEVENT UID:132@workinginconcert.org DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20221110T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20221110T200000 DTSTAMP:20221110T183129Z URL:https://workinginconcert.org/events/women-in-music-song-and-verse/ SUMMARY:Women in Music\, Song\, and Verse DESCRIPTION:\nBlack Voices In Cabaret partners with the Guild Literary Comp lex for The Musicality of Poetry series featuring singer-storyteller Lynne Jordan and vocalist Arlene Armstrong\, and poets Nikki Patin and Toni Asa nti Lightfoot. Raymond Glover is at the keyboard. \n\n\n\nAlong with poetr y performances\, there will be a little Gershwin\, a bit of Nina Simone an d a lot of fabulous!! All in the amazingly beautiful backdrop of the Art D eco ballroom at the Douglass Park fieldhouse. This event is supported by t he Chicago Park District Night Out in the Parks program.\n\n\n\nThe one-ho ur program is free and open to the public. Working In Concert and the Guil d Complex thank you for your free-will donation to support this and future programs. Donate Here.Doors open at 6:30 PM\, Street Parking Available\n\ n\n\n\n\n\n\nToni Asanti Lightfoot Lightfoot is a native of Washington\, D C and moved to Chicago 20 years ago to work as the outreach and business m anager for the Guild Complex. Since then she has won the GBOMA prize and h as taught poetry in over 40 schools.10 years ago she left the not-for-prof it world to become a holistic health practitioner and an acupuncturist. Sh e has never given up writing and finds never ending metaphors in the human body.Lightfoot most recently has been a guest in the podcast Historical D rama with the Boston Sisters where Lightfoot's poem written in the voice o f famed Black comedian Jackie "Mom's" Mabley\, Bat Her Up is featured.&nbs p\;Nikki Patin Featured in The Guardian\, Chicago Tribune\, the Chica go Reader\, on WBEZ\, WTTW\, FoxSoul\, and on international television and radio\, Nikki Patin has been writing\, performing\, educating\, and advoc ating for over two decades.In 2014\, Patin addressed the United Nations in Geneva\, Switzerland on behalf of Black women survivors of sexual violenc e in the U.S.Nikki Patin holds an MFA in Creative Non-Fiction from the Uni versity of Southern Maine and is founder of Surviving the Mic\, a survivor -led organization that curates performances and workshops for survivors of trauma. Patin's memoir\, Working on Me\, is forthcoming from Vine Leaves Press in April 2024. \;\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nLynne JordanDeclared by the lat e Roger Ebert as his “favorite diva\,” and backed by her band The Shiv ers at jazz and blues clubs and The Chicago Bluesfest\, Lynne brings her s torytelling and raw humor wherever she performs\, including her sold-out s how\, A Musical Tribute to Nina Simone. She represented Chicago as an Arts Ambassador to Moscow and Kyiv\, and was featured in the Jazz Opera\, Don ’t Worry\, Be HaRpy by Isabelle Olivier. Lynne is featured with the Cork y Siegel Chamber Blues on a number of recordings\, and as part of the Live Lit (Storytelling) community by performing monologues from her one-woman show: A GREAT BIG DIVA. She is a 2022 artist-in-residence for the Raue Cen ter for the Arts.Arlene ArmstrongChicago-born and bred\, actor-director-mu sician before she was out of grade school\, Arlene “wrote the scripts\, built the set\, auditioned all the acts. Ever since I played the Goose Tha t Laid the Golden Egg in a school production of \;Jack and the Beansta lk\, the stage was mine.” She sang in the church choir and local gospel groups\, and listened to blues and jazz with her family. Her solo shows wi th pianist Bobby Schiff include \;Just a Girl and a Piano\, \;Jazz Bird \;and \;To Carmen\, with Love \;(a tribute to Carmen McR ae). She has appeared in \;Life is…Snapshots in Song \;and \ ;Thank You for the Music \;with Ruth Fuerst and Carol Weston. As membe r of Chicago Cabaret Professionals\, she has performed in CCP and Midwest Cabaret Conference showcases\, and in several SongShop Live concerts.  \;Dedicated to Duke: the Music of Ellington \;is her most recent show. \n ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://workinginconcert.org/wp-content/uploads/ 2022/10/Musicality-of-Women-in-Verse-Literary-Guild.jpg CATEGORIES:Black Voices in Cabaret,Working In Concert concerts LOCATION:Anna and Frederick Douglass Park\, 1401 S. Sacramento\, Chicago\, IL\, 60623\, United States X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=1401 S. Sacramento\, Chicag o\, IL\, 60623\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Anna and Frederi ck Douglass Park:geo:0,0 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/Chicago X-LIC-LOCATION:America/Chicago BEGIN:STANDARD DTSTART:20221106T010000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0600 TZNAME:CST END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE END:VCALENDAR