First Person Arts

First Person Arts is proud to welcome Angel Hogan to the First Person Salon at the Gershman Y this Wednesday from 7-9pm at 401 S. Broad St.

She will present Perkasie Dirt: Growing up Brown in a White Town

I will show a 5-minute award winning documentary Love and the Lamb (about my childhood experiences growing up adopted and mixed /black in a surprisingly unforgiving rural white town in the 1980’s), read a short memoir piece which is part of a book I am working on, as well as three autobiographical poems.

In addition to telling the winning story at our special Kimmel Center “Summertime” Story Slam, she also tore up the stage as a guest storyteller for the “Caught” Slam in July.  You can see her in the Festival Grand Slam on November 15th as part of the First Person Festival of Memoir and Documentary Arts.  (Tix Available Now!) But her history with First Person Arts goes back even further, to 2006, when her short memoir earned 3rd Place in the annual memoir competition.  Angel is a superstar of memoir and documentary, and she’s earned her stripes in fiction as well!  Make a night of it this Wednesday at the Gershman Y!  Also featuring a short documentary film by Andrew Schwalm and Shannon Kane-Meddock called Hooked: Philly’s Urban Anglers, Poetry by Robert Wright, and stand-up-comedy from real-life with Steve Gerben and Pat Barker

Put it on your Google calendar so you don’t forget:

First Person Salon at the Gershman Y

401 S. Broad St (Broad and Pine)

September 10th, 7-9pm

Cost: $5-$10 sliding scale

Beer available by donation from our friends at Flying Dog!

Maybe you noticed us out on the street in Old City last Friday, or at 40th and Walnut the Friday before collecting complaints.   We’re organizing a Complaint Choir!  You can add your own video complaint at the Viddler group Philly Complaint Choir or comment at the Philly Complaint Choir Blog. Here’s one of the first complaints we collected:

Find out more about the Philly Complaint Choir here, and sign up to sing by sending us an email!