thirty-first season events calendar

Tigertail Season 10/11 Season Bold Adventures Kickoff Party

Party and Celebration

Wednesday, October 6, 2010, 7:00 - 9:00 pm
Free and Open to the Public!
Cafeina
297 Northwest 23rd Street
Wynwood, Miami

Come to Tigertail's Season Kickoff Party at Cafeina, where art and nightlife merge at Wynwood's latest "must be seen" sexy indoor-outdoor lounge. We are known for our lively parties. Preview our upcoming season events, enjoy "dj yard" direct from England spinning British Rock and beyond, commission a poem on site at Miami Poetry Collective's Poem Depot, enjoy Tigertail WordSpeak spoken word team members hot from Brave New Voices in Los Angeles, take in a Paso Doble dance demonstration, and win prizes and season tickets. Complimentary drinks.

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Tigertail, A South Florida Poetry Annual presents the Miami Poetry Collective

Book Launch and Reading

Thursday, October 14, 2010, 8:00 pm, free admission
Books & Books
265 Aragon Avenue, Coral Gables

This eighth edition of Tigertail's annual poetry publication is by the innovative Miami Poetry Collective. In the book's introduction Campbell McGrath says, "In short, the MPC wants to rescue poetry from the airless box in which American society has locked it away, help it feel the sun on its skin again, maybe toss a Frisbee with it, share a drink or two, let it rub shoulders with the other arts, music and painting and film." Return soon for more information.

Benjamin Herman Quartet

Jazz from an Internationally Recognized Dutch Quartet

Saturday, November 13, 2010, 8:30 pm, free admission
Byron Carlyle Theater
500 71st Street, Miami Beach

As part of the New Cool of the jazz scene in the Netherlands Benjamin Herman blows away every cliché while working hard to return jazz to the dance floor, and building bridges between the mainstream, improvisational jazz and the pop scenes in the Netherlands. Joining him are band members, Anton Goudsmit on guitar, Ernst Glerum on bass and Joost Patocka on drums.
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WordSpeak

Book Launch and Reading

Tuesday, December 28, 2010, 8:00 pm, free admission
Books & Books
265 Aragon Avenue, Coral Gables

Tigertail's award-winning 2010 WordSpeak teen team brings you the leading edge of new work in spoken word. Six incredible teens spit poems that rivet you to your seat. Book cover designed by Chris Meesey, teen editor Sandrina Seraphin.
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SpeakOut – Tigertail's Gay & Lesbian Teen Spoken Word Project

Lenelle Moise Worshops and Performance

Friday, January 14, 2011, 8:00 pm, free admission
Books & Books
265 Aragon Avenue, Coral Gables

Lesbian award-winning Haitian-American poet laureate, playwright, essayist, composer and nationally touring artist creates intimate, fiery, politicized, texts about the intersection of race, class, gender, sexuality, spirituality, culture and resistance.
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Jess Curtis Gravity Dance

Florida Premiere of Dances for Non/Fictional Bodies

Friday & Saturday, January 28 & 29, 2011, 8:00 pm
Inkub8
2021 NW 1st Place, Miami

This 11th annual danceAble event presents an interdisciplinary mixed-ability performance company based in both SF and Berlin. Dances for Non/Fictional Bodies is performed by a company of artists from Germany, France, Italy, England and the U.S. that melds installation, cirque arts, and the leading edge of new performance.
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Eiko & Koma

Raven

Friday & Saturday, February 11 & 12, 2011, 8:30 pm
Colony Theatre
1040 Lincoln Road, Miami Beach

Raven, the centerpiece of Eiko & Koma's three-year Retrospective, is a raw, hand-crafted landscape that deals with hunger for nourishment and intimacy. Emerging from postwar Japan, this internationally-acclaimed duo evokes power and myth. Music by Native American composer Robert Mirabal.

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Henry Gray & The Cats

An Evening with Legendary Louisiana/Chicago Blues Legend

Friday, March 11, 2011, 8:30 pm
Colony Theatre
1040 Lincoln Road, Miami Beach

Now 85, Henry Gray created the blueprint for postwar Chicago blues piano. Playing for twelve years with legendary Howlin' Wolf Henry Gray has remained prominent for decades as an original blues voice in Chicago and Louisiana.

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WordSpeak – Tigertail's Teen Spoken Word Project

Sunni Patterson Workshops and Performance

Friday, April 1, 2011, 8:00 pm, free admission
Books & Books
265 Aragon Avenue, Coral Gables

This teen spoken word project includes workshops, slams and performances in a residency by Sunni Patterson, a New Orleans-based, African-American performer and award-winning poet.
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An Evening with Bill Frisell

Saturday, April 16, 2011, 8:30 pm
Colony Theatre
1040 Lincoln Road, Miami Beach

One of the leading guitarists in jazz since the late '80s, Frisell's eclectic music touches on progressive folk, classical music, country music, noise and more.

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Tigertail Annual Fundraiser

Bold Adventures

Saturday, May 15, 2011, 8:00-11:00 pm
Location TBA

What Tigertail presents and produces throughout our season is simultaneously of-the-minute, authentically Miami, on the leading edge artistically, and at the same time lots of fun. Tigertail fundraising parties themselves are legendary events that can transport you to another space and time. So mark the date in your calendars for this year's special bash and don't miss the event of the season! Watch your mail for more details, save the date.
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