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DiverseWorks Holiday Hours

Happy Holidays from DiverseWorks ArtSpace!

The DiverseWorks offices and galleries will be closed for the holidays from December 22, 2011 through January 2, 2012.  Please note that Catastrophic Theatre will continue to have performances of Anna Bella Eema through December 23.

DiverseWorks will kick off the new year with an international commission and  U.S. premiere of  (theLID, a conceptualized dance event, by Ayman Harper with Matmos on January 13-14, 2012. For information and tickets, click HERE.

Plus, don’t forget that online voting for Slinging Ink continues through January 18. Vote for your favorite work and one writer could win $100.

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Slinging Ink Online – Fall 2011

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We are pleased to have Neil Ellis Orts, Wanda Harding, Abby Koenig, Dean Liscum and John Pluecker share their responses to the Fall 2011 theme:

I WAS LOOKING FOR A JOB, AND THEN I FOUND A JOB, AND HEAVEN KNOWS I’M MISERABLE NOW. The artist with the most votes will receive $100.00 cash money. Voting will continue through 11:59 PM CST on January 18, 2012.

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Slinging Ink Online – Fall 2011: “Get with the Program” – Wanda Harding

Wanda Harding is a reformed computer programmer and is happy exploring many art forms – photography, painting, poetry and essay writing. She lives inside the loop with her husband, seven-year old daughter and tabby cat. She’s always hoping for the possible. …

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Slinging Ink Online – Fall 2011: “Uneven Parallel Bars” – Abby Koenig

Abby Koenig recently completed her MA in Mass Communication from the University of Houston. She is a regular contributor to the Houston Press’ Art Attack blog. Additionally, she is a playwright and performance artist with works produced in Houston and New York. She enjoys to complain incessantly about the end of world, which you can find her rambling about on her blog www.thesuccub.us. …

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Slinging Ink Online – Fall 2011: “Ingrate ” – John Pluecker

John Pluecker is a writer, interpreter, educator and translator. His work is informed by experimental poetics, radical aesthetics and cross-border cultural production and has appeared in journals and magazines in the U.S. and Mexico, including the Rio Grande Review, Picnic, Third Text, Animal Shelter, HTMLGiant and Literal. He has published more than five books in translation from the Spanish, including essays by a leading Mexican feminist, short stories from Ciudad Juárez and a police detective novel. There are two chapbooks of his work, Routes into Texas (DIY, 2010) and Undone (Dusie Kollektiv, 2011). …

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Slinging Ink Online – Fall 2011: “Always June” – Neil Ellis Orts

Neil Ellis Orts is a writer and performer supporting himself via a series of less than fulfilling day jobs. He’s written a lot of stuff. Some of it has even been published. …

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Slinging Ink Online – Fall 2011: “Prelude to a Meeting” – Dean Liscum

Dean Liscum works in the marketing department of a large, multi-national company. When he’s not pimping his metaphors out for pennies, he writes for Robert Boyd’s local arts blog. He’s been published in Arts Houston magazine, The PanHandler, and possibly other now defunct periodicals, zines, websites/webholes that he’s too lazy to look up or too unambitious to fake. …

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