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ELEPHANT ENGINE HIGH DIVE REVIVAL

THE ULTIMATE SPOKEN WORD THEATER EXPERIENCE

"***PLEASE NOTE: THE PERFORMERS FOR THIS DATE ARE DERRICK BROWN, ANIS MOJGANI, CRISTIN O'KEEFE APTOWICZ, AND SHAPPY SEASHOLTZ.***"

The ELEPHANT ENGINE HIGH DIVE REVIVAL gathers the nation's most dynamic and entertaining performance poets in an unparalleled spoken word theater experience.

Headlined by Derrick Brown (opening artist for The White Stripes and the Cold War Kids), Shira Erlichman (Pushcart Prize nominee and one woman band), Anis Mojgani (two-time Individual National Poetry Slam Champion), and Buddy Wakefield (two-time Individual World Poetry Slam Champion), the Revival engages crowds in a hilarious, moving, and uproarious verbal circus.

Friends! The 27.8th Wonder of the World has returned, under a brand new moniker. The Elephant Engine High Dive Revival is what Walt Whitman sounds like with the distortion turned up. The Sex Pistols with the distortion turned down. Born to inspire, the Revival has engaged American audiences for the last three years with its trapeze of the soul, its tightwire acts of the mind! This year's carnival is the biggest ever, with a cast of international performance poetry champions who have graced stages from The Tonight Show to the House of Blues to San Quentin State Penitentiary!

In addition to its permanent population of four seasoned road poets who will incorporate music, dance, group work, and possible appearances by a 30-pound sack of corn, 2009's Revival offers a rotating cast of poet superstars joining up for short stints in the verbal circus.

From September 15 through November 20, 2009, the Revival will travel the country, reviving, redeeming and relieving audiences of out of the bounce castle, taking out the trash, so you can dance on a clean floor. Carrying to people the cotton candy of laughter, the hot dog of the heart! Handing audiences the giraffe-shaped balloon animals of their first kisses! Demanding hearts to pop open, ribs to split with laughter and raw power!

With uproarious crowd participation, unwavering honesty, back-to-back belly laughs and human condition truth activism, the Revival electrifies every room it enters.

THE POETS

DERRICK BROWN, former paratrooper for the 82nd Airborne, gondolier, magician, and fired weatherman, travels the world performing his written work. From Nashville and Long Beach, he is dedicated to bringing American poetry into rock and roll status through raucous live performance. He has consistently been the opening act for indie rock act Cold War Kids, has been booked with The White Stripes and performed with Clap Your Hands Say Yeah. His work has been featured in books with Jeff Tweedy of Wilco, Viggo Mortensen, Jeff Buckley and U.S. Poet Laureate Ted Kooser. A poetic terrorism group has taken to sticking and tagging his metaphors across the globe. To date, Brown has performed at over 1, 300 venues and universities internationally, including "The Tonight Show with Jay Leno," La Sorbonne in Paris and CBGB's in NYC. He lives on a boat called The Sea Section in California and is the president of Write Bloody Publishing. He has just released a new book, Scandalabra, and collaborated with Richard Swift on a new spoken word CD.

Poet, musician, and artivist SHIRA ERLICHMAN has been called "one of the most original and compelling voices in spoken word." In 2007, she was nominated for a Pushcart Prize and featured in The Massachusetts Review as well as on Borders Bookstore "Open Door Poetry" website, reaching over 23 million viewers. Her original music will be featured in two forthcoming independent films. In 2009, she toured the country with The Spilljoy Ensemble, receiving standing ovations and homemade brownies. Shira has been showcased on the poetry slam finals stage. She can't stop dancing. She is small, she is powerful. She is big, she is vulnerable. Favorite sounds include: symphonies, walking in the woods, pianos in small rooms, her friends laughing, and gritty 60's girl-group mix-tapes.

New Orleans resident ANIS MOJGANI is one of the only two people to win the National Poetry Slam Individual Championship more than once, taking the title in 2005 and 2006. In 2007, Anis won France's first-ever World Cup Poetry Slam. He has performed on HBO's Def Poetry Jam, NPR, and alongside artist Jill Scott, Sage Francis, and M-1 of Dead Prez. His work has appeared in the acclaimed literary journal Rattle, and alongside National Laureates Ted Kooser and Billy Collins in the anthology Spoken Word Revolution Redux. Anis is also one of the subjects of the recent documentary Slam Planet: War of the Words. Of Iranian and Black heritage, Anis is a former artist in residence for the Literary Arts' WITS program. He is the author of the full-length poetry collection Over the Anvil We Stretch (Write Bloody Publishing, 2008.)

BUDDY WAKEFIELD is a two-time Individual World Poetry Slam Champion (winning the title in 2004 and 2005). He has been featured on NPR, BBC, CBC, HBO's Def Poetry Jam, and treated to nightly standing ovations as the opening artist on tour with Ani DiFranco and Sage Francis. He won the Rotterdam, Netherlands International Poetry Festival and had his poems translated into Dutch. Buddy has shared stages with nearly every notable performance poet in the world in hundreds of venues internationally, from the New Orleans House of Blues and Scotland's Oran Moore to San Quentin State Penitentiary and CBGB's in New York City. Buddy serves on the Board of Directors for Youth Speaks Seattle and competed in the 2006 and 2007 National Poetry Slams with Team Seattle. His work has been used to win national collegiate debate and forensics competitions, and he is the author of "Some They Can't Contain" (Write Bloody Publishing, 2008.)

SPECIAL GUESTS

Cristin O'Keefe Aptowicz, Andrea Gibson, Robbie Q, Mike McGee, Sonya Renee, and Mindy Nettifee.

PRAISE FOR THE REVIVAL

"The performance that Anis, Derrick, and Buddy put on at our festival last year was truly phenomenal. The energy and skill of their poetry overwhelmed the room, and even now, months and months later, people are still raving about it. We filled a 550-seat auditorium to standing room only, and they did not leave disappointed. They are the real thing."
-Greg Netzer, Executive Director Wordstock Literary Festival

"Junkyard Ghost Revival changes lives. I hosted Junkyard at UMD and for several months after the show, students would stop me in the halls telling me about the life-shaking reconstructive soul surgery that is a night with the Ghosts."
-Kenton Stalder, English Undergrad Association (EUA), University of Maryland

"There is a love crater in my community where the revival bomb exploded last year. People still talk about it, as if joy-stunned - inspiration that has decimated our sadness for months afterward."
-Robbie Q. Telfer, Director of Performing Arts, Young Chicago Authors

"This show is amazing. It's possibly the greatest amalgam of poets to have ever gathered together. The show is a great introduction to those new to slam, and nothing short of inspiration for even those who already know their way around a microphone."
-Houston Hughes, Hendrix College, Hendrix Slam Team, Hendrix Unity/LGBTSA

"I walked into Solomon Sparrow's Electric Whale Revival because I heard Buddy Wakefield put on a good show. At this point, I didn't even realize he was a poet. I had no idea what I was walking into, but halfway through Buddy's Human the Death Dance and Anis' For Those Who Can Ride in an Airplane For the First Time, my life changed. I got a chance to sit down and interview everyone at the Junkyard Ghost Revival (http://vimeo.com/2230082) and these guys are the funniest, most charming, most amazing performers I have yet to encounter."
-Christian Saxton, Western Washington University

"The Junkyard Ghost Revival was undeniably one of the highlights of our year. Stellar quality of work, drew a great crowd. Austin sets a high bar -- it is a very strong spoken word scene. The Ghosts hurdled right over it and left us talking about them for months after they sprinted down the road to the next show."
-Mike Henry, Austin Poetry Slam Slammaster

"The Revival shows are like a rock concert, improv show, dance party, and poetry reading all rolled into one. Our show happened to land on election night this past November 2008, and the energy that these tremendously talented poets brought to the stage rivaled the excitement of the celebrating crowds in the street outside our venue."
-AS Productions, Western Washington University

MORE PRAISE FOR THE REVIVAL

"The performance that Anis, Derrick, and Buddy put on at our festival last year was truly phenomenal. The energy and skill of their poetry overwhelmed the room, and even now, months and months later, people are still raving about it. We filled a 550-seat auditorium to standing room only, and they did not leave disappointed. The Revival is the real thing."
-Greg Netzer, Executive Director Wordstock Literary Festival

"These guys are the funniest, most charming, most amazing performers I have ever encountered."
-Christian Saxton, Western Washington University

"The Revival changes lives. I hosted them at UMD and for several months after the show, students would stop me in the halls telling me about the life-shaking reconstructive soul surgery that is a night with these guys."
-Kenton Stalder, English Undergrad Association (EUA), University of Maryland

"I've had the pleasure of witnessing and organizing Revival shows for the past two years, and each time the experience seems to outdo itself. The group has never ceased to amaze audiences of all ages with their ability to wrap your heartstrings around their fingers while they entertain, move, and completely shatter what you thought you knew about spoken word."
-Kayleigh Coldsworthy, SUNY Fredonia

"Kids are still talking about poetry, passing around books, writing, and performing; the tour helped establish and feed a creative conscious and energy unlike anything else I've seen during my teaching career."
-Megan Thoma, Hope Arts High School, Providence, RI

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1013 E. Colonial Dr
Orlando, FL 32803
United States

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