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My Wheel is in the Dark: A Night Ride with Las Vegas Bike and Bus Bards - 10-28-2010
A pack of Nevada’s most exciting poets will transverse the Las Vegas Arts District in two tours at First Friday, November 5. Bike Bards & Bus Bards will be at the First Friday Main Stage located at Colorado and California St. with Mayor Oscar Goodman and Poet Dayvid Figler performing original haiku. Jarret Keene, leader of the First Friday Mobile Poetry Brigade, will introduce the poets and then set off for an evening of poetry among the arts. Patrons are welcome to follow the bike route on foot or take the Bard Bus. Both tours will converge at 8:30 p.m. to perform at The Beat Coffeehouse inside Emergency Arts at 520 Fremont Street on the corner of 6th and Fremont. Bard Bus will leave the Clark County Government Center at 5:30 pm (parking available at the government center) and will return at 10:00 p.m. leaving The Beat Coffeehouse at 9:30 p.m.
Bike Bards: Jarret Keene, Jeffery Bennington Grindley, Harry Fagel, artikulate, and Juan Martinez.
Bus Bards: Dayvid Figler, Joshua Kryah, Keith Brantley, and Joan Dudley.
5:30: Bard Bus leaves Clark County Government Center, (500 S. Grand Central Parkway)
6:00: Mayor Oscar Goodman, Bike & Bus Bards – First Friday Main Stage
6:30: Bike Bards – Caxculthi Gallery (1406 S. 3rd Street)
En Route - Casino Center Boulevard performances along the route to the Arts Factory
Bus Bards – Commerce Street Studios, Black Bird Studio (1551 Commerce Street)
7:00: Bike Bards – Trifecta Gallery, Arts Factory (107 East Charleston Blvd.)
Bus Bards – Alios Gallery (1221 S. Main Street)
7:30: Bike Bards – Contemporary Arts Center, Arts Factory (107 East Charleston Blvd.)
Bus Bards – Clark County Government Center Rotunda Gallery, (500 S. Grand Central Parkway)
8:00: Bus Bards - Holsum Design Center D’Arte Designs POP-UP Gallery (241 W Charleston Blvd., Suite 140)
8:30-9:30: All the Bards at The Beat Coffeehouse (520 Fremont Street)