The spoken word (and art underground)

Whoever said you couldn’t teach old dogs new tricks must have been teaching the wrong dog. Recently, spoken word artist, art advocate, and educator Kooky Tuason invited me to join a little spoken word and performance art powwow at the Clayshop on Jupiter Street, a sort of studio, gallery, gathering nook, a real creative space in the heart of commercial Makati City. I’m not using the word powwow lightly, powwow having derived from the Native American word powwaw, a Narragansett word from the Algonquian tribe of Rhode Island. Powwaw means “spiritual leader,” and it seems apt as this little gig of ours wasn’t so much a gathering of people as it was a meeting of souls. We were to tape episodes one and two of the fourth season of Kooky’s spoken word show For Word and By Word. WHISPERS AND BELLOWS Performances at the first episode of the fourth season of Kooky Tuason’s For Word and By Word on thinkingmansclassroom. From left: theater actor Opaline [...]