New this year, the All Access Café is a unique series of readings and performances that features differently-abled artists and is ASL-accessible through Deaf Can, Inc. It's sponsored by the Detroit Writer's Guild, the Knight Foundation, Poets & Writers, the Detroit Public Library, Wayne State University and Third Man Records. In this episode, you'll hear performances from several artists:
- Ali McManus, a singer, songwriter and motivational speaker
- Mark Levin, a poet, musician and production assistant who is deaf. Mark has long been a prolific Slam poet and disabilities activist in his native Chicago and more recently in Detroit
- Diane DeCillis, a poet. Her collection, Strings Attached, has been honored as a Michigan Notable Book for 2015, won The 2015 Next Generation Indie Book Award for poetry, and was a finalist for the Forward Indie Fab Book Award for poetry
- Mona Jean Cedar, a poet, ASL Slam Interpreter, and Disabilities Activist. Her organization Pas d’ASL was designed for one being’s adventure in the evolution and expression of self through dance, sign language and poetry
- Jan Krist an American singer-songwriter from Detroit, a former New Folk Finalist at the Kerville Music Festival, and a founding member of the Yellow Room Gang, a songwriting collective in South-East Michigan
For more information on the artists or the All Access Café, check out the following links:
https://www.alimcmanus.com
https://dianedecillis.com/
http://circuitryandpoetry.com/aboutus/AboutUsMonaBio.html
https://www.facebook.com/Jan-Krist-Music-and-Art-200018087253052/
