smart ARTS ABQ WOW: Women of the World Poetry Slam Championship 7:30p, Sat., Dec. 10 Outpost Performance Space 210 Yale SE, 505.268.0044
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Jessica Billey: Antler here is something wildly unique about an entire family of abstract Family individuals with interesting Through Dec. 31 facial expressions and a set of antlers. Blackbird Buvette Downtown’s Blackbird Buvette is 509 Central NW, the setting for artist and musician 505.243.0878 Jessica Billey’s newest exhibition, Free featuring images from her Antler Family blackbirdbuvette.com collection. The Antler Family exhibition jessicabilley.com is compiled of a series of small oil paintings on paper, ranging in size from 3-by-3 inches to 4-by-4 inches. Billey has created over 73 members of the Antler family, all with a name and story behind each. The mixture of portraiture with fantasy provides a signature look to her collection that is all her own. Billey has an extensive art resume from solo exhibitions, group exhibitions, album cover art, films and various illustrations. She has won multiple awards for her artwork. The Antler Family exhibit runs through December. —Jessey Cherne
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et’s get ready to rumble! Relish in the acoustics of poetic excellence and the revolution of spoken word with eight of the eloquent best for ABQ WOW: Women of the World Poetry Slam Championship. In conjunction with the National $5-$10 Poetry Slam, WOW is an all-woman outpostspace.org PSI (Poetry Slam, Inc.) event created by women for women poetry slam competitors. Participants slamming into the four-round audible ring at the Outpost Performance Space for the title of Best Woman Slammer will include former ABQ WOW champs Erin Northern, Brooke von Blomberg and Esme Vaandrager, as well as competitors Jessica Helen Lopez, Jasmine Cuffee, Olivia Gatwood, Patricia Gillikin and Eva Crespin. The new silvertongued title holder will represent ‘Burque at the International Women of the World Poetry Slam in Denver in March 2012. Don’t miss the return of this mind-awakening articulation. “ABQ Wow is a spectacular event that I am proud to participate in,” said Lopez. “It makes me feel like a proactive advocate for positive community and feminine perspective.” —Shavone Otero
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LOCAL iQ | ALBUQUERQUE’S INTELLIGENT ALTERNATIVE | DECEMBER 8-21, 2011
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ardonic humor, grief, unveiled secrets and family ties are just a few of the things that one experiences at the time of death of a loved one. The Mother Road Theatre Company explores those issues and more in a new production that was the winner of the prestigious Laurence Olivier Award for Best New Comedy, The Memory of Water. Written by Shelagh Stevenson and directed for Mother Road by Mark Hisler and Vic Browder, the play follows the lives of three sisters who are planning their mother’s funeral. The dark humor of the devastating situation grants audiences a piercing look into family dynamics. The notable cast consists of veteran Albuquerque theater actors Morse Bicknell, Pip Lustgarten, Vivian Nesbitt, Tom Schuch, Wendy Scott and Julia Thudium. —Jessey Cherne
The Memory of Water Dec. 9-24 OPENING NIGHT GALA
7p, Fri., Dec. 9; SHOW TIMES:
8p, Thu.-Fri.; 2 and 6p, Sat.; 2p, Sun. The Filling Station 1024 4th SW, 505.242.0596
$18, $10 (Stu./ Sen.)/$10 (Thu.) motherroad.org