ITEM: Wikipedia-listed Performance Artist Tom Miller has been given charge for one special night over Gainesville's eccentric and newest regularly occurring poetry Event, "Get Down, Make Love" - featured every second Sunday of the month at the SideCar (next to Maude's Cafe, the Known Center of the Universe. His special spoken-word guest will be Shamrock McShane, a nationally renowned Poet, Writer, Playwright, Educator, Actor, and Author. Miller promises other surprises and special guests which he claims will astonish the masses.
The event is free to the public.
WHEN: Sunday May 31 at 7pm
WHAT: Tom Miller takes over the Get Down Make Love show, with guest Shamrock McShane
WHERE: The SideCar (Next to Maude's Cafe Downtown) - 101 SE 2nd St.
COST: Free to the public - Limited Seating - Standing-Room-Only / Arrive Early
WHAT TO EXPECT: CEREBRAL MIND-BENDING LABERYNTHIAN ILLUMINATION, OFFENSIVE, PROVACATIVE LANGUAGE, ASCERBIC SOCIAL COMMENTARY, AND SPECIAL AVANT-GARDE SECRET MUSICAL GUESTS.
AMMENITIES: Full cash bar, fine wines, craft beers, smoking patio, a part of a regular poetry event called, "Get Down Make Love".
ABOUT 'GET DOWN MAKE LOVE': "This production started from an immense love for poetry and Gainesville's often weird, unique, but certainly underrated poets.
We hear rappers boast their love for the rap game and it's time poets start doing the same. There is no reason we shouldn't feature and promote our own. We know this town has some of the best and we want to give them the credit they deserve.
Open mic is on the second Sunday of every month and the featured show is the last Sunday of every month."
About Tom Miller:
Miller began his career in Gainesville, Florida, in 1984. He performed in the bands Plastic Age, Middle Earth, Penguin, NDolphin, Bill Perry Orchestra, The Space Masons, and Chicago's Vini and the Demons as the bass player. He is the author of 45 chapbooks, and has over 50 CDs to his credit. His poetry has been published in many small press periodicals including Ploplop, Abbey, Poetry Motel, Moon and Jim Chandler's Thunder Sandwich. His most recent written work, titled Project r, explores the concept of reality using a mixture of Miller's stories, poems, articles and blogs and has some autobiographical content.
Miller is the writer and director of more than 100 independent video films. He is also known for stunts including a naked press conference, a 17-hour reading of Truman Capote's In Cold Blood and frequent UFO secrecy protests. In 2010 he produced a 30-hour benefit to raise awareness of Transcendental Meditation with an extended showing of the TV series Twin Peaks. Miller has painted portraits of many Gainesville celebrities and public figures, including mayor Pegeen Hanrahan, former Gainesville chief of police Wayland Clifton, hemp activist and former candidate for Florida governor Michael Geison, and Gainesville's house drag queen at The University Club, The Lady Pearl.
Miller was a candidate for the Gainesville City Commission in 1995. He was the host for a decade of Gainesville's HempFests, and was a plaintiff among several organizers in a 1995 First Amendment lawsuit which the city lost, both on its initial filing and on appeal. Miller's avant-garde variety show, The Tom Miller Show, has been a staple of entertainment in Gainesville from 1984 to the present.
Miller has received significant press coverage for his writings, artworks, performances, and activism in Gainesville over the last two decades. His current projects include his play and Indie film, UMMU (Starring Shamrock McShane), and his Indie Film, "Son of the Bride of Gootis." Miller has just released his 53rd full-length album, "Neuvo Cuisino", now available online. Search Google for more.
About Shamrock McShane:
Shamrock McShane, writer, actor, teacher, has taught in Florida public schools for more than 30 years. A Shakespearean-trained actor as well as a prize-winning playwright, his roles include Mercutio, Macbeth, Prospero, and most recently Willy Loman in Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman. As a screenwriter collaborating with his son, the director Mike McShane, his films include The Votive Pit, You Are Not Frank Sinatra, and It's All Good. Author of Hall of Fools, available at Amazon.com.
LINKS:
TOM MILLER OFFICIAL PAGE - http://millerworks.weebly.com
SHAMROCK MCSHANE OFFICIAL PAGE - https://shamrockmcshane.wordpress.com/author/afn32221/
MORE SHAMROCK:
http://www.thenewmoonrising.com/archives/2013/lowdown.htm
EVENT PAGE ON FACEBOOK:
https://www.facebook.com/events/594584200678716/
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