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This Saturday in Chicago and Beyond: Bad Date America

Red Rover Experiment #50 (whoo-hoo!): Bad Date America, in Cahoots with 100 Thousand Poets for Change

This special reading event takes place 
SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 24th
7-9pm

Featuring:
Kaveh Adel
Barbara Barg
Jen Besemer
Dan Godston
Laura Goldstein
Ezzat Goushegir
Philip Jenks
Jennifer Karmin
Francesco Levato
Toni Asante Lightfoot
Monica Long
Anthony Madrid
Mario
Ario Mashayekhi
Charlie Newman
Ladan Osman
Roger Reeves
Timothy David Rey
Kenyatta Rogers
Jacob Saenz
Larry Sawyer
Don Share
Keli Stewart
Tony Trigilio 
Lina ramona Vitkauskas 

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At last it can be revealed! I did an experiment at the Milwaukee Avenue Arts Festival.  Actually the whole thing was an experiment, never having participated in a community arts fest before and being curious about it all.  But I'm talking here about something a little more specific. 

It had occurred to me that there were many artists participating in the group shows--over thirty in "Half-Truths" alone--but even more artists milling about, visiting the "pop-up" galleries, and selling their work in the stalls and the festival gallery.
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