849 S Auto Mall Road
First Sunday Prose Reading and Open Mic
Presented by the Writers Guild at Bloomington
Sponsored in part by the Indiana Arts Commission, Bloomington Arts Commission, and the Bloomington Urban Enterprise Association
The featured readers are: PDVNCH and Zilia C. Balkansy -Sellés
Come early to sign up for Open Mic!
🎨PDVNCH👌🏾 [pee-dove-inch]
is a dramatic prophetic poetic storyteller, who uses rainbows, painting pictures, creating vivid images, with words, from multiple perspectives, giving voice to the unheard, with vocal tones, that are rhythmic.
As an inventor/originator, most known, globally, for his original iconic hair designs ‘Beads by DVNCH’, fabulous frames and his phenomenal passion for fashion. A Bloomingtonian, and Director Of Creative-Arts Productions for GHETT-HEALTHY productions @ GHp studios. Through collaboration, his desire is to Inspire inspiration, and “Always be on Purpose”!
Zilia Balkansky-Sellés
is a Bloomington-based writer, and occasional actor and dancer. She was published in Comparative Woman (Louisiana State University). The play she co-wrote with Wild Swan Theater, “Myths, Masks, and Magic: World Stories of First Times,” was performed in Michigan schools and libraries and at the University of Michigan Museum of Art. She has given readings at the Writers Guild at Bloomington spoken word events. She has a Ph.D. (2018) in Folklore Studies from Indiana University. She works for the Hutton Honors College at Indiana University as the Extracurricular Coordinator, as well as Academic Advisor. In August 2022, she summited Mount Kilimanjaro in Tanzania
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