Member Spotlight: Judith Z. Miller, artist, writer and spiritualist, will read her erotic writings in "Essensuality: An Evening of Erotic Expression" in New York, New York on Saturday, March 19th, 8:00-11:00 pm.

International Women Artists' Salon is pleased to announce that Judith Z. Miller will be reading her erotic writing in "Essensuality: An Evening of Erotic Expression" at WOW Cafe Theatre, in New York, NY on Saturday, March 19th, 8:00-11:00 pm.

Essensuality:
An Evening of Erotic Expression

Sex, love, relationship…

 
Anger, passion, longing…

Unspoken desires, unrealized fantasies,

Unheard of sensual adventures…


...Essensuality invites out the essence of sensuality. The raw, vulnerable, uncensored, tender – usually private – moments step out into the spotlight to be shared. In poetry, spoken word, dance. Comedy, storytelling, music. Or some genre of your own imagination.

The evening will include: Featured acts, open mic performances, and spontaneous combustion…not necessarily in that order. Comfortable seating in the round, a limited bar, and an unrushed evening of erotic expression. Opportunities to laugh, cry…and blush.

Bring yourself, your friends, your lovers. Your desire, your embarrassment, your uncertainty. It's all welcome here! After all, that's what it is to be a sensual being. And that's what we're celebrating...the sensuality that lives — whether hidden or on the sleeve — of every single one of us.

Saturday, March 19 · 8:00pm - 11:00pm
WOW Cafe Theatre
59-61 East 4th Street, 4th Floor
New York, NY

FEATURED PERFORMERS 3/19/11

*Judith Z. Miller lives in an erotic, musical, spiritual universe; she writes as a way of coping with its beauty, sensuality, frustrations and ecstasies. Here in New York, she has read at events sponsored by organizations such as Nehirim, Zeek Magazine, Essentuality, and at venues such as Blue Stockings, The Jewish Community Center, Wow Café Theatre - and late at night to her girlfriends in bed. (extended bio below)

*She's Black, He's Jewish, They're Married, Oy Vey!
Essensuality welcomes back Epstein and Hassan, known on the NYC comedy circuit as The Black and the Jew, a husband and wife comedy team willing to talk about "all things that make us nervous!" New York Daily News has called them "the Burns & Allen or the Lucy & Desi of the new millennium." They will bring their unique blend of shoot-from-the-hip truth-telling and hilarious insights on relationships, politics, families, race and, of course, sex. Epstein and Hassan will reveal how BlackJew Love Technology could save the planet!

*Jeremy Edwards (www.jeremyedwardserotica.com) writes quirky erotic fiction celebrating joyful sensuality, libidinous urgency, offbeat romanticism, and the pleasures of language and laughter. His novel Rock My Socks Off is an eroto-comedic romp through academia, live television, and a dysfunctional rocking-horse museum. The book takes on a theatrical dimension at Essensuality, as the author performs a favorite chapter in a live reading seasoned with improv and audience participation.

*Performance poet, Aimee Herman, works as editor of erotica for Oysters & Chocolate. She has performed at various reading series including In the Flesh, Queer Lit Carnival and The Red Umbrella Diaries in NYC. She can be read in the anthologies, Best Lesbian Love Stories (Alyson Books), Best Women's Erotica 2010 (Cleis Press) and Nice Girls, Naughty Sex (Cleis). She promises to excite, enthrall, entice and...perhaps even reveal all!

Tickets are $10 in advance, $12 at the door
For tickets and information: www.thesensuallife.com/events 

TO PERFORM: Contact Monica Day by email monica@thesensuallife.com

*Special Note:*
This performance of Essensuality is the finale of the four-day festival:
The Sexual Act: An Experimental Erotic Performance Art Festival
"Exploring intimacy and how we relate to it"
Wed-Sat, March 16-19, 2011

To learn more about the other performances, and obtain a discounted festival pass go to http://passionatepersuasions.blogspot.com/

 

Judith Z. Miller

 

Judith Z. Miller lives in an erotic, musical, spiritual universe; she writes as a way of coping with its beauty, sensuality, frustrations and ecstasies. Here in New York, she has read at events sponsored by organizations such as Nehirim, Zeek Magazine, Essentuality, and at venues such as Blue Stockings, The Jewish Community Center, Wow Café Theatre - and late at night to her girlfriends in bed. Judith was trained as an actress in Washington DC, co-founded The Fine Line Actors Theatre (formerly Earth Onion Women's Theatre) and acted in numerous productions in the DC area. Her grant writing skills and hustling ability enabled the theatre to raise the necessary funds to produce its performances and special constituency projects, including the groundbreaking Women’s Prison Project. She spent six weeks teaching and performing in a women’s federal penitentiary, co-created original works with the communities the company’s various special projects served, developed her own dramatic and comedic original performance material, and was awarded an NEA Arts Management Fellowship in Theatre. Judith was the founder and director of ZAMO! (Zelda Arts Management Organization), an arts management organization that represented a multi-cultural mix of world-class award winning performing artists for over 20 years. She wrote promotional materials for the artists she represented, study guides for the Kennedy Center. and developed curricula for workshops shecontinues to teach on self-promotion for performers, presented by organizations such as The Field, The Red Tent Women’s Project and the Brooklyn Arts Counsel. In 2008 her paper “Sometimes a Tree Isn’t Just a Tree,” was read at the First International LSP-and Translation Studies Oriented Textual Analysis conference at Chouaib Doukkali University, El Jadida, Morocco. She is the Chief Rhythm officer of Microfundo, a crowdfunding platform supporting musicians worldwide, where she co-develops the company’s programs and website content. Judith’s blog, Artist Soul Speaks, is a forum for arts, culture, and community in NYC and beyond. She is also a visual artist who creates primal sculpture and wearable art from trees and stones. Currently Judith is developing as an intuitive healer, via spontaneous chanting and the use of percussive shakers to stimulate trance – all the while attempting to translate these ecstatic experiences into words. She published in Inside Arts magazine, The Washington Post, and American Theatre magazine. Judith is a 2011 British Airways Face-to- Face Opportunity contest winner just recently returned from journeying to Thailand where she met with indigenous woodcarvers and shaman. She resides in Park Slope Brooklyn.

Website: http://www.zamo-zamo.com

Blog: http://www.ArtistSoulSpeaks.wordpress.com

Featured Member Fractured Atlas:
http://www.fracturedatlas.org/site/blog/ 2009/10/16/featured-member-judith-z-miller/