Amidst the chaos and poetry, jazz hit the “Textual Overture” stage for the first time in its 3 year history. Featured musician was Jorge Chapa played three different jazz tunes throughout the night to punctuate the poetics, prose, and plays. 

The night’s format was a bit more diverse than usual as well. Instead of the usual order of “set” acts and then “open mic”, Director Julio Martinez changed up the format by plugging open mic artists amidst the set acts for diversity’s sake.  With the new format in mind, more musicians and poets read their works.

A special thank you to Sharon Bridgforth for letting us do an open mic reading of some of her work.  More pics will be up soon.