DISABILITY CULTURE CHICAGO PERFORMANCE AUG. 7th, 2015: POETRY AND PROSE DEDICATED TO THE MEMORY OF PENNIE BRINSON

Access Living and Bodies of Work present:

DISABILITY CULTURE PERFORMANCE: POETRY AND PROSE DEDICATED TO THE MEMORY OF PENNIE BRINSON (1958- 2015)

“Time and I don’t get along well…. it stands there with one hand on its hip, pointing at its wristwatch with another hand, and reaching out at me with yet another hand!” From Me and Time, Pennie Holmes–Brinson

Friday, August 7, 2015; 6:30-8:00 pm.

Access Living, 4th Floor
115 West Chicago Ave.,
Chicago, IL 60654

Clemolyn (Pennie) Brinson was a writer and performance artist. She was Access Living‘s first artist-in-residence (2008-2010). At Access Living she wrote, directed, produced and starred in a 45-minute stage production titled, “The Pennie Brinson Show” as well as facilitating a weekly writing group.

Pennie was born in Chicago and attended grade school and high school on Chicago’s West Side. She was the recipient of an Illinois Arts Council Literary Award, freelanced as a journalist for Residents’ Journal and North Lawndale Community News. Her work is also published in Garland Court Review and the Journal of Ordinary Thought (JOT).

FEATURING: Momma Kemba, Micki Sisson, Susan Nussbaum, Chun-shan (Sandie) Yi, William Acevedo, Carrie Spitler and Mary Moran.

Light snacks will be provided. ASL interpretation, audio description and personal assistants will be provided. This is a wheelchair accessible space. Please refrain from wearing scented products. For questions and other information, please contact Jim Charlton at prior to the event.

Sponsored by Access Living, Bodies of Work and UIC, Department of Disability and Human Development
Institute on Disability and Human Development