{"id":36291,"date":"2014-04-17T01:43:01","date_gmt":"2014-04-17T01:43:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=36291"},"modified":"2014-04-17T01:43:01","modified_gmt":"2014-04-17T01:43:01","slug":"pilot-episode","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=36291","title":{"rendered":"Pilot Episode"},"content":{"rendered":"

Pilot Episode<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

The Source Weekly<\/a>
\nBend, Oregon
\n2014-03-20<\/p>\n

Brianna Brey<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

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\nJason Graham (The Source Weekly)<\/small><\/p>\n

The Lot’s new open mic<\/a> calls on Bend’s creative types<\/em><\/p>\n

“Calling ALL local musicians, artist and hacks,” reads the event listing for Bend’s newest open mic night, an free-for-all gathering on Wednesday nights at The Lot. “Sing a tune, read a poem, do a dance, tell a story, present your art…be creative. Here is an opportunity to share your soul.”<\/p>\n

Soul sharing is the M.O.<\/a> for local poet, musician, painter and generally ubiquitous artist MOsley WOtta<\/a>, a.k.a. Jason Graham, the host of the weekly event. Open mics have the stigma of a musician’s domain, but Graham emphasized the “openness” of this particular event, encouraging all types of creativity, not just the singer\/songwriter.<\/p>\n

“As much as I love the musical open mics and the poetry slams<\/a>, I’m trying to see what all we can get,” explained Graham. “It’s sort of like a workout. We already have the massive pectoral muscles that are the singer\/songwriters. We want to keep that part strong, but work the other parts of it, too.”<\/p>\n

This Wednesday, March 19, will mark the third week of the open mic and already Graham said the event is attracting the diverse talents of Bend<\/a>. Silly and serious, the event is a platform for the community to test its collective material…<\/p>\n

Read the entire article here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Pilot Episode The Source Weekly Bend, Oregon 2014-03-20 Brianna Brey Jason Graham (The Source Weekly) The Lot’s new open mic calls on Bend’s creative types “Calling ALL local musicians, artist and hacks,” reads the event listing for Bend’s newest open mic night, an free-for-all gathering on Wednesday nights at The Lot. “Sing a tune, read […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,24,8,20],"tags":[9360,17226,9363,9364,5509,17225],"class_list":["post-36291","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-arts","category-media-archive","category-usa","tag-bend","tag-brianna-brey","tag-jason-graham","tag-mosley-wotta","tag-oregon","tag-the-source-weekly"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36291","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=36291"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36291\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=36291"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=36291"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=36291"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}