Urgent Emergent Performance Art Series, Volume Four: The Poet’s Circle

Sun, Apr 19

3pm Doors 4pm Showtime Full food and beverage available for this show. 18+ $12 Early Bird Tickets (+fees/taxes) (Ends April 7th) $18 Adv (+fees/taxes) $25 Doors (+fees/taxes) Looking for a place to celebrate National Poetry Month? Look no further! On April 19, 2026 TruArtSpeaks will host Volume Four of the Urgent Emergent Performance Art Series: The Poet’s Circle at Icehouse in Minneapolis, MN. With doors at 3:00p, show at 4:00p, this Sunday soiree will feature readings from Douglas Kearney, Duaba Unenra, Sagirah Shahid, and more! Hosted by Lenora Magee, backed by the musical genius of The Urgent Band (Davu Seru, Ryan Bynum, and Khary Jackson) mixed with sounds by DJ Huh?What?? this is sure to be a reading that you do not want to miss! Plus its Aries season and we are certain to celebrate all of our ram fam throughout the evening. Early bird tickets are on sale for $12 through April 7, 2026. After that, advance tickets are available for $18 and door tickets at $25. Get your seat now, via www.truartspeaks.org and www.icehouse.com The Urgent Emergent Performance Art Series powered by TruArtSpeaks (Urgent Art Series) is a year-long residency at Ice House in Minneapolis, MN, taking place monthly, every third Saturday,* in celebration of TruArtSpeaks' 20th year anniversary. Founded in 2006, by Tish Jones, the arts & culture organization based in Saint Paul has a long history of providing platforms for artists to share timely and innovative work— this series is no different. The Urgent Art Series will invite new and true collaborators to share work that speaks to both the nightly theme and the series' invitation: urgent and emergent performance art. Known for being bold in their creative work, TruArtSpeaks has curated a year of creative expression that will move the crowd, the needle, and change forward through creative cultural expression. The Urgent Art Series is sponsored, in part, by Minnesota Public Radio. DJ Huh?What?? DJ Huh?What?? of Pack Material, Entertainment, is a very active dj in the Twin Cities – from radio shows to private parties, all the way to community protests/ gatherings/festivals to corporate events as well as the concert scene. He is not only a rising local dj but is also apart of the national dj organization, Fleet Djs. Fleet Djs boast a national as well as global reach. DJ Huh?What?? is the leader of the MN Chapter of Fleet which has 10 other notable Djs. DJ Huh?What?? specializes in mixing 80's, 90s, local, and today's music. The Urgent Band Ryan Bynum Ryan Bynum was born in Washington, DC and has lived in Minneapolis for 20+ years. Music director, and touring pianist. Also a small business owner and a dad of 4 girls. Davu Seru For the past 20+ years drummer Davu Seru has worked with numerous improvising musicians and composers throughout the United States and France including Milo Fine, George Cartwright, Nirmala Rajasekar, Douglas R. Ewart, Michelle Kinney, Dean Magraw, deVon R. Gray, Paul Metzger, Evan Parker, Didier Petit, Babatunde Lea, Nathan Hanson, Mankwe Ndosi, Rafael Toral, Donald Washington, Guillame Seguron, Tony Hymas, David Boykin, Catherine Delaunay, and Nicole Mitchell Gantt. He’s curated numerous concert series and has received composer awards from the McKnight and Jerome Foundations and commissions from Walker Art Center and Zeitgeist Ensemble. Davu is a member of the Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians (AACM). Khary Jackson Khary Jackson is a writer, dancer and musician. As a hip hop/street dancer he was fortunate to create and perform a piece at the 2018 Choreographers’ Evening at Walker Arts Center. He has been a recipient of several generous grants, including the 2019 Jerome Artist Fellowship and the 2016 McKnight Artist Fellowship in Writing. He is an alumnus of Cave Canem, the esteemed writing fellowship for black writers. His first poetry book, Any Psalm You Want, was published with Write Bloody Publishing in the spring of 2013.