Seth Graves is Associate Editor of Coldfront Magazine. He teaches at Pace University and the New York City College of Technology and is a candidate for the Ph.D. in English at The Graduate Center, City University of New York. He lives in Brooklyn with his partner, Sarah, and a dog of indeterminable German Shepherd–Labrador– Pug mix named Ella.

Alissa Fleck is a freelance journalist and poet living in New York City. Alissa received her MFA in creative writing at The New School where she was the runner-up for the Paul Violi Poetry Prize in 2012. She grew up in Minneapolis and attended Grinnell College, where she received a B.A. in English and won the Lorabel Richardson Academy of American Poets Prize as well as placing as a finalist in a midwest-wide short story contest.

Emily Brandt has two chapbooks coming out this year: Behind Teeth from Full Court Books and ManWorld from dancing girl press. She earned her MFA from NYU, where she facilitated the Veterans Writing Workshop. She's a co-founding editor of No, Dear magazine and teaches at a public high school in Brooklyn. You can find out more at emilybrandt.com

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"You will be hard pressed to find more adventurous and imaginative use of the trombone as an instrument of musical expression."—International Trombone Association Journal

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She’ll be performing with a quintet that features a number of top-flight New York-based musicians, including Roman Filiu on alto saxophone, Jerome Sabbagh on tenor saxophone, Sam Anning on bass, and Jason Burger on drums.

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Chris Silverberg is a singer-actor-director-writer-producer-editor and general lover of hyphens. Currently living and working in New York City, Chris is headed to Winchester, England in Fall 2014, to simultaneously live out his dreams of Dead Poets Society, To Sir With Love, and Harry Potter—he’ll be teaching and directing plays at a six- hundred-year-old boys boarding school. Career highlights so far include directing Columbia University’s 119th Annual Varsity Show, directing short plays for Thespian Productions and the Midwinter Madness Festival, and a 2011 CARA Award for singing “A Song For You” with his a cappella group, Nonsequitur.

Olivia Harris is a singer-songwriter who has performed around New York City in such venues as the Highline Ballroom, Cornelia Street Cafe and the Bitter End, both as a solo act and with a back-up band. Olivia has studied piano since the age of three, as well as violin since the age of twelve, and taught herself guitar along the way, and is now in her senior year of music at Columbia University, focusing in jazz. She also performs as an actress, featured as a lead in Columbia's 119th Annual Varsity Show, "the longest running show on Broadway" and a treasured school tradition.

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A Rumi poetry slam and live new music from Ms. Page's collaboration with Paul Mauled will also be featured.

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On his fifth CD, Biskin explores a bass-less format with ten new compositions that run the gamut from funk, to miniature tone poems, to second-line march rhythms, to polka, and beyond.

“It’s hard to find gentle humor in jazz but the clarinetist Andy Biskin has perfect radar for it.”—The New York Times

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Having been described as “Part soul sister, part jazz chanteuse, and pure dynamite" (Jazz Times), possessing “unusual power, fearless emotional directness, and a wide-open timbre” (NY Times). Añel’s presence has certainly been felt on such top Triple-A and NPR radio stations as WFUV (New York), WXPN (Philadelphia), WRTI (Philadelphia), WDIY (Bethlehem), WSTW (Delaware), WUMB (Boston), and WXRT (Chicago) amongst others.

“I Can See Bliss From Here” is Lili’s latest CD Release. It continues to be met with wide acclaim and is receiving airplay throughout Philadelphia, the Lehigh Valley, New Jersey, Delaware and New York. The CD includes nine songs penned by Añel and two covers, Ray LaMontagne’s “This Love Is Over” and renowned session guitarist/songwriter Jef Lee Johnson’s “Today”. I Can See Bliss From Here” journeys from Lili’s beginnings growing up in Harlem on the autobiographical “Something To Do”, expressing a mother’s love in “Best Part of Me”, to a snapshot of the country’s current economic landscape on “Losing My Faith” and “Climb The Wall“, through to the optimism on “Living For Today”, in each instance with a profound honesty.

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Experimenting with movement and music, we’ll explore how natural selection—biology’s most elegant of principles —partners with mutation and recombination to produce a great and complex diversity of life. Biologist Maryam Zaringhalam will guide us through her favorite peer-reviewed art-inspired experiment to show us how we can evolve (mediocre) music out of noise, and what that can tell us about the winding, wayward path to our very own origin.

Movement artist Sophia Treanor will partner with Causings—musicians Derek Baron and Adam Gundersheimer—in improvisational performance in which the evolution of a composition from nothingness is visibly and audibly unfolding. Weaving together impulse, rhythm, and the shared experience of the individuals in the room, an intuitive and spontaneous co-creation will emerge, just one of infinite possible forms.

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He is the writer/performer of THE LION, a one-man musical that opens off-Broadway at the Manhattan Theatre Club in June 2014. He also leads the band Escapist Papers, who recently released their second album, The Bridge.

"Benjamin Scheuer is New York's next great young songwriter. His music stirs the soul, his lyrics pierce the heart. He has wit, grace, power, and consistently dips his pen into the deepest emotional well." --Andrew Lippa

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Anna is a singer and songwriter, but not really a singer/songwriter. She has written some musicals with composer Britt Bonney, most recently for Prospect Theater's musical theater lab. Her songs are sometimes funny, sometimes sad, and sometimes about Jurassic Park.

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