EVENT ARCHIVE, CURRENT + UPCOMING

UPCOMING:

June 22 – 2pm EST / 7pm UK – Women Weaving Words: a live online storytelling event exploring the mythic feminine! [Eventbrite]

Three women storytellers from Scotland, England, and the United States come together to offer tales of adventure, tragedy, humor, and hope, anchored in the lives and breaths of women in our ancestral memory.

It is only in recent time that fairy tales and folkloric stories became “just for kids” — storytelling is one of the oldest forms of healing in the world, and have something to offer to you, right now, in whatever phase of life you find yourself in.

Join Audrey di Mola, Aly Foy, and Kirsten Milliken for a three-part offering of stories with space for listening and reflection.

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Email me if you’d like to be added to the list for notifications on upcoming events! <3

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How I spent 2022: Event/admin/research assistant for The Mythsinger Legacy Project to continue stewarding the work, stories, music, and teachings of one of my mythtelling heroes, Daniel “3D” Deardorff. Huge honor and heart-work! I was an active member of the international Roundhouse Storytelling School and featured storyteller for Dr. Sharon Blackie‘s Mythic Imagination Network.

See also: In Oct 2020 I co-founded the site-specific environmental art and stewardship group, Kin to the Cove, grown out of artist Sarah Cameron Sunde’s 36.5/A Durational Performance With The Sea (the final performance of which, 36.5/New York Estuary, we completed in Sept 2022!).

CURRENT OFFERINGS:

WILDLIGHT: poetry & prose from inside the fire (book – 258 pages)

“An act of sacred invocation,” WILDLIGHT is Audrey Dimola’s third book, a vulnerably thunderous collection of original poetry and prose written from inside the heart of the fire. It is an “alchemical document of reclamation” plunging with deep devotion and full-throated honesty into the wildernesses of love, spirituality, addiction, sex, shamanism, mental health crisis, self-love, and rebirth. $15, More info/purchase here.

THE BOOK OF LEGEND (book – 123 pages)

Called its “own unique unrepeatable genre– a new species of book,” THE BOOK OF LEGEND is Audrey Dimola’s fourth and latest offering, a crystallization of the teachings and adventures that saved her life. It is personal essay, original mythos, and prayer that began with the creative recontextualization of her rampant suicidality and bipolar II diagnosis in the form of stories she spontaneously received about a black wolf and a white wolf. It is a book about self-trust, the intersection of imagination and spirit, and recognizing that YOU ALWAYS HAVE A CHOICE in your healing and evolution. $12, More info/purchase here.

FOLKLORIC FUTURISM: Weaving us back to Earth + Story

Choose your own adventure for working with collective and personal mythologies: 1-on-1 Legend Sessions, Wild Body Dreaming / storytelling in the oral tradition, emergent modalities such as minute moving and creative intuition exercises (“The Way Out Is In!”). More info here.

PAST EVENTS:

I’ve hosted, curated, read or performed at…

Previous: curating, hosting, and volunteering with Astoria Music & Arts 2008-2009, and with in bloom collective (co-founded) 2011-2012 for festivals and multi-disciplinary arts events!

{2011}

Likeness: A Question of Perception – Portraits by Liz Nieves

February 4th, 2011 – Hell Gate Social in Astoria

FEATURED WRITER

Poetry and Prose Readings by:
Audrey Dimola, Dennis Borowsky, Justin Finley, Jon Mills & Thomas Pepe
Music by DJ Sambarella

Read the press release

The Q Note presents – Commas & Coffee: It Could Have Been

February 9th, 2011 – Cafe Marlene in Sunnyside

FEATURED WRITER

Featuring the writings of:
Nancy Agabian, Alia Akkam, Rena Bonne, Dennis Borowsky, Audrey Dimola, Beatriz Gil, Robert Trabold & KC Trommer

Read the Daily News article from 2/8/11 (I’m quoted!)

BOWWOW #9

October 6th, 2011 – Bowery Poetry Club in NYC

FEATURED WRITER

Thursday, October 6th, a night of poetry and performance featuring New York City’s finest emerging talents. Featuring the poetry of: Paolo Javier, the Poet Laureate of Queens, Audrey Dimola, Advocate of Wordz, the host of the “Open Room” at the Nuyorican Poets Café, BOWWOW favorite Carina Del Valle Schorske, Sarah Feeley, and from New Haven, David Gorin, in addition to BOWWOW’s newest contributor, Nadia Parbo, and a special performance by musical guest, Tanya Betley.

Boundless Tales Readings Series

October 20th, 2011 – Waltz-Astoria in Astoria

FEATURED WRITER

Featured writers:
Audrey Dimola, Paddy Fitzgerald, Joseph Mulholland, Mike Stahl, and host Aida Zilelian-Silak.

Boundless Tales is one of the only reading series in Queens – more on the reading and info on submitting your work here.

{2012}

Boundless Tales Readings Series

March 15th, 2012 – Waltz-Astoria in Astoria

FEATURED WRITER

Featured writers:
Michael Alpiner, Robyn Burland, Audrey Dimola, Maddy Lederman, and Richard Marx Weinraub.

Boundless Tales is one of the only reading series in Queens – more on the reading and info on submitting your work here.

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Queens Poets & Poems exhibition

April 2012 – Queens Borough Hall

WORK FEATURED

Not exactly a reading or performance, but I was thrilled to have my poem “validation” hand-picked for inclusion in the inaugural Queens Poets & Poems exhibition at Queens Borough Hall, curated by Queens Poet Laureate Paolo Javier for National Poetry Month 2012.

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Some Kind of Nature

April 28th, 2012 – 571 Projects in NYC

WORK FEATURED

Featuring my poem, “voyage.” Directed by Patrice Miller: An interdisciplinary exploration of the figure through performance text and sculpture using classical texts and new material from contemporary authors written in response to the process and work of artist Julie Tremblay. Featuring work from Marcus Bowers, Edward Einhorn, Audrey Dimola, Justin Maxwell and others, Some Kind of Nature focuses on the intersection between the real and surreal, the body and the idea of the body, drawing inspiration from classic surrealists and writers like Jorge Luis Borges.

Boundless Tales Readings Series

June 21st, 2012 – Waltz-Astoria in Astoria

HOSTING & READING

Featured writers:
Ignas Bautrenas, Christian Diaz, Audrey Dimola (guest host & reader), Anthony Frisina, and Mickey Z.

Boundless Tales is one of the only reading series in Queens – more on the reading and info on submitting your work here.

Boundless Tales Readings Series

July 19th, 2012 – Waltz-Astoria in Astoria

CO-HOSTING

Featured writers:
Lisa Badner, Devin Doyle, Carrie Noel, Patrick Noyes, and host Aida Zilelian-Silak.

Boundless Tales is one of the only reading series in Queens – more on the reading and info on submitting your work here.

Renegade Reading Series

October 11th, 2012 – LaunchPad in Brooklyn

FEATURED WRITER

Cassandra Trascik, Nathaniel Kressen, Audrey Dimola, David Moscovich, Cory Leadbeater, Adina Lepp, Siobhan O’Loughlin, and Kelly Wehrle share their work at LaunchPad from 8pm to 11pm (Renegade’s FB page is here).

PARACHUTE: The Coney Island Performance Festival

October 13th, 2012 – New York Aquarium in Coney Island

PERFORMER

Performing an excerpt from Muriel Rukeyser’s play “Houdini” with The Believe Project as a site-specific poetry installation to welcome attendees to PARACHUTE: The Coney Island Performance Festival. Curated by Amanda Deutch and Becca Klaver. Parachute’s FB page is here.

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Brooklyn Museum’s Target First Saturdays

December 1st, 2012 – Brooklyn Museum

PERFORMER

Invited by the Brooklyn Museum to reprise our Rukeyser performance (with even more pizzazz!) as part of their Target First Saturdays programming. So very cool! Parachute’s FB page is here.

{2013}

Honey and Poison

January 17th, 2013 – Two Moon Art House & Cafe in Brooklyn

FEATURED WRITER

Storytellers, poets, comedians, performance artists and… glass eaters. Really? Yes. Hosted by Siobhan O’Loughlin and featuring: Martin Dockery, Todd Anderson, Audrey Dimola, Abigoliah Schamaun, Matteo Lane, and Eli Reiter. Honey and Poison’s FB page is here.

Nature of the Muse fireside reading & live writing

January 27th, 2013 – LIC Bar in Queens

CURATOR & HOST

The debut of my reading and live writing event, fireside in the carriage house at LIC Bar! Featuring: Michael Stahl, Sweta Srivastava Vikram, Michael Alpiner, and Carrie Noel, with myself as host and Ace Elijah as special musical guest. View the program here.

Sycamore Stories

February 20th, 2013 – Sycamore in Brooklyn

FEATURED WRITER

Featuring candid stories, short fiction, and poetry by the talented and insightful: Stella Perry, Dan Combs, Jose Paez, Adam Selbst, Robert Semple, Kate Jones, Eric Nelson, William Spadaro, Raquel Penzo, Audrey Dimola, Kathy Karadza, Alex Clermont, and Moshe Schulman, with your erratic host Kelley Brannon. Sycamore’s FB page is here.

REZ Reading Series

March 7th, 2013 – Odradeks Coffee House in Kew Gardens

FEATURED WRITER

The triumphant return of REZ! Featuring Aida Zilelian, Audrey Dimola, Aaron Adler, Deborah Emin, Liza Charlesworth, Justin Martin, Vickie Byron, Alissa Heyman, Enrique Flores-Galbis and Mandy Gor. REZ’s FB page is here.

Nature of the Muse fireside reading & live writing

April 4th, 2013 – LIC Bar in Queens

CURATOR & HOST

The second edition of my reading and live writing series, Nature of the Muse! Featuring: Aida Zilelian-Silak, Joe Yoga, Tim Fredrick, and Greg Kirkorian, with special guests Siobhan O’Loughlan and Paul Weinfield. Find out more about Nature of the Muse here.

Boundless Tales Reading Series

April 18th, 2013 – Waltz-Astoria in Astoria

HOST

Featured writers:
Jeff Brandt, Susana H. Case, Kim Liao, Eric Nelson, and Malini Singh McDonald

Proud to be on the co-hosting team of Boundless with founder Aida Zilelian and Devin Doyle!

Oh, Bernice! Reading Series

April 20th, 2013 – Cafe Marlene in Sunnyside

FEATURED WRITER

Featuring: Brian Kim, Jenna Telesca, Sachiko Clayton, Audrey Dimola, John Rice as host, and one of the most hilarious event posters I’ve ever seen. Oh, Bernice’s website is here, and video from my performance that night is here.

WITH SPECIAL GUEST

May 7th, 2013 – The Delancey, NYC

FEATURED WRITER

Reading poetry with LIVE IMPROV CELLO ACCOMPANIMENT! Amazing! Featuring: M. Leona Godin (also fabulous host), Audrey Dimola, Kyle Erickson, and singing cellist Calum Ingram, later accompanied by Sho Handa on drums. FB invite for future events is here.

Coney Island Oasis

Originally May 11th/rescheduled for May 18th, 2013 – Coney Island, Brooklyn

CURATOR & HOST

Oh, adventures in outdoor event curating! In collaboration with Lola Star – featuring a yoga class on the beach taught by Dina Ivas, readings by Jonathan Fox, Sheila Maldonado, Greg Kirkorian, and Audrey Dimola, with music from SMAX Music and Amy Leo.

The 1st NYC Not Wedding

May 22nd, 2013 – Bathhouse Studios, NYC

PERFORMER (SPOKEN WORD OFFICIANT)

So fun – I faux-officiated a real couple’s vow renewal with some spoken word at the 1st NYC Not Wedding, a bridal show alternative in the form of a big, fake wedding with vendors, food, music, dancing, and more!

Boundless Tales Reading Series

June 20th, 2013 – Waltz-Astoria in Astoria

HOST

Featured writers:
Ignas Bautrenas, Greg Kirkorian, Anna Voisard, Vito Racanelli, and Joe Yoga

Proud to be on the co-hosting team of Boundless with founder Aida Zilelian and Devin Doyle!

REZ Reading Series

July 11th, 2013 – Odradeks Coffee House in Kew Gardens

FEATURED WRITER

Reading alongside featured reader Malini Singh McDonald as well as Devin Doyle, Josh Rivedal, and Valerie G. Keane.

Kea’s Spoken Word

July 19th, 2013 – Enigma Bookstore in Astoria

FEATURED WRITER

Reading with Kea DeVay, Aida Zilelian-Silak, Devin Doyle, and Greg Gordon as part of Enigma Bookstore’s soft opening and the debut of Kea’s new spoken word reading series.

The 3rd Annual NYC Poetry Festival

July 27th, 2013 – Governor’s Island

FEATURED WRITER

Representing Astoria’s own Boundless Tales Reading Series alongside Devin Doyle and Lisa Badner at the city’s biggest poetry fest! A clip from my performance is here.

First Tuesdays: A Neighborhood Reading Series in Queens

September 3rd, 2013 – Terraza 7 in Jackson Heights

FEATURED WRITER

Honored to grace their floating stage – the featured writer goes on after the fantastic open mic. First Tuesdays’ FB page is here, and video from my performance that night is here.

Astoria Art Festival – Instagram Photo Show

September 2013 – Sparrow Tavern in Astoria

FEATURED ARTIST

So very cool to have some of my Instagram photos chosen for inclusion in the 2nd annual Astoria Art Festival‘s Instagram Photo Show!

Newtown Literary Reading

October 11th, 2013 – Astoria Bookshop

FEATURED WRITER

Celebrating Newtown Literary‘s 2nd issue and the opening of Astoria Bookshop with a reading featuring LIC/Astoria writers Jeff Brandt, Audrey Dimola, Carlos Hiraldo, Daniel Damiano, Candice Mays & Jaclyn Majewski.

Boundless Tales Reading Series

October 17th, 2013 – Waltz-Astoria in Astoria

HOST

Featured writers:
Jeff Bakkensen, Rosebud Ben-Oni, Vickie Byron, Jared Harel, and Karen Levy

Proud to be on the co-hosting team of Boundless with founder Aida Zilelian and Devin Doyle!

Queens Literary Town Hall (inaugural event of Queens Council on the Arts’ 3rd Space series)

October 18th, 2013 – Queens Council on the Arts in Astoria

CURATOR & HOST

Part performance, part soapbox, and part networking opportunity, the first ever Queens Literary Town Hall brought diverse Queens literary organizations (from bookstores to reading series to festival organizers and more) together with writers and lit lovers to celebrate and strengthen the burgeoning literary community in the borough. Click here for more info, and go here for more info on Queens Council on the Arts’ 3rd Space program.

FAVORS Opening Reception – Writers Read on FAVORS

November 8th, 2013 – SPACE Gallery in LIC

FEATURED WRITER

Reading with Elisa Montesinos as part of artist Priscilla Stadler‘s FAVORS project opening reception, meant to “challenge the people of Queens, NYC and beyond to smash the stereotype that New Yorkers are cutthroat, competitive egoists by doing favors for friends, family and strangers”!

Trajectories: words and music

December 12th, 2013 – Aurora Gallery in Astoria

CO-CURATOR/FEATURED WRITER

Featuring music by composers from Queens-based new music ensemble thingNY and poets (Devin Doyle, Rosebud Ben-Oni, Safiel Vonay, Valerie G. Keane, and Thomas Fucaloro) curated by Audrey Dimola – an “exciting salon of spoken word and poetry and its intersection with classical and improvised music.”

{2014}

Nature of the Muse fireside reading & live writing

January 30th, 2014 – LIC Bar [Facebook]

CURATOR & HOST

The 2014 return of my reading/live writing series! Featuring: Jeff LaGreca, M. Leona Godin, Devin Doyle, Malini Singh McDonald, and John “Chance” Acevedo, with special musical guests Tyler Rivenbark and Thomas Graff.

In Celebration of The Year of the Horse: A Prose and Poetry Reading

February 2nd, 2014 – Bliss on Bliss Studio in Sunnyside [Facebook]

FEATURED WRITER

Seven writers – Jared Harel, Diane Chang, Rosebud Ben-Oni, Audrey Dimola, Jen Fitzgerald, Becca Klaver and Stephen Krauska – come to together to share their work and discuss what The Year of the Horse means to them. A Q&A will follow.

Beach Elements

February 6th, 2014 – Dougherty Gallery at Crescent Grill in LIC

FEATURED WRITER

A special poetry and prose reading for artist Nancy Gesimondo’s “Beach Elements” exhibition opening.

COFFEED Pop-up Art & Shop

February 13th, 2014 – COFFEED’s new event space in LIC [Facebook]

WORDS & MUSIC CURATOR/FEATURED WRITER

Poetry Teachers NYC’s The Unveiling Arrival

March 9th, 2014 – Bowery Poetry Club in NYC [Facebook]

FEATURED WRITER

Lecture on “Local Curating 101” for Intro to Creative Writing Class

March 11th, 2014 – Queens College

GUEST LECTURER

ETERNiDAY: the Queens Poet Lore Festival of the Language Arts

March 15th, 2014 – Queens Museum in Flushing Meadows Park [Facebook]

LOCAL PROGRAM CURATOR/FEATURED WRITER

IAM (Immigrant Advancement Matters) Open Mic

March 21st, 2014 – COFFEED in LIC [Facebook]

FEATURED PERFORMER

UNSTAGED: A Playwrighting & Performance Experiment at Rough Draft Festival

March 28th, 2014 – LaGuardia Performing Arts Center in LIC [Facebook]

CO-CURATOR & PERFORMER

Latimer Lounge presents: Latimer Creative Spark

April 4th, 2014 – Lewis H. Latimer House Museum in Flushing [Facebook]

FEATURED SPEAKER/POET

ASTORIA STAND UP local arts showcase in conjunction with “ASTORIA PARK” film

April 5th, 2014 – Bohemian Hall & Beer Garden in Astoria

CO-CURATOR & FEATURED PERFORMER

Audrey Dimola’s WORLD OF WORDS: QUEENS, A Celebration of Queens Literary Arts

April 12th, 2014 – LaGuardia Performing Arts Center in LIC [Facebook]

CURATOR & FEATURED WRITER/PERFORMER

Kea’s Spoken Word

April 25th, 2014 – Enigma Bookstore in Astoria [Facebook]

HOST

Mike Geffner’s THE INSPIRED WORD at COFFEED in LIC

May 7th, 2014 – FEATURED PERFORMER

ONGOING – HOST [Facebook]

International Women Artists’ Salon – Salon Radio

May 12th, 2014 – FEATURED ARTIST

A recording of the interview is available here. Listen to new and archived episodes on City World Radio – if you’re interested in joining as a woman creative of any discipline, email womenartsalon@gmail.com.

Atlas Park Reading Series at Atlas Park Shops in Glendale

May 22nd, 2014 – Shiro of Japan

HOST & FEATURED READER [Facebook]

IAM Open Sessions

June 5th, 2014 – Flushing Town Hall [Facebook]

FEATURED PERFORMER

Boundless Tales Reading Series

June 19th, 2014 (last reading of the season) – Astoria Bookshop [Facebook]

HOST

Queens Council on the Arts Block Party

June 21st, 2014 – Kaufman Arts District in Astoria [Facebook]

CURATOR/HOST OF LITERARY SLAM & FEATURED PERFORMER

Atlas Park Reading Series at Atlas Park Shops in Glendale

June 26th, 2014 – Shiro of Japan

HOST

QNSMADE Exhibition & Launch Party

July 18th, 2014 – 3rd Space at Queens Council on the Arts in Astoria [Website]

FEATURED ARTIST

3 Po3try NYC Presents – Hot House: A Summer Poetry Extravaganza

July 31st, 2014 – Organic Modernism in Brooklyn [Facebook]

FEATURED PERFORMER

Inspired Word All-Star Showcase at COFFEED LIC

August 14th, 2014 – COFFEED [Facebook]

FEATURED PERFORMER

Inspired Word All-Star Showcase at COFFEED LIC

September 11th, 2014 – COFFEED [Facebook]

HOST

International Women Artists Salon’s Monthly Salon

September 20th, 2014 – Dixon Place in NYC

FEATURED WRITER

Boundless Tales Reading Series

October 9th, 2014 – Astoria Bookshop

HOST

Canvas of Words’ Preserving Our Roots

October 11th, 2014 – Victoria Congregational Church in Jamaica, Queens [Facebook]

FEATURED POET

TRAVERSALS book launch & performance party

November 13th, 2014 – Q.E.D.: A Place to Show & Tell in Astoria

MY BOOK LAUNCH!

{2015}

Boundless Tales Reading Series

January 8th, 2015 – Astoria Bookshop [Facebook]

HOST

Queens Library Open Mic for Poets

January 11th, 2015 – Queens Central Library (main Jamaica branch) [Website]

FEATURED READER

Mike Geffner’s The Inspired Word 5-Year Anniversary Extravaganza

January 17th, 2015 – COFFEED LIC [Website]

FEATURED PERFORMER

Nature of the Muse fireside reading & live writing

January 29th, 2015 – LIC Bar [Facebook]

Featuring Marc Montfleury, Roya Marsh, Valerie G. Keane, Kevin Marquez, and special musical guests Jeanne Marie Boes and Geoff Ong.

CURATOR & HOST

Queens Lit in Action! with Audrey Dimola

March 6th, 2015 – Queens Council on the Arts in Astoria

Funded by Poets & Writers! Featuring readings from “TRAVERSALS” and new work AND discussion/free-write exercises playing with themes of wildness, nostalgia, and childhood from my upcoming show “THE WILD PAPERS” [Website]

Boundless Tales Reading Series

March 12th, 2015 – Astoria Bookshop [Website]

HOST

Nature of the Muse reading & live writing

March 26th, 2015 – LIC Bar [Facebook]

Featuring Crystal Rivera, Richard Jeffrey Newman, Jennifer Faylor, Billy Conahan, and Armando Chapelliquen, with special musical guests Samantha Leon and Providence!

CURATOR & HOST

Fringe Verses Open Mic & Poetry (part of Rough Draft Festival 2015)

March 31st, 2015 – LaGuardia Performing Arts Center [Facebook]

FEATURED POET

LIC Reading Series

April 14th, 2015 – LIC Bar [Facebook]

FEATURED READER (at the debut!)

No Bullsh%t Hip Hop Showcase

April 23rd, 2015 – Hail Hail Bar, Brooklyn [Facebook]

HOST

THE WILD PAPERS site-specific performance debut

May 9th, 2015

Lewis H. Latimer House (part of their #museumanarchy initiative) – Flushing [More info]

Conceived by and featuring: Audrey Dimola, Tyler Rivenbark, Jacob Horstmeier, and Kate Vander Velden, with Diana Benigno.

On May 9th, the Latimer House in Flushing, Queens will be home to the very first incarnation of “The Wild Papers” as a performance – a unique, site-specific experience in the house and its grounds, conceived with inventor/poet/draftsman Latimer’s spirit of the unconquerable, of innovation and creativity.

You will be led through a seamless presentation of vignettes of dreams and memories, told through music, dance, poetry, and theatrical elements both specific and universal, playful and haunting. “The Wild Papers” is an exploration of the joy and poignancy of nostalgia, what we bring with us as we go forward, and what makes us who we are.

CURATOR, PERFORMER, CO-CREATOR/WRITER

Public Faculty No. 9

May 14-17th, 2015 (workshop began Jan 2015)

Selected to work on Public Faculty No. 9 project – conversations about connection – in the field in Queens in conjunction with Queens Museum and visiting artist Jeanne Van Heeswijk.

PARTICIPATING ARTIST

THE WILD PAPERS site-specific performance ENCORE

June 20, 2015

Lewis H. Latimer House (part of their #museumanarchy initiative) – Flushing [More info]

CURATOR, PERFORMER, CO-CREATOR/WRITER

RAGE Readings – Astoria Summer Series

July 6, 2015 – Astoria Coffee [Facebook]

FEATURED READER

The Inspired Word’s LAST FRIDAYZ

July 31, 2015 – Local Project in LIC [More info]

FEATURED POET

Queens NYC Lit Festival produced by The Inspired Word & co.

August 1st & 2nd, 2015 – LIC Bar [More info]

A grassroots celebration of literary arts plus music, open mic, vendors, ALL QUEENS BASED! I’ll be hosting some of the open mic on both days & reppin’ my Nature of the Muse reading & live writing series with Michael Stahl, Sweta Vikram, M. Leona Godin, Kevin Marquez & Crystal Rivera performing (Aug 2nd).

HOST, PERFORMER, CO-CURATOR

Mike Geffner’s The Inspired Word open mic

August 25th, 2015 – Funkadelic Studios in NYC [More info]

HOST

Lecture on “Local Curating 101” for Intro to Creative Writing Class

September 28th, 2015 – Queens College

GUEST LECTURER

WORDS WITH WINGS all-poetry show

September 30th, 2015 – THE GRIND in LIC [Facebook]

CO-HOST, CO-CURATOR, FEATURED PERFORMER

The Inspired Word’s We Heart NYC Writers Night

October 8th, 2015 – Parkside Lounge, NYC [More info]

HOST

STAYING WILD: presentation on power, positivity & poetry

October 9th, 2015 – Long Island City High School (10 classes in a row!)

GUEST ARTIST/LECTURER

Audrey Dimola presents MASHUPS! performance/workshop

October 28th, 2015 – Queens Council on the Arts in Astoria [Facebook]

CURATOR & FEATURED PERFORMER

Nature of the Muse reading & live writing

November 12th, 2015 – LIC Bar [Facebook]

CURATOR/HOST

THE RISE OF NEON REBEL: a gathering of creatives

November 18th, 2015 – Q.E.D. in Astoria [Facebook]

CURATOR/CO-HOST/PERFORMER

Inspired Word NYC’s first ever Women Poets of the Q4

December 9th, 2015 – Q4 Hotel in LIC [Facebook]

FEATURED POET

Boundless Tales Reading Series

December 10th, 2015 – Astoria Bookshop [More info]

HOST

Queens Museum’s Warming Up Winter Holiday Market

December 13, 2015 – Queens Museum [Facebook]

Featured artist vendor as ART FOR THE WILD with April Tigerlily and Omi Plufs.

FEATURED ARTIST

Risk of Discovery

December 15th, 2015 – Astoria Coffee [More info]

FEATURED READER

Inspired Word NYC’s Wednesday night open mic

December 16th, 2015 – Q4 Hotel in LIC [More info]

HOST

{2016}

WOMEN WHO RUN WITH THE WOLVES: a fireside poetry/art/affirmation event

January 21st, 2016 – LIC Bar [Facebook]

HOST/CURATOR, PERFORMER

Boundless Tales Reading Series

March 10th, 2016 – Astoria Bookshop [Facebook]

HOST

Celebrating Queens Women Artists / The Enchanted Goddess Revue
organized by Joan Becht Willette for Women’s History Month

March 11th, 2016 – Queens Council on the Arts  in Astoria[More info]

FEATURED POET / SPECIAL GUEST

Lecture on “Local Curating 101” for Intro to Creative Writing Class

March 14th, 2016 – Queens College

GUEST LECTURER

Queens Book Festival’s Q-Boro Lit Crawl – LIC

April 7th, 2016 – Corner Bistro stage (QBF/Wendy Angulo Productions) in LIC [Facebook]

FEATURED POET

Inspired Word’s We Heart NYC Writers Night

April 14th, 2016 – Parkside Lounge in NYC [More info]

HOST

Queens Library – Poets from Queens reading
with Queens Poet Laureate Maria Lisella and other distinguished local poets

April 16th, 2016 – Queens Library in Flushing (auditorium)

FEATURED POET

UNDER THE INFLUENCE: The Inspirational Legacy of a King from Queens
honoring Astoria graffiti legend DON1 with Louie “KR.ONE” Gasparro

April 16th, 2016 – QNS Collective in Astoria [Facebook]

FEATURED POET

Queens Book Festival’s Q-Boro Lit Crawl – Forest Hills

April 28th, 2016 – Sorry Not Sorry Bar & Lounge (as part of Canvas of Words stage) in Forest Hills [Facebook]

FEATURED POET

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The Queens Bookshop Initiative’s Storytime in the Park

April 30th, 2016 – Russell Sage Playground, Forest Hills [Facebook]

FEATURED PERFORMER

Boundless Tales Reading Series

May 12th, 2016 – Astoria Bookshop [More info]

HOST

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‘go slowly, see miracles’ at LIC Arts Open Festival 2016

May 18th-22nd, 2016 – 43-01 21st Street, LIC [Facebook]

Known throughout Queens for her explosive poetry, performance, and curatorial work, this is LIC native Audrey Dimola’s first art installation. ‘go slowly, see miracles’ is an immersive amalgam of hidden treasures and alcoves of memories, a cross between a lost boy’s wilderness hideaway, a secret grotto in the mind, and the gritty intersections of love, identity, and nostalgia. It features a variety of never before seen mixed media art pieces, 3D poetry, found objects, sound and visuals, and more- exploring wild spirituality, descents into darkness, reclamation and annunciation. The work is specially presented in this form for LICAO 2016.

INSTALLATION ARTIST

The Poets Settlement

July 12, 2016 – Brooklyn Colony [Facebook]

FEATURED POET

2nd Annual Queens Lit Fest

July 17, 2016 – LIC Landing [Facebook]

Representing my Nature of the Muse series (& other events) at Inspired Word’s 2nd annual Queens Lit Fest (July 16 & 17th) at LIC Landing, 3:30-4pm with Jack Feldstein, Timothy Bell & Tippy Rex.

FEATURED WRITER/CURATOR

Queens Book Festival

August 7th, 2016 – Kaufman Astoria Studios [Facebook]

Speaking on the Taking Poetry to the Streets panel with former Queens Poet Laureate Paolo Javier: Some may think of poetry as a writing style only for the lofty towers of higher education or the upper class, but these poets are taking their talents and love of poetry, and bringing it to everyone. These poets will elaborate on Audre Lorde’s statement, “Poetry is not a luxury. It is a vital necessity for our existence.” How is poetry a “light “in which we can put our hopes and dreams and use it to create change?

FEATURED POET/PANELIST

PETER PAN TURNS 30!

August 11th, 2016 – Local Project [Facebook]

MY 30th BIRTHDAY CELEBRATION! Poetry, music, mashups, art, rainbowy food & potentially a water balloon fight.. The wildchild from Neverland turns 30, lost boy style!

CURATOR/PERFORMER… BIRTHDAY GIRL!

Boundless Tales Reading Series- 5 Year Anniversary

September 9th, 2016 – Queens Council on the Arts, Astoria [More info]

Boundless was the first reading series I read for and also the first reading series to give me a running gig as a host. Join us in celebrating this extra-special milestone!

CO-HOST

Visitor Experience Conference 2016

October 10th, 2016 – Philadelphia, PA

Speaking with the Lewis H. Latimer House Museum about my immersive theatrical experience, THE WILD PAPERS, on the “How to Let Visitors Create Their Own Experience” panel. View the presentation here.

One often under-represented group in the process of designing visitor experience are visitors themselves, who are really the core in experiencing cultural institutions. This session explores ways to involve visitors in creating their own experience through unconventional partnerships across cultural institutions, multidisciplinary artists, and community groups. Two projects being discussed here are Light On Sound art installation and Wild Papers theatre, both of which happened at Lewis H. Latimer House. The former incorporates the voice of local residents into an interactive installation, through community poetry workshops. The latter invited the audience to reinterpret the institutional space through a site-specific performance. The session will serve as a trigger for open conversations and collaboration proposals on more innovative ways to engage visitors to create their own cultural experience, either prior to or during their visit, and make a lasting impact on the institution through their experience.

FEATURED PANELIST

THE FIRE ROOM installation at LIC-A’s Fall Group Show

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November 22nd, 2016 – 5-25 46th Ave, LIC [Facebook]

Special poetry graffiti installation with sharpie, spray cans, paint, candles, FIRE in THE FIRE ROOM at the LIC-A artists space through Dec 22, plus poetry performance on the opening night.

FEATURED POET/INSTALLATION ARTIST

The sisSTAR Loop Series: Authors & Writers Info Session

December 1st, 2016 – Novelty Nachos in the Bronx [Facebook]

FEATURED WRITER/PANELIST

Empyre Media Productions’ ArtistSpace 1 Year Anniversary

December 2nd, 2016 – Astoria, Queens [More info]

FEATURED SPEAKER

Boundless Tales Reading Series

December 8th, 2016 – The Local NYC in Long Island City, Queens [More info]

Hosting for Queens’ longest running reading series, Boundless Tales at their new venue The Local NYC! Submit your work if you’d like to read for a future date.

HOST

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reliquary: the body premiere at LIC-A Winter Gala

December 22, 2016 – 5-25 46th Ave in Long Island City, Queens

Debut of brand new poetic theatre piece, reliquary: the body

FEATURED PERFORMER

{2017}

PUBLIC PROGRAMS at Socrates Sculpture Park!

Curated full season of Public Programs and Arts Education at Socrates Sculpture Park, live season May to October 2017

DIRECTOR OF PUBLIC PROGRAMS

International Women Artists’ Salon’s Salon Radio

February 2nd, 2017 – City World Radio broadcast from NYC

Featured artist on City World Radio on International Women Artists’ Salon’s Salon Radio program discussing HOW WE CREATE & HOW WE COPE, listen LIVE online at cityworldradio.com, 8-8:55pm EST. *Listen to the recording by clicking “Listen to Archived Shows,” clicking the folder icon, and going to International Women Artists’ Salon 2-2-17.

FEATURED ARTIST

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HOW WE CREATE & HOW WE COPE: intersections of art & mental health/mental illness

February 10th, 2017 – Queens Council on the Arts’ LAB space in Astoria [Facebook]

Queens native and poet/curator Audrey Dimola hosts a panel and performance evening aiming for safe space, honest talk, and open presentations about the too-often stigmatized topic of mental illness, particularly in connection to the creative experience. Throughout our cultural history, many of the legendary artists we know today grappled in this way- yet it becomes a passing line in their bio, a tragic footnote; and their brilliant work remains. In the present day, an increasing number of individuals of all ages are struggling in similar fashion, frequently in silence and shame, for fear of judgment and unanswered questions. How much of how we suffer makes us who we are and results in the art we create? How much of these feelings are the natural experience of the artist, and when is it time to seek help? What do those forms of help look like? A variety of local featured artists will present their stories, poetry, music, visual art, and more, in addition to facilitated discussion, Q&A, and sharing of resources/experiences on these topics. All are welcome, your voice is encouraged.

HOST, CURATOR, PERFORMER

Cyrus Second Saturdays Poetry Series

February 11th, 2017 – Cyrus Chai & Coffee in Bay Shore, Long Island [Facebook]

FEATURED POET

Generative Spaces & Social Change

February 13th, 2017 – The New School in NYC

Featured guest speaker representing Socrates Sculpture Park and my work as an independent poet/curator for P. Azzarello and J. Pirone’s incredible class on generative spaces and social change at The New School.

GUEST SPEAKER

LIC-A’s Valentines Night opening of 8 LOVES

February 14th, 2017 – Plaxall Gallery in Long Island City, Queens

Special dance/poetry multidisciplinary debut of “a memory is altered everytime you recollect it” with Alvin Ailey dancer Artemis Stamouli [Facebook]

FEATURED PERFORMER

What is Human? in a Figurative Sense – exhibition opening

February 17th, 2017 – The Factory in Long Island City, Queens

FEATURED POET

What is Human? in a Figurative Sense – exhibition closing

March 2nd, 2017 – The Factory in Long Island City, Queens [Facebook]

FEATURED POET

The Divine Female exhibition opening – Eduardo Anievas & Yelena Tylkina

March 4th, 2017 – The Local NYC in Long Island City, Queens [Facebook]

FEATURED POET

Boundless Tales Reading Series

March 9th, 2017 – The Local NYC in Long Island City [More info]

HOST

2nd annual Celebrating Queens Women Artists event

March 10th, 2017 – Queens Council on the Arts in Astoria [More info]

KEYNOTE SPEAKER & FEATURED PERFORMER

MDAD presents 5th Annual Women Empowerment Event

March 18th, 2017 – La Maison d’Art in Harlem, NYC [Facebook]

FEATURED POET

Inspired Word NYC’s Pre-Queens Lit Fest Open Mic

March 24th, 2017 – COFFEED in Astoria/Long Island City, Queens [Facebook]

FEATURED POET

NeverTheLess: A Night of Nasty Women

March 28th, 2017 – El Barrio’s Artspace PS 109 in NYC [Facebook]

FEATURED PERFORMER

Line Break Reading Series

April 1st, 2017 – Q.E.D.: A Place To Show & Tell in Astoria, Queens [Facebook]

FEATURED READER

Nasty Women Unite Fest

April 26, 2017 – The Paper Box in Brooklyn [Facebook]

Featured panelist for the panel on Nasty Women* and Community Engagement and Activism as part of Nasty Women Unite Fest (April 23-30)!

FEATURED PANELIST

Inspired Word NYC’s 3rd annual Queens Lit Fest

April 30, 2017 – LIC Landing in Gantry Plaza State Park [More info]

FEATURED POET

Boundless Tales Reading Series

June 8, 2017 – The Local NYC in Long Island City [Facebook]

HOST

JOURNEY OF DREAMS exhibition closing

June 15, 2017 – LIC Arts Open Gallery at The Factory [more info]

FEATURED POET

Organizing for Action’s ‘Rethink Plastic’ – film screening & discussion

September 9, 2017 – Variety Boys & Girls Club in Astoria, Queens [Facebook]

FEATURED PANELIST – representing Socrates Sculpture Park

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NeverTheLess: A Night of Dualism

September 19, 2017 – El Barrio Art Space, NYC [Facebook]

FEATURED POET

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Effie Pasagiannis’ Art & Poetry Salon

September 28, 2017 – Arlo NoMad, NYC [Facebook]

Reading original works inspired by paintings!

FEATURED POET

The 36th Asbury Short Film Concert

October 19, 2017 – Zukor Theatre at Kaufman Astoria Studios, Queens

Honored to join the ranks of Edie Falco, John Turturro, Adrian Grenier, Olympia Dukakis and Harvey Keitel to host for this series, in partnership with my wonderful friend and fellow curator Ann O’Connor who is working to create another stronghold for short film in Queens! Asbury Shorts USA’s mission is to keep great short films in theaters and public spaces for folks who don’t generally go to film festivals. [More info]

HOST

Mental health-themed benefit show for The Rainbow Foundation

October 24, 2017 – Lucky Jack’s, NYC [Facebook]

FEATURED POET

New York Writers Workshop reading – curated by Jen Fitzgerald

December 7, 2017 – The Red Room at KGB Bar in NYC [Facebook]

FEATURED POET

FREEDOM: NOTHING CAN STOP ME – curated by Yuko Kudo

December 28, 2017 – Bar Thalia in NYC [Facebook]

FEATURED POET

{2018}

PUBLIC PROGRAMS at Socrates Sculpture Park!

Curated full season of Public Programs and Arts Education at Socrates Sculpture Park, live season May to October 2018

DIRECTOR OF PUBLIC PROGRAMS

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CHURCH OF THE SACRED BODY

January 14, 2018 – LIC Bar [Facebook]

The debut of my show CHURCH OF THE SACRED BODY 5-7pm in the intimate, fireside carriage house at LIC Bar. this show is a call to honoring our bodies, the sacredness in sensuality and sexuality, healing and releasing trauma in our bodies, letting the body speak its truth, uncensored.

CURATOR, HOST, PERFORMER

Compass Project Poetry presentation for four 6th grade classes

January 18, 2018 – IS 126 Middle School

Presentation on “Compass Project Poetry! And other ways to reach the world with unexpected positivity” in collaboration with Community Word Project: “How to reach the people with your art, work and/or message? Guest Artist and leader of Socrates Sculpture Park, Audrey Dimola sharing the way she uses slogans, taglines and mottos via social media to inspire and promote change in the world. Our students then got a chance to create their own slogans we will turn into stickers as we continue our campaign against injustice in the world while promoting creativity.”

GUEST ARTIST/LECTURER

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Three Rooms Press’ WOMEN LIKE US

March 2, 2018 – Cornelia Street Cafe in NYC [Facebook]

FEATURED POET

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THEN SHE DID curated by Melissa McCaig-Welles & Lori Zimmer

March 3, 2018 – Plaxall Gallery in LIC [Facebook]

Site-specific full hallway of poetry graffiti – poem “lazarus was a house on fire (WOMAN)” – and performance included in new exhibition as part of Women’s Month, THEN SHE DID, at the Plaxall Gallery in LIC.

INSTALLATION ARTIST & FEATURED POET

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Celebrating Queens Women Artists curated by Joan Becht Willette

March 23, 2018 – Queens Council on the Arts in Astoria [More info]

FEATURED AS PRACTICING ARTIST/ARTIST LEADER

“WILDLIGHT” book release and performance

March 24, 2018 – Q.E.D. Astoria [Facebook]

PERFORMER & CURATOR

IDLEWILD MAGAZINE issue No. 14 launch

March 24, 2018 – LetLove Inn in Astoria

My poem “lazarus was a house on fire (WOMAN)” is excerpted in the new issue celebrating Women’s History Month! [More info]

FEATURED POET

The Power of Your Voice’s THRIVE

March 30, 2018 – Bar Thalia in NYC [Facebook]

FEATURED POET

POETS OF QUEENS curated by Olena Jennings

April 4, 2018 – Ditmars Vintage in Astoria [More info]

FEATURED POET

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HOW WE CREATE & HOW WE COPE: intersections of art & mental health/mental illness at Rough Draft Festival 2018

April 15, 2018 – LaGuardia Performing Arts Center in LIC [Facebook]

Thrilled and honored to return to LaGuardia Performing Arts Center’s ROUGH DRAFT FESTIVAL with the next generation of my show HOW WE CREATE & HOW WE COPE: intersections of art and mental health/mental illness, which originally debuted to a sold out crowd at Queens Council on the Arts in February 2017. How much of how we suffer makes us who we are and results in the art we create? How much of these feelings are the natural experience of the artist, and when is it time to seek help? A multidisciplinary exploration of creativity and mental health/illness.

CURATOR/HOST & FEATURED PERFORMER

WILDLIGHT & Scags Evening Reading

April 17, 2018 – Kew & Willow Books in Kew Gardens [Facebook]

Special reading for “WILDLIGHT” and “Scags at 45” at Kew & Willow Books in Kew Gardens (The Queens Bookshop Initiative’s brick and mortar bookstore!) with my wonderful friend and fellow writer Deborah Emin.

FEATURED POET

WILDLIGHT reading and discussion with teens

May 23, 2018 – Long Island City High School

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What happens when your 9th grade English teacher gifts copies of your new book “WILDLIGHT” to her entire class…

GUEST LECTURER/PERFORMER

“Poetry & Lunch with Audrey” workshop/discussion for teens at LIC High School

June 8, 2018 – Long Island City High School

FEATURED POET/SPACE-HOLDER

Joaquin Capehart’s “WHAT IF I SAID” book release

August 19, 2018 – Flor de Azalea Cafe in Astoria

SPECIAL GUEST POET

Nancy Ruhling’s Astoria Characters Day

September 23, 2018 – Variety Boys & Girls Club in Astoria [More info]

I was interviewed by Nancy as part of her Astoria Characters series in August 2018 as “The BFF of Socrates Sculpture Park”! Read the story here.

FEATURED PERFORMER

HOW TO BUILD A FIRE: RESILIENCE

November 16, 2018 – Open Source Gallery [Facebook]

FEATURED STORYTELLER

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Open Mic Renegades presents Flower Power Fridays

December 7, 2018 – Flower Power Coffee House NYC [Facebook]

FEATURED POET

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NEIGHBORHOOD MIXTAPE: Volume 1

December 13, 2018 – Chateau Le Woof [More info]

Hosted and curated Volume 1 of NEIGHBORHOOD MIXTAPE, a new poetry, music & comedy show in partnership with Chateau Le Woof!

HOST/CURATOR/PERFORMER

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PROVENANCE: a new alchemical theatre work by Audrey Dimola

December 18, 2018 – LIC-A/Plaxall Gallery

Debut of my first ever original theatre work, “PROVENANCE” at LIC-A/Plaxall Gallery. [More info]

WRITER/PERFORMER/PROCLAIMER …

{2019}

PUBLIC PROGRAMS at Socrates Sculpture Park!

Curated full season of Public Programs and Arts Education at Socrates Sculpture Park, live season May to October 2019

DIRECTOR OF PUBLIC PROGRAMS

The Widening Circle

January 18, 2019 – Communitea [Facebook]

My creative gathering The Widening Circle comes to Communitea in LIC with poetry/music/comedy and community sharing!

HOST & CURATOR, PERFORMER

NATURE OF THE MUSE – 6 year anniversary

January 27, 2019 – LIC Bar [Facebook]

6 year anniversary of my first curated/hosted show ever, NATURE OF THE MUSE! In the fireside carriage house at LIC Bar.

HOST & CURATOR, PERFORMER

Neighborhood Mixtape: Volume 2, Ladies Edition

February 7, 2019 – Chateau Le Woof

HOST & CURATOR, PERFORMER

The Secret Loft

February 28, 2019 – Secret Loft in NYC [Facebook]

Featuring with my dear friend and fellow poet, Buttered Roll, for this popular Poetry & Prose Open Mic.

FEATURED POET

Astoria Performing Arts Center’s Playmaking Program

March 6, 2019 – PS 152 in Woodside, Queens

Each year, middle school students from P.S. 152 participate in an after school Playmaking Program with APAC teaching artists. These middle school playwrights see their original short scripts brought to life by professional actors and directors in a evening of staged readings. The show is free and open to the public.

PARTICIPATING ACTOR

HEAD FOR THE TEMPLE house show

March 9, 2019 – Astoria, Queens

Hosted interdisciplinary artist Brandon Perdomo (NYC, butoh) + David Rudge (wNY, electric fiddle) in addition to an eclectic offering of music, poetry, comedy, and ceremony.

HOST/PERFORMER/SPACE-HOLDER

Inspired Word NYC’s QUEENS VOICES debut

March 30, 2019 – COFFEED in Astoria, Queens [Facebook]

FEATURED POET

DZIECI THEATRE’S “A PASSION”: A dramatic choral liturgy unbound

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April 13-20, 2019 in various NYC venues: CAMBA in Bushwick, Christ Church NJ, Church of the Redeemer in Astoria, Old First Reformed Church in Brooklyn, Old Dutch Church in Kingston, Old Stone House in Brooklyn

One of the most extraordinary experiences of my life. THANK YOU Dzieci, forever.

COMPANY MEMBER

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“trusting the inmost angel” art installation

June 8-22, 2019 – The Lit Exhibit, Brooklyn [More info]

My installation “trusting the inmost angel” will be on view as part of The Lit Exhibit’s 2019 show, RITUALS! The Lit Exhibit is an annual Brooklyn exhibition of literary art by local, national, and international emerging and contemporary writers and artists.

FEATURED ARTIST

DON’T CALL IT A FEATURE showcase

July 27, 2019 – Flor de Azalea Cafe in Astoria, Queens

Produced by Your Friendly Neighborhood Open Mic.

FEATURED PERFORMER

BAE: Moonlit – An Ode to the Waterbearers

August 15, 2019 – Ambrosia Elixirs in Brooklyn [Facebook]

HOW TO LIVE YOUR LEGEND: A PRAYER TO SEE AND BE SEEN – Poetic Alchemy & Storytelling with Audrey Wildfire Dimola

FEATURED PERFORMER

Dzieci Theatre presents MAKBET

September 15, 2019 – Widow Jane Mine in Rosendale, NY

COMPANY MEMBER/ENSEMBLE

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A Prayer To See & Be Seen: Creative Reframing for Mental Health 

October 10 & 12, 2019 – Art House Astoria in Queens

An effort extremely close to my heart. More info: tinyurl.com/creativereframingnyc

CURATOR/HOST

Dzieci Theatre’s “FOOLS MASS”

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December 4-22 in venues around NYC + Upstate including a huge dream: final performance at The Cathedral of St. John the Divine! [More info]

Once again, one of the most extraordinary experiences of my life. An honor to make this exploration, this play, this Work, this truest effort {with many bumps + bruises along the way} with all of You.

COMPANY MEMBER

{2020}

2020 Southeast Queens Biennial Exhibition: Writing Home

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February 14 – April 17, 2020 at Jamaica Center for Arts and Learning and York College Fine Arts Gallery – Jamaica, Queens

2 new installation works debuted in both venues, more info HERE and below:

MY INSTALLATIONS:
JCAL: in the beginning was a hero seeking Home {mapping}
WRITING HOME means charting my course from the origins, trying desperately to find safety, belonging, wholeness– HOME– in everywhere + anywhere Else. this has been a journey of individuation– of profound growth + loss, heartbreak, codependency, emotional trauma + instability. but it has also meant– the reclamation + rebirth of my heroic Self.

YORK: in the beginning was a hero seeking Home {resolutions}
after moving ten times in the past five years + wracking endlessly with heartbreak, codependency, emotional instability + spiritual awakening– this assemblage, in dialogue with my installation at JCAL– conjures the resolutions + beginnings borne out of my hero’s journey to WRITE HOME + reclaim the legend of my own Self.

FEATURED ARTIST

Borne Dance Company’s Annual Eating Disorder Awareness show

February 28, 2020 – Secret Theatre, Long Island City

Performing a participatory new work {“the body is a prayer for beginning”} alongside Borne’s premiere of “BOUND” and other guest artists.

FEATURED PERFORMER

400 Years of Inequality – 2020 Symposium, Part 2

April 10, 2020 – Live on Zoom

FEATURED PRESENTER

Dzieci Theatre presents “A PASSION” for the Present Moment {on Zoom!}

April 10, 2020 – Live on YouTube, streamed from Zoom in real-time

COMPANY MEMBER

Sunnyside Shines Virtual Pop-up Market

April 18, 2020 – Live on Zoom [Facebook invite]

CO-HOST & FEATURED PERFORMER 

Women’s Night of Dance

May 1, 2020 – On Zoom

So honored and thrilled to share my new “THE WAY OUT IS IN” alchemical exercises and personal archetype exploration as part of the special breakout activities at the virtual Women’s Night of Dance event!

SPECIAL GUEST / FACILITATOR

Support & Inspiration Circle

May 13, 2020 – on Zoom

FEATURED POET

Storytime Theater

May 15, 2020 – on Zoom

Presenting The Garden of Live Flowers from “Through The Looking Glass”!

ACTOR

The Great Indoors reading series

May 15, 2020 – on Zoom

FEATURED READER

Dangerous Gifts – Institute for the Development of Human Arts (IDHA) Open Mic

May 25, 2020 – on Zoom

FEATURED PERFORMER

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Let’s Talk About Mental Health

May 28, 2020 – on Zoom

CO-HOST/FEATURED PERFORMER

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Allison Sylvia’s The Living Zoom series

July 19, 2020 – on Zoom

FEATURED ARTIST

Meetings with the Masters – Minor Miracles Summer Youth Program

July 29, 2020 – Socrates Sculpture Park

My first formal presentation on Ecotherapy for the Minor Miracles Summer Youth Program (as well as teen girls from the Green Girls program of City Parks Foundation)!!

FEATURED PRESENTER

Truth To Power show on Radio Free Brooklyn

September 14, 2020 – episode 140: The Wild Truth!

FEATURED ARTIST/GUEST

“Up in the Air” exhibition launch – Amanda Millet-Sorsa & Maki Teshima

September 27, 2020 – on Zoom

Q&A MODERATOR

Poets of Queens book launch

October 4, 2020 – on Zoom

FEATURED READER

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How to Convert Your Life into Legend: Inside the Hero’s Journey

November 16, 2020 – on Zoom

DEEP HEARTWORK! Hosted by Institute for the Development of Human Arts (IDHA) – more info here; recording here.

HOST / WORKSHOP FACILITATOR

Dzieci’s FOOLS MASS livestream

December 6, 2020 – on YouTube

Dzieci Theatre livestreams a special performance of their yearly FOOLS MASS from Sure We Can! So honored to reengage my holy fool wildchild, Irpinia…

ACTOR / COMPANY MEMBER

Art & Action Chat: Long-term Thinking in Uncertain Times

December 9, 2020 – online

Hosted by Human Impacts Institute

FEATURED PANELIST

Queens Library – Open Mic & Featured Reader

December 17, 2020 – online

FEATURED READER

{2021}

Old Astoria Neighborhood Association – OANA monthly meeting

February, 10 2021 – online [when do I get to stop writing this?! haha]

FEATURED PERFORMER (SPOKEN WORD)

The Storytelling Circle presents Tales To Get Us Through This – THE HOLY FOOL {The Story of Parsifal}

February, 19 2021 – online [Event info]

Eight storytellers, eight tales, eight evenings of myth, insight and collective exploration. So beyond honored to be a part of this international band of wildhearted tellers!

FEATURED STORYTELLER

Dzieci Theatre presents A PASSION 2021

March 28, 2021 – performed live at Boughton Place / streamed online

ACTOR / COMPANY MEMBER

Integrating the Hero’s Journey into your Life and Practice (presented by Institute for the Development of Human Arts / IDHA)

April 19, 2021 – online [Event info]

IDHA and facilitators JoAnn Dorio Burton, CPRP and Kristin Becker, LCMHCA are hosting a workshop that explores the Hero’s Journey as an empowering way for individuals and practitioners to conceptualize life experiences in ways that are person-centered, de-stigmatizing, and cross-cultural. This event expands upon themes covered in the November 2020 IDHA workshop “How to Convert Your Life Into Legend.” Joined by storyteller and previous IDHA presenter Audrey Dimola, the trio will traverse the stages of the Journey (including Departure/Separation, On The Road/Initiation, and Return/Transformation), discuss how to engage the Hero’s Journey in your life and practice, and explore how to invoke specific myths to deepen resonance and internal explorations in the way that only the Old Stories can- with the rich example of the Grail Legend that centers around Parsifal, the Wounded Fisher King, and the courage to ask the necessary questions. Workshop recording is here.

FEATURED STORYTELLER

The Storytelling Circle presents The Only Way Out is Through – THE WOMAN WHO GREW HERSELF BACK {The Story of The Handless Maiden}

May 7, 2021 – online [Event info]

Ten storytellers, ten tales, ten evenings of myth, insight and collective exploration. So beyond honored to be a part of this international band of wildhearted tellers!

FEATURED STORYTELLER

NYCxDesign’s In The Neighborhood: Live Conversations Series

May 14, 2021 – online thnx to NYCxDesign [watch the video here]

Hosted by Wendy Goodman of Curbed with: Russell Greenberg – Partner, Rux Studios & Stickbulb, and Audrey Dimola – Director of Public Programs, Socrates Sculpture Park. {What I didn’t know at the time would be my last interview while working at Socrates- wow.}

FEATURED SPEAKER/PANELIST

(((( AND THEN I ADVENTURED IN THE UK FOR 2.5 MONTHS :D !! Came back + got my head blown off in November with the Sacred Way initiatory Intensive in Colorado … )))

The sisSTAR Loop’s Sip & Share

December 1, 2021 – [watch the IG Live broadcast here]

FEATURED AUTHOR

Institute for the Development of Human Arts – Art & Experience Auction

December 9, 2021

Happy 5 Years to IDHA! Offering 2 of my books and a Personal Legend Session <3

FEATURED ARTIST / PRACTITIONER

{2022}

Moving Through Myth – The Way Out Is In

March 15, 2022 [online] as part of Wiracocha Foundation and Qoya Inspired Movement’s fundraiser to support the women weavers of the Q’ero people of Peru

The old stories carry ancient earthen energies that can help us move with and through the trouble and mystery of our lives. Audrey di Mola is an earth-based singer, teller, dancer, Listener, and mythographer– called to continue helping others to remember the Deep Songs of Earth and Story. In this “The Way Out Is In” session Audrey will guide participants through a gathering of chosen stories around a virtual hearth-fire, that we will then “feed” and share from. Where do we find ourselves in the story? What announced itself in our bodies to tell us that? From there, we will dip into visualization/meditation or free movement/embodiment exercises to walk through our own internal legendary wilderness. Nothing is needed besides space to hear, listen, and feel.

STORYTELLER / SPACE-HOLDER

WE2022 IG Live Series celebrating 10 years of the Annual Women Empowerment Event

March 31, 2022 – Instagram Live [replay here]

FEATURED PANELIST {2017 featured poet/special guest at the conference}

Wild Body Dreaming with Audrey – storytelling session for Dr. Sharon Blackie’s Mythic Imagination Network {April- debut!}

April 27, 2o22 [online]

The old stories carry ancient earthen energies that can help us move with and through the trouble and mystery of our lives. This is the first of several events in which Audrey di Mola will gather us monthly in sacred circle to tell an old story or stories in the oral tradition – the ones which choose to be told that day, in that moment. We will practice listening with our whole body, and afterwards will ‘feed the story’ to be in right relationship with the nourishment we received. Where do we find ourselves in the story? What announced itself in our bodies to tell us that? We explore together, holding space for each other and ‘trailing not trapping’ the profound aliveness that courses through these tales.

STORYTELLER / SPACE-HOLDER

The Listener with Audrey di Mola

May 3, 2022 [online]

Special 1.5-hr telling of the Seneca story “The Listener” for The Roundhouse Storytelling School <3

STORYTELLER / SPACE-HOLDER

Institute for the Development of Human Arts (IDHA)’s Transformative Mental Health Curriculum Development

May + June 2022

Participated as part of the Curriculum experts (inclusive of both lived and professional forms of expertise) who weighed in on content for IDHA‘s forthcoming Transformative Mental Health Curriculum – Module 2: Lived Experience Through Storytelling.

ARTIST WITH LIVED EXPERIENCE – PANEL OF EXPERTS! :)

Wild Body Dreaming with Audrey – storytelling session for Dr. Sharon Blackie’s Mythic Imagination Network {May}

May 25, 2022 [online]

STORYTELLER / SPACE-HOLDER

For The Depths of Us – performance-walk and ritual for Works on Water’s Water Connectors cohort 2022

June 25, 2022 – 16 Oaks Grove to The Cove in Astoria/LIC, Queens [more info]

Works on Water’s Water Connectors is a series of six neighborhood-based temporary public art projects that connect NYC communities vulnerable to the effects of climate change with their waterfront, and with each other. I worked with my Kin to the Cove collaborator, dancer/choreographer Christopher Bisram to weave this experience:

In the late 1800s a body of water that ran through Ravenswood to the East River was buried underground to make way for increasing industrialization. What in us has been buried in the name of progress– what have we sent down into the dark? Kin To The Cove artists Christopher Bisram and Audrey di Mola lead a neighborhood performance-walk tracing the path of Sunswick Creek down to the Cove, woven with personal and collective mythologies in the form of dance, storytelling, song, and ritual. What can be recovered when we make the ecological practice of “daylighting” a stream, metaphorical? What can be found, inside us, out of the Depths?

STORYTELLER / CO-CREATOR

Immersion Session: Woman Who Married Coyote – for Roundhouse Storytelling School

June 28, 2022 [online]

STORYTELLER

Wild Body Dreaming with Audrey – storytelling session for Dr. Sharon Blackie’s Mythic Imagination Network {June}

June 30, 2022 [online]

STORYTELLER / SPACE-HOLDER

Their Ways Are Wise & Wild: An Evening of Storytelling

July 19, 2022 – Earth&Me in Astoria, Queens [Eventbrite]

STORYTELLER / SPACE-HOLDER

Wild Body Dreaming with Audrey – storytelling session for Dr. Sharon Blackie’s Mythic Imagination Network {August}

August 9, 2022 [online]

STORYTELLER / SPACE-HOLDER

The Way Out Is In: Letting the Stories Lead Us workshop

August 20, 2022 [online]

Part of Tam Orlando’s 3-day Reclaim Your Creative Expression online retreat

WORKSHOP FACILITATOR / STORYTELLER

Their Ways Are Wise & Wild: An Evening of Storytelling

August 23, 2022 – Earth&Me in Astoria, Queens [Eventbrite]

In collaboration with Lyssa Mandel and her live writing/drawing based on vessel prompts (you had to be there <3)

STORYTELLER / SPACE-HOLDER

An Evening of Storytelling at Kew & Willow Books

September 8, 2022 – Kew Gardens, Queens [Eventbrite]

STORYTELLER / SPACE-HOLDER

The Winter Court at Book Club Bar

September 11, 2022 – Lower East Side, NYC

Weaving in The Black Prince and The Goose Girl, two of the old stories, betwixt the music sets of folk-mythic band The Winter Court. So fun. <3

GUEST STORYTELLER

Sarah Cameron Sunde’s 36.5 / A Durational Performance With The Sea – New York Estuary

September 14, 2022 – The Cove in Astoria/LIC, Queens [Website]

The culmination of site-specific work that began in November 2019 during my time at Socrates Sculpture Park, and the 9th and final work in Sarah’s global durational performance series, since 2013. A nearly 13 hour stand in the East River, uplifted hourly by dance, prayer, music, communal noise-making (!). We did it. <3

EVENT MGMT + COORDINATION / SPACE-HOLDING / PRAYER OFFERING

Wild Body Dreaming with Audrey – storytelling session for Dr. Sharon Blackie’s Mythic Imagination Network {October}

October 5, 2022 [online]

STORYTELLER / SPACE-HOLDER

Community, Storytelling and Immersion into the Mythic

October 6, 2022 – Astoria Park, Queens [Eventbrite]

Outdoor telling of The Handless Maiden woven with mini wilderness vigil in one of my favorite urban mythic spaces <3 Thank you Olivia for hosting!

STORYTELLER / SPACE-HOLDER

Wild Body Dreaming: Letting The Stories Lead Us {1st Hudson Valley event!}

October 21, 2022 – Valley Spirit Acupuncture + Internal Arts [more info]

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Wild Body Dreaming with Audrey – storytelling session for Dr. Sharon Blackie’s Mythic Imagination Network {November}

November 16, 2022 [online]

STORYTELLER / SPACE-HOLDER

Wild Body Dreaming with Audrey – storytelling session for Dr. Sharon Blackie’s Mythic Imagination Network {December}

December 13, 2022 [online]

STORYTELLER / SPACE-HOLDER

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