[Stuorg-adv] Breakout Events

[Sara Hillis]

Breakout has several programs to offer to the campus community over the next
few days. Please feel free to join us for these events!

 

Thursday, October 25

Magician and Illusionist Mike Super

7:00 pm

Ferguson Social Sciences Auditorium

 

This is a free, family friendly event! Mike has worked with Disney to
produce several magic shows and will appear TONIGHT on NBC's PHENOMENON at 8
pm. Breakout Entertainment is bringing this event to campus FREE of charge
and across the nation tickets to Mike's events are selling for an average of
$25. www.mikesuper.com <http://www.mikesuper.com/> 

 

Talented and versatile. Mike Super has been creating the impossible since
the young age of six. Magic has truly been his life's passion AND obsession.
He is a member of BOTH the International Brotherhood of Magicians and the
Society of American Magicians. Mike has entertained tens of thousands,
including celebrities such as Regis Philbin, Joan Rivers, Paul Reiser, and
Robin Leach. Mike's ever-growing popularity has garnered him many
prestigious honors. The readers of CA Magazine (An entertainment industry
publication) recognized Mike with their highest honor by naming him
America's 2003 Entertainer of the Year! He won 3 awards from this
publication alone in 2003, including the prestigious top honors!...It was an
industry first! Additional Awards include being named the 2004 Novelty
Entertainer of the Year, the 2003 Best Performing Artist, the 2003 Best
Novelty Entertainer of the Year, the 2003 Best Male Entertainer of the Year,
the 2002 Performing Arts Entertainer of the Year, and the 2001 Novelty/Live
Entertainer of the Year! ALL NATIONAL AWARDS!

 

Friday, October 26 - Sunday, October 28

Haunted House

7:00 pm - 11:00 pm (Last Admission at 10:30 pm)

MSC 3rd Floor (Bluebonnet Room)

 

Come prepared to be frightened by the horrors of the night at Breakout's
Haunted House. Admission is $4 for the general public or $2 with and A&M
Commerce ID. This is a rated PG13 event and is not recommended for children
under 13. Children under 13 WILL NOT be admitted without a parent. 

 

Monday, October 29

Slam Poetry Competition Featuring Sonya Renee

8:00 pm

Founders Lounge, MSC



A&M Commerce students will compete for top ranking in the preliminary poetry
slam competition, that will lead up to the Grand Slam on November 19 that
will determine the A&M Commerce competition slam poetry team. In addition to
watching the talent of A&M Commerce students, emcee and featured poet Sonya
Renee will be performing.  This event is free and open to the public.

 

Everything has a spin, Right? News, radio, poetry: It is hard to find the
reality in reality TV let alone our daily lives. But at the door of politics
and pretense enters performance poet, actress, educator, activist and
National Individual Poetry Slam Champion, Sonya Renee ready to do what she
does best, REAL. Few artists are willing to be soul naked in front of
complete strangers but Sonya Renee knows the healing that comes from the
truth. Healing for herself and all who hear her. This desire to tell the
truth, her truth, led her to her first open mic reading in April of 2003.
Just sixteen months later Sonya was representing the United States as the
number 1 ranked performance poet in the country. Three continents, two
national tours and hundreds of stages later, Sonya Renee is still keeping it
real all around the globe. Her work has appeared in several publications,
translated into Dutch and German and has most recently appeared in the book
Growing Up Girl: An Anthology of Voices from Marginalized Spaces. Her work
has been used as curriculum at the University of Santa Barbara among other
universities. Sonya Renee has shared stages with Oscar Award winner Whoopi
Goldberg, Senator Hillary Clinton, Grammy Award Winner Peabo Bryson, Ani
DiFranco , Tony Award winner Poetri and countless others. In the 2004, her
honest, raw and very real poetry led to an invitation to perform at the
National March for Womens Lives in the nations capital to an audience of
over 1.6 million people marching for reproductive justice. Sonya Renee's
slam credits include 2004 National Individual Slam Champion, 3rd ranked 2005
International Slam Championship in Rotterdam, Netherlands, finalist in the
2006 Individual World Poetry Slam, Austin International Poetry Festival Slam
Champion, first ever 2x Lake Eden Arts Festival National Slam Champion, 2004
Southern Fried Regional Slam Champion and many many more. Combining an M.S.A
in Non-Profit Management, B.A in Sociology, and extensive experience in
women's issues, HIV prevention, social justice and work with at-risk youth
Sonya Renee has learned that poetry can change lives but only when we get
real with ourselves. This understanding has allowed Sonya to write and
perform with a candidness that reminds us that we are at our very core, the
same. Black, White, Asian Latino, male, female, young, old, it doesn't
matter. Sonya Renee will tell your story by telling hers; reminding us of
the thread that tethers each of us together, humanity. Sometimes all that is
left is to get Real. Sonya Renee . Is!

 

Sara R. Hillis

Coordinator of New Media & Programs 
Campus Activities Office 

Texas A&M University-Commerce

v. 903.886.5814

f. 903.468.3086

 

 

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