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Bonnie MacAllister, M.Ed., is an artist, author, and educator.  She has most recently exhibited at the Utopian Library in Viareggio, Italy and in la Galería del MEC, Montevideo, Uruguay. She is participating in a traveling show as part of the Art House Coop Gallery in Atlanta, Georgia which will reach Laconia Gallery in Boston, Museum of Contemporary Art DC, Antena Gallery in Chicago, 3rd Ward in Brooklyn, Soulard Art Market in St. Louis, and several other venues. 

Plastic at the Plastic (March 1-29) opens.  A Women's Caucus for Art Philadelphia, part of SWAN day (http://www.womenarts.org/) 

Bonnie MacAllister hosts Plastic: Women's Performance on March 15th at Plastic Club.  

Event features:  Courtney K. Bambrick’s poetry has appeared in Parlor, Philadelphia Poets, Philadelphia Stories, Mad Poets Review, and Schuylkill Valley Journal.  She is Associate Director of the Poetic Arts Performance Project and teaches at Rosemont, UCAL, and other sites around the region.  She will read from her manuscript, "Breathing Underwater."

Lora Bloom is a poet, musician, and performance artist.  She is the lead vocalist of the experimental band Radio Eris and has also performed with the Temple of Bon Matin, Akash, and the Red Masque through vocals, guitar, and dance/movement.  Her publications include the Haight Ashbury Literary Journal and the Beat Museum.  Bloom’s work tackles the boundaries between inner and outer experience, dreamstate and raw existence, conflicting dualities, self and other.

Ebony Malaika Collier has a BA in English from Temple University. She has been featured at Robin's Bookstore in Philadelphia, the 2008 Mad Poets Festival in Media, PA and other places in the Philadelphia area.

Natalie Felix is working on her MA at the Saybrook Graduate School and Research Center, studying human science and social transformation. Her dream is to create a community information exchange center where people of all ages and stages can come together to create life. She believes the arts are the vehicle for transforming our world into a peaceful place where “all humans can express and fulfill our true divine nature.” she currently bounces around Philadelphia where you can find her studying, writing, and enjoying the beautiful people in her neighborhood.

Bonnie MacAllister, M.Ed., is an artist, author, and educator.  She has most recently exhibited at the Utopian Library in Viareggio, Italy and in la Galería del MEC, Montevideo, Uruguay (along with Michelle Wilson). She is participating in a traveling show as part of the Art House Coop Gallery in Atlanta, Georgia which will reach Laconia Gallery in Boston, Museum of Contemporary Art DC, Antena Gallery in Chicago, 3rd Ward in Brooklyn, Soulard Art Market in St. Louis, and several other venues.

Gabrielle Casella (a.k.a Dragoness) describes, “From an early age I had a profound interest in the performing arts that involved me in cross-cultural ventures that bridge the gaps between traditional theatre and present day urban expressions of life. My background in costume production, voice, poetry, multi-cultural dance forms & martial/internal arts techniques have made a significant contribution to the creation of innovative performance art work.” She trained with the Spirit Wind Internal Arts Society, performed & organized projects with poets, emcees, DJs, musicians, martial/internal & visual artists. She has featured as part of Archedream, Lady Fest Philly, Om Summer Solstice, Gaian Mind, Stones Rising & 2004 Fringe Festivals.

Debbie McCarthy earned her MA at The University of Leeds in the UK, and her BFA  and Fifth Year at Moore College of Art and Design in Philadelphia, PA.  She exhibits nationally, and has received several commendations for her mixed media pieces, which are in featured in private collections.

Lisa Spera, a.k.a Lisa Sunshine, longtime member of the Highwire Gallery in Philadelphia, Photographer; Conceptual Artist, Drummer with Radio Eris, Guitarist with Temple of Bon Matin and Singer Songwriter will play the Ultimate Anti Plastic - blues slide on a steel resonator guitar.  Skilled craftsmen have not painstakingly molded this woman.

Dr. Niama L. Williams is the guiding force behind Blowing Up Barriers Enterprises, a company that specializes in leading you to the life you have dreamed of living but can't quite seem to get to on your own. She presents, "We Are All Priced Above Rubies: Excerpts from a Joint Memoir of a Growing Love."

Recent News: Bonnie MacAllister nominated for the Pushcart Prize

Local poet Bonnie MacAllister, 31, was nominated for the Pushcart Prize. She was nominated by Turtle Ink Press (Syracuse, NY) who recently published her poem, "Rosary" in Coevolution 2: Shivering through the Details (the Monday Night Poetry 2007 Anthology). She was nominated by editors Amy Lawson-Cassady and John Beck.

The Pushcart Prize is a prestigious American literary prize by Pushcart Press that honors the best "poetry, short fiction, essays or literary whatnot" published in the small presses over the previous year. Magazine and small book press editors are invited annually to nominate work they've published. Anthologies of the selected works have been published annually since 1976.

Bonnie MacAllister is an artist, arts administrator, and educator. Her work has appeared most recently at the DC Arts Center, the Philip Ratner Museum, AIR Gallery (NYC), Holy Family College, and High Wire Gallery (Philadelphia). A five-time slam champion, she has delivered her deconstructed breath verse at over sixty venues in several countries. Bonnie has also been published by the Feminist Journal, Black Robert Journal, Parlor, Helix, Paper Tiger Media in Brisbane, Australia, UK's nth Position, New York City’s Small Spiral Notebook, Magnaphone, Hinge Online, Venus Zine, Ireland’s Dead Drunk Dublin and Other Imaginal Spaces, Amherst Press, and University of Judaica Press.

Bonnie MacAllister was born in Doylestown, Pennsylvania, and she is a graduate of the Central Bucks school system where she studied under 2005 Bucks County Poet Laureate Patricia Goodrich at Lenape Middle School and 2006 Bucks County Poet Laureate Marie Kane at Central Bucks West. She went on to attend Albright College where she received her BA in English-French-Women’s Studies. She spent her junior year abroad in Paris where she studied under the “Father of Deconstruction,” Jacques Derrida and “one of the mothers of Poststructuralist Feminist Theory,” Helene Cixous. As a graduate student at Temple University, MacAllister received Master of Education, Secondary Education with dual certification in English and French (PA certification.)

MacAllister is the author of several chapbooks:  Some Words Are No Longer Words, Poems 2005-Present, and Paid in Goats (all published by Waffle House Productions).  Chapbooks are available for purchase through Pay Pal and Etsy by emailing bmacallister@earthlink.net.