Beneath The Surface by Lufuno Tshikororo

a camp27 event

We invite you to this space to meet each other from the bordes.

Un territorio para leer y leernos en una lengua que nos sujeta a un lugar cuya geografía es cada vez más movediza, que se desplaza y nos desplaza a habitarnos en las palabras.

A territory for reading and being read in a language that binds us to a place whose geography grows ever more fluid — a language that shifts and shifts us, until we come to inhabit ourselves in words.

If you wish to participate, all genres welcome, all levels welcome.
We encourage you to do so in Spanish or in other languages.

This is a call for poets, storytellers, filmmakers, photographers, playwrights, actors, and creators in general to get in touch and be part of the monthly program of this space.

Join us for a bilingual poetry reading with poet Ana Merino, followed by an open mic (all languages welcome).

Join us at SWELL Art Cafe on October 3rd, 6–10pm, as we close out the VyM Latine Arts Festival in style! Dance the night away to live Latin music, meet the artists whose work brought the festival to life, and connect with the sponsors and supporters who made it all possible. Stick around for the raffle winner announcements!

Come celebrate community, culture, and creativity as we bring VyM's inaugural festival to a joyful close

SWELL Art Cafe presents an evening of outstanding performances from Eve Maret (Nashville), Zachary James Watkins (Oakland), and Pomme Pom. Ride the @talklowfest high with life-affirming, boundary pushing music.

@evemaret is a Nashville & St. Louis-based experimental artist and composer who employs a wide array of electronic media and techniques in her various disciplines, exploring the possibilities of personal and communal healing through creative action. 

@zacharyjameswatkins studied composition at Cornish College and received an MFA in Electronic Music and Recording Media from Mills College in 2006. Zachary has received commissions from The Empyrean Ensemble, Splinter Reeds, The Switch Ensemble, Density512, sfsound, The Living Earth Show, Kronos Quartet and the Seattle Chamber Players among others. Zachary has performed in numerous festivals across the United States, Canada, Mexico and Europe and his band Black Spirituals opened for pioneering Minimal Metal band Earth during their 2015 European tour. Zachary completed “Documentado /Undocumentado” a multimedia interactive book in collaboration with Guillermo Gómez Peña, Gustavo Vasquez, Jennifer Gonzalez and Felicia Rice. In 2025, Zachary received a NEA grant to compose and premiere the new work “Exciting Sites of Opposition III” for the site specific resonant frequencies of The LAB SF featuring multidisciplinary artist Lisa E. Harris and bassoonist Jamael Smith. Zachary has been an artist-in-resident at the Espy Foundation, Djerassi, the Headlands Center for The Arts and the Amant Foundation Siena, Italy.

If you don't get the chance to see Cinci's own @pommepomooo on 9/26 at @talklowfest, fear not! The Queen City duo deliver vocal and synth based compositions that soothe and lull the spirit.

$5-10 PWYC. Doors 7:30PM, music at 8PM. See you there!

DJ Color Scientist and guest DJs play Dub music from all around the world, from Jamaica to Japan, from roots to dub-techno and experimental.

Pecha what!? PechaKucha!!! 20 slides, 20 seconds each. Super fun! Join us at Swell Art Cafe for a fast paced, highly visual evening of local designers, artists, and theatermakers telling creative stories of all kinds.

Tickets available here.

FRIEND LESS (Jon Mueller) with Neutrals and Fritz Pape

TICKETS

Kertwang Presents FRIEND LESS (Sturgeon Bay, WI) with Neutrals (Dayton, OH) and Fritz Pape
"A Talk Low Affogato"

$3 discount for students

FRIEND LESS is a project by Jon Mueller. Its two recent EPs, Energy Rippers and Logic of Relics (with Bundy K. Brown and James Plotkin) aim to provoke the heart, mind and body through an unorthodox approach to rhythmic patterns. In performance, the pieces from Energy Rippers lean on a system of AIR (Acoustic Improvised Rhythm) using drums and voice to achieve a similar effect. More information about the project can be found at rhythmplex.com.

Jon Mueller studied jazz drumming with Hal Russell at Columbia College in Chicago, and singing with La Monte Young and Marian Zazeela at the Kirana Center for Indian Classical Music in New York. A prolific performer, he tours extensively and has appeared at festivals and venues throughout the United States, Canada, England, Europe and Japan.

In addition to his solo work, Mueller has collaborated and performed with groups such as Who is the Witness?, Mind Over Mirrors, Volcano Choir, Collections of Colonies of Bees, and Pele. He has also worked with artists including Olivia Block, Aaron Turner, Faith Coloccia, Timo van Luijk, Dawn Springer, Chris Hefner, Jason Kahn, Hal Rammel, Asmus Tietchens, Z’EV, Rhys Chatham, Jarboe, James Plotkin, Duane Pitre, and Raymond Dijkstra. He has released music on renowned labels such as Room40, Astres d’Or, American Dreams, Table of the Elements, Type Recordings, Important Records, Taiga Records, SIGE Records, and his own imprint, Rhythmplex.

Neutrals is a percussion duo based in Dayton, OH. Formed in 2016 by Evan Miller and Andrew Seivert.

Fritz Pape is a Cincinnati-based modular synthesist and librarian.

ACCESSTOGOD / Healng/Dahlia Parton

Cincinnati's newest celebration of Latine arts and culture kicks off at SWELL Art Cafe on Friday September 18th, 6-9pm. Come meet the talented artists performing in this year's festival, connect with sponsors and supporters, and enjoy an evening of live music and community spirit. Food and drinks will be available for purchase.

Don't miss this vibrant launch celebration — be part of the festival from day one!

Join Tina Gutierrez - Featured Artist Boost (FAB) artist during the month of August, for a reception, Saturday, August 8, 6-8pm at Swell Art Cafe!

Learn more about the FAB program here.

Meet Tina Gutierrez, incredible photographer and community member and part of our Fotofocus Exhibition presented with Wave Pool, "Forgetting is Everywhere." Tina is passionately involved with social justice photography and believes that the camera is a tool for change. She strongly identifies with both her Hispanic and Appalachian heritage. She works to create images that show the beauty in the diversity of humanity and hopes to create healing opportunities for individuals and communities. She prefers to be called an “Arts Instigator” when working with communities by bringing attention to issues that are difficult or challenging through thought provoking projects that enable others to express their fears, hopes and dreams for the future.

For the show at SWELL, Tina is showing "Made Mountains." Made Mountains of discarded, metals, plastics, cords, and otherconsumed items awaiting recycling create monuments to our culture ofwaste and attempted reclamation.These images are part of an ongoing series made from 2012 to the present at what was formerly Garden Street metal on Spring Grove avenue in Cincinnati, Ohio. It is now River Metals Recycling and is one of the largest scrap recyclers in the country.

Her FAB cocktail of the month is a "Cubalachian," a sour apple martini with dulce de leche drizzle!

Jared Presley and Friends music performance

Breakfast Club Cincy

Join us. All are welcome, especially you.

Come take the stage at SWELL!~ Matt Mooney as host.

Matt Mooney is a Covington, Kentucky-based songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, and compulsive creative with a catalog that spans three decades and more projects than most people have hobbies. He came up through Super77 and Koala Fires before founding Royal Holland, the project under which he released two vinyl records. He currently fronts the Cincinnati rock band Juan Electro alongside Wes Pence, Brian Kitzmiller, and Kip Roe. He creates pinkish hip hop under the moniker Meany Motto and is currently collaborating with Payso Best Ever (who he also manages) on a concept LP called “Invisible” out this fall. His solo work, backed live by The Invisible Invincibles, is where those threads converge into something entirely his own.

Off stage, Mooney lives and records in a former commercial bakery in Covington, where a converted school bus sits out back in various states of becoming something. He is also deep into L’Ours Noirs, a self-referential novel about the philosophy of Everything and Nothing — which, depending on the day, he’ll tell you is either his most ambitious project or just what happens when you think too much.

Sophie's Dream, Jay Hill, Matthew Shelton. Free, doors at 8pm.

Breakfast Club Cincy

Join us. All are welcome, especially you.

Reading is fundamental and so is community. Both of these are inextricably tied to one another. Queen City Reads gives you the opportunity to meet new people while openly discussing impactful and meaningful texts with one another. We hope to encourage people to re integrate reading into their daily lives and interact directly with the text in a way that broadens perspectives. Whether you just picked up reading again or consider yourself an avid bookworm, this group is for you!

Most of the literature we will read and discuss are fiction and non-fiction books, typically in the Classics genre but open to whatever the group decides. For more information, please reach out to Kheara via email at kcorinw@gmail.com or send a DM on Instagram @khearaaa_.

 Supreme indie rock and experimental compositions from Golf Widow (@golfwidow_), Millie Kaye (@bed.bug.dope) and Dawn (dawn.evergreen). Free / Music at 8PM. Poster by @bosebakedart

Benefit Gig for Hannah with Nuclear Addicts (@/thrash_hazzard) / Accesstogod (@accesstogod_) /Answer = Chaos (@shriveledsack Cleveland) / Victim In Pain (Columbus) - All Ages, $10-20 PWYC/Suggested Donation, Vendors + Raffle.  Every dollar raised goes directly toward Hannah's medical expenses, allowing her to focus on what matters most-fighting cancer instead of worrying about how to pay for treatment.