Viviana has hosted
Emily Glen's Open Mic at Westbeth and
We've got the Beat at The Music Room in The Village Community School, both in Greenwich Village, Manhattan and
The Chaos Club open mic at The Vault in Queens, and
Wild Wednesdays in Forest Hills, Queens.
She also co-hosted
Nomads Choir with Joshua Meander in Greenwich Village, Manhattan.
(Yes, Viviana inspired the inclusion of the "Disco Dance Segment" of
Nomads Choir Open Mic.)
Starting this August (2005), she is hosting her own new
Spark Open Mic, a Performance Open Mic for Poets, Musicians, Dancers and Comedians every Saturday from 3:00 p.m. to 6:00 p.m. at
The Spark Cafe & Art Center, 161 West 22nd St. (bet. 6th & 7th Aves.) in the
Chelsea neigborhood of Manhattan. DJ VIV will spin her usual mix of rock n roll from 60s to 90s!!!!
She is also producing the
Sparks Rock-n-Roll Dance Party for Singles Over 40,
also at The Spark every other Friday night, starting September 2nd (2005), from 8:00 pm to 12:00 am. Come by socialize , network and dance and you'll catch DJ VIV spinning CD's covering rock n roll, motown, disco, rhythm and blues, techno, and lots more!! Who knows you might meet your match
and have a date for Saturday night or for life.
One thing for sure you are going to party,
you are going to meet alot of people
and you are going to DANCE!!!!
Viviana's energy catches and spreads like wild fire
igniting anyone in her path!
Her powerful poetry has been published in
Pudding Magazine, a collection of poetry from Ohio,
as well as in
Soul Mountain,
Nomads Choir and
Wings,
and in her chapbook "Poems from an Individualist".
You can also find her work online in poetry e-zines including
The Pedestal Magazine,
Fierce Words Tender
Pegasus Dreaming
, and
NYCPoetry.com, and it has cost
her boyfriends when they googled her and read her words online...I CUN'T HAVE IT ALL!
If you are a single guy looking for a demented but very brainy and sane woman...COME UP AND HUG ME SOMETIME!
A fixture on the NYC area Poetry Circuit, she has been featured at poetry venues all over New York (including
Saturn Series,
Nomads Choir, The Knitting Factory,
The Arthur Harris Memorial Poetry Reading, Border's Books & Music (
Performance Poets Association),
The Eccentric Muse at Cafe Loon Loon,
The Vault's 'Dangerous Visions' presentation,
OK OK ENOUGH!!!).
She has read in New Orleans, LA; San Jose, CA and Sedona, AZ, and most recently at
Hidden Treasures Reading Series hosted by Mindy Matijasevic at Johnny O's in the Bronx.
Viviana was the recipient of The Vault
2001 Its the End of the World as We Know It performance award "acknowledging exceptional cutting edge artists who consistently take risks with their art",
2002 and
2003 Fear No Art Award as best female poet and in 2004
Best MC-Host for hosting of
The Chaos Club Open Mic.
She is a Legal Manager and expert in personal injury law working in a law firm in New York City. You can get her advice and in Spanish on the air every Saturday from 12 noon to 1:00 p.m. by tuning in to WKDM (1380 AM Radio) for her show "Accidentes y Justicia" (Accidents and Justice).
Viviana was born in Argentina singing, writing, dancing and asking questions,
and noticing how people relate to the world,
and how people relate to one another,
and how each of us is affected by one another...
She has questioned the societal forces that have affected her and
the societal structures that have made her re-think her own feelings
and finally become an Iconoclast on a journey.
Ask why and the journey begins!!!
In Love and Peace
Viviana
