The 4th Annual Middletown Music Festival, August 8-9 @ Middlesex Community College
C.C. Arshagra
- Poet of the Year, Boston/Cambridge Poetry Awards (Voted top 3 in State of MA Open Mike Ballot System)-nomination 2001
- Best Poetry Publication, Boston/Cambridge Poetry Awards 2001 “What Manner of Character” Book 3 of “The Open Mike Poems’ chapbook series
- Marcel Kopp Award, Boston Poetry Awards 2000 (A one of a kind award) Created and presented to C.C. Arshagra by famed satirist Jimmy Tingle for “Poet Who Participates Most in the Open Mikes”
- Producer’s Award, Cambridge Community TV, 1998-00
- Skilled poet/jazz collaborator:
- With’ Zen Bastards’ Approx. 2001-03
- With ‘ Ken Field’s Jazz Jam Ensemble” 2000-05
- A 3 time “Featured Poet” with Jeff Robinson Trio’s Poetry Jazz Jam - Approx. 1999-2004
- Recording artist:
- With recording artist Kemp Harris, “Freedom of Speech” Little Dog Records, MA
- With recording artists Brian Haley, Keiffer Infantino, Dennis Sullivan, “The Jew Christian Muslim Song”, Plan 9, MA - Band: “C.C. Arshagra and the Say”
- With Recording Artists Alvin B. Carter Jr., Orice Jenkins, Mel Hsu, Monique Jarvis, “With You”, Riverway Studio, CT Ira Sakolsky, Grammy nominated composer/arranger
- Director/producer: local access TV shows:
- “XY Eli Dance Party”, HCT, Hartford CT Early 1980s
- “The Worlds On”, SCAT, Somerville, MA Late 1980s
- “Stone Soup Poet”, CCTV, Cambridge, MA 1998-00
- Radio show producer, “The Divide & Conquer News Report” 20014-15 Season 1
- Radio show producer/host/spoken mind poet, “The I Do Not Know Show” 2012 – (Current)
- WESU 88.1 FM Wesleyan University, Middletown, CT
- Author:
- Poems 1996 and Emotional Geography 1996
- 3 part “The Open Mike Poems” chapbook series: 1. Scared Sacred, 2. Death of an Ego, 3. What Manner of Character
- 4 CD experiment set of Spoken Mind Poetry “The ID (Inkless Dialogue) Poems” Vol. 1
- Producer/founder: TheHumanRoom & TheOpenVoice
- a two tiered organic arts, free speech, and activist venue concept
- Founder: CulturalCommunicationArts
- Veteran Open Mike featured poet, reader, performer; and collaborator
- Publisher: press22publishing
- Professional lyric writer
- Appeared in a documentary ”Who Owns Jack Kerouac” by Jack Shea
- Trained Contact Improvisation (CI) movement artist
- Owner/designer/decorator: South Main Upholstering Co., New Britain CT (Pre-Artist life)
- New Britain, CT native, and returned current resident after traversing the world in search of art
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