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Welcome back to the Six Foot Love series at The Wild Detectives. A series of live outdoor performances with numbered and limited tickets.

Tickets: $10/person

Cameron Carter and Håker Flaten is an exciting new trio including Lisa Cameron (who has played with Roky Erickson, Daniel Johnston, ST37, and improvisors Sandy Ewen, Damon Smith, Eugene Chadbourne, etc.) on drums and percussion; Tom Carter (Charalambides, Loren Connors, Susan Alcorn, etc.) on guitar, and Ingebrigt Håker Flaten on electric and double bass (the Thing, David Murray, Joe Mc Phee, Evan Parker, Chris Corsano, Atomic, etc). Together they blend improv, free jazz and psych into a seamless whole that carves out a new space of its own.

Their 2019 release on Astral Spirts, ‘Tau Ceti’, received wide acclaim, and the trio is currently working on their second release, also to be released on Astral Spirits.

“…’Daath (The Abyss)’ erupts like a methane geyser on Enceladus or a solar flare, rippling out into the vastness of space and trailing color and light. And ‘Traveling Spaceways’ just tries to one-up it, but it’s a psych blowout too, ripping a hole in the fabric of space-time.”
Cassette Gods

“…they build massive walls of sounds that highlight the wild, thorny guitar lines of Carter, the low-end excursions of Håker Flaten and the powerful, addictive drumming of Cameron. The last, ‘Traveling Spaceways’, takes Sun Ra’s advice and sends this trio into another spiritual-psychedelic trip, this time higher and further into deep space, fully prepared to visit the great master in this first, impressive travel…”
Salt Peanuts

“It’s a gas to hear Ingebrigt Håker Flaten and Lisa Cameron lock in behind Tom Carter’s increasingly gritty sound-bursts.”
Dusted

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Bienvenido al nuevo book club bilingüe en The Wild Detectives, creado para unir lectores de inglés y español de distintos niveles a través de historias contadas por autores Latinoamericanos y Españoles. Cada mes leeremos dos cuentos publicados en inglés y español de dos escritores de la lista Granta, que reúne los 22 mejores narradores en Español del panorama actual.

Nuestro primer encuentro será el 12 agosto, no necesitas haber leído nada para ese primer encuentro, solo acudir para hablar de las dos historias que leeremos, conocernos y fijar la fecha del próximo encuentro.

No es necesario un nivel fluido en ninguno de los dos idiomas, se trata de unir las dos lenguas, disfrutar de historias maravillosas y practicar cualquiera de los dos idiomas mientras leemos, hablamos y bebemos.

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Puedes comprar el libro en cualquiera de los dos idiomas en nuestra librería o pedirlo en nuestra tienda virtual con un 10% de descuento.

Edición en español

Edición en inglés

Nos vemos el 12 de agosto!

Join us for our first ever meeting of the Wild Detectives Bilingual Book Club, created to bring together Spanish and English-speakers of varying levels who share a love for language, literature and culture. Each month we will discuss a selection of short stories from the new Granta selection, which showcases the best contemporary fiction writers in Spanish.

Our first meeting will take place on August 12^th, you don´t need to read anything for that first meeting, we´ll just select the two stories that we´ll read first and get to know each other, we´ll also decide the next date that we´ll meet do discuss the two stories.

Fluency in either language is not necessary! It’s the perfect opportunity to not only discuss great stories, but also to practice whichever of the two languages you most want to grow in!

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The book can be bought in Spanish and/or English at The Wild Detectives and also only with a 10% discount.

English edition

Spanish edition

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Welcome back to the Six Foot Love series at The Wild Detectives. A series of live outdoor performances with numbered and limited tickets.

Tickets: $10/person

Born in rural Indiana shortly after his family moved west from southern Virginia to start a livestock feed store, Simon Flory’s music is suffused with the elements of his childhood – days spent in the fields, church sings, gravel roads, and genuine mule drawn molasses.

It takes a perceptive ear to translate these icons of a mythical “Americana” into the daily textures of real human lives, and Flory does it with the sincerity of early country music. His compositions are as much short-story sketches as they are songs, each populated – like the locales that inspire them – with those among us who have few choices.

Flory’s sound evokes voices not much heard on radio airwaves, a stew of early country, gospel, and the best of classic Nashville. Even his guitar playing captures the rhythmic tumble of clawhammer banjo and Appalachian fiddle (on both of which he’s adept), and his vocal phrasing carries inflections from the Carter Family to Eddie Cochran to Hank Williams.

After earning a degree in creative writing and theatre from DePauw University, Flory moved to Chicago and founded the country band Merle The Mule while working as a multi-instrumentalist in an old time duo with teacher Ed Tverdek, and as an employee at the Old Town School of Folk Music. In 2008 he moved to the Ozarks of Arkansas where he worked regionally in bluegrass and gospel groups.  He also met and worked with his mentor and friend, the late Donny Catron of the legendary bluegrass band The Tennessee Gentlemen.

His first solo record, self-released Unholy Town, led him to Austin, TX where he continued to work as a solo performer.  He eventually found success as one-half of the Kindie group, “The Que Pastas”, and as a multi-instrumentalist for-hire, before co-founding the Austin based country-bluegrass supergroup, “High Plains Jamboree” with Beth Chrisman, Brennen Leigh and Noel McKay. In 2016 they were official showcase artists at Folk Alliance International, IBMA, and Americanafest where Rolling Stone called them, “One of the best things we saw”.

Playing shows around Texas, touring throughout Scandinavia, U.K., Europe, Alaska and the continental U.S., songwriting and studio sessions with the likes of Charley Crockett, Summer Dean, Vincent Neil Emerson, and others eventually led Flory to Fort Worth, TX where his solo career flourished and opportunities in teaching, acting and filmmaking soon followed. His most recent releases, 2019’s LP Radioville  and 2020’s EP Songs From Paper Thin Lines garnered local acclaim, as did his poetry film, Paper Thin Lines which was officially selected for the Thinline Music and Film Festival and the PressPlay Film Festival.

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Join Logen Cure, Deep Vellum and The Wild Detectives for the book launch of Welcome to Midland

Welcome to Midland is a queer coming-of-age narrative in verse set against the backdrop of conservative small-town Texas. These linked poems explore the cultural and natural history of West Texas (from the horned lizard to dirt storms to Laura Bush’s car accident), connecting events and movements from across eras to create a tenuous yet strong sense of place. Giving voice to secrets and silence, Welcome to Midland considers identity, community, family, and legend.

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Logen Cure is a queer poet and professor. She is the author of three chapbooks: Still, Letters to Petrarch, and In Keeping. She curates Inner Moonlight, a monthly reading series for The Wild Detectives in Dallas. She earned her MFA in Creative Writing from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. She lives in Dallas/Fort Worth, Texas

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Welcome back to the Six Foot Love series at The Wild Detectives. A series of live outdoor performances with numbered and limited tickets.

Tickets: $15/person

An evening of Wanz Dover projects taken from the lab to the Wild Detectives stage in two sets. One set of solo compositions and electronic meditations performed live on an all-hardware rig. Another set of the duo simply named “Wanz and Max”, a collaboration between Dover and drummer Max Oepen.

Wanz Dover has been a constant presence in the Dallas music scene for three decades as a journalist and promoter along with a long list of music projects including  his Shoegaze/Space Rock days with Mazinga Phaser and Falcon Project in the 90s, protopunk/post punk of The Black Dotz and The Falkon in the 2000’s, 15 years of his solo Electro/IDM as Blixaboy, Techno as Jack Dover, a stint as DJ for the reunited Mc900foot Jesus, frontman for the Good Sons (Nick Cave tribute band) and most recently as frontman for Raw Power MF (MC5/Stooges tribute band).

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Infinite Arts Movement and The Wild Detectives Presents: P.O.P Kulture (Poetry on the Patio)

An all new poetry open mic in the Bishop Arts District.

Hosted by National Spoken Word Artist Verb Kulture (from TV One Verses and Flow)

Music by International DJ Frances Jaye

Visual Art Display and  Poetry Open Mic…Come out and witness some of the best poetry in town, view the amazing artwork for local artists and enjoy drinks, networking, and supporting the arts.

For tickets visit http://www.verbkultureevents.com  Call or text 972 815 3724 for more info or to sign up for Open Mic

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Join us for a night of cocktails and pretty lettering! Whether you’re a stationery nerd, DIY Bride-to-be, or just a crafty individual, in this workshop you’ll be learning an introduction to modern calligraphy with a pointed dip pen and ink. We will cover all the basics and get you ready to add those special lettered details to your snail mail, wedding paper goods, home decor and more! The perfect crafty night out!

Class includes 1.5 hours of instruction and demonstration, our beginner’s calligraphy kit (two nibs, black ink pot, 2 letter guides, tracing paper and straight pen holder), and all materials to write on. Everything is yours to keep at the end of the night!

Feel free to come early to check in, grab your seat, and order any food (food and drinks available to order throughout class too!). Class will start promptly at 5:30pm

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Tusing grew up whistling and humming along the creek beds and treetops of Texas. Music and nature have been two of his greatest loves for as long as he can remember, and he’s been recording music since he was 14. His first band released EPs throughout Tusing’s high school years, and the artist has released solo work on Bandcamp since 2011.

Tusing’s songs are often buoyed by his time as an avid traveler and hiker. “I think I’m better at creating when I give myself space for personal growth, and that’s a big part of what my outdoor life and my music are about: reflection, and bringing something back into the world.”

In celebration of his upcoming album Driving to the Game, Tusing will be playing a special set with unreleased songs with Bobby Orozco as the opening act. Join us for a fun night full of music and surprises!

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“His voice takes on a deep vibration, conjuring a sense of forlorn solitude not unlike Orville Peck’s lonesome cowboy or The National’s dust-swept Americana.”

Anthony Kozlowski, Atwood Magazine

“Tusing is proof that an outdoor lifestyle and music lifestyle do not have to be mutually exclusive, and in some ways, might even be complementary.”

Karyna Micaela, Dallas Observer

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Join us for the book signing and conversation with Richard Sharum, photographer of Campesino Cuba

Photographer Richard Sharum is a quiet guy, but his work speaks volumes. Over the course of his career, Sharum has used his art as a form of bold commentary, questioning socio-economic norms and sharing stories of unlikely people in inventive ways. In 2015, Sharum began documenting a specific community in rural Cuba, known as the Campesinos. This project shares the story of the Campesino people and the relationship Sharum developed with them over time. Join Richard Sharum for a book signing and conversation, moderated by Tyler Hicks, on his new book.

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Richard Sharum is a documentary and project-based photographer based in the Dallas, Texas area. Mainly focusing on socio-economic or social justice dilemmas concerning the human condition, his work has been regarded as in-depth, up-close and personal. Selections have been added to private and public collections across the world, with exhibitions in Kyoto, Japan, Sao Paulo, Brazil, Reggio Emilia, Italy, New York, and Dallas.

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“Hycha Wy” in the Muisca language, means “I am” in past or present tense depending on the context. This is the name of Nemegata’s debut LP, recorded by Beto Martinez (Prince / Brownout / Grupo Fantasma), and by longtime collaborator and colleague Juan Alvarez “El Mono”, out on Chicago’s indie label Sonorama Discos. The album puts into context a far-reaching exploration into the many channels of influence this band possesses. Synthesizing tradition with elements of South American and African psychedelia through imaginary landscapes inviting the listener into what is without a doubt a sonic trip towards resignified roots and ancestry.

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Senior Editor at Rolling Stone Magazine David Fricke gave Hycha Wy a 4-star review on UK’s MOJO Magazine calling it “ Rhythmic ambition and spiritual verve, this power-trance trio is a genuine pan-American thrill, fusing shamanistic pulse, cumbia-via-New Order, garage blues minimalism, and Bay Area- ‘60s psychedelia as if the were all native tongues.”

To cope with being an immigrant preteen growing up in the late 90’s USA, Victor-Andres Cruz “El Guámbito” obsessed over Colombian traditional music and instruments as a defense mechanism. He found refuge and a profound sense of identity rooted in these sounds. Raised as an amalgamation between the Colombian Andean countryside, Florida, New England, and New York City, Victor created a voice and a place where all worlds converge.

In 2018 Casa del Indio Discos recorded and released Nemegata’s first 7” single using a 4-track cassette recorder. The tracks were produced in collaboration by “Niño Lento” and played on drums by “Dilemastronauta”, two of the masterminds behind the emblematic Combo Chimbita.

Among Austin Chronicle’s top 10 new local acts of 2019 along with Black Pumas, and Austin’s top 100 albums of 2020, this band has risen from the inseparable strong bond between César Valencia “I Nova”(Bass), Fabian Rincón (Drums) and Victor. An essential combination that makes Nemegata a mystical power trio

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