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2 episodes with def poetry
2 episodes with def poetry
2 episodes with def poetry
2 episodes with def poetry
2 episodes with def poetry
Today on What's My Frame I'm joined by Actor & Poet, Paul Mabon. A Chicago native and son of an accomplished actor, Paul grew up having a front row seat to some of the best theater the city had to offer.Today we chat about Paul's journey in LA. From Progressive to The Pitt; Paul shares insight into the classes, mentors and mindset that have supportive his career along with his favorite audition story. Outside of acting, Paul is also an avid poet and has appeared on Season V of Russell Simmons presents Def Poetry. One of his most meaningful accomplishments was earning a lifetime membership to The Actors Studio. How to Improve Your Improv: Commercials | The Business | SAG-AFTRA FoundationFollow Paul and Diverse Verses LA on socials--What's My Frame, hosted by Laura Linda BradleyJoin the WMF creative community now!Instagram: @whatsmyframeIMDbWhat's My Frame? official siteWhat's My Frame? merch
El Martillo Press publishes writers whose pens strike the page with clear intent; words with purpose to pry apart assumed norms and to hammer away at injustice. El Martillo Press proactively publishes writers looking to pound the pavement to promote their work and the work of their fellow pressmates. There is strength in El Martillo. Founded in Los Angeles in 2023 by Matt Sedillo and David A. Romero, and launched with a diverse group of celebrated and hardworking writers who embody our working-class intellectual spirit, El Martillo Press maintains an editorial board that makes its selections for publishing. Matt Sedillo has been described as the "best political poet in America" as well as "the poet laureate of the struggle." His work has drawn comparisons in print to Bertolt Brecht, Roque Dalton, Amiri Baraka, Alan Ginsberg, Carl Sandburg and various other legends of the past. David A. Romero is a Mexican-American spoken word artist from Diamond Bar, CA. Romero is the author of My Name Is Romero (FlowerSong Press), a book reviewed by Gustavo Arellano (¡Ask a Mexican!), Curtis Marez (University Babylon), and founding member of Ozomatli, Ulises Bella. Paul S. Flores is a San Francisco artist of Mexican and Cuban-American heritage that has built a national reputation for interview-based theater and bilingual spoken word. He integrates Latino and indigenous healing practices to tell the stories of real people impacted by immigration and systemic inequalities. Flores appeared on Season 4 of HBO's Def Poetry. His first full-length book of poetry, WE STILL BE: Poems and Performances was published by El Martillo Press in June 2023. Ceasar K. Avelar is the current Poet Laureate of Pomona. He is the writer in residence of Cafe con Libros Press, and the founder of Obsidian Tongues open mic. Avelar writes through the sociological lens of a blue-collar worker. He is the author of God of the Air Hose and Other Blue-Collar Poems (El Martillo Press, 2023). Avelar will graduate this summer from Cal Poly Pomona with a bachelor's degree in Sociology. Donato Martinez was born in the small pueblo, Garcia de la Cadena, Zacatecas, Mexico and immigrated into the USA at six years old. He teaches English composition, Literature, and Creative Writing at Santa Ana College. He has also taught classes in Chicano Studies. He has a self-published collection with three other Inland Empire poets, Tacos de Lengua. His full collection of poetry, Touch the Sky, was published by El Martillo Press in June 2023. Margaret Elysia Garcia is the author of the short story collection Graft, the chapbook Burn Scars, and the daughterland (El Martillo Press, 2023). She's the co-editor of the anthology Red Flag Warning: Northern Californians Living with Fire out on HeyDay Books in 2024. She writes about family, culture and surviving climate change disasters. Tony Diaz Writer and activist Tony Diaz, El Librotraficante, is a Cultural Accelerator. He was the first Chicano to earn a Master of Fine Arts degree from the University of Houston Creative Writing Program. In 1998, he founded Nuestra Palabra: Latino Writers Having Their Say (NP), Houston's first reading series for Latino authors. The group galvanized Houston's Community Cultural Capital to become a movement for civil rights, education, and representation. When Arizona officials banned Mexican American Studies, Diaz and four veteran members of NP organized the 2012 Librotraficante Caravan to smuggle books from the banned curriculum back into Arizona. He is the author of The Aztec Love God. His book, The Tip of the Pyramid: Cultivating Community Cultural Capital, is the first in his series on Community Organizing. www.Librotraficante.com www.NuestraPalabra.org www.TonyDiaz.net Nuestra Palabra is funded in part by the BIPOC Arts Network Fund. Instrumental Music produced / courtesy of Bayden Records Website | baydenrecords.beatstars.com
Description: In 2020, the authorities at the Louisiana State Penitentiary (better known as Angola, for the former plantation on which it stands) shut down a play in the middle of a performance. What happened in that audience of incarcerated men that got guards so concerned? That's the subject of “Angola Do You Hear Us? Voices From a Plantation Prison," (2023 Oscar Short-Listed) a new MTV documentary directed and edited by Cinque Northern (My Name is Pauli Murray) and produced by Catherine Gund. Award-winning actress and writer, Liza Jessie Peterson, (HBO's Def Poetry, Ava Duvernay's 13th), whose one-woman show was shut down that day, and Norris Henderson, a former inmate who'd worked with her to bring the show, join Laura to reflect on the intersection of art and politics, incarceration and economics, and the work of VOTE, the criminal justice reform group Henderson founded upon his release. What difference can a play make? Watch and see.The Laura Flanders Show is made possible by listeners like you! We do not take advertising or government funding. Please become a member today for as little as $3 a month. Patreon supporters receive early access to listen and download the full uncut conversation from our weekly show.Full research and reading list to further delve into the conversation is available at Patreon.com/theLFShow.
Our Patreon supporters receive early access to listen and download the full uncut conversation from our weekly episodes. Description: In 2020, the authorities at the Louisiana State Penitentiary (better known as Angola, for the former plantation on which it stands) shut down a play in the middle of a performance. What happened in that audience of incarcerated men that got guards so concerned? That's the subject of “Angola Do You Hear Us? Voices From a Plantation Prison," a new MTV documentary directed and edited by Cinque Northern (My Name is Pauli Murray) and produced by Catherine Gund. Award-winning actress and writer, Liza Jessie Peterson, (HBO's Def Poetry, Ava Duvernay's 13th), whose one-woman show was shut down that day, and Norris Henderson, a former inmate who'd worked with her to bring the show, join Laura to reflect on the intersection of art and politics, incarceration and economics, and the work of VOTE, the criminal justice reform group Henderson founded upon his release. What difference can a play make? Watch and see.Full research and reading list to further delve into the conversation is available here on Patreon.
In 2020, the authorities at the Louisiana State Penitentiary (better known as Angola, for the former plantation on which it stands) shut down a play in the middle of a performance. What happened in that audience of incarcerated men that got guards so concerned? That's the subject of “Angola Do You Hear Us? Voices From a Plantation Prison," a new MTV documentary directed and edited by Cinque Northern (My Name is Pauli Murray) and produced by Catherine Gund. Award-winning actress and writer, Liza Jessie Peterson, (HBO's Def Poetry, Ava Duvernay's 13th), whose one-woman show was shut down that day, and Norris Henderson, a former inmate who'd worked with her to bring the show, join Laura to reflect on the intersection of art and politics, incarceration and economics, and the work of VOTE, the criminal justice reform group Henderson founded upon his release. What difference can a play make? Watch and see. Music Spotlight features “Hope” by Samora Pinderhughes featuring Elena Pinderhuges, Nio Norwood and Jehbreal Jackson from Pinderhuges' album Grief. The album is also part of The Healing Project a multi-disciplinary project created and developed by Samora Pinderhughes.“That moment when she started telling that story, people started reconciling with their own situations. Like, ‘Oh, she's talking about me. That was similar to my circumstance.' The bigger picture of the prison industrial complex, they got it. That this is a plantation by every definition of a plantation, you're working the field from sun up to sun down.” - Norris Henderson“The time I spent with the incarcerated adolescent boys at Rikers Island really ignited something in me . . . I couldn't understand why more artists were not ringing the alarm and screaming about this human rights crisis.” - Liza Jessie PetersonGuests:Norris Henderson: Founder & Executive Director, VOTE (Voice of the Experienced)Liza Jessie Peterson: Writer, Actress, Poet, Educator; Playwright & Performer, The Strange Patriot Help us kick off this holiday season with your good vibrations! Here at the Laura Flanders Show we rely on you, our hive of listeners, to buzz about the show! Hit the subscribe button for this podcast, if you haven't already, and if you're subscribed via apple podcasts, please rate us and write a review. Thanks in advance to all you busy bees for buzzing about the show and helping us grow! We are listener supported media, become a member today! https://Patreon.com/theLFShow
Poetry has a weird reputation in literature. I cannot think of a time when it felt cool to like poetry. All sorts of other genres and styles of writing have had their heyday - seriously who would've thought that "dinosaur smut" would bring in such big bucks? - but poetry seems continually relegated to being that thing you had to get through back in school. Taylor Mali has been on a mission to transform the way we think about, read, listen to, and consider poetry. He has been featured in Russell Simmons' Def Poetry, as well as the documentaries SlamNation and Slam Planet. He has shared stages with Billy Collins and Allen Ginsberg. He's published several books and been featured in even more anthologies, and he took time out of all that to have a conversation with me about bad poetry, good poetry, and all the poetry you aren't reading but should be. Social links: Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/headonfirepod/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/headonfirepod TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@headonfirepod Support my work on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/headonfirepod Subscribe to the Head On Fire podcast Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/head-on-fire/id337689333 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/4qTYYhCLMdFc4PhQmSL1Yh?si=5387b774ed6e4524 YouTube: https://youtube.com/c/HeadOnFirePod
Our host Drew spent a few moments at the Big D Reads '22 city wide event in Dallas, TX (sponsored by Amazon and a host of others) with Joaquín Zihuatanejo. This gentlemen not only appeared HBO's Def Poetry, he won the Individual World Poetry Slam, was the winner of the World Cup of Poetry Slam in 2009, and On April 6, 2022, Zihuatanejo was named the first Poet Laureate of the City of Dallas. Have a listen to this deeply impactful interview from one of Dallas' very own!Available on YouTube: https://youtube.com/channel/UCnkYBkLv5Svd4g4dbHjOcog..To find out more about The Accommodation by Jim Schutze and where locate a copy visit bigdreads.org..http://www.jzthepoet.comIG | @joaquinzihuatanejo
“Dreams don't come true, they are true.” J. Ivy is living proof of his mantra. He is living his dream as a writer; a 2022 Grammy-nominated writer and performer for his spoken word album “Catching Dreams: Live at Fort Knox Chicago.” His creative calling started in high school and hasn't stopped. He shares with Jeanne why he believes following your instincts is a key to success; how fearless authenticity got him to where he is today; why listening is so important; and his proudest moments that don't involve writing. About J. Ivy:J. Ivy is an award-winning poet, recording artist, songwriter, actor, and author from Chicago. He received a Peabody Award for his performance on Russell Simmons's Def Poetry, as well as a Grammy Award for his contribution with Jay-Z on Kanye West's The College Dropout album. J. has also collaborated with John Legend, RZA, The Last Poets, The Roots, Common, Mos Def, The Black Crowes, Bob Dylan, and many more. He supports his community through his Write to Live Academy and the Dear Father Initiative, which encourages young people to explore careers in the arts.Twitter: @J_IvyInstagram: @j_ivyFacebook: J. IvyPoetYouTube: J. IvyWebsite: j.vy.com
Episode 2 features dynamic spoken word artist, actor and dope human Paul Mabon , Flo's sidekick Alan from Progressive Insurance commercial, Downsizing Actor with Matt Damon, and amazing performance artist as he shares his passion for acting, improv, studying your craft, being dedicated to your dreams and knowing that you are enough. Listen as Paul Mabon shares his journey through Los Angeles to the Hollywood big screen and the familiar face on your television screen alongside pop culture Icon Flo from the hilarious progressive insurance promotions. Learn how to be authentically you and land the gig you dreamed of! The Dope Soul Collective Podcast is dedicated to creating a safe space where dope souls can vibe, connect heal and grow. Because dope souls go through real shit. Just because we make it look easy, doesn't mean it hasn't been hard or heavy. Founder Trisheana Hunter provides a space where authenticity, truth, healing and enlightened endings can live and thrive. Listen as she interviews other dope souls from different backgrounds, experiences and walks of life as they share their journeys through the adversity, healing, creativity, setbacks and growth that lead them to the dopeness they create in the world everyday! Come vibe with us! Be inspired and empowered to grow through your struggles, trials and pain in order to gain new insight into how to tap into the true dope soul you already are! Auditions for the Pan African Poetry Festival: March 26 1-5pm in Crenshaw - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1V7THtmOFv0Follow Paul on Instagram - @pmabon Dope Soul Collective Instagram @dopesoulcollectiveDope Soul Collective Podcast is a production of Moving Mountains Coaching LLC Visit moving Mountains coaching~ www.movingmounainslifecoach.comIG- @movingmountainscoachFacebook: www.facebook.com/movingmountainscoachShout out to my dope ass team Music production courtesy of Listen Twice ProductionsPodcast editing & production courtesy of J. Immanuel ProductionsSupport the show
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Episode 2 features dynamic spoken word artist, actor and dope human Paul Mabon , Flo's sidekick Alan from Progressive Insurance commercial, Downsizing Actor with Matt Damon, and amazing performance artist as he shares his passion for acting, improv, studying your craft, being dedicated to your dreams and knowing that you are enough. Listen as Paul Mabon shares his journey through Los Angeles to the Hollywood big screen and the familiar face on your television screen alongside pop culture Icon Flo from the hilarious progressive insurance promotions. Learn how to be authentically you and land the gig you dreamed of! The Dope Soul Collective Podcast is dedicated to creating a safe space where dope souls can vibe, connect heal and grow. Because dope souls go through real shit. Just because we make it look easy, doesn't mean it hasn't been hard or heavy. Founder Trisheana Hunter provides a space where authenticity, truth, healing and enlightened endings can live and thrive. Listen as she interviews other dope souls from different backgrounds, experiences and walks of life as they share their journeys through the adversity, healing, creativity, setbacks and growth that lead them to the dopeness they create in the world everyday! Come vibe with us! Be inspired and empowered to grow through your struggles, trials and pain in order to gain new insight into how to tap into the true dope soul you already are! Auditions for the Pan African Poetry Festival: March 26 1-5pm in Crenshaw - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1V7THtmOFv0Follow Paul on Instagram - @pmabon Dope Soul Collective Instagram @dopesoulcollectiveDope Soul Collective Podcast is a production of Moving Mountains Coaching LLC Visit moving Mountains coaching~ www.movingmounainslifecoach.comIG- @movingmountainscoachFacebook: www.facebook.com/movingmountainscoachShout out to my dope ass team Music production courtesy of Listen Twice ProductionsPodcast editing & production courtesy of J. Immanuel ProductionsSupport the show
Christian J. Collier is a Black, Southern writer, arts organizer, and teaching artist who resides in Chattanooga, TN. A 2015 Loft Spoken Word Immersion Fellow, he is also the winner of the 2020 ProForma Contest and the 2019-2020 Seven Hills Review Poetry Contest. He is an accomplished artist, public speaker, and educator who has shared the stage with several members of HBO's Def Poetry cast, legendary poet and activist Ishmael Reed, Grammy-nominated artist Minton Sparks, Rock & Roll Hall of Fame members The Impressions, etc. Mr. Collier has also given a TED Talk and been featured on an episode of TNT's State Farm Neighborhood Sessions. Christian J. Collier's poems of witness have the kind of keen insight that slices to the heart of the subject. The Gleaming of the Blade examines Black masculinity in the contemporary American South, alongside the lingering ghosts of the past, and how it feels to be Black in a country whose divisions and struggles could signal the end of civilization. These poems never shy away, interrogating harsh injustices and contending with the truth of today's America, a truth sometimes beautiful, sometimes biting.
Apologies for the audio, we wanted to record outside with a microphone meant for one. Poetry and hip hop go hand in hand and for a time in the early 2000s we saw a resurgence in interest in poetry, especially slam poetry. Joining me on this week's podcast is my good friend Jose to talk about Russell Simmons' Def Poetry and why we need it to come back. #BringBackDefPoetry Video episode: https://youtu.be/eHoy8OItQXc Follow Jose: https://twitter.com/Official_S1N_X https://www.facebook.com/officials1nx https://www.instagram.com/official_s1n_x/
This week, we welcome J. Ivy to the show.Born and raised in Chicago, J. Ivy is an award winning poet, recording artist, songwriter, actor and author who's collaborated with hip-hop icons like Kanye West and Jay Z. With Tyler, J. talks about growing up in Chicago and dealing with generational trauma, as well as the struggles associated with his parents' divorce. He also brings to life the people that saw and nurtured his talents, about the process of forgiving his father and about the realization that those who raise us aren't the perfect "superheroes" we make them out to be.As we end this crazy year, J. Ivy's story reminds us of the beautifully messy ways we make our families - and the ways they end up making us.Watch J. Ivy's "Dear Father" performance: bit.ly/2KGacirAbout the GuestJ. Ivy is a poet, musician, actor, and speaker. He received a Peabody Award for his performance on Russell Simmons’s Def Poetry, and a Grammy Award for his contribution with Jay-Z on Kanye West’s The College Dropout album. J. has also collaborated with John Legend, RZA, The Last Poets, The Roots, Common, Mos Def, The Black Crowes, Bob Dylan, and more. He is also the founder of his Write to Live Academy and the Dear Father Initiative, encouraging young people to explore arts careers.Find Us OnlineWebsite: timfshow.comTwitter: twitter.com/TIMFShowFacebook: facebook.com/TIMFShowInstagram: instagram.com/timfshowThe TeamThis podcast is a production of The Story Producer.Executive Producer & Host: Tyler GreeneSenior Producer: Tricia BobedaEditor & Engineer: Adam YoffeAssociate Producer: Jackie BallCommunity Manager: Anika ExumArt Director: Ziwu ZhouComposer: Andrew EdwardsAbout Us"This Is My Family" is a new podcast about building a life with the people we love.As a gay dad in an interracial marriage, host Tyler Greene’s life is a testament to the fact that there are many ways to define family today. Each week, his conversations with guests reveal funny and heartfelt stories about how you can make a family, and how your family makes you.Join us as we celebrate the beautifully messy connections that shape our lives.
2020 #LeadingMen SeriesJ. Ivy is an Award Winning Performance Poet, Recording Artist, Song Writer, Author and Actor. Over the years his work has earned him a Peabody, Clio, Telly, and NAACP Image Award and he is widely known for being the “Poet” featured on Kanye West’s Grammy Winning Album, “The College Dropout,” on the classic song “Never Let Me Down,” along with Hip-Hop icon Jay-Z. Early in his career Ivy was featured on three seasons of HBO’s Russell Simmons presents Def Poetry. From there his work has been featured everywhere from commercials to classrooms. From hosting and performing at conferences for Deepak Chopra to penning and performing a poem for the NBA Hall of Fame Legend Michael Jordan, J. Ivy has used his unique style of poetry to navigate the art form to arenas of all facets. He has poetically narrated, acted, and starred in two B.E.T. documentaries, “Muhammad Ali: The People’s Champ” and “Martin: The Legacy of a King,” which paid homage to two of the world’s most iconic voices. He has done voice-over work for dozens of commercials, starred as the spokesperson in AARP’s national ad, and can be heard on Coca-Cola’s new History Shakers commercial. The author of three books, his latest being “Dear Father: Breaking the Cycle of Pain,” has inspired many to pick up the pen and write their own Dear Father Letter in hopes to promote the Power of Forgiveness.
Join hosts Chibbi and Eddie V as we welcome Big Mike to the Words & Sh*t stage! Mike Bertram, referred to as “Big Mike” on the stage and “Mr. B” in the classroom, has been teaching for 25+ years and is currently a 3rd Grade teacher in New Jersey. He started performing spoken word poetry in 2002 and was a member of the 2005 Nuyorican Poetry Slam Team. He was a featured poet on HBO's Russell Simmons presents Def Poetry, and the 2008 Southern Fried Individual Poetry Slam Champion. He was also the recipient of the Jersey Poetry Movement Spoken Word Pioneer Award in 2018. Big Mike has partnered with several organizations in his hometown of Rahway to provide an artistic outlet and host community events for students and adults. In 2019, he was honored as Artist of the Year in his hometown of Rahway for his work in the New Jersey poetry community. In 2019, he released Said the Paper to the Pen, a collection of poems for teachers, students, or anyone that would like to “take a peek” inside his third-grade classroom, known as the B-Hive.
Round one! Current winner Zach Powers picked our new challenge theme of "bad cops". His pick to start game is "Blindspotting" starring Daveed Diggs (Hamilton, Kimmy Schmidt) and Rafael Casal(HBO’s Def Poetry). The film directed by Carlos López Estrada and written by the two stars is a semi-autobiographical account of friends struggling with gentrification and complex racial divides in Oakland California. Ethan Embry shoots someone in the back in the first 10 minutes. Can you guess what his profession is?
In this episode, we have the honor of speaking with award-winning educator, speaker, and author, Erica Buddington. In our conversation, Erica shares her inspiration behind the founding of Langston League, her company's new partnership with Flipgrid, her current journey of starting her own school, and much more! To learn more about Erica's work, you can visit the Langston League website at langstonleague.org or her personal website at mostfireteacher.com. You can also connect with Erica and Langston League on Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter. BIO: Erica Buddington is an accomplished edupreneur, speaker and author, on a mission to curate culturally relevant curricula that defies and decolonizes the status quo. With a background in education and curriculum design spanning over 10 years, she launched the Langston League to address educational and opportunistic inequalities across the globe. Langston League specializes in teaching educators how to design and implement culturally sustaining instructional material through professional development, curriculum design, facilitation and coaching. Since inception, she has served clients across multiple states and two countries, with clientele including Google Code Next, Achievement First Schools, Medgar Evers College R.O.L.L. Program, Up Academy and Because of Them We Can. In 2021, she will be launching a middle school academy. Throughout her career, she has developed mastery in educational consulting, EdTech, instruction, restorative justice, social-emotional learning, and creative writing. Erica has authored two fiction books and through her trailblazing work in education, sparked international media attention, with features on The Steve Harvey Show, MTV's TRL, Forbes Magazine, Buzzfeed, and Black Enterprise. She was the recipient of the 2015 Harlem Children's Zone Innovation Award, 2017 WeWork Creator Award, 2018 Hampton University Most Notable Hamptonian in Hip-Hop, and 2019 Nike X WeAreCultivator Sneaker Designer. Erica attended Hampton University to pursue English/Performing Arts and received recognition during that time for spoken word performances, earning her performances with the likes of HBO's Def Poetry, Arrested Development, Mos Def, Dead Prez, and Lupe Fiasco. As a natural storyteller and performer, Erica uses responsive strategies, and vast knowledge of pop culture, to create engaging and transformational human learning experiences, like no other. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/identitytalk4educators/support
In this double-sized season finale of First Gen #StayHome Edition Rich has two special interviews during Asian and Pacific Islander American Heritage Month. First, Gavin Alaoen from MTV digital design stops by to talk about how he's preparing to be a father again, what content he's binging right now, and post-COVID predictions. Then slam poet, Beau Sia make his first appearance on First Gen to talk about his legendary career (that includes MTV's Spoken Word Unplugged, Def Poetry, and SlamNation) and reads two excerpts from his collection of poems Well Played. LINKS Donate to #FirstRespondersFirst at Help.FirstRespondersFirst.co Check out FirstGenBurden.com for all the episodes. Follow us @firstgenburden and Rich Tu / @rich_tu Thanks to Listening Party and DesGin for their support. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/firstgenburden/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/firstgenburden/support
In this double-sized season finale of First Gen #StayHome Edition Rich has two special interviews during Asian and Pacific Islander American Heritage Month. First, Gavin Alaoen from MTV digital design stops by to talk about how he's preparing to be a father again, what content he's binging right now, and post-COVID predictions. Then slam poet, Beau Sia make his first appearance on First Gen to talk about his legendary career (that includes MTV's Spoken Word Unplugged, Def Poetry, and SlamNation) and reads two excerpts from his collection of poems Well Played. Donate to #FirstRespondersFirst at Help.FirstRespondersFirst.co Check out FirstGenBurden.com for all the episodes. Follow us @firstgenburden and Rich Tu / @rich_tu Thanks DesGin for their support.
Keyboardist and multi-instrumentalist, Jamie Saft is exactly the type of musician we love to talk about here on the Major Scale. He's prolific, and leaves no musical territory unexplored–from rock to punk, and the experimental to all that Jazz. His work with Bernard Purdie, John Zorn, Bad Brains, the Beastie Boys, and Bill Laswell, to name a few, have put Saft into the Musician's Musician club–a very good place to be. His latest efforts have found him in good company with fellow heavyweights Steve Swallow and Bobby Previte, not to mention the incomparable punk icon Iggy Pop on the mic, all of which you'll hear. Ron Carter you've heard countless times and if you haven't we don't know where you've been. He's a legend–his bass playing provides the pulse and groove of countless classics and infinite samples for hip hop and electronica. He's been name checked and enlisted by everyone from A Tribe Called Quest to Gil Scott-Heron and Miles Davis. He's a leader and an artist with over 2000 sessions under his belt and he continues to this day. He joined us to talk abut one of his recent recordings, The Brown Beatnik Tomes with Def Poetry's Danny Simmons. Curious eardrums will be delighted. ABOUT THE MAJOR SCALE: Your attention please to a new program that celebrates and takes a fresh and bold look at the great American art form- JAZZ!!! The Major Scale is the title, the motto and the mission are, Jazz- past, present, future, and everything in between. A lot of focus will be on new and fresh sounds, deep cuts, closer looks at underrated artists, taking a different look at some of the titans of the genre, and getting the two cents worth from a number of surprise guests and sources. The Major Scale can boast amongst it's guests- legends like Herbie Hancock, Tom Scott, and Ahmad Jamal. The up and coming and the underrated-Kamasi Washington, Mia Doi Todd, Michael Blake. Fresh perspectives and commentary from the likes of Rock legend Al Kooper, who weighed in on the gospel. From The New Yorker, Amanda Petrusich expounds on her article about the movement to rename the Williamsburg Bridge in honor of Sonny Rollins. We explore the Soul-Jazz experiments of the Rascals. Grace Kelly from The Late Show with Stephen Colbert talks about her pop-up/flash mob concerts. Plus Thundercat, Henry Mancini, Ghostface Killah, Jaimie Branch, Nels Cline, Badbadnotgood, Cecil Taylor, and more get pick up on the Major Scale radar. Produced in Central Florida, this program seeks to become one of the defining voices of this Native American art form, and everything else that finds itself under it's umbrella. Think about programming and content found on the likes of World Cafe, Philadelphia, PA. Tiny Desk from Washington D.C., and KEXP Live from Seattle, WA. and that's what the Major Scale strives to do. For the curious, and lovers of music who like the details in between. ABOUT KYLE EAGLE (Host): Kyle Eagle has been a contributing writer and producer for the NPR-WBGO, WUCF, WPRK, Wax Poetics, The Orlando Weekly, Artbourne, and The Fiscal Times, as well as several music and film releases- Light in the Attic's documentary "This Is Gary McFarland", and an upcoming film on composer Jack Nietzsche. Recordings- Call Me-Jack Wilson, Live at the Penthouse, Grachan Moncur III, Chico Hamilton, and Andy Bey. ABOUT CHRIS BARANYI (Producer): Chris Baranyi is a sound engineer and music producer. He splits his time between designing AV systems for theme parks and recording music. Chris has worked with many Orlando area musicians with backgrounds in jazz, fusion, hip-hop, funk, new age, and classical. Some of which have been featured on NPR's Echoes. His passion includes jazz, vintage microphones, and hot sauce.
How do we grow through heartbreak? On the final episode of season 2, Shalane Goss joins the clique as they dive into their feels and wade through the murky waters of accountability in relationships during ‘Threads and Lines.’ An 18 year old Sarah Kay performing on Def Poetry gets the ‘2 Piece combo’ poetry review treatment, and the clique pull unexpected gold during the #poetry Instagram poetry review. Shalane ends the show with love abounding with her ‘Five for Ya Eye’ prompted poem. [Episode Index] 1:06 - “Happiness” -Shalane Goss 3:35 - “Threads and Lines” 14:15 - 2 Piece Combo | “Hands” -Sarah Kay 29:25 - 2 Piece Combo | @ir.imp 35:27 - 5 For Your Eye [Footnotes] • 2 Piece Combo: “Hands” -Sarah Kay https://youtu.be/kqCMHcdYR_E • 2 Piece Combo: #poetry piece by @ir.rmp • Music by The Dope Spot Studios Produced by Dom V: thedopespotstudios.com [Clique Up] • Pen Clique on FB & IG: @PenClique • Shalane Goss on IG: @ShalaneGoss • Daniel Hees on IG: @TheChubbyFat • Kuya David on IG @ TW: @creativekuya
Will history white wash Hip Hop? David A. Romero hits the clique again and they get into a deep heated Hip Hop debate during “Threads and Lines”. Def Poetry get’s a eulogy and a lot of love during the “2 Piece Combo” and Dan gets hot during the #poetry review. Romero Smashes a very special prompted poem during the “Five for your Eye” and hits poetry curve balls out of the park. Thank ya’ll for supporting poetry and poets, please subscribe, tell a friend, and follow us @penclique. [Episode Index] 0:21 - “Watch the Throne" by David Romero 4:30 - “Threads and Lines” 20:30 - 2 Piece Combo | “I Wanna Hear a Poem” -Steve Colman 35:40 - 2 Piece Combo | @supernaturalhuntress 44:06 - 5 For Your Eye [Footnotes] • 2 Piece Combo: Steve Colman “I wanna hear a poem” HBO DEF Poetry https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eOum8NE5-Ns • 2 Piece Combo: #poetry piece by @supernaturalhuntress • Music by The Dope Spot Studios Produced by Dom V: thedopespotstudios.com -To Stay up to date and for more poetry content: Penclique.net [Clique Up] Pen Clique on FB & IG: @PenClique • David Romero on IG: @davidaromero • Daniel Hees on IG: @TheChubbyFat Kuya David on IG @ TW: @creativekuya
This is episode #11 of Artful Thought, recorded live at the University of San Francisco's KUSF studio, which aired on Saturday, July 27th, 2019. I'm beyond stoked to talk with Paul S. Flores. His roles as a prolific poet, playwright, performance artist, youth arts educator, and USF theater professor continue to inspire and illuminate. Due to copyright laws, I had to cut the music from the recording, but have embedded my Spotify playlist on KUSF to accompany the edited cut. The music includes legendary and current Latinx artists PALO!, Cimafunk, Celia Cruz, Johnny Pacheco, La Lupe, Obsesión, and the Colorado-based Mocochetes accompanied with their tribute music video to the 1969 Walk-Out Movement, Que Viva la Revolución. ............................ Paul’s Future & Ongoing Projects: On top of teaching his popular Hip Hop Theater course here at USF, this fall he will also be teaching in SF State’s Theater Department, and two creative writing classes in the Prison Arts Project at Solano, Vacaville State Prison. His portfolio of outreach includes co-founding Youth Speaks, Brave New Voices: National Teen Poetry Slam (now on HBO), founder of Latino Men & Boys Program, former programming director at La Peña Cultural Center and currently the Paseo Artístico Coordinator at Acción Latina. As a performing artist, he has gone on tour with his creative works and collaborations all over the U.S. as well as internationally, including Cuba, Mexico, El Salvador— and most recently presented at 2019 Latinx Theatre Commons in Miami, Florida. His play, We Have Iré begins touring in December. Creative Works Along the Border Lies (2001 novel) “Brown Dreams” (spoken word appearing on HBO’s Def Poetry, contestant on seasons 3 and 4) “Gravity's Volume” (spoken word) plays include… PLACAS: The Most Dangerous Tattoo YOU'RE GONNA CRY (SF Weekly's Best Politically Active Hip-Hop Performance Artist) REPRESENTA! We Have Iré: True Stories about Afro-Cuban Immigrant Artists in the US — his most recent docu-theatre production which received a 2019 Creative Capital Award Future & Ongoing Acción Latina Events El Tecolote’s “Unsettled in the Mission” -- Adriana Camarena (editor/writer) Paseo Artístico’s “COUNT ME IN/CUENTA CONMIGO CENSUS 2020” --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/darcy-allred/message
Danny Simmons is a visual artist and poet. He is Co Founder of Rush Philanthropic Arts Foundation and Co Founder of the award winning series Def Poetry. He currently heads Rush Arts Philadelphia and has a forth coming poetry CD on Blue Note records with Jazz Icon Ron Carter. He lives in Philadelphia. Kuba Kingdom Philadelphia mural..2018 Kuba Kingdom 60x72 Oil fabric on canvas 2017 Eclipse 30 x40 Oil on paper 2018
“The second you make someone laugh, it’s so much easier to get money out of 'em!” / Live from McNally Jackson NYC in January 2018!We discussed colorism at strip clubs, #MeToo issues, Spread Magazine, how being a stripper prepares you to write single panel comics, and a certain portrait of Aya's mom wearing a leopard print fur bikini holding a snake! / From I Was A Teenage Dominatrix to The Happy Hooker, classic sex work books have been limited to pretty one-dimensional points of view. In the 21st century, sex work books are as prismatic as the workers themselves. Join sex work journalist and podcaster Tina Horn for a panel on the exciting and nuanced ways sex work is being written about right now. Learn how strippers around the world represent themselves, on topics ranging from snacks to the male ego, in Jacq the Stripper's crowdfunded self published Striptastic. Learn why Aya de Leon chose escort characters as the protagonists of her Justice Hustlers crime series. Learn how Akynos uses both her blogging and performance art as activism. We'll be discussing everything from stigma to genre to branding to high heels in an effort to create a real and honest portrait of the modern literary sex worker. / Jacq the Stripper is a Canadian writer, comedian, stripper and illustrator. She lives in New York City with her wife and plants.Beaver Show, Striptastic, social media... / Aya de Leon is an author, teacher, and activist in the Oakland Bay Area. Kensington Books publishes her sex worker heist series, Justice Hustlers: Uptown Thief in 2016 (winner of Independent Publisher and International Latino Book Awards), The Boss in 2017, and The Accidental Mistress in 2018. She has received acclaim in the Washington Post, Village Voice, Tits and Sass, The SF Chronicle, and The Establishment. Her work has also appeared in Ebony, Guernica, Writers Digest, Huffington Post, The Toast, The Honest Courtesan, Essence, VICE, Bitch Magazine and on Def Poetry. She is also at work on a black girl spy YA novel called Going Dark, and an adult spy novel about FBI infiltration of an African American political organization. She teaches creative writing in the African American Studies Department at UC Berkeley, and blogs and tweets about race, gender, and culture at @AyadeLeon and ayadeleon.com. kynos is a New York raised stripper and performance artist. For the past decade she has been featured in showcases from New York to Europe. She is a proud sex worker and human rights activist. She has spoken at events such as the 2016 International AIDS conference in South Africa and the AWID conference in Brazil of the same year. Her film Whore Logic has been featured in film festivals such as The Sex Worker Film and Arts festival. She currently has a new bi-weekly variety showcase with her dance troupe Koffee every other Thursdays at Essence bar in Brooklyn. To support her artistic endeavors please support her current gofundme campaign and sign up for her patreon where she will feature writings and a podcast on topics pertaining to her life, sex worker rights and conversations around sex and sexuality. She is currently a grad student at Goddard College in Vermont. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.
Here Is Our 009th Release & the first of 2018! HOFRecords presents the first of many Compilation EPs to come, featuring some of the freshest local sounds from Miami's talented upcoming generation of House & Techno Producers. Enjoy a Compilation of 7 remixes composed by Lé Funk himself @reefathefunk as we prepare to dance our troubles away. Keep an eye out for HOF010 & don't forget to subscribe for our Bi-Weekly Podcast!
What lessons should and shouldn't we take from the election debacle, and how do we seize on the strengths we have right now to turn in a new direction? Kate Raphael sits down with Uruguayan born novelist Carolina de Robertis, filmmaker Pamela Harris and acclaimed poet, performer and novelist Aya de Leon. Carolina De Robertis is author of The Invisible Mountain, Perla and The Gods of Tango and teaches creative writing at San Francisco State University. She is also a former staff member at Bay Area Women Against Rape and cofounder of Exhale, a nonjudgmental after-abortion talkline which calls itself Pro-Voice. Pamela Harris's extensive credits include the award-winning documentary Land of Promise: The Story of Allensworth, about a historically black town in California that faces the threat of encroachment by agribusiness; and Waging a Living, a PBS documentary about low-wage working families. A former Fulbright Fellow, she holds a masters degree in journalism from UC Berkeley. Aya de Leon's is Director of June Jordan's Poetry for the People, teaching poetry and spoken word at UC Berkeley. Her work has appeared in the Village Voice, Washington Post, American Theatre Magazine, and has been featured on Def Poetry, in Essence Magazine, and various anthologies and journals. She was named best discovery in theater for 2004 by the SF Chronicle for “Thieves in the Temple : The Reclaiming of Hip Hop.” Her first novel, UPTOWN THIEF, a Latina Robin Hood heist story, was published earlier this year. The post Feminist culture producers make sense of the moment appeared first on KPFA.
New Orleans native Sunni Patterson is an internationally-known Def poetry artist and activist. She is joined in a conversation with George Lipsitz and David Kim about her music and poetry, and her life reaching, teaching and healing. Series: "Voices" [Humanities] [Show ID: 31570]
New Orleans native Sunni Patterson is an internationally-known Def poetry artist and activist. She is joined in a conversation with George Lipsitz and David Kim about her music and poetry, and her life reaching, teaching and healing. Series: "Voices" [Humanities] [Show ID: 31570]
New Orleans native Sunni Patterson is an internationally-known Def poetry artist and activist. She is joined in a conversation with George Lipsitz and David Kim about her music and poetry, and her life reaching, teaching and healing. Series: "Voices" [Humanities] [Show ID: 31570]
New Orleans native Sunni Patterson is an internationally-known Def poetry artist and activist. She is joined in a conversation with George Lipsitz and David Kim about her music and poetry, and her life reaching, teaching and healing. Series: "Voices" [Humanities] [Show ID: 31570]
New Orleans native Sunni Patterson powerfully recites one of her many poems. Series: "Voices" [Humanities] [Show ID: 31630]
New Orleans native Sunni Patterson powerfully recites one of her many poems. Series: "Voices" [Humanities] [Show ID: 31630]
New Orleans native Sunni Patterson powerfully recites one of her many poems. Series: "Voices" [Humanities] [Show ID: 31630]
New Orleans native Sunni Patterson powerfully recites one of her many poems. Series: "Voices" [Humanities] [Show ID: 31630]
JIMI HENDRIX "I wish they'd had electric guitars in cotton fields back in the good old days. A whole lot of things would've been straightened out." "Music makes me high on stage, and that's the truth. It's like being almost addicted to music." "White collar conservative flashin down the street, pointing that plastic finger at me, they all assume my kind will drop and die, but I'm gonna wave my freak flag high.' "The time I burned my guitar it was like a sacrifice. You sacrifice the things you love. I love my guitar."
As an accomplished artist, poet, philanthropist, and creator of the hit HBO show Def Poetry, Danny Simmons (WSC '78) is always working on a passionate project. We visited him at his home to talk about NYU and hear about some of the projects he is currently working on.
Deborah James ~3rd Eye Theater's voyage of voice, verse and vision returns to the Black Rep where it first rocked the poetry world over a decade ago, next Thursday, December 8, 7 to 9pm with a red carpet reception, open house and open mic, to celebrate the first Bay Area Poets Appreciation Day!! In the spirit of the Occupy Movement we want your opinion and input on how local artists and the reemerging 3rd Eye Theater with live Poetry Slams, Poetic Performances, Improvisation, Skits and Lyrical Ensemble Theater. Every Thursday beginning next year! You've heard of Def Comedy and Def Poetry? Well this is going is Def Theater! A Saturday Night Live from a black perspective. Calling All talented and dedicated poets, singers, dancers, musicians, performance artists, comedians, playwrights, actors, writers, youth, grants, air time, and lovers of the arts to Occupy the Black Rep for up to 52 weeks on stage and off! The Apollo west in our newly renovated theater Also mark your calender, the King of Comedy, Paul Mooney will be occupying the Black Rep for two weeks starting December 16th! We're going to turn the Occupy Movement into an artform - a work of art! 1st Thursdays Monthly Theme Nite 2nd Thursdays Afromantic Love Poetry & Music Nite 3rd Thursdays Monthly Showcase Nite (For January: Dr. King, Civil & Human Rights) 4th Thursday Comedy & Black Health Issues (Healing the Youniverse) Nite Come get a massage and a chuckle or two! 5th Thursdays Current Events & Magnificents Nite
This week Rodney Perry Live chats with Poet Georgia ME. “GA Me,” or Georgia Me, is an acronym for her life’s credo: “God’s apostle, moving everyone.” Since her conversion to poetry in 1998, the Bankhead Highway gadabout has played the Aspen Comedy Festival, toured Europe with “Def Poetry Jam” and performed on the 2003 Tony Awards program. She has done readings with Danny Glover, Phylicia Rashad and Jeffrey Wright and, while in Scotland with “Def Poetry,” was invited to appear in “The Vagina Monologues.” Her work has just been published in “Russell Simmons Def Poetry Jam on Broadway” (Atria, $20), a book of poems and interviews. Rodney Perry Live is a show consisting of all arts and entertainment. Everything from comedy and politics to music and acting. Rodney covers it all with a comedic slant. Tune in each and every Monday at 2pm EST www.blogtalkradio.com/rodneyperrylive to check out "Rodney Perry Live" on internet radio: Call in number: (718) 305-6383.
CYHPHAAAA! Poets, Get here early. 10 sign up - 60 sec to flow! CALL IN (646) 716-7994 DANNY SIMMONS, an abstract expressionist painter. Older brother of hip-hop impressario Russell Simmons and rapper Joseph Simmons ("Reverend Run" of Run DMC), Danny is the co-founder and Chairman of Rush Philanthropic Arts Foundation which provides disadvantaged urban youth with arts access and education. Danny created and was the executive producer of HBO Def Poetry Jam! This is a special edition of INDUSTRY MONDAYS in its 3rd season and kicking off this fall with new co-host NASSUNI Not Your Ordinary Poet! We're talking where visual art and poetry meet, can it be good business? Spoken word is hot and definitely on an upturn. Let's explore, create, and collaborate. So what are the opportunities to do business with spoken word? Are the number of full-time poets growing? How do you monetize spoken word, create residual income and opportunities while still keeping integrity of the art form? What can we help create here on INDUSTRY MONDAYS: The Business of Spoken Word. CALL IN (646) 716-7994.
Special guest: ABYSS, HBO Def Poet, Musician, Entrepreneur speaks his success in the industry. Spoken Word, is it an industry or not? If so, how do we make it viable as an industry and not just for individual artists. Join Jacqueline Taylor-Adams and Poet/Producer, DAMALI of The Master Griot Project every 2nd Monday for candid industry talk about Spoken Word. CALL IN (646) 716-7994
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