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The Legendary Amiri Baraka presented by What Language Do You Speak? Productions and BlackPoet Ventures

Sunday, April 1, 2012 from 10:30 AM to 9:00 PM (MT)

934, 934 E. SOUTHERN AVENUE

The Legendary Amiri Baraka presented by What Language Do...

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Blues People: A Tribute To Amiri
Special brunch tribute performance presented by BlackPoet Ventures
Ended Free  
An Evening With Amiri Baraka
Private catered event
Ended Free  
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What Language Do You Speak? Productions and BlackPoet Ventures bring you two exhilarating and inspiring events during National Arts & Humanities Month featuring the legendary and controversial writer and poet Amiri Baraka.

Both companies join forces to focus on and build for youth literacy through the art of poetry and spoken word. This is a debut event for the new literary arts company What Language Do You Speak? Productions and the kickoff to BlackPoet Ventures' seventh performance arts season.

Blues People: A Tribute To Amiri
BlackPoet Ventures opens the set with a special brunch tribute performance as part of its BioRhythMic Series. The event will feature the words and poetry of Amiri Baraka set to the backdrop of a journey in American music.

 


An Evening WIth Amiri Baraka
What Language Do You Speak? Productions hosts an intimate black party as we share an evening with Amiri Baraka at the elegant 934 located in south Phoenix. Honoring the living legend are Valley poets Fatimah Halim, Shaikh Sammad, Habibullah Saleem, Fathiyyah Bashshar, Phonetic Spit Teen Poetry Squad and BlackPoet Ventures. Catered by Dee Dee Did It.


Both events are free and open to the public but you must register your attendance.

Donations are welcome and will be accepted at the events.

AmiriBaraka.com | WLDUSpeak.org | BlackPoetVentures.com

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A TRIBUTE TO AMIRI BARAKA
Performance location to be announced
*** AN EVENING WITH AMIRI BARAKA ***
934, 934 E. SOUTHERN AVENUE

Sunday, April 1, 2012 from 10:30 AM to 9:00 PM (MT)


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What Language Do You Speak? Productions



What Language Do You Speak? Productions is a company designed to promote literacy through the arts. This is based on the conviction that every person has the ability to read and express themselves through poetry and the arts.

Mission: To enkindle, lift and provide tools for change and growth of individuals to empower youth and adults through poetry and the arts

Vision: To champion others to grow personally, professionally, emotionally and spiritually by using our poetry and rhetorical perspective to aid in the enhancements and inherent goodness, integrity and enormous potential of others.