Join Speak for Yourself, Boston University’s only spoken word poetry group, and Q, the Queer Activist Collective, for a FREE workshop led by activist and award-winning poet Andrea Gibson. This event, open to all BU students, will take place on Monday, February 10 at 8 pm. Please see our Facebook event for the location and more details. (Can’t view the event? Send us a friend request and message on Facebook for an invite!)
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WORKSHOP THEME: Spoken Word in Action!
Focusing on a myriad of social justice issues, we will explore the poet’s responsibility in the current political climate. We will read and discuss poems by contemporary writers focusing on issues of race, class, gender, sexuality, patriarchy, and capitalism. After, we will use the shared poems as writing prompts to inspire our own radical voices.
ABOUT ANDREA
Andrea Gibson is not gentle with her truths. It is this raw fearlessness that has led her to the forefront of the spoken word movement–the first winner of the Women’s World Poetry Slam–Gibson has headlined prestigious performance venues coast to coast with powerful readings on war, class, gender, bullying, white privilege, sexuality, love, and spirituality.
Her work has been featured on the BBC, Air America, C-SPAN, Free Speech TV and in 2010 was read by a state representative in lieu of morning prayer at the Utah State Legislature.
Now, on her fifth full-length album FLOWER BOY and her second book THE MADNESS VASE, Gibson’s poems continue to be a rally cry for action and a welcome mat at the door of the heart’s most compassionate room.
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Andrea will also be performing at The Middle East in Cambridge on Tuesday, February 11. Email youspeakforyourself@gmail.com from your BU email address for a link to discounted tickets.
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