Spoken Word with Regie Gibson
When:
Friday, Jun 23, 2017 12:00p -
1:00p
Friday, Jun 23, 2017 12:00p -
1:00p
Where:
Museum of African American History
46 Joy St.
Boston, MA 02114
Admission:
$10
Categories:
Performing Arts
Event website:
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/spoken-word-with-regie-gibson-tickets-35185708401
Join us for a brown bag lunch event featuring literary performer and educator Regie Gibson. Meet us at 3 Smith Court to hear a brief talk from National Park Ranger Ryan McNabb on education activist and abolitionist William Cooper Nell who boarded there from 1851 to 1865.
Following the talk, Regie Gibson will perform spoken word inspired by this Nell.
Tickets: $10 Non-MAAH Members/$5 MAAH Members
12:00PM - Tour meets at Smith Court Residences
12:15PM - Spoken Word performance by Regie Gibson in the Susan Paul Room (lower level) of the African Meeting House
Bring your lunch. The Museum will provide beverages.
Museum of African American History: 46 Joy Street, Boston, MA 02114
This program is made possible with support from the National Parks of Boston "Art on the Trails to Freedom" initiative, the National Park Service Rivers, Trails, and Conservation Assistance Program, and the New England Foundation for the Arts.
Literary performer and educator, Regie Gibson, has lectured and performed in the U.S., Cuba and Europe. A National Poetry Slam Champion and Emmy nominee, he has been featured on HBO’s Def Poetry Jam and on NPR radio. He served as a consultant for the National Endowment for the Arts and advisor to the “Mere Distinction of Color” exhibition at James Madison’s Montpelier, which examined the legacy of slavery, and the U.S. Constitution. Regie has performed with and composed texts for The Boston City Singers, The Mystic Chorale and the Handel+Haydn Society. His volume of poems, “Storms Beneath the Skin”, has received the Golden Pen Award, a Massachusetts Cultural Council Award, and a Lexington Education Foundation Grant. He is the creator of the Shakespeare Time-Traveling Speakeasy, a hip musical trip into the literary timeline to find the influence and impact of William Shakespeare on the modern world.
Ryan McNabb is the Lead Ranger of Boston African American National Historic Site and has been presenting multiple tours, talks and outreach programs for the site for the past seventeen years.
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