UC Consortium for Black Studies in California,
The UCSB Division of Student Affairs
&
UCSB MultiCultural Center
presents
Writing Workshop: MCC Lounge – 2 pm
Performance: MCC Theater – 6 pm
Rooted in the core values of hip hop culture, writer/performer-educator-organizers Kevin Coval and Idris Goodwin use poetry as a tool for empowerment and discourse across different walks of life. Join these two award winning artists for a writing workshop and live performance of socially engaged break beat poetry. Kevin Coval is a poet and community builder. As the artistic director of Young Chicago Authors, founder of Louder Than A Bomb: The Chicago Youth Poetry Festival, and professor at the University of Illinois-Chicago—where he teaches hip-hop aesthetics—he’s mentored thousands of young writers, artists, and musicians. Idris Goodwin is an Assistant Professor in The Department of Theatre and Dance at Colorado College. Idris Goodwin is an award winning playwright, director, orator and essayist. His play How We Got On developed at the O’Neill National Playwrights Conference, premiered in Actors Theater’s 2012 Humana Festival, and is being produced at theatres across the country.
