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Join us for a powerful showcase of Central Florida’s rising spoken word artists from the Latinx community. These wordsmiths will join Poet Shawn Welcome and emerging local high school talents for a rarely seen and heard 90-minute interactive showcase that will solidify anyone’s definition of spoken word poetry. These artists will present original works that will help audiences understand the power of poems as social commentary and gain perspective on the Latinx experience.This event will conclude a weeklong spoken word residency by Shawn Welcome, who facilitates performance poetry workshops for high school students across central Florida, providing a free writing space, introducing the intricacies of performance, spoken word technique and presentation. This will be an opportunity for the students and the spoken word community to use their voices in response to the world around them, through the artistry of their unique poetic pieces as it relates to social issues that are worthy of an artistic response. The concluding show will amplify the creative voices of the Latinx community, giving them a platform to celebrate culture, self-identity, love, perseverance, and family.
From the cultural expression of Langston Hughes to the Beat Poets of the 1950s to modern rap and hip-hop music, performance poetry follows the trend of rhythmic engagement with listeners. As the name suggests, performance poems are meant to be spoken aloud with expression and movement that reflect their meaning. Beneath the tourism and theme park industries magnetized by year-round great weather in Central Florida lies a hyper talented, yet seldom seen in traditional spaces, cohort of performance poets.
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Event Venue & Nearby Stays
445 S Magnolia Ave, Orlando, FL, United States, Florida 32801
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