Name: I Got Nine On It!
Start: 2025-01-31T19:00:00-05:00
Location: Standing Rock Cultural Arts Events

Hechman3 presents
I Got Nine On It!
Join us on the 31st @ Standing Rock Art and Cultural Center for an exploration into poetry and sound.
Join us Friday January 31st,2025 for a exploration into poetry and sound! There will be a open mic as well as poetry and a dj for dancing.

+++Your Host+++ --Malikee Ikiru
With a background in the urban poetry scene going back for multi decades . Malikee Ikiru first establish himself as the leader of the controversial urban guerrilla poets then as the founder of Shogun assassins. Combining a multidiscipline approach which infused his love of hip-hop, hard-core rock comic books in science fiction into a futuristic verbal assault on the senses that seem to metamorphosis out of primordial stew into a computer generator world that had listeners wondering if the matrix actually had them.
+Preformance by+
--ESSENCE
Kymberli “Essence” Hunt -Edge
Kymberli “Essence” Hunt-Edge is an international performance poet, slam poet, visual artist, and performance coach/mentor; born in Cleveland, Ohio. At an early age, Kymberli developed a rich and diverse passion for the arts, she is a gifted artist using multimedia to project visual realism in her artwork and is a poetic story teller with her own style and flair, weaving words that convey life situations. Kymberli is a firm believer in the statement that "every thing in some form or another is art, be it abstract or realism, it is all in the eye of the viewer". Kymberli goes by the stage name "Essence" She has also been given a pen name "Edit" by fellow poets. Kymberli has performed in several venues around Cleveland and in the Ohio area, internationally, and many different states for both fun and competition. Kymberli is a multi award winning and published poet. Kymberli is a co-founding member of Cleveland’s first all female poetry group E.V.E (Eccentric Visions of Evolution), a performing member of Level Up Crew, and a partner of Lift Every Voice Open Mic, self published three books of poetry, “Purple Essence”, “The Edge”, and “Insomnia”, published in three anthology books of poetry, “Time After Time”, The Harmony of Silence”, and Poetry’s Elite-The Best Poets of 2000, recipient of The Best Poet in Northeastern Ohio award, Best Poet-Scene 2024, Editor Choice Award, opening act for performance group “Next”, and inducted into “International Society of Poets”.
DJ Donny G will be your music man. So make sure your dancin shoes shined !
There will be an open mic as well.....tba

7-11pm
$9@door
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