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Owens Community
College
welcomes poets and hip hop artists Idris Goodwin and Kevin Coval,
Oct. 26-27
Awarding-winning poets and hip hop artists Idris Goodwin
and Kevin Coval will bring their lyrical and rhythmic
talents to the Owens Community College Toledo-area and
Findlay-area campuses as the Student Activities Office presents
a free hip hop performance and workshop titled “Race Mixing”,
Oct. 26-27, 2011.
Goodwin and Coval will address attendees as part of a workshop
presentation from 10-11 a.m.
and perform from 2-3 p.m. in
the Conference Center Room 111 on the Findlay-area Campus
on Wednesday, Oct. 26. The
nationally-known artists will provide a performance and workshop
from 11:30 a.m. – 2 p.m. in the
Student Health and Activities Center on the Toledo-area Campus
on Thursday, Oct. 27.
During the events, Goodwin and Coval will use hip hop poetics
and pedagogy to create meaningful dialogue across cultures with
the overall goal of their performance is eliminating racial
borders and embracing multiplicity.
Goodwin’s “break beat poetry” has been featured on Russell
Simmon’s HBO series “Def Poetry” and published in the “Spoken
Word Revolution Redux Anthology” as well as in many literary
journals. The recipient of several grants and awards from the
National Endowment for the Arts, the Ford Foundation and the
Illinois Arts Council, Goodwin
served as an artist in residence at
Iowa City’s KRUI Radio Program Artists in Action and
frequently teaches, performs and lectures at academic
institutions on the topic of arts, culture and empowerment.
Coval is the author of ALA Book of the Year finalist “Slingshots
(A Hip-Hop Poetica)”. Additionally, he is Co-Founder and
Artistic Director of Louder Than a Bomb: The
Chicago Teen Poetry Festival,
subject of an award-winning documentary of the same name, which
airs on the OWN Network. A regular contributor to Chicago Public
Radio, and a four-time HBO “Def Poetry” participant, Coval
teaches at the School of Art Institute
of Chicago and in high schools throughout the Chicago
area.
Admission to the events is free and the public is encouraged to
attend. For more information call
(567) 661-2994 or
1-800-GO-OWENS, Ext. 2994, or
(567) 429-3029 or
1-800-GO-OWENS, Ext. 3029.
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