Greek Week 2008
NYU’s Greek Week 2008 will begin April 10th, 2008!
Alpha Sigma Tau and Alpha Epsilon Pi will be sponsoring a Slam Poetry event at the Bronfman Center (10th and 5th Ave) on Tuesday, April 15th at 8pm! Donations can be made at the door. All proceeds will go towards VH1’s Save the Music Foundation.
Featuring:
Jamie Kilstein — Spoken word artist and comedian, often combining the two into one unique and powerful voice, Jamie was the 2006 Urbana Slam Champion and competed in the 2006 National Poetry Slam. He tours the globe tirelessly, and has made appearances all over the United States, Canada, China, the Netherlands and the UK. Most recently, he was featured twice on Comedy Central and the BBC’S The World Stands up He played the most talked about show at the 2007 Montreal Just for Laughs Comedy Festival featuring, Eddie Izzard, Billy Connolly, Louis CK, Lewis Black and The Kids in the Hall, and was then featured at the festivals Best Of The Fest show.
Mahogany Brown has been performing on the intensely creative performance poetry scene since early 1998. She is a member of the highly-regarded safe sex crew, The Punany Poets, which was seen on HBO’s Real Sex 24 and 26. Ms. Browne has earned the highly-acclaimed title as one of The Nuyorican Poets Café Grand Slam Semi-finalist (2002) in addition to winner of Harlem’s phenomenal SugarShack Slam; the Hottest Poets Slam @ Jimmy’s Uptown and Buffalo, NY Njozi Magazine’s Slam & Tri-State Team Slam. She is the author of two self-published poetic works Soul Systa’s Elixir & Drifting Under the Influence, and has produced two LPs LADYSMITH: Untitled & her initial introductory CD Papercuts: An Acapella Series. Ms. Browne currently tours the ever-growing college circuit with endearing words promoting self-love and supporting women empowerment.
Roger Bonair-Agard weaves living, breathing tapestries out of politics and the notion of home; a native of Trinidad and Tobago, Roger has lived in Brooklyn for seventeen years and his work reflects the struggles of a man in voluntary exile in a conflicted 21st-century America. A professional performance poet since 1997, Roger has appeared three times on Russell Simmons’ Def Poetry Jam on HBO, performed and facilitated writing and performance workshops at colleges, universities and high schools around the country, and stirred audiences at festivals and concerts from Germany to South Africa to Anchorage, Alaska. He recently opened for calypso legend Shadow for an audience of 2,000 in Prospect Park, Brooklyn.
Never one to fit neatly into labels, Albany-raised, Brooklyn-based Caitlin Meissner is a poet, activist, educator and graphic designer with a BFA from Pratt Institute. Caitlin began writing at age nine, with a chapbook of Christmas poems acclaimed by Ms. Terry, her fourth grade teacher. Fourteen years later, she uses her background in anti-racism work, disability advocacy and youth empowerment to propel carefully crafted poems on the human experience. She has featured for the progressive literary collective louderArts; opened for the acclaimed Page Meets Stage series, shared sets with musicians such as Immortal Technique, Grandmaster Caz, Maya Azucena, Boot Camp Clik, One Self and many others; has been published in the His Rib and Got Poetry 2007 anthologies; mentors young people through various sources, and has performed on countless stages- from street corners to Columbia University, The Nuyorican Poets Café to Rikers Island. Caitlin is currently Project Coordinator of the
all-woman Saturday Performance Series at The Lower Eastside Girls Club
For a complete listing of all Greek Week events, see the facebook group.
