CampusBuiLLD @ University of Vermont: 10/31 – 11/5
iLL-Literacy’s dedicating this fall’s CampusBuiLLd residency to the University of Vermont – one of the very first campuses we ever visited when we were first starting off as fledgling spoken wordie kids, and where a guy with blonde dreads once swindled us for $50 (don’t ask). Like all CampusBuiLLd programs, our goal is to explore [...]
NEW MUSIC: Macallan 12, a project by N.i.C
Nico’s new project is out! For But we’re not doing a big promo blitz bombardment of tweets. This is Macallan 12. Sip it slowly.
Washington DC: Catch Dahlak in “Word Becomes Flesh”
On July 15 & 16 Dahlak will be co-starring with an impressive lineup of performers for the re-commission of hip hop theater classic Word Becomes Flesh at Dance Place in DC.
HOME IMPROVEMENT: Allied Media Conference, Grace Lee Boggs, and Detroit’s Re-Imagination
Adriel visits Detroit and finds hope for a new world in the city’s rubble.
Two iLL Chicago shows on Thursday!
Every year we’re blessed with a final show that straggles in at the tail end of our spring season. This year, it’s Chicago, one of my favorite cities in the world! When we were there in February, we had just flown straight in from the glorious Puerto Rico weather and straight into a frigid blizzard. [...]
CampusBuiLLd @ Cornell University: A Documentary
The first in a series of accounts on iLL-Literacy’s experiences bringing CampusBuiLLd to schools throughout the country, we enter the Ivy gates to reintroduce student leadership to Cornell.
NEW MUSIC VIDEO: Gentleman’s Kool-Aid
What happens when the blockheads intake too much ego and delve into the canyons of their imaginations? Find out in our very first music video, “Gentleman’s Kool-Aid.”
NEW VIDEOS: Dahlak hits the Nuyorican Poets Café
Spoken Word is the New Spoken Word continue with a video blitz! Dahlak goes to the Nuyorican with some new shit.
CampusBuiLLd @ Susquehanna University: The Search for Melanin
This week we go deep into Pennsylvania to bring CampusBuiLLd to Susquehanna University, and to seek out the legendary, possibly mythical entity known as…the student of color population. Dun dun DUNNNNNN!
NEW VIDEO: Adriel “The Watts Experiment”
Spoken Word is the New Spoken Word returns with a revisit of Adriel’s “The Watts Experiment,” exploring Black and Asian conflict in the inner city.
