photo by Steve Savage.
Lauren Whitehead and MetaFour Houston
Sept 12, 2009, 8pm
DiverseWorks is thrilled to partner with the Mitchell Center at UH to bring you the work of spoken word phenom Lauren Whitehead, a featured poet mentor in Russell Simmons Presents Brave New Voices on HBO.
Lauren will be sharing an excerpt of her full length work Written in Blues that explores the blues and blues singers who can also be called tragic idols - women like Billie Holiday, Whitney Houston and Tina Turner.
"All these women who are trying to heal themselves through song but also have these other pathologies that they're dealing with," Whitehead says. "That leads to the question of why would any young woman seek this limelight if what comes with it more often than not is this tragedy. And then trying to piece together what comes first - the tragedy or the song."
Whitehead is youth development program director of Youth Speaks, and a member of the 2008 SpeaksGreen Team, which crisscrossed the country to perform at environmentally-minded events that include the Sundance Film Featival in Park City, Utah. Check her out here!
Kicking
off the evening will be members of MetaFour Houston, the youth spoken
word crew that's spreading the truth, H-Town style.
The money at the door will benefit MetaFour Houston, and help send them back to Brave New Voices in 2010!
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