Event

DETROIT RIGHT NOW!

DETROIT RIGHT NOW!
The Very Detroit Poems Of
Joel Fluent Greene.

FEATURING A SPECIAL DETROIT CENTRIC PERFORMANCE BY SPIRIT OF DETROIT AWARD WINNING POET & AUTHOR, JOEL FLUENT GREENE W/SPECIAL GUESTS.

DS SENSE (HIP HOP)
SOWANDE KEITA (AFRICAN PERCUSSION)

DJ SASSI BLAQUE WILL BE SPINNING DETROIT CLASSICS IN EVERY GENRE OF MUSIC.

& A SPECIAL OPENING PERFORMANCE BY
COMEDIAN COOLAIDE.

Thursday, October 26, 2017
Jazz Cafe @ Music Hall Center for the Performing Arts.
350 Madison/Downtown, Detroit
Doors 8pm. Showtime 9pm
Admission is $10.

BIO:
Joel Fluent Greene is a Detroit based Poet, Author and Event Curator. A Spirit Of Detroit Award winner, Joel was the long running host of Detroits iconic Cafe Mahogany poetry nights and has shared the stage with acts as diverse as The Roots, Pharrell, The Last Poets, Big Sean, Saul Williams, and The Detroit Red Wings. He has also acted as Master of Ceremony at events for Chrysler Corporation, 100 Black Men of America, Inside-Out Detroit and Music Hall Center. As former director of Music Hall Centers Words and Rhythms of the D outreach program, he has held workshops and performances in over 50 schools in the Metro Detroit area. Author of three collections of poetry:WAXING/waning, Poems of Bungalow & Concrete, and Somewhere In The Middle/ Love Poems, Joel is currently creative writing instructor at Mariners Inn, a shelter and treatment center for the homeless.

PERFORMANCE VIDEO:

Video #1
https://www.dropbox.com/s/vh6m594ynidv0e9/Cass%20Corridor-%20Youtube.mp4?dl=0

Video #2
https://youtu.be/P__Dao51rOU