Idris Goodwin: Break Beat Poetica
One Performance Only!!!
NEA award winning, multi-disciplinary hip-hop performance artist Idris Goodwin brings his latest show, Break Beat Poetica to Omaha this Friday, May 14th.
HBO Def Poet, Goodwin, presents his signature brand of satirically biting poetic commentary on American culture in the Obama age. Flawlessly weaving monologue, poetry and hip-hop performance Goodwin deconstructs notions of race in North American and abroad.
Friday, May 14 @ 8pm
All Ages • $7
Omaha Healing Arts Center
HBO Def Poet, Goodwin, presents his signature brand of satirically biting poetic commentary on American culture in the Obama age. Flawlessly weaving monologue, poetry and hip-hop performance Goodwin deconstructs notions of race in North American and abroad.
Friday, May 14 @ 8pm
All Ages • $7
Omaha Healing Arts Center
Idris Goodwin
IDRIS GOODWIN is an award-winning playwright, break beat poet and hip-hop educator committed to exploring linguistic possibilities in performance. Idris has received awards from The National Endowment for the Arts, The Ford Foundation, and The Illinois Arts Council for original work exploring intersections between the socio-political and the personal. Idris’ plays have enjoyed world premieres in Chicago, Minneapolis, & New Mexico; his break beat poetry was featured on HBO Def Poetry, the Spoken Word Revolution Redux Anthology, as well as in numerous literary journals. Idris frequently teaches, performs and lectures at institutions on themes of arts, culture and empowerment. Chicago’s SGE RECORDS released Idris’ latest hip-hop album BREAK BEAT POEMS, described by Timeout Chicago as a mixture of “modern beats and tongue-twisting word flow.”
