[NEohioPAL] Get your tickets today for the Watts Prophets at Tri-C!!

[Wiant, Lilah]

TRI-C PRESENTS

 

THE WATTS PROPHETS

 

Wednesday, March 26, 7:00 pm

Eastern Campus Performing Arts Center

 

Thursday, March 27, 7:00 pm

Western Campus Performing Arts Center

 

Friday, March 28, 7:00 pm

Metro Campus Auditorium

 

The Watts Prophets are Richard Dedeux, Amde Hamilton and Otis O'Solomon.
These progenitors of hip-hop came out of the Watts riots of 1965 as
angry, disillusioned teenagers, and were recruited by legendary
screenwriter, Budd Schulberg (On the Waterfront) as students for his
Watts Writers Workshop. There they discovered their strongest ally in
their personal quest for justice -- literacy. For the past 40 years, the
Prophets have used their gift for expressive, poetic language as the
galvanizing tool that creates empowerment, pride and responsibility in
communities of young people around the world. In 1967, these three, the
best of the students in the prestigious Watts Writers Workshop, won
their first amateur talent contest as a nameless group. But then, after
they recited/chanted/ spoke/sung/witnessed their unique jazz-accompanied
topical poem, an audience member -- dazzled by their performance --
shouted, "They must be the Watts Prophets!"

 

"Hip-hop's going from the top of the charts to the head of the class,
even into Scholastic children's books. Teachers are using it as a
learning tool - sometimes on the sly"-- Philadelphia Inquirer

 

Please call 216-241-6000 to purchase tickets or

copy/paste the address below into your web browser to purchase tickets
online:

 

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Lilah M.Wiant

Tri-C Jazzfest Cleveland

2900 Community College Ave. 

MTA Theatre 11

Cleveland, OH 44115

Phone: 216-987-4249 Fax: 216-987-4422
lilah.wiant at tri-c.edu <mailto:lilah.wiant at tri-c.edu>
www.tricpresents.com <http://www.tricpresents.com> 

 

 

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