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<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><b>TRI-C PRESENTS<o:p></o:p></b></p>
<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><b><o:p> </o:p></b></p>
<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><b>THE WATTS PROPHETS<o:p></o:p></b></p>
<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><b><o:p> </o:p></b></p>
<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><b>Wednesday, March
26, 7:00 pm<o:p></o:p></b></p>
<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><b>Eastern Campus
Performing Arts Center<o:p></o:p></b></p>
<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><b><o:p> </o:p></b></p>
<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><b>Thursday, March
27, 7:00 pm<o:p></o:p></b></p>
<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><b>Western Campus
Performing Arts Center<o:p></o:p></b></p>
<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><b><o:p> </o:p></b></p>
<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><b>Friday, March 28,
7:00 pm<o:p></o:p></b></p>
<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><b>Metro Campus
Auditorium<o:p></o:p></b></p>
<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'>The Watts Prophets
are Richard Dedeux, Amde Hamilton and Otis O’Solomon who live, work and
create in Watts, California, something they have done for more than thirty
years. 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!”<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'>"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<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'>Please call
216-241-6000 to purchase tickets or<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'>copy/paste the
address below into your web browser to purchase tickets online:<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:9.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:9.0pt'>http://ev15.evenue.net/cgi-bin/ncommerce3/SEGetGroupList?groupCode=TRIC&linkID=psq&shopperContext=&caller=&appCode=<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><b><i><span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Freestyle Script"'>Lilah
M.Wiant</span></i></b><span style='font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Poor Richard","serif"'>Tri-C
Jazzfest Cleveland</span><span style='font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Poor Richard","serif"'>2900
Community College Ave. </span><span style='font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Poor Richard","serif"'>MTA
Theatre 11</span><span style='font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Poor Richard","serif"'>Cleveland,
OH 44115</span><span style='font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Poor Richard","serif"'>Phone:
216-987-4249 Fax: 216-987-4422<br>
<a href="mailto:lilah.wiant@tri-c.edu"><span style='color:blue'>lilah.wiant@tri-c.edu</span></a>
<a href="http://www.tricpresents.com"><span style='color:blue'>www.tricpresents.com</span></a></span><span
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