Poetry Slam Workshops

Do you write poetry?
Rap? Into hip hop?
Do you like to perform?
We need you!

Please join Kareemah El Amin’s Poetry Slam Workshops!

Kareemah El-Amin is an acclaimed filmmaker, playwright, director, producer, poet and singer. She hosts 98.3’s the Straight No Chaser Team, billed as the hottest underground radio show on the airwaves. Kareemah hosts the monthly x-Pression Session, poetry readings by featured artists at the Livery in Benton Harbor. Her first film, "The Thin I'm In" was invited to 13 film festivals and The Hollywood Black Film Festival. Since then, she has written and directed the provocative docudrama, "The White Girl Thang," the four minute short film, "Black Barbie Beauty," and a feature length documentary, "The Catalyst Trip: A Journey of Transformation."

WORKSHOPS
Wednesday, June 23rd and Wednesday, June 30th
From 10 am till noon
At Ross Beatty High School, 22721 Diamond Cove Road.
Workshops are free and open to students Jr. High and up) and adults!

Participants will contribute poetry to be published in a chapbook.
Participants will be invited to perform along with Kareemah at the Ninth Annual International Festival:
Sunday, Sept. 12, 2010
Ross Beatty High School from 1—5 pm.

For more information, contact Ruth Andrews, 269-445-0269