Drawing from their shared roots in Chicago’s rich multicultural spoken word scene, slam poets Kelly Zen-Yie Tsai, Kevin Coval, and avery young will share from new original works that contemplate culture, race, and identity.
After each performance, each artist will be in the “hot seat,” responding to a series of questions from the other two artists. Together, they’ll explore what it means to evolve as spoken word artists and how their work impacts and is impacted by Chicago’s changing cultural landscape over the last decade.
Youth poets from Young Chicago Authors will open the show and a reception will follow.
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Kelly Zen-Yie Tsai is a Chicago-born, Brooklyn-based Chinese Taiwanese American spoken word poet, playwright, and filmmaker whose award winning work has been featured at the White House, Apollo Theater in Harlem, Kennedy Center, Lincoln Center, the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago, & “Russell Simmons Presents HBO Def Poetry.”
Getting There: CTA Orange line Halsted or #62 bus
Questions? Call or Email
Hauwei Lien 773.819.5436 | hauwei at tapchicago dot org
Presented by the Illinois Humanities Council in partnership with Young Chicago Authors and TAP-Chicago, this event is part of Bridging Divides, a series that draws on the humanities to help local communities address seemingly intractable social, cultural and political divides.
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