Los Angeles, California Aug 30, 2020 (Issuewire.com) - Re-Imagining the world view in this time of Covid-19, civil unrest, and one of the most important upcoming elections in the history of the United States of America --actor and storyteller, Charles Reese is joining forces with the Black Voices Festival special program event, BROTHAS SPEAK! Curated and hosted by Juliette Jeffers, this live streaming program will take place on Saturday, September 26, 2020, at 7 PM PST / 10 PM EST. www.whitefiretheatre.com.
The "one night only" in-gathering of spoken word, rap and song will feature Reese (Spoken Word) along with Jason A. Benefield (Poet), Rev. Leon Campbell (Singer), King Cassius (Rapper), Kito Fortune (Poet) and Markhum Who (Poet). These eclectic creative artists will utilize poetry and music as a tool to bear witness to the current state of affairs in the USA and abroad.
Reese, who is now streaming on Amazon Prime in the television sitcom, Beauty and the Baller as the feisty chef, Jalil Baldwin states, " When I received the invitation for this online festival, I immediately started looking back into my archival files. I ran across some programs from my former teacher/coach, Tony Award winner, Virginia Capers. As a part of Ms Caper's company, Lafayette Players West in the early 1990s, we use to read and explore the words of writers like Langston Hughes, Maya Angelou, James Baldwin, James Weldon Johnson and Paul Lawrence Dunbar to see if their words would hold up as it relates to what is going on in today's society. They held up then and they definitely speak to what is happening right now in these challenging times in 2020."
Reese, a sought-after James Baldwin specialist and cultural architect for public engagement has chosen the theme of "Freedom/Feeling Free" for his featured ten-minute set which will include some old school poetry, prose, movement, and history telling chants mixed with his signature performance style of "EDU-TAIN-MENT" that is simply known in the global arts community as The Charles Reese Experience.
BROTHAS SPEAK! An Evening of Spoken Word, Rap & Song
A Virtual Remote/Live Streaming Event
Black Voices Festival @ The Whitefire Theatre
SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 26, 2020. 7 PM PST/ 10 PM EST
For ticket information:
https://whitefire.yapsody.com/event/index/594026/brothas-speak
Curator & Host: Juliette Jeffers
Featuring:
Charles Reese (Spoken Word)
Jason A. Benefield (Poet)
Rev. Leon Campbell (Singer)
King Cassius (Rapper)
Kito Fortune (Poet)
Markhum Who (Poet)
About Charles Reese
A thespian and performance artist for more than 25 years, Reese is currently streaming on Amazon Prime in season one of the TV sitcom, Beauty and the Baller as the feisty chef, Jalil Baldwin. The show is based on the digital web series, "Who" created by the late Emmy Award winning writer-producer, Michael Ajakwe Jr. Reese is known in the theatrical circles for his critically-acclaimed Off-Broadway performance in Howard B. Simon's production of James Baldwin: A Soul on Fire. Critic David DeWitt of The New York Times called the play, "...funny, thrilling and wise, buoyed by the passionate performance of Charles Reese in the title role." Reese co-authored the book adaption of James Baldwin: A Soul On Fire, which includes the play version and commentary to pay homage to Baldwin's legacy as an author and civil rights activist. He also contributed an essay entitled, James Baldwin: Artist as Activist and the Baldwin /Kennedy Secret Summit of 1963 for the book volume, James Baldwin: Challenging Authors (Furman University). Reese was a guest speaker at the International James Baldwin Conference at the American University of Paris in France. He is the Artist in Residence for the James Baldwin Writers' Colony at the Emerson College European Center at Kasteel Well in The Netherlands. He is a very popular lecturer/ conversationalist at colleges, universities and cultural venues in the USA and internationally with his unique history-telling literary salon series, "An Evening in History with James Baldwin." Reese is the Senior Resident Program Curator & Host for the Jackie Robinson Arts & Humanities Lecture Series at Pasadena City College.
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