BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//ChamberMaster//Event Calendar 2.0//EN METHOD:PUBLISH X-PUBLISHED-TTL:P3D REFRESH-INTERVAL:P3D CALSCALE:GREGORIAN BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART:20160227T210000Z DTEND:20160227T230000Z X-MICROSOFT-CDO-ALLDAYEVENT:FALSE SUMMARY:A Lecture by New York spoken word poet\, Bob McNeil: From Africa to Hip Hop DESCRIPTION:This program will celebrate music from Africa to American hip hop. Through essays\, poems\, stories and quotes the audience is going to hear the history of music. Bob McNeil recalls reading A Child's Garden of Verses at the age of six. As a result\, a love of all things poetical bloomed. Later in life\, the Imagists and Negritude Movement nurtured him. Tenaciously\, Bob McNeil tries to compose poetic stun guns and Tasers\, weapons for the downtrodden in their effort to trounce oppression. His verses want to be fortresses against despotic politics. After years of being a professional illustrator\, spoken word artist and writer\, Bob's work still express one cause justice. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:This program will celebrate music from Africa to American hip hop. Through essays\, poems\, stories and quotes the audience is going to hear the history of music. Bob McNeil recalls reading A Child&rsquo\;s Garden of Verses at the age of six. As a result\, a love of all things poetical bloomed. Later in life\, the Imagists and Negritude Movement nurtured him. Tenaciously\, Bob McNeil tries to compose poetic stun guns and Tasers\, weapons for the downtrodden in their effort to trounce oppression. His verses want to be fortresses against despotic politics. After years of being a professional illustrator\, spoken word artist and writer\, Bob'\;s work still express one cause&mdash\;justice. LOCATION:Great Falls Discovery Center\, 2 Avenue A\, Turners Falls UID:e.2182.3564 SEQUENCE:3 DTSTAMP:20260523T214057Z URL:https://chamber.franklincc.org/events/details/a-lecture-by-new-york-spoken-word-poet-bob-mcneil-from-africa-to-hip-hop-02-27-2016-3564 END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR