First Friday Poetry Night Featuring Mic Crenshaw

Name: First Friday Poetry Night Featuring Mic Crenshaw
Start: 2024-12-06T19:00:00-08:00
Location: Birdhouse Books

Schedule

Fri, 06 Dec, 2024 at 07:00 pm

UTC-08:00

Location

Birdhouse Books | Vancouver, WA

First Friday Poetry Night!
With Mic Crenshaw
Friday, December 6, 2024
7:00-8:30 PM
Birdhouse Books
1001 Main Street
Vancouver, WA, 98660
https://birdhousebooks.store/
Birdhouse Books and Christopher Luna welcome hip hop and spoken word artist Mic Crenshaw for December’s First Friday Poetry Night!
First Friday Poetry Night! is a poetry series featuring an everchanging slate of talented local poets hosted by Birdhouse Books and Christopher Luna. Catch us each First Friday at 7pm in the heart of VDA’s Art Walk. Drop by early to browse the books, soak in the art, and pick up some delicious treats upstairs at Short & Sweet before the show.
Mic Crenshaw was born in Chicago, raised between there and Minneapolis, and currently resides in Portland, Oregon. Crenshaw is an independent Hip Hop artist, respected emcee, poet, educator, media producer and activist. Crenshaw is the Lead U.S. Organizer for the African HipHop Caravan and uses Cultural Activism as a means to develop international solidarity related to Human Rights and Justice through Hip Hop and Popular Education. In his teenage years, Crenshaw was a founding member of the Minneapolis Baldies and Anti Racist Action, both youth movements that actively confronted white supremacist gangs that were a growing part of the hard-core music scene. Mic eventually moved to Portland, where he quickly became one of the most respected artists in the Northwest. His community efforts have had both local and international impact.
In addition to his highly-acclaimed work in spoken word and Hip Hop, Mic co-founded the lifestyle brand GlobalFam and is the Executive Director of Education WithOut Borders 501c3 (https://www.ewobglobal.net/). Together Global Fam and EWOB helped launch a project to create and maintain a computer center for disadvantaged youth in Burundi, Central Africa. Over 400 people have received free training, and it is now expanding, generating revenue and creating jobs. Education WithOut Borders (EWOB) supports education, music and art initiatives in Portland, Tanzania and beyond, and serves as an umbrella for the local Books For Prisoners chapter and GlobalFam itself. Mic Crenshaw is a co-producer, co-director and one third of the cast of Crenshaw, Shabazz, and the Homie, Tom. Crenshaw is a co-producer of the It Did Happen Here Podcast and co-editor of the book, It Did Happen Here, An Anti Fascist Peoples' History.