OPEN MIC NIGHT HOSTED BY SHELLY BELL

OPEN MIC NIGHT AT BUSBOYS & POETS
4251 South Campbell Ave
Arlington, 22206
Monday, July 27, 2015 at 8:00 PM

Tickets purchased in store are cash ONLY - $5

Monday Night Open Mic! A Busboys and Poetry Event For two hours audiences can expect a diverse chorus of voices and a vast array of professional spoken word performers, open mic rookies, musicians and a different host every week.

Your host:
Well you know Shelly Bell​ www.iamshellybell.com

To merely refer to North Carolina native and Alexandria, VA resident Shelly Bell as a curious and talented consumer of life’s most positive energies would only tell half of the story. An award-winning poet, as well as a songwriter and published author, her diversity of skills allow her to expertly navigate the space between performance and journalism. Excelling as a truly dynamic force in local, national and now international media, her work as spoken-word poet has led to her currently serving as an Arts Commissioner for the City of Alexandria ,VA, Director of the Seven City Art Society, LLC and also being a BMI accredited songwriter. Furthermore, her evocative, forthright and conversational writing style is now showcased on Washington, DC/New York, NY based hipster mega-blog Brightest Young Things, internationally respected hip-hop cultural site BrooklynBodega,com, portal for Free - the former 106 and Park host and current FM radio personality - freesworld.com, DC area hip-hop site DCMumboSauce.com and Bell’s own TheOpenOnion.com. Shelly Bell is unquestionably an extraordinarily gifted artist mixing uncommon honesty with a populist style. Her unflinching desire to remain honest to herself and her aspiration makes her personal motto entirely true. “Regret nothing and write everything!”

Meet your feature:
Christopher Massenburg, better known as Dasan Ahanu​, is a public speaker, organizer, workshop facilitator, poet, spoken word performer, educator, songwriter, writer, emcee, and loyal Hip Hop head born and raised in Raleigh, North Carolina. In addition to performing, Dasan has hosted many poetry, jazz, Hip Hop, and cultural arts events across the state. He is one of the founders of Black Poetry Theatre (BPT) where he has been a writer, director, producer, and cast member for their productions. As an active participant in poetry slam, Dasan has competed regionally and nationally as a founding member and coach of Durham, NC’s own Bull City Slam Team. Dasan is president of the Black Jedi Chapter of the Universal Zulu Nation, a global community organization that also fosters greater cultural awareness of Hip Hop. He is currently an Assistant Professor of English at Saint Augustine’s University in Raleigh, NC. In September 2015 he will begin his appointment at a 2015-2016 Nasir Jones Fellow with the Hip Hop Archive at Harvard University’s Hutchins Center for African & African American Research.

Meet your spotlight:
Nardo Lilly​ is a singer-songwriter-guitarplayer-punmaker-historyliker-Trekkie.

“There’s a hell of lot about Nardo Lilly that’s really cool, and not just because she had a good sandwich.” - Quail Bell Magazine

http://nardolilly.bandcamp.com/

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SEE YOU SOON!