September 27, 2016
7pm
Casella Theater
Casella Theater Entertainment Performance Performing Arts Soundings Essential Artists
Hip-Hop is the largest youth culture in the history of the planet rock. It has produced generations of artists who have revolutionized their genre(s) by applying the aesthetic innovations of the culture. The BreakBeat Poets features 78 poets, born somewhere between 1961-1999, All-City and Coast-to-Coast, who are creating the next and now movement(s) in American letters. This is the first poetry anthology by and for the Hip-Hop generation. It is for people who love Hip-Hop, for fans of the culture, for people who’ve never read a poem, for people who thought poems were only something done by dead white dudes who got lost in a forest, and for poetry heads. This anthology is meant to expand the idea of who a poet is and what a poem is for.
The BreakBeat Poets are the scribes recording and remixing a fuller spectrum of experience of what it means to be alive in this moment. The BreakBeat Poets are a break with the past and an honoring of the tradition(s), an undeniable body expanding the canon for the fresher.
Tickets for this performance are $18 for adults, $15 for Castleton alumni and seniors, and $12 for children. Castleton faculty, staff and students are eligible for one free ticket with a valid, current Castleton ID. Tickets are available through Castleton Tickets or the Fine Arts Center Box Office.
For more information, please contact the Fine Arts Center Box Office at (802) 468-1119.