The Prose Bowl: A Night Of Spoken Word with Get Lit
- The Crawford, 474 S. Raymond Ave., Pasadena
It’s a celebration of L.A. poetry at LAist with Get Lit - Words Ignite! In this new three-part live event series, Get Lit youth poets, standout local artists, and a nationally-renowned featured poet will get together for a night of spoken word performance hosted by Get Lit’s Mason Granger (he/him). Come early to enjoy some delicious bread pudding from Tremé Kitchen, sips, a DJ set, and tons of cool people to connect with in the name of poetry. Drinks, music, and snacks start at 6:00 p.m. and the show kicks off at 7:00 p.m.
Featured poet will be Tim "Toaster" Henderson.
GET LIT YOUTH POETS
- Ashley Tahay*
- Marlee Porter*
- Emi Sakamoto*
- Heidi Lopez*
- Darian Dauchan
- Tiffany Snow
- Cassidy Martin
- Gordon Ip
- Cortunay Minor
Upcoming Series Dates
ABOUT MASON GRANGER
Mason Granger is the Deputy Director at Get Lit. Originally from Philadelphia by way of Willingboro, NJ, Mason is a poet with 19+ years of professional experience on stage & in classrooms across 49 states and six countries as part of the performance poetry trio, The Mayhem Poets. In 2014, he created SlamFind, a digital platform to connect fans of poetry videos with the poets & live poetry venues where these videos are born. Connecting the poetry community to itself and the rest of the world continues to be the foundation of his work to this day.
Between 2016-2018, Mason was the official videographer for Poetry Slam Inc., producing several iconic poetry videos that continue to garner millions of views across multiple platforms. In the spirit of his mission of always keeping the ‘live’ in ‘live poetry’, he also hosted the weekly PoetNY open mic at Bowery Poetry Club in NYC from 2017-2019 while also serving as Executive Director of Bowery Arts & Science through 2019.
Now as a Los Angeles resident in his fourth year with Get Lit, Mason continues to pursue creative projects while helping to shape the future of spoken word poetry education in the state of California and beyond.
ABOUT TIM "TOASTER" HENDERSON
TOASTER is the Co creator of Big Kid Slam, a poetry slam invested in centering marginalized voices and terrible prizes. TOASTER has competed at every level of poetry slam, most recently competing as an Individual World Poetry Slam finalist. Their work can be found on Button Poetry, All Def Digital, Sofar Sounds and National Public Radio.
*Get Lit Players
The Get Lit Players (GLPs) are our award-winning performance troupe of youth poets. They’ve performed at the United Nations, Hollywood Bowl, Lincoln Center and White House — to name a few! Every year they perform live for over 50,000 of their peers, and their videos have been watched online over 300 million times. Each of our Get Lit Players will spend the next year honing their skills and enjoying exciting and unique workshops, paid performance and networking opportunities, and a lifetime of support from Get Lit’s community.
ABOUT THE POETS
Darian Dauchan is an award winning actor, writer, poet, and musician who has appeared on both Broadway(Twentieth Century starring Alec Baldwin and Anne Heche) and Off Broadway theater(Jean Cocteau Rep., Classical Theatre of Harlem). TV and Film credits include Law and Order, Nickelodeon's Bet the House as Darian the "SoundFX" Guy, and the Lionsgate feature film Things Never Said. Darian is most known for The Brobot Johnson Project, an Afrofuturism, Sci Fi Hip Hop transmedia piece which won for Outstanding Comedy Series at the LA Web Festival. The show The Brobot Johnson Experience is a critically acclaimed Ben Brantley New York Times Critics' Pick. Most recently Darian was nominated for a Drama League award for Darian's piece Brobot PSA in the AFO Solo Short series and is a New Music USA grantee. Newly released singles Ohm and Dead can be found on Spotify and other streaming platforms.
Tiffany Snow is a two-time NAACP theater award-winning actress. Tiffany can be seen as the lead in the series “Everything I Did Wrong in My 20s” on Cleo TV, in the feature “Her Only Choice” on Netflix as well as dancing her heart out to House Music on your local beach. She also Executive Produced the feature film, Illicit, which can be seen on Netflix and BET. Tiffany has appeared as the principal performer in multiple national and international commercial campaigns and is known for her humor and wit. She wrote, produced, and stars in the short film “I Love Y’all,” a poetic visual love letter to black men in the wake of the George Floyd murder. "I Love Yall" was selected by various film festivals and won the Audience Award at the Black Harvest Film Festival.
Gordon Ip (any pronouns) is an artist seeking truth in all mediums. He acts, writes, directs, performs- all to seek moments that connect us all through the undeniable. One particular truth they are currently growing in and from is the truth of the Asian American experience- how it moves, how it lives in the consistently voiceless. They are most interested in giving their experience of this truth a voice that it so desperately needs and a chance to use that voice that it so seldom gets. Universally, living a diasporic, undocumented immigrant experience has given them a lens that they can only humbled by and made a student of on a daily basis. They are constantly tackling ideas of: self-expression, self-identity, spirituality, perspective, community, and culture.
Cortunay Minor (she/they) is currently pursuing a B.A. in Theater from the UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television. From living intersectionally as a queer, Black, feminine-of-center individual, to implementing connected learning as an interdisciplinary creator, Cortunay deeply values collaboration, collectivity, and togetherness. In pursuit and practice of those principles, Cortunay often gravitates towards ensemble-focused productions such as new play festivals and devising workshops. Keep up with Cortunay @cortunay.m on Instagram.
ABOUT GET LIT
Los Angeles-based nonprofit GET LIT ignites student engagement, literacy, and young voices around the globe using the power of spoken word, technology, and community.
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