Performance by Poet Ebony Stewart
Venue: Bonnie Food Court, Radford
Directions: Google Map Link
Organizations: Ebony Stewart, R-Space
Date: Thursday, October 26, 2017
Time: 6:00 - 8:00 PM
Event Types: Arts & Theatre
Cost: Free

Description:
R-Space presents a performance by Poet Ebony Stewart on Thursday, October 26, 2017 on the Bonnie Student Center Cafe Stage.

Ebony Stewart is a touring performance artist and slam poet who has been active in the central Texas slam poetry scene and theater community for over a decade. Ebony Stewart was on the Austin Neo Soul Slam team in 2010 that finished fourth in the Nation. She coached the 2012 Austin Neo-Soul & 2015 Austin Poetry Slam teams, that finished first and fifth, respectively, at the National Poetry Slam and the 2015 They Speak Youth Slam that finished eighth in the world at Brave New Voices.

The only adult female three-time Slam Champion in Austin, Texas, voted Top Female Touring Poet by the Spoken Word Awards. In 2015, she debuted her one-woman show, Hunger, for which she won a B. Iden Payne Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a drama and received the David Mark Cohen New Play Award. Recently crowned, Co-Champion of the 2017 Women of the World Poetry Slam. Her work can be seen on Button Poetry, Write About Now Poetry, Poetry Slam Inc., and read in several online magazines such as For Harriet, Teen Vogue and The Texas Observer. Ebony Stewart aka The Gully Princess aka “She’ll eat your cupcake” is the #storyoftheblackgirlwinning.

Links:

• http://www.ebpoetry.com/
• https://www.facebook.com/StoryOfTheBlackGirlWinning
• https://www.twitter.com/EbPoetry
• https://www.instagram.com/GullyPrincess/

Admission is free and all are welcome.

To view the event flyer, visit: https://i.imgur.com/7au9bYX.jpg.

For more information, visit: http://rspace10.wixsite.com/rspace/performance or https://www.facebook.com/radspace.

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