[NEohioPAL] Tri-C Presents the Watts Prophets

TRI-C PRESENTS

THE WATTS PROPHETS

Wednesday, March 26, 7:00 pm

Eastern Campus Performing Arts Center

Thursday, March 27, 7:00 pm

Western Campus Performing Arts Center

Friday, March 28, 7:00 pm

Metro Campus Auditorium

The Watts Prophets are Richard Dedeux, Amde Hamilton and Otis O’Solomon who live, work and create in Watts, California, something they have done for more than thirty years. These progenitors of hip-hop came out of the Watts riots of 1965 as angry, disillusioned teenagers, and were recruited by legendary screenwriter, Budd Schulberg (On the Waterfront) as students for his Watts Writers Workshop. There they discovered their strongest ally in their personal quest for justice — literacy. For the past 40 years, the Prophets have used their gift for expressive, poetic language as the galvanizing tool that creates empowerment, pride and responsibility in communities of young people around the world. In 1967, these three, the best of the students in the prestigious Watts Writers Workshop, won their first amateur talent contest as a nameless group. But then, after they recited/chanted/ spoke/sung/witnessed their unique jazz-accompanied topical poem, an audience member - dazzled by their performance - shouted, “They must be the Watts Prophets!”

"Hip-hop's going from the top of the charts to the head of the class, even into Scholastic children's books. Teachers are using it as a learning tool - sometimes on the sly"- Philadelphia Inquirer

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Lilah M.Wiant

Tri-C Jazzfest Cleveland

2900 Community College Ave.

MTA Theatre 11

Cleveland, OH 44115

Phone: 216-987-4249 Fax: 216-987-4422
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