Living Room - NYC is excited to bring you Great Weather for Workshops hosted by Thomas Fucaloro. These workshops will be generative workshops that happen on the 3rd Wednesday of every month at 7:00 pm, each with a fabulous guest facilitator to take your craft to a new and unexpected place.

August’s guest facilitator is Ngoma Hill

• Wednesday, August 21, 2024
• 7pm-9pm
• The Living Room - NYC - 224 W 30th St, Suite 600, New York ,NY 10001

(Limited to 20 participants)

Registration link

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSeoL2Fc-5_jlA0nyPGvxNGMoZ8CuhjtwctLMxV2NpmsAxYpAg/viewform

Workshop: Words, Rhythm and Sound - Craft Lab

Ngoma is a performance poet, multi-instrumentalist, singer/songwriter, Artivist, and paradigm shifter, who for over 50 years has used culture as a tool to raise socio-political and spiritual consciousness through work that encourages critical thought. 

A former member of Amiri Baraka's "The Spirit House Movers and Players" and the contemporary freedom song duo"Serious Bizness", Ngoma weaves poetry and song that raises contradictions and searches for a solution to a just and peaceful world. Ngoma was the Prop Slam Winner of the 1997 National Poetry Slam Competition in Middletown, CT and has been published in African Voices Magazine, Long Shot Anthology, The Underwood Review, Signifyin' Harlem Review, Bum Rush the Page/Def Poetry Jam Anthology, Poems on the Road to Peace-(Volumes 1,2, and 3)Yale Press and Let Loose On the World-Amiri Baraka at 75, The Understanding Between Foxes and Light-Great Weather For Media and New Rain/Blind Beggar Press 35th Anniversary Issue, Amiri Baraka/Brilliant Flame/Third World Press. He was featured in the P.B.S. spoken word documentary The Apropoets with Allen Ginsburg Ngoma. He was selected as the Beat Poet Laureate of New York for 2017 by The National Beat Poetry Foundation and the New Beat Poet Laureate in 2021. In 2022 Ngoma received a Lifetime Achievement Award for Literary and musical excellence and artivism from Poets Network and Exchange. Ngoma has curated and hosted the poetry slam at the Martin Luther King Family Festival of Social and Environmental Justice at the Yale/Peabody Museum since 1995. He was also selected to participate in the 2009 Badilisha Poetry Xchange in Capetown, South Africa. In December of 2011, he was initiated as a Priest of Obatala in Ibadan, Nigeria. In June of 2013, he was initiated as a Priest of Ifa.