Busboys & Poets

2-5:30 pm REGISTRATION/CHECK-IN. Pick up your packet and festival badge at check-in. Student rates and scholarships are available.

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6 PM (Langston Room) - OPENING CEREMONY FEATURING YOUNG DC VOICES. Featuring young DC voices, including the Young Women’s Drumming Empowerment Project, the Shakti Brigade, winners of Split This Rock’s World & Me Youth Poetry Contest, and members of the DC Youth Slam Team. With readings of poems by Dennis Brutus, Lucille Clifton, and Mahmoud Darwish, plus the inspiring words of Howard Zinn.

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10:30 PM (Langston Room) - OPEN MIC . Hosted by Regie Cabico, featuring mothertongue Speak your mind, speak your truth, split some rocks. Bring a 3-minute poem and sign up at the door. Open to the public for $5*

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DINING OUT FOR LIFE - Join us to support men, women and children living with HIV/AIDS, cancer and other life-challenging illnesses. Busboys and Poets will contribute 35% of our sales today to Food & Friends! Food & Friends is the only nonprofit organization in the Washington area providing daily, home-delivered, specialized meals, groceries and nutrition counseling to individuals in the community who are facing some of life's most difficult challenges. The funds raised through Dining Out for Life allows Food & Friends to continue to provide these critical services at NO COST to the clients.

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Split this Rock Poetry Festival

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9 AM (Langston Room) - Split this Rock Workshops

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2 PM (Langston Room) - FILM & PERFORMANCE. Split This Rock 2010 Film Program: A screening of cutting-edge short films that showcase how poets, writers, and activists are collaborating with visual media artists to explore critical social issues. Edited by poet, filmmaker, and Director of the Poetry Center of Chicago Francesco Levato. Tickets at the door: $8

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6 PM (Langston Room) - Author John 'Skip' McKoy will sign and discuss his book "Paying to Play in Hong Kong". "Paying to Play" is a multicultural adventure staged between Hong Kong and Washington, DC in 1995-96. It concerns the contentious merger of two companies -- one on mainland China and the other on Hong Kong. Wong Xi, a beautiful Eurasian head of Hong Kong's major silk company, is seeking to pull off a merger impressive enough to make her one of Asia's most powerful Tai Pans. Harry Morton, an affluent and charismatic African American consultant hopes for one more spectacular international business success before retirement. In the end, everyone gains, but the personal costs and sacrifices are higher than anyone had ever imagined. -- Event is free and open to all.

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10:30 PM (Langston Room) - FILM & PERFORMANCE. Split This Rock 2010 Film Program: A screening of cutting-edge short films that showcase how poets, writers, and activists are collaborating with visual media artists to explore critical social issues. Edited by poet, filmmaker, and Director of the Poetry Center of Chicago Francesco Levato. Tickets at the door: $8

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Split this Rock Poetry Festival

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9:30 AM (Langston Room) - Split this Rock Panel Discussion and Workshop

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2-3:30 pm: Split this Rock Poetry Festival Open Mic – Open to the public for $5, first priority goes to festival registrants (in the door and on the mic)

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In 2006, while studying in Guatemala, Bradford Baker met a man (Carlos Chen) who, during the 40 year genocide and civil war, had his entire family massacred on March 13th, 1982 – the day after Baker was born. As such, Baker committed to using each one of his birthdays as a modality for raising awareness about the genocide and raising funds to support the subsequent human rights work. This years event will focus on incorporating the arts as a way to tell these painful stories and creating a collective space for healing. Sahar Sattarzadeh and Henry Mills will be performing specially designed poetry sets. And Aniekan Udofia, will be painting a piece and auctioning it off at the event. All are welcome.

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11 PM - 1 AM (Langston Room) - Busboys and Poetry Presents "The 11th Hour" Poetry Slam, an opportunity for poetry lovers to enjoy the competitive art of late-night performance poetry! Enjoy two rounds of high intensity poetry, with the audience choosing a winner. Come join us for an alternative way to spend your Friday night. Poetry Slam, Inc's (PSI) DC Slam Venue. -- Hosted by "2Deep" The Poetess, Admission is $5. Tickets are sold at the door beginning at 10:30 PM. Cash only. sorry, no refunds.

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Split this Rock Poetry Festival

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9:30 AM (Langston Room) - Split this Rock Panel Discussion and Workshop

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Private Event: Still Bill

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9 AM (Langston Room) - To plan your private event, email our events team events@busboysandpoets.com

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8 PM (Langston Room) - FOCUS-INs' March Film of the Month: "Where the Water Meets the Sky" is the inspiring story of a group of women in rural Zambia who learn how to make a film as a way to speak out about their lives. Produced in partnership with Camfed, all funds raised through the film will support Camfed’s work to educate girls and invest in economic and leadership opportunities for young women in Africa. FILM NARRATED BY MORGAN FREEMAN (http://www.watermeetssky.com/) --- Free and open to all.

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12:30 PM (Langston Room ) - Meridian International. (Jaime)

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5 PM (Langston Room ) Please join us for a PARTY to celebrate Annie Leonard, the Story of Stuff Project, and the release of her new book "The Story of Stuff: How Our Obsession with Stuff is Trashing the Planet, Our Communities, and Our Health--and a Vision for Change." Hosted by Essential Information, Public Citizen, Wallace Global Fund, Institute for Policy Studies, Greenpeace, and Good Jobs First. With limited space, please RSVP by March 10, 2010. Please contact DCParty@storyofstuff.org with any questions. http://www.evite.com/pages/invite/printView.jsp?inviteId=YTCIXROAIGTYYHKVIMCV

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6 PM (Langston Room) - NAMIC. Private Event

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9 PM (Langston Room) - A Busboys and Poetry Event - Tuesday Night Open Mic! For two hours audiences can expect a diverse chorus of voices and a vast array of professional spoken word performers, open mic rookies, musicians and a different host every week. Expect to be moved, expect a packed house, expect the unexpected, but above all come with an open mind and ear. --- $4/person. Wristbands for Tuesday night open mic at 14th&V are sold all day in the Bookstore beginning at 10AM until sold out. Limit of 4 wristbands per person. Cash only. Sorry, No Refunds

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6:30 PM (Langston Room) - "Culture is Our Weapon: Making Music and Changing Lives in Rio de Janeiro" with author Damian Platt and panelists Bryan McCann (Associate Professor; Director of Brazilian Studies at Georgetown) and James Early (Director Cultural Heritage Policy Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage at the Smithsonian Institute). An inspiring mission to rescue young people from drugs and violence with music. At a time when interest in Brazilian culture has reached an all-time high, and the stories of one person's ability to improve the lives of others has captured so many hearts, this unique book takes readers to the frontlines of a battle raging over control of the nation's poorest areas. Culture Is Our Weapon tells the story of Grupo Cultural AfroReggae, a Rio-based organization employing music and an appreciation for black culture to inspire residents of the favelas, or shantytowns, to resist the drugs that are ruining their neighborhoods. This is an inspiring look at an artistic explosion and the best and worst of Brazilian society. --- Event is cosponsored by the Brazilian Embassy, and is free and open to all.

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