We are excited to bring you our new series “great weather for Workshops” at the amazing Living Room Gallery in New York City. 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. Hosted by Thomas Fucaloro.
August’s facilitator is Ngoma Hill
Registration is required. Limited to 20 participants.
Free but donations appreciated.
Words, Rhythm and Sound - Craft Lab
Ngoma Hill 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, 3,Yale Press) and Let Loose On the World-Amiri Baraka at 7, among others. His work has also appeared in many great weather for MEDIA anthologies, most recently A Shape Produced by a Curve.
He was featured in the P.B.S spoken word documentary The Apropoets with Allen Ginsburg Ngoma and was selected as the Beat Poet Laureate of New York for 2017 by The National Beat Poetry 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.