KAFE KUUMBA: WELCOME TO OPEN MIKE
Price: $99.95 Code: 1884 |
Directed by Steven Toney
2001, 57 mins.
Purchase: $99.95
This entertaining documentary features a variety of African-American poets from all over America, who have gathered to perform at Kafe Kuumba in Indianapolis, a local cultural center sponsored by the Midtown Writers Association. Performances by these talented spoken-word poets are blended with interviews in which they discuss their creative influences, the importance of poetry as a form of social expression as well as entertainment, the use of jazz and traditional African drumming as musical accompaniment, and what writing poetry means to them and the community.
2001, 57 mins.
Purchase: $99.95
This entertaining documentary features a variety of African-American poets from all over America, who have gathered to perform at Kafe Kuumba in Indianapolis, a local cultural center sponsored by the Midtown Writers Association. Performances by these talented spoken-word poets are blended with interviews in which they discuss their creative influences, the importance of poetry as a form of social expression as well as entertainment, the use of jazz and traditional African drumming as musical accompaniment, and what writing poetry means to them and the community.