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I Am Here: Affirmation as a Form of Resistance

Time: April 20, 2017, 10 a.m. - noon

Location: 319 Sims Hall

WORKSHOP WITH POET GABRIEL RAMIREZ

Writer, poet, playwright, educator, and activist Gabriel Ramirez conducts a small-group session to follow his evening of poetry (April 19). Ramirez is the 2012 Knicks Poetry Slam Champion and a member of the 2012 Urban Word NYC slam team. Featured in an off-broadway production of “Black Ink” he debuted “Sankofa” a one-man show he wrote and acted in himself, collaborating with award winning choreographer and director, Nicco Annan. Gabriel has performed on Broadway at the New Amsterdam Theatre, United Nations, New York Live Arts, Lincoln Center, Apollo Theatre and other venues & universities around the nation. He has also been featured in the Huffington Post, Vibe Magazine, Blavity, Upworthy and at a TEDxYouth Conference.

Space is limited: please RSVP to pwberry@syr.edu by April 6. Include any requests for accessibility accommodations.


Additional support comes from:

  1. Writing Rhetoric Student Organization
  2. Department of Writing Studies, Rhetoric, and Composition
  3. Creative Writing Program
  4. Harvey Teres, Dean's Professor for the Public Humanities in English
  5. Verbal Blend

Patrick Berry, Writing Studies, Rhetoric, and Composition