Told you Jan was gon be one!
Last week I had the esteemed pleasure of sharing stage with Matt Damon (star of one my fave films, True Grit) @ Voices of The People Speak! at Chicago's Metro
Also, my Sesame Street debut broadcast on PBS
Feb, my fave month of the entire year (black history month baby!) holds more freshness!
First off - Just dropped some more visuals - The video for the song Brainstorm off The Break Beat Bars album directed by Brett Neiman - Check it out here
Feb.8 we start rehearsing my latest play, HOW WE GOT ON at the Actors Theater of Louisville for the 36th Annual Humana Festival of New Plays
Feb. 28 - I'm performing at the American Jazz Museum in Kansas City, MO with Glenn North
Feb. 29 - Chicago - Some AWP tangential reading thing - more details to come on that
Friday, February 3, 2012
Tuesday, January 3, 2012
What's up in in the twenty dozen: Jan
So here's whats poppin at the top of the twenty dozen - first off check out the new website
IDRISGOODWIN.COM
Today (Tuesday Jan the 3rd) I begin my month long stretch as Teacher in Residence at WORDPLAY, the weekly poetry event of Young Chicago Authors. I'll teach a workshop at 6pm, and perform in the open mic at 7pm
Tomorrow (Wednesday Jan the 4th) I start teaching my 11 week Hip Hop as Theater course at Northwestern University.
Jan 9 - Spreading the gospel of break beat poetry to Metro High School in Cedar Rapids, IA
Jan 13-15 Kevin Coval and I will be performing/lecturing in Baton Rogue (details forthcoming) and New Orleans
Jan 16 - Dropping by the great Coya Paz's class at DePaul Theater School to discuss my latest work
Jan. 25 - Gonna be on this episode of a little show called Sesame Street http://www.sesamestreet.org/parents/theshow/episodes/rhyming-block
Jan 26-28 - Joining fellow soloists Sean Lewis and Megan Gogerty in The Teacher Show at The Revolutions International Theater Festival in Albuquerque, NM
Jan 31 - "The People Speak, Live!" on January 31, 2012, featuring MATT DAMON with Chicago poets ANGELA JACKSON, KEVIN COVAL, IDRIS GOODWIN, and Louder Than a Bomb All-Stars MALCOLM LONDON and SHE'KIRA MCKNIGHT; Steppenwolf Theatre Ensemble members ALANA ARENAS and ROBERT BREULER; Chicago Tribune journalist RICK KOGAN; civic leader RAMI NASHASHIBI of the Inner-City Muslim Action Network; THE LUNA BLUES MACHINE with sisters BELINDA and MARITZA CERVANTES; performer LANI T. MONTREAL of Pintig CIRCA Cultural Group; actor BRIAN QUIJADA; and, more special guests to be announced. With DJ ITCH 13 on the 1s and 2s.
We're off to a good start - Feb and March should look to be just as exciting - hope your year is on and poppin too!
IDRISGOODWIN.COM
Today (Tuesday Jan the 3rd) I begin my month long stretch as Teacher in Residence at WORDPLAY, the weekly poetry event of Young Chicago Authors. I'll teach a workshop at 6pm, and perform in the open mic at 7pm
Tomorrow (Wednesday Jan the 4th) I start teaching my 11 week Hip Hop as Theater course at Northwestern University.
Jan 9 - Spreading the gospel of break beat poetry to Metro High School in Cedar Rapids, IA
Jan 13-15 Kevin Coval and I will be performing/lecturing in Baton Rogue (details forthcoming) and New Orleans
Jan 16 - Dropping by the great Coya Paz's class at DePaul Theater School to discuss my latest work
Jan. 25 - Gonna be on this episode of a little show called Sesame Street http://www.sesamestreet.org/parents/theshow/episodes/rhyming-block
Jan 26-28 - Joining fellow soloists Sean Lewis and Megan Gogerty in The Teacher Show at The Revolutions International Theater Festival in Albuquerque, NM
Jan 31 - "The People Speak, Live!" on January 31, 2012, featuring MATT DAMON with Chicago poets ANGELA JACKSON, KEVIN COVAL, IDRIS GOODWIN, and Louder Than a Bomb All-Stars MALCOLM LONDON and SHE'KIRA MCKNIGHT; Steppenwolf Theatre Ensemble members ALANA ARENAS and ROBERT BREULER; Chicago Tribune journalist RICK KOGAN; civic leader RAMI NASHASHIBI of the Inner-City Muslim Action Network; THE LUNA BLUES MACHINE with sisters BELINDA and MARITZA CERVANTES; performer LANI T. MONTREAL of Pintig CIRCA Cultural Group; actor BRIAN QUIJADA; and, more special guests to be announced. With DJ ITCH 13 on the 1s and 2s.
We're off to a good start - Feb and March should look to be just as exciting - hope your year is on and poppin too!
Sunday, November 13, 2011
New Site - New News
First things first: Brand New Website
WWW.IDRISGOODWIN.COM
Second thing second
my new play HOW WE GOT ON
will premiere at HUMANA FESTIVAL OF NEW PLAYS
WWW.IDRISGOODWIN.COM
Second thing second
my new play HOW WE GOT ON
will premiere at HUMANA FESTIVAL OF NEW PLAYS
Monday, October 10, 2011
Upcoming Shows- Updated
Weds Oct 26
10-11 Workshop
2-3 Performance - Free
Owens Community College - Findlay, OH
Thurs Oct 27
11:30-2
workshop & performance - Free
Owens Community College - Toledo, OH
Sat. Oct 29 @ 3:30
In store performance - Free
Record Collector - Iowa City, IA
Thu & Fri -Nov.3 & 4
New Trier Literary Festival
New Trier High school, IL
Tues Nov.8 @ 12:45pm
Quad Cities Youth Conference
Scott Community College
Bettendorf, IA
Sunday Nov 20 @ 4pm
These Are The Breaks Book reading
w/ Stevie Edwards
Buffalo Street Books
Ithaca, NY
Tuesday Nov 29 @ 7pm
w/ Katie F-s
House of Loom
Free
or $10 AND you get a book!
Weds Nov 30 @ 7pm
University of Arkansas
RZ's Coffeehouse - Arkansas Union
10-11 Workshop
2-3 Performance - Free
Owens Community College - Findlay, OH
Thurs Oct 27
11:30-2
workshop & performance - Free
Owens Community College - Toledo, OH
Sat. Oct 29 @ 3:30
In store performance - Free
Record Collector - Iowa City, IA
Thu & Fri -Nov.3 & 4
New Trier Literary Festival
New Trier High school, IL
Tues Nov.8 @ 12:45pm
Quad Cities Youth Conference
Scott Community College
Bettendorf, IA
Sunday Nov 20 @ 4pm
These Are The Breaks Book reading
w/ Stevie Edwards
Buffalo Street Books
Ithaca, NY
Tuesday Nov 29 @ 7pm
w/ Katie F-s
House of Loom
Free
or $10 AND you get a book!
Weds Nov 30 @ 7pm
University of Arkansas
RZ's Coffeehouse - Arkansas Union
Saturday, July 30, 2011
The Latest - Upcoming Events and What-nots
* How We Got On - my new play was just featured at the Eugene Oneill's NPC 2011 peep this fresh article about it (and me)
Weds -Thurs, Oct 26 & 27
These are the Breaks and Break Beat Bars readings and workshops
Owens Community College
Findlay & Toledo, OH
Sat, Oct 29
In Store Performance
Record Collector
Iowa City, IA
Thurs - Fri Nov.3&4
These are the Breaks and Break Beat Bars readings and workshops
New Trier High Lit Fest
Nov. 30 The University of Arkansas
TBD
Boston,MA
Ithaca, NY
New York City,NY
and More!! Stay Tuned
* UPCOMING SHOWS (for now)
Weds Sept 7 - 7pm
These Are The Breaks Reading w/ Jeremy Radin, Steve Abee
Gatsby Books
5535 E. Spring St Long Beach California
Sat Sept 10 - 6pm
How We Got On staged reading
LATC - click link for details
Sat. Sept 17 - 9:30 am
Keynote Address
Cedar Rapids, IA
Sun. Sept 18 - 7pm
Iowa City, IA
Oklahoma City, OK
Thursday - Sunday Sept 22-25
Readings and Workshops w/ Kevin Coval
Louder Than A Bomb Tulsa
Tulsa, OK
Weds Sept 28 - 5-6pm
These Are The Breaks and Break Beat Bars
In Studio Performance
Little Village Live
Weds Sept 28 - 5-6pm
These Are The Breaks and Break Beat Bars
In Studio Performance
Little Village Live
KRUI 89.7 Iowa City
Saturday - Sunday, Oct 1-Oct 2
Saturday - Sunday, Oct 1-Oct 2
These are the Breaks and Break Beat Bars
readings and workshops
readings and workshops
Macon, GA
Weds -Thurs, Oct 26 & 27
These are the Breaks and Break Beat Bars readings and workshops
Owens Community College
Sat, Oct 29
In Store Performance
Record Collector
Iowa City, IA
Thurs - Fri Nov.3&4
These are the Breaks and Break Beat Bars readings and workshops
New Trier High Lit Fest
Nov. 30 The University of Arkansas
TBD
Boston,MA
Ithaca, NY
New York City,NY
and More!! Stay Tuned
Wednesday, April 20, 2011
my new play is called HOW WE GOT ON
And its pretty darn good....
HOW WE GOT ON is a hip hop coming of age story set in 1988.
A DJ/Narrator loops and blends us through the beats, rhymes and lives
of three 15 year olds in middle america, captivated by this new
show called YO MTV Raps.
*HWGO was featured in New Leaf Theater's Treehouse Reading Series
*HWGO is an official selection in the National Plays Conference at The Eugene Oneill Theater Center
And we're just getting warmed up ---
Stay Tuned
HOW WE GOT ON is a hip hop coming of age story set in 1988.
A DJ/Narrator loops and blends us through the beats, rhymes and lives
of three 15 year olds in middle america, captivated by this new
show called YO MTV Raps.
*HWGO was featured in New Leaf Theater's Treehouse Reading Series
*HWGO is an official selection in the National Plays Conference at The Eugene Oneill Theater Center
And we're just getting warmed up ---
Stay Tuned
Tuesday, January 18, 2011
These Are The Breaks Tour - Winter Readings & Performances
These Are The Breaks Promotional Tour Jan-Apr
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